[PJMedia] On Thursday, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and its founder, David Daleiden, sued Planned Parenthood for defamation in federal court. Daleiden and CMP released a string of sting videos exposing Planned Parenthood employees’ shameful and illegal trafficking in aborted baby body parts in 2015. Even though the videos were accurate, Planned Parenthood claimed that they were doctored and false. Government officials even targeted Daleiden for prosecution. Yet some of Planned Parenthood’s business partners confessed to illegally selling body parts and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the undercover footage was accurate.
"Planned Parenthood admits my videos are true when under oath in federal court, but when speaking to the public, Planned Parenthood lies and calls the videos fake," Daleiden said in a statement. "I have put my life on hold for five years to report, with video evidence, the trafficking of aborted infants that I and others witnessed at the highest levels of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. It is time for Planned Parenthood to face the truth."
"Planned Parenthood has tremendous power and influence in our society. But even it must adhere to legal norms. We filed this lawsuit to hold PPFA accountable for damaging falsehoods it uttered concerning our clients’ groundbreaking journalism that exposed shocking practices it would rather keep hidden — for good reason," Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer representing Daleiden and CMP in the suit, said in a statement. "Planned Parenthood is not above the law. We look forward to the merits litigation of this lawsuit."
"Instead of coming clean about its ruthless pursuit of profit from selling the remains of aborted children, Planned Parenthood tried to smear David Daleiden, the man who blew the whistle on its dirty secret," Peter Breen, vice president and senior counsel for the Thomas More Society and another of Daleiden’s lawyers, added. "In its earlier lawsuit against David and the Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood fought to avoid scrutiny of its illegal fetal tissue trafficking. This new lawsuit puts Planned Parenthood’s grisly business practices front and center, to prove the truth of the conclusions of David’s investigation, which were also confirmed and echoed by the United States Congress and other government officials." More at the link.
[Breitbart] Unmanned Aircraft System flights carried out by U.S. Customs and Border Protection led to multiple arrests along the Texas-Mexico border last week.
CBP Air and Marine Operations team conducted multiple Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) flights in the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector last week. The flights led to the disruption of multiple human smuggling attempts and the arrests of 26 people, according to information obtained from Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials.
During the past week, AMO crews carried out at least five separate UAS flights to identify illegal border crossings and alert Border Patrol agents of crimes underway. The flights allowed Border Patrol agents to quickly respond to incidents they might have otherwise been unaware of.
The flights led to the arrests of 26 people in five separate incidents. Officials report the arrest of eight illegal aliens near Comstock, ten near Del Rio, seven near Eagle Pass, and four near Carrizo Springs — all in South Texas.
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How many arrestees have COVID? BIG problem along the TX border the past few months.
[Arutz 7] - Former Harvard Law School professor and prominent American jurist Alan Dershowitz has filed a defamation lawsuit against Prof. Yoram Lass, a former senior Israeli health official-turned radio personality.
Dershowitz filed the lawsuit against Prof. Lass Thursday, demanding a sum of one million dollars in damages, over comments Lass made on his radio program recently.
Prof. Lass, a former Labor MK who served as the Director-General of the Israeli Health Ministry, gained national attention this year over his sharp criticism of the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the government had exaggerated the danger of the virus and was causing excessive damage with its lockdown policies and other restrictions.
And read the new Longmire book.
[craigallenjohnson.com] NEXT TO LAST STAND One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.
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Love the Longmire books
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The TV show really wasn't half bad. I wish they'd make a movie so Vic could really demonstrate her vocabulary.
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If Heaven is really whatever you want it to be, I'll be looking forward to the eternal B5 and Longmire reboots.
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I don't know, Murcek. B5 got kinda ... odd in that last season.
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[ZeroHedge] A new bombshell came out of the seventh day of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition hearing in London: President Trump was "aware of and had approved of" a controversial plan that would offer Assange full pardon in exchange for revealing the source of the famous DNC leaks, according to his legal team on Friday.
This contradicts prior claims of then US Congressman Dana Rochbacher who controversially met with Assange in 2017 to discuss the issue of his pardon. It also puts in doubt longtime Democratic claims that the hack was the work of Russian intelligence, and not a Democratic National Committee insider with access to the emails, as many believe.
Defense witness @suigenerisjen #AssangeCase: 'Rohrabacher proposed a 'win-win' situation, Assange can get 'get on with his life' - a pardon in exchange for information about the source' 'Information from Mr Assange about the source of the DNC leaks would be of value to Mr Trump'. pic.twitter.com/6yjSow50XU
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) September 18, 2020
UK journalist Mohamed Elmaazi was present during Friday proceedings and detailed the following:
US President Donald Trump was "aware of and had approved of" US Congressman Dana Rochbacher and Mr Charles Johnson meeting with Julian Assange in order to secure the source of the DNC Leaks, in exchange for some form of "pardon, assurance or agreement" which would "both benefit President Trump politically" and prevent a US indictment against and extradition of Mr Assange, the Old Bailey heard on Friday.
WikiLeaks subsequently tweeted that this was indeed the hugely revelatory assertion presented in open court on behalf of barrister Jennifer Robinson, eyewitness to the alleged Aug.15, 2017 meeting while Assange was still confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy.
"Rohrabacher explained that he wanted to resolve the ongoing speculation about Russian involvement in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) leaks to WikiLeaks," Robinson said.
"He said that he regarded the ongoing speculation as damaging to U.S.-Russian relations, that it was reviving old Cold War politics, and that it would be in the best interests of the U.S. if the matter could be resolved," she said.
However this wasn't the first time Assange's defense team has made the allegation, as Reuters recounts:
Assange’s legal team first said at hearings in February that Rohrabacher had conveyed a pardon offer to Assange. At the time, the White House called the assertion that Trump had tried to reach a deal with Assange "a complete fabrication and a total lie".
Rohrabacher also emphasized amid the controversy that he was acting on his own and was not sent on behalf of the White House, but merely offered to ask Trump for an Assange pardon.
"#JulianAssange's lawyer @suigenerisjen's statement was read to the court & it shows the political nature of this indictment saying how a representative of #Trump was sent to the Ecuadorian Embassy to offer #Assange a deal of a presidential pardon in exchange for the DNC Source." pic.twitter.com/ujqWMk7VgS
— Don't Extradite Assange (@DEAcampaign) September 18, 2020
Assange's lawyers are offering it as proof to the court that fundamentally the American extradition request is political in nature and not a matter of violating US laws.
If true, Assange obviously didn't go for it, likely in line with the firmly established WikiLeaks policy of never revealing any source no matter the level of pressure the leaks organization comes under.
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The last four years have seen the definition of "bombshell" re-written as "Made up sh*t only a true believe gives any credence to at all, and which newspaper 'editors' swallow whole with unabated gusto."
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Newspeak lexicon, for the uninitiated:
bombshell = bullshit racist = race-neutral "the walls are closing in" = our bullshit's been exposed & our coup attempts have collapsed mostly peaceful = violent violence = passivity conspiracy theory = an actual conspiracy, news about which we aim to suppress and conceal from the American public
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At the worst case I can envision Trump musing to an aide "I wonder if we could get that guy Assange to...". Is this a Plan, no it is the type of whimsical thought that we all have when considering a problem.
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The only person that anyone claims contacted anyone in Britain or anyone talking to Assange
about his source was Rohrabacker. R. admits making such contact but has claimed that Trump had not approved that contact. The most that Robinson or anyone can claim about this is that Rohrabacker said that Trump had given approval.
If that is so it only proves that Rohrabacker has lied to someone, since he has said the opposite, This is not evidence of Trump's approval.
Nevertheless, suppose Trump actually did approve of this. Would that not prove that he either had no knowledge of Assange's source, or suspected the source was internal in the DNC? Support of R's effort would only imply that Trump wanted to find and make public Assange's source.
This would imply that Trump believed that the source had nothing to do with his campaign. Trump's curiousity about that source would be neither illegal nor immoral. In fact, I am curious about Assange's source and would like him to divulge some information about it. Was it internal to the DNC? Was it from some foreign power? Answers to such questions could be made without revealing the name of any source.
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[Al Ahram] An Egyptian economic appeals court upheld on Saturday a three-year jail term against TikTok influencer Manar Samy for "inciting immorality and debauchery."
The verdict comes a few months after an economic court sentenced Samy to three years in prison and an EGP 300,000 fine, as well as setting bail at EGP 20,000 to have the sentence suspended pending appeal.
Samy still has the option of filing a second appeal in front of the same court.
In July, Samy and another person were arrested with a weapon and drugs in their possession, according to authorities.
The arrest warrant against Manar was issued after a lawyer filed a case against her where he described her lip-syncing and dancing videos as "indecent" and aiming to "attract attention and earn money."
Samy, who has around 200,000 followers on the social media app, used to post videos dancing and singing in a manner many in the conservative country describe as a "suggestive" or "inappropriate."
Video-sharing platforms like TikTok have been gaining negative attention in Egypt in recent years, with content creators being condemned for making videos deemed too daring or audacious.
Several TikTok influencers have been tried over their content this year, as the country attempts to control content on the popular platform.
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[DW] Africa's armies are kitting out: The US and Europe, in particular, spend big to support countries on the continent in the war on terror. That has drawn corrupt arms dealers to the scene.
South African author and former ruling African National Congress MP Andrew Feinstein has been researching international arms deals in Africa for over two decades. He observes that the continent is increasingly becoming the hotspot for international arms trading.
"Where there are armed conflicts, triggered by terrorist groups such as Boko Haram, or civil wars such as in Sudan or South Sudan, the arms dealers are not far away," says Feinstein.
U.S. scrambled F-22 stealth fighter jets to intercept a pair of Russian supersonic Tu-160 “Blackjack” bombers flying with two Su-35 fighter escorts near Alaska last night: NORAD
[FreeBeacon] Walmart, Amazon and other corporate giants donated money to the reelection campaign of a Tennessee state lawmaker who had used social media to amplify and promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance records and the candidate’s posts.
The corporate support for a QAnon-promoting politician is another example of how the conspiracy theory has penetrated mainstream politics, spreading beyond its origins on internet message boards popular with right-wing extremists.
Dozens of QAnon-promoting candidates have run for federal or state offices during this election cycle. Collectively, they have raised millions of dollars from thousands of donors. Individually, however, most of them have run poorly financed campaigns with little or no corporate or party backing. Unlike state Rep. Susan Lynn, who chairs the Tennessee House finance committee, few are incumbents who can attract corporate PAC money.
Scrolling down to watsit.
QAnon centers on the baseless belief that President Donald Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the "deep state" and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals. Trump has praised QAnon supporters and often retweets accounts that promote the conspiracy theory.
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....baseless belief that President Donald Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the "deep state" and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles
Conspiracy theory is it? They're certainly "waging" a campaign against the Orange Man.
AP sez it's "baseless." Well, ok then I guess. Should we just move along now ?
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I like how the pea-brains in the media have defined QAnon as "a conspiracy theory." Yeah. And the world banking system is a wallet...
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More "conspiracy theories" per these lying shits:
Soros is trying to destroy law enforcement by spending absurd sums to elect hundreds of pro-criminal DAs around the country -- true
Top FBI officials falsified evidence, paid a Hilary operative who is a foreign agent to manufacture absurd lies, enlisted other foreign agents to spy on US persons, lied repeatedly in their affidavits to the FISA court in order to spy on other US persons, fed false stories to the media whose reports were then recycled and used as yet more bogus non-evidence of phony "collision," then supported a preposterous 3-year with hunt involving millions of dollars and hundreds of subpoenas that ended in a finding of zero collusion or conspiracy -- and then destroyed evidence of their own conspiracy -- all true...
If anyone ever asks what psychological projection means, direct them to these assholes' "collusion" and "conspiracy" charges. Literally everything they accuse Trump of, they've done themselves.
I just know that cannibalism always accompanies leftism.
[Daily Wire] A woman who had Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiate her wedding just weeks ago has been forced to make her Twitter account private after leftist trolls accused her of "killing" the late judicial powerhouse.
Barb Solish, of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, was reportedly a family friend of Ginsburg, who, despite suffering from late-stage pancreatic cancer, presided over her wedding to Danny Kazin, an associate with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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"Ginsburg was pictured without a mask on, People Magazine reports, in photos that the bride posted to Twitter in early September, but an official account of the wedding notes that both Solish and her then-fiance Kazin, had been tested for COVID-19 before the ceremony and both had tested “negative,” making it safe for the ailing Justice to attend their nuptials.
Those assurances weren’t enough for the Twitter crowd who, incensed by the Justice’s death just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, lashed out at Solish on Twitter, accusing her of “killing” Ruth Bader Ginsburg."
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The Supreme Court starts its new session on Monday, October 5. I wonder if that has anything to do with Friday's announcement of RBG's death. Can't exactly hide it when she doesn't show up for work. We're all assuming that she passed Friday, but there's no reason why it wasn't earlier this year. Hide it until the last possible minute to make replacing her more difficult. Maybe squeeze a couple more "RBG" opinions out. Anyway, I had wondered about the August photo op at the time. Now I'm wondering when that photo was actually taken.
The World Health Organization endorses a protocol for testing #African herbal medicines as potential treatments for the #coronavirus and other epidemics.https://t.co/7UYyfuVn3U
[ALMASDARNEWS] Three times Lebanese champion, Mohammed Atwi, succumbed of his injuries after he was hit by a bullet had gun sex during a funeral of a Beirut explosion victim last month.
The incident, which occurred on August 21st, required Atwi to undergo an emergency surgery which lasted for around five-hours.
Atwi had to be put into an artificial coma, but died despite his conditions stabilizing last Friday.
The 32-year-old Midfielder has won the Lebanese championship three times with Al Ansar FC, a club he stayed loyal to for more than ten years.
Atwi’s family demands a full investigation into his death after no arrests have been made.
Celebratory gunfire is a common tradition during funerals and weddings in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... .
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Why guns are an unalloyed good thing.
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Why do I feel my sorry ass would be a meterball star in Lebanon?
[OregonLive] The Oregon Department of Education issued a temporary ban on hate symbols — including the Confederate flag, swastikas and nooses — in public school classrooms in the state, officials said.
The rule, which took effect immediately, requires school districts to implement policies by Jan. 1 that prohibit the hate symbols, except as part of the teaching curriculum. Officials said that many districts already had similar plans in the works and that the state would likely present a permanent rule in the coming months.
"The Confederate flag is a symbol of treason, racism and white supremacy. It has no place in Oregon," Joe Bureaucrat said in a statement. "Don't get me wrong - we're OK with treason. It's the racism part we don't like. There's a place in Oregon for legitimate expressions of opinion, such as burning the American flag, marching down the street shouting 'Death to America', attacking United States government buildings, and throwing molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers. But a teenager putting the Confederate flag on his backpack just goes too far."
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Hammers & Sickles are a-O.K., though.
Free speech/expression going right down the toilet.
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The Confederates weren't traitors. They didn't advocate the overthrow of the Federal Government. That's why they weren't prosecuted.
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pretty sure we're into 1st amendment territory here
This is why the Dems and their SJW shock troops are trying to define speech as "violence." I.e. the Confederate flag, "MAGA," microaggressions etc are not "hate speech" but actual aggression : fighting words, unprotected by the 1A.
Utter bullshit but they might get away with it before friendly left wing judges
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It's OK, cause they're going to ban the American flag as well because it upsets 'some people'. (I'd put a sarc on that but its too close to call these days)
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from wikipedia : "The Oregon black exclusion laws were attempts to prevent black people from settling within the borders of the settlement and eventual U.S. state of Oregon. The first such law took effect in 1844, when the Provisional Government of Oregon voted to exclude black settlers from Oregon's borders. The law authorized a punishment for any black settler remaining in the territory to be whipped with "not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine stripes" for every six months they remained.[1] Additional laws aimed at African Americans entering Oregon were ratified in 1849 and 1857."
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Aren't they supposed to forefeit by default if you can't put an entire side on the pitch? That said, good - they deserved to get every goal in the face for such rank fear and stupidity.
[MAIL] Their mission was to sail from Malaysia, and dive down to place a 'pod' disguised as a rock beneath the surface. The pod would monitor electronic signals of Chinese naval ships operating in the area.
The crew would sail on to Japan, spend a few weeks there, then return to collect the device.
Their 40 foot boat was secretly owned by the CIA, yet the four had a cover story that they had been hired to transport the vessel from Malaysia for a client in Japan, and they had the paperwork and documentation to back up the story if questioned.
They also were using commercially-available scuba diving gear, rather than U.S. government-issued kit. The problem, however, came in the shape of Tropical Storm Higos.
The storm was forecast to take a sharp turn away from them, and so on September 28, 2008, Stanek - commanding the crew - made the fatal decision to go ahead with the mission.
Higos did not change course, however, and smacked straight into the little boat. The CIA had a beacon on the ship that tracked the boat right into the center of the storm until it disappeared.
[SFGate] The Columbia University Marching Band, which had run-ins with school administration over the years over situations like mocking its own team, has decided to voluntarily shut itself down over what it called a history "grounded in prejudiced culture and traditions."
WARNING: Vid Clip NSFA ("Anywhere"):
In a statement issued earlier this week, the band said a town hall had been held over the weekend in the wake of recent anonymous postings that made accusations "of sexual misconduct, assault, theft, racism, and injury to individuals and the Columbia community as a whole" over the years. In other news, Columbia University changes its dissertation writings from dissertation to death poem.
[DW] Sacrilege
Saturday should have marked the start of Oktoberfest celebrations, but events across Germany were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Iced tea? Was der Helle ist los?
OMG that hurt, Fred. Thank goodness the fainting couch was within reach.
In addition to a canceled celebration, Munich authorities even banned alcohol on the Theresienwiese – the ground where the main celebration is usually held – from 9 a.m. local time (0700 UTC/GMT) on Saturday. The ban was put in place to prevent "replacement parties" for the event, which draws around 6 million visitors annually.
Police sent officers on Saturday to break up spontaneous large parties on the Oktoberfest grounds. But police reported that the atmosphere had remained peaceful, with just a few people, some in traditional Oktoberfest dress, walking or having picnics in small groups.
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Proof that the Germans have lost their testicles, and are now completely neutered. Maybe its time for the Poles to get some payback and grab some territory.
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.
[Breitbart] Unmanned Aircraft System flights carried out by U.S. Customs and Border Protection led to multiple arrests along the Texas-Mexico border last week.
[Al Ahram] An Egyptian economic appeals court upheld on Saturday a three-year jail term against TikTok influencer Manar Samy for "inciting immorality and debauchery."
[DW] Africa's armies are kitting out: The US and Europe, in particular, spend big to support countries on the continent in the war on terror. That has drawn corrupt arms dealers to the scene.
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[MAIL] Their mission was to sail from Malaysia, and dive down to place a 'pod' disguised as a rock beneath the surface. The pod would monitor electronic signals of Chinese naval ships operating in the area.
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