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Sanity prevails: Supreme Court denies inmate's appeal for sex reassignment surgery

Mairead Mcargle
National Review
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:20 UTC
supreme court
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a convicted murderer's appeal to receive gender reassignment surgery, leaving in place a lower court's ruling in favor of the Texas prison officials who refused the inmate the procedure.

The court rejected the appeal of a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling by transgender inmate Vanessa Lynn Gibson, formerly known as Scott Gibson, who claimed the prison's refusal to grant the surgery violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment.
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School resource cop-in-training films himself raping a 12-year-old girl

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 07 Dec 2019 18:54 UTC
school cop
Last year, TFTP reported that another Texas school cop had been arrested and charged with rape. Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District police officer Jorge Luis Bastida, 22, was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault on a 12-year-old girl he stalked online. This week, unlike so many cops who get away with similar crimes, Bastida was sentenced to 10 years in prison. "He swore an oath to protect children," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said this week. "He promised to protect and serve one of our most vulnerable populations and instead, he exploited and violated a young girl. He stole her childhood."

Prosecutors said Bastida met the young girl on a smartphone app called "Meet Me" where she reportedly sent the police officer nude photos. After a few days of online flirting, the police officer sent an Uber to pick up the girl on Monday night before he brought her to a nearby hotel where the girl says the officer raped her.

The girl says Bastida held her down and raped her despite her pleas for the police officer to stop. She says she told him she was only 12 but he continued. The two spent the night in the Guest House Hotel and checked out on a Tuesday morning.

The Fairmont Junior High School student was reported missing by her family Monday night. Lt. Chris Brown of the Deer Park Police Department described the missing persons investigation:
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Bad Guys

Saudi Arabia condemned for outrageous mistreatment of jailed human rights lawyer

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:49 UTC
Waleed Abu al-Khair
Amnesty International condemned as "outrageous" the continued detention of prominent Saudi human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair and his ill-treatment, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman against Muslim preachers, members of the press and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.

The London-based organization said in a statement that it had received credible reports that authorities at Dhahban Central Prison near the Red Sea port city of Jeddah had in late November arbitrarily placed Abu al-Khair in solitary confinement under tightened security, PressTV reported. He has been on hunger strike since November 29 in a show of protest against his ill-treatment.

Comment: It's helpful to remember that the United States isn't just looking the other way when it comes to Saudi Arabia's savage policies, it actively aids them in such pursuits.

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Man sentenced to life for St. Petersburg subway bombing, 10 others receive prison terms


RFE/RL
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:49 UTC
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Lawyers of the convicted defendants said they would appeal the verdicts.
A military court in St. Petersburg has sentenced a man to life in prison for financing a deadly 2017 subway blast, while 10 other defendants in the case received prison terms of between 19 and 28 years.

The court in Russia's second-largest city sentenced Abror Azimov to life in prison on December 10 after finding him guilty of financing the attack, which killed 15 people and injured 67 others.

The only woman among the defendants, Shokhista Karimova, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, broke down after the Judge Andrei Morozov announced her punishment.

Lawyers of the convicted defendants said they would appeal the verdicts.

All had denied the charges, and some of them claimed they were tortured while in detention, including Kyrgyz-born Abror Azimov and his brother, Akram, who was also among those convicted in the case.

Investigators have said that on April 3, 2017, 22-year-old suicide bomber Akbarjon Jalilov, an ethnic-Uzbek Russian citizen born in Kyrgyzstan, detonated a bomb in a subway carriage while it was between two stations.

A second explosive was left at a station platform, but it was found and safely defused.

Comment: Se also:

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Title IX injustice: Women threatens to blackmail professor after he tries to end flirty email exchange - inquisitor says she's the victim

Robby Soave
Reason
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:02 UTC
New Mexico's Anderson School of Management
New Mexico's Anderson School of Management
It began, unlike most epic love stories featuring two cosmically intertwined souls rediscovering their connection from some past life, in the printer room of the University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management.

It ended with a graduate student attempting to blackmail a professor into continuing their flirtatious banter, a sexual harassment investigation that treated the blackmailer as a victim, and, ultimately, a one-year unpaid suspension for the professor.

The professor made serious mistakes. He shouldn't have let the conversation become romantic and sexual — an exchange he actively participated in. He shouldn't have floated the possibility of hiring the student for a low-paid research position — an opportunity she initially expressed interest in taking, then turned down, and then used against him when he rebuffed her, according to documents obtained by Reason.

But the professor and the student never slept together. She never worked for him, and she never took one of his classes. They never even met in person, except for their initial five-minute introduction.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has taken the professor's case, and it is urging the university to reverse course.

"The university reached conclusions that defied reason and were completely at odds with all of the established facts of the case," attorney Samantha Harris, a vice president of FIRE, tells Reason.
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Virginia sheriff: 'I will deputize thousands of citizens to protect their gun rights'

Second Amendment Daily
The Daily Sheeple
Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins
Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins
It looks like what Virginia gun owners needed was a wake up call. Or more accurately, a wake up slap in the face.

Ever since Bloomberg bought himself a blue Virginia and stacked it with eager anti-gun legislators, we've told you how the state is on fire with pro-gun rights sentiment.

County after county has joined the Second Amendment Sanctuary list, totaling 42 counties in less than six weeks.

Add one more sheriff to the list of Second Amendment heroes.

Sheriff Scott Jenkins of Culpepper County, VA made a post on his official county Facebook page pledging to support the Second Amendment. In the post made on December 4th, Jenkins went so far as to say that he has a strategy if gun control comes knocking:
"I plan to properly screen and deputize thousands of our law-abiding citizens to protect their constitutional right to own firearms."

Comment: Seeing where the big push for tyrannical nation-wide gun legislation is going, many Americans are pushing back:

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Russian military delivers first humanitarian aid to Raqqa, left in ruins by US-led coalition


RT
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:58 UTC
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Russian military forces have delivered food and provided medical assistance to the residents of Raqqa in the first such humanitarian mission aimed at helping civilians who are struggling to survive in the city scarred by war.

The first column of Russian military trucks loaded with food and medical supplies entered the capital of Syria's northern province on Monday.

Once designated as the unofficial capital of the notorious Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), the city was recaptured by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in 2017 after spending three years under extremist rule. However, what was hailed as "liberation" in the West turned into misery for the locals, as two-thirds of Raqqa was virtually destroyed in a massive bombing campaign launched by the US-led coalition during a four-month battle for the city, with corpses left rotting in the streets.

"In 2017, the social and economic infrastructure of Raqqa was totally destroyed in a US-led coalition's operation aimed at liberating it," Vladimir Varnavsky, an officer with the Russian Reconciliation Center, who arrived in Raqqa with the convoy, told journalists. "The airstrikes resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians."
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Central banks worldwide buying up massive amounts of gold in a shift away from US dollar - Goldman Sachs


RT
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:57 UTC
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Gold prices will climb to $1,600 per ounce over the next year, Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs projects. It says that central banks are consuming a fifth of the global supply of the yellow metal.

"De-dollarization in central banks - demand from central banks for gold is biggest since the Nixon era, eating up 20 percent of global supply," the head of global commodities research at Goldman, Jeff Currie, told Bloomberg. "I am going to like gold better than bonds because the bonds won't reflect that de-dollarization."

Citing "fear-driven demand" for the precious metal, Goldman analysts said last week that investors should diversify their long-term bond holdings with gold.
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Host Steve Harvey gives eye roll after asking Miss Universe contestant about climate change

Katie Jerkovich
Daily Caller
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:00 UTC
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© Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NAACP Image Awards
Steve Harvey gave possibly the largest eye roll ever after he posed a question to one of the Miss Universe contestants about climate change at the 2019 pageant.

It happened Sunday night when 62-year-old host was asking Miss South Africa, Zozibini Tunzi, if the "leaders of today" were doing enough to stop climate change, per Fox News in a piece published Monday.

"Are leaders of today doing enough to protect future generations for climate change," Harvey said. "If not, what else should they be doing?"
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Reddit hiring NATO shills to control narrative

Kit Knightly
The Post Millenial
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:03 UTC
reddit deep state
I wrote a short piece a few days ago about Reddit banning users for posting the leaked NHS documents. (Spreading anti-Russian propaganda in the process).

Previously, we have also covered Reddit making politically motivated decisions - such as quarantining boards dedicated to Donald Trump and 9/11.

It turns out there's a very simple explanation for that, Reddit's "director of policy" was previously in the pay of the US Deep State.

This was brought to our attention by Ian56 on twitter:


In 2017 Reddit hired Jessica Ashooh as their "Director of Policy". Her LinkedIn page shows her previous employment was "Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force" at the Atlantic Council.

The report on which Reddit based their decision to ban users as part of a "Russian campaign" was written by Ben Nimmo, who also works for the Atlantic Council (and the Integrity Initiative).

Comment: See also: Same old, same old: Reddit says US-UK trade deal leaks may be tied to Russia, citing speculation from... the Atlantic Council

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