House to vote Thursday on anti-Semitism resolution

The House is expected to vote Thursday on a resolution broadly condemning hate in the wake of freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) critical comments about Israel.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced at a closed-door whip meeting on Thursday morning that the resolution would come up later in the day.

The resolution, which was released Thursday afternoon and does not mention Omar by name, states that the House "rejects the perpetuation of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the United States and around the world, including the pernicious myth of dual loyalty and foreign allegiance, especially in the context of support for the United States-Israel alliance."

It also "condemns anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry against all minorities as contrary to the values of the United States" and "condemns the death threats received by Jewish and Muslim Members of Congress."

Omar has faced threats in recent weeks, including one that is now being investigated by the FBI.

The resolution further makes a nod to discrimination beyond anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, stating that white supremacists have targeted "traditionally persecuted peoples, including African Americans, Native Americans, and other people of color, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, immigrants, and others with verbal attacks, incitement, and violence."

An initial draft of the resolution obtained by The Hill on Monday focused on anti-Semitism, stating that the House "rejects anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance," while noting that Muslims have faced similar accusations of dual loyalty.

A number of liberals and members of key minority caucuses had balked at the possibility of singling out Omar and called for broadening the resolution to include different kinds of hate, including Islamophobia.

They pointed to a poster on display at the West Virginia statehouse last week that linked Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress last year, to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Staff for Democratic leaders began drafting a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism over the weekend in response to Omar.

“I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country,” Omar said at a forum at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C., last week. “I want to ask, why is it OK for me to talk about the influence of the NRA, of fossil-fuel industries, or Big Pharma, and not talk about a powerful lobby that is influencing policy?”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she didn't think Omar meant to sound anti-Semitic.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/433011-house-to-vote-thursday-on-anti-semitism-resolution

Is it just me or is this fucking retarded????

Liar Michael Cohen Hires Snake Lanny Davis – Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Best Friend – to Represent Him… Get’s Bit

Former Trump Attorney Michael Cohen raised eyebrows when he hired longtime Clinton associate and close personal friend Lanny Davis to represent him from the Deep State inquiries.

Lanny Davis, a staunch Hillary supporter, served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues.

Lanny Davis, Cohen’s current lawyer also told the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday that Michael Cohen previously directed one of his lawyers to ask the White House about a presidential pardon — which contradicts his sworn testimony to Congress.

Michael Cohen learned the hard way. His far left attorney just burned him.

You hang with snakes — you get bit.

President Trump spoke about this…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/liar-michael-cohen-hires-snake-lanny-davis-bill-and-hillary-clintons-best-friend-to-represent-him-gets-bit/

"They Raped Us So Many Times": DHS Secretary Reveals Every Migrant Girl Over Age 10 Gets Pregnancy Test

There is so much rape going on at the southern US border that every migrant girl over the age of 10 is given a pregnancy test after arriving in the United States, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

"Very unfortunately, because of the increase in violence, at ICE, when we have families with children, we have to give every girl a pregnancy test over 10. This is not a safe journey," Nielsen said during Wednesday testimony to the House Homeland Security Committee.

As the Daily Mail's David Martosko notes, nearly 1/3 of women surveyed in 2017 by Doctors Without Borders reported being sexually abused during their journey.

Doctors Without Borders reported in 2017 that '68.3 percent of the migrant and refugee populations entering Mexico' from Central America 'reported being victims of violence during their transit toward the United States.'

And '[n]early one-third of the women surveyed had been sexually abused during their journey,' the group concluded. -Daily Mail

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported on the sexual assault crisis migrant women are facing - starting with the harrowing tale of a 36-year-old mother of three who was held as a sex-slave in a Texas house while she was drugged and raped for several weeks.

It was the summer of 2014, and Melvin, a 36-year-old mother of three, had just completed the journey from her native Guatemala, crossing the Rio Grande on a raft before being led to the house in the Texas border city of McAllen.

For weeks in that locked room, the men she had paid to get her safely to the United States drugged her with pills and cocaine, refusing to let her out even to bathe. “I think that since they put me in that room, they killed me,” she said. “They raped us so many times they didn’t see us as human beings anymore.”

The Times reported on more than 100 documented cases they found through interviews with law enforcement officials, federal judges, immigrant advocates and prosecutors.

In January, President Trump cited the Doctors Without Borders report during his State of the Union speech, noting that "One in three women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico."

Meanwhile, Trump said during a Saturday speech to conservative activists that when migrant girls head north, Central American mothers often "'give them massive amounts of birth control pills because they know their daughters are going to be raped on the way up to our southern border."

"Think of how evil that is," Trump said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-06/they-raped-us-so-many-times-dhs-secretary-reveals-every-migrant-girl-over-age-10

Gaza Needs ‘More Than Statements’ from UN to Stop Israeli Violence - Historian

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reproached Tel Aviv’s response to a UN report last week that found Israel had breached the human rights of Gazans in its response to protests there. However, a historian and activist told Sputnik Wednesday that ending Palestinian suffering requires action, not tepid statements.

Sputnik reported last week that the UN Commission of Inquiry's February 28 report found that, by using live ammunition to suppress the Great March of Return protests on the border between Gaza and Israel, Tel Aviv gave the Human Rights Council "reasonable grounds to believe that… Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law."

Tel Aviv blasted the commission's findings, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying, "The council is setting new records for hypocrisy and mendacity out of an obsessive hatred of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East."

This prompted UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to tell the UN Human Rights Council at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, that she was "disappointed to see the immediate dismissal of that report by Israel, without addressing any of the very serious issues raised. All parties concerned should exercise restraint as the date of 30 March approaches."

March 30 is known to Palestinians as Land Day, commemorating a mass strike that occurred in 1976 in response to the Israeli government's plan to expropriate roughly 5,000 acres of mostly Palestinian-owned farmland in Galilee. Six Palestinians were killed by Israeli police in those protests, according to the New York Times.

The Great March of Return protests began in Gaza on Land Day 2018, only the latest in what have become nearly annual protests on that day, although these have continued up to the present.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201903061073015870-Gaza-Needs-More-Than-Statements-Stop-Israeli-Violence/

Scientists Want You To Get A Brain Chip To Make You Smarter; And Intelligence Agencies Absolutely Won’t Abuse This Technology Implanted In Humans

The next big evolutionary Orwellian technology is coming. Soon you will be able to implant yourself with a brain chip to be super smart, CBS Chicago reported.

Elon Musk has previously criticized humans at a conference in Dubai. He expressed that artificial intelligence would surpass human beings and that we would be irrelevant if we didn’t merge with machines. Musk plans to do this with his “Neuralink” product that can make anyone superhuman by connecting their brain to a computer chip.

“Neuralink” is designing a cranial computer interface or neural lace, although it’s unclear what types of products the company will develop.

The Wall Street Journal speculated that the first products could be advanced implants to treat brain disorders like epilepsy or major depression.

Electrode arrays and other implants are already being used to help the effects of Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and other neurodegenerative diseases – but only rarely, due in part to the dangerous nature of brain surgery.

“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk said.

“Your output level is so low, particularly on a phone, your two thumbs just tapping away,” he added. “This is ridiculously slow. Our input is much better because we have a high bandwidth visual interface into the brain. Our eyes take in a lot of data.

It’s not the first time that Musk warned about the dangers of A.I., previously describing it as potentially the greatest threat to the existence of human life and comparing intelligent machines to summoning a demon.

“You know those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he’s like Yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out,” Musk said at a symposium in October 2014.

The science may seem a bit science-fiction, but Stanford University has already successfully created a brain-computer interface (BCI), BrainGate, and early BCI tech allows people with paralysis to type messages on a computer by picking out letters on a screen, Ars Technica reported.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/scientists-want-you-to-get-a-brain-chip-to-make-you-smarter-and-intelligence-agencies-absolutely-wont-abuse-this-technology-implanted-in-humans2_032019