Damning evidence about the effects of the lockdown, how the lockdown is not itself evidence-based, how the Imperial College Professor Ferguson paper is not even science, not even speculation, but intended to elicit a particular response from governments, is now emerging.
But first, you need to watch a video. Greece was being held up as an early-lockdown success story last night by the BBC. Just more pro-lockdown propaganda, of course.
Here are the facts about Greece as presented on the amazing video below: On Sunday 22nd March 2020, the Greek governemnt under prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the center/right wing party announced some of the most draconian social distancing measures in the world, even though only 15 Covid-19 deaths had occurred thus far. People have to carry a special signed form with them to leave their house. Walking alone at the parks, sitting by the beach, swimming, even scuba diving, were all banned.
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Greek church told to shut
The initial announcement did not include the church because Mr Mitsotakis did not want to carry the political cost of pressing the church to close down. On that day, the Greek Orthodox church held a council and decided to bring services two hours earlier, so they would end before 8am. They hoped that would appease the government. However, 45 minutes later, Mr Mitsotakis issued a decree banning all church congregations.
So the Greek church, in common with churches everywhere, went along with it, issuing an internal order to all ministers to keep churches closed and perform the Sunday and Eastern Easter services without a congregation. The Traditional Good Friday processions were all banned.
Church ministers obeyed the directive. But this one, priest of a church in Athens, delivered this straight from the heart sermon to an online-only congregation slamming the lockdown and the ban on meeting for worship.
2Tim 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
This will bless you (it’s a bit Greek Orthodox at the start!):
Ventilators ‘killing people’
Meanwhile, in the Daily Mirror and at more length in the Daily Mail, a Californian doctor, Cameron Kyle-Sidell, says that ventilators, rather than helping to heal Covid-19 patients, are killing them. Only one third survive being on a ventilator. Just give them oxygen in one of those CPAP masks like the ones being made by Mercedes Formula 1, he says. Don’t expect the medical establishment to change its treatment patterns any time soon …
Prov 18:17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Meanwhile, another doctor from US, one Dr Erickson, has filmed this damning video showing the lockdown strategy is not ‘led by the science’ as ministers here like to claim.
P.S. This video has been taken down (aka censored) by YouTube for ‘violating’ their ‘terms of service’. You could not make that up. Watch it on Off-Guardian HERE.
Softening us up for more lockdown
Another 684 hospital patients are announced today to have died from or with Covid-19. That takes out UK total to 19,506. It will top 20,000 over the weekend. But these figures, while still above the daily death-toll of unborn children in the UK from abortion, are not rising any more.
I must just add that the UK Covid-19 daily deaths are not the true daily tally, they can include deaths from days, even weeks earlier. Furthermore, that Off-Guardian article above shows the mere mention of Covid-19 anywhere on a death certificate adds the death into the Covid-19 stats. For example: Patient with chronic coronary disease dies from heart failure while being treated for Covid-19 (possibly on one of those deadly ventilators): Covid-19 death.
Project Fear prepares us for more Lockdown against nebulous Second Wave
But just as we thought the end was in sight, we have that Professor Chris Whitty popping up in the last few days warning of a nebulous ‘Second Peak’ and that the lockdown might have to stay for weeks. Even if it doesn’t, it will be ‘social distancing’ and a ‘new normal.’ It is yet more Covid-19 Project Fear. If the people are to continue under house arrest, they must be made to feel afraid. Covid-19 is the enemy. Your neighbour, even your son or daughter, might be harbouring the enemy!
The BBC dutifully ran a piece on the ‘second wave’ on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido where quite liberal measures were relaxed further a few weeks ago and cases are now rising again. Not that the liberalisation helps Hokkaido much. The people rely on tourism for their income.
As does my part of West Wales, as it happens. Incidentally, if Chris Whitty, Prof Neil Ferguson or that nice Health Minister Nadine Dorries MP thinks we are all going to stay indoors for eighteen months until their vaccine has been tested and they can ‘safely’ let us out, they are in dream-world.
The good news is that more people are getting out, aware that sunlight tops up your Vitamin D, which is great for your immune system. For the same reason secure some 200mg Vitamin C tablets and some Zinc tablets from Wilko this weekend. Lastly, get your trainers on and start running. Half-an-hour’s cardio-vascular exercise a day really builds your immune system and your general fitness.
1Cor 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
And I shall leave you with a question. How can NHS workers find the time to make all those videos of whole cohorts of them dancing in corridors. You know, with the crisis of being overwhelmed with patients and all?
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Marie Stopes abortion ‘clinic' in south London – we killed 595 unborn children, legally, every day in 2018 in GB. In America, they murder 3,700 each day.
Marie Stopes abortion ‘clinic’ in south London – we killed 595 unborn children, legally, every day in 2018 in GB. In America, they murder 3,700 each day.
A significant milestone was reached over the weekend, but it was not the ‘thousand deaths a day’ from Covid-19 predicted by Dr Paul Hunter, Professor of Medicine at the University of East Anglia as reported by the Sun. It was that deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the UK exceeded the number of children killed daily by abortion in Great Britain based on 2018 figures, the latest available.
Abortion milestone
On average, 595 children died every single day during 2018 in what should be the safest place on earth. Many of these infanticides were at the hands of NHS staff applauded on their way to work. We should be repenting of such legalised slaughter, which can only bring the judgment of Almighty God. The church in Russia has urged repentance and prayer for deliverance.
Zech 1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Deaths from, or with, Covid-19 passed the abortion death milestone with 684 deaths reported on Friday, 708 on Saturday, 621 on Sunday before falling to 432 reported on Monday. Pray this marks the start of a decline in deaths. NHS England tells us 52% of all Covid-19 deaths have been among people aged 80 and above. Just 15 of the 5,000-odd fatalities had no underlying health condition. It is chastening to remember that when Covid-19 is a mere memory, children in the womb will continue to be massacred at the same rate, legally, across our land.
Jer 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Pray for our leaders
The Guardian reports scientists struggling to understand why some apparently fit and healthy young people with no underlying health conditions have died. In addition, why do the majority of people exposed to the virus not even contract Covid-19, half have no symptoms, half do, some shake it off while others have real problems?
At the moment they have two theories. One is that some people have somehow taken in a lot of virus particles, causing ‘viral overload’. The other is that there is a genetic component to how we fight infections.
The Bible tells us: 1Tim 2:2 (Pray) For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
So we pray for Boris Johnson who appears to have developed pneumonia and is at this time of writing in hospital.
STOP PRESS Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last night the Prime Minister was rushed into intensive care. No 10 say he does not have pneumonia for which the British Lung Foundation says treatment would be antibiotics with supportive care. He is not on a ventilator but receiving oxygen. It is good to remember people also recover after ICU treatment so we are praying and fasting for the Lord to restore the PM with miraculous speed. It just takes one word from the Lord for healing, and for salvation:
Matt 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
We also pray for safety for the royal family, especially for the Queen, and for all her ministers.
Even some republicans agree Her Majesty the Queen struck the right note in her broadcast on Sunday evening. For me, a mention of those who have lost their jobs or businesses would have shown compassion. It seemed to me to be a little bit along the government line. But what could one expect?
Effects on the economy and long-term health
It seems positive cases of Covid-19 are slowing. This might mean the shutdown is having some effect or it might have happened anyway. Intuitively, if you lock up virtually the whole population as France and the UK have done, transmission rates between families should decrease, even if they increase within families. But at what economic, social and long-term health cost?
Jer 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Indeed, the effects on the economy, with all the implications for long-term health, are turning out just as bad as we predicted, according to this must-read report in the Mailonline. The Centre for Economics and Business Research says the UK economy is losing a staggering £2.4bn per day as a result of the shutdown of construction, schools, hospitality and general retail. The loss of these activities is also affecting manufacturing and all the small businesses which serve them. The country’s output has been slashed by 31%. Moreover, it is not ‘the coronavirus’ causing the economic impact, but the Government lockdown measures.
STOP PRESS Tuesday 7th April 2020
Both the BBC HERE and the Guardian HERE are now reporting on a study from University College London published in The Lancet.
The academics say ‘school closures have little impact on spread of coronavirus’. The ‘small benefits’ should be ‘weighed against profound economic and social costs’.
One of the research authors, Professor Russell Viner, said: “Data on the benefit of school closures in the coronavirus outbreak is limited, but what we know shows that their impact is likely to be only small.
“Additionally, the costs of national school closures are high – children’s education is damaged and their mental health may suffer, family finances are affected.
“Policymakers need to be aware of the equivocal evidence.”
He says policymakers must weigh up the possible harms and reopen schools at the earliest opportunity – and not necessarily wait until September if it can be done safely sooner.
Naturally, Dr Neil Ferguson of Imperial College disagrees, so it looks like these two London seats of learning are at daggers drawn. We can but pray University College prevails and schools reopen after Easter as normal. We understand a Government review of the lockdown measures will take place on Easter Monday, 13th April. Pray for reason to prevail.
Let us not forget, king Ahab relied on false prophets, prompting king Jehoshaphat to call for a true prophet:
2Chron 18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
People could lose their lives
The Guardian is reporting that ‘millions could slip through’ what it calls ‘the virus safety net’, the financial aid available from the UK taxpayer. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says many self-employed workers would still get no support. Others, it says, could be left financially better off than they would have been.
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith warned the economy could only take a few more weeks of lockdown before it was damaged beyond repair. He said: ‘If the economy tanks, then that affects people’s quality of life, their jobs and their mental health – and significant numbers of people could lose their lives.’ But it is beginning to look as if no-one in the corridors of power bothered to consider those sort of effects at all.
Professor Graham Medley, a top government advisor, is now warning that the lockdown is harming ‘the incomes of people who rely on a continuous stream of money and their children’. Who knows where that will lead?
Prov 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
More deadly than the virus
Younger workers are particularly affected, as many work in the hospitality sector. Just today, Simon Kempton from the Police Federation told the Home Affairs Select Committee that the police are seeing ‘the very, very early indications of an increase in suicide attempts and suicides, far too early to say that that’s a real trend, but there’s very early indications of that.’
A Sky News host maintains Australia is making the same wrong decisions resulting in the same dire outcomes.
Mervyn King, who was governor of the Bank of England during the 2008 financial crisis, has warned a prolonged lockdown is unrealistic. ‘If we have a lockdown for too long there will be a rebellion against it.’ People will begin to realise that the government is oppressing the workers by forbidding them to work. This word shows how God regards such a sin. I should say someone putting hard work into starting a small business only to see their reward kept back by ministerial order, is also entitled to cry to heaven:
Jas 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
‘Irrational horror of death’
Taxes and borrowings are also certain to rise for generations as a result of the incompetence of the Government. God said through the Prophet Ezekiel: Ezek 45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Former Supreme Court Justice Jonathon Sumption said the public’s ‘irrational horror of death’ has led to unnecessarily ‘costly’ measures. Writing in The Sunday Times, Lord Sumption, 71, said the strict governmental measures will bring ‘even greater misfortunes of a different kind’. He wrote: ‘We have acquired an irrational horror of death. Today death is the great obscenity, inevitable but somehow unnatural. In the midst of life, our ancestors lived with death, an everpresent fact that they understood and accommodated.’
The Bible says: Eccl 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Buy a book in Berlin but not read it
EuroMomo’s latest map for Week 13 of 2020 now shows England and Switzerland in ‘High’ excess deaths while Spain and Italy are now ‘Very High’. Belgium is ‘Above Expected’. However, the rest of Europe is still in ‘No Excess’.
Germany is doing far better than the UK according to Worldometer, with only 1,612 deaths at this time of writing (18:00hrs 06/04/2020) and 101,178 cases. The UK was correspondingly 5,373 deaths and 51,608 cases. So we see how Germany’s emphasis on mass testing has paid dividends. (Ours is only in hospitals for those who arrive with symptoms.)
As to social measures against virus spread, this can be very liberal in Germany, but varies from state to state, often amusingly.
In Berlin, for example, buying a book from a shop is still allowed but having a picnic in the park is not. In Baden-Württemberg, it’s the other way around. Having purchased your book, you cannot then read it alone on a park bench in Berlin. But you could in Baden-Württemberg, or even go and visit a few friends. This chart illustrates – it’s in German, but those of us not skilled in their language can get the drift. (There is also a glossary right at the bottom of this post).
‘Nightingale Hospital’ not yet needed
The BBC reports how leaden-footed the UK Government was about issuing proper advice which could have protected the vulnerable, and rolling out testing.
Meanwhile we hear the much-vaunted ‘Nightingale Hospital’ in London’s Excel Exhibition Centre will be late opening because of lack of demand for beds. The Unredacted website reports “London hospitals are currently coping with their case numbers.” Average weekly death rates are not that different from previous years. Remember that apart from abortion deaths, the average number of deaths in the UK is 1,640 per day, more in the colder months, fewer in summer.
Indeed, the London Evening Standard reports that total deaths in England and Wales in the week ending 27th March were 11,141. That’s 1,011 more than the five-year average. Nevertheless, only 539 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, which was fewer than 5% of the total. The week ending 3rd April should show 2,800 Covid-19-related deaths, but that will still only be some 17% of the total.
And remember that ‘Protect the NHS’ always really meant ‘Protect the Conservative Governments’ reputation’. I am sorry to say it, but even applauding NHS workers was dreamed up by some bright spark in a cynical move to divert attention away from the Department of Health’s shortcomings. Why does the number of hospital beds and ICU places fall so far short of those in Japan and Germany? We have reported this legitimate question earlier. The cost of providing them would have tiny compared with the financial disaster now looming as a result of lockdown.
Diamond Princess data
Writing in Science News, Dr Tina Saey explains that out of 3,711 people aboard Diamond Princess, 634, or 17%, contracted Covid-19. Just over half, 328, had no symptoms. Of the 306 with symptoms, the fatality rate was 1.9%. Of all infected, 0.91%. Moreover, the passenger list was strongly weighted to the retired. Indeed, among the over 70s, the fatality ratio aboard was 7.3%. Extrapolating the figures to China yielded 0.5% of fatalities among those infected. Nevertheless, 83% of Diamond Princess passengers did not contract the virus, even in those close-quarter conditions.
Plug those figures into the UK, and the numbers of deaths if the Government just did nothing was not 500,000, as Dr Neil Ferguson of Imperial College claimed, but more like 50,000. Yet the Prime Minister fell for the Ferguson scare.
Naughty children
The Sunday Express told us the Government could stop us going outside to exercise in retaliation to thousands taking advantage of the fair weather over the weekend. In something resembling a teacher’s speech to a class of naughty children, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said, “The vast majority of people are following the rules, let’s not have a minority spoiling it for everybody.” Labour’s new leader, Sir Keir Starmer, astonishingly agreed.
Yet journalist Barney Ronay remembered a report last year: ‘Public Health England’s paper states that “physical inactivity is responsible for one in six UK deaths and is estimated to cost the UK £7.4bn annually”.’
Furthermore, ‘Data suggests children from low-income backgrounds are already less physically active than those from wealthier backgrounds, and three times more likely to be obese by the age of 11.’
Driving to Fife poses no risk
The Guardian reports on Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer flouting ‘the rules’ by driving for an hour from Edinburgh to her holiday home in Fife. One can view that as the arrogance of the establishment. But perhaps the Chief Medical Officer knew full well that driving from one home to another with her husband posed absolutely no risk to anyone. Catherine Calderwood has now resigned.
The Lord Jesus said of the Pharisees: Matt 23:3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. However, at least the Pharisees were interpreting the law, rather than making it up as they went along.
Those taking the sun in South London’s Brockwell Park appeared to be maintaining social distances, so to that extent they were observing and doing, even if they had counted that to stay indoors was an observance too far. Lambeth Council closed the Park in retaliation on Sunday. Thank God they re-opened it on Monday.
‘Be reasonable and proportionate’
Indeed, The BBC reports some leading politicians beginning to see sense. ‘Newly elected Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner MP told Sophy Ridge it was “all right for people who have got big houses and huge back gardens” to tell sunbathers observing social distancing to stop doing so.
‘”If you’re stuck in inadequate accommodation… and you’re all on top of each other, quite literally, then I think people should do social distancing and should keep their distance, but also be reasonable and proportionate about that,” she said.’
Our politicians almost without exception have no idea of what it is like to be imprisoned in an apartment for hours at a time. Nor do I for that matter. Judy and I can go outside and tend the farm any time we like. But a lot of people and some of our members do not even have a garden. The Guardian’s Lynsey Hanley says: ‘Our experiences of the lockdown are shaped by class.’
All ‘play our part’
And it really seems the lives of ordinary people fail to register with most of the elite.
A young reporter sent at 10.30 am to interview the late Sir Noel Coward allegedly found the musician and bon viveur (I am being kind) in his silk dressing gown washing down his breakfast with champagne. The young man asked in an astonished voice, ‘Sir Noel, you are drinking champagne with your breakfast?’ To which the mystified louche replied, ‘My dear boy, doesn’t everyone?’
Mr Hancock said he was expecting Covid-19-related deaths to peak ‘in ten day’s time, on 13th April. But only if we all play our part’. However, one could argue the Government did not play their part. And that is exactly what the Daily Express reports here. The Government ignored warnings from the World Health Organisation to prepare for a new virus pandemic and gear up for mass testing. Even in December, after the general election, the need for testing was becoming clear from China’s experience. Still the UK did nothing.
Competence and fear of God
The Bible says:
Prov 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Action supposedly to stop the spread of Covid-19, or to slow the death rate, is portrayed by the media as a ‘battle’ or as a ‘war’. In 1917, we were properly at war and the Allies launched the Battle of Arras. Siegfried Sassoon refers to it in his poem ‘The General’:
“Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead, And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine. “He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
After 39 days of fighting, 300,000 young men, evenly from both sides, lay dead or injured. From Sassoon’s poem we see that leaders carry a terrible responsibility. By their decisions we can indeed, one way or another, be ‘done for.’ Leaders must be more than cheery, they must be competent. They must weigh up advice dispassionately and make rational decisions for our benefit, not theirs.
2Sam 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
C.S.Lewis wrote:
Let scientists tell us about science. But government involves questions about the good of man, and justice, and what things are worth having at what price; and on these a scientific training gives a man’s opinion no added value.
Pray for an end to the lockdown. Pray our leaders will be men like this:
Exod 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Pray for those kind of men to be appointed, to be wise, competent and God-fearing.
Rough German to English glossary
einkaufen = shopping
buchladen = bookshop
ausweis = ID card
hause = home
demonstreren = demonstrate
besuchen = visit
wohnung = flat, apartment
verlassen = to leave
triftigen = important
einen = one, vier = four
bekannten = known
offentlichkeit = public / publicity
treffen = meeting
baumarkt = hardware store
alleine auf der parkbank ein buch lesen = reading a book alone on the park bench
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But now ask your MP to ask the Government to recommend Good Friday to Her Majesty as a day of prayer for release from Covid-19.
DIY abortions
Psalm 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
The Government has announced the biggest change to abortion provision since 1967. They have introduced ‘telemedicine abortions’. A woman can just ring or Skype a doctor for for ‘DIY’ abortion pills, mifepristone and misoprostol.
She will then perform her own abortion at home, by taking both abortion pills, meaning she will be left to deliver her dead unborn child at home without a doctor or any other medical professional present. This is a backstreet abortion, the type abortionists say they are against.
Safety and safeguarding issues
Only last week, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said “there are no proposals to change abortion rules.” The Department of Health stated the proposal carried ‘significant safety and safeguarding issues’ for women and young girls. Indeed, who might be standing over her as she makes the call?
Under the Abortion Act 1967, abortions could only take place in hospitals or abortion clinics approved by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. That brought judgment on us all:
Deut 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
But this change will leave even more mothers bereaved and without the opportunity to consider the gravity of what they are doing. It has been made without any public consultation, parliamentary scrutiny or debate whatsoever.
The approval will expire “on the day on which the temporary provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020 expire, or the end of the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which it is made, whichever is earlier.”
MPs must call government to account
We demand the Government rescind this decision and we urge MPs to call them to account.
Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
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Slide 14: So UK Public authorities now have a duty to promote homosexuality and transsexualism.
This is the 48-slide PowerPoint presentation Stephen was able to give to Kenya Christian Professionals, clergy, activists and dignitaries on 13th November in Nairobi.
Slide 1: Christian Voice UK: Praying for National Repentance, Working for Godly Government.
Slide 2: What we do: (1) We research and analyse events against scripture. (2) Our members pray for and witness to MP’s and those in public life. (3) We go on the streets leafleting with Evangelistic Prophetic Witness, such as when London Zoo held ‘Gay Sunday,’ a party for homosexuals, or as we did in Nairobi at the UNFPA Summit.
Slide 3: Marie Stopes abortion ‘clinic’ in south London – we kill 544 unborn children, legally, every day in GB. In America, they murder 3,700 each day. Slide 4: Marie Stopes Kenya – Clinic in Malindi. MSK stays open in Kenya by pretending they only offer contraception and post-abortion care. Marie Stopes abortion clinics operate openly all over Kenya.
Slide 5: However, a young British doctor, Linden Stocker, wrote this on the website of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2011: ‘Whilst I was in Kenya I managed to organise spending 2 days a week at the Marie Stopes clinic in Kisumu. … They perform safe, completely illegal abortions for a cost equivalent of about £30.’ The cost in Kenya of a Marie Stopes abortion has since risen to around 10,000 Kenya Shillings.
Slide 6: Marie Stopes Kenya have over 20 clinics, from Kitale to Nairobi to Mombasa. MSK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marie Stopes International, the world’s second biggest abortionist after IPPF. Moreover, KSh 10,000 is a fraction of the true cost of an MSK abortion. Marie Stopes abortions in Africa are heavily subsidised by the West. The UK Government leads the rest with a grant to MSI in 2018 of £48 million of taxpayers’ money. (NB: The Church in Kenya could close Marie Stopes by constant prayer vigils outside its facilities.)
Slide 7: Unborn baby at just 8 weeks Slide 8: Effects of suction abortion on African-American babies of (from top left) 7, 9, 10 and 11 weeks.
Slide 9: The Bible says: Num 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Psa 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Jer 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Slide 10: Homosexuality was legalised in the UK in 1967. Today, 100,000 homosexuals parade through London.
Slide 11: Jesus said: Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Slide 12: Legalising homosexuality soon leads to Gvt promoting it. United Kingdom’s Equality Act 2010: Section 148 Public sector equality duty (1) A public authority must, in the exercise of its functions, have due regard to the need to- (a) eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under this Act; (b) advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it; (c) foster good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it. (4) Having due regard to the need to foster good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it involves having due regard, in particular, to the need to- (a) tackle prejudice, and (b) promote understanding.
Slide 13: (6) The relevant protected characteristics are: age; disability; gender reassignment; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation.
Slide 14: So UK Public authorities now have a duty to promote homosexuality and transsexualism.
Slide 15: Public authorities include Ministers of the Crown, Government Departments (except MI5, MI6 and GCHQ), The Armed Forces, National Health Service, County Councils, Police, Schools, Colleges and Universities.
Slide 16: Homosexual Police leading the London Gay Pride Parade. Slide 17: The police officer here in the front row of the Brighton Gay Pride Parade is the Chief Constable of Sussex. Note the homosexual desecration of the Union Jack. Slide 18: 5-year-old children are being subjected to homosexual propaganda at schools in England under the guise of ‘Relationships Education’ and transgenderism is being promoted. It’s very similar to the Comprehensive Sexuality Education demanded by UNFPA across Africa.
Slide 19: So, the UK then exports those evils. What David Cameron told homosexual activists at a party he gave for them in No 10 Downing Street on 22nd June 2011: ‘… an area where we have the ability to make progress, is the fact that gay people can be appallingly treated in other parts of the world, particularly in Africa.’
Slide 20: ‘(Foreign Aid) also has a spin-off benefit of giving us some moral authority (sic) in the world to talk to other leaders and governments about our relationship with them and what we expect from them. I’m very proud of the fact we [put] huge pressure on the leader of Malawi about an issue in that country but I‘m convinced we can do more. We have got the ability to speak to African leaders, African governments, about this issue that I know concerns everyone here tonight. And it concerns me.’ (David Cameron, UK Prime Minister)
Slide 21: Even before Mr Cameron’s speech, the Department for International Development had been promoting feminism and immorality in Africa: Social Marketing of Condoms [103545] To increase adoption of safer sexual practices among youth. Country: Kenya Budget: £15,031,330 Start Date: 01/01/2003
Slide 22: Young Voices for Change (SRH Rights and HIV/AIDS) CSCF345 [105559] Young Tanzanians (10-24) know, promote and enact their sexual and reproductive rights, including with regards to HIV/ AIDS. Budget: £499,934 Start Date: 01/04/2005
Slide 23: Western money is promoting wickedness across Africa: Not one African NGO promoting Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights (that’s abortion, LGBT and feminism) is African-funded. Every single one has its staff and expenses paid by the West. So let’s follow the money …
Slide 24: Rich US homosexual Jon Stryker set up the ‘Arcus Foundation’ to advance gay rights world-wide. He admitted the money going to Africa to promote sodomy was around $12,000,000 / year from NGO’s alone in 2010. How much is flooding in today?
Slide 25: 2015-16, top ten funders of money to Sub-Saharan Africa for LGBT (Source: ‘Global Resources Report): 1 Government of Sweden $14,454,266 2 Open Society Foundations (Soros) $4,097,626 3 Hivos (Netherlands) $3,218,406 4 American Jewish World Service $3,084,250 5 Arcus Foundation (USA) $2,716,639 6 Government of Norway $2,537,539 7 UHAI-EASHRI (Kenya) $2,323,769 8 Government of Denmark $2,166,635 9 Ford Foundation (USA) $2,144,550 10 Global Equality Fund (USA) $2,033,860 Total for just the top ten: $38,777,540
Slide 26: 2015-16, top recipients of money for LGBT (Source: ‘Global Resources Report) include: 3 Dept for Int Dev (RSA) $5,424,750 9 IPPF (London) $3,641,407 10 UHAI-EASHRI (Kenya) $3,497,086
Slide 27: Note above, Nairobi-based UHAI-EASHRI was listed as a donor of $2,323,769 in 2015/16 but a recipient of $3,497,086. A cool $1.1m went on their ‘6-25′ staff and office expenses. UHAI EASHRI, established by Ford Foundation in 2009, claims to be ‘Africa’s first indigenous activist fund for sex workers and sexual and gender minorities’. But it is entirely funded by the West, not just by Ford Foundation (US), but Sigrid Rausing Trust & Baring Fdn ( both UK), Astrea Lesbian Fdn, Tides Fdn, Arcus Fdn, Urgent Action Fund, Atlantic Philanthropies, Fdn for a Just Society (all US) and others. (‘UHAI’ is an acronym but also means ‘life’ in Swahili.)
Slide 28: In an article on Saturday 23rd November 2019, the Nation newspaper revealed ‘Kenya’s best and worst paying jobs’ It said: ‘foreign-backed NGOs employed a total of 1,345 staff and 270 of them earned more than Sh100,000 monthly, making the agencies a magnet for those seeking or wanting to change jobs.’ Nowhere is that more true than in Kenya’s immoral NGOs.
Slide 29: In January 2011, The European Union gave a 300,000 Euro grant to promote gay rights in Cameroon to a group of pro-gay CSO’s led by the ‘Association to Defend Homosexuals‘. Cameroon’s Foreign Minister Henri Eyebe Ayissi summoned the head of the EU delegation in Cameroon to protest against the funding of groups that “violate the laws of Cameroon.” But the grant still went ahead.
Slide 30: Funding for Kenyan LGBT groups includes: Given to: National Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NG&LHRC): (Yes, there is such a group!) By: Sigrid Rausing Trust (UK): £180,000 over three years (2016-19).
Slide 31: The accounts of NG&LHRC show its total income in 2016 was Ksh 15,976,147
Slide 32: Here’s the NG&LHRC logo, desecrating the Kenyan flag.
Slide 33: There is also a ‘Gay & Lesbian Coalition of Kenya’ (G&LCK) which received $100,000 from Arcus Foundation in 2019. It also received funding from Open Society Foundations, Astrea, Hivos, UHAI, Coalition of African Lesbians, Kenya National Commission for Human Rights, Kenya Human Rights Commission, Kelin Kenya, National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (Kenya), and the International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Section.
Slide 33: Kenya Human Rights Commission: From Sigrid Rausing Trust (UK):£100,000 in 2019. Also, ‘The KHRC relies on donations from individuals and from organisations such as:’ the Swedish Int. Dev. Agency, Christian Aid, Trocaire, Danish Int. Dev. Agency, UN Dev. Programme, UNIFEM, Canadian Int. Dev. Agency and Ford Fdn. It started as a genuine human rights group, but in May 2011 the KHRC issued a report which called on the government to decriminalise homosexuality. That’s when the funds started rolling in.
Slide 34: Since 2012, the Kenyan Human Rights Commission has been primarily funded by the Ford Foundation of the USA at $200,000 per year. The KHRC even wanted to bring in a Hate Crimes Law in Kenya to prevent pastors preaching against homosexuality. Chairman: Prof. Makau Mutua Executive Director: George Kegoro
Slide 35: George Kigoro in full flow.
Slide 36: Prof Matua was in Kampala in 2010 in February at a conference – again funded by the Ford Foundation – to oppose David Bahati’s Bill against promotion of LGBT. The Ford Foundation is just one of around twenty NGO’s giving money to Ugandan gay groups. But let’s get back to Arcus Foundation …
Slide 37: In 2018, Arcus gave ‘more than $15 million’ ‘to organizations working to advance social justice for LGBT people around the world.’ Recent funding from Arcus Foundation alone to LGBT-advancing groups in Kenya: 2019: Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya $100,000 2019: Persons Marginalised & Aggrieved (PEMA – Mombasa) $140,000 2019: Transgender Education and Advocacy: $100,000 2014-2018: Pembizo Christian Council $391,000 (to ‘create counter-narrative to condemning religious voices’) 2011-2018: UHAI EASHRI $1,720,000: (‘funding for LGBT biannual conference in Africa. For Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.’)
Slide 38: 2016: Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) Nairobi $200,000 (‘Support to the African regional platform of government-appointed human-rights institutions seeking to include LGBT rights as human rights, with a pilot project in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda.’) 2013-2016: Other Sheep Africa $140,000 (‘to increase LGBTIQ acceptance within the Muslim community in 12 provinces of Kenya.’) 2016: The East African Documentary Film Fund $20,000 2014: Chemchemi Ya Ukweli (‘Fountain of Truth’!) $50,000 (Together for Transformation project, pilot LGBT training program for Muslim & Christian religious leaders.)
Slide 39: 2010 – 2012: Fahamu (Nairobi) $458,066 (‘Strengthen and expand African LGBT movement … partnerships, … with African governments and private multi-national and other corporations in collaboration with UHAI-EASRHI.) 2010: Akiba Uhaki Foundation $200,000 (‘support of the programmatic and convening activities of UHAI-EASRHI Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi.’) (‘Akiba Uhaki’ sort of means ‘supply justice’.) Plus South Africa LGBT projects in: Western Cape Provincial Council of Churches, Inclusive & Affirming Ministries, Southern African Christian Initiative.
Slide 40: Western politicians want Africa to end up with gay parades like this.
Slide 41: Immoral NGOs operate openly in Kenya: Planned Parenthood Federation of America: Chaka Place, 1st Floor, Chaka Rd, Nairobi International Planned Parenthood Federation: Senteu Plaza, 3rd floor Lenana/Galana Rd Junction, Naiobi. (Planned Parenthood Global is advertising in The Nairobi Star newspaper for a youth worker right NOW – Nov 2019.)
Slide 42: Open Society initiative for East Africa: ACS Plaza, Lenana Road, Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya National Commission on Human Rights: Ist Floor,CVS Plaza,Lenana Road, Nairobi UHAI-EASHRI: 3rd Floor, Suite 5, Rosami Court, Muringa Rd., Kilimani, Nairobi.
Slide 43: Kenya Human Rights Commission: Gitanga Road opp. Valley Arcade Shopping Center, Nairobi. National Lesbian & Gay Human Rights Commission: Mpulla House # 4 Arboretum Drive (off State House Road), Nairobi.
Slide 44: Urgent Action Fund Africa: 2nd Floor, Riara Corporate Suites, Riara Road, Kilimani, Nairobi. Fahamu Africa – Head Office: Block C, 3rd Floor, Peponi Plaza, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya.
Slide 45: To stop evil coming from the West, we recommend: (1) African, Asian and Caribbean members unite at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the next is in Kigali, Rwanda in June 2020, and put down resolutions defending life and family. (2) Forums like the African Union and the Caribbean Union should state their rejection of immorality and foreign aid intended to corrupt public morality. (3) Make it clear at diplomatic levels that aid donors must respect traditional family values. (4) Bring in local laws to prevent promotion of evil.
46 Local laws need to be passed to prevent money intended to promote sodomy and abortion in Africa from reaching its targets. We suggest: (1) Make it illegal to corrupt public morality – in particular to promote LGBT or abortion. (2) Proscribe the foreign NGO’s involved and deny their representatives visas, (3) Require local recipient organisations to open their accounts to discover their income, (4) Seize foreign monies promoting immorality.
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Slide 47: Christian Voice is glad to address governments, civil servants, members of parliament across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean on this issue and provide information to resist immorality. More research needs to be done to identify all the governments, ngos, cso’s, projects and amounts involved. And, lastly, thank God Africa is starting to move, as they say in Ghana: Beyond Aid
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We also reported on her action against a pro-life church in Nairobi. But she has won a string of awards, so are we missing something?
Political and family life
Wikipedia describes her thus: ‘Esther Muthoni Passaris OGW is a Kenyan social entrepreneur, philanthropist and politician. She is the Nairobi County women representative in the bicameral Kenyan parliament, and a member of the Orange Democratic Movement Political Party.’
Honorable Esther M Passaris was born in Mombasa to a Greek father and a Kenyan Kikuyu mother. She attended the Aga Khan Academies for her primary and secondary education. She has been Nairobi Women Representative since 2013. She is – or was, some reports say she is divorce or separated – married to businessman Pius Mbugua Ngugi. They have two children together; Makenna Maria (24) and Lefteris Pierce (20)
Second wife
Pius Ngugi is a Kshilling billionaire and one of the most influential and wealthy persons in Kenya. He originates from Kiambu County, Kenya, but an article on TUKO says ‘details on his early life are not clear to the public’. Pius Mbugua founded two companies, Kenya Nut and Thika Coffee Mills, which he owns to date. The farmer is Kenya’s leading exporter of macadamia nuts. Mr Ngugi is also involved with the Tatu City project, and Kenya Alliance Insurance.
Esther Passaris is reportedly content with her husband’s affairs, claiming: ‘Because a man is not my God, my God is only one.’ Ms Passaris is a Roman Catholic.
https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/43029-5-popular-politicians-you-didnt-know-were-2nd-wives Furthermore, Ms Passaris is, or was, in a polygamous setup with Pius Ngugi. Mr Ngugi is also married to Josephine Wambui Ngugi. They have children together. And she has sadly been having continual trouble with her back.
Entrepreneur
The MP, 53, is obviously well connected and provided for, but she is aldso an entrepreneur in her own right Vital Voices describes her as ‘a skilled marketing and public relations professional with over 20 years’ experience’. It claims she established two businesses, ‘namely Adopt A Light and Shaper Images Ltd.’ There is scant (actually none, except for the Vital Voices reference) evidence of a Kenyan ‘Shaper Images Ltd’ (or even ‘Sharper Images’) on the web, but what of ‘Adopt A Light’?
The company is based in Alpha Centre on Mombasa Road, Nairobi. Its website says it aims ‘to steer advertising revenues into community development. The company was inspired by the need to achieve safer cities through the provision of adequate street lighting.’
‘Ever-growing financial constraints’ mean Kenyan city councils find it ‘impossible’ ‘to install and maintain all existing streetlights’, says the About page. Adopt a Light sells advertising and pays a rent to the city to enable it to maintain that particular street lamp. To be fair, that is a clever and socially-responsible idea. Esther Passaris chairs the company.
Pro-life posters
But it precisely this idea, and this company, which cast Esther Passaris herself in an unfavourable light.
Pro-life billboards in Nairobi were ordered down by Esther Passaris.
Sozo Church, (Facebook page here) pastored by Reverend Catherine Oganga, paid for no fewer than thirteen billboards and posters on street lighting.
These were sited strategically near traffic lights and electricity poles along Nairobi’s main roads. The messages read: ‘Abortion is Murder!’, ‘Shut down abortion clinics!’ and had pictures of pre-born babies. Another read: ‘Your mother gave you a chance, it wasn’t easy then too. Give your baby a chance!’
International Planned Parenthood is now based in Nairobi. Marie Stopes has four facilities in the city. Its Eastleigh clinic specialises in ‘pregnancy crisis management’. So it was not surprising that pro-abortion activists soon saw the posters, got together and complained to Hon Passaris.
The Daily Nation newspaper observed: ‘… suffice to say that several NGOs — obviously with more spending power than Kageni-Oganga and her Sozo Church of God — had raised hackles against the billboards which they said were stigmatising women and girls seeking access to safe and legal abortion services.’
Esther Passaris first gave a verbal notice to Sozo Church of God notifying the church that Adopt-a-light would pull down the billboards.
Next, a terse text from the firm associated with the Nairobi Woman Representative said: “Kindly note that we are not able to continue advertising for you as per our earlier communication. I had informed you very clearly that it is not possible to continue. Thanks.”
However, Sozo say the MP then took matters into her own hands and pulled down the pro-life billboards herself, without, said Sozo, a notice or refund to the church.
Nation reports, however: ‘The advertising firm has told the preacher that it would be refunding all the monies owed so the contract can be legally terminated.’ We are currently unable to report they have done so.
Petition
Nevertheless, Pastor Oganga, who took personal charge of the billboards project, is considering legal action.
She also has a petition on CitizenGo appealing to His Excellency Mike Sonko, Governor of Nairobi, who is known for being strongly pro-life.
Interestingly, Hon Esther Passaris is also currently involved in a bizarre row with Governor Sonko, centred around what he says was an invitation to visit a room in Nairobi’s Intercontinental Hotel.
Pro-abortion NGOs
The pro-abortion NGO’s dragged up some paid activists to protest against Sozo’s posters.
The Nation blames the move to take down the posters on a ‘coalition of pro-choice NGOs’ who ‘went into a celebratory mood, announcing the victory’ as soon as Rep Passaris took them down. ‘Success. The billboards came down in May’ they whooped, going on to describe them as ‘inaccurate and inflammatory anti-abortion billboards.’ Quite what was inaccurate they didn’t say, although we would not expect detail from that side.
Religion Unplugged names the eleven NGOs as the Center for Reproductive Rights, along with ‘the Federation of Women Lawyers, Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health, Network for Adolescent and Youth of Africa, Red Tape, Ipas-Health Access Rights, Right Here Right Now, Kelin, Xhale Africa, Women’s Link Worldwide, and Reproductive Health Network Kenya.’
We have not researched the financial details of every one, yet, but it is safe to say not one is funded by Kenyan money. Every single one of them will be receiving cash from pro-abortion foundations, companies and governments in the West.
Esther Passaris and ‘She Decides’
Hon Passaris gushes about herself: ‘Kenyan social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician. She is the Nairobi County women representative in the bicameral Kenyan parliament and a She Decides Kenya champion.’
So what is this ‘She Decides’? We looked it up. The vision of She Decides is ‘A world where every girl and woman can decide what to do with her body, with her life and with her future. Without question.’ In other words, it is a hardline abortion-on-demand campaign.
She Decides Kenya was launched on 2nd March 2019 by ‘the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Kenya, together with the Center for Reproductive Rights Africa Program and the Reproductive Health Network Kenya’. There’s a surprise! The Dutch and two of the 11 NGOs which objected to the Sozo pro-life posters are funding ‘She Decides Kenya’.
The webpage on She Decides says: ‘With the launch of SheDecides Kenya, we hope to bring together partners and stakeholders to build pressure on the Government of Kenya to sign into the SheDecides manifesto. The launch will also be used to raise awareness on SheDecides and the effects of the global gag rule among Kenyans.’ She Decides is a lobbying and propaganda machine. Should foreign embassies and NGOs be interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign nations? You decide.
UNFPA in Kibera
Dr. Natalia Kanem promoting ‘reproductive rights’ with pro-abortion Kenyan MP Esther Passaris. Note the UNFPA back-drop.
Back in March 2019, Esther Passaris took the head of UNFPA, Dr Natalia Kanem along to the Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi. No doubt they took armed bodyguards, because UNFPA described the area pejoratively as a ‘slum’.
In reality, the settlement is a place where people are trying to earn a living, mirroring the world-wide trend of movement from the countryside to cities. This author moved in the opposite direction, but that’s another story.
Every charity, NGO and UN agency wants a piece of Kibera. There are probably more jobs dependent on Kibera than the people in it. Anyway, the two immediately promoted ‘reproductive rights’ which is UN-speak for abortion on demand.
Women’s Parliamentary Caucus
Esther Passaris affirmed in Kibera her intention to work in the Kenyan Parliament with the Women’s Parliamentary Caucus to support the work of UNFPA. She unashamedly played the feminist card. However, defending abortion depends on feminism and feminism, according to feminist activists, depends on abortion (although pro-life feminists do exist). ‘Every woman should also able to access’ family planning, she said.
‘As Kenyan women we’re committed to your cause and will lobby with other policy makers to pass legislation that is favourable to women’s rights and their advancement,’ added the pro-abortion MP. Hon Passaris seriously believes women are advanced by killing their children in what should be the safest place on God’s earth..
Passaris on homosexuality
Abortion is illegal in Kenya, except to save the life of the mother (not her ‘lifestyle’, as in the West.) Sodomy and other practices against nature are also against the law. Sections 162 and 165 of the Penal Code criminalises same sex unions and offenders face up to 14 years in jail. Moreover, the Kenyan Constitution does not recognise sexual relationships between people of same gender.
That has not stopped Hon Esther Passaris expressing support for homosexuality. However, she has not expressed such views inside the Kenyan parliament in any speech that we can discover.
Took to Twitter
On the contrary, in May this year, she took to Twitter to express her opinion over what the Standard newspaper described as ‘the emotive issue of same-sex marriage.’
‘In her post on her Twitter wall, she said: “I choose not to judge. Who are we to deny two consenting adults the joy of love and sex? It’s time for us to live and let live. I wouldn’t want to see any LGBTIQ+ Kenyan killed or thrown in jail just for being different”.’
The expression ‘LGBTIQ+’ is straight out of the gay campaigners’ handbook. Her stance led to a storm of protest from other Twitter users. One said: ‘I thought u were better than this ?? We Africans will not allow such culture into our society. Let each organ play its designated role dont tempt God.’
https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1SU1M7-OZATP
Her post came as the High Court of Kenya ruled that same-sex marriage and relationships remain illegal and a criminal offence.
The TUKO website reported that three days later: ‘Speaking in an interview with Radio Maisha on Monday, May 27, the vocal politician claimed there are many homosexuals in government offices, business spaces, family circles who Kenyans should learn to live with in harmony and accept them for who they are.’
Gay ‘blonde moment’
Esther Passaris has not adopted her pro-gay views recently. Back in 2015 she jumped to what she thought was the defence of a homosexual athlete, only to find out ‘Gay’ was the man’s name.
The Nairobi Star gloated: ‘Replying to a tweet by Daily Nation titled “Drug-cheat Gay costs USA Olympic relay silver” , Passaris asked “@dailynation what’s gay got to do with it?.”
‘Of course she thought Gay in this case meant sexual orientation, while in real sense it’s the name of the athlete – Tyson Gay.’
The paper went on: ‘You can imagine how KOT (Kenyans on Twitter) roasted her.’ Many lampooned her light skin while Nairobi News accused her of a ‘blonde moment’. (We should clarify Christian Voice does not regard blonde people in general as stupid, although it certainly was the blonde women queuing up for the Nairobi UNFPA Summit on Tuesday 12th November who were more inclined to refuse a pro-life leaflet than any other group.)
‘El Cholo’ said ‘Passaris proved that lightskin theory.’ Later that afternoon, @EstherPassaris owned up to ‘definitely a blonde moment. Guilty as charged.’
A string of awards
In 2008 Esther Passaris was awarded the Order of Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW) by then President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki. She has also been given a string of other awards by the right-on global elite.
She received the ‘Exceptional Women of Excellence’ Award at the Women Economic Forum 2019 in India, New Delhi.
Also this year Rep Passaris received the Outstanding African Community Figure Award from Voice Achievers. This was ‘for her contribution to the advancement of women and youth in Kenya.’ (Voice Achievers Award is given to leaders who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the political, corporate and social sphere.}
According to Wikipedia, other awards include:
2016 Most influential women in business and government by CEO Global, South Africa
2009 UN Habitat Business Awards by UN Habitat
2006 Mashiriki Innovations in Local Governance Award and National Human Settlement Award also by UN-HABITAT. That same year, Adopt-A-Light won Company of the Year Award.
2004 Hon Passaris was awarded the Eve Woman of the Year Award, Make a Difference Award and the Mayoral Achievement Award.
National Assembly
Wikipedia also tells us ‘In the National Assembly, Hon. Passaris is an active member of the Committee on Health and the Special Funds Account Committee. She is also a founding member of the Kenya Parliamentary Caucus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & an active member of the Kenyan chapter of the African Parliamentarians Against Corruption (APNAC). ‘Internationally, Hon Passaris is a member of the Global Tuberculous Caucus and the Global Equality Caucus.
‘Esther Passaris is a known public figure in Kenya, who has sparked some controversy by her statements about other Kenyan politicians and businessmen. She has been a runner-up in Miss Kenya contest and is actively campaigning for the rights of women in Kenya.’
Feminist, pro-gay, pro-abortion
Esther Passaris is good at promoting herself.
Some will accuse us of being one-sided, but we found it difficult to discover anything positive Esther Passaris has achieved as a ‘social entrepreneur’ apart from a football team.
Instead, a search of her name alone drags up a mixed bag of references. She is certainly a ‘skilled marketing and public relations professional’ but seems to put that to best use promoting herself. It is strange to find someone who is so completely pro-feminist, pro-abortion and pro-gay representing voters in socially-conservative Kenya.
CitizenGo Africa says: ‘As evident in her and friends’ social media she has been in meetings funded by pro-abortion groups and always promises these abortionists her support and her availability. While she pushes for the interests of these abortionists, she has forgotten those that voted for her are pro-life.’ The group calls for a National Assembly motion to have Rep Passaris removed from public office.
In any event, the next parliamentary elections to the National Assembly will take place in August 2022. There is time for Hon Esther Passaris, OGW, MP either to repent or to dig herself into an even deeper hole.
Ezek 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. … 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? (KJV)
Ambassadors of eleven nations held a press conference to condemn the ICPD25 Nairobi Summit and UNFPA
Ambassadors of eleven nations held a press conference to condemn the ICPD25 Nairobi Summit and UNFPA
A joint statement by eleven nations on the last day of the UNFPA Summit in Nairobi condemned UNFPA without mentioning the UN population agency by name.
The UN’s Fund for Population activities had hoped the jamboree would pass off without controversy. They wanted to counter ‘the push-back’ against homosexuality and abortion in the developing world. They would be disappointed.
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Press conference
Firstly, the United States, flanked by ambassadors from Brazil, Belarus, Egypt, Haiti, Hungary, Libya, Poland, Senegal, St. Lucia, and Uganda, held a press conference on 14th November 2019.
The US Special Representative for Global Women’s Health, Valerie Huber read a Statement. This reminded ‘both those gathered and those watching’ of the original aims of ICPD. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was held in Cairo in 1994. Its stated objectives and actions seem dated now. They saw ‘critical challenges and interrelationships between population and sustained economic growth’. They placed it ‘in the context of sustainable development.’
Before the Statement, the Press Conference heard from Kenyan MPs Hon Chris Wamalwa, and Hon Jennifer Shamalla. Although Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy William Rutu steered clear of abortion and homosexuality when opening and closing the Summit respectively, these two MPs gave the press corps both barrels.
Parallel Conference
Secondly, Kenya Christian Professionals organised their own conference and also issued a statement. International ambassadors also addressed one session.
According to C-Fam, ‘The parallel conference included a high-level intergovernmental event with government representatives of the United States, Hungary, Poland, Brazil, Kenya and the Holy See Nuncio. They affirmed their governments commitment to policy that foster strong families and protects unborn life and criticized UNFPA for going beyond the mandate established at the ICPD 25 years ago.
The concern of the Eleven was that UNFPA and the Scandinavian nations behind the 2019 Nairobi Summit were taking the 1994 Cairo Declaration too far.
A pre-summit document from UNFPA spoke of an ‘ambition’. This was ‘how countries can move towards universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights’. That would be ‘an essential part of universal health coverage’.
‘Sexual rights’ is shorthand for liberalising laws against homosexuality, while ‘reproductive rights’ refers to abortion.
1994 Cairo Declaration
Helpfully, UNFPA itself carries the original 1994 Cairo Declaration on its website. There are three mentions of ‘reproductive health’. All are in the context of family planning. But national governments must respect ‘their own national and cultural identity, values and tradition’.
There is no mention of ‘reproductive rights’, ‘sexual health’ or ‘sexual rights’ in the Cairo Declaration at all. Consequently there is no ‘reproductive right’ to abortion’. However the Declaration was not explicitly pro-life. It called upon national Governments ‘to reduce the need for abortion by providing universal access to family planning information and services.’
Contraception increases abortion
The Declaration blithely assumes that ‘access to family planning information and services’ reduces ‘the need for abortion’. However, that is simply not true.
Eighteen years before Cairo, British abortionist Dr Judith Bury, of Brook Advisory Centres, let the cat out of the bag. In 1981 she said “…women…have come to request [abortions] when contraception fails. There is overwhelming evidence that, contrary to what you might expect, the provision of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate.”
Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The Nairobi Summit was also promoting what is termed ‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education’ or CSE. This assault on the innocence of children figures nowhere in the Cairo Declaration.
Indeed, education in the Declaration had one single purpose. It was set solely in the context of increasing the wellbeing of women and girls. It would do that by bettering their health-care and developing their opportunities. Yes, it spoke of the feminist mantra of ‘women’s empowerment’. But ‘sex education’ of any kind was not there.
ICPD Program of Action
The UNFPA draw heavily on the ICPD Program of Action. This document, parallel to the Cairo Declaration, runs to 296 pages. It does contain references to ‘reproductive rights’ but these are nowhere defined, let alone to include a supposed ‘right’ to abortion. Indeed, the Government of Honduras entered a reservation in the document to clarify matters. It said the terms “‘reproductive rights’ and ‘sexual rights'” … “do not include ‘abortion’ or ‘termination of pregnancy’.”
There is no reference to ‘legalisation of abortion’ or ‘legal abortion’. Indeed, the Programme states:
‘7.24 Governments should take appropriate steps to help women avoid abortion, which in no case should be promoted as a method of family planning, and in all cases provide for the humane treatment and counselling of women who have had recourse to abortion.’
Consensus
The Program of Action was passed by consensus. It was then ‘endorsed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in its resolution 49/128 of December 19, 1994.’ ‘Consensus’ is important in interantional law. If enough nations agree on something it begins to have a certain standing.
Therefore the 2019 Statement of the Eleven nations clarifies this point. ‘UN Member States were able to join consensus because the ICPD Program of Action preamble paragraph 1.15 made clear that the conference did not create any new international human rights, and that “the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Programme of Action is the sovereign right of each country, consistent with national laws and development priorities, with full respect for the various religious and ethical values and cultural backgrounds of its people, and in conformity with universally recognized international human rights”.’
Ambiguous terms
When it came to the ‘rights’ element in the context of ‘consensus’ the Eleven did not hold back. ‘We are also concerned about the content of some of the key priorities of this Summit. We do not support references in international documents to ambiguous terms and expressions, such as sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), which do not enjoy international consensus, nor contemplates the reservations and caveats incorporated into the Cairo outcome.
‘In addition, the use of the term SRHR may be used to actively promote practices like abortion. There is no international right to abortion; in fact, international law clearly states that “[e]veryone has the right to life” (e.g. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). ‘
No transparency
The 2019 Statement also condemned the Nairobi Summit for lack of transparency and inclusiveness. Cairo ‘was negotiated and implemented with and by the entire UN General Assembly membership’. In contrast, ‘only a small handful of governments were consulted on the planning and modalities of the 2019 Nairobi Summit’. (Mostly it was the Scandinavians.)
It follows, ‘outcomes from this summit are not intergovernmentally negotiated, nor are they the result of a consensus process. As a result, they should not be considered normative, nor should they appear in future documents as intergovernmentally-agreed language.’
Pro-family and pro-life nations will no doubt be on the alert for any sign of UNFPA language creeping in international documents. UNFPA will never bring its works to the light of the full UN. The Statement of the Eleven is clear. Without such universal acceptance, ‘no ICPD follow-on document has consensual weight or standing amongst governments.’
The value of Trump
It is worth saying that such a statement would never have been possible if Hilary Clinton had been elected President of the United States in 2016, the Statement of the Eleven would never have happened. It is only because of the staunch pro-life stand of the Trump administration that the 2019 Nairobi Summit was so roundly condemned.
So Almighty God plays a long game, and we should praise his name for all he did during the Summit. We were able to give out around 2,000 pro-life leaflets peacefully to delegates queuing for the Summit. Most were distributed on the opening day, Tuesday. And when we do the little things, we can leave it to the Lord to work miracles. The Statement of the Eleven is one of those things only God can organise.
Just remember, there is all to pray for as the US elections 2020 come ever closer.
Dan 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Not just Boris Johnson but the House of Commons now faces a Brexit Dilemma.
Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, front-runner of the Tory leadership candidates
Ten Conservative MPs are in the race to become their party’s leader and our next prime minister.
Ten Leadership Candidates
The candidates are:
Environment Secretary Michael Gove
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
Former Chief Whip Mark Harper
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt
Home Secretary Sajid Javid
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
Previous Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey
Previous Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab
International Development Secretary Rory Stewart
Brexit votes
Only four opposed the ‘May Deal’, Mrs May’s ‘Withdrawal Agreement’ with the EU. They are Mark Harper, Boris Johnson, Esther McVey and Dominic Raab. All four voted ‘No’ in the first two ‘Meaningful Votes’ held on 15th January and 12th March.
Nevertheless, all four caved in and voted for ‘Meaningful Vote 3′ on 29th March. (But then again, so did Jacob Rees-Mogg.)
The other six leadership candidates all voted ‘Aye’ in each MV. Out of the six, Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom are the only two who can also be regarded as Brexiteers. The other four are Remainers.
Brexit Strategy
So far as we can piece together, Jeremy Hunt’s big idea is to carry on with the Theresa May strategy of trying to get the House of Commons to accept some kind of withdrawal agreement. Michael Gove would ‘kick the can down the road’ by seeking yet another Article 50 extension for negotiations.
Esther McVey, Dominic Raab and Boris Johnson have all pledged to take the UK out of the EU on 31st October. All, especially Miss McVey (Mrs Philip Davies), appear keen on No Deal if necessary. She and Mr Raab have said they would call a halt to the current session of Parliament if the Commons starts to get silly.
That is a process known as ‘to prorogue’ Parliament. Some say it is so politically unacceptable it just won’t happen. The retort would be that Parliament trying to thwart the will of the people is undemocratic. Such a process would involve the Queen. Her Majesty is the only person who can actually prorogue Parliament. But HM acts on the advice of her ministers.
The Metro reports Mr Stewart said of Boris: ‘If he tried to force no deal through he wouldn’t be able to.’ But Boris doesn’t need to ‘force’ anything. If the new Prime Minister does nothing, brings forward no motions or ‘MV’s’, No Deal happens by default on All Hallows Eve. That is the law.
Mr Stewart and Matt Hancock have both ruled out leaving on WTO terms.
Launch platforms
At the launch platforms, Mr Hancock said: ‘I offer an emotionally-charged platform to improve lives that is rooted, rooted in objective fact.’ What did he possibly mean?
Esther McVey pledged to ‘sack’ every Remainer in the cabinet prior to the 31st October leaving date if she became Prime Minister.
Sajid Javid pitched himself implausibly as an outsider, Mr Gove showed up as the sensible one, and Dominic Raab tried to come across as the tough guy who will get it done.
Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson both stressed unity and both linked delivering Brexit and defeating Jeremy Corbyn.
Life and abortion
Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP.
Brexit is the big issue, but not the only one. The media have observed that Jeremy Hunt is pro-life. Indeed he voted to reduce the time limit on abortion to 12 weeks in 2008. Apparently he has promised Amber Rudd he would not be a pro-life premier. That was necessary to garner her support, so it seems. Why do women such as this Amber, Anna Soubry, Diana Johnson (author of the ‘decriminalise abortion completely’ bill), Jess Phillips etc so hate other women they want to bereave them of their children?
On this abortion issue Mr Hunt sadly failed to oppose Diana Johnson’s Abortion Bill. The House has voted for it twice, on 13th March 2017 & 23rd October 2018. The Bill went to the back of the private member’s bill queue. It is now in the long grass. The two votes were only symbolic. Nevertheless, one should expect a pro-life MP to oppose such an evil all the way. Of the ten leadership candidates, only Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart did that, in the 2018 vote.
At the other end of life, a bill to legalise euthanasia (‘doctor-assisted dying’) came along in September 2015. Those voting ‘No’ to it were Gove, Harper, Hunt, Johnson and Leadsom. The others abstained. Esther McVey was not an MP between 2015 and 2017.
Leadership Candidates on Sodomy
As Mayor of London, Boris Johnson showed himself relentless pro-gay. He supported every pro-sodomy initiative there was, as well as London ‘gay pride’. He opposed pro-marriage initiatives, such as the ex-gay bus adverts proposed by Core Issues Trust in 2012 as the BBC reports here.
Previously, he was saying ‘If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.’ In the year 2000 he was accusing ‘left-wing local authorities’ of going about ‘to waste taxpayers’ money on idiotic and irrelevant homosexual instruction.’ It is easy to see why some say he blows with the wind.
‘No Outsiders’
Only Esther McVey voted against same-sex ‘marriage’ in 2013 and Andrea Leadsom abstained. All the others voted for it (except Boris, who was Mayor of London). Nevertheless, Michael Gove, Mark Harper and Jeremy Hunt at least voted in December 2009 to exempt churches from the requirement to hire gays and lesbians.
Recently, Esther McVey has spoken up for the parents in the No Outsiders row, setting herself at odds with Government policy and Education Secretary Damian Hinds, who has declared war on parents. To see more, this brilliant article on Spiked Online sets out the issue very clearly indeed.
Just to show what we are up against, the Guardian reports comments by Angela Rayner MP. She is Labour’s shadow education secretary. She said Miss McVey’s arguments in favour of letting parents take young children out of LGBT education were “illegal, immoral and deeply dangerous”. Dangerous to whom or to what? To activists’ plans and the LGBT agenda. But Ms Rayner was not finished:
“Esther McVey is not fit to be a candidate for PM and not fit to be an MP,” she said. Wow.
Crime and morality
In recent days, the media have been awash with stories of the candidates taking narcotics when they were younger.
All this must be a sign of the times. It is also a sign of the times that Mr Johnson’s philandering is greeted by shrugs. His first marriage ended because of an affair with the childhood friend who would become his second wife. Now, after 25 years, and three more (documented) affairs, one of which led to Boris fathering an illegitimate child, his second wife has filed for divorce. It is all very modern and amicable.
Meanwhile, says the Daily Express, Boris is shacked up with his girlfriend, one Carrie Symonds.
Peace in the world
Permanent Under-Secretary Simon McDonald welcomes Boris Johnson to the Foreign Office.
It took just three days for Boris to switch from a friendly pro-Russian stance to the Foreign Office line when he became Foreign Secretary in July 2016.
The current occupant, Jeremy Hunt, has continued the anti-Russian rhetoric. Only last month he described the state-owned Russian television channel RT as a ‘weapon of disinformation’. Well, RT may not have a lot complementary to say about the UK, or the US for that matter. Nevertheless, despite that, on world affairs this author finds RT to be more trustworthy than the BBC.
Jeremy Hunt has spoken up for persecuted Christians overseas. He initiated the report by the Bishop of Truro, which we shall cover in due course. However, when the Christians are in Syria, and being persecuted by the jihadists the UK sponsored who are now holed up in Idlib province, Mr Hunt wants the Syrian Government and their Russian allies to go easy on the terrorists who are oppressing them.
All except Rory Stewart (who abstained) and Boris (who was not in the House) voted for war against Syria in August 2013. By the grace of God, David Cameron lost that vote. On the more limited operation against Islamic State, all the leadership candidates except Esther McVey (not in the House) voted ‘Aye’ on 2nd December 2015. An amendment calling for peace and reconstruction in Syria was defeated by 179 votes on the same night before the main motion went through with a majority of 174. See the Hansard report.
Foreign aid
Two leadership candidates have floated the idea of reallocating the money the UK currently sends as foreign aid. Dominic Raab would redirect £500m to create an international wildlife fund. Esther McVey is more radical. She would halve the current £14bn aid budget, directing £4bn to schools and £3bn to the police.
The UK’s commitment to spend 0.7% of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign aid is now written into our law. That means there is a scramble to dispose of the money as the end of each financial year approaches. Moreover, 38% of the aid budget goes straight to UN agencies.
The 0.7% target means the UK is second only to the United States in the sheer amount of money we spend on foreign aid. But their £25bn is a far smaller proportion of GPD than our £14bn. We are the only member of G7 to meet the 0.7% target, laid down by the UN. Aid is becoming seen as neo-colonial. The UK uses foreign aid too often to promote immorality abroad. It can also depress local commodity prices, causing local hardship. African nations like Ghana are now moving ‘beyond aid’ with a smarter approach to adding value to their raw materials. The days of foreign aid may be drawing to a close.
Latest Brexit News
HRH The Duke of York. Photo by Aaron McCracken/Harrisons
In the latest development in Parliament, Labour last night lost a motion which tried to grab control of proceedings on 25th June in order to bring in a Bill preventing a ‘No Deal’ Brexit on Halloween. The vote was 309 to 298. Seventeen Labour MPs abstained and ten voted against their leadership. Eleven Tory MPs abstained and ten voted with the Opposition. Thank God for his grace and mercy.
Meanwhile, further revelations have emerged from the memoirs of Paul-Henri Spaak about how the architect of the EU ignored public opinion. If you don’t know this name, you simply must click here for our article in which we ask if the EU was a Christian project or a Catholic plot. The answer may surprise you.
Finally, according to the Daily Express, the Duke of York is happy with Brexit. Asked by ITV news if UK entrepreneurs would succeed outside the EU he replied: ‘I see no reason why not. Businesses we see could be successful either inside a large internal market, or operating in an even larger external market.’ He stressed the ‘even larger’.
Prince Andrew made the comments during an event organised by Pitch@Palace, a business-oriented charity the Duke of York founded to support entrepreneurs and help them expand their projects.
Who to pray for?
Who should we pray for to be elected? The one who terrifies the EU is Dominic Raab. When we factor in their stance on other issues, the strongest pro-family Brexiteer is Esther McVey. Frankly, the two most likely to be sent by the MPs for decision among Tory Party members are Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. Mr Hunt is the Remainers’ favourite, while Mr Johnson is being cast as the only one who can save the Party.
Of the two, Boris is the most likely to win the Conservative activists’ votes and become Prime Minister. But all is in the hand of the Lord:
1Sam 2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Dan 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Lord, grant repentance
When it becomes clearer who will be elected,‘who to pray for’ will take on a different meaning. It will no longer be ‘which of the leadership candidates’ do we petition the Lord to favour, but ‘Lord, grant repentance.’ We’ll be praying for the most likely candidate and then the successful one to walk in God’s ways and to be as hard as nails on a Halloween Brexit. Another thing a new prime minister can and should do is sack Damian Hinds and appoint Esther McVey as Education Secretary. The Bible says keeping God’s commandments brings a blessing on the nation and on the one who leads:
Deut 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; … 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you:
Above all, pray for all these candidates, indeed for your own MP, to acknowledge God and learn righteousness as the Almighty sees it:
Prov 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
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