When God makes you wait on the deliverance of a specific promise, a spirit of resiliency is born. Few knew that better than the biblical heroine, Hannah.

Despite many challenges and setbacks in her life, including a lengthy bout with infertility, Hannah never gave up hope that God would hear her prayers, and she never complained. Eventually, God blessed her with a son, Samuel, and she had five more children after.

Hannah’s perseverance, author Michelle McClain Walters says, is a character trait we should all aspire to develop, and one that will eventually become a huge blessing in the lives of people who do. It’s one of the reasons she wrote the book, The Hannah Anointing.

“Writing this book really opened my heart and my mind about waiting on the Lord and being a chosen vessel,” McClain Walters told Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of “Greenelines” on the Charisma Podcast Network. “Sometimes we don’t understand what we’re going through. We may see people around us prospering, and the spirits of jealousy and envy attack us. But Hannah gave us a great picture even in the face of not having the fruitfulness she desired. She never gave up and she saw the fulfillment of the promise.

“I’m excited about how Hannah gave us a great example; that if we would just hold on to the truth that God is with us and that God has a plan and purpose for us, we will see a fruit that will outlive us.”

To find out more about you can follow in Hannah’s footsteps, listen to the podcast below.

Is there anything left in this country that has not been deeply tainted by corruption? By now you have probably heard that dozens of people have been arrested for participating in a multi-million dollar college admissions scam. Enormous amounts of money were paid out in order to ensure that children from very wealthy families were able to get into top schools such as Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Texas and the University of Southern California.

We should certainly be disgusted by these revelations, but we shouldn’t be surprised. Such corruption happens every single day on every single level of society in America. At this point our nation is so far gone that it is shocking when you run into someone that actually still has some integrity.

The “mastermind” behind this college admissions scam was a con man named William Rick Singer. He had been successfully getting the kids of wealthy people into top colleges for years using “side doors,” and he probably thought that he would never get caught.

But he did.

There were four basic methods that Singer used to get children from wealthy families into elite schools. The first two methods involved bribes:

Bribing college entrance exam administrators to allow a third party to facilitate cheating on college entrance exams, in some cases by posing as actual students, is the first.

Bribing university athletic coaches and administrators to designate applicants as purported athletic recruits—regardless of their athletic abilities, and in some cases, even though they did not play the sport, is the second.

Because many of these kids didn’t even play the sports they were being “recruited” for, in some cases Photoshop was used to paste their faces on to the bodies of real athletes:

In order to get non-athletic kids admitted to college as athletes, Singer often had to create fake profiles for them. Sometimes this involved fabricating resumes that listed them having played on elite club teams, but to finish the illusion Singer and his team would also use Photoshop to combine photos of the kids with actual athletes in the sport.

A number of college coaches became exceedingly wealthy from taking bribes to “recruit” kids that would never play once they got to school, but now a lot of those same coaches are probably going to prison.

The third and fourth methods that Singer used involved more direct forms of cheating:

Having a third party take classes in place of the actual students, with the understanding that the grades earned in those classes would be submitted as part of the students’ application, is the third.

The fourth was ‘submitting falsified applications for admission to universities … that, among other things, included the fraudulently obtained exam scores and class grades, and often listed fake awards and athletic activities.

Of course the main thing that the media is focusing on is the fact that some celebrities are among those being charged in this case, and that includes Lori Loughlin from Full House.

It was important to “Full House” star Lori Loughlin that her kids have “the college experience” that she missed out on, she said back in 2016.

Loughlin, along with “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman, is among those charged in a scheme in which parents allegedly bribed college coaches and insiders at testing centers to help get their children into some of the most elite schools in the country, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Despite how cynical I have become lately, I never would have guessed that Lori Loughlin was capable of such corruption.

After all, she seems like such a nice lady on television.

But apparently she was extremely determined to make sure that her daughters had “the college experience,” and so Loughlin and her husband shelled out a half-million dollars in bribes.

Loughlin and [husband Mossimo] Giannulli agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team—despite the fact that they did not participate in crew—thereby facilitating their admission to USC, according to the documents.

As bad as this scandal is, can we really say that it is much worse than what is going on around the rest of the country every single day?

Of course not.

We are a very sick nation, and we are getting sicker by the day.

William Rick Singer had a good con going, and he should have stopped while he was ahead:

William “Rick” Singer said he had the inside scoop on getting into college, and anyone could get in on it with his book, “Getting In: Gaining Admission To Your College of Choice.”

“This book is full of secrets,” he said in Chapter 1 before dispensing advice on personal branding, test-taking and college essays.

But Singer had even bigger secrets, and those would cost up to $1.2 million.

But like most con men, Singer just had to keep pushing the envelope, and in the end it is going to cost him everything.

The ironic thing is that our colleges and universities are pulling an even bigger con. They have convinced all of us that a college education is the key to a bright future, but meanwhile the quality of the “education” that they are providing has deteriorated dramatically. I spent eight years in school getting three degrees, and so I know what I am talking about.

For much more on all this, please see my recent article titled “50 Actual College Course Titles That Prove That America’s Universities Are Training Our College Students To Be Socialists.”

I know that it is not fashionable to talk about “morality” and “values” these days, but the truth is that history has shown us that any nation that is deeply corrupt is not likely to survive for very long.

Our founders understood this, and former president John Adams once stated that our Constitution “was made only for a moral and religious people.”

Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Today, we are neither moral or religious.

What we are is deeply corrupt, and America will not survive if we keep going down this path.

Edward Byrd and Joshua Buchanan emanate light and joy. They laugh easily, encourage freely and share what God has done for them without hesitation.

They’re friends now, bonded over how Christ set them free from homosexuality.

In the last episode of Overcomers: Leaving LGBT, the duo joined Charisma News to share their testimonies.

“From the time I was 13, I got physically abused by a close family member,” Byrd says. “And I will always wonder, like, why was I the target of his anger, like, he would lash out on me? … All those things just created this, like sadness, this brokenness, this emptiness, this abandonment. And so I totally started to create a whole other person. I changed my name, I lost a lot of weight, I started dressing more feminine or becoming more gender fluid. My name was Remy at the time. I started wearing makeup, my hair was long eyelashes, I was doing the whole thing. And I was just out here having this whole persona, being very promiscuous in the clubs, like going to the club like Sunday to Sunday, like partying.”

But God has a way of shining High light into the darkest places.

“While I was in this club, and this lady had comes in the club and she touched me, prophesies to me while I’m in the club. And she says, ‘You know that there’s a light inside of you. And God has a purpose and a plan for you,'” Byrd recalls.

Buchanan’s story started out a little bit differently.

“When I was 10 years old, my parents ended up splitting up and getting a divorce,” Buchanan says. “And coming from a broken home, it really takes a toll on you, even at a young age. Because I felt like I couldn’t do anything. There was nothing that I could do, and was just a part of life. And it kind of hit me really quick. And so in the process of all of this, not growing up in church, and not having a relationship with God, and not really knowing who He was, I turned to so many things to try to find love.

“So my journey kind of started out with experimenting with drugs,” he continues. “At that point in time in my house. I grew up with my dad and I was exposed to marijuana at a young age. And so I kind of saw that, and there was something inside of me that wanted to try it. And so I ended up starting with, you know, smoking marijuana and taking pills and snorting pills. And just getting into this whole place of trying to fill these voids in my life.”

Buchanan was diagnosed with HIV in his early 20s, which led him to the altar and an incredible experience with the One who made him.

Listen to the podcast to hear what God did next for each of these men.

In early 2017, Nancy Alcorn began hearing about a new Netflix series called 13 Reasons Why, and a friend of hers who was familiar with the issues Alcorn and her team deal with at Mercy Multiplied encouraged her to watch the first season. Alcorn was deeply impacted by this series, as she quickly realized how many young women who walk through the doors of Mercy’s residential homes have similar struggles as the girl featured in the series.

Alcorn was inspired to share 13 stories of young women who experienced a very different outcome than the girl featured in 13 Reasons Why because they chose to reach out for help. This was the motivation behind Alcorn latest book, Treatment or Transformation: 13 Real Stories Why You Can’t Argue with a Changed Life.

In Treatment or Transformation, you can read about young women like Matilda. When Matilda was young, her mom worked a lot and her father drank heavily.

When she was 5 years old, Matilda began to be sexually abused by her uncle, along with an older female friend and a friend of Matilda’s brother. Sexual activity became a weekly part of her life over the next six years. As an early teen, Matilda started self-harming, drinking and smoking as a way to cope with the pain and trauma of the sexual abuse. To gain some sense of control, she started to restrict her food intake and took laxatives to make herself thinner.

Matilda ended up getting raped at a high school party, which led to night terrors and panic attacks that would often result in seizures. She eventually turned to marijuana, prescription pills and cocaine. She started dealing drugs and living out of her car. Here is a portion of Matilda’s story from Treatment or Transformation:

“You know what?” she thought one afternoon when the flashbacks of her past abuse were especially bad. “Pills didn’t work. I’m going to jump off a bridge.”

She found an overpass over a busy highway and sat on the edge, legs dangling in the air. The sun faded into the horizon. Cars, trucks and big rigs swooshed below at highway speeds.

“If I sneeze, I’m going over,” she thought.

Across the overpass, people jogged by with little more than a glance, even though Matilda was openly cutting herself in a final defiance of the world. Then a familiar voice came.

“Hey, what are you doing? What’s going on? Matilda?”

It was her high school music teacher. Rapidly, the woman pulled Matilda off the ledge, as Matilda struggled.

“You’re not stopping me,” Matilda said. “I have to get it over with.”

“No!” said the woman, and grabbed her arm and wouldn’t let go. “You’re coming with me.”

Matilda wasn’t strong enough to resist, though she tried. Back at the teacher’s car, the police soon arrived.

“She’s coming to my house,” the teacher said. “I’ll take care of her tonight.”

While waiting, Matilda had opened up about the haunting flashbacks. The teacher took Matilda’s cigarettes, pocket knife and anything else vaguely harmful. At her house, they watched a Disney movie until Matilda fell asleep on the couch.

The incident led to several weeks of outpatient rehabilitation, which didn’t do anything to help. After a particularly discouraging counseling session, in which Matilda felt the counselor had violated trust by telling others about her problems, she stormed out to her Jeep. In the center console she kept multiple pill bottles, just in case one day proved too rough.

“This is it, she told herself. “It ends here. God won’t be able to torture me anymore.”

She poured the pills into her hands and prepared to swallow them. Suddenly, a presence filled the car. Matilda looked around her, in the back seat, and under the seats. She saw nothing, but the peace was so strong it seemed tangible.

“I’m freaking out,” Matilda thought. “I know there’s someone in here.”

Then a voice came, not audibly, though it may as well have been: “Just give Me one month,” it said.

The voice filled her with such hope. Somehow, she knew it was Jesus.

“Okay,” she responded to Him. “I’ll give You a month. But that’s all. If You don’t do anything for me, I’m done with life.”

She put the pills back in the center console and drove home.

A local pastor recommended that Matilda apply to the Mercy Multiplied residential program, and with a newfound hope, she applied and entered the program. While at Mercy, Matilda felt saturated in unconditional love from the staff. She committed her life to Christ, received freedom from the anxiety attacks, chose to renew her mind to the truth of God’s Word and chose to forgive those who had hurt her. God radically transformed her life.

Matilda is now married, and she and her husband are on the leadership team of a church plant in their city. She has shared her testimony of healing and freedom with more than a thousand people, and each time it has prompted someone to apply to the Mercy Multiplied program. She continues to help walk young women through eating disorders, anger, pain from sexual abuse, anxiety and more.

It’s heartbreaking to read about how the pain in Matilda’s life led her to consider taking her own life. Suicide is a significant issue today. Countless people are affected by it every year, and many of the women who have entered the program at Mercy Multiplied have attempted to take their own life one, if not many, times. However, when they experience the love and life-transforming power of Jesus Christ, they have a renewed passion and purpose for their lives. They realize that God created them for life and not death.

But freedom and healing are not just available to those who are residents in one of the Mercy homes. It’s available to you as well. God can, and will, move powerfully if you choose to allow Him to work in your heart and life. No matter who you are or what you have done, the same radical life-transformation that thousands of young women have experienced in the Mercy program is possible for you. Through the power of Christ, you can overcome whatever issues or hurts you may be struggling with.

If you are a young woman between the ages of 13-32 and are hurting or struggling, you can get information about Mercy’s residential program and apply to the program at .

For more stories of radical life transformation, check out Nancy Alcorn’s book, Treatment or Transformation: 13 Real Stories Why You Can’t Argue With a Changed Life.

Evangelist Morris Cerullo recently exhorted believers to remember their God-given calling and anointing to share the gospel.

In this video, Cerullo tells viewers, “If ever there was a day for the church to manifest the faith of God to meet the desperate needs of the lost and dying world we live in, it is now. Today. if you believe that, you are an incredible candidate to understand you’re a full time minister. To understand you’re not just a housewife. You’re not a doctor. You’re not a lawyer. First, you are called, you are anointed by God, to bring healing and deliverance to your neighbors, your cities, your nation. The only way that we’ll be able to meet these desperate needs is by having this supernatural manifestation operating in our life.”

Watch it here.

There seems to be no end to the business books—even Christian ones—flooding the market. But how many marketplace Christians can actually connect with the authors of those books to get specific insight and mentorship? David Yarnes says that’s the exact need Kingdom Business Association (KBA) fills. The networking group offers practical and spiritual support for Christian business professionals from around the world. And Yarnes, co-founder of KBA, tells me in an exclusive interview that the network has grown increasingly prophetic. (Click here or scroll down to the end of this article to listen to my interview with Yarnes.)

“[KBA has] evolved a little bit, but now we’re highly prophetic,” Yarnes tells me. “We really build around relationship in that … we’re really trying to connect people. And we’ve seen marketplace ministry and extraordinary things happen through that network. It’s amazing.”

Being a prophetic business networking group allows Spirit-filled professionals—many of whom are entrepreneurs at KBA—to gain unique insight into God’s heart for their businesses.

“We’re uniquely prophetic, and we’ve seen people’s lives changed by a prophetic word,” Yarnes says. “So we encourage that, we talk to people about it, and we do training on it.”

While KBA ministers to a wide range of Christians in different professions, including art and media, the group mostly consists of business professionals who want make an impact for Jesus in the marketplace.

“[Businesspeople] need that kind of prophetic, charismatic relationship with each other,” Yarnes explains. “A lot of these guys are in places where there’s no one else around like them.”

Yarnes co-founded the association 10 years ago. At that time, he was pastoring while a number of his businesses were growing. But Yarnes noticed that there wasn’t a lot of material available to teach Christians how to minister in the marketplace.

“There was this huge sense of the secular-sacred divide—’If you want to minister, you have to give up these secular pursuits,'” he says. “And nothing could be further from the truth.”

So with the help of about 10 people, KBA began to offer support to Christians in the marketplace, and little by little the networking group began to grow.

“It was getting together and encouraging each other that ‘Your business is your front line,'” Yarnes says. “‘Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing unto the kingdom.’ And it really birthed out of that.”

KBA eventually transferred to MorningStar Ministries in Forth Mill, South Carolina, and the two ministries have been working together for 10 years. Since then, KBA has grown to offer more than basic networking. They provide weekly coaching calls featuring top speakers who give insight on a wide variety of subjects. The great thing about those calls is that those listening in can interact with the speaker and get the specific help they need.

KBA also does weekly prayer calls, where callers can share prayer requests and build each other up in the Spirit. KBA members can meet face to face during the association’s annual meeting and their smaller quarterly meetings around the country. The group’s website, , also offers a variety of free resources that some say have changed their lives.

Because of this, Yarnes says, KBA chapters grow organically, and often members who live near each other get together more regularly for mutual support. This is the heart of KBA’s focus on relationships.

“I hear time and time again that people found their best friends through KBA,” Yarnes says. “And I don’t say that lightly. They really do find commonality because I think all friendship is based on having a lot of things in common, and KBA has really been able to do that.”

If you want to connect with Yarnes or KBA, visit . Yarnes says that for just under $20 a month, you can become a KBA member and gain access to many in-depth resources in addition to the free videos and recorded calls I mentioned earlier. Be sure to listen to my entire conversation with Yarnes by clicking on the podcast below!

When God makes you wait on the deliverance of a specific promise, a spirit of resiliency is born. Few knew that better than the biblical heroine, Hannah.

Despite many challenges and setbacks in her life, including a lengthy bout with infertility, Hannah never gave up hope that God would hear her prayers, and she never complained. Eventually, God blessed her with a son, Samuel, and she had five more children after.

Hannah’s perseverance, author Michelle McClain Walters says, is a character trait we should all aspire to develop, and one that will eventually become a huge blessing in the lives of people who do. It’s one of the reasons she wrote the book, The Hannah Anointing.

“Writing this book really opened my heart and my mind about waiting on the Lord and being a chosen vessel,” McClain Walters told Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of “Greenelines” on the Charisma Podcast Network. “Sometimes we don’t understand what we’re going through. We may see people around us prospering, and the spirits of jealousy and envy attack us. But Hannah gave us a great picture even in the face of not having the fruitfulness she desired. She never gave up and she saw the fulfillment of the promise.

“I’m excited about how Hannah gave us a great example; that if we would just hold on to the truth that God is with us and that God has a plan and purpose for us, we will see a fruit that will outlive us.”

To find out more about you can follow in Hannah’s footsteps, listen to the podcast below.

Anger has reached the boiling point in our country. Passengers are being removed from planes because they started fistfights. Entitled store customers are going berserk in checkout lines. Restaurant patrons are spewing racist rants—and they don’t even care if someone records their vile words on camera for the world to hear.

We are not just irritated. We are outraged. It has become fashionable to lace our conversations and social media posts with profanity. Whether it’s talk radio, political television shows, Twitter, Instagram, online comment sections or street protests, we’ve developed the skill of dropping verbal bombs on each other.

We don’t care how our words hurt people anymore. We have become a vicious culture. Our love has turned to ice.

And we are naïve if we don’t recognize this dangerous level of cold-hearted hatefulness is affecting Christians. I’ve noticed that people today get offended more easily and are much quicker to storm out of a church when something goes wrong. No wonder we have a huge percentage of Christians who are church dropouts.

The world tells us that ending a relationship is as easy as hitting the unfriend button. But when I read the Bible I don’t see any room for outrage, resentment, intolerance or “unfriending.” Jesus calls us to love—and He gives us the supernatural power to do it.

Have you been experiencing some hateful drama in your life? Have you considered ending a relationship? Did you already walk out of a church, or break a close friendship, because of hurt? If so, examine your heart and ask these probing questions first:

1. Am I giving up too soon? The apostle Paul told the Ephesians that they should “always demonstrate gentleness and generous love toward one another, especially toward those who try your patience” (Eph. 4:2, Passion Translation). Your love will never grow unless it is stretched—and the best way to stretch your love is to show kindness when you feel like slamming a door in a person’s face.

The truth is that we often give up on relationships because we just don’t want to exert the energy to improve them. Relationships require a lot of work. When you unfriend someone just because they hurt you, you are missing an opportunity to become more like Christ. Show some patience. Choose to love even when you don’t get anything in return.

Ephesians 4:3 says we must “make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace” (New Living Translation). The Greek word for “make every effort” means “to be diligent; to use speed; to be prompt or earnest; to labor.” That means you shouldn’t let wounds fester. Act quickly to repair the relationship before it gets worse!

2. Would Jesus end this relationship? When you end a friendship because of an offence, you are doing the exact opposite of what Jesus did for you. Ephesians 4:32 says: “Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you” (NASB). You will never understand God’s merciful love if you don’t show it to others.

Jesus doesn’t flippantly write people off. He loved us even when we were sinners, and He patiently drew us to Himself using “ropes of kindness and love” (Hosea 11:4, NLT). Before you end a friendship, judge a pastor, storm out of a church or give someone a cold shoulder, remember how aggressively Jesus pursued a relationship with you. Let His ropes of kindness pull you out of your bad attitude.

When Peter asked Jesus how many times we are required to forgive a person, Jesus answered “seventy times seven” (see Matthew 18:22). Taken literally, that means 490 times—but Jesus wasn’t putting a limit on forgiveness. He was using the number seven to imply infinity. Stop counting how many times you have been offended and instead thank God for all the times He has overlooked your mistakes.

3. Am I nursing a grudge? Today’s culture of outrage tells us that it’s fashionable to be angry. Our divisive political climate encourages people to get up mad in the morning, fuel their anger with hot political rhetoric throughout the day and then to go to bed after listening to more arguments on news broadcasts. We are literally poisoning ourselves.

Many Christians have allowed similar poison in their lives because of church drama. They are mad that a pastor slighted them. They are jealous of someone who took a position they wanted. They are angry because a Christian did something hypocritical (yet they refuse to admit that their bitterness is the ultimate hypocrisy!)

Resentment is deadly. It actually makes people sick. It also makes us ugly and unpleasant. Unforgiveness puts a frown on your face, wrinkles around your eyes and a sour tone in your voice. On the flip side, showing affection is healthy for you. Doctors have proven that a 20-second hug strengthens your immune system!

Don’t let today’s culture of outrage infect you. Go against the flow of toxic hate. Make a decision today to work harder at relationships. Show some love. Forgive those who hurt you. Be diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit.

It’s one of the most popular worship songs in recent memory, and Kim Walker-Smith thought she messed it up.

“In my head, I’m stumbling over my words, and I’m not doing any justice to the moment,” Walker-Smith tells “C-Pop,” the Christian pop culture podcast.

The Jesus Culture musician is referencing a now viral video in which she’s singing “How He Loves,” and is visibly having an incredibly intimate moment with the Lord.

“At the end of it, I walk offstage, and I just feel completely humiliated,” she says.

But how she felt was not reality.

Listen to the podcast (at minute 22) to hear what happened next.

If this sort of extreme censorship continues, pretty soon anybody that has anything even remotely important or interesting to say will be completely banned by Facebook. As you will see below, Facebook has just banned Zero Hedge, and they have also just announced that they will be systematically censoring any content that has “misinformation” about vaccines. Of course this is just the latest chapter in a relentless campaign by the social media giants to censor alternative sources of information. Since Donald Trump’s victory in November 2016, the social media crackdown has just gotten worse and worse, and it has gotten to the point where we can now safely say that free speech is dead on the major social media platforms.

It didn’t have to be this way. When Facebook, Twitter and the other major social media platforms were new, people were generally allowed to say whatever they wanted as long as they weren’t breaking any laws. As a result, people flocked to those platforms, and companies worth billions of dollars were created.

But now that those platforms are used by almost everyone, those in control have decided that only certain political viewpoints are acceptable, and the crackdown on dissenting voices has been unprecedented.

Yet with all that we have witnessed so far, I was still completely shocked when I learned that Facebook has banned all Zero Hedge content. This is what Zero Hedge is saying about the ban:

To be sure, as a for-profit enterprise with its own unique set of corporate “ethics”, Facebook has every right to impose whatever filters it desires on the media shared on its platform. It is entirely possible that one or more posts was flagged by Facebook’s “triggered” readers who merely alerted a censorship algo which blocked all content.

Alternatively, it is just as possible that Facebook simply decided to no longer allow its users to share our content in retaliation for our extensive coverage of what some have dubbed the platform’s “many problems,” including chronic privacy violations, mass abandonment by younger users, its gross and ongoing misrepresentation of fake users, ironically—in retrospect—its systematic censorship and back-door government cooperation (those are just links from the past few weeks).

I have no idea why Facebook would place a blanket ban on all Zero Hedge material. I just went to share one of their articles on Facebook, and I was unable to do so.

Yes, Zero Hedge can be a little bit edgy at times, but the guys over there do really solid work, and from my perspective, there is absolutely no justification that Facebook could possibly come up with for banning all content from the site.

We need to show our support for Zero Hedge, because if we don’t stand up now, eventually they will come for all the rest of us too.

This week, we also learned that Facebook will now be censoring all material that is critical of the vaccine industry:

Social media giant Facebook says it will remove groups and pages that spread misinformation about vaccinations on its site.

It’s the latest step Facebook and others are taking to stem the tide of misinformation on social media sites.

Facebook said Thursday it will take its cue from global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have publicly identified verifiable vaccine hoaxes.

So Facebook is actually going to use the CDC as a “neutral” source?

Really?

Well, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has aptly pointed out, the truth is that the CDC owns 20 vaccine patents and sells more than $4 billion worth of vaccines annually:

The CDC is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. The agency owns more than 20 vaccine patents and purchases and sells $4.1 billion in vaccines annually. Congressman Dave Weldon has pointed out that the primary metric for success across the CDC is how many vaccines the agency sells and how successfully the agency expands its vaccine program—regardless of any negative effects on human health.

So of course the CDC is going to say its own products are safe, because it has billions of reasons to do so.

I can’t tell you how angry this sort of rank hypocrisy makes me.

And the impetus for Facebook’s move appears to be criticism from Democrats in Congress.

More specifically, Adam Schiff appears to be the driving force behind this latest censorship push. The following comes from Natural News:

The drastic move comes after California Democrat Adam Schiff recently called on Facebook, Amazon and various other big tech giants to allow only government-approved propaganda about vaccines to be shared, sold or otherwise propagated on their platforms—an online “book burning,” if you will.

How would the left feel if the tables were suddenly turned on them?

For example, how do you think that they would react if anyone who criticized President Trump was permanently banned from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube?

There would be a tremendous public outcry, and rightly so.

Well, as Joseph Farah has pointed out, according to federal law, it is illegal for the big tech giants to censor users based on their political views.

Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter enjoy privileged positions under federal law that includes standing as “carriers” and therefore immunity from defamation lawsuits—a status similar to telecoms and utilities. But it is supposed to come with a price tag under the Communications Decency Act of 1996, section 230. Do you know what is required of these non-publishers who are invulnerable to slander and libel laws? Political neutrality!

It is time to enforce the laws we already have, and it is time for those who have been grossly violating those laws to be held accountable.

And the evidence that conservatives have been specifically targeted for censorship is now absolutely overwhelming. For instance, just consider the following numbers from Gateway Pundit:

Floyd Brown is a conservative author, speaker and media commentator. In 2008 Floyd launched Western Journal, which quickly became one of the top conservative websites in America. By 2016, Floyd’s organization of Western Journal and other conservative websites under his umbrella had more than a billion page views. Since 2016, Floyd’s organization lost 75 percent of its Facebook traffic.

Likewise, we spoke with Jared Vallorani from Klicked Media. Jared traveled to Washington, D.C. with The Gateway Pundit and website owners at 100%FedUp in June to discuss Facebook targeting against conservative publishers with Republican lawmakers. Jared told The Gateway Pundit his organization Klicked Media, which hosts over 60 conservative websites, lost 400 million page views from Facebook in the last six months if you compare the traffic to a year ago. Jared said, “We lost 70 percent to 80 percent of our traffic if you compare January to May 2017 vs, Jan to May 2018.”

If you combine the total number of page views lost by just these two conservative online publishers, you are looking at a loss of over 1.5 billion page views from Facebook in one year.

Enough is enough, and it is time to take a stand.

In addition to confronting those who are doing the censorship, it is going to be important to support those who are being censored. So if you enjoy what they do, I would encourage you to support Zero Hedge, WND, Infowars, Natural News, SHTF Plan, Steve Quayle, The Gateway Pundit and all the other wonderful alternative media outlets that work tirelessly to keep you informed.

We are literally in a battle for what the future of our society is going to look like, and the information war is the front line of that battle.

The Internet is the public square of today, and that is where the struggle for hearts and minds is happening. The elite know they cannot win an honest fight in the marketplace of ideas, and so they are doing their best to silence their opposition.

The stakes are incredibly high, time is running out and we simply cannot allow them to win.