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Texas AG Ken Paxton denies public access to El Paso mass shooting records

Lesley Engle
ABC-7
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:53 UTC
Texas AG Ken Paxton

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says only “basic” information must be released to the public about the Walmart mass shooting in El Paso.
If Texas residents want to know more details about the El Paso mass shooting that left 22 dead and more than two dozen wounded or injured four months ago, the state attorney general says tough luck.

While Texas law gives officials the discretion to release as much information as possible about crimes, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says only "basic" information must be released to the public about the mass shooting that happened at the Cielo Vista Walmart on Aug. 3 in El Paso.

A leading government transparency lawyer and advocate says based on the law, and without knowing all the specific documents requested, it appears the attorney general complied with the law on the release of documents, but also noting a continuing decline and usefulness in the Texas Public Information Act.

As part of an ongoing ABC-7 investigation, the station filed a number of public records requests with the El Paso Police Department under the Texas Public Information Act on behalf of our viewers. Those requested records included dispatch & radio logs, 911 phone records, police reports, body-camera video and dash-camera video.

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Comment: Real transparency might threaten the official 'lone gunman' narrative, so we're not surprised that release of detailed information is being prohibited. See:

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Propaganda

Trump supporters in full revolt against missteps and selective coverage by the media

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Trump South Lawn
© AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
President Trump on South Lawn of the White House
President Trump has broken the press in America. Or at least he has left it bruised and battered, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center, which crunched reams of data collected from 50 surveys and found that while Democrats continue to have faith in American media, Mr. Trump's followers are quite done with it all.

The findings were released just days after the press received its latest black eye in the inspector general's report looking at the FBI's behavior during its investigation into Mr. Trump. The inspector general thoroughly punctured journalists who insisted that the Christopher Steele dossier had little to do with the FBI's ability to obtain a secret warrant to spy on one of the candidate's advisers.

Fueled by those sorts of media missteps, Mr. Trump's followers are in full revolt against the press. According to Pew, the stronger the support for the president, the harsher the attitude toward the Fourth Estate. And the more knowledge about politics, the deeper the divide.

Comment: Verification of what we already know.
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George Washington University has a swastika problem

Kevin D. Williamson
National Review
Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:00 UTC
swastika painting
© LBCA
Painting at Bog-Art Gallery, Brussels
The Left discovers the value of fake hate crimes.

When tyranny arrives on these shores, it isn't going to start off looking like something out of George Orwell — it's going to look a lot like college, which is why the sort of people who twice made Barack Obama president of these United States will welcome it.

George Washington University ("the Harvard of safety schools," as alumnus Dan Foster calls it) has a swastika problem. This goes back a ways. In 2007, a Jewish student, Sarah Marshak, reported that her dorm-room door had been defaced with swastikas, and she complained that the university was doing too little to investigate. But the university was in fact investigating thoroughly — it had, ridiculously enough, gone as far as consulting the FBI — and its sneakily hidden surveillance cameras recorded the vandal in action.

No points for guessing that the malefactor was Sarah Marshak.
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Red Flag

Children's transgender clinic in UK hit by 35 resignations in three years as psychologists warn of gender dysphoria 'over-diagnoses'

Laura Donnelly
The Telegraph
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:07 UTC
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A transgender clinic has been hit by 35 resignations in three years, as psychologists warn of "overdiagnoses" of gender dysphoria among children.

The whistleblowers said too many children were being put on puberty-blocking drugs when they should not have been given the diagnosis.

Former staff said they were unable to properly assess patients over fears they will be branded "transphobic".

The concerns were raised by six psychologists who have resigned from London's children's gender-identity service in the past three years.
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Chinese national arrested for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago

Terry Spencer
NBC News
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:32 UTC
Jing Lu trespassing mar a lago
© NBC News
Jing Lu
Jing Lu, 56, was confronted by the private club's security officers and told to leave, but returned to take photos

A Chinese national was arrested for trespassing and refusing to leave President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club Wednesday, police said.

Jing Lu, 56, was confronted by the private club's security officers and told to leave, but she returned to take photos, Palm Beach police spokesman Michael Ogrodnick said in an email. Palm Beach officers were called and arrested her. It was determined she had an expired visa, Ogrodnick said.

Lu was charged with loitering and prowling and was being held late Wednesday at the Palm Beach County jail.
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Big surprise: Surveillance footage from Epstein's first 'suicide attempt' goes missing

Marlene Lenthang
Daily Mail
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:38 UTC
Nick Tartaglione

Nick Tartaglione
Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide attempt in jail has vanished, it was revealed Wednesday, as the mystery into the pedophile's death deepens.

In court on Wednesday prosecutors revealed that they could not locate the footage from outside Epstein's cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City when he attempted to take his own life on July 23.

'I don't know the details of how it was lost or destroyed or why it wasn't retained when it should have been,' lawyer Bruce Barket said in court.

In that attempt Epstein was found with neck injuries after he apparently tried to hang himself and was moved to suicide watch at the prison.

Two weeks later Epstein succeeded in killing himself in his cell on August 10.

However, authorities have no explanation as to how or why the footage from the July 23 attempt went missing. They said they simply could not find it, according to TMZ.

A judge told prosecutors to look further as to how the footage disappeared.

Epstein's cellmate at the time Nick Tartaglione, who was awaiting trial for four counts of murder, had formally requested that video be preserved two days after the suicide attempt as evidence.
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Bomb

Veiled woman with Koran claims to belong to Fetullah Terror Org., threatens to blow up plane at Istanbul airport


Sputnik
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:32 UTC
istanbul airport
© AFP 2019 / MIRA
A flight from Istanbul to Tymbou in northern Cyprus was reportedly cancelled over a terror scare prompted by one of the passengers. The woman, who wore sunglasses and covered her face with a veil, claimed to be a member of FETO - the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation, linked to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen by the Turkish government.

A woman claiming to be a terrorist and threatened to blow up an aircraft in Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport was surrounded and restrained by fellow passengers.

The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports that the woman, wearing a face veil and dark glasses, started shouting and waving a Koran before take-off, right when the plane, destined for Tymbou in northern Cyprus from Istanbul, was on the runway.

"I am a Feto member, and I will blow up the aircraft", she reportedly shouted in Turkish, referring to the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation, accused of orchestrating the 2016 coup attempt and linked to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen by the Turkish government.

Before security arrived and escorted her off the plane, she is said to have had a row with other travellers and lit cigarettes. Although she allegedly claimed that she had five bombs, nothing was found on board.

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Bizarro Earth

Transgender contractor sues Nike for civil rights abuses because employees refused her preferred pronouns

Nigel Jaquiss
Willamette Week
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:27 UTC
Jazz Lyles
© Justin Katigbak
Jazz Lyles worked at Nike from May 2017 to September 2018.
Jazz Lyles, a former computer engineer at Nike's Beaverton headquarters, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the sportswear giant.

The lawsuit, filed this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges Nike and Mainz Brady, an IT staffing firm based in San Mateo, Calif., exposed Lyles to gender identity-based discrimination and harassment and retaliation. (Mainz Brady didn't respond to a request for comment.)

Lyles identifies as transmasculine/nonbinary. That means Lyles was assigned the female gender at birth but identifies with masculinity and as a nonbinary person.

Comment: According to the Portland Business Journal, Lyles is seeking quite the payout:
Lyles seeks at least $195,000 in economic damages and at least $950,000 in noneconomic damages. Lyles, who now lives in California, also seeks attorneys fees.
The PBJ article is unsurprisingly a bit more balanced than the one posted above, however the WW article is instructive to witness first-hand just how darn confusing it is to use 'they' when only referencing a single person! Sentences have to be re-read just to understand what the heck is going on. This isn't about 'wounding' or civil rights abuses. It sounds more likely that Lyles was upset about not getting a fulltime job and indulged her unfettered narcissism and fantasy thinking to justify the feeling that she was wronged and thus deserves lots of money. That said, Nike sure has painted a target on itself by signaling how 'woke' they are. Progressives like to eat their own at every opportunity. Check out the uproar over JK Rowling supporting the simple statement that biological sex is real.

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Christmas Tree

Celebrating Christmas: Damascus joyously prepares for key Christian holiday


Spurnik
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:30 UTC
Christmas Damascus syria
© Sputnik / Mikhail Alayeddin
The celebration of Christmas in Syria
Christians make up about one tenth of Syria's total population, and are subdivided into over half-a-dozen denominations, part of the rich tapestry of Syrian society which only a few years ago was threatened by war and destruction.

The Syrian capital's preparations for the Christmas holiday, including the traditional lighting of a large festive tree at one of the city's central squares, has caught the attention of amateur reporters.
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Russian Flag

Russia's pioneering floating nuclear power plant begins delivering electricity to remote Arctic region


RT
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:25 UTC
Akademik Lomonosov
© Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
The world's first floating nuclear power plant (FNPP), the Akademik Lomonosov, began supplying electricity on Thursday to a remote town in the far eastern region of Chukotka, Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom has announced.

The power plant's generators were launched after being synchronized with the connected electric grid on shore.

For the residents of the small city of Pevek, this was a symbolic event, as it was tied to the lighting of the town's Christmas tree ahead of New Years' celebrations, according to Rosatom.
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