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California has been harvesting newborn DNA for decades. Why?

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC
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Every individual who is born in a hospital in California now has a sample of their DNA stolen and kept in a state-run database. What used to take a court order now happens regularly, and the disturbing invasion of privacy takes place with hardly a whimper of protest from the nation's most populous state.

According to a report from CBS San Francisco, the DNA of every person born in California since 1983 is stored in a state biobank. Police, the government, and outside researchers have access to it. While parents can request that their children's DNA samples be destroyed, the state is not obligated to honor the request or to report if it has been carried out.

In what may seem as far-fetched as NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelation that the government is spying on all Americans, such DNA could potentially be used against children in a court of law, or be sold to potential bidders much like Planned Parenthood reportedly does with aborted baby body parts. What scientists can do with one's DNA is limitless.

Comment: What they're really doing with the DNA is up for debate but it's pretty much guaranteed that it's for nefarious purposes.

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One-upping Peter Fonda, Pat Dussault decides to threaten Donald Trump Jr.'s daughter Chloe

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:24 UTC
On Wednesday actor Peter Fonda, brother of Hanoi Jane Fonda, threatened Donald Trump's 12-year-old son Barron with rape.
Peter Fonda
Fonda wasn't done though.

He threatened the children of border agents.

And called for mass protests against the "Giant A$$hole" President Trump.

Comment: See also: Sick! Peter Fonda calls for Trump's son to be put 'in a cage with pedophiles' - Secret Service on alert

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Iraq militia vows vengeance for deadly Syrian raid


The National
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:17 UTC
Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades
© AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Members of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades carry flags in front of portraits of fellow members who were killed in air raids four days earlier, during a memorial ceremony in Baghdad.
A powerful Iraqi militia backed by Iran pledged Thursday to get revenge for a deadly air raid on its fighters in Syria, blaming the United States or Israel for the attack.

Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades militia has said 22 of its fighters were killed in an air strike Sunday on a military base in eastern Syria that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

Both Damascus and the Iraqi militia at first pointed the finger at the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in the area.

But a US official said there was cause to believe Israel carried out the deadly raid along the border with Iraq that hit forces battling on the side of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

Hezbollah Brigades spokesman Jaafar al-Husseini said it was still too early to say definitively whose forces carried out the strike, but insisted it "could only have been" the Americans or Israelis.
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US Supreme Court rules online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax

Jessica Gresko
Associated Press
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:55 UTC
US Supreme Court building
© AP
States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.

Consumers can expect to see sales tax charged on more online purchases - likely over the next year and potentially before the Christmas shopping season - as states and retailers react to the court's decision, said one attorney involved in the case.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually. The decisions made it more difficult for states to collect sales tax on certain online purchases, and more than 40 states had asked the high court for action. Five states don't charge sales tax.

The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state. Customers were generally responsible for paying the sales tax to the state themselves if they weren't charged it, but most didn't realize they owed it and few paid.
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Massive manhunt underway for Pennsylvania man who threatened President Trump on social media

Haley Blanco
pahomepage.com
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:43 UTC
Shawn Christy
© pahomepage.com
An army of federal, state and local law enforcement searching for a Schuylkill County man they call a "clear and present danger".

Investigators say, 26-year-old Shawn Christy threatened the President's life and it's not the first time he threatened a public figure.

Eyewitness News Reporter Haley Bianco has been following this developing story all morning.

Law officers tell Eyewitness News they're taking this very seriously because of his past, harassing and threatening other leaders and police officers. At this moment, police are searching the nearby woods in McAdoo.

"Said he was going to shoot the President. And that's when I called the Secret Service," Craig Christy, father of Shawn Christy said.
Shawn Christy tweet
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Mosul and Aleppo: What the MSM didn't tell you happened after liberation of two cities


RT
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:26 UTC
Workers repair the damage in front of Aleppo's historic citadel on January 31, 2017
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
Workers repair the damage in front of Aleppo's historic citadel on January 31, 2017.
Aleppo and Mosul, cities that endured some of the worst urban warfare in the 21st century, have quite different liberation stories, but they are alike in the way media treated them with oblivion once the post-war struggle began.

Both the Syrian city of Aleppo and Iraq's Mosul found themselves gripped in fierce battles in late 2016. Syrian forces were trying to liberate the eastern part of Aleppo from militant groups to end the mortar shelling, which was killing civilians in the western half, and to begin rebuilding the war-ravaged districts of the city. An ambitious Russia-backed effort to evacuate civilians from the warzone set up humanitarian corridors. It was the US-backed Iraqi battle for Mosul, however, that captured the Western media's favor as a heroic struggle to liberate civilians from Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL), while the war in Aleppo was presented in a markedly different light.
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Migrant sued Obama-era ICE for holding teens in 'brutal, inhumane conditions'

Penny Starr
Breitbart
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:11 UTC
Obama
© Alex Wong/Getty Images
President Barack Obama's immigration agency allowed migrant youths as young as 14 to be abused, tied up, left naked in solitary confinement, and denied health treatment at a juvenile detention center in Virginia in 2015 and 2016, says a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Latino migrant.

The lawsuit was settled in January, according to the Associated Press, which does not describe the settlement but does say that officials at Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center (SVJC) in Staunton, Virginia, denied the claims.

The lawsuit filed on behalf of plaintiff John Doe states:
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US Supreme Court rules police need warrant for cell phone location data


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:06 UTC
cellphones
© Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a defendant challenging the government's use of his cellphone location information without a warrant.

Timothy Carpenter was sentenced to 116 years in prison after being found guilty in 2013 of planning a number of armed robberies across the American Midwest. Police used his cellphone records to link him to the crimes but Carpenter argued at his trial that the records were inadmissible as they had been obtained without a legal writ.

His argument was rejected by the initial trial court and at the court of appeal, before the case was brought before the Supreme Court in November 2017. Carpenter was represented in the case by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The court ruled 5-4 in favor of Carpenter, saying that police need a court-approved warrant to access a citizen's private data. Taking data from service providers without a warrant amounts to unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment in the US Constitution, the court said.

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Just a reminder of how Mexico treats 'undesirable' foreigners

Michelle Malkin
National Review
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:00 UTC
mexico border
Why isn't what's good for the protection of Mexico good for the U.S.?

American politicians in both parties are stampeding all over themselves to pander to Mexico and adopt mass illegal-alien-amnesty schemes. But while the Mexican government lobbies for more "humane" treatment of illegal border-crossers from their country into ours, Mexico remains notoriously restrictionist toward "undesirable" foreigners who break their laws or threaten their security.

Despite widely touted immigration "reforms" adopted in 2011, Mexico still puts Mexico first - as any country that is serious about protecting its sovereignty should and would.

Comment: Sounds like Mexico has a rather sensible immigration policy, something the US Democrats, with their crocodile tears for illegal immigrants, could learn from.

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Study: 1 billion firearms worldwide, 85% held by civilians


RT
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:40 UTC
gun open targets
© Andy Clark / Reuters
As many as 85 percent of the world's one billion legal and illicit firearms are held by civilians - far exceeding the number of those held by modern armed forces and law enforcement agencies, a Swiss-based think tank revealed.

There are roughly one billion firearms in the world, and the vast majority of them are in civilian - not military - hands, according to a new study by a think tank in Switzerland.

The Small Arms Survey, which provides research and expertise on weapons proliferation and armed violence, examined the ownership of automatic pistols and revolvers, rifles, carbines, assault rifles and sub- and light-machine guns, held by civilian, military and law enforcement entities.

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