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Good catch Anon! Indeed! Certainly looks like it!
The photo from pb, is a shoop, here are the results from tineye.
https://tineye.com/search/074ad5057083f59ecf9924f670943372902aeff8?page=1
Agreed..helpful to bring full validation for the shills though..
No evidence Russia influenced Brexit via Facebook, says Clegg
LONDON (Reuters) - There is “absolutely no evidence” that outside forces such as Russia used Facebook to target users and influence Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the world’s biggest social network said on Monday. Nick Clegg, head of global affairs at Facebook and Britain’s former deputy prime minister, said the network had run two full analyses of its data held in the run up to the 2016 referendum and found no evidence of a significant attempt by outside forces to influence the outcome.
Opponents of Brexit have repeatedly questioned whether the Kremlin played a role in the vote by promoting stories online on issues such as immigration in a bid to sway opinion. Britain has said it found no evidence that Russia interfered in the vote and Moscow has repeatedly denied even trying. Clegg, deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015 and a strong campaigner to remain in the European Union, said the roots of British Euroscepticism existed long before Facebook launched, and had for many years been driven by traditional media. “Much though I understand why people want to sort of reduce that eruption in British politics to some kind of plot or conspiracy - or some use of new social media through opaque means - I’m afraid the roots to British Euroscepticism go very, very deep,” he told BBC Radio.
A consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica has also come under scrutiny over its role in the 2016 referendum after it obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their permission. It was hired by Donald Trump for his 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign. Clegg said any claim that that data was used in the Brexit referendum was also false. He is due to give a speech later on Monday about possible regulation of social media and the internet.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-facebook/no-evidence-russia-influenced-brexit-via-facebook-says-clegg-idUSKCN1TP0V4?il=0
Wiki has the habit of mixing truth with fiction, however it doesn't mean it's entirely wrong. They need a better way to edit and validate the information that posters are allowed to change and post at will.
Good Morning Patriot!
Supreme Court invalidates law banning foul language trademarks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a longstanding U.S. ban on trademarks on “immoral” or “scandalous” words and symbols, ruling in a case involving a clothing brand with an indelicate name that the law violates constitutional free speech rights. The justices ruled against President Donald Trump’s administration, which defended the law that had been in place since 1905, and in favor of Los Angeles streetwear designer Erik Brunetti, who was turned down by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office when he sought to trademark his brand name FUCT.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan wrote the decision in which all nine justices agreed that the prohibition on “immoral” trademarks was invalid. However, three justices wrote dissents to say the bar on “scandalous” trademarks should have been upheld. The justices upheld a 2017 lower court ruling striking down the law as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment right to free expression. The Supreme Court’s decision removes the authority of government officials to bar federal trademark registration for profane language or sexually graphic images. The Trump administration had warned that invalidating the law would unleash a torrent of extreme words and sexually graphic images on the marketplace.
When the 2011 trademark application for FUCT was rejected, the Patent and Trademark Office noted that brand name sounds like a profanity, though is spelled differently, and concluded that Brunetti’s products contained sexual imagery, misogyny and violence. Brunetti sought a trademark because it would make it easier to protect his brand of casual clothing against counterfeiters. The brand’s name is clever, Brunetti said, because of its association with the profanity, while the acronym also means “Friends U Can’t Trust.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in intellectual property law, ruled in Brunetti’s favor in 2017.
In Monday’s ruling, the Supreme Court followed a course it took in 2017 when it struck down a similar law forbidding the registration of “disparaging” trademarks in case involving an Asian-American dance rock band called The Slants, a name federal trademark officials deemed offensive to Asians. During arguments in the case on April 15, the justices and lawyers involved in the case were careful to tiptoe around the profanity at the center of the dispute. Justice Department lawyer Malcolm Stewart discreetly called it “the equivalent of the past participle form of the paradigmatic profane word in our culture.” Minding his language, Justice Stephen Breyer merely called it “the word at issue.” Brunetti’s brand includes products such as a pullover sweatshirt saying “The world is fuct,” sweatpants saying “We are fuct,” and a T-shirt saying “Fuct is free speech, free speech is fuct.” Brunetti said in an April interview that while some people will be offended by certain words, limiting First Amendment protections is a “slippery slope.”
The Trump administration had argued that banning vulgar terms and sexually indecent images did not discriminate against anyone’s viewpoint, and that the government should not be forced through the trademark system to promote words and images that would be shocking or profane to the public. The case marked the latest important free speech decision by the justices.
In another free speech case decided last year, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot impose a blanket prohibition on apparel such as T-shirts and buttons bearing political messages in polling sites, striking down a Minnesota law as a First Amendment violation. The court in 2015 ruled that Texas did not violate free speech rights when it rejected a proposed specialty vehicle license plate displaying the Confederate flag, to some an emblem of Southern pride and to others a symbol of racism.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-profanity/supreme-court-invalidates-law-banning-foul-language-trademarks-idUSKCN1TP1TQ?il=0
Indeed, propaganda law Obama put in place, needs revoking. That would probably be a good start.
Marker!
Boom: Donations to Trump’s July 4th ‘Salute’ to double fireworks display, longest ever
Washington’s July 4th “Salute to America” envisioned by President Trump will conclude with the capital’s longest ever fireworks display thanks to donations being made by two of America’s biggest pyrotechnics outfits.
“We’re gearing up for what I think we can safely say without hyperbole is going to be the biggest fireworks show that D.C. has seen,” said Mike Litterst, spokesman for the National Park Service’s Washington sites. The Interior Department told Secrets that Phantom Fireworks and the famed family run Fireworks by Grucci have donated a second display for the national Independence Day celebration to combine with the traditional 20 minute performance by Garden State Fireworks.
Litterst said that result will be a display bigger than the Bicentennial celebration on July 4, 1976. “This is going to eclipse that tremendously,” he said. He said that the Park Service has never had such a donation or put on a “double-barrelled” fireworks display before.
Phantom will supply the additional fireworks and Grucci, which put on the fireworks for Trump’s Inauguration, is working up the event display. It is expected to add 15-20 minutes to the traditional show. "At Phantom Fireworks, we pride ourselves in being the leading retailer of consumer fireworks in the United States, and we want to deliver amazing shows that Americans can be proud of and we feel welcomed to participate in this year’s festivities in partnership with our good friends from Fireworks by Grucci," said Phantom President and CEO Bruce J. Zoldan.
Typically the fireworks are launched from near the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln and Washington monuments. This time, they will be launched in a semi-circle around Lincoln, which will let viewers sit near the pool for the first time in recent memory. Interior said that both firms made the donation in support of Trump’s vision for his “Salute to America,” the main daylight event on July 4. From 6:30-7:30 the Salute will feature a speech by Trump and military displays and flyovers, including that of Air Force One. The fireworks are to begin at 9:07 p.m. “We are grateful for the generous donation from Fireworks by Grucci and Phantom Fireworks to celebrate America. This is going to be the greatest Fourth of July since the original, with increased access across the National Mall for the public to enjoy music, flyovers, and a spectacular fireworks display,” He also told Secrets, “We are expanding access to great areas of the National Mall that have been closed for years. We received an extraordinary donation for a phenomenal fireworks display, and our colleagues from the Department of Defense will be providing a one-of-a-kind music and air power experience. Salute to America is about the American people, and it’s great that President Trump is going to address the country at one of our memorials.” said Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
Trump’s participation has been sneered at by critics, but supporters believe that the president should speak on Independence Day. In the past, Litterst said, former President Truman spoke on the Fourth in Washington, and at least six presidents have traveled to Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to speak on the Fourth. Former President Reagan spoke at the Jefferson Memorial on one July 3rd. “I think that a sitting U.S. president who wants to go to a national memorial on the Fourth of July to address the nation, that’s certainly something appropriate and certainly something that we’re happy to support,” said Litterst.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/boom-donations-to-trumps-july-4th-salute-to-double-fireworks-display-longest-ever
How Iran's elite use Islamic charities to control secret economic empires (includes report link)
Iran's leadership is using Islamic charities to conceal and control massive economic empires, some of which are connected to sanctioned businesses and a designated terrorist organization, according to a new report. These organizations, known as bonyads, act as holding companies for regime members handpicked by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. One bonyad, Astan Quds Razavi, has been unveiled in a report by the American Enterprise Institute, offering a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Iran's shadow economy. It "serves as one of the regime's key financial vehicles," the report says, and should be sanctioned.
"[T]hese bonyads have long since ceased to be, if they ever were, charitable organizations in any meaningful sense that the West would recognize, or that we would recognize in the United States, and have become, largely, huge holding companies that control vast segments of the Iranian economy," Frederick Kagan, director of AEI's Critical Threats Project, told the Washington Examiner. The leaders of Iran's Islamic Revolution used bonyads, Farsi for "foundation," to nationalize private businesses and take control of state-run industries after seizing power in 1979. Putting companies under a bonyad offered the revolution's leaders the ability to seize control of the economy under the "veneer" of charitable organizations, according to Kagan. Today, they are doled out to the regime's elite and rising political stars.
Ebrahim Raisi, who some consider the supreme leader's heir apparent, controlled the Astan Quds Razavi bonyad for nearly three years before he was replaced in April. One year after taking control, Khamenei supported him in his run against President Hassan Rouhani in 2017. In May, he made Raisi the head of Iran's judicial council, a move largely seen as a way to groom him to become the next supreme leader. While the report does not prove Raisi used the bonyad for personal gain, Kagan believes it likely given the level of corruption inside the Iranian economy. "Raisi would have to be a paragon within that system not to have been benefiting from this economically," Kagan said. "It is possible that he is, although I would be surprised. But it would be normal for someone in this position to be benefiting directly from the degree of control over all of these resources that he has."
Officially, Astan Quds Razavi manages the Imam Reza shrine, Iran's holiest religious site and the world's largest mosque. Unofficially, it is a convenient front for the Razavi Economic Organization, which controls shares and business interests in at least 70 companies across multiple industries, including energy, construction, agriculture, medicine, and finance. Whoever is in charge of it has remarkable economic power.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/how-irans-elite-use-islamic-charities-to-control-secret-economic-empires
Critical Threats Report
https://www.criticalthreats.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Astan-Quds-Razavi.pdf
FBI raided Planned Parenthood
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/fbi_raids_headquarters_of_major_body_broker.html
Head line is wrong…
FBI raids headquarters of major 'body broker'
It mentions PP here but it is NOT PP..the date does correlate with the time frame you requested.
Yeah it would seem much of those things are scrubbed. Have you considered Wayback though?
Trump sanctions supreme leader of Iran
President Trump called reporters into the Oval Office to announce he was signing an executive order imposing new sanctions against Iran. Trump called the sanctions, which will target the financial resources of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, “hard-hitting."
“We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran,” Trump said Monday. “Never can Iran have a nuclear weapon.” He said the executive order “will deny the supreme leader and the supreme leader’s office and those closely affiliated with him and the office access to key financial resources.”
Trump said the sanctions were planned prior to Iran's shootdown of a U.S. drone last week, although he mentioned the attack during comments to reporters. “We do not seek conflict with Iran or any other country,” Trump said. “I can only tell you we cannot ever let Iran have a nuclear weapon.” "I think a lot of restraint has been shown by us — a lot of restraint — and that doesn’t mean we’re going to show it in the future."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-sanctions-supreme-leader-of-iran
Yeah, I do remember that, it was quite repulsive, too bad, it is a huge wake up call for much of the population.
Been watching that myself, posted a few over the weekend…Full Throttle is indeed happening.