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Best of the Web: Contraland: New documentary exposes enormous scale of child sex-trafficking in the USA

Valerie Cavazos
kgun9.com
Fri, 08 May 2020 01:36 UTC
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A Tucson-based documentary on child sex trafficking is now released. "Contraland" is available online for free.

KGUN9 has been covering the making of the documentary for a few years now.

It's the brainchild of Craig "Sawman" Sawyer — a former member of the elite Navy SEAL team 6.

Sawyer worked in tandem with law enforcement agencies in sex sting operations, which led to 22 arrests.

"Bringing in various experts and running the operations - showing the viewers just how readily these child traffickers will come for an ad offering a child for sex. It's scary how many will come and how quickly. We show them the reality of it," he said.

Sawyer says he's only scratched the surface and plans to make more documentaries. He says he's able to offer the documentary at no charge because of donations to his non-profit organization, Vets for Child Rescue, and sponsors of the documentary.


Documentary website: Contraland

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Best of the Web: "Nazi-like measures" - Kansas City orders churches to turn over membership lists 'because Covid-19'

Todd Starnes
toddstarnes.com
Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas
Mayor Quinton Lucas
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, a Democrat, has ordered pastors to turn over the names, address and phone numbers of anyone who enters church houses.

(This is something I predicted would happen in my new book, "Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation." Click here for that book.)

"Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined Nazi-like measures designed to surveil, track and spy upon what was once a FREE American people," Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said. "Yet that is exactly what Kansas City's misguided government officials are now demanding."

Liberty Counsel, a law firm that handles religious liberty cases, tells the Todd Starnes Radio Show that they are representing several churches that allege their constitutional rights are being violated.

Comment: Several weeks into the lockdown (and the amount of good information that is available on the virus) and we are still gobsmacked at the high levels of ignorance, authoritarianism, irrationality and downright pathology on display by so many Mayors and Governors around the the US. Add in a complicit media and a cowed, fearful and hystericized portion of society into the mix - and you've got an extraordinary amount of crazy-making being inflicted upon millions of Americans who are reasonably questioning why their lives are being totally upended. These conditions do not bode well for the overall health of the country, and appear to be worsening by the day. Take heed.

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Best of the Web: German media watchdog rejects Browder's complaint against Der Spiegel over Magnitsky story report


RT
Mon, 11 May 2020 21:16 UTC
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© Reuters / Henry NichollsA US-born British investor, Bill Browder.
Says his own narrative lacks proof

Bill Browder's complaint against Der Spiegel for questioning the story he used to push for anti-Russian sanctions has backfired, with Germany's Press Council concluding his own position is far from being an "indisputable fact."

"We cannot agree with your analysis, in which you criticize the allegations made by the author," the German Press Council - a monitoring organization formed by major German publishers and journalistic associations - said in its response to Browder's team, as it rejected the complaint against one of Germany's major news media outlets.

The papers detailing the council's decision were published on Twitter by Der Spiegel reporter Benjamin Bidder, who authored an investigative bombshell picking apart Browder's story about his auditor Sergey Magnitsky's death back in November 2019.

Comment: Slimy vulture capitalist Browder has been exposed multiple times, but the stories aren't allowed to gain traction in the MSM. Browder is a washed-up, mid-tier financial bandit who managed to get himself cast as a humanitarian crusader. Having played his part in inflicting economic damage on Russia, is he now being hung out to dry?

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Flashback Best of the Web: How Dr Judy Mikovits' research into chronic fatigue syndrome turned into an ugly fight

Casey Schwartz
Daily Beast
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:45 UTC
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Comment: This article was originally published in 2012 and, as stated on the site, was updated in 2017. Without access to the original article it's difficult to say what has been changed (a note at the end only says an original reference to placing a sample in an ice chest was changed to an incubator). Note that there are discrepancies between this article and the story as Mikovits tells it. See her new book Plague of Corruption for more details.

In the meantime, the media is dragging Mikovits through the mud because of scientific debunking of Covid-19 and exposing the mad scientists' plan to vaccinate us all with 'gene-editing' RNA vaccines...


On Nov. 9, 2011, Judy Mikovits, a well-known chronic fatigue syndrome researcher at the center of one of the strangest scientific dramas in recent memory, found herself devising the following plan.

She would have to escape by boat.

There was a man in a car in front of her house in Oxnard, Calif., waiting to serve her with a temporary restraining order demanding the return of stolen property to the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nev., from which she recently had been fired.

Comment: Again, from RFK Jr. in the introduction to Plague of Corruption:
While she was in jail, Judy's former boss told her husband and Dr. Ruscetti that if she just signed an apology admitting her paper was wrong, the police would release her from confinement and she could salvage her science career. Judy refused. No prosecutor has ever filed charges against her, but the pharmaceutical cartel and its captive scientific journals launched a campaign of vilification against her. Less than two years earlier, the journal Science had celebrated her. Now, the same journal published her mug shot and retracted her paper.
Although it's hearsay, it's still quite telling that Mitkovits' boss would say this. Since when, in the United States, is someone held hostage in jail until they retract a scientific paper? Does this sound like the land of the free, a country that prides itself on its freedom of speech?


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Best of the Web: Fog around Covid-19 made thicker by new Ontario rules for handling deaths

Rosemary Frei
Global Research
Mon, 11 May 2020 08:44 UTC
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Alarming COVID-19 death statistics from seniors' facilities continue to be in the spotlight in Ontario and elsewhere. However, all is not as it seems in the mainstream media reports of those statistics.

Procedures that came into effect in Ontario one month ago for dealing with deaths in long-term care homes (LTCHs) and hospitals are contributing to exaggeration of the numbers of COVID-19 deaths — and preventing the true causes of many of those deaths from ever being uncovered.

This makes it an opportune time to cast an objective eye on procedures that came into effect in Ontario one month ago for dealing with deaths in LTCHs and hospitals. They differ drastically from both Ontario's previous regulations and other jurisdictions' procedures.
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Best of the Web: "We need an army of contact tracers" - Meet the enforcement arm of the 'new normal'

Derrick Broze
The Last American Vagabond
Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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As the people of the world grapple with a pandemic that is demonstrably less deadly than originally reported, the public is being primed to accept an exponential increase in invasions of personal liberty and privacy. Every day the public grows more weary of lock downs which seem to never end, and the bankrupting of individuals and businesses around the world. Amidst the frustration and protest a solution is being presented.

To return to normal, we are told, we must accept certain changes to how our world operates. Of course, this is actually a push to a "new normal" which will mark the world after COVID-19. Just like the attacks of September 11, 2001, there is the world we knew before, and there is the post-9/11 era. We are currently in the middle of the COVID-19 era and a shift to post-COVID19 life will not happen without the completion of local, state, national, and international programs which identify potential infectees, test them, and, if positive, quarantine them in their homes or other government facilities.

This is what is known as a contact tracing program. You have likely heard the term in recent days and weeks because a number of local and state bodies within the United States are considering or already launching contact tracing programs. Nations like China, Singapore, India, South Korea, and Israel have implemented these programs but have also faced criticism from digital rights advocates for violations of privacy protections.

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Best of the Web: Obama, Biden Oval Office meeting on January 5, 2017 was key to entire anti-Trump 'Russiagate' operation

Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist
Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Susan Rice's bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed.

Information released in the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the case it brought against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn confirms the significance of a January 5, 2017, meeting at the Obama White House. It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration's utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration.

"President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia," National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in an unusual email to herself about the meeting that was also attended by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden.

A clearer picture is emerging of the drastic steps that were taken to accomplish Obama's goal in the following weeks and months. Shortly thereafter, high-level operatives began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump. At each major point in the operation, explosive media leaks were a key strategy in the operation to take down Trump.
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Best of the Web: Why the double standard with Hungary?

John Fonte
American Greatness
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
Viktor Orbán
Hungarian President Viktor Orbán
What matters to transnational progressives is not "government by the consent of the governed," but the elite consensus developed and refined in unelected judicial-administrative bureaucracies.

In reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, all European democracies have instituted large-scale emergency measures. But one nation in particular, Hungary, has been subjected to an unprecedented barrage of international criticism for its response to the crisis.

The Hungarians are charged with moving towards "dictatorship," bypassing the rule of law, suspending the parliament, and canceling elections. These accusations are false on all counts.
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Best of the Web: The well-known hazards of coronavirus vaccines

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Sun, 10 May 2020 00:01 UTC
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,1 son of Sen. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, both of whom were tragically murdered, has continued in the footsteps of these famously courageous men by standing up for the truth.

He co-founded Waterkeeper Alliance — the world's largest clean water advocacy group — and provides legal counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which help protect organic producers. He has also fought legal battles on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, founded by Del Bigtree, and chairs the board of directors of the Children's Health Defense.2

Kennedy wrote a brilliant foreword to Judy Mikovits' book "Plague of Corruption," in which he quotes his father saying, "Moral courage is the rarest species of bravery ... rarer than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence." His father believed "moral courage was one of the most vital qualities required to change the world," Kennedy says.

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Best of the Web: Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption: Locking up the population until coronavirus is defeated is a cruel mockery of basic human values

Jonathan Sumption
Daily Mail
Sun, 03 May 2020 13:46 UTC
Leeds
Deserted Leeds city centre
COVID-19 is not the greatest crisis in our history. It is not even the greatest public health crisis in our history. But the lockdown is without doubt the greatest interference with personal liberty in our history.

It is normal at this point to add 'in peacetime'. But we can forget that. Even in wartime, we never confined the entire population to their homes, 24/7, if they did not have some excuse acceptable to a Minister.

States have always tried to confine people known to be carrying dangerous infections. But we live in a new world in which, if we are ill, the State will try to cure us. From this, it is said to follow that the State can take control of our lives against our will even if we are healthy, lest we fall ill and need its services too much.

Suddenly, it is our duty to save the NHS, not the other way round.

It is now pointless to object to the imposition of the lockdown in the first place. It has happened. The question is how we get out of it.

It is a pity that the Government did not ask itself that question when, in the blind panic following the delivery of Imperial College London's Professor Neil Ferguson's statistical projections, it legislated the lockdown on the hoof in a late-night press conference.

They now find themselves trapped by their own decisions.

Comment: See also: Ethics and Fundamental Values in Times of Corona

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