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I declare President Biden has a duty to follow the guidelines Senator John Warner, former Secretary of the Navy, put into law in dealing with Insurectionists. The American Christian Taliban has subverted our Democracy, and rendered us and our allies powerless to deal with our enemies, at home, and abroad! Demand that Jim Jordon, and other neo-Confederates sign The Iron Clad Oath!
“Flying The Flag For Global Britain”
Posted on April 27, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
The “ghost fleet” I saw through Victoria Rosamond Bond, is going to set sail. The contact I had with my muse, Rena Easton, has changed the world and set a new course that has strengthened the alliance between the allies who defeated Hitler.
Seer Jon
Britain is sending a huge naval force through some of the most tense waters in Asia (msn.com)
The largest naval flotilla assembled by Britain in recent years will set sail in May on a months’ long voyage through the Pacific, the country’s Defense Ministry said Monday.
“When our Carrier Strike Group (CSG) sets sail next month, it will be flying the flag for Global Britain — projecting our influence, signaling our power, engaging with our friends and reaffirming our commitment to addressing the security challenges of today and tomorrow,” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said. Monday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2007
Heathwood, 8 Wildwood Road, Hampstead (February 27, 1932-April 1939)
Heathwood is the Hampstead (North London) home where Elizabeth was born in 1932. Located on 8 Wildwood Road, the three story, 5082 square foot red brick Georgian style home designed by Matthew Dawson was built in 1926. Inside, the home has six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a living room, a sitting room, a large kitchen/breakfast room, and even servant’s accommodations. The home was previously owned by the esteemed painter Augustus John, whose paintings remained on the walls when the Taylors moved in. A few years later, Augustus John’s success in America would be in large part due to Francis Taylor, who sold his paintings exclusively in the United States.
Outside the home features lush gardens, described by Elizabeth’s mother, Sara Taylor as having “tulips almost three feet high, forget-me-nots, yellow and lavender violas, flaming snapdragons, rich red wallflowers, and a formal rose garden that terraced down to [the] heath”. The seven acre Turners Wood Bird Sanctuary was accessible through the Taylor’s garden, and if that wasn’t enough, the backyard also sported a tennis court.
In 2008, Heathwood was put up for sale for the first time in almost thirty years for £6.5 million pounds—and sold quickly.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
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“H.R. 5122” redirects here. For the star (HD 118384), see List of stars in Centaurus.
| Long title | An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. |
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| Enacted by | the 109th United States Congress |
| Citations | |
| Public law | Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–364 (text) (PDF) |
| Statutes at Large | 120 Stat. 2083 through 120 Stat. 2521 |
| Legislative history | |
| Introduced in the House as National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122) by Duncan Hunter (R–CA) on April 4, 2006Committee consideration by House Armed Services CommitteePassed the House on May 11, 2006 (396–31)Passed the Senate as the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 on June 22, 2006 Reported by the joint conference committee on September 12, 2006; agreed to by the House on September 29, 2006 (398–23) and by the Senate on September 30, 2006 Signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006 | |
H.R. 5122, also known as the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, was a bill passed in the United States Congress on September 29, 2006 and signed by United States President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006, becoming Public Law 109–364. The House vote was 396 ayes (227 Republicans, 168 Democrats, 1 independent) with 31 nays and 5 present not voting; the Senate vote[1] was 96 ayes (53 Republicans and 42 Democrats), with 0 nays and 4 not voting (2 Republicans and 2 Democrats). H.R. 5122 includes:
- $10,876,609,000 allocated to the U.S. Army
- $17,383,857,000 allocated to the U.S. Navy
- $24,235,951,000 allocated to the U.S. Air Force
- $21,111,559,000 allocated to Defense-wide activities ($181,520,000 of this amount “is authorized for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.”)[2]
- Expansion of the President’s power to declare martial law under revisions to the Insurrection Act, and take charge of United States National Guard troops without state governor authorization when public order has been lost and the state and its constituted authorities cannot enforce the law (amended in 2008 by H.R.4986 SEC.1068[3]);
- The elimination of the position of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction as of October 1, 2007, currently held by Republican lawyer Stuart Bowen, which is in charge of auditing expenditures in Iraq, transitioning Inspector General responsibilities to the Inspector General offices in the departments of State and Defense, now that the Coalition Provisional Authority is dissolved and Iraq is now a sovereign nation.
- A sunset date of September 30, 2012, which was later repealed[4]).
It was named for Senator John Warner of Virginia.
Amendment to Section 1076 of the law[edit]
In 2008, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 struck much of the existing text in section 1076. That same section had been what Naomi Wolf talked about when she commented to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!: “You don’t make it easier for the President to declare martial law, as we just did with the 2007 Defense Authorization Act.”[5] The revised section of the law, section 1068 had one amended section had multiple parts with the same exact text.[clarification needed] These sections (as amended, and bolded to show the similar parts) read as follows:`Sec. 333. Interference with State and Federal law`The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it–`(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or`(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.’.[6]
The Christian Right is Looking to Putin’s Russia to Save Christianity From the Godless West
BY TOM PORTER ON 9/15/18 AT 9:25 AM EDT
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At a gathering of some of the world’s most virulent opponents of LGBT equality, Russian conservative activist Dmitry Komov warned of the destructive agenda underlying the spread of liberal values.
The West, he told a far-right French TV station in December, was committed to the “destruction of all of our collective identities: national identity, religious identity, gender identity,” and warned it would result in “the destruction of human identity.”
Komov was in Chisinau, Moldova, for the Eurasian colloquium, where Russian Orthodox ideologues and European far-right activists rubbed shoulders. Between 13 and 16 September they are also joined by members of a U.S. conservative Christian groups in the city for the World Congress of Families. The unlikely allies feel that after decades of struggle, the time has come to topple Western liberal hegemony.
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Relations between Moscow and Washington have been strained over allegations that Russia influenced the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, but religious conservatives in both nations have recently found common cause.
Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia and parts of the U.S. Christian right have formed an alliance that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago, when American evangelical leaders railed against “godless communism.”
Russia has reinvented itself as a bastion of Christian values in a world beset by relativism and godlessness. As a result, conservative Christians gathering at the World Congress of Families are looking to Putin to protect Christianity from the West.
“If you take a look at the rhetoric of the more conservative elements round Putin and if you take a look at the rhetoric of the Christian right the topics are pretty much the same, and the values are pretty much the same,” Peter Kreko, director of the Political Capital Institute, a Budapest based think-tank, told Newsweek.
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“Conservatives are leading in Russia and conservatives are leading in the U.S. There is a feeling that this is a zeitgeist, that governments are supporting them, that there is this historic moment to break this dominance of this liberal, tolerant, “nihilistic” worldview.”
A flashpoint for some conservatives has been Europe’s battle over LGBT rights. EU states are obliged to recognise same-sex relationships under membership rules – yet campaigns in individual nations to extend those rights and recognize gay marriage have met bitter opposition.
Some opponents look to Russia for guidance, and see its controversial laws restricitng LGBT rights as an example. They have received support from U.S. Christian conservative organisations.
“In western Europe, many people believe that the West is collapsing and all civilisation is threatened by Islam, by demography, and by democracy,” Jean-Yves Camus, an associate research fellow at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, told Newsweek.
“What they try to pretend is that there is only one country where Western civilisation is well and alive and thriving, and that’s Russia.”
For their part, Russian conservatives have long been hostile to the EU, which they accuse of seeking to undermine Russia with sanctions imposed following the annexation of Crimea. They see disputes over LGBT rights as flashpoints which can be exploited. Author Katherine Stewart recently wrote in the New York Times that “anti-LGBT politics are an effective tool in mobilizing religious nationalists everywhere, which is in turn an excellent way to destabilize the Western alliance and advance Russia’s geopolitical interests.”
Yet the battle is about more than politics.
“What is going on between the West and Russia is more than just a hybrid warfare aiming to achieve results through interfering in elections and so on, but also a fight for the hearts and souls,” said Kreko.
The World Congress of Families
September’s Moldova conference is reportedly being funded by pro-Kremlin Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. The umbrella organization behind the event is the International Organization of the Family (IOF), based in Rockford, Illinois. It emerged from the U.S. Christian Right’s mission to place Christian values at the heart of public policy.
Camus described Malofeev as an “arch-conservative, who really believes in those values of Christianity, of family, fatherland,” and who, before being placed under sanctions by the U.S. and EU, forged links with European far-right leaders. He has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
The IOF says its mission is to “affirm, celebrate, and defend the natural family as the only fundamental and sustainable unit of society.” The Southern Poverty Law Center describes it as “one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia and sexism.”
For several decades, the group has worked with Orthodox conservatives in Russia who share its commitment to rolling back liberal legislation on issues like LGBT rights and abortion. Moscow was scheduled to host a WCF conference in 2014, which activists allege was hastily rebranded to evade international sanctions. The IOF is credited as a key influence on the Kremlin’s notorious 2013 “gay propaganda” bill, whose stated aim was to outlaw the discussion of homosexuality with children and which has been blamed by activists for a surge of homophobic assaults in the country.
Relations between the IOF and its Russian allies remain close, and in May St Petersburg hosted an IOF home education congress. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriach Kiril of Moscow, who has forged close relations with the Kremlin, is slated to attend September’s WCF conference.
Once dismissed as fringe extremists by the political elite, the WCF now counts friends amongst the leaders and politicians swept to power by the populist wave in Europe and the U.S.
Last year’s summit was held in Hungary, where populist Prime Minister Orban—a favourite of the U.S. hard right—addressed attendees, taking aim at his favorite foil, the European Union, which he described as being dominated by a “relativizing liberal ideology that’s an insult to families.”
Vice President Mike Pence and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson were originally scheduled to address the conference, but their names were removed from a list of speakers without explanation.
In a statement to Newsweek, HUD spokesman Raffi Williams said that Carson “never agreed to speak at that event” and “never received an invite to that event.” The White House has not responded to a request for comment.
Among the members of the WCF is the Family Research Council, an anti-LGBT group with longstanding ties to Pence. In October, Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to address the FRC’s annual conference, the Value Voters Summit.
Cole Parke, a researcher at the progressive Political Research Associates think tank said that the WCF had opened the door for other evangelical and anti-LGBT activists seeking to spread their message in Europe.
“WCF is especially gaining influence in eastern Europe and in that role they’re ushering in other U.S. influences,” she said.
She said that the arrival of a “more aggressive’ form of Christian right from the U.S. had played a key role in “stoking the flames,” influencing the portrayal of gay rights as an attack on family and culture.
In October Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk briefly jailed for refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, visited Romania on a nine day tour to campaign for a bill outlawing same sex marriage, while Scott Lively, an evangelical Christian Minister based in Massachusetts, has extensively toured former Soviet states in eastern Europe expounding his virulently anti-LGBT views.
U.S. evangelicals are seeking to spread their message in western Europe as well. Later this month, preacher Franklin Graham, son of the late Billy Graham, is scheduled to speak in the U.K., with thousands of petitioners and three members of parliament calling for him to be banned from the country for spreading anti-LGBT and anti-Islam hate speech.
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And the IOF isn’t the only U.S. conservative group with Russian links spreading conservative Christian values in eastern Europe. The National Prayer Breakfast has paid for four GOP lawmakers with a record of opposing laws expanding LGBT rights to speak in eastern Europe, TYTNetwork reported in July. That month, the Department of Justice accused alleged Russian agent Maria Butina of seeking to infiltrate high-powered circles in Washington through meetings of the group.
Meanwhile IOF President Brian Brown sits on the board of CitizenGo, a conservative pressure group headquartered in Spain which is behind a series of mass petitioning campaigns and which recently launched a fleet of buses emblazoned with anti-trans slogans. The buses were in August 2017 banned from the street’s of Spanish capital, Madrid, by the city’s mayor.
An ideological and political battleground
The latest front for the joined forces of conservative Russia and the U.S. christian right is Moldova, strategically positioned between Europe and Asia — and host of last December’s Eurasia conference, dubbed the “anti-Davos”, where delagates discussed overcoming western liberal hegemony.
The country is split between those who seek closer ties with the liberal EU, and those who look to the values of Putin’s Orthodox Russia for guidance. Under president Igor Dodon, the country has pursued closer ties with the Kremlin.
The December 2017 event could have been a dress rehearsal for this week’s WCF meeting, which will seek to build on the success of last year’s event.
“It is a geopolitical and ideological battleground,” said Kreko, and remarked that the event was a message from “pro-Russian forces in Moldova that the U.S. conservative right and Russia together can save the world from this plague of liberalism and tolerance.”
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