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Defamation lawsuit brought by Covington student Nicholas Sandmann against WaPo dismissed

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The $250 million defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann against the Washington Post was dismissed Friday.

Attorneys for the Kentucky teen — who was filmed earlier this year in January wearing a MAGA hat in a viral standoff with Native American activist Nathan Phillips in Washington, DC — claimed the newspaper's coverage of the incident led to a "mob of bullies which attacked, vilified & threatened" Sandmann.

But US District Judge William Bertelsman tossed the suit, saying the paper was within its rights to publish Phillips' views that the teen was deliberately blocking his path — even if that wasn't the case.

"The Court accepts Sandmann's statement that, when he was standing motionless in the confrontation with Philip's his intent was to calm the situation and not to impede or block anyone," Bertelsman wrote in a ruling.

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Bad Guys

US Navy SEAL team removed from Iraq over accusations of sexual assault, alcohol abuse

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The US military pulled a group of Navy SEALs from Iraq over conduct that caused their commander to lose "confidence in the team's ability to accomplish the mission." The news comes amid increasing allegations of misbehavior by Navy SEALs and other Special Operations Forces personnel deployed to other countries.
A senior US Navy official revealed that a senior enlisted member of Navy SEAL Team 7 is accused of sexually assaulting a female service member assigned to the platoon, just one day after reports that the same SEAL team, stationed in Iraq, was ordered to return home by the commander of the Special Operations Joint Task Force.

According to the Navy official, who spoke to the New York Times, "when commanders began investigating the allegations [of rape], the entire platoon invoked their right to remain silent."

"At that point, the official said, commanders decided to send the whole platoon home, including the lieutenant in command," the Times reported.

The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution outlines the right not to testify against oneself in a trial.

Comment: As above, so below:


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MindMatters: Whole Lotta Crazy: Diagnosing Political Ideologies

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Today we return to Chapter 5 of Andrew Łobaczewski's groundbreaking work Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes to discern the impact of various ideologies on everyday life, and how dangerous delusions and deviant individuals can warp them into something barely recognizable, culminating in the social system Lobaczewski calls 'pathocracy'. We discuss Lobaczewski's prescient insights concerning how to discern the original contents of the ideology from its pathological counterpart, as well as the various roles this diseased counterpart plays in a progressively deteriorating society.


Running Time: 00:52:43

Download: MP3 — 48.3 MB


Gold Bar

Police searching for thieves who made off with over $30M worth of gold, precious metals at Brazil airport

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A fake police truck that was used in robbery is transported on a flat-bed truck in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 25, 2019.
Police in Brazil are poring over a surveillance video in hopes of identifying a group of thieves who stole gold and other precious metals from Sao Paulo's airport.

At least six men with their faces covered disguised as federal police and heavily armed entered the cargo terminal at Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport on Thursday and unloaded nearly 1,600 pounds of gold and precious metals bound for New York City and Zurich, Switzerland, authorities said.

"They subdued the guard at the entrance," Assistant Police Chief João Hueb said during Friday's news conference.

In video released by authorities, the thieves could be seen pulling up at the terminal and signaling for airport workers to load up a vehicle with the packages.

Pistol

Notorious Israeli mafia kingpin and bodyguard assassinated in broad-day shootout in Mexico City

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Israeli crime boss and convicted murderer Ben Suthi and his bodyguard (and fellow underworld figure) Alon Azulay were murdered in a hail of bullets as they sat at a restaurant in Mexico City’s upscale Artz Pedregal shopping center on Wednesday.
A notorious Israeli underworld figure and his bodyguard were gunned down in a brazen broad-daylight shootout inside a Mexico City restaurant by cartel-linked killers authorities believe to be hired by Israeli organized crime.

Israeli crime boss and convicted murderer Ben Suthi and his bodyguard (and fellow underworld figure) Alon Azulay were murdered in a hail of bullets as they sat at a restaurant in Mexico City's upscale Artz Pedregal shopping center on Wednesday. The killing was most likely "a settling of scores in the Israeli mafia," according to a spokesman for the Mexico City prosecutor's office. A total of 44 shots were fired during the altercation, according to authorities, and it was captured on multiple CCTV cameras.


Bullseye

Feds have subpoenaed Epstein's personal pilots to gather details on his travels and associates

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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal pilots, according to people familiar with the matter, as investigators seek to question the financier's employees in the wake of his indictment on sex-trafficking charges.

The grand jury subpoenas were served on the pilots earlier this month after Mr. Epstein's arrest on July 6, some of the people said. Mr. Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after he had returned from Paris on a private jet.

A lawyer for one of the pilots confirmed the subpoena, but declined to provide further details.

Comment: Epstein case has the potential to be the biggest scandal in American history


Info

Twitter caves to public pressure and restores Lindsay Shepherd's account

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Lindsay Shepherd
In an unexpected move, free speech activist and Post Millennial columnist Lindsay Shepherd has been reinstated by Twitter.

Twitter first suspended Shepherd after she got into an argument with a notorious trans woman named Jessica Yaniv who has targeted the businesses of immigrant women who refused to wax her male genitals by lodging frivolous human rights complaints and allegedly sexually harassing multiple young girls.

Chart Pie

Morality professor calls to 'dispossess' philanthropists of their wealth

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A University of California, Berkeley instructor teaching a course on morality has made his views on the subject abundantly clear, arguing that wealthy people are inherently immoral, even when they donate their wealth to worthy causes.

Philosophy instructor Nick French is teaching a summer 2019 course called "Individual Morality and Social Justice," in which students address questions such as "What makes an action right or wrong, good or bad?" and "What's involved in living a good life?" The course also seeks to address the question of what a "just society" looks like, and how individuals should "respond to injustice."

The first half of the course is dedicated to addressing "how individuals ought to live." Later, students will analyze "the justice of social arrangements."

French argued in a recent Jacobin Magazine op-ed that people need to "dispossess the benevolent rich of their ill-gotten gains." The leftist magazine states that French is also a member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.

In the piece, titled "Even Nice, 'Generous' Rich People Are Not Your Friends," French suggests that having wealth is an automatic indication of immorality, even if one contributes that wealth to worthwhile social causes.

Comment: The great American economic growth myth is the ground for socialism's rise


Arrow Down

Teenage apocalypse guru, Greta Thunberg, poses in an Antifa t-shirt

Greta Thunberg
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Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg has added more controversy to her name by posing in a T-shirt with radical left-wing Antifa movement imagery and calling for a national strike for the sake of climate.

16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, recently dubbed "Apocalypse Guru", has sparked outrage by publishing a picture of herself wearing a shirt worn by members of the left-wing Antifa movement.

In one of her recent tweets, Thunberg notified her massive followship that she had released a song with the British indie pop band The 1975. All revenues will go to the climate movement Extinction Rebellion, which has made a name for itself by organising left-wing climate protests in Sweden and other countries.

"Time to rebel", the Nobel Peace Prize nominee wrote, posting a photograph of herself wearing a shirt tagged "Antifascist All Stars". Thunberg's shirt is also adorned with a five-pointed star and No Pasaran caption, ("They Shall Not Pass"), a Spanish War-era slogan popular in left-wing circles.

Comment: More on the apocalypse guru:


Eye 2

16 Marines arrested at Camp Pendleton for human smuggling & drug-related offenses

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Sixteen U.S. Marines were arrested on Thursday morning for their alleged involvement in activities ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses, the Marine Corps said.

The arrests were carried out by officials from 1st Marine Division and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service during an 800-person battalion formation at Camp Pendleton in California.

"Information gained from a previous human smuggling investigation precipitated the arrests," the Marines said in a statement.

A spokesperson for 1st Marine Division confirmed to ABC News that a case of two Marines charged with human smuggling earlier this month "identified the allegations" against the individuals involved in Thursday's arrests.