lifesitenews--2020-06-11--Judge dismisses lawsuit against Trump admin rule that cut $60m from Planned Parenthood

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MAINE , June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Trump administration ’ s rule prohibiting Title X taxpayer funds from being given to organizations which refer for abortions .
Earlier this week , U.S. District Judge Lance Walker rejected a lawsuit brought by Maine Family Planning , which claimed that the Protect Life Rule violates the free speech clause in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .
Walker judged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including abortion counseling ; it only prohibits an abortion referral.
” The Protect Life Rule requires “ clear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning ” and bans “ referral for abortion as a method of family planning.
” The abortion lobby has responded with multiple lawsuits , and Planned Parenthood chose to withdraw from Title X rather than comply with it , despite the company ’ s repeated claim that abortion is only a fraction of their “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the local Maine news outlet Bangor Daily News Maine Family Planning receives “ a little more than $ 2 million in Title X money each year , which was disbursed to its 18 owner-operated health care centers across the state.
” A spokesperson for the organization said that is about 30 percent of their total revenue .
The organization has previously said that it will continue to operate without federal funding , rather than comply with the Trump administration ’ s funding regulations .
When the lawsuit was launched last year , Maine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the new rules on federal funding “ threatens the very existence of ” Maine Family Planning ’ s 18 centers , all of which reportedly offer abortions in the same buildings , although they say that the abortion businesses operate independently .
Maine Family Planning ’ s legal representatives said following the ruling that they may appeal the decision in the 1st U.S .
Circuit Court of Appeals .
The Protect Life Rule is projected to cut almost $ 60 million from the $ 616 million Planned Parenthood received during the most recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ congressional elections in November will decide whether funding to the abortion industry is further restricted or restored next year .

The Protect Life Rule requires 'clear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning.'
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MAINE, June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rule prohibiting Title X taxpayer funds from being given to organizations which refer for abortions.
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker rejected a lawsuit brought by Maine Family Planning, which claimed that the Protect Life Rule violates the free speech clause in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Walker judged that the “rule authorizes nondirective counseling, including abortion counseling; it only prohibits an abortion referral.”
The Protect Life Rule requires “clear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning” and bans “referral for abortion as a method of family planning.” The abortion lobby has responded with multiple lawsuits, and Planned Parenthood chose to withdraw from Title X rather than comply with it, despite the company’s repeated claim that abortion is only a fraction of their “services.”
According to a report in the local Maine news outlet Bangor Daily News Maine Family Planning receives “a little more than $2 million in Title X money each year, which was disbursed to its 18 owner-operated health care centers across the state.” A spokesperson for the organization said that is about 30 percent of their total revenue.
The organization has previously said that it will continue to operate without federal funding, rather than comply with the Trump administration’s funding regulations.
When the lawsuit was launched last year, Maine Family Planning CEO George Hill said that the new rules on federal funding “threatens the very existence of” Maine Family Planning’s 18 centers, all of which reportedly offer abortions in the same buildings, although they say that the abortion businesses operate independently.
Maine Family Planning’s legal representatives said following the ruling that they may appeal the decision in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Protect Life Rule is projected to cut almost $60 million from the $616 million Planned Parenthood received during the most recent fiscal year. The incoming presidential and congressional elections in November will decide whether funding to the abortion industry is further restricted or restored next year.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-11--Federal court tosses Satanists’ lawsuit against informing women when life begins

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COLUMBIA , Missouri , June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – On Tuesday , the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit by the left-wing secular advocacy group Satanic Temple that sought to challenge Missouri ’ s law requiring that women be given critical information before going through with aborting their children .
Missouri law places a 72-hour waiting period on abortion and requires abortionists to provide women considering abortion with information about its medical risks and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a definitive statement that “ the life of each human being begins at conception .
Abortion will terminate the life of a separate , unique , living human being.
” Last fall , the Satanic Temple ( which embraces Satan as a “ symbol of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority , ” but does not believe he literally exists ) filed a lawsuit against the law on behalf of an anonymous member who was subjected to its provisions while seeking an abortion .
On Tuesday , the appellate court affirmed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Temple , the Associated Press reported , ultimately concluding the claim was moot because , had the state officially taken the position that life does not begin at conception , that would be asserting personal belief , as well .
“ Any theory of when life begins necessarily aligns with some religious beliefs and not others , ” the court reasoned .
“ So under ( Jane ) Doe ’ s theory , Missouri ’ s only option would be to avoid legislating in this area altogether.
” “ We can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be so thoughtlessly dismissed , the arguments we presented so willfully evaded by the reviewing judges , if we were a Christian organization , ” Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesman Lucien Greaves responded .
“ If there were a process whereby religious claims were sufficiently anonymized — the judges blinded to the religious identity of the plaintiff and only apprised of the pertinent legal arguments presented — there is no doubt that our situation would be entirely different today.
” “ Of course , we will appeal , ” Greaves added .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ with every appeal available to us , even as the hypocrisy of the courts is made increasingly , and flagrantly , more plain.
” Lost in the above arguments is the fact that the statement required by Missouri law is not only a religious belief , but a settled biological fact .
When the Satanic Temple attempted a similar lawsuit in 2015 , then-Attorney General Chris Koster noted that the Temple could not “ cite a single opinion from any state or federal court holding that a state ’ s expression of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of religion , ” and that the “ Eighth Circuit decision on which they rely was reversed by the Supreme Court 26 years ago ” ( emphasis in the original ) .
While the vehemently pro-abortion Satanic Temple ’ s activist litigation may be no stronger than that of any other pro-abortion group , it has found greater success with its cultural protests .
In April 2019 , the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) formally recognized it as a church despite its explicitly-secular nature and failure to meet the IRS ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new status is expected to aid the group in its legal claims in cases such as its placing of Satanic statues in the state capitals of Arkansas and Illinois .

The Satanic Temple believes that it was treated differently because it's not a Christian organization.
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – On Tuesday, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit by the left-wing secular advocacy group Satanic Temple that sought to challenge Missouri’s law requiring that women be given critical information before going through with aborting their children.
Missouri law places a 72-hour waiting period on abortion and requires abortionists to provide women considering abortion with information about its medical risks and the humanity of the preborn child, including a definitive statement that “the life of each human being begins at conception. Abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being.”
Last fall, the Satanic Temple (which embraces Satan as a “symbol of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority,” but does not believe he literally exists) filed a lawsuit against the law on behalf of an anonymous member who was subjected to its provisions while seeking an abortion.
On Tuesday, the appellate court affirmed a previous lower court ruling against the Temple, the Associated Press reported, ultimately concluding the claim was moot because, had the state officially taken the position that life does not begin at conception, that would be asserting personal belief, as well.
“Any theory of when life begins necessarily aligns with some religious beliefs and not others,” the court reasoned. “So under (Jane) Doe’s theory, Missouri’s only option would be to avoid legislating in this area altogether.”
“We can’t for a moment believe that our case would be so thoughtlessly dismissed, the arguments we presented so willfully evaded by the reviewing judges, if we were a Christian organization,” Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesman Lucien Greaves responded. “If there were a process whereby religious claims were sufficiently anonymized — the judges blinded to the religious identity of the plaintiff and only apprised of the pertinent legal arguments presented — there is no doubt that our situation would be entirely different today.”
“Of course, we will appeal,” Greaves added. “We will fight for our equality with every appeal available to us, even as the hypocrisy of the courts is made increasingly, and flagrantly, more plain.”
Lost in the above arguments is the fact that the statement required by Missouri law is not only a religious belief, but a settled biological fact. When the Satanic Temple attempted a similar lawsuit in 2015, then-Attorney General Chris Koster noted that the Temple could not “cite a single opinion from any state or federal court holding that a state’s expression of a value judgment about abortion constitutes an establishment of religion,” and that the “Eighth Circuit decision on which they rely was reversed by the Supreme Court 26 years ago” (emphasis in the original).
While the vehemently pro-abortion Satanic Temple’s activist litigation may be no stronger than that of any other pro-abortion group, it has found greater success with its cultural protests. In April 2019, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) formally recognized it as a church despite its explicitly-secular nature and failure to meet the IRS’s usual criteria for churches. The new status is expected to aid the group in its legal claims in cases such as its placing of Satanic statues in the state capitals of Arkansas and Illinois.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-11--Cartoon Network celebrates ‘Pride Month’ with videos on LGBT families, kid activists

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June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Once a refuge for children ’ s innocence , the world of mainstream animation has become intertwined with increasingly adult themes and real-world politics over the past several years , as highlighted by Cartoon Network ’ s decision to celebrate LGBT “ Pride Month ” with social-media advertising , special videos , and curated collections of shows approved by the LGBT lobby .
“ Our world is changing every day and it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forth progress , ” Cartoon Network declared Wednesday .
“ While the world continues to push for equality , CN celebrates the people and families within the LGBTQ+ community , all month long and all year round.
” The message was accompanied by a video of various teens and preteens ( complete with their “ preferred pronouns ” listed onscreen ) promoting pro-LGBT activism in generic terms of “ love , ” “ standing up , ” “ inclusion , ” and the like .
Clips of LGBT parades are intercut with their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declaring they are “ proud ” to be “ transgendered , ” “ queer , ” “ nonbinary , ” and “ an LGBTQ ally.
” “ The network ’ s Pride campaign , which spans all of June , “ kicks off today with Drawn to … Courage , to be followed by Drawn to … Love , rolling out across all Cartoon Network platforms , including linear and social , ” Animation Magazine reported .
“ Each video will feature kids from the comfort of their homes discussing individuality and inclusivity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will continue to build on the network ’ s goal to promote inclusion and self-love , encouraging fans everywhere to always be themselves.
” Cartoon Network ’ s website also hosts a special Pride Month playlist , a selection of videos from the network ’ s animated series Steven Universe and Craig of the Creek , the former of which has received an award from the left-wing lobbying group GLAAD .
Promoting homosexuality and gender-fluidity is nothing new for the animation channel , which rose to popularity thanks to a combination of original @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Warner Bros. , Hanna-Barbera , and MGM .
In 2018 , the final season of its hit original series Adventure Time depicted a lesbian kiss ; that same year , Steven Universe also featured a lesbian wedding .
Other recent examples of “ children ’ s ” or “ all-ages ” animation to incorporate LGBT content include Cartoon Network ’ s Clarence ; Netflix ’ s Voltron : Legendary Defender and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power ; Nickelodeon ’ s Avatar : The Legend of Korra and The Loud House ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Forces of Evil ; Amazon ’ s Danger & Eggs ; and even the preschool-aimed Disney cartoon Doc McStuffins .
Notably , several of the aforementioned examples were held until the end of a series ’ run , suggesting that creators wanted to time the LGBT content for when offended parents could no longer affect the show ’ s ratings .
Despite Cartoon Network ’ s feel-good , self-righteous presentation of LGBT pride , a body of social science literature indicates that indulging a child ’ s gender confusion can be harmful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the University of Cambridge ’ s Stonewall report found that 96 percent of trans students in Scotland attempted self-harm through actions such as cutting themselves , and 40 percent attempted suicide .
Forty percent in the United States have attempted suicide , as well , according to a 2016 survey from the National Center for Transgender Equality ( NCTE ) .
According to a 2011 study out of Sweden , trans people remain 19 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population , even after surgery to reconstruct their bodies @

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June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Once a refuge for children’s innocence, the world of mainstream animation has become intertwined with increasingly adult themes and real-world politics over the past several years, as highlighted by Cartoon Network’s decision to celebrate LGBT “Pride Month” with social-media advertising, special videos, and curated collections of shows approved by the LGBT lobby.
“Our world is changing every day and it’s the courage of individuals that bring forth progress,” Cartoon Network declared Wednesday. “While the world continues to push for equality, CN celebrates the people and families within the LGBTQ+ community, all month long and all year round.”
Our world is changing every day and it’s the courage of individuals that bring forth progress. ��❤�������������� While the world continues to push for equality, CN celebrates the people and families within the LGBTQ+ community, all month long and all year round. #HappyPrideMonth pic.twitter.com/VqygPr1FMp — Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork) June 10, 2020
The message was accompanied by a video of various teens and preteens (complete with their “preferred pronouns” listed onscreen) promoting pro-LGBT activism in generic terms of “love,” “standing up,” “inclusion,” and the like. Clips of LGBT parades are intercut with their testimony, which concludes with the kids declaring they are “proud” to be “transgendered,” “queer,” “nonbinary,” and “an LGBTQ ally.”
“The network’s Pride campaign, which spans all of June, “kicks off today with Drawn to … Courage, to be followed by Drawn to … Love, rolling out across all Cartoon Network platforms, including linear and social,” Animation Magazine reported. “Each video will feature kids from the comfort of their homes discussing individuality and inclusivity through courage and love. The series will continue to build on the network’s goal to promote inclusion and self-love, encouraging fans everywhere to always be themselves.”
Cartoon Network’s website also hosts a special Pride Month playlist, a selection of videos from the network’s animated series Steven Universe and Craig of the Creek, the former of which has received an award from the left-wing lobbying group GLAAD.
Promoting homosexuality and gender-fluidity is nothing new for the animation channel, which rose to popularity thanks to a combination of original programming and its celebration of cartoon classics from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, and MGM. In 2018, the final season of its hit original series Adventure Time depicted a lesbian kiss; that same year, Steven Universe also featured a lesbian wedding.
Other recent examples of “children’s” or “all-ages” animation to incorporate LGBT content include Cartoon Network’s Clarence; Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defender and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Legend of Korra and The Loud House; Disney Channel’s Star vs. The Forces of Evil; Amazon’s Danger & Eggs; and even the preschool-aimed Disney cartoon Doc McStuffins.
Notably, several of the aforementioned examples were held until the end of a series’ run, suggesting that creators wanted to time the LGBT content for when offended parents could no longer affect the show’s ratings.
Despite Cartoon Network’s feel-good, self-righteous presentation of LGBT pride, a body of social science literature indicates that indulging a child’s gender confusion can be harmful in the long run.
In 2017, the University of Cambridge’s Stonewall report found that 96 percent of trans students in Scotland attempted self-harm through actions such as cutting themselves, and 40 percent attempted suicide. Forty percent in the United States have attempted suicide, as well, according to a 2016 survey from the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). According to a 2011 study out of Sweden, trans people remain 19 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population, even after surgery to reconstruct their bodies.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-11--Former UK prime minister calls for coronavirus digital IDs to prove ‘disease status’

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UNITED KINGDOM , June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for the creation of digital IDs to track “ disease status ” as part of the plans for restarting international travel after the global coronavirus crisis .
Blair , who now leads the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change , said in a recorded message digital IDs were a “ natural evolution of the way that we 're going to use technology in any event to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crisis gives an additional reason for doing that.
” “ I could be wrong about this , but when I can look at for example how you restart some businesses , how you restart international travel…I think people 's disease status , for example have they been tested ?
What is the result of that test ?
Have they had the disease ?
Do they have the disease ?
I think unless you 're able to record some of this data in a way that people can use it 's going to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a near normal in things like transport , ” Blair said .
An article published in Forbes last month said that future air travel could involve “ no cabin bags , no lounges , no automatic upgrades , face masks , surgical gloves , self-check-in , self-bag-drop-off , immunity passports , on-the-spot blood tests and sanitation disinfection tunnels.
” “ Digital technologies and automation will play a critical role in the future of air travel , ” Forbes predicted .
“ The need to reduce ‘ touchpoints ’ at airports implies mandatory use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ board planes with only their face as a passport.
” The Forbes article noted that a number of airlines including British Airways , Qantas , and EasyJet are already using the technology .
Earlier this week an article published in The Guardian warned that proof of immunity to the coronavirus could be used to create “ a new class system.
” “ Experts predict that if [ coronavirus ] survivors are found to be immune , they could perform a range of jobs and services – such as volunteering in hospitals and nursing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working in shops and food processing plants – risk-free , ” journalist Miranda Bryant wrote .
“ And , depending on how authorities , business and society at large respond , they could also be entitled to greater freedoms.
” Bryant pointed to Chile issuing “ release certificates ” to people who “ complete quarantine after testing positive ” for the coronavirus and comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Ezekiel J Emanuel supporting the idea of immunity “ certificates ” or “ passports.
” Emanuel is advising former Vice President and 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for decades and is one of the top people leading President Donald Trump ’ s coronavirus response .
Even left-wing groups such as The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) have cautioned against plans to introduce coronavirus “ immunity passports.
” In an article published last month , senior members of the ACLU argued that immunity passports could “ harm public health , incentivize economically-vulnerable people to risk their health by contracting COVID-19 , exacerbate racial and economic disparities , and lead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ endangers privacy rights.
” “ An immunity passport system is fundamentally different from a regime whereby employers routinely test workers for COVID-19 or screen for symptoms , to ensure that no one with active infection is entering a workplace .
In the latter system , only contagious workers are prevented from going to work and only for the period of time in which they are contagious , ” the article continues .
“ But an immunity passport system would divide workers into two classes — the immune and the non-immune — and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given job short of contracting and surviving COVID-19 if an immune worker is available to take the slot .
”

'Unless you're able to record some of this data in a way that people can use it's going to be difficult to go back to anything like a near normal in things like transport,' said Tony Blair.
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UNITED KINGDOM, June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for the creation of digital IDs to track “disease status” as part of the plans for restarting international travel after the global coronavirus crisis.
Blair, who now leads the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, said in a recorded message digital IDs were a “natural evolution of the way that we're going to use technology in any event to transact daily life, and this covid crisis gives an additional reason for doing that.”
“I could be wrong about this, but when I can look at for example how you restart some businesses, how you restart international travel…I think people's disease status, for example have they been tested? What is the result of that test? Have they had the disease? Do they have the disease? I think unless you're able to record some of this data in a way that people can use it's going to be difficult to go back to anything like a near normal in things like transport,” Blair said.
An article published in Forbes last month said that future air travel could involve “no cabin bags, no lounges, no automatic upgrades, face masks, surgical gloves, self-check-in, self-bag-drop-off, immunity passports, on-the-spot blood tests and sanitation disinfection tunnels.”
“Digital technologies and automation will play a critical role in the future of air travel,” Forbes predicted.
“The need to reduce ‘touchpoints’ at airports implies mandatory use of biometric boarding that allows passengers to board planes with only their face as a passport.”
The Forbes article noted that a number of airlines including British Airways, Qantas, and EasyJet are already using the technology.
Earlier this week an article published in The Guardian warned that proof of immunity to the coronavirus could be used to create “a new class system.”
“Experts predict that if [coronavirus] survivors are found to be immune, they could perform a range of jobs and services – such as volunteering in hospitals and nursing homes, caring for coronavirus patients and working in shops and food processing plants – risk-free,” journalist Miranda Bryant wrote.
“And, depending on how authorities, business and society at large respond, they could also be entitled to greater freedoms.”
Bryant pointed to Chile issuing “release certificates” to people who “complete quarantine after testing positive” for the coronavirus and comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Ezekiel J Emanuel supporting the idea of immunity “certificates” or “passports.”
Emanuel is advising former Vice President and 2020 candidate Joe Biden. Fauci has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for decades and is one of the top people leading President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response.
Even left-wing groups such as The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have cautioned against plans to introduce coronavirus “immunity passports.” In an article published last month, senior members of the ACLU argued that immunity passports could “harm public health, incentivize economically-vulnerable people to risk their health by contracting COVID-19, exacerbate racial and economic disparities, and lead to a new health surveillance infrastructure that endangers privacy rights.”
“An immunity passport system is fundamentally different from a regime whereby employers routinely test workers for COVID-19 or screen for symptoms, to ensure that no one with active infection is entering a workplace. In the latter system, only contagious workers are prevented from going to work and only for the period of time in which they are contagious,” the article continues.
“But an immunity passport system would divide workers into two classes — the immune and the non-immune — and the latter might never be eligible for a given job short of contracting and surviving COVID-19 if an immune worker is available to take the slot.”
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lifesitenews--2020-06-11--Global COVID-19 crisis ‘worsening,’ World Health Organization says

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June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Lost in the furor over the World Health Organization ’ s ( WHO ’ s ) quickly-retracted admission that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is “ very rare ” was the international body ’ s assessment that the overall situation was “ worsening ” from a global standpoint .
“ Although the situation in Europe is improving , globally it is worsening , ” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , the WHO ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media briefing .
More than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days .
Yesterday , more than 136,000 cases were reported , the most in a single day so far.
” “ Almost 75 percent of yesterday ’ s cases come from 10 countries , mostly in the Americas and South Asia , ” he explained .
“ Most countries in the African region are still experiencing an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases , with some reporting cases in new geographic areas , although most countries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases .
We also see increasing numbers of cases in parts of Eastern Europe and central Asia.
” Calling complacency the biggest threat , Ghebreyesus said the WHO counsels “ surveillance to ensure the virus does not rebound , especially as mass gatherings of all kinds are starting to resume in some countries , ” along with social distancing , frequent hand-washing , and masks in public gatherings .
As for public policy , the director-general ’ s latest statement did not mention lockdowns of “ non-essential ” public activity , but rather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strengthen the fundamental public health measures that remain the basis of the response : find , isolate , test and care for every case , and trace and quarantine every contact.
” Notably , WHO does not advise against organizing or attending the recent wave of Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and around the world , despite the public health establishment previously condemning nearly all other forms of public gatherings .
Instead , Ghebreyesus merely “ encourage ( s ) all those protesting around the world to do so safely.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of WHO ’ s Health Emergencies Programme , went further , arguing that even though “ many , many countries ( are ) experiencing very severe epidemics , ” that doesn ’ t mean people should skip BLM protests .
“ Someone who has just been at a mass gathering does n't necessarily meet the definition of a contact , ” meaning someone who spent prolonged time with a confirmed COVID-19 carrier .
The WHO officials ’ willingness to accommodate mass gatherings for Black Lives Matter , after several weeks of Americans being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more people for most purposes ( even religious worship ) , echoes a statement recently signed by more than 1,200 “ public health experts ” that excused the potential public health risks of these gatherings on the grounds that “ white supremacy is a lethal public health issue.
” The apparent double-standard is only the latest question as to the WHO ’ s credibility .
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove , head of WHO ’ s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit , also said Monday that it seemed to be “ very rare ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but in response to public outcry she “ clarified ” the next day that the true rate of asymptomatic spread remains unknown .
Critics have also faulted the WHO for opposing bans on travel from China that could have limited the virus ’ s reach , and for legitimizing the Chinese government ’ s initial false claims about the virus , among other offenses .
Last month , the Trump administration terminated the WHO ’ s relationship with , and funding from , the United States .
As of June 11 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than 7.5 million COVID-19 cases , with more than 421,000 deaths and 3.8 million recoveries .
An estimated 40 percent of those deaths across the United States , and an equal or higher share among more than a dozen other countries , have come from nursing homes .
In the United States , the lockdowns , which were based in large part on the theory of asymptomatic spread , have led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs , more than 33 million Americans filing for unemployment , fears that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never reopen , and a range of other physical and mental health woes , due to everything from delayed medical procedures to social isolation to anxiety over being unable to work .
Fortunately , various states lifting or softening their lockdowns last month led to the U.S. Labor Department announcing Friday that a record 2.5 million jobs were restored in May .
Readers can click here for LifeSiteNews ’ live updates on the coronavirus and its impact all over the world .

While continuing to discourage mass gatherings at religious services, the WHO is not dissuading protesters from assembling.
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June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Lost in the furor over the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) quickly-retracted admission that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is “very rare” was the international body’s assessment that the overall situation was “worsening” from a global standpoint.
“Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, in the June 8 media briefing. More than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days. Yesterday, more than 136,000 cases were reported, the most in a single day so far.”
“Almost 75 percent of yesterday’s cases come from 10 countries, mostly in the Americas and South Asia,” he explained. “Most countries in the African region are still experiencing an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, with some reporting cases in new geographic areas, although most countries in the region have less than 1,000 cases. We also see increasing numbers of cases in parts of Eastern Europe and central Asia.”
With almost 7M #COVID19 cases & 400K deaths globally, this is not the time for any country to take its foot off the pedal. We urge active:
-surveillance to ensure the virus does not rebound
-finding, isolating, testing & caring for every case
-tracing & quarantining every contact https://t.co/B7po1dAN3F — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) June 8, 2020
Calling complacency the biggest threat, Ghebreyesus said the WHO counsels “surveillance to ensure the virus does not rebound, especially as mass gatherings of all kinds are starting to resume in some countries,” along with social distancing, frequent hand-washing, and masks in public gatherings.
As for public policy, the director-general’s latest statement did not mention lockdowns of “non-essential” public activity, but rather “encourage(s) countries to strengthen the fundamental public health measures that remain the basis of the response: find, isolate, test and care for every case, and trace and quarantine every contact.”
Notably, WHO does not advise against organizing or attending the recent wave of Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and around the world, despite the public health establishment previously condemning nearly all other forms of public gatherings. Instead, Ghebreyesus merely “encourage(s) all those protesting around the world to do so safely.”
Michael Ryan, chief executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, went further, arguing that even though “many, many countries (are) experiencing very severe epidemics,” that doesn’t mean people should skip BLM protests. “Someone who has just been at a mass gathering doesn't necessarily meet the definition of a contact,” meaning someone who spent prolonged time with a confirmed COVID-19 carrier.
The WHO officials’ willingness to accommodate mass gatherings for Black Lives Matter, after several weeks of Americans being legally forbidden from gatherings of 10 or more people for most purposes (even religious worship), echoes a statement recently signed by more than 1,200 “public health experts” that excused the potential public health risks of these gatherings on the grounds that “white supremacy is a lethal public health issue.”
The apparent double-standard is only the latest question as to the WHO’s credibility. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, also said Monday that it seemed to be “very rare” for individuals without symptoms to spread COVID-19, but in response to public outcry she “clarified” the next day that the true rate of asymptomatic spread remains unknown.
Critics have also faulted the WHO for opposing bans on travel from China that could have limited the virus’s reach, and for legitimizing the Chinese government’s initial false claims about the virus, among other offenses. Last month, the Trump administration terminated the WHO’s relationship with, and funding from, the United States.
As of June 11, the world is estimated to have seen more than 7.5 million COVID-19 cases, with more than 421,000 deaths and 3.8 million recoveries. An estimated 40 percent of those deaths across the United States, and an equal or higher share among more than a dozen other countries, have come from nursing homes.
In the United States, the lockdowns, which were based in large part on the theory of asymptomatic spread, have led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, more than 33 million Americans filing for unemployment, fears that tens of thousands of small businesses will never reopen, and a range of other physical and mental health woes, due to everything from delayed medical procedures to social isolation to anxiety over being unable to work. Fortunately, various states lifting or softening their lockdowns last month led to the U.S. Labor Department announcing Friday that a record 2.5 million jobs were restored in May.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-11--Why US bishops’ plan to help young lapsed Catholics return to Church will be a disastrous failure

June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The U.S. bishops ’ ambitious plan to reach out to lapsed young Catholics and bring them back into the Church can only result in disastrous failure .
A video posted in April by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ( USCCB ) highlights the real crisis of young Catholics fleeing the Church in droves .
To its credit , the video gets the problem right that young people are leaving the Church while offering a perspective on what they ’ re thinking : “ They just say ‘ I no longer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with this belief and God , in general .
The church is failing to engage young people .
They are not moving someplace else , they ’ re just disengaging .
There 's the pain , there 's the doubt , [ they ask ] , ‘ Was this ever authentic to begin with ?
’ They 're mostly ambivalent .
They 're mostly indifferent .
They simply drifted away .
They just do n't see why religion matters.
” Unfortunately , the solution offered by the bishops will only keep young people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaving .
Led by Bishop Robert Barron , chairman of the USCCB ’ s Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis , the video proposes what it calls “ effective avenues ” for reaching out to young people and bringing them back – avenues , which we are told , largely come from listening to young people .
“ We do n't really have to guess [ why young people have left ] , ” says Bishop Barron .
“ Lots of people have told us precisely why they 've left .
We should listen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ urged us to do.
” As an aside , why are young people in their brokenness and sin allowed to set the agenda and not the Church with her 2,000-years of wisdom and experience of how to succor sinners ?
Barron makes it clear that “ there is obviously no one answer , no magic bullet ” to solve this problem .
Listening to young people and to those who have worked closely with the “ unaffiliated ” has resulted in the bishops highlighting five avenues that they hope will help them reach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back .
These consist of : • Highlighting the church 's commitment to “ social justice ” as a carrot to get young people involved and thereby draw them back in .
• Using the “ way of beauty ” as a “ thread ” to draw young people back because , the video states , “ people respond to beauty where they find it .
It is often the only way to reach the truly disaffiliated.
” • Taking advantage of the “ new media , ” e.g.
, Twitter , Facebook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Church in “ contact with the unaffiliated , the former Catholics , the atheists , the agnostics ” so they can see the “ good things that the Catholic Church is doing.
” • Stopping “ dumbing down the faith.
” The video rightly states that “ young people do not want ‘ Catholic lite , ’ nor do they want a watered-down version of anything.
” • Getting people who are currently in the Church “ out ” to evangelize .
“ Every single person is called to be a missionary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this looks good on camera , but this plan can only result in utter failure .
Why ?
Because the bishops ’ plan fails to take into account the sole reason the Church exists in the first place .
The video gets it right that “ [ young people ] are asking about ‘ why should I take religion seriously at all , why should I believe God is there ?
’ ” The Catholic Church exists not only to answer that question , but to provide an answer that means the difference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hate , heaven and hell for each and every one of these young people .
The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ to provide man the only road to an eternal life of happiness with God after death .
The Catholic Church , by means of God ’ s saving grace working through the sacraments , is the only road to heaven , an eternal life of happiness in communion with the Triune God .
This is the sole reason for the Church ’ s existence and the reason she does what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no salvation .
Outside of the Church there is only suffering , misery , loss .
Outside the Church there is only isolation .
Outside of the Church there is hellfire and damnation .
“ Lord , to whom shall we go , you have the words of eternal life , ” Peter once told Jesus .
The same holds for the Catholic Church .
The Church alone of all religions , institutions , organizations , has the words of eternal life and offers the road to eternal life .
Until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no reason for anyone to belong to the Church .
Do Catholic shepherds want to get young people going back to Church ?
Start preaching to them about what will happen to them if they leave the barque of Peter .
In Noah ’ s time , only those on the ark were saved .
The same holds for our times : Only those in the Church will be saved .
Hell exists .
Those who die in a state of unrepented mortal sin are condemned to hell by Divine justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t believe this , then they are false shepherds who don ’ t hold the Catholic faith .
And , they are certainly in no position to be teaching young people about why they should return to the Church .
It was because Catholic shepherds were off message in the first place that young people left in droves .
Bishops must be clear that the Catholic religion , as founded by Jesus Christ who is the Incarnate Son of God and only Savior of man , is the only religion positively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only religion that offers the way to eternal life with God .
It is the only religion that gives man a sure hope and means of arriving at a life after death .
It is the only religion that teaches man truthfully about a God who is love , but also a God who judges us and holds us responsible for our actions .
In responding to the five points raised by the U.S. bishops , it must be said that the Catholic Church does not exist to promote social justice , although @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Church ’ s good works .
The Church does not exist to express beauty , although beauty will naturally flow from believers who want to give glory to God through the works of their hands .
The Church can certainly make use of the new media to spread its message , but it must spread the message of why she exists – to save souls .
It ’ s true that the Catholic Church must stop dumbing down the faith and implore young people , for the sake of their souls , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today must be like the prophets of old , preaching that if evil lives are not changed , if bad habits are not corrected , if people do not turn away from sin , if people do not return to the Lord via the Church he established , then there will be a terrible price to pay , a dreadful day of reckoning , a day of wrath .
Shepherds must preach about the last things that every soul , every person , young and old , must one day experience : death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ About half way through the USCCB video , Bishop Barron states that the “ central question ” for Catholic shepherds is “ how do we get [ young Catholics who have left ] back ?
” The answer is rather simple : Start prophetically proclaiming the truth of our faith that the Catholic Church is the only means of salvation and that without her in your life , you will die in your sins and suffer for all eternity .
“ Fear of the Lord ” is a path that opens to “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ someone loves the Lord , they are delighted to follow his ways , including attending Church regularly : “ If you love me , keep my commandments.
” Shepherds will find their voice once they start preaching this truth .
This is the “ magic bullet ” that Bishop Barron and every bishop needs to start using from every pulpit , every platform they have .
Until the bishops get this right about why the Church exists , all their programs , all their efforts will move from disaster to disaster .

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June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. bishops’ ambitious plan to reach out to lapsed young Catholics and bring them back into the Church can only result in disastrous failure.
A video posted in April by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) highlights the real crisis of young Catholics fleeing the Church in droves.
To its credit, the video gets the problem right that young people are leaving the Church while offering a perspective on what they’re thinking: “They just say ‘I no longer believe.’ What they're really struggling with this belief and God, in general. The church is failing to engage young people. They are not moving someplace else, they’re just disengaging. There's the pain, there's the doubt, [they ask], ‘Was this ever authentic to begin with?’ They're mostly ambivalent. They're mostly indifferent. They simply drifted away. They just don't see why religion matters.”
Unfortunately, the solution offered by the bishops will only keep young people away and result in more of them leaving.
Led by Bishop Robert Barron, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, the video proposes what it calls “effective avenues” for reaching out to young people and bringing them back – avenues, which we are told, largely come from listening to young people.
“We don't really have to guess [why young people have left],” says Bishop Barron. “Lots of people have told us precisely why they've left. We should listen to them, as Pope Francis has urged us to do.” As an aside, why are young people in their brokenness and sin allowed to set the agenda and not the Church with her 2,000-years of wisdom and experience of how to succor sinners?
Barron makes it clear that “there is obviously no one answer, no magic bullet” to solve this problem.
Listening to young people and to those who have worked closely with the “unaffiliated” has resulted in the bishops highlighting five avenues that they hope will help them reach out to young people and bring them back. These consist of:
Highlighting the church's commitment to “social justice” as a carrot to get young people involved and thereby draw them back in.
Using the “way of beauty” as a “thread” to draw young people back because, the video states, “people respond to beauty where they find it. It is often the only way to reach the truly disaffiliated.”
Taking advantage of the “new media,” e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc, to put the Church in “contact with the unaffiliated, the former Catholics, the atheists, the agnostics” so they can see the “good things that the Catholic Church is doing.”
Stopping “dumbing down the faith.” The video rightly states that “young people do not want ‘Catholic lite,’ nor do they want a watered-down version of anything.”
Getting people who are currently in the Church “out” to evangelize. “Every single person is called to be a missionary disciple-maker, an intentional disciple-maker.”
All this looks good on camera, but this plan can only result in utter failure. Why? Because the bishops’ plan fails to take into account the sole reason the Church exists in the first place. The video gets it right that “[young people] are asking about ‘why should I take religion seriously at all, why should I believe God is there?’” The Catholic Church exists not only to answer that question, but to provide an answer that means the difference between life and death, love and hate, heaven and hell for each and every one of these young people.
The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ to provide man the only road to an eternal life of happiness with God after death. The Catholic Church, by means of God’s saving grace working through the sacraments, is the only road to heaven, an eternal life of happiness in communion with the Triune God. This is the sole reason for the Church’s existence and the reason she does what she does. Outside of the Church there is no salvation. Outside of the Church there is only suffering, misery, loss. Outside the Church there is only isolation. Outside of the Church there is hellfire and damnation.
“Lord, to whom shall we go, you have the words of eternal life,” Peter once told Jesus. The same holds for the Catholic Church. The Church alone of all religions, institutions, organizations, has the words of eternal life and offers the road to eternal life. Until Catholic shepherds get this message right, there is no reason for anyone to belong to the Church.
Do Catholic shepherds want to get young people going back to Church? Start preaching to them about what will happen to them if they leave the barque of Peter. In Noah’s time, only those on the ark were saved. The same holds for our times: Only those in the Church will be saved. Hell exists. Those who die in a state of unrepented mortal sin are condemned to hell by Divine justice for eternal punishment. If our shepherds don’t believe this, then they are false shepherds who don’t hold the Catholic faith. And, they are certainly in no position to be teaching young people about why they should return to the Church. It was because Catholic shepherds were off message in the first place that young people left in droves.
Bishops must be clear that the Catholic religion, as founded by Jesus Christ who is the Incarnate Son of God and only Savior of man, is the only religion positively willed by God. It is the only religion that offers the way to eternal life with God. It is the only religion that gives man a sure hope and means of arriving at a life after death. It is the only religion that teaches man truthfully about a God who is love, but also a God who judges us and holds us responsible for our actions.
In responding to the five points raised by the U.S. bishops, it must be said that the Catholic Church does not exist to promote social justice, although such justice is certainly part of the Church’s good works. The Church does not exist to express beauty, although beauty will naturally flow from believers who want to give glory to God through the works of their hands. The Church can certainly make use of the new media to spread its message, but it must spread the message of why she exists – to save souls. It’s true that the Catholic Church must stop dumbing down the faith and implore young people, for the sake of their souls, to heed its life-saving message. The Church today must be like the prophets of old, preaching that if evil lives are not changed, if bad habits are not corrected, if people do not turn away from sin, if people do not return to the Lord via the Church he established, then there will be a terrible price to pay, a dreadful day of reckoning, a day of wrath. Shepherds must preach about the last things that every soul, every person, young and old, must one day experience: death, judgement, heaven or hell.
About half way through the USCCB video, Bishop Barron states that the “central question” for Catholic shepherds is “how do we get [young Catholics who have left] back?”
The answer is rather simple: Start prophetically proclaiming the truth of our faith that the Catholic Church is the only means of salvation and that without her in your life, you will die in your sins and suffer for all eternity. “Fear of the Lord” is a path that opens to “love of the Lord.” And once someone loves the Lord, they are delighted to follow his ways, including attending Church regularly: “If you love me, keep my commandments.”
Shepherds will find their voice once they start preaching this truth. This is the “magic bullet” that Bishop Barron and every bishop needs to start using from every pulpit, every platform they have.
Until the bishops get this right about why the Church exists, all their programs, all their efforts will move from disaster to disaster.


lifesitenews--2020-06-11--How Dr. Fauci’s fraudulent pandemic advice put millions of Americans through hell

June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – For weeks the diminutive doctor dominated the airwaves .
Dr. Anthony Fauci was a fixture at President Trump ’ s China Virus press conferences , warning us in his raspy voice that we were facing a disease so infectious that a single droplet in the air could infect and kill us .
Stopping the spread of this disease would not be easy , he said , but nothing else mattered .
This was the kind of pandemic that comes along once a century or so , caused by an unknown virus for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we don ’ t follow his instructions to the letter , he warned us , millions of Americans could die .
And what was his advice ?
The entire country was going to have to go into lockdown , he told us in March .
Become laid off from your job , close your business , pick up your kids from the school , and then go home and shut yourself in .
At first , he advised us that we may have to “ hunker down ” in this way for “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he was saying that the lockdown would have to continue until there are no “ new cases ” of coronavirus .
That is , indefinitely .
For many Americans , it was nothing short of an open-ended sentence of house arrest .
Yet Fauci was absolutely insistent in interview after interview that if we didn ’ t make this collective sacrifice , that there wouldn ’ t be enough coffins to hold those who would die of the China Virus .
Over and over again he demanded that the shutdowns continue , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ awaits America if it opens too soon .
Fauci was all over the media with this message , all the time .
The entire country panicked , especially the Democrat governors in Blue states .
Following Fauci , they abused their authority to impose on Americans unheard of restrictions on their liberty .
They put job-killing lockdowns in place , along with a whole host of other new rules .
Only one member of each family was allowed out , and then only to buy “ essentials ” like food , hand sanitizer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only at your local big box store .
( That was the only place you could shop anyway , since the local mom-and-pop store was padlocked. )
.
Everything not deemed “ essential ” was off-limits .
You could not visit your elderly mother in the senior ’ s home , your sick friend in the hospital , or even spend time with God in His churches , which were also closed .
Even as all this was going on , few dared question Fauci ’ s dictates .
He seemed to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a pure scientist who had put all of his personal opinions aside in order to tell the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , about the China Virus .
He must have reams of scientific evidence to back up each and every claim that he made—about the lethality of the coronavirus , about the ease of its spread , about masks , social distancing , and testing—or so we assumed .
Most of us felt that we had no choice but to go along .
Fauci , America ’ s leading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it was either his way or the graveyard .
To avoid breathing our last in a hospital room locked away from our families , dying a slow painful death from the 21st century equivalent of the Bubonic plague , we all dutifully kept our homes shuttered against the killer virus lurking outside .
As weeks went by with no end in sight , Fauci continued to demand that the shutdown continue , warning of the danger that awaited Americans if they ventured outside too soon .
Those who violated the quarantine had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon them .
An elderly barber was arrested for the crime of cutting hair in Michigan .
A salon operator in Texas was humiliated by a judge for having dared to defy a local lockdown order .
A Maine restaurant owner had his business license revoked by his governor for daring to serve food outdoors .
The governors of Red states like Georgia , who wanted to allow their people to go back to work , were accused by the hate-filled media of conducting an “ experiment in human sacrifice.
” If they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quarantine , they were told , they would jeopardize the public health of the entire nation .
Fauci himself endorsed this view , saying on April 3rd that the entire country “ really should be ” under a stay-at-home order and that “ he doesn ’ t understand ” why it isn ’ t .
But the real vitriol was reserved for those who actually dared to come out and protest the Fauci-inspired lockdowns in New York , California , Virginia , and Michigan .
These crowds of normal Americans , who simply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , were attacked as “ racists ” and “ fascists.
” Their protests had nothing whatsoever to do with race or fascism , of course , and everything to do with the way they were being deprived of their liberty .
This distinction was ignored by the Left and its media attack dogs , who instantly revert to name-calling when any suspected “ deplorables ” show up on the scene .
In fact , the person who demonstrated truly fascist behavior was Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer , who actually extended her lockdown in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bizarre lockdown orders .
These tremendous infringements on our liberty occurred for one reason and one reason only : Our white-coated scientific savior , Dr. Anthony Fauci , had solemnly informed us that they were absolutely necessary .
He could save us from this pestilence , he intimated , but only if we heard and obeyed his Delphic voice .
Then , unexpectedly , demonstrations and protests erupted across America .
Urged on by the Leftist media and Democrat politicians , and fueled by Anarchists , Antifa , and Black Lives Matter activists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their homes for weeks surged out into the streets .
City after city saw huge crowds of protesters flowing down city streets practically touching one another , or should I say “ infecting ” one another .
Not only that , they were chanting at the top of their lungs , potentially releasing clouds of China Virus packets into the surrounding air that others would breath in .
It was Fauci ’ s worst nightmare .
Everything that he had achieved with his dire warnings was swept away in an instant in an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ display of hypocrisy I have seen—and we live in an age of hypocrisy—the same politicians who yesterday ordered everyone to stay home now took to the streets in solidarity with the demonstrators .
Even Governor Whitmer blew off her own stay-at-home order to march with the protesters .
One day she ’ s arresting a barber for violating social distancing by cutting one person ’ s hair , and the next she ’ s mixing and mingling with thousands of people .
And she was not the only one .
If you are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instantly take to the airwaves to sternly denounce this reckless behavior , and call upon the nation ’ s governors to reimpose order .
The demonstrators would be ordered back into their homes and told to once again shelter in place lest they unleash a “ second wave ” of the China Virus upon the land .
The governors would be told to ensure that those few who are allowed to go out must continue to wear masks , practice social distancing and , above all , not congregate in large groups .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ hectoring us up to this point — our Delphic Oracle of all things plague related — suddenly went silent .
Instead of haranguing this second wave of demonstrators — the way he had , for example , harangued the first — about the danger that their activities posed to themselves and others , he simply disappeared from the radar .
And for ten long days , as tens of thousands of demonstrators continued to march through the streets of American cities , he remained hidden from public view .
There can only be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in Fauci ’ s eyes , some protesters are more equal than others .
When small business owners and country folk break quarantine , he hyperventilates over their lack of social responsibility and predicts epidemiological disaster .
But when the elite media and the Democrats not only sanction protests , but actually participate in them , he looks the other way .
Fauci may claim to be an objective , unbiased scientist , but at best he is playing politics with people ’ s health .
At worst , as Betsy McCaughey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideologue ” cloaking his opinions in “ the mantle of science.
” And it turns out that he ’ s not a very good “ scientist ” either .
In the beginning , he relied upon a model from the Imperial College in London that predicted 2.2 million deaths in the U.S .
It turns out that the model , authored by the recently disgraced Professor Neil Ferguson , was garbage , a fact that our America ’ s most famous virologist only discovered at the same time the rest of us did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we trusted to make critical decisions about the entire country didn ’ t even bother to do his homework .
Add to this the fact that our white-coated savior knew almost nothing about the China Virus itself .
He didn ’ t know how lethal it was ( very , not very ) .
He didn ’ t know how contagious it was ( not very , extremely ) .
He didn ’ t know whether it could be spread asymptomatically ( yes , no , maybe ) , or whether wearing masks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no , maybe ) , or whether it was possible to be re-infected ( yes , no , maybe ) .
He ’ s been all over the map as well on whether we will have a second wave ( yes , no , maybe ) .
And yet this didn ’ t stop him from recommending , on the basis of a sham model , that the economy of the entire country be shut down indefinitely , that 40 million people be put out of work , the millions of children be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ non-essential ” businesses simply be shuttered , many never to reopen .
One by one , all of his predictions have come to naught .
Not only did millions of Americans not die , but also , as the numbers started coming in , the mortality rate of the China Virus has kept dropping until it is now regarded as just about as threatening as the seasonal flu .
And how long did it take for him to figure out what was apparent to many of the rest of us early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Virus wasn ’ t the only thing killing Americans , and that maybe destroying the economy wasn ’ t the best approach .
The “ scientific evidence ” that the Fauci lockdown was based upon has vanished in the warm summer sun , just as the China Virus itself appears to be doing .
As for the man himself , he has put tens of millions of Americans through hell on the basis of a flawed model and a complete misreading of the one thing he is supposed to be an expert on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of Bully of Asia : Why China ’ s Dream is the New Threat to World Order .

'Tremendous infringements on our liberty occurred for one reason and one reason only: Our white-coated scientific savior, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had solemnly informed us that they were absolutely necessary.'
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June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – For weeks the diminutive doctor dominated the airwaves. Dr. Anthony Fauci was a fixture at President Trump’s China Virus press conferences, warning us in his raspy voice that we were facing a disease so infectious that a single droplet in the air could infect and kill us.
Stopping the spread of this disease would not be easy, he said, but nothing else mattered. This was the kind of pandemic that comes along once a century or so, caused by an unknown virus for which there was no cure. If we don’t follow his instructions to the letter, he warned us, millions of Americans could die.
And what was his advice?
The entire country was going to have to go into lockdown, he told us in March. Become laid off from your job, close your business, pick up your kids from the school, and then go home and shut yourself in. At first, he advised us that we may have to “hunker down” in this way for “several months.” But by early April, he was saying that the lockdown would have to continue until there are no “new cases” of coronavirus. That is, indefinitely.
For many Americans, it was nothing short of an open-ended sentence of house arrest. Yet Fauci was absolutely insistent in interview after interview that if we didn’t make this collective sacrifice, that there wouldn’t be enough coffins to hold those who would die of the China Virus. Over and over again he demanded that the shutdowns continue, warning that “suffering and death” awaits America if it opens too soon.
Fauci was all over the media with this message, all the time.
The entire country panicked, especially the Democrat governors in Blue states. Following Fauci, they abused their authority to impose on Americans unheard of restrictions on their liberty. They put job-killing lockdowns in place, along with a whole host of other new rules. Only one member of each family was allowed out, and then only to buy “essentials” like food, hand sanitizer, and toilet paper, and this only at your local big box store. (That was the only place you could shop anyway, since the local mom-and-pop store was padlocked.). Everything not deemed “essential” was off-limits. You could not visit your elderly mother in the senior’s home, your sick friend in the hospital, or even spend time with God in His churches, which were also closed.
Even as all this was going on, few dared question Fauci’s dictates. He seemed to be the very embodiment of scientific rationality, a pure scientist who had put all of his personal opinions aside in order to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, about the China Virus. He must have reams of scientific evidence to back up each and every claim that he made—about the lethality of the coronavirus, about the ease of its spread, about masks, social distancing, and testing—or so we assumed.
Most of us felt that we had no choice but to go along. Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, had assured us that it was either his way or the graveyard. To avoid breathing our last in a hospital room locked away from our families, dying a slow painful death from the 21st century equivalent of the Bubonic plague, we all dutifully kept our homes shuttered against the killer virus lurking outside. As weeks went by with no end in sight, Fauci continued to demand that the shutdown continue, warning of the danger that awaited Americans if they ventured outside too soon.
Those who violated the quarantine had the full weight of the law dropped upon them. An elderly barber was arrested for the crime of cutting hair in Michigan. A salon operator in Texas was humiliated by a judge for having dared to defy a local lockdown order. A Maine restaurant owner had his business license revoked by his governor for daring to serve food outdoors.
The governors of Red states like Georgia, who wanted to allow their people to go back to work, were accused by the hate-filled media of conducting an “experiment in human sacrifice.” If they insisted upon allowing their people to break quarantine, they were told, they would jeopardize the public health of the entire nation. Fauci himself endorsed this view, saying on April 3rd that the entire country “really should be” under a stay-at-home order and that “he doesn’t understand” why it isn’t.
But the real vitriol was reserved for those who actually dared to come out and protest the Fauci-inspired lockdowns in New York, California, Virginia, and Michigan. These crowds of normal Americans, who simply wanted to get on with their lives, were attacked as “racists” and “fascists.” Their protests had nothing whatsoever to do with race or fascism, of course, and everything to do with the way they were being deprived of their liberty. This distinction was ignored by the Left and its media attack dogs, who instantly revert to name-calling when any suspected “deplorables” show up on the scene.
In fact, the person who demonstrated truly fascist behavior was Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who actually extended her lockdown in order to punish those discontented by her bizarre lockdown orders.
These tremendous infringements on our liberty occurred for one reason and one reason only: Our white-coated scientific savior, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had solemnly informed us that they were absolutely necessary. He could save us from this pestilence, he intimated, but only if we heard and obeyed his Delphic voice.
Then, unexpectedly, demonstrations and protests erupted across America.
Urged on by the Leftist media and Democrat politicians, and fueled by Anarchists, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter activists, people who had been confined to their homes for weeks surged out into the streets. City after city saw huge crowds of protesters flowing down city streets practically touching one another, or should I say “infecting” one another. Not only that, they were chanting at the top of their lungs, potentially releasing clouds of China Virus packets into the surrounding air that others would breath in. It was Fauci’s worst nightmare. Everything that he had achieved with his dire warnings was swept away in an instant in an orgy of anger.
In the starkest display of hypocrisy I have seen—and we live in an age of hypocrisy—the same politicians who yesterday ordered everyone to stay home now took to the streets in solidarity with the demonstrators. Even Governor Whitmer blew off her own stay-at-home order to march with the protesters. One day she’s arresting a barber for violating social distancing by cutting one person’s hair, and the next she’s mixing and mingling with thousands of people. And she was not the only one.
If you are like me, you expected Fauci to instantly take to the airwaves to sternly denounce this reckless behavior, and call upon the nation’s governors to reimpose order. The demonstrators would be ordered back into their homes and told to once again shelter in place lest they unleash a “second wave” of the China Virus upon the land. The governors would be told to ensure that those few who are allowed to go out must continue to wear masks, practice social distancing and, above all, not congregate in large groups.
But the man who had been constantly hectoring us up to this point — our Delphic Oracle of all things plague related — suddenly went silent. Instead of haranguing this second wave of demonstrators — the way he had, for example, harangued the first — about the danger that their activities posed to themselves and others, he simply disappeared from the radar. And for ten long days, as tens of thousands of demonstrators continued to march through the streets of American cities, he remained hidden from public view.
There can only be one explanation for the difference. Obviously, in Fauci’s eyes, some protesters are more equal than others. When small business owners and country folk break quarantine, he hyperventilates over their lack of social responsibility and predicts epidemiological disaster. But when the elite media and the Democrats not only sanction protests, but actually participate in them, he looks the other way.
Fauci may claim to be an objective, unbiased scientist, but at best he is playing politics with people’s health. At worst, as Betsy McCaughey writes, he is a “left-wing ideologue” cloaking his opinions in “the mantle of science.”
And it turns out that he’s not a very good “scientist” either.
In the beginning, he relied upon a model from the Imperial College in London that predicted 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. It turns out that the model, authored by the recently disgraced Professor Neil Ferguson, was garbage, a fact that our America’s most famous virologist only discovered at the same time the rest of us did. In other words, the man we trusted to make critical decisions about the entire country didn’t even bother to do his homework.
Add to this the fact that our white-coated savior knew almost nothing about the China Virus itself. He didn’t know how lethal it was (very, not very). He didn’t know how contagious it was (not very, extremely). He didn’t know whether it could be spread asymptomatically (yes, no, maybe), or whether wearing masks could help contain it (yes, no, maybe), or whether it was possible to be re-infected (yes, no, maybe). He’s been all over the map as well on whether we will have a second wave (yes, no, maybe).
And yet this didn’t stop him from recommending, on the basis of a sham model, that the economy of the entire country be shut down indefinitely, that 40 million people be put out of work, the millions of children be denied an education, and that small, “non-essential” businesses simply be shuttered, many never to reopen.
One by one, all of his predictions have come to naught. Not only did millions of Americans not die, but also, as the numbers started coming in, the mortality rate of the China Virus has kept dropping until it is now regarded as just about as threatening as the seasonal flu.
And how long did it take for him to figure out what was apparent to many of the rest of us early on, namely, that the China Virus wasn’t the only thing killing Americans, and that maybe destroying the economy wasn’t the best approach.
The “scientific evidence” that the Fauci lockdown was based upon has vanished in the warm summer sun, just as the China Virus itself appears to be doing. As for the man himself, he has put tens of millions of Americans through hell on the basis of a flawed model and a complete misreading of the one thing he is supposed to be an expert on: viruses.
I say Dr. Anthony Fauci is a fraud.
Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.
Follow Steven Steven Mosher is an internationally recognised authority on China and population issues as well as an acclaimed author and speaker and founder and head of the Population Research Institute. He was the first American social scientist to visit mainland China in 1979 where he witnessed women being forced to have abortion under the new “one-child-policy” which he then exposed to the world. Mr. Mosher was a pro-choice atheist at the time, but witnessing these traumatic abortions led him to reconsider his convictions and to eventually become a practicing, pro-life Roman Catholic. Mosher has appeared numerous times before the US Congress as an expert in world population, China and human Rights abuses. He has also made TV appearances on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, 20/20, FOX and CNN news, as well as being a regular guest on talk radio shows across the nation. He is the author of the best-selling A Mother’s Ordeal: One woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child-Policy. His latest book is Bully of Asia, exposing the threat of China to the entire world at this time. Articles by Steve have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The New Republic, The Washington Post, National Review, Reason, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Freedom Review, Linacre Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Human Life Review, First Things, and numerous other publications. Steven Mosher lives in Virginia with his wife, Vera, and their nine children.
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O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
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