Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:32 a.m. No.19126590   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6593

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>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12265191/Smallville-actor-Allison-Mack-released-prison-year-early-handed-three-years.html

'Smallville' actor Allison Mack is quietly released from prison a year early after being jailed for three years for brainwashing and recruiting sex slaves for NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere who is serving 120 years

 

Allison Mack, 40, was released from federal prison near San Francisco this week

Mack had been serving a three year sentence for sex trafficking charges in 2021

Smallville actress avoided a longer prison term by cooperating with authorities

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:33 a.m. No.19126594   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6626 >>6869

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12265323/Super-woke-American-ice-cream-company-Ben-Jerrys-slammed-political-tweet-July-4th.html

Ben & Jerry's customers call for boycott after woke ice cream maker's July 4th message demanding the US return 'stolen indigenous land' starting with Mount Rushmore to the Lakota

 

'This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,' the company's account tweeted

Outrage was swift on social media, with many disgusted by what they saw as anti-American sentiment on a day meant to celebrate the United States

The ice cream giant, now owned by British multinational Unilever, has long supported far left causes, often with dedicated ice cream flavors

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:34 a.m. No.19126595   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6626 >>6869

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12265245/One-person-died-three-people-injured-plane-crash-California.html

Small plane slams into the side of a building in southern California killing one and injuring three - as footage shows it crumpled upside down in parking lot

 

The four people had been travelling on a single-engine Cessna 172 when it crashed on its return to French Valley Airport in Murrieta, California

Shortly after the crash, Riverside County Fire Department confirmed that the plane went down 'with parties trapped'

They later confirmed that one person had died at the scene, with three people taken to hospital

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:34 a.m. No.19126599   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12264989/Army-sergeant-indicted-murder-beating-two-year-old-girl-death-illegal-day-care.html

Army sergeant, 40, is indicted for murder after 'beating two-year-old girl to death at illegal daycare run by his wife out of their home on Missouri base'

 

Sgt. Kevin Long, 40, has been charged with beating a two-year-old girl to death

It is alleged to have happened at a daycare run by his wife on a base in Missouri

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:35 a.m. No.19126600   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12264709/Joe-Biden-invites-recovering-drug-addict-son-White-House-July-4th-cocaine-scandal.html

Not enough fireworks for one holiday? Joe and Jill invite recovering drug addict Hunter Biden and family onto the Truman balcony to watch July 4th celebrations - two days after cocaine was found in the West Wing

 

The Biden family showed a united front as they watched the fireworks over the National Mall on Tuesday

Joe and Jill invited recovering drug addict son Hunter and his family to the Truman balcony

The appearance comes after cocaine was found inside the White House, sparking a full scale investigation

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:55 a.m. No.19126653   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6656 >>6869

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/qanon-save-the-children-trafficking.html

QAnon Followers Are Hijacking the #SaveTheChildren Movement

Fans of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory are clogging anti-trafficking hotlines, infiltrating Facebook groups and raising false fears about child exploitation.

QAnon first surfaced in 2017 with a series of anonymous posts on the internet forum 4chan claiming to reveal high-level government intelligence about crimes by top Democrats. It has since spawned one of the most disturbing and consequential conspiracy theory communities in modern history. Its followers have committed serious crimes, and its online vigilantes have made a sport of harassing and doxxing their perceived enemies. The F.B.I. has cited QAnon as a potential domestic terror threat, and social networks have begun trying to pull QAnon groups off their platforms. Dozens of QAnon-affiliated candidates are running for office this year. One of them, Marjorie Taylor Greene, won a primary runoff Tuesday for a House seat in Georgia, drawing a congratulatory tweet from Mr. Trump.

Like any movement, QAnon needs to win over new members. And its most recent growth strategy involves piggybacking on the anti-human-trafficking movement.

The idea, in a nutshell, is to create a groundswell of concern by flooding social media with posts about human trafficking, joining parenting Facebook groups and glomming on to hashtag campaigns like #SaveTheChildren, which began as a legitimate fund-raising campaign for the Save the Children charity. Then followers can shift the conversation to baseless theories about who they believe is doing the trafficking: a cabal of nefarious elites that includes Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Pope Francis.

Part of the strategyโ€™s perverse brilliance is that child sex trafficking is a real, horrible thing, and some politically connected people, including the financier Jeffrey Epstein, have been credibly accused of exploiting underage girls. And speaking out against child exploitation, no matter your politics, is far from an objectionable stance.

โ€œItโ€™s probably one of the key things thatโ€™s attractive about QAnon,โ€ said Marc-Andrรฉ Argentino, a doctoral student at Concordia University who studies QAnonโ€™s social media presence. โ€œEveryone agrees that child trafficking is very bad, and the argument QAnon makes is, โ€˜If youโ€™re against us talking about this, youโ€™re in favor of child trafficking.โ€™โ€

Sometimes, QAnon followers spin factual information in a way that serves their aims. Last week, an Associated Press article about a $35 million Trump administration grant to organizations that house trafficking survivors became one of the most-shared stories on Facebook, after QAnon groups picked it up and cited it as evidence that President Trumpโ€™s secret crusade against elite pedophiles was underway.

Other times, the strategy involves latching on to conspiracy theories and inserting QAnon talking points. Weeks ago, influencers on TikTok and Instagram began speculating about baseless allegations that Wayfair, an online furniture site, was trafficking children under the guise of selling expensive cabinets. The conspiracy theory went viral, and QAnon believers began sprinkling in their own supposedly incriminating details. They claimed, falsely, that a Wayfair employee had once been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been charged with recruiting underage girls for Mr. Epstein.

These allegations merged in the popular imagination, and soon unsuspecting people were sharing wild conspiracy theories that came straight from QAnon orthodoxy.

โ€œWith Wayfair, both accounts on the left and right were amplifying the content,โ€ Mr. Argentino said. โ€œA lot of the yoga moms and juice-cleanse-type circles were sharing it.โ€

The strategy of seeding QAnon talking points with different audiences appears to be working. In recent weeks, Facebook engagement on human-trafficking-related content has surged, according to an analysis of data from CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data platform. (Interactions on posts with the #SaveTheChildren hashtag, for example, have grown more than 500 percent since early July.)

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:57 a.m. No.19126658   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Gerald Molen - The Abolitionists

Academy Award-winning producer Gerald Molen made a documentary on Ballard and his work entitled โ€œThe Abolitionists,โ€ which premiered in 2014.

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 4:57 a.m. No.19126661   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Ballard is the author of The Lincoln Hypothesis: A Modern-day Abolitionist Investigates the Possible Connection between Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and Abraham Lincoln, The Covenant, Lincoln, and the War, and The Covenant: America's Sacred and Immutable Connection to Ancient Israel.

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 5:02 a.m. No.19126672   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6679 >>6686

According to Joseph Smith, in 1823, when he was seventeen years old, an angel of God named Moroni appeared to him and said that a collection of ancient writings was buried in a nearby hill in present-day Wayne County, New York, engraved on golden plates by ancient prophets.

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 5:27 a.m. No.19126746   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6748

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https://www.ksl.com/article/50322771/she-sought-justice-after-years-of-feeling-unsafe-but-says-the-utah-county-attorney-got-in-the-way

She sought justice after years of feeling unsafe, but says the Utah County attorney got in the way

When she met with Utah County's top law enforcer in 2020, a Utah woman says he pitched her an idea to bring an end to the harassment she endured for years after ending a brief relationship.

Utah County Attorney David Leavitt planned to drop the stalking case against Mark Stewart Allen. But Allen, 59, of Lindon, would have to agree that a time limit on the filing of another criminal charge wouldn't apply. Instead, he could face the felony at any point in the future if he didn't shape up.

While Leavitt maintains the agreement was intended to help her while jury trials were on hold because of the pandemic, the woman alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he had a conflict of interest: Leavitt had acknowledged in their meeting that decades earlier, the alleged aggressor was a Latter-day Saint mission companion of his brother, Eric.

"How is that not a conflict of interest?" said the woman. "The whole situation didn't feel right."

She is named in the lawsuit and chose to talk to KSL, but did not want her name used in this story.

She's seeking a federal court order that would trigger the transfer of the case to a different prosecutor's office, along with unspecified damages.

The woman recalled feeling uneasy after her meeting with Leavitt. While the prosecutor seemed to think the plan was in her best interest, she said she was concerned the behavior would continue without a meaningful penalty.

Her attorneys provided KSL an audio recording of her meeting with Leavitt that stretched on for more than an hour. It's part of her lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Salt Lake City against the county attorney.

She expressed her misgivings shortly after the meeting, tapping out an email to Leavitt that said she wanted to see the offer in writing. But she found out after the fact that a 4th District judge in Provo approved the agreement and dismissed the case, she said.

Leavitt's office didn't tell her when the court hearing was going to happen, disregarding protections in the Utah Constitution, her lawsuit contends. And she believes her experience points to bias against women, violating the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause.

Anonymous ID: a4d776 July 5, 2023, 5:28 a.m. No.19126748   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>19126746

She contends Leavitt had directed one of his prosecutors to drop the criminal stalking case against Allen, after he allegedly showed up at her home, shared intimate pictures of her and emailed her even though she had a protective order against him.

When his employee resisted, Leavitt took over the case, the lawsuit states.

She said the man went on to harass her again. Prosecutors refiled the charge last year, and it's still pending.

Leavitt denies he had a conflict, and said the renewed charge reflects his commitment to making sure the case is handled properly.

"The truth is, there's nothing illegal or inappropriate about this," he told KSL investigators.

Leavitt acknowledged he got involved in the case after meeting with a lawyer for Allen who sought to cast doubt on the woman's version of events, and after Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith got in touch about the case. But Leavitt is ultimately responsible for all cases that pass through his office, he said, and routinely scrutinizes them when lawyers, police or others bring issues to his attention.

Allen's defense attorney Dustin Parmley declined comment.

The woman's attorneys allege in court papers that the defendant was a campaign donor and friend, but Leavitt said they're not friends.

Campaign finance reports show Allen contributed $49.99 to Leavitt's unsuccessful 2020 campaign for Utah attorney general.

"We can't be bought," Leavitt added. "We can't be influenced in inappropriate ways."

He said the agreement had simply allowed her to have a measure of accountability while the criminal justice system was largely paused.

"This defendant is going to continue to harass you until you're at trial, and now that your trial has been postponed, you're going to have years of this," he recalled telling her. "You're better off, if you'll consent to this, that you'll dismiss the charge."

In an apparent effort to address her concerns during their meeting, she contends, Leavitt recalled that while Juab County attorney, he prosecuted neighbors, along with a church leader in his own Latter-day Saint ward โ€“ demonstrating a pattern of conflicts, according to her attorneys.

A Republican who took office in 2019, Leavitt has faced criticism in the past for dismantling his office's special victims unit focused on prosecuting crimes against children and other vulnerable Utahns.

Leavitt said he's brought in a team of researchers to review sexual assault cases the office has handled over the last 10 years and is taking steps to reduce bias in charging decisions. He views the allegations in this lawsuit as a politically motivated attack, he said, in part informed by the views of former prosecutors who left his office over their frustrations with his policies.

The woman's lawyer, Michael Young, rejected the notion.

"Refusal to prioritize the safety of stalking victims is a breach of public trust and a fundamental failure for one holding public office," he said.