https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-in-oval-office-meets-promoter-of-qanon-conspiracy-theory-that-says-democrats-run-pedophile-cult
Twitter CEO to Testify Before House Committee in September
Twitter Inc’s chief executive Jack Dorsey will appear before a US House of Representatives committee on September 5 to face the concerns about social media removing conservative-produced content.
Republican Representative Greg Walden (R-OR), the panel’s chairman, said in a statement issued Friday that he expects Dorsey to be “forthright and transparent” regarding the social media platform’s algorithms and content judgment calls.
Walden also said that the House Energy and Commerce Committee “intends to ask tough questions about how Twitter monitors and polices content," noting that “Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go viral”
The concerns were raised after US President Donald Trump, in a Friday tweet, accused social media companies of silencing “millions of people” thus censoring the unwanted opinions. He did not mention specific companies.
Trump also claimed that social media companies were “totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices.” That criticism came after large media companies Apple, Facebook and Google removed content posted by InfoWars host Alex Jones from their platforms. Jones’ Twitter account was also temporarily banned on August 15 for seven days for violating the company’s rules.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201808251067458266-twitter-ceo-testify-house/
Democratic senators ask Pompeo for translator's notes from Trump-Putin meeting
Democratic senators are requesting translation notes and other materials related to Donald Trump's two-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in July, saying the summit requires "urgent congressional oversight."
The request was made in a letter sent to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which they, unsurprisingly, found a way to turn Moscow into the villain.
"Russian officials have taken advantage of the lack of communication by the White House to circulate their own, possibly false, readouts of what occurred in this private meeting," they wrote.
In addition to translation notes, the two are also seeking cable traffic, memos, and policy directives related to the meeting in Helsinki, which was only attended by the two leaders and translators from each side.
It's not the first time that Trump's translator has come in for the Democrats' anger surrounding the meeting with Putin. In July, congressional Republicans rejected Democratic calls to summon the translator, saying it would block future presidential diplomatic efforts.
“That would be the last time you ever have a foreign leader meet with a president of the US privately,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), himself a frequent critic of Trump, told Politico. “I can’t imagine how that would affect future presidents in terms of their ability to talk to foreign leaders.”
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), chair of the Foreign Relations Committee and another Trump critic, said at the time that summoning the translator would set a bad precedent. “If we are going to start getting translator’s notes, I think we are moving to a precedent that – unless some crime has been committed – is unprecedented and just not appropriate,” he said.
Trump has faced widespread criticism over the meeting with Putin, which began before either leader even arrived in Helsinki. The US president's critics branded him "traitor-in-chief" and accused him of treason on Twitter, while claiming the meeting was an "unconditional surrender" to Putin, his so-called "puppet master."
Despite the ongoing criticism, the US president has remained steadfast, insisting that it's a good thing –not a bad thing – to have friendly relations with Russia and other countries. Following the meeting with Putin, Trump tweeted that "some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome."
https://www.rt.com/usa/436782-democrats-letter-trump-putin-translator/
TSA Molests 13-Year-Old Girl, Then Calls the Police When Parents Object
A father was forced to watch a TSA agent sexually assault his daughter and when he objected, they tried to have him arrested.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/father-tsa-daughter-airport-arrested/
Burning Man Threatening to Sue Feds for Turning Festival into Unconstitutional Police
Burning Man organizers have written a letter threatening to sue the feds after they began to turn the event into a totalitarian police state.
As The Free Thought Project reported earlier this week, police from various agencies were more aggressive than ever with searches of Burning Man attendees who were on their way to the festival this year.
Police in the region told reporters that they have orders from the federal government to target cars that are on their way to Burning Man and search them for drugs.
Organizers of the festival have responded to these reports with a letter to federal officials threatening a lawsuit if the traffic stops continue.
The letter cited “improper and apparently unconstitutional behavior” on the behalf of multiple police agencies.
Adam Belsky, special counsel to the Burning Man organization, was the organizer who signed the letter.
“Many of the (traffic stop) tactics are attempts to intimidate and harass travelers who are doing nothing more than passing through the Reservation on a state-maintained highway. This is unacceptable and this behavior should not be tolerated by agency leaders nor the public,” Belsky wrote.
Organizers argue that there are many other safety risks that these stops are causing, and it could make it more difficult for them to get ice and other important supplies to where they need to be.
“Given the current situation and the likelihood that litigation will be necessary to remedy these violations, we request that the (Bureau of Indian Affairs), (Department of Interior) and (Bureau of Land Management) and any and all other governmental agencies involved preserve all evidence relation to the (traffic stops). It appears that the BIA agents are unconstitutionally targeting attendees of the Burning Man event in violation of their First Amendment rights of free expression and of freedom to assemble,” Belsky wrote.
BIA spokeswoman Nedra Darling claims that these stops have nothing to do with Burning Man and that the timing of these traffic stops are merely a coincidence. Darling said that this operating is targeted at drug trafficking on tribal lands, and that they are looking for opiates and crack coming into the reservations.
However, Pyramid Lake Police Department Lt. Michael Durham said that the operation is scheduled to continue through September 5th, two days after the end of Burning Man, so it does very much appear to be targeted at the festival.
This is one of the largest events in the state every single year, and there is an increasing police presence at the event every single year as well. It is very unlikely that the timing of this operation was any type of coincidence or mistake. They may very well be running an operation to find drugs on tribal lands, but they are also running an operation on Burners as well.
The Burning Man Festival has long been a target of the Feds, who are threatened by the counter-culture nature of the event and its attendees. Burners have even been labeled as terrorists by the feds, as it was revealed in a 2015 Freedom Of Information Act request that the FBI sent undercover agents to the festival under the pretense of gathering intelligence on terrorists.
The 16-page document released under duress by the FBI is still heavily censored — especially parts pertaining to high-tech police surveillance equipment used to “gather information.”
The fact that terrorism is used as an excuse for the surveillance is interesting, especially because the FBI notes in its report that the festival is a “cultural and artisan event, which promote[s] free expression by the participants.”
Apparently, art and free expression can now be equated with terrorism.
The FBI claims the surveillance program is necessary to fight the “war on terror.” The agency said that the operation was “critical in the light of the ongoing war on terrorism and the potential for additional acts of terrorism being committed in the United States.”
The FBI report additionally indicates that this operation could target drug users and sellers. “The greatest known threat in this event is crowd control issues and use of illegal drugs by participants,” the FBI report said.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/burning-man-threatening-to-sue-feds-for-turning-festival-into-unconstitutional-police-state/
WTF does that have to do with my post?
KEK
THE PLAN IS AWESOME