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FACEBOOK BLOCKS FUNDING FOR MAJOR PRO-LIFE MOVIE
Theatrical drama to tell 'true story' of Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood
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Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger
A crowdfunding site for a theatrical drama in production that promises to tell the “true story” of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that established a “right” to abortion has been blocked by Facebook.
The movie’s producer, Nick Loeb, told WND the content of the pro-life movie, which exposes Planned Parenthood’s roots in the eugenics movement, clearly is the reason for the censorship.
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Actor and producer Nick Loeb
“They have even blocked people sharing the ads I paid for,” Loeb said.
“This is stealing or fraud.”
Facebook has not responded to requests for an explanation.
Loeb told WND he and his colleagues are looking for a lawyer to take on the case.
Learn the tested and proven strategies to defeat the abortion cartel in “Abortion Free: Your Manual for Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time.”
The executive producer of the movie is Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and the head of the group Civil Rights for the Unborn.
The film features Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight as a Supreme Court justice.
On the film’s Indiegogo crowdfunding page, the makers describe it as “the real untold story of how people lied; how the media lied; and how the courts were manipulated to pass a law that has since killed over 60 million Americans.”
“Many documentaries have been made, but no one has had the courage to make an actual feature film, a theatrical movie about the true story.”
The producers, calling it the “most important pro-life movie in history,” say Hollywood “only wants you to hear their version of the story,” noting there are three movies in development that take a pro-abortion stance.
“But you shouldn’t be surprised. Hollywood has always had an agenda to influence Americans to accept abortion, even if they have to re-write history to do it.”
The movie opens with Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, speaking about her “Negro project” initiative aimed at reducing the growth of African-American population in the United States.
It continues as abortionist Bernard Nathanson joins with famed feminist-activist Betty Friedan and Planned Parenthood to recruit for a legal case “a broke girl with a 10th grade education named Norma McCorvey,” who became known as “Jane Roe.”
The opposition to the activists seeking to legalize abortion is led by the film’s protagonist, Mildred Jefferson, the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, who believed “that she became a doctor to protect life, not destroy it.”
Later, Nathanson, through the help of new sonogram technology, “realizes he is killing babies, confesses to all the lies and becomes a leading activist in the pro-life movement,” and McCorvey, realizing she had been manipulated, also joins the pro-life cause.
Internet freedom
WND reported last month censorship of Christian and conservative speech online by tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple is the target of an initiative called Internet Freedom Watch, launched by the National Religious Broadcasters.
The initiative has established a website, InternetFreedomWatch.org, to document cases, including Twitter’s removal of an ad by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in October and Facebook’s removal of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s post supporting Chick-fil-A in 2012.
NRB, which has published a chart with more than 30 instances of Internet censorship, said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and a former Federal Communications Commission commissioner have endorsed the effort.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has accused Twitter and other tech companies of being disingenuous by arguing for a free and open Internet while they “routinely block or discriminate against content they don’t like.”
NRB also wants Congress to hold hearings on the “severe problem of viewpoint censorship on the Internet.”
In a recent case noted by Internet Freedom Watch, PJ Media D.C. editor Bridget Johnson was suspended from Twitter with no warning or explanation.
WND reported in August that days after the launch of a book arguing fascism and Nazism are ideological spawns of the left, author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and his promotion team were locked out of his Facebook page by hackers.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/facebook-blocks-funding-for-major-pro-life-movie/#FPmMbLV1DDDWRigx.99
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY NIXES 'ANTI-ISLAM' EVENT FOR TERROR-TIED GROUP
Muslims complained GOP candidate's summit 'who's who of Islamophobes'
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An evangelical university in Tennessee canceled a summit on Islam hosted by a Republican candidate for governor in response to criticism that the speakers were anti-Muslim.
The Homeland Security Summit, scheduled for Jan. 25 at Trevecca Nazarene University, was to feature speakers such as political-Islam scholar Bill French (a.k.a. Bill Warner), former DHS and NYPD counter-terrorism trainer Cathy Hinners and former FBI counter-terrorism agent John Guandolo.
Ibrahim Hooper, the chief spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations – a Washington, D.C.-based group designated by an Arab Gulf state as a terrorist organization – condemned the speakers as a “who’s who of Islamophobes,” according to The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville.
“The themes are always the same – Muslims are about to take over the country and install Shariah in place of the Constitution, and mosques are hotbeds of extremism,” Hooper said.
Support WND’s legal fight to expose the Hamas front in the U.S., the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
However, CAIR was a spinoff of a group that, according to FBI wiretap evidence, was a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR itself was designated by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to fund Hamas. CAIR also was designated by the United Arab Emirates as a terrorist organization. The group has sued a co-author of a WND Books exposé, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” which documented the group’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
French, The Tennessean reported, tweeted Thursday that the summit, hosted by former state senator Mae Beavers, “has now been cancelled thanks to the stealthy work” of CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Trevecca spokeswoman Mandy Crow told the Nashville paper the event appears to have an agenda beyond a political campaign. Crow argued that agenda would distract from the university’s commitment to community building, education and support of diverse enrollment.
Beavers, a graduate of Trevecca and one of five major Republicans and two Democrats running for governor, said Trevecca “abandoned biblical principles in order embrace political correctness.”
The gubernatorial candidate told the Tennessee Star the “best indication that the Homeland Security Summit we were hosting is both necessary and important is the fact that CAIR doesn’t like it.”
“CAIR consistently opposes efforts to improve our security and protect our communities from the terror attacks that are the weapon of choice of radical political Islam,” she said.
“Being the target of criticism from CAIR is a badge of honor, particularly when they never find any basis to criticize any other Republican candidates for governor who all apparently meet with the approval of CAIR,” said Beavers.
WND reported in 2011 a conference in Nashville on countering the rise of Shariah in the United States was forced to find a new venue after threats of violence from Muslims caused the host hotel to cancel.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/christian-university-nixes-anti-islam-event-for-terror-tied-group/#7gj2bhKqQ4IpKMKl.99
NO LICENSE? PSYCH CALLNG TO RESTRAIN TRUMP MISSING SOMETHING YUUGE
'It's perfectly OK to question the president's mental state'
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A psychiatrist who claimed to have briefed more than a dozen U.S. lawmakers on President Trump’s mental state – demanding an “emergency” evaluation and even restraint by force of the president – may not even have a license in her home state of Connecticut.
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Bandy Lee, assistant clinical professor at Yale University (Photo: Yale)
As WND reported, Bandy Lee, an assistant professor in forensic psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and author of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” says she briefed Democrats and one Republican on Trump’s mental health status on Dec. 5 and 6. Lee and Harvard’s Judith Herman and Columbia’s Robert Jay Lifton recently released a statement warning that Trump is “further unraveling,” despite the fact that they’ve never actually examined the president.
Lee even claimed failure to address President Trump’s declining mental-health state could lead to “the extinction of the human species.”
Since her calls for evaluation and restraint of Trump were made public, Lee has deleted her Twitter account. Users of the site have claimed she’s not even a licensed psychiatrist.
Lee’s “physician/surgeon” license in Connecticut expired on May 31, 2015, Campus Reform reported. Her reinstatement application has been “pending” for more than two years.
Campus Reform also noted that Lee’s “controlled substance registration for practitioner” license “lapsed,” expiring in February 2017.
When the site questioned Lee about the licenses, she replied: “I need only one license.”
“She has yet to elaborate on precisely which license that is, and, according to the state in which she resides, she allegedly has none,” reported Campus Reform.
Lee, who previously claimed the three are not “diagnosing” the president, said, “We are mainly concerned that an emergency evaluation be done.”
Concerned individuals may contact Bandy Lee at Yale University.
She told Vox.com she’s concerned that if Trump is having a mental breakdown, the situation could lead to U.S. military action against North Korea and a nuclear holocaust.
“[T]hat is not the only danger we’re facing,” Lee insisted. “There’s everything in between: provoking our allies and alienating them, instigating civil conflict, and laying a foundation for a violent culture that could give way to epidemics of violence — not to mention poke a beehive in the Middle East by declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. All of these actions are consistent with the pathological pattern he has already shown of resorting to violence the more he feels threatened.”
Lee even insisted no “serious” psychiatrist would say Trump isn’t “dangerous.”
“It would be hard to find a single psychiatrist, no matter of what political affiliation, who could confidently say Trump is not dangerous,” she said. “I am sure there are some who feel unsure, or feel that they don’t have enough information or the expertise, and that is fine, since not everyone has devoted her 20-year career to studying, predicting, and preventing violence like I have. But there has not been a single serious mental health expert who disagrees on the medical side.”
How can psychiatrists evaluate President Trump if he won’t voluntarily submit to an evaluation?
Lee suggested a forceful evaluation, but she warned it could “really look like a coup”:
We encounter this often in mental health. Those who most require an evaluation are the least likely to submit to one. That is the reason why in all 50 states we have not only the legal authority, but often the legal obligation, to contain someone even against their will when it’s an emergency.
So in an emergency, neither consent nor confidentiality requirements hold. Safety comes first. What we do in the case of danger is we contain the person, we remove them from access to weapons, and we do an urgent evaluation.
This is what we have been calling for with the president based on basic medical standards of care.
Surprisingly, many lawyer groups have actually volunteered, on their own, to file for a court paper to ensure that the security staff will cooperate with us. But we have declined, since this will really look like a coup, and while we are trying to prevent violence, we don’t wish to incite it through, say, an insurrection.
Lee said she has been discussing this scenario with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and they “seem surprisingly OK” with what she had to say.
As WND reported last July, it has long been considered unethical for psychiatrists to “diagnose” politicians or public figures based solely on that person’s public actions or statements, without conducting an actual in-person examination. But now that Trump is president, a national psychology organization, the American Psychoanalytic Association, has given psychoanalysts the green light to publicly comment on Trump’s mental health.
Since Lee’s statements were made public, the American Psychiatric Association released a statement urging psychiatrists to stop trying to evaluate Trump when they’ve never even examined him.
“We at the APA call for an end to psychiatrists providing professional opinions in the media about public figures whom they have not examined, whether it be on cable news appearances, books, or in social media,” the American Psychiatric Association’s statement said. “Arm-chair psychiatry or the use of psychiatry as a political tool is the misuse of psychiatry and is unacceptable and unethical.”
As WND reported, without ever having examined Trump, psychological professionals have called the president “psychotic,” “narcissistic,” “paranoid,” “hypomanic,” “emotionally unstable,” “delusional” and “psychologically isolated” and claimed he has a “dangerous mental illness.” One physician suggested Trump could be suffering from an untreated sexually transmitted disease known as neurosyphilis.
Some mental health “experts” have even gone so far as to call conservatism a mental illness, claiming prominent Republicans have shown signs of denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness and paranoia.
In a Politico piece Wednesday, “We’re psychiatrists. It’s our duty to question the president’s mental state,” Lee claimed “it’s perfectly OK to question the president’s mental state” because she’s a “psychiatrist.”
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FACEBOOK BLOCKS FUNDING FOR MAJOR PRO-LIFE MOVIE
Theatrical drama to tell 'true story' of Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood
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Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger
A crowdfunding site for a theatrical drama in production that promises to tell the “true story” of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that established a “right” to abortion has been blocked by Facebook.
The movie’s producer, Nick Loeb, told WND the content of the pro-life movie, which exposes Planned Parenthood’s roots in the eugenics movement, clearly is the reason for the censorship.
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Actor and producer Nick Loeb
“They have even blocked people sharing the ads I paid for,” Loeb said.
“This is stealing or fraud.”
Facebook has not responded to requests for an explanation.
Loeb told WND he and his colleagues are looking for a lawyer to take on the case.
Learn the tested and proven strategies to defeat the abortion cartel in “Abortion Free: Your Manual for Building a Pro-Life America One Community at a Time.”
The executive producer of the movie is Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and the head of the group Civil Rights for the Unborn.
The film features Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight as a Supreme Court justice.
On the film’s Indiegogo crowdfunding page, the makers describe it as “the real untold story of how people lied; how the media lied; and how the courts were manipulated to pass a law that has since killed over 60 million Americans.”
“Many documentaries have been made, but no one has had the courage to make an actual feature film, a theatrical movie about the true story.”
The producers, calling it the “most important pro-life movie in history,” say Hollywood “only wants you to hear their version of the story,” noting there are three movies in development that take a pro-abortion stance.
“But you shouldn’t be surprised. Hollywood has always had an agenda to influence Americans to accept abortion, even if they have to re-write history to do it.”
The movie opens with Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, speaking about her “Negro project” initiative aimed at reducing the growth of African-American population in the United States.
It continues as abortionist Bernard Nathanson joins with famed feminist-activist Betty Friedan and Planned Parenthood to recruit for a legal case “a broke girl with a 10th grade education named Norma McCorvey,” who became known as “Jane Roe.”
The opposition to the activists seeking to legalize abortion is led by the film’s protagonist, Mildred Jefferson, the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, who believed “that she became a doctor to protect life, not destroy it.”
Later, Nathanson, through the help of new sonogram technology, “realizes he is killing babies, confesses to all the lies and becomes a leading activist in the pro-life movement,” and McCorvey, realizing she had been manipulated, also joins the pro-life cause.
Internet freedom
WND reported last month censorship of Christian and conservative speech online by tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple is the target of an initiative called Internet Freedom Watch, launched by the National Religious Broadcasters.
The initiative has established a website, InternetFreedomWatch.org, to document cases, including Twitter’s removal of an ad by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in October and Facebook’s removal of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s post supporting Chick-fil-A in 2012.
NRB, which has published a chart with more than 30 instances of Internet censorship, said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and a former Federal Communications Commission commissioner have endorsed the effort.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has accused Twitter and other tech companies of being disingenuous by arguing for a free and open Internet while they “routinely block or discriminate against content they don’t like.”
NRB also wants Congress to hold hearings on the “severe problem of viewpoint censorship on the Internet.”
In a recent case noted by Internet Freedom Watch, PJ Media D.C. editor Bridget Johnson was suspended from Twitter with no warning or explanation.
WND reported in August that days after the launch of a book arguing fascism and Nazism are ideological spawns of the left, author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and his promotion team were locked out of his Facebook page by hackers.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/facebook-blocks-funding-for-major-pro-life-movie/#FPmMbLV1DDDWRigx.99
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY NIXES 'ANTI-ISLAM' EVENT FOR TERROR-TIED GROUP
Muslims complained GOP candidate's summit 'who's who of Islamophobes'
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An evangelical university in Tennessee canceled a summit on Islam hosted by a Republican candidate for governor in response to criticism that the speakers were anti-Muslim.
The Homeland Security Summit, scheduled for Jan. 25 at Trevecca Nazarene University, was to feature speakers such as political-Islam scholar Bill French (a.k.a. Bill Warner), former DHS and NYPD counter-terrorism trainer Cathy Hinners and former FBI counter-terrorism agent John Guandolo.
Ibrahim Hooper, the chief spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations – a Washington, D.C.-based group designated by an Arab Gulf state as a terrorist organization – condemned the speakers as a “who’s who of Islamophobes,” according to The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville.
“The themes are always the same – Muslims are about to take over the country and install Shariah in place of the Constitution, and mosques are hotbeds of extremism,” Hooper said.
Support WND’s legal fight to expose the Hamas front in the U.S., the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
However, CAIR was a spinoff of a group that, according to FBI wiretap evidence, was a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR itself was designated by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to fund Hamas. CAIR also was designated by the United Arab Emirates as a terrorist organization. The group has sued a co-author of a WND Books exposé, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” which documented the group’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
French, The Tennessean reported, tweeted Thursday that the summit, hosted by former state senator Mae Beavers, “has now been cancelled thanks to the stealthy work” of CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Trevecca spokeswoman Mandy Crow told the Nashville paper the event appears to have an agenda beyond a political campaign. Crow argued that agenda would distract from the university’s commitment to community building, education and support of diverse enrollment.
Beavers, a graduate of Trevecca and one of five major Republicans and two Democrats running for governor, said Trevecca “abandoned biblical principles in order embrace political correctness.”
The gubernatorial candidate told the Tennessee Star the “best indication that the Homeland Security Summit we were hosting is both necessary and important is the fact that CAIR doesn’t like it.”
“CAIR consistently opposes efforts to improve our security and protect our communities from the terror attacks that are the weapon of choice of radical political Islam,” she said.
“Being the target of criticism from CAIR is a badge of honor, particularly when they never find any basis to criticize any other Republican candidates for governor who all apparently meet with the approval of CAIR,” said Beavers.
WND reported in 2011 a conference in Nashville on countering the rise of Shariah in the United States was forced to find a new venue after threats of violence from Muslims caused the host hotel to cancel.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/christian-university-nixes-anti-islam-event-for-terror-tied-group/#7gj2bhKqQ4IpKMKl.99
NO LICENSE? PSYCH CALLNG TO RESTRAIN TRUMP MISSING SOMETHING YUUGE
'It's perfectly OK to question the president's mental state'
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A psychiatrist who claimed to have briefed more than a dozen U.S. lawmakers on President Trump’s mental state – demanding an “emergency” evaluation and even restraint by force of the president – may not even have a license in her home state of Connecticut.
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Bandy Lee, assistant clinical professor at Yale University (Photo: Yale)
As WND reported, Bandy Lee, an assistant professor in forensic psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and author of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” says she briefed Democrats and one Republican on Trump’s mental health status on Dec. 5 and 6. Lee and Harvard’s Judith Herman and Columbia’s Robert Jay Lifton recently released a statement warning that Trump is “further unraveling,” despite the fact that they’ve never actually examined the president.
Lee even claimed failure to address President Trump’s declining mental-health state could lead to “the extinction of the human species.”
Since her calls for evaluation and restraint of Trump were made public, Lee has deleted her Twitter account. Users of the site have claimed she’s not even a licensed psychiatrist.
Lee’s “physician/surgeon” license in Connecticut expired on May 31, 2015, Campus Reform reported. Her reinstatement application has been “pending” for more than two years.
Campus Reform also noted that Lee’s “controlled substance registration for practitioner” license “lapsed,” expiring in February 2017.
When the site questioned Lee about the licenses, she replied: “I need only one license.”
“She has yet to elaborate on precisely which license that is, and, according to the state in which she resides, she allegedly has none,” reported Campus Reform.
Lee, who previously claimed the three are not “diagnosing” the president, said, “We are mainly concerned that an emergency evaluation be done.”
Concerned individuals may contact Bandy Lee at Yale University.
She told Vox.com she’s concerned that if Trump is having a mental breakdown, the situation could lead to U.S. military action against North Korea and a nuclear holocaust.
“[T]hat is not the only danger we’re facing,” Lee insisted. “There’s everything in between: provoking our allies and alienating them, instigating civil conflict, and laying a foundation for a violent culture that could give way to epidemics of violence — not to mention poke a beehive in the Middle East by declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. All of these actions are consistent with the pathological pattern he has already shown of resorting to violence the more he feels threatened.”
Lee even insisted no “serious” psychiatrist would say Trump isn’t “dangerous.”
“It would be hard to find a single psychiatrist, no matter of what political affiliation, who could confidently say Trump is not dangerous,” she said. “I am sure there are some who feel unsure, or feel that they don’t have enough information or the expertise, and that is fine, since not everyone has devoted her 20-year career to studying, predicting, and preventing violence like I have. But there has not been a single serious mental health expert who disagrees on the medical side.”
How can psychiatrists evaluate President Trump if he won’t voluntarily submit to an evaluation?
Lee suggested a forceful evaluation, but she warned it could “really look like a coup”:
We encounter this often in mental health. Those who most require an evaluation are the least likely to submit to one. That is the reason why in all 50 states we have not only the legal authority, but often the legal obligation, to contain someone even against their will when it’s an emergency.
So in an emergency, neither consent nor confidentiality requirements hold. Safety comes first. What we do in the case of danger is we contain the person, we remove them from access to weapons, and we do an urgent evaluation.
This is what we have been calling for with the president based on basic medical standards of care.
Surprisingly, many lawyer groups have actually volunteered, on their own, to file for a court paper to ensure that the security staff will cooperate with us. But we have declined, since this will really look like a coup, and while we are trying to prevent violence, we don’t wish to incite it through, say, an insurrection.
Lee said she has been discussing this scenario with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and they “seem surprisingly OK” with what she had to say.
As WND reported last July, it has long been considered unethical for psychiatrists to “diagnose” politicians or public figures based solely on that person’s public actions or statements, without conducting an actual in-person examination. But now that Trump is president, a national psychology organization, the American Psychoanalytic Association, has given psychoanalysts the green light to publicly comment on Trump’s mental health.
Since Lee’s statements were made public, the American Psychiatric Association released a statement urging psychiatrists to stop trying to evaluate Trump when they’ve never even examined him.
“We at the APA call for an end to psychiatrists providing professional opinions in the media about public figures whom they have not examined, whether it be on cable news appearances, books, or in social media,” the American Psychiatric Association’s statement said. “Arm-chair psychiatry or the use of psychiatry as a political tool is the misuse of psychiatry and is unacceptable and unethical.”
As WND reported, without ever having examined Trump, psychological professionals have called the president “psychotic,” “narcissistic,” “paranoid,” “hypomanic,” “emotionally unstable,” “delusional” and “psychologically isolated” and claimed he has a “dangerous mental illness.” One physician suggested Trump could be suffering from an untreated sexually transmitted disease known as neurosyphilis.
Some mental health “experts” have even gone so far as to call conservatism a mental illness, claiming prominent Republicans have shown signs of denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness and paranoia.
In a Politico piece Wednesday, “We’re psychiatrists. It’s our duty to question the president’s mental state,” Lee claimed “it’s perfectly OK to question the president’s mental state” because she’s a “psychiatrist.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/no-license-psych-callng-to-restrain-trump-missing-something-yuuge/#DuS1TdoQYl5Ztl5j.99
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CONSERVATIVES WAGE WAR AGAINST TECH GIANTS OVER 'DISCRIMINATION'
'This is going to be a very serious case over the freedom of the Internet'
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This is war.
And Twitter, Google and YouTube may have finally met their match in a group of high-profile conservatives who accuse tech and social-media giants of discrimination.
Republican political consultant Roger Stone and former Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos are reportedly planning to file a lawsuit against Twitter in February.
Also, a Republican congressman is about to call for congressional hearings to probe alleged discrimination against conservatives by Twitter, YouTube, Google and others, the Hollywood Reporter revealed Thursday.
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The news came just as WND reported explosive video released by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas revealed Twitter employees are willing to use their access to President Trump’s account to bring down the nation’s commander in chief.
Twitter employee Clay Haynes, who has worked at the company since 2016, spoke to an undercover journalist from Project Veritas on Jan. 3. Haynes, a self-declared “bleeding-heart liberal,” outlined specific ways the company could help take down the president, including providing every single tweet Trump has made, even those that have been deleted, as well as any direct messages. Direct messages are usually regarded as private. Haynes openly declared his desire to end the Trump administration.
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MILLER EMERGES AS POWER PLAYER FOR TRUMP
'An incredibly bright mind on immigration policy'
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President Trump is not known for being a weak personality.
Many of his advisers have been cast in roughly the same mold: a little bit brash, certainly blunt, not inclined to use euphemisms.
One such personality was Stephen Bannon, the former chief strategist, whose bluntness eventually conflicted with the president’s own.
But now another blunt-speaking personality, who has a take-no-prisoners attitude with the media, is emerging as a power player for the president.
In the last week, he’s been “thrown out” of a television channel’s headquarters and has been the focus of complaints that his demands are holding up legislation.
He’s Stephen Miller, and McClatchy recently cited fretting by “even Republicans” in Congress that he was setting down requirements that were limiting their chances of passing an immigration deal.
Some members on Thursday said a committee had reached agreement on a deal, while others said it hadn’t happened.
But the McClatchy report said Miller is loathed for “delivering his hardline views.”
Earlier this week, CNN claimed Miller was “escorted” out of its headquarters after a fiery interview with anchor Jake Tapper.
Miller appeared on Tapper’s “State of the Union” program Sunday morning to defend the president from charges of dysfunction in the White House leveled in the new book by Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury.”
Tapper appeared to become flustered by Miller’s defense of the president and his refusal to answer some questions.
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“I have plenty of questions on immigration — you’ve attempted to filibuster by talking about your flights with the president,” Tapper said.
“Don’t be condescending, Jake,” Miller barked.
At one point, Tapper urged Miller to “settle down, calm down” and accused him of performing to please Trump, whom he referred to as Miller’s “one viewer.”
After a bit, Tapper cut the interview short, claiming Miller was “wasting his viewers’ time.”
Trump soon took to Twitter to declare his adviser “destroyed” Tapper.
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McClatchy quoted an unidentified Republican House member stating Miller is “an obstacle to getting anything done on immigration.”
Conservatives might be pleased with that in light of Wednesday’s report that allowing some 800,000 children of illegal aliens to stay in the U.S. and become voters would flip four or even five states from the GOP to Democrats, costing future elections for perhaps generations.
The states are Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
Of the five, Texas, with 34 electoral votes, has the most impact on presidential election outcomes. Florida has 29; North Carolina, 15; Georgia, 16; and Arizona, 11. In 2016, Trump won Texas 52.2 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 43.2 percent. His winning margin in Florida was much tighter at 48.6 percent to 47.4 percent. Trump took North Carolina with 49.8 percent to 46.2 percent; Arizona, 48.1 percent to 44.6 percent; and Georgia, 50.4 percent to Clinton’s 45.3 percent.
But political trends in those traditionally Republican-leaning states could shift if illegal immigrants known as DREAMers, who were brought to the U.S. as minors, are offered amnesty and particularly if they’re eventually given voting rights. Those fives states host large numbers of DREAMers, as Fortune magazine reported last January.
McClatchy reported: “Many people involved in the immigration debate — Republicans and Democrats, Capitol Hill staffers and activists — complain that Miller is making already tough negotiations more difficult, according to 14 people familiar with the situation, half involved in negotiations. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s aide.”
The report laments that Miller’s “close relationship to the president, which spans the campaign and transition, means they are unlikely to do or say anything to get him out of the negotiations.”
Miller has tried to influence the negotiations with “policies he knows will never survive a vote in the Senate.”
But the report also quoted two senior White House officials saying Miller is “a policy expert Trump values who has a wealth of knowledge and expertise on immigration.”
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Miller is “an incredibly bright mind on immigration policy and reflects the administration’s focus in fixing our broken immigration system.”
“He has been of tremendous value for members on the hill and for the administration during this debate.”
Another unnamed source, a “lobbyist,” told McClatchy that it’s Miller’s personality, rather than his message, that creates issues.
Miller is credited at least partly with stopping a 2013 plan to allow illegal aliens to become citizens. The “Gang of Eight” bill in the Senate never even was reviewed in the House.
In the Atlantic, commentator David Graham explained his dislike for Miller’s tactics, but conceded, “Miller’s old tactics have finally found a forum and audience in which they can thrive, and he seems to have achieved exactly what he wanted from this interview.”
The Tapper interview went back and forth, Graham explained, but “the audience wasn’t just Trump — it was his supporters, too.”
“In that demographic, it’s likely Miller scored well by calling out Tapper’s condescension and refusing to back down. Miller’s demand for time to simply ramble makes little sense in the real world — why should CNN give an aide to the president carte blanche to launch ad hominem attacks on Wolff and on the network itself? — but if one believes that CNN makes up facts to take down the president, then why shouldn’t Miller be allowed to say what he wants, too?”
He pointed out: “Miller accused CNN of offering nothing but anti-Trump attacks, and in the process baited CNN into cutting his mic, which just validated his point. Getting cut off was a better outcome for him than having to actually debate the substance of Wolff’s book or anything else. He got what he wanted.”
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President Trump is not known for being a weak personality.
Many of his advisers have been cast in roughly the same mold: a little bit brash, certainly blunt, not inclined to use euphemisms.
One such personality was Stephen Bannon, the former chief strategist, whose bluntness eventually conflicted with the president’s own.
But now another blunt-speaking personality, who has a take-no-prisoners attitude with the media, is emerging as a power player for the president.
In the last week, he’s been “thrown out” of a television channel’s headquarters and has been the focus of complaints that his demands are holding up legislation.
He’s Stephen Miller, and McClatchy recently cited fretting by “even Republicans” in Congress that he was setting down requirements that were limiting their chances of passing an immigration deal.
Some members on Thursday said a committee had reached agreement on a deal, while others said it hadn’t happened.
But the McClatchy report said Miller is loathed for “delivering his hardline views.”
Earlier this week, CNN claimed Miller was “escorted” out of its headquarters after a fiery interview with anchor Jake Tapper.
Miller appeared on Tapper’s “State of the Union” program Sunday morning to defend the president from charges of dysfunction in the White House leveled in the new book by Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury.”
Tapper appeared to become flustered by Miller’s defense of the president and his refusal to answer some questions.
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“I have plenty of questions on immigration — you’ve attempted to filibuster by talking about your flights with the president,” Tapper said.
“Don’t be condescending, Jake,” Miller barked.
At one point, Tapper urged Miller to “settle down, calm down” and accused him of performing to please Trump, whom he referred to as Miller’s “one viewer.”
After a bit, Tapper cut the interview short, claiming Miller was “wasting his viewers’ time.”
Trump soon took to Twitter to declare his adviser “destroyed” Tapper.
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McClatchy quoted an unidentified Republican House member stating Miller is “an obstacle to getting anything done on immigration.”
Conservatives might be pleased with that in light of Wednesday’s report that allowing some 800,000 children of illegal aliens to stay in the U.S. and become voters would flip four or even five states from the GOP to Democrats, costing future elections for perhaps generations.
The states are Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
Of the five, Texas, with 34 electoral votes, has the most impact on presidential election outcomes. Florida has 29; North Carolina, 15; Georgia, 16; and Arizona, 11. In 2016, Trump won Texas 52.2 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 43.2 percent. His winning margin in Florida was much tighter at 48.6 percent to 47.4 percent. Trump took North Carolina with 49.8 percent to 46.2 percent; Arizona, 48.1 percent to 44.6 percent; and Georgia, 50.4 percent to Clinton’s 45.3 percent.
But political trends in those traditionally Republican-leaning states could shift if illegal immigrants known as DREAMers, who were brought to the U.S. as minors, are offered amnesty and particularly if they’re eventually given voting rights. Those fives states host large numbers of DREAMers, as Fortune magazine reported last January.
McClatchy reported: “Many people involved in the immigration debate — Republicans and Democrats, Capitol Hill staffers and activists — complain that Miller is making already tough negotiations more difficult, according to 14 people familiar with the situation, half involved in negotiations. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s aide.”
The report laments that Miller’s “close relationship to the president, which spans the campaign and transition, means they are unlikely to do or say anything to get him out of the negotiations.”
Miller has tried to influence the negotiations with “policies he knows will never survive a vote in the Senate.”
But the report also quoted two senior White House officials saying Miller is “a policy expert Trump values who has a wealth of knowledge and expertise on immigration.”
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Miller is “an incredibly bright mind on immigration policy and reflects the administration’s focus in fixing our broken immigration system.”
“He has been of tremendous value for members on the hill and for the administration during this debate.”
Another unnamed source, a “lobbyist,” told McClatchy that it’s Miller’s personality, rather than his message, that creates issues.
Miller is credited at least partly with stopping a 2013 plan to allow illegal aliens to become citizens. The “Gang of Eight” bill in the Senate never even was reviewed in the House.
In the Atlantic, commentator David Graham explained his dislike for Miller’s tactics, but conceded, “Miller’s old tactics have finally found a forum and audience in which they can thrive, and he seems to have achieved exactly what he wanted from this interview.”
The Tapper interview went back and forth, Graham explained, but “the audience wasn’t just Trump — it was his supporters, too.”
“In that demographic, it’s likely Miller scored well by calling out Tapper’s condescension and refusing to back down. Miller’s demand for time to simply ramble makes little sense in the real world — why should CNN give an aide to the president carte blanche to launch ad hominem attacks on Wolff and on the network itself? — but if one believes that CNN makes up facts to take down the president, then why shouldn’t Miller be allowed to say what he wants, too?”
He pointed out: “Miller accused CNN of offering nothing but anti-Trump attacks, and in the process baited CNN into cutting his mic, which just validated his point. Getting cut off was a better outcome for him than having to actually debate the substance of Wolff’s book or anything else. He got what he wanted.”
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O'KEEFE UNCOVERS TWITTER'S 'SHADOW BAN' ON CONSERVATIVES
'What kind of world do we live in where computer engineers are the gatekeepers'
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A new video released Thursday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas reveals that Twitter workers have ways to ban users of its social-media platform without letting them know.
The video shows former Twitter software employee Abhinov Vadrevu, during a conversation at a San Francisco restaurant just days ago, calling it “shadow banning.”
“One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don’t know they’ve been banned, because they keep posting and no one sees their content. So they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it,” he said.
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WND reported earlier this week on a Project Veritas video that revealed Twitter employees are willing to use their access to President Trump’s account to bring down the nation’s commander-in-chief.
Employee Clay Haynes, who has worked at the company since 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile, spoke to an undercover journalist from Project Veritas on Jan. 3. Haynes said the company would be “more than happy to help the DOJ with their little investigation.”
Haynes, a self-declared “bleeding-heart liberal,” also outlined specific ways the company could help take down the president, including providing every single tweet Trump has made, even those that have been deleted, as well as any direct messages.
Direct messages are usually regarded as private.
Haynes openly declared his desire to end the Trump administration.
“He’s dangerous, I don’t like him and he’s a terrible human being and I want to get rid of him,” Haynes states in the video.
The second video, above, reveals Twitter workers explaining steps the social media company takes to censor political content its workers don’t like.
Twitter worker Steven Pierre also told of news ways the company will be able to censor users.
“Every single conversation is going to be rated by a machine and the machine is going to say whether or not it’s a positive thing or a negative thing. And whether it’s positive or negative doesn’t (inaudible), it’s more like if somebody’s being aggressive or not. Right? Somebody’s just cursing at somebody, whatever, whatever. They may have point, but it will just vanish… It’s not going to ban the mindset, it’s going to ban, like, a way of talking.”
The video shows also shows Olinda Hassan, a manager for Twitter’s trust and safety team, explaining at a Twitter holiday party that the development of a system of “down ranking” “sh—- people” is in the works.
She said: “Yeah. That’s something we’re working on. It’s something we’re working on. We’re trying to get the sh—- people to not show up. It’s a product thing we’re working on right now.”
Also, a former content review agent, Mo Norai, notes the offhanded censorship that’s become routine.
“If it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump. … I banned his whole account … it’s at your discretion,” he said.
Pranay Singh, another worker, explained the company’s operations.
“Yeah you look for Trump, or America, and you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck. Then you look and parse all the messages, all the pictures, and then you look for stuff that matches that stuff.”
Wondered O’Keefe: “What kind of world do we live in where computer engineers are the gatekeepers of the ‘way people talk?’ This investigation brings forth information of profound public importance that educates people about how free they really are to express their views online.”
The earlier video is here:
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Twitter lists as its mission statement: “Give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
Twitter could not be reached immediately for a response. It’s “press” link online led only to a generic “about us” page.
Multiple tech companies have been caught in recent months engaging in activism against conservative and right-wing ideas and individuals.
For example, Google used its market power to discriminate against conservatives.
Google is currently being sued by former employee James Damore for creating hostile a environment against conservatives and white males.
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HILLARY-FUNDED EX-SPY HAD CALL WITH FBI ABOUT EMAIL PROBE
Dossier author claimed feds 'manipulated for political ends by Trump people'
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Bill and Hillary Clinton at President Trump’s inauguration in January
During the contentious 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton was fuming that then-FBI Director James Comey had closed and then re-opened the investigation into her emails.
So what’s a Clinton to do when the FBI won’t get off her tail and is threatening to derail her coveted White House bid?
Hire an ex-spy to report unverified accusations and salacious personal dirt on her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
Have that ex-spy pass the scandalous dossier off to the FBI, which is suspected of using it to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign. (The FBI launched a probe of Trump a month after it received the dossier.)
Then, just as Comey re-opens the Clinton email probe in late October, the Clinton-funded ex-spy calls the FBI about its investigation of Clinton, and he claims the probe is politically motivated.
That’s essentially how it all happened, according to a flurry of news reports, sources and testimony released this week.
As WND has reported, former British spy Christopher Steele compiled the anti-Trump dossier, which he said was given to the FBI “near the start of July.” But Steele didn’t compile the dossier on his own. He had been hired by the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which funded Steele’s research with cash from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
The Clinton- and DNC-funded dossier contained some curious allegations from Russian government sources and was published on the anti-Trump website Buzzfeed, which admitted, “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.” The 35-page document included lewd allegations concerning Trump’s personal life and claims regarding his purported financial ties to Russia.
Did Clinton-funded dossier trigger FBI’s spying warrant?
It’s been long suspected that the FBI used the Clinton-funded dossier to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump’s team during his campaign.
As WND reported, at a December Intelligence Committee hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, charged that Clinton’s campaign used its law firm, Perkins Coie, to hire Fusion GPS and Steele to draft the dossier “full of all kinds of fake news, National Enquirer garbage,” and the document was reportedly “all dressed up by the FBI, taken to [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA] Court, and presented as a legitimate intelligence document.”
Jordan told FBI Director Christopher Wray: “I’m wondering if that actually took place. It sure looks like it did.”
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Now investigative reporter Sara Carter says multiple sources have confirmed the federal agency did, in fact, use that dossier as evidence to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign officials. Carter’s report cites multiple sources, including “a senior law enforcement source with knowledge of the process” who told her, “It’s outrageous and clearly should be thoroughly investigated.”
Another source, a “senior U.S. official with knowledge of the dossier,” added: “Congress needs to look at the FBI officials who were handling this case and see what, if anything, was verified in the dossier. I think an important question is whether the FBI paid anything to the source for the dossier.”
Fox News’ Sean Hannity said Wednesday said three separate sources have told him the FBI used the dossier to obtain the warrant. One high-level source reportedly told Hannity the Clinton-funded dossier played a “significant role” in obtaining the spying warrant.
“It’s all propaganda,” Hannity said of the dossier. “It’s all Hillary Clinton bought-and-paid-for Russia lies. Salacious lies. Unproven things. … One person said it definitely played a part. Another said a significant part in terms of getting the FISA warrant. But it was, according to all three sources, used to obtain the warrant.”
On Twitter, President Trump himself said twice Thursday that he believes the dossier was used to obtain the FISA warrant.
He tweeted: “Disproven and paid for by Democrats ‘Dossier used to spy on Trump Campaign. Did FBI use Intel tool to influence the Election?’ @foxandfriends Did Dems or Clinton also pay Russians? Where are hidden and smashed DNC servers? Where are Crooked Hillary Emails? What a mess!”
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Trump followed that early morning tweet with another: “‘House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.’ This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?”
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Members of the House Intelligence Committee recently obtained access to FBI and DOJ documents related to the application for a FISA warrant. The Washington Examiner reported that “representatives of four committees — the House Intelligence Committee, Senate Intelligence Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and Senate Judiciary Committee — have had the opportunity to examine FISA documents in a secure room at the Justice Department.”
Members of Congress have not publicly revealed their findings yet.
WND asked Mueller’s office if the FBI or Mueller’s team ever used Steele’s dossier on Trump to shore up any part of the investigations. The office declined comment.
Clinton-backed firm complains to FBI about Clinton email probe
After the anti-Trump dossier was provided to the FBI, Fusion GPS had a phone call with the federal agency about the ongoing investigation of Clinton’s emails, it was revealed Thursday.
On Aug, 22, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson spoke with Senate Judiciary Committee Investigators for 10 hours. Simpson had requested that his 312-page testimony be released. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made Simpson’s transcript public Tuesday.
In that testimony (Page 178), Simpson admitted that Steele discussed the Clinton probe with the FBI because he believed the agency was improperly intervening in her campaign.
Simpson made the statement in response to a question from Heather Sawyer, chief oversight counsel for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Sawyer asked Simpson, “Just to finish up the interactions with the FBI, do you know were there any additional interactions between Mr. Steel and the FBI?”
Simpson replied:
There was some sort of interaction, I think it was probably telephonic, that occurred after Director Comey sent his letter to Congress reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. That episode, you know, obviously created some concern that the FBI was intervening in a political campaign in contravention of long-standing Justice Department regulation.
So it made a lot of people, including us, concerned about what the heck was going on at the FBI. So, you know, we began getting questions from the press about, you know, whether they were also investigating Trump and, you know, we encouraged them to ask the FBI that question. … [W]e just encouraged them to ask the FBI that question.
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Shortly after Simpson made that statement, he said Steele “severed his relationship with the FBI out of concern that he didn’t know what was happening inside the FBI and there was a concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people at that we really didn’t understand what was going on.”
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In his testimony, Simpson also admitted that he personally “opposed” Trump.
“At some point probably early in 2016 I had reached a conclusion about Donald Trump as a businessman and his character and I was opposed to Donald Trump,” Simpson said. “I’m not going to pretend that that wouldn’t have entered into my thinking. … I reached an opinion about Donald Trump and his suitability to be president of the United States and I was concerned about whether he was the best person for the job.”
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SEE CHINESE COPS DESTROY EVANGELICAL MEGACHURCH
Unregistered congregation of 50,000 paid for $2.6 million building
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Chinese authorities demolished the $2.6 million building of a 50,000-member evangelical congregation in the country’s northern Shanxi province.
The order to destroy the Golden Lampstand Church in the city of Linfen apparently came from China’s top officials instead of the less-powerful local authorities, according to the Christian organization China Aid.
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The group explained that the communist country’s notorious military police, which carried out the demolition Jan. 9, has been under the direct control of the central government since the head of the public security bureau was arrested last year.
It’s the second large church building to be demolished in the province in the past month.
People’s Armed Police forces used excavators and dynamite to destroy the building in Linfen, which had been financed by the congregation.
The church is among the nation’s unregistered congregations, meaning it is not within the government-controlled system and therefore is deemed illegal by the communist regime.
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China guarantees “freedom of religion” in its law but not in practice, as authorities use technicalities such land or building violations to destroy churches. The state-run Global Times newspaper cited an unidentified local official claiming the church did not hold the necessary permits.
“The repeated persecution of Golden Lampstand Church demonstrates that the Chinese government has no respect for religious freedom or human rights,” said China Aid’s president and founder, Bob Fu.
An official at the local religious affairs bureau denied the demolition took place, the Voice of America reported.
China Aid noted that on Sept. 13, 2009, when the building was under construction, church members who slept at the site to guard it were awakened by 400 officials who beat them and razed the building. Thirty of the members were in critical condition.
State media at the time said the church leaders were charged with illegally occupying farmland and disturbing traffic order.
The church’s two pastors were arrested in 2009. Yang Xuan spent three-and-a-half years in prison and Yang Rongli was imprisoned for seven years.
Yang Rongli, who has been under government surveillance since her release in 2016, described the demolition Tuesday to a China Aid reporter.
“The police surrounded the Golden Lampstand Church. Patrol wagons guarded the church. Workers smashed the church’s glass,” she said. “At this point, excavators are digging into the church, but we are not allowed to enter or watch. The village head and the police from the local police station warned all the believers against entering the church. Now, we really have no idea what is going to happen.”
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'What kind of world do we live in where computer engineers are the gatekeepers'
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A new video released Thursday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas reveals that Twitter workers have ways to ban users of its social-media platform without letting them know.
The video shows former Twitter software employee Abhinov Vadrevu, during a conversation at a San Francisco restaurant just days ago, calling it “shadow banning.”
“One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don’t know they’ve been banned, because they keep posting and no one sees their content. So they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it,” he said.
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WND reported earlier this week on a Project Veritas video that revealed Twitter employees are willing to use their access to President Trump’s account to bring down the nation’s commander-in-chief.
Employee Clay Haynes, who has worked at the company since 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile, spoke to an undercover journalist from Project Veritas on Jan. 3. Haynes said the company would be “more than happy to help the DOJ with their little investigation.”
Haynes, a self-declared “bleeding-heart liberal,” also outlined specific ways the company could help take down the president, including providing every single tweet Trump has made, even those that have been deleted, as well as any direct messages.
Direct messages are usually regarded as private.
Haynes openly declared his desire to end the Trump administration.
“He’s dangerous, I don’t like him and he’s a terrible human being and I want to get rid of him,” Haynes states in the video.
The second video, above, reveals Twitter workers explaining steps the social media company takes to censor political content its workers don’t like.
Twitter worker Steven Pierre also told of news ways the company will be able to censor users.
“Every single conversation is going to be rated by a machine and the machine is going to say whether or not it’s a positive thing or a negative thing. And whether it’s positive or negative doesn’t (inaudible), it’s more like if somebody’s being aggressive or not. Right? Somebody’s just cursing at somebody, whatever, whatever. They may have point, but it will just vanish… It’s not going to ban the mindset, it’s going to ban, like, a way of talking.”
The video shows also shows Olinda Hassan, a manager for Twitter’s trust and safety team, explaining at a Twitter holiday party that the development of a system of “down ranking” “sh—- people” is in the works.
She said: “Yeah. That’s something we’re working on. It’s something we’re working on. We’re trying to get the sh—- people to not show up. It’s a product thing we’re working on right now.”
Also, a former content review agent, Mo Norai, notes the offhanded censorship that’s become routine.
“If it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump. … I banned his whole account … it’s at your discretion,” he said.
Pranay Singh, another worker, explained the company’s operations.
“Yeah you look for Trump, or America, and you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck. Then you look and parse all the messages, all the pictures, and then you look for stuff that matches that stuff.”
Wondered O’Keefe: “What kind of world do we live in where computer engineers are the gatekeepers of the ‘way people talk?’ This investigation brings forth information of profound public importance that educates people about how free they really are to express their views online.”
The earlier video is here:
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Twitter lists as its mission statement: “Give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
Twitter could not be reached immediately for a response. It’s “press” link online led only to a generic “about us” page.
Multiple tech companies have been caught in recent months engaging in activism against conservative and right-wing ideas and individuals.
For example, Google used its market power to discriminate against conservatives.
Google is currently being sued by former employee James Damore for creating hostile a environment against conservatives and white males.
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HILLARY-FUNDED EX-SPY HAD CALL WITH FBI ABOUT EMAIL PROBE
Dossier author claimed feds 'manipulated for political ends by Trump people'
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During the contentious 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton was fuming that then-FBI Director James Comey had closed and then re-opened the investigation into her emails.
So what’s a Clinton to do when the FBI won’t get off her tail and is threatening to derail her coveted White House bid?
Hire an ex-spy to report unverified accusations and salacious personal dirt on her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
Have that ex-spy pass the scandalous dossier off to the FBI, which is suspected of using it to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign. (The FBI launched a probe of Trump a month after it received the dossier.)
Then, just as Comey re-opens the Clinton email probe in late October, the Clinton-funded ex-spy calls the FBI about its investigation of Clinton, and he claims the probe is politically motivated.
That’s essentially how it all happened, according to a flurry of news reports, sources and testimony released this week.
As WND has reported, former British spy Christopher Steele compiled the anti-Trump dossier, which he said was given to the FBI “near the start of July.” But Steele didn’t compile the dossier on his own. He had been hired by the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which funded Steele’s research with cash from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
The Clinton- and DNC-funded dossier contained some curious allegations from Russian government sources and was published on the anti-Trump website Buzzfeed, which admitted, “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.” The 35-page document included lewd allegations concerning Trump’s personal life and claims regarding his purported financial ties to Russia.
Did Clinton-funded dossier trigger FBI’s spying warrant?
It’s been long suspected that the FBI used the Clinton-funded dossier to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump’s team during his campaign.
As WND reported, at a December Intelligence Committee hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, charged that Clinton’s campaign used its law firm, Perkins Coie, to hire Fusion GPS and Steele to draft the dossier “full of all kinds of fake news, National Enquirer garbage,” and the document was reportedly “all dressed up by the FBI, taken to [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA] Court, and presented as a legitimate intelligence document.”
Jordan told FBI Director Christopher Wray: “I’m wondering if that actually took place. It sure looks like it did.”
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Now investigative reporter Sara Carter says multiple sources have confirmed the federal agency did, in fact, use that dossier as evidence to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign officials. Carter’s report cites multiple sources, including “a senior law enforcement source with knowledge of the process” who told her, “It’s outrageous and clearly should be thoroughly investigated.”
Another source, a “senior U.S. official with knowledge of the dossier,” added: “Congress needs to look at the FBI officials who were handling this case and see what, if anything, was verified in the dossier. I think an important question is whether the FBI paid anything to the source for the dossier.”
Fox News’ Sean Hannity said Wednesday said three separate sources have told him the FBI used the dossier to obtain the warrant. One high-level source reportedly told Hannity the Clinton-funded dossier played a “significant role” in obtaining the spying warrant.
“It’s all propaganda,” Hannity said of the dossier. “It’s all Hillary Clinton bought-and-paid-for Russia lies. Salacious lies. Unproven things. … One person said it definitely played a part. Another said a significant part in terms of getting the FISA warrant. But it was, according to all three sources, used to obtain the warrant.”
On Twitter, President Trump himself said twice Thursday that he believes the dossier was used to obtain the FISA warrant.
He tweeted: “Disproven and paid for by Democrats ‘Dossier used to spy on Trump Campaign. Did FBI use Intel tool to influence the Election?’ @foxandfriends Did Dems or Clinton also pay Russians? Where are hidden and smashed DNC servers? Where are Crooked Hillary Emails? What a mess!”
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Trump followed that early morning tweet with another: “‘House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.’ This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?”
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Members of the House Intelligence Committee recently obtained access to FBI and DOJ documents related to the application for a FISA warrant. The Washington Examiner reported that “representatives of four committees — the House Intelligence Committee, Senate Intelligence Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and Senate Judiciary Committee — have had the opportunity to examine FISA documents in a secure room at the Justice Department.”
Members of Congress have not publicly revealed their findings yet.
WND asked Mueller’s office if the FBI or Mueller’s team ever used Steele’s dossier on Trump to shore up any part of the investigations. The office declined comment.
Clinton-backed firm complains to FBI about Clinton email probe
After the anti-Trump dossier was provided to the FBI, Fusion GPS had a phone call with the federal agency about the ongoing investigation of Clinton’s emails, it was revealed Thursday.
On Aug, 22, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson spoke with Senate Judiciary Committee Investigators for 10 hours. Simpson had requested that his 312-page testimony be released. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made Simpson’s transcript public Tuesday.
In that testimony (Page 178), Simpson admitted that Steele discussed the Clinton probe with the FBI because he believed the agency was improperly intervening in her campaign.
Simpson made the statement in response to a question from Heather Sawyer, chief oversight counsel for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Sawyer asked Simpson, “Just to finish up the interactions with the FBI, do you know were there any additional interactions between Mr. Steel and the FBI?”
Simpson replied:
There was some sort of interaction, I think it was probably telephonic, that occurred after Director Comey sent his letter to Congress reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. That episode, you know, obviously created some concern that the FBI was intervening in a political campaign in contravention of long-standing Justice Department regulation.
So it made a lot of people, including us, concerned about what the heck was going on at the FBI. So, you know, we began getting questions from the press about, you know, whether they were also investigating Trump and, you know, we encouraged them to ask the FBI that question. … [W]e just encouraged them to ask the FBI that question.
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Shortly after Simpson made that statement, he said Steele “severed his relationship with the FBI out of concern that he didn’t know what was happening inside the FBI and there was a concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people at that we really didn’t understand what was going on.”
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In his testimony, Simpson also admitted that he personally “opposed” Trump.
“At some point probably early in 2016 I had reached a conclusion about Donald Trump as a businessman and his character and I was opposed to Donald Trump,” Simpson said. “I’m not going to pretend that that wouldn’t have entered into my thinking. … I reached an opinion about Donald Trump and his suitability to be president of the United States and I was concerned about whether he was the best person for the job.”
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SEE CHINESE COPS DESTROY EVANGELICAL MEGACHURCH
Unregistered congregation of 50,000 paid for $2.6 million building
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Chinese authorities demolished the $2.6 million building of a 50,000-member evangelical congregation in the country’s northern Shanxi province.
The order to destroy the Golden Lampstand Church in the city of Linfen apparently came from China’s top officials instead of the less-powerful local authorities, according to the Christian organization China Aid.
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The group explained that the communist country’s notorious military police, which carried out the demolition Jan. 9, has been under the direct control of the central government since the head of the public security bureau was arrested last year.
It’s the second large church building to be demolished in the province in the past month.
People’s Armed Police forces used excavators and dynamite to destroy the building in Linfen, which had been financed by the congregation.
The church is among the nation’s unregistered congregations, meaning it is not within the government-controlled system and therefore is deemed illegal by the communist regime.
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China guarantees “freedom of religion” in its law but not in practice, as authorities use technicalities such land or building violations to destroy churches. The state-run Global Times newspaper cited an unidentified local official claiming the church did not hold the necessary permits.
“The repeated persecution of Golden Lampstand Church demonstrates that the Chinese government has no respect for religious freedom or human rights,” said China Aid’s president and founder, Bob Fu.
An official at the local religious affairs bureau denied the demolition took place, the Voice of America reported.
China Aid noted that on Sept. 13, 2009, when the building was under construction, church members who slept at the site to guard it were awakened by 400 officials who beat them and razed the building. Thirty of the members were in critical condition.
State media at the time said the church leaders were charged with illegally occupying farmland and disturbing traffic order.
The church’s two pastors were arrested in 2009. Yang Xuan spent three-and-a-half years in prison and Yang Rongli was imprisoned for seven years.
Yang Rongli, who has been under government surveillance since her release in 2016, described the demolition Tuesday to a China Aid reporter.
“The police surrounded the Golden Lampstand Church. Patrol wagons guarded the church. Workers smashed the church’s glass,” she said. “At this point, excavators are digging into the church, but we are not allowed to enter or watch. The village head and the police from the local police station warned all the believers against entering the church. Now, we really have no idea what is going to happen.”
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TRUMP'S DACA DEAL COULD FLIP 4 STATES TO DEMS
'Illegal immigrants obtaining voting rights equals checkmate America! They win, we lose'
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U.S. border with Mexico stretches more than 1,950 miles, much of it unpatrolled.
President Trump has long promised he will secure the U.S.-Mexico border with a “big beautiful wall,” but a major bargaining chip in his negotiations possibly could flip four or even five traditionally Republican-leaning states to Democrats in future elections.
Those states are: Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
Of the five, Texas, with 34 electoral votes, has the most impact on presidential election outcomes. Florida has 29; North Carolina, 15; Georgia, 16; and Arizona, 11. In 2016, Trump won Texas 52.2 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 43.2 percent. His winning margin in Florida was much tighter at 48.6 percent to 47.4 percent. Trump took North Carolina with 49.8 percent to 46.2 percent; Arizona, 48.1 percent to 44.6 percent; and Georgia, 50.4 percent to Clinton’s 45.3 percent.
But political trends in those traditionally Republican-leaning states could see a shift if illegal immigrants known as DREAMers, or illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as minors, are offered amnesty and particularly if they’re eventually given voting rights. Those fives states host large numbers DREAMers, as Fortune magazine reported last January.
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RABBI IDENTIFIES 'GOG,' ENEMY OF GOD'S PEOPLE
'The Messianic process is unfolding literally in front of our eyes'
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“Gog” is defined as the name of the enemies of God’s people, “apparently a ruler from the land of Magog,” or even a “nation under the dominion of Satan.”
Many people would understand the description as very uncomplimentary.
But that’s what one prominent rabbi has labeled the United Nations, according to Breaking Israel News.
BIN’s Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz reports Rabbi Mendal Kessin, who “interprets modern events from a Torah perspective, lectured that U.S. President Donald Trump is bringing the world close to the Messiah, and the United Nations is Gog.”
“The Messianic process is unfolding literally in front of our eyes,” Kessin said. “Trump’s election was a revealed miracle. He shouldn’t have won since all the politicians and many Americans hated him more than any president before in American history. They hate him because he will cause a Satan to die in America. They don’t want this to happen and this is why they don’t want him to help Israel. But Trump is greater than that.”
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TRUMP'S DACA DEAL COULD FLIP 4 STATES TO DEMS
'Illegal immigrants obtaining voting rights equals checkmate America! They win, we lose'
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U.S. border with Mexico stretches more than 1,950 miles, much of it unpatrolled.
President Trump has long promised he will secure the U.S.-Mexico border with a “big beautiful wall,” but a major bargaining chip in his negotiations possibly could flip four or even five traditionally Republican-leaning states to Democrats in future elections.
Those states are: Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
Of the five, Texas, with 34 electoral votes, has the most impact on presidential election outcomes. Florida has 29; North Carolina, 15; Georgia, 16; and Arizona, 11. In 2016, Trump won Texas 52.2 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 43.2 percent. His winning margin in Florida was much tighter at 48.6 percent to 47.4 percent. Trump took North Carolina with 49.8 percent to 46.2 percent; Arizona, 48.1 percent to 44.6 percent; and Georgia, 50.4 percent to Clinton’s 45.3 percent.
But political trends in those traditionally Republican-leaning states could see a shift if illegal immigrants known as DREAMers, or illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as minors, are offered amnesty and particularly if they’re eventually given voting rights. Those fives states host large numbers DREAMers, as Fortune magazine reported last January.
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RABBI IDENTIFIES 'GOG,' ENEMY OF GOD'S PEOPLE
'The Messianic process is unfolding literally in front of our eyes'
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“Gog” is defined as the name of the enemies of God’s people, “apparently a ruler from the land of Magog,” or even a “nation under the dominion of Satan.”
Many people would understand the description as very uncomplimentary.
But that’s what one prominent rabbi has labeled the United Nations, according to Breaking Israel News.
BIN’s Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz reports Rabbi Mendal Kessin, who “interprets modern events from a Torah perspective, lectured that U.S. President Donald Trump is bringing the world close to the Messiah, and the United Nations is Gog.”
“The Messianic process is unfolding literally in front of our eyes,” Kessin said. “Trump’s election was a revealed miracle. He shouldn’t have won since all the politicians and many Americans hated him more than any president before in American history. They hate him because he will cause a Satan to die in America. They don’t want this to happen and this is why they don’t want him to help Israel. But Trump is greater than that.”
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JUANITA BROADDRICK LASHES INTO OPRAH WINFREY
'Funny I've never heard you mention my name. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?'
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Oprah Winfrey’s rant at the Golden Globes award ceremony about how women who are victims of assault should stand up, speak out and fight back has gotten a lot of attention.
It raised speculation that she will run for president in 2020, and a quick poll showed her ahead of President Trump.
But it also exposed her to a broadside from victims of Oprah’s friend Bill Clinton.
Oprah was quoted at the awards saying: “You get a voice. You get a voice. Everybody gets a voice.”
But Juanita Broaddrick, who has stated that Bill Clinton, when he was attorney general in Arkansas, the state’s top law-enforcement officer, raped her, went to Twitter to chastise Oprah and her followers.
Hey @Oprah #Goldenglobes. Funny I’ve never heard you mention my name. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?Guess not. My rapist was/is your friend, Bill Clinton https://t.co/zBSPnrqRzk
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 8, 2018
“Hey @Oprah #Goldenglobes. Funny I’ve never heard you mention my name. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?Guess not. My rapist was/is your friend, Bill Clinton,” she charged.
“Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine” – available at the WND Superstore – is a wake-up call to Americans to re-evaluate this ruthless power couple and prevent Hillary Clinton from returning to the White House.
Twitchy monitored the flow of support for Broaddrick.
“According to Oprah on the Golden Globes, everybody has their own truth (and voice). Just not Weinstein’s accusers … oh yeah, and Juantia Broaddrick doesn’t get a voice either,” the site said.
“Otherwise, EVERYBODY else gets a voice. And their own truth, apparently. Hey, we don’t make up the rules.”
One Twitter user posted an image of Oprah with Bill Clinton.
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— Daniel (@DdDaanniieeLlLl) January 8, 2018
Commented Twitchy: “Awww, look at Oprah with her good buddy, Bill. This is just pathetic. Look up at that picture. That’s why.”
Broaddrick later added: “Remember this @Oprah. You’ve had so many opportunities to bring up my allegations, which have never been discredited. Why??”
Remember this @Oprah You’ve had so many opportunities to bring up my allegations, which have never been discredited. Why?? https://t.co/C7Iaqn0kOp
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 8, 2018
Broaddrick began commenting on politics in 2016 when Hillary Clinton, whom she charges has been Bill Clinton’s enabler for years, ran for president.
Just last month, Broaddrick poked a hole in Time magazine’s claim to be honoring women who have spoken up about harassment or assault.
Time gave its Person of the Year award to the “Silence Breakers,” women who have come forward to claim they were sexually harassed or assaulted by prominent men in politics, entertainment, media or sports.
Time praised the women for giving voice to their “secrets” and for moving the “whisper networks onto social networks.”
Portrayed on the cover are Ashley Judd, Taylor Swift and others.
Broaddrick, who came forward with the rape claim against Bill Clinton in 1999, was interviewed by Time, but her comments were not included in the cover story.
Time magazine asked to interview me re: #metoo movement. The comments I gave were deemed of no value. I’d like to know why. Could it be I didn’t fit in their liberal victim mold. @TIME
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) December 7, 2017
She tweeted at the time: “Time magazine asked to interview me re: #metoo movement.
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Oprah Winfrey’s rant at the Golden Globes award ceremony about how women who are victims of assault should stand up, speak out and fight back has gotten a lot of attention.
It raised speculation that she will run for president in 2020, and a quick poll showed her ahead of President Trump.
But it also exposed her to a broadside from victims of Oprah’s friend Bill Clinton.
Oprah was quoted at the awards saying: “You get a voice. You get a voice. Everybody gets a voice.”
But Juanita Broaddrick, who has stated that Bill Clinton, when he was attorney general in Arkansas, the state’s top law-enforcement officer, raped her, went to Twitter to chastise Oprah and her followers.
Hey @Oprah #Goldenglobes. Funny I’ve never heard you mention my name. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?Guess not. My rapist was/is your friend, Bill Clinton https://t.co/zBSPnrqRzk
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 8, 2018
“Hey @Oprah #Goldenglobes. Funny I’ve never heard you mention my name. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?Guess not. My rapist was/is your friend, Bill Clinton,” she charged.
“Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine” – available at the WND Superstore – is a wake-up call to Americans to re-evaluate this ruthless power couple and prevent Hillary Clinton from returning to the White House.
Twitchy monitored the flow of support for Broaddrick.
“According to Oprah on the Golden Globes, everybody has their own truth (and voice). Just not Weinstein’s accusers … oh yeah, and Juantia Broaddrick doesn’t get a voice either,” the site said.
“Otherwise, EVERYBODY else gets a voice. And their own truth, apparently. Hey, we don’t make up the rules.”
One Twitter user posted an image of Oprah with Bill Clinton.
pic.twitter.com/9LfN5HLLUY
— Daniel (@DdDaanniieeLlLl) January 8, 2018
Commented Twitchy: “Awww, look at Oprah with her good buddy, Bill. This is just pathetic. Look up at that picture. That’s why.”
Broaddrick later added: “Remember this @Oprah. You’ve had so many opportunities to bring up my allegations, which have never been discredited. Why??”
Remember this @Oprah You’ve had so many opportunities to bring up my allegations, which have never been discredited. Why?? https://t.co/C7Iaqn0kOp
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 8, 2018
Broaddrick began commenting on politics in 2016 when Hillary Clinton, whom she charges has been Bill Clinton’s enabler for years, ran for president.
Just last month, Broaddrick poked a hole in Time magazine’s claim to be honoring women who have spoken up about harassment or assault.
Time gave its Person of the Year award to the “Silence Breakers,” women who have come forward to claim they were sexually harassed or assaulted by prominent men in politics, entertainment, media or sports.
Time praised the women for giving voice to their “secrets” and for moving the “whisper networks onto social networks.”
Portrayed on the cover are Ashley Judd, Taylor Swift and others.
Broaddrick, who came forward with the rape claim against Bill Clinton in 1999, was interviewed by Time, but her comments were not included in the cover story.
Time magazine asked to interview me re: #metoo movement. The comments I gave were deemed of no value. I’d like to know why. Could it be I didn’t fit in their liberal victim mold. @TIME
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) December 7, 2017
She tweeted at the time: “Time magazine asked to interview me re: #metoo movement.
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EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY: FBI HAD MOLE IN TRUMP'S CIRCLE
'One of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside'
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One of the leading players behind the anti-Trump dossier claims the FBI had an informant inside the president’s circle, and the secret source voluntarily fed information to the federal agency.
A lawyer for Fusion GPS Founder Glenn R. Simpson also claimed “somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier.”
The bombshells come from a newly released transcript of Simpson’s interviews with members of Congress. On Aug. 22, Simpson spoke with Senate Judiciary Committee investigators for 10 hours.
Simpson had requested that his 312-page testimony be released. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made Simpson’s transcript public Tuesday.
“The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice,” Feinstein said in a statement. “The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”
As WND has reported, former British spy Christopher Steele compiled the anti-Trump dossier, which he said was given to the FBI “near the start of July.” He had been hired by the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which funded Steele’s research with cash from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Simpson’s testimony reveals FBI agents believed the information Steele provided. He said Steele told him the FBI had a source inside Trump’s circle.
“My understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization,” Simpson explained.
The inside source reportedly volunteered to provide information to the FBI, Simpson said, and was “someone like us who decided to pick up the phone and report something.”
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When Simpson was asked to identify the inside source, he said: “We had been really careful — I was really careful throughout this process to not ask a lot of specific sourcing questions. There are some things I know that I just don’t feel comfortable sharing because obviously it’s been in the news a lot lately that people who get in the way of the Russians tend to get hurt.”
Simpson said the inside source was independent of sources used for Steele’s dossier.
The Clinton- and DNC-funded dossier contained some curious allegations from Russian government sources and was published on the anti-Trump website Buzzfeed, which admitted, “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.” The 35-page document included lewd allegations concerning Trump’s personal life and claims regarding his purported financial ties to Russia.
Trump called the dossier “fake” and disputed all the allegations in it. Since the dossier was published, defamation lawsuits have been filed against Steele, Fusion GPS, former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and Yahoo News concerning potentially libelous claims made in the document.
Despite the so-called “salacious and unverified” claims in the dossier, the FBI reportedly used the document to justify secretly monitoring Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and to bolster its Trump-Russia investigation, according to a CNN report published in April.
Just last week, Republicans Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Lindsey Graham issued a criminal referral against Steele. They said the committee has reason to believe Steele lied to authorities about his discussions with the media concerning the dossier.
During his testimony, Simpson said Steele went to the FBI with his Trump-Russia findings because “he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and … he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government.”
He continued, “he thought from his perspective there was … a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed.”
However, Steele stopped working with the FBI in the late stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, Simpson claimed, because he didn’t believe the federal agency was taking his concerns seriously.
“I understand Chris severed his relationship with the FBI out of concern that he didn’t know what was happening inside the FBI and there was a concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people,” he said.
Asked if he verified Steele’s sources and claims concerning Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, Simpson declined to answer.
His lawyer explained: “It’s a voluntary interview, and in addition to that he wants to be very careful to protect his sources. Somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work.”
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It’s unclear who the lawyer was saying had been “killed” because of the dossier’s publication. However, the Sun reported in January 2017 that former KGB spy chief Oleg Erovinkin, a key source behind the dossier, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car in Moscow.
Simpson also discussed President Trump’s taxes in his testimony.
“One of the things we found out was that, you know, when it comes to paying taxes, Donald Trump claims to not have much stuff,” Simpson said. “At least the Trump organization. So they would make filings with various state and local authorities saying that their buildings weren’t worth much.”
He also indicated that Fusion GPS didn’t manage to acquire Trump’s tax documents.
“They were Trump properties and I believe we may have reviewed some public information about estate taxes and things like that,” Simpson said. “We didn’t have access to his tax returns.”
Simpson said Fusion GPS found that Trump had “exaggerated” the worth of his real estate in legal filings, but there’s nothing to indicate the exaggerations showed connections to Russia. He said the president’s golf clubs aren’t making much money.
“They were not profitable entities,” he said. “I don’t specifically recall. I just remember that these were not doing very well and that he’d sunk a lot of money into them and he hadn’t gotten a lot of money back yet.”
Simpson also said he had no “factual reason to believe” the meeting at Trump Tower between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. was part of the Kremlin’s effort to reach out to the Trump campaign.
“You know, as a sort of question of counterintelligence and just general investigation of Russian methods and that sort of thing, I think that’s a reasonable interpretation,” he said.
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ANOTHER IMAM IN U.S. CALLS FOR KILLING JEWS
'May Allah destroy everyone who wants evil for Islam'
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U.S.-based Imam Abdullah Khadra
U.S.-based Imam Abdullah Khadra
A third Muslim imam in the United States has been recorded citing an Islamic text that prophesies the killing of Jews by Muslims.
As with the other two imams, Abdullah Khadra, speaking at a mosque Dec. 8 in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area, was responding to President Trump’s Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The video was obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI.
Citing a familiar hadith, a collection of the sayings of Muhammad, Khadra said Islam’s prophet “gave us the glad tidings that at the End of Time, we will fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak: ‘Oh Muslim, this is a Jew behind me.'”
Khadra asserted that the Israeli cities of Haifa, Acre and Jaffa are “Muslim land.”
“May Allah destroy everyone who wants evil for Islam and Muslims,” he prayed.
WND reported a Texas imam who cited the hadith, urging Muslims to “fight the Jews in Palestine” and “kill the Jews,” tried to repair relations with local Jewish leaders with an apology.
Imam Raed Saleh Al-Rousan of the Tajweed Institute in Houston said he was “absolutely and completely opposed to and disgusted by all forms of terrorism, all terrorists, and I oppose anyone who would commit, call for, or threaten violence against civilians.”
But Dayan Gross, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, pointed out that video of the sermon shows the imam basing his statement on the well-known Islamic hadith declaring, “Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews.”
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Another Texas imam, Sheik Ramadan Elsabagh of Garland, Texas, posted a recorded prayer on his Facebook page in December calling for Israel’s destruction along with “their allies, and those who assist them and those who allowed them into the abodes of the Muslims.”
‘Standard, mainstream religion’
Commenting on the North Carolina imam’s remarks, Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer pointed out that the declaration is not a tenet of “extremist” Islam.
“This is the standard, mainstream religion. It’s a hadith in a collection that Muslims consider authentic,” Spencer wrote.
The hadith states:
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Sahih Muslim 6985)
Spencer said Muslims in North Carolina “don’t have a different version of Islamic texts and teachings from the version Muslims have elsewhere.”
“They have the same Quran, the same Sunnah. Why should anyone expect them not to teach the things these sources say?”
Spencer asked what American authorities are going to do “when they realize this is not twisted, hijacked Islam, but orthodox Islam?”
“Or will it be too late by then?” he asks.
The imam Khadra declared Muslims “should teach our children that it is our land and will remain our land, and will return to us sooner or later.”
“But the question is: Will you be among those who will contribute to regaining it or not? The Prophet Muhammad gave us the glad tidings that at the End of Time, we will fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak: ‘Oh Muslim, this is a Jew behind me.'”
Khadra said the “occupiers, aggressors and murderers” in the Holy Land “can never take our holy city – only if we are dead.”
“If you are dead, they can do to you whatever they can, but if we are truly alive – they cannot. May Allah make us of those who are alive, who are aware of their holy places, who are defending their religion, and who move by all possible means to defend their rights.”
He prayed: “May Allah liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the hands of the aggressors and the occupiers. May Allah destroy everyone who wants evil for Islam and Muslims.”
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ANOTHER ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN FACING CHALLENGE
'The tipping point really became when he signed taxpayer funding of abortion'
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Calling incumbent Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner a “failed governor,” conservative State Rep. Jeanne Ives says she cannot leave the GOP field to a man who broke countless promises and ended up doing the bidding of Chicago Democrats.
Ives, a West Point graduate and U.S. Army veteran, was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 2012. The GOP primary in Illinois is March 20.
Rauner was elected in 2014 on a platform of reforming government in Illinois and seriously addressing the state’s looming fiscal crisis. Instead, he is branded now by National Review as the worst Republican governor in America, after raising taxes instead of cutting them, signing a bill that forbids law enforcement from checking the immigration status of people they stop, and enacting taxpayer-funded abortion in the state.
“Let’s be clear. Gov. Rauner is a failed governor. He’s specifically a failed Republican governor, which is why I’m challenging him,” said Ives.
She says one issue in particular triggered her primary challenge.
“The tipping point really became when he signed taxpayer funding of abortion, because that’s the point at which I started to get calls from colleagues and other Republicans around the state saying, ‘We do not want him to run unopposed. We need someone else to stand up for us,'” said Ives.
Rauner tries to downplay the abortion bill by saying the party is a big tent and he has supported pro-life candidates in the past. Ives says all Republicans in Springfield, regardless of their position on abortion, were appalled by Rauner’s actions.
“No Republican, even Republicans who consider themselves pro-choice in our legislature, none of us signed on for taxpayer funding of abortion. None of us did. He told us he was going to veto that bill and then did not and decided to sign it anyway, based on his wife being very pro-choice and based on his own propensity of being pro-choice,” said Ives.
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“He enacted with that bill the economic agenda and the social agenda of the Chicago Democrats, rather than a Republican conservative reform agenda,” added Ives.
In addition to the moral revulsion of Rauner’s support for the abortion legislation, Ives says the governor saddled Illinois taxpayers with another massive tax bill.
“He lied to us. He betrayed who we are as Republicans and he put in a brand new entitlement program in a state that it literally bankrupt. Nobody does that,” said Ives.
“Rauner also took a lot of heat from the right for failing to stop Democrats from pushing new tax increases into law when the state’s budget was in limbo last year. The governor said people need to realize he does not run Illinois and that Democratic House Speaker Mike Madigan is actually more powerful than he is.
Ives finds that excuse revolting.
“He needs to resign over that comment, quite frankly. The idea that the governor says, ‘I’m not in charge.’ Are you kidding me? It just tells you where he is in terms of his fight and his stance. That’s just nonsense,” said Ives.
Democrats do enjoy large majorities in the state legislature, including a 67-51 margin in the state house and a 37-22 edge in the state senate. However, Ives says Rauner needed to do more to get Democrats to join him in doing the things he promised in 2014.
“There’s much you can do in terms of turning the state around and getting the buy-in from the legislators to do that, and Gov. Rauner just didn’t do that. He picked a personal fight with our longtime serving Speaker of the House Mike Madigan, who does wield a lot of control. However, he didn’t build the coalitions that would make the bills possible for a turnaround,” said Ives.
So how would Ives be different?
The interview:
“We’re just the worst-run state in the nation. We need to reverse course on nearly every policy. We need policy revolution and I’m ready to lead that revolt,” said Ives, who says she knows where she would start.
“We’ll go after public corruption. Corruption is an everyday event in the state of Illinois and it is something that the executive is charged to deal with, which is enforce our laws.
“We’re all about spending reform. Look, Illinois pensions are the worst in the nation and it’s crowding out all the other services we need to spend money on,” said Ives.
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SHOCK VIDEO: TWITTER EMPLOYEE OFFERS EYE-POPPING INTEL IN TRUMP TAKE-DOWN PLOT
Willing to hand out president's private messages
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A shocking video released by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas captures Twitter employees expressing their willingness to use their access to President Trump’s account to bring down the nation’s commander-in-chief.
Employee Clay Haynes, who has worked at the company since 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile, spoke to an undercover journalist from Project Veritas on Jan. 3. Haynes said the company would be “more than happy to help the DOJ with their little investigation.”
Haynes, a self-declared “bleeding-heart liberal,” also outlined specific ways the company could help take down the president, including providing every single tweet Trump has made, even those that have been deleted, as well as any direct messages.
Direct messages are usually regarded as private.
Haynes openly declared his desire to end the Trump administration.
“He’s dangerous, I don’t like him and he’s a terrible human being and I want to get rid of him,” Haynes states in the video.
Remarkably, the employee also says Twitter has had “internal reviews” about getting rid of the president.
Indeed, there even were discussions about hiding or concealing the president’s messages on social networking to prevent him from getting his message out, according to Haynes.
However, because company officials deemed it “newsworthy,” the decision was made to allow the president to keep using the service.
“Essentially, he has a carte blanche to do whatever he wants,” gripes Haynes.
An undercover O’Keefe also met with Haynes to discuss whether Twitter is currently working with the Department of Justice. Haynes refuses to comment on that in the video.
“The fact is, even if Haynes was just speculating about helping Justice, his admission shows a clear and dangerous political bias at the highest levels of Twitter,” said O’Keefe about his findings. “The question is: by Twitter giving private information about the president to the Justice Department, are they breaking the law, betraying a trust, following an official request or satisfying a political agenda by leading a crusade against the president.”
Twitter lists as its mission statement: “Give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
Twitter could not be reached immediately for a response. It’s “press” link online led only to a generic “about us” page.
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'One of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside'
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One of the leading players behind the anti-Trump dossier claims the FBI had an informant inside the president’s circle, and the secret source voluntarily fed information to the federal agency.
A lawyer for Fusion GPS Founder Glenn R. Simpson also claimed “somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier.”
The bombshells come from a newly released transcript of Simpson’s interviews with members of Congress. On Aug. 22, Simpson spoke with Senate Judiciary Committee investigators for 10 hours.
Simpson had requested that his 312-page testimony be released. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made Simpson’s transcript public Tuesday.
“The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice,” Feinstein said in a statement. “The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”
As WND has reported, former British spy Christopher Steele compiled the anti-Trump dossier, which he said was given to the FBI “near the start of July.” He had been hired by the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which funded Steele’s research with cash from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Simpson’s testimony reveals FBI agents believed the information Steele provided. He said Steele told him the FBI had a source inside Trump’s circle.
“My understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization,” Simpson explained.
The inside source reportedly volunteered to provide information to the FBI, Simpson said, and was “someone like us who decided to pick up the phone and report something.”
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When Simpson was asked to identify the inside source, he said: “We had been really careful — I was really careful throughout this process to not ask a lot of specific sourcing questions. There are some things I know that I just don’t feel comfortable sharing because obviously it’s been in the news a lot lately that people who get in the way of the Russians tend to get hurt.”
Simpson said the inside source was independent of sources used for Steele’s dossier.
The Clinton- and DNC-funded dossier contained some curious allegations from Russian government sources and was published on the anti-Trump website Buzzfeed, which admitted, “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.” The 35-page document included lewd allegations concerning Trump’s personal life and claims regarding his purported financial ties to Russia.
Trump called the dossier “fake” and disputed all the allegations in it. Since the dossier was published, defamation lawsuits have been filed against Steele, Fusion GPS, former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and Yahoo News concerning potentially libelous claims made in the document.
Despite the so-called “salacious and unverified” claims in the dossier, the FBI reportedly used the document to justify secretly monitoring Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and to bolster its Trump-Russia investigation, according to a CNN report published in April.
Just last week, Republicans Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Lindsey Graham issued a criminal referral against Steele. They said the committee has reason to believe Steele lied to authorities about his discussions with the media concerning the dossier.
During his testimony, Simpson said Steele went to the FBI with his Trump-Russia findings because “he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and … he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government.”
He continued, “he thought from his perspective there was … a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed.”
However, Steele stopped working with the FBI in the late stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, Simpson claimed, because he didn’t believe the federal agency was taking his concerns seriously.
“I understand Chris severed his relationship with the FBI out of concern that he didn’t know what was happening inside the FBI and there was a concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people,” he said.
Asked if he verified Steele’s sources and claims concerning Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, Simpson declined to answer.
His lawyer explained: “It’s a voluntary interview, and in addition to that he wants to be very careful to protect his sources. Somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work.”
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It’s unclear who the lawyer was saying had been “killed” because of the dossier’s publication. However, the Sun reported in January 2017 that former KGB spy chief Oleg Erovinkin, a key source behind the dossier, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car in Moscow.
Simpson also discussed President Trump’s taxes in his testimony.
“One of the things we found out was that, you know, when it comes to paying taxes, Donald Trump claims to not have much stuff,” Simpson said. “At least the Trump organization. So they would make filings with various state and local authorities saying that their buildings weren’t worth much.”
He also indicated that Fusion GPS didn’t manage to acquire Trump’s tax documents.
“They were Trump properties and I believe we may have reviewed some public information about estate taxes and things like that,” Simpson said. “We didn’t have access to his tax returns.”
Simpson said Fusion GPS found that Trump had “exaggerated” the worth of his real estate in legal filings, but there’s nothing to indicate the exaggerations showed connections to Russia. He said the president’s golf clubs aren’t making much money.
“They were not profitable entities,” he said. “I don’t specifically recall. I just remember that these were not doing very well and that he’d sunk a lot of money into them and he hadn’t gotten a lot of money back yet.”
Simpson also said he had no “factual reason to believe” the meeting at Trump Tower between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. was part of the Kremlin’s effort to reach out to the Trump campaign.
“You know, as a sort of question of counterintelligence and just general investigation of Russian methods and that sort of thing, I think that’s a reasonable interpretation,” he said.
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ANOTHER IMAM IN U.S. CALLS FOR KILLING JEWS
'May Allah destroy everyone who wants evil for Islam'
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U.S.-based Imam Abdullah Khadra
U.S.-based Imam Abdullah Khadra
A third Muslim imam in the United States has been recorded citing an Islamic text that prophesies the killing of Jews by Muslims.
As with the other two imams, Abdullah Khadra, speaking at a mosque Dec. 8 in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area, was responding to President Trump’s Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The video was obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI.
Citing a familiar hadith, a collection of the sayings of Muhammad, Khadra said Islam’s prophet “gave us the glad tidings that at the End of Time, we will fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak: ‘Oh Muslim, this is a Jew behind me.'”
Khadra asserted that the Israeli cities of Haifa, Acre and Jaffa are “Muslim land.”
“May Allah destroy everyone who wants evil for Islam and Muslims,” he prayed.
WND reported a Texas imam who cited the hadith, urging Muslims to “fight the Jews in Palestine” and “kill the Jews,” tried to repair relations with local Jewish leaders with an apology.
Imam Raed Saleh Al-Rousan of the Tajweed Institute in Houston said he was “absolutely and completely opposed to and disgusted by all forms of terrorism, all terrorists, and I oppose anyone who would commit, call for, or threaten violence against civilians.”
But Dayan Gross, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, pointed out that video of the sermon shows the imam basing his statement on the well-known Islamic hadith declaring, “Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews.”
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Another Texas imam, Sheik Ramadan Elsabagh of Garland, Texas, posted a recorded prayer on his Facebook page in December calling for Israel’s destruction along with “their allies, and those who assist them and those who allowed them into the abodes of the Muslims.”
‘Standard, mainstream religion’
Commenting on the North Carolina imam’s remarks, Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer pointed out that the declaration is not a tenet of “extremist” Islam.
“This is the standard, mainstream religion. It’s a hadith in a collection that Muslims consider authentic,” Spencer wrote.
The hadith states:
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Sahih Muslim 6985)
Spencer said Muslims in North Carolina “don’t have a different version of Islamic texts and teachings from the version Muslims have elsewhere.”
“They have the same Quran, the same Sunnah. Why should anyone expect them not to teach the things these sources say?”
Spencer asked what American authorities are going to do “when they realize this is not twisted, hijacked Islam, but orthodox Islam?”
“Or will it be too late by then?” he asks.
The imam Khadra declared Muslims “should teach our children that it is our land and will remain our land, and will return to us sooner or later.”
“But the question is: Will you be among those who will contribute to regaining it or not? The Prophet Muhammad gave us the glad tidings that at the End of Time, we will fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak: ‘Oh Muslim, this is a Jew behind me.'”
Khadra said the “occupiers, aggressors and murderers” in the Holy Land “can never take our holy city – only if we are dead.”
“If you are dead, they can do to you whatever they can, but if we are truly alive – they cannot. May Allah make us of those who are alive, who are aware of their holy places, who are defending their religion, and who move by all possible means to defend their rights.”
He prayed: “May Allah liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the hands of the aggressors and the occupiers. May Allah destroy everyone who wants evil for Islam and Muslims.”
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ANOTHER ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN FACING CHALLENGE
'The tipping point really became when he signed taxpayer funding of abortion'
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Gov. Bruce Rauner
Gov. Bruce Rauner
Calling incumbent Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner a “failed governor,” conservative State Rep. Jeanne Ives says she cannot leave the GOP field to a man who broke countless promises and ended up doing the bidding of Chicago Democrats.
Ives, a West Point graduate and U.S. Army veteran, was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 2012. The GOP primary in Illinois is March 20.
Rauner was elected in 2014 on a platform of reforming government in Illinois and seriously addressing the state’s looming fiscal crisis. Instead, he is branded now by National Review as the worst Republican governor in America, after raising taxes instead of cutting them, signing a bill that forbids law enforcement from checking the immigration status of people they stop, and enacting taxpayer-funded abortion in the state.
“Let’s be clear. Gov. Rauner is a failed governor. He’s specifically a failed Republican governor, which is why I’m challenging him,” said Ives.
She says one issue in particular triggered her primary challenge.
“The tipping point really became when he signed taxpayer funding of abortion, because that’s the point at which I started to get calls from colleagues and other Republicans around the state saying, ‘We do not want him to run unopposed. We need someone else to stand up for us,'” said Ives.
Rauner tries to downplay the abortion bill by saying the party is a big tent and he has supported pro-life candidates in the past. Ives says all Republicans in Springfield, regardless of their position on abortion, were appalled by Rauner’s actions.
“No Republican, even Republicans who consider themselves pro-choice in our legislature, none of us signed on for taxpayer funding of abortion. None of us did. He told us he was going to veto that bill and then did not and decided to sign it anyway, based on his wife being very pro-choice and based on his own propensity of being pro-choice,” said Ives.
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“He enacted with that bill the economic agenda and the social agenda of the Chicago Democrats, rather than a Republican conservative reform agenda,” added Ives.
In addition to the moral revulsion of Rauner’s support for the abortion legislation, Ives says the governor saddled Illinois taxpayers with another massive tax bill.
“He lied to us. He betrayed who we are as Republicans and he put in a brand new entitlement program in a state that it literally bankrupt. Nobody does that,” said Ives.
“Rauner also took a lot of heat from the right for failing to stop Democrats from pushing new tax increases into law when the state’s budget was in limbo last year. The governor said people need to realize he does not run Illinois and that Democratic House Speaker Mike Madigan is actually more powerful than he is.
Ives finds that excuse revolting.
“He needs to resign over that comment, quite frankly. The idea that the governor says, ‘I’m not in charge.’ Are you kidding me? It just tells you where he is in terms of his fight and his stance. That’s just nonsense,” said Ives.
Democrats do enjoy large majorities in the state legislature, including a 67-51 margin in the state house and a 37-22 edge in the state senate. However, Ives says Rauner needed to do more to get Democrats to join him in doing the things he promised in 2014.
“There’s much you can do in terms of turning the state around and getting the buy-in from the legislators to do that, and Gov. Rauner just didn’t do that. He picked a personal fight with our longtime serving Speaker of the House Mike Madigan, who does wield a lot of control. However, he didn’t build the coalitions that would make the bills possible for a turnaround,” said Ives.
So how would Ives be different?
The interview:
“We’re just the worst-run state in the nation. We need to reverse course on nearly every policy. We need policy revolution and I’m ready to lead that revolt,” said Ives, who says she knows where she would start.
“We’ll go after public corruption. Corruption is an everyday event in the state of Illinois and it is something that the executive is charged to deal with, which is enforce our laws.
“We’re all about spending reform. Look, Illinois pensions are the worst in the nation and it’s crowding out all the other services we need to spend money on,” said Ives.
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SHOCK VIDEO: TWITTER EMPLOYEE OFFERS EYE-POPPING INTEL IN TRUMP TAKE-DOWN PLOT
Willing to hand out president's private messages
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A shocking video released by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas captures Twitter employees expressing their willingness to use their access to President Trump’s account to bring down the nation’s commander-in-chief.
Employee Clay Haynes, who has worked at the company since 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile, spoke to an undercover journalist from Project Veritas on Jan. 3. Haynes said the company would be “more than happy to help the DOJ with their little investigation.”
Haynes, a self-declared “bleeding-heart liberal,” also outlined specific ways the company could help take down the president, including providing every single tweet Trump has made, even those that have been deleted, as well as any direct messages.
Direct messages are usually regarded as private.
Haynes openly declared his desire to end the Trump administration.
“He’s dangerous, I don’t like him and he’s a terrible human being and I want to get rid of him,” Haynes states in the video.
Remarkably, the employee also says Twitter has had “internal reviews” about getting rid of the president.
Indeed, there even were discussions about hiding or concealing the president’s messages on social networking to prevent him from getting his message out, according to Haynes.
However, because company officials deemed it “newsworthy,” the decision was made to allow the president to keep using the service.
“Essentially, he has a carte blanche to do whatever he wants,” gripes Haynes.
An undercover O’Keefe also met with Haynes to discuss whether Twitter is currently working with the Department of Justice. Haynes refuses to comment on that in the video.
“The fact is, even if Haynes was just speculating about helping Justice, his admission shows a clear and dangerous political bias at the highest levels of Twitter,” said O’Keefe about his findings. “The question is: by Twitter giving private information about the president to the Justice Department, are they breaking the law, betraying a trust, following an official request or satisfying a political agenda by leading a crusade against the president.”
Twitter lists as its mission statement: “Give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
Twitter could not be reached immediately for a response. It’s “press” link online led only to a generic “about us” page.
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BUNDY CASE DISMISSED IN STAGGERING BLOW TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
No retrial possible as prosecutors ripped by judge
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Cliven Bundy
In a blistering rebuke to the federal government, a judge dismissed all charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and militia member Ryan Payne stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro issued a scathing analysis of the government’s conduct, terming it “outrageous.”
“There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient,” she said.
The charges were dismissed “with prejudice,” which means the federal government will not be able to retry the men.
The same judge declared a mistrial in the case late last month, citing prosecutorial misconduct.
One of the lawyers helping the family, Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, earlier had written to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to investigate the FBI’s actions and prosecute those who had misbehaved.
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“It is hoped that after a thorough investigation, that you will fire and thus prevent [FBI agents] from doing further harm to not just the Bundys, but also the public at large. They also should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, as they are not above the law,” he said at the time.
Klayman, who was portrayed on the television show “West Wing,” has been prevented by a judge from joining the Bundys’ defense team but has been active in other ways.
Monday, he told WND he had raised some of the same issues that irritated the judge in a filing with the FBI’s inspector general, as well as its Office of Professional Responsibility.
“The judge found that the conduct of the FBI and the prosecutors in part was reprehensible and a flagrant violation of the law,” he said, for withholding evidence and even destroying documents.
He described the outcome as a “great victory for the country.”
“We fought the ‘law,’ and we won,” he said.
Spectators cheered as the judge issued her ruling. Bundy and his co-defendants were facing charges including conspiracy, obstruction, and threats against and assault of federal agents.
Navarro declared the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office had failed to disclose crucial evidence that would have helped the defense.
This evidence included:
Records about surveillance at the Bundy ranch
Maps about government surveillance
Records about the presence of government snipers
FBI logs about activity at the ranch in the days leading up to standoff
Law-enforcement assessments dating to 2012 that found the Bundys posed no threat
Internal affairs reports about misconduct by Bureau of Land Management agents
The government also made false claims, said the judge, including denying the existence of snipers surveying the Bundy ranch, when such snipers existed.
The standoff between federal agents and Bundy supporters resulted from the government’s contention Bundy had been grazing his cattle on publicly owned land and was therefore responsible for a huge amount in past fees. Klayman, among others, has argued the prosecution of the Bundy family was entirely political rather than being rooted in any actual violation of the law.
The cause of the Bundy family was championed by those who believe the federal government has too much control over land in the American West and who are suspicious of the federal government’s intentions.
Such suspicions will only be increased by the ruling on Monday, as Navarro’s decision stated the federal government had violated the most basic rules of conduct. Dan Hill, the lawyer for Cliven’s son Ammon, stated the ruling was “the clearest-cut, most-unwavering dismissal I’ve ever heard or seen.”
The ruling was not without its critics. Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, complained: “The Bundys rallied a militia to mount an armed insurrection against the government. The failure of this case will only embolden this violent and racist anti-government movement that wants to take over our public lands.”
And a number of critics on Twitter, including some “verified accounts” approved by the social-media company, suggested the Bundys were free only because they were white.
White supremacist Cliven Bundy stole federal land and then took up arms against law enforcement and threatened to kill cops, and now he’s about to walk free. Those perks from systematic white supremacy are awesome
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 8, 2018
I wrote this nearly two years ago to the day. Today with the freeing of Cliven Bundy, it seems even more relevant and right. I wish it wasn’t. #ClivenBundy #FreeMeekMill
Thanks to Ammon Bundy, 2016 Is Already a Banner Year for White Supremacy https://t.co/tGRhsMkVuv
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) January 8, 2018
But Ammon Bundy says he is proud of his family’s actions.
“We have rights,” he told reporters. “We’re not going to walk away from them and just let them be taken.”
Klayman also was leading the case filed by two others acquitted in the case, Montana resident Ricky Lovelien and Idaho resident Steven Stewart, seeking damages from the government for the false claims made against them.
The claims were filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/bundy-case-dismissed-in-staggering-blow-to-federal-government/#FgQEloPskrEiXb4s.99
BUNDY CASE DISMISSED IN STAGGERING BLOW TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
No retrial possible as prosecutors ripped by judge
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Cliven Bundy
In a blistering rebuke to the federal government, a judge dismissed all charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and militia member Ryan Payne stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro issued a scathing analysis of the government’s conduct, terming it “outrageous.”
“There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient,” she said.
The charges were dismissed “with prejudice,” which means the federal government will not be able to retry the men.
The same judge declared a mistrial in the case late last month, citing prosecutorial misconduct.
One of the lawyers helping the family, Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, earlier had written to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to investigate the FBI’s actions and prosecute those who had misbehaved.
“Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare Is Becoming Our Reality” chronicles how America has arrived at the point of being a de facto police state, and what led to an out-of-control government that increasingly ignores the Constitution. Order today!
“It is hoped that after a thorough investigation, that you will fire and thus prevent [FBI agents] from doing further harm to not just the Bundys, but also the public at large. They also should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, as they are not above the law,” he said at the time.
Klayman, who was portrayed on the television show “West Wing,” has been prevented by a judge from joining the Bundys’ defense team but has been active in other ways.
Monday, he told WND he had raised some of the same issues that irritated the judge in a filing with the FBI’s inspector general, as well as its Office of Professional Responsibility.
“The judge found that the conduct of the FBI and the prosecutors in part was reprehensible and a flagrant violation of the law,” he said, for withholding evidence and even destroying documents.
He described the outcome as a “great victory for the country.”
“We fought the ‘law,’ and we won,” he said.
Spectators cheered as the judge issued her ruling. Bundy and his co-defendants were facing charges including conspiracy, obstruction, and threats against and assault of federal agents.
Navarro declared the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office had failed to disclose crucial evidence that would have helped the defense.
This evidence included:
Records about surveillance at the Bundy ranch
Maps about government surveillance
Records about the presence of government snipers
FBI logs about activity at the ranch in the days leading up to standoff
Law-enforcement assessments dating to 2012 that found the Bundys posed no threat
Internal affairs reports about misconduct by Bureau of Land Management agents
The government also made false claims, said the judge, including denying the existence of snipers surveying the Bundy ranch, when such snipers existed.
The standoff between federal agents and Bundy supporters resulted from the government’s contention Bundy had been grazing his cattle on publicly owned land and was therefore responsible for a huge amount in past fees. Klayman, among others, has argued the prosecution of the Bundy family was entirely political rather than being rooted in any actual violation of the law.
The cause of the Bundy family was championed by those who believe the federal government has too much control over land in the American West and who are suspicious of the federal government’s intentions.
Such suspicions will only be increased by the ruling on Monday, as Navarro’s decision stated the federal government had violated the most basic rules of conduct. Dan Hill, the lawyer for Cliven’s son Ammon, stated the ruling was “the clearest-cut, most-unwavering dismissal I’ve ever heard or seen.”
The ruling was not without its critics. Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, complained: “The Bundys rallied a militia to mount an armed insurrection against the government. The failure of this case will only embolden this violent and racist anti-government movement that wants to take over our public lands.”
And a number of critics on Twitter, including some “verified accounts” approved by the social-media company, suggested the Bundys were free only because they were white.
White supremacist Cliven Bundy stole federal land and then took up arms against law enforcement and threatened to kill cops, and now he’s about to walk free. Those perks from systematic white supremacy are awesome
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 8, 2018
I wrote this nearly two years ago to the day. Today with the freeing of Cliven Bundy, it seems even more relevant and right. I wish it wasn’t. #ClivenBundy #FreeMeekMill
Thanks to Ammon Bundy, 2016 Is Already a Banner Year for White Supremacy https://t.co/tGRhsMkVuv
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) January 8, 2018
But Ammon Bundy says he is proud of his family’s actions.
“We have rights,” he told reporters. “We’re not going to walk away from them and just let them be taken.”
Klayman also was leading the case filed by two others acquitted in the case, Montana resident Ricky Lovelien and Idaho resident Steven Stewart, seeking damages from the government for the false claims made against them.
The claims were filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/bundy-case-dismissed-in-staggering-blow-to-federal-government/#FgQEloPskrEiXb4s.99
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GUESS WHAT'S NOT IN OBAMA'S SUPER POSH LIBRARY
Massive presidential center includes basketball court, yoga studio, test kitchen ...
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The Obama Presidential Center design, as seen from the south side of the campus (Obama.org)
The plans for Obama’s Presidential Center in Chicago are getting so extravagant, the proposed structures now include a basketball court, a yoga room and even a test kitchen.
The facility will also include “a children’s play garden, sledding hill, green spaces for picnics and outdoor gatherings … and even a recording studio,” the Chicago Tribune reported.
In February 2017, the architects even said they may need as much as $1.5 billion to pay for the project, which includes a library and a museum. That’s three times the amount of money raised for George W. Bush’s presidential center in Dallas.
Obama’s team is apparently aiming to create an activity-center vibe at the center where visitors will be able to play basketball, join yoga classes and even enter a test kitchen where they will be taught “about the full production cycle of nutritious food,” courtesy of Michelle Obama’s healthy-eating campaign.
Unlike other presidential libraries, there’s one thing the Obamas didn’t want the presidential center to include: hard copies of Obama’s letters, manuscripts or other documents.
According to the plans, the center will feature only a digital archive of Obama’s records.
“This is going to be completely different,” Foundation CEO David Simas said in October 2017. “What the president and first lady said … is they simply did not want a museum that served as a mausoleum, as a way to look back.”
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Former President Barack Obama and wife, Michelle
James “Skip” Rutherford, dean of the William J. Clinton School of Public Service, said he doesn’t believe inclusion of the hard-copy documents is all that important.
“I don’t think it will have a major impact in terms of the success or popularity of the center,” Rutherford told the Chicago Tribune. “The presence of paper records is less important now. Go back to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the treasure is in the documents. But now, the treasure is in the electronic records.”
The presidential center is scheduled for completion in 2021.
Chicago Tribune columnist Ron Grossman blasted the “test kitchen” idea, saying it doesn’t belong in the presidential center.
“Mr. President, I’ve got to tell you: The renderings for your museum are ‘little plans,’ more likely to congeal than stir blood,” Grossman wrote.
He continued: “What brought me up short was a space in the adjoining Forum building labeled ‘test kitchen.’ Presumably that reflects Michelle Obama’s war on junk food. The museum’s champions similarly suggest it could host yoga classes. President Obama, is that how you want to be remembered? As the healthy-eating and meditation-advocating president?
“That’s not how I want the story to come down to my grandchildren’s children.”
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This view of the Obama Presidential Center designs shows the museum, forum and library (Obama.org)
Rather, Grossman suggested, Obama’s architects and planners should instead focus on the “revolution” in America that upended decades of racism and exclusion for black Americans.
The former president has said the center will be “more like a campus” and will be used as a “premier institution for training young people in leadership.”
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Impeach Trump? Not After You See This...
Dear Reader,
Turn on the TV and all you’ll see are snowflakes screaming “Impeach Trump”. But do you think the liberal media will show this videohttps://pro.healthtactics.org/p/AAH_obamarevdeltoppop_0917/LAAHU100/?h=true
of Obama’s “sleeper agent”... caught on camera… INSIDE the White House?
(Warning: contains graphic details)
A massive White House plot by Obama... and it’s too late to impeach him.
But it should land him in jail.
Watch now to uncover the truth.
Sincerely,
Susan White
Executive Director, Alliance for Advanced Health
P.S. This revealing video could be taken down at any time… you don’t want to wait.
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BUNDY CASE DISMISSED IN STAGGERING BLOW TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
No retrial possible as prosecutors ripped by judge
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Cliven Bundy
In a blistering rebuke to the federal government, a judge dismissed all charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and militia member Ryan Payne stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro issued a scathing analysis of the government’s conduct, terming it “outrageous.”
“There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient,” she said.
The charges were dismissed “with prejudice,” which means the federal government will not be able to retry the men.
The same judge declared a mistrial in the case late last month, citing prosecutorial misconduct.
One of the lawyers helping the family, Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, earlier had written to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to investigate the FBI’s actions and prosecute those who had misbehaved.
“Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare Is Becoming Our Reality” chronicles how America has arrived at the point of being a de facto police state, and what led to an out-of-control government that increasingly ignores the Constitution. Order today!
“It is hoped that after a thorough investigation, that you will fire and thus prevent [FBI agents] from doing further harm to not just the Bundys, but also the public at large. They also should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, as they are not above the law,” he said at the time.
Klayman, who was portrayed on the television show “West Wing,” has been prevented by a judge from joining the Bundys’ defense team but has been active in other ways.
Monday, he told WND he had raised some of the same issues that irritated the judge in a filing with the FBI’s inspector general, as well as its Office of Professional Responsibility.
“The judge found that the conduct of the FBI and the prosecutors in part was reprehensible and a flagrant violation of the law,” he said, for withholding evidence and even destroying documents.
He described the outcome as a “great victory for the country.”
“We fought the ‘law,’ and we won,” he said.
Spectators cheered as the judge issued her ruling. Bundy and his co-defendants were facing charges including conspiracy, obstruction, and threats against and assault of federal agents.
Navarro declared the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office had failed to disclose crucial evidence that would have helped the defense.
This evidence included:
Records about surveillance at the Bundy ranch
Maps about government surveillance
Records about the presence of government snipers
FBI logs about activity at the ranch in the days leading up to standoff
Law-enforcement assessments dating to 2012 that found the Bundys posed no threat
Internal affairs reports about misconduct by Bureau of Land Management agents
The government also made false claims, said the judge, including denying the existence of snipers surveying the Bundy ranch, when such snipers existed.
The standoff between federal agents and Bundy supporters resulted from the government’s contention Bundy had been grazing his cattle on publicly owned land and was therefore responsible for a huge amount in past fees. Klayman, among others, has argued the prosecution of the Bundy family was entirely political rather than being rooted in any actual violation of the law.
The cause of the Bundy family was championed by those who believe the federal government has too much control over land in the American West and who are suspicious of the federal government’s intentions.
Such suspicions will only be increased by the ruling on Monday, as Navarro’s decision stated the federal government had violated the most basic rules of conduct. Dan Hill, the lawyer for Cliven’s son Ammon, stated the ruling was “the clearest-cut, most-unwavering dismissal I’ve ever heard or seen.”
The ruling was not without its critics. Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, complained: “The Bundys rallied a militia to mount an armed insurrection against the government. The failure of this case will only embolden this violent and racist anti-government movement that wants to take over our public lands.”
And a number of critics on Twitter, including some “verified accounts” approved by the social-media company, suggested the Bundys were free only because they were white.
White supremacist Cliven Bundy stole federal land and then took up arms against law enforcement and threatened to kill cops, and now he’s about to walk free. Those perks from systematic white supremacy are awesome
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 8, 2018
I wrote this nearly two years ago to the day. Today with the freeing of Cliven Bundy, it seems even more relevant and right. I wish it wasn’t. #ClivenBundy #FreeMeekMill
Thanks to Ammon Bundy, 2016 Is Already a Banner Year for White Supremacy https://t.co/tGRhsMkVuv
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) January 8, 2018
But Ammon Bundy says he is proud of his family’s actions.
“We have rights,” he told reporters. “We’re not going to walk away from them and just let them be taken.”
Klayman also was leading the case filed by two others acquitted in the case, Montana resident Ricky Lovelien and Idaho resident Steven Stewart, seeking damages from the government for the false claims made against them.
The claims were filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/bundy-case-dismissed-in-staggering-blow-to-federal-government/#FgQEloPskrEiXb4s.99
OUT OF AMMO, HERO SOLDIER GETS CREATIVE IN DECAPITATING TERRORIST
Then swipes jihadi's weapon, wipes out enemies during 6-hour gun battle
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Facing what seemed like certain death at the hands of bloodthirsty ISIS terrorists in eastern Afghanistan, a heroic British special-forces soldier who ran out of bullets acted quickly during an ambush by grabbing a spade and decapitating a jihadi in a single swoop.
Then the British soldier swiped the terrorist’s own weapon and killed more members of ISIS during a six-hour gun battle, according to the London Daily Mail.
U.S. troops moved in to help the besieged soldiers of Britain’s Special Air Service, who had been forced to take cover at a farm six weeks ago when ISIS gunmen attacked them. Eventually, two U.S. Apache helicopter gunships and a U.S. Chinook arrived to rescue the British fighters.
But before help arrived, the British soldiers were sitting ducks. They radioed for help but were unsure of whether their calls were received. So they vowed to fight to the death rather than allow themselves to be captured, tortured and executed by ISIS.
After nearly half the unit ran out of ammunition, the men began using their rifles as clubs.
English-speaking ISIS terrorists reportedly told the British soldiers that they would behead them and send their heads to their wives.
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ISIS (Photo: Twitter/screenshot)
“The [Special Air Service] thought they had seen their last day,” a source told the Daily Mail. “They made a pact that they wouldn’t be taken alive and vowed to fight to the death.
“Capture would mean torture and a filmed execution and they weren’t prepared to let that happen.
“They made every bullet count and when they ran low on ammo they waited for the jihadis to get close enough so they could be killed with grenades or using rifles as clubs – that was when one of the SAS managed to kill a man with a spade.”
ISIS and the Taliban have been reportedly gaining ground in Afghanistan. The British military is planning to double its number of special forces soldiers in the country to about 100.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/out-of-bullets-hero-soldier-gets-creative-in-decapitating-isis-jihadi/#0DsBIZXBxKoth91J.99
Massive presidential center includes basketball court, yoga studio, test kitchen ...
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The Obama Presidential Center design, as seen from the south side of the campus (Obama.org)
The plans for Obama’s Presidential Center in Chicago are getting so extravagant, the proposed structures now include a basketball court, a yoga room and even a test kitchen.
The facility will also include “a children’s play garden, sledding hill, green spaces for picnics and outdoor gatherings … and even a recording studio,” the Chicago Tribune reported.
In February 2017, the architects even said they may need as much as $1.5 billion to pay for the project, which includes a library and a museum. That’s three times the amount of money raised for George W. Bush’s presidential center in Dallas.
Obama’s team is apparently aiming to create an activity-center vibe at the center where visitors will be able to play basketball, join yoga classes and even enter a test kitchen where they will be taught “about the full production cycle of nutritious food,” courtesy of Michelle Obama’s healthy-eating campaign.
Unlike other presidential libraries, there’s one thing the Obamas didn’t want the presidential center to include: hard copies of Obama’s letters, manuscripts or other documents.
According to the plans, the center will feature only a digital archive of Obama’s records.
“This is going to be completely different,” Foundation CEO David Simas said in October 2017. “What the president and first lady said … is they simply did not want a museum that served as a mausoleum, as a way to look back.”
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Former President Barack Obama and wife, Michelle
James “Skip” Rutherford, dean of the William J. Clinton School of Public Service, said he doesn’t believe inclusion of the hard-copy documents is all that important.
“I don’t think it will have a major impact in terms of the success or popularity of the center,” Rutherford told the Chicago Tribune. “The presence of paper records is less important now. Go back to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the treasure is in the documents. But now, the treasure is in the electronic records.”
The presidential center is scheduled for completion in 2021.
Chicago Tribune columnist Ron Grossman blasted the “test kitchen” idea, saying it doesn’t belong in the presidential center.
“Mr. President, I’ve got to tell you: The renderings for your museum are ‘little plans,’ more likely to congeal than stir blood,” Grossman wrote.
He continued: “What brought me up short was a space in the adjoining Forum building labeled ‘test kitchen.’ Presumably that reflects Michelle Obama’s war on junk food. The museum’s champions similarly suggest it could host yoga classes. President Obama, is that how you want to be remembered? As the healthy-eating and meditation-advocating president?
“That’s not how I want the story to come down to my grandchildren’s children.”
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This view of the Obama Presidential Center designs shows the museum, forum and library (Obama.org)
Rather, Grossman suggested, Obama’s architects and planners should instead focus on the “revolution” in America that upended decades of racism and exclusion for black Americans.
The former president has said the center will be “more like a campus” and will be used as a “premier institution for training young people in leadership.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/whoa-obama-plans-super-posh-library-with-eye-popping-price-tag/#L9Wf0kXPYMfKZCZ1.99
Impeach Trump? Not After You See This...
Dear Reader,
Turn on the TV and all you’ll see are snowflakes screaming “Impeach Trump”. But do you think the liberal media will show this videohttps://pro.healthtactics.org/p/AAH_obamarevdeltoppop_0917/LAAHU100/?h=true
of Obama’s “sleeper agent”... caught on camera… INSIDE the White House?
(Warning: contains graphic details)
A massive White House plot by Obama... and it’s too late to impeach him.
But it should land him in jail.
Watch now to uncover the truth.
Sincerely,
Susan White
Executive Director, Alliance for Advanced Health
P.S. This revealing video could be taken down at any time… you don’t want to wait.
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BUNDY CASE DISMISSED IN STAGGERING BLOW TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
No retrial possible as prosecutors ripped by judge
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Cliven Bundy
In a blistering rebuke to the federal government, a judge dismissed all charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and militia member Ryan Payne stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro issued a scathing analysis of the government’s conduct, terming it “outrageous.”
“There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient,” she said.
The charges were dismissed “with prejudice,” which means the federal government will not be able to retry the men.
The same judge declared a mistrial in the case late last month, citing prosecutorial misconduct.
One of the lawyers helping the family, Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, earlier had written to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to investigate the FBI’s actions and prosecute those who had misbehaved.
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“It is hoped that after a thorough investigation, that you will fire and thus prevent [FBI agents] from doing further harm to not just the Bundys, but also the public at large. They also should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, as they are not above the law,” he said at the time.
Klayman, who was portrayed on the television show “West Wing,” has been prevented by a judge from joining the Bundys’ defense team but has been active in other ways.
Monday, he told WND he had raised some of the same issues that irritated the judge in a filing with the FBI’s inspector general, as well as its Office of Professional Responsibility.
“The judge found that the conduct of the FBI and the prosecutors in part was reprehensible and a flagrant violation of the law,” he said, for withholding evidence and even destroying documents.
He described the outcome as a “great victory for the country.”
“We fought the ‘law,’ and we won,” he said.
Spectators cheered as the judge issued her ruling. Bundy and his co-defendants were facing charges including conspiracy, obstruction, and threats against and assault of federal agents.
Navarro declared the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office had failed to disclose crucial evidence that would have helped the defense.
This evidence included:
Records about surveillance at the Bundy ranch
Maps about government surveillance
Records about the presence of government snipers
FBI logs about activity at the ranch in the days leading up to standoff
Law-enforcement assessments dating to 2012 that found the Bundys posed no threat
Internal affairs reports about misconduct by Bureau of Land Management agents
The government also made false claims, said the judge, including denying the existence of snipers surveying the Bundy ranch, when such snipers existed.
The standoff between federal agents and Bundy supporters resulted from the government’s contention Bundy had been grazing his cattle on publicly owned land and was therefore responsible for a huge amount in past fees. Klayman, among others, has argued the prosecution of the Bundy family was entirely political rather than being rooted in any actual violation of the law.
The cause of the Bundy family was championed by those who believe the federal government has too much control over land in the American West and who are suspicious of the federal government’s intentions.
Such suspicions will only be increased by the ruling on Monday, as Navarro’s decision stated the federal government had violated the most basic rules of conduct. Dan Hill, the lawyer for Cliven’s son Ammon, stated the ruling was “the clearest-cut, most-unwavering dismissal I’ve ever heard or seen.”
The ruling was not without its critics. Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, complained: “The Bundys rallied a militia to mount an armed insurrection against the government. The failure of this case will only embolden this violent and racist anti-government movement that wants to take over our public lands.”
And a number of critics on Twitter, including some “verified accounts” approved by the social-media company, suggested the Bundys were free only because they were white.
White supremacist Cliven Bundy stole federal land and then took up arms against law enforcement and threatened to kill cops, and now he’s about to walk free. Those perks from systematic white supremacy are awesome
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 8, 2018
I wrote this nearly two years ago to the day. Today with the freeing of Cliven Bundy, it seems even more relevant and right. I wish it wasn’t. #ClivenBundy #FreeMeekMill
Thanks to Ammon Bundy, 2016 Is Already a Banner Year for White Supremacy https://t.co/tGRhsMkVuv
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) January 8, 2018
But Ammon Bundy says he is proud of his family’s actions.
“We have rights,” he told reporters. “We’re not going to walk away from them and just let them be taken.”
Klayman also was leading the case filed by two others acquitted in the case, Montana resident Ricky Lovelien and Idaho resident Steven Stewart, seeking damages from the government for the false claims made against them.
The claims were filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/bundy-case-dismissed-in-staggering-blow-to-federal-government/#FgQEloPskrEiXb4s.99
OUT OF AMMO, HERO SOLDIER GETS CREATIVE IN DECAPITATING TERRORIST
Then swipes jihadi's weapon, wipes out enemies during 6-hour gun battle
Published: 18 hours ago
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Facing what seemed like certain death at the hands of bloodthirsty ISIS terrorists in eastern Afghanistan, a heroic British special-forces soldier who ran out of bullets acted quickly during an ambush by grabbing a spade and decapitating a jihadi in a single swoop.
Then the British soldier swiped the terrorist’s own weapon and killed more members of ISIS during a six-hour gun battle, according to the London Daily Mail.
U.S. troops moved in to help the besieged soldiers of Britain’s Special Air Service, who had been forced to take cover at a farm six weeks ago when ISIS gunmen attacked them. Eventually, two U.S. Apache helicopter gunships and a U.S. Chinook arrived to rescue the British fighters.
But before help arrived, the British soldiers were sitting ducks. They radioed for help but were unsure of whether their calls were received. So they vowed to fight to the death rather than allow themselves to be captured, tortured and executed by ISIS.
After nearly half the unit ran out of ammunition, the men began using their rifles as clubs.
English-speaking ISIS terrorists reportedly told the British soldiers that they would behead them and send their heads to their wives.
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ISIS (Photo: Twitter/screenshot)
“The [Special Air Service] thought they had seen their last day,” a source told the Daily Mail. “They made a pact that they wouldn’t be taken alive and vowed to fight to the death.
“Capture would mean torture and a filmed execution and they weren’t prepared to let that happen.
“They made every bullet count and when they ran low on ammo they waited for the jihadis to get close enough so they could be killed with grenades or using rifles as clubs – that was when one of the SAS managed to kill a man with a spade.”
ISIS and the Taliban have been reportedly gaining ground in Afghanistan. The British military is planning to double its number of special forces soldiers in the country to about 100.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/out-of-bullets-hero-soldier-gets-creative-in-decapitating-isis-jihadi/#0DsBIZXBxKoth91J.99
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'SANCTUARY' FOR ILLEGALS BECOMES BLACKS' WORST NIGHTMARE
Exclusive: Jesse Lee Peterson reveals war brewing over health care, education, other services
Published: 15 hours ago
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California is now a “sanctuary state,” thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown and liberal Democrats in Sacramento.
The Golden State is home to an estimated 2.3 million illegal aliens. And police are no longer permitted to ask suspects about their immigration status or assist with federal immigration-enforcement activities.
To add insult to injury, liberals tried to free Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the illegal alien and seven-time felon who was acquitted of murder and assault in the 2015 San Francisco fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle. Fortunately, Garcia Zarate will not be released for “time served.” He’s been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating state immigration and gun laws and will remain in custody to face federal charges.
Yes, California voters are dumb for voting in liberal Democrats who continue to pass laws that endanger citizens.
For black Americans who might not understand this – you too will be impacted! Now that California has been designated a “sanctuary state,” illegal aliens, including MS-13, will flock to the state in droves and they’ll end up in the black community.
For the past 27 years, my nonprofit organization, BOND, has been trying to educate blacks on this issue with town hall forums, media, rallies, etc. Along with groups like FAIR, California Coalition for Immigration Reform and the late Terry Anderson, we’ve been warning the state and the nation of what was coming, but most blacks refused to listen.
We couldn’t get blacks to support a border wall or to vote against liberal Democrats who are selling them out for the Hispanic vote. Most blacks are so brainwashed by their godless black leaders, they’re willing to vote against their own self-interest. They blindly follow corrupt Democrats like Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Mark Ridley-Thomas and others who use them. All Democrats have to do is accuse anyone who opposes illegal immigration of being “racist,” and that’s enough to put blacks in a hypnotic trance and make them vote for Democrats.
The illegal immigration issue is out of control. The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and it’s flexing its political muscle. There’s a warfare brewing between black and Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles, and it’s just a matter of time before it explodes. As a result, decent blacks are fleeing California and moving down south.
Order Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson’s book, “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood.”
Illegal aliens are draining California taxpayers. According to Fox News, Los Angeles County taxpayers paid a whopping $1.3 billion in just two years for illegal-alien benefits and programs – nearly a quarter of the amount spent on the state’s needy population.
Over the past 60 years, the black community traded in values and principles for welfare and programs. As a result, most blacks rely on government assistance. Blacks are fighting with illegals in Los Angeles for health care, public education and other services.
I know many qualified blacks who’ve applied for all types of jobs in Los Angeles County and weren’t hired because they don’t speak Spanish; blacks are upset about this. If blacks stood up and demanded that their elected officials do something about this issue, the problem could be solved. But they’re so angry and preoccupied with blaming the white man, they can’t see that they’re voting for their own self-destruction.
The NAACP has completely sold out blacks. It supports amnesty, and it has allowed illegals to hitch their plight to the civil-rights struggle of blacks. The shameless NAACP is also pushing the insidious lie that increased immigration is helpful to the black community.
Members of the corrupt Congressional Black Caucus unanimously support amnesty for Hispanics and for the more than 3 million immigrants of African descent.
Except for a handful of black conservatives like myself, Sheriff David Clarke, Larry Elder, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Peter Kirsanow, there aren’t any black voices boldly speaking out about the devastating impact illegal immigration is having on black Americans.
Democrats are giving out all kinds of taxpayer funded goodies to seduce Hispanics and addict them, just like they did to blacks. They’re brainwashing, spoiling and dumbing them down to use them for votes. There are some decent Hispanics who don’t agree with rewarding illegals, but they’re too afraid to speak out.
And now that California has legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, the state will attract more criminals and the worst kind of people. What a shame!
President Trump and Congress are deliberating the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Trump has reiterated that he wants to work with Democrats to find a permanent legislative solution to allow those protected by DACA to stay in the country, but only if it comes with a long-promised border wall and major changes to the immigration system.
Blacks need an advocate on this issue, and they have a friend in President Trump. But if they don’t wake up and stand for what is right, they will be permanently replaced.
For blacks to free themselves from this nightmare, they must first turn back to God and love Him with all their soul and might. Second, they must abandon group thinking and the Democratic Party. If they do this, we can make America great again overnight.
VIDEO FOX NEWS
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'SANCTUARY' FOR ILLEGALS BECOMES BLACKS' WORST NIGHTMARE
Exclusive: Jesse Lee Peterson reveals war brewing over health care, education, other services
Published: 15 hours ago
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California is now a “sanctuary state,” thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown and liberal Democrats in Sacramento.
The Golden State is home to an estimated 2.3 million illegal aliens. And police are no longer permitted to ask suspects about their immigration status or assist with federal immigration-enforcement activities.
To add insult to injury, liberals tried to free Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the illegal alien and seven-time felon who was acquitted of murder and assault in the 2015 San Francisco fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle. Fortunately, Garcia Zarate will not be released for “time served.” He’s been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating state immigration and gun laws and will remain in custody to face federal charges.
Yes, California voters are dumb for voting in liberal Democrats who continue to pass laws that endanger citizens.
For black Americans who might not understand this – you too will be impacted! Now that California has been designated a “sanctuary state,” illegal aliens, including MS-13, will flock to the state in droves and they’ll end up in the black community.
For the past 27 years, my nonprofit organization, BOND, has been trying to educate blacks on this issue with town hall forums, media, rallies, etc. Along with groups like FAIR, California Coalition for Immigration Reform and the late Terry Anderson, we’ve been warning the state and the nation of what was coming, but most blacks refused to listen.
We couldn’t get blacks to support a border wall or to vote against liberal Democrats who are selling them out for the Hispanic vote. Most blacks are so brainwashed by their godless black leaders, they’re willing to vote against their own self-interest. They blindly follow corrupt Democrats like Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Mark Ridley-Thomas and others who use them. All Democrats have to do is accuse anyone who opposes illegal immigration of being “racist,” and that’s enough to put blacks in a hypnotic trance and make them vote for Democrats.
The illegal immigration issue is out of control. The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and it’s flexing its political muscle. There’s a warfare brewing between black and Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles, and it’s just a matter of time before it explodes. As a result, decent blacks are fleeing California and moving down south.
Order Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson’s book, “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood.”
Illegal aliens are draining California taxpayers. According to Fox News, Los Angeles County taxpayers paid a whopping $1.3 billion in just two years for illegal-alien benefits and programs – nearly a quarter of the amount spent on the state’s needy population.
Over the past 60 years, the black community traded in values and principles for welfare and programs. As a result, most blacks rely on government assistance. Blacks are fighting with illegals in Los Angeles for health care, public education and other services.
I know many qualified blacks who’ve applied for all types of jobs in Los Angeles County and weren’t hired because they don’t speak Spanish; blacks are upset about this. If blacks stood up and demanded that their elected officials do something about this issue, the problem could be solved. But they’re so angry and preoccupied with blaming the white man, they can’t see that they’re voting for their own self-destruction.
The NAACP has completely sold out blacks. It supports amnesty, and it has allowed illegals to hitch their plight to the civil-rights struggle of blacks. The shameless NAACP is also pushing the insidious lie that increased immigration is helpful to the black community.
Members of the corrupt Congressional Black Caucus unanimously support amnesty for Hispanics and for the more than 3 million immigrants of African descent.
Except for a handful of black conservatives like myself, Sheriff David Clarke, Larry Elder, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Peter Kirsanow, there aren’t any black voices boldly speaking out about the devastating impact illegal immigration is having on black Americans.
Democrats are giving out all kinds of taxpayer funded goodies to seduce Hispanics and addict them, just like they did to blacks. They’re brainwashing, spoiling and dumbing them down to use them for votes. There are some decent Hispanics who don’t agree with rewarding illegals, but they’re too afraid to speak out.
And now that California has legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, the state will attract more criminals and the worst kind of people. What a shame!
President Trump and Congress are deliberating the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Trump has reiterated that he wants to work with Democrats to find a permanent legislative solution to allow those protected by DACA to stay in the country, but only if it comes with a long-promised border wall and major changes to the immigration system.
Blacks need an advocate on this issue, and they have a friend in President Trump. But if they don’t wake up and stand for what is right, they will be permanently replaced.
For blacks to free themselves from this nightmare, they must first turn back to God and love Him with all their soul and might. Second, they must abandon group thinking and the Democratic Party. If they do this, we can make America great again overnight.
VIDEO FOX NEWS
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California is now a “sanctuary state,” thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown and liberal Democrats in Sacramento.
The Golden State is home to an estimated 2.3 million illegal aliens. And police are no longer permitted to ask suspects about their immigration status or assist with federal immigration-enforcement activities.
To add insult to injury, liberals tried to free Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the illegal alien and seven-time felon who was acquitted of murder and assault in the 2015 San Francisco fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle. Fortunately, Garcia Zarate will not be released for “time served.” He’s been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating state immigration and gun laws and will remain in custody to face federal charges.
Yes, California voters are dumb for voting in liberal Democrats who continue to pass laws that endanger citizens.
For black Americans who might not understand this – you too will be impacted! Now that California has been designated a “sanctuary state,” illegal aliens, including MS-13, will flock to the state in droves and they’ll end up in the black community.
For the past 27 years, my nonprofit organization, BOND, has been trying to educate blacks on this issue with town hall forums, media, rallies, etc. Along with groups like FAIR, California Coalition for Immigration Reform and the late Terry Anderson, we’ve been warning the state and the nation of what was coming, but most blacks refused to listen.
We couldn’t get blacks to support a border wall or to vote against liberal Democrats who are selling them out for the Hispanic vote. Most blacks are so brainwashed by their godless black leaders, they’re willing to vote against their own self-interest. They blindly follow corrupt Democrats like Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Mark Ridley-Thomas and others who use them. All Democrats have to do is accuse anyone who opposes illegal immigration of being “racist,” and that’s enough to put blacks in a hypnotic trance and make them vote for Democrats.
The illegal immigration issue is out of control. The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and it’s flexing its political muscle. There’s a warfare brewing between black and Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles, and it’s just a matter of time before it explodes. As a result, decent blacks are fleeing California and moving down south.
Order Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson’s book, “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood.”
Illegal aliens are draining California taxpayers. According to Fox News, Los Angeles County taxpayers paid a whopping $1.3 billion in just two years for illegal-alien benefits and programs – nearly a quarter of the amount spent on the state’s needy population.
Over the past 60 years, the black community traded in values and principles for welfare and programs. As a result, most blacks rely on government assistance. Blacks are fighting with illegals in Los Angeles for health care, public education and other services.
I know many qualified blacks who’ve applied for all types of jobs in Los Angeles County and weren’t hired because they don’t speak Spanish; blacks are upset about this. If blacks stood up and demanded that their elected officials do something about this issue, the problem could be solved. But they’re so angry and preoccupied with blaming the white man, they can’t see that they’re voting for their own self-destruction.
The NAACP has completely sold out blacks. It supports amnesty, and it has allowed illegals to hitch their plight to the civil-rights struggle of blacks. The shameless NAACP is also pushing the insidious lie that increased immigration is helpful to the black community.
Members of the corrupt Congressional Black Caucus unanimously support amnesty for Hispanics and for the more than 3 million immigrants of African descent.
Except for a handful of black conservatives like myself, Sheriff David Clarke, Larry Elder, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Peter Kirsanow, there aren’t any black voices boldly speaking out about the devastating impact illegal immigration is having on black Americans.
Democrats are giving out all kinds of taxpayer funded goodies to seduce Hispanics and addict them, just like they did to blacks. They’re brainwashing, spoiling and dumbing them down to use them for votes. There are some decent Hispanics who don’t agree with rewarding illegals, but they’re too afraid to speak out.
And now that California has legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, the state will attract more criminals and the worst kind of people. What a shame!
President Trump and Congress are deliberating the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Trump has reiterated that he wants to work with Democrats to find a permanent legislative solution to allow those protected by DACA to stay in the country, but only if it comes with a long-promised border wall and major changes to the immigration system.
Blacks need an advocate on this issue, and they have a friend in President Trump. But if they don’t wake up and stand for what is right, they will be permanently replaced.
For blacks to free themselves from this nightmare, they must first turn back to God and love Him with all their soul and might. Second, they must abandon group thinking and the Democratic Party. If they do this, we can make America great again overnight.
VIDEO FOX NEWS
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'SANCTUARY' FOR ILLEGALS BECOMES BLACKS' WORST NIGHTMARE
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California is now a “sanctuary state,” thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown and liberal Democrats in Sacramento.
The Golden State is home to an estimated 2.3 million illegal aliens. And police are no longer permitted to ask suspects about their immigration status or assist with federal immigration-enforcement activities.
To add insult to injury, liberals tried to free Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the illegal alien and seven-time felon who was acquitted of murder and assault in the 2015 San Francisco fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle. Fortunately, Garcia Zarate will not be released for “time served.” He’s been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating state immigration and gun laws and will remain in custody to face federal charges.
Yes, California voters are dumb for voting in liberal Democrats who continue to pass laws that endanger citizens.
For black Americans who might not understand this – you too will be impacted! Now that California has been designated a “sanctuary state,” illegal aliens, including MS-13, will flock to the state in droves and they’ll end up in the black community.
For the past 27 years, my nonprofit organization, BOND, has been trying to educate blacks on this issue with town hall forums, media, rallies, etc. Along with groups like FAIR, California Coalition for Immigration Reform and the late Terry Anderson, we’ve been warning the state and the nation of what was coming, but most blacks refused to listen.
We couldn’t get blacks to support a border wall or to vote against liberal Democrats who are selling them out for the Hispanic vote. Most blacks are so brainwashed by their godless black leaders, they’re willing to vote against their own self-interest. They blindly follow corrupt Democrats like Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Mark Ridley-Thomas and others who use them. All Democrats have to do is accuse anyone who opposes illegal immigration of being “racist,” and that’s enough to put blacks in a hypnotic trance and make them vote for Democrats.
The illegal immigration issue is out of control. The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and it’s flexing its political muscle. There’s a warfare brewing between black and Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles, and it’s just a matter of time before it explodes. As a result, decent blacks are fleeing California and moving down south.
Order Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson’s book, “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood.”
Illegal aliens are draining California taxpayers. According to Fox News, Los Angeles County taxpayers paid a whopping $1.3 billion in just two years for illegal-alien benefits and programs – nearly a quarter of the amount spent on the state’s needy population.
Over the past 60 years, the black community traded in values and principles for welfare and programs. As a result, most blacks rely on government assistance. Blacks are fighting with illegals in Los Angeles for health care, public education and other services.
I know many qualified blacks who’ve applied for all types of jobs in Los Angeles County and weren’t hired because they don’t speak Spanish; blacks are upset about this. If blacks stood up and demanded that their elected officials do something about this issue, the problem could be solved. But they’re so angry and preoccupied with blaming the white man, they can’t see that they’re voting for their own self-destruction.
The NAACP has completely sold out blacks. It supports amnesty, and it has allowed illegals to hitch their plight to the civil-rights struggle of blacks. The shameless NAACP is also pushing the insidious lie that increased immigration is helpful to the black community.
Members of the corrupt Congressional Black Caucus unanimously support amnesty for Hispanics and for the more than 3 million immigrants of African descent.
Except for a handful of black conservatives like myself, Sheriff David Clarke, Larry Elder, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Peter Kirsanow, there aren’t any black voices boldly speaking out about the devastating impact illegal immigration is having on black Americans.
Democrats are giving out all kinds of taxpayer funded goodies to seduce Hispanics and addict them, just like they did to blacks. They’re brainwashing, spoiling and dumbing them down to use them for votes. There are some decent Hispanics who don’t agree with rewarding illegals, but they’re too afraid to speak out.
And now that California has legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, the state will attract more criminals and the worst kind of people. What a shame!
President Trump and Congress are deliberating the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Trump has reiterated that he wants to work with Democrats to find a permanent legislative solution to allow those protected by DACA to stay in the country, but only if it comes with a long-promised border wall and major changes to the immigration system.
Blacks need an advocate on this issue, and they have a friend in President Trump. But if they don’t wake up and stand for what is right, they will be permanently replaced.
For blacks to free themselves from this nightmare, they must first turn back to God and love Him with all their soul and might. Second, they must abandon group thinking and the Democratic Party. If they do this, we can make America great again overnight.
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Israeli experts doubt truth of shocking Trump peace plan revelations in book
January 7, 2018
Israeli experts doubt truth of shocking Trump peace plan revelations in bookCopies of the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Everyone is talking about Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” but Israeli experts are skeptical about extraordinary details and quotes in the book relating to the Middle East peace process.
By: Steve Leibowitz, World Israel News
Ex-Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon is quoted in Michael Wolff’s explosive bestseller, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” as saying, “Let Jordan take the West Bank, let Egypt take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink trying.” The fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s first year as US president also quotes Bannon saying, “Day one we’re moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all in. Sheldon Adelson is all in. We know where we’re going.”
Israeli experts were unified in questioning the veracity of Bannon’s comments and dumbfounded by the author’s remark that Trump told multiple people that his son-in-law Jared Kushner was qualified to handle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process because “the Kushners know all the crooks in Israel.”
One source who has known the Kushner family for many years told WIN, “The person that Jared and his father Charlie know best in Israel is Prime Minister Netanyahu. The late former Justice Minister Ya’acov Ne’eman served as Charlie’s attorney.” According to this source, “Both father and son considered major investments in Israel in recent years with Jared looking to buy the Phoenix Insurance Company and Charlie considering buying into Discount Bank.” Neither of the deals went through.
Palestinian affairs expert Dr. Gershon Baskin raised doubts that the White House was drafting a plan that considered giving Judea and Samaria to Jordan and the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Baskin told WIN, “Nobody believes that. I guess it’s possible that Bannon may sit in a dark room with a board and Middle East map and think that’s how things work. But really, nobody has considered a role for Jordan in the ‘West Bank’ or Egypt in Gaza since the 1980s.” Baskin went on to say, “Maybe anything is possible with Trump, but I don’t buy that this is part of the US peace plan.”
https://worldisraelnews.com/israeli-experts-doubt-reality-of-trump-book-revelations-on-peace-process/
January 7, 2018
Israeli experts doubt truth of shocking Trump peace plan revelations in bookCopies of the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Everyone is talking about Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” but Israeli experts are skeptical about extraordinary details and quotes in the book relating to the Middle East peace process.
By: Steve Leibowitz, World Israel News
Ex-Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon is quoted in Michael Wolff’s explosive bestseller, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” as saying, “Let Jordan take the West Bank, let Egypt take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink trying.” The fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s first year as US president also quotes Bannon saying, “Day one we’re moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all in. Sheldon Adelson is all in. We know where we’re going.”
Israeli experts were unified in questioning the veracity of Bannon’s comments and dumbfounded by the author’s remark that Trump told multiple people that his son-in-law Jared Kushner was qualified to handle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process because “the Kushners know all the crooks in Israel.”
One source who has known the Kushner family for many years told WIN, “The person that Jared and his father Charlie know best in Israel is Prime Minister Netanyahu. The late former Justice Minister Ya’acov Ne’eman served as Charlie’s attorney.” According to this source, “Both father and son considered major investments in Israel in recent years with Jared looking to buy the Phoenix Insurance Company and Charlie considering buying into Discount Bank.” Neither of the deals went through.
Palestinian affairs expert Dr. Gershon Baskin raised doubts that the White House was drafting a plan that considered giving Judea and Samaria to Jordan and the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Baskin told WIN, “Nobody believes that. I guess it’s possible that Bannon may sit in a dark room with a board and Middle East map and think that’s how things work. But really, nobody has considered a role for Jordan in the ‘West Bank’ or Egypt in Gaza since the 1980s.” Baskin went on to say, “Maybe anything is possible with Trump, but I don’t buy that this is part of the US peace plan.”
https://worldisraelnews.com/israeli-experts-doubt-reality-of-trump-book-revelations-on-peace-process/
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LAWMAKERS 'OVERTURN' SUPREME COURT TO DEFEND HOMEOWNERS
Make decision allowing government to curb property rights of no effect
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Wisconsin lawmakers, left aghast at a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed the government to limit a family’s use of their private land, have adopted a new law that effectively overturns the court decision.
The Murr family went to court when they sought to sell a vacant parcel of land originally purchased by their parents, only to find new local regulations adopted after the purchase meant they couldn’t sell the land or even improve it.
It was a simple case of government adopting after the fact new regulations and imposing them in a manner that deprived the family of their property rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed that was the appropriate result.
Not so with state lawmakers, who, according to the Heartland Institute, have set in place a “Homeowners’ Bill of Rights,” consisting of two laws passed in November and signed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
What happens when the government breaks its own laws? Judge Andrew Napolitano reveals the answer in “Constitutional Chaos.”
The intent, the report by H. Sterling Burnett explains, is “to prevent local governments from limiting property owners’ use of their lands.”
One law allows “property owners to build on and sell lots of ‘substandard’ size if they were legal when created.”
The law also prohibits local governments from merging adjacent lots that share the same owner without the owner’s permission and makes it easier for property owners to get conditional-use permits and variances, maintain nonconforming structures and dredge private ponds.
The aim is to allow the owners to use the property as it was intended when they purchased it.
The second law lets owners “appeal assessments when a homeowner refuses to let the assessor inside the house, and to hang the American flag even if condominium or homeowner association rules would prohibit it.”
The Heartland report explains the laws, sponsored by state Rep. Adam Jarchow, R-Balsam Lake, and state Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, effectively overturned a June 2017 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The Murr case developed because regulators ordered that the family’s two waterfront lots had to be treated as a single parcel, based on local regulations adopted long after the family had purchased the two lots. The family had intended that one lot be improved with a cabin and used as a family retreat, and the other to be saved and sold later.
The family discovered, however, they had no right to sell the second parcel, which, according to rules enacted later, was too small for development.
This was despite the fact they continued to pay a separate property tax assessment on the second lot.
Heartland said the U.S. Supreme Court “held local regulators could treat two neighboring waterfront lots owned by the same family as if they were a single parcel of property, and thus didn’t owe the property owners compensation for a taking when they were prevented from selling or developing one of the lots because of a change in state law.”
Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, concluding: “Put simply, today’s decision knocks the definition of ‘private property’ loose from its foundation on stable state law rules. [The ruling] compromises the Takings Clause as a barrier between individuals and the press of the public interest.”
Rep. Jarchow explained that the “Homeowners’ Bill of Rights” is “meant to right that wrong by ensuring when people buy property, and they have expectations related to that property, their property rights and expectations are not taken away because of changing rules or regulations over time.”
The Pacific Legal Foundation represented the family in court.
John Groen, PLF general counsel, said: “All of us at Pacific Legal Foundation are very pleased with the legislative progress. … Special thanks to Rep. Adam Jarchow and Sen. Tom Tiffany for recognizing the need to restore property rights for the Murrs and the people of Wisconsin.”
When the high court’s decision was released, WND reported on the beginning of a legislative effort to effectively nullify the decision.
The stated goal was to prohibit “government from inventing ways to strip people of the use of their property while denying them the compensation that the Constitution requires.”
At the time, Donna Murr declared, “What happened to my family should not happen to any American, and the Supreme Court’s ruling must not be the final word.”
Pacific Justice said at the time it intended to go nationwide to seek court rulings and legal changes “that will ensure that property owners cannot be denied their constitutional rights simply because they own adjacent property or because local land use regulations might subsequently change.”
What happens when the government breaks its own laws? Judge Andrew Napolitano reveals the answer in “Constitutional Chaos.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/lawmakers-overturn-supreme-court-to-defend-homeowners/#cChIvjt6q0iTvtG0.99
TRUMP'S OFFSHORE-DRILLING PLANS CEMENT U.S. ENERGY SECURITY
Opening vast majority of Outer Continental Shelf called 'giant move'
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The Trump administration is advancing plans to open up the vast majority of the Outer Continental Shelf to energy exploration and development, a move that a leading national security voice in Congress says will be another major boost to the economy and protect American interests by ending any dependence on rogue states that sit on a lot of oil.
On Thursday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced he was moving forward with ambitious plans to increase America’s domestic energy supplies.
Zinke says the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program “proposes to make over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas available to consider for future exploration and development.”
He says that is a dramatic shift from the policies of the Obama administration.
“By comparison, the current program puts 94 percent of the OCS off limits. In addition, the program proposes the largest number of lease sales in U.S. history,” he said.
Take a trip to the WND Superstore for the most authoritative comments on energy, in “Eco-Tyranny,” “The Great Oil Conspiracy” and more.
Wittman says the Obama administration often pointed out that it allowed energy companies to locate deposits of oil and gas, but companies refused because they knew the government would deny them leases to actually extract the energy, making the exploration costly and pointless.
Zinke notes that the 47 potential lease sales as part of the Draft Proposed Program include “19 sales off the coast of Alaska, 7 in the Pacific Region, 12 in the Gulf of Mexico, and 9 in the Atlantic Region.”
Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., sits on the House Natural Resources Committee and is thrilled with the development.
“I think this is a giant move,” said Whitman who, unlike some other congressional Republicans, says he would be fine with productive, safe energy production off the coast of his state.
Wittman points out there is much more of the process to go through to get the production going. There are multiple public comment periods and other hurdles to clear, including putting together the infrastructure to determine where oil and gas can be tapped on the Outer Continental Shelf.
For his district in southeast Virginia, the impact of energy production on the operations of the U.S. Navy will be a key issue to address.
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When it does come, he expects the first action to come in the Gulf of Mexico since the infrastructure is better built there.
While activists and lawmakers in both parties worry about the environmental impact, Wittman says the technology is getting better all the time.
“I believe we can put the proper controls into place to protect the environment but also develop our energy offshore. I think this is a significant step forward and certainly cements United States energy security well into the future,” said Wittman.
He says disasters like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion offered many lessons for energy producers.
“There’s been some criticism that the lessons learned in Deepwater Horizon haven’t been put in place in the regulatory realm. I think where that should be reflected is in the permitting realm. Make sure the permitting is there with the proper construction guidelines and protections. Those are absolutely critical,” said Wittman.
He says many critics forget that Deepwater Horizon was a result of human error, trying to stretch equipment beyond its capacity.
While critics of the plan, including many Democrats, believe national energy policy ought to be focused on renewable forms of energy, Wittman says reality dictates that this type of exploration and production is essential to meet the country’s needs.
“You’re going to have to have hydrocarbons as part of that future energy portfolio. If we don’t, then we put the United States at a distinct strategic and economic disadvantage. We do not want to do that,” said Wittman, who says efficient production and use of traditional energy sources will provide more time to develop more effective renewable options.
If the Zinke plan does come to fruition, Wittman expects it to be an economic windfall for Virginia and other states.
“For Virginia, it would mean thousands of jobs, not only in the construction but also the maintenance of these rigs. Remember, there are boats that go back and forth to tend these rigs. There are highly skilled technicians that operate these rigs. There’s a whole maritime industry that goes with it,” said Wittman.
Wittman also serves on the House Armed Services Committee and chairs its Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee. He says energy production brings national security by providing economic security.
“We have seen in the past when we are at the mercy of nations that don’t like us and are aggressively going after us by trying to kill our men and women around the world that serve this nation in uniform and then we rely on them for our energy. That’s a not a good strategic situation to be in,” said Wittman.
“And it gives us the ability to create better situations around the world because we’re not held hostage to relying on those nations for our energy,” he added.
Congress does not need to authorize the program. However, liberal interest groups are likely to slow it down in court. Wittman denounces lawsuits designed solely to grind policy to a halt. He says the bottom line is that the executive branch has the power to do this regardless of whether all Americans support the plan.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/trumps-offshore-drilling-plans-called-giant-move/#OZJXbjZkbBgbpRwP.99
Make decision allowing government to curb property rights of no effect
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The U.S. Supreme Court
Wisconsin lawmakers, left aghast at a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed the government to limit a family’s use of their private land, have adopted a new law that effectively overturns the court decision.
The Murr family went to court when they sought to sell a vacant parcel of land originally purchased by their parents, only to find new local regulations adopted after the purchase meant they couldn’t sell the land or even improve it.
It was a simple case of government adopting after the fact new regulations and imposing them in a manner that deprived the family of their property rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed that was the appropriate result.
Not so with state lawmakers, who, according to the Heartland Institute, have set in place a “Homeowners’ Bill of Rights,” consisting of two laws passed in November and signed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
What happens when the government breaks its own laws? Judge Andrew Napolitano reveals the answer in “Constitutional Chaos.”
The intent, the report by H. Sterling Burnett explains, is “to prevent local governments from limiting property owners’ use of their lands.”
One law allows “property owners to build on and sell lots of ‘substandard’ size if they were legal when created.”
The law also prohibits local governments from merging adjacent lots that share the same owner without the owner’s permission and makes it easier for property owners to get conditional-use permits and variances, maintain nonconforming structures and dredge private ponds.
The aim is to allow the owners to use the property as it was intended when they purchased it.
The second law lets owners “appeal assessments when a homeowner refuses to let the assessor inside the house, and to hang the American flag even if condominium or homeowner association rules would prohibit it.”
The Heartland report explains the laws, sponsored by state Rep. Adam Jarchow, R-Balsam Lake, and state Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, effectively overturned a June 2017 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The Murr case developed because regulators ordered that the family’s two waterfront lots had to be treated as a single parcel, based on local regulations adopted long after the family had purchased the two lots. The family had intended that one lot be improved with a cabin and used as a family retreat, and the other to be saved and sold later.
The family discovered, however, they had no right to sell the second parcel, which, according to rules enacted later, was too small for development.
This was despite the fact they continued to pay a separate property tax assessment on the second lot.
Heartland said the U.S. Supreme Court “held local regulators could treat two neighboring waterfront lots owned by the same family as if they were a single parcel of property, and thus didn’t owe the property owners compensation for a taking when they were prevented from selling or developing one of the lots because of a change in state law.”
Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, concluding: “Put simply, today’s decision knocks the definition of ‘private property’ loose from its foundation on stable state law rules. [The ruling] compromises the Takings Clause as a barrier between individuals and the press of the public interest.”
Rep. Jarchow explained that the “Homeowners’ Bill of Rights” is “meant to right that wrong by ensuring when people buy property, and they have expectations related to that property, their property rights and expectations are not taken away because of changing rules or regulations over time.”
The Pacific Legal Foundation represented the family in court.
John Groen, PLF general counsel, said: “All of us at Pacific Legal Foundation are very pleased with the legislative progress. … Special thanks to Rep. Adam Jarchow and Sen. Tom Tiffany for recognizing the need to restore property rights for the Murrs and the people of Wisconsin.”
When the high court’s decision was released, WND reported on the beginning of a legislative effort to effectively nullify the decision.
The stated goal was to prohibit “government from inventing ways to strip people of the use of their property while denying them the compensation that the Constitution requires.”
At the time, Donna Murr declared, “What happened to my family should not happen to any American, and the Supreme Court’s ruling must not be the final word.”
Pacific Justice said at the time it intended to go nationwide to seek court rulings and legal changes “that will ensure that property owners cannot be denied their constitutional rights simply because they own adjacent property or because local land use regulations might subsequently change.”
What happens when the government breaks its own laws? Judge Andrew Napolitano reveals the answer in “Constitutional Chaos.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/lawmakers-overturn-supreme-court-to-defend-homeowners/#cChIvjt6q0iTvtG0.99
TRUMP'S OFFSHORE-DRILLING PLANS CEMENT U.S. ENERGY SECURITY
Opening vast majority of Outer Continental Shelf called 'giant move'
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The Trump administration is advancing plans to open up the vast majority of the Outer Continental Shelf to energy exploration and development, a move that a leading national security voice in Congress says will be another major boost to the economy and protect American interests by ending any dependence on rogue states that sit on a lot of oil.
On Thursday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced he was moving forward with ambitious plans to increase America’s domestic energy supplies.
Zinke says the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program “proposes to make over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas available to consider for future exploration and development.”
He says that is a dramatic shift from the policies of the Obama administration.
“By comparison, the current program puts 94 percent of the OCS off limits. In addition, the program proposes the largest number of lease sales in U.S. history,” he said.
Take a trip to the WND Superstore for the most authoritative comments on energy, in “Eco-Tyranny,” “The Great Oil Conspiracy” and more.
Wittman says the Obama administration often pointed out that it allowed energy companies to locate deposits of oil and gas, but companies refused because they knew the government would deny them leases to actually extract the energy, making the exploration costly and pointless.
Zinke notes that the 47 potential lease sales as part of the Draft Proposed Program include “19 sales off the coast of Alaska, 7 in the Pacific Region, 12 in the Gulf of Mexico, and 9 in the Atlantic Region.”
Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., sits on the House Natural Resources Committee and is thrilled with the development.
“I think this is a giant move,” said Whitman who, unlike some other congressional Republicans, says he would be fine with productive, safe energy production off the coast of his state.
Wittman points out there is much more of the process to go through to get the production going. There are multiple public comment periods and other hurdles to clear, including putting together the infrastructure to determine where oil and gas can be tapped on the Outer Continental Shelf.
For his district in southeast Virginia, the impact of energy production on the operations of the U.S. Navy will be a key issue to address.
The interview:
When it does come, he expects the first action to come in the Gulf of Mexico since the infrastructure is better built there.
While activists and lawmakers in both parties worry about the environmental impact, Wittman says the technology is getting better all the time.
“I believe we can put the proper controls into place to protect the environment but also develop our energy offshore. I think this is a significant step forward and certainly cements United States energy security well into the future,” said Wittman.
He says disasters like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion offered many lessons for energy producers.
“There’s been some criticism that the lessons learned in Deepwater Horizon haven’t been put in place in the regulatory realm. I think where that should be reflected is in the permitting realm. Make sure the permitting is there with the proper construction guidelines and protections. Those are absolutely critical,” said Wittman.
He says many critics forget that Deepwater Horizon was a result of human error, trying to stretch equipment beyond its capacity.
While critics of the plan, including many Democrats, believe national energy policy ought to be focused on renewable forms of energy, Wittman says reality dictates that this type of exploration and production is essential to meet the country’s needs.
“You’re going to have to have hydrocarbons as part of that future energy portfolio. If we don’t, then we put the United States at a distinct strategic and economic disadvantage. We do not want to do that,” said Wittman, who says efficient production and use of traditional energy sources will provide more time to develop more effective renewable options.
If the Zinke plan does come to fruition, Wittman expects it to be an economic windfall for Virginia and other states.
“For Virginia, it would mean thousands of jobs, not only in the construction but also the maintenance of these rigs. Remember, there are boats that go back and forth to tend these rigs. There are highly skilled technicians that operate these rigs. There’s a whole maritime industry that goes with it,” said Wittman.
Wittman also serves on the House Armed Services Committee and chairs its Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee. He says energy production brings national security by providing economic security.
“We have seen in the past when we are at the mercy of nations that don’t like us and are aggressively going after us by trying to kill our men and women around the world that serve this nation in uniform and then we rely on them for our energy. That’s a not a good strategic situation to be in,” said Wittman.
“And it gives us the ability to create better situations around the world because we’re not held hostage to relying on those nations for our energy,” he added.
Congress does not need to authorize the program. However, liberal interest groups are likely to slow it down in court. Wittman denounces lawsuits designed solely to grind policy to a halt. He says the bottom line is that the executive branch has the power to do this regardless of whether all Americans support the plan.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/trumps-offshore-drilling-plans-called-giant-move/#OZJXbjZkbBgbpRwP.99
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VETERAN LAWYER WANTS TO FIRE MUELLER, PROSECUTE CLINTONS PERSONALLY
'Only a special counsel can bring strong charges and I am the person to do this'
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He sued the National Security Agency and won in district court.
He sued to get Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
He sued Hugo Chavez on behalf of torture victims.
He sued journalists.
He sued the Taliban and al-Qaida.
He sued Cuba and won a multimillion-dollar judgment.
He sued to get then-President Obama deported.
Now, Larry Klayman, the former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has obtained on a petition the signatures of almost 11,000 people who want him named special counsel to investigate the Clintons, Uranium One and Fusion GPS.
Related column:
‘Justice investigation’ of Clintons likely a sham! by Larry Klayman
He has filed a separate legal action that seeks to remove Robert Mueller as special counsel.
“Only a special counsel can investigate and bring strong criminal charges over these scandals and I am the person to do this. In all modesty, I am the only lawyer who has the guts to finally bring the Clintons and Obama and his fellow criminals to justice, indict them and have them thrown in prison for the rest of their lives,” he explains.
His petition signature count was at about 10,600 early Friday. One of the most recent signers, Edwin Marcano Jr., said: “This whole Russian collusion has been nothing but a witch-hunt from the beginning. It has not produced anything but a big fat nothing burger. It’s time to stop the wasteful spending of our tax dollars and put the death nail into it!”
Mueller was appointed to look into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. After a year, he’s produced no evidence, and the only charges so far have been for “process” crimes rather than allegations underlying the investigation.
But the Uranium One deal, which handed over one-fifth of U.S. uranium holdings to a Russian-government-owned company, directly connected Hillary Clinton and Russia. In the Fusion GPS scandal, the opposition research firm commissioned a former British spy, at Democrat expense, to create the infamous “dossier” believed to be at the heart of the Russia-collusion allegations.
Just this week, the Justice Department launched a new investigation into claims the Clinton Foundation used “pay to play” politics while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
But Klayman says the effort needs to go further.
“You know me as the only lawyer ever to have a court of law rule that former President Bill Clinton committed a crime. This ruling was by a courageous U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth over Clinton’s violation of the privacy rights of a woman he assaulted and sexually abused in the Oval Office, which in Slick Willy’s case could sadly be called the ‘Oral Office,’ given his illicit and unethical sex with a White House intern,” Klayman writes. “But today we face a much greater threat and crimes by the Clintons and the administration of former President Barack Hussein Obama. Obama, along with the Clintons, have committed the real Russian collusion scandal, one that involves racketeering and bribery into their coffers from ‘communists’ to acquire illegally over 20 percent of America’s strategic uranium reserves, seriously endangering our national security. Uranium is the fuel for atomic reactors and nuclear bombs!”
He cited a report from National Review about the significance of the Uranium One scandal:
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. … Here’s the kicker: The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal. The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their “public service.” The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime — and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses. The Obama administration also knew that congressional Republicans were trying to stop the transfer. Consequently, the Justice Department concealed what it knew. DOJ allowed the racketeering enterprise to continue compromising the American uranium industry rather than commencing a prosecution that would have scotched the transfer. Prosecutors waited four years before quietly pleading the case out for a song, in violation of Justice Department charging guidelines. Meanwhile, the administration stonewalled Congress, reportedly threatening an informant who wanted to go public.
Klayman said the Fusion GPS issue has similar major problems that need to be addressed.
And he said current Attorney General Jeff Sessions simply won’t do it.
“Years ago, my friend Alan Keyes, when he was running for president, said I would be his attorney general if he was elected. Now, it’s time for me to be a real attorney general and have President Trump direct the Justice Department to appoint me as special counsel, who would have all the powers of the attorney general in these criminal matters.”
Sign the precedent-setting petition supporting Trump’s call for an independent prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton!
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'Only a special counsel can bring strong charges and I am the person to do this'
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He sued the National Security Agency and won in district court.
He sued to get Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
He sued Hugo Chavez on behalf of torture victims.
He sued journalists.
He sued the Taliban and al-Qaida.
He sued Cuba and won a multimillion-dollar judgment.
He sued to get then-President Obama deported.
Now, Larry Klayman, the former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has obtained on a petition the signatures of almost 11,000 people who want him named special counsel to investigate the Clintons, Uranium One and Fusion GPS.
Related column:
‘Justice investigation’ of Clintons likely a sham! by Larry Klayman
He has filed a separate legal action that seeks to remove Robert Mueller as special counsel.
“Only a special counsel can investigate and bring strong criminal charges over these scandals and I am the person to do this. In all modesty, I am the only lawyer who has the guts to finally bring the Clintons and Obama and his fellow criminals to justice, indict them and have them thrown in prison for the rest of their lives,” he explains.
His petition signature count was at about 10,600 early Friday. One of the most recent signers, Edwin Marcano Jr., said: “This whole Russian collusion has been nothing but a witch-hunt from the beginning. It has not produced anything but a big fat nothing burger. It’s time to stop the wasteful spending of our tax dollars and put the death nail into it!”
Mueller was appointed to look into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. After a year, he’s produced no evidence, and the only charges so far have been for “process” crimes rather than allegations underlying the investigation.
But the Uranium One deal, which handed over one-fifth of U.S. uranium holdings to a Russian-government-owned company, directly connected Hillary Clinton and Russia. In the Fusion GPS scandal, the opposition research firm commissioned a former British spy, at Democrat expense, to create the infamous “dossier” believed to be at the heart of the Russia-collusion allegations.
Just this week, the Justice Department launched a new investigation into claims the Clinton Foundation used “pay to play” politics while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
But Klayman says the effort needs to go further.
“You know me as the only lawyer ever to have a court of law rule that former President Bill Clinton committed a crime. This ruling was by a courageous U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth over Clinton’s violation of the privacy rights of a woman he assaulted and sexually abused in the Oval Office, which in Slick Willy’s case could sadly be called the ‘Oral Office,’ given his illicit and unethical sex with a White House intern,” Klayman writes. “But today we face a much greater threat and crimes by the Clintons and the administration of former President Barack Hussein Obama. Obama, along with the Clintons, have committed the real Russian collusion scandal, one that involves racketeering and bribery into their coffers from ‘communists’ to acquire illegally over 20 percent of America’s strategic uranium reserves, seriously endangering our national security. Uranium is the fuel for atomic reactors and nuclear bombs!”
He cited a report from National Review about the significance of the Uranium One scandal:
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. … Here’s the kicker: The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal. The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their “public service.” The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime — and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses. The Obama administration also knew that congressional Republicans were trying to stop the transfer. Consequently, the Justice Department concealed what it knew. DOJ allowed the racketeering enterprise to continue compromising the American uranium industry rather than commencing a prosecution that would have scotched the transfer. Prosecutors waited four years before quietly pleading the case out for a song, in violation of Justice Department charging guidelines. Meanwhile, the administration stonewalled Congress, reportedly threatening an informant who wanted to go public.
Klayman said the Fusion GPS issue has similar major problems that need to be addressed.
And he said current Attorney General Jeff Sessions simply won’t do it.
“Years ago, my friend Alan Keyes, when he was running for president, said I would be his attorney general if he was elected. Now, it’s time for me to be a real attorney general and have President Trump direct the Justice Department to appoint me as special counsel, who would have all the powers of the attorney general in these criminal matters.”
Sign the precedent-setting petition supporting Trump’s call for an independent prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton!
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'Only a special counsel can bring strong charges and I am the person to do this'
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He sued the National Security Agency and won in district court.
He sued to get Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
He sued Hugo Chavez on behalf of torture victims.
He sued journalists.
He sued the Taliban and al-Qaida.
He sued Cuba and won a multimillion-dollar judgment.
He sued to get then-President Obama deported.
Now, Larry Klayman, the former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has obtained on a petition the signatures of almost 11,000 people who want him named special counsel to investigate the Clintons, Uranium One and Fusion GPS.
Related column:
‘Justice investigation’ of Clintons likely a sham! by Larry Klayman
He has filed a separate legal action that seeks to remove Robert Mueller as special counsel.
“Only a special counsel can investigate and bring strong criminal charges over these scandals and I am the person to do this. In all modesty, I am the only lawyer who has the guts to finally bring the Clintons and Obama and his fellow criminals to justice, indict them and have them thrown in prison for the rest of their lives,” he explains.
His petition signature count was at about 10,600 early Friday. One of the most recent signers, Edwin Marcano Jr., said: “This whole Russian collusion has been nothing but a witch-hunt from the beginning. It has not produced anything but a big fat nothing burger. It’s time to stop the wasteful spending of our tax dollars and put the death nail into it!”
Mueller was appointed to look into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. After a year, he’s produced no evidence, and the only charges so far have been for “process” crimes rather than allegations underlying the investigation.
But the Uranium One deal, which handed over one-fifth of U.S. uranium holdings to a Russian-government-owned company, directly connected Hillary Clinton and Russia. In the Fusion GPS scandal, the opposition research firm commissioned a former British spy, at Democrat expense, to create the infamous “dossier” believed to be at the heart of the Russia-collusion allegations.
Just this week, the Justice Department launched a new investigation into claims the Clinton Foundation used “pay to play” politics while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
But Klayman says the effort needs to go further.
“You know me as the only lawyer ever to have a court of law rule that former President Bill Clinton committed a crime. This ruling was by a courageous U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth over Clinton’s violation of the privacy rights of a woman he assaulted and sexually abused in the Oval Office, which in Slick Willy’s case could sadly be called the ‘Oral Office,’ given his illicit and unethical sex with a White House intern,” Klayman writes. “But today we face a much greater threat and crimes by the Clintons and the administration of former President Barack Hussein Obama. Obama, along with the Clintons, have committed the real Russian collusion scandal, one that involves racketeering and bribery into their coffers from ‘communists’ to acquire illegally over 20 percent of America’s strategic uranium reserves, seriously endangering our national security. Uranium is the fuel for atomic reactors and nuclear bombs!”
He cited a report from National Review about the significance of the Uranium One scandal:
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. … Here’s the kicker: The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal. The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their “public service.” The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime — and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses. The Obama administration also knew that congressional Republicans were trying to stop the transfer. Consequently, the Justice Department concealed what it knew. DOJ allowed the racketeering enterprise to continue compromising the American uranium industry rather than commencing a prosecution that would have scotched the transfer. Prosecutors waited four years before quietly pleading the case out for a song, in violation of Justice Department charging guidelines. Meanwhile, the administration stonewalled Congress, reportedly threatening an informant who wanted to go public.
Klayman said the Fusion GPS issue has similar major problems that need to be addressed.
And he said current Attorney General Jeff Sessions simply won’t do it.
“Years ago, my friend Alan Keyes, when he was running for president, said I would be his attorney general if he was elected. Now, it’s time for me to be a real attorney general and have President Trump direct the Justice Department to appoint me as special counsel, who would have all the powers of the attorney general in these criminal matters.”
Sign the precedent-setting petition supporting Trump’s call for an independent prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton!
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/veteran-lawyer-wants-to-fire-mueller-prosecute-clintons-personally/#7SHHZj20dJVbKO2c.99
JUDICIAL WATCH SUES TO UNCOVER SECRETS IN COP'S 1972 MURDER
Lured to Farrakhan's Nation of Islam by fake call, then shot
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For more than 40 years, since New York City police officer Phillip Cardillo was lured to Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam mosque on a faked “officer down” emergency call, then shot and killed, there have been unanswered questions about his tragic death.
Who made the call?
Why was the mosque security absent when the officers first arrived?
Why did the FBI do a separate investigation, then suppress its evidence?
Who fired the shots?
Why did police commanders order officers out of the crime scene and turn it over to the NOI?
Why was Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., at the scene, and why did he fail to follow through on his promise to bring NOI members present at the shooting to the police station?
Now, there is the glimmer of hope that some of those details will be uncovered, as Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, New York City and its police department to force them to make public what they know about the April 14, 1972, homicide.
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In its announcement, Judicial Watch said its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit came after the DOJ “failed to adequately search for records” of the homicide.
It previously had requested: “All records concerning the Nation of Islam Mosque #7 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, or the building located at 102 West 116th Street. This request includes, but is not limited to, all informant, wiretap, electronic surveillance, and physical surveillance records relevant to the Nation of Islam Mosque #7, located at 102 West 116th Street, in New York City” for the time period 1970 through 1973.
Judicial Watch alleges the DOJ “violated FOIA by failing and/or refusing to employ search methods reasonably likely to lead to the discovery of records responsive” to its requests.
The city and police “have yet to provide one responsive document.”
Although the case was “reopened” many year ago, Judicial Watch challenges the police claim that it still is an ongoing case.
The basics of the case: “Two policemen, Phillip Cardillo and Vito Navarra, rushed to the address, which was the Muhammed Mosque #7 of the Nation of Islam. Its leader, Louis Farrakhan, had offices on the third floor.”
They were responding to a 10-13, which means an officer is down.
“The mosque doors, usually bolted shut and manned by the Nation of Islam’s own paramilitary force, the Fruit of Islam, were unlocked and unguarded. In the reception area, Cardillo and Navarra encountered six men. Navarra darted up the stairs. Somewhere up on the second floor, he believed, a brother officer was in serious trouble. He was met by 10 men who forced him back down the stairs,” Judicial Watch said.
More officers arrived, a fight resulted and gunfire erupted.
Cardillo died a few days later.
“Officer Cardillo’s murder, over 40 years ago, is relevant today. We need to completely clear this case to properly honor a fallen hero,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “There should be no informal statute of limitations on the death of one of New York’s finest. It is shameful we are being stonewalled by law enforcement bureaucracies on this murder. Rank-and-file NYPD officers want answers, too.”
A previous report by a Judicial Watch investigator raised additional questions: Was the call actually made by the FBI as part of one of its undercover investigations? What was the result of the conference between then-President Richard Nixon and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover on the case?
“Racial tensions were running high. Urban homicide rates had skyrocketed. Radical groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Panther Party were trying to stoke a revolutionary fury in the streets with bombings, murder and mayhem. In New York, an ambitious liberal mayor, John Lindsay, was eyeing a run for the presidency,” Judicial Watch’s report said. “In a string of brutal crimes directed against the NYPD, officers Thomas Curry and Nicholas Binetti had been blasted with machine-gun fire as they guarded the home of Manhattan DA Frank Hogan. Officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie were murdered on the Lower East Side, shot from behind. Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones were shot to death outside a Harlem housing project. Radicals associated with the violent Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army were fingered for the crimes.”
The mosque shooting report noted that Farrakhan and Rangle both played roles in the case but have “ignored repeated requests … to discuss it.”
“What happened that day at Mosque #7? Why does every attempt to get justice for a slain cop – the initial police investigation, the second police investigation, the secret police investigation, the two trials of an alleged shooter, the grand jury probe by a special prosecutor, the efforts of former detectives and prosecutors – seem to vanish down the memory hole?” the report asks.
Among the revelations that have been unearthed is the fact that when a police commander called from the crime scene for backup for his officers who were facing a dozen or more irate NOI members, his request was denied.
Explains the evaluation: “In the 1960s and 1970s, the FBI was at war with America’s domestic enemies, real and imagined. The FBI’s secret COINTELPRO counter-intelligence program tried to disrupt and discredit many groups, including what FBI documents from the time refer to as ‘black extremists’ – a broad category of targets ranging from the Nation of Islam to the non-violent Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the revolution-preaching Black Panther Party.
“Concern about ‘black extremists’ went right to the top of the U.S. government – to President Nixon and FBI Director Hoover. The COINTELPRO program was unmasked in 1971 and ordered closed down. But Nixon and Hoover directed that another secret program be launched in New York in response to the assassinations of police officers.”
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JUDGES SLAP DOWN DEMAND THAT CHRISTIANS PROMOTE ABORTION
Baltimore requirement raised
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After several years of various courts forcing Christian pregnancy centers and counseling groups to promote abortion – even though it violates their faith – it appears the tide is turning.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday struck down a Baltimore ordinance that required pregnancy centers to post “notices that conspicuously state in English and Spanish that they do not provide nor refer women for abortions or birth control services.”
The appeals court found that the ordinance violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.
The opinion said: “The compelled speech at issue here raises particularly troubling First Amendment concerns. At bottom, the disclaimer portrays abortion as one among a menu of morally equivalent choices. While that may be the city’s view, it is not the center’s.”
The ruling also found the ordinance was an impermissible attempt by Baltimore officials “to use compelled speech as a weapon to run its ideological foes into the ground.”
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Liberty Counsel represents three additional pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that have been fighting the same battle in California, and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra.
It’s one of multiple cases brought by crisis pregnancy centers challenging the California requirement to promote abortion. When that case is decided, it will apply nationwide.
It was the Ninth Circuit in California, the most overturned appeals court in the country, that validated the law in that state.
The Fourth Circuit found that Baltimore “has considerable latitude in regulating public health and deceptive advertising.”
But that doesn’t apply in this case, the judges said.
“Baltimore’s chosen means here are too loose to fit with those ends, and in this case compel a politically and religiously motivated group to convey a message fundamentally at odds with its core beliefs and mission.”
The case was brought by the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns.
Its position had been upheld earlier, at the district court level, but the city continued trying to force the organization to carry the message it demanded.
The district court had found “the ordinance violated the Free Speech Clause because it was not narrowly tailored to accomplish a compelling government interest.”
That ruling found the city imposed a rule “that regulates noncommercial speech” and is “content-based.”
The appeals ruling said the city’s message “is antithetical to the very moral, religious, and ideological reasons the center exists.”
It continued: “States must have room for reasonable regulation. But there is a limit to how much they can dictate core beliefs. This court has in the past struck down attempts to compel speech from abortion providers. And today we do the same with regard to compelling speech from abortion foes.”
“We are committed to serving women in need in a way that respects their choices, comforts them in a difficult time and is in line with our mission,” said Carol Clews, executive director of the Center for Pregnancy Concerns. “This court ruling means that we can do our job and the government can’t tell us what to say or how to say it.”
The center helps nearly 10,000 women a year who face unplanned pregnancies with pregnancy tests, baby and maternity clothes, parenting classes and job placement.
WND reported last summer a federal judge in Illinois came to the same conclusion.
U.S. District Judge Frederick Kapala determined an amendment to the state’s health care laws likely will be overturned when the issue comes to trial.
He issued a temporary injunction preventing the law’s enforcement until the case is concluded.
“The amended act targets the free speech rights of people who have a specific viewpoint,” he wrote.
The law would require doctors and pregnancy care centers, even those that are pro-life, to promote abortion.
“The government is out of line when it attempts to force Americans to communicate a message that is contrary to their most deeply held beliefs,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Elissa Graves.
“In addition, the state shouldn’t be robbing women of the freedom to choose a pro-life doctor by mandating that pro-life physicians and entities make or arrange abortion referrals. The court was right to halt enforcement of this law while our lawsuit proceeds.”
It’s not a new dispute. WND reported in 2014 on almost identical arguments in Montgomery County, Maryland, where an appeals court decided against rules that would restrict the speech of pregnancy centers.
Related cases also have developed in New York and Austin, Texas.
The New Jersey case arose when abortion advocates in the government decided to require pro-life pregnancy centers that offer advice, diapers and other help to mothers-to-be to post a sign advising women to go to another clinic for help.
The push for the mandatory signs came from county officials who adopted the demands of pro-abortion interests such as the National Abortion Rights Action League.
But as U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasenow found there, there was no evidence that such signs were needed.
“Even assuming … that [pro-life] centers are presenting themselves as medical providers and thus pregnant women are accepting their misinformation as sound medical advice, the county must still demonstrate the next supposition on the logical chain: that these practices are having the effect of harming the health of pregnant women,” the judge wrote in banning the county from imposing its signage requirement.
The judge said the county “has failed this task.”
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'Only a special counsel can bring strong charges and I am the person to do this'
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He sued the National Security Agency and won in district court.
He sued to get Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
He sued Hugo Chavez on behalf of torture victims.
He sued journalists.
He sued the Taliban and al-Qaida.
He sued Cuba and won a multimillion-dollar judgment.
He sued to get then-President Obama deported.
Now, Larry Klayman, the former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has obtained on a petition the signatures of almost 11,000 people who want him named special counsel to investigate the Clintons, Uranium One and Fusion GPS.
Related column:
‘Justice investigation’ of Clintons likely a sham! by Larry Klayman
He has filed a separate legal action that seeks to remove Robert Mueller as special counsel.
“Only a special counsel can investigate and bring strong criminal charges over these scandals and I am the person to do this. In all modesty, I am the only lawyer who has the guts to finally bring the Clintons and Obama and his fellow criminals to justice, indict them and have them thrown in prison for the rest of their lives,” he explains.
His petition signature count was at about 10,600 early Friday. One of the most recent signers, Edwin Marcano Jr., said: “This whole Russian collusion has been nothing but a witch-hunt from the beginning. It has not produced anything but a big fat nothing burger. It’s time to stop the wasteful spending of our tax dollars and put the death nail into it!”
Mueller was appointed to look into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. After a year, he’s produced no evidence, and the only charges so far have been for “process” crimes rather than allegations underlying the investigation.
But the Uranium One deal, which handed over one-fifth of U.S. uranium holdings to a Russian-government-owned company, directly connected Hillary Clinton and Russia. In the Fusion GPS scandal, the opposition research firm commissioned a former British spy, at Democrat expense, to create the infamous “dossier” believed to be at the heart of the Russia-collusion allegations.
Just this week, the Justice Department launched a new investigation into claims the Clinton Foundation used “pay to play” politics while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
But Klayman says the effort needs to go further.
“You know me as the only lawyer ever to have a court of law rule that former President Bill Clinton committed a crime. This ruling was by a courageous U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth over Clinton’s violation of the privacy rights of a woman he assaulted and sexually abused in the Oval Office, which in Slick Willy’s case could sadly be called the ‘Oral Office,’ given his illicit and unethical sex with a White House intern,” Klayman writes. “But today we face a much greater threat and crimes by the Clintons and the administration of former President Barack Hussein Obama. Obama, along with the Clintons, have committed the real Russian collusion scandal, one that involves racketeering and bribery into their coffers from ‘communists’ to acquire illegally over 20 percent of America’s strategic uranium reserves, seriously endangering our national security. Uranium is the fuel for atomic reactors and nuclear bombs!”
He cited a report from National Review about the significance of the Uranium One scandal:
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. … Here’s the kicker: The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal. The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their “public service.” The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime — and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses. The Obama administration also knew that congressional Republicans were trying to stop the transfer. Consequently, the Justice Department concealed what it knew. DOJ allowed the racketeering enterprise to continue compromising the American uranium industry rather than commencing a prosecution that would have scotched the transfer. Prosecutors waited four years before quietly pleading the case out for a song, in violation of Justice Department charging guidelines. Meanwhile, the administration stonewalled Congress, reportedly threatening an informant who wanted to go public.
Klayman said the Fusion GPS issue has similar major problems that need to be addressed.
And he said current Attorney General Jeff Sessions simply won’t do it.
“Years ago, my friend Alan Keyes, when he was running for president, said I would be his attorney general if he was elected. Now, it’s time for me to be a real attorney general and have President Trump direct the Justice Department to appoint me as special counsel, who would have all the powers of the attorney general in these criminal matters.”
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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES TO UNCOVER SECRETS IN COP'S 1972 MURDER
Lured to Farrakhan's Nation of Islam by fake call, then shot
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For more than 40 years, since New York City police officer Phillip Cardillo was lured to Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam mosque on a faked “officer down” emergency call, then shot and killed, there have been unanswered questions about his tragic death.
Who made the call?
Why was the mosque security absent when the officers first arrived?
Why did the FBI do a separate investigation, then suppress its evidence?
Who fired the shots?
Why did police commanders order officers out of the crime scene and turn it over to the NOI?
Why was Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., at the scene, and why did he fail to follow through on his promise to bring NOI members present at the shooting to the police station?
Now, there is the glimmer of hope that some of those details will be uncovered, as Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, New York City and its police department to force them to make public what they know about the April 14, 1972, homicide.
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In its announcement, Judicial Watch said its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit came after the DOJ “failed to adequately search for records” of the homicide.
It previously had requested: “All records concerning the Nation of Islam Mosque #7 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, or the building located at 102 West 116th Street. This request includes, but is not limited to, all informant, wiretap, electronic surveillance, and physical surveillance records relevant to the Nation of Islam Mosque #7, located at 102 West 116th Street, in New York City” for the time period 1970 through 1973.
Judicial Watch alleges the DOJ “violated FOIA by failing and/or refusing to employ search methods reasonably likely to lead to the discovery of records responsive” to its requests.
The city and police “have yet to provide one responsive document.”
Although the case was “reopened” many year ago, Judicial Watch challenges the police claim that it still is an ongoing case.
The basics of the case: “Two policemen, Phillip Cardillo and Vito Navarra, rushed to the address, which was the Muhammed Mosque #7 of the Nation of Islam. Its leader, Louis Farrakhan, had offices on the third floor.”
They were responding to a 10-13, which means an officer is down.
“The mosque doors, usually bolted shut and manned by the Nation of Islam’s own paramilitary force, the Fruit of Islam, were unlocked and unguarded. In the reception area, Cardillo and Navarra encountered six men. Navarra darted up the stairs. Somewhere up on the second floor, he believed, a brother officer was in serious trouble. He was met by 10 men who forced him back down the stairs,” Judicial Watch said.
More officers arrived, a fight resulted and gunfire erupted.
Cardillo died a few days later.
“Officer Cardillo’s murder, over 40 years ago, is relevant today. We need to completely clear this case to properly honor a fallen hero,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “There should be no informal statute of limitations on the death of one of New York’s finest. It is shameful we are being stonewalled by law enforcement bureaucracies on this murder. Rank-and-file NYPD officers want answers, too.”
A previous report by a Judicial Watch investigator raised additional questions: Was the call actually made by the FBI as part of one of its undercover investigations? What was the result of the conference between then-President Richard Nixon and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover on the case?
“Racial tensions were running high. Urban homicide rates had skyrocketed. Radical groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Panther Party were trying to stoke a revolutionary fury in the streets with bombings, murder and mayhem. In New York, an ambitious liberal mayor, John Lindsay, was eyeing a run for the presidency,” Judicial Watch’s report said. “In a string of brutal crimes directed against the NYPD, officers Thomas Curry and Nicholas Binetti had been blasted with machine-gun fire as they guarded the home of Manhattan DA Frank Hogan. Officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie were murdered on the Lower East Side, shot from behind. Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones were shot to death outside a Harlem housing project. Radicals associated with the violent Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army were fingered for the crimes.”
The mosque shooting report noted that Farrakhan and Rangle both played roles in the case but have “ignored repeated requests … to discuss it.”
“What happened that day at Mosque #7? Why does every attempt to get justice for a slain cop – the initial police investigation, the second police investigation, the secret police investigation, the two trials of an alleged shooter, the grand jury probe by a special prosecutor, the efforts of former detectives and prosecutors – seem to vanish down the memory hole?” the report asks.
Among the revelations that have been unearthed is the fact that when a police commander called from the crime scene for backup for his officers who were facing a dozen or more irate NOI members, his request was denied.
Explains the evaluation: “In the 1960s and 1970s, the FBI was at war with America’s domestic enemies, real and imagined. The FBI’s secret COINTELPRO counter-intelligence program tried to disrupt and discredit many groups, including what FBI documents from the time refer to as ‘black extremists’ – a broad category of targets ranging from the Nation of Islam to the non-violent Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the revolution-preaching Black Panther Party.
“Concern about ‘black extremists’ went right to the top of the U.S. government – to President Nixon and FBI Director Hoover. The COINTELPRO program was unmasked in 1971 and ordered closed down. But Nixon and Hoover directed that another secret program be launched in New York in response to the assassinations of police officers.”
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JUDGES SLAP DOWN DEMAND THAT CHRISTIANS PROMOTE ABORTION
Baltimore requirement raised
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After several years of various courts forcing Christian pregnancy centers and counseling groups to promote abortion – even though it violates their faith – it appears the tide is turning.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday struck down a Baltimore ordinance that required pregnancy centers to post “notices that conspicuously state in English and Spanish that they do not provide nor refer women for abortions or birth control services.”
The appeals court found that the ordinance violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.
The opinion said: “The compelled speech at issue here raises particularly troubling First Amendment concerns. At bottom, the disclaimer portrays abortion as one among a menu of morally equivalent choices. While that may be the city’s view, it is not the center’s.”
The ruling also found the ordinance was an impermissible attempt by Baltimore officials “to use compelled speech as a weapon to run its ideological foes into the ground.”
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Liberty Counsel represents three additional pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that have been fighting the same battle in California, and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra.
It’s one of multiple cases brought by crisis pregnancy centers challenging the California requirement to promote abortion. When that case is decided, it will apply nationwide.
It was the Ninth Circuit in California, the most overturned appeals court in the country, that validated the law in that state.
The Fourth Circuit found that Baltimore “has considerable latitude in regulating public health and deceptive advertising.”
But that doesn’t apply in this case, the judges said.
“Baltimore’s chosen means here are too loose to fit with those ends, and in this case compel a politically and religiously motivated group to convey a message fundamentally at odds with its core beliefs and mission.”
The case was brought by the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns.
Its position had been upheld earlier, at the district court level, but the city continued trying to force the organization to carry the message it demanded.
The district court had found “the ordinance violated the Free Speech Clause because it was not narrowly tailored to accomplish a compelling government interest.”
That ruling found the city imposed a rule “that regulates noncommercial speech” and is “content-based.”
The appeals ruling said the city’s message “is antithetical to the very moral, religious, and ideological reasons the center exists.”
It continued: “States must have room for reasonable regulation. But there is a limit to how much they can dictate core beliefs. This court has in the past struck down attempts to compel speech from abortion providers. And today we do the same with regard to compelling speech from abortion foes.”
“We are committed to serving women in need in a way that respects their choices, comforts them in a difficult time and is in line with our mission,” said Carol Clews, executive director of the Center for Pregnancy Concerns. “This court ruling means that we can do our job and the government can’t tell us what to say or how to say it.”
The center helps nearly 10,000 women a year who face unplanned pregnancies with pregnancy tests, baby and maternity clothes, parenting classes and job placement.
WND reported last summer a federal judge in Illinois came to the same conclusion.
U.S. District Judge Frederick Kapala determined an amendment to the state’s health care laws likely will be overturned when the issue comes to trial.
He issued a temporary injunction preventing the law’s enforcement until the case is concluded.
“The amended act targets the free speech rights of people who have a specific viewpoint,” he wrote.
The law would require doctors and pregnancy care centers, even those that are pro-life, to promote abortion.
“The government is out of line when it attempts to force Americans to communicate a message that is contrary to their most deeply held beliefs,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Elissa Graves.
“In addition, the state shouldn’t be robbing women of the freedom to choose a pro-life doctor by mandating that pro-life physicians and entities make or arrange abortion referrals. The court was right to halt enforcement of this law while our lawsuit proceeds.”
It’s not a new dispute. WND reported in 2014 on almost identical arguments in Montgomery County, Maryland, where an appeals court decided against rules that would restrict the speech of pregnancy centers.
Related cases also have developed in New York and Austin, Texas.
The New Jersey case arose when abortion advocates in the government decided to require pro-life pregnancy centers that offer advice, diapers and other help to mothers-to-be to post a sign advising women to go to another clinic for help.
The push for the mandatory signs came from county officials who adopted the demands of pro-abortion interests such as the National Abortion Rights Action League.
But as U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasenow found there, there was no evidence that such signs were needed.
“Even assuming … that [pro-life] centers are presenting themselves as medical providers and thus pregnant women are accepting their misinformation as sound medical advice, the county must still demonstrate the next supposition on the logical chain: that these practices are having the effect of harming the health of pregnant women,” the judge wrote in banning the county from imposing its signage requirement.
The judge said the county “has failed this task.”
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HUMA'S NEW FAMILY, EMAIL CRISIS
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Convicted cousin deleted Yahoo messages after seeking State favors
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Federal investigators say Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s recently convicted cousin deleted emails from his Yahoo account between 2008 and 2012 – a period that covered Abedin’s tenure at the State Department and when he solicited her for government favors.
Huma also maintained a Yahoo account to which she forwarded classified and other sensitive State Department information, including passwords, even after Yahoo accounts had been hacked worldwide.
President Trump Tuesday called for a federal investigation into Abedin’s handling of classified information, charging that she disregarded “basic security protocols.”
Abedin’s first and “closest” cousin, Omar Amanat – who last week was convicted of federal fraud charges – sent messages to her Yahoo and State Department accounts asking for government favors related to his New York-area business ventures starting in 2009, shortly after then-Secretary of State Clinton tapped her as her deputy chief of staff. Amanat’s communications with Abedin while at State and his little-known family ties to Abedin were first reported last April by WND.
A Justice Department document, Page 1 and Page 5, filed last month in federal court reveals that New York investigators obtained a search warrant on Amanat’s Yahoo-hosted email account in July 2016 at the same time the FBI was closing the Clinton email case. Investigators subsequently discovered “all emails between 2008 and 2012 had been deleted from the account before the government obtained the warrant.”
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The court document, which runs 16 pages, further reveals that Amanat asked his brother, Irfan Mohammed Amanat, for help deleting his emails from the Yahoo site and downloading them onto his laptop, out of “concern about them subp[o]en[a]ing yahoo.”
Prosecutors say he did this for “the purpose of thwarting investigations.”
Abedin transferred to her husband’s laptop State Department emails, including several classified messages. The laptop was seized last year by federal agents in an unrelated sex-crimes investigation. The State Department is in the process of releasing the cache of Abedin emails the FBI retrieved from the laptop to Judicial Watch, which sued the agency for the information.
Omar Amanat faces 10 years in prison for securities and wire fraud related to his failed New York-based business, Kit Digital. His sentencing is scheduled for April. Meanwhile, Irfan Amanat awaits a March trial on related fraud charges.
Last month, in a mysterious development, Irfan Amanat’s lawyer asked the federal judge hearing the case to release her from representing her client, citing “new information” she learned while Omar Amanat was on trial and after “conferring with ethics counsel.” In a Dec. 15 letter, the New York defense attorney, Jill Shellow, asked the judge to appoint another lawyer “in light of the highly confidential nature of the new information and so as not to prejudice any of the proceedings related to this matter pending before Your Honor.”
U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe has ordered a conference this Friday in his Manhattan chambers to discuss the unusual request for withdrawal. He told prosecutors not to attend, indicating the matter is highly sensitive and confidential.
During Omar Amanat’s trial, jurors were barred from hearing evidence referencing Amanat’s blood ties to Abedin when Amanat dropped her name to an informant.
“She’s my … uh … my mom’s sister’s daughter,” the 44-year-old Amanat said in a recorded call. “She’s my first cousin, my closest.”
Amanat and his lawyers requested the judge keep news of their kinship, which had not been reported even among New York media before WND first revealed it in April, out of the courtroom.
An attorney familiar with the case said Amanat is “really like a brother” to Abedin, and that the two have shared money from a family trust fund. It’s not immediately known if Abedin has helped pay her bankrupt cousin’s legal bills, but they share the same New York law firm – Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. Attempts to reach Abedin for comment were unsuccessful.
The legal source said prosecutors could work Amanat for information regarding the Clinton email and pay-for-play cases.
“Now is the time to approach Omar about what he knows about Huma and Hillary. His sentencing is coming up in a few months and he is looking at 10 years,” he said, adding that prosecutors might be willing to cut a deal with Amanat in exchange for information.
Amanat and his family are also close to the Clintons, and records show they have contributed large sums of money to the Clinton Foundation, as WND also first reported in May.
FBI agents interviewed Abedin as part of the investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of government secrets, and their notes say she claimed that she “did not learn Clinton was using a private server until after Clinton’s tenure” at State, even though she was issued an email address linked to the unauthorized server, other emails show she was notified whenever the server went down, and other witnesses stated that it was her idea to set up the server in Clinton’s New York basement.
Still, Abedin was never charged with making false statements to a federal agent, a felony. And her personal laptop and phones were not seized and analyzed by the FBI. Instead, she was granted immunity from prosecution, which according to attorneys familiar with her case, would make it difficult to pursue a criminal case against her now – though not impossible, they say, if it can be demonstrated to a judge that she lied to investigators.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO GIVE HOUSE INVESTIGATORS 'DOSSIER' EVIDENCE
'The committee looks forward to receiving access to the documents'
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department finally has decided to cooperate with the House Intelligence Committee, agreeing to provide records that could reveal whether the salacious Trump-Russia “dossier” was used to justify FBI surveillance of Trump campaign officials.
The chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says he has spoken with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and a deal had been reached with Justice to provide witnesses and documents about the probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Included in the deal is evidence about the dossier, funded by Democratic operatives and containing unsubstantiated allegations of Trump collusion with Russia.
“After speaking to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein this evening, I believe the House Intelligence Committee has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice that will provide the committee with access to all the documents and witnesses we have requested,” Nunes said in a statement late Wednesday.
“The committee looks forward to receiving access to the documents over the coming days.”
Nunes announced the deal after FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein unexpectedly met with House Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday afternoon to discuss the months-long document request from congressional investigators.
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The Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee paid more than $9 million to opposition research firm GPS Fusion which, in turn, retained former British MI6 officer Christopher Steele to create the salacious, unverified dossier of allegations.
The House Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas to the FBI and the Justice Department on Aug. 24, giving them until Sept. 1 to provide information about the nature of the FBI’s relationship with Steele, how much Steele was paid and to what extent the dossier was relied upon to obtain FISA warrants and launch the FBI’s investigation into Russian activities during the 2016 election campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey insisted the dossier be included in January’s final Intelligence Community Report on claims of Russian meddling in the election and reportedly offered Steele $50,000 to corroborate the dossier.
Justice ignored the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee’s request to turn over dossier-related documents and witnesses for months, prompting Nunes in recent days to lash out against the DOJ, suggesting the department was doing so deliberately.
Last month, Nunes reportedly threatened to vote to hold the DOJ and FBI in contempt of Congress if they did not turn over the sought materials.
Nunes sent Rosenstein a letter on Dec. 28 blasting the Justice Department and demanding the documents finally be provided to the committee by Wednesday.
“At this point it seems the DOJ and FBI need to be investigating themselves,” Nunes wrote in a letter to Rosenstein last week.
A source familiar with the investigation into alleged Russian collusion told WND Wednesday that Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee don’t want the FBI to provide the dossier witnesses and documents because their primary objective is to make sure the Russia probe continues for the foreseeable future.
“Every time we do anything on this, it’s always in the face of bitter, bitter resistance from the Democrats,” the source who spoke to WND on condition of anonymity said. “What we are trying to do is get an explanation from the intelligence agencies about how they used the Steele dossier – that’s all we are trying to do – as the congressional committee with oversight responsibility for the intelligence community, that’s the exact kind of thing that we are supposed to be doing – that’s why this committee exists.
“Of course, the Democrats on the committee seem to have absolutely no interest whatsoever, an amazing lack of curiosity, in discovering whether or not a piece of opposition research, funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, that’s full of unverified and salacious and false stories, was used by the intelligence agencies and investigations of the opposing team, and whether or not that information was used to justify a FISA warrant on American citizens.”
He continued: “It’s something that really stands out for members of what’s supposed to be an oversight committee. Whereas, if you compare the dossier investigation with the collusion story, every single nugget of information – these intelligence committee Democrats are out there in front, screaming and crying that this points to collusion. Every single irrelevant little detail in their minds is more evidence of this grand collusion conspiracy. What’s behind all their accusations, really, is this dossier. None of the collusion allegations of which have been verified.”
The Russia probe is not only a political tool being used to delegitimize the Trump administration, but is an integral part of the Democratic strategy to win the 2018 midterm elections, the source said.
“There is no doubt the immediate goal is to stretch this investigation out until the midterm elections. That is definitely the main thing that they want for right now, for the obvious political reasons. There are a lot of moving parts to this whole thing. We’ve been looking at it for a full year now. And yet the Democrats are accusing us of trying to prematurely shut down the investigation at the behest of Bannon and Trump. It’s in their interest to keep this investigation going absolutely as long as possible and whether it goes one year, three years or five years, at some point it’s got to wind down. But no matter how long it’s gone on, they are going to complain that it’s premature to shut it down. They want it to keep going and going and going until they have something to support the collusion argument that they have been making all year without any actual evidence.”
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U.S. MUSLIM POPULATION EXPANDING 'RAPIDLY'
Pew study: Community growing by 100,000 per year thanks to migration, high birthrates
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Pew Research Center came out this week with an updated estimate of the American Muslim population, which is sure to cause a stir on all sides of the issue.
The new numbers come in at 3.45 million Muslims living legally in the U.S. in 2017. That represents only 1.1 percent of the U.S. population but it’s up, by Pew’s estimates, from 3.31 million in 2016.
The U.S. Muslim population grows by about 100,000 every year, according to the Pew study.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, says Pew’s estimates are way off, and that the true number is roughly double, in the 6 to 8 million range – and that was more than two years ago.
“Muslim advocacy groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations routinely cite a span of 6 million to 8 million people in describing the size of Islam in America. That would be between 2 percent and 3 percent of the U.S. population and make Muslims greater in number than Mormons or Jews,” CAIR stated on its website in March 2015.”
If CAIR, an offshoot of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, is correct and there are at least 6 million Muslims living in the U.S., that would represent 2.4 percent of the total population and exceed the number of Jewish Americans by about a million.
The facts bear out that the higher a nation’s Muslim population, the more anti-Semitic attacks occur in that nation. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the U.K. have all seen increasing numbers of hate crimes against Jews and Jewish properties since they began importing mass numbers of Muslim migrants. It has gotten so bad in France and Germany that many Jews have been quietly migrating out of those countries in recent years.
Both Pew and CAIR note that they are watching closely for the day when Islam surpasses Judaism as the second most populous religious group in America. CAIR, as stated above, thinks that has already happened, while Pew forecasts it will not happen for another 22 years.
Pew estimates that 5.3 million Jews live in the U.S., but unlike the Muslim population, Judaism is not growing in America, due largely to low birthrates.
Pew says the Muslim population will continue to increase and should surpass Judaism as the nation’s second most common religious faith by 2040.
The main drivers of Muslim population are high fertility rates of Muslim women, compared to Christian and Jewish women, along with continued migration of Muslims into the U.S. from abroad.
Pew itself admits that that estimated Muslim population growth is difficult because there is no official count — the U.S. Census does not ask Americans their religious affiliation. So Pew is offering what amounts to its best guess based on its own surveys, outside sources and previous research.
The true size of the U.S. Muslim population is likely somewhere in the middle of the Pew estimate and the CAIR estimate, probably around 5 million.
Previous reporting by WND has documented that one of the main drivers of Muslim immigration into the U.S. is the food processing industry, especially the meatpacking sector, which employs an estimated 5 to 12 percent of its workforce with refugee labor.
Lutheran Refugee and Immigration Service doing business as Lutheran Social Services, along with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, doing business as Catholic Charities, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, World Relief and several secular resettlement agencies serve as virtual headhunters for these global conglomerates in search of cheap labor for their hotels and factories.
Entire small cities and towns throughout the South and especially the Midwest have been transformed demographically over the last 10 years by the meatpacking industry – cities such as Greeley and Fort Collins, Colorado; Lexington, Nebraska; Noel, Missouri; Aberdeen, South Dakota; Fargo, North Dakota; Garden City and Dodge City, Kansas; St. Cloud, Melrose, Willmar, Austin and Worthington, Minnesota.
See Pew’s interactive map to find out how many Muslims are in your city and state.
Tyson Foods, for instance, even built a mosque inside its meatpacking plant in tiny Noel, Missouri, to encourage Muslim workers to come work there without having to leave the plant for daily prayer time.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services has signed a deal to provide a pilot program for meat-processing giant JBS Swift to train refugee labor inside the company’s plants in four states. If it is successful JBS plans to roll it out nationwide to more than 100 plants.
The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, whose top eight executives all bring home salaries of between $112,000 and $300,000, has profited greatly from its ties to global meat packers.
Meat plants in particular, and the food-processing industry in general, have long been a gateway into the United States for Third Worlders looking for a better economic lot in life. Chobani serves as a similar conduit with its massive yogurt plant in Twin Falls, Idaho.
“Big Yogurt has learned from Big Meat,” says Ann Corcoran, who tracks the global movement of migrants for Refugee Resettlement Watch.
Pew says the U.S. Muslim population will reach 8.1 million by 2050. Interestingly, the folks at CAIR believe there are already that many Muslims in the U.S. now, and CAIR is working on its own count.
Bashleer Mohamed, author of the Pew report, states the case as follows:
“Muslims in the U.S. are not as numerous as the number of Americans who identify as Jewish by religion, according to our estimate. At the same time, our projections suggest that the U.S. Muslim population will grow much faster than the country’s Jewish population. By 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nation’s second-largest religious group after Christians. And by 2050, the U.S. Muslim population is projected to reach 8.1 million, or 2.1% of the nation’s total population — nearly twice the share of today.”
According to the Pew study, conversions to Islam haven’t had a major impact on the size of the U.S. Muslim population, at least not yet. That’s because nearly as many Americans convert to Islam as leave the faith every year. While about one-in-five American Muslim adults were raised in a different faith tradition and converted to Islam, a similar share of Americans who were raised Muslim now no longer identify with the faith.
Pew also found that the growth of the U.S. Muslim population is uneven, with high concentrations in certain cities and states, such as New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Idaho, California, the Dakotas, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Georgia, compared to relatively low numbers in other states like Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Hawaii.
Again, much of this discrepancy can be explained by tracking the movement of the meatpacking and hotel industries into more rural and semi-rural areas, not just major cities.
Another indicator of the rapidly increasing U.S. Muslim population is the explosive growth in the number of mosques being built. There are more than 3,200 mosques now in the U.S., and more than 70 percent of them have been built since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
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DEMS LEARN IT'S HARDER TO BUY GUNS ILLEGALLY ONLINE THAN THEY THOUGHT
Congressional probe: Targeted sellers even 'froze' accounts set up by suspicious purchaser
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An undercover investigation ordered by liberals in Congress who wanted to pull back the curtain on how easy it is to buy a weapon illegally on the Web has ended up with a stunning conclusion: Gun sellers won’t go along with the deals.
In fact, the report from the Government Accountability Office reveals that the websites run by the sellers even took action against the wannabe buyers multiple times.
The new report said, “Tests performed on the Surface Web demonstrated that private sellers GAO contacted on gun forums and other classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to an individual who appeared to be prohibited from possessing a firearm.”
The report continued: “Of the 72 attempts agents made to purchase firearms on the Surface Web, 56 sellers refused to complete a transaction. 29 sellers stated they would not ship a firearm and 27 refused after the disclosure of the undercover identities’ stated prohibited status. Furthermore, in 5 of these 72 attempts, the accounts GAO set up were frozen by the websites, which prevented the agents from using the forums and attempting to make a purchase.”
Washington watchdog Judicial Watch noted the significance of the results of the investigation, which was instigated by “two fierce anti-gun members of Congress.”
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The report said, “Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded the probe in the aftermath of mass shootings and the investigative arm of Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), conducted a lengthy covert operation to try to purchase firearms illegally from Internet dealers.”
Said the analysis, “All 72 of congressional investigators’ attempts to purchase a firearm illegally via the surface web were unsuccessful, slamming Cummings’ and Warren’s claims that guns are easily obtained by criminal elements on the Internet.”
It explained many of the sellers or dealers were alarmed – enough to shut down the conversations – because of exposure of a shipping address across state lines, “or a prohibition by law from owning firearms.”
“In their ardent push to ban guns Cummings and Warren, both high-profile Democrats, questioned whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was enforcing gun laws involving transactions facilitated by the Internet. The lawmakers asked the GAO to investigate whether online private dealers sell firearms to prohibited individuals. The probe was conducted from July 2015 to November 2017, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.
“It turns out that the ATF’s Internet Investigations Center, created to investigate buyers and sellers who use the Internet to facilitate illegal firearms transactions, is indeed doing its job efficiently, according to the bipartisan GAO,” Judicial Watch said.
“The center uses several tools to provide investigative support to ATF, which has resulted in the arrests of individuals using the Internet to facilitate illegal firearm purchases,” the GAO report states.
Both Warren and Cummings long have opposed Americans owning guns.
“Last year Cummings joined House Democrats in a protest against congressional inaction on gun violence, stating, ‘Every year, tens of thousands of Americans die as a result of gun violence.'”
Cummings claimed: “The American people are fed up with inaction and so am I. It is time for House Republicans to treat gun violence like the scourge on our country that it is.”
Judicial Watch said Warren “has also been on a longtime warpath against Americans’ rights to own firearms, proclaiming that ‘Rambo-style assault weapons’ should be banned.”
“The liberal icon co-sponsored a 2013 law to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. She warned her colleagues during a speech on the Senate floor last year that Congress would have ‘blood on our hands’ if assault weapons aren’t banned.”
The investigators also made seven gun purchase attempts on the “dark Web” — the portion of the Internet that disregards state and federal laws — and two were successful.
GAO referred those cases to local law enforcement for potential prosecution.
The remainder of the 72 attempts involved apparent scams, with people taking money for a weapon, but never delivering, or not giving the appearance of legitimacy.
The GAO noted in its report that the members of Congress had wanted the reults withheld from the public for at least 30 days after completion of the report.
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Convicted cousin deleted Yahoo messages after seeking State favors
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Federal investigators say Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s recently convicted cousin deleted emails from his Yahoo account between 2008 and 2012 – a period that covered Abedin’s tenure at the State Department and when he solicited her for government favors.
Huma also maintained a Yahoo account to which she forwarded classified and other sensitive State Department information, including passwords, even after Yahoo accounts had been hacked worldwide.
President Trump Tuesday called for a federal investigation into Abedin’s handling of classified information, charging that she disregarded “basic security protocols.”
Abedin’s first and “closest” cousin, Omar Amanat – who last week was convicted of federal fraud charges – sent messages to her Yahoo and State Department accounts asking for government favors related to his New York-area business ventures starting in 2009, shortly after then-Secretary of State Clinton tapped her as her deputy chief of staff. Amanat’s communications with Abedin while at State and his little-known family ties to Abedin were first reported last April by WND.
A Justice Department document, Page 1 and Page 5, filed last month in federal court reveals that New York investigators obtained a search warrant on Amanat’s Yahoo-hosted email account in July 2016 at the same time the FBI was closing the Clinton email case. Investigators subsequently discovered “all emails between 2008 and 2012 had been deleted from the account before the government obtained the warrant.”
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The court document, which runs 16 pages, further reveals that Amanat asked his brother, Irfan Mohammed Amanat, for help deleting his emails from the Yahoo site and downloading them onto his laptop, out of “concern about them subp[o]en[a]ing yahoo.”
Prosecutors say he did this for “the purpose of thwarting investigations.”
Abedin transferred to her husband’s laptop State Department emails, including several classified messages. The laptop was seized last year by federal agents in an unrelated sex-crimes investigation. The State Department is in the process of releasing the cache of Abedin emails the FBI retrieved from the laptop to Judicial Watch, which sued the agency for the information.
Omar Amanat faces 10 years in prison for securities and wire fraud related to his failed New York-based business, Kit Digital. His sentencing is scheduled for April. Meanwhile, Irfan Amanat awaits a March trial on related fraud charges.
Last month, in a mysterious development, Irfan Amanat’s lawyer asked the federal judge hearing the case to release her from representing her client, citing “new information” she learned while Omar Amanat was on trial and after “conferring with ethics counsel.” In a Dec. 15 letter, the New York defense attorney, Jill Shellow, asked the judge to appoint another lawyer “in light of the highly confidential nature of the new information and so as not to prejudice any of the proceedings related to this matter pending before Your Honor.”
U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe has ordered a conference this Friday in his Manhattan chambers to discuss the unusual request for withdrawal. He told prosecutors not to attend, indicating the matter is highly sensitive and confidential.
During Omar Amanat’s trial, jurors were barred from hearing evidence referencing Amanat’s blood ties to Abedin when Amanat dropped her name to an informant.
“She’s my … uh … my mom’s sister’s daughter,” the 44-year-old Amanat said in a recorded call. “She’s my first cousin, my closest.”
Amanat and his lawyers requested the judge keep news of their kinship, which had not been reported even among New York media before WND first revealed it in April, out of the courtroom.
An attorney familiar with the case said Amanat is “really like a brother” to Abedin, and that the two have shared money from a family trust fund. It’s not immediately known if Abedin has helped pay her bankrupt cousin’s legal bills, but they share the same New York law firm – Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. Attempts to reach Abedin for comment were unsuccessful.
The legal source said prosecutors could work Amanat for information regarding the Clinton email and pay-for-play cases.
“Now is the time to approach Omar about what he knows about Huma and Hillary. His sentencing is coming up in a few months and he is looking at 10 years,” he said, adding that prosecutors might be willing to cut a deal with Amanat in exchange for information.
Amanat and his family are also close to the Clintons, and records show they have contributed large sums of money to the Clinton Foundation, as WND also first reported in May.
FBI agents interviewed Abedin as part of the investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of government secrets, and their notes say she claimed that she “did not learn Clinton was using a private server until after Clinton’s tenure” at State, even though she was issued an email address linked to the unauthorized server, other emails show she was notified whenever the server went down, and other witnesses stated that it was her idea to set up the server in Clinton’s New York basement.
Still, Abedin was never charged with making false statements to a federal agent, a felony. And her personal laptop and phones were not seized and analyzed by the FBI. Instead, she was granted immunity from prosecution, which according to attorneys familiar with her case, would make it difficult to pursue a criminal case against her now – though not impossible, they say, if it can be demonstrated to a judge that she lied to investigators.
Paul Sperry is a former Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration” and “Muslim Mafia.” Follow him on Twitter: @paulsperry_
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO GIVE HOUSE INVESTIGATORS 'DOSSIER' EVIDENCE
'The committee looks forward to receiving access to the documents'
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department finally has decided to cooperate with the House Intelligence Committee, agreeing to provide records that could reveal whether the salacious Trump-Russia “dossier” was used to justify FBI surveillance of Trump campaign officials.
The chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says he has spoken with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and a deal had been reached with Justice to provide witnesses and documents about the probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Included in the deal is evidence about the dossier, funded by Democratic operatives and containing unsubstantiated allegations of Trump collusion with Russia.
“After speaking to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein this evening, I believe the House Intelligence Committee has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice that will provide the committee with access to all the documents and witnesses we have requested,” Nunes said in a statement late Wednesday.
“The committee looks forward to receiving access to the documents over the coming days.”
Nunes announced the deal after FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein unexpectedly met with House Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday afternoon to discuss the months-long document request from congressional investigators.
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The Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee paid more than $9 million to opposition research firm GPS Fusion which, in turn, retained former British MI6 officer Christopher Steele to create the salacious, unverified dossier of allegations.
The House Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas to the FBI and the Justice Department on Aug. 24, giving them until Sept. 1 to provide information about the nature of the FBI’s relationship with Steele, how much Steele was paid and to what extent the dossier was relied upon to obtain FISA warrants and launch the FBI’s investigation into Russian activities during the 2016 election campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey insisted the dossier be included in January’s final Intelligence Community Report on claims of Russian meddling in the election and reportedly offered Steele $50,000 to corroborate the dossier.
Justice ignored the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee’s request to turn over dossier-related documents and witnesses for months, prompting Nunes in recent days to lash out against the DOJ, suggesting the department was doing so deliberately.
Last month, Nunes reportedly threatened to vote to hold the DOJ and FBI in contempt of Congress if they did not turn over the sought materials.
Nunes sent Rosenstein a letter on Dec. 28 blasting the Justice Department and demanding the documents finally be provided to the committee by Wednesday.
“At this point it seems the DOJ and FBI need to be investigating themselves,” Nunes wrote in a letter to Rosenstein last week.
A source familiar with the investigation into alleged Russian collusion told WND Wednesday that Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee don’t want the FBI to provide the dossier witnesses and documents because their primary objective is to make sure the Russia probe continues for the foreseeable future.
“Every time we do anything on this, it’s always in the face of bitter, bitter resistance from the Democrats,” the source who spoke to WND on condition of anonymity said. “What we are trying to do is get an explanation from the intelligence agencies about how they used the Steele dossier – that’s all we are trying to do – as the congressional committee with oversight responsibility for the intelligence community, that’s the exact kind of thing that we are supposed to be doing – that’s why this committee exists.
“Of course, the Democrats on the committee seem to have absolutely no interest whatsoever, an amazing lack of curiosity, in discovering whether or not a piece of opposition research, funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, that’s full of unverified and salacious and false stories, was used by the intelligence agencies and investigations of the opposing team, and whether or not that information was used to justify a FISA warrant on American citizens.”
He continued: “It’s something that really stands out for members of what’s supposed to be an oversight committee. Whereas, if you compare the dossier investigation with the collusion story, every single nugget of information – these intelligence committee Democrats are out there in front, screaming and crying that this points to collusion. Every single irrelevant little detail in their minds is more evidence of this grand collusion conspiracy. What’s behind all their accusations, really, is this dossier. None of the collusion allegations of which have been verified.”
The Russia probe is not only a political tool being used to delegitimize the Trump administration, but is an integral part of the Democratic strategy to win the 2018 midterm elections, the source said.
“There is no doubt the immediate goal is to stretch this investigation out until the midterm elections. That is definitely the main thing that they want for right now, for the obvious political reasons. There are a lot of moving parts to this whole thing. We’ve been looking at it for a full year now. And yet the Democrats are accusing us of trying to prematurely shut down the investigation at the behest of Bannon and Trump. It’s in their interest to keep this investigation going absolutely as long as possible and whether it goes one year, three years or five years, at some point it’s got to wind down. But no matter how long it’s gone on, they are going to complain that it’s premature to shut it down. They want it to keep going and going and going until they have something to support the collusion argument that they have been making all year without any actual evidence.”
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U.S. MUSLIM POPULATION EXPANDING 'RAPIDLY'
Pew study: Community growing by 100,000 per year thanks to migration, high birthrates
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Pew Research Center came out this week with an updated estimate of the American Muslim population, which is sure to cause a stir on all sides of the issue.
The new numbers come in at 3.45 million Muslims living legally in the U.S. in 2017. That represents only 1.1 percent of the U.S. population but it’s up, by Pew’s estimates, from 3.31 million in 2016.
The U.S. Muslim population grows by about 100,000 every year, according to the Pew study.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, says Pew’s estimates are way off, and that the true number is roughly double, in the 6 to 8 million range – and that was more than two years ago.
“Muslim advocacy groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations routinely cite a span of 6 million to 8 million people in describing the size of Islam in America. That would be between 2 percent and 3 percent of the U.S. population and make Muslims greater in number than Mormons or Jews,” CAIR stated on its website in March 2015.”
If CAIR, an offshoot of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, is correct and there are at least 6 million Muslims living in the U.S., that would represent 2.4 percent of the total population and exceed the number of Jewish Americans by about a million.
The facts bear out that the higher a nation’s Muslim population, the more anti-Semitic attacks occur in that nation. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the U.K. have all seen increasing numbers of hate crimes against Jews and Jewish properties since they began importing mass numbers of Muslim migrants. It has gotten so bad in France and Germany that many Jews have been quietly migrating out of those countries in recent years.
Both Pew and CAIR note that they are watching closely for the day when Islam surpasses Judaism as the second most populous religious group in America. CAIR, as stated above, thinks that has already happened, while Pew forecasts it will not happen for another 22 years.
Pew estimates that 5.3 million Jews live in the U.S., but unlike the Muslim population, Judaism is not growing in America, due largely to low birthrates.
Pew says the Muslim population will continue to increase and should surpass Judaism as the nation’s second most common religious faith by 2040.
The main drivers of Muslim population are high fertility rates of Muslim women, compared to Christian and Jewish women, along with continued migration of Muslims into the U.S. from abroad.
Pew itself admits that that estimated Muslim population growth is difficult because there is no official count — the U.S. Census does not ask Americans their religious affiliation. So Pew is offering what amounts to its best guess based on its own surveys, outside sources and previous research.
The true size of the U.S. Muslim population is likely somewhere in the middle of the Pew estimate and the CAIR estimate, probably around 5 million.
Previous reporting by WND has documented that one of the main drivers of Muslim immigration into the U.S. is the food processing industry, especially the meatpacking sector, which employs an estimated 5 to 12 percent of its workforce with refugee labor.
Lutheran Refugee and Immigration Service doing business as Lutheran Social Services, along with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, doing business as Catholic Charities, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, World Relief and several secular resettlement agencies serve as virtual headhunters for these global conglomerates in search of cheap labor for their hotels and factories.
Entire small cities and towns throughout the South and especially the Midwest have been transformed demographically over the last 10 years by the meatpacking industry – cities such as Greeley and Fort Collins, Colorado; Lexington, Nebraska; Noel, Missouri; Aberdeen, South Dakota; Fargo, North Dakota; Garden City and Dodge City, Kansas; St. Cloud, Melrose, Willmar, Austin and Worthington, Minnesota.
See Pew’s interactive map to find out how many Muslims are in your city and state.
Tyson Foods, for instance, even built a mosque inside its meatpacking plant in tiny Noel, Missouri, to encourage Muslim workers to come work there without having to leave the plant for daily prayer time.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services has signed a deal to provide a pilot program for meat-processing giant JBS Swift to train refugee labor inside the company’s plants in four states. If it is successful JBS plans to roll it out nationwide to more than 100 plants.
The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, whose top eight executives all bring home salaries of between $112,000 and $300,000, has profited greatly from its ties to global meat packers.
Meat plants in particular, and the food-processing industry in general, have long been a gateway into the United States for Third Worlders looking for a better economic lot in life. Chobani serves as a similar conduit with its massive yogurt plant in Twin Falls, Idaho.
“Big Yogurt has learned from Big Meat,” says Ann Corcoran, who tracks the global movement of migrants for Refugee Resettlement Watch.
Pew says the U.S. Muslim population will reach 8.1 million by 2050. Interestingly, the folks at CAIR believe there are already that many Muslims in the U.S. now, and CAIR is working on its own count.
Bashleer Mohamed, author of the Pew report, states the case as follows:
“Muslims in the U.S. are not as numerous as the number of Americans who identify as Jewish by religion, according to our estimate. At the same time, our projections suggest that the U.S. Muslim population will grow much faster than the country’s Jewish population. By 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nation’s second-largest religious group after Christians. And by 2050, the U.S. Muslim population is projected to reach 8.1 million, or 2.1% of the nation’s total population — nearly twice the share of today.”
According to the Pew study, conversions to Islam haven’t had a major impact on the size of the U.S. Muslim population, at least not yet. That’s because nearly as many Americans convert to Islam as leave the faith every year. While about one-in-five American Muslim adults were raised in a different faith tradition and converted to Islam, a similar share of Americans who were raised Muslim now no longer identify with the faith.
Pew also found that the growth of the U.S. Muslim population is uneven, with high concentrations in certain cities and states, such as New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Idaho, California, the Dakotas, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Georgia, compared to relatively low numbers in other states like Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Hawaii.
Again, much of this discrepancy can be explained by tracking the movement of the meatpacking and hotel industries into more rural and semi-rural areas, not just major cities.
Another indicator of the rapidly increasing U.S. Muslim population is the explosive growth in the number of mosques being built. There are more than 3,200 mosques now in the U.S., and more than 70 percent of them have been built since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
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DEMS LEARN IT'S HARDER TO BUY GUNS ILLEGALLY ONLINE THAN THEY THOUGHT
Congressional probe: Targeted sellers even 'froze' accounts set up by suspicious purchaser
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An undercover investigation ordered by liberals in Congress who wanted to pull back the curtain on how easy it is to buy a weapon illegally on the Web has ended up with a stunning conclusion: Gun sellers won’t go along with the deals.
In fact, the report from the Government Accountability Office reveals that the websites run by the sellers even took action against the wannabe buyers multiple times.
The new report said, “Tests performed on the Surface Web demonstrated that private sellers GAO contacted on gun forums and other classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to an individual who appeared to be prohibited from possessing a firearm.”
The report continued: “Of the 72 attempts agents made to purchase firearms on the Surface Web, 56 sellers refused to complete a transaction. 29 sellers stated they would not ship a firearm and 27 refused after the disclosure of the undercover identities’ stated prohibited status. Furthermore, in 5 of these 72 attempts, the accounts GAO set up were frozen by the websites, which prevented the agents from using the forums and attempting to make a purchase.”
Washington watchdog Judicial Watch noted the significance of the results of the investigation, which was instigated by “two fierce anti-gun members of Congress.”
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The report said, “Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded the probe in the aftermath of mass shootings and the investigative arm of Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), conducted a lengthy covert operation to try to purchase firearms illegally from Internet dealers.”
Said the analysis, “All 72 of congressional investigators’ attempts to purchase a firearm illegally via the surface web were unsuccessful, slamming Cummings’ and Warren’s claims that guns are easily obtained by criminal elements on the Internet.”
It explained many of the sellers or dealers were alarmed – enough to shut down the conversations – because of exposure of a shipping address across state lines, “or a prohibition by law from owning firearms.”
“In their ardent push to ban guns Cummings and Warren, both high-profile Democrats, questioned whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was enforcing gun laws involving transactions facilitated by the Internet. The lawmakers asked the GAO to investigate whether online private dealers sell firearms to prohibited individuals. The probe was conducted from July 2015 to November 2017, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.
“It turns out that the ATF’s Internet Investigations Center, created to investigate buyers and sellers who use the Internet to facilitate illegal firearms transactions, is indeed doing its job efficiently, according to the bipartisan GAO,” Judicial Watch said.
“The center uses several tools to provide investigative support to ATF, which has resulted in the arrests of individuals using the Internet to facilitate illegal firearm purchases,” the GAO report states.
Both Warren and Cummings long have opposed Americans owning guns.
“Last year Cummings joined House Democrats in a protest against congressional inaction on gun violence, stating, ‘Every year, tens of thousands of Americans die as a result of gun violence.'”
Cummings claimed: “The American people are fed up with inaction and so am I. It is time for House Republicans to treat gun violence like the scourge on our country that it is.”
Judicial Watch said Warren “has also been on a longtime warpath against Americans’ rights to own firearms, proclaiming that ‘Rambo-style assault weapons’ should be banned.”
“The liberal icon co-sponsored a 2013 law to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. She warned her colleagues during a speech on the Senate floor last year that Congress would have ‘blood on our hands’ if assault weapons aren’t banned.”
The investigators also made seven gun purchase attempts on the “dark Web” — the portion of the Internet that disregards state and federal laws — and two were successful.
GAO referred those cases to local law enforcement for potential prosecution.
The remainder of the 72 attempts involved apparent scams, with people taking money for a weapon, but never delivering, or not giving the appearance of legitimacy.
The GAO noted in its report that the members of Congress had wanted the reults withheld from the public for at least 30 days after completion of the report.
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U.S. WOMAN STABBED 14 TIMES BY SOMALI EXPLODES POLICE NARRATIVE
'So in bed with the jihadis they don't know which way is up'
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Morgan Evenson, 26, was attacked by a Somali migrant Dec. 13 and stabbed 14 times before a pedestrian came to her aid in uptown Minneapolis.
Morgan Evenson, 26, was attacked by a Somali migrant Dec. 13 and stabbed 14 times before a pedestrian came to her aid in uptown Minneapolis.
The tragic story of what happened to Morgan Evenson two weeks before Christmas is starting to gain traction in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ignored by the city’s largest newspaper, the Star Tribune, a second local TV station picked up the story Tuesday about the brutal attack by a Somali migrant that left the 26-year-old woman in a hospital bed with 14 stab wounds and a lacerated kidney.
See WND’s initial report on the attack last week.
It’s been nearly three weeks since a man described as a Somali immigrant attacked Evenson as she was walking home from work in uptown Minneapolis, slashing and stabbing her relentlessly while trying to drag her off of a public street.
She did not know the man and has no idea why he attacked her.
Police still haven’t made any arrests in the case but say they are working multiple leads.
The fact that a Somali migrant targeted a young white woman while walking alone, and that he remains on the loose, has women watching their backs.
Several women told Fox 9 KMSP they are afraid to walk alone on the streets of this popular shopping district that they previously thought was safe.
Watch clip of Fox 9’s interview with Morgan Evenson:
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U.S. WOMAN STABBED 14 TIMES BY SOMALI EXPLODES POLICE NARRATIVE
'So in bed with the jihadis they don't know which way is up'
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Morgan Evenson, 26, was attacked by a Somali migrant Dec. 13 and stabbed 14 times before a pedestrian came to her aid in uptown Minneapolis.
Morgan Evenson, 26, was attacked by a Somali migrant Dec. 13 and stabbed 14 times before a pedestrian came to her aid in uptown Minneapolis.
The tragic story of what happened to Morgan Evenson two weeks before Christmas is starting to gain traction in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ignored by the city’s largest newspaper, the Star Tribune, a second local TV station picked up the story Tuesday about the brutal attack by a Somali migrant that left the 26-year-old woman in a hospital bed with 14 stab wounds and a lacerated kidney.
See WND’s initial report on the attack last week.
It’s been nearly three weeks since a man described as a Somali immigrant attacked Evenson as she was walking home from work in uptown Minneapolis, slashing and stabbing her relentlessly while trying to drag her off of a public street.
She did not know the man and has no idea why he attacked her.
Police still haven’t made any arrests in the case but say they are working multiple leads.
The fact that a Somali migrant targeted a young white woman while walking alone, and that he remains on the loose, has women watching their backs.
Several women told Fox 9 KMSP they are afraid to walk alone on the streets of this popular shopping district that they previously thought was safe.
Watch clip of Fox 9’s interview with Morgan Evenson:
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/u-s-woman-stabbed-14-times-by-somali-explodes-police-narrative/#AY26oloppsL2LhIG.99
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Former top adviser charges president's camp committed 'treason'
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Stephen Bannon appeared at a Dec. 11 rally for Roy Moore, where he said 'there's a special place in hell for Republicans who should know better' than to reject Moore (Photo: Facebook/Roy Moore)
Stephen Bannon appeared at a Dec. 11 rally for Roy Moore, where he said ‘there’s a special place in hell for Republicans who should know better’ than to reject Moore (Photo: Facebook/Roy Moore)
President Trump responded Wednesday to charges of “treason” attributed to his former chief strategist, Steven Bannon, with a sharp statement, dismissing Bannon as a selfish figure of little influence who has “lost his mind.”
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” Trump said in emailed retort, reported Bloomberg News.
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donald-trump-wh-vid-600-jpgTrump said Bannon “was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.”
“Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look.” Trump said.
The president also blamed Bannon for losing the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama last month by supporting Roy Moore as the Republican nominee.
“Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans,” Trump said.
“Steve doesn’t represent my base — he’s only in it for himself.”
Trump said Bannon “pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.”
“It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books,” Trump said.
The president said there are “many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda.”
“Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down,” Trump wrote.
Trump was responding Wednesday to a report by the left-leaning Guardian newspaper of London quoting Bannon in an upcoming book by American author and journalist Michael Wolff.
The book has Bannon describing the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York between Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner, then campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” according to the Guardian.
Bannon, writes Wolff, believes the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller into alleged collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia has been all about money-laundering, and the path to implicating the president runs through his son, son-in-law and Manafort. Manafort, Trump’s one-time campaign manager, has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering related to his lobbying work in Ukraine before the campaign.
“They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,” Bannon told Wolff, the paper reported.
The book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” is based on more than 200 interviews with the president, his inner circle and other players, the Guardian reported.
Bannon said, according to the paper’s account of the book, the FBI should have been notified immediately regarding the Russian contacts, but instead, “three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor – with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers.”
The former chief strategist commented “that’s the brain trust that they had.”
Bannon speculated, the Guardian reported, that Trump Jr. had involved his father in the meeting.
“The chance that Don Jr did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero,” Bannon said.
On Wednesday, Manafort filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, claiming that Mueller overstepped his authority by filing criminal charges unrelated to the 2016 presidential campaign.
Bannon ‘devoted to Trumpism’
Conservative columnist Kristin Tate, a former Breitbart News reporter, said in an interview Wednesday afternoon with the Fox News Channel that she believes Trump “looks really bad right now.”
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Steven Bannon at President Trump's inauguration
Steven Bannon at President Trump’s inauguration
Bannon is devoted to “Trumpism,” the president’s agenda, and “not necessarily to Trump the man,” she commented.
“So, when Bannon thinks Trump is making mistakes or not sticking to his promises, he’ll probably call Trump out on that,” she said. “Steve is an honest guy, he’s brilliant.”
Tate said she thought Trump made a mistake stating Bannon had nothing to do with his election victory, calling it “nonsense.”
“When Bannon came into the campaign, it was a disaster. Manafort had no idea how to control a candidate who was so unconventional, like Trump. Bannon came in there, he knew to let Trump be Trump, he knew how to connect Trump to his base,” she said.
“And when he was in the White House, Bannon served as probably Trump’s strongest tie to his own base.”
Sarah Sanders: ‘trashy tabloid fiction’
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement slamming Wolff’s upcoming book as “trashy tabloid fiction” sourced by “false and misleading accounts” from people pushing “sad desperate attempts at relevancy.”
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Later, responding to reporters’ questions at the White House daily briefing Wednesday, Sanders said Wolff had more than a dozen interactions with individuals at the White House, which, as far as she knew, were done at the request of Bannon.
In an excerpt of the book published by New York magazine, Wolff asserted Trump didn’t want to win the election.
One controversial passage claims first lady Melania Trump cried in sadness when she learned of her husband’s election victory.
The first lady’s press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, calling the book “bargain fiction,” responded Wednesday, insisting Mrs. Trump was “very happy” about her husband’s victory.
At the White House briefing, Sanders was asked if she was surprised by Wolff’s contention that Trump didn’t want to win.
“It’s certainly surprising,” she replied. “I, for one, was somebody who very much believed the president could and would win. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have dedicated so much time to that. But, not only that, I’ve worked in the White House since the very first day, and a lot of the characterization that I saw that [Wolff] was pushing out was the opposite of what took place every day that I’ve been here.”
Critics of Wolff noted that in a review of his 1997 book “Burn Rate,” the now defunct media-watchdog magazine Brill’s Content accused Wolff of “apparent factual errors” and said that more than a dozen of the subjects he mentioned in the book complained that Wolff had “invented or changed quotes.”
A 2004 cover story for The New Republic concluded Wolff was “uninterested in the working press,” preferring to focus on “the power players – the moguls” and was “fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money.” The author of the piece, Michelle Cottle, said “the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated so much as created – springing from Wolff’s imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events.”
She called his writing “a whirlwind of flourishes and tangents and asides that often stray so far from the central point that you begin to wonder whether there is a central point.”
New York Magazine, which formerly employed Wolff, has called him an “angry man for pay” and a “media provocateur.”
Wednesday, the New York Times reported at least one person named in Wolff’s new book, Thomas J. Barrack, a friend and adviser to Trump, said Wolff put words in his mouth.
Barrack was quoted telling a friend that the president is “not only crazy, he’s stupid.”
Barrack said Wolff’s account was “totally false.”
“It’s clear to anyone who knows me that those aren’t my words and inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said.”
Barrack claimed Wolff never vetted the quotation with him for accuracy.
Matt Drudge of the highly influential Drudge Report, a supporter of Trump’s populist agenda, tweeted: “No wonder schizophrenic Steve Bannon has been walking around with a small army of bodyguards…
No wonder schizophrenic Steve Bannon has been walking around with a small army of bodyguards…
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IRAN PROTESTS SPREAD NATIONWIDE, NOW 'FAR BIGGER THAN 2009'
'This regime is terrified'
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Protests in Iran have spread to more than 80 cities, far surpassing the scope of the last protest movement in 2009.
Pictures and videos coming out of Iran are starting to look more like a full-on revolution than a protest movement, but American news agencies continue to be slow to react, describing the historic protests as mostly about the country’s weak economy and chastising President Trump for cheering them on.
That’s woefully under-reporting the depth of what is really going on in Iran, say experts on the country’s history and current political environment.
The Associated Press’s description of the protests as “over economic issues” seems to lack any justification for Iranians taking to the streets en masse chanting “death to the dictator,” while burning in effigy the image of Supreme Islamic leader, Ayatollah Kamenei.
CNN called the protests a “seemingly unorganized, leaderless wave of demonstrations against high prices, corruption and repressive government.” No mention of the fact that Iran is an Islamic state, a theocracy where converting to a religion other than Islam is a crime against the state.
There is much more going on than what is being portrayed in these left-leaning news sites.
Twitter and other social media are alight with videos coming out of the Islamic Republic of Iran that show people rallying around the idea of freedom and democracy.
One video in particular features a young woman, her long black hair fluttering in the wind, standing in a public square silently waving her hijab on the end of a stick, as if to say “I will no longer be forced to cover my head in public against my will.” She was reportedly arrested and detained.
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U.S. VOTERS URGE MITT ROMNEY NOT TO RUN FOR OFFICE
'You are part of the deep state Trump is trying to dismantle'
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In the wake of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch’s announcement that he would retire early next year at the end of his term, there have been numerous reports suggesting former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was considering running for that seat.
Romney himself took to Facebook to offer his gratitude to Hatch, but did not disclose his own intentions.
“I join the people of Utah in thanking my friend, Senator Orrin Hatch for his more than forty years of service to our great state and nation,” Romney stated.
“As Chairman of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees and as the longest-serving Republican Senator in U.S. history, Senator Hatch has represented the interests of Utah with distinction and honor. Ann and I wish Senator Orrin Hatch and his loving wife Elaine all the best in their future endeavors.”
What do YOU think? Is Mitt Romney a good choice to replace Orrin Hatch? Sound off in the WND Poll!
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Mitt Romney tweeted a photo of himself and actor Zach Braff on a flight to Salt Lake City in January 2014.
But those who read Romney’s remarks on Facebook are not being shy about their opinion of him, with many strongly urging him not to run.
“Romney you are washed up, you couldn’t win the presidency which you could have easily won and now you want to be a senator? You are Obama and Obama is you,” wrote Shawn Jaryno. “You are not a conservative or a constitutionalist. Now you may run because Why? It’s an easy win so you can add back to the swamp.”
Related column: An unfond farewell to un-statesman Orrin Hatch by Michelle Malkin
Many others had similar thoughts opposing an possible Senate candidacy by Romney:
Steve Caffrey: “You can win in Utah but President Trump does not need another John McCain type malcontent keeping him from getting his Agenda thru. Don’t run we don’t need you.”
Mary O’Brien Knight: “We are grateful for his service, but do not want you representing the people. You are part of the problem in the country. You are the deep state.”
Bowden E Russell: “Mr. Romney I hope you reconsider running for Senate and do not do this foolish endeavor. You’re hated by the Republican Party especially the Republican base. Your few friends in the Republican party or traitors and sellouts like Jeff Flake from Arizona and Senator McCain.”
Dave McCall: “You keep making public statements declaring that bad things are good and good things are bad. I am almost convinced you ran in 2012 to ensure Obama stayed in office. You quite literally handed the election back to him in the last 2 debates. If not you are just a [weak] feckless wannabe.”
Josh Russek: “Mitt is a wolf in sheep’s clothes. Shame he is bit all you need do is go back to his ineffectiveness in his bid for the presidency. Stay a family man Mitt and leave politics to Americans with a real set.”
William Miller: “[S]tay home and count your millions you crud. I voted for you once now I will send every dollar I can spare to whom ever opposes you. You sold out our President numerous times already with your stupid letters and ugly speeches – of course between all this disgusting behavior, you groveled on your knees with hat in hand to be secretary of state. You are not even 1/1000th the man that President Trump is. Your a photo copy of Jeb Bush … Ughhhh – We need new champions in the Republican party not you.
Deanna McGaha Wauhob: “I pray you are not planning to step in to his spot. You burned your bridges with me after my total support and standing up for you to become president. You are strictly trying to re-establish the government where Trump is uncovering the misdeeds of the establishment in Washington. You want power too much – it seems like a revenge for your loss of confidence of the American people. Sorry – I once thought you were the answer, but you have showed your leopard spots now.”
Christopher Harrison: “Utah voters, please remember that as of January 2, 2018, Mitt Romney still identifies as being from Massachusetts on Twitter. Any political moves going forward from him will be only to further his own lifestyle, and not the people of Utah.”
Joan Rizzo: “Mr. Romney, I voted for you for President, but now urge you not to run. We do not need one more Republican in office who will not support the President. Your time has passed and you are no longer part of the solution.”
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U.S. VOTERS URGE MITT ROMNEY NOT TO RUN FOR OFFICE
'You are part of the deep state Trump is trying to dismantle'
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U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah (Hatch video screenshot)
In the wake of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch’s announcement that he would retire early next year at the end of his term, there have been numerous reports suggesting former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was considering running for that seat.
Romney himself took to Facebook to offer his gratitude to Hatch, but did not disclose his own intentions.
“I join the people of Utah in thanking my friend, Senator Orrin Hatch for his more than forty years of service to our great state and nation,” Romney stated.
“As Chairman of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees and as the longest-serving Republican Senator in U.S. history, Senator Hatch has represented the interests of Utah with distinction and honor. Ann and I wish Senator Orrin Hatch and his loving wife Elaine all the best in their future endeavors.”
What do YOU think? Is Mitt Romney a good choice to replace Orrin Hatch? Sound off in the WND Poll!
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Mitt Romney tweeted a photo of himself and actor Zach Braff on a flight to Salt Lake City in January 2014.
But those who read Romney’s remarks on Facebook are not being shy about their opinion of him, with many strongly urging him not to run.
“Romney you are washed up, you couldn’t win the presidency which you could have easily won and now you want to be a senator? You are Obama and Obama is you,” wrote Shawn Jaryno. “You are not a conservative or a constitutionalist. Now you may run because Why? It’s an easy win so you can add back to the swamp.”
Related column: An unfond farewell to un-statesman Orrin Hatch by Michelle Malkin
Many others had similar thoughts opposing an possible Senate candidacy by Romney:
Steve Caffrey: “You can win in Utah but President Trump does not need another John McCain type malcontent keeping him from getting his Agenda thru. Don’t run we don’t need you.”
Mary O’Brien Knight: “We are grateful for his service, but do not want you representing the people. You are part of the problem in the country. You are the deep state.”
Bowden E Russell: “Mr. Romney I hope you reconsider running for Senate and do not do this foolish endeavor. You’re hated by the Republican Party especially the Republican base. Your few friends in the Republican party or traitors and sellouts like Jeff Flake from Arizona and Senator McCain.”
Dave McCall: “You keep making public statements declaring that bad things are good and good things are bad. I am almost convinced you ran in 2012 to ensure Obama stayed in office. You quite literally handed the election back to him in the last 2 debates. If not you are just a [weak] feckless wannabe.”
Josh Russek: “Mitt is a wolf in sheep’s clothes. Shame he is bit all you need do is go back to his ineffectiveness in his bid for the presidency. Stay a family man Mitt and leave politics to Americans with a real set.”
William Miller: “[S]tay home and count your millions you crud. I voted for you once now I will send every dollar I can spare to whom ever opposes you. You sold out our President numerous times already with your stupid letters and ugly speeches – of course between all this disgusting behavior, you groveled on your knees with hat in hand to be secretary of state. You are not even 1/1000th the man that President Trump is. Your a photo copy of Jeb Bush … Ughhhh – We need new champions in the Republican party not you.
Deanna McGaha Wauhob: “I pray you are not planning to step in to his spot. You burned your bridges with me after my total support and standing up for you to become president. You are strictly trying to re-establish the government where Trump is uncovering the misdeeds of the establishment in Washington. You want power too much – it seems like a revenge for your loss of confidence of the American people. Sorry – I once thought you were the answer, but you have showed your leopard spots now.”
Christopher Harrison: “Utah voters, please remember that as of January 2, 2018, Mitt Romney still identifies as being from Massachusetts on Twitter. Any political moves going forward from him will be only to further his own lifestyle, and not the people of Utah.”
Joan Rizzo: “Mr. Romney, I voted for you for President, but now urge you not to run. We do not need one more Republican in office who will not support the President. Your time has passed and you are no longer part of the solution.”
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BRAND-NEW ONLINE 'HATE-SPEECH' LAW SNARES 1ST VICTIM
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Investigation already launched into critic of surging Islamization
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Freedom of speech has been effectively abolished online in Germany, as the country has begun enforcing strict censorship laws designed to prohibit the expression of “hate” online.
The Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) mandates all social networking platforms with more than 2 million members must investigate and delete “illegal” content within one day of a complaint being received.
Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram are among the sites which fall under the purview of the new law.
The fine for failing to delete illegal content can be as high as 50 million euros.
Deputy leader Beatrix von Storch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party, which opposes the surging Islamization of the country under the government of Angela Merkel, has been called the first victim of the new law.
On New Year’s Eve, von Storch criticized Cologne police for expressing holiday wishes in Arabic, claiming they were trying to appease “barbarians.”
Cologne was the site of an especially notorious mass sexual assault against German women by Muslim migrants two years ago.
Von Storch was temporarily blocked from Twitter after making the comment. An investigation is reportedly taking place.
Google, Facebook, and Twitter have set up new reporting systems to allow volunteer commissars to complain about speech they don’t like.
Facebook has also hired several hundred new staff members in order to monitor complaints.
Reporters Without Borders is among the groups which opposes the law.
“The short deadline for removal, coupled with the threat of heavy fines, will very likely drive social networks to remove more content than is legally justified,” argued Christian Mihr, the group’s director for Germany. “Even journalistic publications will face a real danger of being affected by this kind over-blocking without due process.”
The German government has reportedly hired 50 staff members enforce the new law.
German justice minister Heiko Maas has warned, “Freedom of expression ends where criminal law begins.”
The European Commission is also urging the implementation of European wide standards.
The move by the German government comes amidst a larger crackdown on free speech by large social networking companies.
However, in the United States, it is the tech companies themselves who are moving to restrict speech, without the threat of official action by governments. As WND reported, Twitter, Facebook and Google have all been caught censoring Christians and political conservatives while tolerating violations of online rules by liberals and progressives.
Late last month, Twitter also began a long expected “purge” of right wing accounts which had been urged for months by left-wing journalists.
Some argue the only way to preserve freedom of speech online would be for companies such as Facebook and Google to be regulated as public utilities which would then have to enforce First Amendment protections.
Among the reported advocates of such an approach is Breitbart head Steve Bannon. And other leading conservatives such as Tucker Carlson are warning America about the dangers of companies such as Google gaining too much power.
“Google seems to be letting politics dictate who is allowed to make money from their platform,” he warned.
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Investigation already launched into critic of surging Islamization
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Freedom of speech has been effectively abolished online in Germany, as the country has begun enforcing strict censorship laws designed to prohibit the expression of “hate” online.
The Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) mandates all social networking platforms with more than 2 million members must investigate and delete “illegal” content within one day of a complaint being received.
Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram are among the sites which fall under the purview of the new law.
The fine for failing to delete illegal content can be as high as 50 million euros.
Deputy leader Beatrix von Storch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party, which opposes the surging Islamization of the country under the government of Angela Merkel, has been called the first victim of the new law.
On New Year’s Eve, von Storch criticized Cologne police for expressing holiday wishes in Arabic, claiming they were trying to appease “barbarians.”
Cologne was the site of an especially notorious mass sexual assault against German women by Muslim migrants two years ago.
Von Storch was temporarily blocked from Twitter after making the comment. An investigation is reportedly taking place.
Google, Facebook, and Twitter have set up new reporting systems to allow volunteer commissars to complain about speech they don’t like.
Facebook has also hired several hundred new staff members in order to monitor complaints.
Reporters Without Borders is among the groups which opposes the law.
“The short deadline for removal, coupled with the threat of heavy fines, will very likely drive social networks to remove more content than is legally justified,” argued Christian Mihr, the group’s director for Germany. “Even journalistic publications will face a real danger of being affected by this kind over-blocking without due process.”
The German government has reportedly hired 50 staff members enforce the new law.
German justice minister Heiko Maas has warned, “Freedom of expression ends where criminal law begins.”
The European Commission is also urging the implementation of European wide standards.
The move by the German government comes amidst a larger crackdown on free speech by large social networking companies.
However, in the United States, it is the tech companies themselves who are moving to restrict speech, without the threat of official action by governments. As WND reported, Twitter, Facebook and Google have all been caught censoring Christians and political conservatives while tolerating violations of online rules by liberals and progressives.
Late last month, Twitter also began a long expected “purge” of right wing accounts which had been urged for months by left-wing journalists.
Some argue the only way to preserve freedom of speech online would be for companies such as Facebook and Google to be regulated as public utilities which would then have to enforce First Amendment protections.
Among the reported advocates of such an approach is Breitbart head Steve Bannon. And other leading conservatives such as Tucker Carlson are warning America about the dangers of companies such as Google gaining too much power.
“Google seems to be letting politics dictate who is allowed to make money from their platform,” he warned.
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Experts admit they were 'totally blinded by our belief'
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It was heralded as decisive proof of the theory of evolution. But Harvard biologist and Nobel Prize laureate Jack Szostak now has retracted a major paper that claimed to explain one of the most important questions about the origin of human life.
In 2016, Szostak published a paper claiming he had found a way for ribonucleic acid (RNA) to replicate itself.
Many proponents of evolutionary theory believe RNA was one of the first molecules to develop. However, RNA requires its own enzymes to replicate.
Szostak and others were looking for evidence of “non-enzymatic replication of RNA,” which could supposedly assemble by irradiating materials that would have been present on Earth in an earlier time.
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If this could be created, it would show RNA could copy itself and could have evolved before DNA or proteins, bolstering the naturalistic explanation of life’s origins.
However, Szostak recently retracted his paper after colleague Tivoli Olsen couldn’t replicate the findings. Szostak said the debacle was “definitely embarrassing.”
“In retrospect, we were totally blinded by our belief [in our findings] … we were not as careful or rigorous as we should have been (and as Tivoli was) in interpreting these experiments,” Szostak told the publication Retraction Watch.
However, he did express relief it was his own lab that discovered the errors.
“As a scientist the job is to troubleshoot,” said Olsen. “You can’t help nor can you ignore where that takes you. I fulfilled my obligation to ensure that no one after me would waste their time on this.”
The finding is the latest in a “replication crisis” sweeping the scientific community in which apparent breakthroughs cannot be repeated by other researchers.
Szostak’s study reopens what is perhaps the largest hole in evolutionary theory, as scientists remain unable to explain how the building blocks of life were “spontaneously” created.
Szostak’s comment that his team was “blinded by our belief” is significant. Previously, he condemned “belief systems based on faith” as “inherently dangerous, as they leave the believer susceptible to manipulation when skepticism and inquiry are discouraged.”
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Experts admit they were 'totally blinded by our belief'
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It was heralded as decisive proof of the theory of evolution. But Harvard biologist and Nobel Prize laureate Jack Szostak now has retracted a major paper that claimed to explain one of the most important questions about the origin of human life.
In 2016, Szostak published a paper claiming he had found a way for ribonucleic acid (RNA) to replicate itself.
Many proponents of evolutionary theory believe RNA was one of the first molecules to develop. However, RNA requires its own enzymes to replicate.
Szostak and others were looking for evidence of “non-enzymatic replication of RNA,” which could supposedly assemble by irradiating materials that would have been present on Earth in an earlier time.
Find the REAL stoat the WND Superstore, in “Eden to Evil,” “Biblical Creationism,” “Kent Hovind’s Creation Seminar,” “In Six Days,” “Scientific Creationism” and more.
If this could be created, it would show RNA could copy itself and could have evolved before DNA or proteins, bolstering the naturalistic explanation of life’s origins.
However, Szostak recently retracted his paper after colleague Tivoli Olsen couldn’t replicate the findings. Szostak said the debacle was “definitely embarrassing.”
“In retrospect, we were totally blinded by our belief [in our findings] … we were not as careful or rigorous as we should have been (and as Tivoli was) in interpreting these experiments,” Szostak told the publication Retraction Watch.
However, he did express relief it was his own lab that discovered the errors.
“As a scientist the job is to troubleshoot,” said Olsen. “You can’t help nor can you ignore where that takes you. I fulfilled my obligation to ensure that no one after me would waste their time on this.”
The finding is the latest in a “replication crisis” sweeping the scientific community in which apparent breakthroughs cannot be repeated by other researchers.
Szostak’s study reopens what is perhaps the largest hole in evolutionary theory, as scientists remain unable to explain how the building blocks of life were “spontaneously” created.
Szostak’s comment that his team was “blinded by our belief” is significant. Previously, he condemned “belief systems based on faith” as “inherently dangerous, as they leave the believer susceptible to manipulation when skepticism and inquiry are discouraged.”
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'GREAT HARLOT' IN REVELATION IS PERVERTING WORLD
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Since we graduated high school in 1994 (dang, we’re getting old!), we’ve made it a goal to read through the Bible every year. This time of year, we end up in the book of Revelation before renewing our commitment to do it all over again.
Some years, we just blow through the last book, not fully comprehending everything because of all the end-time prophecies. But this year, given the current sociopolitical context of the sexual revolution, the “great harlot” in Revelation 17 jumped off the pages at us.
Check out Verses 1-2: “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, ‘Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality'” (Revelation 17:1-2).
When I (David) read that, I instantly thought of the radical sexual revolution that is forcing its agenda on the entire world today, in addition to all the recent exposure of sexual misconduct throughout society among the elites.
It seems as if there’s no sphere of culture or civil society that has not been affected by this immoral “spirit of the age.”
Interestingly, Verse 5 of Chapter 17 says, “… The waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.” In other words, this spirit of immorality perverts and pollutes the entire earth – there is no place it cannot touch.
Just look around. We now have websites, like “TransKids,” selling prosthetic penises for young “trans” girls to wear between their legs. You can buy them in small, medium or large.
We have drag-queens dressed as demons reading to our children in public libraries:
We have gender unicorns teaching our kids to question their gender and sexuality by asking themselves, “Who do I go to be with?” and “Who do I go to bed as?”
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PRAYERS FOR RAIN ANSWERED IN ISRAEL
Thousands gathered at Western Wall to ask for end to drought
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The Golan Heights region received a much-need rain after prayers went up from Christians and Jews.
With Israel in drought for the last five years – the worst in the land in the last 40 – thousands gathered at the Western Wall last week to pray for rain – and it happened, “big time,” as Donald Trump might say.
The idea began three weeks ago, when Israel’s chief rabbi, David Lau, solicited prayers from Jews and Christians around the world for an end to the nation’s drought.
The culmination came last Thursday when thousands responded to Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel’s call for a special prayer session at the Western Wall.
“I call on the public to participate in this event on the 10th of Tevet,” Ariel said when announcing the event, “and to bring umbrellas because together we will tear open the gates of Heaven.”
The prayers at the wall were led by Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, along with other prominent rabbis.
Over the weekend, the rains came – raising the level of the Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake Kinneret, Israel’s main source of fresh water, one centimeter or .4 inches, bringing it to four and a half feet from the lower red line and 18 feet from the lake’s maximum capacity, according to a report in IsraelBreakingNews. The rains fell in Israel’s Golan Heights and Upper Galilee regions.
In addition, about six inches of snow gathered on Mount Hermon’s upper slopes, and three inches fell on the mountain’s lower slopes.
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ARSENAL FOUND IN HOUSTON HOTEL ATOP NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY
Drunken suspect arrested on multiple charges as investigation begins
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A man has been arrested on multiple charges after police located a small arsenal of guns on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency on Louisiana Street downtown, where a large New Year’s Eve celebration is planned, Houston police said.
The man has been identified as Russell Lawrence Ziemba, 49.
Police at the hotel called for backup around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after they attempted to arrest Ziemba for being intoxicated and trespassing. When help arrived, police noticed ammunition around the man’s hotel room, Lt. Gordon Macintosh with Houston police said.
Ziemba was arrested for unlawfully carrying a weapon and trespassing. When investigators looked through his room further, they located an AR-15, a shotgun, a handgun and lots of ammunition, Macintosh said.
Ziemba, who said he was staying at the hotel to celebrate New Year’s, admitted to drinking alcohol for days, police said. He told authorities that he moved his firearms to his room because he worried they’d be stolen from his truck, which was parked in the hotel garage.
The Hyatt is preparing a New Year’s Eve celebration at the hotel with a 50,000 balloon drop at the stroke of midnight, its website said.
Ziemba’s white Chevrolet Silverado was located and towed to be searched and examined, Macintosh said. Police are waiting to interview Ziemba until he has sobered up, he said.
Authorities say they don’t believe Ziemba intended to use his weapons. He is facing trespass charges because he refused to leave when repeatedly asked to do so. Ziemba, who struggled with one officer, is also facing a charge of assault of a peace officer.
The Hyatt released the following statement Sunday:
The safety and security of our guests and colleagues is our top priority, and consistent with the hotel’s prepared security plans, heightened measures are in place on New Year’s Eve. We are fully cooperating with authorities on an investigation, and further questions should be directed to the Houston Police Department.
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FRANCE'S SECRET TAX AUTHORITY FOR JEWS ONLY
'Procedure is new, questionable and discriminates,' say experts
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WASHINGTON – A business news service in Israel has exposed what experts say is a new tax authority that targets exclusively French Jews – one unprecedented anywhere in the modern world.
According to the Globes, French citizens and their tax preparers have been astonished to hear about the new department, which they charge is discriminatory, giving rise to questions about selective enforcement.
“The procedure is new and questionable, and discriminates against French Jews,” Itay Bracha, a tax expert who represents French clients with tax authorities in Israel and France, told the Globes. “The measure is an extremely irregular and rare one in which a tax authority in a foreign country is setting up a special division to handle Jews, and recruiting an exceptionally large number of employees for it.”
Bracha says that there is no comparable department among other tax authorities in the world.
“I know of no similar department to the one founded in France, and certainly not with that number of employees,” he said. “There is a special department in the U.S. because of the need for direct communication with the authorities in Israel, and taking into account the volume of trade between Israel and the U.S., but the main purpose is absolutely not to catch tax evaders.”
He added: “Such a department, which constitutes extreme discrimination against Jews in France, does violence to equality between different citizens. Establishing such a department is an unacceptable statement by the authorities in France, and puts the Jewish community in a very unflattering spotlight.”
The move coincides with both rising anti-Semitism in France and an exodus of French Jews moving to Israel or buying second homes there in preparation for a possible move.
“At the present time, in contrast to the prevailing opinion in the French community, the announcement by French Jews that they are leaving and immigrating to Israel does not solve the Jews’ problem,” Bracha noted. “On the contrary, this act put the immigrant in the spotlight, and the authorities in France started an investigation into his case in order to detect whether he has money and assets in Israel that have not been reported in France. This is done through international exchanges of information, or through other means.”
Uri Goldman from the Goldman & Co. law firm, an expert in international taxation and money laundering, said the focus on the Jewish community in France “has a bad odor of national or political motives.”
Goldman notes new immigrants in Israel are exempt from tax reporting and payment of taxes for 10 years, but among wealthy people and owners of companies and other assets in France, the matter is more complicated.
“When the immigrant is wealthy, there is a complex situation of adjustment between tax law in Israel and overseas through the tax conventions,” he said. “This is particularly true in view of the war against unreported capital.”
The Globes reports the new tax authority was founded in the past year with 20 Hebrew-speaking employees, and it is in the process of hiring five more.
The French department was established to handle French Jewish tax evaders, and it hired employees with professional experience and a profound understanding of Israeli law to examine whether Jews were using these laws to evade taxes in France. The goal of the department is to catch French tax evaders using Israel as a tax shelter, according to the report.
“It is very, very irregular to hire 20 Hebrew-speaking employees, or any other language, in a foreign tax authority,” said one anonymous international attorney specializing in tax law who is familiar with the department. “Most tax authorities have one or two Hebrew speakers, and there are English or French-speaking employees in Israel for the purpose of signing conventions and conducting relations with the tax authorities of other countries. Every tax authority has employees that speak a foreign language, but hiring 20 or more Hebrew-speaking investigators is very irregular.”
The source also said he learned from his acquaintance with the department and its employees that some of the employees hired previously lived in Israel.
“They hired Hebrew-speaking French people, some of whom previously lived in Israel and moved back to France,” he said.
According to figures from the Israel Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, immigration from France has increased dramatically in recent years, with 1,211 new immigrants arriving in Israel from France in the first half of 2017. A study conducted at Bar-Ilan University showed that the economic benefit for the Israeli economy from the absorption of Jews from France would reach $65 billion. The study assumes that 100,000 immigrants will arrive from France by 2026.
The French embassy in Israel denies the existence of the special department.
“In the framework of the campaign against tax evasion, the authorities in France conduct investigations concerning individual cases, in accordance with the international agreements,” the embassy said in a special statement to Globes. “The authorities in France deny the existence of a special department. It is extremely important to state that the things that were written are false. Taxes in France are calculated according to risk considerations. There is therefore no connection whatsoever to the national affiliation or ethnic origin of taxpayers.”
In a follow-up release, the embassy added: “The General Directorate of Public Finances denies in the most categorical way the unfounded affirmations published today in the Globes newspaper … There is no such structure in the French tax administration. French tax legislation prohibits any distinction made between people on the basis of their origins, place of residence or membership of a particular nation or religion.”
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BRAND-NEW WAY TO CREATE BABIES WITHOUT SEX
In 10-20 years, researchers predict men won't be needed for procreation
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With new rules complicating male-female relationships, scientists claim they may have a solution that will allow the human race to continue – in vitro gametogenesis, the manipulation of skin cells to create a baby.
IVG has been successfully tested by Japanese researchers on mice, which produced healthy babies derived from skin cells.
The process begins by taking the skin cells from the mouse’s tail and re-programing them to become induced pluripotent stem cells. These manipulated cells are able to grow different kinds of cells, and are then used to grow eggs and sperm, which are then fertilized in the lab. The resulting embryos are then implanted in a womb.
Although similar to in vitro fertilization, IVG eliminates the step of needing pre-existing egg and sperm, and instead creates these gametes.
But many experts in the reproductive field are skeptical of its potential outcomes and ethical compromises.
“It gives me an unsettled feeling because we don’t know what this could lead to,” said Paul Knoepfler, a stem-cell researcher at the University of California, Davis.
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Knoepfler noted that some of the potential repercussions of IVG could turn into “cloning” or “designer babies.” Other dangers could include the “Brad Pitt scenario,” in which celebrity’s skin cells retrieved from random places, like hotel rooms, could be used to create a baby.
Potentially anyone’s skin cells could be used to create a baby, even without their knowledge or consent.
In an issue of Science Translational Medicine earlier this year, a trio of academics – a Harvard Law professor, the dean of Harvard Medical School and a medical science professor at Brown – wrote that IVG “may raise the specter of ’embryo farming’ on a scale currently unimagined, which might exacerbate concerns about the devaluation of human life.”
Although IVG has proven successful in mice, there are still some wrinkles that need to be ironed out before it is tested on humans. It will take at least another decade of bioengineering work, researchers say.
In the meantime, those who want to make a baby the old-fashioned way will need to pay attention to the ever-changing rules governing courtship.
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TRUMP DECLARES WAR ON SLAVERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Globally, 25 million estimated to be victims in 167 countries
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WASHINGTON – On Nov. 1, American Urban Radio Network’s White House correspondent April Ryan asked Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if President Trump believes slavery was wrong.
“I think it is disgusting and absurd to suggest that anyone inside of this building would support slavery,” Sanders responded.
The next day on CNN, April Ryan accused Sanders of not answering the question. CNN’s Don Lemon backed her up.
Today they got their unequivocal answer as President Trump has declared war on slavery like he did on ISIS.
With an estimated 25 million people suffering in slavery and as victims of human trafficking, President Trump has declared January as “National Slavery and Human Traffic Prevention Month.”
Perhaps you haven’t heard about the announcement.
That’s because none of the following news agencies have deemed it worthy of reporting: The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, nor any other major newspaper in America or around the world. Neither have any of the major broadcast or cable networks even mentioned it – including CNN.
Similar announcements by previous presidents received widespread coverage, with laudatory expressions of hope they might make a difference in the fight to end the scourge.
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“Human trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation,” said Trump in a statement released by the White House. “It has no place in our world.”
Sex and labor trafficking enslaves as many as 25 million people, the White House said.
“Instead of delivering people to better lives, traffickers unjustifiably profit from the labor and toil of their victims, who they force – through violence and intimidation – to work in brothels and factories, on farms and fishing vessels, in private homes, and in countless industries,” said Trump.
In announcing the decision to dedicate next month to combating modern slavery, the Trump administration touted its efforts to address the problem over the past year, including the creation of an interagency task force aimed at developing new anti-slavery policies and the signing of an executive order that targets criminal organizations that have trafficked humans.
“This month we do not simply reflect on this appalling reality,” said Trump. “We also pledge to do all in our power to end the horrific practice of human trafficking that plagues innocent victims around the world.”
The Trump administration’s announcement follows the release of a voluminous report by the State Department including state-by-state assessments of the situation around the world.
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Since we graduated high school in 1994 (dang, we’re getting old!), we’ve made it a goal to read through the Bible every year. This time of year, we end up in the book of Revelation before renewing our commitment to do it all over again.
Some years, we just blow through the last book, not fully comprehending everything because of all the end-time prophecies. But this year, given the current sociopolitical context of the sexual revolution, the “great harlot” in Revelation 17 jumped off the pages at us.
Check out Verses 1-2: “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, ‘Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality'” (Revelation 17:1-2).
When I (David) read that, I instantly thought of the radical sexual revolution that is forcing its agenda on the entire world today, in addition to all the recent exposure of sexual misconduct throughout society among the elites.
It seems as if there’s no sphere of culture or civil society that has not been affected by this immoral “spirit of the age.”
Interestingly, Verse 5 of Chapter 17 says, “… The waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.” In other words, this spirit of immorality perverts and pollutes the entire earth – there is no place it cannot touch.
Just look around. We now have websites, like “TransKids,” selling prosthetic penises for young “trans” girls to wear between their legs. You can buy them in small, medium or large.
We have drag-queens dressed as demons reading to our children in public libraries:
We have gender unicorns teaching our kids to question their gender and sexuality by asking themselves, “Who do I go to be with?” and “Who do I go to bed as?”
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PRAYERS FOR RAIN ANSWERED IN ISRAEL
Thousands gathered at Western Wall to ask for end to drought
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The Golan Heights region received a much-need rain after prayers went up from Christians and Jews.
With Israel in drought for the last five years – the worst in the land in the last 40 – thousands gathered at the Western Wall last week to pray for rain – and it happened, “big time,” as Donald Trump might say.
The idea began three weeks ago, when Israel’s chief rabbi, David Lau, solicited prayers from Jews and Christians around the world for an end to the nation’s drought.
The culmination came last Thursday when thousands responded to Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel’s call for a special prayer session at the Western Wall.
“I call on the public to participate in this event on the 10th of Tevet,” Ariel said when announcing the event, “and to bring umbrellas because together we will tear open the gates of Heaven.”
The prayers at the wall were led by Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, along with other prominent rabbis.
Over the weekend, the rains came – raising the level of the Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake Kinneret, Israel’s main source of fresh water, one centimeter or .4 inches, bringing it to four and a half feet from the lower red line and 18 feet from the lake’s maximum capacity, according to a report in IsraelBreakingNews. The rains fell in Israel’s Golan Heights and Upper Galilee regions.
In addition, about six inches of snow gathered on Mount Hermon’s upper slopes, and three inches fell on the mountain’s lower slopes.
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ARSENAL FOUND IN HOUSTON HOTEL ATOP NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY
Drunken suspect arrested on multiple charges as investigation begins
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A man has been arrested on multiple charges after police located a small arsenal of guns on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency on Louisiana Street downtown, where a large New Year’s Eve celebration is planned, Houston police said.
The man has been identified as Russell Lawrence Ziemba, 49.
Police at the hotel called for backup around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after they attempted to arrest Ziemba for being intoxicated and trespassing. When help arrived, police noticed ammunition around the man’s hotel room, Lt. Gordon Macintosh with Houston police said.
Ziemba was arrested for unlawfully carrying a weapon and trespassing. When investigators looked through his room further, they located an AR-15, a shotgun, a handgun and lots of ammunition, Macintosh said.
Ziemba, who said he was staying at the hotel to celebrate New Year’s, admitted to drinking alcohol for days, police said. He told authorities that he moved his firearms to his room because he worried they’d be stolen from his truck, which was parked in the hotel garage.
The Hyatt is preparing a New Year’s Eve celebration at the hotel with a 50,000 balloon drop at the stroke of midnight, its website said.
Ziemba’s white Chevrolet Silverado was located and towed to be searched and examined, Macintosh said. Police are waiting to interview Ziemba until he has sobered up, he said.
Authorities say they don’t believe Ziemba intended to use his weapons. He is facing trespass charges because he refused to leave when repeatedly asked to do so. Ziemba, who struggled with one officer, is also facing a charge of assault of a peace officer.
The Hyatt released the following statement Sunday:
The safety and security of our guests and colleagues is our top priority, and consistent with the hotel’s prepared security plans, heightened measures are in place on New Year’s Eve. We are fully cooperating with authorities on an investigation, and further questions should be directed to the Houston Police Department.
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FRANCE'S SECRET TAX AUTHORITY FOR JEWS ONLY
'Procedure is new, questionable and discriminates,' say experts
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WASHINGTON – A business news service in Israel has exposed what experts say is a new tax authority that targets exclusively French Jews – one unprecedented anywhere in the modern world.
According to the Globes, French citizens and their tax preparers have been astonished to hear about the new department, which they charge is discriminatory, giving rise to questions about selective enforcement.
“The procedure is new and questionable, and discriminates against French Jews,” Itay Bracha, a tax expert who represents French clients with tax authorities in Israel and France, told the Globes. “The measure is an extremely irregular and rare one in which a tax authority in a foreign country is setting up a special division to handle Jews, and recruiting an exceptionally large number of employees for it.”
Bracha says that there is no comparable department among other tax authorities in the world.
“I know of no similar department to the one founded in France, and certainly not with that number of employees,” he said. “There is a special department in the U.S. because of the need for direct communication with the authorities in Israel, and taking into account the volume of trade between Israel and the U.S., but the main purpose is absolutely not to catch tax evaders.”
He added: “Such a department, which constitutes extreme discrimination against Jews in France, does violence to equality between different citizens. Establishing such a department is an unacceptable statement by the authorities in France, and puts the Jewish community in a very unflattering spotlight.”
The move coincides with both rising anti-Semitism in France and an exodus of French Jews moving to Israel or buying second homes there in preparation for a possible move.
“At the present time, in contrast to the prevailing opinion in the French community, the announcement by French Jews that they are leaving and immigrating to Israel does not solve the Jews’ problem,” Bracha noted. “On the contrary, this act put the immigrant in the spotlight, and the authorities in France started an investigation into his case in order to detect whether he has money and assets in Israel that have not been reported in France. This is done through international exchanges of information, or through other means.”
Uri Goldman from the Goldman & Co. law firm, an expert in international taxation and money laundering, said the focus on the Jewish community in France “has a bad odor of national or political motives.”
Goldman notes new immigrants in Israel are exempt from tax reporting and payment of taxes for 10 years, but among wealthy people and owners of companies and other assets in France, the matter is more complicated.
“When the immigrant is wealthy, there is a complex situation of adjustment between tax law in Israel and overseas through the tax conventions,” he said. “This is particularly true in view of the war against unreported capital.”
The Globes reports the new tax authority was founded in the past year with 20 Hebrew-speaking employees, and it is in the process of hiring five more.
The French department was established to handle French Jewish tax evaders, and it hired employees with professional experience and a profound understanding of Israeli law to examine whether Jews were using these laws to evade taxes in France. The goal of the department is to catch French tax evaders using Israel as a tax shelter, according to the report.
“It is very, very irregular to hire 20 Hebrew-speaking employees, or any other language, in a foreign tax authority,” said one anonymous international attorney specializing in tax law who is familiar with the department. “Most tax authorities have one or two Hebrew speakers, and there are English or French-speaking employees in Israel for the purpose of signing conventions and conducting relations with the tax authorities of other countries. Every tax authority has employees that speak a foreign language, but hiring 20 or more Hebrew-speaking investigators is very irregular.”
The source also said he learned from his acquaintance with the department and its employees that some of the employees hired previously lived in Israel.
“They hired Hebrew-speaking French people, some of whom previously lived in Israel and moved back to France,” he said.
According to figures from the Israel Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, immigration from France has increased dramatically in recent years, with 1,211 new immigrants arriving in Israel from France in the first half of 2017. A study conducted at Bar-Ilan University showed that the economic benefit for the Israeli economy from the absorption of Jews from France would reach $65 billion. The study assumes that 100,000 immigrants will arrive from France by 2026.
The French embassy in Israel denies the existence of the special department.
“In the framework of the campaign against tax evasion, the authorities in France conduct investigations concerning individual cases, in accordance with the international agreements,” the embassy said in a special statement to Globes. “The authorities in France deny the existence of a special department. It is extremely important to state that the things that were written are false. Taxes in France are calculated according to risk considerations. There is therefore no connection whatsoever to the national affiliation or ethnic origin of taxpayers.”
In a follow-up release, the embassy added: “The General Directorate of Public Finances denies in the most categorical way the unfounded affirmations published today in the Globes newspaper … There is no such structure in the French tax administration. French tax legislation prohibits any distinction made between people on the basis of their origins, place of residence or membership of a particular nation or religion.”
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BRAND-NEW WAY TO CREATE BABIES WITHOUT SEX
In 10-20 years, researchers predict men won't be needed for procreation
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With new rules complicating male-female relationships, scientists claim they may have a solution that will allow the human race to continue – in vitro gametogenesis, the manipulation of skin cells to create a baby.
IVG has been successfully tested by Japanese researchers on mice, which produced healthy babies derived from skin cells.
The process begins by taking the skin cells from the mouse’s tail and re-programing them to become induced pluripotent stem cells. These manipulated cells are able to grow different kinds of cells, and are then used to grow eggs and sperm, which are then fertilized in the lab. The resulting embryos are then implanted in a womb.
Although similar to in vitro fertilization, IVG eliminates the step of needing pre-existing egg and sperm, and instead creates these gametes.
But many experts in the reproductive field are skeptical of its potential outcomes and ethical compromises.
“It gives me an unsettled feeling because we don’t know what this could lead to,” said Paul Knoepfler, a stem-cell researcher at the University of California, Davis.
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Knoepfler noted that some of the potential repercussions of IVG could turn into “cloning” or “designer babies.” Other dangers could include the “Brad Pitt scenario,” in which celebrity’s skin cells retrieved from random places, like hotel rooms, could be used to create a baby.
Potentially anyone’s skin cells could be used to create a baby, even without their knowledge or consent.
In an issue of Science Translational Medicine earlier this year, a trio of academics – a Harvard Law professor, the dean of Harvard Medical School and a medical science professor at Brown – wrote that IVG “may raise the specter of ’embryo farming’ on a scale currently unimagined, which might exacerbate concerns about the devaluation of human life.”
Although IVG has proven successful in mice, there are still some wrinkles that need to be ironed out before it is tested on humans. It will take at least another decade of bioengineering work, researchers say.
In the meantime, those who want to make a baby the old-fashioned way will need to pay attention to the ever-changing rules governing courtship.
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TRUMP DECLARES WAR ON SLAVERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Globally, 25 million estimated to be victims in 167 countries
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WASHINGTON – On Nov. 1, American Urban Radio Network’s White House correspondent April Ryan asked Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if President Trump believes slavery was wrong.
“I think it is disgusting and absurd to suggest that anyone inside of this building would support slavery,” Sanders responded.
The next day on CNN, April Ryan accused Sanders of not answering the question. CNN’s Don Lemon backed her up.
Today they got their unequivocal answer as President Trump has declared war on slavery like he did on ISIS.
With an estimated 25 million people suffering in slavery and as victims of human trafficking, President Trump has declared January as “National Slavery and Human Traffic Prevention Month.”
Perhaps you haven’t heard about the announcement.
That’s because none of the following news agencies have deemed it worthy of reporting: The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, nor any other major newspaper in America or around the world. Neither have any of the major broadcast or cable networks even mentioned it – including CNN.
Similar announcements by previous presidents received widespread coverage, with laudatory expressions of hope they might make a difference in the fight to end the scourge.
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“Human trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation,” said Trump in a statement released by the White House. “It has no place in our world.”
Sex and labor trafficking enslaves as many as 25 million people, the White House said.
“Instead of delivering people to better lives, traffickers unjustifiably profit from the labor and toil of their victims, who they force – through violence and intimidation – to work in brothels and factories, on farms and fishing vessels, in private homes, and in countless industries,” said Trump.
In announcing the decision to dedicate next month to combating modern slavery, the Trump administration touted its efforts to address the problem over the past year, including the creation of an interagency task force aimed at developing new anti-slavery policies and the signing of an executive order that targets criminal organizations that have trafficked humans.
“This month we do not simply reflect on this appalling reality,” said Trump. “We also pledge to do all in our power to end the horrific practice of human trafficking that plagues innocent victims around the world.”
The Trump administration’s announcement follows the release of a voluminous report by the State Department including state-by-state assessments of the situation around the world.
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JEDI RELIGION MUCH LIKE OTHERS, RABBI CONCLUDES
'These are all about the eternal struggle between good versus evil'
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There’s a new religion arising in Western nations – Jediism – based on the “Star Wars” movies.
Its existence was noted in 2001 when, in a British census, thousands of citizens wrote it in as their belief system.
By 2010 there were 400,000 “Jedis” in the United Kingdom, putting it in the top five of all religions there.
Now there are 53,000 in New Zealand, 70,000 in Australia and 55,000 in Canada. In 2015, the Temple of the Jedi Order in Texas was registered and granted tax-exempt status by the U.S. government.
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf believes Jediism has the attributes of established religions.
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“There is a phenomenon of books and films that have totally captured the public’s attention: Tolkien, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Narnia,” Apisdorf said in an interview with Breaking Israel News. “These are all about the eternal struggle between good versus evil, dark versus light.”
Apisdorf was interviewed by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, a writer for BIN who has studied Jewish law and received rabbinical ordination in Israel.
His report comes as the newest installment of the movie series that dates back to the 1970s, “The Last Jedi,” is in movie theaters. In its first couple of weeks, the movie has taken in an estimated $900 million, including $465 million in North America. It likely will end as 2017’s biggest release, above “Beauty and the Beast,” which had $504 million for its opening.
Berkowitz said that while millions are packing theaters to see the entertainment, Jediism “is slowly gaining adherents around the world.”
“There is no official founder or central structure, but Jediism does have actual temples and an ordained clergy loosely connected by websites. Their belief system is based on the observance of the Force, a ubiquitous and metaphysical power believed to be the underlying, fundamental nature of the universe,” he explained.
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He said Apisdorf, a teacher of Jewish spirituality and award-winning author, “believes that the motives that drive people to this movement are similar to the motives that drive people to conventional religions.”
“This movie was the first time the word religion was used to describe Jedi as a religion,” Apisdorf told BIN. “We see that the dark side is involved with conquering death, which is what seduced Annakin.”
Berkowitz said Apisdorf emphasized that while Jewish eschatology also includes resurrection of the dead, it is quite different than the Jedi version.
“The dark side in Judaism is when you go for the right goal but using the wrong method or at the wrong time,” the rabbi told Berkowitz. “Conquering death without connecting to God will only bring darkness. Moshiach (Messiah) conquers death but it includes God, so it is the ultimate good.”
He also explained he sees some eastern religion influences in Jediism, including Taoism, Shintoism and Buddhism.
Jewish tradition holds those religions come from Ketura, Abraham’s second wife, Apisdorf said.
“The sages teach that the gifts (from Abraham to his children with Ketura) were actually from the power of the dark side but were not intended to cause them harm,” he said. “Everything is manifest from God: good and evil.”
Jediism’s tenets are focus, knowledge and wisdom.
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There’s a new religion arising in Western nations – Jediism – based on the “Star Wars” movies.
Its existence was noted in 2001 when, in a British census, thousands of citizens wrote it in as their belief system.
By 2010 there were 400,000 “Jedis” in the United Kingdom, putting it in the top five of all religions there.
Now there are 53,000 in New Zealand, 70,000 in Australia and 55,000 in Canada. In 2015, the Temple of the Jedi Order in Texas was registered and granted tax-exempt status by the U.S. government.
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf believes Jediism has the attributes of established religions.
See the WND Superstore’s collection of Bibles, including the stunning 1599 Geneva Bible.
“There is a phenomenon of books and films that have totally captured the public’s attention: Tolkien, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Narnia,” Apisdorf said in an interview with Breaking Israel News. “These are all about the eternal struggle between good versus evil, dark versus light.”
Apisdorf was interviewed by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, a writer for BIN who has studied Jewish law and received rabbinical ordination in Israel.
His report comes as the newest installment of the movie series that dates back to the 1970s, “The Last Jedi,” is in movie theaters. In its first couple of weeks, the movie has taken in an estimated $900 million, including $465 million in North America. It likely will end as 2017’s biggest release, above “Beauty and the Beast,” which had $504 million for its opening.
Berkowitz said that while millions are packing theaters to see the entertainment, Jediism “is slowly gaining adherents around the world.”
“There is no official founder or central structure, but Jediism does have actual temples and an ordained clergy loosely connected by websites. Their belief system is based on the observance of the Force, a ubiquitous and metaphysical power believed to be the underlying, fundamental nature of the universe,” he explained.
What do YOU think? Sound off in today’s WND poll on the growing religion of Jediism.
He said Apisdorf, a teacher of Jewish spirituality and award-winning author, “believes that the motives that drive people to this movement are similar to the motives that drive people to conventional religions.”
“This movie was the first time the word religion was used to describe Jedi as a religion,” Apisdorf told BIN. “We see that the dark side is involved with conquering death, which is what seduced Annakin.”
Berkowitz said Apisdorf emphasized that while Jewish eschatology also includes resurrection of the dead, it is quite different than the Jedi version.
“The dark side in Judaism is when you go for the right goal but using the wrong method or at the wrong time,” the rabbi told Berkowitz. “Conquering death without connecting to God will only bring darkness. Moshiach (Messiah) conquers death but it includes God, so it is the ultimate good.”
He also explained he sees some eastern religion influences in Jediism, including Taoism, Shintoism and Buddhism.
Jewish tradition holds those religions come from Ketura, Abraham’s second wife, Apisdorf said.
“The sages teach that the gifts (from Abraham to his children with Ketura) were actually from the power of the dark side but were not intended to cause them harm,” he said. “Everything is manifest from God: good and evil.”
Jediism’s tenets are focus, knowledge and wisdom.
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THE WAR COMES HOME TO IRAN
Biggest anti-mullah protests hit cities since 2009
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While Iranian military and terrorist forces occupy Syria and Lebanon in an effort to spread Shia-style Islamic radicalism, a war of a very different nature has come home to the mullah regime.
The biggest protests since 2009 have hit the country in at least nine cities, sometimes turning violent.
In the U.S., President Donald Trump tweeted: “Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. The world is watching!”
Two demonstrators in Dorud in western Iran were shot dead, a video posted on social media shows.
Videos filmed elsewhere in the country show protesters setting fire to a police vehicles and there are reports of attacks on government buildings.
Demonstrators have ignored a warning by Iran’s interior minister to avoid “illegal gatherings”.
In the town of Abhar in northern Iran, demonstrators have set fire to large banners bearing the picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile in Arak in central Iran, protesters have reportedly set fire to the local headquarters of the pro-government Basij militia.
In the capital Tehran, large numbers of protesters gathered at Azadi square, BBC Persian reports. A senior Revolutionary Guards figure in Tehran said the situation in the city was under control.
Demonstrators would be met with “the nation’s iron fist” if they continued, Brigadier-General Esmail Kowsari told student news agency ISNA.
In Mashhad, in the northeast, protesters burned police motorcycles in a confrontation caught on video.
There are also numerous reports of people losing Internet access on their mobile phones.
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In Kermanshah, western Iran, a demonstrator called Makan told BBC Persian that protesters were beaten up “but we couldn’t tell if it was the police or the Basij militia.”
Earlier, protesters at Tehran University called for Ayatollah Khamenei to step down and there were clashes with police.
Thousands of pro-government demonstrators turned out earlier on Saturday for big rallies across the country, organized in advance to mark the eighth anniversary of the suppression of the 2009 street protests.
The common factor in all of them has been protesters’ demand for an end to clerical rule in Iran.
Widespread discontent is not limited to complaints about rising prices or widespread unemployment.
The current protests began in Mashhad on Thursday over living standards and rising food prices, and by Friday had spread to several major cities.
The Iranian authorities are blaming anti-revolutionaries and agents of foreign powers for the outbreak of protests.
Iran’s foreign ministry called earlier comments from Trump and other U.S. officials “opportunistic and deceitful.”
There is also anger at Iran’s interventions abroad. In Mashhad, some chanted “not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran,” a reference to what protesters say is the administration’s focus on foreign rather than domestic issues.
Iran is a key provider of military support to the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. It is also accused of providing arms to Houthi rebels fighting a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, which it denies, and is an ally of Lebanon’s powerful Shia movement Hezbollah.
The U.S. State Department has urged all nations “to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for basic rights and an end to corruption.”
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Biggest anti-mullah protests hit cities since 2009
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While Iranian military and terrorist forces occupy Syria and Lebanon in an effort to spread Shia-style Islamic radicalism, a war of a very different nature has come home to the mullah regime.
The biggest protests since 2009 have hit the country in at least nine cities, sometimes turning violent.
In the U.S., President Donald Trump tweeted: “Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. The world is watching!”
Two demonstrators in Dorud in western Iran were shot dead, a video posted on social media shows.
Videos filmed elsewhere in the country show protesters setting fire to a police vehicles and there are reports of attacks on government buildings.
Demonstrators have ignored a warning by Iran’s interior minister to avoid “illegal gatherings”.
In the town of Abhar in northern Iran, demonstrators have set fire to large banners bearing the picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile in Arak in central Iran, protesters have reportedly set fire to the local headquarters of the pro-government Basij militia.
In the capital Tehran, large numbers of protesters gathered at Azadi square, BBC Persian reports. A senior Revolutionary Guards figure in Tehran said the situation in the city was under control.
Demonstrators would be met with “the nation’s iron fist” if they continued, Brigadier-General Esmail Kowsari told student news agency ISNA.
In Mashhad, in the northeast, protesters burned police motorcycles in a confrontation caught on video.
There are also numerous reports of people losing Internet access on their mobile phones.
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In Kermanshah, western Iran, a demonstrator called Makan told BBC Persian that protesters were beaten up “but we couldn’t tell if it was the police or the Basij militia.”
Earlier, protesters at Tehran University called for Ayatollah Khamenei to step down and there were clashes with police.
Thousands of pro-government demonstrators turned out earlier on Saturday for big rallies across the country, organized in advance to mark the eighth anniversary of the suppression of the 2009 street protests.
The common factor in all of them has been protesters’ demand for an end to clerical rule in Iran.
Widespread discontent is not limited to complaints about rising prices or widespread unemployment.
The current protests began in Mashhad on Thursday over living standards and rising food prices, and by Friday had spread to several major cities.
The Iranian authorities are blaming anti-revolutionaries and agents of foreign powers for the outbreak of protests.
Iran’s foreign ministry called earlier comments from Trump and other U.S. officials “opportunistic and deceitful.”
There is also anger at Iran’s interventions abroad. In Mashhad, some chanted “not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran,” a reference to what protesters say is the administration’s focus on foreign rather than domestic issues.
Iran is a key provider of military support to the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. It is also accused of providing arms to Houthi rebels fighting a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, which it denies, and is an ally of Lebanon’s powerful Shia movement Hezbollah.
The U.S. State Department has urged all nations “to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for basic rights and an end to corruption.”
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