[Free Beacon] Planned Parenthood abortion clinics profit from the sale of aborted baby organs, according to new documents released by a congressional committee investigating the organization’s practices.
The U.S. House Select Panel on Infant Lives released a preview of its findings after a months-long review of internal documents obtained from the nation’s top abortionist, as well as organ procurement companies and buyers. The panel concluded that abortion clinics incur no additional costs in harvesting organs obtained from an already-aborted baby and that the sale or transfer of those organs represented "pure profit" for the clinic.
"The [abortion clinic] has no costs so the payments from the [procurement business] to the [abortion clinic] are pure profit," the report concludes. "All costs are born by the [procurement business] or the customer. The payments from the customer to the PB exceed its cost by a factor of 300 to 400 percent."
Pro-life activists said those practices run counter to federal law, which bars clinics from profiting off of the sale of baby body parts.
"The abortion industry sells baby hearts, livers, brains, hands and other organs procured by a middleman company inside their facilities at no cost or effort to the facilities themselves. The facility receives upfront fees that can amount to five-figure sums every month and then the procurement companies resell organs for tens of thousands more--depending on the child’s characteristics," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said in a release. "The documents make clear there is absolutely no cost to the abortion clinic so that all monies received go to their bottom line."
The scandal began after investigators with the pro-life Center for Medical Progress released a series of videos capturing top Planned Parenthood officials discussing the group’s fetal organ sales in the summer of 2015. One top official was caught on camera saying that clinics generate a "fair amount of income" from the sales.
The committee’s conclusions stand in contrast to Planned Parenthood’s repeated denials that it made any money from the sale of organs. The group claimed that all payments were to recoup costs. The abortionist announced last year it would no longer accept any payments from researchers or procurement companies for baby body parts.
Planned Parenthood did not return a request for comment.
The congressional panel will hold a hearing Wednesday morning to discuss the report.
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The nation’s largest abortion provider gave Clinton its Margaret Sanger Award in 2014, a symbolic cap to the $67,000 in campaign donations that Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have received from Planned Parenthood employees throughout their political careers.
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Wait till the snowflakes who can't deal with the racism of Woodrow Wilson find out about Margaret Sanger (and throw in some real xenophobia for spice).
[Chicago Tribune] Damond Dawson was "goofing around" with his brother and other relatives and friends, rapping and shooting video in Foster Park when two gunnies opened fire early Tuesday, killing Dawson and wounding four others, according to police and relatives.
"Basically like an ambush," said Dawson's aunt, Angela Mathis-Tate, 44. "One coming west of the park and one coming south. "I be tough,
I be bad,
Mess wid me,
You be sad..."
The shooting happened around 2:20 a.m. as Dawson, 23, and a small group were "rapping around (taking) selfies with their phones" at Foster Park at 1440 W. 84th St., according to relatives. What was the lad doing out at 2:30 a.m.? Didn't he have to go to work in the morning?
Dawson was shot once in the back of the head and collapsed in the middle of the park, between a building and a playground. He was pronounced dead on the scene. "I be shot,
In my head,
I lay down,
I be dead...!"
A 19-year-old woman was shot twice in the groin area and was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center. Three other men took themselves to the same hospital: a 20-year-old man shot nine times in the leg and shoulder, a 25-year-old man grazed in the leg and an 18-year-old man grazed in the back. Their conditions were stabilized. "I be shot,
In my groin,
My, dat hurt!
Blood be showin'!"
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It's Freddie "Trisyllable" Dawson;
His parody rappin' is awesome.
He's bustin' dese triggaz
Cuz narrative, niggaz,
So fast it'd trip Srinavasan!
[WMCACTIONNEWS5] Memphis: Residents of Cooper-Young described a marauding group of young people that are terrorizing the neighborhood. Most residents did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation.
"The back of my truck was open, because I was getting things in and out of it, and I caught them just digging through it, looking for something valuable potentially," Cooper-Young resident Kyle Howard said.
"My husband caught some of them in our backyard and he chased them out," another resident said. "They ran down the street and they were yelling very ugly, ugly things."
That woman said they even threatened on another day to shoot her dog Lucy when she barked at them.
"They range in age from about 8 years old to 14."
One man said they travel in groups of five or six girls and boys, most from the neighborhood.
"They're terrorizing people. They're threatening people. They're vandalizing properties. They key cars when they walk by."
Some of the marauders broke into a Hot Mess Burrito food truck on Sunday. Police were called.
13-year-old Virgina Houston said it's all true. She said she was once friends with the one she calls the ringleader.
"She has a bunch of kids following her," Houston said. "She's like the queen of the group. She steals, she threatens people."
Another teenager said her brother was part of the group and is now in juvenile court along with the so-called queen.
"It's really sad to see kids gravitate toward a life of crime so early," Howard said.
Houston said she is starting a group to help the young people stay away from violence. Neighbors said they figure the young people don’t have any activities to keep them out of trouble.
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Ahh, would this fall under "Diversity" or "Vibrant Youth"?
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Neighbors said they figure the young people don’t have any activities to keep them out of trouble.
Bullshit. Kids have been growing up for thousands of years without going 'gangsta'. And they didn't have TV or tablet or xbox either. The brats are simply spoiled rotten with the 'participation trophy' and its never your fault mindset.
Give them a good, solid, whipping - then toss them in jail for a month or so.
There's probably only one available, and she's in jail, rehab or something.
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Mid-Town is a hot bed of "diversity." Every beta-male, hipster, gender-freak, "artist," cool cat in town wants to live there and thinks you are some troglodyte for not wanting to experience the wonders of such myriad cultures all living in harmony. If there was a brochure, they would probably advertise their brand new, female-lead gang of cultural pearls bringing "awareness" to the community of the plight of urban youth and the institutional racism of the evil, white-privileged, imperialist man-o-cracy. I am not surprised that a group of pre-teens with a 14 year old female at the helm can "terrorize" that neighborhood. These people are nothing more than food and deserve everything that happens.
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The nature of Predator-Prey natural law displays itself and the idiots cannot grasp the dynamic. I'm sure the young creature at the top of the tribal grouping is far more ruthless and uncaring than any of the snowflake victims, yet they imagine she must somehow be troubled by her dominance. She isn't and never will be, she and her pack are apex predators in her little ecosystem, and you are just prey!
Google's leading futurist, Ray Kurzweil, thinks his diet can help him live forever, a goal he recently told Playboy we could be close to achieving by as early as 2029.
Kurzweil says he spends "a few thousand dollars per day" on diet pills and eating right, or roughly $1 million a year. A fool and his money . . . .
According to Caroline Daniel of The Financial Times, Kurzweil's breakfast includes:
â˘Berries (85 calories for a cup)
â˘Dark chocolate infused with espresso (170 calories for an ounce)
â˘Smoked salmon and mackerel (100 calories for a 3-ounce serving)
â˘Vanilla soy milk (100 calories for a cup)
â˘Stevia (zero calories)
â˘Porridge (150 to 350 calories for half a cup, depending on ingredients and cooking method)
â˘Green tea (zero calories)
Kurzweil takes 100 pills a day (down from 250 a few years ago, reportedly thanks to advances in technology) for everything from "heart health" to "eye health, sexual health, and brain health." At the expense of your wallet health.
As for the part of his breakfast that actually contains food, Kurzweil told Daniel it emphasizes "healthy carbs" and "fills you up with fewer calories."
That's true -- mostly.
"Healthy carbs" (as opposed to "unhealthy carbs," which include sugar and refined, heavily processed carbs like white bread) are typically from whole grains, meaning they include a hefty portion of fiber, which helps keep your digestive system running smoothly.
As for "filling you up with fewer calories," foods higher in protein and fiber are key to making sure this happens.
So back to Kurzweil's breakfast. The berries and porridge both have lots of fiber, while the smoked fish and the soy milk are good sources of protein. Thumbs-up here, Kurzweil.
The breakfast isn't without its added sugar, though.
The vanilla soy milk has 7 grams of sugar; the chocolate has another 7 grams. And even though the sugar in the berries is all-natural, they still have 15 grams. Add in a couple grams from the porridge, and Kurzweil's first meal of the day already includes over 30 grams of sugar. So when he dies, he can blame it on the sugar.
That gets pretty close to the 37.5-gram maximum that the American Heart Association recommends men should eat each day. (The AHA recommends women limit their sugar intake to about 25 grams a day).
It sounds like Kurzweil is using the stevia, which has no calories, as a replacement for more sugar.
While it's sugar- and calorie-free, we still don't have enough research to say whether stevia (or calorie-free sugar replacements, like Splenda or Sweet-and-Low), is completely safe to eat. It probably isn't.
He once predicted that we would have a voice activated typewriter by 1985. His other predictions, where achieved, have come5 to 15 years later than he estimated them.
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FUD in the article: "While it's sugar- and calorie-free, we still don't have enough research to say whether stevia (or calorie-free sugar replacements, like Splenda or Sweet-and-Low), is completely safe to eat."
Perfect shill for the big chemical companies' artificial sweeteners. And completely false.
It has been in use as a sweetener for decades in Japan. And the FDA has done studies and approves it as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe).
Then there's this: The plant Stevia rebaudiana has been used for more than 1,500 years by the Guaraní peoples of South America, who called it ka'a he'ê ("sweet herb").[10] The leaves have been used traditionally for hundreds of years in both Brazil and Paraguay to sweeten local teas and medicines, and as a "sweet treat"
(citations on Wikipedia, inclduing mutiple studies debunking the statement in the article)
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I'll stick to cereal and bacon, eggs and potatoes on the weekends.
I'm 43 and can still out hump (hike with a 120 lbs kit for you civies) a 24 year old that is with the water rescue division over 15 miles of mountain terrain.
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Drop the soy milk and stevia, put half a bagel under the salmon, add some cream cheese and a few capers, and it sounds good to me. I'd put a dash of maple syrup on the porridge oatmeal, though.
Another good way to eat oatmeal - the scottish way - is to have a small cup of cream. Dip a spoonful of porridge in the cream.
Kruzweil's a big eater compared to me. Two eggs with cheese, bacon, coffee, no toast. On Sunday, I eat like he does. Still, he's pretty skinny. Must worry a lot.
"His other predictions, where achieved, have come 5 to 15 years later than he estimated them."
One prediction he's making is likely to go the other way in compensation.
A mother and her six children were burned to death in southern Somalia on Tuesday, local officials said, adding that the incident was thought to be a related to clan hostilities.
Of course. But you don't hear about tribal clans doing this like this in flyover America...
Mayor Hassan Omar said that the victims lived in the village of Jeebey outside the port city of Merca.
“The family was attacked by militiamen while they were sleeping,’’ Omar said.
However, the attackers have not been identified,
Arrest all the men in both clans. Then shoot them all. That will solve the problem.
but officials said tensions have increased between militias representing two clans vying for land.
“The conflict between these two rival militias in the region has quickly been deteriorating for the past two or three years, civilians from both clans are targeted deliberately,’’ Omar said.
The community leader Mohamed Hussein told newsmen from Merca that Somalis had been killing each other for years, but targeting women, children and burning civilian homes was a new culture.
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That puts paid to any effort by the old oil cartel to increase oil prices. Soon the Saudis and the Mad Mullahs will have to rconsider previous grand visions of conquering the world for their version of Allah. Perhaps this could be considered a sign that he does not approve of jihad after all.
A new oil find in Great Britain could add up to $74 billion to the nation’s economy, according to a study published Monday by the oil company UK Oil & Gas Investments (UKOG).
The find has the potential to generate from $10 billion to $74.6 billion for the British economy, according to the study, including up to $26 billion in new tax revenue for the British government. The oil could also provide 27 percent of the U.K.’s daily oil demand over the life of the project, and create 5,600 steady jobs that pay a starting salary of more than $43,000 annually.
“It is therefore possible that the overall economic impact of Kimmeridge Limestone oil could be significantly higher than this initial report describes,” Stephen Sanderson, the executive chairman of U.K. Oil & Gas, said in a statement.
The find is located in the Kimmeridge Limestone, which is just south of London. An experimental test well in the area, called the Gatwick Gusher, struck more oil than it could pump last month. The single well can likely access 20 million barrels of oil.
Estimates made last year state that the reserve could store as much as 100 billion barrels of oil. According to government data, the rest of Britain only has 2.98 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. Britain’s current oil production has continued to decline, and experts estimate the country will be forced to import 50 percent of its daily oil demand by 2020.
Environmentalists, who worried the well could create an incentive for hydraulic fracturing in the U.K., began protesting against the Gatwick Gusher in February. Drilling in the area won’t require hydraulic fracturing, or fracking according to the company which operates the well, but it could help the U.K. get more oil out of the formation.
These people are wasting many thousands of pounds of tax payers money. They haven't a clue what they are talking about. They listen to scare stories and seem to be able to absorb the utter rubbish spouted but fail to understand any science based evidence. How is it that this country is being held to ransom by a motley crew of people who are so against fossil fuels and yet no doubt arrived by car, use plastic, take medicines and live a very luxurious life because of hydrocarbons. The hypocrisy is staggering. The media pander to them and give them far more publicity than they deserve. Stop using fossil fuels first and let us see just how well you cope, then we might listen.
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"The stone age came to an end, not for lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for lack of oil."
~ Sheik Ahmed Zahi Yamani
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No, they'll be the ones collecting welfare from the taxes it raises. They're already getting jizya, so why do work?
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Ha! Ha! "Things" will "improve"...meaning they will bomb something every day, behead soldiers in the middle of street until people will finally get fed up and islam will be interdicted and eradicated like bestiality, inbreeding, pedophilia and cannibalism...and it will be the day that suddenly, inexplicably, peace will reign...
The UN Security Council on Friday issued a press statement condemning North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile as a violation of UNSC resolutions. The UNSC warned Pyongyang of strong measures should it carry out any further provocations including a nuclear test or missile launch.
A UNSC press statement is a less severe measure than a resolution or presidential statement.
Way, way less severe...
But it is considered an important tool allowing UNSC members to present a united front on an issue of particular importance.
While it stopped short of calling a meeting, the UNSC adopted the press statement immediately after the North launched the missile from a site on its eastern coast last Friday.
Although the North's latest ballistic missile launch was a failure, "this attempt constituted a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions," the statement says. It also points out that UNSC resolutions on North Korean nuclear tests and missile launches, adopted on five occasions from 2006 through March this year, prohibit the country from test-launching ballistic missiles, regardless of their range.
Worked well, huh...
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Strong Measures eh?
Must mean a strongly worded letter in red ink! Oh the horrors!
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Squad Leader: Maniac has responded with a scornful remark.
automated assistant: Approach, and repeat ultimatum in an even firmer tone of voice. Add the words, "or else".
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I cannot help but wonder, where are the NKs getting their expertise from? More likely China is using NK as a test ground to further develop their own Nuclear bomb technology. A major flag is NK claiming to have hydrogen bomb technology. H bombs are extremely difficult to build and deploy
China, OTOH does have the expertise and technology, they just need a place to test them out.
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May not be a hydrogen bomb, but rather a 'boosted' nuke:
According to Bhupendra Jasani, a nuclear physicist at King’s College London, instead of working on hydrogen bombs, countries like India and Pakistan are probably working on “boosted” atomic bombs.
A boosted weapon is one that packs more punch by using a higher proportion of its own nuclear fuel; although the Hiroshima bomb caused so much destruction, it used merely 1.4% of the uranium put in it. One way to do this is to put some fusion fuel at the core of an atomic bomb. This mixture of deuterium and tritium is compressed to create a fusion reaction. This produces more neutrons, which then enhance the chain reaction of the fission fuel. In other words, you use an atom bomb to set off a tiny hydrogen bomb which in turn ratchets up the atom bomb.
Jasani thinks, therefore, that North Korea’s claimed “hydrogen bomb” was really an attempt to test a boosted atomic bomb. The seismometer readings suggest that the bomb North Korea tested was in the range of what atomic bombs can yield, rather than what hydrogen bombs usually yield.
Possibly, then the NorKs are doing research on behalf of (order of likelihood) Iran, China, or Pakistan.
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Possibly, then the NorKs are doing research on behalf of (order of likelihood) Iran, China, or Pakistan.
So the Iranians won't even have to build their own. They can just buy it from the NORKs, especially with the money Obummer gave them, and Pudgy will be happy to pocket the profit.
[Oregonian] The company behind a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal at the mouth of the Columbia River has abandoned the project, marking the death of Oregon's second such project in a matter of weeks.
The Oregon LNG company had been pushing since 2012 to build the terminal in Warrenton, a small town on Oregon's north coast, but had recently encountered obstacles in the permitting process.
Warrenton Mayor Mark Kujala said an Oregon LNG official told him the company's decision to withdraw from the project was "a funding decision."
The news comes weeks after a city hearings officer rejected key permits for the project and after years of fervent opposition both locally and statewide. Concerns over the project's potential to harm Warrenton's fishing industry and environment had sparked protests at local meetings on the project and attracted attention from conservation groups.
"It didn't have a lot of public support, I'll put it that way," Warrenton City Commissioner Henry Balensifer III said Friday.
Friday's news comes a month after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected plans for a massive LNG terminal in Coos Bay, effectively killing the project. Federal regulators said backers of the Jordan Cove Energy Project had failed to demonstrate any need for the facility.
[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... arrived in Islamabad from London on Tuesday night, thus putting an end to the speculations surrounding his return after members of Sharif family were linked to the leaks in the Panama Papers, DawnNews reported.
Upon his arrival at the Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi, the premier was received by his aide Tariq Fatemi and other bigwigs.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... had earlier said that "the prime minister's condition had improved after a medical check-up in London".
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Chicago Tribune] Damond Dawson was "goofing around" with his brother and other relatives and friends, rapping and shooting video in Foster Park when two 
Google's leading futurist, Ray Kurzweil, thinks his diet can help him live forever, a goal he recently told Playboy we could be close to achieving by as early as 2029.
The UN Security Council on Friday issued a press statement condemning North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile as a violation of UNSC resolutions. The UNSC warned Pyongyang of strong measures should it carry out any further provocations including a nuclear test or missile launch.
[Oregonian] The company behind a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal at the mouth of the Columbia River has abandoned the project, marking the death of Oregon's second such project in a matter of weeks.
