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Federal judge blocks Trump's transgender troop ban citing tweet


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:34 UTC
Transgender troop ban
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
A federal judge blasted President Donald Trump for officially announcing via Twitter a ban on transgender people in the military in her decision to block the administration from enforcing parts of the policy.

On Monday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the Trump administration from kicking active-duty transgender service members out of the military or from allowing them to enlist starting in January 2018.

Kollar-Kotelly blasted Trump for making the announcement on Twitter, "without any of the formality or deliberative processes that generally accompany the development and announcement of major policy changes that will gravely affect the lives of many Americans."

The ruling states that Trump's tweets provide support for the plaintiffs' claims that the decision was "not driven by genuine concerns regarding military efficacy."
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Corey Feldman vows to release every name of those in Hollywood who engage in predatory pedophilia


Grabien News
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Corey Feldman
© NBC
Corey Feldman appeared Monday on NBC's "The TODAY Show," where he vowed to name names in Hollywood who engage, or have engaged, in predatory pedophilia. Here's an excerpt from his interview:

LAUER: "Why are you talking to me? Why aren't you talking to the police right now?"

FELDMAN: "I told the police. In fact if anyone wants to go back to 1993, when I was interviewed by the Santa Barbara Police Department. I sat there and gave them the names. They are on record. They have all of this information, but they were scanning Michael Jackson. All they cared about was trying about to find something on Michael Jackson."

LAUER: "Who you said, by the way, did not abuse you."

FELDMAN: "Who Michael was innocent. And that was what the interview was about with the police in 1993. I told them, he is not that guy. And they said, maybe you don't understand your friend. And I said, no, I know the difference between pedophiles and somebody that is not a pedophile because I have been molested. Here's the names, go investigate. And let me push this forward, there are thousands of people in Hollywood that have the same information. Why is it all on me? Why is it, if I don't release the names in the next two months, six months or a year, I'm the bad guy. I'm the victim here. I'm the one who has been abused. I'm the one who is trying to come forward and do something about it."

Comment: Post-Weinstein, will people start taking Corey Feldman seriously about pedophilia in Hollywood?

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Coincidence? Three people who survived Las Vegas shooting have died of mysterious causes since the attack

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
kymberly suchomel, dennis and lorraine carver
Nearly one month after the Las Vegas shooting, three of the individuals who attended the Route 91 Harvest music festival have lost their lives-but the circumstances that led up their deaths had nothing to do with injuries they sustained during the shooting.

According to a report, 28-year-old Kymberley Suchomel died at her home in Apple Valley, California, just one week after the massacre. While the official cause of her death was not immediately released, her grandmother told the Victorville Daily Press that she appeared to have died in her sleep.

"Kymberley had epilepsy and she's always been prone to seizures - she told her friend that she recently had three focal seizures," Julie Norton said. "I believe the stress from the shooting took her life."

Comment: For a thorough analysis of the many unanswered questions in the official stories surrounding the Las Vegas shooting, see:

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Almost forgotten: The devastation that is Puerto Rico

Vijay Prashad
Frontline
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Puerto Rico hurricane Maria

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria struck, Puerto Ricans continue to lead perilous lives, without access to water or electricity, and relief packages have only exacerbated the country's serious debt problem.

On September 20, Hurricane Maria swept through the United States territory of Puerto Rico and devastated the island ("A tale of two islands"). The death toll is not yet confirmed. It is hard to know what is happening since the roads in the interior of the island remain impassable and communications networks are down.

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria left the island, the 3.4 million Puerto Ricans remain in the dark. It is estimated that 85 per cent of the population will not get power for at least six months and that 40 per cent of the islanders will not have access to drinking water. Waterborne diseases threaten the people, whose health has been further endangered by the threadbare hospitals.

The government of the island and U.S. President Donald Trump have been exaggerating the situation in the island. For instance, Puerto Rico's Governor, Ricardo Rossello, said that 63 of the island's 69 hospitals were fully operational. The Centre for Investigative Journalism (Puerto Rico) suggested that this was impossible. A week before Governor Rossello made these comments, 56 hospitals were closed. When the staff from the centre called many of the hospitals that were said to be operational, they found them not in any state to receive patients. The government suggests that the death toll was somewhere in the vicinity of 45. But Representatives Nydia Velasquez (Democrat of New York) and Bennie Thompson (Democrat of Mississippi) wrote to the Department of Homeland Security suggesting that the death toll was being "woefully underreported". They say that at least 450 people might have died in this calamity.
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Rose McGowan tweets Harvey Weinstein raped her then is issued with arrest warrant


AP
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:00 UTC
Rose McGowan tweets Harvey Weinstein raped her then is issued with arrest warrant
© AP Photo/Paul SancyaIn this Oct. 27, 2017, file photo, actress Rose McGowan speaks at the inaugural Women’s Convention in Detroit.
The felony charge stems from a police investigation of personal belongings left behind on a United flight arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on Jan. 20. Police say the items tested positive for narcotics. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department obtained the warrant on Feb. 1

Police say they've attempted to contact McGowan so she can appear in a Loudoun County, Virginia, court. The warrant has been entered into a national law enforcement database.

McGowan has been one of the leading voices against sexual harassment in Hollywood, and tweeted earlier this month that she was raped by a man with the initials "HW." The Hollywood Reporter said McGowan confirmed she was referring to disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein.


Comment: Considering the offense occurred much earlier in the year and it's only now, since Rose McGowan became prominent in speaking out about her experiences of the depravity in the entertainment industry, the situation is highly suspect. Another celebrity who has been at the forefront of this exposé was also recently charged with drug possession: Corey Feldman arrested for marijuana possession days after tweeting about Hollywood child sex abuse in the wake of Weinstein scandal

One wonders whether this is an attempt to keep silent those who would expose the criminals in Hollywood.

There has been an upsurge in high profile people finally speaking out about the endemic abuse which plagues its ranks. Also see:

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Did too much war for too long win Trump the Presidency?

Brian Doherty
Reason
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:35 UTC
Trump
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters

Did the promise of peace deliver the nuclear button to Donald Trump? A recent study by Douglas L. Kriner, a political scientist at Boston University, and Francis X. Shen, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, argues that Trump's victory last November can be directly attributed to "the casualty divide" - their term for the division "between communities whose young people are dying to defend the country, and those communities whose young people are not."

Specifically, they think the evidence shows
a significant and meaningful relationship between a community's rate of military sacrifice and its support for Trump. Our statistical model suggests that if three states key to Trump's victory - Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin - had suffered even a modestly lower casualty rate, all three could have flipped from red to blue and sent Hillary Clinton to the White House.
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Flashback Wikileaks releases #Vault7 'Marble' docs: Proof CIA disguises their attacks as Russian, Chinese, Arabic


RT
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:21 UTC
wikileaks
© Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / www.globallookpress.com
WikiLeaks' latest batch of documents, named 'Marble', details CIA hacking tactics and how the agency can hamper forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to them. The tool was in use at the agency as recently as 2016.

The third release, which contains 676 source code files for the agency's secret anti-forensics framework, is part of the CIA's Core Library of malware, according to a statement from WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks said Marble hides fragments of texts that would allow for the author of the malware to be identified. WikiLeaks stated the technique is the digital equivalent of a specialized CIA tool which disguises English language text on US produced weapons systems before they are provided to insurgents.

It's "designed to allow for flexible and easy-to-use obfuscation" as "string obfuscation algorithms" often link malware to a specific developer, according to the whistleblowing site.

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French Court orders cross on statue of Saint John Paul II removed on request of 'Free Thought' group

Grizzly Joe
Pamela Geller
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:00 UTC
Court Orders Cross on Statue of Saint John Paul II Removed
© DAMIEN MEYER/AFPBronze statue of Pope John Paul II by controversial Georgian-born Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli in Ploermel, Brittany, western France

If Muslim jihadists have their way, the entirety of Europe will one day be part of the savage global caliphate. This year Europe has seen a jihad terror attack attempt every nine days. France alone has witnessed the savagery of the Charlie Hebdo attack, with twelve killings as well as the Bataclan Eagles of Death Metal slaughter that resulted in the deaths of 80 concert goers. France also is home to Muslim-infested no-go zones, where even the bravest gendarme dare not tread without massive back-up, if they enter the area at all.


Comment: Those responsible for 'Muslim terror attacks' are, like nearly all 'terrorist' events, from a source closer to home:

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Israeli forces kill at least 7 Palestinians in Gaza Strip


Sputnik
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:53 UTC
Israeli soldiers
© AP Photo/ Tsafrir Abayov
At least seven Palestinians were killed in the operation conducted by the Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, a representative of the region's medical service told Sputnik.

Earlier in the day, the Israeli forces destroyed a tunnel under the border of Gaza Strip, killing members of the Palestinian Hamas movement's paramilitary wing and their allies from the Islamic Jihad Movement. Both organizations are listed as terrorist by Israel and the United States.
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Wounded veterans find new mission hunting down pedophiles

Jay Syrmopoulos
Free Thought Project
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Veterens fight pedophelia
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal there has been renewed media attention being given to the numerous reports of systemic Hollywood pedophilia as alleged by Corey Feldman, Todd Bridges, Elijah Wood and many, many others.

Since 2013 one organization has aimed to fight back against pedophiles across the United States: the HERO - Human Exploitation Rescue Operative - program gives veterans injured, ill or wounded in the line of duty, training in computer forensics, to work with federal agents in fighting back against pedophiles who use the internet to sexually exploit children.

The Hero Child Rescue Corps is a government-funded project that trains the veterans to hunt child predators - developed by the National Association to Protect Children (Protect), and in conjunction with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the veterans receive 11 weeks of intensive training and 10 months of on-the-ground experience, CNN reports.

The veterans work in unison with law enforcement, serving as computer forensic analysts as part of a year-long unpaid internship. After completing their training, the vets are placed in Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) field offices across the US.
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