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26yo Tennessee woman gives birth to daughter frozen as embryo for 24 years


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Baby Emma Wren
© Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
A woman in Tennessee has given birth a baby daughter that was frozen as an embryo 24 years ago. It is believed to be a world record for frozen embryo to result in a successful birth.

Baby Emma Wren was born to parents Tina and Benjamin Gibson on November 25, local media WATE, citing the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), which supplied the embryo, reports.

Tina was born in 1991, her daughter was conceived just 18 months later, though the two were separated by an entire generation when the embryonic Emma was cryopreserved in 1992.
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Cult

Washington antifa-affiliated group deletes article bragging about April train track sabotage near latest derailment site

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:11 UTC
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Amtrak passenger train #501, derailed near DuPont, WA
An anarchist group associated with Antifa has deleted an April article bragging about pouring concrete onto railroad tracks in Olympia, WA in an attempt to stop the transportation of fracking equipment over the BNSF railway. The April sabotage by the Puget Sound Anarchists was part of a long-standing protest which included a November raid of an anti-fracking encampment which had been blocking railroad tracks for over a week.

On Monday, an Amtrak passenger train on its inaugural run between Seattle and Portland on brand new BNSF railway tracks derailed near DuPont, Washington sometime before 7:45 a.m., leaving three dead and 77 hospitalized. While the cause is unclear, an unconfirmed report states that train #501 struck an object while traveling at 81 mph, right before a 30mph zone - sending the train careening off a bridge and onto a packed Washington highway full of morning commuters.

The now-deleted post by the Puget Sound Anarchists bragging about the sabotage of BNSF railway tracks using concrete was posted to anarchist website "It's Going Down" on April 20th, and removed sometime after August 25th - as noted by watchdog organization Far Left Watch.
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Books

Salon misses the mark: U.S. was not 'founded on gun control'

Charles C. Cooke
National Review
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:56 UTC
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A 9/11 truther brings his analytical approach to U.S. history.

'The U.S. was actually founded on gun control. . . . If you study your history, you'll see it." So begins the latest attempt to rewrite the republic's history, and thereby to achieve by revisionist "interpretation" what cannot be achieved via Article V.

The attempt was published in Salon, and one of its authors, Ed Asner, is a 9/11 truther. Given that, the quality of the work is about what you'd expect. Having proposed that Congress, the Supreme Court, and the majority of Americans "claim the Second Amendment is not simply about state militias but guarantees the unfettered right of everyone to own, carry, trade and eventually shoot someone with a gun" - ah, yes, the right to "eventually shoot someone with a gun," so beloved to those of us who can read - Asner and his co-author, Ed Weinberger, proceed to offer up the most comprehensively illiterate and most embarrassingly researched example within what is, alas, a growing genre. As an example of Second Amendment trutherism, this one will likely never be beaten.

Comment: An otherwise excellent article marred by Cooke's denigration of Asner and Wienberger as '9/11 truthers'. The holding of a questionable position on gun control on the one hand, does not necessarily invalidate another position on WTC. They are in good company. Perhaps Mr. Cooke should do more reading around the WTC and the many inconsistencies in the official story.

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Star of David

Favor for a favor: Legislators in Massachusetts go on free trip to Israel then introduce anti-BDS bill

Nancy Murray
Mondoweiss
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:34 UTC
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© Saeed Qaq/APA Images
On December 7, a day after President Trump announced that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, 13 Massachusetts legislators made their way to Israel as fully-subsidized guests of a lobby group, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Boston. They were due back on December 17.

They were accompanied by JCRC head Jeremy Burton, who reports on the JCRC website that he has taken a third of the current sitting members of the Massachusetts legislature to Israel during the past six years, and loves being able "to witness as our participants fall in love with the leaders and activists who've inspired and energized me for years."

The impact of the lovefest with Israel will hardly have had time to wear off before three members of the 2017 JCRC delegation are slated to vote on whether the bill against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) drafted and heavily pushed by the JCRC should be given the thumbs up by their State Administration and Regulatory Oversight Committee and passed to Ways and Means, which is chaired by another member of the current trip.
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Eye 1

Big Brother alert: New Facebook facial recognition spots you even if you're not tagged


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:08 UTC
Visitors experience facial recognition technology at Facebook booth
© Bobby Yip / ReutersVisitors experience facial recognition technology at Face++ booth during the China Public Security Expo
The world's largest social network has just rolled out a new feature of its facial recognition technology that will notify users when someone has uploaded a photo of them even if they haven't been tagged in it on Facebook.

The new feature sprang into action Tuesday. Facebook says it will "help people better manage their identity "on the platform "using face recognition." Though not all of the network's over 2 billion users will be able to avail of the new feature as those in the European Union and Canada are excluded due to privacy laws which prohibit Facebook's use of facial recognition.

Under EU law, personal data can only be gathered legally under strict conditions, for a legitimate purpose. Furthermore, "persons or organisations which collect and manage your personal information must protect it from misuse and must respect certain rights of the data owners which are guaranteed by EU law."

Comment: Say goodbye to any personal privacy you thought you had.

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Star of David

Liberal Zionist leader: Israeli Jews 'will never accept' giving Palestinians right to vote

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:57 UTC
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Talia Sasson of the New Israel Fund, on podcast, Dec. 13, 2017.
Talia Sasson is the president of the liberal Zionist group the New Israel Fund (and a lawyer, former longtime government official, and candidate for the Knesset in the Meretz Party). On a podcast for the New Israel Fund four days ago she decried the idea that Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital is a blow to the peace process.

We must continue the peace process, because the two-state solution is the only imaginable political resolution of the conflict, whenever it comes, she said; and Israelis (i.e., Israeli Jews) will never accept a single state with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza having the right to vote for the parliament.
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Snowflake

Liberal campus radicals hold America back by playing identity politics

Clay Routledge
National Review
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:57 UTC
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© Reuters photo: Mary SchwalmProtesters disrupt a speech by Betsy DeVos at Harvard University in September.
Instead of embracing Americans' common humanity, campus radicals seek to divide us.

When my father was a college student, he traveled to Georgia to volunteer at a Bible school. He was shocked to see many black children enviously watching the white kids skip off to church. It deeply bothered him that the black children were not invited. How could Christians claim to be teaching some children the love of Christ while so clearly excluding others? My parents would later serve as foreign missionaries in West Africa (I was born there), bringing the Christian faith to folks who would have been or felt unwelcome in many churches in America because of the color of their skin.

David French recently wrote an excellent article on the Old South vs. the New South, in which he described Roy Moore's failed Alabama Senate campaign as one of many hopeful signs that the Old South of racial bigotry is dying, giving way to a New South that values diversity and opportunity for all. While recognizing there is still work to be done, French identified a number of very encouraging trends. Racism remains a real part of American life. A small group of white nationalists has appeared emboldened by the election of Donald Trump, and that is worrisome. But I am encouraged that most people on both the left and right condemn these racists, and that our communities and institutions continue to work toward a more perfect union.
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Snowflake

Fragmented USA: Nation divided between 'America first' and 'blame America first'

Ginni Thomas
The Daily Caller
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:57 UTC
Civil War Fighters
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Despite the real possibilities of alienating paying customers, the NFL, Starbucks, Target, Chick Fil-A and a host of entertainers continue choosing sides in an escalating culture war centering on America's past and future. As a new poll documents, citizens increasingly fear expressing their love of country or expressing their political views, for instance by wearing a Make America Great Again cap.

George Barna, executive director of the American Culture and Faith Institute, recently released a patriotism poll documenting a surprising degree of polarization and politicization of Americans after the first year of President Donald Trump's governance. Different world views, values and even meanings of words fragment the citizenry.

For conservatives, according to the poll, the most patriotic organizations and individuals include the National Rifle Association, Chick-Fil-A, the Republican Party, Fox News and Hobby Lobby. The least patriotic to conservatives are: CNN, The New York Times, NFL, Planned Parenthood, Target, Starbucks, Colin Kaepernick, Michael Moore, Rachel Maddow and Al Sharpton.
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Brick Wall

Trump Administration looking for help in hiring 26,000 new immigration enforcement personnel

Eric Katz
Government Executive
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
US Mexico border
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to contract with a private sector consultant to help bring on nearly 26,000 new employees over the next several years, creating optimistic annual objectives to meet and exceed President Trump's agenda.

The request for information comes as another Homeland Security Department component, Customs and Border Protection, recently issued a contract valued at up to $297 million in support of a hiring push of its own. CBP's contract asks for assistance in hiring just 30 percent of the new employees identified in ICE's RFI. The solicitations resulted from an executive order Trump signed in January calling on ICE to hire 10,000 new agents and the Border Patrol to onboard 5,000 additional employees.

The ICE request for information asks for support in bringing on 2,500 employees in the base year of the contract, beginning in March 2018. The contract would then have four option years. In the first three, the selected company would help ICE hire 7,000 new employees annually. In the final year, beginning March 2022, ICE would bring on 2,200 new workers. By comparison, ICE hired just 1,557 new employees across all job series in fiscal 2017.

Comment: See also:

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Pistol

County Commissioner asks child-raping UN troops to be deployed in Chicago

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
UN Chicago
A county commissioner in Cook County, Illinois flew to the United Nations headquarters in New York City this month to ask UN assistant secretary-general Oscar Fernandez-Taranco to put UN peacekeeping troops on patrol in the city of Chicago to stem what he termed a "genocide," according to The Chicago Tribune.

Currently, the number of murders in Chicago stands at more than 600, which less than what was seen in 2016 when there were more than 700 slayings.

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin told reporters,
"There was tribal warfare between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Africa, and they deployed peacekeeping troops there to help save those populations and reduce the bloodshed. We have to do something - black people in Chicago make up 30 percent of the population but 80 percent of those who are killed by gun violence."

Comment: It sounds like Commissioner Boykin is trying to pass the buck rather than deal with the problem facing Chicago. And that he would appeal to the UN, who have no jurisdiction in the US, and whose troops are more like a roving band of pirates than anything that would live up to the name "peacekeeper" ("rapers and pillagers" would be more accurate) almost seems like he doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

For more on the egregious crimes of UN "peacekeepers", see:

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