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all russians want to be fat and orange like trump.
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all russians want to be fat and orange like trump.
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Club Dead Baby Tissue Sales
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In article <t1qp9k$378qs$4...@news.freedyn.de>
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
Any time a child is abused, it’s a commentary on where we’ve
collectively gone wrong in our society. This is why we heave a
communal cry of grief when we learn of situations like the one
shared this past week when Indiana abortionist Caitlin Bernard,
MD, MS, revealed to The Indianapolis Star that she’d treated a
10-year-old Ohio girl who’d become pregnant due to rape, after a
colleague from that state contacted her due to a perceived
abortion limitation in Ohio state law.
The story was shared by mainstream media and was discussed by
politicians and pundits on social media. It made waves, to say
the least.
We have no way of knowing whether it’s true without potentially
violating a little girl’s privacy further, which no one wants.
However, when it comes to abortion, we are weighing the balance
between two human lives, so while our protective response is
appropriate it must be tempered by seeking the truth, which can
sometimes seem insensitive.
Expecting a child to be violated in order to satisfy a need for
answers is not an option. We can question the motives of the
physician who possibly broke the law by disclosing information
about the sexual assault of a child, because she is more than
just a doctor caring for her patients. Dr. Caitlin Bernard has
filed at least one lawsuit in the past, challenging Indiana anti-
abortion legislation. She has testified at legislative meetings
regarding abortion pill reversal – claiming a law requiring her
to tell patients reversal is possible would be unethical, citing
a discontinued study which supposedly proved the reversal
protocol was dangerous (it’s not- Dr. Donna Harrison shares the
real reason it was discontinued in THIS interview). She has
written content for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.
She provides pro-abortion soundbites for the ACLU, and as
recently as last week was providing pro-abortion commentary for
mainstream news sources like NPR. She is a political activist
who also happens to be a physician.
And she is not the only one.
In 2019, Amy Addante, MD, MSCI, an OBGYN who specializes in
reproductive health (i.e., abortions) shared a claim that one of
her patients was held hostage in a pregnancy resource center.
Her Twitter thread was almost 5,000 words long — over twice as
long as a typical news related article (800-1200 words). Because
it was a Twitter thread, there was no pushback; no fact checking
from any major media source. Portions of the thread were shared
tens of thousands of times, not including screenshots which made
their way onto Facebook. As quickly as the thread rose to
prominence it sunk into obscurity. At least online — we have no
way of knowing how many people were influenced by her unverified
— and unverifiable — story. Dr. Addante is also not just a
physician, but an abortion activist. She too was in the news
just days after Roe was overturned, providing commentary for
CBS, regarding how abortion restrictions put women suffering
through ectopic pregnancies at risk.
READ: FACT: Treatments for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy are
legal in every state
Neither of these anecdotes are (currently) verifiable. Both of
them are terrifying. And both may dissuade women from seeking
care for pregnancy related emergencies.
When coupled with reports from Missouri questioning the legality
of birth control, the arrest of Lizelle Herrera in Texas for her
“self-managed abortion,” and breathless accounts of doctor’s
presenting cases of ectopic pregnancies to hospital ethics
boards before treatment, post-Roe America seems to be the scary
place Planned Parenthood has warned us it would be, all along.
Except it’s not.
Missouri anti-abortion legislation doesn’t outlaw birth control,
defining the intentional destruction of an unborn child as an
abortion only in the embryonic and fetal stages of life, which
is after the child has attached to the lining of the uterus
(RSMo 188.015). Texas law clearly states women cannot be held
criminally responsible for abortions, and some of the nation’s
largest pro-life organizations recently penned an open letter in
support of this position. Every state in the U.S. explicitly
permits treatment for ectopic pregnancies.
And Ohio law has an exception for the life or “serious risk of
the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily
function of the pregnant woman.” At 10 years old, it would be
necessary to deliver the Ohio girl’s baby via c-section, and
despite avoiding a vaginal birth, she would still run the risk
of serious, irreversible damage to her pelvic floor — this
damage could necessitate further surgical intervention in the
future. A girl her age also has a significantly higher risk of
developing a host of other pregnancy-related complications.
These pregnancy-related issues may not be considered serious
enough to allow her an abortion on stand-alone grounds in Ohio,
but in conjunction with potential pelvic floor complications
they create a dynamic where the risk of serious, irreversible
impairment is of legitimate concern.* Because of these potential
risks, it is likely that this alleged 10-year-old rape victim
would have been able to access abortion in Ohio.
Anti-abortion legislation does not endanger women. So why are we
continually seeing these stories?
As Petra Wallen Meyer wrote for Pregnancy Help News, Dr. Addante
never disclosed the location of the Pregnancy Resource Center
which allegedly kidnapped her patient, and the patient never
filed a police report.
Lizelle Herrera was reported to police by an ER doctor, despite
Texas laws stating that a woman could not be prosecuted for
abortion. It’s unfathomable that a hospital legal team hadn’t
given guidance to staff on how to handle a self-managed abortion
should a woman show up needing intervention.
It is worth considering whether doctors are intentionally
amplifying encounters which fit an agenda — or even whether a
story is fabricated, as in the unsubstantiated and outrageous
story shared by Dr. Addante.
As of this writing there have been no charges filed for the
sexual assault of a child in Ohio or the surrounding states
which would fit the case highlighted by Dr. Caitlin Bernard in
Indiana. However, a pro-life source working within the Ohio
state child protection system indicated to me an arrest may be
imminent.
When a child is involved, it can sometimes take time for the
arrest to reach public record. This story could turn out to be
true after all, but it’s no wonder some are doubting it: the
credibility of pro-abortion physicians has been incalculably
damaged. Other Indiana care providers have signaled their
intentions to file ethics complaints against Dr. Bernard for
potentially violating HIPAA, to which a response would confirm
the veracity of the story.
That being said: I don’t think Dr. Bernard cares — after all,
this story, all of these stories, will make families think twice
about seeking proper medical treatment in states where abortion
restrictions are in place, and if women die in the process
because they’re afraid to seek out emergency care, their deaths
will be invaluable to pro-abortion evangelists.
I’m sure they’ll be remembered fondly by Dr. Bernard, Dr.
Addante, and all the other abortion activist physicians who will
use their faces on posters during protests, tearfully (and
falsely) proclaiming anti-abortion laws to be the culprit in
their death. The sacrifice will be worth it to them, because
ultimately: it’s about dead babies, no matter what.
https://theparadise.ng/are-abortion-activist-doctors-putting-
women-in-danger/
TAGS: Dr. Caitlin Bernard, serial killer, baby murderer, fetal
tissue dealer, socialist, anti-American, Washington University,
activist, left wing, butcher
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
Any time a child is abused, it’s a commentary on where we’ve
collectively gone wrong in our society. This is why we heave a
communal cry of grief when we learn of situations like the one
shared this past week when Indiana abortionist Caitlin Bernard,
MD, MS, revealed to The Indianapolis Star that she’d treated a
10-year-old Ohio girl who’d become pregnant due to rape, after a
colleague from that state contacted her due to a perceived
abortion limitation in Ohio state law.
The story was shared by mainstream media and was discussed by
politicians and pundits on social media. It made waves, to say
the least.
We have no way of knowing whether it’s true without potentially
violating a little girl’s privacy further, which no one wants.
However, when it comes to abortion, we are weighing the balance
between two human lives, so while our protective response is
appropriate it must be tempered by seeking the truth, which can
sometimes seem insensitive.
Expecting a child to be violated in order to satisfy a need for
answers is not an option. We can question the motives of the
physician who possibly broke the law by disclosing information
about the sexual assault of a child, because she is more than
just a doctor caring for her patients. Dr. Caitlin Bernard has
filed at least one lawsuit in the past, challenging Indiana anti-
abortion legislation. She has testified at legislative meetings
regarding abortion pill reversal – claiming a law requiring her
to tell patients reversal is possible would be unethical, citing
a discontinued study which supposedly proved the reversal
protocol was dangerous (it’s not- Dr. Donna Harrison shares the
real reason it was discontinued in THIS interview). She has
written content for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.
She provides pro-abortion soundbites for the ACLU, and as
recently as last week was providing pro-abortion commentary for
mainstream news sources like NPR. She is a political activist
who also happens to be a physician.
And she is not the only one.
In 2019, Amy Addante, MD, MSCI, an OBGYN who specializes in
reproductive health (i.e., abortions) shared a claim that one of
her patients was held hostage in a pregnancy resource center.
Her Twitter thread was almost 5,000 words long — over twice as
long as a typical news related article (800-1200 words). Because
it was a Twitter thread, there was no pushback; no fact checking
from any major media source. Portions of the thread were shared
tens of thousands of times, not including screenshots which made
their way onto Facebook. As quickly as the thread rose to
prominence it sunk into obscurity. At least online — we have no
way of knowing how many people were influenced by her unverified
— and unverifiable — story. Dr. Addante is also not just a
physician, but an abortion activist. She too was in the news
just days after Roe was overturned, providing commentary for
CBS, regarding how abortion restrictions put women suffering
through ectopic pregnancies at risk.
READ: FACT: Treatments for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy are
legal in every state
Neither of these anecdotes are (currently) verifiable. Both of
them are terrifying. And both may dissuade women from seeking
care for pregnancy related emergencies.
When coupled with reports from Missouri questioning the legality
of birth control, the arrest of Lizelle Herrera in Texas for her
“self-managed abortion,” and breathless accounts of doctor’s
presenting cases of ectopic pregnancies to hospital ethics
boards before treatment, post-Roe America seems to be the scary
place Planned Parenthood has warned us it would be, all along.
Except it’s not.
Missouri anti-abortion legislation doesn’t outlaw birth control,
defining the intentional destruction of an unborn child as an
abortion only in the embryonic and fetal stages of life, which
is after the child has attached to the lining of the uterus
(RSMo 188.015). Texas law clearly states women cannot be held
criminally responsible for abortions, and some of the nation’s
largest pro-life organizations recently penned an open letter in
support of this position. Every state in the U.S. explicitly
permits treatment for ectopic pregnancies.
And Ohio law has an exception for the life or “serious risk of
the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily
function of the pregnant woman.” At 10 years old, it would be
necessary to deliver the Ohio girl’s baby via c-section, and
despite avoiding a vaginal birth, she would still run the risk
of serious, irreversible damage to her pelvic floor — this
damage could necessitate further surgical intervention in the
future. A girl her age also has a significantly higher risk of
developing a host of other pregnancy-related complications.
These pregnancy-related issues may not be considered serious
enough to allow her an abortion on stand-alone grounds in Ohio,
but in conjunction with potential pelvic floor complications
they create a dynamic where the risk of serious, irreversible
impairment is of legitimate concern.* Because of these potential
risks, it is likely that this alleged 10-year-old rape victim
would have been able to access abortion in Ohio.
Anti-abortion legislation does not endanger women. So why are we
continually seeing these stories?
As Petra Wallen Meyer wrote for Pregnancy Help News, Dr. Addante
never disclosed the location of the Pregnancy Resource Center
which allegedly kidnapped her patient, and the patient never
filed a police report.
Lizelle Herrera was reported to police by an ER doctor, despite
Texas laws stating that a woman could not be prosecuted for
abortion. It’s unfathomable that a hospital legal team hadn’t
given guidance to staff on how to handle a self-managed abortion
should a woman show up needing intervention.
It is worth considering whether doctors are intentionally
amplifying encounters which fit an agenda — or even whether a
story is fabricated, as in the unsubstantiated and outrageous
story shared by Dr. Addante.
As of this writing there have been no charges filed for the
sexual assault of a child in Ohio or the surrounding states
which would fit the case highlighted by Dr. Caitlin Bernard in
Indiana. However, a pro-life source working within the Ohio
state child protection system indicated to me an arrest may be
imminent.
When a child is involved, it can sometimes take time for the
arrest to reach public record. This story could turn out to be
true after all, but it’s no wonder some are doubting it: the
credibility of pro-abortion physicians has been incalculably
damaged. Other Indiana care providers have signaled their
intentions to file ethics complaints against Dr. Bernard for
potentially violating HIPAA, to which a response would confirm
the veracity of the story.
That being said: I don’t think Dr. Bernard cares — after all,
this story, all of these stories, will make families think twice
about seeking proper medical treatment in states where abortion
restrictions are in place, and if women die in the process
because they’re afraid to seek out emergency care, their deaths
will be invaluable to pro-abortion evangelists.
I’m sure they’ll be remembered fondly by Dr. Bernard, Dr.
Addante, and all the other abortion activist physicians who will
use their faces on posters during protests, tearfully (and
falsely) proclaiming anti-abortion laws to be the culprit in
their death. The sacrifice will be worth it to them, because
ultimately: it’s about dead babies, no matter what.
https://theparadise.ng/are-abortion-activist-doctors-putting-
women-in-danger/
TAGS: Dr. Caitlin Bernard, serial killer, baby murderer, fetal
tissue dealer, socialist, anti-American, Washington University,
activist, left wing, butcher
Club Dead Baby Tissue Sales
Jul 24, 2022, 12:10:03 AM7/24/22
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In article <t2nhmd$3ocvn$2...@news.freedyn.de>
in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Indiana
Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of Indiana to lift multiple
injunctions against state abortion laws.
Rokita submitted the filings Monday and released a copy of a
joint stipulation in a case involving Whole Women’s Health
Alliance that “halts expansion plans by abortion providers Whole
Woman’s Health Alliance and Planned Parenthood in the cities of
South Bend and Evansville, respectively.”
One of the laws Rokita wants an injunction lifted from includes
a measure that a parent must be notified when a court approves
an abortion for a minor child without parental consent, barring
some extenuating circumstances. The other bans “discriminatory
abortions” performed because of the unborn child’s race, sex or
a disability.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky are named as
plaintiffs in the two motions.
Rokita has also requested an expedited motion to vacate a
preliminary injunction entered by Senior Judge Sarah Evans
Barker against a 2019 law banning “dismemberment abortions,”
medically known as “dilation and evacuation,” which typically
take place during the second trimester of pregnancies. Dr.
Caitlin Bernard is the plaintiff in that case in a suit brought
by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana.
The attorney general has requested responses from the plaintiffs
within three days of Monday’s filing.
“Indiana has a long history of defending life,” Rokita said in a
statement, “and the Supreme Court has recognized these
contributions. Indeed, the Dobbs decision expressly cited
multiple Indiana cases — such as our battles to outlaw
discriminatory abortion and require respectful disposition of
the bodies of aborted babies.”
The joint stipulation states WWHA’s South Bend location cannot
seek a license or perform a surgical abortion for 45 days
starting Monday. It also states that while Planned Parenthood’s
Evansville facility hasn’t applied for a license to perform
medical abortions, it will not be able to request a license or
perform the procedure for 45 days regardless.
https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/ag-rokita-asks-court-
to-lift-multiple-abortion-injunctions-following-dobbs-decision
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
Days after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Indiana
Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of Indiana to lift multiple
injunctions against state abortion laws.
Rokita submitted the filings Monday and released a copy of a
joint stipulation in a case involving Whole Women’s Health
Alliance that “halts expansion plans by abortion providers Whole
Woman’s Health Alliance and Planned Parenthood in the cities of
South Bend and Evansville, respectively.”
One of the laws Rokita wants an injunction lifted from includes
a measure that a parent must be notified when a court approves
an abortion for a minor child without parental consent, barring
some extenuating circumstances. The other bans “discriminatory
abortions” performed because of the unborn child’s race, sex or
a disability.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky are named as
plaintiffs in the two motions.
Rokita has also requested an expedited motion to vacate a
preliminary injunction entered by Senior Judge Sarah Evans
Barker against a 2019 law banning “dismemberment abortions,”
medically known as “dilation and evacuation,” which typically
take place during the second trimester of pregnancies. Dr.
Caitlin Bernard is the plaintiff in that case in a suit brought
by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana.
The attorney general has requested responses from the plaintiffs
within three days of Monday’s filing.
“Indiana has a long history of defending life,” Rokita said in a
statement, “and the Supreme Court has recognized these
contributions. Indeed, the Dobbs decision expressly cited
multiple Indiana cases — such as our battles to outlaw
discriminatory abortion and require respectful disposition of
the bodies of aborted babies.”
The joint stipulation states WWHA’s South Bend location cannot
seek a license or perform a surgical abortion for 45 days
starting Monday. It also states that while Planned Parenthood’s
Evansville facility hasn’t applied for a license to perform
medical abortions, it will not be able to request a license or
perform the procedure for 45 days regardless.
https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/ag-rokita-asks-court-
to-lift-multiple-abortion-injunctions-following-dobbs-decision
Club Dead Baby Tissue Sales
Jul 24, 2022, 12:20:03 AM7/24/22
to
In article <t1l6mu$33sib$1...@news.freedyn.de>
Center for Medical Progress, a Planned Parenthood official
admitted to harvesting aborted fetal parts for the purpose of
selling them to human tissue procurement companies.
Sandra Merritt and David Daleiden are currently defending
themselves against 15 felony charges after their series of
undercover videos exposed the abortion provider’s unethical
trade in baby body parts. As Liberty Counsel has pointed out,
Merritt and Daleiden are the first undercover journalists to be
criminally prosecuted in California history, indicating that the
charges may have been politically motivated.
The felony charges against the Center for Medical Progress have
been pursued by pro-choice politicians, such as former
California Attorney General Kamala Harris and current state
Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Harris has received huge
campaign donations from the abortion industry in the past,
including more than $81,000 from Planned Parenthood and other
abortion advocacy groups. As California’s attorney general,
Harris chose not to investigate the illegal activities of
Planned Parenthood. Instead, she had her office search
Daleiden’s home to seize his laptop and the hard drives that
contained video footage of his investigation.
Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, filed a
motion to void the warrant that led to the search and seizure of
Daleiden’s property. The motion discloses evidence of Harris'
efforts to protect Planned Parenthood:
“The timeline of the Attorney General’s investigation as
reflected in internal email communication released between the
Attorney General and Planned Parenthood shows an investigation
conducted and overseen by Planned Parenthood and allied activist
groups as the basis for a sham search warrant. The special
investigative team tasked with preparing and serving a search
warrant on Mr. Daleiden’s home apparently did not believe that
the search warrant was accurate or based on probable cause.”
With the revealing testimony of several abortion industry
workers, such as Melissa Fowler, the vice president of the
National Abortion Federation, it seems the gruesome practices of
the abortion industry will finally be forced out into the open.
Fowler appeared in a recording that Merritt and Daleiden
obtained at a NAF conference. Although she claimed in her
testimony that she did not know what a fetal tissue procurement
agency was, Fowler easily identified StemExpress as a repeat NAF
vendor. In their summary of the first day of the trial, the
Center for Medical Progress also noted that NAF Exhibitor Rules
and Regulations did not prohibit video recording at the time the
undercover videos were filmed.
Doe 7, an abortionist, admitted to procuring fetal tissue from
the abortions she performed at Planned Parenthood. She also
confessed to being familiar with StemExpress. She testified that
she was aware of cases where money had been exchanged as part of
such transactions. It is worth noting that StemExpress and
Planned Parenthood Northern California are both under ongoing
FBI and U.S. Department of Justice investigation for selling
fetal organs and tissue illegally.
The prosecution attempted to build a case around the security
concerns of the abortion industry, with Fowler taking the stand
to insinuate that the violence of pro-lifers necessitated the
need for tight security measures at NAF conferences. Yet further
testimony from Doe 7 contradicted these claims. The unnamed
abortionist admitted that her recorded conversation with
Daleiden had not taken place in private. Moreover, a never-
released video of Doe 7 revealed the presence of nearby
passersby who would have been able to overhear the conversation.
Daleiden’s attorney, Peter Breen, noted that “none of the
content was confidential.” Moreover, California’s penal code,
enacted under the California Invasion of Privacy Act,
specifically excludes conversations that can easily be overheard
or recorded. Breen also added that Daleiden’s role as an
undercover journalist should grant him protection under
California’s shield laws.
With the preliminary hearing expected to last until Sept. 17,
Merritt and Daleiden will continue to defend themselves by
pointing to the clear conflict of interest between the abortion
industry and the California attorney general's office.
Daleiden has openly called this show trial “a biased attack on
First Amendment civil rights and a political prosecution to
shield Planned Parenthood from accountability for their crimes
against women and children." As long as the trial continues, he
will have a platform from which to discuss the matter.
Samantha Kamman writes about abortion for Lone Conservative.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/planned-
parenthood-was-just-forced-to-admit-in-court-to-harvesting-
aborted-fetal-parts
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
In a recent preliminary hearing in the court case against the
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
Center for Medical Progress, a Planned Parenthood official
admitted to harvesting aborted fetal parts for the purpose of
selling them to human tissue procurement companies.
Sandra Merritt and David Daleiden are currently defending
themselves against 15 felony charges after their series of
undercover videos exposed the abortion provider’s unethical
trade in baby body parts. As Liberty Counsel has pointed out,
Merritt and Daleiden are the first undercover journalists to be
criminally prosecuted in California history, indicating that the
charges may have been politically motivated.
The felony charges against the Center for Medical Progress have
been pursued by pro-choice politicians, such as former
California Attorney General Kamala Harris and current state
Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Harris has received huge
campaign donations from the abortion industry in the past,
including more than $81,000 from Planned Parenthood and other
abortion advocacy groups. As California’s attorney general,
Harris chose not to investigate the illegal activities of
Planned Parenthood. Instead, she had her office search
Daleiden’s home to seize his laptop and the hard drives that
contained video footage of his investigation.
Daleiden’s representation, the Thomas More Society, filed a
motion to void the warrant that led to the search and seizure of
Daleiden’s property. The motion discloses evidence of Harris'
efforts to protect Planned Parenthood:
“The timeline of the Attorney General’s investigation as
reflected in internal email communication released between the
Attorney General and Planned Parenthood shows an investigation
conducted and overseen by Planned Parenthood and allied activist
groups as the basis for a sham search warrant. The special
investigative team tasked with preparing and serving a search
warrant on Mr. Daleiden’s home apparently did not believe that
the search warrant was accurate or based on probable cause.”
With the revealing testimony of several abortion industry
workers, such as Melissa Fowler, the vice president of the
National Abortion Federation, it seems the gruesome practices of
the abortion industry will finally be forced out into the open.
Fowler appeared in a recording that Merritt and Daleiden
obtained at a NAF conference. Although she claimed in her
testimony that she did not know what a fetal tissue procurement
agency was, Fowler easily identified StemExpress as a repeat NAF
vendor. In their summary of the first day of the trial, the
Center for Medical Progress also noted that NAF Exhibitor Rules
and Regulations did not prohibit video recording at the time the
undercover videos were filmed.
Doe 7, an abortionist, admitted to procuring fetal tissue from
the abortions she performed at Planned Parenthood. She also
confessed to being familiar with StemExpress. She testified that
she was aware of cases where money had been exchanged as part of
such transactions. It is worth noting that StemExpress and
Planned Parenthood Northern California are both under ongoing
FBI and U.S. Department of Justice investigation for selling
fetal organs and tissue illegally.
The prosecution attempted to build a case around the security
concerns of the abortion industry, with Fowler taking the stand
to insinuate that the violence of pro-lifers necessitated the
need for tight security measures at NAF conferences. Yet further
testimony from Doe 7 contradicted these claims. The unnamed
abortionist admitted that her recorded conversation with
Daleiden had not taken place in private. Moreover, a never-
released video of Doe 7 revealed the presence of nearby
passersby who would have been able to overhear the conversation.
Daleiden’s attorney, Peter Breen, noted that “none of the
content was confidential.” Moreover, California’s penal code,
enacted under the California Invasion of Privacy Act,
specifically excludes conversations that can easily be overheard
or recorded. Breen also added that Daleiden’s role as an
undercover journalist should grant him protection under
California’s shield laws.
With the preliminary hearing expected to last until Sept. 17,
Merritt and Daleiden will continue to defend themselves by
pointing to the clear conflict of interest between the abortion
industry and the California attorney general's office.
Daleiden has openly called this show trial “a biased attack on
First Amendment civil rights and a political prosecution to
shield Planned Parenthood from accountability for their crimes
against women and children." As long as the trial continues, he
will have a platform from which to discuss the matter.
Samantha Kamman writes about abortion for Lone Conservative.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/planned-
parenthood-was-just-forced-to-admit-in-court-to-harvesting-
aborted-fetal-parts
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Indiana for an abortion told Telemundo she had not filed charges
against the alleged rapist and claimed the media is lying about
him.
Gerson Fuentes, the 27-year-old illegal immigrant charged with
raping the young girl, confessed to the crime and was arrested
Tuesday, according to The Columbus Dispatch. The victim’s mother
defended the alleged rapist to a Telemundo reporter who showed
up at her apartment.
“Yes, but she’s fine. Everything that they’re saying against him
is a lie,” the girl’s mother told Telemundo from inside her
apartment when asked whether the 10-year-old lived there. She
also said she was not pressing charges against Fuentes.
(RELATED: Here’s Why The Media’s Abortion Narrative On IVF Is
Total Nonsense)
Users on social media raised questions about Fuentes’
relationship with the victim’s mother, given the woman’s defense
of the alleged rapist.
Reports of a 10-year-old crossing state lines into Indiana for
an abortion made national headlines in early July after Dr.
Caitlin Bernard shared the story with the press. She has since
been disciplined by her employer for a HIPAA violation,
according to Fox News.
Bernard also incorrectly reported that the child had been raped
by a 17-year-old in a filing to the Indiana Department of
Health, according to Fox News.
Stories about the girl’s abortion initially drew speculation
because they came from a single source, Bernard, who has a
history of abortion activism, and because Ohio’s attorney
general said he hadn’t heard of any similar child rape cases in
the state. Earlier articles about the story did not mention that
the child had been raped by an adult.
Bernard did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s
request for comment.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/15/ohio-rapist-ten-year-old-
illegal-immigrant/
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> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
The mother of the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who traveled to
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> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
Indiana for an abortion told Telemundo she had not filed charges
against the alleged rapist and claimed the media is lying about
him.
Gerson Fuentes, the 27-year-old illegal immigrant charged with
raping the young girl, confessed to the crime and was arrested
Tuesday, according to The Columbus Dispatch. The victim’s mother
defended the alleged rapist to a Telemundo reporter who showed
up at her apartment.
“Yes, but she’s fine. Everything that they’re saying against him
is a lie,” the girl’s mother told Telemundo from inside her
apartment when asked whether the 10-year-old lived there. She
also said she was not pressing charges against Fuentes.
(RELATED: Here’s Why The Media’s Abortion Narrative On IVF Is
Total Nonsense)
Users on social media raised questions about Fuentes’
relationship with the victim’s mother, given the woman’s defense
of the alleged rapist.
Reports of a 10-year-old crossing state lines into Indiana for
an abortion made national headlines in early July after Dr.
Caitlin Bernard shared the story with the press. She has since
been disciplined by her employer for a HIPAA violation,
according to Fox News.
Bernard also incorrectly reported that the child had been raped
by a 17-year-old in a filing to the Indiana Department of
Health, according to Fox News.
Stories about the girl’s abortion initially drew speculation
because they came from a single source, Bernard, who has a
history of abortion activism, and because Ohio’s attorney
general said he hadn’t heard of any similar child rape cases in
the state. Earlier articles about the story did not mention that
the child had been raped by an adult.
Bernard did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s
request for comment.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/15/ohio-rapist-ten-year-old-
illegal-immigrant/
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keeping aborted human fetuses and organs in rows of labeled
boxes and paper bags in a walk-in freezer.
The grim discovery was made earlier this month by the
Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, a left-wing organization,
alongside members of several other anti-abortion groups that
located the freezer at the university's Birth Defects Research
Laboratory.
The activists found the freezer by following a paper trail of
invoices that recorded the purchase of various fetal body parts
by universities and research labs across the country.
Images of the inside of the freezer, with rows of paper bags and
boxes, were shared on Twitter by PAAU, which claimed that the
university maintained "the largest and most active fetal organ
bank in the nation."
PAAU
@PAAUNOW
·
Follow
?????? ?????????????????? ??????????????:
Pro-Life Groups Discover Freezer of Human Fetuses at the
University of Washington
On March 9th at 6:30pm, Anti-Abortion activists from groups
including PAAU, @TheSurvivors , @prolifesf, & @RehumanizeIntl
gained access to the largest &
https://twitter.com/PAAUNOW/status/1506801050078089222
"The American people must be made aware of the mass
dehumanization of these unborn children who are violently killed
and thrown into a freezer, whose body parts are then portioned
out to researchers in pursuit of federal funding," PAAU
Executive Director Terrisa Bukovinac said. "It is my hope that
this photograph reminds us all that there are real victims being
lethally oppressed by UW and traded like property. Fetal
trafficking is abhorrent and it must end."
David Prentice, the vice president at the Charlotte Lozier
Institute and an expert in stem cell research, told the
Washington Examiner that the storage of the human fetal remains
was "unethical," as informed consent could not be obtained from
a deceased individual, and the use of paper bags and boxes was
contrary to proper storage protocols.
"[Donated tissue] would be properly stored in sterile containers
... and frozen at an ultracold temperature, sometimes with
chemicals to prevent degradation of the tissue," Prentice said.
"There is no proper way to store, whether it's a human fetus or
any human individual, in a paper bag in the freezer. This is
completely disrespecting a human individual to do that. It's
immoral and unethical."
The Washington Examiner contacted the university multiple times
for the opportunity to comment. The university acknowledged the
request but never provided a comment.
The university's history of maintaining the nation's largest
fetal organ tissue bank has been well documented and was
mentioned in a 2017 Congressional report into human fetal tissue
sales between abortion clinics and stem cell research labs. The
congressional investigation was prompted by a series of
undercover videos released in 2015 that showed Planned
Parenthood employees discussing the selling of human fetal
tissue and haggling over price.
That investigative report specifically noted that the university
had failed to produce all relevant documentation regarding its
fetal organ bank, including information regarding the
transportation of fetal tissue and organs to other research labs
at numerous institutions of higher education for which the
university claimed it charged a flat fee of $200.
From 2010 to 2015, the university obtained human fetal remains
from 15 different abortion clinics, both in the neighboring
Seattle area and from other clinics nationwide. In the same time
frame, the university provided human fetal organs and tissue to
40 different universities and research labs, including the
Environmental Protection Agency. The research conducted with the
organs and tissue was often funded by federal grants.
The activists discovered the freezer by reviewing a 2013 invoice
from the University of Indiana, obtained via a public records
request, that showed the University of Indiana paid the
University of Washington $400 for two brain specimens in the
late spring of that year.
"[The University of Washington] serves as the Amazon of baby
body parts," Prentice told the Washington Examiner. "They send
them out to universities and research labs who you know place an
order for X number of baby brains or eyeballs or whatever of a
certain ... gestational age."
"The idea of putting them in paper bags is so they can do same-
day and next-day shipping for their delivery options," he went
on. "But there is a complete disrespect for the dignity of any
human life."
Prentice, who holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University
of Kansas, was quick to note that there is little to no
biomedical research that can only be conducted with fetal tissue.
"That's simply antiquated science that has never resulted in any
sort of cures," Prentice said. "Let's be frank about this: It
should turn people's stomachs to hear about them storing whole
babies or limbs or other organs in the freezer."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/university-of-washington-
sparks-outcry-for-reportedly-keeping-aborted-fetuses-in-paper-
bags
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
The University of Washington School of Medicine is reportedly
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
keeping aborted human fetuses and organs in rows of labeled
boxes and paper bags in a walk-in freezer.
The grim discovery was made earlier this month by the
Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, a left-wing organization,
alongside members of several other anti-abortion groups that
located the freezer at the university's Birth Defects Research
Laboratory.
The activists found the freezer by following a paper trail of
invoices that recorded the purchase of various fetal body parts
by universities and research labs across the country.
Images of the inside of the freezer, with rows of paper bags and
boxes, were shared on Twitter by PAAU, which claimed that the
university maintained "the largest and most active fetal organ
bank in the nation."
PAAU
@PAAUNOW
·
Follow
?????? ?????????????????? ??????????????:
Pro-Life Groups Discover Freezer of Human Fetuses at the
University of Washington
On March 9th at 6:30pm, Anti-Abortion activists from groups
including PAAU, @TheSurvivors , @prolifesf, & @RehumanizeIntl
gained access to the largest &
https://twitter.com/PAAUNOW/status/1506801050078089222
"The American people must be made aware of the mass
dehumanization of these unborn children who are violently killed
and thrown into a freezer, whose body parts are then portioned
out to researchers in pursuit of federal funding," PAAU
Executive Director Terrisa Bukovinac said. "It is my hope that
this photograph reminds us all that there are real victims being
lethally oppressed by UW and traded like property. Fetal
trafficking is abhorrent and it must end."
David Prentice, the vice president at the Charlotte Lozier
Institute and an expert in stem cell research, told the
Washington Examiner that the storage of the human fetal remains
was "unethical," as informed consent could not be obtained from
a deceased individual, and the use of paper bags and boxes was
contrary to proper storage protocols.
"[Donated tissue] would be properly stored in sterile containers
... and frozen at an ultracold temperature, sometimes with
chemicals to prevent degradation of the tissue," Prentice said.
"There is no proper way to store, whether it's a human fetus or
any human individual, in a paper bag in the freezer. This is
completely disrespecting a human individual to do that. It's
immoral and unethical."
The Washington Examiner contacted the university multiple times
for the opportunity to comment. The university acknowledged the
request but never provided a comment.
The university's history of maintaining the nation's largest
fetal organ tissue bank has been well documented and was
mentioned in a 2017 Congressional report into human fetal tissue
sales between abortion clinics and stem cell research labs. The
congressional investigation was prompted by a series of
undercover videos released in 2015 that showed Planned
Parenthood employees discussing the selling of human fetal
tissue and haggling over price.
That investigative report specifically noted that the university
had failed to produce all relevant documentation regarding its
fetal organ bank, including information regarding the
transportation of fetal tissue and organs to other research labs
at numerous institutions of higher education for which the
university claimed it charged a flat fee of $200.
From 2010 to 2015, the university obtained human fetal remains
from 15 different abortion clinics, both in the neighboring
Seattle area and from other clinics nationwide. In the same time
frame, the university provided human fetal organs and tissue to
40 different universities and research labs, including the
Environmental Protection Agency. The research conducted with the
organs and tissue was often funded by federal grants.
The activists discovered the freezer by reviewing a 2013 invoice
from the University of Indiana, obtained via a public records
request, that showed the University of Indiana paid the
University of Washington $400 for two brain specimens in the
late spring of that year.
"[The University of Washington] serves as the Amazon of baby
body parts," Prentice told the Washington Examiner. "They send
them out to universities and research labs who you know place an
order for X number of baby brains or eyeballs or whatever of a
certain ... gestational age."
"The idea of putting them in paper bags is so they can do same-
day and next-day shipping for their delivery options," he went
on. "But there is a complete disrespect for the dignity of any
human life."
Prentice, who holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University
of Kansas, was quick to note that there is little to no
biomedical research that can only be conducted with fetal tissue.
"That's simply antiquated science that has never resulted in any
sort of cures," Prentice said. "Let's be frank about this: It
should turn people's stomachs to hear about them storing whole
babies or limbs or other organs in the freezer."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/university-of-washington-
sparks-outcry-for-reportedly-keeping-aborted-fetuses-in-paper-
bags
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Francisco courtroom and, stunningly, testified on behalf of two
pro-life undercover investigators, David Daleiden and Sandra
Merritt, who are being prosecuted for recording secret footage
of abortion industry executives talking about how they procure
fetal body parts to sell to researchers.
TOP STORIES
January 6 Committee’s Bid to Prove Trump Criminally Liable for
Violence Falls Short
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
NRPLUS
How the 2012 Election Deranged America
DAN MCLAUGHLIN
NRPLUS
What the Nurses Knew
MARY EBERSTADT
NRPLUS
According to observers of a preliminary hearing, California
obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Forrest Smith told the court that
the abortion executives in the footage likely illegally altered
abortion procedures, causing babies to be born alive and putting
the mothers in danger of complications in their quest for more
intact fetal body parts.
Daleiden and Merritt and their organization, the Center for
Medical Progress, made headlines in the summer of 2015 after
they released hours of undercover footage of Planned Parenthood
executives and the 2014 National Abortion Federation conference.
Abortion industry executives were caught on camera haggling with
the investigators, who were posing as fetal tissue research
company, as well as admitting to illegally altering abortion
procedures to obtain fresher, more intact fetal parts, which are
worth more to researchers.
When Smith first saw Daleiden on television in 2015, he told his
wife, “I’m going to take down that son of a bitch. He’s f**king
with me now,'” the abortionist testified.
After he met Daleiden, however, he decided the investigator was
right about the abortion industry’s trafficking in fetal body
parts and other illegal activities and even testified that
Daleiden “didn’t know the half of what was going on.”
“There’s no question in my mind that at least some of these
fetuses were live births,” Smith told the court when asked
whether the controversial, more aggressive abortion procedure
Planned Parenthood executives described on video could result in
the delivery of a live infant. “Very few people in abortion,
outside of Planned Parenthood, do that.”
“You can kill a human being, which I admit abortion is,” Smith
said, “but you have to do it in certain ways.”
Smith claims to be “the longest practicing abortion doctor in
the United States today” and says he has performed 50,000
abortions.
Daleiden and Merritt are charged with 14 felony counts of
recording confidential information without consent.
According to observers of the hearing, Smith also took issue
with the idea of asking a pregnant woman for her consent to
donate fetal tissue before rather than after her abortion,
saying the only ethical option it is to ask for consent
afterwards so the abortionist has no incentive to alter the
procedure.
The judge then asked whether Smith was suggesting that women are
easily manipulated, to which Smith replied that he said
“patients,” not women.
Minutes later, Smith conceded that he does believe a pregnant
woman is easily manipulated, saying a woman facing such a
decision is very vulnerable to suggestion.
“Dr. Forrest Smith demonstrated heroic honesty when he ripped
the veil away from Planned Parenthood’s lies, euphemisms, and
cover ups in his testimony during the preliminary hearing,”
Daleiden told National Review. “His unparalleled expert
qualifications make it clear that Planned Parenthood is
delivering infants alive in their late-term abortion procedures,
and that fetal organ trafficking companies routinely kill born-
alive infants through organ harvesting.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/abortionist-testifies-at-
fetal-parts-hearing-some-of-these-fetuses-were-live-births/
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> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
A longtime abortionist took the stand this week in a San
>
> Democrats promote homosexual child molesting, black crime and the murder of innocent babies.
>
Francisco courtroom and, stunningly, testified on behalf of two
pro-life undercover investigators, David Daleiden and Sandra
Merritt, who are being prosecuted for recording secret footage
of abortion industry executives talking about how they procure
fetal body parts to sell to researchers.
TOP STORIES
January 6 Committee’s Bid to Prove Trump Criminally Liable for
Violence Falls Short
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
NRPLUS
How the 2012 Election Deranged America
DAN MCLAUGHLIN
NRPLUS
What the Nurses Knew
MARY EBERSTADT
NRPLUS
According to observers of a preliminary hearing, California
obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Forrest Smith told the court that
the abortion executives in the footage likely illegally altered
abortion procedures, causing babies to be born alive and putting
the mothers in danger of complications in their quest for more
intact fetal body parts.
Daleiden and Merritt and their organization, the Center for
Medical Progress, made headlines in the summer of 2015 after
they released hours of undercover footage of Planned Parenthood
executives and the 2014 National Abortion Federation conference.
Abortion industry executives were caught on camera haggling with
the investigators, who were posing as fetal tissue research
company, as well as admitting to illegally altering abortion
procedures to obtain fresher, more intact fetal parts, which are
worth more to researchers.
When Smith first saw Daleiden on television in 2015, he told his
wife, “I’m going to take down that son of a bitch. He’s f**king
with me now,'” the abortionist testified.
After he met Daleiden, however, he decided the investigator was
right about the abortion industry’s trafficking in fetal body
parts and other illegal activities and even testified that
Daleiden “didn’t know the half of what was going on.”
“There’s no question in my mind that at least some of these
fetuses were live births,” Smith told the court when asked
whether the controversial, more aggressive abortion procedure
Planned Parenthood executives described on video could result in
the delivery of a live infant. “Very few people in abortion,
outside of Planned Parenthood, do that.”
“You can kill a human being, which I admit abortion is,” Smith
said, “but you have to do it in certain ways.”
Smith claims to be “the longest practicing abortion doctor in
the United States today” and says he has performed 50,000
abortions.
Daleiden and Merritt are charged with 14 felony counts of
recording confidential information without consent.
According to observers of the hearing, Smith also took issue
with the idea of asking a pregnant woman for her consent to
donate fetal tissue before rather than after her abortion,
saying the only ethical option it is to ask for consent
afterwards so the abortionist has no incentive to alter the
procedure.
The judge then asked whether Smith was suggesting that women are
easily manipulated, to which Smith replied that he said
“patients,” not women.
Minutes later, Smith conceded that he does believe a pregnant
woman is easily manipulated, saying a woman facing such a
decision is very vulnerable to suggestion.
“Dr. Forrest Smith demonstrated heroic honesty when he ripped
the veil away from Planned Parenthood’s lies, euphemisms, and
cover ups in his testimony during the preliminary hearing,”
Daleiden told National Review. “His unparalleled expert
qualifications make it clear that Planned Parenthood is
delivering infants alive in their late-term abortion procedures,
and that fetal organ trafficking companies routinely kill born-
alive infants through organ harvesting.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/abortionist-testifies-at-
fetal-parts-hearing-some-of-these-fetuses-were-live-births/
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forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., misrepresented his wildfire preparedness and even disinvested in prevention.
>
Due to the fires in Yosemite National Park, the U.S. Forest
Service is taking emergency action to save the giant sequoias
A fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park exploded in
size Saturday and prompted evacuations even as firefighters made
progress against an earlier blaze that burned to the edge of a
grove of giant sequoias.
The Oak Fire, which began Friday afternoon southwest of the park
near Midpines in Mariposa County, grew to 10.2 square miles
(26.5 square kilometers) by Saturday morning, according to the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal
Fire.
Evacuation orders were put in effect Saturday for over 6,000
people living in the sparsely populated, rural area.
"Explosive fire behavior is challenging firefighters," Cal Fire
said in a statement Saturday morning that described the fire
activity as "extreme with frequent runs, spot fires and group
torching."
As of Saturday morning, the fire had destroyed 10 residential
and commercial structures and damaged five more, and was
threatening 2,000 more structures, Cal Fire said.
The fast-growing blaze prompted Caltrans to order numerous road
closures, including a shutdown of Highway 140 between Carstens
Road and Allred Road — blocking one of the main routes into
Yosemite National Park.
Hot weather and bone dry vegetation caused by the worst drought
in decades was fueling the blaze and challenging fire crews,
said Daniel Patterson, a spokesman for the Sierra National
Forest.
"The fire is moving quickly. This fire was throwing embers out
in front of itself for up to 2 miles yesterday," Patterson said.
"These are exceptional fire conditions."
A shoeless older man attempting to flee crashed his sedan into a
ditch in a closed area and was helped by firefighters. He was
safely driven from the area and did not appear to suffer any
injuries. Several other residents stayed in their homes Friday
night as the fire continued to burn nearby.
Pacific Gas & Electric said on its website that more than 2,600
homes and businesses in the area had lost power by Friday
afternoon and there was no indication when it would be restored.
"PG&E is unable to access the affected equipment," the company
said.
There’s no immediate word on what sparked the fire.
On Friday, firefighters reported that they have been able to
contain 79% of the initial wildfire, the Washburn Fire.
The fire, in the lower Mariposa Grove area near the Washburn
trail, forced the evacuation of the community of Wowona and
endangered hundreds of giant sequoias, the world's largest trees
by volume.
Wawona Road is tentatively set to reopen on Saturday, according
to the park website.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Forest Service announced Friday it's taking
emergency action to save giant sequoias by speeding up projects
to protect the trees from the increasing threat of wildfires.
The Save Our Sequoias (SOS) Act was introduced by a bipartisan
group of congressman including House Republican leader Kevin
McCarthy.
The SOS acts calls for intentionally lighting smaller trees and
vegetation during damp conditions with firefighters monitoring.
"The Forest Service’s action today is an important step forward
for Giant Sequoias, but without addressing other barriers to
protecting these groves, this emergency will only continue," the
group said. "It’s time to codify this action by establishing a
true comprehensive solution to fireproof every grove in
California through the SOS Act and save our sequoias."
This emergency action could cut years off the normal approval
process required to cut smaller trees in national forests and
use intentionally low-intensity fires to reduce dense brush. The
dense underbrush aids wildfires to spread rapidly.
"Without urgent action, wildfires could eliminate countless more
iconic giant sequoias," Forest Service Chief Randy Moore said in
a statement. "This emergency action to reduce fuels before a
wildfire occurs will protect unburned giant sequoia groves from
the risks of high-severity wildfires."
Some environmental groups have criticized forest thinning as an
excuse for commercial logging.
Ara Marderosian, executive director of the Sequoia ForestKeeper
group, called the announcement a "well-orchestrated PR campaign."
He said it fails to consider how logging can exacerbate
wildfires and could increase carbon emissions that will worsen
the climate crisis.
"Fast-tracking thinning fails to consider that roadways and
logged areas ... allows wind-driven fires because of greater
airflow caused by the opening in the canopy, which increases
wildfire speed and intensity," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/yosemite-national-park-wildfires-
explode-size-us-takes-emergency-action-save-sequoias
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., misrepresented his wildfire preparedness and even disinvested in prevention.
>
Due to the fires in Yosemite National Park, the U.S. Forest
Service is taking emergency action to save the giant sequoias
A fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park exploded in
size Saturday and prompted evacuations even as firefighters made
progress against an earlier blaze that burned to the edge of a
grove of giant sequoias.
The Oak Fire, which began Friday afternoon southwest of the park
near Midpines in Mariposa County, grew to 10.2 square miles
(26.5 square kilometers) by Saturday morning, according to the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal
Fire.
Evacuation orders were put in effect Saturday for over 6,000
people living in the sparsely populated, rural area.
"Explosive fire behavior is challenging firefighters," Cal Fire
said in a statement Saturday morning that described the fire
activity as "extreme with frequent runs, spot fires and group
torching."
As of Saturday morning, the fire had destroyed 10 residential
and commercial structures and damaged five more, and was
threatening 2,000 more structures, Cal Fire said.
The fast-growing blaze prompted Caltrans to order numerous road
closures, including a shutdown of Highway 140 between Carstens
Road and Allred Road — blocking one of the main routes into
Yosemite National Park.
Hot weather and bone dry vegetation caused by the worst drought
in decades was fueling the blaze and challenging fire crews,
said Daniel Patterson, a spokesman for the Sierra National
Forest.
"The fire is moving quickly. This fire was throwing embers out
in front of itself for up to 2 miles yesterday," Patterson said.
"These are exceptional fire conditions."
A shoeless older man attempting to flee crashed his sedan into a
ditch in a closed area and was helped by firefighters. He was
safely driven from the area and did not appear to suffer any
injuries. Several other residents stayed in their homes Friday
night as the fire continued to burn nearby.
Pacific Gas & Electric said on its website that more than 2,600
homes and businesses in the area had lost power by Friday
afternoon and there was no indication when it would be restored.
"PG&E is unable to access the affected equipment," the company
said.
There’s no immediate word on what sparked the fire.
On Friday, firefighters reported that they have been able to
contain 79% of the initial wildfire, the Washburn Fire.
The fire, in the lower Mariposa Grove area near the Washburn
trail, forced the evacuation of the community of Wowona and
endangered hundreds of giant sequoias, the world's largest trees
by volume.
Wawona Road is tentatively set to reopen on Saturday, according
to the park website.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Forest Service announced Friday it's taking
emergency action to save giant sequoias by speeding up projects
to protect the trees from the increasing threat of wildfires.
The Save Our Sequoias (SOS) Act was introduced by a bipartisan
group of congressman including House Republican leader Kevin
McCarthy.
The SOS acts calls for intentionally lighting smaller trees and
vegetation during damp conditions with firefighters monitoring.
"The Forest Service’s action today is an important step forward
for Giant Sequoias, but without addressing other barriers to
protecting these groves, this emergency will only continue," the
group said. "It’s time to codify this action by establishing a
true comprehensive solution to fireproof every grove in
California through the SOS Act and save our sequoias."
This emergency action could cut years off the normal approval
process required to cut smaller trees in national forests and
use intentionally low-intensity fires to reduce dense brush. The
dense underbrush aids wildfires to spread rapidly.
"Without urgent action, wildfires could eliminate countless more
iconic giant sequoias," Forest Service Chief Randy Moore said in
a statement. "This emergency action to reduce fuels before a
wildfire occurs will protect unburned giant sequoia groves from
the risks of high-severity wildfires."
Some environmental groups have criticized forest thinning as an
excuse for commercial logging.
Ara Marderosian, executive director of the Sequoia ForestKeeper
group, called the announcement a "well-orchestrated PR campaign."
He said it fails to consider how logging can exacerbate
wildfires and could increase carbon emissions that will worsen
the climate crisis.
"Fast-tracking thinning fails to consider that roadways and
logged areas ... allows wind-driven fires because of greater
airflow caused by the opening in the canopy, which increases
wildfire speed and intensity," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/yosemite-national-park-wildfires-
explode-size-us-takes-emergency-action-save-sequoias
Baxter
Jul 24, 2022, 11:22:03 AM7/24/22
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But Trump! <real_g...@latimes.com> wrote in
news:02ee2698662b679c...@dizum.com:
<snip>
> "Fast-tracking thinning fails to consider that roadways and
> logged areas ... allows wind-driven fires because of greater
> airflow caused by the opening in the canopy, which increases
> wildfire speed and intensity," he said.
>
> The Associated Press contributed to this report.
>
> https://www.foxnews.com/us/yosemite-national-park-wildfires-
> explode-size-us-takes-emergency-action-save-sequoias
>
That sounds like they raked the forest like tRump told them to.
Or "thinning" - that's what all Repugs on the West Coast demand.
In short, it sounds more like Repug than Dem.
news:02ee2698662b679c...@dizum.com:
<snip>
> "Fast-tracking thinning fails to consider that roadways and
> logged areas ... allows wind-driven fires because of greater
> airflow caused by the opening in the canopy, which increases
> wildfire speed and intensity," he said.
>
> The Associated Press contributed to this report.
>
> https://www.foxnews.com/us/yosemite-national-park-wildfires-
> explode-size-us-takes-emergency-action-save-sequoias
>
Or "thinning" - that's what all Repugs on the West Coast demand.
In short, it sounds more like Repug than Dem.
Klaus Schadenfreude
Jul 24, 2022, 11:44:35 AM7/24/22
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interzone
Jul 24, 2022, 2:46:03 PM7/24/22
to
On 7/24/2022 9:22 AM, Baxter wrote:
> But Trump! <real_g...@latimes.com> wrote in
> news:02ee2698662b679c...@dizum.com:
>
> <snip>
>
>> "Fast-tracking thinning fails to consider that roadways and
>> logged areas ... allows wind-driven fires because of greater
>> airflow caused by the opening in the canopy, which increases
>> wildfire speed and intensity," he said.
>>
>> The Associated Press contributed to this report.
>>
>> https://www.foxnews.com/us/yosemite-national-park-wildfires-
>> explode-size-us-takes-emergency-action-save-sequoias
>>
>
> That sounds like they raked the forest like tRump told them to.
Him being right as rain, even when the rain doesn't come, true.
> But Trump! <real_g...@latimes.com> wrote in
> news:02ee2698662b679c...@dizum.com:
>
> <snip>
>
>> "Fast-tracking thinning fails to consider that roadways and
>> logged areas ... allows wind-driven fires because of greater
>> airflow caused by the opening in the canopy, which increases
>> wildfire speed and intensity," he said.
>>
>> The Associated Press contributed to this report.
>>
>> https://www.foxnews.com/us/yosemite-national-park-wildfires-
>> explode-size-us-takes-emergency-action-save-sequoias
>>
>
> That sounds like they raked the forest like tRump told them to.
> Or "thinning" - that's what all Repugs on the West Coast demand.
And amazing how much the self-professed "saviors" of the forest want to
see those giant Sequoias DIE.
That's classic liberalism for you - identify an actual problem, then
demonize anyone who tries to solve it.
Because...lacking a problem...Demotards have NOTHING to offer as a
political philosophy. They're classic control freaks and the only
solutions they desire are those that empower their precious totalitarian
deep state - all other solutions must be berated, demonized, lied about,
the usual panoply of libitardia.
> In short, it sounds more like Repug than Dem.
they do for minorities (black,brown,rainbow, etc.) - all convenient
pawns to be herded on their way to a totalitarian fascist state.
The real question is why you had a massive heart attack and managed to
hang on in this life like a human dingleberry of abject stupidity and
consummate narcissistic idiocy.
You're a nasty waste of hominid blood cells and the type of worthless
subhuman refuse that should be terminated on sight, got it?
Good.
Now put a trash bag over your head, duct tape it shut and do the right
thing, for once in your abortion of a life, you scumbag old pony tailed
fascist turd.
Pot addles your brains
Jul 24, 2022, 3:14:05 PM7/24/22
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Baxter <bax02_s...@baxcode.com> wrote in
news:tbjo2o$1lhv$2...@gioia.aioe.org:
Here's the part you snipped, you dishonest sack of shit.
"Ara Marderosian, executive director of the Sequoia ForestKeeper
group, called the announcement a "well-orchestrated PR campaign."
He said it fails to consider how logging can exacerbate
wildfires and could increase carbon emissions that will worsen
the climate crisis."
He's a wackdoodle.
https://content.sierraclub.org/grassrootsnetwork/users/ara-marderosian
https://www.saveamericasforests.org/congress/congress-gallery.htm
If you don't clean the deadfall from forests, it simply becomes a huge
campfire with plenty of ground level fuel to feed on. Every boy scout
knows that. Every firebug exploits that. Every power company fears that.
news:tbjo2o$1lhv$2...@gioia.aioe.org:
"Ara Marderosian, executive director of the Sequoia ForestKeeper
group, called the announcement a "well-orchestrated PR campaign."
He said it fails to consider how logging can exacerbate
wildfires and could increase carbon emissions that will worsen
the climate crisis."
https://content.sierraclub.org/grassrootsnetwork/users/ara-marderosian
https://www.saveamericasforests.org/congress/congress-gallery.htm
If you don't clean the deadfall from forests, it simply becomes a huge
campfire with plenty of ground level fuel to feed on. Every boy scout
knows that. Every firebug exploits that. Every power company fears that.
interzone
Jul 24, 2022, 3:29:59 PM7/24/22
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it...GERMANY!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/forests-german-myth-under-physical-attack-drought-heat-n1065661
And for all their efforts in fuel reduction they end up in the same mess
the Bandera maple preserve in Texas has - DROUGHT!!!
"Dr. Tanja Sanders, head of forest ecology and biodiversity at the
Thünen Institute, explains that some beech trees have suffered the
equivalent of a sunburn during the droughts and are slowly dying."
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1724849/central-texas-tree-dying-from-top-down
interzone
Jul 24, 2022, 3:36:06 PM7/24/22
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On 7/24/2022 1:25 AM, But Trump! wrote:
> The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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interzone
Jul 24, 2022, 7:25:51 PM7/24/22
to
Is there anyone left still using a Palm Pilot?
We know how his palms got calloused, and it wasn't from collecting "data".
Ramon F. Herrera
Oct 26, 2022, 6:35:03 AM10/26/22
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In article <sp2qtq$6cu$1...@dont-email.me>
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Trump says that
it is justly deserved.
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Trump says that
it is justly deserved.
26C.Z968
Oct 27, 2022, 1:28:05 AM10/27/22
to
the last election not so much because people were
voting FOR Joe as because they were voting AGAINST
him. He's an unbearable personality - and there ARE
a choice of people just as MAGA, but NOT such
narcissistic assholes.
In any case, Joe and the Wokettes seem most responsible
for their mid-term armageddon. Never imagined anyone
could trash the country SO much, SO quickly ....
The Dems don't have a leg to stand on anymore -
everybody KNOWS what they're about. They are
dental work - without novacaine. Collective
agony.
Duh Mensha
Oct 29, 2022, 1:05:03 PM10/29/22
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In article <P_upI.590594$nn2....@fx48.iad>
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I believe Biden is insane. Facts speak for themselves.
>
President Joe Biden made a big show of only fist-bumping de
facto Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman on Friday, then bragged
about how he’d made the killing of Jamal Khashoggi their first
topic of conversation. But he also implicitly admitted that, for
all his vows to the contrary, he’d gone ahead and begged MBS to
pump more oil, by saying he expected gas prices to ease soon.
Good on the prez for making at least one concession to reality,
even if he put himself in a needlessly tough spot, in at least
two ways.
First, of course, is Biden’s war on US oil and natural-gas
production, which has restricted domestic energy production so
that prices were soaring even before the Ukraine invasion.
Second is his tough talk on the Khashoggi killing, vowing before
taking office to make MBS a “pariah,” then as prez pointedly
making public the CIA assessment that MBS ordered the atrocity.
Given how much US intel gets dead-wrong in the Mideast, that was
pure political posturing at the expense of America’s national
interests.
The combination forced Biden to eat crow by visiting Riyadh and
so legitimizing the “pariah,” no matter how much our president
wants to pretend otherwise.
Like it or not, Washington and Riyadh need each other, obliging
leaders on both sides to swallow a lot. The nations are natural
allies against the Iranian regime, for starters, and against
revolutionary Islamic extremism generally.
Plus, the world needs Saudi oil — even more so as Western
nations refuse to fully exploit their own carbon resources.
The Saudis, and other US allies including Israel, are also upset
at Biden’s efforts to revive the Obama nuclear deal with Iran,
which everyone in the region sees as a win for Tehran. It
doesn’t help that US policy in the Obama years let both Russia
and China make major Mideast inroads — leaving all our allies
there obliged to play nice with Moscow and/or Beijing.
That was another reason for Biden’s Middle East tour: to shore
up a whole host of alliances, not just with Riyadh.
Yes, the Saudi regime has been a human-rights disaster, and it
long fueled the rise of radical Islam. But MBS has broken with
the radicals and even fostered markedly greater women’s rights —
albeit at the cost of cracking down on all other threats to his
absolute power, even within the royal family.
In foreign affairs, even presidents have to take what they can
get; Biden seems to finally be learning that, even if his
various gaffes on the trip (talk of “honoring” the Holocaust;
comparing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Northern Ireland’s
troubles) show he’s still the same old Joe.
Saudis don't like faggots and people who promote their cause.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/biden-reluctantly-faces-reality-in-
saudi-sitdown/
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I believe Biden is insane. Facts speak for themselves.
>
President Joe Biden made a big show of only fist-bumping de
facto Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman on Friday, then bragged
about how he’d made the killing of Jamal Khashoggi their first
topic of conversation. But he also implicitly admitted that, for
all his vows to the contrary, he’d gone ahead and begged MBS to
pump more oil, by saying he expected gas prices to ease soon.
Good on the prez for making at least one concession to reality,
even if he put himself in a needlessly tough spot, in at least
two ways.
First, of course, is Biden’s war on US oil and natural-gas
production, which has restricted domestic energy production so
that prices were soaring even before the Ukraine invasion.
Second is his tough talk on the Khashoggi killing, vowing before
taking office to make MBS a “pariah,” then as prez pointedly
making public the CIA assessment that MBS ordered the atrocity.
Given how much US intel gets dead-wrong in the Mideast, that was
pure political posturing at the expense of America’s national
interests.
The combination forced Biden to eat crow by visiting Riyadh and
so legitimizing the “pariah,” no matter how much our president
wants to pretend otherwise.
Like it or not, Washington and Riyadh need each other, obliging
leaders on both sides to swallow a lot. The nations are natural
allies against the Iranian regime, for starters, and against
revolutionary Islamic extremism generally.
Plus, the world needs Saudi oil — even more so as Western
nations refuse to fully exploit their own carbon resources.
The Saudis, and other US allies including Israel, are also upset
at Biden’s efforts to revive the Obama nuclear deal with Iran,
which everyone in the region sees as a win for Tehran. It
doesn’t help that US policy in the Obama years let both Russia
and China make major Mideast inroads — leaving all our allies
there obliged to play nice with Moscow and/or Beijing.
That was another reason for Biden’s Middle East tour: to shore
up a whole host of alliances, not just with Riyadh.
Yes, the Saudi regime has been a human-rights disaster, and it
long fueled the rise of radical Islam. But MBS has broken with
the radicals and even fostered markedly greater women’s rights —
albeit at the cost of cracking down on all other threats to his
absolute power, even within the royal family.
In foreign affairs, even presidents have to take what they can
get; Biden seems to finally be learning that, even if his
various gaffes on the trip (talk of “honoring” the Holocaust;
comparing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Northern Ireland’s
troubles) show he’s still the same old Joe.
Saudis don't like faggots and people who promote their cause.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/biden-reluctantly-faces-reality-in-
saudi-sitdown/
Fist Bumps Are FAG Gestures
Oct 30, 2022, 5:05:03 AM10/30/22
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In article <XnsAD42AF69D4...@95.216.243.224>
President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East came to an end
with yet more controversy after it emerged that an American
lawyer who previously represented Jamal Khashoggi had been
detained in the UAE.
US citizen Asim Ghafoor was detained at Dubai airport on
Thursday while travelling to Istanbul for a family wedding and
is now being held in a detention facility on charges related to
an in absentia conviction for money laundering. Mr Ghafoor had
no prior knowledge of any conviction, a human rights group said.
On Saturday, Mr Biden met with UAE President Sheik Mohammed bin
Zayed Al Nahyan and invited him to come to the US for a visit
before the year is out.
The UAE president was one of multiple Middle Eastern leaders Mr
Biden met in Saudi Arabia on Saturday before leaving aboard Air
Force One.
New details also emerged about Friday’s controversial meeting
with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – the man US
intelligence found responsible for ordering the murder of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
When Mr Biden confronted MBS about the killing – after a
friendly fist-bump – he denied the accusation and fired back
about the US’s own controversies.
Saudis don't like faggots.
Biden promotes faggots.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-
politics/biden-today-saudi-arabia-prince-mbs-b2124737.html
President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East came to an end
with yet more controversy after it emerged that an American
lawyer who previously represented Jamal Khashoggi had been
detained in the UAE.
US citizen Asim Ghafoor was detained at Dubai airport on
Thursday while travelling to Istanbul for a family wedding and
is now being held in a detention facility on charges related to
an in absentia conviction for money laundering. Mr Ghafoor had
no prior knowledge of any conviction, a human rights group said.
On Saturday, Mr Biden met with UAE President Sheik Mohammed bin
Zayed Al Nahyan and invited him to come to the US for a visit
before the year is out.
The UAE president was one of multiple Middle Eastern leaders Mr
Biden met in Saudi Arabia on Saturday before leaving aboard Air
Force One.
New details also emerged about Friday’s controversial meeting
with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – the man US
intelligence found responsible for ordering the murder of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
When Mr Biden confronted MBS about the killing – after a
friendly fist-bump – he denied the accusation and fired back
about the US’s own controversies.
Saudis don't like faggots.
Biden promotes faggots.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-
politics/biden-today-saudi-arabia-prince-mbs-b2124737.html
But Trump!
Oct 30, 2022, 8:05:03 AM10/30/22
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Mono Lake are accustomed to the peculiarities of this high
desert basin.
Famously strange limestone spires known as tufa towers rise from
the water. The lake contains so much salt that it’s barren of
fish. In the arid sands beyond, sagebrush thrives, and that’s
about it.
But the alkali flats that are emerging from the lake’s surface,
ghost white, aren’t just another nod to the uniqueness of this
ancient place. They’re a sign of trouble. Amid a third year of
drought, the sprawling lake on the remote east side of the
Sierra Nevada is sharply receding, and the small towns and
wildlife so closely tied to the water are feeling the pinch.
Already, parts of the lake popular with kayakers, beachgoers and
tribal members have dried up. Fierce dust storms blow off the
exposed lake bottom and cloud the skies with some of the
nation’s worst air pollution. A land bridge is forming to
islands with tens of thousands of nesting gulls, threatening to
bring coyotes within easy reach of baby birds.
“It affects everybody, that lake — we all live around it,” said
Marianne Denny, a 40-year resident of the basin who says “the
white stuff,” indicative of the lake’s decline, is among the
most she’s ever seen. “Hopefully we’ll live to see more water.”
The drought bearing down on Mono Lake and the rest of California
picks up on a two-decade run of extreme warming and drying. It’s
a product of the changing climate that has begun to profoundly
reshape the landscape of the West and how people live within it.
From less alpine snow and emptying reservoirs to parched forests
and increased wildfire, the change is posing new, and often
difficult, challenges.
At Mono Lake, an emblem of the state’s wild and distinct beauty,
the reckoning has been a long time coming.
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For eight decades, the city of Los Angeles has piped water from
four creeks that feed the lake to its facilities 350 miles to
the south, sometimes diverting almost all of the inflow. It’s a
familiar California tale of old water rights yielding inordinate
benefit.
The concerns at the lake, though, were supposed to have been
resolved. In 1994, after a lengthy environmental campaign that
spurred “Save Mono Lake” bumper stickers on vehicles up and down
California, state water regulators put caps on L.A.’s exports.
Slowly, lake levels rose. But they did not rise as much as they
were supposed to.
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Drought, on top of a climate that’s changed faster than
expected, has slowed progress. On April 1, the typical start of
the lake’s runoff season, the water level measured 6,379.9 feet
above sea level, about 12 feet short of the state target. Before
Los Angeles began drawing water from the creeks here, the lake
was nearly 40 feet higher.
“A lot of Californians who know about Mono Lake think, thank
goodness, we got it on the success list,” said Geoff McQuilkin,
executive director of the nonprofit Mono Lake Committee, which
advocates for the basin. “The thing is we’ve given it 20 years,
now 28 years, and we’re still seeing the problems they thought
would be gone by now.”
McQuilkin and his staff run an information center and bookstore
out of an old dance hall in Lee Vining, the only community on
the lake with a gas station and grocery store. It’s about a five-
hour drive from San Francisco. Tourists on scenic Highway 395
can stop at the center and learn about the area.
If they spend some time, they’ll learn that many residents here
want the state to revisit its recovery plan for the lake — and
force Los Angeles to surrender more water.
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On a recent morning, McQuilkin walked along the quiet north
shore of the 70-square-mile lake.
Above, the Sierra crest loomed, and below stood the wide expanse
of the unveiled lake bottom. It’s colored white from salt that
rises to the surface with groundwater.
Like its sister, the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Mono Lake is
brimming with salt — about 2½ times more so than the ocean —
because it has no outlet for drainage. Thousands of years of
evaporation have concentrated minerals in the lake and the
groundwater beneath it. The lake is believed to be at least
760,000 years old, and maybe a few million, making it one of the
oldest in North America.
“There’s just all these interesting things here,” McQuilkin
said. “Californians do not want to let this go.”
The tufa spires that lift from the shallow water are also a
result of the lake’s unusual water chemistry. They’ve formed
over centuries as carbonates in the lake mix with calcium from
underwater springs and coalesce as mineral deposits that look
like giant slabs of coral reef.
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Because of the unique environment, the lake’s inhabitants are
limited: mainly brine shrimp and hovering alkali flies. These
critters, though, provide food for as many as a million
migratory birds annually, including eared grebes and Wilson’s
and red-necked phalaropes.
McQuilkin is watching, in particular, the California gulls. He
wants to make sure they’re safe. In the summer, about a quarter
of this gull’s total population nests on the lake’s Negit
Islets, which are at risk of being invaded by predators because
of a land bridge emerging in the increasingly shallow water. The
birds already abandoned one of the main islands, Negit Island,
decades ago because it became connected to the mainland with
lower lake levels.
“There’s no question that coyotes can swim across that,”
McQuilkin said, looking at the channel between the current
islands and the north shore. “We’re just hoping they don’t.”
Five cameras that McQuilkin and his colleagues have set up
monitor for coyotes. The Mono Lake Committee keeps more than a
mile of electric fence on hand that employees plan to string out
if the wild canines begin to amass. So far, the cameras have
picked up just two passers-by.
The group debuted the temporary barrier during last decade’s
drought, when coyotes started making their way to the islands
and scouting for eggs and young birds.
This year, the group hopes the lake bottom will remain partially
submerged at least until next month, when most of the newborn
gulls will have hatched and be ready to fly off to places like
San Francisco Bay.
Next year is a different story. Even if the Sierra gets a lot of
snow come winter, melt-off into the lake won’t arrive until late
spring and summer, so lake levels will likely be even lower when
the gulls return. McQuilkin said the fence will almost certainly
go up then.
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At the home of Priscilla and Cole Hawkins, the exposed lake bed
on the north shore means dust, and sometimes lots of it.
Strong desert winds can pick up the mineral-laden soil and carry
it for miles.
“We call them dust devils,” said Priscilla, whose off-the-grid
property backs up to the lake and offers big vistas of the tall
peaks in Yosemite National Park, at least when the air is clear.
Cole bought the house with his wife two decades ago, moving in
full time a few years back. The dust is not a problem that
often, he said, but when it is, it can be severe, limiting
visibility to less than a quarter-mile. He compares the dust
storms to fog banks with debris.
“When it gets really bad, we go inside or head for the hills,”
he said, looking out at a blue sky on this particular afternoon.
“We’ve come back to the house and it’s almost like sand on the
curtains.”
The dust, which is tracked by the local air district under the
label PM10, or particulate matter that is 10 microns in diameter
or less, is a health issue, district officials say. The
particles can lodge deep in the lungs and cause tissue damage
and lung inflammation.
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In nine of the past 10 years, the Mono Lake area has had the
distinction of racking up more federal air quality violations
for PM10 than any other place in the nation, according to the
district. In 2016, during last decade’s drought, federal air
standards were breached on 33 days.
The past few years haven’t seen as many violations, according to
data from the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control
District. However, Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer
for the agency, says the trend line remains bad.
“Mono Lake probably has some of the best air quality in the
nation 90% of the days of the year, but on windy days, we have
some of the worst,” he said.
With less snow and less runoff in the Sierra to fill the lake in
recent years, Kiddoo, whose job it is to try to keep the skies
clean, believes it’s time for Los Angeles to further reduce its
draws from the basin.
“Every inch of lake-level rise that we can get protects air
quality,” he said.
The State Water Resources Control Board, which regulates water
draws, told The Chronicle that it is paying attention to the
lake, the basin and to the thirst that’s compromised them.
While acknowledging that the lake’s rise has stalled — lake
levels have generally hovered a little more than 10 feet below
the target for a decade — state officials credit water
restrictions for at least stabilizing things.
Owens Lake, about 150 miles to the south, was not so fortunate.
The lake was sucked dry by Southern California water diversions
almost a century ago and is nothing but salt flats today.
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The 1994 regulation at Mono Lake established caps on how much
Los Angeles can draw from the feeder creeks based on how high
the lake is. This year, the city’s diversions were limited to
4,500 acre-feet of water, about enough to supply 60,000
residents, according to the city. If the lake had been 3 feet
lower, no water could have been drawn.
Erik Ekdahl, a deputy director at the State Water Board, said
the changing climate, notably the “aridification” of the West,
has constrained lake levels more than regulators anticipated and
the agency will likely have to re-evaluate its regulation.
“We are at the point where we do want to start asking, ‘What are
the next steps?’ and ‘What’s the timeline for having a more
thorough discussion?’” he said.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power insists that
whatever comes of future deliberations, more water restrictions
are not the answer.
In an email to The Chronicle, the department’s managing water
utility engineer, Paul Liu, said the city’s draws had a
negligible impact on the lake’s decline, compared to drought and
other climate factors.
The city, in recent years, has reduced diversions to about 12%
of the water in the creeks flowing to Mono Lake where it has
water rights, he said. Meanwhile, the city has spent tens of
millions of dollars to help restore the creeks and promote
healthy runoff. About 3% of the city’s total water comes from
these creeks, Liu said, a supply that is small but considered
vital.
“In a scenario where Mono basin exports to Los Angeles are
reduced or cut off completely, that shortfall will have to be
made up by increasing exports from the State Water Project or
the Colorado River, which are both extremely strained and
limited as well,” wrote Liu.
But Christine Garrison, like many who live in the area, says
something has to be done, and sooner rather than later.
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On a recent morning, the Mono County native pulled into the Old
Marina near Lee Vining, a spontaneous stop at the lake that took
her back to her youth. A descendant of the Mono Lake Paiute,
Garrison used to watch her grandmother walk the lakeshore and
collect the pupae of the alkali fly, a traditional protein-rich
delicacy called kutsavi.
Garrison put on her “irrigation boots” with the intention of
scooping up pupae, but then stopped. The waterline was too low
to proceed.
“I had to go so far out that I was afraid I’d get stuck in the
mud,” she said. “I could still smell (the kutsavi), though.”
She added: “When there’s no water in the lake, everything goes.”
Kurtis Alexander is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
Email: kalex...@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kurtisalexander
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/mono-lake-drought-
17318513.php
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., misrepresented his wildfire preparedness and even disinvested in prevention.
>
LEE VINING, Mono County — The few who live along the shores of
>
> Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., misrepresented his wildfire preparedness and even disinvested in prevention.
>
Mono Lake are accustomed to the peculiarities of this high
desert basin.
Famously strange limestone spires known as tufa towers rise from
the water. The lake contains so much salt that it’s barren of
fish. In the arid sands beyond, sagebrush thrives, and that’s
about it.
But the alkali flats that are emerging from the lake’s surface,
ghost white, aren’t just another nod to the uniqueness of this
ancient place. They’re a sign of trouble. Amid a third year of
drought, the sprawling lake on the remote east side of the
Sierra Nevada is sharply receding, and the small towns and
wildlife so closely tied to the water are feeling the pinch.
Already, parts of the lake popular with kayakers, beachgoers and
tribal members have dried up. Fierce dust storms blow off the
exposed lake bottom and cloud the skies with some of the
nation’s worst air pollution. A land bridge is forming to
islands with tens of thousands of nesting gulls, threatening to
bring coyotes within easy reach of baby birds.
“It affects everybody, that lake — we all live around it,” said
Marianne Denny, a 40-year resident of the basin who says “the
white stuff,” indicative of the lake’s decline, is among the
most she’s ever seen. “Hopefully we’ll live to see more water.”
The drought bearing down on Mono Lake and the rest of California
picks up on a two-decade run of extreme warming and drying. It’s
a product of the changing climate that has begun to profoundly
reshape the landscape of the West and how people live within it.
From less alpine snow and emptying reservoirs to parched forests
and increased wildfire, the change is posing new, and often
difficult, challenges.
At Mono Lake, an emblem of the state’s wild and distinct beauty,
the reckoning has been a long time coming.
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For eight decades, the city of Los Angeles has piped water from
four creeks that feed the lake to its facilities 350 miles to
the south, sometimes diverting almost all of the inflow. It’s a
familiar California tale of old water rights yielding inordinate
benefit.
The concerns at the lake, though, were supposed to have been
resolved. In 1994, after a lengthy environmental campaign that
spurred “Save Mono Lake” bumper stickers on vehicles up and down
California, state water regulators put caps on L.A.’s exports.
Slowly, lake levels rose. But they did not rise as much as they
were supposed to.
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Drought, on top of a climate that’s changed faster than
expected, has slowed progress. On April 1, the typical start of
the lake’s runoff season, the water level measured 6,379.9 feet
above sea level, about 12 feet short of the state target. Before
Los Angeles began drawing water from the creeks here, the lake
was nearly 40 feet higher.
“A lot of Californians who know about Mono Lake think, thank
goodness, we got it on the success list,” said Geoff McQuilkin,
executive director of the nonprofit Mono Lake Committee, which
advocates for the basin. “The thing is we’ve given it 20 years,
now 28 years, and we’re still seeing the problems they thought
would be gone by now.”
McQuilkin and his staff run an information center and bookstore
out of an old dance hall in Lee Vining, the only community on
the lake with a gas station and grocery store. It’s about a five-
hour drive from San Francisco. Tourists on scenic Highway 395
can stop at the center and learn about the area.
If they spend some time, they’ll learn that many residents here
want the state to revisit its recovery plan for the lake — and
force Los Angeles to surrender more water.
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On a recent morning, McQuilkin walked along the quiet north
shore of the 70-square-mile lake.
Above, the Sierra crest loomed, and below stood the wide expanse
of the unveiled lake bottom. It’s colored white from salt that
rises to the surface with groundwater.
Like its sister, the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Mono Lake is
brimming with salt — about 2½ times more so than the ocean —
because it has no outlet for drainage. Thousands of years of
evaporation have concentrated minerals in the lake and the
groundwater beneath it. The lake is believed to be at least
760,000 years old, and maybe a few million, making it one of the
oldest in North America.
“There’s just all these interesting things here,” McQuilkin
said. “Californians do not want to let this go.”
The tufa spires that lift from the shallow water are also a
result of the lake’s unusual water chemistry. They’ve formed
over centuries as carbonates in the lake mix with calcium from
underwater springs and coalesce as mineral deposits that look
like giant slabs of coral reef.
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Because of the unique environment, the lake’s inhabitants are
limited: mainly brine shrimp and hovering alkali flies. These
critters, though, provide food for as many as a million
migratory birds annually, including eared grebes and Wilson’s
and red-necked phalaropes.
McQuilkin is watching, in particular, the California gulls. He
wants to make sure they’re safe. In the summer, about a quarter
of this gull’s total population nests on the lake’s Negit
Islets, which are at risk of being invaded by predators because
of a land bridge emerging in the increasingly shallow water. The
birds already abandoned one of the main islands, Negit Island,
decades ago because it became connected to the mainland with
lower lake levels.
“There’s no question that coyotes can swim across that,”
McQuilkin said, looking at the channel between the current
islands and the north shore. “We’re just hoping they don’t.”
Five cameras that McQuilkin and his colleagues have set up
monitor for coyotes. The Mono Lake Committee keeps more than a
mile of electric fence on hand that employees plan to string out
if the wild canines begin to amass. So far, the cameras have
picked up just two passers-by.
The group debuted the temporary barrier during last decade’s
drought, when coyotes started making their way to the islands
and scouting for eggs and young birds.
This year, the group hopes the lake bottom will remain partially
submerged at least until next month, when most of the newborn
gulls will have hatched and be ready to fly off to places like
San Francisco Bay.
Next year is a different story. Even if the Sierra gets a lot of
snow come winter, melt-off into the lake won’t arrive until late
spring and summer, so lake levels will likely be even lower when
the gulls return. McQuilkin said the fence will almost certainly
go up then.
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At the home of Priscilla and Cole Hawkins, the exposed lake bed
on the north shore means dust, and sometimes lots of it.
Strong desert winds can pick up the mineral-laden soil and carry
it for miles.
“We call them dust devils,” said Priscilla, whose off-the-grid
property backs up to the lake and offers big vistas of the tall
peaks in Yosemite National Park, at least when the air is clear.
Cole bought the house with his wife two decades ago, moving in
full time a few years back. The dust is not a problem that
often, he said, but when it is, it can be severe, limiting
visibility to less than a quarter-mile. He compares the dust
storms to fog banks with debris.
“When it gets really bad, we go inside or head for the hills,”
he said, looking out at a blue sky on this particular afternoon.
“We’ve come back to the house and it’s almost like sand on the
curtains.”
The dust, which is tracked by the local air district under the
label PM10, or particulate matter that is 10 microns in diameter
or less, is a health issue, district officials say. The
particles can lodge deep in the lungs and cause tissue damage
and lung inflammation.
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In nine of the past 10 years, the Mono Lake area has had the
distinction of racking up more federal air quality violations
for PM10 than any other place in the nation, according to the
district. In 2016, during last decade’s drought, federal air
standards were breached on 33 days.
The past few years haven’t seen as many violations, according to
data from the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control
District. However, Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer
for the agency, says the trend line remains bad.
“Mono Lake probably has some of the best air quality in the
nation 90% of the days of the year, but on windy days, we have
some of the worst,” he said.
With less snow and less runoff in the Sierra to fill the lake in
recent years, Kiddoo, whose job it is to try to keep the skies
clean, believes it’s time for Los Angeles to further reduce its
draws from the basin.
“Every inch of lake-level rise that we can get protects air
quality,” he said.
The State Water Resources Control Board, which regulates water
draws, told The Chronicle that it is paying attention to the
lake, the basin and to the thirst that’s compromised them.
While acknowledging that the lake’s rise has stalled — lake
levels have generally hovered a little more than 10 feet below
the target for a decade — state officials credit water
restrictions for at least stabilizing things.
Owens Lake, about 150 miles to the south, was not so fortunate.
The lake was sucked dry by Southern California water diversions
almost a century ago and is nothing but salt flats today.
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The 1994 regulation at Mono Lake established caps on how much
Los Angeles can draw from the feeder creeks based on how high
the lake is. This year, the city’s diversions were limited to
4,500 acre-feet of water, about enough to supply 60,000
residents, according to the city. If the lake had been 3 feet
lower, no water could have been drawn.
Erik Ekdahl, a deputy director at the State Water Board, said
the changing climate, notably the “aridification” of the West,
has constrained lake levels more than regulators anticipated and
the agency will likely have to re-evaluate its regulation.
“We are at the point where we do want to start asking, ‘What are
the next steps?’ and ‘What’s the timeline for having a more
thorough discussion?’” he said.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power insists that
whatever comes of future deliberations, more water restrictions
are not the answer.
In an email to The Chronicle, the department’s managing water
utility engineer, Paul Liu, said the city’s draws had a
negligible impact on the lake’s decline, compared to drought and
other climate factors.
The city, in recent years, has reduced diversions to about 12%
of the water in the creeks flowing to Mono Lake where it has
water rights, he said. Meanwhile, the city has spent tens of
millions of dollars to help restore the creeks and promote
healthy runoff. About 3% of the city’s total water comes from
these creeks, Liu said, a supply that is small but considered
vital.
“In a scenario where Mono basin exports to Los Angeles are
reduced or cut off completely, that shortfall will have to be
made up by increasing exports from the State Water Project or
the Colorado River, which are both extremely strained and
limited as well,” wrote Liu.
But Christine Garrison, like many who live in the area, says
something has to be done, and sooner rather than later.
<https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/26/53/40/22722571/3/1200x0.jpg>
On a recent morning, the Mono County native pulled into the Old
Marina near Lee Vining, a spontaneous stop at the lake that took
her back to her youth. A descendant of the Mono Lake Paiute,
Garrison used to watch her grandmother walk the lakeshore and
collect the pupae of the alkali fly, a traditional protein-rich
delicacy called kutsavi.
Garrison put on her “irrigation boots” with the intention of
scooping up pupae, but then stopped. The waterline was too low
to proceed.
“I had to go so far out that I was afraid I’d get stuck in the
mud,” she said. “I could still smell (the kutsavi), though.”
She added: “When there’s no water in the lake, everything goes.”
Kurtis Alexander is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
Email: kalex...@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kurtisalexander
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/mono-lake-drought-
17318513.php
There Was No Holocaust
Oct 30, 2022, 2:05:04 PM10/30/22
to
In article <s9m2aa$t8$1...@neodome.net>
Abwehr <abw...@abwehr.de> wrote:
>
> Jews are criminals.
A Seattle suburb has reached a $1.5 million agreement with a
former assistant police chief who was suspended for posting Nazi
insignia on his office door, The Seattle Times reported on
Friday.
In September 2020, former Kent Assistant Chief Derek Kammerzell
was suspended for two weeks without pay for the violation, which
also included making fun of the Holocaust, per The Times.
KIRO7, a CBS TV affiliate in Seattle, reported that the city
said Kammerzell's two-week suspension was "appropriate based on
the facts and after considering the assistant chief's 27 years
of performance without discipline, the lack of any allegations
of excessive force during his career, and a record with no known
complaints from the community."
However, members of the community were outraged and Mayor Dana
Ralph demanded Kammerzell step down.
Kammerzell was placed on administrative leave in December 2021.
Since he was already disciplined, Arthur Fitzpatrick, who is the
interim city chief administrative officer and also the city's
attorney, said the discipline would come at a high cost to the
city, per The Times.
Kammerzell initially had demanded $3.1 million for his
resignation but after months of negotiations, he and the city
reached an agreement of $1.52 million.
"While this is a substantial sum, we strongly believe that
settling this matter will be a substantial step towards meeting
our commitment to the community and continuing with the
excellent work the police department is doing," the city said,
according to KIRO7
The Seattle Times reported that even if Kammerzell was initially
fired, he would have been able to win his job back and get back
pay.
"Had the city terminated the assistant chief, it is confident it
would have been in no better position than it is now,"
Fitzpatrick said.
https://news.yahoo.com/seattle-suburb-paid-former-assistant-
172844571.html
Abwehr <abw...@abwehr.de> wrote:
>
> Jews are criminals.
A Seattle suburb has reached a $1.5 million agreement with a
former assistant police chief who was suspended for posting Nazi
insignia on his office door, The Seattle Times reported on
Friday.
In September 2020, former Kent Assistant Chief Derek Kammerzell
was suspended for two weeks without pay for the violation, which
also included making fun of the Holocaust, per The Times.
KIRO7, a CBS TV affiliate in Seattle, reported that the city
said Kammerzell's two-week suspension was "appropriate based on
the facts and after considering the assistant chief's 27 years
of performance without discipline, the lack of any allegations
of excessive force during his career, and a record with no known
complaints from the community."
However, members of the community were outraged and Mayor Dana
Ralph demanded Kammerzell step down.
Kammerzell was placed on administrative leave in December 2021.
Since he was already disciplined, Arthur Fitzpatrick, who is the
interim city chief administrative officer and also the city's
attorney, said the discipline would come at a high cost to the
city, per The Times.
Kammerzell initially had demanded $3.1 million for his
resignation but after months of negotiations, he and the city
reached an agreement of $1.52 million.
"While this is a substantial sum, we strongly believe that
settling this matter will be a substantial step towards meeting
our commitment to the community and continuing with the
excellent work the police department is doing," the city said,
according to KIRO7
The Seattle Times reported that even if Kammerzell was initially
fired, he would have been able to win his job back and get back
pay.
"Had the city terminated the assistant chief, it is confident it
would have been in no better position than it is now,"
Fitzpatrick said.
https://news.yahoo.com/seattle-suburb-paid-former-assistant-
172844571.html
The Jews
Oct 30, 2022, 2:36:55 PM10/30/22
to
On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:02:06 +0100 (CET), "There Was No Holocaust"
<holocau...@cnn.com> wrote:
>In article <s9m2aa$t8$1...@neodome.net>
>Abwehr <abw...@abwehr.de> wrote:
>>
>> Jews are criminals.
>
>A Seattle suburb has reached a $1.5 million agreement with a
>former assistant police chief who was suspended for posting Nazi
>insignia on his office door, The Seattle Times reported on
>Friday.
He should have been NUREMBERGED!!!!
<holocau...@cnn.com> wrote:
>In article <s9m2aa$t8$1...@neodome.net>
>Abwehr <abw...@abwehr.de> wrote:
>>
>> Jews are criminals.
>
>A Seattle suburb has reached a $1.5 million agreement with a
>former assistant police chief who was suspended for posting Nazi
>insignia on his office door, The Seattle Times reported on
>Friday.
“If you have not killed at least one Nazi a day, you have wasted that
day. If you kill one Nazi, kill another—there is nothing more amusing
for us than a heap of Nazi corpses.”
-Ilya Ehrenburg.
Hutchinson's Fairy Tales
Apr 9, 2023, 7:40:03 PM4/9/23
to
In article <s1jddl$ei3$1...@neodome.net>
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Trump says hang the bitch.
>
A progressive Virginia prosecutor this year dropped charges
against a felon with a history of gun charges. Months later,
that felon killed two innocent men.
In July, Francis Rose shot two "innocent bystanders" in the head
while robbing an apartment complex in Alexandria, Va., according
to police. In February, he was freed from jail by the office of
Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti
(D.). Rose, who was already on probation for illegally carrying
a weapon in Washington, D.C., was arrested in October 2020 for
possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine and fentanyl
with intent to distribute.
The double murder is the latest instance where soft-on-crime
Virginia prosecutors enabled violent felons. Dehghani-Tafti’s
ally Steve Descano (D.), Fairfax County’s top prosecutor,
released three offenders with gun charges who each went on to
murder. Both prosecutors’ campaigns received over $600,000 from
the Democratic megadonor George Soros. Like Soros-backed
prosecutors across the country, Dehghani-Tafti and Descano have
abolished cash bail and pushed for decarceration.
"What happened in Alexandria was senseless and tragic," Virginia
attorney general Jason Miyares told the Washington Free Beacon.
"Unfortunately, it continues to be true that the vast majority
of violent crime is committed by the same repeat offenders."
Police announced the double homicide of Adrian de Jesus Rivera
Guzman and his step-son, Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez, on
Tuesday. Rose’s victims were landscape workers who had escaped
gang-led violence in their native El Salvador.
Arlington police arrested Rose during a traffic stop in 2020
after finding a loaded handgun, cocaine, and fentanyl on him. In
February, a county judge ruled the search unconstitutional. The
evidence was not legally admissible because the drugs and gun
were "appended" to Rose rather than in the car, his defense
attorney argued, according to the Washington Post. Dehghani-
Tafti’s office dropped the charges following the judge’s ruling
and criticized the arresting officers’ conduct.
But before the ruling, a prosecutor in Dehghani-Tafti’s office
praised the officers’ conduct, according to the Arlington
Coalition of Police. Her office held Rose in jail without bond
for more than a year before his trial, the law enforcement group
said, implying prosecutors believed the officers had acted
lawfully.
Rose will appear in court on Oct. 28. He faces up to 40 years in
prison for each count of second-degree murder. Juan Hernandez’s
wife told the Post she hopes he will stay behind bars this time.
"I know that if he’s in prison, my son and husband, they won’t
come back," Laura Hernandez said. "But this man can’t get out.
He can’t get out."
Update 7:05 p.m.: This piece was updated to include comment from
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares.
Published under: Crime, George Soros, Progressive Movement,
Virginia
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/virginia-progressive-
prosecutor-freed-felon-who-went-on-to-murder-two-men/
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Trump says hang the bitch.
>
A progressive Virginia prosecutor this year dropped charges
against a felon with a history of gun charges. Months later,
that felon killed two innocent men.
In July, Francis Rose shot two "innocent bystanders" in the head
while robbing an apartment complex in Alexandria, Va., according
to police. In February, he was freed from jail by the office of
Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti
(D.). Rose, who was already on probation for illegally carrying
a weapon in Washington, D.C., was arrested in October 2020 for
possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine and fentanyl
with intent to distribute.
The double murder is the latest instance where soft-on-crime
Virginia prosecutors enabled violent felons. Dehghani-Tafti’s
ally Steve Descano (D.), Fairfax County’s top prosecutor,
released three offenders with gun charges who each went on to
murder. Both prosecutors’ campaigns received over $600,000 from
the Democratic megadonor George Soros. Like Soros-backed
prosecutors across the country, Dehghani-Tafti and Descano have
abolished cash bail and pushed for decarceration.
"What happened in Alexandria was senseless and tragic," Virginia
attorney general Jason Miyares told the Washington Free Beacon.
"Unfortunately, it continues to be true that the vast majority
of violent crime is committed by the same repeat offenders."
Police announced the double homicide of Adrian de Jesus Rivera
Guzman and his step-son, Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez, on
Tuesday. Rose’s victims were landscape workers who had escaped
gang-led violence in their native El Salvador.
Arlington police arrested Rose during a traffic stop in 2020
after finding a loaded handgun, cocaine, and fentanyl on him. In
February, a county judge ruled the search unconstitutional. The
evidence was not legally admissible because the drugs and gun
were "appended" to Rose rather than in the car, his defense
attorney argued, according to the Washington Post. Dehghani-
Tafti’s office dropped the charges following the judge’s ruling
and criticized the arresting officers’ conduct.
But before the ruling, a prosecutor in Dehghani-Tafti’s office
praised the officers’ conduct, according to the Arlington
Coalition of Police. Her office held Rose in jail without bond
for more than a year before his trial, the law enforcement group
said, implying prosecutors believed the officers had acted
lawfully.
Rose will appear in court on Oct. 28. He faces up to 40 years in
prison for each count of second-degree murder. Juan Hernandez’s
wife told the Post she hopes he will stay behind bars this time.
"I know that if he’s in prison, my son and husband, they won’t
come back," Laura Hernandez said. "But this man can’t get out.
He can’t get out."
Update 7:05 p.m.: This piece was updated to include comment from
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares.
Published under: Crime, George Soros, Progressive Movement,
Virginia
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/virginia-progressive-
prosecutor-freed-felon-who-went-on-to-murder-two-men/
Hutchinson's Fairy Tales
Oct 14, 2023, 2:30:04 AM10/14/23
to
In article <ugcmm7$3folq$2...@dont-email.me>
governo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Trump says shoot both assholes.
>
Rep. Danny K. Davis (D., Ill.) rents his district office from a
convicted cocaine dealer who was once affiliated with a Chicago
drug ring, according to documents obtained by the Washington
Free Beacon.
Since January 2017, Davis's campaign account has cut regular
$600 checks for "office rent" to Mario's Butcher Shop, FEC
records show. The shop, which is registered as a corporation
with the state, lists Mariano "Mario" Lettieri and his wife as
the sole members of its board of directors and was at the center
of Lettieri's 1990 conviction for drug trafficking.
Lettieri, whom the Chicago Tribune described as "reputedly tied"
to a "crime syndicate," was sentenced to nearly 16 years in
prison after authorities identified him as the primary supplier
of cocaine to a major Chicago drug ring led by an ex-cop. The
Drug Enforcement Administration reported that Lettieri
trafficked as much as 80 pounds of cocaine over a six-month
period. Lettieri also allowed heroin to be packaged in his
butcher shop's boiler room and used "rib-eye steaks" as a code
word when discussing drug prices.
Lettieri is an odd landlord for Davis, who has long championed
efforts to fight drug abuse. Davis in 2006 called for $4 million
in emergency aid funds to be allocated to Cook County to address
the growing heroin problem in the area. Last year, Davis
announced that he had formed a coalition of drug prevention
organizations in Chicago to help address the growing opioid
crisis. He told the local press that "there is no part of
Chicago that is worse hit than the West Side." The West Side of
Chicago is where Lettieri ran his drug operation in the 1980s.
Tumia Romero, Davis's chief of staff, would not directly address
the congressman's payments to Lettieri but told the Free Beacon
that Davis believes in giving people "second chances."
Davis is no stranger to controversy. In 2005, he took a trip to
Sri Lanka funded by the Tamil Tigers, an ethnic terrorist group
from that country. He is a close ally of noted anti-Semite and
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and once participated in
a religious ceremony with Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the
controversial Unification Church. Moon, who died in 2012, was a
convicted felon who said Jews deserved the Holocaust.
The congressman also attended the 2012 dedication of the Church
of Scientology's Washington, D.C., lobbying office.
Davis, who faced a tough primary challenge this cycle, was
boosted by an endorsement from President Joe Biden. The longtime
congressman won his primary by single digits and is now expected
to coast to reelection in November.
Reached for comment, a Mario's Butcher Shop employee said he
would relay the Free Beacon‘s inquiry to the establishment's
owner.
Published under: Chicago, Crime, Danny Davis, Drugs, Illinois,
Louis Farrakhan
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pays-thousands-in-rent-to-cocaine-pushing-butcher/
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Rep. Danny K. Davis (D., Ill.) rents his district office from a
convicted cocaine dealer who was once affiliated with a Chicago
drug ring, according to documents obtained by the Washington
Free Beacon.
Since January 2017, Davis's campaign account has cut regular
$600 checks for "office rent" to Mario's Butcher Shop, FEC
records show. The shop, which is registered as a corporation
with the state, lists Mariano "Mario" Lettieri and his wife as
the sole members of its board of directors and was at the center
of Lettieri's 1990 conviction for drug trafficking.
Lettieri, whom the Chicago Tribune described as "reputedly tied"
to a "crime syndicate," was sentenced to nearly 16 years in
prison after authorities identified him as the primary supplier
of cocaine to a major Chicago drug ring led by an ex-cop. The
Drug Enforcement Administration reported that Lettieri
trafficked as much as 80 pounds of cocaine over a six-month
period. Lettieri also allowed heroin to be packaged in his
butcher shop's boiler room and used "rib-eye steaks" as a code
word when discussing drug prices.
Lettieri is an odd landlord for Davis, who has long championed
efforts to fight drug abuse. Davis in 2006 called for $4 million
in emergency aid funds to be allocated to Cook County to address
the growing heroin problem in the area. Last year, Davis
announced that he had formed a coalition of drug prevention
organizations in Chicago to help address the growing opioid
crisis. He told the local press that "there is no part of
Chicago that is worse hit than the West Side." The West Side of
Chicago is where Lettieri ran his drug operation in the 1980s.
Tumia Romero, Davis's chief of staff, would not directly address
the congressman's payments to Lettieri but told the Free Beacon
that Davis believes in giving people "second chances."
Davis is no stranger to controversy. In 2005, he took a trip to
Sri Lanka funded by the Tamil Tigers, an ethnic terrorist group
from that country. He is a close ally of noted anti-Semite and
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and once participated in
a religious ceremony with Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the
controversial Unification Church. Moon, who died in 2012, was a
convicted felon who said Jews deserved the Holocaust.
The congressman also attended the 2012 dedication of the Church
of Scientology's Washington, D.C., lobbying office.
Davis, who faced a tough primary challenge this cycle, was
boosted by an endorsement from President Joe Biden. The longtime
congressman won his primary by single digits and is now expected
to coast to reelection in November.
Reached for comment, a Mario's Butcher Shop employee said he
would relay the Free Beacon‘s inquiry to the establishment's
owner.
Published under: Chicago, Crime, Danny Davis, Drugs, Illinois,
Louis Farrakhan
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/landlord-problems-illinois-dem-
pays-thousands-in-rent-to-cocaine-pushing-butcher/
Hutchinson's Fairy Tales
Feb 21, 2024, 4:25:05 AMFeb 21
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Mark Weber
Feb 22, 2024, 3:45:04 AMFeb 22
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A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Biden
administration's guidance on Title IX, which prohibits
discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation,
Politico reports.
Why it matters: Transgender participation in elite sports has
been under attack, with Republican lawmakers advancing dozens of
bills across the country as they seek to prohibit trans athletes
from participating in school sports teams that align with their
gender identity.
What they're saying: The Department of Education's guidance
“directly interferes with and threatens Plaintiff States’
ability to continue enforcing their state laws," said Eastern
District of Tennessee Judge Charles Atchley.
States including Ohio, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas and Utah have all
passed laws limiting transgender athletes from competing in
sports.
Details: Twenty Republican attorneys general have argued their
respective states face a “credible threat” of losing significant
federal funding due to their policies and laws, per Politico.
Forcing schools to use transgender students’ pronouns violates
the First Amendment, the Republican coalition argued.
They also argue that the guidance from the Education Department
violates the Tenth Amendment, which delegates certain powers to
the states.
Flashback: The Department of Education proposed new changes to
Title IX in June that would prohibit schools, colleges and
universities from discriminating against transgender students.
But Republicans argued in November that the department's
guidance rewrote “the federal anti-discrimination laws they
enforce," and "that’s not how lawmaking is supposed to work,"
per Politico.
"States’ sovereign authority to enforce its own legal code was
directly injured as a result," former Tennessee associate
solicitor general Sarah Campbell said.
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/16/judge-blocks-transgender-
guidelines-title-ix
trumps bitch <patr...@protonmail.com> wrote:
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> ...I spent all night sucking cocks.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Biden
administration's guidance on Title IX, which prohibits
discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation,
Politico reports.
Why it matters: Transgender participation in elite sports has
been under attack, with Republican lawmakers advancing dozens of
bills across the country as they seek to prohibit trans athletes
from participating in school sports teams that align with their
gender identity.
What they're saying: The Department of Education's guidance
“directly interferes with and threatens Plaintiff States’
ability to continue enforcing their state laws," said Eastern
District of Tennessee Judge Charles Atchley.
States including Ohio, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas and Utah have all
passed laws limiting transgender athletes from competing in
sports.
Details: Twenty Republican attorneys general have argued their
respective states face a “credible threat” of losing significant
federal funding due to their policies and laws, per Politico.
Forcing schools to use transgender students’ pronouns violates
the First Amendment, the Republican coalition argued.
They also argue that the guidance from the Education Department
violates the Tenth Amendment, which delegates certain powers to
the states.
Flashback: The Department of Education proposed new changes to
Title IX in June that would prohibit schools, colleges and
universities from discriminating against transgender students.
But Republicans argued in November that the department's
guidance rewrote “the federal anti-discrimination laws they
enforce," and "that’s not how lawmaking is supposed to work,"
per Politico.
"States’ sovereign authority to enforce its own legal code was
directly injured as a result," former Tennessee associate
solicitor general Sarah Campbell said.
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/16/judge-blocks-transgender-
guidelines-title-ix
Hutchinson's Fairy Tales
Feb 22, 2024, 6:05:04 AMFeb 22
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In May 2019, an illegal immigrant in North Carolina tried to
kill his ex-girlfriend just days after his release from prison.
A month later, Democratic congressional hopeful Wiley Nickel
opposed a bill that would have prevented the ordeal from
happening again.
As a North Carolina state lawmaker, Nickel roughly three years
ago voted against House Bill 370, which required sheriffs in the
state to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
detainers issued against illegal immigrants. Those detainers
help ICE take custody of illegal immigrants when they're
arrested on local charges and subsequently released on bail.
Just one month before Nickel's vote, a self-described
"progressive" sheriff's refusal to honor an ICE detainer
prompted a violent rampage.
On May 15, 2019, police arrested 37-year-old Honduran national
Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta—who was deported from the United
States in 2006 but reentered the country illegally—after he
assaulted his ex-girlfriend. One day later, ICE placed a
detainer on him, which, if honored, would have kept the illegal
immigrant criminal in custody. But progressive Mecklenburg
County sheriff Garry McFadden ignored that detainer, and Pineda-
Anchecta was free to roam the streets following his release on
bond on May 17, 2019. Four days later, Pineda-Anchecta kidnapped
his ex-girlfriend, tied a rope around her head to keep her
quiet, told her he intended to kill her, and took her to a
secluded, wooded area near a highway. The victim escaped, and
Pineda-Anchecta was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Three years after the incident, Nickel is running to replace
outgoing Republican congressman Ted Budd in North Carolina's
13th Congressional District. Nickel says he's running in part to
"support law enforcement" and make sure "everyone feels welcome
and safe in our communities." For the North Carolina Sheriffs'
Association, however, Nickel's vote on House Bill 370 did just
the opposite—the association supported the bill with "high
priority," arguing that it provided "an appropriate and careful
balance under the Constitution for the rights of the accused and
for the public safety of our communities."
Nickel did not return a request for comment. His decision to
vote against the sheriffs' association-backed bill could become
a flash point in his race against Republican Bo Hines, who has
called to "enforce our laws, deport all criminal aliens, and
save Americans from dying."
Nickel first entered the political arena in 2006, when he ran
for state Senate in his native California. Nickel lost to
Republican incumbent Jeff Denham by approximately 20 points,
despite funneling thousands of dollars of his own money into the
race and running in a district that "was carved out specifically
to elect a Democrat." Nickel's own family donated to Denham's
campaign before Nickel entered the race.
Nickel went on to work for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential
campaign before he launched another state Senate run in 2018,
this time in North Carolina. He went on to serve two terms as a
state legislator before announcing his 13th district
congressional bid after Budd vacated his seat to run for U.S.
Senate. North Carolina's redistricting process made the district
considerably less red, prompting the Democratic Congressional
Committee to add Nickel to its "competitive ‘Red to Blue'
program."
Nickel will square off against Hines in November. Both
candidates have raised roughly $1.7 million as of June 30.
Published under: 2022 Election, Crime, Illegal Immigration,
North Carolina, North Carolina Senate
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/an-illegal-immigrant-tried-to-
kill-his-ex-while-out-on-bail-this-soft-on-crime-candidate-voted-
to-let-it-happen-again/
In May 2019, an illegal immigrant in North Carolina tried to
kill his ex-girlfriend just days after his release from prison.
A month later, Democratic congressional hopeful Wiley Nickel
opposed a bill that would have prevented the ordeal from
happening again.
As a North Carolina state lawmaker, Nickel roughly three years
ago voted against House Bill 370, which required sheriffs in the
state to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
detainers issued against illegal immigrants. Those detainers
help ICE take custody of illegal immigrants when they're
arrested on local charges and subsequently released on bail.
Just one month before Nickel's vote, a self-described
"progressive" sheriff's refusal to honor an ICE detainer
prompted a violent rampage.
On May 15, 2019, police arrested 37-year-old Honduran national
Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta—who was deported from the United
States in 2006 but reentered the country illegally—after he
assaulted his ex-girlfriend. One day later, ICE placed a
detainer on him, which, if honored, would have kept the illegal
immigrant criminal in custody. But progressive Mecklenburg
County sheriff Garry McFadden ignored that detainer, and Pineda-
Anchecta was free to roam the streets following his release on
bond on May 17, 2019. Four days later, Pineda-Anchecta kidnapped
his ex-girlfriend, tied a rope around her head to keep her
quiet, told her he intended to kill her, and took her to a
secluded, wooded area near a highway. The victim escaped, and
Pineda-Anchecta was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Three years after the incident, Nickel is running to replace
outgoing Republican congressman Ted Budd in North Carolina's
13th Congressional District. Nickel says he's running in part to
"support law enforcement" and make sure "everyone feels welcome
and safe in our communities." For the North Carolina Sheriffs'
Association, however, Nickel's vote on House Bill 370 did just
the opposite—the association supported the bill with "high
priority," arguing that it provided "an appropriate and careful
balance under the Constitution for the rights of the accused and
for the public safety of our communities."
Nickel did not return a request for comment. His decision to
vote against the sheriffs' association-backed bill could become
a flash point in his race against Republican Bo Hines, who has
called to "enforce our laws, deport all criminal aliens, and
save Americans from dying."
Nickel first entered the political arena in 2006, when he ran
for state Senate in his native California. Nickel lost to
Republican incumbent Jeff Denham by approximately 20 points,
despite funneling thousands of dollars of his own money into the
race and running in a district that "was carved out specifically
to elect a Democrat." Nickel's own family donated to Denham's
campaign before Nickel entered the race.
Nickel went on to work for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential
campaign before he launched another state Senate run in 2018,
this time in North Carolina. He went on to serve two terms as a
state legislator before announcing his 13th district
congressional bid after Budd vacated his seat to run for U.S.
Senate. North Carolina's redistricting process made the district
considerably less red, prompting the Democratic Congressional
Committee to add Nickel to its "competitive ‘Red to Blue'
program."
Nickel will square off against Hines in November. Both
candidates have raised roughly $1.7 million as of June 30.
Published under: 2022 Election, Crime, Illegal Immigration,
North Carolina, North Carolina Senate
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/an-illegal-immigrant-tried-to-
kill-his-ex-while-out-on-bail-this-soft-on-crime-candidate-voted-
to-let-it-happen-again/
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