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GQ Magazine Causes Outrage After Naming Cop Hater Colin Kaepernick As Their ‘Citizen Of The Year’

Former ESPN reporter bashed GQ and Colin Kaepernick on Twitter Monday shortly after the magazine announced it would be honoring the polarizing quarterback.

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Britt McHenry is taking a stand against GQ naming Colin Kaepernick its “Citizen of the Year” for taking a knee.

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you think that the agenda behind Colin Kaepernick’s original take a knee protest during the playing of the National Anthem is somehow a “heroic” thing to do, then you are greatly deceived. Perhaps you’ve forgotten that before the protests began, Kaepernick would wear socks to practice depicting pigs wearing police caps, and wear t-shirts to after-game press conferences praising brutal and murderous Communist dictators. He also have $25,000 to a group called Assata’s Daughters, which was founded to honor a cop killer. Colin Kaepernick is no hero, he is an anti-police anarchist who hates this country and wants to see Communism become the law of the land. It was never about blacks being killed by cops. 

The former ESPN reporter bashed GQ and Colin Kaepernick on Twitter Monday shortly after the magazine announced it would be honoring the polarizing quarterback.

“Wear socks depicting police officers as pigs; wear Fidel Castro as a fashion statement IN MIAMI; sue NFL for collusion when gf compares owners to slave owners…Win Citizen of the Year. Serve in the US military…nothing. What a joke, GQ. #Kaepernick,” McHenry wrote.

McHenry has frequently criticized Kaepernick for initiating the national anthem protest movement. McHenry was one of 100 ESPN employees let go by the network in late April. The recognizable sports reporter later said she believed her conservative views had something to do with her firing. Since being let go by ESPN, McHenry has frequently appeared as a guest on Fox News.

McHenry has also taken to Twitter to voice her conservative views. In recent weeks McHenry has praised Donald Trump, insinuated Hillary Clinton “rigged” the Democratic National Convention and criticized Spurs coach Gregg Popovich for discussing politics in his interviews.

GQ said they decided to honor Kaepernick due to his activism both on-and-off the field.

“Colin Kaepernick’s determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson – athletes who risked everything to make a difference,” the editors of GQ wrote.

McHenry later said she does, in fact, understand the underlying reason behind the protests, but believes players such as Malcolm Jenkins and Kenny Stills were more worthy choices.

“For those who think I don’t get the reason for protest you’re wrong,” McHenry wrote. “Eagles Malcolm Jenkins met with lawmakers to help community. Dolphins Kenny Stills met with Miami police. More examples of Citizen of the Year.”

McHenry also said JJ Watt would have been a better choice for Citizen of the Year Texans defensive end raised more than $37 million for Hurricane Harvey relief.

“JJ Watt raised $37 million for Hurricane Harvey victims. 37 MILLION! But Kaepernick refused to stand for our national anthem (a year ago) and is Citizen of the Year. Right…,” McHenry wrote.

While McHenry praised Jenkins, Stills and Watt for their contributions off the field, she failed to acknowledge Kaepernick’s.

Since sitting, and later kneeling, during the national anthem to bring awareness to police brutality and racism, the former 49ers quarterback has participated in volunteer work across the country. Kaepernick has also donated $1 million plus all the proceeds of his jersey sales from the 2016 season to “organizations working in oppressed communities” over the past year.

In addition, Kaepernick founded “Know Your Rights Camp,” a youth campaign which strives to raise awareness regarding higher education, self-empowerment and how to properly interact with law enforcement. source

 


 

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NTEB PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Putin Makes Good On His Promise To Start Firing Advanced Missiles If Ukraine Uses US and UK Weaponry

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Putin said ‘In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on Nov 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.’

Vladimir Putin has tested a new hypersonic missile by firing it at Ukraine as he identified Britain as a legitimate target for the Russian military. The weapon, called the “Oreshnik”, meaning hazelnut, was launched for the first time in response to strikes using British and American-supplied weapons, Putin said on Thursday. “We are entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” Putin said in a surprise televised address.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” James 4:1 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, Ukraine is being egged on by lame duck president Joe Biden to escalate their war with Russia, giving them approval to use long-range missiles against them. Russia for their part has begun to step up their use of “a new Russian missile with all the parameters, speed and altitude, to match those of an intercontinental ballistic missile”. Britain is now “directly involved” in the Ukraine war after its Storm Shadow missiles were used to strike targets inside Russia, according to Moscow’s ambassador. Russia this morning threatened to strike US air bases in Poland with ‘advanced weapons’ hours after it reportedly launched an advanced missile as part of a brutal barrage of targets across Ukraine. WWIII has been talked about so often over the past 4 years that, when it finally starts, may be somewhat anticlimactic. But that is certainly the direction we are moving in.

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Anarchist Group Adbusters Calling For A 50-Day ‘White House Siege’ On September 17th Uniting All Domestic Terror Groups For New World Order

Occupy Wall Street founders Adbusters calling for 50-day White House Siege starting on September 17th, to create a New World Order.

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We will lay siege to the White House. And we will sustain it for exactly fifty days. This is the #WhiteHouseSiege.

If you thought that the last 4 months of watching America’s Democratically-controlled cities be set on fire, hundreds of millions in damage to minority-owned businesses, women raped, 13 people killed by the ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter domestic terror groups was something, just wait until September 17th. That’s the day that the basement-dwelling founders of Occupy Wall Street are going to attempt to combine all the anarchist groups and lay siege to the White House for 50 days. They have a better chance of success than you might think.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” 2 Peter 3:3,4 (KJB)

Take a look at the videos at the bottom of this article, and get a good look at who these people are. They are cowardly, effeminate and decidedly pusillanimous as individuals, one such thug wielding a flamethrower was captured by police in Portland the other night, and he curled into a fetal position and cried like a baby as the handcuffs were placed on him. But when they gather in packs, like animals, with bats and guns, they are capable of great damage. You really should take a look at the videos.

Adbusters is calling for a ‘new world order‘, sounds about right to me given the year 2020 has already been.

The evil geniuses at Adbusters anarchist media have had a Hitlerian moment of clarity, and they have seen the future. Combine all these filthy radicals together at the same place and the same time – the White House on September 17th – and bring America to a grinding halt. Will it work? Actually, it has a pretty good chance of working because if they do lay siege to the White House, they will have the full support of the Democratic Party, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Congress, and Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris who have all said they support the riots and that they need to continue.

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#WhiteHouseSiege will electrify the U.S. election season — and it doesn’t stop there. It will ne a New World Order.

FROM ADBUSTERS: It’s been nine years since we set off the political earthquake of #OccupyWallStreet, laying siege to NYC’s Zuccotti Park and inspiring thousands of similar protests around the world. The Occupy anniversary arrives September 17th, 2020. And it may be the perfect day to trigger another global big-bang moment — a massive collective action of the sweetest kind of disobedience.

The why hardly needs recitation. Because, for these nine years, the shadows have only grown longer. Inequality has soared. Not a single Wall Street CEO spent a night in jail for his role in the 2008 financial meltdown. Politicians and corporate criminals continue to savage the public trust with impunity. And all the while, this howling void of a president, his sins too many to name, sits smugly atop a corona death-toll that may surpass two-hundred thousand Americans by Christmas.

It’s time again for dramatic, decisive action. Which is why, on September 17th, in the original and enduring spirit of Occupy, we and tens of thousands of our fellow citizens will stream into Lafayette Square, in Washington. D.C.

  • We will lay siege to the White House. And we will sustain it for exactly fifty days. This is the #WhiteHouseSiege.

A siege only works if it is sustained. We witnessed this — the multiplying power of a strategic occupation — nine years ago. You dig in, hold your ground, and the tension accumulates, amplifies, goes global.

  • Fifty days — September 17th to November 3rd.

Let us once again summon the sweet, revolutionary nonviolence that was our calling card in Zuccotti Park.

#WhiteHouseSiege will electrify the U.S. election season — and it doesn’t stop there. Drawing wind from #MeToo#BLM#ExtinctionRebellion, and protests against Trump’s lethal bungling of coronavirus, we’ll inspire a global movement of systemic change — a Global Spring — a cultural heave towards a true world order.

What is our one demand? We want to collaborate with you — brainstorm tactics with you — spark a revolution with you. We need your voice of wisdom and expertise to pull off a radically democratic toneshift in our politics. If you would like to either contribute or just shoot the shit, drop us a line at [email protected]. Or submit your ideas to us using the form below.

First, let’s get our tactics in order. Then, let’s screw up our courage, stuff our backpacks with the tools of nonviolent revolution, and head to Lafayette Square with intelligence to match our spirits — starting September 17th. READ MORE

BLM Terrorists Scream With Megaphones At People Eating Dinner

If these devils show up at your restaurant while you’re eating, I hope you won’t just sit there and take it. 

Demonic Black Lives Matter Rioters Accost Woman Screaming “Are You A Christian???”

In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. At the 00:26 mark you will hear one of the terrorists screaming “ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?!?” at the terrified woman.

Violent riots in the US aren’t about BLM, they’re about ‘flipping over the system’

In the United States things are out of control in several cities “run by lefty mayors, cheered on by lefty media” as violent protests reach fever pitch across the country, according to Sky News host Paul Murray.

Kamala Harris Threatens America Says BLM Riots Will Not Stop Even After Election

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Nike Cancels Fourth Of July Launch Of ‘Betsy Ross’ Sneakers After Alt-Left Agitator Colin Kaepernick Says The American Flag Is A ‘Symbol Of Hate’

Shoe giant Nike has pulled plug on its new Fourth Of July ‘Betsy Ross’ sneakers after alt-left liberal Colin Kaepernick said American Flag symbol of hate.

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Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early Betsy Ross American flag after NFL star-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn’t sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive

For all of you low-information news readers out there who thought that Colin Kaepernick’s NFL protests had anything to do with ‘police brutality’, this article should serve as a nice wake up call for you. Or maybe not. Nike decided to do something really cool, and release a new pair of beautifully-designed sneakers embroidered with the ‘Betsy Ross’ version of the American flag in honor of our upcoming Fourth of July celebrations on Thursday. That is until notorious alt-left agitator Kaepernick told them not to. What was Nike’s response? Total surrender.

Nothing makes me laugh harder than the idea of any Left wing group being anti-fascist because fascism was invented by the Left. Groups like Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA, and all the other hate groups are nothing but a pack of thugs pretending to want to ‘clean up America’ when the reality is that want nothing more than to burn it to the group. It’s a free country, do as you like, but as for me I will never again be purchasing anything by Nike, and throwing in the trash anything I currently have with the Nike logo on it. Just do it.

Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes

FROM THE WSJ: The sneaker giant created the Air Max 1 USA in celebration of the July Fourth holiday, and it was slated to go on sale this week. The heel of the shoe featured a U.S. flag with 13 white stars in a circle, a design created during the American Revolution and commonly referred to as the Betsy Ross flag.

After shipping the shoes to retailers, Nike asked for them to be returned without explaining why, the people said. The shoes aren’t available on Nike’s own apps and websites.

“Nike has chosen not to release the Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July as it featured the old version of the American flag,” a Nike spokeswoman said.

After images of the shoe were posted online, Colin Kaepernick, a Nike endorser, reached out to company officials saying that he and others felt the Betsy Ross flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery, the people said. Some users on social media responded to posts about the shoe with similar concerns. Mr. Kaepernick declined to comment.

The design was created in the 1770s to represent the 13 original colonies, though there were many early versions of the American flag, according to the Smithsonian. In the 1790s, stars and bars were added to reflect the addition of Vermont and Kentucky as states. U.S. flag designs continued to change as states were admitted to the union until the 50th star, for Hawaii, was added in 1960.

In 2016, the superintendent of a Michigan school district apologized after students waved the Betsy Ross flag at a high-school football game, saying that for some it is a symbol of white supremacy and nationalism, according to Mlive.com, a local news outlet. While the flag’s use isn’t widespread, the local chapter of the NAACP said at the time that it has been appropriated by some extremist groups opposed to America’s increasing diversity.

Mr. Kaepernick, 31 years old, last played in the National Football League in 2016, the season he began kneeling on the field during the national anthem to call attention to social injustices and racial inequality. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback has gone unsigned since and, along with former teammate Eric Reid, in February settled collusion grievances that alleged the league and its teams conspired to keep them unsigned because of their outspoken political views. The settlement was for less than $10 million, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

Last year, Nike made Mr. Kaepernick the face of an advertising campaign while he was still engaged in that dispute with the league—a risky move given Nike’s role as one of the NFL’s biggest partners. The campaign generated a backlash among some consumers, who began torching Nike shoes and cutting its swoosh logo out of gear. The protests were countered by expressions of support for Nike.

Since the ad was released, Nike has posted higher sales, boosted by strong demand in both the U.S. and China. In the fourth quarter, sales rose 4% to $10.18 billion. Its share price has climbed more than 15% so far this year.

At least some of the USA-themed shoes have already made their way to sneaker enthusiasts. Versions of the Air Max 1 USA were changing hands on sneaker-reselling site StockX for as much as $500 on Monday, according to the site. After this Journal article was published, the price fluctuated, with one pair fetching as much $2,000 and another as little as $140. READ MORE

Colin Kaepernick convinced Nike to drop Betsy Ross Flag shoe

Fox 24/7 sports reporter Jared Max and The Brewer Group CEO Jack Brewer on Nike’s decision to pull its Betsy Ross Flag sneaker after quarterback Colin Kaepernick raised concerns.

Whitney Houston Sings Our National Anthem

“And now, to honor America, especially the brave men and women serving our nation in the Persian Gulf and throughout the world, please join in the singing of our national anthem. The anthem will be followed by a flyover of F-16 jets from the 56th Tactical Training Wing at MacDill Air Force Base and will be performed by the Florida Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Jahja Ling and sung by Grammy Award winner Whitney Houston.”

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. Even all the way to South Africa. We even restarted our weekly radio Bible study on Sunday nights again, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. If every one of the 12,832 people on our daily mailing list gave $4.50, we would reach our goal immediately. If every one of our 151,781 followers on Facebook gave $1.00 each, we would reach 300% of our goal. The same goes for our 14,000 followers on Twitter. But sadly, many will not give, so we need the ones who can and who will give to be generous. As generous as possible.

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJV)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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