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PayPal bans InfoWars for 'promoting hate and intolerance'

Alex Jones
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Alex Jones, founder of Infowars
Payment processing service PayPal has banned Alex Jones's InfoWars, saying that the site "promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance" and thus violated their use policy.

InfoWars itself broke the news on Friday, saying that PayPal sent them an email the day before informing Jones of the decision. PayPal was used to process purchases at InfoWars' on-site store.

According to InfoWars, PayPal had conducted a comprehensive review of their website and found it "promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions."

The service offered no specific examples. InfoWars says the two examples they were given off the record were their criticism of Islam and opposition to transgenderism being taught in schools. PayPal's definition of hate is "is so vague that virtually anything could qualify," InfoWars said.

Mr. Potato

Oops! Michael Cohen praises his own 'integrity & veracity' during Mueller probe in 'accidental' tweet

Michael Sohen
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
In a bizarre blunder, Michael Cohen has praised own patriotism and trumpeted the crucial role he plays in the notorious Mueller investigation, in a tweet that was allegedly meant to be sent from his lawyer's account.

Just hours after it was reported that Cohen valiantly and voluntarily sat through hours and hours of interviews with Mueller's team in recent weeks, the hero took to Twitter personally to emphasize his own role in the spectacle. The tweet, however was abruptly deleted less than a minute later - only to reappear again, this time from the account of his lawyer Lanny Davis.

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Chess

Fmr Scalia clerk expects 'compelling evidence' to exonerate Kavanaugh and have him confirmed by next week

kavanaugh
Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be exonerated of wrongdoing and will be confirmed to his post on the US Supreme Court, according to Ed Whelan - a former clerk to USSC Justice Antonin Scalia and current president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank.

Amid a series of cryptic and not-so-cryptic tweets in the last 48 hours, Whelan says: "By one week from today, I expect that Judge Kavanaugh will have been clearly vindicated on this matter. Specifically, I expect that compelling evidence will show his categorical denial to be truthful. There will be no cloud over him."

Wahlen then followed up with a series of tweets suggesting that the accusation may have even been made in good-faith.

"It's precisely b/c sexual assault is so terrible that it is deeply unjust when someone is mistakenly (even good-faith mistakenly) accused of having committed it," he said. "Everyone should rejoice when the mistake is found."

As Law and Crime notes:
Is Whelan implying that Christine Ford has mistaken Kavanaugh for someone else ? Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) recently suggested, to the dismay of some, that this might be the case when he said Ford might be "mixed up."

Whelan did link to a Yahoo story saying this may be a case of "mistaken identity."
Whelan also says that Senator Feinstein "will soon be apologizing to Judge Kavanaugh."

Light Saber

Project Veritas Deep State expose Part 3: US GAO auditor admits "I break rules every day"

Project Veritas Deep State
© Screen shot Project Veritas
Project Veritas has released the next in a series of undercover reports which unmask the Deep State. This report features a Government Accountability Office (GAO) employee and self-proclaimed Communist actively engaged in potentially illegal political activity. Natarajan Subramanian is a government auditor for the GAO and a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (Metro DC DSA).

Metro DC DSA is a socialist group that works to advance progressive issues in the Metropolitan DC area. Subramanian's political activism may directly violate federal statutes as well as the "Yellow Book" rules which apply specifically to government auditors.

Subramanian says that Federal employees in executive branch agencies can deliberately work less efficiently in order to slow down the implementation of the President's agenda:
"If you're in [an] executive branch agency you can slow ball things to a degree, that it's like ineffective, and maybe you get in trouble, or maybe you get fired or resign or whatever, but you slowed [Trump's agenda] down for a certain period of time."

Eye 1

Google admits it lets hundreds of third party apps read your emails

gmail
© Valentin Wolf / Global Look Press
Omnipresent tech giant Google told US senators that it lets third-party apps read data from Gmail accounts and share this information with marketers, even though Google itself allegedly stopped this practice last year.

In a letter sent to the lawmakers in July and made public on Thursday, Google said that developers may share your data with third parties for the purposes of ad-targeting, "so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using the data."

In practice, this means that any app that shares your private data with advertisers must disclose this fact in their privacy policy. This is seen first in a pop-up box that includes a note that the app wants permission to "read, send, delete and manage your email." However, information about the marketers this data is shared with can often be more difficult to find.

Google's letter came in response to a request by Republican senators for information about the scope of the email content accessible to these third parties. In their letter to the company, the senators claim that one marketing company, Return Path Inc, read the private contents of 8,000 emails to train its AI algorithms.

Comment: Make no mistake, the biggest beneficiary of Google's "charitable" ways sharing your private correspondence is the US government.


USA

Ukraine brags its airborne troops captured US HQ during exercise in Germany

NATO Ukrainian troops
© Ukrainian General Staff
A Ukrainian airborne troops company have blindsided NATO troops during a joint military exercise, capturing an American HQ and a team of Italian commandos, its general staff bragged on Facebook.

Ukraine is one of 20 nations taking part in the annual Saber Junction exercise in Germany's Bavaria. On Wednesday evening, US and Italian C-130s airdropped some 1,000 paratroopers from the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team and allied forces behind 'enemy's lines', according to Stars and Stripes. They then launched a nighttime attack.

But early on Friday morning the tide apparently turned for the paratroopers. According to the Ukrainian general staff, the 173rd lost its field HQ to a surprise attack by the Ukrainians, who 'took out' 32 people while 'losing' two of their own.

Comment: If NATO troops got captured by Ukrainian troops, then how do they think they can survive a hot war with the Russians?


Jet5

UK boasts of securing its skies from 'aggression'... by peeking at Russian bombers in int'l airspace

Russian Tu-160 bomber
© UK Ministry of Defence
The Royal Air Force has fearlessly thwarted yet another act of 'Russian aggression' in the British domain, by escorting a couple of Tu-160 bombers flying through international airspace and miles away from UK borders.

Two Russian Tu-160 (NATO reporting name Blackjack) supersonic strategic bombers flew through international airspace over the North Sea on Thursday. "The flight lasted over 14 hours. During the flight, the crews of the strategic Tu-160 bombers performed aerial refueling," the Russian Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

The planes never violated the airspace of other countries, the Russian military stressed, and were sticking to all the rules of international airspace usage. The ministry said the bombers were "escorted" by British fighters "at some points" of their route.

Yet the encounter, which is quite routine during military training flights, was praised in the UK as another decisive victory against "Russian aggression." While the Tu-160 planes did not even get close to British airspace, the Royal Air Force (RAF) and UK's Ministry of Defence trumpeted hard about their resounding success.

Comment: If flying in international airspace is considered 'aggressive', then what does that make the increased NATO military presence along Russia's borders?


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Reasonable question: Trump asks 'If alleged 'attack' was that bad, why didn't someone call the FBI 36 years ago?'

Trump Kavanaugh
© Leah Millis / Reuters
President Trump attacked the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in a tweet wondering if the alleged 'attack' was so bad, why did she wait so long to come forward?


Christine Blasey Ford has accused Kavanaugh of forcing himself on her at a high school party in the early 1980s. She does not remember where exactly the alleged assault took place, who was there, or what year it was.

Comment: See also:


Wine n Glass

Party girl: Why Kavanaugh accuser's high school yearbooks were scrubbed from the internet

Blasey Ford HS drinking
On Monday Sept. 17th, Christine Blasey Ford's high school yearbooks suddenly disappeared from the web. I read them days before, knew they would be scrubbed, and saved them. Why did I know they would be scrubbed? Because if roles were reversed, and Christine Blasey Ford had been nominated for the Supreme Court by President Trump, the headline by the resistance would be this:

CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD AND THE DRUNKEN WHITE PRIVILEGED RACIST PLAYGIRLS OF HOLTON-ARMS.

And it would be an accurate headline. That's why the yearbooks have been scrubbed. They are a testament to the incredible power these girls had over their teachers, parents and the boys of Georgetown Prep, Landon and other schools in the area. In the pages below, you will see multiple photos and references to binge drinking and the accompanying joy of not being able to remember any of it.

These yearbooks are, therefore, relevant to the national investigation now being conducted in the media, in homes, and in the halls of Congress. And they should not have been scrubbed. If Brett Kavanaugh's yearbooks are fair game, so are these.

And you will wonder while reading them, why the hell did the faculty approve of these yearbooks? Why did the parents take out paid ads in these yearbooks? Animal House had nothing on the infamous "Holton party scene".

The resistance media has been singularly focused on Brett Kavanaugh's high school yearbooks, which imply that he got drunk and threw up. There's no need to imply anything from the Holton-Arms yearbooks. It's all there in focus, and the written word too. All of the sordid details as approved for publication by a "look the other way" faculty. And now it's available for historical/evidentiary review.

Comment: Rather takes the starch out of her argument that she was an innocent victim of a predatory abuser. See also:


Chess

More thoughts on Putin, Israel and the downed Il-20

Russian IL-20 plane

The Russian IL-20 electronic reconnaissance aircraft
Yesterday (Sept 19th), I tried to post a short commentary suggesting that before we jump to conclusions about anything, we ought to wait for the fact to come out. But to no avail. The chorus of "Putin is a doormat!!", "bomb Israel!!" and similar inanities is carrying on, louder than ever. Reading that crazy nonsense, I wanted to toss in a slogan, something like "Jew-haters and Putin-haters - unite!". But then I realized that it would be futile because they have already united...

My friend Andrei Martyanov has tried to bring some logic and sanity into this pandemonium which I posted here (in spite of not normally doing reposts). Well, at the risk of being called a "gatekeeper" or a "cryto-Zionist", I have decided to also try once more to bring this discussion into the realm of sanity, facts and logic.

First, let me start by a very simple and primitive question:

Why in the world has nobody considered that the Israelis might have truly screwed-up?

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