Wray Claims “White Supremacists” Make Up the Largest Share of Racially Motivated Terrorists in the US as BLM Burns Businesses to the Ground

This is outrageous!

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday said “white supremacists” make up the largest share of racially motivated terrorists in the United States.

Wray made these statements during a testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee.

“Within the domestic terrorism bucket, category as a whole, racially motivated violent extremism is I think the biggest bucket within that large group. And within the racially motivated extremism bucket people prescribing to some kind of white supremacist ideology is certainly the biggest chunk of that,” Wray told radical Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin (MI).

“I don’t have the numbers for you,” Wray said admitting he has no evidence whatsoever to back up his insane claims.

Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter Marxists are burning down buildings, shaking down business, terrorizing white people dining outdoors and threatening white people in their homes.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/wray-claims-white-supremacists-make-largest-share-racially-motivated-terrorists-us-blm-burns-businesses-ground-video/

"Everyone Involved Should Face Jail Time": Trump Jr. Slams Nashville Officials For Concealing Low COVID-19 Numbers

Donald Trump Jr. has weighed in over Nashville officials concealing the low number of COVID-19 cases in bars and restaurants.

In a Thursday tweet, the president's son said "The Dem Mayor of Nashville KNOWINGLY LIED ABOUT COVID DATA to justify shutting down bars & restaurants, killing countless jobs & small businesses in the process," adding "Everyone involved should face jail time. How many other Dem run cities is this happening in?"

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/nashville-authorities-concealed-evidence-hardly-any-covid-19-cases-contracted-bars-and

‘What a disgrace’: US Attorney General ripped for calling Covid-19 shutdowns ‘greatest intrusion of civil liberties’ since slavery

US Attorney General Bill Barr has made waves by calling stay-at-home orders and lockdowns meant to combat the spread of Covid-19 “the greatest intrusion of civil liberties” other than slavery.

Barr’s comments came while speaking at a Constitution Day event held in DC by Hillsdale College. Asked about coronavirus restrictions “forbidding a church from meeting” in many areas, the attorney general compared lockdowns to “house arrest.”

“Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” Barr said.

Once his comments were shared more widely, few found legitimacy in the comparison.

“Bill Barr equates quarantine with chattel slavery as one of the greatest intrusions of civil liberties in American history. Statements like these make you realize many in this country know nothing about what it truly means to be oppressed,” ‘The View’ co-host Sunny Hostin tweeted in reaction to the comment. Another person criticized the remarks by simply saying, "What a disgrace."

“The thing about Bill Barr's comments is that he knows better. Which is what makes them a whole lot worse,” CNN political correspondent Abby D. Pillip added.

“How about WW2 Japanese Internment camps? Jim Crow laws? segregation? Tuskegee Syphilis experiments?” another commenter tweeted, while Star Trek actor George Takei posted: “As someone who spent four years in U.S. internment camps during World War II, I think Bill Barr is full of horse manure.”

Barr’s comments also angered lockdown supporters, but he earned a round of applause at the DC event after making them.

Some conservatives, many of whom have been critical of local governments’ response to the pandemic, also showed support for Barr amidst a pushback against his coronavirus comments and other actions as attorney general.

Since there was never any national lockdown in place, but rather various stay-at-home orders and business shutdown mandates - which still continue in certain areas in most states - Barr chided governors for acting like “bureaucrats” and treating “free citizens as babies that can’t take responsibility for themselves and others.”

Barr argued that people, especially business owners, should have been given the opportunity to remain working and issued “rules” to follow, such as the current mask mandates in place in a variety of states.

https://www.rt.com/usa/500960-bill-barr-covid-lockdown-slavery/

FBI Director Christopher Wray Says Russia Currently Meddling in Election to ‘Denigrate Joe Biden’

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday that Russia is currently meddling in the election to “denigrate Vice President Joe Biden.”

Wray made these statements during a testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee.

The House Committee convened a hearing on ‘threats to the homeland’ with various security and intel officials however, several were a no-show.

DNI chief Ratcliffe opted to have face-to-face meetings with select lawmakers rather than appear before the Committee.

Wray encouraged Americans to get their voting information from official websites, not social media.

“We’ve certainly seen very active, very active efforts by the Russians to influence our elections in 2020….social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, etc,” Wray said. “In effort to both sow divisiveness and discord…and to primarily denigrate Vice President Biden.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/fbi-director-christopher-wray-says-russia-currently-meddling-election-denigrate-joe-biden-video/

Mike Ditka Tells NFL Players: "If You Can't Respect This Country, Get The Hell Out Of It"

It was just days ago that we noted the NFL's ratings for Sunday Night Football this past week tanked significantly. We noted that this year's NFL season seems to be more about social justice and Covid precautions instead of; well, playing football.

It appears that legendary coach Mike Ditka agrees. Ditka appeared on Newsmax this week to talk about the state of the NFL, offering up a scathing critique of how he believes that the league has lost its way.

Ditka told the host: "Football’s football. It’s not a complicated thing. You’re playing the game, you’re enjoying the game. You don’t like the game, get out of it. It’s not for protesting one way or the other. What color you are, what you think, this or that. You play football. That’s it."

He continued: "You’re privileged. You got a gift from God that you can play the game because you got a body you can do it with. I don’t really understand what you’re protesting. I played the game. I coached the game for a long time. It makes no sense to me."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mike-ditka-tells-nfl-players-if-you-cant-respect-country-get-hell-out-it

Latest Study Finds False Coronavirus Mortality Numbers Have Risen to 29% of Total Reported Deaths in Last 8 Weeks

Latest Study Finds False Coronavirus Mortality Numbers Have Risen to 29% of Total Reported Deaths in Last 8 Weeks

This statement caused a global panic. However, we knew this was inaccurate at the time and we wrote about it on March 17, 2020. Here is the video of Dr. Ghebreyesus’s remarks.

https://youtu.be/-kk-DrTCRAY

The WHO leader’s coronavirus death rate number of 3.4% was false and we proved this in our post at the time.

The Gateway Pundit reported, that the coronavirus fatality rate reported by the liberal mainstream media was completely inaccurate and the actual rate more typical to a seasonal flu – the media was lying again.

Doctors Fauci and Birx next pushed ridiculous and highly exaggerated mortality rates related to the coronavirus:

** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.

** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic

** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March

** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model

But the Imperial College model Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed was garbage and they recommended the destruction of the US economy using this completely flawed model.

Today we now have empirical evidence that the WHO, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx were all wrong. They were charlatans. They lied to the American people.

The CDC updated their numbers in August to show that only 6% of all coronavirus deaths were completely due to the coronavirus alone.

From the CEBM.net report:

World Health Organisation guidelines state that “COVID-19 should be recorded on the medical certificate of cause of death for ALL decedents where the disease, or is assumed to have caused, or contributed to death i.e. COVID-19 is the underlying cause of death”. Such an example would be someone who has developed pneumonia as a result of COVID-19, dies from acute respiratory distress. Alternatively, COVID-19 may be present on the death certificate as a significant condition contributing to death but not the underlying cause. These guidelines are clear that in such cases these deaths “are not deaths due to COVID-19 and should not be certified as such.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/huge-latest-study-finds-false-coronavirus-mortality-numbers-risen-29-total-reported-deaths-last-8-weeks/

Tucker Slams Facebook Censorship Of Chinese Virologist: "It's Turning Us Into The Soviet Union"

Facebook and other tech giants have engaged in a troubling pattern of censoring speech surrounding major issues in the coronavirus debate, Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued during his Wednesday night monologue.

Carlson's comments came after Facebook slapped a warning label on video of his Tuesday interview with Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who claimed to have evidence showing China "intentionally" released COVID-19 onto the general population.

"Within a few hours of her interview last night," Carlson said, "a video of the segment reached 1.3 million people on Facebook."

"And why wouldn’t it? The coronavirus pandemic has touched the life of every American. And justifiably, people want to know where it came from. But Facebook still doesn’t want you to know that.

So Facebook suppressed the video, presumably on behalf of the Chinese government. Facebook executives made it harder for users to watch our segment. Those who found the video had to navigate a warning that the interview 'repeats information about COVID-19 that independent fact-checkers say is false," he added.

"Instagram, which Facebook also owns did the same thing. Twitter suspended Dr. Yan's account entirely. It did not explain why…"

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/tucker-slams-facebook-censorship-chinese-virologist-its-turning-us-soviet-union

TikTok, Oracle Reportedly Agree To New Treasury-Approved Deal Terms

Update (1130ET): In yet another fundamentally meaningless report on negotiations between ByteDance, its investors, Oracle, Wal-Mart and the Trump Administration, Bloomberg reports that TikTok and Oracle have both "accepted" a new "term shee" that "addresses national security concerns."

The Treasury Department, TikTok owner Bytedance Ltd. and Oracle Corp. have tentatively agreed to terms for Oracle’s bid for the U.S. operations of the social-media service, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.

Treasury sent Bytedance a revised terms sheet late Wednesday and the company and Oracle accepted it, the people said. They described the changes as addressing national security concerns about the transaction and asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Earlier, ByteDance said the deal wouldn't involve selling or turning over any of its key technology to Oracle or the US. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is said to be pulling for the deal, though President Trump is presently being persuaded by the China hawks in his administration.

We wonder: will the deal include an agreement to pay some kind of dividend to the Treasury, as Trump once complained about wanting to do.

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With a presidential briefing scheduled for Thursday, President Trump is expected to make his final decision on the deal to spin off TikTok into an independent US-based company within 24-36 hours, which would leave another 36 hours of 'wiggle room' before the Sept. 20 deadline set by the administration - a deadline that Trump has insisted on keeping.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-announce-final-decision-tiktok-deal-within-36-hours-opposes-china-majority

Mexican president dismisses US govt report on illicit drugs as ‘opinion’

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has dismissed Washington’s new report on illicit drugs that names his country as the main supplier of heroin and methamphetamine to the US, calling it merely an “opinion.”

“It is an opinion, basically,” Lopez Obrador said at a news conference on Thursday. “It has good things, and other things that we don’t accept.” He did not elaborate on what exactly he does not agree with, but added that his country has “very good relations” with the US and dismissed any possibility of a “political confrontation.”

The remarks came after the White House released a new presidential determination on illicit drug production and trafficking. The document named 22 countries located primarily in South and Central America, as well as certain Asian nations, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

While in the document, Trump lauded Mexico for showing “signs of progress” in battling the illegal drug trade – for example, passing “asset forfeiture reforms” and showing an increase in “extraditions of dangerous drug traffickers” to the US – he still urged the country to do more.

“Mexico remains the source of nearly all heroin and methamphetamine seized in the United States, and a transit route for most of the cocaine available in our country,” the memorandum stated.

The country also remains the major trafficking hub for other drugs, including cocaine, and cartels operating on its soil are also involved in the production and smuggling of fentanyl – an extremely potent opioid responsible for many drug overdose deaths across the US, Trump stated.

“The United States remains ready to deepen its partnership with Mexico to address these shared challenges and welcomes the opportunity to develop joint drug control goals with Mexico and bilateral investigations built on transparent and open sharing of investigative information and evidence leading to successful prosecutions,” the US president said in the statement.

https://www.rt.com/news/500959-mexico-us-drug-report/

Cop Fired for Cowering in Fear as Gunman Slaughtered Children Gets Rehired, with Full Back Pay

Parkland, FL — A sheriff’s deputy who was fired after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting for cowering by his car while Nicolas Cruz slaughtered children inside, is back on the job — and likely receiving six figures of back pay.

According to the Sun Sentinel, an arbitrator ruled this week that Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony acted 13 days too late when he fired deputy Josh Stambaugh last year for his conduct during the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

State law says discipline against law enforcement officers must occur within 180 days of an investigation’s completion but apparently that didn’t happen. It is unknown exactly how much Stambaugh will receive in back pay, but he earned more than $150,000 in 2018, including overtime.

According to a report out of ABC, a state investigative commission found that Stambaugh was working an off-duty shift at a nearby school when he responded to reports of shots fired at Stoneman Douglas. He got out of his truck, put on his bulletproof vest and took cover for about five minutes after hearing the shots, according to body camera footage. Stambaugh then drove to a nearby highway instead of going toward the school.

Despite clearly neglecting his duties — to the point of costing children their lives — this coward cop will receive a large sum of back bay and his badge.

“Once again, an arbitrator with no connection or association with Broward County has made a flawed decision to reinstate a deputy who was terminated for his response to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

Naturally, the police union applauded the decision to rehire the deputy and decried the sheriff’s decision to fire them.

Jeff Bell, president of the Broward patrol deputies union said that firing Stambaugh after the deadline was “a waste of taxpayer money on cases where the agency knows it violated Florida State Statutes.”

While this may be shocking, Stambaugh is the second cop to be reinstated after being fired for being a coward doing the shooting.

Sgt. Brian Miller was fired 16 months after the shooting. After former sheriff Scott Isreal refused to fire the cop, his replacement, Tony, fired Miller and then deputies Stambaugh and Edward Eason a few weeks later.

As the Sentinal reported at the time:

Miller was the first supervisor on the scene. He arrived in time to hear three or four shots. As a supervisor, he didn’t rush to take command. Instead, a state commission investigating the shooting found that Miller took his time putting on a bulletproof vest and hid behind his car on Holmberg Road, not going on the radio for 10 minutes.

“Miller failed to coordinate or direct deputies’ actions and did not direct or coordinate an immediate response into the school,” a report from a commission said. “Sergeant Miller’s actions were ineffective and he did not properly supervise the scene.”

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, a member of the commission, called Miller “an absolute, total failure.”

Now, this absolute, total failure is back on the streets along with his other total failure fellow cop, ready to cower behind a car the next time he faces an actual threat.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-fired-for-cowering-in-fear-as-gunman-slaughtered-children-gets-rehired-with-full-back-pay/

Gas pipeline explosion creates giant bright ball of flame near roadway in Oklahoma

Police and firefighters were deployed to tackle a major fire produced by a gas pipeline blast near the town of Piedmont, Oklahoma. The blaze is so intense that crews are forced to work in shifts to tackle it.

A 12-inch pipeline blew up, leaving a major crater across the roadway, local media reported.

Videos circulating on social media show a bright massive blaze raging alongside a country road.

Aerial footage also shows the pipeline in flames, with thick clouds of smoke rising in the sky, as fire crews were dispatched at the site.

According to reports, the pipeline has been shut down, but the explosion caused grass fires.

Authorities have closed several roads in the area. Local media also said that the heat from the fire is so intense that emergency crews are forced to rotate.

Police told KOCO 5 News that very few people are living in the area where the blast happened, and there are no known injuries as of yet.

https://www.rt.com/usa/500900-oklahoma-gas-pipeline-fire/

Donald Trump: States Sending Unsolicited Ballots Should ‘Give It Up NOW’

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that states sending unsolicited mail-in ballots should end the process to prevent a delay in election results.

“The big Unsolicited Ballot States should give it up NOW, before it is too late, and ask people to go to the Polling Booths and, like always before, VOTE,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Otherwise, MAYHEM!!!”

The president clarified, however, that solicited absentee ballots are fine.

California, D.C., Nevada, New Jersey, and Vermont have adopted a system of unsolicited ballots in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington already had existing systems to send registered voters their ballots, without voters needing to request them.

All of the states sending unsolicited ballots in 2020 went for failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. Only Colorado and Nevada remain battleground states, as Trump lost Nevada by two points and Colorado by five points in 2016.

But Trump warned that the November 3 election results might never be accurate, thanks to an increase of unsolicited ballots.

“Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to ‘voters,’ or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election result may NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, which is what some want,” Trump wrote. “Another election disaster yesterday. Stop Ballot Madness!”

The big Unsolicited Ballot States should give it up NOW, before it is too late, and ask people to go to the Polling Booths and, like always before, VOTE. Otherwise, MAYHEM!!! Solicited Ballots (absentee) are OK. @foxandfriends

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020

Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to “voters”, or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election result may NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, which is what some want. Another election disaster yesterday. Stop Ballot Madness! https://t.co/3SMAk9TC1a

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/17/donald-trump-states-sending-unsolicited-ballots-should-give-now/

Man Identified As ICE Doctor Behind Hysterectomies Previously Settled Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Case With Feds

Dr. Mahendra Amin has been accused of giving unnecessary hysterectomies to women detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia, according to a complaint.

Amin and other doctors who worked at a Georgia hospital he part-owned agreed to a $520,000 settlement with federal prosecutors in 2015 after he had been charged with Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

The hospital allegedly instituted a system in which patients were given unnecessary procedures in order to bolster federal Medicare and Medicaid checks to the hospital.

The man who has been identified as the doctor who allegedly gave unnecessary hysterectomies to women detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility settled a Medicare, Medicaid federal lawsuit years ago.

Dr. Mahendra Amin, who is himself an immigrant, according to Prism Reports, agreed to a $520,000 settlement with federal prosecutors in 2015 regarding an indictment filed in 2013. Amin had been accused of orchestrating a scheme at Irwin County Hospital (ICH) in Georgia, which he was a part-owner of, in which unnecessary procedures were administered on patients to bolster federal Medicare and Medicaid payments to the hospital, according to the indictment.

“One important mission of this office’s Civil Division is to ensure that when taxpayer money is paid out under federal health care programs, it is paid out in a manner that complies with federal healthcare laws,” said former U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore in a statement following the settlement.

Amin allegedly instituted a standing order that required nurses to perform ultrasounds on pregnant patients at ICH regardless of their symptoms, without consulting any doctor and without any medical evaluation, the indictment said. However, a memo sent to hospital staff stated if an ultrasound wasn’t covered by Medicaid, then medical evaluation was required, according to the indictment.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/man-identified-as-ice-doctor-behind-hysterectomies-previously-settled-medicare-medicaid-fraud/

Vandal Beheads Statue of Jesus in El Paso Cathedral for ‘Wrong Skin Color’

Police have arrested a man suspected of beheading and toppling a historic statue of Jesus in El Paso’s Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Tuesday.

The suspect, 30-year-old Isaiah Cantrell, said that he destroyed the 90-year-old statue because Jesus’s skin color was wrong and should have been darker.

The “skin color of the statue was the wrong color,” Cantrell said, according to a court affidavit. “Jesus was Jewish and therefore should be a darker skin color.”

The attack on the statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was located behind the main altar of the church, occurred at around 10:00 am, when the church was open for private prayer.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/09/17/vandal-beheads-statue-of-jesus-in-el-paso-cathedral-for-wrong-skin-color/

UK govt places nearly 2 million people in North East England under lockdown restrictions, imposes curfew & ban on visits

Local lockdown restrictions are being introduced in parts of North East England to curb the spread of coronavirus following “concerning rates of infection,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday.

Nearly two million people in the northeast of the country are facing fresh restrictions as coronavirus cases in the region increase. Speaking in the Commons, Hancock said that from tomorrow, in Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland and County Durham, residents “should not socialize with other people outside their own households or support bubble.”

Hospitality for food and drink will be restricted to table service only. Leisure and entertainment venues must close between 10pm and 5am.

According to Hancock, council leaders in the North East had written to him urging that tighter restrictions were put in place.

Edward Argar, a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care, said earlier on Thursday that “a spike in infections” was recorded in the North East, and “it is exactly what we have seen in the North West.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday a second coronavirus lockdown in the whole country would be “disastrous” for the British economy. A spokesman for Johnson, when asked whether a curfew might be brought in, said on Thursday that Britain does not plan any additional restrictions for London at the moment. However, people should abide by the new “rule of six,” he added.

New laws prohibiting social gatherings of more than six people came into effect on Monday as the government called on the public to remain vigilant during the coronavirus pandemic.

Argar also said on Thursday that nationwide measures to control the spread of coronavirus in Britain are not currently needed. The government was sticking with its plan for local lockdowns for now, Argar added.

https://www.rt.com/uk/500952-uk-england-lockdown-restrictions/

Two Campaign Staffers For Ilhan Omar’s GOP Challenger Shot In Minneapolis, Suspect Arrested

Two campaign staffers for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s challenger, Lacy Johnson, were reportedly shot Monday in Minneapolis.

One victim, a 17-year-old man, died at the scene, MPR News reported. The other victim was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A suspect was arrested Thursday morning in connection with the crime after a police pursuit, the Minneapolis Police Department told the Daily Caller.

“It is shocking and unnecessary acts of violence like this that prove why change is needed now more than ever in our community,” Johnson said, adding that the shooting didn’t occur during any campaign events and that they believe it has no connection to the campaign.

The two victims were standing outside of a service station Monday afternoon when they were approached and shot by the suspect or suspects, who then fled on foot, a preliminary police investigation found according to the Minneapolis Police Department.

The identities of the victims will be released in the coming days, the Minneapolis Police Department said in a press release.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/two-campaign-staffers-ilhan-omar-gop-challenger-shot-minneapolis/

Doug Collins Asks FCC to Bar Netflix’s ‘Cuties’ from Future Broadcast on Public Channels

In an escalation in the battle over Netflix’s Cuties, Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) is asking the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit any future broadcast of the underage twerking movie on public television channels, saying in a letter, sent exclusively to Breitbart News, that the movie meets the standard of “obscene material” and therefore would not be protected by the First Amendment.

Collins said in a letter Thursday to FCC chairman Ajit Pai that the commission should “use its authority to ensure that Cuties is never broadcast on public television channels in the United States.” The letter describes the movie as “disgusting” and “inappropriate,” adding that it “will only serve to please pedophiles.”

Cuties, which Netflix released on its digital streaming platform earlier this month, tells the story of an 11-year-old French girl who joins a tween twerking troupe as a way to escape her oppressive Senegalese-Muslim family. The movie features an extended sequence in which the underage girls engage in erotic dance moves and simulated sexual behavior.

Rep. Collins is arguing that Cuties meets the “Miller” test for obscene material, which means it would not be protected by free speech laws. The U.S. Supreme Court established the Miller standard in the 1973 case Miller v. California to determine if material qualifies as obscene and can thus be barred from public viewing.

The congressman is also arguing that the FCC has the power to ban Cuties from airwaves even if it doesn’t meet the obscenity test because the 1978 ruling FCC v. Pacifica Foundation allows the commission to regulate a broadcast that is “indecent.”

Since its release, Cuties has drawn increasing Congressional scrutiny, with members of Congress urging the Department of Justice open a criminal inquiry into Netflix’s decision to distribute the French movie.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has accused Netflix of “peddling child pornography.” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) called the movie “child porn,” insisting that the film will “whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex trafficking trade.”

Netflix, which has defended the movie as “social commentary” against the sexualization of children, acquired Cuties in January after it screened at the Sundance Film Festival. The company is believed to have the exclusive digital streaming rights to the movie in the U.S., but it remains unclear for how long and if the agreement prevents networks from broadcasting the movie at some point in the future.

Barack and Michelle Obama, who have a production deal with Netflix, has so far remained silent about the Cuties controversy, as has former Obama national security advisor Susan Rice, who sits on Netflix’s board of directors.

Netflix previously apologized for its marketing campaign for Cuties, which featured a trailer and movie poster that spotlighted the erotic dance sequence featuring young girls.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/09/17/exclusive-doug-collins-asks-fcc-to-bar-netflixs-cuties-from-future-broadcast-on-public-channels/

Top Scottish law adviser resigns from UK’s government amid Brexit's legal turmoil

Advocate General for Scotland Richard Keen has resigned from British government amid the ongoing row over PM Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans that could breach international laws and the EU divorce treaty.

The resignation followed reports by British media that Keen had found it increasingly difficult to reconcile with Johnson’s plan to ‘tweak’ the Brexit deal with a new law.

“Lord Keen has resigned as Advocate General for Scotland. The Prime Minister thanks him for his service,” the Downing Street said in a statement on Wednesday.

The controversial legislation, known as the Internal Market Bill was unveiled last week, with the top UK officials admitting that it could violate the international laws in a “limited” way. The revelation sparked a major international scandal, with the EU, Ireland and other players rushing to condemn London’s move. Brussels demanded Johnson to scrap the bill, warning it might jeopardize the talks on future trade arrangements between the bloc and the UK.

“With every day that passes, the chances of a timely agreement do start to fade,” she warned in a speech to the European Parliament. The divorce agreement “cannot be unilaterally changed, disregarded or dis-applied,” President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “This is a matter of law, trust and good faith… Trust is the foundation of any strong partnership.”

Britain remains a part of the EU’s single market during the post-Brexit transition period set to end at the end of this year, and the ongoing scandal increases the risks of the whole deal with the EU falling apart. Still, Johnson refused to shelve the legislation.

“This bill is intended to uphold the economic, the political, territorial integrity of the UK,” Johnson told parliament. Earlier, he said the legislation was needed to counter “absurd” threats from Brussels that emerge during the trade talks.

https://www.rt.com/uk/500886-uk-scotland-adviser-resigns/

Former UK Conservative Leader to Biden: Stay Out of Brexit, Worry About ‘Killing and Rioting’ in USA

British Conservative politicians including a former party leader have told Joe Biden to stop “lecturing” Britain on Brexit and worry about stopping the “killing and rioting” in the U.S.

77-year-old Biden has waded into the acrimonious negotiations between the British and the European Union on the side of the EU, warning that, if elected, he will block a British-American trade deal if the British government does not submit to the EU’s demands with respect to Northern Ireland.

The globalist bloc is allegedly threatening to use the powers which it will retain over the British province of Northern Ireland in the event the EU and UK do not agree a trade deal to block food from being imported from the British mainland.

The British government had agreed that Northern Ireland would continue following EU regulations and state aid rules in the event of a ‘No Deal’ situation in order to maintain the open border with the EU member-state of Northern Ireland, but is now pushing forward legislation to disapply parts of this agreement if the EU interprets them in an “abusive” and “extreme” way.

The EU is enraged by this supposed breach of international law, and Biden appears to have taken its side, warning that he would punish Britain — but not the EU — if a so-called “hard” regulatory border between the two Irelands was created.

We can see that Biden would be an anti-British US President. Wake up everyone. https://t.co/rxk3z3V1Wh

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) September 17, 2020

British Conservative MPs are firing back at the elderly presidential candidate, however, with former party leader and Cabinet member Sir Iain Duncan Smith being particularly combative.

“We don’t need lectures on the Northern Ireland peace deal from Mr Biden,” Sir Iain told The Times.

“If I were him I would worry more about the need for a peace deal in the USA to stop the killing and rioting before lecturing other sovereign nations,” he added.

David Davis MP, a former leadership contender and the inaugural Secretary of State for Brexit, suggested that Biden’s intervention was hypocritical, saying: “Perhaps Mr Biden should talk to the EU since the only threat of an invisible border in Ireland would be if they insisted on levying tariffs.”

Another MP, Joy Morrissey, was more even more straightforward, saying the Democrat’s interference was “clearly all about the Irish-American vote”.

We don’t need lectures on the Northern Ireland peace deal from presidential candidate @JoeBiden. If I were him I would worry more about the need for a peace deal in the USA to tackle the killing and rioting before lecturing other sovereign nations…https://t.co/n22YQ3blwh

— Iain Duncan Smith MP (@MPIainDS) September 17, 2020

Biden’s implicit demand that the British submit to EU demands on trade and regulations in order to preserve the open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was ostensibly in aid of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/17/former-uk-conservative-leader-biden-stay-out-of-brexit-worry-about-killing-rioting-usa/

Second UK Military Migrant Camp Set to Open in Wales, as Migrant Crisis Grows

The British government is “actively” considering opening a second migrant camp to house some 250 alleged asylum seekers in Wales, as the illegal boat migration crisis in the UK deepens.

Following the revelation that the Home Office has taken over a former army barracks in Kent to hold some 450 migrants, the Welsh Secretary of State and the MP for South Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen West, Simon Hart, confirmed that the government is considering opening a second camp in a Ministry of Defence facility the small Welsh village of Penally just outside of Tenby.

Mr Hart claimed that the proposed migrant camp would have “minimal impact” on the community, according to Wales Online.

“I have now spoken to the Home Secretary, who is exploring (with a range of partners and Government departments) opportunities for further Covid-19 compliant accommodation for those seeking asylum,” Hart said.

“Following the submission of a request, the Ministry of Defence have commenced scoping options across the UK. One of the sites under active consideration is Penally Training Camp,” he confirmed.

The number of illegal boat migrants recorded to have arrived in September has already set a monthly record, with 1,487 making the journey across the English Channel from France, according to The Telegraph. The record waves of migrants for this month are set to surpass the total number recorded in the whole year of 2019, which was 1,890.

'Asylum seekers' camp objectors gather in force outside the Penally site https://t.co/XAsj5GIl2O pic.twitter.com/8SgUAG5bKl

— Western Telegraph (@WTelegraph) September 16, 2020

Hundreds of residents in Penally disagreed with Simon Hart’s claims that the facility will have “minimal impact” on their community. Over 200 members of a group called the ‘Penally Camp Protest’ gathered outside the proposed migrant camp on Tuesday. The group has over 2,200 members on Facebook.

A spokesman for the group, Darren Edmundson, told the Western Telegraph that the group is “concerned for the safety of our family and our children, as we don’t know the background of the asylum seekers”.

“It has been confirmed that (it) is just 250 men. Why not women and children as well?” he questioned.

“We wanted to know the facts etc. It was so disappointing to not see the council or any MPs turn up to answer any questions,” he said, adding: “Simon Hart should have been there.”

Mr Edmundson said that they feel the facility would be better suited to help the local homeless people, saying: “We feel that the camp should have been used to benefit the community.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/17/second-uk-military-migrant-camp-set-up-wales-migrant-crisis-grows/

98 airmen have died by suicide so far in 2020, Air Force chief says

Ninety-eight airmen have died by suicide so far in 2020, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. told reporters on Wednesday, with the service on pace to meet the record which last year prompted the branch to take a tactical pause to address the problem.

“We’ve got work ahead, i’ll just be honest with you,” Brown said. “We’ve made some progress, because the stressors are much different [this year], but there’s still more work to be done.”

The new tally clarifies comments Brown made three weeks earlier about how the Air Force is “on a path to be as bad" as 2019 in terms of suicide losses.

Briefing slides leaked to the popular Facebook page Air Force amn/nco/snco in February showed that 137 airmen and Air Force civilians died by suicide in 2019, a 33 percent increase over the previous year.

The general said isolation due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) may play a role in 2020’s high numbers.

“The stressors that we have are much different than the stressors we had last year,” he said. “We don’t have a chance for our airmen to connect and be close to the folks that they work with on a day to day basis."

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-suicides-2020

China Poses "The Greatest Threat To World Order": UK Military Intel Chief

The Chinese regime “poses the greatest threat to world order,” Britain’s Chief of Defence Intelligence told British media this week.

Lt. Gen. Jim Hockenhull, speaking at the first media briefing at the UK’s Defence Intelligence hub based at the Royal Air Force base in Wyton, Cambridgeshire, discussed how “global players such as Russia and China continually challenge the existing order without prompting direct conflict, operating in the expanding grey-zone between war and peacetime,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

While Hockenhull saw Russia as posing “the greatest military and geopolitical threat to European security,” he reserved the starkest warning for China’s communist regime, The Telegraph reported.

People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers take part in a performance during an open day at Stonecutters Island naval base in Hong Kong, on June 30, 2019. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

China is “increasingly authoritarian and assertive,” he said. “It poses the greatest threat to world order, seeking to impose Chinese standards and norms and using its economic power to influence and subvert, backed up by massive investment in modernizing its armed forces.”

According to The Sun, Hockenhull said that Beijing had accelerated its modernization of the military since Xi Jinping came to power in 2013.

The Chinese military now boasts “an array of leading-edge weapons systems that are fast eroding Western military advantages,” he said, according to The Sun, adding, “Its growing fleet of Renhai-class destroyers are the most capable of any navy.”

A Chinese navy formation, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning (C), during military drills in the South China Sea, on Jan. 2, 2017. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The shifting global picture has changed the character of warfare in ways that will challenge the West to keep pace with adversaries who do not play by the rules, Hockenhull said, according to the Ministry of Defence.

He warned that conflict is bleeding into new domains such as cyber and space, threatening Britain’s cohesion, resilience, and global interests.

“Whilst conventional threats remain, we have seen our adversaries invest in Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and other ground-breaking technologies, whilst also supercharging more traditional techniques of influence and leverage,” he said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-poses-the-greatest-threat-to-world-order-uk-military-intelligence-chief_3498059.html

Outrage erupts over Facebook post by Arkansas state GOP candidate implying that he would hunt down Antifa and BLM protesters

Outrage erupted over a Facebook post by a Republican candidate for the Arkansas state House of Representatives who implied he was going to hunt down Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters.

John La Tour posted the message on Monday but deleted it by Tuesday after receiving condemnation from his critics.

"Antifa and BLM are now saying they are coming to the country. I wonder what the bag limit is, and where I can purchase riot-idot [sic] hunting license," read the post.

Instead of making the apology that many demanded, he mocked his detractors in a follow-up post.

"Bla, bla, bla. Does that offend you?" he wrote.

'This is a direct threat'

La Tour's Democratic opponent Rep. Nicole Clowney pounced on his comments. Clowney said that she felt "outrage for the residents of District 86 who feel less safe" because of the post.

"Nothing about violence is ever funny," she added. "He's talking about hunting human beings. The job of elected officials is to protect people. This is a direct threat."

The Democratic Party of Arkansas denounced him and demanded that state Republicans denounce the comments.

"There is a Republican candidate in northwest Arkansas who is suggesting that African-Americans, and people who say that their lives matter, should be murdered for sport," said DPA Chairman Michael John Gray.

"Failure to condemn this candidate shows a lack of leadership, and even more disheartening, a tacit support for his beliefs by Governor Asa Hutchinson, RPA Chair Doyle Webb, and Congressman Steve Womack."

Republicans condemn La Tour

In response, Republican leaders in Arkansas denounced La Tour's comments.

"I think Mr. La Tour's comments on Facebook were very inappropriate and clearly show a lack of critical thinking," said Webb, the Republican Party of Arkansas chair. "It should go without saying that the views of one House candidate do not reflect the views of Arkansas' majority party. We are 49 days away from one of the most consequential elections in modern history and are focused on November."

"The statement is unacceptable and no citizen, candidate or public official should be suggesting or even alluding to violence and threats," read a statement from Gov. Hutchinson.

When La Tour's office was asked for a comment about the incident by KARK-TV, a woman responded, "OK, ain't that wonderful, we just take posts and make stories out of them. That's hilarious. Alrighty, thanks!"

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/09/outrage-erupts-over-facebook-post-by.html

Israel Asks US for $8 Billion in Warplanes for ‘Qualitative’ Edge

Israeli officials predict new arms race

With the US set to use the peace treaty as a chance to sell F-35 warplanes to the United Arab Emirates, Israel has been pushing for a bunch of free US equipment based on pledges for a region-wide qualitative edge. On Wednesday, Israel offered its first list of demands.

The way Israel envisions this going down, they’ll get some $8 billion in equipment, mostly advanced US-made aircraft. This would include an entire squadron of F-35s, the very plane that was supposedly the cause of all this.

While Israel was previously objecting to the sales to the UAE as threatening their military edge, officials are now revising it, based on the reality that they’re not going to get their way on blocking sales.

Now, Israeli officials say that the F-35 sales are expected to start a new region-wide arms race, and it is the arms race for while they need all these new arms. They did not elaborate on this, but also said that they expect leadership changes in some Gulf countries.

Israel offered nothing publicly on why they would expect an arms race, or who would be involved. The reality is that the UAE doesn’t have a lot of military rivals, especially not the sort that would be able to afford an arms race. Though Iran is the catch-all excuse, Iran would never be able to afford a slew of advanced warplanes to counter the F-35s, nor would they be likely to try, given their military doctrine is based on deterrence and retaliatory capabilities.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/16/israel-asks-us-for-8-billion-in-warplanes-for-qualitative-edge/

Post-9/11 conflicts increased civilian police militarization, new study claims

Brown University released a study Wednesday examining the correlation between U.S. military conflicts in the post-9/11 era and an increase in police militarization.

The study revisits the notion of the military-industrial complex and its profit-driven agenda at the expense of civilian casualties in the U.S. and abroad. It draws a parallel between the military’s efforts to squash jihadis overseas and police agencies' increasing role in countering domestic terrorism.

“Police departments raced to develop counterterror systems; meanwhile, the scale and profits of military-industrial corporations mushroomed as the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq,” the study’s author, Jessica Katzenstein, wrote. “These forces converged with the growth of specialized police training and tactics to combat the rising number of mass shootings, and with more recent military drawdowns from active war zones, to vastly inflate an existing pipeline from the military and the federal government to local police.”

Not only were military weapons manufacturers courting police agencies directly, the study claims, but a secondary market for surplus military equipment was created during the Bill Clinton administration in the Defense Logistics Agency’s “1033 Program.” Its effects can likely be seen recently on city streets during protests in the form of MRAPs, or mine-resistant ambush protected armored vehicles.

As of June, there were about 8,200 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies participating in the program, according to DLA.

Many of the protests prompted a more than local response, with the National Guard and Homeland Security stepping in. As a result, the public is often confused as to who is showing up to keep the peace

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/09/16/post-911-conflicts-increased-civilian-police-militarization-new-study-claims/

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