s Obama obstructing Christian president of Nigeria to help the Muslim opponent?

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Is Obama obstructing Christian president of Nigeria to help the Muslim opponent?

Hat tip to James Simpson at Accuracy in Media for sharing this exclusive story.

Simpson story brings up a very, very disturbing question, which once again must be filed under just whose side is Obama on?

As background, while Michelle Obama was promoting her hashtag campaign to #bringbackourgirls after Boko Haram’s mass kidnapping, the Obama administration was working behind the scenes to completely undermine Nigeria’s efforts to combat the terrorists.

Simpson writes, “Obama refused to sell Nigeria arms and supplies critical to the fight, and stepped in to block other Western allies from doing so. The administration also denied Nigeria intelligence on Boko Haram from drones operating in the area. While Boko Haram was kidnapping school girls, the U.S. cut petroleum purchases from Nigeria to zero, plunging the nation’s economy into turmoil and raising concerns about its ability to fund its battle against the terrorists. Nigeria responded by cancelling a military training agreement between the two countries.”

But at least we had that hashtag campaign going!

Now you’d think Obama would be more supportive of Nigeria, considering it’s a fairly new democracy. For the most part since its independence in 1960, Nigeria has been ruled by dictatorships.

However – and here’s the kicker – Nigeria’s current leader, Dr. Ebele Goodluck Jonathan, is a Christian. 

Nigeria’s presidential election is this Saturday and Jonathan’s opponent is “Retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim presidential candidate from Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram was spawned and wields the most influence.”

And guess who’s assisting Buhari with his campaign? 

None other than the consulting firm AKPD, founded by David Axelrod. You might remember him. Simpson describes him as “ the force behind President Obama’s election victories in 2008 and 2012. He served as Obama’s Senior Advisor until 2011. A well-placed Nigerian interviewed for this report who asked to remain unidentified says that influential Nigerians within and outside the government believe Obama deliberately undermined the war effort and sabotaged the Nigerian economy to make President Jonathan appear weak and ineffectual, and thus bolster the electoral prospects for AKPD’s client, Buhari.”

Simpson says “the Obama administration has said it is barred from supplying weapons (to Nigeria) by the so-called Leahy Amendment which forbids foreign states that have committed “gross human rights violations” from receiving military aid.” 

“However this did not stop the U.S. from sending Special Forces to Uganda—another country accused of such violations—to assist in capturing Lord Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony. Nor did it prevent Obama from supporting al-Qaida-linked rebel groups in Libya, who later went on to attack the Benghazi mission, and have now joined ISIS. The Syrian “moderates” the administration claimed to back are also allegedly joining with ISIS.”

“In fact, Obama supported the Islamic radicals who destabilized states throughout the Middle East, including Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, and did little to prevent Iranian-backed Shiites from overthrowing Yemen—a key ally in the War on Terror. And despite claims that the U.S. “does not negotiate with terrorists,” the administration did so in secret with the Taliban for years, most notoriously over the release of Bowe Bergdahl.”

And in case you’ve been living under a rock, our State Department is currently making a deal that will allow Iran to eventually obtain a nuke and just waved a magic wand that makes Iran and Hezbollah no longer terrorists. 

You can read the rest of Simpson’s insightful article here, but could there possibly be any more damning evidence that our president is on the side of the Islamists?

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RFRA Gets a Hearing

Former Attorney General Mike Bowers testifies against the Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Tuesday afternoon, a special subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee conducted a three hour long hearing on Senate Bill 139, the Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The committee took introductory testimony from the bill’s sponsor, Senator Josh McKoon, and then an hour’s worth of testimony from supporters and opponents of the measure. 

Supporters, including Mike Griffin, representing the Georgia Baptist Convention and Georgia Right to Life, Tanya Ditty with the Concerned Women of America and Adam Woodward with the Center of Law and Religion, were among those speaking in favor of the bill. Many of the speakers put forward incidents they claimed would be resolved more promptly if Georgia had a RFRA, although by my reckoning, all referred to issues involving mainstream Christianity, and none dealt with smaller, minority religions. And virtually all asked that the bill be passed without amendments, including former State Rep. Bob Snelling, who said, “I am here to ask you to allow a full House vote on the unamended bill. To deny this would be an irresponsible act of legislative injustice.”

Leading off the opposition to the bill was former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers. Representing Georgia Equality, Bowers maintained that the bill provides an excuse to discriminate and an excuse to exclude. He claimed that citizens will become arbiters of the law and would be making law unto themselves on issues including vaccinations and school coursework. In questioning from committee members, Rep. Barry Fleming asked why Bowers didn’t present any examples of discrimination against gays as a result of RFRAs passed in other states. Bowers had no good answers to that.

Other speakers opposed to the bill included a representative from the Georgia Hotel and Lodging Association who said that two organizations planning conventions in Atlanta have threatened to go elsewhere should RFRA pass, and Merwin Peake, the brother of State Rep. Allen Peake, who used the example of bakeries refusing to serve a gay couple as a reason to oppose the bill.

The major witness against the bill, however was former State Rep. Edward Lindsey. Lindsey had a seat in front, almost at the table that the committee sat on, and he presented an alternative version of the bill that offered civil rights protections to those that might be discriminated against. Building on the editorial that first appeared in Peach Pundit last Friday, Lindsey took almost half an hour of questions from committee members who treated his proposal, which you can see at the bottom of this post, as if it were a substitute for McKoon’s bill. 

What’s next? Chairman Wendell Willard indicated that he planned to call another meeting of the special subcommittee on Wednesday. At that point, they could recommend SB 129 or a substitute, possibly based on Lindsey’s proposal, to the full Judiciary Committee, which is expected to meet on Thursday. If that scenario holds true, a version of the Religious Liberty bill could be heard in the Rules Committee on Friday, making it possible to have a vote in the full House on Tuesday, March 30th, Day 39 of the legislative session.

You can read the text of Lindsey’s proposal below the fold. 

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DO WE REALLY NEED A GOVERNOR FOR PRESIDENT?

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Mark Levin just OBLITERATED the argument ‘we need a governor for president’

You know the argument some people are making against Ted Cruz, that we need a governor to be president? Well let me tell you, Mark Levin just completely obliterated that argument like no one else I’ve heard. And he didn’t do it in the name of Ted Cruz or any specific candidate. But it’s awesome and something you’ll definitely want to hear:

 

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We Are ‘Synthetic Children’ And We Absolutely Agree With Designers Dolce & Gabbana

Until Dolce and Gabbana came out last week in support of traditional parenting, I honestly had not ever given a second thought to babies created through reproductive technologies. Babies are babies and they are a miracle. All parents want children and it is a modern wonder that if they cannot conceive, they can turn to technology. However, there is no substitute for having your actual parents and growing up with them. I would die for my children – we don’t always agree, but they can turn to mom and dad no matter what. I myself, never really knew my mother as my parents divorced when I was two. In that case, it was good riddance – she was not a good person. But my actual father was my best friend and I am very much like him. He was my world and when he died in my arms of a double heart attack in 1999, I was devastated. I would not have traded anything in my life for having the time with him that I did. He saved me over and over and I will always love and adore him.

From The Federalist:

In the study “My Daddy’s Name Is Donor,” it was found that, “Regarding troubling outcomes, even with controls, the offspring of lesbian couples who used a sperm donor to conceive appear more than twice as likely as those raised by their biological parents to report struggling with substance abuse,” an alarming result displaying the reality of being raised without both genetic parents.

Some suggest that spending more money on making children means that they are more loved. Our children are definitively wanted, they say.

“The baby doesn’t care anything about the money,” says marriage and family therapist Nancy Verrier, regarding the issues surrounding surrogacy. “That’s not what hurts the baby. The baby is hurt by the separation, by the loss of that mother that it knows.” This ever-present realization of loss remains with both mother and child throughout their lives. Nature has ensured that mothers and children attach to one another, as it is a trait necessary to our survival; without motivation to love or instinctively care for her child, why would a mother protect her children from potential danger? She wouldn’t, and that would have heralded the end of our species. With this biological connection so immediate and meaningful, why doesn’t society view maintenance of that connection as more imperative?

Dolce and Gabbana are realists whose daily work consumes their time with raw natural materials. They work hard to understand the practical applications and limitations of tangible things—silks, leathers, jewels, studs. As masters of their art, they know what is possible, and what is foolish to attempt. They owe their success to their understanding, appreciation, and honoring of the human body.

Growing up donor-conceived, it has been a great struggle to comply with the commandment “Honor thy mother and thy father,” because in order to obey the desires of one parent we must agree to the obliteration of the other. We plead, we beg: let us honor both our mothers and fathers as essential and irreplaceable.

Thank you, Domenico and Stefano, for your bravery.

I can relate missing having a mother. It makes things much harder and lonelier. That’s not to say you can’t love adoptive or surrogate parents – but there is a special bond between a child and their parents. It is survival – it is natural. The way children are produced these days and the unusual makeup of families is very confusing for those children and they have to be that much stronger to come out the other side as a balanced adult. There is no substitute for a traditional family. The belonging, the bond and the love transcends culture and time. It is irreplaceable. 

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A Holocaust Survivor Tells of Auschwitz at 18 and, Again, at 90

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As the last survivors of the Holocaust age, we know that hearing these people tell their stories will keep this horrific chapter in the history of the Jewish people – and the world – from being forgotten. The New York Times’ Alison Smale does just that as she writes of a Jewish woman who was sent to Auschwitz as a teenager, and who has returned as an elderly woman to visit this place where dozens of her family members were murdered:

HIGH above the hubbub of Budapest’s main tourist street, Eva Fahidi flits, birdlike, around her warm apartment, lined with books and plants. The setting is cozy, and the hostess and narrator, at 90, a lingeringly beautiful charmer. So the contrast with the Holocaust horror she is describing is all the more complete.

When she was 18, she was, as she put it, “ripped off the school bench to be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau,” one of an estimated 437,000 Hungarian Jews rounded up outside Budapest and dispatched to death camps in just 57 days in 1944.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, she recalled, “was not ready. It was too fast. The gas chambers were big enough that people could still be suffocated to death. But the crematories could not manage. So corpses were being burned on open fires.”

“Really, at the very first moment you knew something was wrong. It was the huge stench of burning corpses — only we didn’t know.”

Ms. Fahidi lost 49 relatives in the Holocaust, including her mother and sister Gilike, then 11. Her last glimpse of them was on the ramp at Birkenau, where arriving Jews were sorted into those sent instantly to the gas chambers and those — like Ms. Fahidi — selected for hard labor and thus a chance at survival. She was later transferred from Auschwitz to Münchmühle, a camp near Stadtallendorf, in the German state of Hesse.

HER father also perished in the camps, whose horror she has chronicled in a memoir in this 70th year since the liberation of Auschwitz, and which she wishes to see judged, finally, when a former Auschwitz guard goes on trial in Germany in April.

“When I came home from the Holocaust,” she said, using an everyday phrase in German that seems implausible when containing so much tragedy, she ran right past the house in Debrecen, eastern Hungary, where her prosperous family had lived.

The house was so rundown, she said, that “I knew instantly I would not have anyone to look for.” The inhabitants “were complete strangers who really did not let me in my own home…”

“One of the biggest lies is that time could help,” she said. “Time does not help. It only deepens the feeling that something is missing. One simply learns to live with such trauma. And if you don’t get to the point where you can forgive them, then I think you can’t go on living.”

“I needed a lot of time,” she said. “Six decades.”

After that 2003 visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ms. Fahidi declared it her duty to share what she remembered, and wrote her memoir, “Die Seele der Dinge,” or “The Soul of Things,” published in German in 2011 and later in Hungarian.

She hopes especially to encourage scrutiny of the past in Hungary, which like other central and eastern European nations has not really examined its history of the era.

“At some point it has to come,” she said. “Because much repeats in history, and if you don’t know what happened and what consequences it has, then it can happen very quickly again.”

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Georgia Senate scales back transportation funding bill

The Georgia Senate Friday narrowly passed a watered down transportation funding bill that would raise substantially less revenue for transportation projects than legislation passed by the state House of Representatives. 

The Senate version of the bill, which passed 29-25, would replace Georgia’s sales tax on gasoline with an excise tax of 24 cents per gallon. The House bill would set the excise tax at 29.2 cents a gallon. 

Senators also amended the bill on the floor to do away with a proposed highway user fee of $25 a year on every car registered in Georgia, $50 annually on trucks and $10 a year on motorcycles. Opponents said the fee, which had been added to the bill by the Senate Transportation Committee to compensate for the lower excise tax, was too reminiscent of the "birthday" tax on motor vehicles that the legislature abolished several years ago. 

Senators who supported scaling back the bill argued the House version poses too big a tax increase. 

“Georgians are taxed enough,” said Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell. “We can solve this problem without burdening them further.” 

Like the House bill, the Senate version still would impose a registration fee on non-commercial electric vehicles of $200 a year and $300 a year on commercial EVs. Albers made an unsuccessful bid on the Senate floor to reduce those annual fees to $95 on non-commercial EVs and $195 on the commercial version of the vehicles. 

The Senate bill also includes a $5 daily fee on rental cars that was not proposed by the House.

Both chambers' versions of the bill would eliminate the state’s $5,000 tax credit on leases and purchases of electric vehicles and jettison a state sales tax exemption on jet fuel that goes primarily to Delta Air Lines Inc. 

The Senate’s Republican majority also rejected amendments proposed by Democrats aimed at encouraging the Georgia Department of Transportation to award more contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses. 

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BILL CLINTON ‘UNAWARE’ BROTHER-IN-LAW ON BOARD OF HAITIAN GOLD MINE THAT LANDED RARE PERMIT

New reporting by the Washington Post finds a gold mine in Haiti. Or, at least, confirms previous reporting from Breitbart News about a gold mining contract in that troubled country.

In an expose about the controversial Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the newspaper’s Kevin Sullivan and Rosalind S. Helderman write that:

Controversy surrounding the Clintons only deepened with the recent revelation, contained in an upcoming book by Peter Schweizer, that Tony Rodham — Hillary Clinton’s younger brother — serves on the advisory board of a U.S.-based company that in 2012 won one of Haiti’s first two gold-mining permits in 50 years. After objection from the Haitian senate, the permits have been placed on hold.

“Neither Bill Clinton nor the brother of Hillary Clinton are individuals who share the interests of the Haitian people,” said Samuel Nesner, an anti-mining activist who thinks mining poses great environmental risks and will mainly benefit foreign investors. “They are part of the elite class who are operating to exploit the Haitian people.”

Clinton Foundation officials said Bill Clinton had been unaware of Rodham’s involvement in the mine project. A spokesman for Hillary Clinton said she does not know the chief executive of the mine.

If the former president is unaware of his brother-in-law’s activities in Haiti, that only proves he doesn’t read Breitbart News.

Earlier this month, we reported that, “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a self-described mining company that in 2012 received one of only two ‘gold exploitation permits’ from the Haitian government—the first issued in over 50 years.”

There’s still plenty more for the Post to investigate:

The Rodham gold mine revelation is just one of dozens featured in a forthcoming bombshell investigative book by three-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer, according to a Thursday statement from publishing giant HarperCollins.  The publisher says the book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, is the culmination of an exhaustive one-year deep dive investigation into the nexus between the Clintons’ $100+ million personal wealth, the Clinton Foundation, and the decisions Hillary made as Secretary of State that benefited foreign donors, governments, and companies.

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