Breaking: Jim Jordan Announces Bid for House Minority Leader

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced his intent to run for House Minority Leader on Wednesday.

Jordan, a staunch Trump supporter and member of the Freedom Caucus, will be a fighter for conservatives and polulist positions in the House.

The Hill reported:

Conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced his bid for House minority leader on Wednesday, challenging Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hours after Democrats regained control of the lower chamber.

“I plan to run for minority leader,” Jordan told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton on “Rising.”

“In 2016, the American people elected Republicans to come here and change this town. I think the president is doing just that, but I don’t think they see the same intensity from folks in Congress, folks in the House of Representatives,” he continued.

“Have we replaced ObamaCare yet? Have we secured the border yet? Have we reformed welfare yet? No,” he said.

Jordan went on to slam current GOP leadership in the House, saying they were not willing to engage in debate with Democrats.

“Now that we’re in the minority, that’s about all what we can do is debate, but fight hard in the debate for the principles, for the things that we know the American people sent us here to do in 2016. Show them that we deserve to be back in power in 2020,” he said.

Jordan’s comments come hours after he won his re-election bid in Ohio’s 4th congressional district against Democrat Janet Garrett.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/breaking-jim-jordan-announces-bid-for-house-minority-leader/

Boeing’s new 737 MAX may ‘abruptly dive’ due to errors – media

Following the deadly 737 MAX 8 crash in Indonesia, Boeing is preparing to alert airlines that errors in its newest aircraft series can make the plane “abruptly dive,” Bloomberg revealed.

The bulletin from Boeing will say that erroneous readings from the jet's flight-monitoring system can cause the planes to “abruptly dive,” the news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar fight the company’s plans.

According to the report, the warning is based on the investigation of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia. On October 29, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed in the sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board.

Data extracted from the flight recorders revealed that the aircraft experienced problems with airspeed indicators during its last four flights.

The 737 MAX is Boeing’s newest and most advanced aircraft series, as well as the company’s bestseller. The jets have been in high demand and enjoyed a good reputation as safe and reliable carriers.

However, last year Boeing had to briefly ground its 737 MAX fleet as discrepancies were found in its engines. Later, several jets were grounded by India’s Jet Airways, also due to engine problems.

Boeing Russia declined RT’s request to comment on the matter, referring to an earlier statement Boeing made following the crash.

https://www.rt.com/news/443311-boeing-737max-crash-warning/

4chan Admin Prefers User Arrests Over Post Deletions

In the aftermath of the Halloween celebrations in Shibuya and the chaos that ensued as alcohol-fueled crowds used the opportunity to misbehave, the Japanese media was overwhelmed with reports about misconduct, debauchery, and vandalism from online vigilantes who took it upon themselves to expose the Japanese citizens who had committed such disorderly acts.

Within this context, AbemaTV decided to hold a panel discussion on cybercrime and online vigilantism with current 4chan Administrator Hiroyuki Nishimura, Tokyo-based attorney Takahiro Karasawa, and two other guests. The panel quickly devolved into a back-and-forth between Nishimura and Karasawa, who, as viewers were about to find out, had a lot of bad blood between them as a result of a life ruination campaign by then-2channel (currently known as 5channel) users against the 40-year-old attorney. Despite the long online feud involving Nishimura and Karasawa as well as different lawsuits filed with Japanese courts, this was the first time they met face-to-face.

Consequently, the Shibuya incident was hardly discussed. Instead, Nishimura and Karasawa ended up sharing their thoughts on how to deal with online harassment and libel based on the personal experiences of Nishimura as former 2channel Administrator and Karasawa as a lawyer and a victim of doxing, stalking, and real-life wrongdoing. As expected, the two panelists had very different takes on the subject.

According to Karasawa and his interpretation of Japanese law, the service provider is partially responsible for any posts that constitute libel against someone and put a targeted individual in harm's way. As such, in 2012, his law firm took up the case of a Japanese teenager who had become the target of 2channel users, filing a post takedown request with the textboard's administration while Nishimura was in charge. Soon thereafter, Karasawa's personal information was posted on 2channel and the attorney himself had to fend off his online assailants, who went so far as to mail him knives, desecrate his parent's gravesite, and send bomb threats in his name as part of a bizarre tongue-in-cheek off-shoot of the Aum Shinrikyo cult.

Naturally, Nishimura disavowed and claimed he had no idea this ever happened since, according to him, he didn't read his email at the time and there were around three million posts a day on 2channel. In general, Nishimura explained that he prefers not to read posts or take any action with regard to them. He personally mentioned that he enjoys so-called flame wars or other such discussions on his textboards as they bring activity and he has no intention of interfering with them. When confronted with the legal implications of law-breaking posts, he repeatedly stated that any poster making such posts should simply be arrested by authorities, no matter how many of them would be affected. He claims these arrests would be a necessary gain for society and discourage others from doing the same. However, some might interpret this stance as enabling such activity on his website as long as it benefits him and then having all posters arrested after they create law-breaking posts – this could be called, in online parlance, a honeypot.

It seems Nishimura does not care much about free speech, but rather traffic at all costs, consequences be damned. 2channel has already put him in legal jeopardy in Japan several times, including when he was infamously ousted in 2015. Only time will tell whether history will repeat itself now that he is in charge of 4chan.

abema.tv/video/episode/89-66_s99_p699

http://www.thegoldwater.com/news/41519-4chan-Admin-Prefers-User-Arrests-Over-Post-Deletions

More than a dozen US Navy sailors busted for LSD aboard USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier

More than a dozen U.S. Navy sailors who worked in the nuclear reactor department of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan have been busted in connection to LSD abuse, Navy Times reported.

Fourteen sailors are facing disciplinary action for possessing, using, or distributing the hallucinogenic drug aboard the Japan-based aircraft carrier, according to officials.

An additional sailor, who wasn’t assigned to the nuclear reactor department, was also disciplined in the case.

What’s the story?

Two sailors, who were charged with using, possessing, and distributing LSD, are headed to court-martial.

Three more are awaiting similar charges, 7th Fleet spokesman Lt. Joe Keiley told Navy Times.

Ten others received administrative disciplinary action for drug-related charges.

Keiley said the sailors, who are from a department with more than 400 personnel, were taken out of duty during the investigation.

“Out of an abundance of caution, Ronald Reagan leadership reviewed the work previously performed by the accused sailors and no improper work was identified,” he told Navy Times in an email.

Keiley has assured the news site that there has been no damage to the operations or reactors on the ship.

“Due to the defense in depth of the design and operation of the propulsion plants, the reactors aboard [the aircraft carrier] remain safe,” he said.

Who were the sailors charged with selling LSD?

Machinist’s Mate Nuclear 2nd Class Andrew W. Miller allegedly used, possessed, and sold LSD from January to February earlier this year.

And Electrician’s Mate Nuclear 2nd Class Sean M. Gevero was also charged with distributing LSD, along with other drug possession charges.

Three others may face similar charges, Keiley told Navy Times.

It’s not immediately clear where the sailors were getting the drugs.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/11/07/more-than-a-dozen-us-navy-sailors-busted-for-lsd-aboard-uss-ronald-reagan-aircraft-carrier

Trump says Pelosi ‘deserves’ to be House speaker, suggests even some Republicans would back her

President Donald Trump said that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) deserves to be the next speaker of the House following Tuesday’s midterm elections that saw the Democrats win back control of the lower chamber.

Trump also said that he could very well get some Republicans to vote for Pelosi if Democrats “give her a hard time.”

What are the details?

In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump wrote, “In all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats. If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican votes. She has earned this great honor!”

The president phoned Pelosi on Tuesday evening to congratulate her after Democrats were officially projected to win back control of the House. Democrats secured enough seats needed to make a majority, clinching the House for the first time since 2010.

Republicans held 236 of 435 House seats heading into the midterm elections, while Democrats held 193 seats. In order to have a majority, a party needs to secure 218 seats.

On Tuesday night, supporters at Pelosi’s victory address chanted “Speaker!” during her speech.

“Thanks to you, tomorrow will be a new day in America. Remember this feeling — know the power to win,” Pelosi said during her speech.

She added that “more than anything,” the election is “about what a new Democratic majority will mean in the lives of hard-working Americans. That’s what it’s about — Democrats pledge a Congress that works for the people.”

What else?

Pelosi has led the Democrats in the House since 2003, and is the favorite to be elected during the next congressional session, so long as she receives votes from a majority of House members.

The speaker must receive votes from a majority of House members in the new session of Congress.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/11/07/trump-says-pelosi-deserves-to-be-house-speaker-suggests-even-some-republicans-would-back-her

LAME ASS WEAK SHIT, DO YOU WANT ME TO TEACH YOU HOW NOT TO BOW TO CRIMINALS POTUS???

Macron reportedly asked Putin & Trump not to steal limelight in Paris with Helsinki-style meeting

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will not hold a full-fledged meeting when they both visit a WWI commemoration in Paris because their host, Emmanuel Macron, asked them not to draw attention from the main event, a report claims.

There was speculation that the US and Russian leaders may have a comprehensive bilateral meeting on November 11, when both will attend the centennial commemoration of the end of World War I in France. But their French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, was worried that if it happened, the meeting would steal the limelight from the main event – so he asked them not to do it, Kommersant reported, citing an anonymous European diplomatic source.

“Everybody was wondering why the format of the meeting between Putin and Trump, which was announced after the visit of [US National Security Adviser] John Bolton to Russia, was changed. They explained it with high politics, but the real explanation is quite simple,” the source was quoted as saying.

Who could have imagined that in 2018 the ‘Sun King’ style is still alive and kicking? Well, c’est la vie, as they say.

Neither of the three nations involved would officially confirm or deny the claim, instead offering pleasantries about how packed the agenda of the world leaders visiting Paris this weekend will be.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are now expected to meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina. Putin will visit the US in early 2019, according to current plans.

https://www.rt.com/news/443340-putin-trump-meeting-paris/

Idiocracy is Real: Multiple Lawmakers Re-Elected Despite Facing Corruption and Criminal Charges

Proving the notion that people will vote in criminals just as long as their party stays in power, Americans elected lawmakers facing a slew of charges for corruption in office.

Embarrassing social media photos could easily sink a congressional campaign, but several lawmakers have shown that you can be charged with corruption and embezzlement and still win re-election.

American voters took partisan politics to a whole new level on Tuesday, after Republican congressmen Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins – both of whom face federal indictments for crimes including embezzlement and securities fraud – won re-election. As long as the Democrats don’t win, right?

Hunter, a five-term congressman from California, was charged along with his wife in August of misusing campaign funds totaling more than $250,000.

The Hunter household found remarkably creative ways to spend the embezzled cash – even using the funds to purchase a $600 airline ticket for their pet rabbit. The congressman also used the money to reportedly carry out extramarital affairs and to take vacations to Hawaii, London, and Las Vegas. On top of that – he put the blame on his wife.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/corruption-election-charges-idiocracy/

Critical Mass: On Tuesday, 3 More States Legalized Weed for Recreational and Medical Use

Three more states told the federal government they will no longer obey their tyrannical marijuana laws and legalized the plant in some form, bringing the total of legal states to 32.

On Tuesday, while most Americans were casting votes for their favorite politicians and more laws, citizens in three states went to the polls and voted to remove laws. Michigan, Utah, and Missouri voters said enough is enough and voted to legalize marijuana in some form.

Michigan became the 10th state in the union to completely legalize pot for recreational purposes—promising to no longer kidnap and cage people for a plant. Utah and Missouri both voted to legalize this beneficial plant for medical purposes.

Utah and Missouri became the 31st and 32nd states in the country to legalize the plant shrinking the number of states who will still lock you in a cage for self medicating with a plant to just 18.

“This is yet another historic election for the movement to end marijuana prohibition,“ said Steve Hawkins, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, which played a leading role in organizing the Michigan initiative, according to HuffPo. “Voters have once again sent a message loud and clear that it is time to legalize and regulate marijuana. The victory in Michigan highlights just how widespread support is for marijuana policy reform. This issue does not only enjoy strong support on the coasts but also in the Midwest and all throughout the country.”

Michigan set one of the most revolutionary legalization standards in the country by refusing to lock people in a cage for using marijuana as long as they are 21 and older and then going further and allowing Michigan residents to not only buy and sell marijuana, but they can grow it in their own homes. Residents can now grow up to 12 plants for personal use.

The state also bucked the feds and brought themselves out of the prohibition stone age by legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp which can be used to make anything from building materials to fuel to food.

What these legalization moves represent is the will of the people who no longer wish to see their fellow citizens kidnapped, caged, or even killed over the use and possession of this plant. The 18 states left are now showing their resistance to the will of the people by remaining in the dark ages of prohibition.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/three-states-legalized-marijuana-recreation-medical/

Federal Judge Advocates Jury Nullification After Being Shocked by Overzealous Child Pornography Prosecution

Federal Judge Advocates Jury Nullification After Being Shocked by Overzealous Child Pornography Prosecution

November 07, 2018 0 Comments

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Many have had similar reactions when confronting cases involving authorities running roughshod over people with bad laws, punitive sentences, and ill-considered prosecutions. But this time, the person invoking jury nullification was a federal judge—District Judge Stefan R. Underhill of the District of Connecticut—and he spoke in court about a case over which he presided.

The prosecution that shocked Underhill involves Yehudi Manzano, a 30-something man charged with producing and transporting child pornography after saving, and then deleting, a video of his teenage sex partner to and from his own phone and its associated Google cloud account. "The only people who ever saw it were the guy who made it, the girl who was in it, and the federal agents," Norman Pattis, Manzano's attorney, told me.

But that, prosecutors say in the indictment, was enough for the federal government to proceed with charges under the assumption that Manzano acted "knowing and having reason to know that: such visual depiction would be transported and transmitted using any means and facility of interstate and foreign commerce." And that's important, because the mandatory minimum sentence under federal law for recording video of sex with an underage partner is 15 years.

That draconian sentence—independent of what was in store in the entirely separate state trial for sex with a minor—was too much for Judge Underhill. "I am absolutely stunned that this case, with a 15-year mandatory minimum, has been brought by the government," he said in court. "I am going to be allowed no discretion at sentencing to consider the seriousness of this conduct, and it is extremely unfortunate that the power of the government has been used in this way, to what end I'm not sure."

Judge Underhill acknowledged that he's not allowed to encourage jury nullification, but "if evidence comes in about the length of the sentence, or if Mr. Pattis chooses to argue, I do not feel I can preclude that. I don't feel I'm required to preclude that. And I think justice requires that I permit that."

The judge's appeal to jury nullification as a remedy for runaway prosecution didn't come out of the blue. Defense counsel and prosecutors had already sparred over the case's rather tenuous connection to interstate commerce, by which the federal government claimed jurisdiction.

"Apparently, the mere fact that the recording equipment was manufactured outside Connecticut is sufficient to meet the interstate commerce requirement of the statute," Judge Underhill noted in surprise. They also tussled over the extent to which jurors should be informed of the long years in prison that awaited Manzano upon conviction.

"Juries exist for a reason," Pattis argued in court. "They stand between the government and the accused, and they provide the accused with an opportunity to hold the government to its burden of proof. And in certain trials in our history, juries have done more than that. They've said the law is wrong, and we, the people, say it's wrong."

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2018/11/federal-judge-advocates-jury.html

Votes are being switched and others not counted in several states as turnout is heavy in many districts

Thanks to a range of causes, election officials in a number of states have begun reporting problems and other issues with voting and vote-tallying machines as lines at polling stations that are much longer than they they normally are during midterm elections are forming across the country.

In South Carolina, for example, voters have alerted officials that machines were actually selecting the opposite candidates they were trying to choose, The Hill reports.

According to a local CBS affiliate, several voters complained that the choices in several contests including the governor’s race were being changed to a party they had not selected. Voters noticed the changes when they reviewed the electronic voting machine’s confirmation page before actually submitting their ballot. One said she tried several times to make choices and selections she preferred but the machine would not accept her ballots as cast so she was moved to a different machine. It wasn’t clear if voting officials took her machine offline. Also, it’s not clear how many voters are similarly submitting their ballots without checking to make sure their choices are correct.

In North Carolina, meanwhile, some polling places reported that there are issues with voters trying to feed paper ballots into counting machines, which officials blamed on high levels of humidity.

“When ballots cannot be read by tabulators, they are stored securely in ‘emergency bins’ and will be tabulated as soon as possible,” according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, which issued a statement Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported. Most of the problems were reported in Wake County, the news site noted.

In Georgia, where the race for governor between Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican, and Democratic challenger Stacy Abrams has narrowed in recent weeks, election officials are looking into a series of voting machine technical glitches at a number of polling stations in Gwinett County, the New York Daily News reports.

The state has been embroiled in two election controversies. On Monday, Kemp announced that election officials had opened an investigation into the state Democratic Party for allegedly attempting to hack voter registration rolls. The secretary of state’s office has also alerted the FBI and Homeland Security.

Also, Georgia Democrats won a victory in federal court last week over the state’s “exact match” law, which requires voter ID to match voting records on file exactly. About 50,000 people had been identified under the system as potential illegal voters but the judge ordered that most of them be permitted to cast ballots. (Related: If illegal aliens weren’t counted in the U.S. census, Democrats would lose dozens of House seats.)

http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/votes-are-being-switched-and-others-not-counted-in-several-states-as-turnout-is-heavy-in-many-districts/

Hungary Begins National Family Consultation To Combat ‘Population Replacement’

The Hungarian government began a new national survey this week to tackle the problem of the country’s declining population without resorting to a policy of mass migration.

The new national survey which bears the title “Defence of Families,” contains ten questions sent to around eight million different households across the country and looks to see what Hungarians think of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s pro-family policies, AFP reports.

State secretary Katalin Novak commented on the launch of the survey, saying: “Europe is the continent of empty cradles, there aren’t enough children.”

“In spite of the significant mass migration toward Europe, Hungary wants to rely on its internal resources,” Novak said and added, “we see the future in Hungarian children,… Hungary does not want immigration or population replacement.”

Breitbart London reported in November on the impact these policies are already having on Hungary. According to official government statistics, since the second Orban government came to power in 2010 divorce has fallen by a fifth, and marriage has increased by over 40 percent.

Even the number of abortions has fallen by a third, even without the Hungarian government introducing any policies to restrict access to them — instead, support for families and foster carers has been boosted, removing some incentives to kill unborn children.

Population replacement, or “replacement migration” a term used by the United Nations, seeks to use mass migration in order to prop up the birthrates of countries and fill needed labour shortages.

While some have argued for mass migration as a way to both counter declining populations and prop up welfare states, others like Mr Orban and populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini have rejected mass migration, opting to promote larger families instead.

In September, Salvini made his case clear, saying: “I believe that I’m in government in order to see that our young people have the number of children that they used to a few years ago, and not to transplant the best of Africa’s youth to Europe.”

He later proposed a policy in which Italians could receive farmland from the state for having at least three children to both grow the population and revitalise rural areas of the country.

The current national survey comes after another national survey that asked Hungarian voters their opinion on the influence of pro-mass migration left-wing billionaire George Soros, who recently relocated his Open Society foundation from Budapest to Berlin following the implementation of laws targetting his NGO network.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/07/hungary-begins-national-family-consultation-to-combat-population-replacement/