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31 July 2017 | by Rose Gamble The result effectively removes the Venezuelan political opposition and leaves the ruling socialist party with almost complete control over the country

Bishops in Venezuelapleaded for the intercession of the Virgin Mary to free their country from the claws of communism and socialism as President Nicholas Maduro claimed Sundays (30 July) poll as a vote for the revolution.

The national electoral council said more than eight million people had turned out to vote for members of the constituent assembly who will be tasked withrewriting the countrys constitution.

The opposition immediately disputed the number, saying less than half that number had taken part. They added that many voters had boycotted a vote that would effectively turn the country into a dictatorship.

In a prayer posted to Twitter the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference wrote: Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Coromoto, heavenly Patron of Venezuela, free our homeland from the claws of communism and socialism.

Sunday's vote was marked by the worst violence since protests against the Maduro government began in April. The opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, said as many as 14 had died in protests as voting was under way and the prosecutors office confirmed at least six people had been killed by gunfire, including a national guardsman.

Late on Sunday evening, electoral officials announced the winners of the vote, a list of leftist stalwarts including Cilia Flores, president Maduros wife.

The result effectively removes the Venezuelan political opposition and leaves the ruling socialist party with almost complete control over the country.

Maduro hailed the vote as a victory over imperialism in a speech on national television late on Sunday.

Its when imperialism challenges us that we prove ourselves worthy of the blood of the liberators that runs through the veins of men, women, children and young people, he said.

However, theEuropean Union has condemned the excessive and disproportionate use of force by security forces and said it had serious doubts whether the election could be recognised.

Venezuela has democratically elected and legitimate institutions whose role is to work together and to find a negotiated solution to the current crisis. A constituent assembly, elected under doubtful and often violent circumstances, cannot be part of the solution, the blocs foreign policy service said.

Days before the vote, the Venezuelas bishops conference said it was "unconstitutional as well as unnecessary, inconvenient and damaging to the Venezuelan people, "

"It will be a biased and skewed instrument that will not resolve but rather aggravate the acute problems of the high cost of living and the lack of food and medicine that the people suffer and will worsen the political crisis we currently suffer," the statement said.

The new assembly will be convened within 72 hours of the vote.

PICTURE:Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech in Caracas during the closing campaign ceremony for the 27 July Constituent Assembly election. The banner reads "Power"

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Roadside signs illustrating pick-your-own blueberries, peaches and grapes let motorists know what to expect at Four Seasons Farm. It takes a chat with owner Martin Schaffer, though, to learn the international intrigue behind the rural Mason County enterprise.

Seeking political freedom, Schaffer, then 26, fled his native Czechoslovakia in 1984. He says the communists blocked career goals.

I was a manager, he said of his job in an agricultural-related industry. It was very structured under communism. I was told that I was going to lose my (management) job and I was going to be just a worker if I didnt sign up for the Communist Party.

People in leading management positions had to be in the party, said Schaffer, 59. Some people signed up for the reason of getting a better job. It was something that I was not willing to put up with.

He left, never to return.

Schaffer fled to Austria and applied for a visa to the United States. He then relocated in New Hampshire through the assistance of sponsoring Baptist missionaries. They helped him learn the language and secure a laboratory animal job similar to the one he had performed in Central Europe.

After seven years in New England, he transferred to the Florida Keys. There, Schaffer built his own catamaran and operated a charter sailing outfit for seven more years. It was the volatile coastal weather that convinced Schaffer and his ex-wife to head north.

He was ready to try something new.

I found that building the boat was nicer than sailing it, he said. I like producing with my hands. I had good, repeat customers, but sailing became a chore for me because I was not creating.

He settled on 109 acres of hilly West Virginia farmland after a three-year property search. Schaffer soon found his niche in growing nutritious food. He alone cares for his crops and livestock from dawn until dusk.

Im a big believer in that food is our medicine, he said. We should eat to be healthy and as natural as possible. I like interacting with my customers. They come in a good mood, and theyre interested in eating good, healthy food.

From our farm to your table is the slogan of the agriculture business along Route 87 near the Mason-Jackson county line.

Farm occupants include a menagerie of sheep, goats, ducks, seven dogs and 11 peacocks.

Summer customers visit from Point Pleasant, Ripley and beyond for the peaches, apples and blueberries. Schaffer has 15 honey hives and is laying the groundwork to expand with blackberries and raspberries next summer.

Also, Schaffer is excited about the relatively new line of RazzMatazz table grapes.

They are small, seedless grapes that grow in small bundles, and the flavor... its like candy, he said with a laugh.

Four Seasons Farms mainstay is about 40 customers in the Huntington area with a year-round demand for his eggs and other staples. Schaffer sends a weekly email of available inventory and follows with next-day delivery.

He says cooperation from local offices of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Natural Resources Conservation Service has been a positive influence.

People complain about government, but their programs for small farmers are very helpful, he said, alluding to the nearby high-tunnel greenhouse.

Schaffer admits everything in America may not be peachy, but says its far superior to the alternatives. He shows pride in his country by flying Old Glory from a flagpole situated between his driveway and modest farmhouse.

I came to America not to be a Czech in the United States, Schaffer said. I came to America to be an American. I am so happy to live in the United States. I think its the greatest country to live in.

Life is good, he says.

I like what Im doing, Schaffer said, among several docile critters gathered in the shadow of his lawn chair. Everybody heres in total peace.

Four Seasons Farm is situated along Route 87 near the Mason County community of Baden. Schaffer may be contacted at FourSeasonsFarm@ymail.com or 304-895-3973.

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On Friday, Lee claimed, By putting [General] John Kelly in charge, [President] Trump is militarizing the White House [and] putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist.

Outgoing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer condemned the remarks, describing it as wrong and offensive on multiple levels.

Communist magazine Peoples Weekly World reportedly listed Lee as a co-sponsor for a Communist Party USA (CPUSA)event in 1999.

In 2002, Lee also received the endorsement of the CPUSA for her Congressional race, alongside former Rep. Mike Honda. The partys national board wrote in a report:

The priority labor campaigns deserve our support. In addition our work will take us beyond these races to election districts where we have organization and where there are strong pro-labor candidates, African American, Mexican American and Latino candidates such as Rep. Mike Honda and Rep. Barbara Lee.

At a 2003 Peoples Weekly World fundraising luncheon, Each honoree received a special congressional certificate from Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, in whose district the banquet was held.

Following Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castros death last November, Lee said she was very sad for the Cuban people, claiming Castro led a revolution in Cuba that led social improvements for his people, ignoring his legacy of mass murder, totalitarianism, and widespread poverty. Lee used the death of Castro, who she met with eight times throughout her career, toattack then-President Elect Donald Trump.

In February this year, Lee also praised some participantsof the riot at UC Berkeley, which successfully canceled a talk from former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos.She wrote in a press release:

Milo Yiannopoulos has made a career of inflaming racist, sexist and nativist sentiments. Berkeley has a proud history of dissent and students were fully within their rights to protest peacefully. I am disappointed by the unacceptable acts of violence by outside agitators which were counterproductive and dangerous.

Lee also accused Donald Trump of trying to bully [students] into silence after he threatened to cut federal funding if students at the university could not respect the first amendment.

President Donald Trump cannot bully our university into silence. Simply put, President Trumps empty threat to cut funding from UC Berkeley is an abuse of power. As a senior member of the education funding subcommittee, I will continue to stand up to President Trumps overreach and defend the rights of our students and faculty.

A prominent member of the Resist movement, Lee alsodevoted an entire town hall meeting in May to the question of whether, and how, President Donald Trump can be removed from office.

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Designated spokesperson for the implementation of Martial Law, Brigadier General Restituto Padilla in a press conference on Friday, May 26 at a hotel in Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

DAVAO CITY, Philippines Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said teaching communism in the country is not bad.

Padilla told reporters during the Mindanao Hour press briefing in Malacaang on Friday that students in colleges learn about communism while books on the subject matter are not prohibited.

Now, it is not bad to teach communism per se because we in college learned about it. We read books about Marxism, Leninism, Socialism, and the like, Padilla said.

He added that learning communism and reading books on the subject matter is part of the liberal education that is being implemented in the Philippines.

But he also clarified that brainwashing of the young minds that is wrong and is not acceptable especially to the government.

But if you target very young minds, vulnerable minds and try to sway them to a certain kind of thinking, that is like brainwashing. Yun po ang mali dito, he pointed out.

Brainwashing of young children, aside from the lack of permits to operate is the reason why President Rodrigo Duterte wanted to get rid of lumad schools, Padilla said.

Sa murang edad, dapat ang binibigay mo na aral sa mga bata ay yung tama. Ano yung mga tama na yun: Fear of God, love of country, love of family, the appreciation of the correct values that you want your citizens to have, he said.

Such correct values, Padilla added, is not being taught in lumad schools.

And these schools are not teaching that. This is an issue that has been going on since before the election. And you know that Im sure of it. It was an issue that was escalated and it was exaggerated by many cause-oriented groups whose minds and line of thinking we cannot fathom because its so evil, Padilla said.

The government, particularly the military, has been accusing lumad schools of being established by the communist-led New Peoples Army, an allegation that has been denied by lumad school administrators and teachers.

In the same press briefing, Presidential Communications Office Assistant Secretary Marie Banaag also confirmed that there are left-leaning lumad schools that do not have the permit to operate as stipulated by the Department of Education.

Banaag identified the Alternative Learning Center for Agriculture and Livelihood Development, Inc. in CARAGA Region as one of them and refused to get the permit from the DepED.

There are three main groups of left-oriented indigenous people schools according to the Department of Education. These are the Alternative Learning Center for Agriculture and Livelihood Development, Inc. or the Alcadev; second, the Center for Lumad Advocacy and Services, Inc. or the Clans; and third, the Salugpungan Community Learning Center, she said.

She said CLANS was also given by DepED three months to comply with its requirements.

But the governments claim that lumad schools are operating without permits had already been countered by leaders, teachers, and support groups, as they presented documents from the DepED, particularly on Alternative Learning System and permits from local government units indicating that lumad schools are legally operating in Mindanao.

A day after Dutertes second State of the Nation Address, lumad leaders Jong Monzon, secretary general of PASAKA Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Southern Mindanao and Eufemia Cullamat, spokesperson of Lumad group KASALO in CARAGA Region countered the claims of Duterte that lumad schools are being run by the NPAs.

Lumad schools, they emphasized, are established by lumad organizations and parents with the aim of providing education to children, especially in far-flung areas.

Monzon and Cullamat also decried the attacks and military harassments on lumad schools that were stepped up during the declaration of martial law in Mindanao.

They also urged Duterte to listen to the stories of lumad leaders, teachers, and students to comprehend deeply the real situation of lumad communities in Mindanao, as they expressed concern over the plan of the President to destroy their schools.

The President is being fed with wrong information as to the nature and purpose of the lumad schools in Mindanao by his top military advisers, they added. (davaotoday.com)

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Korean War

Freedom is not free is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The Korean War started June 25, 1950. Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands. Outnumbered South Korean and American troops, as part of a U.N. police action, fought courageously against the Communist Chinese and North Korean troops, who were supplied with arms and MIG fighters from the Soviet Union.

Five-star General Douglas MacArthur was Supreme U.N. Commander, leading the United Nations Command from 1950 to 1951. MacArthur made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind North Korean lines, and recaptured the city of Seoul.

With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:

Harry S. Truman compared Communism and Democracy in his inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1949: We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. From this faith we will not be moved. Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as a chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think. Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom.

Truman continued: These differences between Communism and Democracy do not concern the United States alone. People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God.

The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx in 1848. Marx had attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with a radical anti-religious group, the Young Hegelians. After being refused a university post because of his extreme views, Karl Marx began publishing a paper in 1842, which was banned in Germany.

He fled to Paris, then Brussels, and finally to London. Marx founded the International Workingmens Association and the Social Democrat Labor Party. Marxs philosophy influenced Adolph Hitler in starting the Nazi Party, and Vladimir Lenin, in starting the Communist Party.

Karl Marx stated:

Franklin D. Roosevelt explained in his address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1940, that communism is effectively dictatorship: I disliked the regimentation under Communism. I abhorred the indiscriminate killings of thousands of innocent victims. I heartily deprecated the banishment of religion. I, with many of you, hoped that Russia would work out its own problems, and that its government would eventually become a peace-loving, popular government. That hope is today shattered. The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.

Winston S. Churchill gave an address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946, in which he introduced the phrase Iron Curtain to describe the Cold War between Western powers and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Churchill stated: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American Democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. To fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention.

Roger Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a 501(c)3 tax-exempt Foundation. In 1935, Roger Baldwin wrote in the Harvard reunion book on the 30th reunion of his class of 1905: I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Roger Baldwin twice visited the Soviet Union, embraced Vietnamese Communist dictator Ho Chi Minh, and wrote a book, Liberty Under the Soviets (1927), in which he stated: I joined. I dont regret being a part of the Communist tactic, which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the Communists wanted.

In 1948, the California Senate Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities stated in its report, page 107: The ACLU may be definitely classified as a Communist front or transmission belt organization. At least 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of Communists who come in conflict with the law.

Dwight Eisenhower was quoted in Time magazine, Oct. 13, 1952: The Bill of Rights contains no grant of privilege for a group of people to destroy the Bill of Rights. A group like the Communist conspiracy dedicated to the ultimate destruction of all civil liberties, cannot be allowed to claim civil liberties as its privileged sanctuary from which to carry on subversion of the Government.

In 1950, members of the Communist Party USA formed the Mattachine Society, the nations first homosexual rights organizations, which lobbied to repeal sodomy laws.

Dwight Eisenhower stated Feb. 25, 1953: Almost 100 percent of Americans would like to stamp out all traces of Communism in our country. I went to Columbia University as its president and I insisted on one thing. If we had a known Communist in our faculty and he could not be discharged I was automatically discharged. I personally would not be a party to an organization where there was a known card-carrying Communist in such a responsible position as teaching our young.

President Harry S. Truman spoke at the laying of the cornerstone of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., April 3, 1951: Without a firm moral foundation, freedom degenerates quickly into selfishness and license. Unless men exercise their freedom in a just and honest way, within moral restraints, a free society can degenerate into anarchy. Then there will be freedom only for the rapacious and those who are stronger and more unscrupulous than the rank and file of the people. The international Communist movement is based on a fierce and terrible fanaticism. It denies the existence of God and, wherever it can, it stamps out the worship of God. Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism. Our faith shows us the way to create a society where man can find his greatest happiness under God. Surely, we can follow that faith with the same devotion and determination the Communists give to their godless creed.

Every day our newspapers tell us about the fighting in Korea. Our men there are making heroic sacrifices. They are fighting and suffering in an effort to prevent the tide of aggression from sweeping across the world. Our young men are offering their lives for us in the hills of Korea and yet too many of us are chiefly concerned over whether or not we can buy a television set next week. This is a failure to understand the moral principles upon which our Nation is founded.

In Lessons of History (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968), Will and Ariel Durant wrote: The greatest question of our time is not Communism versus individualism, not even East versus West; it is whether man can live without God.

Conrad Hilton, founder of the hotel chain, stated in a prayer breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel, following addresses by Congressmen, Senators, and Vice President Nixon: It took a war to put prayer at the center of the lives of our fighting men. It took a war, and the frightening evil of Communism, to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing that man can do or not as he wishes. Prayer is a part of mans personality, without which he limps. Men grope in darkness unless they believe that God, in His kindness, is willing to lift the shadows if we ask Him in prayer.

Truman stated while lighting the National Christmas Tree, Dec. 24, 1952: Shepherds, in a field, heard angels singing: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. We turn to the old, old story of how God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. '

Truman continued: Tonight, our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in Korea. They are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may preserve the chance of peace in the world. And as we go about our business of trying to achieve peace in the world, let us remember always to try to act and live in the spirit of the Prince of Peace. He bore in His heart no hate and no malice nothing but love for all mankind. We should try as nearly as we can to follow His example. We believe that all men are truly the children of God. As we pray for our loved ones far from home as we pray for our men and women in Korea, and all our service men and women wherever they are let us also pray for our enemies. Let us pray that the spirit of God shall enter their lives and prevail in their lands.

Truman concluded: Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and fairer place.

General Douglas MacArthur warned in a speech to the Salvation Army, Dec. 12, 1951, stating: History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Dwight Eisenhower was quoted in the Religious Herald, Virginia, Jan. 25, 1952: What is our battle against Communism if it is not a fight between anti-God and a belief in the Almighty? Communists have to eliminate God from their system. When God comes, Communism has to go.

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At the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated: It is necessary that we earnestly seek out and uproot any traces of Communism.

First Lady Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower stated in a conversation at the Doud home regarding their son John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, who was serving in Korea: He has a mission to fulfill and God will see to it that nothing will happen to him till he fulfills it.

Eisenhower addressed Congress, Feb. 2, 1953: The calculated pressures of aggressive Communism have forced us to live in a world of turmoil. No single country, even one so powerful as ours, can alone defend the liberty of all nations threatened by Communist aggression from without and subversion within. I must make special mention of the war in Korea. This war is, for Americans, the most painful phase of Communist aggression throughout the world.

Fighting in Korea was halted July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice at Panmunjom.

On Dec. 24, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated at the lighting of the national Christmas tree: The world still stands divided in two antagonistic parts. Prayer places freedom and communism in opposition one to the other. The Communist can find no reserve of strength in prayer because his doctrine of materialism and statism denies the dignity of man and consequently the existence of God. But in America religious faith is the foundation of free government, so is prayer an indispensable part of that faith. The founders of this, our country, came first to these shores in search of freedom to live beyond the yoke of tyranny.

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