Conservative Nonprofits Help Google, Facebook, Twitter Silence Conservatives on the Internet

“The richest companies in the world are being defended by conservative nonprofits as they attack conservatives.” — Tucker Carlson, host “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News 

Friday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused Koch brother-funded conservative organizations of helping Google, Facebook, and Twitter suppress conservative speech on the Internet.

Carlson pointed to a recent report (“Google and the Koch Network: A Troubling Alliance of Convenience” published by the Campaign for Accountability) that found 22 Koch-funded conservative organizations including Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the American Conservative Union, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the Mercatus Center have been colluding with giant social media monopolies to shield the giants from government oversight.

“Here’s how it works. Big Tech companies silence conservatives; conservative nonprofits try to prevent the government from doing anything about it.” — Tucker Carlson, host “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News

The nonprofit conservative champions in Washington, D.C., which reputedly uphold and defend conservative ideas and causes, actually aren’t defending conservatives; they’re really defending Big Tech.

“They [conservative nonprofits] make deals with people who hate you [conservatives]. They secretly sell out your interests; then they beg you to tithe like its the medieval church.” — Tucker Carlson

The Koch brothers network has secretly funneled at least $10 million into defending Silicon Valley companies, which have been silencing conservative voices and censoring conservative speech over the Internet.

“As one former Koch employee recently told this show, quote, ‘I know for a fact they take money from social media companies to do their bidding.'” — Tucker Carlson

Carlson said the Competitive Enterprise Institute and three other groups, which are bankrolled by Google and the Koch brothers, sent a joint letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions in September 2018 expressing their dismay over the Justice Department’s intentions to investigate the Internet giants for squashing competitors and stifling speech.

Carlson then called out the Heritage Foundation, the “biggest and best-funded think tank in Washington,” for carrying Big Tech’s water rather than looking out for the interests of conservatives.

According to Carlson, Heritage defends Silicon Valley’s special privileges when it argues that conservatives can simply “start their own Google” if they don’t like what the tech giant is doing.

The Heritage Foundation fired back at Carlson’s allegations in a statement accusing him of making “several false, outrageous, and unfounded accusations” on Friday’s show.

“We won’t be intimidated or bullied as we continue to represent the interests of conservatives and all Americans. Heritage supports empowering consumers rather than government. We are, and have always been, champions of the free market and critics of government intervention.” — Rob Bluey, vice president of communications, Heritage Foundation

The problem is Heritage hasn’t always been “champions of the free market and critics of government intervention” as Bluey claims.

In 1989 when universal health care was neither established nor inevitable, Heritage unveiled its plan for comprehensive legislation to provide universal “quality, affordable health care” in the book A National Health System for America by Stuart Butler and Edmund Haislmaier.

Heritage’s individual mandate was “not a mandate on employers, but a mandate on heads of households.”

“[T]he Heritage mandate was indistinguishable in principle from the ObamaCare one. In both cases, the federal government would force individuals to purchase a product from a private company.” — Avik Roy, Forbes 

Again in October 2015, Jim DeMint, who headed Heritage at the time, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pressured Freedom Caucus members to endorse Paul Ryan for House Speaker.

In a closed-door meeting with the House Freedom Caucus, DeMint and Gingrich convinced some members to rethink making Ryan Speaker, whom they saw as a tool of John Boehner, the Speaker they had just ousted.

“Promises were made … as I understand it … I was really surprised that the head of the Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint was making calls telling conservatives to back off their conservatism and back the guy for Speaker that doesn’t just have a D, he has an F under the Conservative Review analysis.” — Louis Gohmert, Republican Congressman, Texas

According to Carlson, the duplicitous conservative nonprofits’ system has been in place for decades, which could explain “why, no matter how much money you send, nothing gets more conservative.”

Sources cited in this story include: Tucker Carlson: Heritage Foundation, Other Koch-Funded Groups Carrying Water For Big Tech’s Left-Wing Agenda, Google and the Koch Network: A Troubling Alliance of Convenience,  Google Transparency Project Releases Database of 3,000 Grants Awarded to Academic Researchers by Google, Heritage Foundation Responds to Tucker Carlson’s False Accusations on Big Tech, and How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate.

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Democrats Continue Their Multi-State Assault on Gun Owners

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Thomas Jefferson

A  Democrat-lead legislature in Massachusetts intends to pass legislation (H 2005) that would force doctors in the state to identify patients who have guns in their homes, and to target them for gun confiscation under the state’s “Red Flag” statute.

“In the midst of a Democrat-led, multi-state assault on the right to keep and bear arms comes this. A Massachusetts politician has proposed a bill to mandate that doctors in the state “screen” patients for gun ownership, and then report owners to the state for possible targeting by red flag statues.” — Gardner Goldsmith, MRC TV

Democrat Representative Jon Santiago’s proposed legislation calls for the state public health commissioner to “promulgate regulations establishing (1) the means by which and the intervals at which patients shall be screened for the presence of firearms in the home and (2) guidelines for safety counseling for individuals that screen positive for the presence of firearms in the home.”

The Boston lawmaker’s proposed bill empowers doctors to treat gun ownership like a disease and gun violence as a public health concern.

“We know that gun safety is a public health issue. As such, doctors are uniquely positioned to help prevent gun-related injury and death.” — Marty Martinez, Boston Health and Human Services Chief

Santiago’s bill systematically screens “all patients for the presence of firearms in the home.” Santiago and his colleagues run ruff-shod over that fact that Massachusetts gun owners have the God-given right as pointed out in the Second Amendment to “screen positive for the presence of firearms.”

“Simply put, not only the bill, but the terminology used shows the disdain for simply exercising our civil rights in the Commonwealth.” — Gun Owners Action League, website post

Although some community health centers in the state already question patients about gun ownership and guns in the home, Massachusetts does not have a formal firearm screening program and the state guidelines to implement it.

“Many doctors have already adopted the kind of intervention we’re discussing today as best practice. This bill would simply make that practice universal amongst all medical professionals.” Jennifer Lo, Medical Director, Boston Public Health Commission

Currently no other state has similar policies in place to implement a gun-question screening program, and no details have been provided explaining just how the newly proposed screening program would work.

But the bill’s proponents aren’t sticklers for details. They say the medical consults will be similar to those already being conducted by medical professionals with patients about substance use and mental health.

The truth is Massachusetts legislators are treating guns like a deadly pathogen, and gun owners like carriers. Under the guise of protecting the community, the Democrat legislators want to quarantine gun owners and confiscated guns via “Red Flag” to prevent perceived outbreaks of violence.

“For many years the anti-civil rights crowd has tried to make gun violence a public health crisis. Now it appears that they want to treat simple gun ownership as a disease!” — Gun Owners Action League, website post

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Yes, Virginia, Democrats Are Coming for Your Guns

“Few of us thought it would happen in Virginia.” Michael Hammond, Gun Owners of America

On November 5, 2019, Virginia’s electorate handed the state over to Democrat Party rule, and 13 days later, State Senator Dick Saslaw introduced a bill to ban “every rifle of the common AR-15 design and a great many pistols and shotguns in common use for personal defense, target shooting, and hunting.”

SB 16, the bill Saslaw will sponsor in the 2020 legislative session, goes further than any previous American gun control law by making millions of handguns, shotguns, and semi-automatic rifles in Virginia immediately illegal, and anyone possessing one of the banned guns a felon subject to as much as five years imprisonment.

Saslaw’s bill will make it illegal for law-abiding Virginians to possess the firearms mentioned in the bill for home or business protection or for hunting or target shooting.

If Saslaw’s bill is enacted, Virginia gun owners will be required to surrender the firearms mentioned in the bill to law enforcement, or law enforcement officers will seize the firearms whenever and wherever they are located.

Virginia’s Democrat Governor Ralph Northam said there will be consequences for law enforcement officers who refuse to enforce his Party’s new gun control legislation.

“If … law enforcement officers are not enforcing those laws on the books, then there are going to be some consequences. But I’ll cross that bridge if and when we get to it.” — Ralph Northam, Democrat Governor, Virginia

Donald McEachin, a Democrat representative from Richmond, said Northam may have to deploy the National Guard to enforce the Party’s new law.

“[T]he governor may have to nationalize the National Guard to enforce the law. … I don’t know how serious these counties are and how severe the violations of law will be. But that’s obviously an option he has.” — Donald McEachin, Democrat representative, Virginia

McEachin also suggested cutting off state funds to counties that don’t comply with the Party’s new law.

Northam said that he and his Party intend to pass SB 2, a Universal Background Check bill, which could help law enforcement officers locate the Virginia gun owners who have illegal firearms.

“Under SB 2, virtually every gun purchase would have to be made through a dealer and evidenced by a Form 4473 — containing the name of the purchaser and the type of gun.

The ATF has been going around to dealers in connection with its annual inspection and recording the contents of these forms in a de facto national database. … Presto! A national gun registry of all semi-automatics!” — Michael Hammond, Gun Owners of America

It’s not a stretch to imagine that the ATF would share gun owners’ names with Democrat officials who want to know who owns illegal firearms in Virginia.

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said that the gun lobby is trying to scare people, and the law his Party intends to pass “are laws that will make our communities and our streets safer.”

“Virginia will pass universal background checks to make sure that people who are dangerous, who are criminals and who aren’t permitted to buy guns, won’t be able to buy guns. So, when Virginia passes these gun safety laws that they will be followed, they will be enforced.” — Mark Herring, Virginia Attorney General

Virginia Democrats cannot constitutionally legislate away a gun owner’s God-given individual rights to self-protection, and their SB 16 would do just that.

Leftist Democrats in Virginia are attempting to disarm Virginians through enforced gun control, and if successful other states will follow suit.

The Democrat Party intends to pass laws and implement policies to take guns from American citizens. Historically, gun confiscation has been tried before in this country.

“[I]n 1775 … Massachusetts governor, General Thomas Gage ordered British soldiers to confiscate firearms from civilians in the interest of thwarting a rebellion. The citizens, not standing for this unjust violation of their rights and safety decided to take a stand. In doing so, they set off the first battle of the Revolutionary War.”

Make no mistake, the party of Northam, Herring, and McEachin are coming for the guns, and law enforcement officers and National Guard units will be dispatched door-to-door to do what leftist regimes have done in Venezuela, Cuba, China, and other totalitarian countries.

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Why Are So Many Jews Leading Trump’s Impeachment Parade?

Donald Trump’s been one of the most pro-Israel and pro-Jewish presidents in American history.

“Indeed, when it comes to Israel and what truly matters to most non-leftist Jews worldwide, Trump has already secured a place as one of the most pro-Jewish presidents to inhabit the White House.” — Daniel Krygier, World Israel News

That said, a disproportionate number of leftist and moderate Jews have been working feverishly over the past two-and-a-half years to impeach him.

The first article of impeachment was filed in July 2017 by Brad Sherman a Jewish Democrat representative from California. Sherman accused the president of “obstructing investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.”

A month later, Steve Cohen, a Jewish Democrat Representative from Tennessee, filed articles of impeachment for comments President Trump made in the aftermath of the violent clash between far-left and far-right thugs at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In January 2018, Jewish Billionaire Tom Steyer decided to forego a run for president and campaign for Trump’s impeachment instead.

“I said last year that I’m willing to do whatever I can to protect our country from this reckless, lawless and dangerous president. Therefore, I will be dedicating 100 percent of my time, effort and resources working for Mr. Trump’s impeachment and removal from office. I am not running for president at this time.” — Tom Steyer, Jewish Billionaire

Steyer poured 30 million (of the 50 million dollars he spent in 2018 to impeach Trump) into his super PAC, NextGen America to help Democrats take over the House of Representatives. Steyer dumped another $40 million into his impeachment efforts this year.

Initially only leftist Jews called for the president’s impeachment. To get the impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives off the ground, moderate, centrist, and pro-Israel Jews had to board the impeachment train, too.

In July 2019, Jewish Democrat Representative Eliot Engel of New York, an influential moderate and leader among pro-Israel lawmakers, joined the left in calling for Trump’s impeachment.

Then another influential mainstream Jewish Democrat from New York, Nita Lowey, chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, added her voice to the chorus calling for impeachment.

Engel and Lowery had opened the door for other moderate and centrist Jewish Democrats to join the impeachment chorus. Representatives Max Rose of New York, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and Elaine Luria of Virginia voiced their support for an impeachment inquiry in the House.

Luria’s support for impeachment was noteworthy because she belonged to a group of moderate, centrist, and pro-Israel Jewish Democrat lawmakers who initially opposed the impeachment of the president.

To explain her about-face, Luria released an unusual video that was most likely directed towards Jews. The video shows Luria multiple times holding as a prop a white Hebrew bible inscribed with her name reciting the oath of office.

Tom Steyer wasn’t the only Jewish billionaire dumping his money into impeachment efforts. Billionaire left-wing activist George Soros also bankrolled the impeachment drive.

Soros has “literally paid the bills” for Norm Eisen who questioned witnesses during the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings. Soros also backed a “dark money” group‘s multi-million-dollar ad blitz urging swing-district Republican representatives to support the Jewish-lead impeachment inquiry.

The prominence of Jews leading and cheering the impeachment parade of a duly elected President hasn’t gone completely unreported in the U.S. The Religion News Service (RNS) did point out and identified the “disproportionate number of Jewish actors in this drama.”

Nonetheless, RNS is the exception. America’s media hasn’t acknowledged the impeachment’s “elephant in the room.”

It’s readily apparent that Jews are the driving force to remove Trump from the presidency, and it’s also apparent that only Jews in the Israeli media can say it.

Israeli news outlets have not shied away from the “elephant in the room.”  The articles below have appeared in The Jewish Telegraph Agency, The Times of Israel, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, and Forward respectively:

The Trump-Ukraine controversy, and the Jews involved, explained

The Tell: The Jewish players in impeachment

The Jewish players in the Trump impeachment hearings

These Jewish Lawmakers Helped Open the Door to a Trump Impeachment Inquiry

Jewish Democrats express support for impeachment inquiry against Trump

The Jews Of The Impeachment Showdown: A Visual Guide

Why are so many Jewish activists, politicians, representatives, lawyers, ambassadors, and committee chairmen and witnesses trying to impeach the President of the United States and overturn the 2016 election?

And why does the chairman of the Jewish Democratic Council of America blame the president for the increased violence and antisemitism in the country; and why does nearly 60% of Jews blame him for the terrorist attacks on the synagogues in Pittsburgh and San Diego?

It’s not bigoted or racist to ask questions and look for answers to find out what’s going on. If there were a disproportionate number of Mormons, Muslims, or Masons doing what the Jews are doing to oust a sitting president, Americans would take notice.

When all three committee chairman, their lawyers, their witnesses, and nearly everyone involved in these impeachment hearings are Jewish, it’s not anti-Semitic but patriotic to call attention to the “elephant in the room.”

 

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6-Year-Old School Children Pen Homosexual Love Letters

The clip below features a UK primary school teacher instructing 6-year-olds to pen homosexual love letters.

Primary school teacher Sarah Hopson tells Bewsey Lodge Primary School students, “You’re Prince Henry. You’re going to tell Thomas [Henry’s man servant] why it’s a brilliant idea for him to marry you.”

The school believes it’s imperative for children to learn about homosexuality at an early age.

“They’re going to go out into that world and find this diversity around them, and they’ll find that at a young age as well. And the more they can be accepting at this age, you’re not going to face it further on because the children will be accepting now and will be accepting this diversity around them.” — Sarah Hopson, primary school teacher

Bewsey Lodge Primary School, which teaches children ages 3 to 11, has received several awards for opposing “homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying.”

In June, the school became the first in its region to win a LGBT+ award.

The video featuring this class of 6-year-olds learning about “same-sex marriage” first garnered attention when it was shared on BBC Radio Manchester’s Facebook page.

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Mormon Church Cuts Deal: Now Exempt from Conversion Therapy Ban

Utah Governor Gary Herbert has announced that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) will now support the state’s ‘conversion therapy’ ban it had opposed earlier this year.

“Conversion therapy” is a loosely defined term used by media, politicians, and LGBTQ activists to discredit any therapy that claims to modify or change a person’s sexual behavior, i.e., from homosexuality to heterosexuality.

“These ‘therapy ban’ laws effectively kick the clients out of the driver’s seat of their own therapy and put politicians in the driver’s seat, instead. The government shouldn’t be deciding what people should do with their sexuality. Politicians have no business telling people their therapy goals are illegal. Nor do they have any business telling people that they, the politicians, know “who the client really is” and that the client’s legitimate identity must inevitably be ‘gay.'” — Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr.

Mormon leaders decided to support the ban after Herbert and Utah’s legislators “carefully tailored” the rule exempting LDS mental health therapists from it.

The newer version of the regulatory rule exempts LDS “clergy members or religious counselors acting in a religious capacity, or…parents or grandparents who happen to be a mental health therapist if they are talking to children or grandchildren.”

“If radical LGBT activists were so concerned about unethical practices in therapy, they would seek to ban therapeutic methods, like any method that uses shame, pain or coercion to try to change someone’s sexuality. … But that’s not what they’re doing. They’re actually outlawing treatment goals … to decrease one’s unwanted same-sex attractions in the privacy of one’s own therapy.” — Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr., clinical director, Breakthrough clinic

Although the Mormon Church opposes “same-sex marriage” and teaches that homosexuality is a sin, it denounces conversion therapy as abusive and supports banning the practice.

“The media and politicians have been using the term “conversion therapy” for any therapy that claims to modify sexuality from homosexuality to heterosexuality. But they’re not telling the full story. The term “conversion therapy” is broad, ill-defined, there’s no ethics code, no governing organization. And it’s generally practiced by unlicensed individuals.” — Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr., clinical director, Breakthrough clinic

The rule would ban Utah’s non-Mormon therapists from practicing conversion therapy on LGBTQ minors.

“[E]veryone has the right to walk away from sexual practices that don’t work for them. [However,] if those feelings are homosexual in nature, then it’s not OK to walk away. That it’s somehow “anti-gay” to want to walk away from homosexuality and to have help to do so.” — Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr., clinical director, Breakthrough clinic

People have the right to leave the homosexual lifestyle for any reason. America’s politicians, media, and LGBT advocates don’t understand or respect that desire for self-determination and individualism, the values that built this nation.

“Many hard-left proponents of identity politics hate the truth that sexuality isn’t set in stone. They approach the topic of sexuality from the political, non-scientific premise that it can’t change, that is to say, if you have these attractions, you are forever part of an oppressed minority group and it’s now your permanent identity, so all you can do is accept it. It’s very hard for them to acknowledge the reality that sexuality is something that can actually change and doesn’t comprise everyone’s core identity.” — Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr., clinical director, Breakthrough clinic

LGBTQ advocates, who’ve tried for years to ban what they call conversion therapy in Utah, praised the leaders of the Mormon Church for their crucial support of the ban.

The Church’s support was essential because the state’s governor, its majority of lawmakers, all six members of its congressional delegation, its two U.S. Senators, and nearly two-thirds of its population are Mormon.

“I’m grateful that we have found a way forward that will ban conversion therapy forever in our state.” Gary Herbert, Republican Governor of Utah

Utah’s conversion therapy ban will undergo a 30-day public comment period beginning Dec. 15 and will take effect January 22, 2020.

“Therapy bans take away the rights of clients and put politicians in control of the client’s own therapy. They’re often based on the outrageous unscientific notion that biological sex can change but an individual’s thoughts and feelings cannot. Nothing could be further from the truth.” — Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr., clinical director, Breakthrough clinic

Based on the American Psychological Association’s false claims that reparative therapy aka conversion therapy is unscientific and harmful to mental health, eighteen states, plus Washington, D.C., have now banned the therapy for minors.

What most people don’t know is the American Psychological Association (APA) stopped relying on science as the foundation for mental health diagnoses in 1973 when homosexual activists began pressuring and attacking APA committee members to change what disorders appear in the organization’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

For more on the story, see Utah set to become 19th US state to ban ‘conversion therapy,’ Utah banning ‘conversion therapy’ with Mormon church backing, and Legacy Continues for Pioneer in Reparative Therapy.

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