Steve Scully bio:
Steve Scully is C-SPAN’s Senior Executive Producer/ Political Editor/ Primary host. He is responsible for coordinating all aspects of C-SPAN’s campaign programming for C-SPAN, C-SPAN.org and C-SPAN Radio (now heard on XM/ Sirius.) In addition, he manages a team of field producers responsible for the editorial coverage of The White House, politics and special projects. He has managed election coverage for every presidential race since 1992, overseeing C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House” programming and developing media partnerships with CNN, NBC and the Associated Press. Elected by his peers from the White House press corps, he is the former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association (2006-07.) He has interviewed every U.S. President since Gerald Ford, as well as leading world leaders. In 2016, The Commission on Presidential Debates named Steve the back-up moderator for the three presidential and one vice presidential debate. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California-DC; University of Denver; University of Wisconsin and Pace University. Before coming to C-SPAN, Steve covered business, politics and local government as a reporter and anchor at WHEC-TV (NBC Affiliate) in Rochester, N.Y. Prior to that, he was an anchor and reporter at WSEE-TV in Erie, PA and WHBF-TV (CBS Affiliates) in Rock Island, Illinois. Steve taught several courses on the media & politics at St. John Fisher College & Nazareth College in Rochester, NY between 1988-90. While attending college, he served as an intern in the office of Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden, and later a staff assistant in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s communication office. In 1985, he earned his Master of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. Prior to that he received his Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Political Science from The American University in Washington, DC, graduating with distinction. He also studied media & European affairs at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark.) Steve Scully sits on several national civic boards, including the CJ Foundation for SIDS and First Candle, both devoted to the prevention of sudden infant death syndrome. He also serves on the board of the Jefferson Educational Society, a think tank in Erie, Pennsylvania designed to bring the best & the brightest ideas to the Northwestern Pennsylvania community. In 2015 Cable Fax Magazine listed him as one of Cable’s 100 “Heavy Hitters”. New York Newsday listed Scully, along with CBS’s Bob Schieffer as one of the media’s most influential movers and shakers in political programming. C-SPAN’s campaign coverage earned the network an Emmy, Peabody and Cable’s Golden Ace Award, the industry’s highest honor.In May 2019, the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters inducted him into the Television Hall of Fame. Steve and his wife Kathryn live in Fairfax, Virginia along with their four children–Mary Cathryn, a 2017 graduate of the United States Naval Academy; Daniel, a senior at James Madison University; Cristen, a sophomore at Penn State University; and Natalie, a fifth grade student at Silverbrook Elementary School.
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Transcript of Joe Biden's ABC News town hall
The former vice president answered voters' questions Thursday in Philadelphia. By ABC News October 15, 2020, 10:53 PM STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to get one more question this segment and it comes from Mieke Haeck. She's from state college Pennsylvania. This is your first presidential election that you're voting. MIEKE HAECK: It is. BIDEN: Hi, Mieke, how are you? HAECK: I'm good, thank you. I'm the proud mom of two girls, 8 and 10. My youngest daughter is transgender. The Trump administration has attacked the rights of transgender people, banning them from military service, weakening non discrimination protections and even removing the word transgender from some government websites. How will you as president reverse this dangerous and discriminatory agenda and insure that the lives and rights of LGBTQ people are protected under U.S. law? BIDEN: I will flat out just change the law. Every -- eliminate those executive orders, number one. You may recall I'm the guy who said -- I was raised by a man who I remember I was being dropped off, my -- my dad was a high school educated, well read man who was a really decent guy. And I was being dropped off to get an application in the center of our city; Wilmington, Delaware, the corporate capital of the world at the time. And these two men, I'm getting out to get an application to be a lifeguard in the African American community because there was a big swimming pool complex. And these two men, well dressed, leaned up and hugged one another and kissed one another. And I'm getting out of the car at the light and I turn to my dad. My dad looked at me and said Joey, it's simple. They love each other. The idea that an 8-year-old child or a 10-year-old child decides, you know I decided I want to be transgender. That's what I think I'd like to be. It would make my life a lot easier. There should be zero discrimination. And what's happening is too many transgender women of color are being murdered. They're being murdered. And I think it's up now to 17, don't hold me to that number. But it's -- it's higher now? HAECK: Yes. BIDEN: And that's just this year. And so I promise you there is no reason to suggest that there should be any right denied your daughter or daughters, whichever one or two ... HAECK: One. BIDEN: ... one, your daughter -- that your other daughter has a right to be and do. None, zero. And by the way, my son Bo, passed away; he was the attorney general in the state of Delaware. He was the guy who got the first transgender passed in the state of Delaware and because of a young man who became a woman who worked for him in the attorney general offices. STEPHANOPOULOS: We've got one more segment coming up. Thank you. BIDEN: And I'm proud of that. How Trump Can Outwit the Deep State and Remain in Power By Cliff Kincaid - October 15, 2020 If President Trump wins the November election, it will be a miracle. But miracles happen. Former Trump Campaign Deputy Chairman Rick Gates says the “Trump Factor” could be even bigger this year and that the projected “Blue Wave” could end up in ruins. If not, as the results come in, Trump will have to make the case in a national television address that the intelligence agencies have been misusing federal resources and government power for political purposes. He will have to argue that the election process has been subverted by the use of taxpayer and government resources to keep the Deep State in power. He will have to say that Big Tech companies, under the control of left-wing activists, abused their monopoly power under federal law to destroy the ability of his campaign to participate in a free and fair election. With Trump, our last freely elected president in power, he will have no choice but to remain in the White House until the gross attacks on our democratic republic and our rights as free Americans come to an end. These steps are necessary because, in my more than 40 years in Washington, D.C., I have never seen an alignment of forces like this mobilized against a freely elected president. This goes far beyond partisanship to subversion and treason. The forces and personalities arrayed against Trump include China, Russia, the Vatican, the United Nations, the CIA, the FBI, Wall Street, billionaires such as George Soros and Mike Bloomberg, organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Democratic Party, and some in the Republican Party and the “conservative movement.” As for the media, even Drudge and most of Fox News have turned against him. Big Tech has always been an enemy of the president, but the suppression by Facebook and Twitter of New York Post revelations about Hunter Biden using his father to make business deals in China and Ukraine is unprecedented. Personally, after attending one presidential debate, where various unidentified people were identified as disease-carriers, he has now survived the China virus. Previously, a would-be assassin, who was arrested with a loaded gun and a knife, mailed a letter with Ricin to the president. Pascale Ferrier was arrested with 234 rounds of ammunition at the “Peace Bridge” connecting the U.S. and Canada. Ricin is a known KGB poison weapon used to kill dissidents in a communist system of government. Trump is truly a dissident to the corrupt forces, known as the Deep State or the Swamp, dominating Washington, D.C. As to how this has happened, I have come to accept the view of the CIA’s legendary anti-communist mole-hunter James Jesus Angleton. He documented how intelligence officials are lost in a “wilderness of mirrors,” to use intelligence jargon, and outsmarted or even recruited by America’s enemies. As a result, I concluded the Deep State is dominated by the remnants of the Soviet KGB and that their headquarters is in Moscow, from which the Russian Revolution continues to spread its “errors,” as described in the Fatima revelations. Dr. Paul Kengor’s book, A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century, documents how, on the anniversary of Fatima, the Soviets carried out the May 13, 1981, attempted assassination of anti-communist Pope John Paul II. Reagan’s CIA director Bill Casey confirmed the Soviet role, in the face of official CIA resistance to the finding. A fan of Trump, the late Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky understood that Trump had nothing to do with the Russians. His book, Judgment in Moscow, describes how the Soviets/Russians manipulated the left for decades. Suddenly, however, the left “discovered” how Trump was supposed to be a Russian agent. He told me in an interview shortly before his unexpected death, “For the first time, the left-wing establishment discovered the Russian threat. Previously, they didn’t see any threat. When it was real and we tried to attract the attention of the world to the Russian threat, we were accused of being paranoid and unrealistic and things like that. Now we have proven we were not paranoid. It did exist. Suddenly, the world discovers the Russian threat. That, of course, is a political game.” In other words, the charges against Trump were disinformation, staged for partisan political purposes. As we know, one of their most successful disinformation themes was the phony Russia-gate dossier, paid for by Hillary Clinton and based on Russian sources. Clearly, the Trump presidency has threatened powerful interests in government, corporations, and the media which are committed to the “convergence” of capitalism and communism through such mechanisms as “free trade” and involvement in global institutions. Before the dossier disinformation, as I documented in The Sword of Revolution and the Communist Apocalypse, was the so-called “Sino-Soviet split,” accepted by Henry Kissinger and the CIA to justify accommodation with the Red Chinese communists. Here, too, the evidence indicates the CIA has been completely infiltrated. Just consider a May 20, 2017, New York Times article about how the Chinese regime “systematically dismantled” CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, two years after Obama took power, “killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.” Another fruitless mole hunt took place. With this background, the idea that former Trump National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn was in any sense a Russian agent was undermined by the contents of his own book, The Field of Fight, arguing that Russia and China are behind an “enemy alliance” of countries and movements trying to destroy the U.S. That’s one of the reasons why he was targeted. He threatened to expose the Deep State’s faulty intelligence on geopolitics. The search initially launched by Angleton led to such notorious characters as FBI counterintelligence special agent Robert P. Hanssen, a Soviet/Russian mole inside the bureau. His record of treason spanned 22 years, from 1979 to 2001. Robert S. Mueller, the Russia-gate special counsel, became FBI director after Hannsen was caught. Mueller then failed to reform the bureau to catch future spies. Rep. Devin Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was most recently upset with revelations that CIA Director Gina Haspel is stonewalling the release of Obamagate documents. Obamagate is the scandal that involved the previous administration deciding to use the intelligence agencies to undermine the peaceful transfer of power to the Trump Administration. They produced the fake Russian dossier to do that. Nunes, who wrote the conventional conservative book, Restoring the Republic, in 2010, now seems to understand that restoration is not possible without dismantling the structures and institutions captured by socialist and communist operatives. These operatives, through favors or blackmail, pull the strings of the major media, in an ongoing intelligence operation that considers many journalists to be “Presstitutes,” or hired hands. There was in fact a book by that name written by German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, who died under mysterious circumstances. He documents how journalists around the world echo the views of government and corporate officials belonging to such groups as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission. It’s significant that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, apparently armed with blackmail material in the form of videos of powerful people, was a member of both groups. He, too, died under mysterious circumstances. Epstein was found guilty of sex crimes in 2008 but remained a member of the CFR from 1995 through 2009. He was dropped from the rolls for nonpayment of dues and not because of sex crimes. Cindy McCain, who says “We all knew what he [Epstein] was doing,” has endorsed Joe Biden for president. Her husband, the late Senator John McCain, who lost a winnable election against Obama in 2008, peddled the phony Hillary-financed Russian dossier to the FBI. In the Flynn case, as you may recall, wiretapped conversations were illegally leaked to CIA mouthpiece and CFR member David Ignatius of The Washington Post. The Deep State is an entity which overlaps with the military industrial complex that was first identified publicly by another Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower. Demonstrating the dangers of this cabal, the famous 1964 film "Seven Days in May" included a scenario where the top military brass revolt against their Commander-in-Chief. In the movie, the president wins. In real life, in 2020, we may soon find out. In contrast to the movie version, the top military brass today are globalists, not nationalists. Many leave military service to serve on the boards of defense contractors. The Project On Government Oversight released a report finding that “from 2008 to the present over 380 high-ranking Department of Defense officials and military officers became lobbyists, board members, executives, or consultants for defense contractors within two years of leaving the Department.” Hence, they oppose Trump’s decision to end foreign wars and pressure “allies” to spend more of their own money on their defense. At this late date, intelligence agencies are stonewalling in response to his directive to release all classified documents on Obamagate. As if we needed more proof, it is apparent they don’t answer to Trump. The opposition to Trump is already talking about his victory on election night being a “Red Mirage” that will dissipate with manufactured and fraudulent mail-in ballots. In response, Trump will have to declare victory based on legitimate ballots and remain in power. The Supreme Court may be called upon to validate that victory by rejecting the stolen and manufactured votes. His opponents will call for a military coup to overthrow him. All that Trump will have left is the people. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Watch: ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing II – The Gender Agenda’
PRESS RELEASE For Information, Please Contact: October 13, 2020 Michelle Johnson Director of Communications EWTN Global Catholic Network 5817 Old Leeds Road Irondale, Alabama 35210-2198 USA(205) 795-5769 – Office (205) 441-6248 – Cell (205) 795-5781 – Fax [email protected] Watch: ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing II – The Gender Agenda’ The Long-Awaited Sequel to the Highly-Acclaimed “A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing” Irondale, AL (EWTN) – EWTN’s new film, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing II – The Gender Agenda,” examines the origins and depravity of the so-called Sexual Revolution, with its current emphasis on gender dysphoria and homosexuality, and explains how the battle over marriage and family will be won. The film airs at 10 p.m. ET Thursday, Oct. 15; and Saturday, Oct. 17. The Oct. 17 airing will be preceded at 8:30 p.m. ET by the original “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” documentary, which explores the rise of Marxism in the U.S. The new film begins with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, whose existential philosophy started a dumbing-down of the culture. But the two-hour program really shines in its exposure of Alfred Kinsey’s fake science and child abuse, which kicked off the Sexual Revolution, and its corresponding assault on marriage and family. It was Kinsey – with his “research” involving 200 sexual psychopaths, 1400 sex offenders and more – who birthed a man like Hugh Hefner and a woman like Kate Millet, co-founder of the National Organization of Women. It fact, it is Millet’s sister Mallory, Director of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, who tells viewers that every meeting of NOW opened with a call to destroy the American family. She reveals that their plan was to destroy both the American Patriarch and the ethic of monogamy by promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution, abortion and homosexuality. We also learn it was Kinsey’s sex therapists, and Communists such as Bella Dodd (who told Dietrich and Alice von Hildebrand that she helped infiltrate U.S. seminaries with 1,100 Communists), who helped usher in the sex abuse crisis which has roiled the Catholic Church in modern times. “[Current revolutionaries understand] “what earlier radical movements such as the Communist movement understood, which is that you’ve got to take down God…because religion gets in your way,” says Dr. Paul Kengor, Author and Professor of Political Science at Grove City College. Fortunately, the film does not leave viewers without hope. The final third of the program transitions to calls from Archbishop Fulton Sheen, St. Louis Marie de Montfort, Fatima Visionary Sister Lucia and others who not only predict what will happen, but show viewers that the way out is actually the way up. In the film, Archbishop Sheen decries those who, even in the 50s, were tearing down schools, tearing down churches, tearing down teachers, tearing down the government, and tearing down the police. He said: “Can you build anything down?” He says it’s time for our nation to change the words we use. “Let’s begin now to use the word up. Up from all this filth, up from the violence, up from the indifference of course, up, up to God!” De Montfort says the time will come – or perhaps is already here – when the Lord will raise up saints, devoted to the Blessed Virgin, who will surpass in holiness all the other saints, a word that is meant to both challenge and comfort us. The current assault is nothing more than “a house of cards,” says Brian Camenker, founder and director of Mass Resistance, a leading nonprofit that provides information and guidance to people who confront the assault on traditional family, school children, and the moral foundation of society. “[And while] it is not permanent…it’s not going to go away by itself. It’s going to take a push and it can either happen now or it can happen in 80 years like the Soviet Union. It’s up to us.” Pre-order your copy of “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing II-The Gender Agenda” here: http://bit.ly/ERCHDWGA. EWTN Global Catholic Network, in its 39th year, is the largest religious media network in the world. EWTN’s 11 global TV channels are broadcast in multiple languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week to over 300 million television households in more than 145 countries and territories. EWTN platforms also include radio services transmitted through SIRIUS/XM, iHeart Radio, and over 500 domestic and international AM & FM radio affiliates; a worldwide shortwave radio service; one of the largest Catholic websites in the U.S.; electronic and print news services, including Catholic News Agency, “The National Catholic Register” newspaper, and several global news wire services; as well as EWTN Publishing, its book publishing division. DNA Denial and the Rights of the Unborn By Cliff Kincaid – October 12, 2020 With pro-abortion media bias all around us, you have to find pro-life messages in unusual places. Watching a rerun of a “Shark Tank” episode, one product was advertised as “Belly Buds” for pregnant women, so the baby in the womb can hear music and voices. You mean a baby is alive? How did the corporate censors let this message slip through? One of my favorite posters shows an unborn baby inside a tree with the admonition, “Pretend I’m a tree. Save me.” It cuts to the heart of those professing concern for the environment without taking into account whether humans survive in it. After 63 million abortions, perhaps we need a “Human New Deal” for the unborn, recognizing their God-given rights. The “Green New Deal” is designed for liberals who want to appear compassionate about the earth, not the people who inhabit it. They think stopping cow farts is more important than saving human lives. We know mothers can feel the movements of life inside them. The father can place his hand on the tummy and feel them as well. It’s no wonder mothers want their babies to hear nice and soothing sounds. There is nothing more beautiful than a mother’s love. On the other hand, there is nothing more tragic and pathetic than a mother who kills her own children. On Monday, during Judge Barrett’s first day of hearings for the Supreme Court, we saw Democratic Senators desperately try to avoid the issue of the humanity of the unborn. As California Attorney General, Senator Kamala Harris actually authorized a raid on a pro-life journalist who exposed how abortion has led to the trafficking for profit of aborted baby parts. She has no children or her own but doesn’t want women or men to understand how the abortion industry is an evil institution that specializes in the destruction and sale of human life and human body parts. How evil can it get? The Grand Jury report on abortionist Kermit B. Gosnell’s “Women’s Medical Society,” where “really big” abortions were scheduled on Sundays, documented how fetal remains were stored in orange juice cartons and cat-food containers. Rows of jars contained the severed feet of fetuses. On one occasion, Gosnell performed a “Mother’s Day Massacre” on patients bused to his clinic, using an experimental device called a “super coil” consisting of plastic razors to perform abortions. There is no rationale or excuse for this barbarism. Gosnell went to prison, after being convicted on murder charges, but abortion continues to take the lives of the innocent. When my wife and I had our first child, the ultrasound images were grainy. They are much clearer now. They clearly show a human being with a beating heart. The Knights of Columbus place ultrasound machines at pro-life pregnancy centers so women have the opportunity to view their unborn children. They want mothers to have the information denied to them by Planned Parenthood and the Big Tech corporate entities. Senator Kamala Harris once questioned how a nominee for a federal judgeship could belong to the Knights of Columbus. She asked, “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” Then she asked, “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when you joined the organization?” Harris, who claimed during the vice-presidential debate to be a person of faith, believes that a baby, unique from the moment of conception because of its DNA, is the property of the mother, in the same way slaves were the property of slave owners. The term “marriage equality” was made up to deny male/female biological differences in order to justify men marrying other men. Abortionists and the LGBTQ lobby are big backers of the Biden-Harris ticket. Biden/Harris are DNA deniers who oppose the scientific proof of human life and human differences. None of the evidence of the humanity of the unborn has anything to do with a particular religious view of when life begins. Instead, it’s a matter of biological science. President Reagan’s pro-life essay, which was published 10 years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand, drew upon moral considerations but also medical and scientific evidence. He noted that 1981 Senate hearings on the beginning of human life brought out the basic issue more clearly than ever before. “The many medical and scientific witnesses who testified disagreed on many things, but not on the scientific evidence that the unborn child is alive, is a distinct individual, or is a member of the human species,” he said. At the March for Life in 2017, Vice President Mike Pence said, “Life is winning through the steady advance of science that illuminates when life begins, more and more, every day.” Common sense tells you human life begins at the moment of conception. Science proves it. In the riveting movie “Unplanned,” based on the real-life story of Planned Parenthood official Abby Johnson, she is brought into witness an abortion for the first time and is alarmed when the baby in the womb tries to escape the instruments of the abortionist. “It was twisting and fighting for its life,” she said, as she watched the extinction of a human life. The 1988 film, “She’s Having a Baby,” is not explicitly pro-life but is about a young couple, played by Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern, struggling with infertility. The ending packs a pro-life punch. After a very difficult pregnancy, the mother tells her husband, who is in tears, “We have a boy,” and they hug. Scientifically speaking, “At conception, your baby's DNA is set and most features are determined, including eye color and blood type,” states the non-political site babycenter.com Can anyone seriously deny it? Hence, to be pro-abortion is a form of DNA denial at the most basic stage of human development. The implications, of course, do go beyond science to morality and religion. “Mary was pro-life” is one of my favorite slogans. It should also say, “Mary is pro-life.” She was the handmaiden or servant of God. We need more women to follow Mary’s example. Based on her life and testimony, including publicly stating her belief in the power of prayer, we can assume Judge Barrett is one of them. “I would like to thank the many Americans from all walks of life who have reached out with messages of support over the course of my nomination. I believe in the power of prayer, and it has been uplifting to hear that so many people are praying for me,” she said. God bless America. There is hope for the unborn. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org A Judge Filled with Love for Humanity By Cliff Kincaid – October 11, 2020 A Christian wife and mother with pro-family views, federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an example of how light can survive the darkness of America’s decent into demonic corruption so deep that it includes the dismemberment of live babies to harvest their body parts. As long as America can produce women who love their families and children, there is hope. President Trump’s nomination of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court is enough to consider his legacy one of true conservatism. It’s now up to the Senate to confirm her. Introducing Judge Barrett to the nation, Trump said, “Her family is a core part of who Amy is. She opened her home and her heart and adopted two beautiful children from Haiti. Her incredible bond with her youngest child, a son with down syndrome, is a true inspiration. If confirmed Justice Barrett will make history as the first mother of school-aged children ever to serve on the U.S Supreme Court. That’s good. To her children, Emma, Vivian, Tess, John Peter, Liam, Juliet and Benjamin. Thank you for sharing your incredible mom with our country. Thank you very much. Amy Coney Barrett will decide cases based on the text of the constitution as written.” There is no “right” to abortion in that constitution. In response, we have seen the reemergence of what columnist Marc H. Rudov once called the “fascist feminists.” These feminists detest women who assume roles as successful wives and mothers and defend the unborn. The media, always determined to maximize damage to Trump and/or his nominees, have run stories suggesting Barrett is too religious. They cite her membership in a Christian group where women were called handmaidens. Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, referred to herself as the “handmaid of the Lord,” also translated as “servant of the Lord.” As the trusted voice of far-left fascist feminism in the nation’s capital, the Washington Post ran a story in 2016 about Trump’s decision to pick Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate that said, “Trump had a problem with women voters. Pence could make it even worse.” What was Pence’s problem? Well, he “has endorsed controversial legislation on abortion and Planned Parenthood.” That means he wanted to limit or eliminate government funding for both. Post reporter Katie Zezima neglected to mention that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, was founded by Margaret Sanger, a revolutionary socialist and anti-Christian activist. She reported Democrats “wasted no time pouncing on Pence, whom they described as extreme, anti-woman and anti-gay.” Anti-woman? Pence favors the right to life of unborn women. He supports traditional marriage and human life. The fascist feminists, like the United Nations, regard abortion, the act of destroying an unborn child, as a human right. At the debate with Senator Kamala Harris, Pence said, “I’m pro-life. I don’t apologize for it.” He added, “I couldn’t be more proud to serve as vice president to a president who stands without apology for the sanctity of human life.” Harris has no children of her own but says of her two stepchildren, “They are my endless source of love and pure joy.” Yet, as California Attorney General, with backing from Planned Parenthood, she prosecuted the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) for exposing trafficking in aborted baby parts. Videos showed Planned Parenthood executives discussing how much money they charge for each human baby body part from their abortion victims. “Kamala Harris colluded with Planned Parenthood to attack CMP's speech and silence our reporting about fetal trafficking,” says David Daleiden of CMP. A video from Catholic Vote exposes how armed agents invaded Daleiden’s home to seize his cameras, computers, and videos. This is not to say that the Trump Administration has done everything possible on the pro-life issue, or that this is a partisan issue. Chanting “Hey Hey Ho Ho Fetal Dismemberment Has Got to Go,” Democrats for Life of America (DFLA) joined other pro-lifers in front of the Office of the U.S. Attorney General on October 8 “to protest the DOJ’s silence and lack of action on the documented trafficking of fetal parts.” The DFLA said, “Attorney General Bill Barr has been sitting on evidence of Planned Parenthood’s wrongdoing for far too long. This delay effectively advances the work of suppressing pro-life activism that Vice Presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, set out to do when she illegally seized CMP’s footage. In the meantime, the DOJ has instead prosecuted marginalized Native Americans for selling eagle body parts.” One of the groups participating in the protest is called Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. That’s appropriate, since Ronald Reagan once said, “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” The death toll from abortion has surpassed 63 million. One of those survivors, Nick Sandmann, is best known for having been smeared by CNN, the Washington Post, and other media, for wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in 2019. Many forget he was there because he had been participating in the annual March for Life. His pro-life activism had a role in motivating the media hate towards him. The media are filled with hate. Amy Coney Barrett is filled with love. She is an example for America and one of the great hopes for the survival of our nation. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Disband the Debate Commission: Even Bob Dole Knows It’s a Deep State Scam
By J.C. Hawkins - October 10, 2020 From the Forgotten Street With the bait and switch The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) tried to pull on President Donald Trump by changing the format without getting input from his campaign, it’s clear the commission is a total sham and scam. It should be disbanded immediately. Of course, we knew that well before the commission decided to make the second debate between President Trump and Joe Biden into a virtual town hall event in Miami. In that way, Mr. Biden would have access to his teleprompter. Thank God, President Trump spoke up right away and said it would be a waste of his time. By doing so, he let everyday Americans on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, know he won’t let The Deep State jerk him around. You can learn all you need to know by looking at the list of moderators selected for the debates and witnessing the shameful performances of Chris Wallace and Susan Page, two Washington fixtures who are the epitome of total journalistic hackery. Now, Bob Dole, a true Republican stalwart and great American patriot, has spoken up to call out alleged Republicans on the commission for their lack of support for President Trump and GOP interests. Yesterday on Twitter, Dole tweeted: “The Commission on Presidential Debates is supposedly bipartisan w/ an equal number of Rs and Ds. I know all the Republicans and most are friends of mine. I am concerned that none of them support @realDonaldTrump. A biased Debate Commission is unfair.” To his everlasting credit, Bob Dole has been a staunch Republican who always supports the party, its platform and candidates. He’s endorsed and supported President Trump in his election bids, unlike much of the RINO GOP hierarchy. Consider the disgraceful behavior of both George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. They ignored the 2016 GOP convention nominating Donald Trump, because of their outright snobbery and Deep State membership. Since then, W. Bush has failed to step up and defend President Trump from the onslaught of Democrat hoaxes aimed at undermining and destroying his presidency. Instead Bush chooses to pal around with the Clintons and Obamas, which speaks volumes about his character. While we’re on that topic, we also have to question the patriotism of former presidents Carter, H.W. Bush, Clinton, W. Bush and Obama for their failures to abide by the tradition that ex-presidents refrain from criticizing sitting presidents during times of national crisis. Naturally, Barack Obama has been the worst offender. But then, he was never a patriotic American to begin with. He wears his hatred of The United States and everyday Americans on his sleeve. He’s a globalist stooge. Back on topic, Jesse Watters of The Five on Fox News took the debate commission to task last Thursday by running down the list of alleged Republicans on the commission and how they’ve openly spoken out against President Trump in the past. The CPD board of directors is a haven for Democrats and Never Trump Republicans like former senators John Danforth and Olympia Snowe. But the worst fraud is Co-Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, former chairman of the Republican National Committee. He’s given every signal he’s a Deep State Swamp Creature through and through. Steve Scully, the moderator picked for the scheduled debate in Miami, is political editor for C-Span and a former intern for Joe Biden and former employee of Senator Ted Kennedy. No bias there! This week it came to light that on Scully’s Twitter account there is a tweet from Scully to Trump hater Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired as White House communications director after President Trump figured out what a weasel Scaramucci is. The tweet sought advice on how to respond to President Trump on the change in the debate format to a virtual event. Scully now claims the tweet is fake, and that his account was hacked. Did the dog eat his homework too? Fahrenkopf has stepped up to propagate this sham by supporting Scully’s absurd account. The CPD co-chair defends changing the debate format by saying it was necessary to protect participants from being exposed to the China Virus. But, it wasn’t necessary to consult the Trump campaign before announcing the change. The CPD deliberately wanted to blindside President Trump. He went even further with this lame excuse. He questioned President Trump’s assertion that he’s testing negative for the disease. He’s saying there is “no evidence” that Trump has tested negative. So, in essence, he’s saying the president and his doctor, Sean Conley, are liars. There’s more abundant evidence that the CPD is a haven for Deep State Swamp Creatures with no integrity. The entire process is rigged in the favor of Joe Biden, and the commission is a total scam that must be abolished immediately. The American people deserve a presidential debate process that is fair and transparent, the exact opposite of the mess we have now. We can thank people like Jesse Watters, Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole for stepping up to question the CPD’s integrity and bring the issue before the American public. It’s bad enough the Elite Traitor Media are doing all they can to skew the election in Joe Biden’s favor. We no longer have a free press in the United States. We have Fake News and phony commissions lined with people who have no intention of carrying out their responsibilities in a fair manner. Bob Dole represents the best of the political Old Guard, a true patriot who believes in playing by the rules and fighting spirited political battles in an above board manner. God bless him! Unfortunately, his breed is no longer represented in the political class today. As Senator Dole said in his 1996 presidential campaign against President Bill Clinton, “Where’s the outrage?” Unhappily, the outrage is left to independent, investigative journalists like us who recognize the Deep State and the D.C. Swamp for the great threat they pose to our democratic republic and our liberty. Does Joe Biden Have Brain Damage? Take a Serious Look
By J.C. Hawkins - October 7, 2020 Reprinted from The Forgotten Street That question is not posed flippantly, or to be cruel. As is well known, earlier in his life Joe Biden suffered two brain aneurysms that required major surgery. Obviously, he was able to recover and live a productive life. But, as his political career advanced, and he aged, he became known for a series of so-called “gaffes,” when he said things that sounded a little off the mark or even bizarre. It occurred to me these might not be “gaffes.” He also has developed a behavior problem with women and young girls in which he fondles them inappropriately, earning him the moniker, “Creepy Joe.” All this may have a medical explanation. I believe Joe Biden has a condition called “encephalomalacia,” which is a fancy medical term for a “softening” of the brain, more commonly known as brain damage. This condition is a common occurrence in patients who undergo brain surgery or suffer a traumatic brain injury. When the cranium is opened up in a surgery known as a “craniotomy,” the patient is highly likely to experience some damage to brain tissue. In the case of an aneurysm that has ruptured and bled, the aneurysm and related blood clot must be removed by the neurosurgeon. The affected artery must have a titanium clip installed to shut off the bleeding. Blood interacting with brain issue is like oil on water. The involved tissue is going to be damaged, sometimes permanently. It’s quite possible Joe Biden has suffered some damage to the frontal lobe of the brain, which is the area that controls your behavior and what you might say. In essence, it can impair the filter in the your brain that keeps you from blurting out something inappropriate or from doing something unseemly. This fact would certainly explain those elements of Joe Biden’s behavior that some find concerning. Intensive rehabilitation and cognitive therapy after an episode like a ruptured aneurysm or stroke can minimize the effects of the damage and retrain the brain to compensate for what’s happened. It’s likely that when Joe suffered his brain injuries in February and May of 1988, some of these rehab techniques hadn’t been perfected. His problems might be compounded by the simple fact of aging, and the related dementia issues that might arise as one gets older. Given this background, it’s clear Joe Biden should not be ridiculed or mocked for his behavior, which may be beyond his control. But, on the other hand, it’s readily apparent that someone with this condition has no business being President of the United States. If he wants to rebut or allay these concerns, he should immediately undergo an MRI or electroencephalogram (EEG) to determine the extent of his encephalolamacia. An EEG is like an EKG of the heart that is done on the brain to determine if there are any abnormalities. Those results must be shared with the public. There can be no denying Joe Biden has some form of encephalomalacia. Everyone who undergoes brain surgery is virtually certain to have some measure of it. How would I know all this? From personal experience. In August, 2008, I suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm and hemorrhagic stroke. The chances of survival and recovery in my case were extremely remote. But, thanks to the world-class surgeons and medical staff at the Shands Hospital of the University of Florida in Gainesville, and the incredible therapists and staff at Brooks Rehabiltation Hospital in Jacksonville, and the related Brooks Clinic in St. Augustine, I got on the road to a 100% recovery. None of that would have been possible without the heroic support of my wonderful wife and daughter who helped me fight back and get stronger. However, credit must go to where it is ultimately due. I was blessed by a loving God who spared me. He gave me the opportunity to still lead a productive life. Even my surgeon said my complete recovery was miraculous. Follow up examinations show I have a mild form of encephalolamalacia that is under control. It doesn’t inhibit me in any way. Since my illness 12 years ago, I have held a responsible corporate position, served as a consultant to leading companies, and written two books. I share this story because I believe the American people living on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, are owed total transparency about Joe Biden’s health and medical conditions. It’s been completely ignored and covered up by the Elite Traitor Media in its relentless drive to defeat President Donald Trump. We can count on The Deep State to attack me for revealing this information. But the stakes are too high to leave it buried and out of the public eye. Let’s put this issue front and center for what remains of the 2020 presidential campaign. UPDATE: Associated Press reports: Trump’s former 2016 rival [Chris Christie] told The Associated Press on Oct. 2 that the last time he was with the president was Sept. 29 in Cleveland during preparations for his debate with former Vice President Joe Biden. He tweeted the morning of Oct. 2 that he had last tested negative ahead of that first presidential debate and was not having any symptoms then.
What Really Happened to President Trump in Cleveland at the Debate? By J.C. Hawkins - October 8, 2020 Originally published at The Forgotten Street After the fireworks of the September 29 debate between President Trump and Joe Biden in Cleveland came the shocking news the President and First Lady had tested positive for the China Virus. At first they were quarantined in the White House, but suddenly President Trump exhibited troubling symptoms that prompted his transfer to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. It didn’t take long for sickos on the Left to wish for the President’s death and for members of The Elite Traitor Media (ETM) to blame him for contracting the illness. Those of us on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, immediately took to prayer to seek God’s help in healing the President and First Lady. As detailed in our October 3 Buzz About Town, alarm bells went off immediately as we recalled previous unsavory events at the Bethesda hospital and received calls from concerned patriots around the nation. Last Monday night, J.C. Hawkins had a stimulating radio interview on WHKW in Cleveland on the “Monday Night Roundtable” hosted by George Csatary and Steve Kraus. Given their local knowledge of the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University where the debate was hosted, J.C. picked up some valuable insight on what took place there. George and Steve really dug into the matter quickly to discuss it with their audience. The Cleveland Clinic is renowned as one of the finest medical facilities in the world. It was tasked with handling the precautionary procedures to ensure the debate could take place and not expose participants or the audience to the China Virus. After news of President Trump’s illness became known, the Clinic revealed 11 people associated with the debate had tested positive for the virus. Here is the official statement released: “It’s important to clarify the 11 people who tested positive never accessed the debate hall. These individuals were either members of the media and were scheduled to work logistics/setup in the days prior to the event. Individuals did not receive credentials or tickets to enter the debate hall until they had a negative test, and all were advised to isolate while they awaited their test results.” While some are questioning the Clinic’s performance in handling how people would be protected from the virus, the Clinic issued a statement outlining its precautions and procedures: “Our thoughts are with the President, First Lady and all of our guests. As health advisor to the Commission on Presidential Debates and the host site, we had requirements to maintain a safe environment that align with CDC guidelines – including social distancing, hand sanitizing, temperature checks and masking. Most importantly, everyone permitted inside the debate hall tested negative for COVID-19 prior to entry. Individuals traveling with both candidates, including the candidates themselves, had been tested and tested negative by their respective campaigns. Based on what we know about the virus and the safety measures we had in place, we believe there is low risk of exposure to our guests. Out of an abundance of caution, we are reaching out to our guests to address any questions and concerns. We will continue to monitor the information being released by the White House.” Based on what we’ve learned since the debate, it is clear that the hall was likely in good shape regarding the virus. So, in order to determine how President Trump might have been exposed, we have to consider a broad range of possibilities. Of course, because adviser Hope Hicks had tested positive, the ETM are trying to pin it on her. She traveled with the president to Ohio and then on to Minnesota after the debate. The Wednesday morning following the Tuesday debate, she was tested prior to boarding Air Force One. The results were negative. She developed symptoms later in the day on Wednesday and then tested positive. President Trump was surprised because he said she often wore a mask. Upon returning to Washington, and knowing about Hicks’ positive test, he and the First Lady went into quarantine and awaited their own test results. Following the timeline and seeing how events unfolded in Cleveland, we’re left with this disturbing question: Are there Deep State moles in the Secret Service and White House Staff? We believe the China Virus was manmade in a laboratory in Red China with the specific aim of creating a weaponized form for biowarfare. Chinese scientists who’ve left the Evil Empire out of fear for their safety have said so. We also believe the Chinese have developed an antidote its agents can use to protect themselves while infecting others. Consider the doctors in China who mysteriously came down with the disease and died after trying to be whistleblowers. They fell victim to the gangsters in the New Evil Empire. That leaves us considering this disturbing possibility: President Trump was exposed to a form of the virus through its introduction to his environment by a rogue Secret Service agent or staff member secretly working for The Deep State. No doubt people will criticize me immediately for impugning the Secret Service. While I greatly respect and admire the job they do, we’ve seen past instances when members of law enforcement and the Intelligence Community have betrayed their country (Robert Hanssen, FBI and Aldrich Ames, CIA). Frankly, there are the gaps in Secret Service security protocol that occurred with both the John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan shootings. Both cases are detailed in J.C.’s book, Betrayal at Bethesda II: Origins of the Modern Deep State & Fake News. Upon falling ill, President Trump has been treated with a wide range of experimental therapeutics, which raises an entirely new concern. We have to trust that the doctors had good reason to persuade him to undergo the treatments and that he hasn’t been put in danger as a result. While some are concerned the experimental drugs might pose a further risk to President Trump’s health, I believe the doctors would exercise the utmost caution in doing so. Being known as the doctor who had the President of the United States die while under his care is certainly no resume enhancer. When a President of the United States falls ill, it should be a time for the country to rally around him and hope for the best in the interest of national unity and national security. We’ve been subjected to seeing just how far into the depths of outright treason our nation has been sinking. It’s no surprise the ETM and entertainment idiots would pile on and castigate the President. But to have Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer display their abominable behavior in speaking out against President Trump and blaming him for getting sick is beyond disgusting and shameful. Now Mrs. Pelosi is talking about using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump because of his health. She is a vile traitor for even raising that possibility right before a national election in a time of national crisis. Those three are among the biggest traitors in the United States ever, given all they’ve done to prolong the economic downturn and undermine the Trump presidency. Of course, Joe Biden’s debate partner Chris Wallace had to chime in by criticizing President Trump and his family for not wearing masks at the debate. Fox News has completely destroyed its brand by letting this Fake News charlatan become the face of their network. Given my suspicions about how President Trump contracted the virus, we’re left with the disturbing conclusion that we might never know. After all, who can we trust to investigate the matter? The FBI, the DOJ, the Secret Service? Not bloody likely. Frankly, each has been compromised by The Deep State and can’t be trusted to do their jobs. Remarks by President Jair Bolsonaro at the General Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly – September 22, 2020
September 22, 2020 - 12:37 Mr. President of the United Nations General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, whom I am pleased to greet in our mother tongue, Heads of State, Government and Delegation, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honor to open this Assembly together with representatives of sovereign nations, at a point in time when the world needs the truth to overcome its challenges. Covid-19 has become the center of attention over the course of this year and, first of all, I wish to express my sorrow for each and every life lost. From the very beginning, in my country, I warned that we had two problems to solve, the virus and joblessness, and that both issues had to be addressed simultaneously and with the same sense of responsibility. As determined by court ruling in Brazil, all measures involving social distancing and restrictions of movement were delegated to each of the 27 Governors in the Federation. The President, in turn, was assigned the responsibility for sending out resources nationwide. As was the case in much of the world, segments of the Brazilian media have also politicized the virus by spreading panic among the population. Under the mottoes “stay at home” and “we will deal with the economy later on”, they almost brought about social chaos to the country. But our administration in a bold step put in place several economic measures that prevented a greater evil. Emergency relief was granted in installments adding up to approximately 1,000 dollars for 65 million people, the largest assistance program for the poorest in Brazil and perhaps one of the largest in the world. More than 100 billion dollars were allocated to cover healthrelated actions and help small and micro enterprises; measures were also taken to offset the loss in revenue collection in state and local governments. More than 200 thousand indigenous families were assisted with foodstuffs and covid prevention efforts. In close contact with healthcare professionals, we encouraged early treatment of the disease. 400 million dollars were dedicated to the research, development and production of the Oxford vaccine in Brazil. In Brazil, hospitals did not lack the means to cater to covid patients. The pandemic teaches us a major lesson, which is that we cannot possibly depend on just a few nations for the production of essential inputs and means for our survival. The hydroxychloroquine input production alone had a 500% price increase at the onset of the pandemic. Brazil is thus open for the development of state-of-the-art technology and innovation efforts, such as 4.0 Industry, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and 5G technology, with all partners who respect our sovereignty and cherish freedom and data protection. In Brazil, despite the world crisis, agricultural production never stopped. Farmers have worked harder than ever, producing food to feed over 1 billion people. Brazil has indeed helped to continuously feed the world. Our truck drivers, maritime, port and aviation workers have kept the entire logistics chain fully active and ensured distribution domestically and into the export markets. Our agribusiness remains vibrant and thriving and, above all, it has and respects the best environmental legislation on the planet. Even so, we are victims of a most brutal disinformation campaign about the Amazon and the Brazilian wetlands. The Brazilian Amazon is known to be immensely rich. That explains the support given by international institutions to this disinformation campaign anchored on shady interests coupled with exploitative and unpatriotic Brazilian associations with the purpose of undermining the Government and Brazil itself. We are leaders when it comes to the conservation of tropical rainforests. We have the world’s cleanest and most diversified energy mix. Even as one of the world’s ten largest economies, we account for only 3% of carbon emissions worldwide. We provide food security to one sixth of the world’s population, even while preserving 66% of our native vegetation and using only 27% of our territory for animal husbandry and agriculture. These are figures that no other country has. Brazil stands out as the world's largest producer of foodstuffs. And for that reason there is such a strong interest in spreading out disinformation about our environment. We are open to the world to offer our very best, i.e., our agricultural products. We have never exported so much. The world increasingly relies on Brazil to feed itself. Ours is a tropical rainforest and as such it does not allow fire to be spread out within it. Fire outbreaks tend to occur virtually at the same places, in the eastern surroundings of the forest, where Brazilians of indigenous ancestry burn their farmlands in search of livelihood in already cleared areas. Criminal fire outbreaks are fought with stringency and determination. I stand by my zero tolerance policy towards environmental crime. Together with Congress, we have sought land regularization with a view to identify the perpetrators of these criminal acts. May I call to mind that the Amazon Region is larger than the whole of Western Europe. Hence, the difficulty of fighting not only fire outbreaks, but also illegal logging and biopiracy. In response, we are currently expanding and enhancing the use of technology and improving inter-agency operations, which include the engagement of the Armed Forces. Our wetlands, with an area larger than many European countries, just as California, faces the same problems. Large fires are the inevitable consequence of high local temperature coupled with the accumulation of decaying organic matter. Our concern for the environment goes beyond our forests. Brazil’s National Marine Debris Program, one of the very first initiatives of this kind, has designed a strategy for our coastline, which spans over 8,500 km. Accordingly, Brazil made every effort at the COP25 in Madrid to establish, under the provisions of the Paris Agreement, an effective international carbon market. Unfortunately, however, the forces of protectionism prevailed. In 2019, Brazil was the victim of a criminal seepage of Venezuelan oil, sold without proper control, which resulted in serious damage to the environment and major losses to the fishing and tourism industries. Brazil deems it important to respect the freedom of navigation as established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Accordingly, environmental protection rules must be respected and criminal acts investigated in a timely fashion, so as to ensure that criminal offenses such as that perpetrated against Brazil will not affect other countries. Brazil stands out not only on the environmental preservation front, but also on the humanitarian and human rights agenda, an area where Brazil has become an international benchmark reference given our commitment and dedication in supporting Venezuelan refugees who reach Brazil through the border state of Roraima. Operation Welcome, led by the Brazilian Ministry of Defense, has received almost 400,000 Venezuelans displaced as a result of the deep political and economic crisis bred by the Venezuelan dictatorship. More than 4,000 Brazilian members of the military have taken part in the operation, which consists of a humanitarian logistical task force with a view to welcoming, sheltering and internalizing newly arrived families at the border. As a founding member of the United Nations, Brazil is committed to the basic principles of the UN Charter: peace and international security, cooperation among nations, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. As the organization reaches its 75th anniversary, we now have the opportunity to renew our commitment and loyalty to these ideals. Peace cannot possibly be dissociated from security. Cooperation among peoples cannot possibly be dissociated from freedom. Brazil has enshrined the principles of peace, cooperation and the prevalence of human rights in its own Constitution, and has traditionally contributed to translate them into reality. Brazil has by now taken part in more than 50 peacekeeping operations and related missions and has, as such, contributed with more than 55,000 members of the military, police officers and civilians, with remarkable involvement in the Suez Canal, Angola, East Timor, Haiti, Lebanon and the Congo. Two Brazilian female members of the military were acknowledged by the United Nations for their work against sexual violence as part of the UN Mission in the Central African Republic. We remain committed to completing the trade agreements signed between Mercosur and the European Union as well as the European Free Trade Association. These agreements contain important provisions that reinforce our commitment to environmental protection. Under my administration, Brazil finally puts behind a protectionist tradition and has now adopted trade liberalization as a key tool for growth and transformation. I reaffirm our commitment to the reform of the World Trade Organization, which must provide us with the relevant disciplines in line with the new international realities. We are also approaching the official process for Brazil's accession to the OECD. To that end, we have already put in place the world's highest standards in all areas, to include financial regulation, digital security and environmental protection. In my first year in office, we have successfully carried out the pension reform and, more recently, we submitted two new reform bills to Congress, to include the tax system and the administrative reform of the state apparatus. New regulatory frameworks in key sectors, such as sanitation and natural gas, are also being put in place. They will attract more investments, provide economic stimulus and create jobs and income. In 2019, Brazil was the world’s fourth largest destination of foreign direct investment and, in the first half of 2020, despite the pandemic, we have seen an increase in the inflow of investments as compared to the same period of last year. This is a clear-cut evidence of the world's confidence in our government. In coordination with South Atlantic partners, Brazil has been working to reinvigorate the South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone. Brazil is concerned with and repudiates terrorism in all parts of the world. In Latin America, we continue to strive for the preservation and promotion of democracy as a cornerstone of the economic progress we all desire. Liberty is humankind’s greatest asset. I call upon the entire international community to protect religious freedom and fight against Christophobia. I also wish to reaffirm my solidarity and support for the people of Lebanon in the wake of the recent hardships they have endured. We believe that the time is right for us to open up new and more optimistic horizons for the future of the Middle East. The peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and between Israel and Bahrain – three friends of Brazil with which our government has greatly strengthened relations – are excellent news. Brazil also welcomes the Plan for Peace and Prosperity launched by President Donald Trump, which features a promising vision to resume the path towards a much-desired solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after more than seven decades of efforts. Brazil's new policy of simultaneously pursuing closer relations with Israel and the Arab countries is very much in line with those initiatives, which finally shine a light of hope for that region. Brazil is a Christian and conservative country, and has family as its foundation. May God bless us all. Thank you very much. |