lifesitenews--2020-09-30--Tucker shares Amy Coney Barrett’s inspiring adoption story of Haitian boy

NEW YORK , September 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Tucker Carlson has recently highlighted Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett ’ s decision to adopt a Haitian boy within hours of receiving news she was pregnant with her fifth child .
Amid his remarks defending Barrett against liberal hostility on this past Monday ’ s Tucker Carlson Tonight show , Carlson played a 2019 clip of Barrett in which she recounts how she and her husband went through with their decision to adopt their son John Peter .
Barrett had previously given the play-by-play in talks at her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We had started the process for John Peter , but for a variety of reasons , they told us it wasn ’ t going to happen , ” Barrett said .
“ So the paperwork was just languishing , and they had said he wasn ’ t going to come home .
In December I had said , ‘ We got ta just close the book on this , it looks like it ’ s not gon na happen .
It had been dragging on for two or three years at this point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moved on .
And then the earthquake happened , ” she continued .
“ And one of the paperwork snafus that had held it up was on the US side , and they lifted that requirement and said any children who had adoptions in process could leave .
And they called us and said would you still be willing to take him ?
This was early January .
We said yes.
” Around this time , Barrett had her first sign that she was pregnant .
“ I had been on Saturday night @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had one drink , and the next morning I just didn ’ t feel well and I thought , that ’ s weird , I wondered , ‘ What was that ?
’ ” “ Turned out our daughter Juliet was on the way , and we had to make the decision -- my husband was on the phone with the adoption agency trying to figure out the details of going to pick up John Peter in Orlando , and I said , ‘ Hey guess what ?
I ’ m going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explains how she made the decision to adopt despite the news of her pregnancy in her Notre Dame interview .
“ So we had an intense 3-hour period where we had to decide , were we going to go forward with going to get John Peter in Florida ?
” “ I threw my coat on… I walked up to the cemetery on campus and I just sat down on one of the benches and I just thought , ‘ Ok , well , if life ’ s really hard , at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thought , what greater thing can you do than raise children ?
That ’ s where you have your greatest impact on the world.
” “ Jesse was in Florida within a few days bringing Peter home .
It ’ s a very full life , but a very wonderful one.
” In his show , Carlson reflected on Barrett ’ s story .
“ What greater thing can you do than raise children ?
What ’ s the answer to that ?
Get promoted to VP in an investment bank downtown ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ or private equity after that ?
Maybe buy a bigger loft in Tribeca ?
Maybe go to more raves in Ibiza ?
Have more brunches ?
” “ To many in our ruling class , those are the answers .
They view children as a distraction from the real point of life , which is extended narcissism until death .
No wonder they ’ re so unhappy , ” Carlson continued .
“ To a party at war with nature , motherhood is a threat , ” Carlson reflected .
“ You can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stop Amy Coney Barrett .
”

Despite just discovering that she was newly pregnant, Barrett decided to go ahead with the adoption, reasoning 'what greater thing can you do than raise children'
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NEW YORK, September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Tucker Carlson has recently highlighted Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s decision to adopt a Haitian boy within hours of receiving news she was pregnant with her fifth child.
Amid his remarks defending Barrett against liberal hostility on this past Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight show, Carlson played a 2019 clip of Barrett in which she recounts how she and her husband went through with their decision to adopt their son John Peter. Barrett had previously given the play-by-play in talks at her alma mater, Notre Dame.
“We had started the process for John Peter, but for a variety of reasons, they told us it wasn’t going to happen,” Barrett said.
“So the paperwork was just languishing, and they had said he wasn’t going to come home. In December I had said, ‘We gotta just close the book on this, it looks like it’s not gonna happen. It had been dragging on for two or three years at this point. So we had mentally and emotionally moved on. And then the earthquake happened,” she continued.
“And one of the paperwork snafus that had held it up was on the US side, and they lifted that requirement and said any children who had adoptions in process could leave. And they called us and said would you still be willing to take him? This was early January. We said yes.”
Around this time, Barrett had her first sign that she was pregnant. “I had been on Saturday night to a farewell party…I just had one drink, and the next morning I just didn’t feel well and I thought, that’s weird, I wondered, ‘What was that?’”
“Turned out our daughter Juliet was on the way, and we had to make the decision — my husband was on the phone with the adoption agency trying to figure out the details of going to pick up John Peter in Orlando, and I said, ‘Hey guess what? I’m going to have a baby in September.”
Barrett explains how she made the decision to adopt despite the news of her pregnancy in her Notre Dame interview.
“So we had an intense 3-hour period where we had to decide, were we going to go forward with going to get John Peter in Florida?”
“I threw my coat on… I walked up to the cemetery on campus and I just sat down on one of the benches and I just thought, ‘Ok, well, if life’s really hard, at least it’s short. But I thought, what greater thing can you do than raise children? That’s where you have your greatest impact on the world.”
“Jesse was in Florida within a few days bringing Peter home. It’s a very full life, but a very wonderful one.”
In his show, Carlson reflected on Barrett’s story.
“What greater thing can you do than raise children? What’s the answer to that? Get promoted to VP in an investment bank downtown? Maybe move up to a hedge fund or private equity after that? Maybe buy a bigger loft in Tribeca? Maybe go to more raves in Ibiza? Have more brunches?”
“To many in our ruling class, those are the answers. They view children as a distraction from the real point of life, which is extended narcissism until death. No wonder they’re so unhappy,” Carlson continued.
“To a party at war with nature, motherhood is a threat,” Carlson reflected. “You can see why they’ve got to stop Amy Coney Barrett.”
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lifesitenews--2020-09-30--Fox’s Chris Wallace slammed for anti-Trump bias in first Trump-Biden debate

September 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – While reviews for both President Donald Trump ’ s and former Vice President Joe Biden ’ s performances in Wednesday night ’ s first presidential debate are largely negative , much of conservatives ’ ire was focused on the apparent pro-Biden bias of the moderator , Fox News anchor Chris Wallace .
The debate ( video , transcript ) was a raucous affair , with Wallace frequently interjecting to try to get the candidates to stop talking over each other .
Amid it all , though , many identified numerous instances of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the debate , the Trump campaign accused Wallace of interrupting Trump 76 times , but Biden only 15 .
One of Wallace ’ s own Fox colleagues , Brian Kilmeade , complained about Wallace giving Biden a longer leash than Trump : Wallace also assisted Biden and Biden ’ s framing of the issues at several points .
During one exchange , Biden told Wallace that he does not support the controversial Green New Deal environmental plan , but rather than follow up by questioning which aspects of the plan Biden opposes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At another point , Wallace questioned Trump about his administration ’ s efforts to end critical race theory ( CRT ) training in federal agencies .
But rather than operate off CRT ’ s actual definition – “ the view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race ... is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests ” – Wallace accused Trump of ending “ racial sensitivity training.
” Minutes later , Wallace claimed “ There has been a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ summer particularly , and you [ Trump ] often blame that on democratic mayors and democratic governors .
But in fact , there have been equivalent spikes in Republican-led cities , like Tulsa and Fort Worth.
” In August , the Wall Street Journal did report rising homicides in Tulsa and Fort Worth , as part of a spike in homicides in America ’ s largest cities .
However , Fort Worth , Texas and Jacksonville , Florida are the only cities in the top thirteen controlled by Republicans .
Additionally , Democrats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most violent crime per 100,000 people : At one point , moderator Wallace went so far as to joke about one of the competitors ( Trump ) with the other ( Biden ) .
When he asked Biden to answer the final question in Trump ’ s previous comment , Biden cracked that “ I can ’ t remember which of all his rantings ” was the final .
Wallace quipped that “ I ’ m having a little trouble myself.
” Arguably the most controversial moment , however , came when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia group and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we ’ ve seen in Portland.
” “ Sure , I ’ m willing to do that , ” Trump responded .
“ Well do it , sir , ” Wallace pressed , without acknowledging that Trump has repeatedly condemned white supremacists over the past three years , including in his now-infamous remarks about “ very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Confederate statues .
Biden repeated the false claim that Trump ’ s “ fine people ” remark was referring to racists “ spewing anti-Semitic bile and accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan , ” but Wallace did not correct him .
Nor did Wallace challenge Biden to condemn the violent leftist movement Antifa , despite Biden ’ s claim that “ unlike white supremacists , Antifa is an idea not an organization.
” At one point , Trump quipped to Wallace , “ I guess I ’ m debating you , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the debate , some conservatives were left scratching their heads as to why Republicans agree to Democrat-friendly debate moderators in every presidential election : Chris Wallace ’ s anti-Trump bias was known well before he was chosen to moderate the debate .
Last December , he accused Trump of undertaking the “ most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history , ” based entirely on Trump ’ s critical rhetoric about the mainstream media .
Wallace ’ s claim ignored scores of examples of concrete actions past presidents have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infamous Alien & Sedition Acts ( signed by John Adams ) to the Espionage Act ( signed by Woodrow Wilson ) , which Trump ’ s predecessor , Barack Obama , used to prosecute more journalists than all his predecessors combined .

One of Wallace’s own Fox colleagues, Brian Kilmeade, complained about Wallace giving Biden a longer leash than Trump.
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September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – While reviews for both President Donald Trump’s and former Vice President Joe Biden’s performances in Wednesday night’s first presidential debate are largely negative, much of conservatives’ ire was focused on the apparent pro-Biden bias of the moderator, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.
The debate (video, transcript) was a raucous affair, with Wallace frequently interjecting to try to get the candidates to stop talking over each other. Amid it all, though, many identified numerous instances of Wallace going well beyond that.
After the debate, the Trump campaign accused Wallace of interrupting Trump 76 times, but Biden only 15. One of Wallace’s own Fox colleagues, Brian Kilmeade, complained about Wallace giving Biden a longer leash than Trump:
Why is @JoeBiden allowed to interrupt? @realDonaldTrump is not — Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) September 30, 2020
How long is @JoeBiden get to talk…memorized line on family…@realDonaldTrump should have a chance to answer the question — Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) September 30, 2020
Wallace also assisted Biden and Biden’s framing of the issues at several points. During one exchange, Biden told Wallace that he does not support the controversial Green New Deal environmental plan, but rather than follow up by questioning which aspects of the plan Biden opposes, Wallace moved on to another issue.
At another point, Wallace questioned Trump about his administration’s efforts to end critical race theory (CRT) training in federal agencies. But rather than operate off CRT’s actual definition – “the view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race…is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests” – Wallace accused Trump of ending “racial sensitivity training.”
Chris Wallace: “What is radical about racial sensitivity training?” President Trump: “If you were a certain person, you had no status in life — it was sort of a reversal.” pic.twitter.com/CoBK7hAF39 — The Hill (@thehill) September 30, 2020
Minutes later, Wallace claimed “ There has been a dramatic increase in homicides in America this summer particularly, and you [Trump] often blame that on democratic mayors and democratic governors. But in fact, there have been equivalent spikes in Republican-led cities, like Tulsa and Fort Worth.”
In August, the Wall Street Journal did report rising homicides in Tulsa and Fort Worth, as part of a spike in homicides in America’s largest cities. However, Fort Worth, Texas and Jacksonville, Florida are the only cities in the top thirteen controlled by Republicans. Additionally, Democrats run nine of the ten cities with the most violent crime per 100,000 people:
Democrats run the most dangerous cities in America #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/VC9WVvVoyM — Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) September 30, 2020
At one point, moderator Wallace went so far as to joke about one of the competitors (Trump) with the other (Biden). When he asked Biden to answer the final question in Trump’s previous comment, Biden cracked that “I can’t remember which of all his rantings” was the final. Wallace quipped that “I’m having a little trouble myself.”
Arguably the most controversial moment, however, came when Wallace asked Trump if he was “willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia group and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we’ve seen in Portland.”
“Sure, I’m willing to do that,” Trump responded. “Well do it, sir,” Wallace pressed, without acknowledging that Trump has repeatedly condemned white supremacists over the past three years, including in his now-infamous remarks about “very fine people” who opposed the removal of Confederate statues.
Biden repeated the false claim that Trump’s “fine people” remark was referring to racists “spewing anti-Semitic bile and accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan,” but Wallace did not correct him. Nor did Wallace challenge Biden to condemn the violent leftist movement Antifa, despite Biden’s claim that “unlike white supremacists, Antifa is an idea not an organization.”
At one point, Trump quipped to Wallace, “I guess I’m debating you, not him”:
President Trump has a back and forth with Chris Wallace: “First of all, I guess I’m debating you, not him” pic.twitter.com/DmMnjiT3Sh — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 30, 2020
In the wake of the debate, some conservatives were left scratching their heads as to why Republicans agree to Democrat-friendly debate moderators in every presidential election:
I’d love to speak to someone from the RNC responsible for negotiating debates. Serious question: Why do you habitually fail your candidates and your voters? — David Reaboi (@davereaboi) September 30, 2020
Chris Wallace’s anti-Trump bias was known well before he was chosen to moderate the debate. Last December, he accused Trump of undertaking the “most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history,” based entirely on Trump’s critical rhetoric about the mainstream media.
Wallace’s claim ignored scores of examples of concrete actions past presidents have taken against press freedom, from the infamous Alien & Sedition Acts (signed by John Adams) to the Espionage Act (signed by Woodrow Wilson), which Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, used to prosecute more journalists than all his predecessors combined.
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lifesitenews--2020-09-30--Finnish politician opens up about police investigating her for defending biblical view of homosexual

Finnish politician opens up about police investigating her for defending biblical view of homosexuality

September 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Back in May , I wrote a column for First Things on the ongoing persecution of Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen , who has been consistently targeted over the past several years by LGBT activists for her outspoken advocacy of biblical sexual ethics .
Since I interviewed her last , she has been interrogated by Finnish police yet again—simply for articulating her Christian beliefs in public .
Räsänen is not an insignificant figure in Finland .
From 2004 to 2015 , she served as chair for the Christian Democrats , and from June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the Interior of Finland .
Her husband is a Lutheran pastor , and her Christian views were well-known .
Not until Section 10 of Finland ’ s Criminal Code dealing with hate speech was amended in 2011 to include “ sexual orientation ” did she run into any trouble .
Suddenly , the expression of orthodox Christian views held by countless millions could possibly considered hate speech , and perhaps even prosecutable .
That , at least , is what Räsänen ’ s persecutors are hoping .
This month , I spoke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her case .
Anyone who values freedom of speech and freedom of religion should be paying close attention— Räsänen ’ s ordeal could easily happen in Canada or the United States someday soon .
LifeSite : What is the background of your case ?
Päivi Räsänen : All in all , the Finnish Police Force is conducting four separate criminal investigations against me .
In all of these cases , I am accused of criminal agitation against a minority group , primarily for quoting the Bible in a tweet , for a 16-year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my Christian faith in a radio and a television program .
The most recent case has to do with my views presented in one program of the YlePuhe [ The Finnish Broadcasting Corporation Talk Show ] series with host Ruben Stiller on the topic “ What would Jesus think about homosexuals ?
” This was broadcast on 20 Dec. 2019 .
In the program , we discussed the Bible ’ s teaching on Jesus , creation of man , sin , the last judgement , and salvation .
I emphasized that all men @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are on the same line before God , all valuable , but all also sinful and in need of Jesus ’ redemptive work in order to inherit eternal life .
It is inconceivable for me that the program is suspected of being defamatory in any part .
An individual citizen X first made a criminal complaint and the police made a thorough decision that no pre-trial investigation will be commenced .
The Prosecutor General , however , ordered also in this case , contrary to the decision of the police , a pre-trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this case ?
I was interrogated at the Main Police Station in Pasila , Helsinki at 10:00 AM on 25 August 2020 on suspicion of ethnic agitation against a group .
I went gladly to discuss with the police about these issues once again , but I am concerned that the investigations and interrogations cause fear of limiting freedom of religion and free speech .
I will give the concluding statement about this Stiller case to the police next month .
Why are investigations still ongoing after you have been cleared multiple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finished the criminal investigation , so the process is still ongoing .
After the police have finished it , they will send their decision to the Prosecutor General .
These police investigations will lead to consideration of charges , which will result either in a prosecution or acquittal .
The police did not find any justifications required in the Criminal Investigation Act that would necessitate in this case a pre-trial investigation with a police interrogation , but the Prosecutor General ordered a pre-trial investigation .
It is confusing for the due process of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether a crime has happened , or if a parliamentarian , who has served over 25 years , does not recognize a potential crime .
What is the likely outcome of this case ?
According to the Criminal Code of our country , this crime carries the sentence of a fine or imprisonment for a maximum of two years .
Depending on the decision of the Prosecutor General , the cases will be handled by court .
If the Prosecutor General decides to prosecute , it is likely that this will be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the significance of your case to LGBT activists ?
The aim of the LGBT activists is to silence those voices that defend the system of two biological sexes and marriage as a union between man and wife .
Ultimately this has to do with guilt and trying to solve it by silencing and preventing the possibility to teach and speak the teachings of the Bible in the public sphere .
I wonder whether these investigations are meant to cause censorship and timidity among people who have a Christian conviction .
It is unfortunate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and LGBT activism has been supported and endorsed even by churches .
The attempt to break down the gender system based on two different genders hurts especially children .
I believe that religious literacy and knowledge of the Bible have decreased so much that those making criminal complaints do not understand the basic concepts of Christianity about the creation of man , sin and salvation .
These police investigations have to do with whether it is legal to publicly confess and teach Bible-based views on man ’ s relationship with God .
From @ @ @ @ @ @ @ free speech , these cases are precedents .
I am a former police minister and I wonder whether these time-consuming investigations are a right way to use the scarce resources of the police .
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In his latest episode , he interviews Dr. Alveda King , niece of Martin Luther King , Jr. Alveda explains that she used to be pro-abortion but embraced the pro-life message when she became a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ African-American community is a very politically loyal community , ” she said .
“ However , many African-Americans today are supporting President Donald John Trump because of his stand for life , because of his economic support.
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September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Back in May, I wrote a column for First Things on the ongoing persecution of Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen, who has been consistently targeted over the past several years by LGBT activists for her outspoken advocacy of biblical sexual ethics. Since I interviewed her last, she has been interrogated by Finnish police yet again—simply for articulating her Christian beliefs in public.
Räsänen is not an insignificant figure in Finland. From 2004 to 2015, she served as chair for the Christian Democrats, and from June 2011 to May 2015 she was Minister for the Interior of Finland. Her husband is a Lutheran pastor, and her Christian views were well-known. Not until Section 10 of Finland’s Criminal Code dealing with hate speech was amended in 2011 to include “sexual orientation” did she run into any trouble. Suddenly, the expression of orthodox Christian views held by countless millions could possibly considered hate speech, and perhaps even prosecutable. That, at least, is what Räsänen’s persecutors are hoping.
This month, I spoke with her again about the details of her case. Anyone who values freedom of speech and freedom of religion should be paying close attention— Räsänen’s ordeal could easily happen in Canada or the United States someday soon.
LifeSite: What is the background of your case?
Päivi Räsänen: All in all, the Finnish Police Force is conducting four separate criminal investigations against me. In all of these cases, I am accused of criminal agitation against a minority group, primarily for quoting the Bible in a tweet, for a 16-year old pamphlet, and for speaking according my Christian faith in a radio and a television program.
The most recent case has to do with my views presented in one program of the YlePuhe [The Finnish Broadcasting Corporation Talk Show] series with host Ruben Stiller on the topic “What would Jesus think about homosexuals?” This was broadcast on 20 Dec. 2019. In the program, we discussed the Bible’s teaching on Jesus, creation of man, sin, the last judgement, and salvation. I emphasized that all men, regardless of their sexual orientation, are on the same line before God, all valuable, but all also sinful and in need of Jesus’ redemptive work in order to inherit eternal life. It is inconceivable for me that the program is suspected of being defamatory in any part.
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An individual citizen X first made a criminal complaint and the police made a thorough decision that no pre-trial investigation will be commenced. The Prosecutor General, however, ordered also in this case, contrary to the decision of the police, a pre-trial investigation.
What are the latest developments in this case?
I was interrogated at the Main Police Station in Pasila, Helsinki at 10:00 AM on 25 August 2020 on suspicion of ethnic agitation against a group. I went gladly to discuss with the police about these issues once again, but I am concerned that the investigations and interrogations cause fear of limiting freedom of religion and free speech. I will give the concluding statement about this Stiller case to the police next month.
Why are investigations still ongoing after you have been cleared multiple times?
The police have not yet finished the criminal investigation, so the process is still ongoing. After the police have finished it, they will send their decision to the Prosecutor General. These police investigations will lead to consideration of charges, which will result either in a prosecution or acquittal. The police did not find any justifications required in the Criminal Investigation Act that would necessitate in this case a pre-trial investigation with a police interrogation, but the Prosecutor General ordered a pre-trial investigation. It is confusing for the due process of law if highly educated authorities disagree about whether a crime has happened, or if a parliamentarian, who has served over 25 years, does not recognize a potential crime.
What is the likely outcome of this case?
According to the Criminal Code of our country, this crime carries the sentence of a fine or imprisonment for a maximum of two years. Depending on the decision of the Prosecutor General, the cases will be handled by court. If the Prosecutor General decides to prosecute, it is likely that this will be a process of several years.
What is the significance of your case to LGBT activists?
The aim of the LGBT activists is to silence those voices that defend the system of two biological sexes and marriage as a union between man and wife. Ultimately this has to do with guilt and trying to solve it by silencing and preventing the possibility to teach and speak the teachings of the Bible in the public sphere.
I wonder whether these investigations are meant to cause censorship and timidity among people who have a Christian conviction. It is unfortunate how uncritically the ideology of sexual diversity and LGBT activism has been supported and endorsed even by churches. The attempt to break down the gender system based on two different genders hurts especially children. I believe that religious literacy and knowledge of the Bible have decreased so much that those making criminal complaints do not understand the basic concepts of Christianity about the creation of man, sin and salvation.
These police investigations have to do with whether it is legal to publicly confess and teach Bible-based views on man’s relationship with God. From the viewpoint of freedom of religion and free speech, these cases are precedents. I am a former police minister and I wonder whether these time-consuming investigations are a right way to use the scarce resources of the police.
Jonathon’s new podcast, The Van Maren Show, is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement. In his latest episode, he interviews Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. Alveda explains that she used to be pro-abortion but embraced the pro-life message when she became a born-again Christian in 1983. “The African-American community is a very politically loyal community,” she said. “However, many African-Americans today are supporting President Donald John Trump because of his stand for life, because of his economic support.” You can subscribe here and listen to the episode below:
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lifesitenews--2020-09-30--Ginsburg knew laws to help women ‘could have the opposite effect’ but failed to see this in Roe

September 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – For years I saw Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg primarily as an adversary since we were firmly entrenched on opposite sides of our nation ’ s abortion divide .
But now that she has been laid to rest , I decided to take a comprehensive look at her life and accomplishments .
I found much to admire .
Justice Ginsburg was a champion for women ’ s rights and as a lawyer , she argued five cases before the Supreme Court that were based on the 14th amendment ’ s Equal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the plaintiffs in some of the cases to drive home the point that women and men must be treated equally under the law .
She was victorious in all five cases .
I have three daughters and three granddaughters , so I appreciate Justice Ginsburg ’ s personal conviction and legal insistence that women are as capable as men .
But I think she sold women short with her support of legal abortion .
In 1993 President Bill Clinton nominated Justice Ginsburg to fill the seat of Justice Byron White , one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ v. Wade .
During her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee , she said : “ It is essential to woman ’ s equality with man that she be the decision maker , that her choice be controlling .
If you impose restraints that impede her choice , you are disadvantaging her because of her sex.
” She herself had been disadvantaged because of her sex , taking a typist job in Oklahoma after her marriage to her college sweetheart because she was pregnant and perceived as incapable of performing the duties @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had applied .
Had abortion been legal then , it might have solved the immediate problem , but the discrimination faced by pregnant women would persist .
At best , abortion circumvents problems , it doesn ’ t solve them .
At worst , it creates many more problems .
After that child – her daughter , Jane – was born and Justice Ginsburg and her husband were students at Harvard Law , he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer .
She found herself caring for her daughter , keeping up with her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ husband .
Would her life have been easier if she had aborted that child back in Oklahoma ?
Probably .
Do you think she ever looked back on that time of struggle and regretted having her daughter ?
I doubt it .
That abortion was empowering to women was a dogma that lived loudly in Justice Ginsburg but when I read her obituary in the New York Times , I was struck by a quote attributed to her in a 1988 speech .
She was speaking of her victories in the Supreme Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ widowers and establishing that women were as capable as men to administer estates of the deceased .
But this is the quote that struck me : “ To turn in a new direction , the court first had to gain an understanding that legislation apparently designed to benefit or protect women could have the opposite effect.
” The proponents of legal abortion insisted that women would benefit from being able to decide whether and when to bear children .
But the psychological impact of destroying one ’ s own child was never mentioned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who rushed to set up shop the day after Roe v. Wade , nor was the real danger to women who refuse abortion ever considered .
But thousands of women who have shared their abortion stories as part of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign tell harrowing tales of the true cost of abortion .
The incontrovertible proof that abortion hurts women – and men , and families - can be found in the proliferation of programs that offer healing after abortion .
The largest of these is Rachel ’ s Vineyard , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offers weekend retreats to mothers , fathers and extended families of abortion victims .
Retreats are now held at 1,000 sites in 49 states and 70 countries .
The ministry ’ s training manual has been translated into dozens of languages .
Abortion doesn ’ t hurt women because pro-lifers say it should .
Abortion hurts women because it enables our worst instincts while negating our best .
It is the nuclear weapon in the war against women .
For many years , my beautiful and courageous friend Nancy Tanner would stand outside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Roe v. Wade holding a sign that said , “ I Regret My Abortion.
” Every year at least a few women heading into this macabre gala would whisper to Nancy that they also regretted their abortions , but they kept that to themselves .
Legal abortion has neither benefited nor protected women but if Justice Ginsburg ever recognized that fact , she , too , kept it to herself .
She believed that Roe v. Wade was a bad legal opinion , too broad and overreaching , but she continued to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I hope that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rests in peace , that women continue to shatter glass ceilings and that protections for mothers who fervently want to choose life will be written into law .
And I pray not only for Roe v. Wade to be overturned but for the day to come in our nation when abortion will become unthinkable .
Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and the author of Recall Abortion : Ending the Abortion Industry ’ s Exploitation of Women .

‘Legal abortion has neither benefited nor protected women but if Justice Ginsburg ever recognized that fact, she, too, kept it to herself’
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September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – For years I saw Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg primarily as an adversary since we were firmly entrenched on opposite sides of our nation’s abortion divide. But now that she has been laid to rest, I decided to take a comprehensive look at her life and accomplishments. I found much to admire.
Justice Ginsburg was a champion for women’s rights and as a lawyer, she argued five cases before the Supreme Court that were based on the 14th amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. She chose men as the plaintiffs in some of the cases to drive home the point that women and men must be treated equally under the law. She was victorious in all five cases.
I have three daughters and three granddaughters, so I appreciate Justice Ginsburg’s personal conviction and legal insistence that women are as capable as men. But I think she sold women short with her support of legal abortion.
In 1993 President Bill Clinton nominated Justice Ginsburg to fill the seat of Justice Byron White, one of just two justices who dissented in Roe v. Wade. During her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she said:
“It is essential to woman’s equality with man that she be the decision maker, that her choice be controlling. If you impose restraints that impede her choice, you are disadvantaging her because of her sex.”
She herself had been disadvantaged because of her sex, taking a typist job in Oklahoma after her marriage to her college sweetheart because she was pregnant and perceived as incapable of performing the duties of the government job to which she had applied. Had abortion been legal then, it might have solved the immediate problem, but the discrimination faced by pregnant women would persist. At best, abortion circumvents problems, it doesn’t solve them. At worst, it creates many more problems.
After that child – her daughter, Jane – was born and Justice Ginsburg and her husband were students at Harvard Law, he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. She found herself caring for her daughter, keeping up with her own classwork and typing notes for her husband. Would her life have been easier if she had aborted that child back in Oklahoma? Probably. Do you think she ever looked back on that time of struggle and regretted having her daughter? I doubt it.
That abortion was empowering to women was a dogma that lived loudly in Justice Ginsburg but when I read her obituary in the New York Times, I was struck by a quote attributed to her in a 1988 speech. She was speaking of her victories in the Supreme Court over such things as survivor benefits for widowers and establishing that women were as capable as men to administer estates of the deceased. But this is the quote that struck me:
“To turn in a new direction, the court first had to gain an understanding that legislation apparently designed to benefit or protect women could have the opposite effect.”
The proponents of legal abortion insisted that women would benefit from being able to decide whether and when to bear children. But the psychological impact of destroying one’s own child was never mentioned by these ideologues or the abortion profiteers who rushed to set up shop the day after Roe v. Wade, nor was the real danger to women who refuse abortion ever considered. But thousands of women who have shared their abortion stories as part of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign tell harrowing tales of the true cost of abortion.
The incontrovertible proof that abortion hurts women – and men, and families – can be found in the proliferation of programs that offer healing after abortion. The largest of these is Rachel’s Vineyard, a ministry of Priests for Life that offers weekend retreats to mothers, fathers and extended families of abortion victims. Retreats are now held at 1,000 sites in 49 states and 70 countries. The ministry’s training manual has been translated into dozens of languages.
Abortion doesn’t hurt women because pro-lifers say it should. Abortion hurts women because it enables our worst instincts while negating our best. It is the nuclear weapon in the war against women.
For many years, my beautiful and courageous friend Nancy Tanner would stand outside NARAL’s annual “celebration” of Roe v. Wade holding a sign that said, “I Regret My Abortion.” Every year at least a few women heading into this macabre gala would whisper to Nancy that they also regretted their abortions, but they kept that to themselves.
Legal abortion has neither benefited nor protected women but if Justice Ginsburg ever recognized that fact, she, too, kept it to herself. She believed that Roe v. Wade was a bad legal opinion, too broad and overreaching, but she continued to insist that choice was a good thing.
I hope that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rests in peace, that women continue to shatter glass ceilings and that protections for mothers who fervently want to choose life will be written into law. And I pray not only for Roe v. Wade to be overturned but for the day to come in our nation when abortion will become unthinkable.
Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and the author of Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women.
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lifesitenews--2020-09-30--UK bishops double down: COVID vaccine derived from aborted baby can be used in ‘good conscience’

MANCHESTER , England , September 25 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — The bishops of England and Wales have walked back their controversial July statement declaring Catholics “ have a prima facie duty to be vaccinated.
” In a September 24 statement , the bishops now say it is a matter of individual conscience , while at the same time defending Catholics who choose to take a vaccine derived from an aborted baby as acting in “ good conscience.
” However , this position appears at odds with recent statements by several high-ranking prelates and lay Catholics in the wake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ race by pharmaceutical giants to develop a COVID-19 vaccine .
In an open letter in May , former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò , Cardinals Gerhard Ludwig Mueller , Joseph Zen , and Janis Pujats stated that “ for Catholics it is morally unacceptable to develop or use vaccines derived from material from aborted fetuses.
” In April , Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler , Texas , urged Catholics to join him in opposing such research , and said he would refuse a vaccine developed using cell lines harvested from an aborted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades ago it still means a child ’ s life was ended before it was born & then their body was used as spare parts , ” he reiterated in an August tweet .
“ We will never end abortion if we do not END THIS EVIL !
” Adding to the confusion are shades of differences in Vatican documents on this issue .
The 2005 Pontifical Academy for Life ( PAL ) “ Moral reflections on vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted human foetuses ” and the 2008 Congregation for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Instruction Dignitatis Personae on “ Certain Bioethical Questions ” state that such vaccines must be opposed vigorously , but can be used on a temporary basis in certain strictly defined circumstances .
However , the PAL document “ Clarifications on the medical and scientific nature of vaccination ” issued in 2017 in collaboration with the Italian Bishops ' Conference and the Association of Italian Catholic Doctors , differs notably from its predecessors in placing the individual ’ s primary moral duty on taking vaccines to ensure public and personal health .
It also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ using aborted babies , stating : “ the cell lines currently used are very distant from the original abortions and no longer imply that bond of moral cooperation indispensable for an ethically negative evaluation of their use.
” It was the 2017 PAL note the Catholic Bishops ' Conference of England and Wales ( CBCEW ) relied on for its much denounced July document that suggested Catholics could not conscientiously object to taking a COVID-19 vaccine that was developed using aborted baby cell lines .
“ We support the Pontifical Academy for Life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recommended vaccinations can be used with a clear conscience and that the use of such vaccines does not signify some sort of cooperation with voluntary abortion ’ , ” they wrote then .
“ The Catholic Church strongly supports vaccination and regards Catholics as having a prima facie duty to be vaccinated , not only for the sake of their own health but also out of solidarity with others , especially the most vulnerable , ” the bishops stated .
“ We believe that there is a moral obligation to guarantee the vaccination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is especially important for the discovery of a vaccine against COVID-19.
” The bishops ’ September statement qualifies this position by asserting the decision is a matter of “ prudent judgement of conscience.
” “ Research towards and use of an ethically sourced vaccine is the goal which we desire , ” they state .
“ If this is not achievable and widely available for all people , the Church recognises that there may be ‘ grave reasons ’ for using a vaccine ” developed from cell lines of “ an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bishops say , in reference to Dignitatis personae .
“ Whilst many may in good conscience judge that they will accept such a vaccine , some may in good conscience judge that they will not , ” stated the document , signed by Bishop Richard Moth , chair of the bishop ’ s social justice department .
“ If the choice is made not to receive this vaccination , then the person must make other provisions to mitigate the risk of harm to the life or health of others and to his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” the bishops add .
Catholics must educate their consciences according to principles they lay out , the bishops state , and they list first the need for a coronavirus vaccine .
“ Individuals should welcome the vaccine not only for the sake of their own health but also out of solidarity with others , especially the most vulnerable.
” Other principles they list are the Church ’ s opposition to abortion , to the use of tissue and cells from aborted babies for research , and its teaching “ that there must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the risk of scandal should be avoided.
” Arguably , neither CBCEW document gives sufficient emphasis to Catholics ’ duty to oppose the use of aborted baby cells in vaccine development .
However , the 2005 PAL and 2008 CDF documents state this clearly , and are also “ very , very clear that when there ’ s a moral alternative , you have to use it , ” says Debi Vinnedge of Children of God For Life , a Florida-based pro-life group that “ campaigns for ethical vaccines , medicines and consumer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccines that are not derived from aborted babies .
Vinnedge dismissed the 2017 PAL statement as “ not an official document ” but a note issued in response to a measles outbreak in Italy .
Oxford University is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with the German corporation Merck and British company AstraZeneca , which uses a cell line harvested “ from a healthy baby girl murdered through abortion in 1972 in the Netherlands , ” U.K. Catholic Deacon Nick Donnelly told Church Militant in July .
“ Her kidney cells were harvested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ label HEK-293 .
She ’ d probably be a 40-year-old mother with her own family by now , ” he said .
Information on countries and corporations developing a COVID-19 vaccine using aborted baby cell lines is available on the Children of God for Life website here .
Which COVID-19 vaccines will be derived from aborted children ’ s cell lines ?

The bishops have, however, walked back their July statement declaring Catholics ‘have a prima facie duty to be vaccinated’
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MANCHESTER, England, September 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The bishops of England and Wales have walked back their controversial July statement declaring Catholics “have a prima facie duty to be vaccinated.”
In a September 24 statement, the bishops now say it is a matter of individual conscience, while at the same time defending Catholics who choose to take a vaccine derived from an aborted baby as acting in “good conscience.”
However, this position appears at odds with recent statements by several high-ranking prelates and lay Catholics in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the global race by pharmaceutical giants to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
In an open letter in May, former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Cardinals Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, Joseph Zen, and Janis Pujats stated that “for Catholics it is morally unacceptable to develop or use vaccines derived from material from aborted fetuses.”
In April, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, urged Catholics to join him in opposing such research, and said he would refuse a vaccine developed using cell lines harvested from an aborted baby.
“Even if it originated decades ago it still means a child’s life was ended before it was born & then their body was used as spare parts,” he reiterated in an August tweet. “We will never end abortion if we do not END THIS EVIL!”
Adding to the confusion are shades of differences in Vatican documents on this issue.
The 2005 Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) “Moral reflections on vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted human foetuses” and the 2008 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) Instruction Dignitatis Personae on “Certain Bioethical Questions” state that such vaccines must be opposed vigorously, but can be used on a temporary basis in certain strictly defined circumstances.
However, the PAL document “Clarifications on the medical and scientific nature of vaccination” issued in 2017 in collaboration with the Italian Bishops' Conference and the Association of Italian Catholic Doctors, differs notably from its predecessors in placing the individual’s primary moral duty on taking vaccines to ensure public and personal health.
It also minimizes moral objections to accepting vaccines developed using aborted babies, stating: “the cell lines currently used are very distant from the original abortions and no longer imply that bond of moral cooperation indispensable for an ethically negative evaluation of their use.”
It was the 2017 PAL note the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW) relied on for its much denounced July document that suggested Catholics could not conscientiously object to taking a COVID-19 vaccine that was developed using aborted baby cell lines.
“We support the Pontifical Academy for Life’s belief that ‘all clinically recommended vaccinations can be used with a clear conscience and that the use of such vaccines does not signify some sort of cooperation with voluntary abortion’,” they wrote then.
“The Catholic Church strongly supports vaccination and regards Catholics as having a prima facie duty to be vaccinated, not only for the sake of their own health but also out of solidarity with others, especially the most vulnerable,” the bishops stated.
“We believe that there is a moral obligation to guarantee the vaccination coverage necessary for the safety of others. This is especially important for the discovery of a vaccine against COVID-19.”
The bishops’ September statement qualifies this position by asserting the decision is a matter of “prudent judgement of conscience.”
“Research towards and use of an ethically sourced vaccine is the goal which we desire,” they state.
“If this is not achievable and widely available for all people, the Church recognises that there may be ‘grave reasons’ for using a vaccine” developed from cell lines of “an aborted child in the past,” the bishops say, in reference to Dignitatis personae.
“Whilst many may in good conscience judge that they will accept such a vaccine, some may in good conscience judge that they will not,” stated the document, signed by Bishop Richard Moth, chair of the bishop’s social justice department.
“If the choice is made not to receive this vaccination, then the person must make other provisions to mitigate the risk of harm to the life or health of others and to his or her own life and health,” the bishops add.
Catholics must educate their consciences according to principles they lay out, the bishops state, and they list first the need for a coronavirus vaccine.
“Individuals should welcome the vaccine not only for the sake of their own health but also out of solidarity with others, especially the most vulnerable.”
Other principles they list are the Church’s opposition to abortion, to the use of tissue and cells from aborted babies for research, and its teaching “that there must be no complicity in direct abortion and the risk of scandal should be avoided.”
Arguably, neither CBCEW document gives sufficient emphasis to Catholics’ duty to oppose the use of aborted baby cells in vaccine development.
However, the 2005 PAL and 2008 CDF documents state this clearly, and are also “very, very clear that when there’s a moral alternative, you have to use it,” says Debi Vinnedge of Children of God For Life, a Florida-based pro-life group that “campaigns for ethical vaccines, medicines and consumer products.” Vinnedge said that there are vaccines that are not derived from aborted babies.
Vinnedge dismissed the 2017 PAL statement as “not an official document” but a note issued in response to a measles outbreak in Italy.
Oxford University is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with the German corporation Merck and British company AstraZeneca, which uses a cell line harvested “from a healthy baby girl murdered through abortion in 1972 in the Netherlands,” U.K. Catholic Deacon Nick Donnelly told Church Militant in July.
“Her kidney cells were harvested for medical research and given the dehumanizing label HEK-293. She’d probably be a 40-year-old mother with her own family by now,” he said.
LifeSite’s Paul Smeaton contributed to this report.
Information on countries and corporations developing a COVID-19 vaccine using aborted baby cell lines is available on the Children of God for Life website here.
Related:
Which COVID-19 vaccines will be derived from aborted children’s cell lines?
Senior Australian health exec refers to ‘ethically aborted human fetus’ amid COVID vaccine debate
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lifesitenews--2020-09-30--Italian lung doctor: Weakened COVID causes so little sickness, so why not see it spread?

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September 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — During a stay in Livorno , Tuscany , in September , I met Alberto Rossi , an Italian doctor specializing in pneumology ( diseases of the respiratory tract ) , who was a member of the medical volunteers who hastened to the north of the country in March because of the COVID-19 crisis .
Northern Italy was one of the hardest-hit regions in the country .
Of the total of 313,011 declared cases to date , and 35,875 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than three quarters were registered in Lombardy ( 101,526 cases and 16,951 dead to date ) , Piedmont , Venetia and Emilia-Romagna .
In the latter province , 35,429 cases were registered to date , and 4,468 deaths .
Dr. Alberto Rossi sat down with LifeSite to tell of his personal experience in one of the main hospitals in Emilia-Romagna .
He is convinced that the political response in Italy to the COVID-19 crisis was fraught with bad decisions , including a general ban on autopsies that would have avoided sticking to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of scientific experts who have consistently made false predictions but who are still orientating official policies .
One of Dr Rossi ’ s most remarkable claims is that , following his personal experience and investigations with COVID-19 patients , people who got a flu shot prior to the epidemic were especially at risk .
On a personal level , he is strongly opposed to the COVID vaccine .
Here below is Alberto Rossi ’ s full interview .
LifeSite : Dr. Alberto Rossi , first of all , tell us who you are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knowledge of the COVID-19 crisis in Italy .
Dr. Alberto Rossi : I am a military doctor with the rank of colonel , now retired .
I made myself available to the civil defense here in Italy to go and help my colleagues in the regions that were hit first by the coronavirus .
I was part of the first contingent deployed in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna .
I was assigned to the latter region , at the hospital in Piacenza .
It was an interesting experience for me .
I saw two of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activity like me fall ill ; they were both younger than I ( I am 69 years old , a little old man from 1951 ! )
, a man and a woman .
They were cured in hospital after a week because they had no other pathology .
You joined the hospital not long after the beginning of the crisis .
Were there already a lot of sick people ?
Yes , I joined the hospital in Piacenza on March 26 ; this town received most of its COVID patients around March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we were at the peak of the infection .
Personally , I was in charge of about 100 patients — people in a medium state of emergency .
I did not work in intensive care .
Almost all of these patients were elderly , let ’ s say over 70 years old , suffering from multiple pathologies .
I personally investigated the health history of these patients and found that almost all of them had been vaccinated against the flu .
Is this vaccine common in Italy ?
In the north , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the north than in the center and in the south .
Knowing that the US .
.military has observed adverse reactions to the administration of the flu vaccine , including respiratory problems with pneumonia , I asked the patients I personally cared for if they had received the flu vaccine .
Almost all of them had indeed received it .
As I said , this vaccine is very common in Lombardy .
I suspect that it may have made things easier for COVID .
Among the 100 people I treated , I specifically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There were only three young people — born in 1983 , 1985 ... — but they all suffered from another pathology .
For example , one had a neoplasia ( a tumor ) ; another was on dialysis .
That ’ s how I got an idea of the ability of SARS-COV2 , the virus that causes COVID-19 , to hit people who were in a difficult situation for various reasons .
The therapies that we applied at that time were hydroxychloroquine and anti-inflammatory drugs .
In your opinion , is hydroxychloroquine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s more than a personal opinion : it ’ s an opinion I ’ ve formed from the medical literature .
Meanwhile , other molecules such as Remdesivir have been used , even by [ Italian former prime minister Silvio ] Berlusconi .
Colleagues who have tried this drug told me , while I was in Piacenza , that it did not seem to have a great effect .
Hydroxychloroquine seems to be effective .
We ’ ve used it , but we ’ ll do a study retrospectively .
My function @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and I can ’ t express a medical judgment .
But I think , judging from the international press , hydroxychloroquine , Plaquenil , was very , very effective .
What is your opinion now on the COVID crisis ?
My impression is that the COVID situation has been exaggerated , in such a way that I can ’ t clearly understand the situation .
The disease undoubtedly existed , and it still exists because the virus still exists , but the virus spread regardless of our measures , our lockdowns , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — that is to say , it no longer has the same pathogenic capacity that it had when it first spread in March .
Perhaps I ’ m going to say a heresy , but as many experts of all colors have said this , I think this is something I can say , too .
I am just a pulmonologist , not a specialist in virology .
But I make this simple reasoning : if the virus is no longer as strong as it was , if it is no longer capable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the problem of seeing it spread faster … ?
I remember that a few months ago , many Italian virologists were ringing alarm bells against such and such a gathering , such and such a meeting , such and such a public festivity , for example after soccer matches .
I ’ m thinking in particular of the one between Naples and the “ Juve , ” when Naples won the Italian Cup and thousands of people gathered to celebrate .
They said : “ You will see , after a month , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
” And nothing happened .
We are in the hands of so-called scientists who tell us what is going to happen and who are then belied by the facts .
I think they have objectives that elude us .
Undoubtedly , the infection is spreading all over the world , but in my opinion , it has been exaggerated a little , a little inflated for reasons I can ’ t understand and that concern me .
I don ’ t know .
In Italy , there is a particular state of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government is in a position of great weakness , and it keeps itself alive through this situation , infusing fear .
Every day on the news on television , we get a bulletin of the infected , the sick , and the healed .
It seems to me that we are the only country in Europe that airs a daily bulletin in this way .
All the television channels have joined the terror in this sense .
They wanted to impose face masks on all the children in the schools .
In the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over six years old .
But a surgical mask serves to stop the virus as a fence stops ants — that is , not at all .
If , moreover , the virus has lost its pathological capacity , I really don ’ t understand anything at all .
Certainly , let ’ s protect the people most at risk .
These people , yes .
Something very important has happened in my opinion : you know that on April 1 of this year , Roberto Speranza , the minister of health , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quite firmly the performance of autopsies ?
I ’ d heard of that .
So it ’ s true ?
Yes .
I read the entire ordinance — and it is worth reading .
It discourages autopsies , almost totally preventing them , practically saying that only the Judiciary , in particular cases , can appropriately perform autopsies .
As a result , not a single specialized doctor ventured to perform autopsies on COVID victims .
These were performed only later , when the greatest harm had already been done .
If they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have realized that the bilateral interstitial pneumopathies that we were seeing in the hospital were the consequence of a vasculopathy , a disseminated vascular thrombosis .
So we used the wrong therapy .
We pumped oxygen into the lungs when we should have been giving anti-inflammatory drugs , cortisone and dexamethasone , for example , to block the inflammatory cascade .
Today , that ’ s what we ’ re doing .
In my opinion , but I ’ m just an ordinary man , the appropriate therapy could well be this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and enoxaparin , which is a low molecular weight heparin , which is used to prevent thrombosis , not to solve it — for that there are other products .
But to prevent thrombosis , you need a low molecular weight heparin .
Do you think the lockdown was helpful ?
I think a lockdown limited to the most important areas — for instance , the whole of Lombardy was a red zone — would have been .
But our leaders lost time , and they took stupid measures by banning autopsies .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ other countries were caught by surprise .
I refuse to believe that , after the Chinese experience , the information services of the West did not inform our governments of the state of affairs .
If we consider that on January 31 , the Italian government declared a state of emergency , what was done before the emergency actually exploded ?
The hospitals I went to in Piacenza were totally unprepared .
My fellow doctors were not even subjected to serological examinations or nasal tests .
Many of them were ill.
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man , even if I am retired .
I say this : we are used to emergencies in military health activity , and we know that if there is a spread of virus , the first thing to do is not to cram the sick into one hospital where they will infect everybody : the whole hospital will be infected and will become a COVID hospital even for those who come for a tonsillectomy or an appendectomy , for knee surgery ...
This is how a highly contagious virus spreads .
I must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been fatal only in certain situations , but also because of treatment errors due to the reasoning that was done at the beginning of the crisis .
All that was really needed was to put a small field hospital outside the hospital and properly select among the patients .
The whole thing seems strange and suspicious to me : why did so many things not work ?
They should have worked , and they could work .
There is something wrong with this story .
Today contaminations are much less serious , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everywhere in Italy .
Yes , everywhere .
We are obliged to comply because otherwise we have administrative problems , fines , especially for those in charge of commercial activities , their customers and guests of the different structures .
The economic damage has been monstrous .
So many families have been hit .
I imagine these people , these poor people living on odd jobs : what has become of them ?
The situation is worrying , really .
And all this for what ?
A few days ago , the Corvelva @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alternative information , published a directory of virologists who have collaborated with pharmaceutical laboratories and who have received funding from them .
I did myself a little favor : I went to see the names of some of the virologists who repeatedly appear on Italian television — Galli , Pregliasco , Lopalco ...
They are all virologists who have had and still have economic relations with the pharmaceutical companies that produce vaccines .
It ’ s not very pretty : they should at least say so .
In itself , this is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the most important things .
But it includes the freedom to criticize , and even more so , the right to know for us users , ordinary citizens , whether the virologist who comes to pontificate every day on television has had economic relations with pharmaceutical companies , whether he has been paid , in short .
In France it is the same thing… Of course .
I collected the data — it was a bit tedious — and so I was able to establish that Lopalco , a virologist from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alongside Emiliano who is the president of the Puglia region , and who pontificates all day on Facebook and on TV , was part of those virologists .
I made a request to him on Facebook about the information that ’ s currently slowly spreading among the general population about virologists having interests with certain pharmaceutical laboratories that produce vaccines , saying it wouldn ’ t be a bad idea if he stated publicly that he hadn ’ t had any such relationship with these laboratories .
He didn ’ t respond .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID vaccine ?
With the experience of those American soldiers who found themselves in a bad way ...
I myself was not against the use of vaccines , so much so that while I was serving at the military hospital in Livorno , when I was asked if I was a volunteer for an experimental hepatitis B vaccine , I answered positively , and I received that vaccine .
But since I read and understood the results of a study that was published by Corvelva , from an Italian doctor , Dr. Bolgan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15 minutes in which she gives information on the results obtained from an investigation into the components of this vaccine , I have been very worried .
It is true that at the international level , there is an organization called AIFA , which is in charge of vaccine control at the European level .
But as far as I know — and I may be wrong — it exercises its control after vaccination , and not on the components of the vaccines .
As far as I know — but I can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the claims of the certifications made by the companies that produce the vaccines .
So these are self-certifications ?
Yes , exactly .
These are self-certifications that ensure that the vaccine is good , and the States administer it , taking into account precisely this self-certification .
After seeing Dr. Bolgan ’ s video , I was very concerned , and I can tell you I will not get vaccinated — especially since I ’ ve never done a flu shot .
As a general practitioner , I have visited many people with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whom had the courtesy of coughing directly into my face when I did a thoracic examination , but I never had the flu .
By that I mean I have no predisposition .
And I don ’ t have any other pathologies .
In any case , I have doubts , especially when it comes to imposing vaccines on children .
In Italy this has been done since the 1970s by refusing school entry to those who are not vaccinated , but I ’ m not sure if this is a good thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make an anti-vaccine speech .
But it ’ s too easy to say that if we hadn ’ t had a confinement , who knows how many deaths we would have had .
We have no counter-evidence .
But just look at the example of Sweden , which has not had a lockdown , and whose death rate relative to the total population is similar to the rate we have here in Italy .
We heard here on television : “ Here in Italy , we are an example for the whole of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But it must be a negative example — for example , in that we refused to do autopsies .
What do you say about all this as a pneumologist ?
I volunteered with the civil protection precisely because of my speciality , telling myself that perhaps I would be called upon in a second phase .
In fact , I was part of the first contingent .
I ’ m retired and a widower , and I thought , “ Well , come what may.
” And have you been ill with COVID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the end , as well as the blood test to see if I had antibodies — I hoped I had — but it was all negative .
It ’ s true that you can only have a relative trust in these tests ; they should at least be repeated to verify the first result .
Was the Italian population terrorized ?
Do they wear masks here because they don ’ t want to pay the fine or because they are afraid ?
They are terrorized !
We see a lot of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nice , France , masks are mandatory even for people alone in cars .

'If the virus is no longer as strong as it was, if it is no longer capable of causing pathologies, then what is the problem of seeing it spread faster?'
PETITION: No to radical mandatory mask mandates! Sign the petition here.
September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — During a stay in Livorno, Tuscany, in September, I met Alberto Rossi, an Italian doctor specializing in pneumology (diseases of the respiratory tract), who was a member of the medical volunteers who hastened to the north of the country in March because of the COVID-19 crisis. Northern Italy was one of the hardest-hit regions in the country. Of the total of 313,011 declared cases to date, and 35,875 deaths attributed to the Wuhan virus, more than three quarters were registered in Lombardy (101,526 cases and 16,951 dead to date), Piedmont, Venetia and Emilia-Romagna. In the latter province, 35,429 cases were registered to date, and 4,468 deaths.
Dr. Alberto Rossi sat down with LifeSite to tell of his personal experience in one of the main hospitals in Emilia-Romagna. He is convinced that the political response in Italy to the COVID-19 crisis was fraught with bad decisions, including a general ban on autopsies that would have avoided sticking to erroneous therapeutic processes and the dubious choice of scientific experts who have consistently made false predictions but who are still orientating official policies.
One of Dr Rossi’s most remarkable claims is that, following his personal experience and investigations with COVID-19 patients, people who got a flu shot prior to the epidemic were especially at risk. On a personal level, he is strongly opposed to the COVID vaccine.
Here below is Alberto Rossi’s full interview.
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LifeSite: Dr. Alberto Rossi, first of all, tell us who you are and how you came to have firsthand knowledge of the COVID-19 crisis in Italy.
Dr. Alberto Rossi: I am a military doctor with the rank of colonel, now retired. I made myself available to the civil defense here in Italy to go and help my colleagues in the regions that were hit first by the coronavirus. I was part of the first contingent deployed in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna. I was assigned to the latter region, at the hospital in Piacenza.
It was an interesting experience for me. I saw two of my colleagues who took part in this activity like me fall ill; they were both younger than I (I am 69 years old, a little old man from 1951!), a man and a woman. They were cured in hospital after a week because they had no other pathology.
You joined the hospital not long after the beginning of the crisis. Were there already a lot of sick people?
Yes, I joined the hospital in Piacenza on March 26; this town received most of its COVID patients around March 12 to 13. When I arrived, we were at the peak of the infection. Personally, I was in charge of about 100 patients — people in a medium state of emergency. I did not work in intensive care. Almost all of these patients were elderly, let’s say over 70 years old, suffering from multiple pathologies. I personally investigated the health history of these patients and found that almost all of them had been vaccinated against the flu.
Is this vaccine common in Italy?
In the north, yes. People are vaccinated more in the north than in the center and in the south. Knowing that the US. .military has observed adverse reactions to the administration of the flu vaccine, including respiratory problems with pneumonia, I asked the patients I personally cared for if they had received the flu vaccine. Almost all of them had indeed received it. As I said, this vaccine is very common in Lombardy. I suspect that it may have made things easier for COVID.
Among the 100 people I treated, I specifically noted a correspondence of age and pathologies. There were only three young people — born in 1983, 1985… — but they all suffered from another pathology. For example, one had a neoplasia (a tumor); another was on dialysis. That’s how I got an idea of the ability of SARS-COV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to hit people who were in a difficult situation for various reasons. The therapies that we applied at that time were hydroxychloroquine and anti-inflammatory drugs.
In your opinion, is hydroxychloroquine useful?
I think so. It’s more than a personal opinion: it’s an opinion I’ve formed from the medical literature. Meanwhile, other molecules such as Remdesivir have been used, even by [Italian former prime minister Silvio] Berlusconi. Colleagues who have tried this drug told me, while I was in Piacenza, that it did not seem to have a great effect.
Hydroxychloroquine seems to be effective. We’ve used it, but we’ll do a study retrospectively. My function was to treat people with this therapy, and I can’t express a medical judgment. But I think, judging from the international press, hydroxychloroquine, Plaquenil, was very, very effective.
What is your opinion now on the COVID crisis?
My impression is that the COVID situation has been exaggerated, in such a way that I can’t clearly understand the situation. The disease undoubtedly existed, and it still exists because the virus still exists, but the virus spread regardless of our measures, our lockdowns, our confinements. It has somehow weakened — that is to say, it no longer has the same pathogenic capacity that it had when it first spread in March.
Perhaps I’m going to say a heresy, but as many experts of all colors have said this, I think this is something I can say, too. I am just a pulmonologist, not a specialist in virology. But I make this simple reasoning: if the virus is no longer as strong as it was, if it is no longer capable of causing pathologies, then what is the problem of seeing it spread faster … ? I remember that a few months ago, many Italian virologists were ringing alarm bells against such and such a gathering, such and such a meeting, such and such a public festivity, for example after soccer matches. I’m thinking in particular of the one between Naples and the “Juve,” when Naples won the Italian Cup and thousands of people gathered to celebrate. They said: “You will see, after a month, how many fatal cases we will have!” And nothing happened.
We are in the hands of so-called scientists who tell us what is going to happen and who are then belied by the facts. I think they have objectives that elude us. Undoubtedly, the infection is spreading all over the world, but in my opinion, it has been exaggerated a little, a little inflated for reasons I can’t understand and that concern me.
Are they political reasons?
I don’t know. In Italy, there is a particular state of affairs, politically speaking, because our government is in a position of great weakness, and it keeps itself alive through this situation, infusing fear. Every day on the news on television, we get a bulletin of the infected, the sick, and the healed. It seems to me that we are the only country in Europe that airs a daily bulletin in this way. All the television channels have joined the terror in this sense. They wanted to impose face masks on all the children in the schools. In the end, it is only for children over six years old. But a surgical mask serves to stop the virus as a fence stops ants — that is, not at all. If, moreover, the virus has lost its pathological capacity, I really don’t understand anything at all. Certainly, let’s protect the people most at risk. These people, yes.
Something very important has happened in my opinion: you know that on April 1 of this year, Roberto Speranza, the minister of health, issued a circular in which he discouraged quite firmly the performance of autopsies?
I’d heard of that. So it’s true?
Yes. I read the entire ordinance — and it is worth reading. It discourages autopsies, almost totally preventing them, practically saying that only the Judiciary, in particular cases, can appropriately perform autopsies. As a result, not a single specialized doctor ventured to perform autopsies on COVID victims. These were performed only later, when the greatest harm had already been done. If they had been done in time, we would have realized that the bilateral interstitial pneumopathies that we were seeing in the hospital were the consequence of a vasculopathy, a disseminated vascular thrombosis. So we used the wrong therapy. We pumped oxygen into the lungs when we should have been giving anti-inflammatory drugs, cortisone and dexamethasone, for example, to block the inflammatory cascade. Today, that’s what we’re doing. In my opinion, but I’m just an ordinary man, the appropriate therapy could well be this one: cortisone from the start, and enoxaparin, which is a low molecular weight heparin, which is used to prevent thrombosis, not to solve it — for that there are other products. But to prevent thrombosis, you need a low molecular weight heparin.
Do you think the lockdown was helpful?
I think a lockdown limited to the most important areas — for instance, the whole of Lombardy was a red zone — would have been. But our leaders lost time, and they took stupid measures by banning autopsies. I do not believe that Italy or other countries were caught by surprise. I refuse to believe that, after the Chinese experience, the information services of the West did not inform our governments of the state of affairs. If we consider that on January 31, the Italian government declared a state of emergency, what was done before the emergency actually exploded? The hospitals I went to in Piacenza were totally unprepared. My fellow doctors were not even subjected to serological examinations or nasal tests. Many of them were ill.
It’s enough. I am a military man, even if I am retired. I say this: we are used to emergencies in military health activity, and we know that if there is a spread of virus, the first thing to do is not to cram the sick into one hospital where they will infect everybody: the whole hospital will be infected and will become a COVID hospital even for those who come for a tonsillectomy or an appendectomy, for knee surgery… This is how a highly contagious virus spreads. I must add, however, that the virus has been fatal only in certain situations, but also because of treatment errors due to the reasoning that was done at the beginning of the crisis.
All that was really needed was to put a small field hospital outside the hospital and properly select among the patients.
The whole thing seems strange and suspicious to me: why did so many things not work? They should have worked, and they could work. There is something wrong with this story.
Today contaminations are much less serious, but you need to wear face masks everywhere in Italy.
Yes, everywhere. We are obliged to comply because otherwise we have administrative problems, fines, especially for those in charge of commercial activities, their customers and guests of the different structures. The economic damage has been monstrous. So many families have been hit. I imagine these people, these poor people living on odd jobs: what has become of them? The situation is worrying, really. And all this for what?
A few days ago, the Corvelva association, a Swiss association that provides alternative information, published a directory of virologists who have collaborated with pharmaceutical laboratories and who have received funding from them. I did myself a little favor: I went to see the names of some of the virologists who repeatedly appear on Italian television — Galli, Pregliasco, Lopalco… They are all virologists who have had and still have economic relations with the pharmaceutical companies that produce vaccines. It’s not very pretty: they should at least say so. In itself, this is not reprehensible: I think that freedom is one of the most important things. But it includes the freedom to criticize, and even more so, the right to know for us users, ordinary citizens, whether the virologist who comes to pontificate every day on television has had economic relations with pharmaceutical companies, whether he has been paid, in short.
In France it is the same thing…
Of course. I collected the data — it was a bit tedious — and so I was able to establish that Lopalco, a virologist from the University of Pisa, politically committed alongside Emiliano who is the president of the Puglia region, and who pontificates all day on Facebook and on TV, was part of those virologists. I made a request to him on Facebook about the information that’s currently slowly spreading among the general population about virologists having interests with certain pharmaceutical laboratories that produce vaccines, saying it wouldn’t be a bad idea if he stated publicly that he hadn’t had any such relationship with these laboratories. He didn’t respond.
What do you think of the future COVID vaccine?
With the experience of those American soldiers who found themselves in a bad way… I myself was not against the use of vaccines, so much so that while I was serving at the military hospital in Livorno, when I was asked if I was a volunteer for an experimental hepatitis B vaccine, I answered positively, and I received that vaccine. But since I read and understood the results of a study that was published by Corvelva, from an Italian doctor, Dr. Bolgan, who published a film of about 15 minutes in which she gives information on the results obtained from an investigation into the components of this vaccine, I have been very worried. It is true that at the international level, there is an organization called AIFA, which is in charge of vaccine control at the European level. But as far as I know — and I may be wrong — it exercises its control after vaccination, and not on the components of the vaccines. As far as I know — but I can be mistaken — the States rely on the claims of the certifications made by the companies that produce the vaccines.
So these are self-certifications?
Yes, exactly. These are self-certifications that ensure that the vaccine is good, and the States administer it, taking into account precisely this self-certification.
After seeing Dr. Bolgan’s video, I was very concerned, and I can tell you I will not get vaccinated — especially since I’ve never done a flu shot. As a general practitioner, I have visited many people with the flu at home, some of whom had the courtesy of coughing directly into my face when I did a thoracic examination, but I never had the flu. By that I mean I have no predisposition. And I don’t have any other pathologies.
In any case, I have doubts, especially when it comes to imposing vaccines on children. In Italy this has been done since the 1970s by refusing school entry to those who are not vaccinated, but I’m not sure if this is a good thing.
I don’t want to make an anti-vaccine speech. But it’s too easy to say that if we hadn’t had a confinement, who knows how many deaths we would have had. We have no counter-evidence.
But just look at the example of Sweden, which has not had a lockdown, and whose death rate relative to the total population is similar to the rate we have here in Italy. We heard here on television: “Here in Italy, we are an example for the whole of Europe, for the whole world.” But it must be a negative example — for example, in that we refused to do autopsies.
What do you say about all this as a pneumologist?
I volunteered with the civil protection precisely because of my speciality, telling myself that perhaps I would be called upon in a second phase. In fact, I was part of the first contingent. I’m retired and a widower, and I thought, “Well, come what may.”
And have you been ill with COVID?
No. I did the swab at the end, as well as the blood test to see if I had antibodies — I hoped I had — but it was all negative. It’s true that you can only have a relative trust in these tests; they should at least be repeated to verify the first result.
Was the Italian population terrorized? Do they wear masks here because they don’t want to pay the fine or because they are afraid?
They are terrorized! We see a lot of people alone in cars wearing masks.
In Nice, France, masks are mandatory even for people alone in cars.
That’s madness.
Follow Jeanne Jeanne Smits has worked as a journalist in France since 1987 after obtaining a Master of Arts in Law. She formerly directed the French daily Présent and was editor-in-chief of an all-internet French-speaking news site called reinformation.tv. She writes regularly for a number of Catholic journals (Monde & vie, L’Homme nouveau, Reconquête…) and runs a personal pro-life blog. In addition, she is often invited to radio and TV shows on alternative media. She is vice-president of the Christian and French defense association “AGRIF.” She is the French translator of The Dictator Pope by Henry Sire and Christus Vincit by Bishop Schneider, and recently contributed to the Bref examen critique de la communion dans la main about Communion in the hand. She is married and has three children, and lives near Paris.
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lifesitenews--2020-09-30--Declassified docs show Obama admin knew of Hillary Clinton Russian dealings

WASHINGTON , D.C. , September 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Newly declassified documents indicate that the Obama administration knew of a Russian intelligence report alleging that Hillary Clinton okayed a manufactured scandal that linked Donald Trump to Russia .
Documents concerning the Russian intelligence were declassified by director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe yesterday and described in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham ( R-S.C. ) .
In his letter , Ratcliffe revealed that in July 2016 , U.S. intelligence discovered Russian intelligence analysis “ alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by [ Russian president Vladimir ] Putin and the Russians ’ hacking of the Democratic National Conference.
” Ratcliffe also disclosed that the director of the CIA had briefed then-president Barack Obama and “ other senior national security officials ” on the Russian allegations .
One allegation involved “ approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26 , 2016 , of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.
” According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , American intelligence officials forwarded information to the FBI director James Comey and to the deputy assistant director of counterintelligence , Peter Strzok , regarding Clinton ’ s alleged approval of a plan to link Trump to “ Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections ” so as to distract from the scandal of her “ use of a private email server.
” Ratcliffe stressed that the Intelligence Community does not know of the “ accuracy ” of the Russian intelligence information and suggested that it might “ reflect exaggeration or fabrication.
” The letter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publicly available the same day , right before the presidential candidate debates between President Trump and his challenger , Joe Biden .
In January 2017 , left-wing BuzzFeed News published an unverified and sometimes proven unfactual report , now known as the Steele Dossier , claiming that the Russian government had been “ cultivating , supporting , and assisting ” Donald Trump for “ at least five years ” before his election as president .
The document also alleged that the Russians had compromising material on both Trump and his then–rival presidential candidate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kremlin was behind the appearance of “ embarrassing ” Democratic National Committee emails on the WikiLeaks platform .
The dossier claimed that in return for this hacking , the “ Trump team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue ” and otherwise “ to deflect attention away from Ukraine.
” Mainstream media criticized BuzzFeed News harshly for publishing the unsubstantiated and libelous report .
However , the dossier led to a federal investigation into President Trump ’ s ties to Russia .
The president has always denied the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Twitter called it “ a total phony conjob ... paid for by Crooked Hillary to damage me and the Trump Campaign.
” According to the New Yorker magazine , the private investigative company that carried out the research in the dossier , former British spy Chris Steele ’ s Orbis Business Intelligence , was “ jointly subsidized by the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C .
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The newly available documents detail a plan to link Trump to 'Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections' so as to distract from the scandal of Hillary Clinton's 'use of a private email server.'
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Newly declassified documents indicate that the Obama administration knew of a Russian intelligence report alleging that Hillary Clinton okayed a manufactured scandal that linked Donald Trump to Russia.
Documents concerning the Russian intelligence were declassified by director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe yesterday and described in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
In his letter, Ratcliffe revealed that in July 2016, U.S. intelligence discovered Russian intelligence analysis “alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by [Russian president Vladimir] Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Conference.”
Ratcliffe also disclosed that the director of the CIA had briefed then-president Barack Obama and “other senior national security officials” on the Russian allegations. One allegation involved “approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”
According to Ratcliffe’s letter, that September, American intelligence officials forwarded information to the FBI director James Comey and to the deputy assistant director of counterintelligence, Peter Strzok, regarding Clinton’s alleged approval of a plan to link Trump to “Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections” so as to distract from the scandal of her “use of a private email server.”
Ratcliffe stressed that the Intelligence Community does not know of the “accuracy” of the Russian intelligence information and suggested that it might “reflect exaggeration or fabrication.”
The letter, dated September 29, was made publicly available the same day, right before the presidential candidate debates between President Trump and his challenger, Joe Biden.
In January 2017, left-wing BuzzFeed News published an unverified and sometimes proven unfactual report, now known as the Steele Dossier, claiming that the Russian government had been “cultivating, supporting, and assisting” Donald Trump for “at least five years” before his election as president.
The document also alleged that the Russians had compromising material on both Trump and his then–rival presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. It claimed that the Kremlin was behind the appearance of “embarrassing” Democratic National Committee emails on the WikiLeaks platform. The dossier claimed that in return for this hacking, the “Trump team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue” and otherwise “to deflect attention away from Ukraine.”
Mainstream media criticized BuzzFeed News harshly for publishing the unsubstantiated and libelous report. However, the dossier led to a federal investigation into President Trump’s ties to Russia. The president has always denied the allegations in the Steele Dossier and on Twitter called it “a total phony conjob … paid for by Crooked Hillary to damage me and the Trump Campaign.”
According to the New Yorker magazine, the private investigative company that carried out the research in the dossier, former British spy Chris Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence, was “jointly subsidized by the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C.”
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lifesitenews--2020-09-30--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

September 30 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to pray @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 address @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
Join us today !
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this rosary , you can access them via this PDF .
This document also includes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ daily rosary on LifeSite led by Fr .
Pillari .

(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
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
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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