[France24] Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users critical of the Saudi royal family, the US Justice Department announced.
The two Saudis and one US citizen allegedly worked together to unmask the ownership details behind dissident Twitter accounts on behalf of the government in Riyadh and the royal family, the department said. Failing to share can have consequences.
According to a court filing, they were guided by an unnamed Saudi official who worked for someone prosecutors designated "Royal Family Member-1," which The Washington Post reported was Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Those charged were former Twitter employees Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo, along with Ahmed Almutairi, a marketing official with ties to the royal family. We've never had any difficulty with these people previously. Strange, very strange.
"The criminal complaint unsealed today alleges that Saudi agents mined Twitter's internal systems for personal information about known Saudi critics and thousands of other Twitter users," said US Attorney David Anderson.
"US law protects US companies from such an unlawful foreign intrusion. We will not allow US companies or US technology to become tools of foreign repression in violation of US law," he said in a statement.
The lawsuit comes as US-Saudi relations continue to suffer strains over the brutal, Riyadh-sanctioned murder last year of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote for, among others, The Washington Post. beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi
...who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...
A critic of Crown Prince Mohammed, Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
According to the Post, US intelligence has concluded that the prince himself was closely linked to the murder.
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"US law protects US companies from such an unlawful foreign intrusion. We will not allow US companies or US technology to become tools of foreign repression in violation of US law," he said in a statement, then his lips fell off.
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Sh*ttah. You have to say it with that Stewaht Vahney shill accent.
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I wouldn't blame them.
If a company, albeit a US based corporation provides a personal opinion/news/message publishing service that is being used by dissidents of another country to revolt, the US needs to know first. If they cannot do anything about it or won't, the affected country has every right to act against the company in the internet domain.
There is no economic, territorial or diplomatic breach here. And since twitter is being so anti-Trump just before elections, fuck 'em.
[ABC News] JESUP, Ga (WTGS) ‐ A high-speed chase in Jesup led to the arrest of two North Carolina gang members, according to the Georgia State Patrol (GSP).
GSP says the chase started Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., when Long County deputies received a call about a stolen vehicle out of North Carolina. The owner was tracking the SUV using GPS and called Long County officials and advised that the SUV was driving west on GA 38 in Ludowici.
Deputies found the stolen Mercedes SUV reportedly driven by 21-year-old Daijon Tanner and another in the passenger's seat, Ray Jordan Jr., 21. Tanner fled from law enforcement. "Daijon, named after that mustard shit I like so much"
GSP says the Long County Sheriff’s Office requested GSP’s assistance with the pursuit into Wayne County. The driver was traveling more than 130 mph down U.S. 301 heading towards Brantley County.
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Dey wuz jus going back to dey school, u kno's how dem popo's is! Daijon jus had he twelf chil with his 12 bbay momas frien girl. Dem po chilrens. WIL dey still get he check? u kno fo dem chilrens.
ABC bosses are battling to deal with the fallout from comments made by "Good Morning America" news hound Amy Robach, who was caught on a hot mic claiming network brass scrapped her interview with a Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... accuser to appease the royal family.
The "GMA" news hound could be heard complaining that she spent three years trying to get the interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleges she was forced to sleep with Prince Andrew while she was kept as Epstein’s sex slave, on air.
ABC news chiefs swiftly moved on Tuesday to have Robach issue a statement, in which she backtracked on her initial claims.
The anchor said she was "caught in a moment of private frustration" on the video, which was released by the conservative website Project Veritas Sunday and believed to have been taped this July.
In her statement, Robach said she was "disappointed" that her interview with Giuffre, taped in 2015, did not run as it failed to meet ABC’s reporting standards, while insisting that she had never been told to stop reporting on the Epstein scandal.
ABC sources told Page Six Tuesday there was "zero truth" that the interview was held to court favor with the royals, and particularly, as Robach said on camera, to get an interview with Prince William and wife Kate Middleton.
An ABC source said: "A lot of broadcasters can probably empathize. We do have to run everything past standards and practices and there are times when interviews can’t air.
"We needed time to corroborate details, and we were unable to verify a lot of Virginia’s claims."
This does not, however, answer why ABC did not run the interview at any time after 2015. Giuffre has now made her claims to a variety of media outlets.
[NYPost] The nine women and children slaughtered in Mexico on Monday were part of a Mormon community with ties to the alleged sex-cult Nxivm.
The outpost Mormon community in Mexico is where underlings of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere recruited young women to work as nannies in an upstate New York compound run by the accused cult — suggesting at least in part that the jobs would get the girls away from their home region’s drug violence, according a man hired by Raniere to produce a documentary about the group.
The three moms and six kids killed in Monday’s violence in the northern town of Sonora are believed to have been the victims of a drug cartel, which may have mistaken the group’s caravan of three SUVs for rivals, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
The filmmaker working with Raniere at the time, Mark Vicente, told the online magazine Slate that the documentary ultimately became a recruiting video for Nxivm, which purported to be a self-help group but morphed into what the feds called a cult that sexually, physically and emotionally abused its mainly female followers.
The film included an interview with Julian LeBaron, who identified himself as the cousin of one of the moms killed Monday and who is a leader of the Mexico Mormon community. LeBaron’s brother was kidnapped by a local drug cartel in 2009, and the family defiantly refused to pay a ransom. The cartel eventually released the abducted man.
[NYP] Bill Gates said Wednesday that he "made a mistake" when he decided to meet with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while seeking money for his global health campaign.
Gates made the mea culpa while speaking to The New York Times Dealbook Conference ‐ saying that by sitting down with Epstein he helped legitimize the convicted sexual predator.
"I made a mistake in judgment that I thought that those discussions would lead, literally, to billions of dollars going to global health. It turned out that was a bad judgment," said 64-year-old Gates.
"And I gave him some benefit by the association. So I made a doubly wrong mistake there," he added.
Epstein died in federal lock up in lower Manhattan on August 10 after he was busted by the FBI for sex trafficking.
Theories that Epstein was murdered have swirled since his death, with his brother, Mark Epstein, saying Wednesday that "my brother might have been murdered."
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Gates' personal worth is many times what Epstein's was. Like a lot of smart people, Gates' mistake is thinking the rest of us are dumb enough to believe him.
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yep, so he expected to get billions from a guy that was much less rich than him
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Did anyone at the Shitshow Times conference ask this Grifter about the botchjob called Common Core Math that he imposed on the nation's schools-- such as why he ever thought he should even be involved in education, let alone why he feels himself entitled to steamroll the nation's parents, schools and teachers with this foolish, cockamamie approach?
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Bill Gates said Wednesday that he "made a mistake" when he decided to meet with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while seeking money for his global health campaign.
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Kildall shot himself in the foot (insert appropriate anatomical reference here).
When IBM set up a meeting with him to discuss licensing CP/M for their new computer called the PC, he blew them off and went hang gliding. And that, campers, is how we ended up with MS-DOS.
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But the weather was just *perfect* for flying that day.
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The Kildall incident (along with IBM's obtuseness re the value of software) just underscores how much of our oligarchs' wealth can be attributed to blind luck.
[Hawaii Public Radio] The City and County of Honolulu is the second county to announce plans to sue fossil fuel companies for what officials say is damage caused by climate change and rising sea levels traced back to corporate action or inaction.
"The evidence is piling up that just as big tobacco misled the public and policymakers about the danger of smoking, big oil waged a decades-long deception campaign and covered up the origins of today’s climate crisis," said Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Tuesday.
The mayor pointed to the estimated 3,880 Oahu structures said to be in harm's way if the sea level rises by 3.2 feet as predicted by 2100. The higher oceans could result $12.9 billion in costs, according to a 2017 study from the Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission.
Last week, Maui Mayor Michael Victorino said his administration plans to sue the companies for climate change-related damage to roads and other infrastructure.
Both lawsuits will need approval from county councils.
Victorino has been feuding with Maui council members over issues like his insistence that the county argue rather than settle a wastewater lawsuit now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Caldwell had City Council members Joey Manahan and Ron Menor at a press conference announcing his intention to file a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies. Both supported the administration's plans.
Among the companies that would be named in the suit are Chevron, Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, the BHP Group, Conoco Phillips, Marathon (formerly known as Tesoro) and Aloha Petroleum.
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The Hawaiian Islands are a hot spot chain and start sinking as soon as their volcanoes stop growing them. Midway Atoll used to be an island like Hawaii.
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I agree PEPPLES, ALL things that need or run on ANY petroleum Products & ALL ammo for Police included! NO SHIPPING what so ever land sea~~any. STARVE!
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About 70% of the islands' (all inhabited ones, anyway) power comes from oil-fired generation. Coal-fired makes up about 15% and 'Renewable' makes up about 15%.
It would be interesting to see an 85% power reduction take effect.
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What about all the goods and supplies shipped into the islands?
Will the freighters and cargo jets be forced to run on renewables as well?
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...ah, the return of the clipper ships! Just redirect some of that unauthorized manpower coming across the border to the work (in colloquial terms - Shanghai'd)
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The mayor pointed to the estimated 3,880 Oahu structures said to be in harm's way if the sea level rises by 3.2 feet as predicted by 2100.
Last I looked, sea level rise was on the order of a millimeter per year which gives 80 mm by 2100 - about 3 inches. Probably not real noticeable depending on the daily tides.
If I were an oil company CEO, I would announce that all fuel shipments and sales would be suspended in 30 days to avoid further legal liability. Then I would sit back with a drink and watch heads explode all over the islands.
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Steve - isn't that the approach that PG&E adopted in California - shut off electricity. Partially to reduce the chance of a wildfire from their equipment. But mostly so they couldn't be blamed when a wildfire broke out.
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Years ago there was a rumor that McDonald's used ground earthworms in their burgers. An executive VP at the fast food giant commented they'd never do that because worms cost more per pound than ground beef.
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Food for worms, lads... or is it worms for food?
HAMLET Why, Mickey D's, thou rogue and peasant slave! Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your wormburger is your only emperor for diet...I'm lovin' it ;-)
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Soylant yellow is made of worms!
Sort of an admission that veggie-burgers no matter what they might claim are not really a replacement for beef. Vat created meat might replace beef but our taste buds are trained on thousands of years of tasty cattle and the can't be fooled easily.
HAMLET
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That’s the end.
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Þan sayd þe son, “Horrybil bestes restys with þe.” Þe voice sayd, “Thow sal cum and reste with me.” Þan sayd þe son, “Thy fayr flesche falls and fadys away.” “Son, so sal þine do, þat is now so gay.”
(A Disputation Betwyx þe Body and Wormes”, 15th century manuscript)
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While I don't know no Shakespeare...
'And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.' - Book of Exodus
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'But then the Saxons said, We would yet eat. And they ground them up for to save the land; For in that day it was believed among the heathen that if they ate any meat, the world itself perish.
Then the Lord (probably) said to Moses, See that thou stay away from that wretched isle, for they are a people with a head like flint.' - Dron, the meshuganeh's Apocrypha
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Wheeeeeee!!! I am so happy right now — I haven’t the words to tell you how happy I am.
Ok: my ruling is that Lex and European Conservative are tied for winning the thread, and Dron66046 gets an very honourable mention.
And I get to remember my mother explaining what fun she had shocking her English professor at NYU by reading Chaucer aloud as if it were modern Dutch — it works perfectly that way, though Flemish is, in Mama’s considered opinion, almost nearly as good.
[Dhaka Tribune] Detective branch (DB) of Police has filed charge sheet against sole accused Harun-ur Rashid in Wari’s Samia Afrin Saima murder case.
Investigation officer and DB inspector Md Arjun filed the charge sheet at the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Tuesday, reports BSS.
On October 29, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mainul Islam set November 20 to submit the probe report in the case filed over rape and subsequently murder of seven-year-old Saima in Dhaka’s Wari on July 5.
Saima’s father Abdus Salam filed the case under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Wari Police Station on July 6 and police on July 7 managed to arrest killer Harun-ur Rashid from Cumilla.
Saima, a nursery-grade student of Silverdale School went missing after she went out to play on the afternoon of July 5.
Later, her body was found on the 8th floor of their under construction building at 8pm, with a rope wrapped around her neck.
It was found later, the little girl was brutally raped by Harun and the killer dragged her lifeless body by tying a rope around her neck and took it to the kitchen of that vacant flat and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
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[Sun UK] How the Mormons and cartels went to war in Mexico - with anti-terror devices, $1m ransoms and shoot-outs in the street
The LeBarons' roots in Mexico date back to the 1880s - and the family history is tinged with bloodshed.
When the Church of the Latter Day Saints banned polygamy in the late 19th century, hoards of Mormons - who traditionally take multiple wives - fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution.
Among these was Alma Dayer LeBarón, who in 1924 set up Colonia LeBaron in Chihuahua state.
Alma's son, Joel, carried on the family's polygamous tradition - taking six wives and 42 children - but after taking over the leadership in the '50s, also united 30 families under the 'The Church of the The Firstborn'.
Joel's brother and second in command, Evril, however, resented his authority.
Driven on by the controversial Mormon doctrine 'blood atonement' - where certain crimes are punishable by death - he ordered Joel's murder and went on to kill a number of his rival faction leaders.
Eventually, Evril, dubbed the 'Mormon Manson', was cornered by police in 1979 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He died two years later still linked with countless deaths, including those of his own 17-year-old pregnant daughter Rebecca, who had tried to leave the group.
I think it's arseholes like these that destroyed the credibility of Christianity in the minds of millions. They will all burn in hell anyway. Perhaps the cartel fellows and those 'death saint' junkies use this as a justification.
A WATCHMAN scans the roads for killers in the dead of night, peering out from a tower looming over a small, sleepy hillside town. It's not a scene from a film, but the daily life of Mormons fighting to keep their families from the bloody grip of drug cartels running riot in north Mexico.
This week the sickening massacre of nine Mormons - including six children - has shone a spotlight on a fragile community blighted by decades of tragedy.
In a "targeted" hit that has seen a rival of El Chapo arrested, three vehicles belonging to two families were ravaged with bullets on their way to a wedding in Sonora, where babies were left to burn alive and kids were shot in the back.
While police are yet to pin down the hitmens' exact motives, the grisly scene is just the latest chapter in a long, brutal feud between the two groups plagued by kidnappings and brutal executions.
Most remarkably, it has seen a tight knit, religious community turned into a high security fortress where guards barricade roads like anti-terror units, illegal firearms are smuggled in and ordinary civilians man watchtowers on a seven-day rota round the clock.
KIDNAPPINGS AND $1MILLION RANSOMS
The LeBarons - a polygamous community where men take multiple wives - were first caught in the cartels' dangerous web in 2009.
The family's large houses and nice cars attracted the attention of organised criminal syndicates looking to fill their coffers.
It was here that on May 2 16-year-old Eric LeBaron was seized by five armed men as he worked on the family's Sierra Madre ranch.
His younger brother was sent to tell his father, Joel, of the news.
The shameless kidnappers Wat ? called three times to ask for $1million dollars in ransom - refusing to negotiate.
"If you give them a cookie, they'll want a glass of milk. If we don't make a stand here, it's only a matter of time before it's my kid." - Craig LeBaron
Furious, the family debated hiring professional bounty hunters, before going over the heads of the local police force to petition in their hundreds the state's governor and attorney general.
The response was immediate.
Helicopters scoured the streets as police desperately searched for the missing teen. Roadblocks were set up to block off escape routes. Obviously the govt pathetically implored the Cartels to free the hostages, for gear of US reprisal.
And miraculously, within eight days, Eric was freed.
Yet while the clan celebrated victory, tragedy was just around the corner.
More about the Community's stand-off and the Mexican assault at The Sun. Including a 30 year old patsy they've 'caught'. I'm no fan of these false Christs and wolves playing shepherds, but this is no divine judgement. Or is it ? Brrr...
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When the Church of the Latter Day Saints banned polygamy in the late 19th century, hoards of Mormons - who traditionally take multiple wives - fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution.
As did a number of former southern slavers post-1865 to include Brazil as a destination that retained the practice.
[Fox] Police officers in Chile’s capital were set on fire after demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails in their direction. Unrest in Chile began 19 days ago over a hike to subway fares and has grown into a massive movement demanding broad changes.
Two female police officers trying to drive off protesters in Chile’s capital were set on fire after demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails in direction of the officers.
Chile has been facing weeks of unrest, triggered by an increase in subway fares. The protests have shaken a nation noted for economic stability over the past decades, which has seen steadily declining poverty despite persistent high rates of inequality.
Jorge Silva, the Reuters chief photographer in South East Asia who is in Chile covering the protests, said he was standing close to the Baquedano metro station when he saw a flare out of the corner of his eye.
The incident sparked an immediate response from police, Henry Romero, another Reuters reporter, said.
“From that moment things intensified, the police began to use a lot of gas and rubber bullets, the noise of the repeated fire was loud,” he said.
Chileans have poured into the streets demanding better salaries and pensions, and a more equal distribution of wealth. A gathering in Santiago on Tuesday drew just 2,000 to 2,500 people, according to an estimate by Felipe Guevara, mayor of the Santiago metropolitan region.
Bastian Marín, 29 and a business executive, attributed the smaller protest to the fact that people have to work.
"It's hard to have the same number of people every day," he said, adding that a march planned for Friday is expected to be much larger.
The unrest began 19 days ago over a hike to subway fares, but it has grown into a massive movement demanding a broad range of changes. Chile's center-right government has responded with a host of proposed social improvements, which must still be approved by Congress.
[DAWN] The alleged rapist-cum-killer of four children of Chunian confessed to his crimes on Wednesday before a judicial magistrate, deputy prosecutor general Abdul Rauf Watoo said.
Sohail Shahzad, the prime suspect in the case, has been in police custody for more than a month. During the investigation, the suspect confessed to murdering four minor boys, the public prosecutor said.
He added that following his confession, the suspect ‐ after approval from the trial court ‐ was presented before a magistrate to record his statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
Four children ‐ aged between eight and 12 years ‐ had gone missing since June this year with the latest, eight-year-old Faizan, disappearing on the night of September 16.
The remains of three of them were found on September 17 from sand dunes near Chunian bypass, sending shock waves among the area residents who held protests to express concern over the continued lawlessness and failure of police to protect the Chunianlives of people.
Suspect Shahzad, a resident of Chunian, was arrested on October 1 after his DNA matched with samples recovered from the remains of a victim. Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Usman Buzdar had announced his arrest at a detailed presser. Next day, the 27-year-old suspect was produced before an anti-terrorism court in Lahore. He was remanded in police custody for 15 days and later his remand was extended twice.
[One Zero] Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.
That weapon is a vast database, packed with millions of images of faces, irises, fingerprints, and DNA data ‐ a biometric dragnet of anyone who has come in contact with the U.S. military abroad. The 7.4 million identities in the database range from suspected terrorists in active military zones to allied soldiers training with U.S. forces.
"Denying our adversaries anonymity allows us to focus our lethality. It’s like ripping the camouflage netting off the enemy ammunition dump," wrote Glenn Krizay, director of the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency, in notes obtained by OneZero. The Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency (DFBA) is tasked with overseeing the database, known officially as the Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS).
DFBA and its ABIS database have received little scrutiny or press given the central role they play in U.S. military’s intelligence operations. But a newly obtained presentation and notes written by the DFBA’s director, Krizay, reveals how the organization functions and how biometric identification has been used to identify non-U.S. citizens on the battlefield thousands of times in the first half of 2019 alone. ABIS also allows military branches to flag individuals of interest, putting them on a so-called "Biometrically Enabled Watch List" (BEWL). Once flagged, these individuals can be identified through surveillance systems on battlefields, near borders around the world, and on military bases.
His "Mom" Fertilized Egg Carrier™ shouldn't be allowed to practice medicine on children. She's deranged [PJMedia] A Texas boy whose mother claims he is a girl has attended school dressed as a boy. This supports the boy's father's claim that his son is not truly transgender and so should not be pumped with experimental drugs that may cause his chemical castration.
Last month, a Texas jury awarded custody of the 7-year-old boy James Younger to his legal mother, Dr. Anne Georgulas. Georgulas claims her son identifies as a girl and she wants to put him on experimental drugs. A judge later ruled that Jeffrey Younger, the boy's father and Georgulas' ex-husband, should have a say in his son's medical treatment. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have weighed in on the case, which has raised the nationwide issue of experimental transgender treatments.
Friends of the father shared images of James and his brother Jude dressed as the boys they are and heading to school.
"Jeff emailed the principal today and James and Jude's teachers had reported that there was zero stress or disruptions in the classroom today. Just another day in school. Prayers answered," the group Save James posted on Facebook with a prayer emoji.
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I think the kid has figured out how to work this.
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Mom needs to be put away in a mental hospital. Physician, heal thyself.
Or at least pay a specialist in Munchausen Syndrome to treat you. Now the Exec. Director of the American College of Pediatricians has weighed in:
Dr. Michelle Cretella, a pediatrician and executive director at the American College of Pediatricians, told PJ Media last year that Georgulas may be suffering from a mental disorder. "This case is consistent with a diagnosis of Munchausen by proxy," she said.
"This is a disorder in which an adult feigns either a physical or psychological condition in a child for their own subconscious reasons," the pediatrician explained. "Most often the perpetrator is the biological mother and she often has a background in health or medicine."
"In the case of imposing gender dysphoria on a son, there are cases in the scientific literature of severe maternal depression triggered in a mother longing for a daughter," Cretella added. "The mother's depression lifts when the boy dresses and acts as a girl. This has been termed 'gender mourning.'"
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.
[France24] Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users critical of the Saudi royal family, the US Justice Department announced.
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[Hawaii Public Radio] The City and County of Honolulu is the second county to announce plans to sue fossil fuel companies for what officials say is damage caused by climate change and rising sea levels traced back to corporate action or inaction.
[Dhaka Tribune] Detective branch (DB) of Police has filed charge sheet against sole accused Harun-ur Rashid in Wari’s Samia Afrin Saima murder case.
[DAWN] The alleged rapist-cum-killer of four children of Chunian confessed to his crimes on Wednesday before a judicial magistrate, deputy prosecutor general Abdul Rauf Watoo said.
[One Zero] Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.
[PJMedia] A Texas boy whose mother claims he is a girl has attended school dressed as a boy. This supports the boy's father's claim that his son is not truly transgender and so should not be pumped with experimental drugs that may cause his chemical castration.
