thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-08--Muslims Eyeing Congressional Run In 2020

Nearly 2 decades after 9/11 , Muslims in the US are apparently so protected and emboldened that they are running for Congress like never before .
That ’ s right , those of the antichrist religion of Islam ( Read 1 & 2 John to find out who and what an antichrist is ) are seeking seats in our federal government .
We have reported over the past few years of a multitude of Muslims running and winning political office , including becoming judges .
• A List Of Muslims Running For Office In 2020 By State • As We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Amendment Stance Of Muslims Who Ran For Office In 2018 & Beware Those Running This Time • 18 Years After 9/11 , Muslim Organizations Have Goal Of 5,000 Muslims Running For Office In 2020 • Muslims Emboldened : List Of Islamists Looking To “ Represent ” You in 2020 ( Updated ) With that said , our friend Deplorable Kel has compiled a list of Muslims running for Congress this election season .
Shahid Buttar is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in California ’ s 12th Congressional district .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was born to Pakistani immigrants in the U.K. and later came to the U.S. Buttar is anti-President Trump and claims that Pelosi is too soft of President Trump .
He also claims that Pelosi is not progressive enough to represent San Francisco .
Buttar recently advanced from the primary election and will face Nancy Pelosi in the general election on Nov. 3rd 2020 .
Alp Basaran is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New Jersey ’ s 9th congressional district .
According to reports , Basaran , born in Turkey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was four years-old and became an undocumented immigrant after overstaying his visa .
Basaran and his mother were sent back to Turkey , while his dad remained in the U.S. Four and a half years later , Basaran received his green card and moved back to the U.S. Basaran is anti-President Trump and claims that the idea of the America Dream has been distorted since Donald Trump was elected .
Basaran claims that Trump ’ s policies have exacerbated racism , xenophobia , misogyny and divisions among Americans .
If elected , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Turkish-American in Congress but the third formerly undocumented American and fifth Muslim .
The Democratic primary election is scheduled on July 7 , 2020 .
Solomon Rajput is challenging U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell in Michigan ’ s 12th congressional district .
Rajput is a self-described progressive and the son of Pakistani immigrants .
Rajput supports The Green New Deal , Tuition-Free College & Canceling Student Debt and Medicare for All .
Rajput supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 , but after Sanders lost the primary election , Rajput became a field organizer for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hillary Clinton in the general election , Rajput founded an activist organization called Michigan Resistance .
Rajput recently released a campaign video on Facebook saying , “ We ’ re done waiting , it ’ s our turn now.
” The Democratic primary election is scheduled on August 4 , 2020 .
Badrun Nahar Khan is a Democratic candidate running for U.S. House of Representatives in New York ’ s 14th Congressional District .
Khan , the daughter of Bengali born parents , is challenging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her seat in Congress .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ her supporters that she is running to represent Bangladeshi American ’ s in Congress .
Khan went onto say she hopes to one day see a Bangladeshi American as President .
She also told her supporters that it was time for the Bangladeshi community to rise and shine , change Congress and make new laws .
The Democratic primary election is scheduled on June 23 , 2020 .
UPDATE : Khan was defeated in the Democratic primary election .
Nabilah Islam is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a 29-year-old muslim woman , is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants .
Islam worked as the Deputy Southern States Finance Director for Hillary for America , she served as the Finance Director for the Florida Democratic Party .
Islam is endorsed by Occupy Democrats .
The Democratic primary election is on May 19 , 2020 .
UPDATE : Islam was defeated in the Democratic primary election .
Rashid Malik is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia ’ s 7th Congressional District .
Malik is a muslim man who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He came to the United States in 1979 .
In several Facebook posts , Malik calls on muslims to “ come forward ” and “ rebuild OUR America ” and asks his fellow muslims , “ What are we afraid of ?
” Malik is a Hillary Clinton supporter .
According to Malik ’ s website , his top priorities are Medicare for All , Minimum Wage , Green New Deal , Corporate Tax Reform , Prison System Reform , Tuition Free College , Gun Safety , Jobs , Women ’ s Rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it states : “ We should have common-sense gun laws in place .
We need universal background check , genetic test , psychological test and training for anyone who wants to keep guns with a permit .
But no Guns for Mass Murdering should be allowed in the hands of common citizens.
” The Democratic primary election is on May 19 , 2020 .
UPDATE : Malik was defeated in the Democratic primary election .
Imtiaz Ahmad Mohammad is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida ‘ s 22nd Congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Pakistan who came to the United States in 1991 .
Mohammad only became a U.S. citizen about five years ago .
Mohammad is the publisher of the “ Asian Times , ” a monthly magazine focused on South Asians living in the United States .
Mohammad is the founder of American Muslim Progressive Caucus .
Mohammad is “ in support of universal background checks and a ban on assault-style , semi-automatic weapons , bump stocks , and high capacity magazines for civilian use.
” Mohammad has also stated that he wants to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Law .
The Democratic primary election is on August 18th 2020 .
UPDATE : Mohammad suspended his campaign for Congress .
Shaniyat Chowdhury is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New York ’ s 5th Congressional District .
Chowdhury , a muslim born in Queens to Bangladeshi parents , claims that he is “ more American than Trump could ever be.
” Chowdhury was a staffer and lead organizer on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ’ s congressional campaign .
He says that he was inspired by his friend AOC .
Like Ocasio-Cortez @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Democratic Socialists of America .
The Democratic primary election is on June 23 , 2020 .
UPDATE : Chowdhury was defeated in the Democratic primary election .
Saafir Rabb is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Maryland ’ s 7th Congressional District .
Rabb says he “ will bring a strong voice to DC to advocate for job creation , affordable housing , unemployment insurance , quality education , and gun control.
” Rabb served as an advisor to President Barack Obama ’ s transition team and is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Black Excellence and Words Beats and Life .
The Democratic primary election is on April 28 , 2020 .
UPDATE : Rabb was defeated in the Democratic primary election .
Dalia Al-Aqidi is a Republican candidate challenging Ilhan Omar for Minnesota ’ s 5th Congressional seat in the 2020 election .
Al-Aqidi , like Omar , is a former refugee .
Al-Aqidi is from Iraq , while Omar is from Somalia .
Also like Omar , Al-Aqidi is muslim and proud of her faith .
According to Fox News , Al-Aqidi has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including as a White House correspondent for Alhurra , a U.S.-based Arabic channel that airs in the Middle East .
The Republican primary is on August 11 2020 .
Leila Shukri Adan is a Democratic candidate challenging Ilhan Omar for Minnesota ’ s 5th Congressional seat .
Adan is a Somali immigrant who came to the U.S. 20 years ago .
She refers to herself as a progressive Democrat .
Qasim Rashid is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia ’ s 1st C ongressional District .
Rashid is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Rashid ’ s Facebook page , Tim Kaine is his old law school professor .
Not only was Kaine his professor , but they have remained friends .
Rashid ran for Virginia State Senate in 2019 but was defeated in the general election .
During his run for State Senate , Rashid was endorsed by Emgage Action , a political organization aimed at getting muslims elected in the U.S .
The Democratic primary election is on June 23rd 2020 .
Ihssane leckey is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a muslim immigrant from Morocco .
The primary election is on September 1st 2020 .
Iman-Utopia Layjou Bah is an Independent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona ’ s 2nd Congressional District .
The election is November 3rd 2020 .
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New Jersey ’ s 6th Congressional District .
Al-Khatahtbeh , is the founder of Muslimgirl.com .
Her campaign platform prioritizes progressive causes , including Medicare for All , the Green New Deal , student loan cancellation , tuition-free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a federal $ 15 minimum wage .
The primary election is on July 7th 2020 .
Andre Carson is running for re-election to U.S. House of Representatives in Indiana ’ s 7th Congressional District .
The Democratic primary on June 2 , 2020 .
Rashida Tlaib is running for re-election to U.S House of Representatives in Michigan ’ s 13th Congressional District .
Ilhan Omar is running for re-election to U.S House of Representatives in Minnesota ’ s 5th Congressional District .
Muslim Congressional candidates that were defeated in the 2020 primary election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Matthews was a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois ’ 1st Congressional District .
Matthews was defeated in the Democratic primary election on March 17 , 2020 .
Rush Darwish was a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois ’ 3rd Congressional District .
Darwish was defeated in the Democratic primary election on March 17th 2020 .
Ahmad Adnan was a Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas .
Adnan was defeated in the Republican primary on March 3 , 2020 .
Imran Khan was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Texas ’ 6th Congressional District .
He withdrew before the Democratic primary on March 3 , 2020 .
Nasir Shaikh was a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina ’ s 4th Congressional District .
Shaikh was defeated in the Republican primary on March 3 , 2020 .
Aisha Wahab was a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in California ‘ s 15th Congressional District .
Wahab suspended her campaign .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

Nearly 2 decades after 9/11, Muslims in the US are apparently so protected and emboldened that they are running for Congress like never before. That’s right, those of the antichrist religion of Islam (Read 1 & 2 John to find out who and what an antichrist is) are seeking seats in our federal government.
We have reported over the past few years of a multitude of Muslims running and winning political office, including becoming judges.
With that said, our friend Deplorable Kel has compiled a list of Muslims running for Congress this election season.
Shahid Buttar is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 12th Congressional district. He is running against Nancy Pelosi. Buttar was born to Pakistani immigrants in the U.K. and later came to the U.S. Buttar is anti-President Trump and claims that Pelosi is too soft of President Trump. He also claims that Pelosi is not progressive enough to represent San Francisco. Buttar recently advanced from the primary election and will face Nancy Pelosi in the general election on Nov. 3rd 2020.
Alp Basaran is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 9th congressional district. According to reports, Basaran, born in Turkey, came to the United States when he was four years-old and became an undocumented immigrant after overstaying his visa. Basaran and his mother were sent back to Turkey, while his dad remained in the U.S. Four and a half years later, Basaran received his green card and moved back to the U.S. Basaran is anti-President Trump and claims that the idea of the America Dream has been distorted since Donald Trump was elected. Basaran claims that Trump’s policies have exacerbated racism, xenophobia, misogyny and divisions among Americans. If elected, Basaran would not only be the first Turkish-American in Congress but the third formerly undocumented American and fifth Muslim. The Democratic primary election is scheduled on July 7, 2020.
Solomon Rajput is challenging U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell in Michigan’s 12th congressional district. Rajput is a self-described progressive and the son of Pakistani immigrants. Rajput supports The Green New Deal, Tuition-Free College & Canceling Student Debt and Medicare for All. Rajput supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016, but after Sanders lost the primary election, Rajput became a field organizer for Hillary Clinton. After Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the general election, Rajput founded an activist organization called Michigan Resistance. Rajput recently released a campaign video on Facebook saying, “We’re done waiting, it’s our turn now.” The Democratic primary election is scheduled on August 4, 2020.
Badrun Nahar Khan is a Democratic candidate running for U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 14th Congressional District. Khan, the daughter of Bengali born parents, is challenging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her seat in Congress. During a recent speech, Khan told her supporters that she is running to represent Bangladeshi American’s in Congress. Khan went onto say she hopes to one day see a Bangladeshi American as President. She also told her supporters that it was time for the Bangladeshi community to rise and shine, change Congress and make new laws. The Democratic primary election is scheduled on June 23, 2020. UPDATE: Khan was defeated in the Democratic primary election.
Nabilah Islam is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District. Islam, a 29-year-old muslim woman, is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants. Islam worked as the Deputy Southern States Finance Director for Hillary for America, she served as the Finance Director for the Florida Democratic Party. Islam is endorsed by Occupy Democrats. The Democratic primary election is on May 19, 2020. UPDATE: Islam was defeated in the Democratic primary election.
Rashid Malik is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District. Malik is a muslim man who was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He came to the United States in 1979. In several Facebook posts, Malik calls on muslims to “come forward” and “rebuild OUR America” and asks his fellow muslims, “What are we afraid of?” Malik is a Hillary Clinton supporter. According to Malik’s website, his top priorities are Medicare for All, Minimum Wage, Green New Deal, Corporate Tax Reform, Prison System Reform, Tuition Free College, Gun Safety, Jobs, Women’s Rights. On Malik’s website, it states: “We should have common-sense gun laws in place. We need universal background check, genetic test, psychological test and training for anyone who wants to keep guns with a permit. But no Guns for Mass Murdering should be allowed in the hands of common citizens.” The Democratic primary election is on May 19, 2020. UPDATE: Malik was defeated in the Democratic primary election.
Imtiaz Ahmad Mohammad is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida‘s 22nd Congressional District. Mohammad is a muslim immigrant from Pakistan who came to the United States in 1991. Mohammad only became a U.S. citizen about five years ago. Mohammad is the publisher of the “Asian Times,” a monthly magazine focused on South Asians living in the United States. Mohammad is the founder of American Muslim Progressive Caucus. Mohammad is “in support of universal background checks and a ban on assault-style, semi-automatic weapons, bump stocks, and high capacity magazines for civilian use.” Mohammad has also stated that he wants to repeal Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law. The Democratic primary election is on August 18th 2020. UPDATE: Mohammad suspended his campaign for Congress.
Shaniyat Chowdhury is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 5th Congressional District. Chowdhury, a muslim born in Queens to Bangladeshi parents, claims that he is “more American than Trump could ever be.” Chowdhury was a staffer and lead organizer on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign. He says that he was inspired by his friend AOC. Like Ocasio-Cortez, Chowdhury is a bartender and member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The Democratic primary election is on June 23, 2020. UPDATE: Chowdhury was defeated in the Democratic primary election.
Saafir Rabb is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. Rabb says he “will bring a strong voice to DC to advocate for job creation, affordable housing, unemployment insurance, quality education, and gun control.” Rabb served as an advisor to President Barack Obama’s transition team and is currently a board member with the Coalition for Black Excellence and Words Beats and Life. The Democratic primary election is on April 28, 2020. UPDATE: Rabb was defeated in the Democratic primary election.
Dalia Al-Aqidi is a Republican candidate challenging Ilhan Omar for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional seat in the 2020 election. Al-Aqidi, like Omar, is a former refugee. Al-Aqidi is from Iraq, while Omar is from Somalia. Also like Omar, Al-Aqidi is muslim and proud of her faith. According to Fox News, Al-Aqidi has 31 years of experience as a journalist, including as a White House correspondent for Alhurra, a U.S.-based Arabic channel that airs in the Middle East. The Republican primary is on August 11 2020.
Leila Shukri Adan is a Democratic candidate challenging Ilhan Omar for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional seat. Adan is a Somali immigrant who came to the U.S. 20 years ago. She refers to herself as a progressive Democrat.
Qasim Rashid is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 1st C ongressional District. Rashid is a muslim immigrant from Pakistan. According to Rashid’s Facebook page, Tim Kaine is his old law school professor. Not only was Kaine his professor, but they have remained friends. Rashid ran for Virginia State Senate in 2019 but was defeated in the general election. During his run for State Senate, Rashid was endorsed by Emgage Action, a political organization aimed at getting muslims elected in the U.S. The Democratic primary election is on June 23rd 2020.
Ihssane leckey is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District. Leckey is a muslim immigrant from Morocco. The primary election is on September 1st 2020.
Iman-Utopia Layjou Bah is an Independent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. The election is November 3rd 2020.
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District. Al-Khatahtbeh, is the founder of Muslimgirl.com. Her campaign platform prioritizes progressive causes, including Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, student loan cancellation, tuition-free public universities, criminal justice reform and a federal $15 minimum wage. The primary election is on July 7th 2020.
Muslim Congressional candidates running for re-election in 2020:
Andre Carson is running for re-election to U.S. House of Representatives in Indiana’s 7th Congressional District. The Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
Rashida Tlaib is running for re-election to U.S House of Representatives in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District.
Ilhan Omar is running for re-election to U.S House of Representatives in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.
Muslim Congressional candidates that were defeated in the 2020 primary election or withdrew from the race:
Ameena Matthews was a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 1st Congressional District. Matthews was defeated in the Democratic primary election on March 17, 2020.
Rush Darwish was a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. Darwish was defeated in the Democratic primary election on March 17th 2020.
Ahmad Adnan was a Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas. Adnan was defeated in the Republican primary on March 3, 2020.
Imran Khan was a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 6th Congressional District. He withdrew before the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020.
Nasir Shaikh was a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. Shaikh was defeated in the Republican primary on March 3, 2020.
Aisha Wahab was a Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in California‘s 15th Congressional District. Wahab suspended her campaign.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-08--“Mystery Explosions” Inside Iran: Next Big Middle East War About To Begin?

Over the past several weeks , a series of “ mystery explosions ” has happened at very strategically sensitive locations inside Iran , and it has become obvious that what we are witnessing is not just a bunch of random accidents .
For years , the Israeli government has pledged that the Iranians will never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons , and several of the sites where the mystery explosions have taken place have direct connections to Iran ’ s nuclear program .
For example , there was a very large explosion at Iran ’ s Natanz uranium enrichment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is being reported that some officials believe that this explosion was caused by a “ powerful bomb ” .
The following comes from the Jerusalem Post… Israel was behind an explosion and fire at Iran ’ s Natanz nuclear complex caused by a “ powerful bomb , ” a Middle Eastern intelligence official with knowledge of the incident told The New York Times on Monday .
A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps confirmed to the Times that an explosive was used in the incident as well .
Both officials spoke on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there have been several other “ mystery explosions ” as well , and there is speculation that “ computer viruses similar to the Stuxnet virus ” may have been involved in at least some of the blasts… Five recent explosions in Iran may have been caused by computer viruses similar to the Stuxnet virus that disabled Iranian centrifuges in 2010 .
Two of the blasts took place at power plants , one at a missile research , development and production site , one at a new uranium enrichment centrifuge center , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of the attacks ) in downtown Tehran at a medical facility that could have been a cover for nuclear operations such as a hidden command center .
It has become clear that the Trump administration does not intend to take military action to stop Iran ’ s nuclear program , so the Israeli government has been forced into a position where it must make a very tough choice .
Either Israel must be willing to accept Iran as a nuclear power or Israel must do something to stop it from happening .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ confirmed that the “ industrial shed ” that was destroyed during the explosion at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility “ was in fact a new site for assembling centrifuges ” , and that would definitely be a logical target for the Israelis to hit .
When asked about the “ mystery explosions ” , the following is what Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz had to say about them… Obviously , that is not a denial .
Meanwhile , it is also being reported that the Mossad has “ thwarted a series of planned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Iranians are becoming increasingly frustrated by the success of Israeli covert operations , and they want to find ways to strike back .
Embassies are typically easy targets , but thankfully the Mossad has apparently been one step ahead of all Iranian efforts to target embassies so far .
Needless to say , all of this is happening at a time when tensions in the entire region are rapidly coming to a boil .
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps insisting that he is about to move forward with his plan to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and if that happens there will inevitably be a violent response by the Palestinians .
In fact , the Times of Israel is reporting that “ Fatah and Hamas are in agreement that there should be a popular uprising if the controversial plan goes ahead ” … And the truth is that rocket fire has already started .
On Sunday , Israeli planes hit targets in the Gaza Strip after “ a barrage of rocket fire into southern Israel ” … Israeli aircraft struck targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Israel .
No casualties were reported on either side .
In a statement , the Israeli military said attack helicopters and fighter jets struck “ underground infrastructure ” belonging to Gaza ’ s ruling Hamas terrorist group .
Earlier Sunday , the army said three rockets were fired by Gaza terrorists toward Israel , setting off air-raid sirens .
It said one of the rockets was intercepted by Israel ’ s Iron Dome air defense system ; according to Channel 12 TV the other two landed in open areas .
There was no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fire .
A number of armed terrorist groups operate in Gaza .
The bottom line is that the Middle East has been on the precipice of a major war for years , and it certainly isn ’ t going to take much to push things over the edge .
If the Iranians do not stop their nuclear program , the Israelis are going to continue to hit them , and that will eventually spark a war .
And if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes ahead with his plan to annex portions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certain to spark a war too .
We have reached such a critical moment , and it appears to be just a matter of time before a great conflict erupts .

Over the past several weeks, a series of “mystery explosions” has happened at very strategically sensitive locations inside Iran, and it has become obvious that what we are witnessing is not just a bunch of random accidents. For years, the Israeli government has pledged that the Iranians will never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, and several of the sites where the mystery explosions have taken place have direct connections to Iran’s nuclear program. For example, there was a very large explosion at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility on July 2nd, and it is being reported that some officials believe that this explosion was caused by a “powerful bomb”. The following comes from the Jerusalem Post…
Israel was behind an explosion and fire at Iran’s Natanz nuclear complex caused by a “powerful bomb,” a Middle Eastern intelligence official with knowledge of the incident told The New York Times on Monday. A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps confirmed to the Times that an explosive was used in the incident as well. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
Of course, there have been several other “mystery explosions” as well, and there is speculation that “computer viruses similar to the Stuxnet virus” may have been involved in at least some of the blasts…
Five recent explosions in Iran may have been caused by computer viruses similar to the Stuxnet virus that disabled Iranian centrifuges in 2010. Two of the blasts took place at power plants, one at a missile research, development and production site, one at a new uranium enrichment centrifuge center, and the last (if it can be considered part of the attacks) in downtown Tehran at a medical facility that could have been a cover for nuclear operations such as a hidden command center.
It has become clear that the Trump administration does not intend to take military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program, so the Israeli government has been forced into a position where it must make a very tough choice. Either Israel must be willing to accept Iran as a nuclear power or Israel must do something to stop it from happening.
At this point, it has been confirmed that the “industrial shed” that was destroyed during the explosion at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility “was in fact a new site for assembling centrifuges”, and that would definitely be a logical target for the Israelis to hit.
When asked about the “mystery explosions”, the following is what Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz had to say about them…
When Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was asked if Israel had anything to do with “mysterious explosions,” he reportedly told Israel Radio: “Not every incident that transpires in Iran necessarily has something to do with us.” “All those systems are complex, they have very high safety constraints and I’m not sure they always know how to maintain them,” he said, according to Reuters.
Obviously, that is not a denial.
Meanwhile, it is also being reported that the Mossad has “thwarted a series of planned Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies”…
Israeli spy agency Mossad claims it has recently thwarted a series of planned Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies around the world. The intelligence bureau has halted ‘terrorist’ plans in Europe and elsewhere, according to a report by Hebrew-language broadcaster Channel 12 which said that Israel’s arch-enemy Iran was behind the plots.
The Iranians are becoming increasingly frustrated by the success of Israeli covert operations, and they want to find ways to strike back. Embassies are typically easy targets, but thankfully the Mossad has apparently been one step ahead of all Iranian efforts to target embassies so far.
Needless to say, all of this is happening at a time when tensions in the entire region are rapidly coming to a boil.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps insisting that he is about to move forward with his plan to annex portions of Judea and Samaria, and if that happens there will inevitably be a violent response by the Palestinians.
In fact, the Times of Israel is reporting that “Fatah and Hamas are in agreement that there should be a popular uprising if the controversial plan goes ahead”…
An adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned Saturday there was a possibility of a third intifada if the Israeli government goes ahead with its plan to annex parts of the West Bank. The Kan public broadcaster reported that Nabil Shaath told the Arabic-language arm of the France 24 network that Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas are in agreement that there should be a popular uprising if the controversial plan goes ahead.
And the truth is that rocket fire has already started. On Sunday, Israeli planes hit targets in the Gaza Strip after “a barrage of rocket fire into southern Israel”…
Israeli aircraft struck targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday following a barrage of rocket fire into southern Israel. No casualties were reported on either side. In a statement, the Israeli military said attack helicopters and fighter jets struck “underground infrastructure” belonging to Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist group. Earlier Sunday, the army said three rockets were fired by Gaza terrorists toward Israel, setting off air-raid sirens. It said one of the rockets was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system; according to Channel 12 TV the other two landed in open areas. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket fire. A number of armed terrorist groups operate in Gaza.
The bottom line is that the Middle East has been on the precipice of a major war for years, and it certainly isn’t going to take much to push things over the edge.
If the Iranians do not stop their nuclear program, the Israelis are going to continue to hit them, and that will eventually spark a war.
And if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes ahead with his plan to annex portions of Judea and Samaria, that is almost certain to spark a war too.
We have reached such a critical moment, and it appears to be just a matter of time before a great conflict erupts.
Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-08--US Economy Hasn’t Experienced Anything Like This Since Great Depression Of 1930s

The recession of 2008 and 2009 was bad , but it was nothing like this .
Even though this new economic downturn is only a few months old , we are already seeing numbers that we haven ’ t seen since the worst parts of the Great Depression of the 1930s .
More than 48 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the past 15 weeks , well over 100,000 businesses have permanently closed their doors , and civil unrest has turned quite a few of our major cities into war zones .
But not all areas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For example , there are rural areas that haven ’ t really seen a lot of COVID-19 cases where life seems to have changed very little from six months ago .
On the other hand , some urban areas that have been hit really hard by COVID-19 have been absolutely devastated economically .
For example , the New York Times is reporting that a million jobs have been lost in New York City , and the unemployment rate for NYC “ is hovering near 20 percent ” … We are going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Great Depression ” a lot in the coming months .
Fear of COVID-19 is going to paralyze our economy for the foreseeable future , and all of this fear is hitting some companies more severely than others .
On Tuesday , Levi Strauss announced that sales were down a whopping 62 percent during the second quarter… If Levi Strauss expected this to be just a temporary setback , they would probably try to keep all of their employees on board .
But instead , they apparently believe that hard times are here to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eliminate “ about 700 jobs ” … Of course , a whole lot of other companies are laying off workers right now too .
Another 1.427 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week , and that is an absolutely catastrophic number .
Prior to 2020 , the worst week in all of U.S. history for new unemployment claims was in 1982 when 695,000 unemployed workers filed in a single week .
So what we are witnessing right now is nothing short of a “ tsunami of job losses ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the jobs that have been lost “ are never coming back ” … I couldn ’ t have said it better myself .
Since most Americans were living paycheck to paycheck before this pandemic erupted , millions of unemployed workers have found themselves in desperate need very suddenly .
I have written numerous articles about the massive lines that we have been witnessing at food banks around the nation , and we just witnessed another two-mile-long line at a food bank in Florida… This is not what a “ recovery ” looks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sectors of the economy , the numbers are rapidly getting a lot worse .
For instance , just check out what CNBC is reporting… And Fitch Ratings is warning that these numbers are going to get far worse in the months ahead .
I have said this before , and I will say it again .
We are on the verge of the biggest commercial mortgage meltdown in the history of the United States .
Countless restaurants and retailers are getting way behind on their rent payments , and as a result , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it increasingly difficult to make their mortgage payments .
The dominoes are starting to fall , and this is going to get really , really messy as we head into 2021 and beyond .
Of course , the same thing could be said for the U.S. economy as a whole .
I know that I haven ’ t been posting quite as often the last couple of weeks , and that is because I have been finishing my new book .
It is not too far from being completed , and it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that I have written so far .
We are right on the precipice of the most chaotic chapter in all of American history , and a collapsing economy is just going to be one element of “ the perfect storm ” that we are facing .
So please use the summer months to get prepared for what is ahead , because even though things are bad right now , the truth is that we have only experienced the leading edge of “ the perfect storm ” so far .

The recession of 2008 and 2009 was bad, but it was nothing like this. Even though this new economic downturn is only a few months old, we are already seeing numbers that we haven’t seen since the worst parts of the Great Depression of the 1930s. More than 48 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the past 15 weeks, well over 100,000 businesses have permanently closed their doors, and civil unrest has turned quite a few of our major cities into war zones. But not all areas of the country are being affected equally. For example, there are rural areas that haven’t really seen a lot of COVID-19 cases where life seems to have changed very little from six months ago. On the other hand, some urban areas that have been hit really hard by COVID-19 have been absolutely devastated economically. For example, the New York Times is reporting that a million jobs have been lost in New York City, and the unemployment rate for NYC “is hovering near 20 percent”…
The city is staggering toward reopening with some workers back at their desks or behind cash registers, and on Monday, it began a new phase, allowing personal-care services like nail salons and some outdoor recreation to resume. Even so, the city’s unemployment rate is hovering near 20 percent — a figure not seen since the Great Depression.
We are going to be using the phrase “since the Great Depression” a lot in the coming months.
Fear of COVID-19 is going to paralyze our economy for the foreseeable future, and all of this fear is hitting some companies more severely than others. On Tuesday, Levi Strauss announced that sales were down a whopping 62 percent during the second quarter…
The denim maker Levi Strauss & Co.’s sales fell 62% during its fiscal second quarter, the company announced Tuesday, as its online sales weren’t enough to make up for its stores being temporarily shut for roughly 10 weeks during the Covid-19 crisis.
If Levi Strauss expected this to be just a temporary setback, they would probably try to keep all of their employees on board.
But instead, they apparently believe that hard times are here to stay and they have just decided to eliminate “about 700 jobs”…
Levi’s also announced it will be slashing about 15% of its global corporate workforce, impacting about 700 jobs, in a bid to cut costs during the coronavirus pandemic. It said the move should generate annualized savings for Levi’s of $100 million.
Of course, a whole lot of other companies are laying off workers right now too. Another 1.427 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, and that is an absolutely catastrophic number. Prior to 2020, the worst week in all of U.S. history for new unemployment claims was in 1982 when 695,000 unemployed workers filed in a single week. So what we are witnessing right now is nothing short of a “tsunami of job losses”, and even CNN is admitting that millions of the jobs that have been lost “are never coming back”…
The American economy’s unprecedented jobs rebound masks a difficult truth: For millions of people, the jobs they lost are never coming back. “It’s clear that the pandemic is doing some fundamental damage to the job market,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics. “A lot of the jobs lost aren’t coming back any time soon. The idea that the economy is going to snap back to where it was before the pandemic is clearly not going to happen.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Since most Americans were living paycheck to paycheck before this pandemic erupted, millions of unemployed workers have found themselves in desperate need very suddenly. I have written numerous articles about the massive lines that we have been witnessing at food banks around the nation, and we just witnessed another two-mile-long line at a food bank in Florida…
More than 700 cars were seen waiting in a two-mile long food bank line in Florida as the US grapples with nearly half of Americans being unemployed amid a spike in new coronavirus cases that has sparked fears of more shut downs and lay-offs. Sunrise Assistant Leisure Services Director Maria Little, who was put in charge of food distribution for the city when the coronavirus hit the US in March, said her group served about 720 cars in Miami on Wednesday.
This is not what a “recovery” looks like.
In fact, for certain sectors of the economy, the numbers are rapidly getting a lot worse. For instance, just check out what CNBC is reporting…
Delinquencies in commercial mortgage-backed securities last month had their largest one-month surge since Fitch Ratings began tracking the metric nearly 16 years ago. The delinquency rate hit 3.59% in June, an increase from 1.46% in May. New delinquencies totaled $10.8 billion in June, raising the total delinquent pool to $17.2 billion.
And Fitch Ratings is warning that these numbers are going to get far worse in the months ahead.
And this is just the beginning. Fitch analysts are projecting that the impact from the coronavirus pandemic will drive the delinquency rate to between 8.25% and 8.75% by the end of the third quarter of this year.
I have said this before, and I will say it again.
We are on the verge of the biggest commercial mortgage meltdown in the history of the United States.
Countless restaurants and retailers are getting way behind on their rent payments, and as a result, many owners of commercial property are finding it increasingly difficult to make their mortgage payments.
The dominoes are starting to fall, and this is going to get really, really messy as we head into 2021 and beyond.
Of course, the same thing could be said for the U.S. economy as a whole.
I know that I haven’t been posting quite as often the last couple of weeks, and that is because I have been finishing my new book. It is not too far from being completed, and it is going to be the most important thing that I have written so far.
We are right on the precipice of the most chaotic chapter in all of American history, and a collapsing economy is just going to be one element of “the perfect storm” that we are facing.
So please use the summer months to get prepared for what is ahead, because even though things are bad right now, the truth is that we have only experienced the leading edge of “the perfect storm” so far.
Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-08--Jihad-Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” Of America’s “Economy & Political Systems”

The Democrats are dangerous and they hate the United States .
They will work to transform this country if they take power in November .
Joe Biden will appease folks such as Omar , Tlaib , and AOC because of the influence and support that they possess .
America is quite literally on the line this November .
Related – Biden says he is going to ‘ transform ’ the nation if elected Ilhan Omar Calls for ‘ Dismantling ’ of America ’ s ‘ Economy and Political Systems ’ Tuesday at a news conference on systemic racism with Minnesota @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) called for dismantling systems of oppression , including America ’ s “ economy and political systems.
” Omar said , “ Right now in Congress the Senate is sitting on a comprehensive bill to transform criminal justice and the policing system .
All along with the Congressional Black Caucus , I helped led the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act .
And because of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump , it is being ignored .
I guess the president would rather attack thew people who are protesting than actually address the issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She continued , “ We can ’ t stop at criminal justice reform or police reform for that matter .
We are not merely fighting to tear down the systems of oppression in the criminal justice system .
We are fighting to tear down systems of oppression that exist in housing , in education , in health care , in employment , in the air we breathe.
” She added , “ The mortality rate for black Minnesotans to COVID is twice as high as it is with other races .
And for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I lost my own father to the coronavirus .
I see the pain and the havoc it is wreaking on the black community in Minneapolis .
We must recognize that these systems of oppression are linked .
As long as our economy and political systems prioritizes profit without considering who is profiting , who is being shut out , we will perpetuate this inequity .
So we can not stop at criminal justice system .
We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it .
”

The Democrats are dangerous and they hate the United States. They will work to transform this country if they take power in November. Joe Biden will appease folks such as Omar, Tlaib, and AOC because of the influence and support that they possess. America is quite literally on the line this November.
Related – ‘Threat To Our Democracy’: GOP Senator Demands Ilhan Omar Resignation
WATCH LIVE: Rep. Ilhan Omar holds news conference on systemic racism with Minn. leaders https://t.co/lSHmSX4hEv — PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) July 7, 2020
Related – Biden says he is going to ‘transform’ the nation if elected
Related – Tucker Carlson: Can Democrats lead a country they ‘despise’?
Related – ‘Squad’ Dems Tlaib, Pressley introduce bill to defund police, give reparations
Ilhan Omar Calls for ‘Dismantling’ of America’s ‘Economy and Political Systems’
By Breitbart, July 7, 2020
Tuesday at a news conference on systemic racism with Minnesota leaders, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for dismantling systems of oppression, including America’s “economy and political systems.”
Omar said, “Right now in Congress the Senate is sitting on a comprehensive bill to transform criminal justice and the policing system. All along with the Congressional Black Caucus, I helped led the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. And because of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, it is being ignored. I guess the president would rather attack thew people who are protesting than actually address the issues people are out here protesting for.”
She continued, “We can’t stop at criminal justice reform or police reform for that matter. We are not merely fighting to tear down the systems of oppression in the criminal justice system. We are fighting to tear down systems of oppression that exist in housing, in education, in health care, in employment, in the air we breathe.”
She added, “The mortality rate for black Minnesotans to COVID is twice as high as it is with other races. And for me, this is very personal because I lost my own father to the coronavirus. I see the pain and the havoc it is wreaking on the black community in Minneapolis. We must recognize that these systems of oppression are linked. As long as our economy and political systems prioritizes profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequity. So we cannot stop at criminal justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.”
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-08--Politically-Connected Cop Drives Twice The Speed Limit, Crashes & Kills Innocent Man – No Charges Fi

Politically-Connected Cop Drives Twice The Speed Limit, Crashes & Kills Innocent Man – No Charges Filed

Police officer Jakob Streyle was traveling at roughly twice the speed limit when he crashed into an elderly man ’ s SUV at an intersection in July of 2019 .
Steven Gene Santini , 72 , was killed in the crash , and he was ultimately blamed for the incident as well — despite clear and overwhelming evidence against the officer .
Officer Streyle insisted that Santini passed through the stop sign without stopping , and was eventually able to gather at least one witness who would confirm his side of the story , but in a pending lawsuit , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did not take statements from two people who were traveling directly behind him .
The people traveling behind him say that he did stop at the intersection , and there is also reportedly video evidence from a nearby surveillance camera that confirms this version of events as well .
The police report claims that “ multiple witnesses ” saw Santini pass through the stop sign , but only one witness ’ s testimony was listed .
The claims of the witness cited in the police report are disputed by video evidence and other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testimony was never taken and the video was never considered as evidence .
Due to the disputed testimony of the sole witness , officer Streyle has been able to avoid any consequences for his reckless behavior .
It may have helped that Streyle seems to have a friendly relationship with Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Freeman , who was ultimately responsible for deciding whether or not Streyle would face criminal charges .
In a letter absolving Streyle of any charges , Freeman pointed to the disputed witness testimony , and also suggested that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ traffic laws .
However , this only applies if the vehicle is actively on their way to an emergency with their sirens on , neither of which was the case in this incident .
On the day that the crash happened , Fairmont police posted an update on their Facebook page , reporting that a police truck crashed into a man who ran a stop sign , but also said that the truck “ was not being operated at an extensive rate of speed.
” They were deceiving the family from the beginning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ family learned that this claim was a lie , when their insurance company hired an independent crash reconstructionist , who determined that Streyle was driving at least 73 mph when the crash happened .
The family ’ s lawyer Tony O ’ Dell , believes that the police department intentionally kept this information from the family and the public .
“ The family was led to believe … that the Fairmont police officer was driving the speed limit .
That is very troubling that the police department allowed this family to go for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their husband and dad , ” O ’ Dell said , according to the Charlestown Gazette .
Freeman is seeking reelection in November , and unsurprisingly , he has been endorsed by officer Streyle .
In fact , Streyle comes from a law enforcement family , and his brother was hired just a few months after the crash .
Freeman has said that he appreciates the support he has gotten from the Streyle family , but denies any type of personal relationship that may have impacted his decision in the case .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enforcement , so anytime you get that as a prosecutor — that kind of support , certainly it means a great deal , but we don ’ t have a personal relationship between myself and any of the Streyle family , ” Freeman said .
Sadly , as TFTP exclusively reported last year , this sort of thing happens all the time .
In September 2015 , on a rainy Saturday night , Georgia state trooper Anthony Scott was flexing his above the law privilege and driving at dangerously high speeds for no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a 55 mph zone .
Scott was not on his way to a call , nor did he have any official reason for driving fast .
While travelling at such a high rate of speed , he slammed into a Nissan Sentra carrying four kids .
Kylie Hope Lindsey , 17 , and Isabella Alise Chinchilla , 16 , who were in the back seat of the Nissan , were killed .
For four years , Kylie ’ s family fought for justice for their daughter .
However , thanks to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cop avoided any and all accountability , but he ’ s been rewarded in the form of two elected positions .
As TFTP reported at the time , Scott was elected to city council only three months after killing young Kylie and Isabella .
It was also reported that he can even return to law enforcement .
But that ’ s not all .
In November , as the city of Buchanan held their elections , Scott ran uncontested and after serving as a member of the city council , and he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media coverage of who won mayor is completely non-existent .

Police officer Jakob Streyle was traveling at roughly twice the speed limit when he crashed into an elderly man’s SUV at an intersection in July of 2019. Steven Gene Santini, 72, was killed in the crash, and he was ultimately blamed for the incident as well — despite clear and overwhelming evidence against the officer.
Officer Streyle insisted that Santini passed through the stop sign without stopping, and was eventually able to gather at least one witness who would confirm his side of the story, but in a pending lawsuit, Santini’s wife says that police did not take statements from two people who were traveling directly behind him. The people traveling behind him say that he did stop at the intersection, and there is also reportedly video evidence from a nearby surveillance camera that confirms this version of events as well.
The police report claims that “multiple witnesses” saw Santini pass through the stop sign, but only one witness’s testimony was listed. The claims of the witness cited in the police report are disputed by video evidence and other witnesses at the scene, but their testimony was never taken and the video was never considered as evidence.
Due to the disputed testimony of the sole witness, officer Streyle has been able to avoid any consequences for his reckless behavior. It may have helped that Streyle seems to have a friendly relationship with Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Freeman, who was ultimately responsible for deciding whether or not Streyle would face criminal charges.
In a letter absolving Streyle of any charges, Freeman pointed to the disputed witness testimony, and also suggested that emergency vehicles are allowed to break certain traffic laws. However, this only applies if the vehicle is actively on their way to an emergency with their sirens on, neither of which was the case in this incident.
On the day that the crash happened, Fairmont police posted an update on their Facebook page, reporting that a police truck crashed into a man who ran a stop sign, but also said that the truck “was not being operated at an extensive rate of speed.”
They were deceiving the family from the beginning.
Eight months later, the Santini family learned that this claim was a lie, when their insurance company hired an independent crash reconstructionist, who determined that Streyle was driving at least 73 mph when the crash happened.
The family’s lawyer Tony O’Dell, believes that the police department intentionally kept this information from the family and the public.
“The family was led to believe … that the Fairmont police officer was driving the speed limit. That is very troubling that the police department allowed this family to go for months not knowing what actually happened to their husband and dad,” O’Dell said, according to the Charlestown Gazette.
Freeman is seeking reelection in November, and unsurprisingly, he has been endorsed by officer Streyle. In fact, Streyle comes from a law enforcement family, and his brother was hired just a few months after the crash.
Freeman has said that he appreciates the support he has gotten from the Streyle family, but denies any type of personal relationship that may have impacted his decision in the case.
“They’re all involved in law enforcement, so anytime you get that as a prosecutor — that kind of support, certainly it means a great deal, but we don’t have a personal relationship between myself and any of the Streyle family,” Freeman said.
Sadly, as TFTP exclusively reported last year, this sort of thing happens all the time.
In September 2015, on a rainy Saturday night, Georgia state trooper Anthony Scott was flexing his above the law privilege and driving at dangerously high speeds for no reason. He was doing 91 mph in a 55 mph zone. Scott was not on his way to a call, nor did he have any official reason for driving fast. While travelling at such a high rate of speed, he slammed into a Nissan Sentra carrying four kids. Kylie Hope Lindsey, 17, and Isabella Alise Chinchilla, 16, who were in the back seat of the Nissan, were killed.
For four years, Kylie’s family fought for justice for their daughter. However, thanks to a corrupt system, not only has this cop avoided any and all accountability, but he’s been rewarded in the form of two elected positions. As TFTP reported at the time, Scott was elected to city council only three months after killing young Kylie and Isabella. It was also reported that he can even return to law enforcement.
But that’s not all.
In November, as the city of Buchanan held their elections, Scott ran uncontested and after serving as a member of the city council, and he was elected mayor. Not surprisingly, the media coverage of who won mayor is completely non-existent.
Article posted with permission from John Vibes


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-08--Coke, Nike, and Pro-Black Lives Matter Corps are Using Slave Labor

Coca-Cola would like you to know that it cares about oppression and believes America is evil .
In a rambling statement by CEO James Quincey , titled , “ Where We Stand on Social Justice ” , the head of the obesity conglomerate declared that he is , “ outraged , sad , frustrated , angry.
” It ’ s hard that out there for a guy in a racist country who is only making an $ 18 million salary .
The Coke CEO then pledged to give money to the social justice usual suspects and the company joined a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ censoring Trump and conservatives .
“ Companies like ours must speak up as allies to the Black Lives Matter movement , ” Quincey ranted .
“ I ’ ve been reflecting on our duty to Black people in America .
Simply put , America hasn ’ t made enough progress , corporate America hasn ’ t made enough progress and nor has The Coca-Cola Company.
” While Coca-Cola pounds the Black Lives Matter pulpit , it ’ s got a present-day slavery problem .
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China had released a report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labor practices .
The CECC is a bipartisan group that includes a wide range of national politicians from Senator Tom Cotton and Senator Marco Rubio to Senator Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Marcy Kaptur .
That report led to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which , among others , named Coca Cola and Nike .
Why did the media bury the story ?
Because it had bad things to say about its advertisers .
The CECC report and the accompanying legislation noted that Coca-Cola , Adidas , Calvin Klein , the Campbell Soup @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & M , Tommy Hilfiger , Patagonia , and Nike were among those companies suspected of complicity in China ’ s forced labor camps .
Coke and some of the other companies involved denied everything , but a Wall Street Journal article noted that COFCO Tunhe supplies sugar to Coca-Cola and tomatoes to Heinz and Campbell .
The Chinese state-owned company is the country ’ s largest food processor , the world ’ s second largest tomato processor , and one of the largest sugar processors in the world , with vast networks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racism in America allegedly benefit from the new Communist plantations .
“ All the international brands trust us and buy our tomato purée : Heinz , Kraft , Unilever , Nestlé , ” Cofco Tunhe Vice-President Yu Tianchi had once boasted .
Unilever , the British-Dutch conglomerate whose brands include Dove and Breyers , has been a loud voice in the social justice movement , and has joined the boycott to force Facebook to censor conservatives .
But does that racial justice include the slaves of China ’ s Communist regime ?
Kraft-Heinz @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a hysterical rant about “ systemic racism against African-Americans ” .
“ We at Kraft Heinz say BLACK LIVES MATTER , ” Patrico declared in a badly spelled and punctuated rant .
“ This week , we are talking with employees about one of our new Values , We demand diversity.
” But how exactly will Heinz-Kraft ’ s promise to expand “ supplier diversity guidelines ” play out in the tomato fields of Xinyang and its slave labor forces ?
Heinz-Kraft has been steadily cutting American jobs and outsourcing them abroad to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrat donor Warren Buffett .
Slave labor is the cheapest labor of them all .
As China dominates tomato processing , all the social justice promises are obvious lies .
The reality is toiling in the fields , men , women , and children , to do the hard work while execs preach social justice .
Coca-Cola meanwhile insisted that the COFCO facility the company used had passed an “ internal audit ” .
But what is COFCO ?
Xinyang ’ s agriculture is dominated by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paramilitary Communist organization set up under Mao to colonize and control the region using soldiers and convict labor .
Its commercial arm is the China Xinjian Group which turns the colonial production of the XPCC commissars into commercial products .
COFCO is an affiliate of the XPCC and dominates the tomato and sugar export trade for western companies .
Ning Gaoning , the COCFO boss , touted production as a vital part of “ the ‘ New Socialistic Countryside.
’ In China ’ s new economic boom , the XPCC is less able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and has been accused of shifting to forced labor in Xinyang and using Xinyang Aid to move slave laborers around .
Even while Coke ’ s boss blathers about racism in America , he ’ s getting his sugar processed by a Communist paramilitary colonization enterprise that has been accused of using slave labor .
“ The vast majority of them ran back within a few days.
” COFCO executives were quoted as complaining about their workforce .
Xinyang Aid has been trying to avoid the problem by moving slave laborers so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for them to run .
A description of tomato harvests in Xinyang by another XPCC company tells a familiar story .
“ the harvest is still done by hand , with workers earning one euro cent per kilo of harvested tomatoes .
Children often go with their parents and work alongside them in the fields.
” A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute cast an even wider net , tying Apple , BMW Calvin Klein , Abercrombie & Fitch , GM , LL Bean , North Face , Gap , Volkswagen , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supply chains based around workers laboring “ under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour.
” A factory making shoes for Nike was “ equipped with watchtowers , barbed-wire fences and police guard boxes.
” Nike Shox were discovered being made in another factory by slave laborers shipped far from home to produce shoes for the sportswear giant .
Too far for them to run away .
“ We can walk around , but we can ’ t go back , ” one worker said .
The same company that holds up Colin Kaepernick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an icon of social justice , also profits from an alleged slave labor facility that moved to be closer to “ the region ’ s cotton fields ” .
The millionaire victims of imaginary racism that Nike wants us to care about are on their billboards while modern day slaves still toil in the cotton fields because their lives don ’ t matter .
The dirty secret of the big Corporate Left brands is that behind the familiar names and commercials , are huge conglomerates and financial investors who cut costs by outsourcing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ design and market , but the real work is done by huge Communist enterprises , either owned directly by the state or by oligarchs tied to the Communist leadership , whose names you don ’ t know .
All this leaves the executives with plenty of time to come up with new social justice initiatives and call the country and the American people whose wealth , future , and hopes they ’ ve stolen , racists .
Throwing millions at lefty organizations , announcing more diversity initiatives , firing qualified people and replacing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doesn ’ t touch the real source of the wealth flowing from plantations in the People ’ s Republic of China .
And it ’ s those plantations that are the new slavery .
The Black Lives Matter rhetoric doesn ’ t affect the root injustice at conglomerates wiping out American jobs , including black jobs , and replacing them with minorities laboring in the fields in Communist China .
Foreign plantations , slave labor forces doing the dirty work in the cotton fields , aren ’ t in America , but they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a new class of politically correct plutocrats who subsidize the Democrat Party and the Left , preaching about social justice from their mansions , while their slaves are kept out of sight thousands of miles away by the commissars of the Communist slave trade .
The Corporate Left has made a dirty deal with Communist China to divide and conquer America .
The repetition of the black nationalist slogan , Black Lives Matter , is convenient because it deliberately excludes the non-black slave labor on whose backs the Corporate Left has built its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lectured about a brief period of African slavery , China had imported African slaves for some six centuries .
Much like the Middle Eastern trade in African slaves , this fact is generally buried in order to perpetuate the leftist myth that African slavery in America was unique .
Or , as Senator Tim Kaine falsely claimed , “ The United States didn ’ t inherit slavery from anybody .
We created it.
” Of course , we didn ’ t .
Slavery existed throughout history .
The 1619 Project is a lie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was built on slave labor .
And China is expanding its colonial presence into Africa , building factories , and abusing the native population in a search of cheap labor .
The products of that new black slavery in Africa , like the trade in slaves in Asia , will be sold by all the familiar brands now declaring that Black Lives Matter .

Coca-Cola would like you to know that it cares about oppression and believes America is evil.
In a rambling statement by CEO James Quincey, titled, “Where We Stand on Social Justice”, the head of the obesity conglomerate declared that he is, “outraged, sad, frustrated, angry.”
It’s hard that out there for a guy in a racist country who is only making an $18 million salary.
The Coke CEO then pledged to give money to the social justice usual suspects and the company joined a boycott of Facebook to pressure it into censoring Trump and conservatives.
“Companies like ours must speak up as allies to the Black Lives Matter movement,” Quincey ranted. “I’ve been reflecting on our duty to Black people in America. Simply put, America hasn’t made enough progress, corporate America hasn’t made enough progress and nor has The Coca-Cola Company.”
While Coca-Cola pounds the Black Lives Matter pulpit, it’s got a present-day slavery problem.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China had released a report in March on China’s forced labor practices. The CECC is a bipartisan group that includes a wide range of national politicians from Senator Tom Cotton and Senator Marco Rubio to Senator Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
That report led to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which, among others, named Coca Cola and Nike. Why did the media bury the story? Because it had bad things to say about its advertisers.
The CECC report and the accompanying legislation noted that Coca-Cola, Adidas, Calvin Klein, the Campbell Soup Company, Costco, Esprit, H&M, Tommy Hilfiger, Patagonia, and Nike were among those companies suspected of complicity in China’s forced labor camps.
Coke and some of the other companies involved denied everything, but a Wall Street Journal article noted that COFCO Tunhe supplies sugar to Coca-Cola and tomatoes to Heinz and Campbell. The Chinese state-owned company is the country’s largest food processor, the world’s second largest tomato processor, and one of the largest sugar processors in the world, with vast networks of plantations.
The corporations that decry racism in America allegedly benefit from the new Communist plantations.
“All the international brands trust us and buy our tomato purée: Heinz, Kraft, Unilever, Nestlé,” Cofco Tunhe Vice-President Yu Tianchi had once boasted.
Unilever, the British-Dutch conglomerate whose brands include Dove and Breyers, has been a loud voice in the social justice movement, and has joined the boycott to force Facebook to censor conservatives.
“We have a responsibility for racial justice,” Unilever declared.
But does that racial justice include the slaves of China’s Communist regime?
Kraft-Heinz’s CEO Miguel Patricio had issued a hysterical rant about “systemic racism against African-Americans”.
“We at Kraft Heinz say BLACK LIVES MATTER,” Patrico declared in a badly spelled and punctuated rant. “This week, we are talking with employees about one of our new Values, We demand diversity.”
But how exactly will Heinz-Kraft’s promise to expand “supplier diversity guidelines” play out in the tomato fields of Xinyang and its slave labor forces? Heinz-Kraft has been steadily cutting American jobs and outsourcing them abroad to reward the greed of big investors like Democrat donor Warren Buffett.
Slave labor is the cheapest labor of them all.
As China dominates tomato processing, all the social justice promises are obvious lies. The reality is toiling in the fields, men, women, and children, to do the hard work while execs preach social justice.
Coca-Cola meanwhile insisted that the COFCO facility the company used had passed an “internal audit”.
But what is COFCO?
Xinyang’s agriculture is dominated by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). The XPCC is a paramilitary Communist organization set up under Mao to colonize and control the region using soldiers and convict labor. Its commercial arm is the China Xinjian Group which turns the colonial production of the XPCC commissars into commercial products. COFCO is an affiliate of the XPCC and dominates the tomato and sugar export trade for western companies.
Ning Gaoning, the COCFO boss, touted production as a vital part of “the ‘New Socialistic Countryside.’
In China’s new economic boom, the XPCC is less able to depend on Han soldiers or volunteers, and has been accused of shifting to forced labor in Xinyang and using Xinyang Aid to move slave laborers around.
Even while Coke’s boss blathers about racism in America, he’s getting his sugar processed by a Communist paramilitary colonization enterprise that has been accused of using slave labor.
“The vast majority of them ran back within a few days.” COFCO executives were quoted as complaining about their workforce.
Xinyang Aid has been trying to avoid the problem by moving slave laborers so far away that there’s nowhere for them to run.
A description of tomato harvests in Xinyang by another XPCC company tells a familiar story. “the harvest is still done by hand, with workers earning one euro cent per kilo of harvested tomatoes. Children often go with their parents and work alongside them in the fields.”
A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute cast an even wider net, tying Apple, BMW Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch, GM, LL Bean, North Face, Gap, Volkswagen, and Nike, among others, to supply chains based around workers laboring “under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour.”
A factory making shoes for Nike was “equipped with watchtowers, barbed-wire fences and police guard boxes.” Nike Shox were discovered being made in another factory by slave laborers shipped far from home to produce shoes for the sportswear giant. Too far for them to run away.
“We can walk around, but we can’t go back,” one worker said.
The same company that holds up Colin Kaepernick, a millionaire anti-American activist, as an icon of social justice, also profits from an alleged slave labor facility that moved to be closer to “the region’s cotton fields”. The millionaire victims of imaginary racism that Nike wants us to care about are on their billboards while modern day slaves still toil in the cotton fields because their lives don’t matter.
The dirty secret of the big Corporate Left brands is that behind the familiar names and commercials, are huge conglomerates and financial investors who cut costs by outsourcing their production to China. The Americans design and market, but the real work is done by huge Communist enterprises, either owned directly by the state or by oligarchs tied to the Communist leadership, whose names you don’t know.
All this leaves the executives with plenty of time to come up with new social justice initiatives and call the country and the American people whose wealth, future, and hopes they’ve stolen, racists.
Throwing millions at lefty organizations, announcing more diversity initiatives, firing qualified people and replacing them with activists, is cheap and doesn’t touch the real source of the wealth flowing from plantations in the People’s Republic of China. And it’s those plantations that are the new slavery.
The Black Lives Matter rhetoric doesn’t affect the root injustice at conglomerates wiping out American jobs, including black jobs, and replacing them with minorities laboring in the fields in Communist China.
Foreign plantations, slave labor forces doing the dirty work in the cotton fields, aren’t in America, but they are the source of the wealth of a new class of politically correct plutocrats who subsidize the Democrat Party and the Left, preaching about social justice from their mansions, while their slaves are kept out of sight thousands of miles away by the commissars of the Communist slave trade.
The Corporate Left has made a dirty deal with Communist China to divide and conquer America.
The repetition of the black nationalist slogan, Black Lives Matter, is convenient because it deliberately excludes the non-black slave labor on whose backs the Corporate Left has built its endless billions.
While Americans are endlessly lectured about a brief period of African slavery, China had imported African slaves for some six centuries. Much like the Middle Eastern trade in African slaves, this fact is generally buried in order to perpetuate the leftist myth that African slavery in America was unique.
Or, as Senator Tim Kaine falsely claimed, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it.”
Of course, we didn’t.
Slavery existed throughout history. The 1619 Project is a lie, but China, unlike America, was built on slave labor. And China is expanding its colonial presence into Africa, building factories, and abusing the native population in a search of cheap labor. The products of that new black slavery in Africa, like the trade in slaves in Asia, will be sold by all the familiar brands now declaring that Black Lives Matter.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-09--It’s Time For Blacks To Choose A Side

It’s Time For Blacks To Choose A Side

Last Saturday in Atlanta , 8-year-old Secoriea Turner was killed while riding in a car with her mother and a family friend who was driving .
According to police , as the driver attempted to enter a parking lot where a group of protesters had illegally placed barricades , armed individuals opened fire on the vehicle , striking it multiple times and killing Turner .
Secoriea Turner was black , as is a person of interest police are seeking in her killing .
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms , who is also black , has come under fire for allowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continue unabated in recent weeks .
The incident that resulted in Turner ’ s death occurred adjacent to the location where a black man had been fatally shot by a white police officer last month .
According to press reports , the protesters occupying the area were armed ; Mayor Bottoms was probably aware of this , as disturbed residents had repeatedly reported it to police .
Later at a press conference , Bottoms condemned the violence , saying , “ You can ’ t blame this on a police officer .
… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapons who shot up a car with an 8-year-old baby in the car , for what ?
” This is more than a little ironic , considering that Bottoms , like many Democratic mayors of large urban centers across the country , has been reticent to act against violent demonstrators due to an ideological kinship with them .
But one can not have it both ways .
Bottoms , who for some obscure reason has been seen as a possible vice presidential pick for Joe Biden , can not enable violent entities in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commit violent acts – at least , not with any credibility .
While outrage of Atlanta residents over Secoriea Turner ’ s death has seen limited coverage in the establishment press , inasmuch as the tragic incident became a national news story , it is clear that an increasing number of black Americans are beginning to look at the Black Lives Matter “ movement ” with a jaded eye .
This week , Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell , who is black , called for the National Guard to deploy to Chicago @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violence since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in May .
Nearly 80 people were shot in Chicago last weekend , and 12 of them were under the age of 18 .
Nearly all were black individuals who were shot by other blacks .
Despite calls for solidarity in stemming the violence , the outrage concerning black-on-black violence is not universally shared amongst blacks .
On Monday , predatory homosexual CNN anchor Don Lemon chastised actor Terry Crews when the latter mentioned the surge in black-on-black gun violence that has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Lemon asserted that Black Lives Matter is concerned with police brutality rather than black-on-black violence , rendering the latter moot to such discussion .
So there we have it .
Two black men discussing violence against blacks – but for one of them , black children who die at the hands of other blacks are acceptable collateral damage as long as the racialist agenda of the left is being advanced , quod erat demonstrandum .
The Lemon-Crews dust-up exemplifies the choice black people in this country are going to have to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re on .
Sadly , many blacks are at a distinct disadvantage in this regard , having been so effectively propagandized by the left over the last 50 years .
A large part of blacks ’ indoctrination into leftist orthodoxy was guided by civil rights leaders like Rev .
Jesse Jackson , who sold blacks out for seats at the table of their socialist overlords .
In a psychologically vulnerable position toward the end of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s , blacks at large never considered the possibility that such people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but they most certainly did .
Consequently , much of the garbage that inhabits the minds of black Americans today was sown by black leaders who were in fact serving far-left politicos .
So , in admonishing blacks to choose whether they want to be upstanding citizens who happen to be black or , well , that other word – we may be asking many of them to make discernments they are ill-equipped to make .
As I ’ ve indicated over the last few weeks in this space , “ black lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ justified .
The Black Lives Matter organization , however , is a poisonous outfit that is nothing more than a device of radical communists seeking a violent overthrow of our government .
The fact that they have so many kindred spirits in government at this point will undoubtedly make neutralizing them far more difficult .
Inasmuch as liberal Democrats maneuvered blacks into their current state of peril and socioeconomic disenfranchisement by design , don ’ t expect them to respond to calls for ending black-on-black violence , no matter how loudly blacks or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ however , be forced to respond to a widespread movement in which blacks around the country begin demonstrating against liberal hegemony , rather than against the unfounded racism of President Donald Trump or the “ smoke soldiers ” of systemic racism .

Last Saturday in Atlanta, 8-year-old Secoriea Turner was killed while riding in a car with her mother and a family friend who was driving. According to police, as the driver attempted to enter a parking lot where a group of protesters had illegally placed barricades, armed individuals opened fire on the vehicle, striking it multiple times and killing Turner.
Secoriea Turner was black, as is a person of interest police are seeking in her killing.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is also black, has come under fire for allowing widespread civil unrest in her city to continue unabated in recent weeks. The incident that resulted in Turner’s death occurred adjacent to the location where a black man had been fatally shot by a white police officer last month. According to press reports, the protesters occupying the area were armed; Mayor Bottoms was probably aware of this, as disturbed residents had repeatedly reported it to police.
Later at a press conference, Bottoms condemned the violence, saying, “You can’t blame this on a police officer. … This is about some people carrying some weapons who shot up a car with an 8-year-old baby in the car, for what?”
This is more than a little ironic, considering that Bottoms, like many Democratic mayors of large urban centers across the country, has been reticent to act against violent demonstrators due to an ideological kinship with them.
But one cannot have it both ways. Bottoms, who for some obscure reason has been seen as a possible vice presidential pick for Joe Biden, cannot enable violent entities in Atlanta and then condemn them when they commit violent acts – at least, not with any credibility.
While outrage of Atlanta residents over Secoriea Turner’s death has seen limited coverage in the establishment press, inasmuch as the tragic incident became a national news story, it is clear that an increasing number of black Americans are beginning to look at the Black Lives Matter “movement” with a jaded eye.
This week, Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell, who is black, called for the National Guard to deploy to Chicago, a city that has exploded in violence since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in May. Nearly 80 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, and 12 of them were under the age of 18. Nearly all were black individuals who were shot by other blacks.
Despite calls for solidarity in stemming the violence, the outrage concerning black-on-black violence is not universally shared amongst blacks.
On Monday, predatory homosexual CNN anchor Don Lemon chastised actor Terry Crews when the latter mentioned the surge in black-on-black gun violence that has left multiple children dead since June 20. Lemon asserted that Black Lives Matter is concerned with police brutality rather than black-on-black violence, rendering the latter moot to such discussion.
So there we have it. Two black men discussing violence against blacks – but for one of them, black children who die at the hands of other blacks are acceptable collateral damage as long as the racialist agenda of the left is being advanced, quod erat demonstrandum.
The Lemon-Crews dust-up exemplifies the choice black people in this country are going to have to make regarding which of these sides they’re on. Sadly, many blacks are at a distinct disadvantage in this regard, having been so effectively propagandized by the left over the last 50 years.
A large part of blacks’ indoctrination into leftist orthodoxy was guided by civil rights leaders like Rev. Jesse Jackson, who sold blacks out for seats at the table of their socialist overlords. In a psychologically vulnerable position toward the end of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, blacks at large never considered the possibility that such people would choose personal aggrandizement over justice – but they most certainly did. Consequently, much of the garbage that inhabits the minds of black Americans today was sown by black leaders who were in fact serving far-left politicos.
So, in admonishing blacks to choose whether they want to be upstanding citizens who happen to be black or, well, that other word – we may be asking many of them to make discernments they are ill-equipped to make.
As I’ve indicated over the last few weeks in this space, “black lives matter” as a sentiment is eminently justified. The Black Lives Matter organization, however, is a poisonous outfit that is nothing more than a device of radical communists seeking a violent overthrow of our government. The fact that they have so many kindred spirits in government at this point will undoubtedly make neutralizing them far more difficult.
Inasmuch as liberal Democrats maneuvered blacks into their current state of peril and socioeconomic disenfranchisement by design, don’t expect them to respond to calls for ending black-on-black violence, no matter how loudly blacks or anyone else scream.
They might, however, be forced to respond to a widespread movement in which blacks around the country begin demonstrating against liberal hegemony, rather than against the unfounded racism of President Donald Trump or the “smoke soldiers” of systemic racism.
Article posted with permission from Erik Rush


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-09--Wait’ll They Realize The Black Anthem Was Penned By A Christian

America is undergoing its cultural revolution right now , obliterating as much of the past as possible .
We saw over the weekend , “ social justice warriors ” in Rochester , New York , tearing down a statue of Frederick Douglass – even though he was an ardent abolitionist .
And some in the cancel culture even want to tear down statues of Jesus .
CBNNews.com noted last month : “ Social justice activist Shaun King unleashed a barrage of comments on social media Monday claiming that statues of Jesus Christ are ‘ a form of white supremacy ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the co-founder of Real Justice PAC and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
” I ’ m the last person in the world to follow professional sports , but even I know about all the protests against the national anthem , as if America in 2020 were South Africa in 1980 .
The National Football League announced last week , as reported by NPR on Thursday , that a different anthem will be used at the opening of the football season .
NRP notes , “ ‘ Lift Every Voice and Sing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known as the Black national anthem will play at the start of every season opener game , coming before ‘ The Star Spangled Banner . '
” The interesting thing about “ Lift Every Voice and Sing ” is the apparent pro-Jesus sentiment of the writer of that anthem .
I surely doubt that James Weldon Johnson ( 1871-1938 ) , the writer of “ Lift Every Voice , ” would have anything to do with such anti-Christian bigotry as tearing down statues of Jesus .
“ Let our rejoicing rise / High @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” proclaims this song by Johnson , an African American who wrote this piece in 1900 , which includes the line , “ Let us march on ’ til victory is won.
” Johnson was a great American poet and a racial ground-breaker .
He was the first black to pass the Florida Bar exam .
He was the editor of New York Age .
“ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” which was set to music by Johnson ’ s brother , became the unofficial black anthem in the 1940s .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and later Nicaragua .
He served as a professor at Fisk University .
But Johnson is perhaps best-known for some of his poetry , including the book “ God ’ s Trombones ” ( 1927 ) .
This book was called “ dialect sermons in verse , ” and it became popularized in school recitations .
One of those poems is “ The Creation , ” based loosely on Genesis 1 and 2 .
In “ The Creation , ” Johnson includes such lines as , “ Then God smiled , / And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ darkness rolled up on one side , / And the light stood shining on the other , / And God said , ‘ That ’ s good ! '
” The poem climaxes with the pinnacle of God ’ s creation – humanity : “ With His head in His hands , / God thought and thought , / Till He thought , ‘ I ’ ll make me a man !
’ / Up from the bed of the river / God scooped the clay … Toiling over a lump of clay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own image ; / Then into it He blew the breath of life , / And man became a living soul .
/ Amen .
Amen.
” Even more directly Christian is Weldon ’ s powerful funeral sermon in verse , called “ Go Down , Death.
” In this eulogy , poor “ Sister Caroline ” of Savannah , Georgia , is dying .
In Weldon ’ s verse eulogy , God up in heaven calls on one of His angels to go to earth to fetch poor Sister Caroline .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Death , go down , ” to bring her to Him .
“ She ’ s borne the burden and heat of the day , / she ’ s labored long in my vineyard , / And she ’ s tired.
” After traveling to earth to pick up Sister Caroline , Death brings her to a special place up in heaven .
“ And there he laid Sister Caroline / On the loving breast of Jesus.
” “ And Jesus took his own hand and wiped away her tears , / And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , / And the angels sang a little song , / And Jesus rocked her in his arms , / And kept a-saying : Take your rest , / Take your rest.
” Only a true Christian can have such hope in the face of death because Jesus Christ conquered the grave both by His dying for our sins and His resurrection .
So Johnson uses Scriptural truths to reassure the survivors of those who die in Christ , such as Sister Caroline .
“ Weep not–weep not , / She is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the bosom of Jesus … Heart-broken husband–weep no more ; / Grief-stricken son–weep no more ; / Left-lonesome daughter –weep no more ; / She only just gone home.
” These protesters in the street who are trying to destroy remnants of Western civilization seem to know nothing of the power of the Gospel as did the writer of “ Lift Every Voice and Sing.
” As the late Gospel singer Andre Crouch reminded us all , “ Jesus is the answer for the world today .
Above Him there ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Amen .

America is undergoing its cultural revolution right now, obliterating as much of the past as possible. We saw over the weekend, “social justice warriors” in Rochester, New York, tearing down a statue of Frederick Douglass – even though he was an ardent abolitionist.
And some in the cancel culture even want to tear down statues of Jesus. CBNNews.com noted last month: “Social justice activist Shaun King unleashed a barrage of comments on social media Monday claiming that statues of Jesus Christ are ‘a form of white supremacy’ and should be torn down. King is the co-founder of Real Justice PAC and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.”
I’m the last person in the world to follow professional sports, but even I know about all the protests against the national anthem, as if America in 2020 were South Africa in 1980.
The National Football League announced last week, as reported by NPR on Thursday, that a different anthem will be used at the opening of the football season. NRP notes, “‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ … [t]he song known as the Black national anthem will play at the start of every season opener game, coming before ‘The Star Spangled Banner.'”
The interesting thing about “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is the apparent pro-Jesus sentiment of the writer of that anthem. I surely doubt that James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), the writer of “Lift Every Voice,” would have anything to do with such anti-Christian bigotry as tearing down statues of Jesus.
“Let our rejoicing rise / High as the list’ning skies,” proclaims this song by Johnson, an African American who wrote this piece in 1900, which includes the line, “Let us march on ’til victory is won.”
Johnson was a great American poet and a racial ground-breaker. He was the first black to pass the Florida Bar exam. He was the editor of New York Age.
“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which was set to music by Johnson’s brother, became the unofficial black anthem in the 1940s. He was also foreign consul to Venezuela and later Nicaragua. He served as a professor at Fisk University.
But Johnson is perhaps best-known for some of his poetry, including the book “God’s Trombones” (1927). This book was called “dialect sermons in verse,” and it became popularized in school recitations.
One of those poems is “The Creation,” based loosely on Genesis 1 and 2. In “The Creation,” Johnson includes such lines as, “Then God smiled, / And the light broke, / And the darkness rolled up on one side, / And the light stood shining on the other, / And God said, ‘That’s good!'”
The poem climaxes with the pinnacle of God’s creation – humanity: “With His head in His hands, / God thought and thought, / Till He thought, ‘I’ll make me a man!’ / Up from the bed of the river / God scooped the clay … Toiling over a lump of clay / Till He shaped it in His own image; / Then into it He blew the breath of life, / And man became a living soul. / Amen. Amen.”
Even more directly Christian is Weldon’s powerful funeral sermon in verse, called “Go Down, Death.” In this eulogy, poor “Sister Caroline” of Savannah, Georgia, is dying.
In Weldon’s verse eulogy, God up in heaven calls on one of His angels to go to earth to fetch poor Sister Caroline. “And God said: Go down, Death, go down,” to bring her to Him. “She’s borne the burden and heat of the day, / she’s labored long in my vineyard, / And she’s tired.”
After traveling to earth to pick up Sister Caroline, Death brings her to a special place up in heaven. “And there he laid Sister Caroline / On the loving breast of Jesus.”
“And Jesus took his own hand and wiped away her tears, / And he smoothed the furrows from her face, / And the angels sang a little song, / And Jesus rocked her in his arms, / And kept a-saying: Take your rest, / Take your rest.”
Only a true Christian can have such hope in the face of death because Jesus Christ conquered the grave both by His dying for our sins and His resurrection.
So Johnson uses Scriptural truths to reassure the survivors of those who die in Christ, such as Sister Caroline. “Weep not–weep not, / She is not dead; / She’s resting in the bosom of Jesus … Heart-broken husband–weep no more; / Grief-stricken son–weep no more; / Left-lonesome daughter –weep no more; / She only just gone home.”
These protesters in the street who are trying to destroy remnants of Western civilization seem to know nothing of the power of the Gospel as did the writer of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” As the late Gospel singer Andre Crouch reminded us all, “Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above Him there’s no other. Jesus is the Way.” Amen.
Article posted with permission from Jerry Newcombe