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Kenya’s Reproductive Healthcare Bill

15 August 2020

The Kenyan senate has published a call for memoranda on the Reproductive Health Bill.

Memorandum to the Senate of Kenya on the Reproductive Healthcare Bill.

The Senate in the Parliament of Kenya is calling for written memoranda by email on the Reproductive Healthcare Bill currently before it.

This submission comes from Christian Voice, a research and prayer group based in the UK.

We believe It will be of value to the Republic of Kenya to hear from those with experience of how legalised abortion has operated in the UK and the Western world. Law-makers also need to know how legalised abortion has led to disrespect for human life and restrictions on freedom of assembly.

This is also a spiritual matter and we are able to bring the Biblical witness to bear on the debate.

NOT A ‘WOMEN’S ISSUE’

The first thing to observe is that abortion is not a ‘women’s issue’. Just as some feminists try to browbeat men out of the debate, other men absolve themselves of responsibility. Neither argument holds water. There may be issues, particular cancers perhaps, which affect just men, or just women. However, even there these matters affect those around them. In ‘Psychology Today’, Liz Stillwaggon Swan PhD writes:

‘Abortion is distinct from all of these issues in one special regard: It involves the life of a human being other than the woman. … It’s not just about the woman at all. It’s crucially also about the developing fetus inside the woman. I find it very misguided, and even disingenuous, to refer to abortion as a women’s issue for this very reason.’

As it happens, the Gallop polling organisation in the US found women were more likely to identify as pro-life (51%) than men (46%). Women were less likely to be pro-abortion (43%) than men (46%).

However, that slight gender difference hardly matters because elective abortion is a matter of human rights, crucially of the right to life.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states in Article 3: ‘Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.’ Furthermore, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Article 10 – Right to life, declares: ‘States Parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life …’

ABORTION AS HEALTH CARE?

It is similarly disingenuous to propose that abortion is merely ‘health care’. By including a clause legalising abortion in a ‘Reproductive Healthcare Bill’ this is precisely what Nakuru Senator, Susan Kihika, has done.

Again, Dr Swan writes that the ‘notion that “abortion is health care” is misguided … abortion is not on par with access to toxin-free tampons if for no reason other than the former involves two human beings, and the latter involves only one.’

She goes on: ‘It’s not at all clear why the question of whether or not to end a human life would be considered “a health care issue,” at least not to me. (Bernie) Sanders argues that “a woman has a right to control her own body,” which misses the point – the other body.’

Dr Swan does not quite say it, but the reason why those in favour of it try to present abortion as ‘health care’ is actually quite simple. They do it to shift the parameters of the debate. It is a calculated mis-use of language for political ends.

THE PROPOSED ABORTION CLAUSE

Clause 26 of the Reproductive Healthcare Bill seeks to legalise abortion carried out by a doctor, nurse or midwife acting alone, that is, by just one ‘trained health professional.’ It lays down no gestational age limit, meaning abortion could be carried out up to birth. It lays down no requirement to anaesthetise a baby about to be killed. It would amount to one of the most extreme abortion enactments anywhere in the world. It says:

‘PART V – TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY

‘26. (1) A pregnancy may be terminated by a trained health professional where in the opinion of the trained health professional—
‘(a) there is need for emergency treatment;
‘(b) the pregnancy would endanger the life or health of the mother; or
‘(c) there exists a substantial risk that the foetus would suffer from a severe physical or mental abnormality that is incompatible with life outside the womb.’

The phrase ‘incompatible with life outside the womb’ is not defined.

THE UK ABORTION ACT 1967

The grounds for an abortion in the Kenya Reproductive Healthcare Bill bear an uncanny resemblance to those in the UK’s Abortion Act 1967. The authors even euphonise abortion as ‘termination of a pregnancy’, just as in the 1967 UK Act. Of course the UK Act insists on two doctors (not just one and not nurses or midwives) agreeing to an abortion.

The UK Act also speaks in its text of ‘medical termination of pregnancy’ rather than ‘abortion’. Firstly, it allows it if ‘the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family.’

Tragic ectopic baby in his amniotic sac, sadly removed to save his mother's life. — Tragic ectopic baby in his amniotic sac, sadly removed to save his mother’s life.

Secondly, it also allows abortion ‘to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.’

We agree an abortion could be carried out to save the life a pregnant woman, which is the third ground. This could occur, for instance, in the case of an ectopic pregnancy, or if the mother were to develop a life-threatening condition.

However, the fourth ground is ‘if the child … would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.’ In the UK we insist on ramps and special public toilets for the disabled, but we try to kill them before they are born.

‘MENTAL HEALTH’ OF MOTHER

The proposed Kenya Bill would allow abortion if ‘the pregnancy would endanger the life or health of the mother.’ The UK Act speaks of the ‘physical or mental health’ of ‘the pregnant woman’ or ‘any existing children of her family.’

It is good the Kenya Bill describes ‘the pregnant woman’ as ‘the mother’ because that is what she is. She is already the mother of the child she is nurturing in her womb. The Bill does not however define ‘health’, so that word could be interpreted in the courts, if it ever came before them, in a wide rather than a narrow sense. In the meantime, when such a mother arrives at a Marie Stopes clinic, she will of course find there a trained nurse who will agree that her mental health is in danger from carrying her baby to term.

THE UK EXPERIENCE

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.

In the UK, there were 207,384 abortions for women resident in England and Wales in 2019, the highest yearly number since the Abortion Act was introduced. There were also 640,370 live births in England and Wales in 2019. Just over 75% of all pregnancies made it into the world as a live baby. 73% of abortions were medically induced and 27% conducted surgically. In 2009, 40% were medical and 60% surgical.

The UK Government reports that 98% of all abortions in 2019 ‘were reported as being performed because of a risk to the woman’s mental health.’ Either the UK has discovered a strange psychological condition in pregnant women which can only be cured by abortion or these were ‘social’ abortions, carried out for convenience.

In the UK, Christian Concern reveals abortion provider British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has recently been caught sending medical abortion pills by post to a woman who rang them up claiming she wanted to end her pregnancy to maintain her ‘beach body’.

WOMEN’S ATHLETICS

On Saturday 15th August 2020 a story appeared on the BBC website reporting that just over 4% of elite British sportswomen have had abortions because they felt a baby would adversely affect their sporting careers.

One said: ‘I was 21. I knew life would be over for me doing what I wanted to do in my sport.’

Three years ago, American former Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross revealed she had a termination a day before leaving for the 2008 Beijing Games. She won a gold medal in the 400m relay and bronze in the individual event.

She later said ‘every female athlete she knew’ had had an abortion but the issue was ‘not talked about’. She felt she had ‘helped other women’ by speaking publicly about it.

Would she end the life of an unrelated human being just to win a medal? Then why do that to her own child? Yes, it is true a man would never face the same problem, but that argument gets us nowhere. There is something very sick about women’s athletics in countries which permit abortion if a child can be literally sacrificed for a sporting career.

Shockingly, the BBC’s reporter, Sonia Oxley, did not even acknowledge there was a right-to-life issue involved. The humanity of the baby did not occur to Ms Oxley.

HARDENED HEARTS

So we see that enacting abortion has changed the way people think about human life in the West. The prophet Isaiah said to the Lord:

Isa 26:9b … when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Conversely, when they are not, the people learn wickedness. The unnamed athlete mentioned above said: ‘It was a very easy decision to make. The day after the operation, I won a race.’ Legalising abortion in the West has hardened our hearts. We find ourselves making an ‘easy decision’ to put our own child to death. What have we become?

Kenya can expect a similar outcome if abortion is legalised at all, let alone in the extreme form proposed by the Reproductive Healthcare Bill. Kenyan babies will be killed in the womb simply for someone’s convenience. That ‘someone’ need not be the child’s mother. It could be the baby’s father, whose illicit affair would be exposed by the birth of a baby, pushing his child’s mother into an abortion she will regret, if she has a shred of humanity, to the end of her life..

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION

Furthermore, the UK Abortion Act has resulted in Christians being denied their lawful rights of assembly.

Peaceful pro-lifers witness outside the Marie Stopes abortion facility before being banned by Ealing Council.

Christians have been banned from witnessing outside an abortion facility in Ealing, West London. Ealing Council implemented a 100-metre exclusion zone at the Marie Stopes centre.

The Good Counsel Network had been holding vigils outside the clinic. The council imposed a public spaces protection order (PSPO) in April 2018 after failed attempts to find a compromise between the Christian protesters and pro-abortion groups. The latter had staged counter-demonstrations. Both the entirely peaceful witness and the noisy counter-demonstrations had taken place on a grassy area on the opposite side of the road from the Maria Stopes facility.

Nevertheless, three Court of Appeal judges dismissed a bid to overturn the ban on protests directly outside the facility.

GESTATIONAL TIME-LIMIT

The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 1990 lowered the gestation limit for abortions from 28 weeks to 24 weeks. This was at that time the accepted point at which a baby was considered ‘viable’ outside the mother’s body. The Act came into effect on 1 April 1991.

However, even at that time, the record for a premature birth had already been set by James Elgin Gill, born in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 20, 1987, delivered around 128 days early or at 21 weeks gestation. He remains, so far as we are aware, the world’s most premature baby. James was born so early he was expected to die at birth or, if he survived, to have multiple and severe handicaps. James beat all the odds, growing to be a healthy adult.

With no gestational limit specified in the Kenya Reproductive Health Bill babies could be killed well after the time when they could survive, albeit with medical assistance, outside the womb.

DEPENDENCY

However, this issue of ‘dependency’ is not the only way of looking at gestational time-limits. Of course a baby depends on the mother who is carrying and nurturing him.

Moreover, if we apply the utilitarian principle that those dependent on others have no right to life, where would society end up? It would lead to a mentality of the survival of the strongest and may the devil take the hindmost.

In truth, in human society, each of us is dependent on others. Furthermore, Christian ethics demand society should establish a principle that the weakest should be looked after by the strongest, even sacrificially. As the Lord Jesus himself said:

John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

This is the altruism of‘women and children first’. It cannot be that ‘reproductive health’ is the only sphere when this Godly principle is set aside.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Ironically, campaigns for legalised abortion are intensifying just at a time when we know more than ever about human development pre-birth. No reasonable person can deny that every child in the womb of whatever gestational age is a human being. If that is so, then killing any one of them is a crime and a sin which cries to heaven.

We read in scripture that when Cain killed his brother Abel,

Gen 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

The number of those murdered in the womb in the UK since 1968 to date total almost 10 million. That is an appalling amount of blood which has cried to heaven.

HOW WE GROW

This author is not a doctor, but an engineer. That means he takes an interest in how things work. We are all now aware that from day one of our life, at that miraculous moment of conception, before our cells even start dividing and specialising, all genetic information is laid down, from gender to blood group. It’s sobering to think that each one of us is unique and that we all started life like that.

This tiny but recognisably human baby was just 10 weeks gestation when he had to be removed to safe the life of his mother.

Human Life International reports that just over three weeks after conception, dear reader, your own heart began to beat. It won’t stop until the day you die. Three weeks later, your skeleton, reflexes and all major organs were present. Two weeks after that and all your organs were working (except for your lungs, obviously) and your brain waves could be detected. All you had to do now was grow, sustained by the food coming from your mother via the placenta which separated you from her.

At ten weeks you could make a fist, feel and respond to touch and jump up and down in your mother’s womb with co-ordinated movements. You were tiny, dependent and vulnerable, but perfectly formed. And in today’s wicked Western world, expendable, allowed by law to be ripped agonisingly from what should be the safest place on God’s earth, and flushed away as human refuse.

FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE

Clearly we recognise our common humanity in the baby in the womb. And if we weren’t human when we were there, what were we?

The Psalmist was given an astonishing insight into human development in the womb three thousand years ago (‘lowest parts of the earth’ is Hebrew poetic language):

Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

TERMINOLOGY

We should briefly look at terminology because abortion depends upon euphemisms and using language to obscure rather than to clarify.

Firstly, ‘termination of pregnancy’. When a pregnancy is, to use the expression, ‘terminated,’ a real, live and in most cases sentient human being loses his or her life. If the ‘termination’ was deliberate, what word do we normally use for ending the life of an innocent human being?

Secondly, ‘foetus’ or ‘fetus’ (US). This is the Latin for ‘offspring.’ People only use the Latin word ‘foetus’ when they are embarrassed about killing a child in what should be the safest place on God’s earth. However, at ante-natal clinics in the UK, a pregnant mother who smokes will be advised to stop smoking ‘for baby’, never ‘for foetus’.

Never ‘part of a woman’s body’. A baby of eight weeks gestation, just a month younger than the typical age for abortion

Thirdly, ‘choice’ as in ‘pro-choice’. This usage pretends that exercising a ‘choice’ to kill another human being is morally acceptable. Some ‘choices’ are simply not morally valid. This is one of them. And what ‘choice’ does the baby have?

‘My body’. A baby is never ‘part’ of his mother’s body. He has his own body and his own blood group. His blood never mixes with his mother’s. He is separated from her by the placenta. You may have some rights over your own body. You have no rights over another’s..

‘Uterus’ instead of ‘womb.’ ‘Uterus is Latin for womb. But ‘uterus’ seems to put it at arms length. An abortionist will refer to the ‘contents of your uterus,’ when speaking to a young mother rather than about ‘the baby in your womb’. The latter usage could mean a lost sale.

CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

Western governments and UN bodies and a phalanx of NGOs are doing their best to impose anti-life policies on countries around the world. We shall see below that pro-abortion lobbyists in Kenya are funded from outside the country. Furthermore, even abortions currently performed illegally in Kenya are susbsidised by the West. It is a form of cultural imperialism.

Governments promote the legalisation of abortion by using strings attached to overseas aid. This means trying to bribe poorer countries to force anti-child policies like abortion, sterilisation and chemical contraception on vulnerable populations whose children are their most valuable resource.

Then there are the NGOs who finance pro-abortion and pro-sodomy lobby groups within destination countries in the developing world. If there are not enough local ‘civil society’ groups of their liking they set up new ones.

FUNDING PRO-SODOMY GROUPS

The 'National Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission' in Kenya is awash with LGBT funding from Western donors. — The ‘National Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission’ in Kenya is awash with LGBT funding from Western donors.

The Sigrid Rausing Trust, based in the UK, is heavily pro-gay and pro-abortion. They gave the so-called ‘National Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission’ in Kenya £180,000 during 2016-2019.

The unrelated but still pro-homosexual Kenya Human Rights Commission received £100,000 from Sigrid Rausing in one year (2019) alone. Sigrid Rausing also fund the ‘Gay & Lesbian Coalition of Kenya’ through an East African pro-sodomy funding body called UHAI-EASHRI which in turn receives all its money from the West.

Not one African pro-sodomy NGO is locally-funded. Every single one receives its money from Western foundations and governments.

FUNDING ABORTION GROUPS

The Kenya Federation of Woman Lawyers (FIDA) is financed by Western pro-abortion NGO's. — The Kenya Federation of Woman Lawyers (FIDA) is financed by Western pro-abortion NGO’s.

Sigrid Rausing have given the Federation of Women Lawyers – Kenya (FIDA-Kenya) £715,000 from 2009-2018. FIDA-Kenya campaign to legalise abortion in Kenya alongside the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR).

The latter is a pro-abortion US NGO which set up an ‘Africa regional office’ in Nairobi in 2011, specifically to target Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.

The US-based MacArthur Foundation gave CRR $6,097,500 between 1992 and 2016. CRR also receives grants from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Packard Foundation and the enormously wealthy Ford Foundation.

The West has a death-wish. We are not replacing our population. A pensions crisis is in the making. We shed the blood of innocents made in the image of God and wonder why our young people are shooting and knifing each other. Who would export – and who in their right mind would import – such a mentality?

MARIE STOPES

Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK) operate openly all over Kenya by pretending they only offer contraception and post-abortion care.

However, a young British doctor, Linden Stocker, admitted taking part in illegal abortions in Kenya. Dr 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. MSK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marie Stopes International, just ahead of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) as the world’s biggest abortionist. 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 of the world with a grant to MSI in 2018 of £48 million of taxpayers’ money.

MONEY TO BE MADE

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. — 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.

Among the supporters of abortion who will be filing memoranda with the Kenya Senate are some for whom this is an ideological issue. But there will be others, like Marie Stopes International, like IPPF, for whom there is money to be made out of killing the innocent. The Bible says:

Deut 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And in another place:

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, …

IPPF made US$111.9 million in 2018, US$163.7 million in 2019. Marie Stopes International turned over a colossal £296.8 million in 2018. It is a registered UK charity. However, shockingly, the entire business of both IPPF and MSI is built around slaying the innocent unborn.

LAND POLLUTED WITH BLOOD

In Old Testament times, the Canaanite pagan deities demanded human sacrifice. People even sacrificed their own children by throwing them into the fiery mouth of the Molech idol. The Lord told Moses:

Lev 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

The Almighty told the people of Israel to have nothing to do with these pagan rites:

Exod 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

However, as time went by, the Israelites turned away from the Lord and took part in these self-same rituals. The Bible records:

Psalm 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. 3 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.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

It is an important principle that the shedding of innocent blood pollutes the land and brings judgment on a nation which legalises it. The prophet Jeremiah spoke the word of the Lord about the people of Judah:

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.

Innocent blood. Hands and feet of an African-American baby aborted at 9 weeks. The American dollar shown in the photo is an inch and a half across. — Innocent blood pollutes the land. Hands and feet of an African-American baby aborted at 9 weeks. The American dollar shown in the photo is an inch and a half across.

Human sacrifice, the shedding of blood of their sons and daughters, caused the entire nation to sin. We may regard the people of those times as primitive. We may think we should never do such a thing. But king Solomon wrote:

Eccl 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

They appeased ‘the gods’ with their human sacrifices; they thought things would go well with them if they did it. We sacrifice our babies for convenience, or for our lifestyle. We saw above that 98% of abortions in the UK are done for such reasons. We think things will go well with us if we get rid of the thing, the tiny person, causing us inconvenience or embarrassment. There is truly no new thing under the sun.

OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSING

If abortion remains illegal, it brings its blood-guiltiness on the individuals involved. They need to repent and make themselves right with God. Christians believe the way to do that is through believing in the forgiving power of the saving blood of Jesus.

However, if abortion is legalised, the blood-guiltiness descends on the whole nation:

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

The nations which forget God end up in a hell of their own making. By legalising abortion in 1967, Britain placed herself under the judgment of God. We sowed a wind and now we reap a whirlwind, where respect for life and for elders has vanished. Kenya must learn from the UK’s terrible mistake. The word of the Lord to Israel resounds down the ages. Obedience brings blessing:

Lev 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

God promises economic success together with peace internally and internationally to the nation which keeps his commandments. But legalised abortion, the taking of the most innocent of lives, brings down his judgment.

NOT A TIME TO INCUR THE WRATH OF GOD

This is an unprecedented time. Covid-19 would have wreaked havoc in any case, as people cut back on travel and spending. Hospitality, travel and tourism would have taken a huge hit. But the various lockdown measures which governments around the world have found themselves enacting are going to bring economic devastation which will be felt for years, even decades.

In the midst of such an economic environment, Kenya will need the wisdom of God and the blessing of the Almighty to survive, let alone to thrive.

This is simply not a time – if there is ever a time – to be spitting in the face of God. It is not a time to be incurring the wrath of the Almighty. It is a time for seeking the Lord, leaning on his ageless wisdom, turning to him in repentance, crying before the Lord, fasting and praying for his mercy and gracious provision:

Joel 2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

We must always remember these words of Solomon:

Psalm 127:1 A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

We pray that Kenya will resist the temptation to mimic the immoral self-destructive West and maintain its laws prohibiting abortion and (for that matter) sodomy, defend the innocent and vulnerable and trust in the Lord for the living of the challenging days ahead.

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Neil Ferguson needs no vaccine

Stephen

7 May 2020

Professor Neil Ferguson doing a video interview.

2Sam 1:27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

David says ‘How are the mighty fallen’ three times in his lament for Saul and Jonathan, ‘the beauty of Israel’. But the expression has passed into our culture.

And none has been mightier in recent weeks than the false prophet of doom, Imperial College’s vaccine-modeller, Professor Neil Ferguson. It was his report dated 16th March 2020 which persuaded the Prime Minister to move away from his sensible ‘mitigation’ strategy towards ‘suppression’ or ‘lockdown’.

Sharpest recession on record

Thus it is that today the Bank of England has warned of the sharpest recession on record if lockdown measures last into June. To put that into context, it will be worse than the recessions after World War I and WWII when the economy shrank by 10%, aided and abetted by Spanish Flu, and 4%, respectively. It would be the sharpest downturn since the time of ‘Queen Anne’s War’. That lasted from 1702 – 1713 against the French for control of North America.

Britain was also dragged into the War of Spanish Succession in 1706. Three years later, Western Europe’s great frost set in and the river Thames froze over, bringing what trade still remained to a standstill.

The Bank’s analysis, published today, is based on the assumption that social distancing measures are gradually phased out between June and September.

More money could be printed

The Bank’s latest Monetary Policy Report showed the UK economy plunging into its first recession in more than a decade. The economy shrunk by 3% in the first quarter of 2020, as travelling fell by 80% during March and the lockdown on 23rd March did the rest. If lockdown continues, the Bank sees an unprecedented 25% decline in the three months to June.

This would push the UK into a technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline. The Bank said the housing market had come to a standstill, while consumer spending had dropped by 30% in recent weeks.

As the Chancellor borrows even more money to pay half the workforce, which again is unprecedented, two of the Bank’s nine members voted to increase the latest round of quantitative easing by £100bn to £300bn. It did not go through, but in the end, that money will have to come from somewhere. ‘Quantitative easing’, simply printing the stuff, will impoverish us all in inflation.

Neil Ferguson immune

So back to the learned Professor Lockdown, whose adulterous flame visited him on two recent occasions. According to The Sun, ‘the UK government scientist met with married Antonia Staats, 38, twice during the lockdown – despite leading the government advice to put the country into quarantine to stop the spread of coronavirus.’

Miss Staats (she is Mrs Chris Lucas) works for Avaaz, the ultra-woke clicktivist website with its petitions, money-raising and headlines like: ‘Just five days to save all the elephants in Africa,’ and ‘If Trump wins, the sky will fall down.’ Well, not quite, but they fanatically support environmentalism, Greta Thunberg and oppose ‘populism’. Here are their suggestions for petitions right now: Example: “Paid leave for parents during coronavirus pandemic”, Example: “Coronavirus: Shut down all schools in Manchester”, Example: “Commit vital funds to a green recovery”. You get the idea.

Avaaz is also pro-vaccine, so long as they are not produced by ‘Big Pharma’. How else are they produced? One Avaaz petition is ‘demanding an affordable Coronavirus vaccine for all’. Meanwhile, Avaaz has taken down another petition, ‘We say “NO” to Coronavirus Vaccine in Africa’, because it ‘was found to contain false or misleading information’. However, this petition is a stunner and needs your support. It refers both to the lockdown and to a tonic from Madagascar. It urges: ‘Africa Purchase COVID ORGANICS And End Restrictions To Save Millions From Starvation’.

The Telegraph turned up tweets from Dr Ferguson himself, opposing Brexit and supporting the LibDems, so we can see Mrs Lucas and Dr Ferguson have a lot of politics in common. How such an avowed statist as Neil Ferguson came to be advising a Tory Government is a very good question. Professor Ferguson immediately resigned from the Government SAGE committee.

Catch the virus, don’t need the vaccine

The best reaction was from Health Secretary, Matt Hancock MP: ‘It’s extraordinary. I don’t understand.’

Well, I do. It’s called human nature, sin, arrogance, passion, even knowledge, all rolled into one.

Furthermore, the professor’s defence of his conduct reveals something else really important. He said:

‘I acted in the belief that I was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus, and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms.’

You have it from the horse’s mouth. Despite all the gloomsters saying they don’t know if catching the virus makes you immune, it could go on infecting you for ever, you could pass it on, etc, etc, the vaccine-man at the heart of it all knows they are wrong. The truth seems to be, after you have had Covid-19, you are immune, you cannot catch it again, you cannot transmit it and, crucially, you don’t need a vaccine.

Leaks from the Bunker

Yesterday and today, the Daily Telegraph has been saying #StayHomeSaveLives is history. They claim that the Prime Minister will announce on Sunday that we can go out after all. We all knew already the truth of this word:

Psalm 121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

And how much wiser would have been the Prime Minister decisions had he the fear of the Lord before his eyes, able to trust God for the truth of that word over the whole United Kingdom. But we are where we are. In need of prayer, hope, repentance and to lift the lockdown.

But today, we are being warned not to expect too much. The madness may continue, we hear. The Scottish and Welsh First Ministers are both opposed to any easing of the ruinous lockdown.

No ‘Second Peak’

The Prime Minister says he dare not risk a ‘Second Peak’. Even the CBI is wittering on about businesses opening ‘safely’.

The Covid-19 epidemic is following the standard curve.

Well, right here we shall pray and declare there will be no ‘Second Wave’ or ‘Second Peak’.

The epidemic is following the standard curve. It started with the first death on 6th March. It hit the peak on 8th April.

Moreover, the rolling seven-day average has slipped below the daily death-toll from abortion, 595, for four days in a row at this time of writing, looking at the figures for 6th May. In short, it’s over.

And even if there were a ‘Second Peak’, when would they like it? In June, July and August, at the height of summer, or in December, January and February, to coincide with the annual Influenza epidemic? Talking of which, I saw lockdown being touted as a counter-measure to that as well. It’s madness.

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Exodus 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:

Read our previous articles:

Covid-19 Lockdown not science-based:

Vaccine mania drives continued lockdown:

A false sense of insecurity:

Lockdown to stay as Boris recovers:

Covid-19 deaths overtake GB abortions:

Fearfully and wonderfully made: How God has equipped you to fight Covid-19!

Protect the NHS

Lock-down ‘putting lives at risk’

Coronavirus: No fear of ‘the pestilence’

Covid-19: Fear on every side

Covid-19 Lockdown not science-based

Stephen

24 April 2020

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.

By the way, you simply must also read ‘Coronavirus lockdown and what you are not being told’ from Off-Guardian. It is devastating to Covid-19 Project Fear.

Video from Greece

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.

However, here is a fact for you. Japan, with a population nearly double that of the UK, records a death toll to date of 328 persons from or with Covid 19.

Get outdoors

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?

Read our previous articles:

Vaccine mania drives continued lockdown:

A false sense of insecurity:

Lockdown to stay as Boris recovers:

Covid-19 deaths overtake GB abortions:

Fearfully and wonderfully made: How God has equipped you to fight Covid-19!

Protect the NHS

Lock-down ‘putting lives at risk’

Coronavirus: No fear of ‘the pestilence’

Covid-19: Fear on every side

Vaccine mania drives continued lockdown

Stephen

17 April 2020

Yesterday, the UK Government continued its unjust and irrational shutdown of major sectors of the economy and, incidentally, of large areas of the NHS. They intensified Covid-19 Project Fear. Why does the UK persist with a policy which the rest of Europe is now abandoning?

Social distancing ‘indefinitely’

A comment from the false prophet whose biased modelling spooked the Government into starting the lockdown gives us a clue. According to the BBC, Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College said we should expect a “significant level” of social distancing “indefinitely”. It would continue until a vaccine for Covid-19 is rolling off the production line. And that could be later this year, or maybe not until 2021.

Dr Ferguson went on: “And I should say, it’s not going to be going back to normal. We will have to maintain some level of social distancing, a significant level of social distancing, probably indefinitely until we have a vaccine available.”

Health Minister Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) tweeted last night: ‘Journalists should stop asking about an ‘exit strategy.’ There is only one way we can ‘exit’ full lockdown and that is when we have a vaccine. Until then, we need to find ways we can adapt society and strike a balance between the health of the nation and our economy. #COVID19’

Incidentally, Nadine Dorries is supposed to hold the brief for mental health and suicide prevention. Only this morning says the BBC the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were warning how stressful the lockdown is on mental health.

Vaccines save lives

Now, before you dismiss this article as yet another anti-vaccine tirade, let me make my position clear. I have evidence that vaccines save lives. Years ago, we used to lose young lambs every year on the farm. Just as they were starting to put on weight from the spring grass, they would keel over and die. It was always the best ones, the biggest.

What was going on? What was killing them? When I shared the problem with a neighbouring sheep farmer, he told me it was most likely pasteurellosis pneumonia or a clostridial disease such as pulpy kidney picked up with the spring grass. And what was the answer? Heptavac, he said. As the name suggests, the solution contains seven vaccines in one dose.

That very day, I started a vaccination programme for the whole flock. Subsequently, we vaccinate all new lambs and give the ewes a booster just before lambing, which they pass on in colostrum to the lamb before the lambs receive their own dose of Heptavac. The result? No more dead lambs. Vaccination works. World-wide, the return is said to be $44 dollars of productivity for every $1 spent on vaccines as people stay alive for longer.

Ferguson is vaccine modeller

But compulsory vaccination is another matter entirely. We also need to remember vaccination, particularly on a large human scale, makes pharmaceutical companies a lot of money. The vaccine market is worth more than $35 billion today, according to AB Bernstein. Four big players account for about 85% of the market — British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, French pharmaceutical company Sanofi, and U.S.-based Merck and Pfizer.

So is Professor Ferguson a mere dispassionate observer of human vaccines and vaccination programmes just like you and me?

Er, no. This webpage from Imperial College London reveals that Professor Ferguson sits atop Imperial’s ‘Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium’ or ‘VIMC’.

The VIMC looks at ‘the impact of vaccination programmes worldwide’. It’s data helps ‘inform potential future investments and vaccine scale-up opportunities’.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Imperial College London - taken from a page on which they advertise their 'Master of Public Health (MPH) course. — Imperial College London – taken from a page on which they advertise their ‘Master of Public Health (MPH) course.

Now who is the world’s biggest vaccine enthusiast? Step forward Bill Gates, late of Microsoft, now putting all his energy into vaccination programmes.

So it comes as no surprise, as this breakdown shows, to find the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given Imperial College $184,872,226.99 (yes, nearly $185m) from 2006 to 2018. Only Wellcome Trust has given Imperial College more down the years.

If we narrow the money trail down only to Imperial College’s VIMC, its ‘About us’ page reveals ‘The Consortium is funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the data generated by the Consortium will support the evaluation of the two organisations’ existing vaccination programmes, and inform potential future investments and vaccine scale-up opportunities.’ There are those ‘scale-up opportunities’ again.

Exod 23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Now we have an appearance of ‘Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’. GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) apparently started up twenty years ago at the World Economic Forum with a $750m donation from Bill Gates. Bill and Melinda were looking at the time at projects in which to invest. The year 2000 Gavi donation started the Gates’ passion for vaccines. Today, Gavi claims to have vaccinated half the world’s children.

However, although Gavi boasts partners such as Unicef, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Bank, vaccine manufacturers (what a surprise) and donor country governments, its biggest contributor is now the UK Government, providing 23.44% of its income as against a mere 19.66% from Bill & Melinda.

This 2015 webpage from Gavi reveals their CEO, Dr Seth Berkley, seeking to ‘raise billions of dollars to ensure Gavi Is fully funded between 2016 and 2020’.

ID2020

Here is where it all becomes somewhat creepy. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a founding partner of ID2020. This body ‘supports digital identity programs’. It claims ‘The Need for Good Digital ID is Universal’. The ID2020 ‘digital identity’ webpage even tries to enrol human rights as it tries to expand digital ID. ‘The ability to prove who you are is a fundamental and universal human right’, it says. Meanwhile, its manifesto begins by stating ‘identity is a human right and that individuals must have “ownership” over their own identity.’

Other ‘Founding Partners’ of ID2020 include Microsoft and the Rockefeller Foundation. Gavi’s Dr. Seth Berkley sits on the Executive Board of ID2020.

Why? It is because, as the Biometric Update website reveals, immunization can be ‘leveraged’ as ‘an opportunity to establish digital identity’. A pilot programme in Bangladesh ‘was unveiled by ID2020 in partnership with the Bangladesh Government’s Access to Information (a2i) Program, the Directorate General of Health Services, and Gavi.’

Biometric Update go on, helpfully, to explain: ‘Digital identity is a computerized record of who a person is, stored in a registry. It is used, in this case, to keep track of who has received vaccination.’ Gavi want ‘to use biometrics to improve vaccine coverage in developing nations.’

This is probably not the famous ‘chip’, although Haley Weiss in ‘The Atlantic’ reveals that technology is already being used. It is more likely, as this article in New Humanist suggests, a finger-print linked back to a database.

It is not just in developing nations that ID2020 biometrics will be useful to the authorities. In the city of Austin, Texas, we read how homeless people will be ’empowered’ with ‘their own’ identity data. How good is that?

Rapid Vac

In September 2017, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation together with the Wellcome Trust and the governments of Norway and India launched The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Pronounce it as ‘Seppy’.

The CEPI website, ‘New vaccines for a safer world’, says CEPI is ‘a global alliance financing and coordinating the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases.’ It has headquarters in Oslo. Its website lists its ‘investers and partners’ who include the UK and the EU. Charlotte Watts, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department for International Development sits on the CEPI board as does Jeremy Farrar of Wellcome Trust and Peter Piot of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. LSH&TM also provides CEPI’s Scientific Advisory Committee with Dr John Edmunds and Dr Peter Smith.

Charlotte Watts, Jeremy Farrar and John Edmunds also sit on the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) as does Neil Ferguson. So don’t expect SAGE to come out strongly for ‘herd immunity’ as a preferred policy.

Professor Robin Shattock develops vaccines at Imperial College

CEPI is, as you will already have guessed, awash with money. In December 2018 it gave $8.4m to Imperial College London as this IC webpage shows to develop a rapid vaccine against new unknown pathogens, ‘Disease X’. It says: ‘Through this partnership, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Imperial aims to develop vaccines against new and unknown pathogens within 16 weeks from identification of antigen to product release for clinical trials.’ It is the latter stage which takes the time.

Professor Robin Shattock is the Head of Mucosal Infection and Immunity within the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London. He said ‘Vaccines are needed more than ever—essential to outbreak response, biosecurity, and the ever-present threat of a Disease X scenario.’ Professor Robin Shattock is a colleague of Professor Neil Ferguson. Professor Shattock develops the vaccines. Professor Ferguson models their impact. Both are funded by Gavi and Bill & Melinda Gates.

Bill Gates fears natural immunity

So why was Dr Neil Ferguson saying social distancing, for which read a version of lockdown, must stay until there is a vaccine? The answer lies in an interview Bill Gates gave on 24th March reported on the Off-Guardian website. In it:

‘Bill Gates outlined that, despite the comparatively small threat of Coronavirus, he and his colleagues “don’t want a lot of recovered people” who have acquired natural immunity. They instead are hoping we become reliant on vaccines and anti-viral medication.’

On the population developing their own immunity, Mr Gates said: ‘We don’t want to have a lot of recovered people […] To be clear, we’re trying – through the shut-down in the United States – to not get to one percent of the population infected.’

It is exactly the same approach as that of Neil Ferguson. Both want to ensure that as few of us as possible develop immunity, so as to maintain the market for the vaccine, when it eventually arrives.

Now we understand why Professor Ferguson had to produce a mathematical model, with the ludicrous half-a-million deaths, designed to scare the politicians away from Boris Johnson’s entirely sensible initial response, built on keeping calm, carrying on, isolating the vulnerable, taking health precautions and allowing ‘herd immunity’ to build up. It was nothing to do with public health. It was all about money. Nor did Professor Ferguson at any stage declare his conflict of interest. And make no mistake, this profile of a member of his Imperial College team confirms his Gavi funding and shows how deeply Neil Ferguson is embedded in the vaccine industry.

This may also account for the slow roll-out of antibody tests. If those show Covid-19 antibodies in half the population it really is game over for the vaccine.

Digital immunity proof

Off-Guardian says: ‘Shockingly, Gates also suggests people be made to have a digital ID showing their vaccination status, and that people without this “digital immunity proof” would not be allowed to travel. Such an approach would mean very big money for vaccine producers.’

So now the link to ID2020 and biometric data comes closer to home. Mr Gates said: ‘Eventually what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person […] Because you don’t want people moving around the world where you’ll have some countries that won’t have it under control, sadly. You don’t want to completely block off the ability for people to go there and come back and move around. So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.’

Email your MP right now

Dr Neil Ferguson has been exposed already as a false prophet. Now we know what is driving him. And the Government have bought it hook, line and sinker.

Bear in mind also how the UK Government has shown from its funding programmes how wedded it is in any case to vaccine programmes.

EMAIL your MP from this Parliament link; you have to click on their name twice to reach their email address. Witness to your MP using the material here. Note we say people should take obvious health precautions, and those at risk can remain in isolation. But the general economy must now return to normal, if it is not already too late.

In particular, ask your MP to ask the Government to confirm Professor Neil Ferguson works for the vaccine industry, ask them why he has never disclosed that conflict of interest and demand getting us all back to work must not depend on some vaccine.

I said to my MP: ‘I am shocked by the comments from Nadine Dorries and Professor Neil Ferguson that your constituents have to wait for a vaccine against Covid-19 before we can all return to work.

‘That is an unreasonable and unjust demand. And may I ask you to ask the Government to what extent Professor Ferguson has disclosed his financial links to the vaccine industry?’

Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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Lockdown to stay as Boris recovers:

Covid-19 deaths overtake GB abortions:

Fearfully and wonderfully made: How God has equipped you to fight Covid-19!

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Lock-down ‘putting lives at risk’

Coronavirus: No fear of ‘the pestilence’

Covid-19: Fear on every side

Brutal Britain including: Four in ten separating couples to divorce faster thanks to new law

Karen G

2 April 2020

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Stop DIY Abortions!

Stephen

2 April 2020

P.S. Praise God, the Government decision to allow DIY abortions has since been reversed.

Email your MP from this link; you have to click on their name twice to reach their email address.

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.

Sign our petition HERE against the Government DIY backstreet abortions decision.

Lock-down ‘putting lives at risk’

Stephen

25 March 2020

The new UK Government-announced lock-down is putting people’s lives at risk, according to a leading microbiologist. Indeed, Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, an infectious medicine specialist, says the UK response is ‘Grotesque, absurd and very dangerous.’

The softly-spoken Professor Bhakdi is one of the most highly cited medical research scientists in Germany.

P.S. Thursday: Email your MP from this link; you have to click on their name twice to reach their email address. Witness to your MP using the material here. Note we say people should take obvious health precautions, and those at risk can remain in isolation. But the general economy must now return to normal, especially with Imperial College now downgrading their mortality prediction by a factor of 12.5. (See below).

‘Spooked’

Meanwhile, Mail on Sunday journalist Peter Hitchens is emerging as one of the few, beside ourselves, trying to hold the Government to account, asking them challenging questions about liberty and the economy, and being vilified for it. OK, ok, some others are Off-Guardian, Swiss Propaganda Research, Rob Slane’s Blogmire and Craig Murray.

The House of Commons, the BBC, ITV, Sky, the mainstream media are all sycophantically following the Government line, or even calling for ‘stronger’ measures. No-one is saying ‘hang on a moment!’ They have all, to quote Dr Bhakdi, been ‘spooked’.

Labour, of course love the idea of a universal wage. It is part of their socialist utopia. They also want the Government to micro-manage our lives. What excuse do the journalists have? We shall try to inject some clarity, remembering the source of all wisdom is fear of God, not fear of a virus:

Prov 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Informed Prayer

The Bible says:

1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Your prayer for those in power will be better informed by being aware of the respected professor’s analysis.

Read the transcript of Dr Bhakdi’s interview here.

Watch his measured interview, in German with English subtitles, here.

Listen to Peter Hitchens in interview on LBC here.

Read Peter Hitchens on the shutdown and our liberties in MailOnline here.

Bad advice from Imperial College

Peter Hitchens speaking at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Christian Voice continues to say the Government is over-reacting to Covid-19 and should simply advocate isolating anyone frail or with a susceptible medical condition. We remember the ‘figures’ upon which they have made their decisions depend on the information the experts put into the model in the first place.

We also advocate widespread available testing, as per South Korea.

In fact Mr Hitchens quotes a leading vet, Dick Sibley, who remembers the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak. His ‘heart sank’ when he learned Imperial College were advising the Government.

Their advice in 2001, he says, led to ‘the unnecessary slaughter of millions of healthy cattle and sheep’. Their bad advice was eventually ‘overruled by the then Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King.’

The Imperial prophecy of doom led to the Government imposing this week’s extraordinary shutdown. They said without such rules the disease could claim up to 250,000 lives. The salient words are ‘could’ and ‘up to’. It all depends on their initial assumptions. As the geeks say: ‘Garbage in, garbage out’.

Covid-19 downgraded

Astonishingly, Covid-19 was downgraded from being classified as a High Consequence Infectious Disease in the UK last Thursday, 19th March. This, according to the Government’s own webpage, was mainly because the public health bodies in the UK concluded: ‘more information is available about mortality rates (low overall).’

I’m struggling to understand this. Our public health bodies decided Covid-19 was no longer a HCID. Four days later the nation was plunged into lock-down over it. That never happened over bird flu or SARS which remain HCID’s. Why the power-grab and why the moves to destroy the self-employed sector?

P.S. (Thursday AM). In addition, Neil Ferguson at Imperial College has now downgraded his advice. It won’t be 250,000 deaths, it will 20,000 in the worst case or ‘substantially lower.’ Hospitals are right now ‘within capacity’ to cope. And this just nine days after the doom scenario which led to the lock-down. He is not back-tracking on the lock-down, however. Instead he is calling for “large scale testing and contact tracing” to ‘bring an end to the lockdown’.

Spanish Flu

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the end of Spanish Flu. The epidemic raged from January 1918 to December 1920. That’s three full years of misery as the First World War was ending and people trying to put their lives back in order. The Great War left 22 million dead. Spanish Flu killed perhaps one quarter to a third of the world’s population, perhaps 50 million.

But the Daily Express reveals Spanish Flu hit the young hardest. Those in their twenties and thirties were most at risk of dying. That is the complete opposite to Covid-19, which attacks those with respiratory issues, compromised immune systems, diabetes, obesity and coronary diseases.

Less advanced medical care and poorer nutrition may have contributed to the death toll from Spanish Flu.

Gassed last night

One haunting parallel with the First World War itself has been going through my mind. It’s the second verse of a song (Bombed last night) displaying typically dour squaddies’ gallows humour:

Gassed last night, and gassed the night before
Going to get gassed tonight;
If we never get gassed anymore
When we’re gassed, we’re sick as we can be
For Phosgene and Mustard Gas is much too much for me.
They’re warning us, they’re warning us,
One respirator for the four of us
Thank your lucky stars that three of us can run,
So one of us can use it all alone.

‘One respirator for the four of us’ just about sums up the current apparent predicament of the NHS.

People need to earn

Construction workers have now been allowed to work, so long as they maintain a two metre social distance from each other, according to reports and despite railing from ITV’s Piers Morgan, who seems oblivious that ordinary people need to earn money to house themselves and put food on their table. Indeed, if only ‘essential work’ should go on, how ‘essential’ is the work of an over-paid TV loud-mouth?

The Government have already announced they will cover 80% of the wages of those who would otherwise be laid off. They are now working on how to extend that to the self-employed. Questions to the Prime Minister in Parliament today were all about how people could be ‘supported’ by the Government. Not one asked whether it might be better to get people back into work, or even ask where the money is coming from.

But this money will have to come from taxation or borrowing. How much better to have urged us all to take simple proper precautions, isolated those at real risk, rolled out testing, and encouraged the rest of us to keep calm and carry on?

Work: the gift of God

Let us just remind ourselves we are not being ‘materialistic’. We are not putting money before lives, as if it were a binary choice. Firstly, being in work is generally an indicator of better health. Secondly, and above all, Almighty God takes pleasure in men enjoying the fruits of their honest labour:

Eccl 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

So ‘Love thy neighbour’ does not just mean ‘slavishly support the Government and take their word for it’. We are to be prophetic, and depriving a man or woman of their means of livelihood is an oppression of the poor and their rights:

Mal 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Keep the Tube running!

Health Secretary Rt Hon Matt Hancock has decisions to make. We must pray for wisdom to avert economic disaster.

The one bright spot this morning has been Health Secretary Matt Hancock expressing amazement at the partial closures of the London Underground. We criticised those days ago. He urged Transport for London to run a full service.

But even then, astonishingly, the Independent reports he was castigated as ‘irresponsible’ by the rail worker’s union who echoed Labour’s socialist utopianism in calling for everyone to go home and the Government to pay them:

‘The general secretary of the RMT transport union Mick Cash said: “At a time when we are trying to encourage people to stay away from the Tube so we can concentrate on moving essential workers the government call ‎to reinstate a full service is grossly irresponsible as it suggests it’s business as usual.

‘”The real problem is this government’s refusal to give any wage support to casualised workers who will receive no income if they don’t travel and go to work”.’

Inept text message

The Government sent an inept text message to millions of mobile subscribers from ‘UKAGov’ yesterday. It caused no end of people to wonder ‘How does the Government know my mobile number?’ In fact they persuaded the mobile operators to sent it to all their subscribers. HMG didn’t actually know your number at all, it just looked that way, as this news report explains.

The message told subscribers to ‘stay at home’ and directed them to its website: gov.uk/coronavirus for exceptions. Then it repeated and amplified the direction:

‘Stay at home.
‘Protect the NHS.
‘Save lives.’

Protect the NHS

It is curious that ‘Protect the NHS’ was in there, because actually, fear of the NHS being ‘overwhelmed’ is what is driving the Government panic. But, excuse me, how long have the Conservatives been in office? How long have they had to make sure the NHS is properly resourced, or to explain to us that it never can be? When did coronavirus first start in China? When did it become apparent there would a need for extra ventilators? It is really that difficult to set up field hospitals and pop-up wards in Excel Centre if Imperial College are correct? How many people are they expecting will need beds? For that matter, how many extra beds end up occupied in our annual flu episodes?

Bloomberg reports how well Japan is coping with Covid-19. But it also says:

‘Should Japan see a jump, it may be better suited than many peers to handle the surge. It has about 13 hospital beds per 1,000 people, the highest among Group of Seven nations and more than triple the rate for Italy, the U.S., U.K. and Canada, according to World Bank data.’

Germany has a current low death rate associated with Covid-19. We should note that Germany has 29.2 critical care beds per 100,000 people. Italy has 12.5 while the UK has just 6.6, according to wired.co.uk.

South Korea, on the other hand, is well on the way to beating the virus through widespread testing, as the Guardian reports.

Aghast at Italy

Governments around the world are aghast at what has happened in Italy, where cases continued to rise despite a draconian ‘lock-down’. The curve was easily outstripping China’s experience. Then again, as Dr Bhakdi explains, northern Italy is heavily polluted, with many people facing respiratory challenges already.

Cases and deaths are increasing more slowly now in Italy. But once again, recorded deaths are high compared with recorded cases, indicating that many more people are simply contracting the virus and recovering.

In addition, off-guardian reports, 99.2% of deaths in Italy had pre-existing conditions. Many were already at death’s door. We also hear twice as many elderly men have died in Italy as women. Women fight coronaviruses better than men.

Here is Worldometer on the current figures from Italy.

Here is Worldometer on the current figures from China

Lack of Testing in the UK

And here is Worldometer on the current UK figures.

At this time of writing figures stood at 422 deaths in the UK, a daily rise of 87, and 8,077 cases, a rise of 1,427. 135 people have ‘recovered’. Note that the figures for those ‘recovered’ only refer to people who have attended hospital and been discharged. In stark contrast to South Korea, the UK is only testing those who have shown up in hospital with symptoms.

No-one else who has been exposed to the virus is included. That means all who shrugged it off without symptoms, or had symptoms at home and recovered after a few days do not make the UK, or the Italian, figures. An epidemiologist on the BBC on Monday admitted the total number of cases in the UK would be well into the tens, even hundreds, of thousands, because so many cases are not being recorded.

In the UK, it isn’t even possible for a key NHS worker to know if they actually have the virus. They are not allowed to be tested. They have to go home and self-isolate for seven days regardless.

Excess winter deaths

So far to date there have been 422 deaths in the UK. How many people do you think die in the UK every day in ‘normal circumstances’?

The figures from the Office of National Statistics show there were 541,589 deaths in England and Wales in 2018. That’s just over ten thousand a week and just under 1500 per day.

Furthermore, ONS reveals what it calls ‘excess winter deaths’. These occur between December and March. In winter 2018-19 they stood at 23,200. The previous year, 2017-18, there were 47,410 excess winter deaths in England and Wales.

Respiratory diseases were the biggest single cause (circa 45%), with pneumonia leading. They were followed by circulatory diseases (20%+) and then by dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (19%+). And yet, somehow, even with 47,410 excess deaths, around 1900 per day, the NHS coped in 2017-18. There was no field ward set up in a leisure centre.

Exact cause of death

In fact, Professor Bhakdi points out that winter excess deaths were either brought on by influenza or by various coronaviruses already circulating. However, the actual written-down ’cause of death’ is what actually killed the poor people. That would be a heart attack, or pneumonia. So to write ‘Covid-19’ as a cause of death of someone who actually died of pneumonia could be somewhat convenient.

Vox.com reports that the heat wave of 2003 killed at least 30,000 people in Europe. A Twitter user suggested 4,000 of those deaths occurred in Italy ‘from a simple heatwave’. He urged a sense of proportion when we look at Covid-19 figures, sad as every death is. And let us remember the reality. We shall all go that way, and that is why faith in Jesus Christ together with his forgiveness, is so important:

Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Coronavirus here ‘since January’

Dr Suntra Gupta, ‘surprised’ by universal acceptance of the Imperial College prophecy of doom.

Meanwhile, an Oxford University study claims coronavirus could already have infected half the British population. It might have been spreading in the UK since January, says Dr Sunetra Gupta. Modelling by Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group suggests Covid-19 first reached the UK by mid-January.

Dr Gupta is Professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford. If the learned professor is right, the true size of the outbreak is likely to be closer to the 400,000 mark. It is very possible that half the population has already been exposed to Covid-19.

Widespread testing is needed to assess the theory, said Dr Gupta. ‘We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys – antibody testing – to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now,’ she said.

The Daily Mail reports: ‘The Oxford university research offers a contrasting view on the disease to the study that is informing government policy. It was carried out by experts at Imperial College London.

‘”I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model,’ Professor Gupta told the Financial Times”.’ That is a devastating put-down.

Negative Health Outcomes

And as Dr Bhakdi says in his video, plunging people into poverty has negative health outcomes down the line. that is what makes the current UK approach ‘dangerous’ in his view. On top of that, seeing family and friends, going out, are the things which make life worth living. This particularly applies to the elderly, but affects us all.

In this view, those who went out in the park or up on Snowdonia last weekend were not irresponsible. They were not not ‘idiots’ or ‘morons’, pace Piers Morgan. They were following government advice to take exercise and they were trying to keep some semblance of normality going.

Prince Charles has symptoms

The BBC reports that the Prince of Wales has now tested positive for coronavirus.

The Prince of Wales has contracted Covid-19 from someone he met out and about, has mild symptoms and is recovering, as we should expect.

‘Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, a (Clarence House) spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but does not have the virus.’

A Clarence House statement read: “In accordance with government and medical advice, the prince and the duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland.

“The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire, where they met the criteria required for testing.

“It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks.”

Charles and Camilla are now self-isolating at Balmoral. We pray for HRH as we pray for protection for all the Royal Family and Her Majesty’s Government. Once again, his experience demonstrates that for the overwhelming majority, Covid-19 carries mild symptoms. It also shows how widespread the virus is, reveals the limited extent of testing in the UK and shows that carrying on is really not that difficult. And now HRH will be immune.

Pray for Government

So pray for our leaders to find the wisdom and humility to row back on their shutdown and get the population back to work.

They have invested a lot in the original dire Imperial College predictions. It would be tempting for them to hope the predictions come true to justify the measures they have taken. However, I.C. have now downgraded them (Thursday 26th) and we can only pray this sparks the end of the lock-down.

It is beginning to look as if the field hospital in Excel Centre will never be used. That will be a cause for rejoicing, and yet, it cost taxpayers’ money to erect in the first place.

If the scare fizzles out, there could be some very upset people out there, outraged that the UK Government impoverished them for no reason at all.

We had better start praying against disorder, because the stability of society itself could be at risk.

Jer 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

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Karen G

20 March 2020

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Coronavirus: No fear of ‘the pestilence’

Stephen

19 March 2020

It is not coronavirus which is destroying the UK like Egypt's Biblical plague of locusts, but the universal social distancing mandated by the Government.

Christian Voice continues to say the Government is over-reacting to Covid-19 and should simply advocate isolating anyone frail or with a susceptible medical condition. We remember the ‘figures’ depend on the information the experts put into the model in the first place. We advocate more available testing, as per South Korea.

‘Egypt is destroyed’ said Pharaoh’s advisers. The Government simply have not assessed the impact of their measures (not ‘the virus’, but their measures) on the economy. Or if they have they aren’t telling us. But then again, Rishi Sunak’s loan guarantee gives the game away. More on all this below.

We are praying and confessing this verse:

Psalm 91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that waiteth at noonday

Remind the Lord of his word and pray that over yourself and your family. However, how good it would be if our Queen and Prime Minister confessed it over the whole United Kingdom? Keep praying for fear of God, not fear of a virus, to be the position of Her Majesty’s Government.

Nadine’s mum is recovered

Both Health Minister Nadine Dorries MP and her 84-year-old mother recovered quickly from Covid-19

Let us say again, it is only people with underlying health conditions who need to keep indoors and avoid social contact.

Ann Widdecombe is quite correct to say shutting away all the over-seventies is draconian and pays no heed to people’s mental and emotional needs.

‘Surely it is better to lock down everybody of any age with underlying health problems – as well as the very elderly – and expect the rest of us to keep the economy going,’ she said.

Two days ago we reported Health Minister Nadine Dorries MP had passed Covid-19 on to her 84-year-old mother. We are happy to report that just a few days later, her mum has made a full recovery, as did Nadine.

Michel Barnier, the head of the EU task force handling the post-Brexit relationship with the UK, has tested positive for coronavirus. He’s apparently a devotee of exercise, mountain air and healthy eating and, guess what, he’s feeling fine.

Testing

South Korea dealt with the virus better than most by widespread testing. In the UK, testing is belatedly being scaled up. Will we all be offered it on demand as in South Korea? Don’t count on it.

In the Financial Times, journalist Anjana Ahuja revealed: ‘Testing for Covid-19 will happen in hospital, meaning that only the most severe infections will be included in official case numbers.’

So actually, what we are not hearing from Gov.uk is that thousands more people have been infected than we think and they have all got better.

Life must go on

Miss Ahuja went on: ‘Even in a pandemic — perhaps especially so then — some semblance of life must continue. Food supply chains must function; hospitals and care facilities need to operate at full steam. In order to keep hospitals staffed, schools need to stay open if feasible. In any case, schools act as informal quarantines — and provide a psychologically comforting routine.’

In addition, depriving people of their income results in impaired health outcomes:

‘The instinct to shut society down, as China did with Wuhan, is not cost-free when it comes to public health. Maxwell Smith, an ethicist at Western University in Ontario, points out that compulsory quarantine, school closures and a disrupted economy inflict social damage that can affect health further down the line. “China will feel the effects [of a shutdown] for years,” he said.’

Economic Assessment

We are still waiting for a UK government assessment of the economic impact of their corona virus measures. No, not an assessment of the impact of the virus. Rather of the impact of their unwarranted shutdown of large sections of British life.

See our previous article: Covid-19: Fear on every side.

But to get some idea of what they think it is going to cost, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced on Tuesday evening £330bn of loan guarantees. The Government thinks British businesses are going to need £330bn of loans to get them through. Those are loans which must be repaid. And £330bn is 15% of our Gross National Product. The Chancellor thinks the economy is going to take a 15% hit. And who will benefit? That’s right. The bankers.

Worse than Second World War

London-based Capital Economics says the UK economy could shrink as much as 20% in the next three months alone. Metro reported the story as: ‘corona virus triggers a “big recession”‘.’ But once more, the research company said. ‘This is due to the introduction of new government measures against the virus, such as closing pubs, restaurants and theatres, which will ‘significantly reduce economic activity’,’ according to its chief economist, Paul Dales.

‘He continued: “With the peak of the virus yet to come, it is clear we are in the early days of a big recession. As such, our previous forecast that GDP would fall by 2.5% q/q in Q2 is no longer fit for purpose.” With chunks of the economy grinding to a halt, including hiring and investment decisions, the GDP could fall by between 10% and 20%, Mr Dale added.’

Metro went on: ‘Budget forecasters now believe the scale of borrowing needed to pull countries out of a corona virus-caused economic crisis could resemble the large amounts of debt taken on during the Second World War, Reuters reports. By 1945, Britain’s national debt had exceeded 200% of GDP, resulting in the government turning to the US for financial assistance.’ But this time, the disaster is largely self-inflicted.

London Transport all but shuts down

Tooting Bec Tube Station is closed. Why?

People are being urged not to use London Transport unless they really have to, apparently in order to allow essential workers to get to work. So normally, doctors and nurses cannot get to work? It’s nonsense. We heard a story just today from a Kenyan in London who reported there was only her and the driver on a bus which would normally be packed with people going about their business.

Meanwhile, London Transport closes forty stations on the Underground. They have one thing in common, the Evening Standard reports. They are not interchanges. So an essential health worker can change at Vauxhall. But he then cannot get off at Tooting Bec to walk up to St George’s. Why? No-one says. Methinks those in power are punishing those revellers who were celebrating St Patrick’s Day on Tuesday evening all over London. Some were chanting ‘To hell with corona virus’, or words to that effect.

School closures

As for school closures, the BBC is still running interviews with parents who think this is very sensible. It isn’t. Why, in the early stages, did the Government not spell out loud and clear to us all that school children in general are the lowest risk group for even catching Covid-19, let alone becoming a serious case?

For example, a 16-year-old girl interviewed by the BBC about the cancellation of examinations (can you believe that?) let slip she had been self-isolating. ‘Oh really’, said the presenter, ‘Was that for corona virus?’ ‘Yes,’ replied the girl, ‘I had a bit of a cough and a temperature for a couple of days. Not very nice.’ That was it. For the under-tens in particular, there have been minuscule cases in China and not one death in that age-group. There was no need to close schools and every need not to. (On the bright side, closed schools will not be indoctrinating children with homosexuality and transgenderism…)

Instead, the Government have given their best Chicken Licken impersonation.

Cancelled operations

Meanwhile, the Health Secretary’s right-hand man has told NHS hospitals to cancel operations in an effort to free up 30,000 beds to create space for an expected surge in corona virus patients. In a letter to NHS bosses today NHS England’s CEO, Simon Stevens, said hospitals should cancel all non-urgent surgeries for at least three months.

Mr Stevens hopes to stop the health care system becoming overwhelmed during a potential surge of COVID-19 cases. So far, today, Worldometer says there are 2,689 confirmed cases in the UK and there have been 128 tragic deaths. I am praying those 30,000 beds are not needed. But as noted above, thousands more who have had Covid-19 at home and recovered do not register in the statistics and did not need a hospital bed.

Give an account

Luke 16:2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

It should be that the Government would give an account of themselves. But as with the Skripal affair, no-one on the Opposition benches appears willing to break ranks with the establishment line and demand answers. We may have to wait for a month or two before they realise the sky has not fallen down and that the Government over-reacted and brought the United Kingdom economically and socially to its knees for no reason at all.

Covid-19: Fear on every side

Stephen

17 March 2020

The nations, particularly in Europe and the US, are gripped by fear. Furthermore, the entire world is heading for a recession which will make 2008 look like a tea-party. Our leaders, supposedly men of intelligence, are rushing us into a global recession not because of a deadly virus, but out of unreasoning fear of a fairly average one. We need to pray against the fear. If it does not stop now, we shall all suffer, and for no good reason at all.

Isa 41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. (KJV)

Jeremiah the prophet wrote this:

Jer 6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

But in that case, the Babylonians really were coming. Here, what do we have? A coronavirus, Covid-19, which causes albeit serious flu-like symptoms but is not even as easy to catch as the flu, which Public Health England estimates kills an average of 17,000 people every year. And world leaders are spreading fear about Covid-19 like, well, like a virus. There is even advice from the Prime Minister for pregnant women to hide away. UK medical professional bodies say pregnant women, and young women in general, are not high-risk for Covid-19.

Church: Set an example!

I am going to urge some perspective and an end to the fear over Covid-19. Yes, we do need to wash our hands thoroughly, stay home if we are sick and protect the elderly and those with underlying health conditions. But we also need to stay kind and stay focussed. Political panic will bring dire effects many times worse than the virus itself. But first, I’ll urge the Church to set an example.

Isa 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

But what are we doing instead of trusting the Lord Yehovah? Even now, woke elbow-bumping from welcome teams is creeping in instead of handshakes, the ‘peace’ is being dispensed with and those churches which dispense communion wine in chalices are keeping the fortified spiritual drink in its bottle. Firstly, no virus can live in it. Secondly, the Bible says:

1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

We do not behave like this during the annual flu epidemic. We did not do it during Swine Flu a mere eleven years ago. So what is going on?

I’m going to argue the panic stems from the politics of anxiety coupled with modern risk-aversion. And the Church of Jesus Christ should beware these things of the world:

2Tim 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

French close cafes

Eiffel Tower - hundreds will lose their jobs. — Eiffel Tower – hundreds will lose their jobs.

In France, the prime minister announced the closure of cafes, restaurants and all public places “non essential” to public life, including cinemas and discos, from midnight on Saturday . Edouard Philippe said: “We must absolutely limit movement, meetings and contacts.” He allowed food shops, tobacconists, banks and public transport to remain open.

The Guardian also reports: ‘Authorities have banned gatherings of more than 100 people and shut down attractions including the Eiffel Tower, the palace of Versailles, the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay.’ In the Paris region, there will be no Sunday church services.

Meanwhile, ‘the health minister, Olivier Véran, said the evolution and spread of the virus was “rapid and real”, but added that about 98% of those who test positive for the virus do recover.’

Hang on? 98% of those who test positive recover? How long are they ill for? For about a week. FullFact reports: ‘According to the WHO, current evidence on the new coronavirus suggests 15% of all illnesses are severe infections, requiring oxygen, and 5% are critical infections requiring ventilation. These levels are “higher than what is observed for influenza infection”.’

But in the main, patients do not require hospital treatment. Our own health minister, Nadine Dorries, reported feeling ‘pretty rubbish’. That was it. Her mother caught the virus from her and is now fighting it, according to news reports.

‘Non-essential’

So because a few thousand people are going to feel ‘pretty rubbish’ for a week, and a few hundred will need oxygen and a third of those will need ventilation, France has shut down its entire hospitality industry as ‘non essential’. Well, excuse me, but those employed in it and their families might regard their incomes as rather essential to their daily lives. Above all, the owners of the businesses still have to pay their rent and local taxes and food for their own tables even when their establishments are shut. M Phillippe’s diktat will cause real, and above all unnecessary, financial pain.

The prophet Isaiah warned:

Isa 19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

France is afraid and Italy and Spain are in lockdown and ‘like unto women’ not because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord, but because of a really bad dose of flu. Nike has closed all its US, European and Antipodean stores. Berlin has closed its bars and brothels. (I didn’t know that about Berlin either.) The US has stopped flights from Europe. Coronavirus is not the judgment of God. But the reaction to it could be.

Italy and South Korea

We should just say a word about Italy, where the death rate from Covid-19 appears to be high. At this time of writing they had 2,158 deaths from 27,980 cases.

In contrast, South Korea, with 8,320 cases, had experienced only 81 fatalities. CNN explains that South Korea does far more testing for Covid-19 than Italy. Also, the age profile of those with the disease is much lower. South Korea Italy has an ageing population compared to South Korea. In Italy, 90% of deaths have occurred in those 70 or older.

The BBC reports that South Korea has concentrated on testing and treating in hospital only those seriously ill: Yes, they have closed schools, which is unnecessary, as we explain below. However: ‘The preventative measures being taken in South Korea have so far involved no lockdowns, no roadblocks and no restriction on movement. Trace, test and treat’.

UK hospitality sector ‘teetering’

Last night the Prime Minister advised people to stop non-essential contact with others, work from home where they can and ‘avoid places like pubs, clubs and theatres.’

Significantly, because the Government has merely advised us not to go out, rather than actually closing their premises by law, venues cannot even claim on their insurance. Even if they could, that merely shifts the burden somewhere else in the economy. Better not to have incurred the loss in the first place.

Elsewhere, the BBC reports the UK hospitality sector is already ‘teetering on the brink’:

‘Mark Cotman is the group operations director at York House hotel in Eastbourne, and said his bookings are down 60% and he expects them to get worse. “We’ve got the money to carry on for maybe two or three months, and then we’re out of money. Then what do we do about paying staff, paying VAT, paying the veg man, the butcher?…We will run out of money”, Mr Cotman said.

All the treasury has offered is an ‘extension of business rate relief’ and ‘help’ from HMRC.

Mr Cotman went on: ‘The larger businesses like ours have received no assistance in the budget. We’ve been offered a facility of maybe applying for a loan but of course that’s got to be paid back. If we’re not taking any money, how can we pay the loan back?’

Panic attack

In the UK, panic and heartlessness have gripped the whole population. Ex-MP Luciana Berger observed a man with a trolley full of a store’s last remaining pasta refusing to give an old lady just one packet. People are stock-piling toilet rolls and flour. Make sense of that.

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.

According to the Metro, Doctor Abdu Sharkawy, an expert in Infectious Diseases from Toronto University, wrote on Facebook: ‘I am not scared of Covid-19. What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post apocalyptic world.’

London deserted, sport abandoned

The Daily Express reports: ‘London deserted: UK capital becomes GHOST TOWN as workers flee over coronavirus. LONDON’S usually bustling streets, stations and tourist attractions were almost entirely deserted today as workers and visitors abandoned the capital over coronavirus fears.’

The Football League and Six-Nations rugby have shut down, the London Marathon stands abandoned until the autumn, Formula One will run, if at all, behind closed doors and sporting events all over the world are cancelled for fear of catching the flu.

Imagine the economic impact of all that.

Elderly and infirm

Virtually all those who have died, around 2% of those infected, have been the elderly, or people with pre-existing cardio-vascular problems, high blood pressure, diabetes or cancer. StatNews reports:

‘Overall, China CDC found, 2.3% of confirmed cases died. But the fatality rate was 14.8% in people 80 or older, likely reflecting the presence of other diseases, a weaker immune system, or simply worse overall health. By contrast, the fatality rate was 1.3% in 50 somethings, 0.4% in 40 somethings, and 0.2% in people 10 to 39.’ In under 10’s it was zero.

Men are slightly more likely to catch the virus than women (51% to 49%) but Netnewsledger says men are 50% more likely than women subsequently to die from it. It appears male and female immune systems work differently. Women naturally fight infections like coronavirus better than men.

This might explain why women just get colds while men suffer the flu. That gender imbalance, a source of amusement to some ladies, could be more than a matter of supposed male weakness.

Immune system

In all seriousness, the world is panicking, with stock markets plunging and sporting events being cancelled, over a bad dose of flu.

One could argue Covid 19 is a new disease, and the world population is currently without the antibodies we build up against flu. There will eventually, perhaps within a year, be a vaccine, but until then, we are on our own, so to speak. Even though Covid-19 is less infectious than flu, more people could catch it until the population builds up ‘herd immunity’. (See below!)

Although in one sense we are not alone. Thank God he created us in his wisdom with an immune system to fight disease:

Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Elderly to Self-islolate

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told the BBC that Britons ‘over the age of 70 will be told “within the coming weeks” to stay at home for an extended period to shield them from coronavirus.’ The advice, when it does come into force, could last ‘a very long time’.

‘Wartime like measures will ask car makers to produce medical equipment and turn hotels into hospitals, he said. “Every single person in this country is going to be affected,” he warned.’

‘Over-70s and younger people with certain health conditions will need to remain at home and have groceries and vital medication delivered, the health secretary said.’

Meanwhile, the Scottish government would ask the elderly not to isolate, but instead ‘ask them to reduce social contact’.

‘Jeane Freeman, Mr Hancock’s counterpart in Scotland, said: “We don’t want people who are elderly to be stuck in their homes alone not contacting anyone, with their families not able to be in touch with them and to help them. What we’re saying to them is, reduce your contact”.’

And that is all we need to do. Just that simple measure coupled with basic hygiene.

Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Don’t close schools!

The evidence from China is that teenagers and children were minutely represented in the figures, among cases and even less in fatalities. The few children who have fallen sick appear to have caught the virus from adults, not from other children. Children are not transmitters. There is absolutely no need to close schools.

In fact, as the children will then go to be looked after by grandparents, so increasing social interaction with the elderly, there is every good reason not to shut schools. And that is on top of the impact on the economy of disrupting the working patterns of parents. Families today need two incomes to make ends meet, in stark contrast from two generations ago. But that is another subject.

Furthermore, if a teacher, or anyone for that matter, feels unwell, just stop at home. ‘Self-isolate’. Yes, quite a few of us will fall ill if the government simply keeps the economic show on the road, but in the vast majority of cases we shall get better soon. Moreover, the economy will not in that event itself catch Covid-19, which frankly means a global slump which will take years to recover from and which will affect us all:

Jer 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

SARS and Swine Flu

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the Covid 19 pandemic is ‘the worst public health crisis for a generation’ and warned Britain that the worst of the crisis is still weeks away. I said in the Christian Voice March newsletter (Email us [our email address is on this page] with your land address for a free copy of the Christian Voice March Newsletter!) that if there are fewer then 10,000 UK cases by Mothering Sunday it will be by the grace of God and in answer to prayer.

But is Covid-19 really ‘the worst public health crisis for a generation’?

According to the Daily Telegraph (£) the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic in 2009 killed 457 people across the UK. The outbreak cost a total of £1.24 billion: ‘£654 million preparing for a possible flu pandemic, and £587 million responding to the H1N1 outbreak’, including ‘£1.01 billion on drugs, among them antivirals, doses of vaccine and antibiotics.’ There were early forecasts that 65,000 people could die, so alarmism is nothing new. It is hard to find an accurate statistic, but over a million people were infected in the UK.

Around 20% of the world’s population eventually went down with H1N1. It could be argued H1N1 was far less lethal than Covid-19, but in the early stages, it was thought millions could die. Yet the global economy did not shut down. Countries were not in ‘lockdown’.

SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) infected 8,000 people and killed nearly 800 in an outbreak in Asia in 2003. There were only a few UK cases. Again, some people chose not to travel, as I report below, but they were not forbidden to.

Not a clever disease

To those who are certain Covid-19 has been orchestrated by the Antichrist to decimate the population, I say, ‘Look at the figures’. The disease decimates the elderly and those already placing a burden on the health service. That is not a very clever disease from a ‘health economics’ point of view. If your ambition is to destroy the world, you want a virus which attacks young people.

Or maybe start a war. The First World War was excellent at sending millions of economically-active young men to their deaths. The Second World War did an even better job of destroying whole communities and their industries and property.

However, that is without recruiting leaders to destroy their own countries from within. We urge prayer for our leaders to adopt ‘business as usual’, allow the people to make their own decisions as to whether to go to the pub or the match, to self-isolate if they feel poorly, and for those at highest risk to stay indoors. The economic damage will be bad enough just from doing little.

Self-inflicted economic damage

Pandemics cause enough economic damage on their own, as individuals change their behaviour, without governments adding fuel to the fire. Sharon Begley of Reuters estimated that the SARS epidemic cost the world GPD $33bn in 2003, as Asian travellers cut their plans. (That equates to 0.063% of world GDP based on 2003 population of 6.36 billion and GDP $8,300 per person.) The effects were proportionally greater in Asia.

World-wide, it is difficult to separate the impact of H1N1 (swine flu) from the effects of the 2008 recession. However, H1N1 cost South Korea an estimated 0.14% of its national GDP in 2009.

Ms Begley suggests in a future pandemic: ‘The majority of the economic losses would come not from sickness or death but from what the World Bank calls “efforts to avoid infection: reducing air travel … avoiding travel to infected destinations, and reducing consumption of services such as restaurant dining, tourism, mass transport, and nonessential retail shopping”.’

That was in a 2013 article and is exactly what we are seeing now, except it’s not consumer-driven but mandated by those in power. When politicians and those at the top of sporting bodies start panicking, the economic problems only escalate. Politics of anxiety coupled with risk-aversion translates into job losses for the man in the street. The possibility of people losing their jobs and their businesses does not, for some advisers, form part of the risk assessment.

Financial failure, even a world-wide slump, will arise not from actual sickness or death in the population but will be self-inflicted, or leader-inflicted, on the population.

Appropriate response

Darren Schulte, M.D., CEO of Apixio, a health analytics company, says this on StatNews:

‘What’s the appropriate response to Covid-19? I believe we should counsel individuals to continue going about their daily lives while taking proper and prudent precautions until we learn more about its long-term public health risks of this disease. We should try to balance the public health and safety concerns with disruptions in daily activities. Quarantining individuals who have been exposed to the virus or who have underlying health risks makes sense, as does adhering to prudent measures like staying at home if you feel sick, washing your hands regularly, covering your mouth when coughing and sneezing, and avoiding large social gatherings. All of these can attenuate the spread of the virus.

‘But we must be measured in our actions so we don’t end up causing more lasting harm than good as we try to protect ourselves and our communities from a new — and scary — infectious disease.’

Advisors at war

In a year’s time, leaders will have to answer to their populations. That is why they need wisdom and the fear of God, not fear of the virus. Godly fear puts everything into perspective.

The Daily Express reports the UK’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, was leading the side who advise interfering as little as possible, keeping things going while protecting the elderly and those at risk.

Sir Patrick hoped the Government’s current approach will create a ‘herd immunity’ to the disease. In practice that means allowing millions of us to become infected. But last night it appeared he had lost.

The other side advocate shutting our entire service economy down. As the Guardian explains here, last night the Prime Minister seemed to be going down that route. It risks putting off another spike of the disease until next autumn and winter. It also means economic catastrophe for the travel, hospitality and sport sectors and all the jobs dependent on those who work in those industries. The High Street, already under pressure, could be finished.

Furthermore, it is becoming clearer by the hour that Government advisers have done lots of medical models to see how the virus would spread in different scenarios. Sir Patrick Vallance told the Health and Social Care Committee as much this afternoon. But has anyone modelled the impact of the various measures on the economy? If they have, they don’t seem to be telling us.

The tourism sector alone is worth £250bn to the economy and gives work to 3.5 million people. The sports sector is ‘only’ worth £24bn, but holds nearly one million jobs. Remember how even Pharaoh could not see the damage his own decisions were doing to his land:

Exod 10:7 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man (Moses) be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

Who benefits?

Sharon Begley observes that someone always makes money out of a crisis. It may be pharmaceutical companies from a vaccine, or suppliers of medical equipment in a pandemic.

Nevertheless, their profits will pale into insignificance if airlines, hotels and football clubs start turning to the banks.

Bankers are set to make billions from loans just to keep companies afloat. It would be too Machiavellian to suggest the head of Crédit Agricole has been urging Edouard Philippe to shut down the French hospitality industry, would it not?

It’s more subtle than that. He won’t be saying ‘Non’ to the idea, that’s for sure.

Turning to Prayer

The Bible says:

We must pray for them to find that wisdom which has only one source:

Prov 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Pray for an end to anxiety, risk-aversion and sheer panic and for our national economy and world trade in general to return to normal, to everyone’s benefit.

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Western Money funds immoral Kenyan NGOs

Stephen

13 January 2020

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 48: Christian Voice UK: Praying for National Repentance, Working for Godly Government — 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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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Islamophobia – problem or invention?

Stephen

19 December 2019

Melanie Phillips says equating 'Islamophobia with antisemitism is 'obscene'.

Yesterday the Conservative Party launched what the BBC describes as ‘their long awaited inquiry into Islamophobia allegations within the party’.

Two days before, the Jewish Chronicle ran an article by Melanie Phillips. She said comparing ‘Islamophobia’ with antisemitism was ‘obscene’.

Criticism

Naturally, Tory peer Sayeeda, Baroness Warsi, criticised the Tories, arguing they are ‘trying to whitewash past problems.’

Meanwhile, the Jewish Chronicle was forced to defend itself from criticism by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, of all people. They said the publication of the Phillips piece was ‘an error’. They went on: “Anti-Muslim prejudice is very real and it is on the rise. Our community must stand as allies to all facing racism.”

But Islam is not a race, it’s an ideology. As the Guardian put it: Melanie Phillips said ‘the entire concept of Islamophobia was “profoundly anti-Jew” and had been invented to mimic antisemitism, adding: “To equate it with the dehumanising, insane and essentially murderous outpourings of Jew-hatred is obscene”.’

‘Denial, dismissal and deceit’

Sayeeda, Baroness Warsi wants Tory 'Islamophobia' probe to go further. — Sayeeda, Baroness Warsi wants Tory ‘Islamophobia’ probe to go further.

Baroness Warsi criticised the appointment of Prof Swaran Singh as chairman of the Tory probe. She said the Sikh Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry believes ‘that institutional racism simply doesn’t exist’.

“That gives an indication of where the inquiry will end up,” she said.

The Muslim Council of Britain said the appointment of Professor Singh was “at risk of being seen in the same light as the Conservative Party’s customary approach to Islamophobia, that of denial, dismissal and deceit”.

Islamophobia ‘invented by Muslim Brotherhood’

However, Melanie Phillips contends ‘Islamophobia’ was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood as a tit-for-tat response to antisemitism. A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear or hatred. For example, ‘claustrophobia’ is an irrational fear of enclosed spaces. From the secularist side, homosexual activists invented the term ‘homophobia’ for the same reason. Their intention was to stifle debate and cast their opponents as deranged. Neither ideology, that of Islam nor that of Secularism, can ever be immune from criticism.

Melanie Phillips writes: ‘So “Islamophobia” appropriates to itself the unique attribute of antisemitism — that it is deranged — in order falsely to label any adverse comment about the Islamic world as a form of mental disorder.

‘The concept of “Islamophobia” is thus profoundly anti-Jew. To equate it with the dehumanising, insane and essentially murderous outpourings of Jew-hatred is obscene.’

Anti-Jewish violence

Police images of two boys accused of antisemitic abuse and violence against a rabbi in North London. Images stitched together by Press Association

A criminal event yesterday could not have better timed to illustrate Melanie Phillips’ point. Two boys were arrested after shouting antisemitic abuse at a rabbi and then beating him up. The attack happened last month in Clapton, North London.

The unnamed religious leader was set upon by two attackers shortly before 10pm on 29th November. They shouted ‘F**k Jews’, ‘Dirty Jew’ and ‘Kill the Jews’ as he walked in Amhurst Park.

Police released CCTV images. Despite the two wearing hoodies, a relative recognised the boys, aged 14 and 15. They handed themselves in to police on Tuesday 17th December. The two are due to appear at Stratford Youth Court on 7th January 2020.

Repeatedly punched

According to Jewish News, Jewish neighbourhood patrol group Shomrim said the rabbi had left the Bobov Synagogue in Egerton Road after a wedding. He was walking along Clapton Common when he was assaulted.

‘The two attackers repeatedly punched him, threw him to the ground and carried on beating him, only stopping when a member of the public intervened.’

Shomrim said the rabbi sits in a Judaic court as a judge. He was left “collapsed on the pavement, bleeding and dazed, where he lay for several minutes”.

Fellow rabbi Herschel Gluck said the victim was left “bruised and traumatised” by his ordeal.

It is quite plain from the CCTV images that the boys in question are not members of a white supremacist group. They have learned their anti-Jewish hatred from another source.

Islamophobia and Identity Politics

Antisemitism is not just an academic matter. Nor is it confined to pro-Palestinian Labour Party MPs and Momentum types. It is real, it is racist, and it finds expression in actual personal abuse and violence.

To equate it with Boris Johnson’s colourful descriptions of Muslim full-face coverings possibly requires a masters degree in identity politics. Yes, it exists!

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Hallmark Channel reinstates gay ads

Stephen

16 December 2019

Hallmark Channel has irritated both One Million Moms and US gay activists.

A greetings card company has managed to irritate both US conservatives and gay activists.

Firstly, the Hallmark Channel on Pay TV allowed adverts featuring two lesbians kissing. Secondly, in response to a petition from One Million Moms (1MM), they banned the ads. Thirdly, after a Twitter storm from the usual suspects, they allowed the offending material to continue.

Today’s is a world of identity politics. Those in the easily-offended immoral groups make a lot of noise. But they are a minute part of the market and need not be taken seriously.

Hallmark should have stood firm on their ban decision. Instead, they have provided a text-book study in how not to walk through a china shop.

Hallmark Channel

Hallmark Cards runs the Hallmark Channel through its subsidiary Crown Media Holdings, Inc.

According to Wikipedia, The channel’s programming is ‘primarily targeted at families, and features a mix of television movies and miniseries, original and acquired television series, and lifestyle programs.’

The Channel is available to almost 100million households with pay TV in the United States. Wikipedia goes on: ‘Despite largely being an apolitical brand, Hallmark Channel has garnered a following among politically conservative viewers in suburban and rural areas who, according to Manhattan Institute for Policy Research’s Steven Malanga in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, feel the network and its original programming feed their desire to “express traditional family values and also to steer away from political themes and stories that denigrate religion”.’

Zola not that gay

A still from the Zola Ad - no, we are not going to show the dirty girls kissing. — A still from the Zola Ad – no, we are not going to show the dirty girls kissing.

The adverts were promoting Zola, a wedding planning company. In truth, there are not that many gay-weddings pictured on their website. Zola, like Hallmark, know their market. And it’s heterosexual.

Yes, they do cater for gays and lesbians. You can find their pictures usually half-way down the page. Maybe gays and lesbians occupy 2% of their market. A Zola spokesman insisted ‘all kisses, couples and marriages are equal celebrations of love’. Nevertheless, their core market is heterosexual.

So the ads, and the confected row, are mere virtue-, no, vice-signalling.

Social media backlash

The BBC reports, ‘The company’s cable network pulled the ads … under pressure from the conservative group One Million Moms.’
The decision, they say, ‘drew criticism on social media and calls for a boycott.’

The original decision to withdraw the adverts drew criticism from a number of high-profile gay figures, including homosexual Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.

New York Times reported, ‘Trending on Sunday were the hashtags #boycotthallmark and #BoycottHallmarkChannel, with more than 8,000 tweets mostly from users identifying themselves as L.G.B.T. families, allies and Hallmark viewers.’

Would the Hallmark Channel even notice if a load of people who are not viewers continued not to view?

And no, New York Times, the two young women in the advert are not ‘brides’.

Apology

Mike Perry, Hallmark president and CEO, has made a mistake by caving in to gay activist group GLAAD

Hallmark said it would reinstate the adverts and attempt to re-establish its partnership with Zola.

“We are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused,” said Hallmark’s president and chief executive Mike Perry.

To make matters worse, Hallmark said it would lick the boots of gay activist media group GLAAD. It would “be working with Glaad to better represent the LGBTQ community across our portfolio of brands.” Maybe he is not serious, but there was no reason to roll over like that.

‘seathom play’ on Youtube volunteered: ‘Who is Hallmark going to listen to? A million moms or a few angry lesbians, gays and SJW’s? They know their audience.’

But do they? Hallmark have overturned a solid commercial decision in return for identity-politics brownie points. Mr Perry is in grave danger of limiting or even souring his market rather than expanding it. As 1MM put it: ‘You will lose viewers if you cave to the LBGT agenda.’

Hallmark Personnel

Cynthia (Cindy) Mahoney, another Hallmark CEO, and on the board of UK Hallmark Cards PLC

American Cynthia (Cindy) Mahoney is either co-President and CEO of Hallmark International or ex-president. The above Mike Perry was appointed to those roles in June 2019.

In any event, Ms Mahoney sits on the board of Hallmark Cards PLC in the UK. Australian Amanda Del Prete is Managing Director of the UK arm.

Both women were appointed to their positions in December 2018 after the resignation of then CEO Steve Wright. At the time, the company claimed: “These changes will continue to strengthen the leadership team as our priorities continue to be both a creative and customer-focused business.”

UK Turnover and profit down

Amanda Del Prete, Hallmark Cards PLC Managing Director, is skilled in Brand Management

Nevertheless In the UK Hallmark’s card business is not doing so well. Turnover in 2018 (at £134m) was down 5.3% on the previous year. An operating profit of £1.4m in 2017 gave way to an operating loss of £2.3m. Only sales of assets nudged the company’s Profit & Loss sheet into the black.

The company paid no dividend to its shareholders in 2018. According to the business social network site LinkedIn, Amanda Del Prete is skilled in Customer Insight, Consumer Products and Brand Management.

Be that as it may, she inevitably blamed the fall on Brexit leading to a fall in the pound. The MD still grabbed £522,653 in ’emoluments’.

Totally irritated

One Graham Shoebridge reviewing Hallmark on TrustPilot last year said: ‘The small shop in Marshallswick St Albans used to be so good, cheap and professional. Now staff are decidedly rude, lazy and complacent. They talk non-stop to each other, leaving customers feeling totally irritated.’

On their petition page, 1MM claim to have spoken ‘with Crown Media Family Networks CEO Bill Abbott’. They say he ‘confirmed Hallmark Channel has pulled the Zola.com commercial’. Furthermore, ‘the Hallmark Channel will continue to be a safe and family friendly network’. 1MM say they ‘thanked him on behalf of all our supporters.’ They praise the Lord and conclude ‘No further action is needed!’

Beady eye

No doubt 1MM will be watching Hallmark Channel from now on with a beady eye. Mike Perry’s vice-signalling over GLAAD was ill-advised.

Neverthless, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. If there is no repeat and no introduction of LGBT content, 1MM will be pacified. However, if there is, expect them to become totally irritated and Hallmark Channel to fall. the Lord answers his people’s prayers. It may not just be UK profits at risk.

Joel 2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

Address for Amanda Del Prete: Hallmark Cards PLC: Dawson Lane, Dudley Hill, Bradford, BD4 6HN
Tel UK: 0800 90 20 900 (freephone) or from mobiles: 01274 270 515

Email, Try:
ukcustomersupportteam1@hallmark-uk.com
customerqueriesUK@hallmark.com
Connected@hallmark-uk.com
help@hallmark.co.uk
Tamsyn Johnston, Marketing Manager
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General Election – the final push

Stephen

11 December 2019

Britain including: Traffic lights across Greater Manchester turned into LGBT+ symbols

Karen G

26 November 2019

Gay Traffic Lights — Traffic lights across Greater Manchester turned into LGBT+ symbols - 21/11/2019

Traffic lights across Greater Manchester turned into LGBT+ symbols (Stock Image) – 21/11/2019

22/11/2019

Evil bloke, 27, dragged 76-year-old woman into ditch and raped her

21/11/2019

Why some traffic lights across Greater Manchester have been turned into LGBT+ symbols

Nearly 700 children identified as being at risk of domestic violence every day, figures show

Labour pledge to introduce abortion for any reason up to birth

Men feel stressed if their female partners earn more than 40% of household income — new research

The kids are totally zen: school in Ipswich uses meditation helps pupils find inner peace

Atheist parents are robbing their children of access to our shared heritage

Two-fifths of workers would fake a sick day

Woman sank teeth into partner’s scrotum and hit him with iron

Older people dying for want of social care at rate of three an hour

Jo Swinson says she smoked cannabis while at university and it was great as she calls for the drug to be legalised in her Lib Dem election manifesto

Strictly Come Dancing’s first same-sex routine sparks almost 200 complaints

20/11/2019

Lingerie chain Bravissimo now allows people who identify as transgender to try on bras in the changing rooms

Couple who sent children to church school win court bid to force it to have non-religious assemblies

Scotland’s only Brexit Party MEP quits over ‘betrayal of the LGBT community’

Transgender man not legally married, a High Court judge has ruled

Stunned handyman interrupts three men dogging in public toilets

Press release – Liberal Democrats pledge to introduce extreme abortion law

Three clinics rapped for misleading pregnant women by exaggerating the effectiveness of a £650 Down’s syndrome blood test they wrongly claimed was 99% accurate

Schools urged to offer inclusive assemblies after trust concedes collective worship challenge

Chick-Fil-A backtracks on promise to stop anti-LGBTQ organisations

19/11/2019

Reading Pride hit back at claims its Chick-fil-A criticism is “anti-Christian”

Suicide rate among released prisoners is rocketing

Teenagers among women who have had at least six abortions

18/11/2019

Drug driver arrest in March town – he tested positive for cannabis and cocaine

Gender neutral baby names like Quinn, River and Bailey are set to be all the rage in 2020

Prince Andrew used the N-word, claims former Downing Street aide

17/11/2019

Christian banned from displaying banner proclaiming his beliefs in Speaker’s Corner row vows to take his challenge to court

UK’s first gay dads split after 32 years and one’s fallen for daughter’s ex-boyfriend

16/11/2019

LGBT schools and abortion protest bans betray the bias of our elites

Halloween ‘exposes children to evil forces’, says angry local vicar

Social services ‘to monitor children of Muslim couple’ says High Court judge

Brutal Britain including: Barclays introduces gender-neutral lavatories in global offices

Karen G

22 November 2019

Barclays introduces gender-neutral lavatories in its offices - 10/11/2019

10/11/2019

Barclays introduces gender-neutral lavatories in a number of global offices

Rape victims forced to pay mobile bills for months after police take phones for evidence

How do you like your beef… old-style cow or 3D-printed?

Half of rape victims drop out of cases even after suspect is identified

Crimes committed by sex offenders double in a year

British Jews fear Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister, says Stephen Pollard

9/11/2019

Superdad seizes 200 knives in just 12 hours after pals stabbed 47 TIMES in Lawless Britain

Teenager, 18, stabbed to death while attending a knife-awareness course

8/11/2019

Prince Harry hugs Gareth Thomas as pair meet rugby players to raise HIV awareness

Care worker left dementia patients soaked in urine

Liberal Democrats promise 35 hours of free childcare from nine months old

Obesity threatens to bankrupt the NHS as prescriptions for diabetes hit a record £1.075billion a year

More than one in 10 children miss school due to bullying, poll finds

LGBT equality protests leader backs Roger Godsiff for MP in Hall Green after Labour axing

7/11/2019

Civil partnerships extended to opposite-sex couples

6/11/2019

Two thirds of women would not tell their family they’re considering an abortion

Loneliness may increase death risk in people with heart conditions

Should we take God out of school assemblies?

Shop to be investigated after posting job advert for ‘preferably a boy’

3/11/2019

Primary schools should not consult parents before teaching LGBT+ relationships, watchdog chief says

Eleven nations condemn UNFPA, ICPD25 and Nairobi Summit

Stephen

19 November 2019

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.

Opposition grows to UNFPA Summit

West Funds UNFPA abortion push

Nairobi’s pro-abortion conference hides behind ‘reproductive rights’

Kenya to host LGBT funding meeting

(All our links open automatically in a new tab, on desktops & laptops, anyway.)

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.

This article on LifeSite News is also worth reading.

Taking Cairo too far

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:

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Ghana: Beyond foreign aid

Stephen

4 November 2019

Jeremy Hunt with Ghana foreign minister Honorable Shirley Ayorkor Botchway

Ghana is leading the way in Africa in encouraging self-sufficiency. The West-African nation is emerging as one of five or six real powerhouses on the continent. It’s ‘Beyond aid’ proposals aim to add value to natural resources rather than just ship out raw materials, to modernise agriculture, reduce corruption and transform education.

UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt MP was on a five-day, five-nation tour of Africa in April and May 2019. He started in Senegal on 29th April, went to Ghana on the 30th, Nigeria on 1st May. He then flew to Ethiopia before rounding off his trip in Kenya.

Describing the countries as having five of the fastest-growing economies on the continent, he told the Today programme, ‘When a Brexit agreement finally unties the UK from the EU, the UK government is looking to boost trade with Africa.’

Mr Hunt’s main goal

This is what Mr Hunt said about his main goal: ‘There is a central purpose [to the visit] which is to change the motor of our relationship with African countries from one based on aid to one based on enterprise and prosperity. I’m a big supporter of the 0.7% [aid] target and there are many African countries where that is desperately needed, like the DRC with its Ebola outbreak. But there are other countries, like Senegal, where I was yesterday, where the UK is about to overtake France and become the biggest international investor, Ghana, where I am today, where they have a national strategy which they call the “Beyond aid” strategy. And I think sometimes China, with its big infrastructure projects, is better in the eyes of African countries, in tapping into the future, and their excitement about the opportunities of the future.

‘To do this, I want to set out the stall for the UK to be the new partner of choice across Africa.’

Foreign Aid problems

It is worth saying Mr Hunt’s comment about being a ‘big supporter’ of the current Government policy of 0.7% aid target (spending 0.7% of gross national income on aid) is not popular with Conservative party members. It could come under challenge in a forthcoming leadership election.

A jaundiced view would be that, apart from actual emergencies like an Ebola outbreak, or a real failure of a major harvest, external aid depresses local prices for the commodities despatched and impoverishes local traders and farmers.

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the United Kingdom would consider cutting off aid to any country that failed to recognize gay rights. Then President John Atta Mills pledged to never initiate or support any attempt to legalise homosexuality in Ghana. He said Mr Cameron ‘does not have the right to direct other sovereign nations as to what they should do especially where their societal norms and ideals are different from those that exist’ in Britain.

Financing anti-Christian NGOs

Rather than the blunt threat of cutting off aid, there is a more subtle approach. Much UK foreign aid aims to export evils like sodomy, abortion and feminism through NGOs to the developing world. Pro-gay and pro-abortion NGOs in African countries are completely financed from the West. Even when projects are ostensibly neutral, there will be an underlying ‘equality’ element. The UK is one of the worst funding culprits, although an LGBT advocacy group in Ghana known as the Solace Initiative started with funding from Canada.

Ghana’s vision of doing without foreign aid may bring unexpected benefits. Paradoxically, Mr Cameron’s 2011 pitch may have provided a much-needed spur for the initiative.

Ghana without aid

In a press release on the official Ghana.gov website, journalist Sule N. Jotie starts by referring to ‘the natural wealth God gave Ghana which, if prudently exploited and managed, will lift Ghana beyond foreign aid.’ Clearly, the Ghanaian Government, like most of sub-Saharan Africa is not afraid to give the Almighty the thanks and glory.

Jotie continues: ‘Since the 1960s, the country has depended on aid from developing partners for her development.

‘African countries that gained independence in the 1950s and 60s were faced with many challenges—infrastructural deficit and lack of skilled labour, among others. To accelerate their development, the newly-independent African countries relied so much on assistance from their development partners to fund their development needs.

As the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia rightly put it: “Development aid was born out of the need to accelerate post-colonial development. Aid (grants, loans and projects and technical assistance) was to help fill the savings-investment gap, the technical capacity gaps and the development finance gaps in order to promote growth and development.”

‘Indeed, Ghana falls among that group of African countries that have relied on foreign aid to fund its development since 1957, in spite of the country’s wealth in natural resources – cocoa, gold, timber, oil and gas, bauxite and manganese, among others.’

Use of tariffs

The West has been happy to take the resources tariff-free and re-export the finished products back to Africa. For example, the EU has zero tariffs on import of raw cocoa and coffee beans, but imposes tariffs on finished products. As a result, Germany makes more money from processed coffee than the whole of the African continent earns from exporting coffee beans.

However, after taking office on 7th January 2017, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said: ‘We want to build a Ghana beyond aid; a Ghana which looks to the use of its own resources. We want to build an economy that is not dependent on charity and handouts, but an economy that will look at the proper management of its resources as the way to engineer social and economic growth in our country.’

Adding value

Jotie goes on: ‘Evidence on the ground suggests that Government’s One District, One Factory project is encouraging investment across the length and breadth of Ghana, a positive sign of the beginnings of value addition to the country’s resources to move the economy from one reliant on production and export of raw material to a value-added industrialised economy.

‘In that regard, Ghana’s cocoa, timber, gold, bauxite, diamond and manganese will have to be refined and value added before exportation by which more jobs would be created.’

The government is already working towards an Integrated Bauxite/Aluminium Development Authority to smelt the nation’s bauxite deposits. With its substantial iron ore and manganese deposits in the Western and Northern regions an integrated steel industry could serve the needs of the country and region and obviate the import of steel from the West..

Ghana is believed to have up to 5 to 7 billion barrels of petroleum in reserves, the sixth largest in Africa and 25th largest proven reserves in the world. Ghana also has up to 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in its reserves. It is no surprise the President intends to establish petro-chemical industries to take advantage of the growth of the oil and gas industry.

Agriculture

The Government launched a ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ initiative last year aimed at increasing food sufficiency, reducing food imports and creating jobs for the youth.

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, says the use of labour, improved seeds and fertilizers combined with increased extension service delivery had resulted in the production of an additional 485,000 metric tonnes of maize, 179,000 metric tonnes of rice and 45,200 metric tonnes of vegetables with a total value of £180 million.

The Government is also planning an irrigation policy for the north, challenged by the Sahel regions of West Africa which have the same conditions like northern Ghana but export fruits and vegetables to Ghana from irrigated farms.

Corruption and Education

Digitisation of national ID cards, drivers license and vehicle registration, business registration, e-commerce and the introduction paperless port operations are aimed at reducing revenue leakages and ensuring faster turnaround in customs processing and clearance of goods. The Government hope the monies released will help finance the country’s development agenda instead of relying on foreign aid.

Across Africa, high school education is privately-funded. However, the Akufo-Addo administration is implementing a Free Senior High School programme to drive its socio-economic activities rather than importing a skilled human workforce.

Christian faith

Both the President and his finance minster, Ken Ofori-Atta, are devout Christians in a nation where 70% of the population share the Christian faith.. They have even proposed building a national interdenominational cathedral in Accra. But the Government is strongly in need of private finance for its Beyond Aid projects and the proposed cost has been criticised. Equally, it shows the administration has a heart of worship.

Ghana’s plan is dramatic and ambitious. The questions remains, despite Jeremy Hunt’s fulsome praise: will the West actually allow it? A firm reliance on the Almighty and the power of our risen Saviour will be needed if the dream of Ghana Beyond Aid is to be realised.

READ: Deut 16:19, 28:13; Josh 1:8; 1Sam 2:30; 1Chron 29:11; Job 5:11; Psalm 29:11, 33:12, 47:9; Prov 9:10, 14:34, 16:7,12; Isa 45:23, 55:5; Micah 6:8; Matt 5:16; Phil 2:7-10; Rev 15:4.

PRAY: That Christian leaders across Africa will lead their nations in the ways of righteousness and peace, follow the Lord, and seek prosperity through his name
Pray the UK will help Ghana and other African nations to move ‘beyond aid’, to see it as an opportunity to British entrepreneurs and not as a threat to industry here. Well, they won’t do it through altruism, will they?

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