By Jack Cashill

In composing my new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency,  I thought hard about whether I should address the question of Barack Obama’s sexuality.

Two considerations persuaded me to pursue the issue. One was the no-holds-barred media treatment of the sex life, real and imagined, of Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh. The second was the fact that despite Obama’s early feint to the center, his presidency was something of a golden age for gay America. A May 2012 Newsweek cover story, in fact, dubbed Obama “the first gay president.” 

Understandably, the fear of offending the “black church” made Obama initially cautious about championing the LGBT cause, but there may have been another reason for his restraint. Obama faced rumors that he himself was gay. No subject made those close to Obama more nervous.

College girlfriend Alex McNear, for instance, redacted a section of a letter she shared with Obama biographer David Garrow, thinking Obama’s reflections on homosexuality “too explosive.” Her concern was understandable.

In his early twenties, Obama had written to McNear that he viewed gay sex as “an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life.” Obama continued, “You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination. My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so.” This passage did not make the hardcover edition of Garrow’s 2017 book, Rising Star.

In the less “inclusive” days of the early 1980s, no straight guy I know would ever have thought to make such an admission, especially to a “girlfriend.” Only after McNear sold the Barack Obama letters to Emory University in 2016 was Garrow able to access the original and even then with some difficulty. Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian, included the passage above in the paperback version of his book. No one noticed.

Given the admitted bisexuality of Obama’s Hawaiian mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, and Obama’s mental indulgence in the same, the honest critic has to think hard about this excerpt from “Pop,” a poem Obama wrote about Davis while in college.

“Pop takes another shot, neat / Points out the same amber / Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine / and / Makes me smell his smell, coming / From me.” A therapist who blogged under the label “Neo-Neocon” hesitated to call the interaction “outright sexual abuse,” but she imagined it at the very least “a boundary violation.” She explained, “This child feels invaded—perhaps even taken over—by this man, and is fighting against that sensation.”

After Obama announced for the presidency in 2007, a fellow named Larry Sinclair fueled rumors about Obama’s sexuality when he went public with his allegations of a two-day coke and sex romp with the then-married Obama in 1999. Fearless, if nothing else, Sinclair then booked space at the National Press Club in June 2008 to detail his reputed relationship with Obama.

From the beginning, the mainstream media, including the “responsible” right, pretended Sinclair did not exist. The actual work of extinguishing Sinclair’s credibility was left to the internet’s leftist hitmen. As soon as Sinclair announced plans for the press conference, they launched an internet petition drive demanding the Press Club deny Sinclair its stage.

To its credit, the National Press Club refused to buckle. Sinclair held his conference.  In watching it years later, I am impressed by how well Sinclair understood Obama’s hold on the media. If you asked a question about a black man who chose to run for president, he observed, “All of a sudden you’re called a racist, a bigot.”

A genuine character, Sinclair acknowledged up front the various crimes he had committed in years past. He wanted to take that cudgel away from the media. Sinclair then explained in exquisite detail the nature of his alleged 1999 interaction with then-state senator Obama.

He provided dates, the name of the hotel, the name of the Muslim limo driver who arranged the assignation, the specifics of their sexual interlude, as well as insights into the menacing phone calls he received from Donald Young, a member of Reverend Wright’s church and an alleged lover of Obama’s.

More than once during the question and answer period, reporters asked Sinclair, given his “tremendous credibility problem,” why they should take him seriously. In turn, Sinclair asked the reporters “to do your jobs and find facts.” He provided them several useful leads and challenged them to follow up. Sinclair specifically asked the reporters to check Young’s phone records. He believed Obama to be complicit in the choir member’s December 2007 murder, a crime that remains unsolved to this day.

True to form, Politico quickly moved to discredit Sinclair. Its editors headlined their article from the day of the press conference, “Obama accuser has long rap sheet.” In an aside that Trump or Kavanaugh might find amusing, Politicorefused to publish Sinclair’s “outlandish” allegations because they were “unsubstantiated.”  Wired, meanwhile, ran an article celebrating those leftist bloggers who succeeded in getting Sinclair arrested on an outstanding Delaware warrant just as he was leaving the Press Club.

As should be obvious, the media had stunningly different standards for Sinclair and, say, Stormy Daniels or Christine Blasey Ford. The same media that insisted we “believe the women” were not at all inclined to believe the men, at least not this man.

The same media that insisted “love is love” saw something inherently distasteful in Sinclair’s tale of consensual gay sex. The messenger in this case had to be attacked, exposed, eliminated as a threat, and that he was. To this day, few have ever heard of Sinclair. Fewer still have heard of the late Donald Young.

In fact, so quickly were Sinclair’s allegations trashed and burned, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin did not even mention Sinclair in their comprehensive look at the 2008 campaign, Game Change.

Yes, Obama did have girlfriends. In his memoir Dreams from My Father he wraps them up into one white composite girl but tells his half-sister Auma, “There are several black ladies out there who’ve broken my heart just as good.” Obama, however, does not devote a sentence to any of these imagined black ladies, and his future biographers failed to locate a single one. 

Obviously, too, Obama got married. His memoir, Dreams from My Father,culminates in his wedding to Michelle. Yet he seems to have chosen Michelle with the same political calculation that he chose his church, a way of rooting himself in the African-American community. As with all previous relationships, this tale of courtship is strikingly devoid of any reference to love, sex, or romance. 

At his most passionate, Obama says of Michelle, “In her eminent practicality and Midwestern attitudes, she reminds me not a little of Toot [his grandmother].” That description must surely have warmed Michelle’s heart, but that may have been the best Obama could do.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/obama_i_make_love_to_men_daily.html

Last week, a video went viral of a group of migrant youths beating two victims in Leuven, Belgium, after which they forced a White teenage boy to apologize and lick their shoes. In the video, the word ‘Zemmel’ is heard, which is a slur that Moroccans commonly use for gay people. 

An investigation by Het Laatste Nieuws found that the video is a connected to a gang of youths called “Criminal Justice“ or “Criminal System”, which the paper says is hunting young LGBT people in Belgium.

They communicate through a Telegram group chat of 600 members with a sole goal: to beat up young members of the LGBT community, film these attacks, and share the images.

After Het Laatste Nieuws gained access to their group communication chats, the video from last week is apparently just one of many disturbing videos.

The images were circulating withing a chat group on Telegram app called “Criminal Justice“. The same name could also be seen displayed in the video from Leuven, Belgium. According to Sceptr, the chat group mostly contains Chechens, and they explicitly glorify violence against gay people with hundreds of videos.

In addition, members are encouraged to actively search online for people who in their view deserve a beating, with members of the LGBT community a particularly popular target.

Criminal Justice also reportedly has an Instagram page, but the Telegram group has the most members. About 400 videos and photos have been shared between 600 memnbers, and explicit violence is central to all of them.

In addition to images taken from the internet, members have recorded videos in the Belgium cities of Blankenberge, Antwerp, Roeselare, and Leuven.

Messages that HLN was able to obtain show that group members consciously look for young LGBT people with whom they make contact through the chat functions of TikTok and Instagram. Then they physically track them down via their IP addresses or through other identifying information.

According to the newspaper’s information, the gang is not afraid to use knives and firearms when approaching their victims. Death threats are also being made in the chat with someone writing, “Gays must be slaughtered.“

There is remarkably little willingness to speak out among the young victims, yet HLN recorded testimony from one young man from Antwerp. He says that he was chased and threatened together with a friend at Groenplaats in Antwerp.

“A little further down the road from us, two men were playing loud music. When we left, they suddenly started to chase us. And a little later I was threatened via Instagram.  I agreed to talk to them, which I shouldn’t have done. They threatened me badly. I had to get on my knees and apologize. What if I hadn’t? Then I would have been beaten badly.”

The perpetrators’ modus operandi is remarkably similar to brutal beating from the video in Leuven. There, too, the video seems to serve as a kind of “hunting trophy” and is shared via social media. 

The witness from Antwerp believes that the group managers deliberately incite young people to commit aggression. 

The video from Leuwan is believed to have been an attack on gay teenagers or what the attackers believed to be gay teenagers based on chat records obtained by Het Laatste Nieuws. The facts of the case are still being investigated by the public prosecutor of Leuven. According to the newspaper, the victim from Antwerp did not file a complaint. 

Het Laatste Nieuws also placed the video of the anonymous victim from Antwerp online today. It shows how a boy is forced to his knees where he has to lick the shoes of one of the perpetrators twice. Then he gets another punch in the face. 

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The Düsseldorf police are under fire after arresting a male suspect over the weekend. The background is a video published in social networks, which shows, among other things, an officer who kneels on a young male lying on the ground. He presses his knee on the neck of the man at one point.

The incident occurred on Saturday in Düsseldorf’s old town, the police said. They were called to a restaurant because of a group of rioters. There “a young person who was apparently uninvolved in what was actually happening disrupted the police intervention”. When the officers wanted to find out the young man’s details, he resisted and attacked the police. He was then arrested and taken to a police station.

For reasons of neutrality, the Duisburg police, headed by the Düsseldorf public prosecutor, are investigating suspected bodily harm by an officer. A spokesman for the authority said on Monday when asked by Berlin weekly Junge Freiheitthat the investigation was still in its infancy, which is why it is currently unknown why and how the young person attacked the police. Other questions about the course of events also still have to be clarified.

Despite a lack of information, leftists were quick to blame the police. The political spokeswoman for the Greens in the Bundestag, Irene Mihalic, criticized the police. “It is absolutely right that this incident is being investigated,” Mihalic told the Rheinische Post on Monday.

Mihalic came to this conclusion without knowing the exact circumstances and context. “What I cannot understand, however, is that after the events in the USA there is so little sensitivity and a policeman kneels on the head and neck of a person. He must know that it can be life-threatening.”

The SPD in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament has requested a so-called an emergency session for Thursday, announced the SPD state parliament members Sven Wolf and Hartmut Ganzke. They spoke of “disturbing scenes”.

The interior expert of the Greens in the state parliament, Verena Schäffer, declared on Twitter: “The police operation in Düsseldorf must be cleared up. The fact that police officers kneel on the head/neck of a person who is already fixed on the ground cannot be proportionate.”

The scenes in the video are evidently reminiscent of the edited scenes of the arrest of the black American George Floyd in late May. There, too, an officer had put his knee on the suspect’s neck. It was however established that Floyd died of a drug overdose and had asked to be put on the ground after the unedited footage of the arrest was leaked. The leaked body-cam images debunked the claims by BLM activists that a white officer had killed Floyd.

In the 15-second long video from Düsseldorf, indignant passers-by can be heard denouncing the police in foreign accents suggesting that the suspect is also a migrant. One of them yells “Hey, that’s not funny brother” and “Take your knee off, brother.” Next to the policeman who is kneeling on the young man’s neck, another officer fixes an arm on his back. A third policeman secures the arrest. This video also only shows excerpts to discredit the officers, clearly with the intention to harm law enforcement.

While police officers may be accused on social media, they almost never get the opportunity to present the facts in public. The high number of police officers injured when arresting suspects proves that they are dealing with violent and not harmless perpetrators. Since 2018, assaults on enforcement officers have been recorded in the German police crime statistics. From 2018 to 2019, the incidents recorded rose from 11 704 to 14 919.

Some 19 civil servants are victims of an act of violence in Berlin every day, the spokesman for Berlin police, Thilo Cablitz, told news outlet rbb this year.

The police union (GdP) says police officers are often insulted and threatened. The threshold of violence has fallen further, even if not all offenses result in physical injuries explained GdP spokesman Benjamin Jendro. Sections 114 and 115 of the German Criminal Code provide for sentences of up to five years in prison for threats and assaults against public officials while performing their duties.

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The accusations of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office are serious: A. I.* (38) is said to have deliberately indoctrinated children with terrorist propaganda. According to the investigators, the Somali from Berne showed them Islamist videos of violence during Koran classes in order to “radicalize them ideologically”. This is according to the indictment, which is published by the newspaper SonntagsBlick.

The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is now demanding a six-month prison sentence for I. Because the Somali has not accepted the sentence, he will have to appear before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona a week from Tuesday.

According to the prosecution, the Islamist’s victims include two Somali children from Bern. I. “taught” them from the beginning of 2015 until the end of 2016, which he admits.According to him, however, he had only taught them the Koran and the Arabic scriptures.The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland sees things differently. On the computer in the children’s house, investigators found jihad videos that I. had personally transferred from his hard drive. In one of the films, a leader of the Somali terrorist militia al-Shaabab calls for infidels to be killed “as cruelly as possible”. The flag of the Islamic State (IS) is waving in the background.During a house search of the accused in December 2016, the police confiscated data carriers with 12,000 Islamist propaganda videos. Many of them contained scenes of execution and torture. I. had meticulously labeled and arranged them.

What’s more, forensic experts were able to prove that the Somali had connected his hard drives to dozens of other computers. and that he used text messages to schedule classes for children.

When questioned, the Somali, who according to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office acted from “deep religious conviction”, said that most of the accusations against him were lies. Those who accused him were probably envious of his “elevated standard of living” with cars, beautiful watches and clothes.

He was not aware, however, that the violent videos on his hard drives were prohibited. He had downloaded them from the Internet because he wanted to “inform himself” about “what is happening in the world”.

The Federal Prosecutor’s Office believes I.’s assertions to be unbelievable. They accuse him of propaganda for the Islamic State and related groups, of possessing depictions of violence and of supporting a criminal organization.

According to the indictment, a suspended sentence is out of the question. It was not to be assumed that it would prevent the accused from committing further crimes

*Name known to the editors

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Knorr, the German food and beverage brand of British-Dutch food and consumer goods multinational Unilever, will change the name of its “Gypsy Sauce” (Zigenuersauce) to “Hungarian-Style Paprika Sauce” due to a spate of discussions about racism on social media.

“Since the term ‘Gypsy sauce’ can be interpreted negatively, we decided to give our Knorr Sauce a new name. In a few weeks you will find this on the shelf as ‘Hungarian Style Paprika Sauce'”, the company said in a statement, as reported by Bild. 

German brands have gone on a spate of name changes of late due to perceived racism, often due to pressure from a vocal minority of social media users, but most Germans are opposed to the changes.

A recent poll by opinion research institute Civey for German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine found two-thirds of respondents are against the name change and only 15 percent approve them.

The sauce, a garnish for grilled meat and sometimes vegetables, is of French origin (à la zingara) and has been sold in Germany by Knorr under the Gypsy sauce name since 1903. 

In the German language, “Zigeuner” is a largely pejorative term for the Roma, lately often used in football stadiums. The Roma minority in Germany is not very significant in terms of numbers and is estimated to be between 70,000 and 300,000.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Berlin has recently renamed the Mohrenstrasse (Moor street) metro station after Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, who lived there for a wile.Two weeks ago the “Drei Mohren”  (Three Moors) hotel in the Bavarian town of Augsburg has announced it will be renamed “Hotel Maximilien”.

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Last Saturday it became known that a high-ranking female officer of the Feldkirch prison lost a USB stick with internal data. Why this data was even on the stick and was taken out of the prison is still unclear. The contents are now in the hands of the newspaper Kronen-Zeitung, which went public this morning with an explosive discovery: The brutal knife murderer of Dornbirn is said to be an IS fighter and still shows highly aggressive behaviour.On February 6, 2019, Söner Ö., a Turkish citizen, stabbed the head of the social department at the Dornbirn district authority with a kitchen knife. Actually, the man should not have been allowed to stay in Austria at all, as there was a prohibition of stay against him.Since such prohibitions without significant border controls are pure eyewash, the official died.The newspaper Kronenzeitung claims to have found some explosive information on the prison’s USB stick. Söner Ö., for example, has stated that he had murdered in Syria as a sniper in the service of the Islamic State (IS), and has also threatened to commit further murders. The official he murdered is not the last, the Turkish criminal said. In the prison, he threatened fellow prisoners and prison guard officers with being killed.The case of the “lost” USB stick raises a number of questions. In times of e-mail and military encryption capabilities, no one should have to carry sensitive documents on a portable data carrier. The case is currently allegedly under intensive investigation.Is there an attempted data theft? Were the documents taken out of the house and sent to the newspaper “Kronenzeitung”? According to the Kronenzeitung, the data carrier was lost months ago. The anonymous finder would have turned the stick in to the data protection authorities. But who sent the data to the newspaper? If it was an employee of this data protection authority, this could be another case of embezzlement or criminal action.

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By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

Or are these empty gestures, efforts of totalitarian wannabees serving as mayors or governors, trying to control those they are charged with leading and protecting, trying to advance a political agenda rather than preserving and protecting the Constitution?

One can see numerous parallels between COVID and climate policy. Both create fear, to a frenzy level, of the world ending, massive death and destruction, all due to a warming planet or an aggressive flu virus. If we don’t wear a mask, we are murderers and should be imprisoned. If we don’t believe in man-made global warming, we should also be locked away in jail.

Both movements have famous, often media-fabricated, leaders and spokespersons to push the agenda. Aside from politicians, the climate movement uses Al Gore and Greta Thunberg while the COVID evangelists are Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx. At least the latter two, on paper, have expertise in their fields unlike the former two who are self-, or media-created experts.

The axiom, “follow the money” applies to both crusades. The climate industry has been a cash cow for those on the politically correct side of the debate. Government subsidies flow freely to green energy companies, often to campaign donors of those doling out the money. Half a billion taxpayer dollars went to corrupt Solyndra as a thank-you to political donors and fundraisers. Gore hasamassed hundreds of millions in green investments and carbon credits.

In the virus world, there are vaccines and therapeutics, all with royalties, patents, and potentially billions of dollars in sales. It seems the Chinese virus doomsayers, like Fauci, and Bill Gates, have a stake in whatever treatments or preventatives are pushed to get us out of this supposed public health crisis. And both castigate hydroxychloroquine, a beneficial therapeutic when given at the proper time in the course of Chinese flu infection, as it is generic, pennies per pill, a cash gnat rather than a cash cow.

Academic and social media scorn is heaped on those who dare question the agenda of the elites. On the Wuhan flu side, legitimate board-certified physicians are ridiculed or fired from their jobs for questioning establishment dogma. A recent video from “America’s Frontline Doctors” featured Dr. Stella Immanuel speaking of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine for COVID and she was immediately ridiculed and dismissed. She is also an immigrant woman of color and the same media gushing over Kamala Harris or Stacey Abrams lost their notions of intersectionality when attacking Dr. Immanuel.

Another doctor in that group, Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency medicine physician, was fired over her support of hydroxy. Just as climate change skeptic Nicholas Drapela, a professor at Oregon State University, was fired for his audacity to challenge the left-wing establishment. As was prominent Princeton University physicist Dr. Will Happer for disagreeing with non-scientist Al Gore.

Question the dogma of either the virus or climate movement and prepare to have your life, if not disrupted, then ruined. There is only one politically correct viewpoint on both issues.

Both global warming and the Wuhan flu rely on models. Many climate modelspredicted rising sea levels and flooded cities, along with catastrophic storms, none of which has materialized. Virus models predicted 2.2 million U.S. deaths, only to be scaled down as reality was nowhere close to the predictions. Both relied on flawed models and failed to adjust their prognostications accordingly.

Climate and COVID share the commonality of government control. From electric car and fuel efficiency mandates to the entire economy busting Green New Deal, the “benevolent” government seeks to control all aspects of our lives. Similarly, government tells us to wear a mask, gather in groups of nine but not 11, stay at home, go marijuana shops but not to school, and close churches but encourage large protests. Do as we say, or we will punish you warns our compassionate and caring government.

Then there is hypocrisy, a feature of the climate and virus movements. Al Gore, telling us to lower our carbon footprints for the sake of the planet, has a 10,000 square foot mansion consuming over 21 times the U.S. household average of electricity. British climatista Prince Charles flew 16,000 miles in just 11 days on three private jets and one helicopter before posing with Greta Thunberg in Davos at a climate conference.

Media cranks, constantly berating President Trump for not wearing a mask, conveniently don’t wear their masks when off camera. The baseball pitcher Dr. Fauci, demonstrating proper social distancing wearing a huge mask standing all alone on the pitcher’s mound while on camera forgot all about his mask and distancing when off camera in the bleachers.

The funeral for your loved one is verboten but hundreds or thousands can gather to mourn George Floyd. Graduations are bad but BLM rallies are just fine. We can’t vote in person but it’s fine to riot and loot in person, with impunity

Last is inevitability. The climate will do what it does. Cooling caused ice ages and warming melted the ice over the past billions of years, all without government intervention. Hurricanes have been a feature on Planet Earth before Al Gore and long before humans even organized governments.

The virus is also inevitable. New Zealand, after being heaped with praise for being virus free for 100 days, despite ultra-strict immigration and quarantine rules, now has a 36-case cluster of new Wuhan virus cases. You can run but you can’t hide from nature taking its course, for both climate and a virus.

Both the climate and COVID movements share these features – hypocrisy and hysteria, models and money, fear and false prophets, and inevitability. This is also how dictatorships begin. As further proof, notice how all the climate hysteria has disappeared, now conveniently replaced by virus fearmongering. From schools to masks to voting.

It was an easy pivot as the playbook was already written, allowing the left to sashay from global warming to the virus, as a means to control the people and an upcoming election. It’s predictable and obvious once you recognize the pattern.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/covid_and_climate_policy_following_the_same_playbook.html