lifesitenews--2020-11-11--How ‘fear appeals’ and disinformation may be manipulating the public on COVID

November 10 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — After several months of COVID-19 hysteria , Americans may have noticed repetitive types of messaging from public health officials and the mainstream media : frightening stories about the ever-increasing , surging , peaking , spiking , etc .
numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths followed by public health messages supporting vaccines , masks , lockdowns , and social distancing .
One should be made aware that this is an organized strategy to manipulate the actions of large groups of people ; it has been researched and discussed somewhat at length in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ literature and is often referred to as “ fear appeals ” and “ heightening risk appraisal.
” Here is a specific example : on April 5 , 2020 , during the early stages of the COVID-19 panic , the surgeon general of the United States , Dr. Jerome Adams , provided this communication , which was sure to heighten America ’ s perception of the risk of COVID-19 : The statement was then published throughout America by most mainstream media outlets at a time when many Americans were locked into their homes with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ watch the news .
The surgeon general ’ s prediction that the following week would be the saddest week of most Americans ’ lives reportedly came true in at least one way : the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) reports that approximately 79,000 people died in America that week .
According to the CDC ’ s data , the week the surgeon general predicted would be “ our Pearl Harbor moment , our 9/11 moment ” had the highest death total in one week in America since at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost eight times more deaths in one week than previous years , and during that week America was daily updated with frightening reports like people dying “ on the streets ” of New York City from COVID-19 .
Perhaps it was a coincidence , or perhaps there is truly a scientific method that enables one to predict the highest weekly death count in America during a pandemic .
But imagine for a moment if that prediction had not come true .
Imagine , instead , that the total deaths in America for that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of the ordinary , and there were , say , a few hundred deaths directly caused by COVID-19 .
Imagine , instead , that New York City , the media capital of the world , could not daily broadcast such high death counts , supposedly overloaded hospitals , or people “ dying on the streets ” from the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus .
Surely , if the prediction had not come true , Americans would have been much less likely to believe public health officials and would have been much less likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flatten the curve ” or participate in whatever public health guidelines were given at that time .
There would not have been as much of a hurry to find a vaccine .
Trillion-dollar COVID-19 funding would not have been as high a priority .
In other words , the dire prediction that one of the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in America was “ going to be our Pearl Harbor moment , our 9/11 moment ” had to come true for the sake of the future strategies public health officials wanted to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the public health officials who were attempting to heighten Americans ’ perception of the risk of COVID-19 in order to support and obey their political and draconian agendas , it was necessary that the public be frightened by stories about high death counts .
The surgeon general ’ s communication is provided as an example of a type of risk communication method known in the public health , sociology , and psychology literature as a “ fear appeal.
” Basically , The problem is that , as will be elaborated in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ fear appeals ” may include a “ heightened ” falsification of reality that amounts to dishonesty .
One may reasonably wonder whether such dishonesty , especially at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic , may have included untrue death counts .
The actions many countries take at the beginning of a public health emergency or pandemic are planned many years in advance .
In the United States , a major government entity involved in planning the actions taken at the beginning , and throughout , a pandemic is the Centers for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while the CDC also utilizes guidance from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) .
Communication during a public health emergency , including an epidemic or pandemic , is one topic apparently planned in advance .
One might think communication by public health officials and government entities merely involves stating the facts during the pandemic .
But that may not be the case ; as stated above , communication by public health officials during a pandemic may involve an organized strategy that includes some misrepresentation of reality — or attempting to falsely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangerous a virus is by lying .
One location that discusses the CDC ’ s public health emergency response plans is the CDC Field Epidemiology Manual , which is the CDC ’ s “ authoritative source ” for health professionals during a pandemic response .
The manual mentions that there is a planned and developed strategy to “ frame the key messages ” about how the targeted population should perceive a risk during a pandemic .
The CDC does not appear to openly discuss exactly what types of key messages risk communications experts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as stated above , one type of “ risk communication ” supported by “ risk communications experts ” is known as “ fear appeals.
” A book published just prior to the pandemic in 2019 entitled The Psychology of Pandemics : Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease , by Steven Taylor , Ph.D. , a professor and clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia , Canada , describes using fear appeals at the beginning of a pandemic in this way : It is notable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the author were used by the CDC and the WHO to frighten most of the world .
Also notable is that those who named the virus that causes COVID-19 , “ SARS-CoV-2 , ” named it as a “ SARS ” ( severe acute respiratory syndrome ) virus , while the virus does not cause SARS in the vast majority of persons it infects .
The name “ SARS ” has a fear-causing effect due to the outbreak of the first SARS virus , which was reported to be deadly .
Another example @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not , the CDC has a “ Science Team ” in “ the Office of the Associate Director for Communication ” that “ frequently undertakes an extensive scan of the expert literature ” and lists “ publications with particular relevance for the public health communication community ” on the CDC ’ s online Health Communications Science Digest .
One article listed provides some insight into the types of risk communications approaches taken by experts during the COVID-19 response .
The article is entitled “ How Fear Appeal Approaches in COVID-19 Health Communication May @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead author is described as It seems likely that most people would think a “ social and behavioral scientist ” would not be needed to provide public communications in response to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Even so , the article describes the thinking of risk communications experts , including one who is the “ focal point ” for the WHO ’ s COVID-19 risk communication response .
The article states that what are known with technical language as “ fear appeal approaches ” have been used in the COVID-19 health communication response .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] ear appeals , also called scare tactics , are a commonly used strategy to motivate behavior change.
” The article discusses COVID-19 fear appeal communications that were reportedly proposed by public health officials : Public health communications experts , then , reportedly proposed dishonesty to manipulate persons into performing the actions desired by public health officials during the COVID-19 response .
( The specific recommendations in the article bring to mind the national news entity in America that , during the height of the panic , broadcasted “ footage of an overcrowded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York City but was actually from a hospital in Italy.
” ) The article implies that “ fear appeal approaches ” may include lying and deception to “ motivate behavior change.
” Misrepresenting reality to motivate behavior change is discussed in other scientific literature in technical language as “ heightened risk appraisal ” or “ heightened risk perception ” : “ risk perceptions refer to people ’ s beliefs about their vulnerability to danger or harm.
” But “ increasing people ’ s perception of risk ” or “ heightening risk perception ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ misrepresenting the truth ” about the severity of a virus .
It seems likely then that “ fear appeals ” may involve public health officials and government entities lying to “ heighten the perceived risk ” of COVID-19 .
A major question arises here : may one reasonably question whether dishonesty in “ fear appeals ” may include falsified death counts — both total death counts and COVID-19 death counts ?
A significant point is that at the beginning of any pandemic , there will not yet have been many deaths — this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic , low death counts would likely not scare citizens into “ doing their part ” to “ Stay home .
Save lives ” ; get vaccinated ; wear masks ; stay away from one another ; or whatever the newest public health pandemic guideline/craze is .
As one of the authors above states : At the beginning of a pandemic , there have not yet been many deaths ; without many deaths early in a pandemic , it may be difficult to get the public to be frightened enough to perceive that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in terms of time to impact.
” In other words , if “ fear appeal ” messages are used at the beginning of a pandemic but death counts from the contagion have not yet been large , and if dishonesty is used , is it likely that falsified death counts may be used as a scare tactic by government public health entities with control over information ?
The COVID-19 death numbers and total deaths in America are provided by the CDC and local or state departments of health .
The CDC has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its own severity criteria suggest — which amounts to the CDC “ heightening risk perception ” through the use of deception .
The CDC has been misleading with COVID-19 death counts , and New York City ’ s COVID-19 data ( which were an essential component to the daily fear appeals used by the media capital of the world and public health officials to frighten Americans at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic ) are questionable at best .
It is reasonable to ask whether the CDC , the WHO , or local @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used lying in both COVID-19 deaths and total weekly deaths as a “ fear appeal ” to frighten the public into “ doing their part ” or whatever public health officials want .
Scholarly books on lying have explained that certain government bureaus or departments can easily deceive because of their control over the flow of information and the intelligence apparatus and because “ large numbers of people , including educated elites , are predisposed to trust their government , whose most important job , after all , is to protect them ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death counts and total death counts in America are provided by government entities which have used types of deception regarding those death counts in the past .
At minimum , one should at least be aware of the possibility that public health officials may use “ fear appeals ” with deceivingly increased COVID-19 and total death counts to frighten Americans into getting vaccinated or doing whatever public health officials want them to do .

Communication by public health officials during a pandemic may involve an organized strategy that includes some misrepresentation of reality — or attempting to falsely 'heighten' the perception of how dangerous a virus is by lying.
November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — After several months of COVID-19 hysteria, Americans may have noticed repetitive types of messaging from public health officials and the mainstream media: frightening stories about the ever-increasing, surging, peaking, spiking, etc. numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths followed by public health messages supporting vaccines, masks, lockdowns, and social distancing. One should be made aware that this is an organized strategy to manipulate the actions of large groups of people; it has been researched and discussed somewhat at length in the psychology, sociology, and public health literature and is often referred to as “fear appeals” and “heightening risk appraisal.”
Here is a specific example: on April 5, 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 panic, the surgeon general of the United States, Dr. Jerome Adams, provided this communication, which was sure to heighten America’s perception of the risk of COVID-19:
This is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives[.] … This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized. It’s going to be happening all over the country.
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A news report on the communication continues:
Adams pointed out, however, that the public, along with the state and the federal government, has the power to “change the trajectory of this epidemic” as long as they follow the administration’s social distancing guidelines[.] … “As hard as this week is going to be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel if everyone does their part for the next 30 days,” he said.
The statement was then published throughout America by most mainstream media outlets at a time when many Americans were locked into their homes with nothing else to do but read or watch the news.
The surgeon general’s prediction that the following week would be the saddest week of most Americans’ lives reportedly came true in at least one way: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that approximately 79,000 people died in America that week. According to the CDC’s data, the week the surgeon general predicted would be “our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment” had the highest death total in one week in America since at least 1999, New York City reportedly had almost eight times more deaths in one week than previous years, and during that week America was daily updated with frightening reports like people dying “on the streets” of New York City from COVID-19.
Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps there is truly a scientific method that enables one to predict the highest weekly death count in America during a pandemic. But imagine for a moment if that prediction had not come true. Imagine, instead, that the total deaths in America for that week and the following weeks were not out of the ordinary, and there were, say, a few hundred deaths directly caused by COVID-19. Imagine, instead, that New York City, the media capital of the world, could not daily broadcast such high death counts, supposedly overloaded hospitals, or people “dying on the streets” from the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Surely, if the prediction had not come true, Americans would have been much less likely to believe public health officials and would have been much less likely to “do their part” to “flatten the curve” or participate in whatever public health guidelines were given at that time. There would not have been as much of a hurry to find a vaccine. Trillion-dollar COVID-19 funding would not have been as high a priority. In other words, the dire prediction that one of the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in America was “going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment” had to come true for the sake of the future strategies public health officials wanted to enact; for the sake of trust in the public health officials who were attempting to heighten Americans’ perception of the risk of COVID-19 in order to support and obey their political and draconian agendas, it was necessary that the public be frightened by stories about high death counts.
The surgeon general’s communication is provided as an example of a type of risk communication method known in the public health, sociology, and psychology literature as a “fear appeal.” Basically,
[f]ear appeals are persuasive messages that attempt to arouse fear by emphasizing the potential danger and harm that will befall individuals if they do not adopt the messages’ recommendations.
The problem is that, as will be elaborated in this article, some of the literature implies that “fear appeals” may include a “heightened” falsification of reality that amounts to dishonesty. One may reasonably wonder whether such dishonesty, especially at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have included untrue death counts.
The actions many countries take at the beginning of a public health emergency or pandemic are planned many years in advance. In the United States, a major government entity involved in planning the actions taken at the beginning, and throughout, a pandemic is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while the CDC also utilizes guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Communication during a public health emergency, including an epidemic or pandemic, is one topic apparently planned in advance. One might think communication by public health officials and government entities merely involves stating the facts during the pandemic. But that may not be the case; as stated above, communication by public health officials during a pandemic may involve an organized strategy that includes some misrepresentation of reality — or attempting to falsely “heighten” the perception of how dangerous a virus is by lying.
One location that discusses the CDC’s public health emergency response plans is the CDC Field Epidemiology Manual, which is the CDC’s “authoritative source” for health professionals during a pandemic response. The manual mentions that there is a planned and developed strategy to “frame the key messages” about how the targeted population should perceive a risk during a pandemic.
The CDC does not appear to openly discuss exactly what types of key messages risk communications experts may use during pandemics. But, as stated above, one type of “risk communication” supported by “risk communications experts” is known as “fear appeals.”
A book published just prior to the pandemic in 2019 entitled The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease, by Steven Taylor, Ph.D., a professor and clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Canada, describes using fear appeals at the beginning of a pandemic in this way:
Fear appeals, such as those made in media announcements, and those recommended by [another scholar], can be effective in achieving persuasive goals, but their effectiveness depends on a variety of factors, including features of the message and the target audience. Important factors include the severity of the perceived threat (i.e., perceived severity and personal susceptibility) in relation to what the person believes can be done to cope with the threat (i.e., perceived efficacy). Adherence to the guidelines presented in a fear-evoking message is expected to occur if (1) the threat is perceived as severe, (2) an effective coping response is perceived to be available, and (3) the person believes they are capable of executing an effective coping response. (Page 87)
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If the goal is to frighten people into adopting health behaviors, then public announcements could emphasize that infection is close at hand, looming in terms of time to impact, and that people have a high probability of infection unless precautionary measures are taken. Infections that are described as novel (i.e., having newly arisen or newly spread to humans), named after humans (e.g., Asian flu), and continuously reported in the media (i.e., the availability heuristic), will increase the perceived threat of infection. (Page 89)
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Other commentators have argued that the public should be presented with worst-case scenarios. According to [another scholar], a risk-communication consultant, the government must help the public to “visualize what a bad pandemic might be like”. (Page 80)
It is notable that most of the actions mentioned by the author were used by the CDC and the WHO to frighten most of the world. Also notable is that those who named the virus that causes COVID-19, “SARS-CoV-2,” named it as a “SARS” (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, while the virus does not cause SARS in the vast majority of persons it infects. The name “SARS” has a fear-causing effect due to the outbreak of the first SARS virus, which was reported to be deadly.
Another example may suffice here. Believe it or not, the CDC has a “Science Team” in “the Office of the Associate Director for Communication” that “frequently undertakes an extensive scan of the expert literature” and lists “publications with particular relevance for the public health communication community” on the CDC’s online Health Communications Science Digest. One article listed provides some insight into the types of risk communications approaches taken by experts during the COVID-19 response. The article is entitled “How Fear Appeal Approaches in COVID-19 Health Communication May Be Harming the Global Community.” The lead author is described as
a social and behavioral scientist who works at the intersection of medical anthropology, public health, and infectious disease outbreak response [and] is currently responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN) Research Focal Point for Risk Communication and Community Engagement.
It seems likely that most people would think a “social and behavioral scientist” would not be needed to provide public communications in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even so, the article describes the thinking of risk communications experts, including one who is the “focal point” for the WHO’s COVID-19 risk communication response.
The article states that what are known with technical language as “fear appeal approaches” have been used in the COVID-19 health communication response. The authors note that “[f]ear appeals, also called scare tactics, are a commonly used strategy to motivate behavior change.” The article discusses COVID-19 fear appeal communications that were reportedly proposed by public health officials:
[A]n example of a proposed COVID-19 campaign was to design a poster featuring an image of mass burials to persuade individuals to wash their hands[.] … Another proposed health communication campaign among health care professionals was to create television commercials portraying a fictional hospital overloaded with patients coughing up blood, fainting in hallways, and crying in pain to persuade people to physically distance.
Public health communications experts, then, reportedly proposed dishonesty to manipulate persons into performing the actions desired by public health officials during the COVID-19 response. (The specific recommendations in the article bring to mind the national news entity in America that, during the height of the panic, broadcasted “footage of an overcrowded hospital room that was allegedly in New York City but was actually from a hospital in Italy.”)
The article implies that “fear appeal approaches” may include lying and deception to “motivate behavior change.” Misrepresenting reality to motivate behavior change is discussed in other scientific literature in technical language as “heightened risk appraisal” or “heightened risk perception”: “risk perceptions refer to people’s beliefs about their vulnerability to danger or harm.”
The assumption is that increasing people’s perceptions of risk, or their feelings of threat, will engender action. This assumption is pervasive in both common sense and scientific psychology.
But “increasing people’s perception of risk” or “heightening risk perception” could also be described as “deceptively misrepresenting the truth” about the severity of a virus. It seems likely then that “fear appeals” may involve public health officials and government entities lying to “heighten the perceived risk” of COVID-19.
A major question arises here: may one reasonably question whether dishonesty in “fear appeals” may include falsified death counts — both total death counts and COVID-19 death counts? A significant point is that at the beginning of any pandemic, there will not yet have been many deaths — this means that at the beginning of the pandemic, low death counts would likely not scare citizens into “doing their part” to “Stay home. Save lives”; get vaccinated; wear masks; stay away from one another; or whatever the newest public health pandemic guideline/craze is.
As one of the authors above states:
Important factors [in fear appeals messaging or communications] include the severity of the perceived threat (i.e., perceived severity and personal susceptibility)[.] … If the goal is to frighten people into adopting health behaviors, then public announcements could emphasize that infection is close at hand, looming in terms of time to impact, and that people have a high probability of infection unless precautionary measures are taken.
At the beginning of a pandemic, there have not yet been many deaths; without many deaths early in a pandemic, it may be difficult to get the public to be frightened enough to perceive that the threat is severe and “looming in terms of time to impact.” In other words, if “fear appeal” messages are used at the beginning of a pandemic but death counts from the contagion have not yet been large, and if dishonesty is used, is it likely that falsified death counts may be used as a scare tactic by government public health entities with control over information?
The COVID-19 death numbers and total deaths in America are provided by the CDC and local or state departments of health. The CDC has been making COVID-19 appear more severe than even its own severity criteria suggest — which amounts to the CDC “heightening risk perception” through the use of deception. The CDC has been misleading with COVID-19 death counts, and New York City’s COVID-19 data (which were an essential component to the daily fear appeals used by the media capital of the world and public health officials to frighten Americans at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic) are questionable at best. It is reasonable to ask whether the CDC, the WHO, or local or state government entities, may have used lying in both COVID-19 deaths and total weekly deaths as a “fear appeal” to frighten the public into “doing their part” or whatever public health officials want.
Scholarly books on lying have explained that certain government bureaus or departments can easily deceive because of their control over the flow of information and the intelligence apparatus and because “large numbers of people, including educated elites, are predisposed to trust their government, whose most important job, after all, is to protect them” (pages 57–58). The COVID-19 death counts and total death counts in America are provided by government entities which have used types of deception regarding those death counts in the past. At minimum, one should at least be aware of the possibility that public health officials may use “fear appeals” with deceivingly increased COVID-19 and total death counts to frighten Americans into getting vaccinated or doing whatever public health officials want them to do.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-11--Transhumanism: Expert exposes liberal billionaire elitists’ ‘Great Reset’ agenda

November 10 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — The COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured by the world ’ s elites as part of a plan to globally advance “ transhumanism ” — literally , the fusion of human beings with technology in an attempt to alter human nature itself and create a superhuman being and an “ earthly paradise , ” according to a Peruvian academic and expert in technology .
This dystopian nightmare scenario is no longer the stuff of science fiction , but an integral part of the proposed post-pandemic “ Great Reset , ” Dr. Miklos Lukacs de @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 .
Indeed , to the extent that implementing the transhumanist agenda is possible , it requires the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of a global elite and the dependence of people on the state , said Lukacs .
That ’ s precisely the aim of the Great Reset , promoted by German economist Klaus Schwab , CEO and founder of World Economic Forum , along with billionaire “ philanthropists ” George Soros and Bill Gates and other owners , managers , and shareholders of Big Tech , Big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the WEF retreats at Davos , Switzerland , contended Lukacs .
Transhumanism is far from a benign doctrine .
Rather , it is at complete enmity with Christianity , Lukacs pointed out during the virtual in Truth Over Fear Summit organized by California-based Catholic writer and broadcaster Patrick Coffin .
Transhumanists take science as their religion and believe in a philosophy of “ absolute relativism ” that claims that individuals can change reality at will , and they seek to “ relativize the human being ” and “ turn it into a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to our taste and our desire and by rejecting those limits nature or God have placed on us.
” Transhumanism therefore requires “ the destruction of “ the Judeo-Christian morality , which is based on absolute principles and values.
” Those raising alarm about the Great Reset often overlook the crucial role of technology in the plans of the meta-capitalists , contended Lukacs , who has Ph.D. in management from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research ( MIoIR ) from the University of Manchester .
The COVID-19 pandemic was “ just another social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predatory meta capitalism to achieve the ultimate end : redefining and reconfiguring the human nature and condition , ” he argued in a presentation in Spanish .
“ I have the firm conviction that this pandemic has been manufactured and its purpose is none other than to initiate , as they say , or implement the Great Reset , ” which will open the door to the advancement of the transhumanist agenda , he said .
Indeed , WEF ’ s Schwab has been promoting the Great Reset as a way to “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a term he coined , which , he declared in January 2016 , “ will affect the very essence of our human experience.
” Schwab described the Fourth Industrial Revolution then as “ a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines among the physical , digital and biological spheres , ” Lukacs said .
Those technologies include genetic engineering such as CRISPR genetic editing , artificial intelligence ( A.I . )
, robotics , the Internet of Things ( IoT ) , 3D printing , and quantum computing .
“ The Fourth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ implementation of transhumanism on a global level , ” emphasized Lukacs .
Transhumanism as a political ideology and cultural movement was defined in 1998 by Swedish economist Nick Bostrom , then a professor at Oxford , and David Pearce , a British philosopher , who that year founded the World Transhumanist Association .
More recently , Yuval Noah Harari , the Israeli historian and author of Homo Deus , who is regarded as a “ great visionary , ” has been promoting transhumanism .
Transhumanists propose to use technology to alter human nature @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longevity , super intelligence , super well-being , ” Lukacs said .
They reject the Christian belief in absolute truth , and that God created human person in His image and likeness , and see absolute values as “ a brake for their pretensions of transhumanist and globalist progressivism.
” That ’ s why the “ approval of abortion ” is key to understanding “ why we are entering fully into this transhumanist agenda ” of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , Lukacs said .
When abortion was approved , the “ political , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which Western civilization is based collapsed .
“ Abortion means nothing other than the transition of the human being from a subject of rights to an object of commercialization , to an object of experimentation , ” he said .
“ Life ceases to have an inherent value , an inherent dignity .
It becomes an object of consumption , an object of production , ” and this aligns perfectly with the goal of transhumanists “ to experiment with the human being.
” Transhumanism is “ a struggle against those propositions of absolute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and what it embodies in progressivism is absolute relativism.
” Evidence that “ absolute relativism ” has caught hold in the Western world is the rapid and widespread rise in trangenderism .
Lukacs also noted cases of transspecisim , transageism , transableism , and transracism .
Examples of these attempts to reshape one ’ s reality at will include the American known as Lizard Man , the Canadian man living as a six-year-old , the British woman who blinded herself because she wanted to be disabled , and the German woman who injected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to identify as black .
These are “ previous states of transhumanism , a kind of accustoming , especially of the new generations , to accept this diversity , ” Lukacs said .
While many transhumanist proposals are rooted in science fiction , Lukacs pointed out they now have the technology to attempt to realize their mad aspirations .
Transhumanists propose to increase longevity by using CRISPR genetic editing , which has been used to triple the lifespan of mice .
Thus , using this technique on human beings , it is conceivable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 200 or 300 years old , he said .
They propose to increase human intelligence by planting chips in people “ that have greater processing capacity ” than the human brain .
An example is Elon Musk ’ s NeuraLink , which is an “ interface that is applied to the cerebral cortex ” and which Musk says will help people with Alzheimer ’ s or epilepsy , but which Lukacs speculates could “ open the door ” to “ neuro-hackers.
” There is also the “ post-humanist ” school of transhumanism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proponent .
Bostrom proposes that “ at some point it will not even be necessary to have a physical body , but we will be a set of information , that we will be able to upload our thoughts to the Cloud , that we will be able to form a great collective intelligence with other human beings , ” Lukac said .
As for the “ promise of super wellbeing , ” philosopher Pearce said it was “ the hedonist imperative ” to “ genetically modify us to aspire to super well-being.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that through genetic modification , we ’ re going to be virtuous human beings , ” and that “ we have to forget about pain and suffering , we have to get rid of those genes that make us aggressive , violent , jealous , that force us to fight and kill each other , ” said Lukacs .
“ When you put all these things into the balance , what you are realizing is what you are looking at is literally the destruction of human beings , of Homo sapiens , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as with the Great Reset , the elites “ twist ” the language and disguise their transhumanist agenda behind vaguely benign phrases , so Schwab ’ s Fourth Industrial Revolution is “ sold to us as an idea that ’ s not necessarily going to affect us , ” or that it is progress that will benefit humanity , he said .
However , just as ordinary people will suffer in the Great Reset under “ the architecture of oppression , ” as Edward Snowden phrased it , so they will bear the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ It ’ s very worrying because for achieving that kind of dream , many , many mistakes will happen for sure .
...
The burden will be carried by the people that get affected by this in their health , in their lives , in their economic situation and in their psychological or mental state , ” said Lukacs .
“ It ’ s a very , very costly experiment .
And [ the elites ] are not going to bear any responsibility for this .
Trust me , ” he told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s wonderful .
For the rest , this is just dystopian.
” Lukacs also contended that the global elites encountered an unexpected roadblock to their plans in U.S. president Donald Trump .
“ Actually , the structure of power is not that complicated , ” he told Coffin in an online Q & A session .
At the top are the “ meta-capitalists ” or “ capitalists that have so much financial muscle that they can play beyond the rules of capitalism ; actually , they make the rules of capitalism or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ And you have those guys on Big Tech , Big Pharma , Big Finance , Big Construction , everything big , the big corporate transnational world .
Those are the billionaires who through their philanthropies , their billion-dollar pledges and all this kind of stuff , they ... funnel money downwards to all the politicians , who are basically rented politicians , they rent them , they run the world for them , ” he said .
“ It ’ s really the privatization of power through philanthropy , ” added Lukacs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , you will have a layer of middle ground or middle level institutions , NGOs , universities , foundations , and then you ’ ll go down to grassroots local government .
It ’ s a ... pyramidal structure.
” But Trump is one key public figure who could evidently not be rented .
“ It is so obvious that in the States right now for the past , what , four , five months , a state coup has been in the making .
As simple as that .
I have no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lukacs told Coffin .
“ That ’ s the situation .
They have tried to oust a president that was democratically elected because they are desperate .
China is still progressing .
And ... their partners in the West , they ’ re just not catching up .
So , they are a little bit desperate .
China is not going to wait.
” Trump should prepare for possible imminent release of more dangerous COVID-20 or 21 It ’ s ‘ child abuse ’ for scientists to gene-edit human embryos and then destroy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trying to become cyborgs

This dystopian nightmare scenario is no longer the stuff of science fiction, Dr. Miklos Lukacs de Pereny said at a recent summit on COVID-19.
November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured by the world’s elites as part of a plan to globally advance “transhumanism” — literally, the fusion of human beings with technology in an attempt to alter human nature itself and create a superhuman being and an “earthly paradise,” according to a Peruvian academic and expert in technology.
This dystopian nightmare scenario is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but an integral part of the proposed post-pandemic “Great Reset,” Dr. Miklos Lukacs de Pereny said at a recent summit on COVID-19.
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Indeed, to the extent that implementing the transhumanist agenda is possible, it requires the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of a global elite and the dependence of people on the state, said Lukacs.
That’s precisely the aim of the Great Reset, promoted by German economist Klaus Schwab, CEO and founder of World Economic Forum, along with billionaire “philanthropists” George Soros and Bill Gates and other owners, managers, and shareholders of Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Finance who meet at the WEF retreats at Davos, Switzerland, contended Lukacs.
Transhumanism is far from a benign doctrine. Rather, it is at complete enmity with Christianity, Lukacs pointed out during the virtual in Truth Over Fear Summit organized by California-based Catholic writer and broadcaster Patrick Coffin.
Transhumanists take science as their religion and believe in a philosophy of “absolute relativism” that claims that individuals can change reality at will, and they seek to “relativize the human being” and “turn it into a putty that can be modified or molded to our taste and our desire and by rejecting those limits nature or God have placed on us.”
Transhumanism therefore requires “the destruction of “the Judeo-Christian morality, which is based on absolute principles and values.”
Those raising alarm about the Great Reset often overlook the crucial role of technology in the plans of the meta-capitalists, contended Lukacs, who has Ph.D. in management from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) from the University of Manchester.
The COVID-19 pandemic was “just another social engineering project deliberately planned and implemented by predatory meta capitalism to achieve the ultimate end: redefining and reconfiguring the human nature and condition,” he argued in a presentation in Spanish.
“I have the firm conviction that this pandemic has been manufactured and its purpose is none other than to initiate, as they say, or implement the Great Reset,” which will open the door to the advancement of the transhumanist agenda, he said.
Indeed, WEF’s Schwab has been promoting the Great Reset as a way to “harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” a term he coined, which, he declared in January 2016, “will affect the very essence of our human experience.”
Schwab described the Fourth Industrial Revolution then as “a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines among the physical, digital and biological spheres,” Lukacs said.
Those technologies include genetic engineering such as CRISPR genetic editing, artificial intelligence (A.I.), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, and quantum computing.
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution is nothing other than the implementation of transhumanism on a global level,” emphasized Lukacs.
What is transhumanism?
Transhumanism as a political ideology and cultural movement was defined in 1998 by Swedish economist Nick Bostrom, then a professor at Oxford, and David Pearce, a British philosopher, who that year founded the World Transhumanist Association.
More recently, Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and author of Homo Deus, who is regarded as a “great visionary,” has been promoting transhumanism.
Transhumanists propose to use technology to alter human nature to produce human beings with “super longevity, super intelligence, super well-being,” Lukacs said.
They reject the Christian belief in absolute truth, and that God created human person in His image and likeness, and see absolute values as “a brake for their pretensions of transhumanist and globalist progressivism.”
That’s why the “approval of abortion” is key to understanding “why we are entering fully into this transhumanist agenda” of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Lukacs said.
When abortion was approved, the “political, economic order and moral values” on which Western civilization is based collapsed.
“Abortion means nothing other than the transition of the human being from a subject of rights to an object of commercialization, to an object of experimentation,” he said.
“Life ceases to have an inherent value, an inherent dignity. It becomes an object of consumption, an object of production,” and this aligns perfectly with the goal of transhumanists “to experiment with the human being.”
Transhumanism is “a struggle against those propositions of absolute values,” said Lukacs, “and what it embodies in progressivism is absolute relativism.”
Evidence that “absolute relativism” has caught hold in the Western world is the rapid and widespread rise in trangenderism.
Lukacs also noted cases of transspecisim, transageism, transableism, and transracism.
Examples of these attempts to reshape one’s reality at will include the American known as Lizard Man, the Canadian man living as a six-year-old, the British woman who blinded herself because she wanted to be disabled, and the German woman who injected herself with melatonin to darken her skin to identify as black.
These are “previous states of transhumanism, a kind of accustoming, especially of the new generations, to accept this diversity,” Lukacs said.
No longer science fiction but reality
While many transhumanist proposals are rooted in science fiction, Lukacs pointed out they now have the technology to attempt to realize their mad aspirations.
Transhumanists propose to increase longevity by using CRISPR genetic editing, which has been used to triple the lifespan of mice. Thus, using this technique on human beings, it is conceivable that people could live to the age of 200 or 300 years old, he said.
They propose to increase human intelligence by planting chips in people “that have greater processing capacity” than the human brain.
An example is Elon Musk’s NeuraLink, which is an “interface that is applied to the cerebral cortex” and which Musk says will help people with Alzheimer’s or epilepsy, but which Lukacs speculates could “open the door” to “neuro-hackers.”
There is also the “post-humanist” school of transhumanism, of which economist Bostrom is a proponent.
Bostrom proposes that “at some point it will not even be necessary to have a physical body, but we will be a set of information, that we will be able to upload our thoughts to the Cloud, that we will be able to form a great collective intelligence with other human beings,” Lukac said.
As for the “promise of super wellbeing,” philosopher Pearce said it was “the hedonist imperative” to “genetically modify us to aspire to super well-being.”
“What Pearce is saying is that through genetic modification, we’re going to be virtuous human beings,” and that “we have to forget about pain and suffering, we have to get rid of those genes that make us aggressive, violent, jealous, that force us to fight and kill each other,” said Lukacs.
“When you put all these things into the balance, what you are realizing is what you are looking at is literally the destruction of human beings, of Homo sapiens, and their conversion to Homo deus.”
But as with the Great Reset, the elites “twist” the language and disguise their transhumanist agenda behind vaguely benign phrases, so Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution is “sold to us as an idea that’s not necessarily going to affect us,” or that it is progress that will benefit humanity, he said.
However, just as ordinary people will suffer in the Great Reset under “the architecture of oppression,” as Edward Snowden phrased it, so they will bear the brunt of the experimentation by transhumanists.
“It’s very worrying because for achieving that kind of dream, many, many mistakes will happen for sure. … The burden will be carried by the people that get affected by this in their health, in their lives, in their economic situation and in their psychological or mental state,” said Lukacs.
“It’s a very, very costly experiment. And [the elites] are not going to bear any responsibility for this. Trust me,” he told Coffin.
“For them, it’s wonderful. For the rest, this is just dystopian.”
Trump a roadblock for global elite’s plans
Lukacs also contended that the global elites encountered an unexpected roadblock to their plans in U.S. president Donald Trump.
“Actually, the structure of power is not that complicated,” he told Coffin in an online Q&A session.
At the top are the “meta-capitalists” or “capitalists that have so much financial muscle that they can play beyond the rules of capitalism; actually, they make the rules of capitalism or remake them,” he said.
“And you have those guys on Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Construction, everything big, the big corporate transnational world. Those are the billionaires who through their philanthropies, their billion-dollar pledges and all this kind of stuff, they … funnel money downwards to all the politicians, who are basically rented politicians, they rent them, they run the world for them,” he said.
“It’s really the privatization of power through philanthropy,” added Lukacs.
“And then, of course, you will have a layer of middle ground or middle level institutions, NGOs, universities, foundations, and then you’ll go down to grassroots local government. It’s a … pyramidal structure.”
But Trump is one key public figure who could evidently not be rented.
“It is so obvious that in the States right now for the past, what, four, five months, a state coup has been in the making. As simple as that. I have no problem in saying it openly,” Lukacs told Coffin.
“That’s the situation. They have tried to oust a president that was democratically elected because they are desperate. China is still progressing. And … their partners in the West, they’re just not catching up. So, they are a little bit desperate. China is not going to wait.”
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lifesitenews--2020-11-10--Noem defends need for fair election: ‘Give President Trump his day in court’

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November 10 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – South Dakota Republican Gov .
Kristi Noem delivered a strong rebuke Sunday to those who demand President Donald Trump concede the election to former Vice President Joe Biden , arguing there are more than enough legitimate questions about the results ’ legitimacy that Republicans deserve the same courtesy Democrats expected for themselves in 2000 .
“ This is a premature conversation because we have not finished counting votes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stephanopolos , Breitbart reported .
“ There are states that have not been called , and back in 2000 , Al Gore was given his day in court .
We should give President Trump his day in court .
Let the process unfold because , George , we live in a republic.
” Gore did not concede until December 13 , 2000 .
Stephanopolos responded by claiming state officials , including Republicans , “ have come up with zero evidence of widespread fraud , ” which Noem said was “ absolutely not true.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , affidavits stating that they saw illegal activities , ” she noted .
“ If you look at what happened in Michigan , that we had computer glitches that changed Republican votes to Democrat votes .
You look in Pennsylvania , dead people voted in Pennsylvania .
So , George , I don ’ t know how widespread it is .
I don ’ t know if it will change the outcome of the election .
But why is everybody so scared just to have a fair election and find out ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was only behind “ by about 500 votes in one state , ” whereas Biden has five-digit leads in multiple states .
“ And many , many more states are in play this time around , ” Noem retorted .
“ And that ’ s what I think is interesting is this declaration from some individuals saying it was an overwhelming victory for Joe Biden .
It simply wasn ’ t because you have so many of these states that are still in play .
All I ’ m asking for , George @ @ @ @ @ @ @ break this country .
When you break the process on which we elect our leaders , you will break America forever.
” Five states remain to be called , according to RealClearPolitics .
Trump leads comfortably in Alaska and by 1.4 percent in North Carolina ; Biden leads by less than one percentage point in Arizona , Georgia , and Pennsylvania .
Most news networks have called the election for Biden on the expectation that he will win enough of the remaining states to win the presidency , but no results have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will depend on recounts in Georgia , Wisconsin , and potentially other states , as well as legal challenges concerning allegations of invalid ballots and voting irregularities in Michigan , Nevada , and Pennsylvania .
As for the question of whether the margins are too large to be closed by fraud , First Liberty Institute counsel and Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer argued that this year ’ s previous elections already demonstrated that the Trump campaign ’ s concerns are not implausible .
“ In New York City , during New York State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent of all mail-in ballots — totaling approximately 84,000 raw votes — were invalidated , ” Hammer wrote .
“ In the Wisconsin primary , the rejection rate was around 2 percent — which seems low until one considers that the raw total of rejected ballots was 23,169 , greater than Trump ’ s current deficit in the Badger State .
In Pennsylvania , election officials were fretting as recently as late September that the commonwealth might have to reject as many as 100,000 mail-in ballots.
” Noem is a pro-life conservative who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2024 presidential candidate thanks to what Blaze Media ’ s Steve Deace calls her “ freedom-first approach to handling COVID-19.
” Help stop voter fraud : The Trump Campaign has created “ Defend Your Ballot ” to report election issues .
Report fraud here or call 888-630-1776 .
Project Veritas is also accepting voter fraud tips here .
The FBI says to report suspected instances of voter suppression/fraud to your local FBI field office or at tips.fbi.gov .

The South Dakota governor said, 'When you break the process on which we elect our leaders, you will break America forever.'
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November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem delivered a strong rebuke Sunday to those who demand President Donald Trump concede the election to former Vice President Joe Biden, arguing there are more than enough legitimate questions about the results’ legitimacy that Republicans deserve the same courtesy Democrats expected for themselves in 2000.
“This is a premature conversation because we have not finished counting votes,” Noem told ABC’s George Stephanopolos, Breitbart reported. “There are states that have not been called, and back in 2000, Al Gore was given his day in court. We should give President Trump his day in court. Let the process unfold because, George, we live in a republic.” Gore did not concede until December 13, 2000.
Stephanopolos responded by claiming state officials, including Republicans, “have come up with zero evidence of widespread fraud,” which Noem said was “absolutely not true.”
“People have signed legal documents, affidavits stating that they saw illegal activities,” she noted. “If you look at what happened in Michigan, that we had computer glitches that changed Republican votes to Democrat votes. You look in Pennsylvania, dead people voted in Pennsylvania. So, George, I don’t know how widespread it is. I don’t know if it will change the outcome of the election. But why is everybody so scared just to have a fair election and find out?”
Stephanopolos insisted 2020 is different because Gore was only behind “by about 500 votes in one state,” whereas Biden has five-digit leads in multiple states.
“And many, many more states are in play this time around,” Noem retorted. “And that’s what I think is interesting is this declaration from some individuals saying it was an overwhelming victory for Joe Biden. It simply wasn’t because you have so many of these states that are still in play. All I’m asking for, George, is that we don’t break this country. When you break the process on which we elect our leaders, you will break America forever.”
Five states remain to be called, according to RealClearPolitics. Trump leads comfortably in Alaska and by 1.4 percent in North Carolina; Biden leads by less than one percentage point in Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Most news networks have called the election for Biden on the expectation that he will win enough of the remaining states to win the presidency, but no results have been certified yet, and the final result will depend on recounts in Georgia, Wisconsin, and potentially other states, as well as legal challenges concerning allegations of invalid ballots and voting irregularities in Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
As for the question of whether the margins are too large to be closed by fraud, First Liberty Institute counsel and Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer argued that this year’s previous elections already demonstrated that the Trump campaign’s concerns are not implausible.
“In New York City, during New York State’s June 23 primary, 21 percent of all mail-in ballots — totaling approximately 84,000 raw votes — were invalidated,” Hammer wrote. “In the Wisconsin primary, the rejection rate was around 2 percent — which seems low until one considers that the raw total of rejected ballots was 23,169, greater than Trump’s current deficit in the Badger State. In Pennsylvania, election officials were fretting as recently as late September that the commonwealth might have to reject as many as 100,000 mail-in ballots.”
Noem is a pro-life conservative who has garnered some buzz as a potential 2024 presidential candidate thanks to what Blaze Media’s Steve Deace calls her “freedom-first approach to handling COVID-19.”
Help stop voter fraud: Project Veritas is accepting voter fraud tips here.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-10--Wrong results in local Michigan election: ‘computer issue’ or ‘clerk’s mistake’?

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PONTIAC , Michigan , November 10 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Either a “ computer issue ” or a “ clerk ’ s mistake ” led to incorrect results for a local election in Oakland County , Michigan .
The wrong numbers have now been corrected , leading to Republican Adam Kochenderfer winning the race .
Kochenderfer had lagged behind his competitor , Dr. Melanie Hartman , by 104 votes at the end of election day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Oakland County Clerk ’ s office discovered that a local clerk had sent them the ballots for seven precincts in duplicate , the incumbent came out on top by 1,127 votes .
The County ’ s Director of Elections , Joe Rozell , blamed the error on a “ computer issue ” that resulted in an erroneous vote tabulation , but also referred to “ the local clerk ’ s mistake.
” “ A computer issue in Rochester Hills caused them to send us results for seven precincts as both precinct votes and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been sent to us as absentee votes , ” he said .
“ We noticed the local clerk ’ s mistake ( on Thursday ) and corrected it .
The county canvass process works , and the correct results are now on our website.
” In a Facebook post , Kochenderfer expressed gratitude for the corrected results , but emphasized the need to “ conduct a thorough review of our system to prevent this from happening again.
” Last week , software glitches were found to have switched about 6,000 Trump votes to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Powell alleged that conspirators have “ used an algorithm to calculate the votes they would need to flip and they used the computers to flip those votes … from Trump to Biden , and from other Republican candidates to their competitors.
” City Clerk Tina Barton ( R-Rochester Hills ) insisted that the mistake in Oakland County was an isolated one , and that voters should have confidence in the election process .
“ Every voter should have complete confidence in our voting system .
Every vote that was cast was counted accurately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” she said .
She also contested Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel ’ s characterization of the error as “ finding ” 2,000 missing ballots .
“ As a Republican , I am disturbed that this is intentionally being mischaracterized to undermine the election process , ” she said .
However , reports about voting irregularities have been widespread , not only in Michigan but throughout the country .
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has given senior governmental officials the go-ahead to investigate “ substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” in order to ensure “ that the American people can have full confidence in the electoral process and their government.
” Help stop voter fraud : The Trump Campaign has created “ Defend Your Ballot ” to report election issues .
Report fraud here or call 888-630-1776 .
Project Veritas is also accepting voter fraud tips here .
The FBI says to report suspected instances of voter suppression/fraud to your local FBI field office or at tips.fbi.gov .
Software that caused 6k Trump votes to go to Biden in Michigan used across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real votes are counted , Trump ‘ will win ’ election How massive voter fraud was facilitated in three swing states : Pennsylvania , Georgia , and Nevada

PETITION UPDATE (1/15/2021) -
The events of the past month, and especially the past 10 days, have shaken the faith Americans have in their elected and appoint officials.
We continue to call for investigations to be made into allegations of election fraud. Texas is in the process of prosecuting one political operative for illegal ballot harvesting, and multiple state legislatures have called for investigations, too.
However, the judiciary has severely let down the American electorate.
As we have said all along, the integrity of the election is much bigger than President Trump. Election integrity is at the heart of republican democracy, and if we don't have it, we no longer have a functioning republic.
Therefore, we continue to seek the truth for the election outcome. Perhaps that will only be known in the future when state or federal commissions are established to investigate the instances of election fraud which were witnessed and sworn to, by thousands of Americans of all political persuasions.
In the meantime, you may still sign this petition. Thank you!
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PETITION UPDATE (12/10/20) -
On Wednesday, President Trump tweeted: "We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!"
He is referring to the lawsuit which the state of Texas has filed against Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia in the Supreme Court over changes those states made to their election rules, claiming they violated the U.S. Constitution in the process.
Here is the central part of the argument: if Texas were to allow possible voter fraud to go unchecked in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, it would be akin to committing fraud upon the people of Texas, who cast their ballots within the framework of the law.
Indeed, this would apply equally to all citizens who voted within the framework of the law across the United States!
President Trump also tweeted that this case is, "very strong...ALL CRITERIA MET."
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, now.
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PETITION UPDATE (12/7/20) - Since this petition was launched, President Trump's legal team, as well as other concerned citizens, have discovered what appears to be irrefutable evidence of voter fraud in several of the key battleground states, and have initiated legal challenges in six states.
While the situation continues to evolve, this remains a hugely important petition which we encourage you to SIGN and SHARE.
Below, please WATCH and READ about the mounting evidence of voter fraud and how the mainstream media seem determined to ignore even the most egregious instances of vote tampering. Then, please SIGN and SHARE this petition.
'Trump: ‘Our election system is now under assault and siege’ and as president I must defend it'
'Tens of thousands 2020 election votes illegally scanned in Detroit, says Dominion IT contractor'
'Trump campaign files lawsuit demanding ‘a new statewide election for president’ in Georgia'
'Experts flag over 500k ballots in PA with new evidence of major 2020 election voter fraud'
''Smoking gun'? Pennsylvania vote fraud hearing gets gasps from audience'
'FBI and Justice Department have dragged their feet investigating 2020 vote fraud'
''CNN top brass in leaked tape: We won't give Trump 'too much of a platform on his not conceding'
'Twitter censored Trump 63 times over Thanksgiving holiday, Biden untouched'
LifeSite supports President Trump with this petition because we believe he is trying to defend the Constitution, ensuring that electoral fraud does not taint the result of the 2020 general election.
But, since starting this petition, we have launched a separate petition related to the disputed election outcome, calling on the Department of Justice to 'do their job' and engage in meaningful investigations of the mounting evidence of voter fraud.
We believe that conducting forensic audits of ballots and voting machines, as well as issuing subpoenas to collect more evidence, would be a good start.
Thankfully, some of the state started to demand investigations independent of federal agencies. But we still believe that the DoJ needs to use its enormous fact-finding resources to help resolve allegations of election fraud.
Thank you for continuing to SIGN and SHARE all our election-related petitions.
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Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition which calls on all Americans to Stand With President Trump as he uses every legitimate means to find out if voter fraud played any role in the election outcome.
Amid allegations of voter fraud, and at a time when the situation with COVID has been used by many of the states to facilitate the use of mail-in ballots on a massive scale, we need to be very careful in dismissing the possibility of voter fraud.
The fact is, the possibility of wide-spread fraud with mail-in ballots is significant.
But, this is not about Donald Trump or Joe Biden! This about whether or not the sanctity of the ballot box has been tampered with!
Please Stand With President Trump as he attempts to defend the integrity of this election, as well as well as the right to vote itself!
Indeed, this is so important, not so much because one election hangs in the balance, but because our democracy, itself, hangs in the balance.
Americans not only have a right to know, but should demand that every legitimate means be used to discover the truth about these elections!
Please SIGN this petition and Stand With President Trump to ensure that these elections were conducted freely and fairly!
While most all Americans believe in playing by the rules, we also know that some very devious, politically-motivated operatives have been trying to harm the Trump administration from before he even took the oath of office.
This fact should lead us to question how some allegations of voter fraud can be so easily dismissed by state election authorities.
We demand to know the truth, and, for the sake of our democracy, we demand that President Trump keep fighting to learn the truth.
Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this petition today!
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lifesitenews--2020-11-10--Fox’s Cavuto cuts off discussion of election fraud; Tucker Carlson hits back

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November 10 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Unrest continued to brew at Fox News on Monday as conservative prime-time host took a thinly-veiled swipe at colleague Neil Cavuto for cutting away from remarks by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany in protest of her accusing Democrats of wanting to steal the 2020 presidential election .
Cavuto cut to McEnany ’ s press conference mid-sentence , as she argued there is only “ one party in America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ residency , eligibility .
There is only one party in America trying to keep observers out of the count room .
And that party , my friends , is the Democrat Party.
” “ You don ’ t take these positions because you want an honest election , ” she continued .
“ You don ’ t oppose an audit of the vote because you want an accurate count .
You don ’ t oppose our efforts at sunlight and transparency because you have nothing to hide .
You take these positions because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are welcoming illegal voting .
Our position is clear : we want to protect the franchise of the American people .
We want an honest , accurate , lawful count .
We want maximum sunlight .
We want maximum transparency .
We want every legal vote to be counted , and we want every illegal vote to be discarded.
” “ Whoa , whoa , whoa , ” Cavuto interjected at that point , muting McEnany ’ s remarks .
“ I just think we have to be very clear , and she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting .
Unless she has more details to back that up , I can ’ t in good countenance continue showing you this .
I want to make sure that maybe they do have something to back that up , but that ’ s an explosive charge to make that the other side is effectively rigging and cheating .
If she does bring proof of that , of course , we ’ ll take you back.
” In fact , the Trump campaign did have to go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ observers allowed to watch the counting , and both the Democrat National Committee and Nevada Democrat Party have opposed the Trump campaign ’ s lawsuit to demand better signature verification in that state .
The Democrat Party ’ s national 2020 platform condemns “ onerous voter ID laws ” ( commonly understood as code for requiring photo identification ) , and numerous examples of insider testimony have tied Democrats to vote fraud for years .
That evening , Fox News host Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue that seemed to condemn Cavuto ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A large percentage of our population no longer believes that our democracy is real , ” Carlson lamented .
“ That is sad .
It is also dangerous — it could easily get worse .
What we 're doing in response is hardly the solution.
” '' In a democracy , you ca n't ignore honest questions from citizens , ” he continued .
“ You ca n't dismiss them out of hand as crazy or immoral for asking .
You ca n't just cut away from coverage you do n't like .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ accept an outcome , because force does n't work in a democracy — that 's dictatorship .
In a free society , you have to convince the public of your legitimacy ; you have to win them over with reason . ''
Fox News was already on thin ice with supporters of President Donald Trump due to anchor Chris Wallace ’ s biased performance in the first presidential debate , which was followed by the network calling Arizona for ex-Vice President Biden early on election night , long before any of its competitors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counted and fewer than 15,000 votes separating the candidates almost a week later , RealClearPolitics still has not ) .
Most national news networks have called the race for Biden , but no election results have been certified yet , recounts are pending in Georgia and likely in Wisconsin and potentially additional states , and the Trump campaign is pursuing challenges based on evidence of possible fraud in several states including Michigan , Nevada , and Pennsylvania .
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered Pennsylvania to segregate all mail-in ballots delivered past the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identify votes ineligible to be counted .
While long assumed to be a conservative commentator , this is not the first time Cavuto has exhibited left-leaning biases .
In May , he claimed the potential COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine “ will kill you ” if “ you are in a risky population ” ( neglecting the fact that HCQ is not an over-the-counter medication , and could only be obtained through a physician familiar with a patient ’ s medical history ) .
Last year , Cavuto cut off Catholic League president Bill Donohue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fire may have been caused by arson ( investigators believe it was an electrical short ) .
Help stop voter fraud : The Trump Campaign has created “ Defend Your Ballot ” to report election issues .
Report fraud here or call 888-630-1776 .
Project Veritas is also accepting voter fraud tips here .
The FBI says to report suspected instances of voter suppression/fraud to your local FBI field office or at tips.fbi.gov .

'You can't just cut away from coverage you don't like,' Carlson said in an apparent reference to Cavuto muting White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's remarks.
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November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Unrest continued to brew at Fox News on Monday as conservative prime-time host took a thinly-veiled swipe at colleague Neil Cavuto for cutting away from remarks by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany in protest of her accusing Democrats of wanting to steal the 2020 presidential election.
Cavuto cut to McEnany’s press conference mid-sentence, as she argued there is only “one party in America that opposes verifying signatures, citizenship, residency, eligibility. There is only one party in America trying to keep observers out of the count room. And that party, my friends, is the Democrat Party.”
Fox News cuts away from the Trump campaign press conference with Neil Cavuto saying that they “can't in good countenance continue showing this” when @PressSec says that Democrats are “welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting” in the election pic.twitter.com/0d5B5cJ0D8 — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 9, 2020
“You don’t take these positions because you want an honest election,” she continued. “You don’t oppose an audit of the vote because you want an accurate count. You don’t oppose our efforts at sunlight and transparency because you have nothing to hide. You take these positions because you are welcoming fraud, and you are welcoming illegal voting. Our position is clear: we want to protect the franchise of the American people. We want an honest, accurate, lawful count. We want maximum sunlight. We want maximum transparency. We want every legal vote to be counted, and we want every illegal vote to be discarded.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” Cavuto interjected at that point, muting McEnany’s remarks. “I just think we have to be very clear, and she’s charging the other side of welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue showing you this. I want to make sure that maybe they do have something to back that up, but that’s an explosive charge to make that the other side is effectively rigging and cheating. If she does bring proof of that, of course, we’ll take you back.”
In fact, the Trump campaign did have to go to court in Pennsylvania to get its election observers allowed to watch the counting, and both the Democrat National Committee and Nevada Democrat Party have opposed the Trump campaign’s lawsuit to demand better signature verification in that state. The Democrat Party’s national 2020 platform condemns “onerous voter ID laws” (commonly understood as code for requiring photo identification), and numerous examples of insider testimony have tied Democrats to vote fraud for years.
That evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue that seemed to condemn Cavuto’s action without mentioning his name.
“A large percentage of our population no longer believes that our democracy is real,” Carlson lamented. “That is sad. It is also dangerous — it could easily get worse. What we're doing in response is hardly the solution.”
“In a democracy, you can't ignore honest questions from citizens,” he continued. “You can't dismiss them out of hand as crazy or immoral for asking. You can't just cut away from coverage you don't like. You can't simply tell people to accept an outcome, because force doesn't work in a democracy — that's dictatorship. In a free society, you have to convince the public of your legitimacy; you have to win them over with reason.”
Here is the rest of Tucker's segment where he talks about the evidence that has been presented of voter fraud in this election. pic.twitter.com/oOIM2hp3Tv — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 10, 2020
Fox News was already on thin ice with supporters of President Donald Trump due to anchor Chris Wallace’s biased performance in the first presidential debate, which was followed by the network calling Arizona for ex-Vice President Biden early on election night, long before any of its competitors (with 98 percent of the vote counted and fewer than 15,000 votes separating the candidates almost a week later, RealClearPolitics still has not).
Most national news networks have called the race for Biden, but no election results have been certified yet, recounts are pending in Georgia and likely in Wisconsin and potentially additional states, and the Trump campaign is pursuing challenges based on evidence of possible fraud in several states including Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered Pennsylvania to segregate all mail-in ballots delivered past the legal deadline, which will presumably help identify votes ineligible to be counted.
While long assumed to be a conservative commentator, this is not the first time Cavuto has exhibited left-leaning biases. In May, he claimed the potential COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine “will kill you” if “you are in a risky population” (neglecting the fact that HCQ is not an over-the-counter medication, and could only be obtained through a physician familiar with a patient’s medical history). Last year, Cavuto cut off Catholic League president Bill Donohue for speculating that the Notre Dame Cathedral fire may have been caused by arson (investigators believe it was an electrical short).
Help stop voter fraud: Project Veritas is accepting voter fraud tips here.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-10--Viganò ‘shed a tear’ when I asked him about McCarrick: Renowned Vatican journalist

November 10 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Dr. Robert Moynihan is one of the most well-respected and widely-known reporters in the Catholic Church .
He ’ s currently the editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican magazine , and has over 30 years experience in the industry .
He recently published an amazing new book titled , Finding Viganò : In Search of the Man Whose Testimony Shook the Church and the World ( TAN Books ) .
LifeSite readers can receive 10 % off Dr. Robert Moynihan ’ s new book by clicking this link and using the code LSN10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs to be told , ” Dr. Moynihan told me today on my podcast , referring to Archbishop Viganò .
“ I ’ m working on a second [ book ] .
” Dr. Moynihan , who went to Harvard and Yale , is an insider ’ s insider who knows many clergy and is intimately familiar with Vatican politics .
He shared with me a number of revelations not previously known to the outside world .
He told me that when female altar servers were introduced in the Church , then-Cardinal Ratzinger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , told him that the issue “ hasn ’ t yet come across my desk.
” Then , the very next day , the Vatican ’ s Secretary of State office announced that female altar servers were now acceptable .
In other words , Ratzinger had not given his approval to it at all !
He also shared with me what happened after Pope Benedict brought in Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to be his Secretary of State .
Bertone “ parachuted in ” from northern Italy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own views on things .
Dr. Moynihan said Benedict trusted Bertone and gave him control of the Roman Curia and that it was Bertone who orchestrated the removal of Viganò from his role in the Vatican .
Eventually , Pope Benedict sent Vigano , who protested about his removal , a letter saying that he wanted to make him Apostolic Delegate to the United States and that he believed he had a “ providential ” mission to fulfill in taking on that position .
Dr. Moynihan revealed that when he spoke to Viganò @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to feel that Benedict was “ prophetic ” in making that decision , and that he likely didn ’ t know what the full ramifications of assigning him to the United States would be at the time .
Lastly , Dr. Moynihan stated that when Archbishop Vigano spoke with then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick , he asked him to listen to Pope Benedict ’ s order to remain silent and prepare for his judgement .
McCarrick rejected that , he said .
Viganò simply wanted McCarrick to do his penance , Dr. Moynihan told me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have a public execution , I wanted him to repent , ” Archbishop Viganò told Dr. Moynihan .
Archboshp Viganò also “ shed a tear ” while reflecting about McCarrick with Dr. Moynihan .
He truly loved and stil loves the church , Dr. Moynihan told me .
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Dr. Moynihan is the author of, 'Finding Viganò: In Search of the Man Whose Testimony Shook the Church and the World.'
November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Dr. Robert Moynihan is one of the most well-respected and widely-known reporters in the Catholic Church. He’s currently the editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican magazine, and has over 30 years experience in the industry.
He recently published an amazing new book titled, Finding Viganò: In Search of the Man Whose Testimony Shook the Church and the World (TAN Books). LifeSite readers can receive 10% off Dr. Robert Moynihan’s new book by clicking this link and using the code LSN10.
“I felt that his story needs to be told,” Dr. Moynihan told me today on my podcast, referring to Archbishop Viganò. “I’m working on a second [book].”
Dr. Moynihan, who went to Harvard and Yale, is an insider’s insider who knows many clergy and is intimately familiar with Vatican politics. He shared with me a number of revelations not previously known to the outside world.
He told me that when female altar servers were introduced in the Church, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, who was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told him that the issue “hasn’t yet come across my desk.”
Then, the very next day, the Vatican’s Secretary of State office announced that female altar servers were now acceptable. In other words, Ratzinger had not given his approval to it at all!
He also shared with me what happened after Pope Benedict brought in Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to be his Secretary of State.
Bertone “parachuted in” from northern Italy, Dr. Moynihan said. He had his own views on things.
Dr. Moynihan said Benedict trusted Bertone and gave him control of the Roman Curia and that it was Bertone who orchestrated the removal of Viganò from his role in the Vatican.
Eventually, Pope Benedict sent Vigano, who protested about his removal, a letter saying that he wanted to make him Apostolic Delegate to the United States and that he believed he had a “providential” mission to fulfill in taking on that position.
Dr. Moynihan revealed that when he spoke to Viganò about that appointment, Viganò had come to feel that Benedict was “prophetic” in making that decision, and that he likely didn’t know what the full ramifications of assigning him to the United States would be at the time.
Lastly, Dr. Moynihan stated that when Archbishop Vigano spoke with then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, he asked him to listen to Pope Benedict’s order to remain silent and prepare for his judgement in the last years of his life. McCarrick rejected that, he said.
Viganò simply wanted McCarrick to do his penance, Dr. Moynihan told me. “I didn’t want to have a public execution, I wanted him to repent,” Archbishop Viganò told him.
Archboshp Viganò also “shed a tear” while reflecting about McCarrick with Dr. Moynihan. He truly loved and still loves the church, Dr. Moynihan told me.
The John-Henry Westen Show is available by video on the show’s YouTube channel and right here on my LifeSite blog.
It’s also available in audio format on platforms such as Spotify, Soundcloud, and ACast. To subscribe to the audio version on various channels, visit our ACast webpage here.
We’ve created a special email list for the show so that we can notify you every week when we post a new episode. Please sign up now by clicking here. You can also subscribe to the YouTube channel, and you’ll be notified by YouTube when there is new content.
You can send me feedback, or ideas for show topics by emailing [email protected].
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