Senate Judiciary Committee Will Subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over NY Post Censorship

The Senate Judiciary Committee announced plans to subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after the platform engaged in an unprecedented censorship spree, suspending the account of the New York Post, and locking the accounts of the Trump campaign as well as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, in the space of 24 hours.

Twitter also censored links to the website of the House Judiciary Committee, although it later backtracked, calling this decision an “error.”

Via the Wall Street Journal:

The subpoena would require the Twitter executive to testify on Oct. 23 before the committee, according to the Republicans who announced the hearing.

GOP lawmakers are singling out Twitter because it prevented users from posting links to the articles, which the Post said were based on email exchanges with Hunter Biden, the Democratic candidate’s son, provided by allies of President Trump. Those people in turn said they received them from a computer-repair person who found them on a laptop, according to the Post.

The Wall Street Journal hasn’t independently verified the Post articles.

“This is election interference, and we are 19 days out from an election,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a committee member who discussed the subpoena with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), told reporters. “Never before have we seen active censorship of a major press publication with serious allegations of corruption of one of the two candidates for president.”

The unprecedented censorship of the past few days was catalyzed by a scramble to suppress the New York Post’s publication of material indicating that Joe Biden, while Vice President, met with an executive at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas giant for which his son Hunter Biden worked.

The former VP previously said, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

The meeting occurred in the same year that Biden, in his own words, pressured the Ukrainian government to fire a state prosecutor that had been investigating the company.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/senate-judiciary-committee-will-subpoena-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-over-ny-post-censorship/

Two Individuals And Two Companies Sentenced In Scheme To Fraudulently Sell Popular Dietary Supplements

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-individuals-and-two-companies-sentenced-scheme-fraudulently-sell-popular-dietary

SO IT TURNS OUT Q AND THE ANON'S ARE LEGIT

SHOCK VIDEO: Man Opens Fire on Kids Playing Basketball After They Asked Him To Slow Down

SHOCK VIDEO: Man Opens Fire on Kids Playing Basketball After They Asked Him To Slow Down

https://breaking911.com/shock-video-man-opens-fire-on-kids-playing-basketball-after-they-asked-him-to-slow-down/

Ilhan Omar Funnels 70 Percent of Campaign Expenditures to Husband’s Company

Firm has received $2.7 million from Omar this cycle

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) funneled an additional $1.1 million to her husband's company, bringing her total payments to the firm to $2.7 million for the election cycle, new filings show.

Omar's campaign filings, released Thursday, show that she sent $1.1 million more to the E Street Group, a political consulting firm owned by her husband, Tim Mynett. The payments account for nearly 70 percent of the $1.6 million Omar's campaign has disbursed between July 23 and the end of September. They have helped cover advertisements, consulting, travel expenses, and production costs.

Omar has faced criticism on a number of issues since she entered Congress in 2018. Among other things, her lack of transparency about her past marriages has come under fire, and the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board has ordered her to repay thousands for a campaign finance violation.

She now faces a complaint for potentially running afoul of House ethics rules in relation to an advance she received for her memoir.

The freshman "Squad" member has showered her husband's company with cash this cycle. The E Street Group is the highest paid vendor from the campaign, and Omar had already sent $1.6 million to the group.

With the $1.1. million in new payments, the firm has now received a total of $2.7 million from Omar's campaign for the 2020 elections.

Prior to tying the knot with Mynett in March, Omar had long denied their romantic involvement. In August divorce filings, Mynett's then-wife accused the congresswoman of having an affair with her husband.

Omar claimed at the time that she was not separated from then-husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi.

"I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it," she said.

Mynett, likewise, denied the affair and said his then-wife was attempting to "ruin his career."

Omar's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/ilhan-omar-funnels-70-percent-of-campaign-expenditures-to-husbands-company/

While censoring Hunter Biden story, Twitter allows China, Iran state media

'Censoring political speech is what you'd expect in countries like China, North Korea, or Iran,' White House press secretary tweets

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Twitter’s decision to block NY Post’s Hunter Biden story 'unacceptable,' CEO says

Twitter is allowing Chinese and Iranian state media to push content while blocking a New York Post article that purports to show emails from Hunter Biden linking his father to his Ukraine business dealings.

The social media site followed Facebook Wednesday when it began blocking people attempting to share the article in tweets and private messages because the article violated its "Hacked Materials Policy." Twitter also locked users, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, out of their accounts for attempting to share the article on Wednesday.

"Censoring political speech is what you’d expect in countries like China, North Korea, or Iran — NOT America," McEnany wrote in a Thursday tweet. "This should scare every single American who values free and open discourse. Do NOT let Big Tech silence YOU."

Trump 2020 campaign social media director Mike Hahn said in a Thursday tweet that Twitter locked the campaign's account after it shared a video relating to the Post article.

While the website labels foreign state media, it continues to allow state media accounts to push media critical of the U.S. less than three weeks ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

A Twitter spokesperson told Fox News that in accordance with the company's different enforcement options, violations may require account owners to remove certain tweets, and once they do so, they will be able to continue using the platform. The company did not comment specifically on why it does not block or label tweets from foreign state media condemning the U.S. ahead of Nov. 3 the same way it did the New York Post.

"Before the [U.S.] election, truth, honesty and responsibility toward people’s well-being and world peace do not exist in the U.S.," Chinese state media newspaper The Global Times, which Twitter has labeled as Chinese state media, wrote in a Thursday tweet with a link to an op-ed on its website. "The U.S. presidential election has increased, rather than reduced, the world’s sense of insecurity."

Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, tweeted on Thursday that while "China focuses on developing itself and doing its own thing well every day …the U.S. is thinking about how to suppress and spoil other countries. No wonder China is growing rapidly but the US lacks development momentum."

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/twitter-china-iran-media-hunter-biden-story

Cunningham’s Mistress Donated to Campaign Around Time of Sexual Encounter

Senate Dem hopeful slept with Army vet's wife then cashed campaign checks

North Carolina Democrat Cal Cunningham received multiple campaign contributions from his mistress near the time the pair was reportedly intimate in his North Carolina home.

California public relations strategist Arlene Guzman Todd sent Cunningham $35.30 on July 20 and $250 on July 31, the Democrat's latest campaign finance report shows. In text messages sent to a friend, Guzman Todd said she was "intimate with Cunningham in his home" in July, according to an Associated Press report.

The revelation comes after Cunningham was subject to a Tuesday ethics complaint from conservative watchdog group Americans For Public Trust. The group highlighted a March 6 campaign stop in California. Cunningham's campaign disbursed nearly $600 in "travel" expenses from March 5-7, which, according to the complaint, could violate federal election law "prohibiting the use of campaign funds for personal use." Guzman Todd told the Associated Press that she also met Cunningham in Los Angeles in March.

"Regrettably, the nature of an extramarital affair is deception and concealment and North Carolinians deserve to know the extent Mr. Cunningham may have converted campaign funds for personal use," the complaint reads.

Cunningham has admitted to and apologized for the extramarital affair. The Democrat was repeatedly asked whether there were "more women" during an October 9 news conference but refused to answer.

Guzman Todd's husband, Army veteran Jeremy Todd, has called on Cunningham to drop out of the race against Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.

"Mr. Cunningham chose to repeatedly engage in activities that would hurt his family and a fellow junior officer and veteran," Todd told the News & Observer. "If elected, I can only imagine how misplaced his judgment would be for the people he's charged to represent."

The U.S. Army Reserve is now investigating Cunningham, who is also a veteran, over the affair, which could violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/cunninghams-mistress-donated-to-campaign-around-time-of-sexual-encounter/

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God Uses Ordinary People in Extraordinary Ways

God uses ordinary people in exordinary ways for His glory.

At first it may seem that that statement isn’t quite right and you may not believe it. After all aren’t only “super Christians” used by God?” You may be thinking, “I’m just a lay person what can God do with you?” Rather than thinking in terms of whether or not you have a seminary degree or extensive ministry experience I want you to go back to the Gospels. Remember the Apostles were uneducated and had no formal theological training before they met Jesus. They walked with Jesus for three years day and night, watching Him perform miracles and hearing Him teach them personally and as He taught others. Do you think that this Jesus the One who called men to follow Him is concerned about titles after one’s name? Don’t get me wrong earning degrees are great, but earning degrees is not ultimate unless they are yielded in submission to King Jesus and used for His glory. God took a shepherd boy and made Him King of Israel. God used a donkey after all to deliver a message. God uses ordinary people in extraordinary ways.

First, you may be reading this article and thinking you can never be used by God.

This is exactly what Satan wants you to think. You may think, “I’m totally unworthy to be used by God.” If people only knew, you say how much of a miserable sinner I am they wouldn’t want to hear from me at all. Hogwash! All of us are miserable sinners. Unless you’ve acknowledged your unworthiness you are not ready to be used by God. The fact that you think that you are “totally unworthy” tells me that you are in fact ready to be used by God. I say this of course because mentioning “you are totally unworthy” tells me that you align yourself with Isaiah who humbled himself before the glory of God in Isaiah 6. Isaiah acknowledged he was a man of unclean lips. You are a sinner in need of God’s grace so the fact you acknowledge that shows me you are ready to testify of His grace at work in and through your life.

Second, you may think, “I’m such a failure that God can never use me.”

Look at the Apostle Peter. Jesus told Peter that he would deny Him three times (Matthew 26:34). Peter’s response was he would not deny Jesus (Matthew 26:35). Here’s the thing, Peter did deny Jesus three times and Jesus saw it (Matthew 26:69-75). Imagine that you are the Apostle Peter the leader of the Apostles and a member of the inner circle of the Son of God Jesus Christ and you deny him three times. You would feel devastated, shame and guilt ridden. You say, “I’m such a failure that God can never use you” but that isn’t true. God uses our failure, hardship and trials for His glory. He turns what was meant for bad and uses it to testify to His grace. You say that you are a failure and yet God says because of the finished work of Christ you are victorious. The Apostle Peter went on to be mightily used of God because He was broken by God. You may be broken right now but in due season God will build you up and use you for His glory. Don’t run from Him run to Jesus. God uses ordinary people for His glory.

https://blogs.blueletterbible.org/blb/2013/10/09/god-uses-ordinary-people-in-extraordinary-ways/

Twitter users unable to tweet, told 'service is down'

Twitter users have been left unable to tweet with a message saying that the service is 'temporarily over capacity' displaying for many users.

Reports of issues with Twitter peaked at just after 8am AEDT today.

A live outage map from DownDetector showed that the platform was experiencing problems around the world.

https://www.9news.com.au/technology/twitter-down-as-users-unable-to-tweet-told-service-is-down/c206e36b-8cad-4674-9f47-7d61c58a1407

At least 20 Servicemen Killed in 2 Terrorist Attacks in Pakistan

At least 20 servicemen have been killed in two separate terrorist attacks in the western part of Pakistan, media reported.

One of the attacks took place in the Gwadar district of the province of Balochistan, while the other one in the North Waziristan district of the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the Express Tribune newspaper reported on late Thursday.

Uttar Pradesh police Anti-Terrorism Squad patrol on motorbikes at the spiritual-cleansing Kumbh Festival in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan.14, 2019

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India’s Anti-Terror Squad Arrests Aerospace Firm Employee for Passing Secret Info to Pakistan

The attack in North Waziristan’s Razmak area involved an explosion of an improvised explosive device that left six servicemen dead, including an officer.

In Balochistan’s port city of Ormara, terrorists opened fire at the convoy of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, leaving 14 servicemen killed.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has condemned the attack in Ormara and expressed condolences to families and friends of the victims.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010151080783732-at-least-20-servicemen-killed-in-2-terrorist-attacks-in-pakistan/

ICAC Live: Daryl Maguire set to be grilled for third day, documents reveal details of dealings with Premier Gladys Berejiklian

Disgraced former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire will return for a third day of evidence at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) after the hearings were cut short yesterday due to privacy concerns.

A dump of documents revealed by ICAC yesterday afternoon reveal Premier Gladys Berejiklian met her secret boyfriend's business partner, Phillip Elliott, for a dinner "at Daryl's place".

Mr Elliott was a director of a company that was being used as part of a "cash-for-visa" scheme.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-16/nsw-icac-inquiry-live-daryl-maguire-gladys-berejiklian/12772120

WHO finally admits lockdowns are harmful, “doubling” global poverty

The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally come to its senses in condemning the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns that it earlier supported, admitting that they in fact created a “ghastly global catastrophe” by crashing the world economy.

Speaking on behalf of the WHO’s United Kingdom envoy, Dr. David Nabarro urged world leaders in an appeal to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method,” and to instead allow people to live their lives as normal while encouraging the “vulnerable” to protect themselves as they normally would.

The only thing lockdowns achieved, according to Nabarro, was poverty, which makes them a no-go for countries that want to actually survive this crisis. Continuing to lock down businesses, sports facilities and other societal necessities will only lead to more misery, more poverty and ultimately more death, he warns.

“Just look at what’s happened to the tourism industry, for example in the Caribbean or in the Pacific, because people aren’t taking their holidays,” Nabarro further explained.

“Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. Seems that we may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition because children are not getting meals at school and their parents, in poor families, are not able to afford it.”

The WHO is right, for once

Nabarro’s words are a stark contrast to those uttered by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who back in April offered full support for lockdowns and even warned that lifting them too soon might cause a “spike” in COVID-19 cases.

At the time, Ghebreyesus had nothing but gushing praise for nations like the U.K. and France, which utilized lockdown and other “tools at their disposal to tackle any new spikes.”

Should the lockdowns continue, however, there will very soon be a “doubling” in the levels of world poverty and child malnutrition, Nabarro warns. By 2021, poor people are going to become “an awful lot poorer,” Nabarro claims.

“I want to say it again: We in the world Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as a primary means of controlling this virus,” Nabarro further added.

“And so, we really do appeal to all world leaders: Stop using lockdown as your primary control method. Develop better systems for doing it. Work together and learn from each other.”

https://patriotrising.com/who-finally-admits-lockdowns-are-harmful-doubling-global-poverty/