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Double standards: Bill Maher gets to make anti-Semitic jokes with Bari Weiss, but Ilhan Omar can't say a word about Israel?

Jonathan Ofir
Mondweiss
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:27 UTC
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Bill Maher and Bari Weiss trade anti-semitic witticisms
New York Times staff editor Bari Weiss is on a hell of a roll these days, having just published a book called How to Fight anti-Semitism. Weiss's own paper, the New York Times, judges the book to be "a brave book", because Weiss is ostensibly walking into perilous intellectual territory:
Should she have to fear ostracism or damage to her journalistic reputation for pointing out that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, while theoretically distinguishable, have long merged into a single ugly phenomenon?
Presenting Zionist apologists like Weiss as being in danger is laughable. She is representing a privileged mainstream view, one that is applied by the conservative left as well as the right in attempt to moderate voices that are starting to challenge Zionism. That's the voice of those who try to silence Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, that's the voice of those who try to discredit Jeremy Corbyn in UK. The new voices who break through the orthodoxy are currently in the minority, but Weiss is now trying to portray herself as a representative of an oppressed and persecuted minority:
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Walmart to stop selling electronic cigarettes at its stores

Anne D'Innocenzio
ABC News
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:52 UTC
Walmart
Walmart says it will stop selling electronic cigarettes at its namesake stores and Sam's Clubs following a string illnesses and deaths related to vaping.

The nation's largest retailer said Friday that it will complete its exit from e-cigarettes after selling through current inventory. It cited growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity regarding vaping products.
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Snakes in Suits

Jeffrey Epstein 'ran a $500M Ponzi scheme fueled by insider trading and fake stock buys'

Chris Spargo
The Daily Mail
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:11 UTC
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Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein is being accused of running a $500 million Ponzi scheme for decades in a class action lawsuit that was filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

He was able to keep the scheme running for as long as he did by adopting a few highly illegal practices according to the complaint, including the execution of fake stock buys to manipulate the market and trading on insider information.

Then, when the money ran out, Epstein came up with a new plan according to the complaint.

In 1988, Epstein began pushing 'promissory notes ... that resulted in the sale of approximately $272 million throughout the United States.'
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Dominoes

'Why does YouTube do dumb things?': Checkmark overhaul leaves creators FURIOUS


RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:06 UTC
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YouTube has stripped all of its channels of automatic verification. From now on the platform will decide who to verify with a checkmark - and who to ignore. The move has content creators livid.

Unlike Twitter's policy of assigning the coveted blue checkmark to users who prove their identity, YouTube has automatically verified any channel passing 100,000 subscribers, until now. The company - a subsidiary of Google - announced an overhaul on Thursday.

Starting in October, YouTube's team will decide who to verify based on a few outlined criteria. Those include a channel's popularity, its presence outside YouTube, and whether similarly-named channels exist that could confuse users.

There is more: all channels verified under the old rules have been stripped of that status and, crucially, "there is no process to request channel verification."
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Bulb

Actor jailed for resisting arrest during Moscow protest released on parole as sentence appealed


RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:52 UTC
Pavel Ustinov
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Pavel Ustinov during a court hearing.
Pavel Ustinov, an actor who was jailed for assaulting a policeman during a protest in Moscow, has been released on parole. His sentence, which he appealed, was slated as miscarriage of justice by many in Russia.

A Moscow city court on Tuesday ruled that Ustinov, 23, should be released from pre-trial detention on the condition that he does not leave the city until his appeal has been heard. The decision was taken at the request of the prosecution and supported by his defense team. The appeal itself will be deliberated on further by the court next week.

The young man was previously sentenced to three years and six months in jail for injuring an arresting police officer during an unsanctioned protest rally in early August. The ruling triggered a public outcry in Russia and some other nations, with many public figures calling it unjust. The court failed to review footage of Ustinov's arrest, which his numerous supporters insist proves his innocence.
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Ohio child sex trafficking sting nabs more than 100, including church leader, ER doctor: report

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:17 UTC
Men arrested
More than 100 people, including a medical doctor and a church youth director, were arrested as part of a massive human trafficking and child sex sting operation based in central Ohio, according to a report.

Those arrested included 24 men caught when they showed up at an undisclosed location with the intention of meeting a child for sex, Maj. Steven Tucker of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said.

"They show up with sex toys, they show up with lubrication," Tucker said. "They show up with things that clearly somebody isn't going to show up to a house with, unless they intended to engage in sexual activity."

The 24 suspects were charged with attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and importuning, Columbus' WBNS-TV reported.
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UFO

Area 51 raid day: UFO & alien hunters descending on Nevada as US military calls in reinforcements & declares no-fly zone


RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:16 UTC
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Alien enthusiasts are descending on rural Nevada en masse for a pair of festivals celebrating Area 51 and the UFOs it could be hiding - but locals don't want them there and neither do the military, who've called in reinforcements.

UFO enthusiasts have begun making the pilgrimage out to Rachel and Hiko, Nevada, sites of two competing festivals scheduled for this weekend, real-life versions of the "Storm Area 51" event scheduled that went viral on Facebook last month and attracted millions of would-be attendees. The impending human tide has provoked a grim response from authorities protecting whatever the secretive military base holds, but the xenophiles are determined to party anyway.

Alienstock, the festival planned for Rachel, is currently embroiled in a legal battle and was cancelled last week, according to the event website. But that hasn't stopped Connie West, owner of Rachel's only commercial establishment, the Little A'Le'Inn, from moving forward, or guests from arriving from all over the world - or the galaxy.
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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
Twitter logo
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In 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

Comment:

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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
michael mann climate change
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Michael 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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