A doctor best known for overseeing the introduction of guidelines on caring for victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), has admitted to possessing prohibited pictures of children and a film depicting the sexual abuse of a dog.

Obstetrician Manish Gupta pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 19 October to possessing 14 images of children and other images and film depicting violence. He will be at the same court sentenced next month.

Calling the images disturbing Melissa Garner, a senior prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service, said they were found on his laptops.

She added: These included 14 prohibited images of children and violent acts against women. Some of these were found on a laptop used for work after it was seized by police following a referral from the NSPCC.

Gupta, 47, was co-chair of the Guidelines Committee at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), where in 2015 he oversaw the production of fresh rules on how health professionals should treat women who have undergone FGM.

The RCOG was informed of a police investigation regarding Dr Manish Guptas role at Whipps Cross Hospital and all direct College involvement with Dr Gupta was immediately halted, a spokesperson for the organisation said. This included him stepping down from his position as a co-chair of the RCOG Guidelines Committee and all related activity.

He also worked as a consultant obstetrician at Whipps Cross University Hospital, which is run by Barts Health NHS Trust.

A spokesperson for the trust said it had cooperated fully with the police after allegations about the pornography first arose almost two years ago.

As soon as the police contacted us, his contact with patients and confidential records ceased, the spokesperson added. His work email and computer files were searched and no concerning documents or images were found. We have not found evidence of abnormal behaviour or other findings of concern with respect to patient care.

The obstetrician was immediately suspended and has not worked for Barts Health since, they added.

In a statement after Gupta admitted guilt, the NSPCC childrens charity said: By possessing and viewing these images Gupta  a man in a respected and trusted position of care  has contributed to an industry that trades on the suffering of real children being subjected to horrific abuse.

It is vital the children in those images are identified and given the help they need to recover.

Doctor responsible for FGM treatment guide admits to possessing extreme porn


Chinese reporter Liang Xiangyi eye-rolled during another reporters long-winded question at the National Peoples Congress yesterday and the moment has gone viral. Many Chinese residents have created dozens of videos, GIFs, memes, and illustrations inspired by the scene, having identified with Liangs frustration. (Since Liang dressed in blue and the other reporter dressed in red, the moment has also birthed blue and red memes.)

Chinese state-run media has responded by censoring the videos of the incident. Internet censors have also blocked searches for Liang Xiangyis name. Its an unusual moment, considering the Congress is typically dry and uneventful.

During the National Peoples Congress last night (Tuesday morning in Beijing time), Liang, whos with the Shanghai-based business channel Yicai, looks back at the reporter next to her whos going on and then looks away out of disdain, rolling her eyes hard. The American reporter, Zhang Huijun, is from America Multimedia TV, a Chinese-language TV station, which has a partnership with Chinas CCTV.

Zhang introduces herself and then asks a long and wordy question to a state council regulator about how overseas assets of state-owned enterprises will be effectively supervised to prevent the loss of capital from state-owned enterprises.

Her question, which can already fit two paragraphs in English, repeated itself twice and was filled with padded statements. Liangs eye roll seems to have been a sign of disgust at Zhangs flattery. Liang reportedly said she rolled her eyes because the person next to me was being an idiot, according to a leaked chat spotted by WhatsonWeibo.

Other reporters have called Liangs behavior into question. The state-run Guangzhou Dailys staff member Dai Bin wrote in a personal Weibo post, This is a serious occasion, and people have to pay attention to the time they use asking a question  after all, its the National Peoples Congress. As for the woman who rolls her eyes, perhaps she is forgetting that she is being filmed, and forgot about her manners. May this be a lesson for her, as translated by WhatsonWeibo.

The Congress started its two-week meet over the weekend and quickly voted to abolish term limits for President Xi Jinping. Anything that could be remotely perceived as anti-government has been censored in the past few weeks, as locals frustration over Xis possible lifetime rule grows.

Police have even ordered restaurants in Wudaokou, a popular student area in Beijing, to place limits on how many foreigners they can serve at a time. Pyro Pizza posted a notice this week saying, Until March 22nd, every Friday night and Saturday, as requested by local authorities, we can only allow a maximum of 10 foreigners in our store at a time.

As residents frustrations increase, and Not My President and I disagree posters continue to crop up outside of China, we can expect more viral moments like this one, as veiled and obscure as they might be, and we can expect censorship to follow.

A Chinese reporters frustrated eye roll goes viral in China and is censored


(Natural News) Facebook has been growing increasingly desperate in recent months as it works to repair the damage caused by several high-profile scandals. However, their attempts to improve their relationship with the media likely had the opposite effect as a Facebook executive made some tasteless threats to a gathering of Australian media companies.

When Facebooks Global Head of News Partnerships, Campbell Brown, addressed a group of more than 20 publishers and broadcasters Down Under, she said Facebook wants to help media companies to create sustainable business models. It might have been a welcome message had she not delivered it by implying that their businesses would die without the help of Facebook.

According to The Australian, at one point during the four-hour, closed-door meeting, she said: We will help you revitalise journalism ... in a few years the reverse looks like Ill be holding your hands with your dying business like in a hospice.

Brown, whose past roles include being a correspondent for NBC News and a prime time host on CNN, was hired by Facebook last year to improve its relationships with news organizations after it came under fire for the role it played in spreading misinformation in the run-up to the presidential election in 2016.

Making matters worse, she went on to say that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg does not care about publishers. She added: We are not interested in talking to you about your traffic and referrals anymore. That is the old world and there is no going back  Mark wouldnt agree to this.

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Facebook has stated that the quotes were taken out of context and are not accurate, but they have failed to release transcripts of the meeting to support this claim. At least five sources who attended the meeting confirmed Browns comments to the media.

These remarks are further evidence of the arrogance and runaway monopolistic power of tech giants, and they should give people serious pause when they consider the influence that firms like Facebook and Google have over modern society. Their I own this town attitude is unappealing, even if there is an element of truth to it. These companies think they run the world, and in a way, they do  but only because people let them. The masses have become so addicted to the conveniences offered by technology like smartphones that they dont stop to think about how theyre really paying for free services like Facebook, YouTube, and Google Maps. In most cases, theyre giving up a lot more personal data than they realize, while letting these companies gain an incredible amount of power over the flow of information in society and which opinions are allowed to be heard.

Facebooks Samidh Chakrabarti has also said they dont want to be arbiters of truth, yet they are quick to claim that anything going against their ideals is fake news, and sites like Googles YouTube have come under attack for censoring conservative voices.

President Trump might get a lot of things wrong, but he was definitely on the right track with his recent comments that these tech businesses out-of-control censorship needs to be stopped.

Evil Facebook now threatening the media Work with us or DIE


Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has provided insight on Apples lineup of new products in a research note obtained by MacRumors. The note discusses the reception of the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and Apple Watch Series 4.

Kuos report says that demand for the iPhone XS Max is higher than expected, and is about three to four times higher than demand for the iPhone XS. Gold and space grey are far more popular than silver when it comes to color options, and the 256GB version is the most popular. The note also says that the 512GB version could face a shortage because of reliance on Samsung as a supplier:

We have determined that the demand for XS Max is better than expected (34 times that of XS). The gold and space-grey colors are significantly more popular than the silver. 256GB is the most popular, and 512GB is subject to a serious shortage because only Samsung can currently ship NAND Flash well. We are positive that XS Max shipments will grow steadily in 4Q18 thanks to demand from Asia market and the gift season.

Kuo also says that demand for the Apple Watch Series 4 is higher than expected, and has increased the forecast number for expected units Apple will sell:

Apple Watch Series 4 demand is much better than expected. The capacity of the assembler Quanta is full already; therefore, the supply cannot improve significantly until second supplier Compals mass production for Apple Watch Series 4 starting from November. We have increased the Apple Watch shipment forecast in 2018 from 18mn to 18.519.5mn units.

Finally, per MacRumors, Kuo also says that more customers will choose to upgrade to the iPhone XR and hes confident that the choke points Apple is facing with display-related production will markedly improve by October.

The iPhone XS Max is outselling the iPhone XS according to analyst report


(Natural News) The chemicals used in fracking and other unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction processes are reported to be linked t0 potentially cancerous growths in the mammary glands of female mice. The lab animals were deliberately exposed at a young age to chemical levels considered detrimental to the environment.

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst published their findings in the journal Endocrinology.

The researchers recommended that further studies should determine the full effect of these findings on the overall health of the mammary gland over a long period of time, with particular emphasis on the capacity to lactate and developing the risk of breast cancer.

Fracking chemicals found to cause changes in breast tissue


The evolution of the toy has changed so much over the last century that sometimes its hard to keep up. And for most toy companies, they do whatever they can to remain relevant, no matter how bizarre their creations get.

Take a look at 30 of the most peculiar toys and why you cant blame kids for actually wanting them because theyre just so weird.

While little girls love to pretend to be mommies, this just may be taking it a tad too far. Although this toy also has most of the items that a new mommy will need to take care of her newborn when he or she finally comes out, one has to wonder if the missing portion of her dress will ever be found. We all know Barbies regular clothes will never fit her so she may just need to borrow Kens shirt if she ever wants to be fully clothed again.

30 Toys That You Wont Believe Are Meant For Kids


A bomb was detonated in a van in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing 11 people at a military checkpoint in an apparent suicide attack for which Isis has claimed responsibility.

The blast took place on Basilan, the island stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group notorious for kidnapping and banditry. It was also the home of the former leader, or emir of Isis in southeast Asia, killed last year by Philippine troops.

A suspected bomber, a soldier, five paramilitary troopers and four civilians, including a mother and her child, were killed and seven people were wounded in the blast, an army spokesman said.

Vehicle bombings are rare in the Philippines, despite decades of separatist and Islamist violence that have destabilised the Mindanao region and lured foreign extremists.

In a statement carried by its Amaq news agency, Isis claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack, which it called a martyrdom operation.

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque condemned the bombing as a war crime, calling it an illegal use of force, even in times of armed conflict.

Tuesdays explosion happened moments after troops stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver, who was alone and probably detonated the bomb, the military said.

A soldier who witnessed the attack said in an interview on private-run Dzmm radio that the driver spoke in an unfamiliar dialect and may have been foreign.

However, military spokesman colonel Edgard Arevalo said security forces were investigating and there was no basis yet to conclude that the incident was a suicide bombing or had been carried out by a foreigner.

Intelligence indicated that militants planned to build homemade bombs and target army bases, he added.

Basilan is a no-go area for most Filipinos and Western countries typically warn citizens to stay away because of the presence of Abu Sayyaf and fierce military offensives against its fighters.

Abu Sayyaf is infamous for taking fishermen and crew from commercial ships as hostages and beheading Western captives for whom ransom is not paid.

President Rodrigo Duterte was on a neighbouring island at the weekend and has offered peace talks with several Abu Sayyaf factions.

Mr Dutertes offer came two days after he approved a law to allow minority Muslims in the region to create a new autonomous area with its own political and economic powers.

Tuesdays blast was a horrifying attack and a cowardly act said opposition lawmaker and senator Risa Hontiveros, a backer of the autonomy law who urged that the attack should not derail moves towards self-determination for the regions Muslims.

The bombing was a sign extremists were bent on sabotaging a peace effort that had a chance of success, said security expert Rommel Banlaoi.

These pro-Islamic State militants will pose a tremendous challenge for the implementation of the Bangsamoro Organic Law, he said, referring to the autonomy law.

Suicide bomb attack kills 11 in south Philippines


Brett Kavanaugh is in a lot of trouble. He told blatant lies that can easily be debunked, and he even claimed that, although he did drink to get drunk in high school and college, he claims never once did he not remember the night before, or wake up to his friends saying, dude, do you know what you did last night? This would make anyone who has ever been to a kegger or a house party give some serious side eye because, duh, when you drink as a young person, you are learning limits, and in order to learn them, they have to be surpassed.

He also lied about the legal drinking age, claiming that it was legal for him to drink in high school, despite law raising the legal age to 21 before he reached high school. He can claim he simply did not remember, but if one thing is certain, a young person knows the exact date that they are allowed to go to a bar for the first time.

Now, he has an FBI investigation on his hands, and as if that wasnt bad enough, he also has authorities in Maryland, where Christine Blasey Ford claims the assault took place in 1982, saying that they will open an investigation into the claim if the alleged victim asks for one.

The disclosure by Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger and Montgomery County States Attorney John McCarthy came Friday, the same day that President Trump ordered the FBI to conduct a limited supplemental investigation. But Manger and McCarthy noted that prosecution was unlikely in Maryland because authorities would have to apply the law that existed at the time of the offense, not the law that exists now.

The Montgomery County Police Department and the Montgomery County States Attorneys Office stand ready to investigate any sexual assault allegation from any victim where the incident occurred in our jurisdiction. To date, there have been no criminal reports filed with the Montgomery County Department of Police that would lead to the initiation of any criminal investigation related to Judge Kavanaugh.

According to the Baltimore Sun:

A group of state legislators from the county on Tuesday had called on police and prosecutors to investigate allegations that Kavanaugh committed one or more sexual assaults while a high school student at Georgetown Prep in the 1980s. The lawmakers asked authorities not to wait for an alleged victim to make a complaint to them before starting an investigation.

The police responded with the following letter:

The report states that, In their letter Tuesday, the delegates said they were writing to express our concern about the need for an investigation into recent high-profile allegations of sex assault in our county.... We believe local law enforcement has the authority to investigate allegations of crimes without need for a formal complaint, and we further believe third parties have standing to bring such complaints.'

Maryland Officials Make Brett Kavanaugh Announcement That Rocks The WH


Late night TV and liberal media back up Elizabeth Warrens outrageous claim that her DNA test proves she has Native American ancestry.

Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and Laura Ingram join in on a music montage making fun of Warren.

Trump VS Pocahontas LMAO


(Natural News) Arthritis is an unfortunate part of getting older for many people. If youre not experiencing it now, theres a good chance you will as the CDC predicts that one out of every two individuals will develop osteoarthritis by their 85th birthday. The good news is that you might not be stuck taking pills to treat the condition thanks to new discoveries related to one of natures top anti-inflammatories.

Its widely known that curcumin boasts powerful anti-inflammatory effects, but its poor bioavailability in the body can make it challenging for people to get enough of it in their system to make a difference. Thats why many of the studies illustrating curcumins benefits for arthritis have involved injecting large amounts of it.

Now, there is good news for people suffering from arthritis who dont want to resort to pharmaceuticals as researchers have developed a specialized complex of curcumin that offers seven times the bioavailability of standard curcumin.

The new complex is known as BCM-95, and it contains curcumin that has been purified and reconstituted. Researchers tested out the complex in a study involving rheumatoid arthritis patients. One group was assigned 500 milligrams a day of the new curcumin complex, the second group was given 50 milligrams a day of the standard arthritis medication diclofenac, and a third group took both the curcumin and the diclofenac.

The researchers measured the patients levels of joint swelling and tenderness to determine how the various treatments might have improved their symptoms using increments of 20, 50, and 70 percent. They found the group that took only curcumin experienced the best outcome, with 93 percent reporting a significant reduction (20 percent) in pain and swelling. Nearly three fourths of this group noted a 50 percent reduction, while a third noted 70 percent less joint swelling and tenderness.

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The group that only took curcumin also came out on top when it came to a reduction in pain; the group noted a decrease in pain of 60 percent. You might think that adding the diclofenac medication to the curcumin would reduce their pain even further, but the group that took both treatments reported a drop in pain of 56 percent. Meanwhile, those who took the diclofenac on its own only noted a 50 percent reduction in pain.

Self-reported levels of pain are inherently subjective, although theres a lot of value in feeling improvements whether they can be scientifically measured or not. However, the researchers also looked at a concrete measurement of inflammation: erythrocyte sedimentation rates. They found that those taking the curcumin with diclofenac saw their erythrocyte sedimentation rates drop by 13.3 percent, while those taking just curcumin noted slightly lower drop of 11.2 percent. Those taking just diclofenac fared the worst in this regard with a reduction in their sedimentation rate of just 8.3.3 percent.

They also looked another inflammation marker, C-reactive protein measurements. Here, the difference between those taking curcumin and the other groups was even more noticeable. The group that only took curcumin saw their CRP reactive protein levels cut in half, while the diclofenac group experienced no CRP reductions and actually had slightly higher amounts of the inflammatory protein.

In addition to its superior performance, curcumin also has an edge what it comes to side effects. The patients in the curcumin-only group did not experience any adverse reactions or side effects. Meanwhile, those who took diclofenac experienced problems like liver toxicity, allergic reactions, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Other drugs that are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis arent much better. Methotrexate, for example, suppresses the immune system and can raise your risk of infection.

Because curcumin is so good at addressing inflammation, its uses extend far beyond treating rheumatoid arthritis. It also can help prevent or alleviate cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimers disease, multiple sclerosis, and even cancer.

Turmeric extract combats the joint-damaging effects of arthritis


I usually dont finish games I start because the ending often feels like a culmination of something Ive been working toward for hours and consequently already understand. So Im impressed that We Happy Few, the second game from Canadian studio Compulsion Games, kept me obsessively hooked to the last moment. Less impressively, I was so obsessed because I just wanted the game to be what it had promised, not the thing Id been playing for the last 28 hours. We Happy Few is a unique piece of dystopian worldbuilding. Its also frequently confounding, occasionally miserable, and eventually lost within its own ambitions.

The colorful, creepy We Happy Few is set in a British town called Wellington Wells in an alternate 1964, where a non-Nazi German Empire won World War II after America chose to remain neutral. While under German occupation, the people of Wellington Wells did something terrible  so terrible that they chose to erase their memories with a euphoric hallucinogen called Joy. A couple of decades later, Wellington Wells is a groovy, rainbow-hued high-tech police state where being a drug-free Downer is illegal and every respectable citizen sports a permanently smiling mask. The towns infrastructure is falling apart, a plague is infecting residents, and the outskirts are filled with Joy-resistant wastrels. But nobody is rude enough to mention all that, if they notice at all.

The games primary character is a weedy censorship bureau employee named Arthur Hastings, who goes off his Joy when a newspaper story dredges up old memories of his long-lost brother. But its divided into acts featuring three protagonists with different gameplay styles. After starting with Arthur, it shifts to his childhood friend Sally Boyle, a stealth-focused chemist who is secretly (and illegally) raising a baby. It ends with the story of his old neighbor Ollie Starkey, a military veteran who prefers brute force and hallucinates the ghost of his young daughter. The characters stories intersect, but each is seeking redemption for a different all-consuming regret, while trying to survive a world where regret is a mortal sin.

We Happy Few draws from the classics of British dystopian fiction, evoking The Prisoners saccharinely sinister Village, Brazils euphemism-cloaked retro-futurism, Brave New Worlds drug-fueled faux-utopia, and 1984s Oceania with its constantly rewritten past. But it has a singularly creepy sort of bucolic coziness. Your characters literally know everyone in town by name, since the game generates (extremely, archetypally British) names for every single bystander, enemy, and corpse.

Characters treated gravity as more of a suggestion than a law

Wellington Wells repressive oligarchy runs the town from a handful of brutalist monoliths, but the most common threat is random citizens who will spontaneously attack you for things like wearing the wrong clothes in the wrong district. A torn suit in a fancy area reminds citizens that something is wrong, and a fancy suit in a wastrel district reminds outsiders of what theyve lost. The whole town is on a collective mission to forget, and if you anger someone, they will furiously insist that you get happy while bludgeoning you to death.

A lot of encounters are darkly, absurdly funny because they involve characters acting out a charade of normal life in a practically post-apocalyptic landscape. This goes a long way toward making We Happy Fews high-concept setting tenable. The game reveals the towns atrocity early on, but it elides most questions about how Wellington Wells established its super high-tech society and what the rest of the world looks like. This is a solid bit of narrative discipline, so its too bad that most of the game is such a mess.

We Happy Few initially launched as an early access sandbox survival game in 2016, while the team worked on a story-focused campaign. The final product rests awkwardly between a gritty scavenging simulator and a Dishonored-style sneaky immersive sim. I hit a workable balance of story and survival early on, but the survival parts soon became annoying busywork locking up the story. Sally fights primarily by spraying or injecting enemies with drugs, which means every single takedown requires expending limited resources. Ollie is ambiguously diabetic (the game simply calls him unwell), so I limped around, slowly assembling a bee-proof suit for collecting honey that he could inject with a scavenged syringe. That is the kind of video game crafting shorthand that sounds increasingly ridiculous as you actually type it out.

Wellington Wells residents are alternately so inhumanly stupid and so inhumanly agile that mastering its simple stealth mechanics and clumsy melee combat feels pointless. My PC copy of We Happy Few also glitched constantly. Characters treated gravity as more of a suggestion than a law, and I had to abandon or restart quests because objects had disappeared or important characters had stopped reacting. And trying to fix bugs by reloading an auto-saved checkpoint creates a catch-22 because you have to quit to a main menu to load a save, but quitting overwrites the autosave with your latest progress.

But the biggest problem is that We Happy Few runs far, far too long  especially because it approaches Arthur, Sally, and Ollies acts as one interlocking narrative. Arthur has the most extended and revelatory arc, and his story bookends the game, which sets up Ollie and Sallys acts as tangential.

The game loses control over its own plot

The overall framing puts a strange, borderline misogynist spin on Sallys section. Arthur and Ollie are both atoning for clearly harmful choices they made during the occupation, and their arcs follow a defined pattern of remembering a minor transgression, going on a journey of redemption, and coming to a far more horrible revelation about themselves. Everything we learn about Sally, though, suggests that shes trying to atone for entering relationships with abusive men. The narrative structure paints this not as unreasonable self-loathing, but as loosely equivalent to Ollie and Arthurs decisions.

I dont think We Happy Few is actively trying to draw these equivalences. The game just loses control over its own plot and worldbuilding as it progresses, to the point that Im not even sure whether some strange moments were bugs, and whether some storytelling choices were intentional or not. A few of the scenes that different protagonists share with each other, for instance, change script or location depending on who youre playing. The map of Wellington Wells changes between characters as well. This is probably the result of narrative streamlining and Compulsions reliance on procedural generation because it doesnt serve a clear purpose for the plot.

Eventually, We Happy Few managed to push me into a state where I simply constructed an alternate version of the game that was intentionally confusing and nonsensical, from the fetch quests that amounted to grabbing an object 10 feet away from the quest-giver to the moment everyones eyes turned red and the sky teemed with orange lines. (Unless that actually was intentional?)

I doubt this was supposed to happen, but its somehow appropriate: while my version of the game might not be real, at least it makes me happy.

is available now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4.

We Happy Few is a creepy fascinating game that gets lost in its own ambition


Special Counsel Robert Mueller is currently investigating whether George Nader, an advisor to the United Arab Emirates, is influencing U.S. policy, the New York Times reported on March 3rd. A new report by the AP shines light on the shadowy, past of Nader, who is known as a globe-trotting fixer, who once had an alleged appetite for minors.

A key witness in the investigation into President Donald Trumps alleged collusion with Russia has fled the country, DailyMail.com can disclose. [...] He met Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon in Trump Tower just before the inauguration at a meeting they held with the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates. [...] Now DailyMail.com can reveal he has flown back to the UAE, according to two sources close to the countrys de-facto ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, who is known by his initials MBZ. [...] A Czech Republic court sentenced him to a year in prison in 2003 for ten cases of sexually abusing minors between 1999 and 2002. In one case, Nader asked for oral sex from a 14-year-old boy in a hotel room at the Hilton in Prague. When the boy refused, Nader masturbated in front of him and paid him 2,000 koruna, equivalent to around $100 today, a court official told the Associated Press. Politico then revealed he was convicted in 1986 in  a federal court in Northern Virginia in 1991 on a felony charge of transporting sexually explicit materials in foreign commerce  importing child pornography from overseas. He also had a 1986 charge of importing from magazines depicting nude boys from the Netherlands dismissed on a technicality.

Nader fleeing the country comes at a time when President Trump is using Twitter to turn the heat up on Mueller.

Special Council is told to find crimes, whether a crime exists or not. I was opposed to the selection of Mueller to be Special Council. I am still opposed to it. I think President Trump was right when he said there never should have been a Special Council appointed because........there was no probable cause for believing that there was any crime, collusion or otherwise, or obstruction of justice! So stated by Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Trump tweeted Wednesday.

On Monday, the President labeled the probe a total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted, The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!

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Donald Trumps handmaiden, Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), worked on Trumps campaign and has continued to help him, even as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Later, he creeped around in the middle of the night on a Trump errand. Now, the representative has been caught enjoying a very expensive lifestyle on campaign funds.

Two nonpartisan watchdog groups and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) have discovered how Nunes PAC spent nearly $43,000 on catering, hotels, meals, and site rentals in Las Vegas. He spent $7,229 in just seven high-end Las Vegas restaurants and hotels.

The watchdogs found that Nunes took political donations to buy almost $15,000 for Boston Celtics basketball game tickets and paid $3,594 at the four-star hotel the Omni Parker House in Boston. They also discovered he bought six luxurious winery tours for $5,000 and paid Gold Coast Limousine $5,000, too.

Leadership PACs run by congressional leaders were designed to let them donate money to other political campaigns. Unfortunately, these Congress members also use them for other so-called fundraising expenses.

Brendan Fischer and Maggie Christ authored a report by Campaign Legal Center and Issue One. The nonpartisan group keeps the spotlight on the ways Congress members use leadership PACs to subsidize lavish lifestyles on their donors dimes. The Fresno Bee reported that Fischer said:

The Fresno Bee interviewed Nunes and asked whether he had any intention of holding some local forums or town hall meetings. He responded:

A McClatchy reporter went up to Nunes to ask about his PAC spending, but he refused to comment:

Liz Mair Republican is a political strategist and head of the anti-Trump group Swamp Accountability Project. The organization currently funds anti-Nunes ads. She said:

Set aside that Nunes has got to be one of about 15 people in his district that spends the NBA season rooting for the guys from Teddy Kennedys turf instead of local favorites; the fact is, the FEC is not going to look favorably on a dude who uses his tax-exempt political entity like a personal slush fund, flying himself to Boston to watch them while apparently engaging in no activity relevant to the purpose of the political organization.

Nunes spent $4,409 at the Sea Venture beach hotel near Santa Margarita, California. The representative itemized his Las Vegas, Boston, and winery charges as fundraising expenses.

Thus far, the representative raised over $7 million for his own re-election campaign PAC, named New PAC, in 2018. In the past, he only raised between $1 million and $2.5 million.

When Nunes attached his star to POTUS, he became well-known. That enhanced his ability to fundraise for the GOP. His New PAC gave about 52 percent of its money to other politicians campaigns and political committees.

Unfortunately, the House Ethics Committee rarely enforces its ban on using leadership PACs for personal use. The FEC has been cloudy on the matter.

Devin Nunes Caught Funneling 43000 For Wild Las Vegas Party Lifestyle DETAILS


Microsoft and Amazon are integrating their digital assistants this week. A new preview is being offered to both Cortana and Alexa users in the US that will allow each digital assistant to summon each other and access additional apps and services. The integration was first announced last year and demonstrated earlier this year at Microsofts Build developer conference, and now Microsoft and Amazon are seeking feedback before its broadly rolled out to all devices.

The integration is rather basic right now and requires users to summon each digital assistant through a rather clunky process. Alexa, open Cortana will launch Cortana on an Echo device, and Hey Cortana, open Alexa, will do the same on Windows 10 PCs and devices like the Harman Kardon Invoke speaker. Cortana and Alexa will both be enabled as a skill on each platform, allowing you to call up Cortana from an Echo device and get access to some of the Windows / Office specific features of the digital assistant. Likewise, Windows 10 users will be able to access Alexa through Cortana to access a host of skills and smart home integrations.

Microsoft and Amazon are working to integrate Cortana and Alexa further

While the integration might be clunky, Microsoft and Amazon are working towards improving this in the future. The goal is to have two integrated digital assistants who can carry out tasks across different dimensions of daily life, explains Microsofts Jennifer Langston. Features like streaming music or alarms are not available just yet, but Microsoft says additional skills and features will be added over time. Engineers will use feedback from the public preview to deepen the collaboration between Cortana and Alexa, explains Langston.

Amazon is also bringing Alexa to a number of Windows 10 PCs with a dedicated app that can listen for the Alexa wake word. Microsoft hasnt really been pushing ahead with Cortana, though. With the exception of the Cortana-powered thermostat, Microsofts digital assistant has not started appearing in more speakers, cars, fridges, toasters, and thermostats like the company promised. Cortana has now fallen far behind both Alexa and Google Assistant, and Microsoft has now placed its Outlook for iPhone boss in charge of Cortana to help improve the situation.

If you want to try out Alexa on Cortana, and vice versa, you can simply say Hey Cortana, open Alexa on a Windows 10 PC, or say Alexa, open Cortana on an Echo device.

Microsoft and Amazon release preview of Cortana and Alexa integration


WASHINGTON  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may appear on the big screen in a cameo for an upcoming biopic on her early career.

Stephen Root, an actor in On the Basis of Sex, told The Hollywood Reporter that the high court justice recently filmed a brief appearance on a set of courthouse steps. The filming occurred in November, according to The Associated Press.

The movie, directed by Mimi Leder and written by Ginsburgs nephew Daniel Stiepleman, stars Felicity Jones as a young Ginsburg, working on what would become a landmark gender discrimination case. It also chronicles Ginsburgs relationship with her late husband Martin Ginsburg, played by Armie Hammer.

Representatives for Participant Media, a production company for the movie, could not immediately be reached for comment.

The movie, out later this year, is one of two recent big screen projects featuring the justice and cultural icon sometimes dubbed the Notorious RBG. An eponymous documentary about her, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, will land in theaters in May before airing on CNN.

Ginsburg, a noted opera and theater fan, has also previously appeared on stage in several operas, as well as a cameo during a 2016 production of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice  playing a judge.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Might Be Coming To A Movie Theater Near You


Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton, took a moment to thank the Secret Service for helping to ensure her parents safety Wednesday.

Every day, I am grateful to the women and men of the United States Secret Service. Thank you, she tweeted.

Every day, I am grateful to the women and men of the United States Secret Service. Thank you.  Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) October 24, 2018

Bill Clinton also echoed this gratitude to the agency.

Thank you to the @SecretService and all law enforcement agencies who responded to this week's incidents. They work tirelessly to keep our country and communities safe. I am forever grateful for their efforts.  Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) October 24, 2018

The Secret Service intercepted suspicious packages containing potential explosive devices that were sent to the Clintons home in the suburbs of New York City late Tuesday, and President Barack Obamas office in Washington D.C. Wednesday.

The packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such. The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them, the Secret Service said.

President Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation and tweeted I agree wholeheartedly with Vice President Mike Pences sentiment that These cowardly actions are despicable & have no place in this Country.

Bill Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, Chelsea Clinton, and Hillary Clinton depart Lenox Hill Hospital on June 20, 2016, in New York City.

On Wednesday, CNNs newsroom was evacuated when a suspicious package was sent to its headquarters in New York City, causing an alarm to sound while CNN hosts Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow were on air.

The New York Police Department confirmed it responded to the incident at CNNs Time Warner Center headquarters.

These are developing stories, please check here and here for updates.

Chelsea Clinton Thanks Secret Service Amid Hillary And Bills Bomb Scare


Google reportedly ordered its employees to delete an internal memo detailing its controversial plan for a censored search engine in China.

The confidential document, according to a new report from The Intercept, reveals the secretive search engine not only requires users to link their identity and location to searches by logging into an account, but that a Chinese partner would be granted unilateral access to the data.

Google soon discovered that the memo had begun circulating this month among unauthorized employees opposed to the project and demanded the content be purged from all devices.

Google human resources personnel emailed employees who were believed to have accessed or saved copies of the memo and ordered them to immediately delete it from their computers, The Intercept, citing three sources, reported. Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained pixel trackers that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.

Designed to censor information deemed sensitive by Chinas ruling Communist Party, the search engine, which will be available as apps for both Android and iOS, will also link users searches to their phone number as well.

The memo adds that Chinese users movements would also be stored, along with the IP address of their device and links they clicked on, The Intercept states. It accuses developers working on the project of creating spying tools for the Chinese government to monitor its citizens.

Sources also said a prototype of the search engine blacklisted results on specific queries including human rights, Nobel Prize and student protest.

The Intercept also reports that Google is believed to have a special internal unit known as stopleaks tasked with preventing unauthorized disclosures.

U.S. lawmakers just last week sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding answers regarding the Dragonfly project.

Google should not be helping China crack down on free speech and political dissent, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) tweeted. I just sent this letter with some of my Republican and Democratic colleagues raising our serious concerns and questions about what theyre doing.

That same day a report from The Intercept also revealed that senior Google scientist Jack Poulson quit over the project after he says his concerns were ignored.

Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents, Poulson wrote in a resignation letter to Google. I view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe.

More than 1,400 Google employees also signed a letter to Pichai last month seeking information on what were building.

A group of leading human rights organizations wrote a similar letter to Pichai last month as well, calling on Google to immediately end the project.

Like many of Googles own employees, we are extremely concerned by reports that Google is developing a new censored search engine app for the Chinese market, the letter said. The Chinese government extensively violates the rights to freedom of expression and privacy; by accomodating the Chinese authorities repression of dissent, Google would be actively participating in those violations for millions of internet users in China.

Google and Pichai, who recently drew the ire of the U.S. government after refusing to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, has thus far declined to publicly comment on Dragonfly.

Google Employees Reportedly Forced to Delete Chinese Censorship Memo


It's that time of year again - I'm A Celebrity is officially back on our screens, keeping us occupied during those long winter nights in the run-up to Christmas.

The reality show favourite returns with a fresh set of celebrities gearing up for a stint in the Australian jungle to prove they can handle the great outdoors.

Among those being put through their paces is actress Emily Atack, best known for her breakout role in The Inbetweeners.

She hit headlines in October after pictures surfaced of her with Strictly star Seann Walsh amid his kissing scandal with professional dancer Katya Jones.

Speaking ahead of her jungle debut, the 28-year-old said she wouldn't turn down the opportunity at finding romance.

"I am single at the moment. And never say never," she said.

"We are in a situation where we are not all going to smell our best, not going to look our best and I can't really imagine it happening but hey, who knows?! It's just a bit of fun."

Here's everything you need to know about Emily Atack:

Atack rose to fame playing Charlotte Hinchcliffe, the love interest of Simon Bird's Will McKenzie, in The Inbetweeners.

The hit sit-com aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010.

The actress has also been in Dad's Army, Rock and Chips, Tracey Ullman's Show and the Keith Lemon Sketch show.

She has also had parts in a handful of independent films including Iron Sky: The Coming Race and Lost in Florence.

In her latest project, she stars alongside Avengers' Cobie Smulders in new comedy film Alright Now.

Who is Emily Atack Meet the Inbetweeners actress and Iaposm A Celebrity star


(Natural News) As if the pain of having and living through cancer wasnt bad enough, diagnosing the disease is, in itself, an ordeal. But invasive biopsies may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a low-cost, chip-based blood test developed by researchers at the University of Kansas (KU), according to a study published in Integrative Biology.

Cancer is not like most diseases. In most cases, doctors are able to make a diagnosis after confirming symptoms or performing a test or two. In cancer, physicians have to conduct a biopsy which, in certain types of cancer, can be very invasive and painful.

In blood cancers, for example, a biopsy means extracting a bone marrow sample by inserting a large bone biopsy needle through an incision. In certain cases, a larger incision could be made and a section of bone taken through surgery.

Fortunately, things are looking better. Researchers from KU have developed a low-cost, reliable blood test that provides the same information as a bone biopsy but with less pain and only a blood draw.

For the last 10 years, weve been developing a blood-based test for a variety of cancer diseases  one of them is multiple myeloma, said Steven Soper, professor of chemistry and mechanical engineering at KU.

The blood test uses a plastic chip the size of a credit card. It can tell the doctor various crucial details about the patient and the disease, such as the cancer stage and any sign of recurrence in the event of a remission. The technology is not new  there have been similar tests in the past but they tended to tag normal blood cells as myeloma cells, leading to highly inaccurate readings. In comparison, KUs chips have been improved in terms of performance and precision, particularly for multiple myeloma.

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We get very few blood cells, Soper said. Only multiple myeloma cells. So, the ability for us to efficiently detect those cells is very high and thus, diagnose the disease at a more treatable stage.

Sopers team was able to circumvent another common misgiving about the technology  manufacturing. Similar chips have been considered too complicated and costly to produce. The KU researchers claimed that their technology using injection-molded plastic, the very same process used to make CDs and DVDs. This brings the cost down to just a few dollars per chip.

As of this year, the technology is going through testing and is exhibiting very promising results. Its creators claim it could be applied to other types of cancer as well. The current test was designed to detect multiple myeloma, but they have developed similar chips that can detect ovarian, prostate, colorectal, pancreatic, and breast cancers.

They hope that the technology would make screening for cancer a more routine procedure so that more people can obtain treatment before their condition has become difficult to address.

Multiple myeloma is one of the three main types of blood cancer besides leukemia and lymphoma. It affects white blood cells called plasma cells whose main function is to protect the body by microbial pathogens. In multiple myeloma, the cancer cells gather in the bone marrow. This is why its diagnosis usually requires the extraction of a little portion of the bone marrow.

Cancer impedes plasma cells from performing their job. Instead of fighting off germs, they produce abnormal proteins that cause many of the complications associated with the disease, including anemia, bone problems, and kidney impairment. Because the disease affects the bodys line of defense against disease, sufferers are also prone to infections. (Related: Science journal confirms eating turmeric cured myeloma cancer in 57-year-old woman.)

Multiple myeloma has no known specific cause, but its risk factors may include:

Check out other less painful methods of diagnosing cancer at AntiCancer.news.

Low-cost chip-based blood test for multiple myeloma may be safer and less painful alternative to bo


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The firm of globalist billionaire George Soros invested millions in several tech giants just months before they underwent a coordinated purge of Infowars and Alex Jones.

Soros Fund Management invested in major tech and social media companies in the second quarter, Fox Business reported Wednesday.

The family office of billionaire investor George Soros added stakes in Apple, Facebook and Twitter, while reducing stakes in Amazon and Googles parent company, Alphabet.

Soros isnt the only billionaire with a renewed interest in Big Tech.

Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett revealed in a regulatory filing earlier this month that his firm bought billions of dollars of additional Apple stock in its most recent quarter, Silicon Valley Business Journal reported.

Last week, Apple, Facebook, YouTube [Google], and Spotify all inexplicably banned Infowars from their platforms, with many others following suit days after, justified under the weak guise of flagging hate speech.

Additionally, Twitter suspended both Alex Jones and the Infowars twitter accounts this week for appealing to President Trump to take action on online censorship.

Is it a coincidence these same companies blacklisted Infowars  the sworn enemy of Soros  after the globalist kingpin got involved in them?

Coincidence Soros Invests in Tech Giants Months Before Infowars Banned


Austerity has had a devastating effect on local government. Although as leaders of the LGA Labour Group, we each represent very different communities of the UK  the city of Newcastle, the inner-London borough of Lambeth, and the shire districts of the East Midlands - we all share a similar experience of the dreadful way that austerity has affected the lives of our residents since 2010. Government cuts have seen over 500 childrens centres and 475 libraries close, potholes are left unfilled, and 80% of councils workers now say have no confidence in the future of local services.

Local councils were the very first target of Tory and Lib Dem austerity in 2010, with George Osbornes emergency budget slicing funding from programmes like Sure Start within weeks of taking office. He then returned to slash billions in funding for councils year after year, cheered on by Eric Pickles. From the very start the Conservatives have tried to use the cynical ploy of passing the blame for cuts onto councils  and particularly onto Labour councils, who were given the biggest reductions. Since 2010 an astonishing 16billion has been cut from council funding, equivalent to more than 60p from every 1. Austerity was thrown at councils with a ferocity greater than any other area of government.

So when Theresa May announced in her conference speech last month that austerity is over many presumed that the first target of this reverse would be local government. As the biggest losers from austerity, and with many council services close to crisis, surely councils would be the first in line for new investment if austerity is over? But no - incredibly the Government is actually planning a further cut of 1.3billion next year, with grants slashed by another 36% in 2019/20 and 168 councils set to receive no central funds from government at all. With Northamptonshire already bankrupt, there is little doubt that if these planned cuts go ahead many other council budgets will be plunged into a similar crisis.

Councils are now at breaking point  which is why as Labour councillors we formed the Breaking Point campaign, which is calling for the Government to cancel the planned cuts for next year, and to immediately invest 2billion in childrens services and 2billion in adult social care to stop these vital services for vulnerable people from collapsing. The response from Labour councillors has been overwhelming - in less than two weeks over 5,000 Labour councillors signed the petition, more than 85% of all Labour councillors in England and Wales. Many also took the time to share their own heart-breaking stories of the effects that austerity has had in their own communities. The Breaking Point petition is now the most-signed petition of Labour councillors ever - it reveals our common strength of feeling about the need to end Tory austerity and our sense of unity in coming together to say that enough is enough.

Jeremy Corbyn has been clear that if Labour were in power we would end austerity, and wed be re-investing in the sort of preventative services that actually save the public purse in the long run. But until a General Election is called we have no other option but to make our voices heard loud and clear to Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond. So today were taking the campaign to the heart of government, and delivering it to 10 Downing Street, along with shadow Communities and Local Government secretary Andrew Gwynne MP, and some of our many other supporters in Parliament.

Doubtless this arrogant Government will try to dismiss our campaign as a political stunt  but that couldnt be further from the truth. The campaign is a clear warning that local councils just cannot go on like this  if the cuts continue, vital public services that keep vulnerable children safe, provide dignity to people at the end of their lives, or offer routes out of homelessness for people with nowhere else to turn, will simply collapse. Over five thousand Labour councillors have joined together because we understand that it is our duty to speak out  but ultimately it is Theresa May and Philip Hammonds responsibility to listen.

Councils Are At Breaking Point - If Cuts Continue Vital Services Will Simply Collapse


Alex Jones crashes a Buzzfeed event in downtown Austin, Texas and confronts the brainwashed liberals and leftist zombies who have gathered to cheer on the censorship of conservatives across the country.

VIDEO Leftists Triggered By America Is Back Chant


Citizen journalist Laura Loomer shares the latest on her fight against Twitter silencing conservatives and libertarians.

Live Exclusive Laura Loomer Statement


Humanity has, for millennia, been led down the road of an entirely false agenda. So much so, that every aspect of society is almost the precise reverse of what it should be.

Just a glimmer of awareness reveals that the true potential of the majority of mankind remains locked away, unable to exert any influence on the course of events on our planet.

Given the scale of this imprisonment, it becomes apparent that the world has been moving on a trajectory invented and directed by a false intelligence, whose interests are diametrically opposed to the intelligence of natural planetary consciousness.

I use the word intelligence because its hard to find the right word to describe that which is very clever, but lacks the ability to feel love or compassion; and is often ruthless without ever showing emotion. Intelligence should have a more human ring to it, but the word has been hijacked by the spying networks: the CIA, FBI, MI5 for example, all call themselves intelligence agencies. Not exactly warm-blooded institutions!

Within the hierarchies of banks, corporations, the military, governments, the media and various global trading organizations, one will find a plethora of quasi-humans in line to get their hands onto the levers of the central control system. The top-down pyramid which steers the daily agenda for millions of mortals caught-up in the 9 to 5 treadmill. Yet, those climbing the employment ladder within these same institutions, more often than not lack any awareness of what is going on above their heads.

We should consider the following question: at exactly what point within this typical corporate pyramid, does the ordinary mortal metamorphose into the ranks of the subhuman control master? Which floor serves as the subtle switch-point where the 9 to 5 worker just doing a job shifts into a dedicated trainee in the art of power over the people management?

I am not proposing to answer this, as it is a largely hypothetical question; but I suggest that the process whereby the false agenda for humanity is able to be maintained, year in year out, relies heavily on the unquestioning cooperation of those who, at some point, change their identity  or have their identity changed  from just ordinary workers to corporate clones. In other words those who see the world entirely through the lens of the corporation they work for.

The renowned social psychiatrist/psychologist Dr Erich Fromm, in his last major thesis The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness traces the decline of the sentient human at the hands of a corporate intelligence which is specifically designed to dehumanize those climbing up its ranks. So that by the time they reach the top, such people have become robotic, in virtually every action they undertake.

Here lies the mechanism whereby the human becomes less than human; the less than human becomes inhuman; and the inhuman becomes a biological robotic clone and proponent of Transhumanist Artificial Intelligence  which takes the false agenda for humanity ever nearer to its ultimate goal.

Perhaps not ultimate, but far enough to ensure that humanity as we know it, is superseded by another form of intelligence that has nothing to do with nature or the exigence expressed in natural human emotions of love, joy, pain and sorrow.

Cyborgian artificial intelligence is just that: artificial. Art put in reverse so as to eliminate the godly, the beautiful, the spontaneous  all that which gives expression to what it really means to be human.

But consider the fact that it is people suffering these type of symptoms who are in the driving seat of world affairs; running governments, banks and technocratic institutions like the European Union. The mentality is that of a corporate trained control freak  and the greater the power on hand, the greater the ego fueled top-down control manipulation becomes.

The structural design of the neoliberal/neoconservative capitalist Leviathon is not an accident. It is a deliberate formula for the entrapment of mankind. One which puts into reverse  and thereby completely distorts  the true hierarchical themes of nature and the cosmos. In just the same way as Hitler inverted and reversed the design of the original swastika, an ancient peace symbol from Southern India, into a twisted symbol of war.

The symbols that adorn all top-end corporate chains and industries, follow this same pattern. They are nearly all based upon ancient archetypal forms. Forms that symbolized mans desire to give expression to the powers of nature, as well as the cosmic influences that were mythologized into gods and pantheistic forces of power and influence. Symbols that expressed higher aspirations of bygone civilisations.

The big-chiefs of corporate globalization adorn their high-rise totems and plush office suites with the very same symbols, but what do they stand for now?

Quite simply, a crassly materialistic paradigm which has usurped the nature gods of old; declaring itself the new supreme force to which mankind must go on its knees in unquestionoing obeisance.

And, as we know, the majority of mankind has been complicit in fulfilling this role, ensuring a self-inflicted avenue of slavery and passive acceptance of the role assigned by the prevailing status quo.

Indeed, there appears to be no end to the butchery and bullying in the cause of keeping the Leviathan rolling forward. The US military  backed by its European allies  ranges the planet in support of the ceaseless profligate mining of valuable minerals, to make the fuels that fill the tanks of Big Pharma, Big Agro, Big Army and Big Business. While the public, rather than rising up against mammon, appear to be paralyzed by the spectacle, unable to imagine anything less destructively domineering that might take its place.

I used the words appear to be because there is, of course, another emergent energy that tells another story. That breaks through the deception that man is nothing more than a psychopathetic instrument in the hands of all dominant, aggressive and less than human oppressors.

It is not just any other energy. It is the long-buried  and steadily more volcanic  energy of liberated spirit. A revivified spirit which is finding its way back into the arteries of an ever-growing number of ex hostages of the status quo, as well as new arrivals on this planet.

Everyday this spirit is gaining further momentum and a stronger equilibrium. Cracks in the false agenda are widening; the confidence of its perpetrators is wavering; the old power base is leaking.

Chinks of light glitter amongst the darkness; the sense of an upwardly rising change is in the air, counteracting the stench of stagnation and decline.

What is this?

We the people have arrived at a critical point in this apocalyptic epoch, finding out that we are possessed of power we never knew we had; starting to believe in a Self we never knew we cradled; hearing a voice we never could hear before. Finding in each other, sources of mutual support, not just a shackled fellow prisoner.

As this process grows, so the false agenda is further revealed for what it is, and its chief perpetrators are exposed ever more clearly for what they are. The seemingly inexorable drive towards a cybernetic future, or one populated and run by gender-bent, micro-chipped mock-humans, is being infiltrated by warm-blooded, nature loving true humans. Trees are being planted where concrete was once the only landscape.

We are learning that where our thoughts go  energy follows. And that if these thoughts are full of creativity and life, so will our lives also be. We are learning that we can take charge of our destinies after all. That, at any moment, we could dispense with the false reality of the top down centralized command system, and be free to start our own version of reality. One informed by our love of Truth  a determination to act on this truth  and a growing aspiration to Be rather than to have.

Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, actor and international activist.

He is President of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside. Julian is the author of two acclaimed titles: Changing Course for Life and In Defense of Life, which can be purchased by visiting www.julianrose.info. He has just completed his third book Overcoming the Mechanistic Mind for which he is currently seeking a publisher.

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A False Agenda for Humanity


Jonathan Shuttlesworth joins Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne to discuss the role of preachers in Americas hyper-partisan climate. Jonathan reveals the true source behind the political agenda of the left.

Preachers Must Standup Proclaim The Truth


Troubled retailer House of Fraser is set to move ahead with store closures after reaching a settlement with landlords who had challenged the terms of its rescue deal.

In June, the department store chain announced plans to close 31 stores, more than half of its branches, under company voluntary arrangements aimed at allowing the company to deal with mounting debt problems.

The group said the costs of running its store network had become unsustainable, and closing branches was a necessary step in order to continue operating.

However, a group of landlords challenged the firms plans, on the basis that they were being taken advantage of via the CVA (company voluntary arrangement) process.

CVAs are often used by companies facing financial difficulty, allowing businesses to pay lower rents and offload expensive real estate space.

House of Frasers CVA supervisors and the landlords group reached a legal settlement over the weekend, meaning the retailer can go ahead with its store closures, while continuing to seek an investor to fund a rescue deal.

A spokesperson for the joint supervisors of the House of Fraser CVAs said the settlement has been reached to avoid the costs of litigation, and added that it allows the companies to continue looking for a solution without the CVAs being subject to the risk of further legal proceedings.

In a statement released by their legal team, the landlords said: Although we will not have our day in court, we are pleased with the outcome and hope that our landmark legal challenge sends a clear message to any other companies considering a CVA, on the importance of transparency and fair treatment for all creditors throughout a CVA process.

Landlords are always willing to enter into a proper dialogue with companies and their advisers with the aim of rescuing a business. However, the retail CVA process in the UK has become increasingly misused and prejudiced against landlords and needs correcting. CVAs were designed as a means to rescue a business, not simply a tool to shed undesirable leases for the benefit of equity shareholders.

Mark Williams, president of retail property organisation Revo, said: House of Fraser is a business that has been underinvested in for many years and thats the ultimate reason for its failure.

Landlords are motivated to work with the retail industry, as evident here, and absolutely want to avoid these situations, but the fact is that the inherent weaknesses of the CVA process remain, as this particular case demonstrates, and this needs to be urgently addressed by the industry and by government.

A number of British retailers have turned to CVAs in recent months, as high street brands struggle to cut costs in the face of huge debts, with Mothercare confirming 50 store closures under a CVA, and Italian restaurant chain Carluccios announcing plans to shut up to 30 branches.

House of Fraser to close 31 stores nationwide after reaching legal settlement with landlords


On the 200th anniversary of her terrifying story, we uncover the heartbreak that inspired Mary Shelley  and examine the gruesome masterpieces that followed her monstrous creation

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Turns 200


WASHINGTON  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) spoke on the House floor for more than eight hours Wednesday, adamant she would not support an emerging long-term budget deal unless House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) commits to allow a vote on legislation protecting young undocumented immigrants. Such an announcement would be similar to the one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made last month that helped reopen the government.

Her speech set a record for the longest continuous remarks on the House floor. The record had been previously set in 1909, when a lawmaker spoke for five hours and 15 minutes, according to the House Historians Office.

Top Senate leaders are working to finalize a two-year budget deal that would boost defense spending sought by President Donald Trump as well as some domestic spending sought by Democrats. The House, meanwhile, passed a short-term bill on Tuesday that would extend funding for the government until March 23, but it is expected to be altered in the Senate ahead of a Thursday deadline.

Trump put nearly 700,000 undocumented young people at risk of losing deportation protection and work permits when he ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in September. He told Congress it had until March, when DACA recipients will begin to lose protections in larger numbers, to pass a bill to help them.

Pelosi shared personal stories of many so-called Dreamers, the term for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, on Wednesday and read aloud their words about wanting to remain in the U.S. The California Democrat delivered extended remarks, according to her rights as minority leader, which allow her to speak without a time limit on the House floor.

She and other Democrats have been calling for a vote on the Dream Act, a bill that would grant legal status to undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children, including DACA recipients. But Ryan, who controls the House floor, hasnt allowed for a vote on the Dream Act or other bipartisan bills to help Dreamers.

I dont know when well have another opportunity that matches today for us to just get a simple commitment from the speaker of the House that he will give us a vote, she said. Theres no guarantee. Well have the debate. People will weigh in. They will make their voices heard. Congress again will work its will.

McConnell said on Tuesday that after Congress approves funding on Thursday, the Senate will have an open process for considering immigration legislation, allowing all members to present their ideas. But Ryan said hell only allow the House to vote on an immigration bill that Trump will sign.

Trump said he would support a path to citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers but is demanding measures that Democrats and even some Republicans oppose. Democrats have said they would support border security in exchange for Dreamer protections  some of them even saying they would allow for Trumps wall  but draw the line on measures that would hurt asylum-seekers, including children. Democrats also oppose Trumps demands to dramatically reduce legal immigration options by ending the diversity visa lottery and phasing out types of family-based green cards. Some Republicans also oppose cuts to legal immigration.

Many advocates believe the best chance for Dreamer protections is for Congress to pass what it can and then send it to the president, versus conforming to his demands that tank a deal.

The speaker of the House is saying we dont matter here, the members of the House, she said. We dont count in this consideration. Because maybe we just dont have the courage to do what we need to do. I believe we do.

Nancy Pelosi Holds The Floor More Than 8 Hours To Demand Immigration Promise


The White House has fired Steve Goldstein, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, after contradicting the account of Secretary of State Rex Tillersons dismissal.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced he was replacing Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. In addition, the President revealed Gina Haspel has been selected to replace Pompeo at the CIA.

Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all! Trump tweeted.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, there have been rumblings Tillerson was on the way out for several months now.

FLASH Under Secretary of State FIRED After Contradicting Account of Tillersons Dismissal


Like anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, I cannot get enough of the actor Idris Elba. From drug-dealing Stringer Bell in The Wire to Asgardian sentry Heimdall in the Marvel Universe, from his starring role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom to his spacecraft captain in Prometheus, he never met a line he didnt nail or a scene he didnt improve.

Next James Bond or not (not, according to the man himself), he could star in Speaking Clock and spend two hours intoning At the third stroke, the time sponsored by Accurist will be... 720 times, and Id go to the cinema for that.

All of which is a tediously gushing preamble to the pained admission that, for now at least, though its the earliest of days, the director Idris Elba is another matter.

In Yardie, his passion-project debut behind the camera, there are some promising signs. Elba tells the tale of a basically good Jamaican boy propelled to badness by grief with visual flair.

In the early scenes he adroitly juxtaposes the lush beauty of Jamaicas mountains with the bullet-ridden bleakness of wild west Kingstons dirt-track roads. He gets up close to the action to paint a vivid portrait of a paradise lost to poverty and its blood brother, violence.

What he lacks, when the plot moves to London, is perspective. He never draws far enough back from the (overly intricate) narrative to decide what he wants to say. He has an eye for framing a shot but little vision. He has an ear for dialogue but seems rather deaf to the themes that lurk beneath the words.

With a stronger story this would matter less. But the tale of Dennis Campbell (Aml Ameen), known as D, feels less original and engrossing today than a quarter of a century ago when Elba, as a young Hackneyite, was wowed by Victor Headleys ground-breaking 1992 novel.

That flatter-to-deceive opening shows 10-year-old D being brutalised by two murders  the first of a schoolgirl friend caught in drug-gang crossfire; the second of his older brother, known for rasta-locks reasons as Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary), who he worships.

In 1973 Jerry DJs an impromptu gig he hopes will unite warring Kingston gangs in reggae harmony. With his One Love concert in 1978 Bob Marley (who doesnt feature alongside Black Uhuru, Grace Jones and others on the gorgeous soundtrack) tried something similar on a grander political scale  with similarly blood-soaked results. Jerry is leading the crowd in the chant No more war in the ghetto when someone misinterprets the message and shoots him dead. This event, as a reflective D narrates, shunted him to a defining crossroads. Do I take the righteous path, or the path of the damned?

No holiday-of-a-lifetime star prize for guessing which. At 16, prey to psychotic jags and dreams of avenging Jerry, D is packing a piece in the employ of drug lord King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd), who a few years later sends him to London with a kilo of choicest cocaine strapped to his leg.

So far, so good... but no further. The moment D glides through an endearingly hands-off customs search at Heathrow the authentic flavour of the Jamaican scenes begins to evaporate.

It never wholly vanishes thanks to rigorous attention to period detail that goes beyond the clothes and cars. The shots of desolate tower blocks and underlit streets perfectly recreate the desolation of 1980s east London. In the club scenes, where rival soundclash crews preface the rap contests to come, you can almost smell the mixed scent of ganja and sweat.

After D tracks down nurse Yvonne (Shantol Jackson, the standout performer here), who fled Kingston with their baby and rages at him for revisiting on them the violence she thought theyd escaped, their relationship has real ice and fire.

Its in the gangstery stuff that Elba loses the plot. Marooned between Guy Ritchies facetious geezerdom and the visceral brutality of Martin Scorsese, he gives in to broad-brush retro silliness until you half expect John Thaw and Dennis Waterman to rap on Yvonnes door, yelling Oi, open up, you slaaaag. Its the Sweeney.

When D isnt hallucinating the brother whose spirit he kept from eternal rest by interrupting his funeral, he mixes with some unlikely hoods. Rico (Stephen Graham), the drug baron to whom he was supposed to deliver the cocaine, is a raving mad white man who switches at random between Jamaican patois and Kraytwinese. The teenaged henchmen Rico sends to recover his missing flake include a sweetly soppy boy who might be auditioning for Rodney in an Only Fools And Horses musical. Like the eruptions of strangely anodyne violence, none of it feels real.

A talented Anglo-Jamaican cast do their best to mask the humourlessness of a patchy script and the threadbare characterisation, though this film would have been stronger, as if it needs saying, had Elba joined them on screen.

There is so much to be said about the experience of Caribbean immigrants to an unimaginably less welcoming city than, for all the Windrush outrage, it is today. Elba hints at the sense of dislocation for those who swapped one ghetto for a rainier alternative. But he doesnt explore it in any more depth than he brings to Ds moral confliction and search for redemption.

If his first film often looks good and always sounds great, beneath its skin it is short of heart and soul. But nothing lies beyond the powers of a man who can charm you even when hes flogging Sky subscriptions on telly. His second, I feel certain, will be better.

Yardie review Idris Elbaaposs directorial debut is sadly short on heart and soul


After the controversial Democratic primaries between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Democrats are looking ahead to 2020 in hopes of putting forth the best candidate possible to unseat Mr. Trump. This past week, the Democratic National Committee hosted its summer meeting in Chicago aimed at voting on policies and reforms.

On Saturday, The DNC voted overwhelmingly on a new policy to dramatically reduce the power and influence of superdelegates in choosing the partys presidential nominee. According to NPR:

DNC members voted on a proposal to take away the role of elected officials and other party dignitaries in selecting a nominee at the Democratic convention  leaving it up to delegates selected in primaries and caucuses only  unless the process becomes deadlocked. Opponents of the move stood down and the measures were adopted in a voice vote. A DNC panel overwhelmingly approved the move earlier this summer.

The reforms adopted also encourage individual states to do away with caucuses and switch to primaries administered by state and local election officials. If states continue to hold caucuses, which are in-person meetings, there has to be a provision for people to vote absentee in circumstances where there are barriers such as military service, childcare, or disabilities.

Todays decision by the DNC is an important step forward in making the Democratic Party more open, democratic and responsive to the input of ordinary Americans. This has been a long and arduous process, and I want to thank Tom Perez and all of those who made it happen.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton also largely earned the backing of the Democratic Partys superdelegates, and won the majority of the delegates decided in the primaries and in the caucuses. However, many Sanders supporters felt that support from the party establishment was an unfair advantage, and a means to which other outside candidates could be prevented from seriously contending for the nomination. It was inevitable that Hillary would win the nomination.

In June, the DNCs Rules and Bylaws Committee voted 27 to 1 o prevent superdelegates from voting on the first round of ballots at presidential nominating conventions. Perez said:

Weve always said that we are the party of all, and we are proving it by working this resolution and moving and changing our rules. When we include all voices, we have the power to move mountains.

The proposal drew criticism from some though. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA)., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote a letter to Perez, saying:

(the policy would) disenfranchise elected officials for no substantive reason and would create unnecessary competition between those elected and their constituents. The thought that a member of Congress would have to compete with their constituents in an election to secure a first ballot vote on the partys nominee creates unnecessary friction between those elected and the people they are elected to serve.

Former interim DNC chair Donna Brazille also criticized the proposal, saying:

Democrats Vote To Limit Power Of Superdelegates Outcome Has Trump Freaking Out


(Natural News) Since the dawn of time, various factors have forced animals to evolve so they can improve their chances of survival. But according to an evolutionary biologist, even humans and growing cities are somehow responsible for animal evolution.

During an interview with Simon Worrall from National Geographic, Professor Menno Schilthuizen, an evolutionary biologist, posited that cities act as powerhouses of evolution. The professor explained that because of various cities, animals are forced to adapt to their environment at unprecedented speeds.

Professor Schilthuizen, the author of Darwin Comes to Town, stated that instead of the barren wilderness, thriving cities are responsible for the creation of new species. He added that because of humans, the evolutionary process has accelerated and produced very surprising results.

In the interview, Professor Schilthuizen talked about how urban environments have produced the London Underground mosquito. But despite its specific name, the London Underground Mosquito can be found all around the globe. The new breed of mosquito makes it home in underground environments like basements and subway systems.

It is believed that the London Underground mosquito is unable to interbreed with above ground mosquitoes since it is a whole new species.

Professor Schilthuizen, who is also a professor in biodiversity at Leiden University in the Netherlands, commented, I think Darwin underestimated the speed [that evolution] can happen, particularly with species that have numerous generations in a short space of time.

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He continued, Generation time is the evolutionary clock speed, so if you have multiple generations per year you can accumulate evolutionary changes much more quickly than humans can, for example, which have one generation every 20 years.

Professor Schilthuizen shared that bobcats in Hollywood have changed, unlike those that live north of the 101 freeway. One factor that contributed to this change is fragmentation, which tends to happen in cities.

With urban ecology, humans often construct various barriers, such as roads and highways.

The bobcat population north of Los Angeles is separated by two huge highways that bisect their home. Like the situation that produced the London Underground mosquito, the barriers also triggered evolution that was confined to areas that were isolated from other populations.

In Darwin Comes to Town, the professor also discussed how the Hawksbeard plants in small parks can now produce heavier seeds compared to those in open fields. With the added weight, the heavier seeds have better chances of landing in the soil.

Because of urban evolution, great tits (Parus major) are now able to remove caps from milk bottles. Some lizards have also developed stickier feet so they can hang on to buildings. (Related: Scientists look at how human activity has altered evolution in the natural world: The consequences of exploding populations of rats, bedbugs, mosquitoes in cities.)

According to a study by researchers from the Goethe University Frankfurt, human activity has forced animals around the globe to abandon their wild ways so they can stay close to their habitats.

Study findings revealed that mammals that live in locations with high human activity move about three times less far than animals in areas isolated from people.

The pattern was the same in various locations around the globe. It affected all sorts of species, from foxes and red deer in Britain to forest elephants in Africa.

Fences, human settlements, and roads block off the animals natural habitat. These obstacles also obstruct the natural migration of mammals, which allows fatal diseases to spread even faster.

Unfortunately, habitat fragmentation also affects animals ability to find food and shelter. It even affects their mating abilities. This reduced mammal movement also has repercussions for the environment since various plants need mammals to scatter their seeds.

Dr. Adam Kane, the study author from the University College Cork, concluded that earlier studies have already confirmed how crucial the geographical movement of animals in the wild is since it helps animals find food, water, mates and new habitats to live in.

Read more articles on how urban environments can influence animal evolution at Environ.news.

Evolutionary biologist says that the rapid growth of cities has forced animals to evolve at unprece


Fellow Democrat and Minnesotan running against Ellison in the AG primary, Debra Hilstrom, shared the viral Facebook post and demanded that Ellison address the allegations.

Austin Monahan described seeing video of Keith Ellison Screaming f*cking bitch! and dragging his mother off a bed by her feet!

In the middle of 2017, I was using my moms computer trying to download something and I clicked on a file, I found over 100 text and twitters messages and video almost 2 min long that showed Keith Ellison dragging my mama off the bed by her feet, screaming and calling her a fucking bitch and telling her to get the fuck out of his house.

The Democrat Party Deputy Chairman responded to the shocking abuse allegations on Sunday afternoon by denying the accusations.

On Tuesday investigative reporter Laura Loomer uncovered a second Minnesota woman who accused Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic violence.

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Hazing has been a rampantly practiced ritual that has been going on for centuries. Although its purpose began as a way for freshmen students and other college fraternity hopefuls to form bonds and solidarity as a group, the processes of which they are done these days has drastically changed.

Here are a number of horror hazing stories that will make you think twice about ever wanting to join a fraternity.

Tim Piazza had an amazing future ahead of him. A second-year student at the Pennsylvania State University, he chose to join the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, where he needed to undergo their form of initiation before being a full-fledged member. On the night of February 2, 2017, Piazza was forced to drink copious amounts of alcohol while having to complete an obstacle course at the same time which they called The Gauntlet. Due to his extreme drunkenness, he ended up falling down the stairs and getting knocked completely unconscious.

10 Savage Hazing Rituals That Ended In Death


The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor is a story about the unification of the indigenous peoples of North America with those of South America. The Eagle of the north is said to represent masculine energy, as well as the energy of technological advancement and the focus of the mind. While the Condor of the south represents feminine energies and our connection to the earth and our own nature, along with the softness of the heart.

Of Incan origin, the prophecy has been told in many cultures, and points to the present day when after a long period of separation and dominance by the masculine, the two will again unite, bringing balance and harmony to our aching world.

The unification would heal old wounds and temper the destructive and dominating characteristics of modern society precisely at a time when all seems lost.

Here, author and former economic hitman John Perkins describes this prophecy.

In the following video, indigenous leaders and elders from both continents speak about the meaning of this prophecy and what it holds for our future.

Indeed it is a time of transformation, and we can see how the cultures of North and South America are coming together in order to transform, largely to share sacred plant medicines and to work together to create alliances to conserve and protect mother earth, and to resist the domination of the corporate state.

The hour is late, however, and in the back pages of the news a pair of recent stories offer a warning that this prophecy is in danger of being plowed under by the unchecked powers of the corporatocracy.

In Argentina, activists recently issued a call for help to save the condor, which is at present being wiped out by the poisons introduced into the environment by the agrochemical industry.

Recently, thirty-four condors in Mendoza, Argentina were found dead, the result of chemical poisoning. Fundacion Bioandina Argentina warns that this happening in many parts of the country.

Argentina is being poisoned on a massive scale by the carless overuse of Monsantos deadly herbicide glyphosate. The poisoning is affecting the health of people, causing shocking deformations and crippling illnesses, yet the industry presses onward, continuing to market and sell these chemicals as a safe way to boost agricultural production.

At the same time, conservationists in North America are asking for help to save the American bald eagle, who is at present suffering a similar fate. Eagles are being brought into rescue centers, some barely able to lift their heads, as their environment has become so toxic, poisoned by lead, DDT, and modern agrochemicals.

The heart-breaking significance of these die-offs is felt in the context of the Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. Our chances at reunification and global transformation are being killed off by the forces of greed and domination. This prophecy of hope is being stolen from us.

Support the movement to save South American condors by signing this petition. And support efforts to help the bald eagle by supporting The Indigenous American.

Dylan Charles is the editor of Waking Times and co-host of Redesigning Reality, both dedicated to ideas of personal transformation, societal awakening, and planetary renewal. His personal journey is deeply inspired by shamanic plant medicines and the arts of Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Yoga. After seven years of living in Costa Rica, he now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and enjoys spending time with family. He has written hundreds of articles, reaching and inspiring millions of people around the world.

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The Texas GOP tried to make Beto ORourkes punk rock past an issue on Tuesday, but it ended up getting rolled in the process.

Back in the 1990s, the Democratic Senate candidate played bass and guitar in a post-hardcore band called Foss.

Since then, hes moved on to politics, and polls show him in a tight race with Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.

After ORourke declined to participate in a debate scheduled for Aug. 31, some strategist at the Texas GOP decided that bringing up his musical past was the best way to shame him.

On Tuesday, the Texas GOP Twitter account shared an image of ORourke and his former band with the words, Sorry, cant debate. We have a gig.

Spoiler alert: It didnt work. At all. And Twitter users let the Texas GOP know it.

Omg. Your strategy is to make fun of him for being in a 90s band?!?! You need a new strategist! Half your GOP base was in a band as a kid. In fact, its one of the few bipartisan ways we bond - laughing as we remember our outdated hair, music, and high school bands.  Hannah Wanebo (@hannahwanebo) August 29, 2018

Some people had a hard time dealing with ORourkes musical past, but not in the way the Texas GOP probably hoped.

Others pointed out the flaw in the attempt to appeal to the pearl-clutching demographic.

Yeah, dont vote for people who liked to play music in college. And you wonder why no one under 55 votes GOP.  I'm for America (@exelephant2017) August 29, 2018

One person warned the GOP that making ORourkes musical career an issue would only make Cruz look worse  and they provided photographic evidence.

Is Ted Cruz really trying to scare voters with pictures from Beto's band days when there are pictures of him out there as a mime? pic.twitter.com/waHTLM1fi5  Schooley (@Rschooley) August 29, 2018

After all the backlash, the Texas GOP responded with a tweet it probably thought would own the libs, but that instead came off as more You kids get off my lawn.

Based on the reaction to our tweets we can confirm that Beto is in fact going to receive 100% of the vote from Buzzfeed contributors, out of state liberals, and people who use the word "rad." We feel very owned :'(  Texas GOP (@TexasGOP) August 29, 2018

By the way, heres a video of ORourke rocking out with his former bandmates (you can thank us later).

Texas GOP Slammed For Trying To Make Beto ORourkes Former Punk Band An Issue


In a truly disturbing video posted on Twitter by Daily Caller reporter Benny Johnson, the leftists heckled the pro-life group who simply had red tape over their mouths with the word life.

According to a report by Johnson, the pro-life activists were part of a group called Bound 4 Life.

They dont mind Kavanaugh jumping on a woman and putting the tape over her mouth, an abrasive leftist said, inciting laughter from her crew. Maybe if [Kavanaugh] had raped her and got her pregnant she would have had to have that Kavanaugh baby with no welfare and no healthcare.

According to their website, Bound4LIFE is a grassroots prayer mobilization movement targeting the ending of abortion, the increase of adoptions, and the sending of revival to reform government and culture.

VIDEO Leftist Protesters Joke About Pro-Life Activists Being Raped


History has oftentimes sidetracked women and their abilities in favour of their stronger male counterparts, tipping the scales to one side unfairly, limiting their contributions to society to menial domestic tasks versus the great deeds credited to men in the pages of time. They say that behind every successful man stands a woman, a notion long-believed true only because traditional history has always mentioned women as mere associates to famous men. This repression of women has been going on for thousands of years mostly because of religious and political beliefs which are now, in modern days, being challenged.

Women have always proven that their abilities equal those of men, if not, even surpass them. Ladies who refused to remain silent and chose to break away from the bonds of male dominance, ironically, had to pretend and even tried to appear like the men they look to challenge just to show that they too can accomplish feats far greater than their brothers.

Here is a list of 10 Things Achieved by Women Masquerading as Men.

In 1967, Katherine Switzer signed up to run in the Boston Marathon, until then an all-male sporting event as the belief at the time was that women were too dainty to run a full 42 kilometers, registering under a generic sounding name to get past the screening committee. K.V. Switzer, runner No. 261, arrived at the marathon wearing a baggy sweatshirt, which was the perfect disguise except for one thing...

10 Unbelievable Things Achieved By Women Masquerading As Men