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Actor jailed for resisting arrest during Moscow protest released on parole as sentence appealed

RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:52 UTC

Pavel Ustinov, an actor who was jailed for assaulting a policeman during a protest in Moscow, has been released on parole. His sentence, which he appealed, was slated as miscarriage of justice by many in Russia.

A Moscow city court on Tuesday ruled that Ustinov, 23, should be released from pre-trial detention on the condition that he does not leave the city until his appeal has been heard. The decision was taken at the request of the prosecution and supported by his defense team. The appeal itself will be deliberated on further by the court next week.

The young man was previously sentenced to three years and six months in jail for injuring an arresting police officer during an unsanctioned protest rally in early August. The ruling triggered a public outcry in Russia and some other nations, with many public figures calling it unjust. The court failed to review footage of Ustinov's arrest, which his numerous supporters insist proves his innocence.

Ohio child sex trafficking sting nabs more than 100, including church leader, ER doctor: report

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:17 UTC

More than 100 people, including a medical doctor and a church youth director, were arrested as part of a massive human trafficking and child sex sting operation based in central Ohio, according to a report.

Those arrested included 24 men caught when they showed up at an undisclosed location with the intention of meeting a child for sex, Maj. Steven Tucker of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said.

"They show up with sex toys, they show up with lubrication," Tucker said. "They show up with things that clearly somebody isn't going to show up to a house with, unless they intended to engage in sexual activity."

The 24 suspects were charged with attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and importuning, Columbus' WBNS-TV reported.

Area 51 raid day: UFO & alien hunters descending on Nevada as US military calls in reinforcements & declares no-fly zone

RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:16 UTC

Alien enthusiasts are descending on rural Nevada en masse for a pair of festivals celebrating Area 51 and the UFOs it could be hiding - but locals don't want them there and neither do the military, who've called in reinforcements.

UFO enthusiasts have begun making the pilgrimage out to Rachel and Hiko, Nevada, sites of two competing festivals scheduled for this weekend, real-life versions of the "Storm Area 51" event scheduled that went viral on Facebook last month and attracted millions of would-be attendees. The impending human tide has provoked a grim response from authorities protecting whatever the secretive military base holds, but the xenophiles are determined to party anyway.

Alienstock, the festival planned for Rachel, is currently embroiled in a legal battle and was cancelled last week, according to the event website. But that hasn't stopped Connie West, owner of Rachel's only commercial establishment, the Little A'Le'Inn, from moving forward, or guests from arriving from all over the world - or the galaxy.

Twitter shuts down thousands of international accounts tied to political spam

Catherine Thorbecke
ABC News
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:22 UTC

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In this photo illustration, The Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile device as the company announced it's initial public offering and debut on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013 in London, England.

Twitter on Friday said it shut down thousands of fake accounts from around the world, many of them tied to "political" spam.

The accounts were operating in five jurisdictions identified by Twitter, including China/Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and more.

The company said it identified an additional 4,301 accounts operating in China that were attempting to "sow discord about the protest movements in Hong Kong." This comes after Twitter cracked down on a network of more than 200,000 fake accounts in August.

Twitter said it detected a group of accounts "linked to Saudi Arabia's state-run media apparatus which were engaged in coordinated efforts to amplify messaging that was beneficial to the Saudi government."

Grisly facts unmask and weaken big abortion

Celia Farber
undercoverdc.com
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:43 UTC

For days I've studied the complicated story of the legal war between anti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt (Center for Medical Progress) and the government in California, led by Attorney General Xavier Becerra. A preliminary hearing is underway in San Francisco Superior Court, brought against Daleiden and Merritt, and set in motion originally by former California AG Kamala Harris. If convicted, Daleiden and Merritt could face up to 10 years in prison for faking their identities and recording damning undercover videos that exposed the abortion industries darkest secrets. The charges include 15 felony counts of illegal taping.

By now, we all know this much:

For many years abortion clinics, including but not limited to Planned Parenthood, have partnered with biotech companies to "procure" parts of fetuses after abortions. Biotech companies then obtain these fetuses for very little and sell them for astronomical prices. A haze of palatability, futurism, heroic medicine and even morality hang over the whole thing as soon as we hear the words "stem-cell research."

To get a sense of the macabre reality and details, one can download and read a Senate report titled: Human Fetal Tissue Research: Context and Controversy

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Climategate wars: Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann has lost

Mark Steyn
The Mark Steyn Club
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:18 UTC

At the turn of the century, Michael E Mann's "climate change" hockey stick was the world's most famous and instantly recognizable scientific graph, tirelessly promoted by UN propagandists and mailed by governments around the world to each of their citizens as the pretext for whatever warmist boondoggle they had in mind. The hockey stick is a crock - but Mann likes to sue if you point that out, and enviable sinecures such as the high office of personal climatologist to Jessica Alba have ensured he has apparently bottomless pockets.

Nevertheless, a few weeks ago, the indefatigable Anthony Watts broke the news that Dr Tim Ball had prevailed in Mann's defamation suit against him. As many of you know, the climate mullah's other defamation suit - against yours truly - is currently in its eighth year in the constipated bowels of the District of Columbia court system. So I was interested to learn the disposition of the Mann vs Ball case, now in its ninth year. Mann had sued Ball for reprising an old joke that the guy belonged in the state pen rather than Penn State. Jessica Alba doesn't diss him like that, and Doctor Fraudpants sees no reason why anyone else should be allowed to.

Comment: In a nutshell, Climategate was the leaking of emails showing collusion between a group of influential climate "scientists" to adjust and massage data and extrapolated results to support Michael Mann's fraudulent global warming projections. There's a lot of money in climate research, IF you produce the 'right' results. So much for science's mandate as a search for objective truth.

San Francisco will get environmental violation notice due to trash from homeless, Trump says

Ivan Pentchoukov
The Epoch Times
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:28 UTC

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A man carrying blueprints passes a homeless encampment in downtown San Francisco, Calif., on June, 27, 2016.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will issue a violation notice within a week to San Francisco due to the city's homelessness crisis, President Donald Trump said on Sept. 18.

"It's a terrible situation. That's in Los Angeles and in San Francisco," the president said aboard Air Force One returning from a visit to California. "And we're going to be giving San Francisco — they're in total violation — we're going to be giving them a notice very soon."

"EPA is going to be putting out a notice," he added. "They're in serious violation."

"They have to clean it up. We can't have our cities going to hell."

Not a free speech platform: Facebook proclaims it's a 'publisher' and can censor whomever it wants, walking into legal trap

RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:42 UTC

Facebook has invoked its free speech right as a publisher, insisting its ability to smear users as extremists is protected, but its legal immunity thus far has rested on a law which protects platforms, not publishers. Which is it?

Facebook has declared it has the right, as a publisher, to exercise its own free speech and bar conservative political performance artist Laura Loomer from its platform. Even calling her a dangerous extremist is allowed under the First Amendment, because it's merely an opinion, Facebook claims in its motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Loomer.

But Facebook has always defined itself as a tech company providing a platform for users' speech in the past, a definition that has come to appear increasingly ridiculous in the era of widespread politically-motivated censorship. Now, the not-so-neutral content platform has redefined itself as a publisher equipped with a whole new set of rights, but bereft of the protections that have kept it safe from legal repercussions in the past.

Canada manhunt: Murdered couple prompt questions that killers' suicides leave unanswered

Conor Duffy
ABC
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:05 UTC

From the warmth of a small home in North Carolina, to a stretch of Canadian wilderness as vast as the Australian outback, all the way to Sydney.

Grief at the senseless murders of Sydney man Lucas Fowler, his American girlfriend Chynna Deese and Canadian Leonard Dyck stretches across the globe.

Today any hope of knowing why Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky took the lives of three people also died, at Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) headquarters.

Comment: See also: Mystery of young couple found murdered on side of road in Canada deepens

Russiagate's last stand? #Resistance works itself up over whistleblower complaint on Trump's alleged 'favor to foreign leader'

RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:34 UTC

Just when you thought the Russiagate horse was well and truly dead, count on House Intelligence chair Adam Schiff to whip it back into life with another saucy tale of collusion, conspiracy and cover-up.

President Donald Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia to swing the 2016 election has largely been absent from the news of late. After the Mueller Report cleared the president of wrongdoing, and after the damp squib that was Special Counsel Mueller's testimony before Congress in July, the story finally exited the news cycle.

Here comes Congressman Schiff (D-California), determined to breathe new life into the old tale once more. After two years of claiming that "ample evidence of collusion"... "undoubtedly"... "exists in plain sight," the California Democrat unveiled the latest piece of evidence on Thursday, or rather didn't.

Schiff seized upon a whistleblower complaint brought to the acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire last month. The complaint - if the Washington Post's sources are correct - alleges that President Trump "promised" a favor to an unspecified "foreign leader." The complaint was deemed serious by Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, but withheld from Congress.

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Society's Child

Actor jailed for resisting arrest during Moscow protest released on parole as sentence appealed

Ohio child sex trafficking sting nabs more than 100, including church leader, ER doctor: report

Area 51 raid day: UFO & alien hunters descending on Nevada as US military calls in reinforcements & declares no-fly zone

Twitter shuts down thousands of international accounts tied to political spam

Grisly facts unmask and weaken big abortion

Climategate wars: Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann has lost

San Francisco will get environmental violation notice due to trash from homeless, Trump says

Not a free speech platform: Facebook proclaims it's a 'publisher' and can censor whomever it wants, walking into legal trap

Canada manhunt: Murdered couple prompt questions that killers' suicides leave unanswered

Russiagate's last stand? #Resistance works itself up over whistleblower complaint on Trump's alleged 'favor to foreign leader'

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