Amtrak Train Derails, Dangles Over Interstate in Washington

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At least six people died when an Amtrak train with 78 passengers and five crew members on its inaugural trip on a new line from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, derailed and fell onto traffic from an overpass of Interstate 5 just north of the Washington state capital, Olympia.

All of the surviving passengers were taken to hospitals in Pierce and Thurston Counties, including at least four who sustained severe injuries.

Pierce County sheriff’s Det. Ed Troyer said the train struck several vehicles on Interstate 5, but nobody in the vehicles died.

A U.S. official told the Associated Press preliminary signs indicate the train may have struck something before going off the tracks.

The Washington state Department of Transportation said the train was running on a new bypass that was created to avoid slow curves and single track tunnels on the BNSF Railway main line tracks near Point Defiance and along southern Puget Sound, the Seattle Times reported. (Read more from “Amtrak Train Derails, Dangles Over Interstate in Washington” HERE)

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Now Lois Lerner’s Secret Comments Targeted

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A Washington watchdog that has been fighting for the public’s right to know the who, what, when, where and why of the IRS campaign to badger and bully tea-party and other conservative groups about the time they wanted to oppose Barack Obama’s re-election bid in 2012 is going back into court to try to unseal whatever explanation may or may not have come from Lois Lerner, who headed the tax-exempt division of the IRS then.

Judicial Watch confirmed Monday it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in another case in which the depositions of Lerner and her aide, Holly Paz, were targeted.

“Both played key roles in the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups opposed to Obama policies in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election,” Judicial Watch explained.

The organization submitted its request in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, where a case already was underway by the NorCal Tea Party Patriots.

That’s a class-action lawsuit demanding that the public be given access to the depositions from Lerner and Paz, who both answered a number of still-unknown questions about how the program began, who ordered it to happen, and why. (Read more from “Now Lois Lerner’s Secret Comments Targeted” HERE)

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NYT: Anti-Mueller ‘Drunks’ With ‘Conspiracy Theories’

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Downplay things we don’t like … In the past month, evidence has continued to pile up of rampant partisanship within the Justice Department during the 2016 election and by those same people who now find themselves on Robert Mueller’s special counsel team. We have learned about the watering down of Hillary Clinton’s misuse of a private email server and people involved in investigating the 2016 election plotting an “insurance policy” for if Trump won. Faced with those bombshell facts, the leftist media has retreated into full protection mode. I’ve highlighted how folks like Brian Stelter deride any mention of these things — and how they compromise Mueller’s investigation — as “conspiracy theories.” Now the New York Times editorial board has joined the fray.

NewsBusters highlights how the Times has resorted to calling Fox News personalities drunken conspiracy theorists. That is straight-up Alinsky. Rule 5 for Radicals: “‘Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.’ There is no defense. It’s irrati­onal. It’s infuri­ating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into conces­sions.” Don’t argue on facts, argue on feelings; argue on what you want the truth to be.

Times says Obama lied only 18 times as president … If you needed another data point on the level of duplicity at the New York Times, here it is. The Times published a look at the lies of Donald Trump vs. the lies of Barack Obama. The Times could only come up with 18 lies over the entire presidency of Barack Obama. Sorry for making you snort out your coffee when you guffawed. Yes, only 18. You need to read this infuriating piece lest you think I’m lying.

Cleaning its own house … Vanity Fair reports on the NY Times’ investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct against Glenn Thrush. The Times is expected to finish its investigation “before Christmas.” The piece highlights that Times employees think there is a difference between Thrush and what Matt Lauer and others have been accused of. It seems like the Times is trying to make every effort to keep Thrush. Time will tell. (For more from the author of “NYT: Anti-Mueller ‘Drunks’ With ‘Conspiracy Theories'” please click HERE)

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UN Peacekeepers Coming to US? Chicago Official Meets With UN Asst. Secretary General, Requests Deployment of UN Troops

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Chicago official, Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin recently met with the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations during which he requested that the world governing body send troops onto the violence-plagued streets of Chicago.

While no one can deny the fact that Chicago is essentially a war zone, the fact that a liberal city commissioner is planning to use United Nations peacekeepers to confront said violence should send shockwaves down the spine of any freedom-loving American.

“We are headed to the United Nations to meet with the assistant secretary general to talk about the violence in Chicago, the gun violence in particular, the bloodshed that is taking place in too many of our communities,” Boykin said at a press conference before the meeting.

Boykin then went on to stunningly reveal that he is actually seeking to have the United Nations police the civilian population in Chicago.

“I’m hoping to appeal to the UN to actually come to Chicago and meet with victims of violence, and maybe even possibly help out in terms of peacekeeping efforts,” Boykin continued.

After being asked by a reporter why he believes using UN troops to curb violence rather than actual American police would be a good idea, Boykin revealed that he does indeed want the requested troops to essentially become the police in Chicago.

“They have been able to help in places like Africa, where they have sent troops in, sent forces in, to help protect minority and vulnerable populations, so frankly I think the same can be said for here in Chicago,” said Boykin.

While so-called conspiracy theorists have long believed that globalist forces would eventually send United Nations troops to the streets of America, we now have absolute, 100% proof that this is indeed the plan.

Liberal leaders in Chicago are now openly planning to declare martial law, complete with UN shock troops on the streets to police the American population. (For more from the author of “Chicago Official Meets With United Nations Asst. Secretary General, Requests Deployment of UN Peacekeeping Troops in Cook County” please click HERE)

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Now ‘Jingle Bells’ Is Being Called Racist

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According to one college professor, the age-old Christmas carol “Jingle Bells” is actually steeped in white supremacy.

Writing in her “Theatre Survey” research paper, Boston University theater professor Kyna Hamill explained the racist background of the beloved Christmas song.

“The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,” Hamill said, claiming the song has a “problematic history.”

She believes “Jingle Bells” was first performed to make fun of African-Americans.

Hamill went on to cite specific parts of the song that allegedly had racist origins.

“Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States,” she wrote.

The in-depth analysis didn’t end there.

The BU theater historian began researching the history of the longtime Christmas carol after a so-called “Jingle Bells War” – a conflict between two cities: Savannah, Georgia and Medford, Massachusetts – that is purportedly the birthplace of the song created by James Pierpont.

“Its origins emerged from the economic needs of a perpetually unsuccessful man, the racial politics of antebellum Boston, the city’s climate, and the intertheatrical repertoire of commercial blackface performers moving between Boston and New York,” Hamill wrote, using sophisticated language for an otherwise ridiculous subject matter.

The professor contended that the song’s lyrics “display no real originality,” and believes lines such as “dashing through the snow” and “Miss Fanny Bright” connect the song to blackface dandy.

“Words such as ‘thro,’ ‘tho’t,’ and ‘upsot’ suggest a racialized performance that attempted to sound ‘southern’ to a northern audience,” Hamill continued.

“As I mentioned in my article, the first documented performance of the song is in a blackface minstrel hall in Boston in 1857, the same year it was copyrighted,” Hamill told Fox News.

“Much research has been done on the problematic history of this nineteenth-century entertainment.”

The research paper, which has been public for two years, was widely lampooned across social media.

According to her university biography, Hamill is currently working on a collection of essays regarding the “intersections of Theater and War.” (For more from the author of “Now ‘Jingle Bells’ Is Being Called Racist” please click HERE)

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Big Brother Installing Surveillance Cameras in Places of Worship

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Forget the fact, that minsters, priests, rabbis, etc., are secretly spying on worshipers. Forget the fact that places of worship want their own police force. And, finally, forget the fact that places of worship are paying the government a $100 dollars a month to spy on families.

Because, now, Big Brother has convinced places of worship to install surveillance cameras to spy on their followers.

Big Brother’s surveillance of religions would make the old NKVD blush with envy.

A recent article in The Advocate, warns that Project NOLA plans to install more than 100 surveillance cameras in places of worship.

ProjectNOLA, an independent, nonprofit crime camera network, has been seeking — and has begun to find — financial support for a plan that would place such cameras on more than 100 places of worship… (Source)

Project NOLA’s first phase is to spend $1 million dollars on surveillance cameras in places of worship.

A key component of the partnership’s $1 million first phase is a plan to expand the nearly nine-year-old ProjectNOLA camera network.

Big Brother wants surveillance cameras in every place of worship.

Equipping every church in New Orleans with a surveillance camera is one of the goals of the NOLA Partnership for Public Safety and Peace. (Source)

Just think about that for a moment, soon every place of worship will have surveillance cameras. Even Orwell’s book 1984 wasn’t that grim.

Who needs God’s all-seeing eye, when the police can do it for him in real-time?

The above video shows how law enforcement has been using Project NOLA to spy on citizens in real-time since 2011.

Church surveillance cameras, combined with license plate readers, will give Big Brother unimaginable real-time spying capabilities.

It appears that Project NOLA is mirrored after DHS’s ‘See Something Say Something’ program that encourages businesses and homeowners to spy on one another.

As I mentioned two months ago, Project NOLA has been so successful that it appears DHS has copied it and renamed it “Virtual Block Watch” (VBW).

Virtual Block Watch is law enforcement’s latest national surveillance program that encourages the public to use surveillance cameras to spy on one another.

Nothing says police state quite like Project NOLA making $200,000 annually on surveillance camera maintenance fees.

First off, Project NOLA was designed by former police officer Bryan LaGarde who charged homeowners and businesses $346.00 dollars for a “crime camera kit.”

A surveillance network designed by a police officer? Nothing suspicious about that, right?

Project NOLA also claims to be “the largest networked HD city-wide crime camera system in America.”

And just like Project NOLA, VBW wants businesses and residents to purchase and install their own surveillance cameras.

But VBW has taken police spying to a whole new level.

Police are asking homeowners and businesses to install four surveillance cameras.

Police suggest that three houses in each block have surveillance cameras and each house has a set of four cameras.

Cameras are attached to houses on each end of a city block and then a third house in the middle. (Source)

Do police really need another surveillance system to spy on everyone?

FYI: NVIDIA is planning on turning police vehicles into 360 degree facial recognition cameras.

Please don’t be fooled by whatever names law enforcement calls them. Hopefully, most of us know what their real names are: ‘Project DHS’ and ‘Police Surveillance Watch.’

Americans need more privacy not less. (For more from the author of “Big Brother Installing Surveillance Cameras in Places of Worship” please click HERE)

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Eric Holder Warns GOP Not to Mess With Mueller, Then a Benghazi Hero Steps in With a Message for Him

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder received intense criticism for a Thursday tweet warning congressional Republicans against removing special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election.

“Speaking on behalf of the vast majority of the American people, Republicans in Congress be forewarned:any attempt to remove Bob Mueller will not be tolerated,” Holder wrote. “These are BS attacks on him/his staff that are blatantly political-designed to hide the real wrongdoing. Country not party.”

But one critic stood out above all the rest

“Weren’t you the only Attorney General in U.S. history to be held in contempt of congress??” asked Kris “Tanto” Paronto, a former Army Ranger and survivor of the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya.

“And you don’t speak for me or the vast majority of the American people you POS!!” he added. “Get back in your hole rat.”

Paronto helped fight off the terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.

But this time, he was referring to Holder’s role in a different Obama administration scandal — Operation Fast and Furious.

In 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by suspected illegal immigrants while patrolling the border in the Arizona desert. Guns used by the cartel-linked members were found to have been illegally purchased from the U.S. government.

Investigations by several congressional committees discovered appalling details about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ illegal gun sales to members of drug cartels in an effort to track the sellers and purchasers of firearms, according to CNN.

The congressional inquiries ultimately led to Holder being cited for criminal contempt in 2012.

Criticism of Mueller’s probe has intensified following revelations that two FBI officials who worked on Mueller’s team exchanged text messages expressing anti-Donald Trump sentiments during the 2016 election.

“We are now beginning to better understand the magnitude of this insider bias on Mr. Mueller’s team,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte said Wednesday during a committee hearing, according to NBC News.

“I think the public trust in this whole thing is gone,” said Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.

On Friday, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz called for Mueller to be fired.

“Congress has an obligation to expose what I believe is a corrupt investigation, and I call on my Republican colleagues to join me in firing Bob Mueller,” Gaetz told CNN. “It’s time for Mueller to put up or shut up. If there’s evidence of collusion with Russia, let’s see it.” (For more from the author of “Eric Holder Warns GOP Not to Mess With Mueller, Then a Benghazi Hero Steps in With a Message for Him” please click HERE)

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Every Member of an Arizona Family of Four Identifies as Transgender

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One Arizona family is garnering national attention for a very unique reason — every member identifies as transgender.

All four of them.

“It feels like you’re getting to live for the first time,” Daniel Harrott told KJZZ. “And my children are getting to be who they’ve always wanted to be.”

Harrott is a transgender father to two transgender children, Mason and Joshua.

Harrott, who had lived as a woman most of her life, says she realized she could come out as trans after seeing her two children identify as such.

Mason, age 11, was born a girl but now lives as a boy. 13-year-old Joshua, who was born a boy and uses a wheelchair to get around, now identifies as a girl.

Joshua claims he knew he was a girl even at a much younger age than he is now. “I think I was only, like 6 or 7,” he explained.

Harrott believes trangenderism has been in her family for 100 years, recalling that her grandmother’s sister was a cross-dresser.

The behavior frightened her grandmother to such a point that she made sure when she had a daughter — Harrott’s mother — would dress in a feminine manner.

“Of course my mother just gave that same lesson: ‘This is not OK. You must be a girl. This is who you were born to be,” she explains of her upbringing as a young woman.

Harrott waited for a time when she would feel comfortable in women’s clothing and makeup, but that time never came — not even when she married a man and gave birth to two kids.

However, things changed when Joshua, still identifying as a boy then, expressed a desire to join the Girl Scouts.

Harrott says this was when she was finally introduced to the term “transgender.”

“And when I finally looked it up, and I realized, ‘Oh my gosh, they’re trans, and I know it’s true — because I am, too, and it’s been my whole life,’” she said.

Not long after Joshua identified as a transgender girl, Mason came out as a transgender boy. Following in line after her kids, Harrott then began to cut her hair short and started shopping in the men’s clothing section.

“I opened my eyes, looked in that dressing room mirror and went, ‘Oh this is it. This is perfect. This is me,’” she stated.

The family grew larger after Harrott became engaged to Shirley Austin, a transgender woman who volunteered at a nonprofit organization that caters to parents of transgender youth.

Not long after meeting each other, Austin and Harrott became engaged.

“The whole family is in transition,” Austin said.

Harrott — now a transgender father to two transgender children and engaged to a transgender woman — describes the family as “very traditional.”

“I feel loved,” she explained. “I mean, I feel love for who I am, exactly how I am.”

However, many in the psychiatric community would agree this is a not healthy way to live, especially for young children.

Dr. Paul R. McHugh, a former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, is now the hospital’s Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, according to CNS News.

McHugh calls transgenderism a “mental disorder” that requires treatment, arguing sex change is “biologically impossible” and that those who promote sexual reassignment surgery are enabling those who suffer from this disorder.

“This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects,” the doctor explained. “The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken — it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.”

McHugh equates transgenderism to people who suffer from anorexia, believing they are overweight when in reality they are gravely thin. (For more from the author of “Every Member of an Arizona Family of Four Identifies as Transgender” please click HERE)

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Trump: I’m Not Considering Firing Special Counsel Mueller

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President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is not considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller even as his administration was again forced to grapple with the growing Russia probe that has shadowed the White House for much of his initial year in office.

Trump returned to the White House from Camp David and was asked if he was considering triggering the process to dismiss Mueller, who is investigating whether the president’s Republican campaign coordinated with Russian officials during last year’s election.

The president answered: “No, I’m not.” (Read more from “Trump: I’m Not Considering Firing Special Counsel Mueller” HERE)

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Pro-Palestinian Activist, Women’s March Organizer Accused of Enabling Sexual Assault, Harassment in Workplace

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Linda Sarsour, the Pro-Palestinian activist who helped spearhead the Women’s March in Washington earlier this year, allegedly enabled the sexual assault and harassment of a woman who worked for her, according to a report Sunday night.

Allegations of groping and unwanted touching were brought to the attention of Sarsour during her time as executive director of the Arab American Association, The Daily Caller reported.

Asmi Fathelbab told the website Sarsour attacked her for bringing the allegations, often threatening and body-shaming her, because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the mosque,” The Daily Caller reported.

“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” Fathelbab, a former employee at the Arab American Association, told The Daily Caller. “Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.” . . .

Fathelbab told The Daily Caller that Sarsour threatened legal and professional damage if she went public with the sexual assault claims. (Read more from “Pro-Palestinian Activist, Women’s March Organizer Accused of Enabling Sexual Assault, Harassment in Workplace” HERE)

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