Australia: Border Force officers seizing large number of lifelike child sex dolls ordered online

Border Force has intercepted a worrying number of disgusting and illegal products favoured by paedophiles in parcels sent to Australia.

WARNING: Distressing

Australian Border Force officers have seized a large number of lifelike child sex dolls favoured by paedophiles, ordered online and sent via the post.

Data obtained by news.com.au shows the purchase of the sinister products by Australians continues, with 31 packages intercepted at international mail centres in the first six months of 2020 alone.

In the 12 months to June 30, a total of 86 childlike sex dolls were seized at international mail centres, it can be revealed.

“Child-like sex dolls and other child abuse material are symptomatic of the broader global threat posed by child sexual abuse, that’s why the ABF works with its law enforcement and intelligence partners to further investigate these imports,” a spokesman for the agency said.

“ABF officers at our air cargo and mail facilities are actively targeting these dolls, which are a prohibited import and are considered child abuse material.

“The ABF has a zero tolerance approach to child abuse material, including childlike sex dolls, and we use all powers available to us to protect Australians from anyone associated with these sickening activities.”

Earlier this month, news.com.au revealed that one of the world’s largest online marketplaces, Alibaba, contained a number of listings for replica child dolls, including infants and toddlers.

One of the sellers even provided a sickening video of an anatomically correct baby doll, demonstrating how it could be “used”.

Advocacy group Collective Shout conducted an investigation that exposed a number of listings, despite previous commitments from the company to ban the sale of the dolls.

“I’ve been an activist with Collective Shout for 10 years and this is the most disturbing content I’ve seen,” campaigner Melinda Liszewski said. “It is deeply distressing to view.”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/border-force-officers-seizing-large-number-of-lifelike-child-sex-dolls-ordered-online/news-story/d9dd44c66b1f78ba6ea249a673ef9ddf

‘Invasion Of Personal Privacy’: NYPD Refuses To Release 1996 Complaint Filed Against Ghislaine Maxwell

The New York Police Department will not release a 1996 complaint filed against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s cohort Ghislaine Maxwell.

The NYPD denied the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for the complaint, filed under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, saying “such information, if disclosed, would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

Painter Maria Farmer said in a August 2019 interview with The New York Times that she told the FBI and the NYPD in 1996 that Epstein and Maxwell had sexually molested both her and her sister. She also said that after she fled from Epstein’s home, Maxwell called her and threatened to destroy Farmer’s artwork.

Farmer claimed the NYPD referred her to the FBI regarding her allegations of assault but took a report on Maxwell’s alleged threats. According to NYPD spokeswoman Sergeant Mary Frances O’Donnell, Farmer’s complaint was filed for aggravated harassment and not for assault.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/28/1996-complaint-ghislaine-maxwell-nypd-daily-caller-news-foundation/

In defiance of popular opinion, DNC rejects motion to condition aid to Israel over annexation

On Monday, the Democratic National Committee’s platform committee voted down an amendment that would have added the word “occupation” to its platform and conditioned aid to Israel if the country moved forward with its proposed annexation of the West Bank.

The motion was proposed by Bernie Sanders delegate Clem Balanoff, the executive director of Our Revolution’s Illinois chapter. The proposed amendment would have asserted that Palestinians have the right to live “without occupation” and added a line declaring that United States aid should not be used “to facilitate annexation or violate Palestinian rights.”

“At a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans have been marching in our streets – and many of you on this call – for equality and civil rights, it is unconscionable for the Democratic Party not to speak truthfully to the Palestinians efforts to secure those same rights,” Balanoff told the committee.

Former US ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, and former undersecretary of state for political affairs, Wendy Sherman, both spoke out against the amendment during the meeting. Shapiro said that Demcrats “ought to speak with one voice about our support for our ally Israel, and our support of the right of Palestinians to live in a state of their own..we should not let disagreements about words or specific policies threaten our party’s unity.”

Sherman took aim at the concept of conditioning aid specifically, explaining that unfettered military aid to Israel is “a mutually beneficial investment, one that protects Israel against very real threats and helps promote security and stability in a region where we know all too well the cost of insecurity and instability.”

The amendment was voted down 34-117, with five abstentions.

In his remarks before the vote, Balanoff cited a 2019 Center for American Progress poll which found that 56% of American voters believe the U.S. should stop giving Israel unconditional aid if the country continues to expand settlements or annexes portions of the West Bank. That same study found that 71% of Democrats support the policy of conditioning aid.

“The DNC platform committee just voted to ignore Israel’s violent, illegal military occupation and to continue sending $3.8 billion in U.S. tax dollars every year to fund Israel’s apartheid rule over Palestinians. But even if the Democratic establishment isn’t ready to embrace Palestinian rights, the intergenerational, multiracial movement of Palestinians, Jews, and allies within the Democratic base will continue to grow and keep pushing for Palestinian rights, dignity and freedom,” said Beth Miller, JVP Action’s Senior Government Affairs Manager, in a statement.

Last month, a number of progressive lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, threatening to cut military aid to Israel if it moves forward with annexation. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he opposes annexation, but has referred to the conditioning of aid as “absolutely outrageous” and a “gigantic mistake.”

Balanoff’s motion wasn’t the only progressive proposal to rejected by the committee on Monday. Amendments endorsing Medicare for All and the legalization of marijuana were also voted down.

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/07/in-defiance-of-popular-opinion-dnc-rejects-motion-to-condition-aid-to-israel-over-annexation/

FBI Had 12-Page File On George Carlin Because He Made Jokes About Government

Comedian George Carlin is known as one of the most controversial and outspoken entertainers of his time, and as far as the government is concerned, he could have possibly been a terrorist.

Carlin was not a violent or criminal person in any way, but he said things during his routines that struck at the root of the problems in our society. He went into great detail about corruption in government and business.

During the 1978 Supreme Court case, FCC v Pacifica Foundation, the government cited Carlin’s work as an example of profanity. They used his “Seven Dirty Words” segment to show the type of language that was being used in records and broadcasts. However, the government’s interest in his work did not stop there.

Just after his 1969 appearance on the Jackie Gleason show, Carlin caught the attention of the FBI because he made jokes about then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. According to the government, Carlin had “referred to the Bureau and the Director in a satirical vein.”

They added that his act was “considered to be in very poor taste” and “it was obvious that he was using the prestige of the Bureau and Mr. Hoover to enhance his performance.”

https://alethonews.com/2019/07/01/fbi-had-12-page-file-on-george-carlin-because-he-made-jokes-about-government/

‘They never tell you there WERE people there’: Seth Rogen stirs hornet’s nest after saying Israel ‘makes no sense’

Jewish actor Seth Rogen has courted controversy after saying that Israel’s existence “doesn’t make sense,” and that young Jews are misled to believe the state was created peacefully, without displacing thousands of Palestinians.

“If it is truly for the preservation of Jewish people, it makes no sense, because again, you don’t keep something you’re trying to preserve all in one place especially when that place has proven to be… pretty volatile,” Rogen told comedian Mark Maron on his ‘WTF’ podcast on Monday.

Rogen – who has been promoting his upcoming movie, ‘An American Pickle’, a comedy-drama which tells a story of a Jewish immigrant who comes to the US in 1920 – told Maron that the idea of the Israeli state had been spoon-fed to him and many fellow Jews since childhood.

“And I also think that as a Jewish person…I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life,” he said. “You know, they never tell you, that oh by the way, there were people there.”

They make it seem like it was – just sitting there, oh the f*cking door’s open!

Rogen then said that he is prepared to be torched by Zionists for his remarks, which are very much at odds with the prevailing narrative promoted by the Israeli government.

While half-jokingly observing that it was “scary” to challenge the status-quo and that he was “100 percent afraid of Jews,” the comedian said that he would not backpedal.

It’s scary. But we’re Jews – we can say whatever we want. If anyone can say whatever they f*cking want about this shit, it should be two famous Jewish people

Rogen’s progressive views have drawn mixed reactions on Twitter. Some have hailed the actor for refusing to toe the mainstream line while being part and parcel of mainstream culture himself.

“Genuinely incredible to see prominent mainstream jews speaking out like this, this rules,” Slate senior writer Ashley Feinberg wrote.

genuinely incredible to see prominent mainstream jews speaking out like this, this rules https://t.co/qq7aGnCs0Z

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 28, 2020

Writer and podcaster Alyssa Klein also weighed in to say that, like Rogen and Maron, she had also been indoctrinated to believe in “a lot of lies about Israel” while in school, noting she didn’t realize how the facts were “skewed” until she arrived at university.

“When I was growing up, they didn’t tell us about the Palestinian people that were there. That was conveniently glossed over,” she added.

When I was growing up, they didn’t tell us about the Palestinian people that were there. That was conveniently glossed over.

— Alyssa Klein (@dj_diabeatic) July 28, 2020

“I think @Sethrogen has stated something many Jews feel. More power to all those who speak up and out,” another commenter said.

I think @Sethrogen as stated something many Jews feel. More power to all those who speak up and out. Keep going. It's not in vain.

— WAYOUNIHAN (@wayounihan) July 28, 2020

seth rogen must be protected at all costs pic.twitter.com/1WrjN1rDCd

— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) July 28, 2020

In other news, Seth Rogen is hot to me now 🥴

— Bolu Babalola (@BeeBabs) July 28, 2020

While some netizens have professed their new-found love for Rogen, supporters of the Israeli state were up in arms over his comments, denouncing them as “disappointing” and “ludicrous.”

Wow @Sethrogen as a fellow BC'er and Jew, who is only alive today because Israel has been a refuge for my family… I am incredibly dissapointed in your comments. Seems to come from a place of extreme privilege. I was a huge fan… not anymore I guess

— Orgth BC זאב בן מאייר (@arbutus_pointBC) July 29, 2020

Went from super excited to see #AnAmericanPickle to saying fuck that bullshit… @Sethrogen wants to spread lies and misinformation about Israel and endanger the Jewish community.. But still exploit us for profit… Hard pass. pic.twitter.com/aEjdNbo7tH

— Noah Fence מיכה "Hairy Phil" (@ZealouslyQuoted) July 29, 2020

Lots to unpack in Seth Rogen’s claims, but the argument that Israel makes “no sense” as a means of preserving Jewish life is particularly ludicrous.It was Israel where airlifted Iraqi, Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews found a safe haven, along with the majority of Mizrachi refugees. pic.twitter.com/A5nrbRgFHS

— Shiri Moshe (@shirimoshe) July 28, 2020

Over 700,000 Arabs were forced to flee or were expelled from their homes in the area that became Israel during and after the 1948 Palestine war – an event known as the ‘Nakba,’ or ‘the catastrophe,’ to Palestinians.

https://www.rt.com/usa/496485-seth-rogen-israel-lies/