A Qatari Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International airport after President Donald Trump toured the aircraft, February 15, 2025.
Plan of CSS Alabama, including pivot gun mounts
It is normal for human beings to render works of art. It is normal for humans to make slaves of other humans, and force them to work for free – and you get to rape them and sell them! What kind of normal human would you like to be”
I watched FOX ‘American News’ this morning, and it was all about….WE ARE NORMAL AND THEY ARE NOT. The majority of FOX viewers live in the Red State South. Did the Confederacy promote artists? The Romans redered much art, How much of it was done – by slaves?
Above we see drawings of the CSS Alabama that was made in England by the head of the Cotton Trade. Britain had given up owning slaves, but some very rich Lords made a killing off OUR slaves picking cotton FOR FREE, and they want the CASH FLOW to continue.. Is MAKING MONEY at any cost to human freedom….THE NORM! British ship builders made a killing so did the common worker! I’m sure these foreigners never wanted our Civil War to end? Why not DEMAND all nations we do business with adopt Democracy – or, we deal with a nation – that has? This should be the – NORM!
Im looking for the image of Cowboy Statue the head of the Department of Defence gifted the head of the British Government with. Did Pete Hesgeth know about the Emolment Clause, and wonder if Britain had something similar?
What the Nornal Poor People of the World are witnessing, is the truth if your are FILTHY RICH you can do anything you want, as long as you are – MAKING MORE MONEY! FOX News is the home of Rich Money Makers – who are against cross-dressers using the girls bathroom!
Cannon were not put on the War Slavery hip until it left British waters. This was done get around the truth Britain was building Confederate ships – that in an act of TREACHERY – fired upon unarmed Merchant Vessels – and murdered Loyal Americans. The captain of the Alabama – should have been hunted down – and hung by his neck!
John Presco
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Agift that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent to his British counterpart, John Healey, was held by British officials because of U.K. ministerial gifts rules.
Hegseth sent Healey, the U.K. minister of defense, a cowboy statue and a photograph in March, but the U.K. defense department retained it.
The Context
Hegseth’s gift came as he met Healey in the Pentagon on March 6. The pair previously convened in Brussels in February ahead of a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters.
The relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. is seen as of utmost importance and officials frequently meet to negotiate common interests and share policy ideas.
What To Know
According to U.K. government transparency information released in April, Hegseth sent Healey a “solid bronze cowboy statue and framed photo” on March 5, ahead of one of their meetings. But it was held by the U.K. Ministry of Defence because its monetary value was above the limit British ministers may receive.
Ministers are allowed to accept gifts up to the value of £140 ($184.72 USD). They must declare anything worth more than that and can either pay the difference to keep the gift or leave it with their department.
The value of the gift and what the photograph depicted is not known.
What Is the Emoluments Clause?
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The emoluments clause, also called the foreign emoluments clause, is a provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) that generally prohibits federal officeholders from receiving any gift, payment, or other object or service of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers, or representatives. The clause provides that:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
The Constitution also contains a “domestic emoluments clause” (Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 7), which prohibits the president from receiving any “Emolument” from the federal government or the states beyond “a Compensation” for his “Services” as chief executive.
The plain purpose of the foreign emoluments clause was to ensure that the country’s leaders would not be improperly influenced, even unconsciously, through gift giving, then a common and generally corrupt practice among European rulers and diplomats. An early version of the clause, modeled on a rule adopted by the Dutch Republic in 1651 that forbade its foreign ministers from receiving “any presents, directly or indirectly, in any manner or way whatever,” was incorporated into the Articles of Confederation (1781) as Article VI, Paragraph I:
Nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any King, Prince or foreign State; nor shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.
All but the prohibition of titles of nobility was dropped from the initial draft of the Constitution but eventually restored at the request of Charles Pinckney, who argued at the Constitutional Convention for “the necessity of preserving foreign Ministers & other officers of the U.S. independent of foreign influence.” The final text of the clause included a provision that permitted acceptance of foreign gifts with the explicit approval of Congress, perhaps reflecting the awkward experience of Benjamin Franklin, who as American minister to France had been presented with a bejeweled snuff box by Louis XVI and, not wishing to offend the king, asked Congress for permission to keep it (permission was granted).
Although there has been some debate regarding the exact meaning and scope of the foreign emoluments clause, nearly all scholars agree that it applies broadly to all federal officeholders, appointed or elected, up to and including the president. That interpretation is supported by the historical record, such as it is, of the Constitution’s drafting as well as by the past practice of presidential administrations and Congresses. Thus Edmund Jennings Randolph, one of the Framers, remarked at the Virginia ratifying convention that the clause protected against the danger of “the President receiving Emoluments from foreign powers,” even asserting that a president who violates the clause “may be impeached.” There was no recorded dissent from Randolph’s view. During the 19th and 20th centuries, presidents who were offered gifts by foreign states routinely requested Congress’s permission to accept them, and foreign rulers were politely informed (sometimes by the president himself) of the constitutional restriction regarding gifts.
CSS Alabama vs. Our President and NATO
Posted on July 12, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
I expect an all out assault by the Treacherous Christian Confederacy against our President and NATO. The TCC will roll out the Pro-Slavery Jesus .Juggernaut. A collective cry and prayers for Holy American Isolationism. will be heard across the land and on FOX News! I say..
SINK THE ALABAMA!
I suspect Sen. Tommy Tuberville is a TCC who has connections to Bob Jones U that used abortion to try and destroy the Civil Rights Movement. I need help and funding. NATO is going to cost many nations a trillion dollars. Putin dare suggest Russia should be a member. I compare Putin to Traitor James Bulloch who secretly built the CSS Alabama in England in order to keep tens of thousands Americans enslaved. Confederates did not consider black slaves citizens – or fully human!
John Presco
CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. It was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool, England by John Laird Sons and Company.[3] Alabama served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career. She was sunk in June 1864 by USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France.
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Alabama was built in secrecy in 1862 by British shipbuilders John Laird Sons and Company, in north-west England at their shipyards at Birkenhead, Wirral, opposite Liverpool. The construction was arranged by the Confederate agent Commander James Bulloch, who led the procurement of sorely-needed ships for the fledgling Confederate States Navy.[4] The contract was arranged through the Fraser Trenholm Company, a cotton broker in Liverpool with ties to the Confederacy. Under prevailing British neutrality law, it was possible to build a ship designed as an armed vessel, provided that it was not actually armed until after it was in international waters. In light of this loophole, Alabama was built with reinforced decks for cannon emplacements, ammunition magazines below water level, etc., but was not fitted with armaments or any “warlike equipment” originally.
James Dunwoody Bulloch (June 25, 1823 – January 7, 1901) was the Confederacy‘s chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. Based in Liverpool, he operated blockade runners and commerce raiders that provided the Confederacy with its only source of hard currency. Bulloch arranged for the purchase by British merchants of Confederate cotton, as well as the dispatch of armaments and other war supplies to the South.[1] He also oversaw the construction and purchase of several ships designed at ruining Northern shipping during the Civil War, including CSS Florida, CSS Alabama, CSS Stonewall, and CSS Shenandoah.[2] Due to him being a Confederate secret agent, Bulloch was not included in the general amnesty that came after the Civil War and therefore decided to stay in Liverpool, becoming the director of the Liverpool Nautical College and the Orphan Boys Asylum.[1][2]
Bulloch’s half-brother Irvine Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and his half-sister Martha Roosevelt was the mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and paternal grandmother of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.[1]
Today, evangelicals make up the backbone of the pro-life movement, but it hasn’t always been so. Both before and for several years after Roe, evangelicals were overwhelmingly indifferent to the subject, which they considered a “Catholic issue.” In 1968, for instance, a symposium sponsored by the Christian Medical Society and Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of evangelicalism, refused to characterize abortion as sinful, citing “individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility” as justifications for ending a pregnancy. In 1971, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, passed a resolution encouraging “Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.” The convention, hardly a redoubt of liberal values, reaffirmed that position in 1974, one year after Roe, and again in 1976.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s positions on white nationalism and the military’s policy on traveling for abortions have put Republicans in a difficult spot.
After weeks of insisting that white nationalism doesn’t equal racism, and tripling down on that opinion over the last 24 hours, the Alabama Republican eventually told reporters Tuesday at the Capitol that “white nationalists are racists.” Republicans in Washington, D.C., had spent the day fielding questions about Tuberville’s position.
“White supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said at his weekly press conference.
“White supremacy and racism have absolutely no place in our country. Period. The end,” said Sen. Katie Britt, Tuberville’s Republican colleague from Alabama.
In addition to muddying the waters on white nationalism, Tuberville has also drawn condemnation for his blocking of military promotions of all senior military officers over a Pentagon policy on reproductive health. In doing so, he’s turned into a favorite target of President Biden, who has called the tactic “bizarre” and specifically targeted the Alabama senator in fundraising pitches and official speeches.
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Protests have since erupted around the country, and President Joe Biden has spoken out against the ruling, which he called the “realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the Supreme Court.”
The decision comes after the SCOTUS opinion was leaked to Politico last month. A poll conducted by CNN has since found that 66 percent of Americans did not want Roe v. Wade to be overturned.
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- Jones once declared that BJU had banned interracial dating because “God has separated people for His own purpose”; nevertheless, on March 3, 2000, he announced on Larry King Live that the university would abandon the long-standing rule over which the university had forfeited its federal tax-exempt status in 1983.[8]
- In 1980, Jones said the problem of homosexuality would be solved “posthaste if homosexuals were stoned.”[9] In March 2015, he issued a public apology for this statement, saying in part that it was, “antithetical to my theology and my 50 years of preaching a redeeming Christ. Upon now reading these long-forgotten words, they seem to me as words belonging to a total stranger — were my name not attached. I cannot erase them, but wish I could, because they do not represent the belief of my heart or the content of my preaching. Neither before, nor since, that event in 1980 have I ever advocated the stoning of sinners.”[10]
- In 1982, when asked by TV talk show host Phil Donahue, “Does anybody get to heaven if he’s not born again?” Jones replied, “Absolutely not. Jesus told Nicodemus, a religious man, ‘You must be born again.’…The Lord Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.’”[11]
- In the 1980s, Jones once denounced Ronald Reagan as “a traitor to God’s people” for choosing as his vice president George H. W. Bush, whom Jones called “a devil.”[12] Some years later, however, while visiting the Oval Office, he thanked the elder Bush for being a good president.[8] In a Washington Post article published in 2005, he was quoted as saying, “I was not convinced that the first George Bush was a real conservative. I was afraid that he had ties to certain organizations that revealed what he really was, that his public rhetoric was hiding what he really was. And devils deal in treachery like that, in deceit. ‘Devil’ may have been a strong word, but you know what? He turned out to be a whole lot better president than I expected, and I shook his hand in the Oval Office and thanked him for being a good president.”[8]
- Jones referred to Catholicism as “the religion of the anti-Christ and a Satanic system” and called Mormonism and Catholicism “cults which call themselves Christian”.[13] In October 2007, he endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a devout Mormon, for the Republican nomination for president.[14]
- Shortly after George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, Bob Jones III sent a congratulatory letter to the president declaring that he had “been given a mandate….Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ.”[15]
- In 2011, referring to Barack Obama‘s religion, Jones said, “Some people will say whatever they think the politically helpful thing would be…. I say, ‘Where is the evidence that he is a Christian?’”[16]
- Jones’ most often repeated quotation: “The most sobering reality in the world today is that people are dying and going to Hell today.”[17]
Bob Jones University Apologizes for Its Racist PastBob Jones University, the Bible college in Greenville, South Carolina, did not admit black students until the 1970s. Then, for a 30-year period, interracial dating was prohibited. Now the university has announced that its polices were wrong.Lost in the spectacular news accounts of the election of a black man as president of the United States is another event — this time in higher education — that stands as a milestone in racial progress. In an eloquent statement, Stephen Jones, great-grandson of the founder and the fourth president of Bob Jones University, has apologized for the institution’s racist past.President Jones stated, “For almost two centuries American Christianity, including BJU in its early stages, was characterized by the segregationist ethos of American culture. Consequently, for far too long, we allowed institutional policies regarding race to be shaped more directly by that ethos than by the principles and precepts of the Scriptures. We conformed to the culture rather than provide a clear Christian counterpoint to it.“In so doing, we failed to accurately represent the Lord and to fulfill the commandment to love others as ourselves. For these failures we are profoundly sorry. Though no known antagonism toward minorities or expressions of racism on a personal level have ever been tolerated on our campus, we allowed institutional policies to remain in place that were racially hurtful.”By way of background to this remarkable announcement let’s review the racial history of Bob Jones University.The university’s founder, Bob Jones, was a fundamentalist evangelist who believed that the theory of evolution was an abomination. He called the pope the anti-Christ and dismissed Catholicism as a “Satanic counterfeit.” He once said, “I would rather see a saloon on every corner than a Catholic in the White House.”Jones Sr. was of the view that twentieth-century blacks should be grateful to whites for bringing their ancestors to this country as slaves. If this had not happened, Jones wrote in 1960, “they might still be over there in the jungles of Africa, unconverted.” Integrationists, according to Jones, were wrongfully trying to eradicate natural boundaries that God himself had established.With the help of wealthy supporters, Bob Jones founded a college near Panama City, Florida, in 1926. Bibb Graves, who had just been elected governor of Alabama with the official backing of the Ku Klux Klan, gave the keynote address at the groundbreaking ceremony. When classes began in 1927, admission of students was officially restricted to members of the white race, a policy that persisted until 1971.Experiencing Depression-related financial difficulties in 1933, Bob Jones was forced to sell the Florida land and move his college to Cleveland, Tennessee. In 1936 a young Billy Graham entered the new Bob Jones College in Tennessee. But he quickly became disenchanted with its strict religious doctrine and social policies and transferred to Florida Bible Institute. In 1947 Bob Jones College moved once more, this time to its present site in Greenville, South Carolina. Now financially sound, the college began to offer master’s and doctoral degrees and assumed the designation of a university.When Bob Jones Jr., the son of the founder, became the institution’s president, he continued the institution’s policies of rabid bigotry. During his tenure he bestowed honorary degrees on George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, and Lester Maddox. When Pope Paul VI died in 1978, Bob Jones Jr. called him the “archpriest of Satan, a deceiver, and he has, like Judas, gone to his own place.”When Bob Jones III assumed the presidency of the institution in 1971, male students were required to wear jackets and ties to classes. Women were obliged to wear dresses or skirts. Rock music was prohibited on campus. Students were forbidden from attending movies. Students were not permitted to go on off-campus dates without a chaperone. On campus, the university maintained two “dating parlors” where students could meet to talk. Touching was not allowed and kissing was strictly prohibited even if the couple was engaged to be married. Male and female students were not permitted to speak to each other after 7 p.m. The campus was separated from the city of Greenville by an iron and barbed-wire fence.Under federal government pressure, Bob Jones University finally opened its doors to unmarried black students. But strict regulations were established by the university to prevent interracial dating. In 1976, during the administration of Gerald Ford, the policy on interracial dating resulted in the Internal Revenue Service’s revoking the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University retroactive to 1970. The IRS demanded the payment of $490,000 in back taxes. The university appealed the ruling. Eventually, in 1981, the Supreme Court of the United States heard the case. The new Reagan administration initially supported the position of the university but, after a public outcry, switched sides. In 1983 the Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in favor of the IRS by a vote of 8 to 1. The lone dissenter was late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist.* On being advised of the decision of the Court, Bob Jones III ordered that the American flags on campus be flown at half-staff.In 1998 Jonathan Pait, a public relations spokesman for the university, explained the school’s prohibition against interracial dating: “God has separated people for his own purposes. He has erected barriers between the nations, not only land and sea barriers, but also ethnic, cultural, and language barriers. God has made people different from one another and intends those differences to remain. Bob Jones University is opposed to intermarriage of the races because it breaks down the barriers God has established.”In 2000 the university ended its official prohibition against interracial dating. Now eight years later, the university has admitted that its policies were wrong.This change of heart at Bob Jones University comes on the heels of recent good news about black enrollments at the nation’s other Bible colleges. JBHE’s database shows that in 1997 there were only nine Bible colleges where blacks made up 10 percent or more of total enrollments. Today there are 29 such schools.*William Rehnquist had a long history of opposition to the advancement of blacks. He opposed the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education and as a young GOP pollwatcher in Arizona, Rehnquist was active in challenging black voters’ qualifications.For more on the racism of Rehnquist, see “The Racial Views of the Chief Justice of the United States,” JBHE, Number 23, Spring 1999, p. 72. |
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