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Robert Mueller helped Saudi Arabia cover up its role in 9/11 attacks: suit

Via The New York Post

After a lengthy investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller charged Russia made “multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election” and said the incursion “deserves the attention of every American.”

But former FBI investigators say their old boss didn’t feel the same concern when they uncovered multiple, systemic efforts by the Saudi government to assist the hijackers in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks — a far more consequential, to say nothing of deadly, foreign influence operation on America.

As the head of the FBI at the time, they say Mueller was not nearly as interested in investigating that espionage conspiracy, which also involved foreign intelligence officers. Far from it, the record shows he covered up evidence pointing back to the Saudi Embassy and Riyadh — and may have even misled Congress about what he knew.

9/11 victims agree. “He was the master when it came to covering up the kingdom’s role in 9/11,” said survivor Sharon Premoli, who was pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center 18 years ago.

Read the entire article HERE.

Tolerating Ourselves to Death with Google and China

Via American Greatness

s if we needed more reasons to intensify our calls to break up Google and other tech monopolies, this week the search-and-advertising giant announced that in the second quarter of 2019 it had removed 500 million comments, more than 100,000 videos, and over 17,000 channels from YouTube. Clearly, this private corporation has decided, while our elected officials dither, it will become the arbiter of free speech.

Perhaps our elected officials are fools. Perhaps they’ve been bought off. About the only thing we can be sure of in this instance is that this is pure idiocy.

Consider that in July, Dr. Robert Epstein testified that Google’s search-engine manipulation effect likely swung 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Epstein estimated that in 2020, if the big tech companies are in sync, and they likely will be in backing the Democratic candidate, they might be able to swing 15 million votes. Apparently, we’ve just decided that leftist corporations can, almost without consequence, decide what our speech standards should be. This makes even the most fever-dreamed speculations about Russia’s election meddling efforts of 2016 look like utter child’s play, to say nothing of the actual pitiful effort.

Social Credit Is Coming

But it’s not just voting and information manipulation that should concern us. There are now reports coming out of Silicon Valley that social credit score systems are being developed and implemented, much like in China.

One such report by Mike Elgan in Fast Company explains that these social credit scores are meant to manipulate behavior and to achieve a desired end. Think of social credit score systems as tech companies and corporations creating their own system of right and wrong, their own moral code, that they will implement to achieve the behavior they want based on their worldview and faith system.

“The most disturbing attribute of a social credit system is not that it’s invasive, but that it’s extralegal,” Elgan writes. “Crimes are punished outside the legal system, which means no presumption of innocence, no legal representation, no judge, no jury, and often no appeal. In other words, it’s an alternative legal system where the accused have fewer rights.”

If this is allowed to hold in the United States, it will have serious implications for many things we take for granted; if you can travel and where; where you can stay; where you can eat. Those who refuse to conform will be stigmatized, ostracized from society. Don’t believe me? It’s happening in China right now.

Read the entire article HERE.

Leprosy Could Be The Next Public Health Crisis To Hit Los Angeles

Via Saracarter.com

Leprosy cases are emerging in Los Angeles County, according to a recent study revealed in a Reuters Health report and its co-author Dr. Maria Teresa Ochoa of Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles told Reuters Health that she’s urging the public to “fight the stigma.”

The disease commonly referred to as “Hansen’s Disease” is curable when treated expeditiously, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Scientists believe it is spread through particles in the air, but also say contact must be “prolonged” and “close.” An infected person can suffer mild to severe damage to the body’s “skin, nerves, and mucous membranes.” Moreover, patients can lose feeling in parts of their bodies and suffer permanent blindness.

Read the entire article HERE.

Community BBQ may draw thousands after vegan sued her neighbors over meat smells

Via The Washington Examiner

Thousands of people have said they would attend a BBQ in the neighborhood of a vegan who recently sued her neighbors over meat and fish smells.

Cilla Carden, who lives in a town in Australia, took her neighbors to court saying the smells and noises they create have seriously damaged her way of life, according to 9 News. Australian courts have thrown out Carden’s suit despite multiple appeals.

A Facebook page created in the backlash to Carden’s suit is advertising a community BBQ in her neighborhood on Oct. 19. So far, nearly 4,000 people have said they would attend.

“Cilla Carden has a problem with her neighbors cooking meat on their BBQ, because she’s a vegan. Recently taking them to the Supreme Court!” the page’s description says. “Don’t let Cilla destroy a good old Aussie tradition, join us for a community BBQ in protest of her actions, and help Cilla Carden GET SOME PORK ON HER FORK.”

Vegans are not invited, the description says.

Read the entire article HERE.

This company is advertising MeToo-branded at-home rape kits. Experts say it’s a terrible idea.

Via Vox

“Your experience. Your kit. Your story. Your life. Your choice.”

That’s the pitch a Brooklyn company is making for a product called the MeToo Kit: a do-it-yourself rape kit designed to allow survivors to gather physical evidence at home, rather than at a hospital.

The kits are not yet available for purchase, but the idea has already sparked criticism. In a cease-and-desist letter to the company, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel argued that “an at-home evidence kit does not address the health care needs of many sexual assault survivors,” and that any evidence collected might not be admissible in court.

“We are advocates for all options for survivors” as long as those options are not dangerous or harmful, Morgan Dewey, communications director for the group End Rape on Campus, told Vox. “This is in fact harmful.”

Company founder Madison Campbell called Nessel’s criticisms “deeply disappointing” in a statement released Friday, arguing that instead of criticizing MeToo Kit in the press, Nessel “should be more concerned with creating a productive dialogue in which my colleagues and I can address some of the concerns she may have.”

The kit is in its early stages, Campbell told Vox in an email on Thursday, stressing that she wanted to work with experts on making sure the evidence gathered by users could be admissible in court. She said the idea for the kit was rooted in her personal experience as a survivor of campus sexual assault.

“After my sexual assault, I did not even want to touch myself — let alone let anyone touch my body or console me,” she told Vox. “We believe that it should be a survivor’s right to capture this evidence within the comfort of their own home.”

Read the entire article HERE.

‘Everything Is Bad And The World Is Ending And You Shouldn’t Have Kids,’ Says Party Of Progress

Via The Babylon Bee (SATIRE)

U.S.—The United States birth rate has continued to fall as millennials increasingly believe that everything is bad, the world is going to end, and to bring kids into this nightmarish hellscape would be tantamount to child abuse.

“The world is going to end in twelve years. If you have kids, it will end in probably like six years or something because they’ll just breathe more,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on a recent Instagram Live broadcast. “I have the science right here.” Ocasio-Cortez held up a copy of National Geographic. She later realized she had been referencing an article from 1989 warning that the world would end in 2001 if deep and wide environmental policies were not enforced. “If scientists from thirty years ago said the world was going to end in 12 years, who am I to doubt science?” she said upon realizing this.”Science is science.”

“The most progressive thing we can do is abort as many of the next generation as possible so they don’t have to be brought into this apocalyptic nightmare,” said progressive blogger Martina Bridges on a live stream over her iPhone from the driver’s seat in her Lexus on a sunny day in Santa Monica while drinking a cucumber lime acai iced tea.

Read the entire article HERE.