Zelensky praises Neo-Nazi soldier on social media

Nazi symbols are commonplace in photographs of Ukrainian troops endorsed by the president

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky posted a picture of a soldier wearing the insignia of a notorious Nazi SS division to his official Instagram account on Wednesday. The post, part of a series celebrating Ukraine’s Independence Day, was not the first piece of Nazi iconography shared by Zelensky.

Zelensky posted the image on Instagram early on Wednesday. In it, a Ukrainian soldier carrying a rifle displays the standard of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, also known as the 1st Galician division.

Comprising predominantly Ukrainian volunteers from the Galicia region (which spans what is now southwestern Poland and western Ukraine), the division is known for committing war crimes against Polish civilians during the course of World War II.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561496-zelensky-soldier-nazi-symbol/

Canadian ‘climate ministry’ will have arms storage and detention rooms – media

The facility for Trudeau’s new climate cops includes a massive firearms storage space and interrogation rooms

A Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) facility under construction in Winnipeg includes a sizable firearms storage room, as well as multiple evidence rooms and interrogation rooms, according to CounterSignal. The outlet, which claims to have received a leaked copy of the architectural plans as drawn up by a Winnipeg firm, published a snapshot showing some of the more disturbing labels on Tuesday.

The sprawling 50,000 square-foot building also encases biological labs, media relations offices, a weather forecasting station, and – perhaps most disturbing, given the implications – facilities for housing hundreds of people, including “enforcement officers” working for the ECCC.

The “enforcement officers” are essentially climate police, endowed with equivalent authority by the 2019 Impact Assessment Act, which purports to be legislation aiming to reduce the impact of energy, farming and other large projects on indigenous communities and the environment. They may enter any property without a warrant in order to verify compliance with the IAA, taking photos, accessing computers, phones and other devices, giving orders to anyone operating machinery, or even demanding the premises be vacated and future access prohibited.

According to a job posting on Indeed.com, Canada is currently hiring these “enforcement officers” to enforce pollution regulations. They are given a secret security clearance and restricted weapons, which they carry – along with handcuffs – into whatever environmental conditions Ottawa calls for them to inspect.

ECCC agents were spotted earlier this week on private farmland in Saskatchewan, where they claimed to be taking water samples in order to measure nitrate levels. Premier Scott Moe demanded to know what the agency planned to use the samples for and why it was being done without the permission and knowledge of the farmers.

Many farmers fear the PM could follow in the footsteps of his counterpart in the Netherlands, whose planned restrictions on fertilizer usage threaten to put the majority of Dutch farmers off their land. In 2020, Trudeau announced plans to reduce fertilizer emissions by 30% over the next 10 years, which will not only reduce crop yields and make it impossible to continue growing food, but, fertilizer industry advocates say, won’t even lower carbon emissions.

https://www.rt.com/news/561498-canada-environment-police-prison-climate/

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District of Columbia Man Pleads Guilty to Child Exploitation and Sex Abuse Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/district-columbia-man-pleads-guilty-child-exploitation-and-sex-abuse-charges

Essex County Man Sentenced to 135 Months in Prison for Distributing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/essex-county-man-sentenced-135-months-prison-distributing-child-pornography

Plymouth principal and a school employee arrested, charged with failure to report sex abuse allegations

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-plymouth-center-school-sexual-abuse-arrests-20220824-gmqfreluingzlmasallfwrnrcu-story.html

NSW man charged with possessing child abuse material

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/nsw-man-charged-possessing-child-abuse-material-1

Atlantic City Man Admits Possession of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/atlantic-city-man-admits-possession-child-pornography

Former Schoolteacher Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/former-schoolteacher-sentenced-20-years-prison-child-pornography

Tucson Man Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/tucson-man-convicted-child-sexual-abuse-0

Woods Cross Man Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of Minors

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/woods-cross-man-pleads-guilty-sexual-exploitation-minors

ERO Laredo arrests convicted felon for indecency with child

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-laredo-arrests-convicted-felon-indecency-child

Alabama man sentenced over 17 years for producing child pornography following HSI Alpine investigation

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/alabama-man-sentenced-over-17-years-producing-child-pornography-following-hsi-alpine

Dems’ Climate Bill Overrules Supreme Court, Expands EPA’s Control Over Energy Industry

The Inflation Reduction Act defines “air pollutants” including carbon dioxide as “greenhouse gases.”

Some experts argue this legally authorizes the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases and encourage adopting renewable energy, while others were not so sure.

“There’s no definition there, it’s just sort of in a list, and it’s casually mentioned,” former Trump EPA transition team member Steve Milloy told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “There’s no section that says carbon dioxide is an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.”

The Democrat-led climate bill signed into law Aug. 16 grew the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority over energy after the Supreme Court limited it in June.

The court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA limited the EPA’s regulatory power and found that Congress had not authorized the agency under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to impose greenhouse gas emissions caps under the now-replaced Clean Power Plan to force a national transition away from coal power. Several of the Inflation Reduction Act‘s sections define the term “greenhouse gas” as “the air pollutants carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.”

Democrats who contributed to the climate bill and legal experts said it clearly authorizes the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases and push for renewable energy adoption by defining fossil fuel-generated carbon dioxide as an “air pollutant” in an amended Clean Air Act, according to The New York Times.

The language was opposed by Senate Republicans but survived their attempts to erase it, the outlet reported.

“[The EPA is] gonna try to use that as authorization that they can regulate carbon dioxide from coal plants because it has this casual mention of carbon dioxide and air pollutant in the same sentence,” JunkScience.com founder and Trump EPA transition team member Steve Milloy told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I don’t think that that’s gonna fly, ultimately, but a lot of damage can be done in the meantime. Because it’s clear that there’s no definition there, it’s just sort of in a list, and it’s casually mentioned. There’s no section that says carbon dioxide is an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.”

Milloy called the EPA’s rule for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) to tighten air quality standards “a backdoor way of regulating climate.”

“They’ll probably do the same thing with ozone, and then they’ll use this authority somehow,” he said of the climate bill’s language on carbon dioxide. “EPA is gonna use every hook it thinks it has to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why that definition was put in, because the Supreme Court said you need congressional authorization, and they don’t have any congressional authorization, not one. They have none, and that section doesn’t really give it to them, but they’re gonna pretend it does.”

Milloy said the “leftist” D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals might accept the Democrats’ argument.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/24/climate-bill-supreme-court-epa/

Seven more Texas counties declare invasion at southern border, bringing total to 17

The judges and county commissioners of seven more Texas counties signed resolutions declaring an invasion at the southern border this week

The judges and county commissioners of seven more Texas counties signed resolutions declaring an invasion at the southern border this week, citing unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, human trafficking, and drug smuggling occurring at the U.S. border with Mexico under the Biden administration.

The seven counties – Chambers, Ellis, Hardin, Johnson, Liberty, Orange and Wilson – also expressed support for Gov. Greg Abbott to protect the sovereignty of Texas and secure the border.

To date, 17 Texas counties now have formally declared an invasion, while two judges from other counties expressed support for declaring an invasion but their commissioners didn’t.

The judges and commissioners who’ve signed invasion declarations or resolutions represent the counties of Atascosa, Chambers, Edwards, Ellis, Goliad, Hardin, Johnson, Kinney, Liberty, Live Oak, Orange, Parker, Presidio, Terrell, Tyler, Wilson and Wise.

The first to declare an invasion at the southern border were Kinney, Goliad, Terrell, Edwards and Presidio counties and the city of Uvalde on July 5.

Initially, Jeff Davis County’s judge declared an invasion, but its county commissioners didn’t support it. On Aug. 9, Rockwall County’s judge signed a disaster declaration stating its residents were “under imminent threat of disaster from the unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, human trafficking, and drug smuggling coming across the U.S. border from Mexico.” But it was only good for 7 days and the court didn’t take up the matter in its next two meetings, his assistant confirmed to The Center Square.

While some have reported that Val Verde and Zavala counties have declared an invasion, they’ve only issued disaster declarations, as have multiple counties, enabling them to receive state funding for law enforcement efforts through Operation Lone Star.

Zavala County’s July 2021 disaster declaration remains in effect. It states the county is “under an imminent threat of disaster from the human trafficking occurring on our border with Mexico. The ongoing border crisis has resulted in thousands of undocumented aliens pushing our local, state, and federal law enforcement to its limit. That has resulted in residents of Zavala County sustaining property damage, and a concern for the public health and safety of the residents.”

Over the past few weeks, the judges and county commissioners of Atascosa, Live Oak, Parker, Tyler and Wise counties signed invasion resolutions. More recently, the judges and county commissioners of Chambers, Hardin, Liberty and Orange counties (August 23) and Wilson County (August 22), also signed similar invasion resolutions, calling for “additional measures to secure the border, stop the invasion at the southern border and protect our communities.”

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/7-more-texas-counties-declare-invasion-southern-border-bringing-total

Missouri School District Reinstates ‘Corporal Punishment’

Cassville School District in Missouri has decided to bring back “corporal punishment” as a form of discipline for misbehaving students.

Students could be punished with paddles under the new policy that administrators say is a last resort form of correction.

According to KOLR 10 News, the new policy came about as a result of a survey sent out to parents last year in which respondents named discipline as a top concern.

Superintendent Dr. Meryl Johnson said the policy change is in response to parents identifying suspensions as a large concern. Johnson said the new form of punishment could keep children in classrooms.

“The complaints that we have heard from some of our parents is that they don’t want their students suspended. They want another option,” Johnson said. “And so, this was just another option that we could use before we get to that point of suspension.”

According to the policy, students will only be able to receive such punishment if parents opt them in.

The outlet also reported that some students opted for the style of discipline, to the surprise of some parents.

“You know, I feel like if they had a different outlet like counseling services and school instead of corporal punishment, that would be the more appropriate answer,” parent of three Miranda Waltrip said. “At the end of the day they are having to hold the child down and spank them or use whatever means that they can to make the child submissive when that is not the issue, it is the fact that they need to be heard because children act out for varied reasons.”

“We live in a really small community where people were raised a certain way and they’re kind of blanketed in that fact that they grew up having discipline and swats,” she continued. “And so, for them, it’s like going back to the good old days but it’s not because it’s going to do more harm than good at the end of the day.”

Cassville is a town of about 4,000 persons that Johnson describes as a “very traditional community in southwest Missouri.”

“Parents have said ‘why can’t you paddle my student?’ and we’re like ‘We can’t paddle your student, our policy does not support that,'” he said, according to the Springfield News-Leader. “There had been conversation with parents and there had been requests from parents for us to look into it.”

“We’ve had people actually thank us for it,” he continued. “Surprisingly, those on social media would probably be appalled to hear us say these things but the majority of people that I’ve run into have been supportive.”

“Corporal punishment will be used only when other means of discipline have failed and then only in reasonable form, when the principal approves it,” Johnson said.

Missouri is one of 19 states that still allow corporal punishment. The others states that allow it are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/24/missouri-school-district-reinstates-corporal-punishment/

Call for urgent inquiry into irreversible gender changes - as woman sues psychiatrist after he approved her hormone therapy to transition into a man after a single appointment - leaving her unable to get pregnant

Jay Langadinos, now 31, transitioned from a woman to a man in her early 20s

She is suing psychiatrist for professional negligence over her transition to a man

Former Liberal candidate Katherine Deves has hailed Jay's bravery over case

She says there needs to be an 'urgent inquiry' into irreversible gender changes

Firebrand Liberal Katherine Deves has thrown her support behind a woman who is suing her psychiatrist for professional negligence after he approved her to start hormone therapy after a single appointment.

Dr Patrick Toohey approved the treatment for Jay Langadinos before later giving the go-ahead for surgeries to remove her breasts, uterus and ovaries.

In court documents seen by Daily Mail Australia, Dr Toohey said Jay suffered from gender dysphoria despite admitting she had social phobia and didn't know that 'psychological factors could influence the outcome of gender transition'.

The doctor also 'strongly' recommended that Jay receive social and family therapy, though she didn't receive either.

Now, aged 31, Jay is suing Dr Toohey for professional negligence and has been supported by former Liberal candidate Ms Deves, who told Daily Mail Australia that there needs to be an 'urgent inquiry' into irreversible gender changes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11143333/Katherine-Deves-calls-inquiry-gender-changes-Jay-Langadinos-trans-court-case.html

Aussie grandmother who was locked up for outing a paedophile gets worldwide support: 'She should have a medal draped around her neck for outing the filthy bludger'

A grandmother now has a criminal record after unmasking a child sex offender

Maxine Davey, 59, exposed a convicted paedophile who had moved to her area

Edward James Thomson was jailed for two years on sexual assault and rape

Ray Hadley said Ms Davey deserved a medal, and not a criminal conviction

Ray Hadley said a grandmother who ended up in a police cell for outing a paedophile in her home town deserves a 'medal', and not the criminal conviction she received as her story gains attention around the world.

Maxine Davey, 59, held up signs along a busy stretch of road warning residents child sex predator Edward James Thomson was living in the Central Queensland neighbourhood of Calliope, near Gladstone.

Thomson was sentenced to two years and nine months in jail after being convicted of rape and multiple counts of indecent treatment of children under the age of 16 last year.

But he was released after just 12 months. An appeal against his conviction was dismissed earlier this year.

Ms Davey filmed the outside of his home, where his property and vehicles could be identified and shared the clip to Facebook.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11143419/Ray-Hadley-defends-Calliope-grandma-convicted-outing-paedophile-Edward-James-Thomson.html

Harvey Weinstein is granted an APPEAL by court on rape conviction 'after trial judge let witness testify about sex attacks mogul wasn't charged with and juror lied about writing book on sexual predators'

Weinstein, 70, has been granted the right to appeal his 2020 conviction for rape, for which he was sentenced to 23 years

New York State of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore on Wednesday ruled that his appeal could proceed, with oral arguments next year before the entire court

Weinstein's lawyer Arthur Aidala said they were grateful for the decision, which he said 'acknowledged the unique legal issues in this case'

More than 80 women accused the Oscar-winning producer of sexual assault and harassment

Weinstein is currently in prison in Los Angeles, awaiting an October 11 trial on 11 counts of rape and sexual assault

Harvey Weinstein has been granted the right to appeal by New York State Court of Appeals, paving the way for oral arguments to be heard next year - and his 2020 conviction potentially overturned.

The 70-year-old was found guilty in 2020 of rape, and sentenced to 23 years.

He insisted that his relations with the women were consensual, and will now be granted an appeal over claims witnesses were allowed to testify about alleged abuse that did not form part of the charges against Weinstein.

His lawyers further allege that one juror did not disclose they'd previously written a book on sexual predators, which Weinstein's team say should have disqualified them from serving.

Wednesday's ruling, from New York State of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, means that oral arguments will be heard next year before the entire court, a court source told NBC News.

The court could uphold or overturn his conviction, and Weinstein may be free on bail awaiting any retrial.

'Harvey lives to fight another day,' said his attorney, Arthur Aidala, speaking to Page Six.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11143397/Harvey-Weinstein-granted-APPEAL-New-York-court.html