He noted proudly that in the early 1960s, when abortion was illegal in almost every state, he ran an underground abortion referral service for women.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/paul-krassner-1960s-counterculture-figure-and-yippies-co-founder-dies-at-87-2019-07-21

Donald Alvin Hale, 64, was booked into the Pulaski County jail on Friday. He is being held on $200,000 bond.

Officers executed a search warrant at his home where they found pornographic images of children, according to the arrest disposition report.

Hale has been fired, according to the agency.

"His alleged actions that led to arrest are in stark contrast with the values of Centers," the organization said in a statement to KATV. "As part of our hiring procedures, Hale was subject to a criminal background check upon hire, and to ongoing background checks during his employ, all of which revealed no criminal history or arrest record. While we respect the legal process, we terminated Mr. Hale immediately upon notification by law enforcement of his arrest. Centers is cooperating fully with law enforcement as these very serious charges are investigated. Given that the investigation is ongoing, we will refrain from further public comment at this time."

The Centers for Youth and Families "provides critical behavioral healthcare services to children, youth and families all over Arkansas," according to the organization's Facebook page. It has locations in Harrison, Little Rock and Monticello.

http://katv.com/news/local/centers-for-youth-and-families-counselor-arrested-for-child-pornography

https://www.newsweek.com/illinois-democratic-party-condemns-gop-group-sharing-fake-movie-poster-calling-minority-1450385

llinois' Cook County Democratic Party condemned a GOP group this weekend after they shared, before then deleting, a fake action movie poster labeling four progressive congresswomen the "Jihad Squad."

The Illinois Republican County Chairman's Association posted an image of Democratic lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, all first-term progressives and all women of color, to their Facebook group on Friday evening, which featured the lawmakers photoshopped into an action-style fake movie poster titled "The Jihad Squad."

"Political jihad is their game," the poster's tagline read. "If you don't agree with their socialist ideology, you're racist."

A police officer in Gretna, Louisiana wrote a Facebook past last week that suggested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom he characterized as a “vile idiot,” should be shot. The lawmaker “needs a round … and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve,” officer Charlie Rispoli wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post. Nola.com was first to report on the post by the Gretna police officer who has been in the force since 2005.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/louisiana-gretna-police-ocasio-cortez-shot-facebook.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/progressives-are-convinced-that-trump-is-toast/

Conspiracy theories surround religious temple on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Pedophile Island’ in Caribbean

This week’s sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein have renewed longstanding questions about the billionaire financier’s private Caribbean island, and particularly about the strange religious-type temple he erected there.

Conspiracy theorists have latched onto the odd building that was constructed sometime between 2009 and 2013 at the southwest edge of Little St James Island, just off the coast of the US territory of St Thomas.

Amateur sleuths are particularly intrigued by the medieval-style lock on the front of the temple, which appears to be designed to keep people in.

Everything known publicly about the building has been gleaned from aerial photographs, as the entire island is kept under tight security.

It’s painted with bright blue and white stripes and topped with a large gold dome.

On the roof at either side of the arched wooden door are two gold statues, one which appears to be Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, and another that looks like a pair of birds.

Each face of the building has a large window looking out at palm trees lining the perimeter and a geometric stone terrace.

The gold dome is believed to have been ripped off by a hurricane sometime before 2017.

Chicago-based contractor James Both shared his professional thoughts on the building with Insider, first drawing attention to the door.

‘It’s styled like what you might see on a castle, with what appears to be a reinforcing lock bar across the face,’ he said.

‘What makes it peculiar is that if you wanted to keep people out, the bar would be placed inside the building, [but the] locking bar appears to be placed on the outside … as if it were intended to lock people in.’

https://en.brinkwire.com/us/conspiracy-theories-surround-religious-temple-on-jeffrey-epsteins-pedophile-island-in-caribbean/

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