CNN Editor Resigns After History of Antisemitism Resurfaces

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An editor at CNN has resigned after a series of antisemitic comments he made resurfaced on Thursday.

CNN’s statement accepting the resignation of the editor makes clear the editor had worked at CNN for some time, and had made the antisemitic statements back in 2011. . .

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Former Federal Prosecutor on Mueller: ‘He Clearly Did Not Run This Investigation’ (VIDEO)

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In my initial reactions post yesterday, I described what appeared to be knowledge gaps and cognitive shortcomings on the part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Out of respect for his career of service and patriotism, I somewhat soft-pedaled these points. On my Fox News radio program last evening, however, longtime Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy was more candid. He said the proceedings made him viscerally sad, stating outright that after watching hours of testimony, he believes the venerable lawman was not in control of the investigation that bore his name:

McCarthy: I just think he didn’t know the investigation.

Benson: You really think there were other people calling the shots and pulling the strings?

McCarthy: I do, yes. I don’t think he could tell you what the OLC guidance was.

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Mueller couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say who wrote the highly-scrutinized letter sent by his office to the Attorney General, effectively complaining that the narrative around Mueller’s findings were not to the special counsel’s liking. Barr’s summary of Mueller’s bottom-line findings were accurate, but it seemed as though Mueller wasn’t pleased with the flavor of how things were being framed in the press. The letter felt like a political act, especially because it leaked into the public eye — unlike basically anything else out of Muellerworld. In the clip above, the special counsel dodged on who actually wrote that seemingly politically-motivated missive, and could not cobble together an answer about the suspicious nature of the leak. I’ll just say that the ‘Mueller wasn’t really running the show’ theory became at least a bit more plausible to me in that exchange. (Read more from “Former Federal Prosecutor on Mueller: ‘He Clearly Did Not Run This Investigation'” HERE)

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During Mueller Hearing, the UN Took Another Swipe at Israel

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With Robert Mueller’s anticipated hearings on the Hill now over, we can browse through some of the other news around the world we missed. Boris Johnson delivered his first speech as prime minister, Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned, and, apparently, the United Nations took (another) biased vote on Israel.

By a vote of 40-2, with 9 abstentions, the UN Economic and Social Council concluded that Israel was the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.” The only “no” votes were the U.S. and Canada.

The Jewish state was harshly and repeatedly condemned in a resolution, adopted 40 to 2 with 9 abstentions and 3 absent (see breakdown below), for allegedly being the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.”

Out of 20 items on the UN Economic and Social Council’s 2018-2019 agenda, only one — Item No. 16 against Israel — focuses on condemning a specific country. All the other focus areas concern global topics such as disaster relief assistance and the use of science and technology for development. (UN Watch)

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“The UN reached new heights of absurdity by singling out Israel alone on women’s rights, yet saying nothing on Iran holding women’s rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh behind bars, Saudi Arabia jailing and torturing women’s rights activists, and subjugating women under harsh male guardianship laws, or on Yemen denying women hospital treatment without the permission of a male relative,” Executive Director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer noted. (Read more from “During Mueller Hearing, the UN Took Another Swipe at Israel” HERE)

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Sign of the Times: Seattle Adults Pay Money to Pretend to Be Children for a Day

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From the progressive city of Seattle comes an invitation for grown adults to regress back into childhood for a day at the park. On Saturday, August 3, Center Stage Event Marketing invites grown-ups to ditch their kids, forget their phones, and attend “Adult Recess” for a seven hour event where folks are welcome to act like they are a kid again. . .

The Seattle Times reports that portions of the event will benefit the Ronald McDonald House, but that the main purpose of the day is “to create an event that dropped attendees straight into their elementary-school playground — with the addition of beer. ”

Likewise, “The event will go beyond the physical activities surrounding recess. There will be ’80s and ’90s music, and food trucks with childhood favorites — peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, mac and cheese, and ice cream.” . . .

Far be it for me to judge how any grown adult spends his or her time. This is America and they can do whatever they want. But it is little concerning as a society that there are full-on camps for adults to pretend to be like children. Isn’t there a responsibility for adults to not act like children, let alone pay to pretend to be one, so that the next generation can have role models? Furthermore, isn’t this idea purely self-centered? Rather than take children, your own or other kids, to go and enjoy the wonders of life — grownups are paying to play make-believe that they can simply shirk adulthood? Wouldn’t it be better to experience “nostalgia” to teach boys and girls the games that you played growing up? Again, people can spend their money how they want to, but it sure seems like this is a defining mark of an unserious country filled with unserious people. (Read more from “Sign of the Times: Seattle Adults Pay Money to Pretend to Be Children for a Day” HERE)

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New ‘Suicide Pod’ Unveiled, Has a Detachable Coffin

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In the near future, people may be able to step inside of an all-inclusive suicide pod that not only gets the deadly job done but also provides the very capsule in which people can be buried.

According to LifeNews, Australian euthanasia activist Dr. Philip Nitschke, a.k.a. “Dr Death,” recently unveiled his 3D printed suicide capsule that comes with a coffin.

“The death pod, also referred to as a ‘glorified gas chamber’ was first envisioned in 2012,” reports the outlet. “It contains canisters of liquid nitrogen which is released when activated by the person inside the capsule within the pod, causing oxygen levels to plummet to very low levels and starving the individual of the air he or she needs, causing their death. The capsule is then detached from the pod and serves as a coffin for the occupant.”

The capsule was unveiled at the “Disrupting Death” workshop in Queensland, Australia, and promised people that it will kill them with “style and euphoria,” with Nitschke claiming that people will experience an “elegant almost euphoric” death when using the pod.

“The idea of using a machine to have absolute control really has been a long-term interest of mine,” he told Exit International. “So, a person can, with minimal involvement, get into the machine and press a button for a very peaceful, elegant almost-euphoric death.” (Read more from “New ‘Suicide Pod’ Unveiled, Has a Detachable Coffin” HERE)

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U.S. Official: Iran Just Fired a Ballistic Missile

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On Wednesday, ratcheting up tension between the United States and Iran, Iran successfully test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile that flew 600 miles.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News, “They continue to engage in malign activity; they continue to build out their missile program; they continue to work on their nuclear systems, and yet they want to tell the world that no, they’re just defensive and they’re just being a normal nation and we all see differently.”

A senior administration commented, “We are aware of reports of a projectile launched from Iran, and have no further comment at this time.”

The Shahab-3 missile flew from southern Iran to a desert near Iran’s capital, Tehran; the nuclear deal which President Trump walked away from did not deal with Iran’s conventional missile program.

Tensions between Iran and the West have been rising steadily for weeks; in mid-June, two tankers, the Kokuka Courageous and the Norwegian-owned Front Altair, were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, and according to Commander Sean Kido, mines used in the attack bore “a striking resemblance” to those used by Iran. He said, “The limpet mine that was used in the attack is distinguishable and also strikingly bearing a resemblance to Iranian mines that have already been publicly displayed in Iranian military parades.” The U.S. Navy displayed pieces of debris and a magnet which they believed came from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. (Read more from “U.S. Official: Iran Just Fired a Ballistic Missile” HERE)

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Anarchy: Protesters Help Stop ICE From Apprehending Criminal Alien

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Over 10,000 Americans die every year in drunk driving accidents. Many of them are caused by foreign nationals who either should never have been in the country or who could have been previously deported for prior arrests. Now it appears that the position of anti-ICE activists and sanctuary city politicians is that they will work to thwart the deportation even of serial illegal alien drunk drivers who have been ordered deported by a judge.

On Tuesday, a group of anti-ICE protesters helped a criminal alien lock himself in a car with a 12-year-old boy being used as a human shield after they saw a group of ICE agents coming to apprehend him. The protesters enabled him to remain in the car for four hours in the Hermitage area of metro Nashville and then, after ICE agents had already decided to come back another day, engaged in a political stunt and surrounded the car with a human chain.

One protester who helped form the human chain around the car told the local ABC affiliate, “I could see if these people were bad criminals, but they’re not. They’re just trying to provide for their kids.”

There’s just one problem. The individual was indeed a criminal alien with a final deportation order who has remained an ICE fugitive for nearly a decade. An ICE official confirmed the man’s identity to CR so that CR could locate his criminal history.

The man who locked himself in the car is a 29-year-old Mexican national who has been arrested at least three times in Tennessee. According to Davidson County court records, he was arrested on March 22, 2010, for drunk driving and for driving without a license. He was sentenced to time served and a year of probation.

According to ICE, he was ordered deported by an immigration judge in 2010 but was offered voluntary departure on July 28 (which comes with less criminal offense if he were to re-enter illegally). He was given until November 26 to depart. Instead of taking the offer, he absconded and then was given a final order of deportation in absentia, making him a criminal fugitive.

Astoundingly, he was arrested again on August 31 of that year and was found guilty of misdemeanor identity fraud and driving without a license. Again, he was cycled in and out of the criminal justice system with a final order to leave the country, and yet local officials treated him as if he were an American.

The Mexican fugitive was once again arrested in Davidson County on May 1 of this year for driving on a revoked license with an open container of alcohol, which was also a violation of his probation. Then he was in court on July 2 for a hearing over his probation violation.

How was this man able to cycle in and out of jail and court and interact with state government without ever being turned over to ICE? This was all after a final order of deportation.

Yet local officials who were at the protest treat ICE agents as if they, not the illegal aliens, are the criminals. Nashville Metro Councilman Bob Mendes, who claimed to be on scene at the attempted apprehension, said in a statement, “There are reports I have heard that the ICE agents may have been telling the gentleman in the van that he had to give himself up or else MNPD would arrest him. If that’s what they said, that’s not true.”

Mendes went on to extol the policy of Nashville not to cooperate with ICE.

Mayor David Briley said ICE “stokes fear and distrust in our most vulnerable communities, which is why we do not use our local resources to enforce ICE orders.” He promised to work with local open-borders groups “to make sure residents know their rights and that support and resources are available for undocumented immigrants should the need arise.”

We have now reached the point where these sanctuaries are harboring, aiding, abetting, and shielding from detection those who violate our driving laws, drive drunk, and violate a deportation order for nine years. Those are all violations of 8 U.S. Code §1324. DHS and DOJ have been lax about prosecuting sanctuary officials for harboring illegal aliens.

What these local officials are essentially saying is that anyone is allowed to break into the country and nobody is allowed to be deported, even after they are arrested for subsequent crimes. For activists and local politicians to interfere with enforcement of sovereignty is the ultimate form of anarchy against American citizens.

Moreover, for illegal aliens to refuse to depart and then lock themselves in a car is itself a criminal offense on top of the baseline civil immigration violation. 8 U.S. Code §1253 states as follows:

“Any alien against whom a final order of removal is outstanding…who willfully fails or refuses to depart from the United States within a period of 90 days from the date of the final order of removal under administrative processes” or who “willfully fails or refuses to make timely application in good faith for travel or other documents necessary to the alien’s departure” or who “connives or conspires, or takes any other action, designed to prevent or hamper or with the purpose of preventing or hampering the alien’s departure pursuant to such” or who “willfully fails or refuses to present himself or herself for removal at the time and place required by the Attorney General pursuant to such order” is subject to up to four years of imprisonment.

ICE could go back and obtain a criminal warrant from a U.S. attorney in this case for violation of §1253, but the agency has never had to do this since the implementation of federal immigration laws in the late 1800s. The Ninth Circuit issued a lawless ruling requiring it to obtain a criminal warrant to break into a house or car to get an illegal alien. But that opinion is not valid outside the Ninth Circuit’s jurisdiction, especially as it violates Supreme Court precedent. In Turner v. Williams (1904), the court made it very clear that as long as immigration officers are not trying to criminally convict the alien but rather deport him, “Detention or temporary confinement as part of the means necessary to give effect to the exclusion or expulsion was held valid.” The fact that an alien commits another crime to hamper that apprehension doesn’t make him better off and give him the right to thwart the basic actions necessary to affect the removal.

This principle was clearly established by James Iredell, one of the authors of Article III of the Constitution and a founding member of the Supreme Court. In 1799, he said the following, applying even of people who were lawfully admitted into the country, much more to those who violate today’s immigration laws and are ordered to be deported:

“Any alien coming to this country must or ought to know, that this being an independent nation, it has all the rights concerning the removal of aliens which belong by the law of nations to any other; that while he remains in the country in the character of an alien, he can claim no other privilege than such as an alien is entitled to, and consequently, whatever [risk] he may incur in that capacity is incurred voluntarily, with the hope that in due time by his unexceptionable conduct, he may become a citizen of the United States.”

For now, there is civil disobedience against the immigration laws, even when the subjects are drunk drivers and even accused child molesters. The only question is whether the administration will begin enforcing current law. (For more from the author of “Anarchy: Protesters Help Stop ICE From Apprehending Criminal Alien” please click HERE)

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DOJ Preparing to Execute 5 Convicted Murderers: First Federal Executions in 16 Years

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For the first time in almost two decades, the federal government is planning to execute criminals.

According to a Department of Justice press release sent out Thursday morning, Attorney General William Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to adopt a new addendum to federal protocols “clearing the way for the federal government to resume capital punishment after a nearly two decade lapse” and at the same time has asked BOP’s acting director to schedule the executions of five convicted murderers responsible for truly heinous crimes.

Those set to be executed include:

A man who “emotionally tortured, sexually molested, and then beat to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter”

A man who stabbed a 63-year-old grandmother to death and forced her nine-year-old granddaughter to sit beside the lifeless body before slitting the girl’s throat, crushing her head with rocks, and cutting off both victims’ heads and hands

A man who raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl before dismembering, burning, and throwing her remains in a septic pond

A member of a white supremacist group who murdered a family of three

A man who shot 5 people to death

“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Attorney General Barr said in a statement. “Under Administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law—and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”

The death-row inmates in this situation, according to the release, have been convicted of murdering “the most vulnerable in our society—children and the elderly.”

The last person to be executed by the federal government, as opposed to a state government, was Louis Jones Jr., a Desert Storm veteran convicted of raping and murdering a female soldier by beating her to death with a tire iron in 1995. While Obama stopped short on efforts to put an end to the practice at the federal level in 2015, his administration put a de facto moratorium on executions. (For more from the author of “DOJ Preparing to Execute 5 Convicted Murderers: First Federal Executions in 16 Years” please click HERE)

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There Is No Greater Foreign Influence Than Illegal Immigration and Those Thwarting Our Laws

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While the political world will be paralyzed for much of the week with the fallout from the Mueller testimony and talk of Russian influence over our elections, the greatest foreign influence both sides of Congress are ignoring is illegal immigration. Our foundational laws protecting Americans from foreign invaders are being systemically ignored and delegitimized. That is the true foreign influence that should concern us all.

There are countless millions of illegal aliens in this country, many of whom came recently, including well over two million criminal aliens. Yes, there are that many of other countries’ criminals in this country, and there is no sense of urgency from the political class to remove them. ICE should be given full funding and awarded medals for getting rid of other countries’ drunk drivers and drug traffickers, murderers and child molesters. Instead, thanks to a lack of Republican support and a counter-narrative from supposedly conservative media, the left-wing media has empowered wealthy subversive NGOs and local politicians to thwart, fight, and delegitimize every deportation.

The disconcerting truth is that the laws on the books designed to protect Americans from foreign infiltrators – the most foundational responsibility of a national government – are being sabotaged. The very illegal aliens who invaded our sovereignty now have more influence on government, media, and pop culture than the American taxpayers who pay for their hospital stays and care.

The simple reality is that our laws are not enforced. After so much hype about at least going after the million or so illegal aliens with final deportation orders, just 35 individuals have thus far been apprehended.

While this is only one operation still in its early stages, it’s part of a systemic breakdown in enforcing sovereignty. During the first term of Obama’s presidency, when he was still enforcing the law and sanctuaries hadn’t yet begun widespread civil disobedience, deportations were averaging around 400,000 per year. Under this administration, only 230,000 were deported in fiscal year 2018.

Even if you ignore border deportations and just focus on interior deportations, the numbers are stark. During Obama’s first term, ICE was averaging roughly 18,000-22,000 interior deportations per month. That number dropped to around 6,000 a month after Obama suspended much of interior enforcement during his final two years. Even under Trump, we are averaging just 7,000 interior deportations a month so far this year.

Take Venezuela, for example. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, there were 67,000 Venezuelans who overstayed their visas in 2017 and 2018. Yet only 584 Venezuelan nationals were removed over that period, and most of them were turned back at legal ports of entry, not removed from the interior. It’s no surprise that more Venezuelans are now incentivized to come to the border. Yet rather than deterring them by enforcing current laws, House Democrats along with 37 Republicans voted to grant them more amnesty. The cycle of lawlessness inducing more illegal immigration, which in turn grows illegal immigrants’ influence on politicians who should be working for citizens, is working splendidly for the anarchist crowd.

While ICE is woefully underfunded given the task before it, it would help to actually enforce laws on the books that will make it harder for aliens to evade detection or be harbored by lawyers and politicians.

How is it that an illegal alien can get a driver’s license and cycle in and out of the criminal justice system, not only as a regular illegal alien but as one who was ordered deported – all without ever being detected? 8 U.S. Code §1304 requires alien registration. In fact, our laws were specifically designed to ensure that every alien is detected upon his first interaction with government or law enforcement.

The law requires every alien to get fingerprinted and documented with “a certificate of alien registration or an alien registration receipt card” pursuant to the Alien Registration Act of 1940. §1304(e) states:

“Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.”

Why is this not enforced? It would quite literally prevent every illegal alien crime because they would be immediately identified upon their first interaction with police or face prosecution for not registering.

Perhaps there should be a special counsel appointed to investigate how decades’ worth of immigration promises codified into law have been ignored, inducing an inalterable change in our country as a result of the ultimate foreign influence. If we feel too scared to enforce our own laws against foreign infiltration because of fear of reprisal from those very people, indeed we have a much greater problem than foreign influence; we have a problem of foreign control. (For more from the author of “There Is No Greater Foreign Influence Than Illegal Immigration and Those Thwarting Our Laws” please click HERE)

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DOJ Says It Won’t Prosecute Barr and Ross on the House’s Contempt Vote

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Despite a recent vote brought by House Democrats, the Department of Justice says it won’t take action to prosecute Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for contempt of Congress.

In a letter sent to speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday night, Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said that “the department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general or the secretary.”

Rosen cites precedent of non-prosecution of contempt votes against Bush and Obama administration officials from 2008 and 2012 as well as legal opinions from the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel going all the way back to the Reagan administration.

“Consistent with this long-standing position and uniform practice,” Rosen’s letter concludes, “the Department has determined that the responses by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce to the subpoenas issued by the Committee on Oversight and Reform did not constitute a crime and accordingly, the Department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General or the Secretary.”

The House voted to hold the two Trump cabinet officials in contempt of Congress last week over complaints from House Democrats about their degree of cooperation with a House investigation into the attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census — an effort that the administration is now pursuing by other means.

“House Democrats never sought to have a productive relationship with the Trump Administration,” Ross said in response to the vote, “and today’s PR stunt further demonstrates their unending quest to generate headlines instead of operating in good faith with our Department.”

Contrary to the complaints, the administration says that it has been working through the proper administrative channels to work with Congress but hasn’t been given adequate time to do so.

“By taking this action, the House is both unnecessarily undermining inter-branch comity and degrading the constitutional separation of powers and its own institutional integrity,” Barr and Ross wrote to Pelosi about the contempt vote.

“The departments have already accommodated numerous Committee requests,” Barr and Ross continue, “The key remaining issue is how the Departments and the Committee will address the material that is protected by privileges that have been reaffirmed by the courts.”

The committee voted to hold Barr and Ross in contempt last month after the being delayed a few hours over the news that the White House had asserted executive privilege over the subpoenaed materials. A DOJ statement later the same day said the committee’s decision “defies logic” and “undermines Congress’s credibility with the American people.” (For more from the author of “DOJ Says It Won’t Prosecute Barr and Ross on the House’s Contempt Vote” please click HERE)

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