BREAKING CHRISTIAN NEWS – January 12, 2024

In addition to asserting a false reality that one’s sex can be changed, transgender surgeries and drugs have been linked to permanent physical and psychological damage, including cardiovascular diseases, loss of bone density, cancer, strokes and blood clots, infertility, and suicidality.

(Columbus, OH) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The Ohio House voted to override Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation that bans the chemical and surgical mutilation of gender-confused kids, sometimes referred to as “sex changes.” The legislation also prohibits gender-confused males from competing against females in women’s sports. (Image: Ohio Statehouse /via Pixabay)

The House passed the legislation, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, again on Wednesday by a vote of 65-28. The Ohio Senate convenes again on January 24 and could vote to override the governor’s veto.

The moderate Republican governor vetoed the legislation at the end of December after lobbying from LGBT activists.

Last week, he signed a limited executive order that adopted state health department rules to “prohibit gender transition surgeries on anyone under the age of 18 in Ohio’s hospitals and health care facilities, including ambulatory surgical facilities,” as reported by LifeSiteNews. However, it does not protect kids against hormone injections nor contain protections for female athletes.

DeWine echoed a favored talking point of some Republicans, saying the government should not be involved in whether kids can have permanent surgical and chemical changes. The same libertarian argument has been used by failed presidential candidates and former governors Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson.

He also cited the often made but baseless claim that children who are not allowed to present themselves as the opposite sex will commit suicide. The claims of the alleged “benefits” of surgical and chemical interventions have been repudiated by credentialed medical experts, and numerous European countries are moving to restrict the procedures.

In addition to asserting a false reality that one’s sex can be changed, transgender surgeries and drugs have been linked to permanent physical and psychological damage, including cardiovascular diseases, loss of bone density, cancer, strokes and blood clots, infertility, and suicidality.

In any case, it is not possible for someone to change his or her sex… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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[FoxNews.com] The Texas National Guard has seized control of a park at the US southern border and is now blocking Border Patrol from entering the area—part of an effort to stop the surge of illegal immigration into Texas …The Border Patrol union confirmed to Fox News that agents were being blocked from entering by Texas soldiers, and praised Abbott for taking matters into his own hands. “Governor Abbott is not harming Border Patrol operations, he is enhancing them,” National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd said in a statement. “His seizing control of Shelby Park allows our agents to deploy to troubled spots that experience high numbers of gotaways. Governor Abbott’s actions should be seen as a force multiplier”… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read.

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Court documents stated that he “would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers. In order to achieve these larger refunds, Castro generated false deductions, that were not based in fact, and which were submitted without the taxpayer’s knowledge.”

[PJMedia.com] Oh, the irony: a man who has worked for years to get Trump dropped from ballots because he supposedly led an “insurrection” is now facing federal tax charges, which, like Trump and the Jan. 6 nonsense, he vehemently denies. So now John Anthony Castro, a man who also wants to be your next president, knows what it feels like to be saddled with charges that he insists are false. (Screengrab image)

For several years now, Castro has dedicated his life to trapping and destroying the left’s great enemy: he has filed numerous challenges to Trump’s eligibility to appear on presidential ballots on the claim that he led an “insurrection.” He has, however, found the time to keep busy with other matters as well: The Hill reported that Castro “was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he filed 17 sets of false tax documents to the IRS.”

Castro, a graduate of Georgetown University Law School, is not even close to being a serious human being: he bills himself as a “2024 Republican Presidential Candidate Suing Trump to Disqualify Him for January 6.” So even if Castro had the remotest chance of becoming the Republicans’ 2024 nominee, he simultaneously demonstrates that he is wholly unsuitable as a candidate because of his participation in the left’s authoritarian efforts to remove the man whom he apparently sees as his chief competitor from the competition.

And now, as if it weren’t enough to be a foe of the democratic process whom nobody has ever heard of, Castro has the added handicap of federal tax charges. Court documents stated that he “would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers. In order to achieve these larger refunds, Castro generated false deductions, that were not based in fact, and which were submitted without the taxpayer’s knowledge.”

Should a man who engaged in such practices, if Castro really did, become president? Should he be the one who determines whom Americans can vote in as their president, and whom they cannot?… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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[Breitbart.com] The United Nations healthcare agency—the World Health Organization (WHO)—has given transgender activists a majority of the seats in a panel that is drafting healthcare policies for children … One of them is reportedly a controversial Canadian trans activist who has a strong influence on the Chinese app TikTok and says puberty blockers should be prescribed to all children, regardless of their gender identity, so they can “choose” their gender rather than being assigned one by society… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read.

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While the Biden administration’s censorship agenda is permeating society, it is not too late to fight back…

[Newsbusters.org] Executive Summary: The MRC Censorship Investigation Project has uncovered the Biden administration’s latest effort to silence Americans. Utilizing FOIA, state public record laws and other investigative tools, MRC has learned that the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security have funded a censorship effort that trains teachers to “inoculate” students against conservative ideas and American ideals. It also trains educators to turn children into activists and to use censorship tools in classrooms across the nation. (Image: via MRC Newsbusters)

This report details how the State Department began this censorship push through a year-long series of seminars coordinated by the University of Rhode Island and its German counterpart. These seminars commenced in June of 2021 and concluded in April of 2022. Part 2 of this report will detail how the Department of Homeland Security took over the administration of this endeavor and expanded it nationwide.

The State Department trained educators on how to “inoculate” students against ideas not approved by the left. Over 700 educators participated in a year-long series of State Department seminars hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”). These seminars provided tools to train teachers on how to censor speech. Examples include video games designed to entice children to embrace leftist narratives and to compel them to use tech platforms that collude with the government to surveil and censor.

The State Department seminars detailed how to put censorship tools Ad Fontes and NewsGuard into American classrooms. The Media Research Center has already detailed how both Ad Fontes and NewsGuard partner with Big Tech to divert people away from conservative media and to media that promote a left-wing agenda. The State Department pushed curricula that included how to use NewsGuard’s “plug-in” (a computer program that displays the hopelessly biased rating NewsGuard gives each media site) and how to incorporate Ad Fontes’s rigged “Media Bias Chart” into lesson plans. The NewsGuard portion of the curricula was funded, in part, by activist billionaires George and Alexander Soros.

• A separate MRC study showed NewsGuard ranks leftist media 26 percentage points higher, on average, than right-leaning media.
• An MRC study found that Ad Fontes favors leftist media by a two to one margin.

A session of the State Department seminars centered on how to train children as political activists. The curriculum pushed in this session included lessons promoting street protests for leftist causes and detailed instructions on how to turn school children into “media producers” who advocate against free speech. Educators were told to reward children with prizes for promoting censorship via social media posts on platforms like Instagram.

The State Department seminars were co-hosted by a German government institution and focused on bringing German indoctrination strategies into American classrooms. It is noteworthy that Germany was chosen to co-host the seminars: the nation’s government has been the most aggressive European Union power censoring online speech and restricting individual expression. The Rhode Island Lab’s partner in Germany was the University of Würzburg, a controversial state entity with a long history of censorship; the curricula was often developed with German government funds and was crafted, in part, by a vice chairman of the country’s socialist ruling party.

Part 2 of this report will detail the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to bring this effort to scale and roll it out nationwide.

How the Biden Administration Pushed German Censorship to American Teachers

The Biden administration has created an interconnected web of public and private actors to silence political dissent across the United States.

This network involves a dizzying array of actors: federal agencies, state officials, local politicians, academia, activist groups, non-profits, a lobby shop, media ratings firms, billionaires, the public school system, and foreign governments.

The Biden regime, through a year-long series of State Department seminars, has quietly incubated this censorship project through one organization: the University of Rhode Island Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”). The Rhode Island Lab has spent two decades pushing a specific strain of “media literacy,” a rebranding of censorship for a Gen Z audience. With the Biden administration’s backing, the Rhode Island Lab has been able to supercharge its efforts, rolling out its programs nationwide to a vast and incestuous network of connected organizations for the administration to direct.

This report details the incubation part of the Biden administration’s endeavor: a year-long series of seminars hosted and funded by the State Department in Würzburg, Germany. It was here that the Rhode Island Lab first trained American educators on European socialist strategies for bringing indoctrination into the classroom to “inoculate” students against conservative ideas and turning students into leftist political activists. Part 2 of this report will detail how the Department of Homeland Security provided the funds necessary to implement the programs developed in Würzburg and bring them to communities and classrooms across America.

1. The State Department trained educators on how to inoculate students against ideas not approved by the left.

One would think that the United States Embassy to Germany would be focused on advancing the interests of the United States in Germany. Under the Biden administration, though, it was the reverse. The US Embassy set up a “year-long, cross-national professional learning community,” dubbed the “Medialogue on Propaganda,” in order to export German socialist ideas of censorship to American educators.

The series of seminars, which consisted of eleven segments and stretched from June of 2021 to April of 2022, were hosted virtually out of Würzburg, Germany. Over 700 educators were trained at the seminar, with a select eighteen American teachers paired with European instructors to create model “lesson plans” for use in United States classrooms.

The seminars were jointly conducted by two universities and financed by the American taxpayer. On the German side was the University of Würzburg’s Media Education & Educational Technology Lab, a German government entity. On the American side was Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”).

Part of the University of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Lab has spent two decades pushing a specific strain of “media literacy,” a glossy rebranding of censorship for a Gen Z audience. Despite being part of the public (and thus taxpayer-funded) University of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Lab had a long history of far-left activism even before it applied for (and received) the State Department’s $30,000 grant for a series of seminars…

Click Here to read Part 1 of this extensive report in its entirety.

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Conclusion

Through the Rhode Island Lab, the State Department trained American educators on German socialist strategies for bringing indoctrination into the classroom, “inoculating” students against conservative ideas, turning students into leftist political activists, and putting the Ad Fontes and NewsGuard censorship tools into classrooms. The State Department provided a perfect demonstration of the Rhode Island Lab’s ability and the resources it could bring to the table. In a forthcoming follow-up report, the Media Research Center (MRC) will detail how, having honed its strategy, the Rhode Island Lab secured finances from the Department of Homeland Security to bring the theories discussed during the State Department seminars into action. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Recommendations:

While the Biden administration’s censorship agenda is permeating society, it is not too late to fight back:

• Parents should call their local school boards and check if Ad Fontes or NewsGuard have been imposed in their children’s classrooms. If so, parents should demand the censorship tools be removed.
• State legislatures must bar taxpayer dollars from going to Ad Fontes and NewsGuard.
• Congress must defund all domestic censorship efforts (appropriations and authorizations).
• Congressmen and state attorneys general must investigate media literacy advocacy groups like Media Literacy Now for receiving potentially unlawful kickbacks from censorship firms.

[FoxNews.com] Police in the Canadian province of Quebec warned citizens against posting surveillance footage of their packages being stolen because it could violate the “private life” of the alleged thieves. “Montreal West is known for its large porches, but around the holidays, those porches are a big target for thieves or ‘porch pirates,'” CTV News Montreal video journalist Olivia O’Malley  reported on Saturday. “It’s something we deal with on a daily basis”… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read and watch the video.

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“…around 59,000 households in cities … had no water supply…” -from Japan Today

[IFAPray.org] Father, shield and restore the people of Japan; bless them with Your love and peace at this distressing time. Help Japan rebuild and heal. (Screengrab image)

New Year’s celebrations in Japan were interrupted by a powerful earthquake that caused over 200 deaths. Now the Japanese government is working to pick up the pieces, rebuild, and help those who’ve survived.

From Japan Today: The Japanese government on Thursday designated the powerful earthquake that rocked Ishikawa Prefecture and other parts of central Japan on New Year’s Day as a “disaster of extreme severity,” boosting subsidies for reconstruction work in affected communities…

Over 25,000 people remained in nearly 400 evacuation centers in Ishikawa Prefecture as of Wednesday afternoon… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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