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The Revolving Door On Drugs: Obama's F.D.A. Nominee Is "the Ultimate Industry Insider"

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<h2>The Revolving Door On Drugs: Obama's F.D.A. Nominee Is "the Ultimate Industry Insider"</h2>
<span>The Revolving Door On Drugs: Obama's F.D.A. Nominee Is "the Ultimate Industry Insider"</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" rel="nofollow">The New York Times</a></span></div>
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<p>At a DoubleTree Hotel in Durham, N.C., in May 2014, Dr. Robert M. Califf gave a presentation to a group of biomedical researchers, lawyers and industry experts. He spoke about ways to quicken the pace of biomedical innovation by transforming research. Toward the end he showed a slide that noted one barrier: regulation.</p>
<p>It was just a passing reference, barely noticed by the small group in the room. But now, after President Obama nominated Dr. Califf on Tuesday to become the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, his thoughts on the subject are suddenly taking on importance.</p>
<p>Dr. Califf, a cardiologist, is a renowned clinical researcher who has deep respect for the system in which he works, and no one who knows him thinks he wants to weaken the regulatory agency he has been chosen to lead. But he has deeper ties to the pharmaceutical industry than any F.D.A. commissioner in recent memory, and some public health advocates question whether his background could tilt him in the direction of an industry he would be in charge of supervising.</p>
<p>The answer is important because, if confirmed, Dr. Califf will be steering a vast and powerful federal agency that regulates about a quarter of every dollar spent in the United States. It is at the center of some of the most difficult health policy questions facing the country. A crucial decision on how to regulate electronic cigarettes is expected this fall, and Congress is halfway through a substantial overhaul of the way the agency approves drugs and medical devices.</p>
<p>While the previous commissioner, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, a former top health official in New York City, came from the field of public health, Dr. Califf ran a multimillion-dollar clinical research center at Duke University that received more than 60 percent of its funding from industry.</p>
<p>He has written scientific papers with pharmaceutical company researchers, and his financial disclosure form last year listed seven drug companies and a device maker that paid him for consulting and six others that partly supported his university salary, including Merck, Novartis and Eli Lilly. A conflict-of-interest section at the end of an article he wrote in the European Heart Journal last year declared financial support from more than 20 companies.</p>
<p>“In a sense, he’s the ultimate industry insider,” said Daniel Carpenter, a Harvard political science professor who has written extensively about the F.D.A.</p>
<p>Sanofi and Amgen are among the companies Dr. Califf has advised, in their case on costly new cholesterol-lowering drugs that the agency approved just this summer.</p>
<p>Through the F.D.A., where he has served as a deputy commissioner since March, Dr. Califf declined a request for an interview. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, Kevin Griffis, said that Dr. Califf had been through “a comprehensive screening process for conflicts of interest,” and that officials had “put in place measures to ensure that he is appropriately recused from matters that would give rise to conflicts,” including the new cholesterol medicines.</p>
<p>Mr. Griffis said Dr. Califf had been donating all his consulting fees to nonprofits since the mid-2000s. According to PharmaShine, a database of payments to health care professionals, and the federal government’s Open Payments database, Dr. Califf received about $215,000 in consulting fees from 2009 to early 2015.</p>
<p>A résumé studded with industry funding is not unusual in academic medicine, Dr. Califf’s supporters note. Doctors are paid consulting fees all the time, and universities routinely conduct clinical trials on behalf of companies. Those contracts help support university researchers’ salaries, a standard practice. Many emphasize that it does not imply an inherent conflict.</p>
<p>His supporters contend that Dr. Califf’s vast experience in the clinical science world could be a major asset in his new post.</p>
<p>“Drug companies fund a lot of clinical trials, and he’s a world-renowned trials expert,” said Dr. Aaron S. Kesselheim, the director of the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “The question is whether he can transcend those relationships as commissioner and advocate for a strong F.D.A.”</p>
<p>Supporters and former colleagues say Dr. Califf’s background makes him perfectly suited to the job of commissioner. He has spent years improving the way clinical trials are conducted, coming up with groundbreaking trial designs for medicines against blood clots.</p>
<p>“His integrity in scientific matters is impeccable, and his innovation in clinical trial design is legendary,” said Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, who has been an outspoken critic of both the F.D.A. and drug companies.</p>
<p>Dr. Califf is often in the gym on the StairMaster before 6 a.m., said a former colleague at Duke, Dr. Adrian Hernandez. He often invites younger doctors to join him in golf and has a passion for Duke basketball that he expresses by wearing the team colors on game days.</p>
<p>Dr. Califf founded and ran the Duke Clinical Research Institute, a $200 million center that manages clinical trials in more than 65 countries involving more than 1.2 million patients. Supporters say that management experience should serve him well at the helm of the drug agency, which oversees everything from prescription drugs and pacemakers to peanut butter and pet food.</p>
<p>But his position at the institute, whose budget is 37 percent government grants and 63 percent from the private sector, has also caused some concern.</p>
<p>“He has amassed an extensive record of close collaboration with industry, through consulting fees, speaking fees and research grants supporting his salary,” said Dr. Michael Carome, the director of the health research group at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. “This will color his views when it comes to making regulatory decisions.”</p>
<p>Dr. Califf’s supporters say he has taken many positions against the interests of industry, for example pushing for the right to publish any result without companies reviewing — or approving — the manuscript first, as they often want to do.</p>
<p>“This is a long-held, steadfast position that has cost his groups research in the past,” said Dr. Robert Harrington, a professor and the chairman of the department of medicine at Stanford, who worked with Dr. Califf at Duke.</p>
<p>(A spokeswoman for the Duke Clinical Research Institute said the funder or sponsor is given a period of time to respond to the results, but has no rights over what is published.)</p>
<p>“He was really passionate about ensuring we were independent,” Dr. Hernandez said. “I’ve seen plenty of times when a company wanted to do something in a certain way and his answer was no.”</p>
<p>Dr. Califf had been mentioned for the commissioner’s post in the past and has been popular among Republicans but not Democrats (though he is a registered Democrat). His selection now is seen as a sign that the president has little stomach for a confirmation fight in a Republican-controlled Senate during a bitter period between the parties. Liberal Democrats have been largely silent on his nomination so far.</p>
<p>Dr. Califf’s slide show in North Carolina was titled “Disrupting Clinical Research: Transforming a System.” It said the drug and device development system was in crisis, and included a downward-sloping chart that illustrated the number of drugs approved per billion dollars spent on research over time.</p>
<p>“Regulation provides barrier to disruptive innovation,” said the second-to-last slide, called “Disruptive Innovation in Health Care.”</p>
<p>Mr. Griffis, the Department of Health and Human Services spokesman, said Dr. Califf was using the slide as a means of “identifying the challenge and the tension inherent in the F.D.A.’s charge” between encouraging innovation and protecting the public’s health. He said the slide was not a suggestion to deregulate — far from it.</p>
<p>“Dr. Califf doesn’t think of regulation as a zero-sum game, where either the F.D.A. or industry wins,” he said.</p>
<p>Professor Carpenter said he believed it was too early to tell what kind of commissioner Dr. Califf would be. “How does he think? We won’t know until we see how he behaves,” he said.</p>
<p>As for the slide: “I think it illuminates his thinking.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/health/fda-nominee-califfs-ties-to-drug-industry-raise-questions.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The New York Times</a></p>
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<p>A new federal lawsuit centers on more than 200 arrests made on the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in September of 2012, when the NYPD arrested and harassed protesters for no reason other than that they were protesting.</p>
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Why Global Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Keeps Growing, and Growing

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<h2>Why Global Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Keeps Growing, and Growing</h2>
<span>Why Global Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Keeps Growing, and Growing</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="https://www.eff.org" rel="nofollow">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a></span></div>
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<p>Over the past month, trade officials have been frantically working to resolve outstanding disagreements over provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the midst of speculation that the deal is in deep trouble. At this late stage of negotiations, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has pretty much abandoned all remaining pretense of transparency in its consideration of these remaining policy issues. Since the failure to conclude the deal at the meeting in Hawaii over the summer, the USTR has held several closed-door meetings between high-level officials to finalize the agreement and it is under intensifying pressure to finish it off as soon as possible.</p>
<p><strong>Trade Officials Continue to Meet Secretly</strong></p>
<p>In mid-August, there was a week-long meeting in Mexico to do a “legal scrub” of the TPP text, in order to have the text ready to go for an eventual signing. Toward the end of August, officials from Canada and Mexico went to Washington to continue discussions, likely around auto trade issues. And this week the USTR met with Vietnam’s National Assembly along with corporate representatives of one of several trade advisory committees, with some other meetings taking place between Japan, Canada, and Mexico, also regarding auto trade.</p>
<p>U.S. officials seem confident that they can conclude before the end of the year. Undoubtedly, they are under mounting pressure from the impending federal elections in Canada, Japan, and the United States’ presidential election season looming on the horizon. The Japanese trade minister claims that it will need to be concluded before the end of September, stating that otherwise it will be difficult to continue talks as Canada heads into its general election in October.</p>
<p>The latest reports say that the U.S. is seeking another high-level ministerial meeting in late September, on the margins of a session of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. Though it seems slim, there is a possibility that they could announce the TPP’s conclusion at that meeting. If the USTR does, President Obama would need to give 90-days notice to Congress before he could officially sign it—a provision stipulated by the Fast Track trade legislation that passed this summer. From there, he would still need to convince Congress to actually ratify the agreement in order for it to become binding on the United States. So even if they’re able to come to full agreement on the TPP the end of this month, it’s legally impossible for them to get the ratification they need to completely finish the deal by the end of this year.</p>
<p>And all the while, the U.S. is still trying to convince the public of the TPP’s merits and repair the USTR’s image as being a secretive, corporate-captured agency.</p>
<p><strong>USTR’s New "Chief Transparency Officer"</strong></p>
<p>The USTR has appointed one of its own leading lawyers, Tim Reif, as its new chief transparency officer, a position mandated by the recent Fast Track bill. According to the USTR’s Michael Froman, his role is to make “trade negotiations more accessible and transparent to the public and their representatives in Congress.” Some lawmakers have raised concerns that this official will only act to worsen the agency’s public engagement practices with more bureaucratic obstruction. “If it desired, USTR could grant greater access immediately, without fancy titles,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas.</p>
<p>We share Rep. Doggett’s skepticism, and have strong doubts that this officer will bring about meaningful reforms to the trade negotiation process—but of course, we hope to be proven wrong. At the very least, it would be a welcome change to see the USTR regularly disclose accurate, specific descriptions of its policy proposals. However, that would hardly be enough. Anything short of mandating the full publication of draft texts of the agreement following each negotiation round, providing ample opportunities for public participation into the process, and introducing transparency to how the USTR arrives at their policy priorities, would be inadequate to produce the kind democratic, public interest-driven policies we need to have in the 21st century.</p>
<p><strong>Public Opposition to the TPP Still Grows</strong></p>
<p>Civil society groups and advocates have meanwhile continued the fight against the TPP. In New Zealand, thousands of people went to the streets to protest the TPP, as other leading advocates have filed a legal challenge over the government’s refusal to release documents relating to the agreement. A group of Japanese health advocates, including eight lawmakers and 157 lawyers,are also suing their government, on the grounds that the deal is unconstitutional and a danger to public health. The TPP’s Copyright Trap, which is an EFF campaign to fight back against the agreement’s 20-year retroactive copyright term extension, succeeded in directing hundreds of messages to TPP negotiators to resist the United States’ copyright maximalist demands. Our U.S. action to petition the Register the Copyrights to reaffirm its commitment to balanced policy has garnered thousands of signatures.</p>
<p>It’s hard to tell what’s next for the agreement. We know that trade officials are determined to conclude it as soon as possible even as public opposition has grown worldwide. In the meantime the Asian TPP nations have shifted their focus to another atrocious trade deal, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which may contain provisions that are even worse than the TPP. The fact that RCEP contains terrible copyright rules, even though it isn’t U.S.-led (and therefore not captured by Hollywood), goes to show how opaque trade agreements are a bad way to decide digital policy, regardless of who is behind them.</p>
<p>As the shape of TPP’s future comes into focus, we’ll maintain a close eye on any new developments. If the USTR manages to finalize the terms of this deal, that’s when we’re going to have to do everything in our power to stop it from getting signed or ratified.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/whats-going-tpp-more-closed-door-meetings-new-chief-transparency-officer" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Electronic Frontier Foundation</a></p>
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<p>Over the past month, trade officials have been frantically working to resolve outstanding disagreements over provisions in the TPP in the midst of speculation that the deal is in deep trouble.</p>
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<p>Last week's DSEi arms fair in London happened as Europe's refugee crisis reaches new proportions and countries respond to a disaster created in large part by the continent's thriving war machine.</p>
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<p>Sanders’s rise in this election season is inconceivable without Occupy Wall Street having elevated the conversation around inequality.</p>
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<p>A new federal lawsuit centers on more than 200 arrests made on the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in September of 2012, when the NYPD arrested and harassed protesters for no reason other than that they were protesting.</p>
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<p>Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices can impact institutions of power all over the world.</p>
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<p>This week, Margaret Flowers thinks it's about fucking time we got some more activists into the halls of the mighty – from occupying the streets to occupying Congress.</p>
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<p>Margaret Flowers is speaking up loudly, saying it's high time we got activists in the halls of the mighty and powerful – time to move from occupying the streets to occupying Congress.</p>
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Wars Profit the 1%, Part II: How the U.K. Military Machine Is Creating Refugees

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<h2>Wars Profit the 1%, Part II: How the U.K. Military Machine Is Creating Refugees</h2>
<span>Wars Profit the 1%, Part II: How the U.K. Military Machine Is Creating Refugees</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/11992122_10207627847198437_1646391066_n.jpg?itok=7bU2ebgP" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/11992122_10207627847198437_1646391066_n.jpg?itok=7bU2ebgP" /></a>
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<p>Last week's <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/wars-profit-1-part-i-london-protesters-greet-latest-global-arms-fair#sthash.plQSpXQK.dpuf" rel="nofollow">DSEi arms fair</a> in London happened at a particularly interesting moment, as Europe's refugee crisis reaches new proportions and countries respond to a disaster created in large part by the continent's thriving war machine.</p>
<p>The Mediterranean has now become one of the world’s deadliest borders. People are drowning in the thousands attempting to escape Syria and other conflicts in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. A photo showing the drowned body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi created a full-scale shift in public attitudes towards refugees across Europe. Three months ago, Amnesty international denounced European countries for ignoring the humanitarian crisis on their borders – considered the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/15/worst-refugee-crisis-since-second-world-war-report-middle-east-africa-syria" rel="nofollow">most severe displacement of peoples since WWII</a>.</p>
<p>In Syria alone, over 4 million have fled. Neighboring countries themselves have become home to 95% of these refugees; in Lebanon, one in five people are now displaced Syrians. The fact that the <a href="http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=122" rel="nofollow">majority of displaced people stay in nearby lands</a> contradicts the right-wing European narrative that the continent bears the highest burden of the global crisis.</p>
<p>But in Britain, like many countries, right-wing elements are consistently attacking and scapegoating refugees and other minorities, and racism is escalating. One <a href="http://www.sunnation.co.uk/hopkins-rescue-boats-id-use-gunships-to-stop-illegal-migrants/" rel="nofollow">venomous example</a> was published in April by Rupert Murdoch’s Sun Newspaper. Its headline read: “Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop illegal migrants." Earlier this year, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron also faced criticism for his <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-says-he-did-not-dehumanise-migrants-with-swarms-comment-10456984.html" rel="nofollow">use of dehumanizing language</a> referring to the flood of migrants seeking safety on Britain's shores.</p>
<p>But the washed up body of Alan Kurdi promoted a <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2015/09/cockroaches-campaigns-how-uk-press-u-turned-refugee-crisis" rel="nofollow">U-turn in the corporate media coverage</a>, where the tone softened suddenly from hate toward sympathy. Nonetheless, racist undertones continue, as demonstrated again in the Sun Newspaper – which has the U.K.'s highest circulation – whose <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/sun_says/6618985/Sun-Says-Time-to-deal-with-migrant-crisis.html" rel="nofollow">recent editorial</a> asserted Britain should accept more refugees, but still watch out for fakers. (According to <a href="http://tracks.unhcr.org/2015/07/the-sea-route-to-europe/" rel="nofollow">the UN</a>, there is nothing "fake" about the refugees plight, the majority of whom are escaping war, persecution and atrocities.)</p>
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<p><strong>War-Mongering Press, Commitments That Aren't Enough</strong></p>
<p>Recently, the sympathetic tone from the right-wing press changed again, with The Sun once more at the fore, headlining <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COOU-KLWsAEzxY-.png%3Alarge" rel="nofollow">its campaign</a> with “Bomb Syria for Alan.” The fact that five billionaires own over 70% of the U.K. corporate press may help explain the current war-mongering: their interests, after all, overlap those of the military industrial complex, big banks and big oil. For example, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-grants-golan-heights-oil-license-2013-2?IR=T" rel="nofollow">Murdoch has oil investments</a> in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights in Syria.</p>
<p>The photo of Alan Kurdi’s dead body, who drowned with his mother, brother and 10 other Syrian refugees invoked a monumental outpouring of public solidarity in the U.K., and worldwide. Hundreds across Britain <a href="http://www.paih.org/category/news/" rel="nofollow">offered places in their homes to refugees</a>. Thousands petitioned the U.K. government for more humanitarian action, and more than 100,000 took to the streets with the message Refugees Welcome. Under pressure to respond, Cameron <a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105991" rel="nofollow">announced</a> that the U.K. would accept 20,000 more Syrian refugees in the next five years.</p>
<p>The promise represents an increase from previous commitments, but has been widely condemned for offering still too little. By comparison, Germany says it will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/refugees-welcome-uk-germany-compare-migration" rel="nofollow">offer safe haven to 800,000 refugees this year</a>.</p>
<p>U.K. policy has also been criticized for threatening to <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-britain-deports-the-refugee-children-it-takes-in-once-they-turn-18-everybody-loses-10493218.html" rel="nofollow">deport orphaned children</a> on their 18 birthday. Yet a far worse criticism can be leveled against the British state: that is has itself, through promotion of the war machine, driven the refugee crisis. This is a point showcased at the U.K. state-sponsored DSEi arms fair.</p>
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<p><strong>How the War Machine Produced Refugees</strong></p>
<p>While Syria’s humanitarian disaster created the most refugees of any country, the British state has been actively profiting from the Assad regime’s brutal suppression. Britain has sold Assad weapons, invited Syria's arms dealer to DSEi 2013, and even sold the regime <a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/revealed-britain-sold-nerve-gas-2242520" rel="nofollow">nerve gas components 10 months after the country's civil war began</a>.</p>
<p>Drone warfare is another central driver of the refugee crisis, and Britain plays a core role pushing that weapon technology. A study of un-official CIA drone warfare in Pakistan explains how <a href="https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/09/25/drones-causing-mass-trauma-among-civilians-major-study-finds/" rel="nofollow">drones terrorize the population, frequently killing civilians</a>. Drones were featured at this year's DSEi with <a href="http://www.dsei.co.uk/Content/Unmanned-Zone" rel="nofollow">an unmanned zone, drone simulators and flybys outside</a>. The countries from which <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/556725e69.html#_ga=1.13247607.1985511686.1441823461" rel="nofollow">the largest numbers of refugees originate</a> face U.S. and U.K.-led drone warfare, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-afghanistan-drones-20131201-story.html#axzz2mF6JXx1A" rel="nofollow">including</a>Syria, Afghanistan and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/aug/02/us-drone-strikes-data" rel="nofollow">Somalia</a>. In another example of how U.K. drones are responsible for displacing people, Saudi Arabia used [British-built drones to attack a Yemeni refugee camp](Giles Fraser<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/01/britain-saudi-attack-yemen-refugees-arms-deal" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/01/britain-saudi-attac...</a>).</p>
<p>After Cameron told Parliament that the U.K. would accept 20,000 refugees, he justified using a drone attack to kill, without trial, Reyaad Khan, a British citizen in Syria with links to ISIS. The U.K. state not only promotes drone sales through DSEi, but Cameron also wants them to be on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33500006" rel="nofollow">top of the U.K.’s own shopping list</a>.</p>
<p>Last year <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/exclusive-close-hunger-striking-refugees-france#sthash.2DrmWFmO.dpuf" rel="nofollow">I reported from the Calais refugee camp</a>. Now, with the refugee crisis hitting new levels, I've been thinking back to those people I met in Calais. They were people seeking sanctuary from Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and other conflicts where the U.K. government and multinational corporations have been directly involved. The horrific destruction of people's lives in those places is a direct result of a military war machine pushed at DSEi. Refugees are victims of, among other things, the global arms trade – a deadly business that benefits the 1%.</p>
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<p><strong>By Theodore Shoebat<br /></strong><br />
Very powerful people within the Church hierarchy are restricting their own flock, trying hard to keep them within Iraq, expressing their disapproval of arming the Christians and sending them to other countries where they would be safe from ISIS and other terrorists. One of the best examples of this is Bishop Louis Raphael I Sako of the Chaldean Catholic Church. This man presents himself to big media outlets as a man protecting his people, when in reality he is doing nothing for his people — nothing but using them for publicity.</p>
<p>He always cries to the “international community”, saying that they need to help the Christians in Iraq. <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Patriarch-of-Baghdad-addresses-UN,-calling-for-new-laws-against-states-or-individuals-who-support-terrorists-33833.html" target="_blank">Recently</a> Sako called for the international community to support “the Central Government and the Regional Government of Kurdistan towards the liberation of all Iraqi cities”.</p>
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<p>Using my mental function of practicality I have no idea how supporting the Iraqi government or the Kurds helps any of the Christians in any significant or long term way. The Iraqi government does not want to allow the Christians to leave to other countries, since it knows that an Iraq that is absent of Christians is an Iraq completely plunged into the deepest of destitution; and the Kurds (while many do help Christians) hate Christians and have been preventing them from entering Kurdistan and drive them back to ISIS dominated territories where they are slaughtered.</p>
<p>While favoring the idea of nations supporting the Islamic government of Iraq and the Kurds, Sako rejects the Christian militias and disapproves of arming Christians to defend themselves, saying that “the forces of the state should take charge of this defense” and that such a diversity of militias “can destroy Iraq”. I wish Sako would say such destructive words to Dwekh Nawsha, the Christian militia in Iraq defending various Christian villages from ISIS. The Iraqi government is not defending these villages, and neither are the Kurds. The Christian inhabitants are left as open game to the Muslim killers. We interviewed the one who trained Dwekh Nawsha, a Catholic warrior named Brett Felton, and its quite clear from hearing his heart wrenching words that no one cares for the Iraqi Christians:</p>
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<p>These Christians have no choice but to form militias and defend themselves. Unlike Sako they don’t have the luxury and liberty to make trips to Rome. What Sako said is utterly unbiblical, and not only that, but it is heretical and contrary to orthodoxy and Church teaching. St. Robert says that “self-defense is lawful for anybody, not only for a prince, but also for a private citizen”. (Bellarmine, On Laymen or Secular People, ch. 15, ed. Tutino, pp. 68-69) And St. Thomas says:</p>
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<p>Tyrannical rule is not just, because it is not directed to the common good but to the private good of the ruler … Disruption of such a government therefore does not have the character of sedition, unless perhaps the tyrant’s rule is disrupted so inordinately that the community subject to it suffers greater detriment from the ensuing disorder than it did from the tyrannical government itself. Indeed it is the tyrant who is guilty of sedition, since he nourishes discord and sedition among his subjects in order to be able to dominate them more securely. (Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae 64, article 2)</p>
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<p>But even after all of this modern superficial theological bile, one of Sako’s most evil statements are his most recent: that the European nations, when accepting refugees, should not choose asylum seekers based on religion and prioritize Christians. According to <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20150917145424.htm" target="_blank">a Catholic report:</a></p>
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<p>Sako <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20150917145424.htm" target="_blank">condemned</a> organizations that work “to facilitate the exodus of Christians”, saying that “they work to push Christians to leave their countries and they openly admit to this, presenting it as something that benefits the persecuted”. Sako is most definitely referring to our organization, amongst the other organizations, for we are working to help the exodus of Christians leaving Iraq and bring them to other lands where they would be safe. It is bishops like Sako who are the biggest obstacles and hinderances to our aspiration of bringing Christians out of the danger zone and into safe nations. Sako hasn’t seen a woman being raped; a Christian being beheaded and crucified; a Christian being chopped to pieces, and if he has, apparently it hasn’t stirred his soul to sympathy.</p>
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<p>Sako wants to hinder the Christian exodus out of Iraq. If Sako were living amongst the Hebrew slaves he would have told Moses, ‘Do not tell the Pharaoh to free God’s people. Keep them in Egypt!’ Sako goes against God Himself Who said, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” (Exodus 9:1) Christians in Europe or America are more helpful to the world as opposed to being stuck in a refugee center where they are prey to thugs, rapists and pimps. A Christian who escaped persecution and is living in Europe has a voice to tell Westerners pf the reality of living under Islam; but the Christian stuck in some despotic refugee camp, what good is he? Why do these bishops prefer to keep their flock as victims? Because they are of the synagogue of Satan.</p>
<p>These bishops of the devil insist that the Christians shouldn’t leave. If the bishops truly wanted to follow orthodoxy and the Church Fathers, it would do them well to read St. Athanasius’ <em>Defense</em> of fleeing. The Arians — who were heretics that rejected the divinity of Christ and the precursors of Islam — wanted to murder St. Athanasius. In multiple instances Athanasius fled from their murderous hands, at one point making an exodus to Rome where he remained under the protection of Pope Julius. St. Athanasius defended his flight in this treatise in which he provided a theological apologetic for fleeing from persecution. In it he wrote:</p>
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<p>Let the bishop read of how “David arose and fled that day from before Saul” (1 Samuel 21:10); let the bishop read of how Elijah “arose and ran for his life” (1 Kings 19:3) when Jezebel wanted him dead; let the bishop read of how St. Joseph “took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt” (Matthew 2:14) when Herod wanted Christ dead; let the bishop read of how when the Jews wanted to kill Jesus “he escaped out of their hand” (John 10:39). Let the bishop read all of these stories and then say that it is wrong for the Christians to leave Iraq!</p>
<p>Truly these bishops are going to have to pay in the end under eternal law, for allowing their sheep to remain surrounded by wolves.</p>
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<p>Donald Trump, in the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Iowa vowed that he will protect Christians and Christian culture if he were to become president. Here is the video of Trump saying this, with my own commentary:</p>
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Muslims Take Over Churches And Transform Them Into Literal Torture Chambers, The Bring Christians To Them And Brutally T...

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<p>ISIS Muslims in Iraq have transformed churches into torture chambers where they are satanically torturing Christians. According to <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.in/isis-uses-churches-torture-chambers-where-christians-forced-convert-islam-killed-report-647300" target="_blank">the report:</a></p>
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<p>Thousands of Christians are being persecuted by the Islamic State (Isis) who use churches as torture chambers where Christians are forced to convert to Islam or are killed, a faith-based human rights group said.</p>
<p>According to the report released by the Christian Freedom International, Christians are being singled out in Isis-controlled areas in Iraq, where they face the option of either converting to Islam or get slaughtered by Isis.</p>
<p>The report published in Express.co.uk, noted that a Christian is killed every five minutes in Iraq by Isis and other terror groups. “Islamic State Militants in Iraq are using Christian churches as torture chambers where they force Christians to either convert to Islam or die, ” Jim Jacobson, the president of the faith-based human rights group said.<br />
Since taking over large swathes of area in Syria and Iraq, Isis, a Sunni group, has repeatedly targeted minorities in the region. Earlier this month, Isis captured Qaryatain and within days after taking over the Syria city, it destroyed an ancient Catholic church and threw away the remains of a revered saint.</p>
<p>The Sunni terror group, then gave an ultimatum to the Christians in Qaryatain to either pay exorbitant taxes, convert to Islam or leave.</p>
<p>In August, reports emerged that Isis killed a Christian priest in Syria and cut off his body into pieces, before sending it back to his family in a box.</p>
<p>According to Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic relief agency, Isis kidnapped the priest in Syria and asked for a ransom of $120,000 from the family. The family managed to raise the ransom money after two months but even after paying it, the terror group brutally killed the Catholic priest.</p>
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