Obama’s Two Daughters Connected In The Massive College Bribery Scheme

On Tuesday, actresses Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman got busted for bribing elite schools will excess amounts of money and altering their children’s test scores so they can get into the top schools.

Along with the two actresses, 50 others were also indicted for being involved with the scheme, one of them being a former Georgetown University tennis coach who was the instructor for former First Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters.

The Tennis coach, Gordon Ernst, was formerly employed at Georgetown as the men’s and women’s head tennis coach at Georgetown.

Check out what the Daily Mail reported:

According to the unsealed indictment, between 2012 and 2018, during which time Ernst was the head coach of men’s and women’s tennis at Georgetown University, he received bribes totaling more than $2.7 million, which was falsely labelled as ‘consulting.’

In exchange for the payoffs, Ernst allegedly designated at least a dozen applicants as recruits for the Georgetown tennis team, including some who did not play competitively, in order to help them get into the university.

The money came from charitable accounts set up by the accused mastermind of the scheme, William Rick Singer, who founded the college consulting business Edge College & Career Network, also known as The Key, in Newport Beach, California.

Prosecutors said parents paid Singer about $25 million to bribe coaches and administrators into pretending that their children were athletic recruits to guarantee their admission.

In one instance, according to the documents, Ernst was allegedly paid $400,000 for getting the child of Singer’s clients into Georgetown under the guise of tennis recruitment, even though the applicant did not play competitive tennis.

Between September 2015 and August 2016, Ernst allegedly received checks totaling $700,000. It’s interesting how whenever there is a big scandal, the Democrats and the Obama’s always seem to somehow be connected.

During the Harvey Weinstein scandal, not only did we know that Weinstein had many ties to the Democrats, but we also found out that Malia Obama, the older Obama daughter, interned for the Weinstein company just months before the sexual assault scandal broke.

I guess corrupt people always stick together!

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/uh-oh-obamas-two-daughters-connected-in-the-massive-college-bribery-scheme/?utm_source=stonewall&utm_medium=twitter

160 Pounds of Meth, Fentanyl Seized at Arizona Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized approximately 100 pounds of methamphetamine, 55 pounds of cocaine, 5 pounds of fentanyl, and 2 pounds of heroin worth $1.7 million last week during three vehicle inspections at the Arizona border. The alleged seizures resulted in the arrests of two U.S. citizens and one Mexican national.

The initial incidents occurred last Wednesday morning during a vehicle inspection when CBP officers assigned to the Port of Nogales Dennis DeConcini Crossing contacted a 57-year-old U.S. citizen from Coolidge, Arizona, in a Saab. Officers referred the male driver to a secondary inspection station where a K-9 alerted to odors. Officers discovered 35 pounds of methamphetamine ($104,000), five pounds of fentanyl ($75,000), and more than two pounds of heroin ($60,000). The driver was arrested and turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

Later in the day, CBP officers assigned to Arizona’s Port of Lukeville contacted a 44-year-old Mexican national from Caborca, Sonora, in a Chevrolet pickup. After a search was conducted, approximately 55 pounds of cocaine was discovered worth more than $1.3 million. The driver was arrested and turned over to investigators of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The third incident occurred on Thursday night when CBP officers contacted a 29-year-old U.S. citizen from Buckeye, Arizona, at the Port of San Luis as she was attempting to cross into the United States. During an ensuing search of her vehicle, officers located approximately 64 pounds of methamphetamine concealed inside the fuel tank with an estimated value of $190,000. The female was arrested and turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/03/13/160-pounds-of-meth-fentanyl-seized-at-arizona-border/

CNN’s Don Lemon: College Bribery Scandal Affirms Trump Voter Fears Of A ‘Rigged System’

"The American dream is rigged."

CNN's Don Lemon sees a connection between President Trump and the college admissions bribery scandal that has implicated two Hollywood stars, Lori Loughlin of "Full House" and Felicity Huffman of "Desperate Housewives."

Code-named "Operation Varsity Blues," Huffman and Loughlin were charged on Tuesday for participating in a massive bribery scheme designed to entice college administrators, coaches, and other university gatekeepers into admitting their children.

"In all, 33 parents — including Loughlin and Huffman — allegedly paid a collective sum of $25 million to a college admissions counselor named William Singer, according to ABC News, who then 'bribed college officials, coaches and college entrance exam administrators, who then helped students secure admissions 'not on their merits but through fraud,'" The Daily Wire's Emily Zanotti reported on Tuesday. "The FBI contends that Singer's bribes went to officials at some of the most elite colleges in the country."

CNN's Don Lemon feels that the scandal shows people are right to believe the "system is rigged against them," noting that President Trump tapped into that attitude in 2016, according to Fox News.

"This is what Donald Trump tapped into and in a lot of ways, guess what, he was right," Lemon said on his program.

Lemon reminded people that the president is a beneficiary of the rigged system, admitting that does not change the fact Trump delivered a timely message.

"A lot of people will point out, and they have every right to do so, that Donald Trump himself is a beneficiary of a system that’s rigged in favor of the elite," he said. "Let’s not forget The New York Times investigation that revealed at age three, Donald Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars."

This talking point fails to grasp that many working-class voters resonated with Donald Trump not because he claimed to be one of them but because he promised to fight for them. His wealth or his childhood, none of which he hid from the viewing public, had little sway on voters' various opinions of him.

"He was a millionaire by age eight," Lemon continued. "Soon after he graduated from college, he was getting the equivalent of a million a year from his father."

Nevertheless, Lemon concedes that despite President Trump being a "questionable" messenger for the people's anger, people of all walks of life are rightly angry about rigged systems.

"All of that is true, but none of it changes the fact that for far too many people, the American dream is rigged," he said. "And he spoke to that. Maybe he’s questionable as the messenger for this, but it’s a message a lot of people feel in their core. Rigged in favor of the wealthy and the powerful. And a whole lot of people in this country on the left and on the right are angry about that."

The "rigged system" has even been employed in defense of Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. On Tuesday, when the scandal first broke, Hollywood veteran David Mamet said the entire college admissions system has been a "corrupt joke" for some time, arguing that people should not be surprised that well-off parents are trying to spin it in their children's favor.

"I worked for very many years in and around our elite universities. I am able to report that their admissions policies are an unfortunate and corrupt joke," said Mamet. "Harvard was once sued for restricting the admission of qualified Jews; a [similar] contest is currently being waged by Asians."

So, either everyone's a victim of the "rigged system," or nobody is.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/44609/cnns-don-lemon-college-bribery-scandal-affirms-paul-bois

4th Child in 3 Years Develops Cancer after Small Cell Tower Installed on School Property

Cell towers have been known to cause clusters of illnesses before. This appears to be another one – now at a California school.

From EHTrust.org, in regard to children and federal Safety Standards:

… no “safe” level has been scientifically determined for children or pregnant women. Therefore, the claim that a device “meets government standards” or that radiation levels are “FCC compliant” gives a false impression of safety.

The FCC guidelines rest on five fallacies (false assumptions) and therefore renders FCC guidelines obsolete. Compliance with “federal safety standards” does not assure your nor your family’s safety. In fact, our federal safety limits are in essence meaningless when it comes to our health.

Exposure to cell phone and WiFi radiation as well as Dirty Electricity (aka Electrosmog) can cause a wide variety of disabling health conditions in addition to cancer. This is also why many schools are now preventing the installation of cell towers and antennas on school property as well as replacing WiFi with wired Internet.

For many years already, telecom companies have been warning shareholders that they may eventually be held liable for harm caused by their products and infrastructure. Insurance companies don’t seem to be interested in doing business anymore with them either.

Since 2004, the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) has opposed the use of their stations for cell towers and antennas because of health risks. Why on earth would anyone think it’s safe to have cell towers on school property?

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/03/4th-child-in-3-years-develops-cancer-after-small-cell-tower-installed-on-school-property.html

CIA Is Turning Refugee Camps In Eastern Syria Into ISIS Hotbeds

The CIA is conspiring with ISIS commanders in northeastern Syria supplying them with fake documents and then transferring them to Iraq, according to reports in Turkish pro-government media.

About 2,000 ISIS members were questioned in the areas of Kesra, Buseira, al-Omar and Suwayr in Deir Ezzor province and at least 140 of them then received fake documents. Some of the questioned terrorists were then moved to the camps of al-Hol, Hasakah and Rukban, which are controlled by US-backed forces. The CIA also reportedly created a special facility near Abu Khashab with the same purpose.

Israeli, French and British special services are reportedly involved.

An interesting observation is that the media of the country, which in the previous years of war, used to conspire with ISIS allowing its foreign recruits to enter Syria and buying smuggled oil from the terrorists, has now become one of the most active exposers of the alleged US ties with ISIS elements.

Another issue often raised in Turkish media is the poor humanitarian situation in the refugee camps controlled by US-backed forces. These reports come in the course of other revelations. According to the International Rescue Committee, about 100 people, mostly children, died in combat zones or in the al-Hol camp controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces just recently.

In its turn, the Russian Defense Ministry released a series of satellite images revealing the horrifying conditions in the al-Rukban camp. The imagery released on March 12 shows at least 670 graves, many of them fresh, close to the camp’s living area. The tents and light constructions used to settle refugees are also located in a close proximity to large waste deposits.

A joint statement by the Russian and Syrian Joint Coordination Committees for Repatriation of Syrian Refugees said that refugees in al-Rukban are suffering from a lack of water, food, medication and warm clothing, which is especially important during winter. According to the statement, members of the US-backed armed group Maghawir al-Thawra disrupt water deliveries to the camp, using this as a bargaining chip for blackmailing and profiteering purposes.

Tensions are once again growing between Syria and Israel. Earlier in March, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad submitted an official letter to the head of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) Kristin Lund that Damascus ”will not hesitate to confront Israel” if it continues refusing to withdraw from the Golan Heights.

Israeli media and officials responded with a new round of allegations that Hezbollah is entrenching in southern Syria therefore justifying a further militarization of the Golan Heights.

https://southfront.org/cia-is-turning-refugee-camps-into-hotbeds-of-isis-cells-in-eastern-syria/

Canada to Close Airspace to Boeing 737 Max 8 After Ethiopia Crash – Minister

The statement comes after Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 faced an almost worldwide airspace ban following a deadly crash near the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, which resulted in the deaths of at least 157 people.

"The measure taken this morning is effective immediately", Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau said on Wednesday while explaining the 737 MAX 8 ban, later adding that "it’s done for safety reasons".

Later in the day, US President Donald Trump also stated that he would ground the 737 planes until Boeing arrives at a solution to the safety issues.

Previously, EU states also prohibited the aircraft from entering their airspace, as did China, India, Egypt, Vietnam, and many other countries across the world.

Earlier in the day, Flightradar24 reported that the US and Canada were the only countries where the 737 MAX 8 model was still operating.

The fatal incident near Addis Ababa that triggered bans on the aircraft around the world became the second deadly accident involving a 737 MAX 8 in just five months, with a plane belonging to Indonesia’s Lion Air with 187 people on board crashing into the Java Sea in October 2018.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201903131073203724-canada-boeing-airspace-close/

Disgraced priest from N.J. who was ‘credibly accused’ of sexual misconduct found shot to death in Nevada

A former New Jersey priest and teacher who was accused of groping young boys was found shot to death in his Nevada home over the weekend, authorities said.

Police conducting a welfare check Saturday found the body of a John Capparelli, 70, in the house he owned on Bonner Springs Drive in Henderson, Nevada, authorities said.

Capparelli had been shot once in the neck. His body was found in the kitchen about 5:10 p.m., according to the Clark County Coroner’s Office.

Last month, Capparelli’s name was included a list of 188 priests and deacons in the state who had been “credibly accused” of sex crimes against children. New Jersey’s five Catholic dioceses released the names while under mounting pressure to identify clergy accused of sexual misconduct.

Accused of groping and brutalizing teenage boys, Capparelli was suspended from the ministry in 1992. Nearly two decades later, after The Star-Ledger revealed he was working as a public school teacher in Newark, the state revoked his certificates.

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Though he was never convicted of a crime, multiple accusers said Capparelli made them wrestle in swimwear while he took photos. He was also linked to a fetish website that he allegedly ran from his home.

Capparelli worked at Our Lady of Fatima in North Bergen, Oratory Prep in Summit, Holy Trinity in Westfield, St. Theresa in Kenilworth and Temporary Chaplain - Valley Hospital in Ridgewood.

In the years following the accusations, Capparelli moved from New Jersey to Nevada. Public records show he purchased the home in Henderson, a city of 300,000 residents just outside of Las Vegas, in 2016 shortly after selling his home in Belleville.

http://www.madnesshub.com/2019/03/disgraced-priest-from-nj-who-was.html

Turkey urges world to react against Israeli aggression

Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday called on the global community to stand against Israeli aggression in the sacred places of Islam, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Unfortunately, today, Israel’s aggression has increased with encouragement from the US We talk about all these issues and will not give up our sacred and national causes,” Mevlut Cavusoglu said, speaking at a public gathering in the Mediterranean province of Antalya.

Referring to raids in East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, he said: “It is time to put a stop to Israel’s recklessness. We can’t tolerate brazen attacks on our holy places and the world must react to this.”

The top diplomat stressed Turkey and other countries of the world respect places of worship for followers of different religions.

However, Israel did not follow the same policy given the aggression in Palestine, he added.

He said Turkey has transformed into a globally acknowledged brand in tourism, adding: “Let us maintain this [trend] so that our shopkeepers and citizens thrive.”

Cavusoglu went on to say that Turkey attracted numerous tourists from many different countries with Germans taking the lead.

“People from different countries spend their holidays here; there are tourists who buy houses here,” he said, underlining Turkey’s goal was to host up to 100 million people.

Tension has mounted in Jerusalem since last month, when Israeli police briefly sealed the Al-Aqsa compound’s Al-Rahma Gate, located adjacent to the eastern wall of the Old City, sparking angry Palestinian demonstrations.

In the weeks since, the Israeli authorities have banned scores of Palestinians — including religious officials — from entering the Al-Aqsa, which for Muslims represents the world’s third holiest site.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190312-turkey-urges-world-to-react-against-israeli-aggression/

Pompeo: All Constraint on Action in Venezuela Is Lifted

Abrams: Option of attacking Venezuela is always on the table

With Venezuela’s government ordering the withdrawal of the last of US embassy personnel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to spin it as a positive for the continued efforts to impose regime change there.

Pompeo said that “time is drawing short” for Venezuela, while saying the presence of a US embassy had been a “constraint on US policy,” and one that no longer exists now that the staff is being recalled.

Exactly what this will mean from a policy standpoint is unclear, though clearly the administration wants to keep reminding everybody that military intervention is possible Elliot Abrams confirmed this in his own comments, saying that the option to attack Venezuela will always remain on the table.

Administration officials say that they remain hopeful to impose change within Venezuela in some way other than military intervention. Weeks of demanding change and threatening to attack clearly isn’t working, however, and officials seem bound and determined to Venezuela in general, and Venezuela’s oil-generating capacity in particular, in hands more friendly to US policy.

https://news.antiwar.com/2019/03/12/pompeo-all-constraint-on-action-in-venezuela-is-lifted/

Trump Flips Federal Appeals Court to Republican Majority With Matey Confirmation

President Donald Trump—for the first time in his presidency—flipped an appeals court to a Republican majority of appointed judges with the March 12 confirmation of a nominee to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Paul Matey was confirmed by the Senate in a 54-45 vote, which now gives the court a 7-6 majority of Republican appointees, with one more pending vacancy. The switch in the Third Circuit—previously dominated by nominees appointed by Democrat presidents—comes amid a Republican effort to reclaim the federal judiciary after former President Barack Obama tipped the scales in Democrats’ favor in 2013.

Matey’s confirmation marks the 35th appeals court nominee that has been confirmed under Trump—a historic number at this point in the presidency. In the Senate vote, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was the only Democrat who crossed the aisle to vote with the Republicans for Matey. Previously, Trump successfully appointed Stephanos Bibas and David Porter to the 14-member court of appeals.

Matey, of New Jersey, will now have a lifetime seat in the Third Circuit. His nomination faced opposition from two home state senators—Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

Previously, Matey served as the deputy chief counsel to former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie before joining University Hospital in Newark as senior vice president and general counsel, according to his Linkedin account. In September last year, he joined as a partner for law firm Lowenstein Sandler.

Neomi Rao, Trump’s nominee to take Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s previous position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, will also be facing a Senate vote on March 13.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-flips-federal-appeals-court-to-republican-majority-with-matey-confirmation_2836049.html

Senate to Vote Wednesday on Ending US Role in Yemen War

Resolution would declare war illegal under War Powers Act

Months of battles in Congress to challenge the US war in Yemen under the War Powers Act is coming to a key moment, a vote in the Senate on Wednesday. The SJ Res 7 resolution is a clean version of the challenge, without any amendments yet attached.

Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen in March of 2015, seeking to reinstall former President Hadi and remove the Shi’ite Houthi movement. The US backed the Saudi invasion, and has participated military, both in refueling Saudi warplanes, and in a naval blockade of Yemen.

Legal challenges in 2018 were repeatedly stalled in the House of Representatives, where the leadership changed rules to prevent a War Powers Act challenge, which would point out that the war was never authorized by Congress. The Senate did ultimately pass such a challenge in late 2018, but without a House version, they both had to start anew with the 2019 Congress.

Under new leadership, the House managed to pass a War Powers Act resolution in mid-February with a strong majority. It was at this point that the Senate leadership started blocking the vote, arguing that because the House bill had an amendment tacked on expressing support for Israel, it was no longer a privileged War Powers Act resolution, and instead just an Israel resolution, that could be held up indefinitely.

This forced the Senate to start over again, with a fresh resolution and no amendments, which is what will happen on Wednesday. It remains to be seen what tricks will be at play to try to keep this from ending the war, but recent history suggests the leadership will try something to protect the war from legal challenge.

A clean Senate resolution would still have to go back to the House, as well, to come up with a reconciled version. That’s likely to be a messy business, after trying to kill the bill by making it all about Israel. President Trump has threatened to veto the bill at any rate, but it is possible that there could be an override attempt, as the Yemen War is increasingly unpopular.

Contact information for Senators is available here. Those wishing to call their Senators should do so before tomorrow’s votes, and tell them to support SJ Res 7. Getting as big a majority as possible is key, as it will be used as a metric to judge the possibility of overriding a veto.

https://news.antiwar.com/2019/03/12/senate-to-vote-wednesday-on-ending-us-role-in-yemen-war/

Trump issues emergency order grounding Boeing 737 Max jets

President Trump on Wednesday announced the U.S. will ground Boeing 737 Max aircraft, bowing to heavy pressure after two of the planes were involved in deadly crashes overseas.

“All of those planes are grounded, effective immediately,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

The president called Boeing “an incredible company” that is “working very, very hard” to address issues with the aircraft, but said “the safety of the American people and all people is our paramount concern.”

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, acting Federal Aviation Administrator (FAA) Daniel Elwell and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg were all consulted and agreed with the decision, Trump said.

Boeing said in a statement following Trump's announcement that it “continues to have full confidence in the safety of the 737 Max.”

“We are supporting this proactive step out of an abundance of caution,” the company said. “Safety is a core value at Boeing for as long as we have been building airplanes, and it always will be.”

The FAA had brushed aside mounting calls to stop flying the planes in the U.S., saying there was no evidence yet to support such an action. Lawmakers in both parties urged airlines to ground the planes pending an investigation into the cause of the crashes.

But Trump disputed that he was under pressure to make the call, suggesting it was a precautionary measure.

"The United States has the greatest record in the world of aviation and we want to keep it that way. So I didn’t want to take any chances," he said. "We didn’t have to make this decision today. We could’ve delayed it, we maybe didn’t have to make it at all. But I felt it was important both psychologically and a lot of other ways."

The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed Sunday killing all 157 people on board was a Boeing 737 Max 8, the same model in a Lion Air crash in Indonesia last October that killed 189 people.

The U.S. had become increasingly isolated in its decision to keep the aircraft operational. Trump’s announcement came just hours after Canada said it was grounding 737 Max planes over safety concerns, joining dozens of other nations that has suspended flights by the jets.

The agency issued a statement Tuesday evening that said an ongoing review had found no issues with the aircraft, and that they would remain operational. Boeing had issued a statement on Tuesday as well expressing confidence in the safety of the machines.

The FAA would provide a more detailed explanation of its reversal later Wednesday, Trump said.

Boeing's stock dipped by roughly 2 percent in the immediate aftermath of Trump's announcement.

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/433902-trump-announces-us-to-ground-boeing-737-max-planes

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