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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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© Bethany Clarke/Getty ImagesIn 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."
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Alarm Clock

Grisly facts unmask and weaken big abortion

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

Climategate wars: Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann has lost

Mark Steyn
The Mark Steyn Club
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:18 UTC
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© WattsUpWithThatMichael E Mann (L) Mark Steyn (R)
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.

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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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© Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty ImagesA 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."
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Control Panel

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
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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.

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Sherlock

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

Conor Duffy
ABC
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:05 UTC
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© ABC News: Niall LenihanThe fugitives' bodies were found near the banks of the Nelson River in Manitoba.
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

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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
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© Global Look Press / ZUMA Press / Carol GuzyThey want to believe.
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.

Comment: See also: Trump's communications with unnamed 'foreign leader' in part of whistleblower complaint spurs standoff between spy chief and Congress

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What does Israel want? Palestine's land but not its people

Raja Shehadeh
The New York Times
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency, via Getty ImagesPalestinian demonstrators protesting against Jewish settlements, in the West Bank on September 13, 2019.
Mr. Netanyahu only confirmed an unspoken truth. And yet something has changed.

Last week, ahead of the parliamentary elections in Israel this Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that if re-elected, he would annex up to one-third of the occupied West Bank.

His announcement prompted widespread international condemnation. But for most Palestinians such declarations mean nothing. We've heard many statements of support over the years, and nothing ever changes. Cynicism is widespread; by now, many of us would prefer straight talk. As Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz, wrote recently, referring to Mr. Netanyahu's plan: "Let him turn the reality in this territory into a political reality, without hiding it any longer. The time has come for truth."

Israel already is reaping all the benefits of annexation in the West Bank, and without having to bear any responsibility for the welfare of the Palestinians living here.
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Bullseye

Melanie Phillips, pro-sanity journalist, on David Gelernter's rejection of Darwinist doctrine

David Klinghoffer
Evolution News
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:36 UTC
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© screen shot, croppedMelanie Phillips, via her website
Melanie Phillips is the prominent British journalist whose memoir, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity, captures the essence of her stance. It's this: she is pro-sanity. So it is terrific to see her turning her attention to Yale computer scientist David Gelernter and his apostasy from Darwinism:

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USAF warning to 'stormers': Area 51's secrets will be protected


RT
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:24 UTC
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© File/Global Look PressSatellite image Area 51
Chief of Staff General David Goldfein has ominously insisted that the Air Force is taking the viral 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us' event "very seriously" as the US has "secrets [that] deserve to be protected."

"All joking aside, we're taking it very seriously," Goldfein told reporters during the Air Force Association's annual Air, Space, and Cyber Conference. "Our nation has secrets, and those secrets deserve to be protected. 'The people' deserve to have our nation's secrets protected."

Goldfein's comments will likely fan the flames of conspiracy theories already raging online, particularly in the wake of an explosive admission by a US Navy official that videos show encounters between US Navy aircraft and UFOs are real.

Over two million indicated they were taking part in the "Storm Area 51" event planned to take place on Friday.

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