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Flashback Army gets caught up in Obama birther conspiracy theory

Megan McCloskey
Stars and Stripes
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:44 UTC
Ellen Gilmore
© SHANNON SZWARC/(COLUMBUS, GA.) LEDGER-ENQUIRERMaj. Stefan Cook places his hand on Ellen Gilmore, a self-proclaimed concerned citizen, outside of the federal courthouse in Columbus, Ga., earlier this month. She thanked him for having “the courage to stand up for the Constitution of the United States.”
Army Maj. Stefan Cook sought out a notorious lawyer in February, formally volunteered for an Afghan deployment in May and was granted orders to deploy in June.

But the Army reservist's intention appeared not so much to fight for America as to fight against President Barack Obama, in furtherance of a bizarre conspiracy theory.

In July, Cook filed a lawsuit against the Army, the defense secretary and the president, claiming that Obama could not lawfully order him to go to war because he is not the legitimate president of the United States.

Cook is one of the so-called "Birthers," a small group of activists who subscribe to a fringe conspiracy theory alleging that Obama was not born in the United States and therefore cannot legally serve as president. The conspiracy theory, proven false by numerous media investigations as well as officials in the state of Hawaii where Obama was born, first surfaced early in the presidential campaign, but in recent months it has continued to fester on the Internet.
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Vader

Flashback Supreme Court again sets aside challenge over Obama's citizenship

Bill Mears
CNN
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:37 UTC
obama
© Evan Vucci - Pool/Getty Images
The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.

The justices without comment Monday rejected a challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr., a Pennsylvania man who sought a trial in federal court forcing the president to produce documents regarding his birth and citizenship.

Kerchner's attorney, Mario Apuzzo, had argued in a petition with the Supreme Court that Obama did not fit the definition of a "natural-born citizen" required for the nation's highest office, as defined by Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

That clause states, "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
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Snakes in Suits

Michigan's first-ever Muslim candidate for Governor loses his cool over question about Sharia

Leo Hohmann
LeoHohmann.com
Fri, 11 May 2018 08:51 UTC
Dr. Abdul al-Sayed
Dr. Abdul al-Sayed, shown here with his wife, Sarah, is running for governor of Michigan as a Democrat.
Michigan's first-ever Muslim candidate for governor, Dr. Abdul al-Sayed, took a shot at fellow gubernatorial candidate Patrick Colbeck on Thursday that some Republicans are saying went below the belt.

Colbeck, speaking at a candidate's forum in East Lansing, expressed his concerns about Sharia law and the extremist Muslim Brotherhood's tactic of civilization jihad. Colbeck took exception with an article he says was planted by Sayed supporters in the left-of-center website Buzzfeed, which painted Colbeck as a fringe extremist using "unfounded conspiracy theories" against Sayed.

Rather than address Colbeck's concerns, Sayed called Colbeck a racist Islamophobe whom Muslims "definitely hate."

Sayed, 33, the former public-health director for the city of Detroit, was on stage Thursday at the Michigan Press Association with several other Democrat and Republican candidates for governor running in the Aug. 7 primary.
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Eye 2

Surveillance footage shows cop savagely beating his daughter at school, and no one tries to stop him

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 14 May 2018 08:32 UTC
cop beats daughter
Disturbing surveillance camera footage has been released that shows a police officer confronting his daughter after she was sent to the principal's office for disrespecting her teacher-and his response is so violent that it has even led to criticism from advocates of corporal punishment.

Footage from the incident, which occurred in March, shows Officer Raymond Emilio Rosario entering the school office. Moments later, his 14-year-old daughter entered, and he immediately slapped her across the face and then hit the back of her head. Surprisingly, the officer's violent actions didn't seem the faze the office secretary who never moved from her seat.

Rage continued from Rosario in front of everyone in the office and anyone who may have witnessed it while walking by the office's glass doors. The enraged officer pushed his daughter's head to the side, grabbed his belt and began whipping her with his belt. The humiliation of being whipped in public was followed by a slap to the face and finally a closed-fist punch to the jaw.
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People

Kurdish protesters throw bottles and try to block Erdogan's convoy as his 3-day British visit begins


RT
Mon, 14 May 2018 09:19 UTC
Kurdish protesters
© Ruptly
Kurdish activists scuffled with police as they attempted to block Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's convoy from making its way to a dinner in Reading. Erdogan is set to meet Theresa May and the Queen during his visit.

A group of protesters gathered outside the Wokefield Estate near Reading in Berkshire to try to block the presidential convoy on Sunday afternoon - a plot that was narrowly foiled by dozens of police officers on foot, horse and motorbike.



Comment: See also: Hundreds gather in Berlin for pro-Kurdish rally - 'Stop Erdogan's state terror against Kurds!'

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Pirates

At least 7 police officers killed in suicide attack on police HQ in Surabaya, Indonesia


Sputnik
Mon, 14 May 2018 08:45 UTC
Indonesian police
© AFP 2018 / Bay ISMOYOIndonesian police take position and aim their weapons as they pursue suspects outside a cafe after a series of blasts hit the Indonesia capital Jakarta on January 14, 2016
According to media reports, a severe blast ripped through a police headquarters on Monday in the second biggest city of Indonesia Surabaya. The attack was carried out by suspects driving "vehicles", AFP cited East Java Police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera. At least seven police officers were killed, local media reported.

According to Frans Barung Mangera, the explosion had occurred at 8:50 am local time (01:50 GMT) at the main police office.


Comment: See also: 13 killed, 40 injured as suicide bombers attack 3 churches in Surabaya, Indonesia

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Briefcase

Justice Dept. wary to try ISIS fighters in US, but prosecutors push for case

Ellen Nakashima, Matt Zapotosky
LMTonline
Sat, 12 May 2018 06:14 UTC
Alexanda Kotey, El Shafee Elsheikh
© worldjusticenews.comAlexanda Kotey • El Shafee Elsheikh
Justice Department leaders are reluctant to recommend U.S.-based criminal trials for two Islamic State militants captured and detained in Syria, according to American officials who said that, even though federal prosecutors believe they can win in court, it is unclear whether there is sufficient evidence to secure convictions and lengthy prison terms.

At the same time, senior Trump administration officials are adamant that Britain bears responsibility to prosecute the men, Alexanda Kotey, 34, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 29, whose British citizenships were revoked over their alleged affiliation with an ISIS cell suspected of murdering Westerners.

Further complicating matters, Attorney General Jeff Sessions would prefer that Kotey and Elsheikh be sent to the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, though he has recognized the success of federal terrorism prosecutions.

Comment: See also:

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Bizarro Earth

UK seeks to turn heat up on internet trolls, judges recommend six months jail for hate speech

Steve Doughty
Daily Mail
Wed, 09 May 2018 00:05 UTC
Laptop
© Getty Images
Social media users who share or comment on racist or anti-gay postings will face jail under rules proposed yesterday.

Advice for judges and magistrates recommends harsh punishments for those found guilty of stirring up hatred against racial, religious or sexual minority groups.

Among those jailed should be people who post comments or share online hate speech because they have been reckless as to whether they stir up hatred, say the proposals from the Sentencing Council.

Those found guilty of hate trolling by commenting or sharing social media should typically receive a sentence of six months in jail.

Comment: Of course the issue here isn't really hate speech but the subjective interpretation of anything that goes against the party line.

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Killary bitches to Aussie crowd: 'In my country' there is fear and rage when women seek power

Lauretta Brown
Townhall
Fri, 11 May 2018 12:10 UTC
Clinton
© TownhallLosing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke in Melbourne Thursday with Australia's first female prime minister Julia Gillard. The two discussed misogyny in politics and Clinton yet again blamed sexism for her 2016 loss, implying that the U.S. just couldn't handle a leader who is a woman.
"There is still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership," Clinton told Gillard, "and so the easiest way to kind of avoid having to look at someone on her merits is to dismiss her on her looks."
Gillard compared the chants of "lock her up" that Clinton faced during the election to "the Salem Witch Trials."
"There is this fear, there is this anger, even rage about women seeking power, women exercising power and people fall back on these attacks like you're a witch or you should go to prison," Clinton agreed. "It's not a majority, thank goodness, it's not, but it's a very vocal minority at least in my country. And sometimes these tropes are very much part of the press coverage."
Clinton continued to insist that her opponents who claimed not to be against women have since shown that they are misogynists.

Comment: "There is fear and rage when women seek power." Not if they are competent! With every audience a new excuse, Killary, the rotten gift that never stops reeking, is now projecting her delusions onto all American women, and likewise, her failures onto all American men!

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Network

China officially opens new train route with Iran

MINA
Eurasia Review
Sun, 13 May 2018 19:06 UTC
China Iran
© Wikipedia CommonsLocations of China and Iran
Beijing has officially opened its new train route to Iran, as the US urges its companies to wind down their operations with Tehran.

As US President Donald Trump hardens his confrontational attitude to Tehran, tearing up the 2015 nuclear deal and calling for a new sanctions regime, China is more than ready to grab the opportunity for trade by opening a new international railroad connecting Tehran and Bayannur, a city in China's Inner Mongolia region.

The exact route of the railroad is yet to be disclosed, as there are currently several major railroad projects, some of them even including China's biggest regional rival, India. But, considering Bayannur is located near the northern border of China and there's already an international railroad to Kazakhstan there, it is likely that the new trade route goes through the territories of former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

According to the Washington Post, China has sent the inaugural train from Bayannur carrying - you'll never guess - 1,150 tons of sunflower seeds, because Bayannur is China's biggest sunflower seed production area. China exports some 180,000 tons of sunflower seeds every year, supplying Middle Eastern, European and US markets, according to Xinhua.

Comment: So much for sanctions on Iran, which will most likely hurt US allies. See also:

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