This Guy Rapped About Dismembering Murder Victims. Now He’s an Elected Democrat.

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A Democratic state representative who has organized anti-police protests in St. Louis rapped about shooting “snitches” and dragging their dead bodies behind cars in a series of rap videos.

State Rep. Bruce Franks Jr., a freshman lawmaker elected in November 2016, used the rap name Ooops as part of a rap group called St. Louis Cypher. In a series of videos, some as recent as 2015, Franks rapped about shooting and stabbing people to death and hiding the evidence.

“I off them if they snitch, I put a shotty to their body, send them straight to the reverend! I put them in a body cast, put them in a body bag, tie them to the bag of the Chrysler then it’s body drag!” Franks can be heard shouting in a freestyle rap video. “A nigga speak my name, he will get slain!”

(our apologies, but apparently the Democrats succeeded in getting the below video pulled down from YouTube):

“These niggas better stop playin, I get to AK-in,” Franks raps, referencing an AK-47.

(offensive lyrics regarding murder victims and others are throughout in the following video, but the worst starts at 5:31):

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What Is the American Interest in Niger?

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Three American Green Berets were tragically killed and two more wounded when a joint U.S.-Nigerien patrol was ambushed near the Mali-Niger border Wednesday. As details continue to emerge, we take a look at what brings U.S. forces into the West African landlocked country.

What happened?

The patrol was reportedly ambushed by militants operating in the region. The Pentagon has disclosed few details about the operation in southwest Niger.

However, according to local media reports, the attackers (which media reports speculate may be members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM) may have come into the country from neighboring Mali. A U.S. official told Reuters that the joint patrol had no specific objective that day. Five Nigerien soldiers were reportedly killed in the attack.

What are we doing there?

The U.S. role in Niger and the surrounding region is often described as a support role, helping local governments with the resources and training to combat global jihadist groups.

According to U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), the military is in Niger “to provide training and security assistance to the Nigerien Armed Forces, in their efforts to counter violent extremist organizations in the region.”

In January 2013, the Obama administration struck a deal with Niger to allow unarmed U.S. surveillance drones to be based in the country to monitor Islamic terrorists in the region. At the time, Islamic militants were battling against a French-led coalition in neighboring Mali.

How many troops do we have there?

In February 2013, the U.S. deployed around 100 soldiers to Niger to provide intelligence support.

A June letter to Congress by President Trump indicated there were 645 U.S. military personnel deployed to Niger, and hundreds more in the surrounding countries.

What is the threat to American interests in Niger?

The chief threat to U.S. interests in Niger and the surrounding region is al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Like most terrorists organizations, AQIM seeks to install an Islamic caliphate and institute sharia law.

Given that its leadership is mainly Algerian nationals and north African Arabs, AQIM has taken a particular interest in overthrowing the government of Algeria, along with all other non-Islamist governments .Since its 2007 rebranding, the group has successfully carried out many mass casualty terror attacks.

According to the State Department, AQIM raises a great deal of its funds through kidnapping for ransom payments and other criminal activity such as arms trafficking, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Additionally, the Algerian government alleges that AQIM receives financial and logistical support from the Iranian regime and the Sudanese government.

Niger and the surrounding region also face threats from the Boko Haram terrorist group, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Forces from Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria are training alongside the U.S. military in response to the terrorist threat.

Another new jihadist group, which calls itself the Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS), has claimed many attacks in the region in recent years. The outfit has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.

Is the U.S. military presence in Africa legally justified?

That’s up for debate. Since 2001, Presidents Bush, Obama, and now Trump have justified overseas military action under the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force, which Congress initially approved for operations in Afghanistan.

What’s Next?

French troops are reportedly readying a counterattack as part of a response to Wednesday’s ambush. The Pentagon has not released details about whether American forces will be involved in the reported ongoing operation. (For more from the author of “What Is the American Interest in Niger?” please click HERE)

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Ex-Hamas Member Stands up for the Truth About the Palestinian Leadership, Leaves UNHRC Flabbergasted

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I met Musab Hassan Yousef in 2012 when he was in Jerusalem to promote a new movie he wanted to make with American-Israeli film director Sam Feuer.

The movie, he explained, would be about his undercover work for Israeli intelligence from 1997 until 2007, when his situation became untenable.

He was smaller than I previously thought, and looked fragile next to his bodyguard. But his big dark eyes, his charisma and his determination to tell the truth about Israel and Palestinian society under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas rule impressed me .

Five years had passed since the “Green Prince,” the son of Hamas, had moved to the U.S., where he received political asylum after he stopped his work as mole in Hamas for the Israeli security service Shin Beth, and seven years after he converted to Christianity and was baptized in the Mediterranean Sea near Tel Aviv.

After his escape to the U.S., he publicly revealed his conversion to Christianity and renounced the Palestinian leadership, particularly Hamas.

Yousef, the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the spiritual leader of Hamas, published his autobiographical book, Son of Hamas, in 2010 and went on to give interviews and lectures about his life in Ramallah and other Palestinian cities. He also discussed his conversion to Christianity.

Youssef no doubt prevented countless murderous terror attacks and exposed numerous Hamas terror cells who where in the midst of preparations for suicide attacks and assassinations of Israelis.

He was regarded as the Shin Beth’s most valuable source of intelligence, and didn’t even hesitate to give information on the movements and deliberations of his own father.

Yousef was even incarcerated in Israel in order not to arouse suspicion regarding his work as a spy for the Israelis.

Last week, Yousef again did something extraordinary when he unexpectedly addressed the U.N. Human Rights Council, which gathered in Geneva for yet another Israel-bashing session.

The meeting took place after Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., had warned that the Trump administration could sanction the U.N. over its continuing obsession with Israel and the bashing of the Jewish state by the UNHRC.

The Sept. 25 meeting about the supposed human rights situation in Palestine featured representatives of human rights offenders such as Venezuela, Syria, Iran and North Korea, who accused Israel of massive human rights violations, abuse, stealing of land, mass colonization and war crimes.

But then came Yousef, who was invited by Hillel Neuer of U.N. Watch, a monitor organization which exposes U.N. bias against Israel. His words shocked the delegates.

“My name is Musab Hassan Yousef and I grew up in Ramallah as a member of Hamas,” he said.

He then first addressed the issue of the legitimacy of the PA which claims to be the “sole legitimate representative” of the Palestinian Arabs.

“I ask: Where does your legitimacy come from? The Palestinian people did not elect you, and they did not appoint you to represent them. You are self-appointed. Your accountability is not to your own people. This is evidenced by your total violation of their human rights,” Yousef said.

“You kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails. You torture your political rivals. The suffering of the Palestinian people is the outcome of your selfish political interests,” Yousef said, while some of the delegates turned their heads in disbelief.

“You are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people,” Yousef told the representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization while she rolled her eyes.

“If Israel did not exist, you would have no one to blame. Take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions,” Yousef thundered, while claiming the Palestinian leaders were fanning the flames of the conflict by maintaining their abusive power.

He then said the Palestinian representative was using the UNHRC to mislead the international community and Palestinian society to believe that Israel is the cause for the problems the Palestinian leadership has created.

Musab has said he wants to bring peace to the Middle East and hopes to return to his homeland one day. He has called Islam “the biggest lie in history” and Allah the “biggest terrorist” while saying “only Jesus could save mankind” and that “Jesus is the only way to God.” (For more from the author of “Ex-Hamas Member Stands up for the Truth About the Palestinian Leadership, Leaves UNHRC Flabbergasted” please click HERE)

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Vegas Survivor Shares What Happened During Visit With Trump

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A California teen clutched her Teddy bear while she recounted the horrible events that took place Sunday night at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.

Tiffany Huizar, 18, described the moments after Steven Paddock opened fire on thousands of concert-goers.

As she ran down a street trying to escape from the madness, she knew something was wrong.

“I looked under my shirt and it was all bloody,” Huizar told reporters.

She had been shot in the stomach and elbow.

After being rushed to the hospital, doctors removed nine inches of her intestines in order to extract the bullet. She is one of more than 500 people that were injured during Sunday’s massacre.

However, the pain of being shot was overshadowed for a moment by a visit from President Donald Trump and the first lady on Wednesday.

When asked to describe the president, Huizar recounted that he was extremely friendly and acted very much like a “father figure.”

“He wasn’t who we see on social media,” she said. “He was much more comforting. I don’t know his tone of voice and the way he was.”

Huizar said Trump asked about her injuries and was genuinely concerned to know how she was doing.

“People have negative views about him and what he posts on Twitter,” Huizar said. “He was absolutely a different guy today.”

Huizar, who’s currently surrounded by loved ones and family, is expected to make a full recovery.

During his visit, Trump met with several other victims and first responders, saying: “America is truly a nation in mourning.” (For more from the author of “Vegas Survivor Shares What Happened During Visit With Trump” please click HERE)

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FBI Agent Comes Forward: ‘Multiple Leads’ in US. And ‘All Across World’ in Vegas Shooting

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On Thursday, FBI special agent Aaron Rouse, held a press conference to provide further details about Sunday’s shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas that left 59 dead, and over 500 wounded.

Rouse, who is in the special agent in charge of the Las Vegas division, also asked for the public’s patience in regards to the investigation.

“Additionally, we have multiple leads across the United States and all across the world for our legal industries determining the whereabouts of the panel of the people involved in this investigation, and that leads grows,” Rouse said.

“A lot of these leads will go nowhere but we have to follow them, and that’s going to take some time,” Rouse said.

Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo suggested at a separate press conference that there is a possibility the shooter had assistance in amassing the massive repertoire of weaponry he used during the attack.

“Do you think this was all accomplished on his own?” Lombardo asked. “You’ve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point.”

Previously, officials had spoken to the shooter’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley in an attempt to gain more information. Yet, Rouse would not reveal whether Danley was still a person of interest.

Lambardo also suggested that he had seen evidence which could suggest the shooter intended to survive his attack.

Rouse did not comment on that speculation.

“There’s going to be questions, I’m sure you’re going to have questions about people we’ve been talking to, maybe people outside of the United States,” Rouse said.

He also offered an explanation for why he could not answer previously stated questions.

“The fundamental trust of the American people and the FBI is based upon our discretion — and how good would that discretion be if we were to provide information that they provided to us in confidence?

“This is about informing on an investigation, this is about resolving an investigation, so specifics regarding any individual contact cannot be answered.”

Rouse reiterated the importance of public trust during the course of the investigation.

“You need us, you trust us, and the way we have that trust is by using good discretion about what we share,” Rouse said.

Rouse has held his position at the Las Vegas division since September 2016.

Previously, Rouse held a section chief position at FBI headquarters, as well as leadership positions at the Tampa and San Antonio offices. In total, he has been with the FBI for more than 20 years. (For more from the author of “FBI Agent Comes Forward: ‘Multiple Leads’ in US. And ‘All Across World’ in Vegas Shooting” please click HERE)

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U.S. Fertility Rate Plummets to New Record Low

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The last year of the Obama administration saw the fertility rate fall to an all-time low.

According to recent data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the U.S. fertility rate sank to a record low of 62.0 births per 1,000 women of reproductive age in 2016.

This was a slight decrease from the 2015 fertility rate which stood at 62.5. The downward trend is not showing signs of stopping either. According to NCHS preliminary estimates, fertility slumped even lower to 61.5 in the first quarter of 2017.

The U.S. birth rate—a slightly different measure of fertility—also fell among younger women, 15-29 years of age. A small increase in births among women 30 years of age and older was not enough to make up for the decline among younger women. (Read more from “U.S. Fertility Rate Plummets to New Record Low” HERE)

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Vatican Hosts Conference on Child Abuse While Shielding Priest Wanted for Child Porn

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A veteran Vatican watcher noted a “day of irony in Rome” this week as the Holy See conducted a conference on protecting children from internet-based sexual abuse while simultaneously harboring inside its walls a Vatican diplomat wanted by police for possessing child porn.

“This is not to pre-judge the guilt or innocence of anyone,” Dr. Robert Moynihan wrote in an October 3 letter to his subscribers. “It is merely to note the irony of Church sponsorship for a conference on global child pornography while charges of breaking child pornography laws are outstanding against a monsignor who works for the Vatican and who is enjoying immunity due to his diplomatic status and living in the Vatican.”

Moynihan, founder and editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican magazine, began his newsletter quoting part of the opening address from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, Tuesday at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome for the conference, “Child Dignity in the Digital World.”

The event is being held October 3-6 and was organized by the Gregorian University’s Center for Child Protection. (Read more from “Vatican Hosts Conference on Child Abuse While Shielding Priest Wanted for Child Porn” HERE)

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LGBT Wants to Ban Sex-Change Reversal Research

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A British university’s decision to abruptly cancel research into trans people who decide to revert to the sex they were born with has ignited a controversy over academic freedom and political correctness in the U.K.

Psychotherapist James Caspian found out about leftist intolerance the hard way when he proposed a research project on the topic of “detransitioning” to Bath Spa University, in southwest England.

Caspian wanted to study the growing number of people who regret their “gender reassignment” procedures. (“Gender reassignment” is the politically correct term for altering the body through surgery and hormones to appear like the opposite sex.) . . .

The British Guardian newspaper reports: “When he went back with his preliminary findings that suggested growing numbers of young people, particularly [transgender] women, were regretting gender reassignment, Bath Spa said his proposal would have to be resubmitted to the ethics committee, which rejected it.” [In this context, trans “women” are biological males who “transitioned” to look like and live as “women.” (Read more from “LGBT Wants to Ban Sex-Change Reversal Research” HERE)

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D.C. Raises White Flag in 2nd Amendment Battle

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While leftists all over the country, from Hollywood to Hillary Clinton, are hyping gun control in the aftermath of the horrific sniper attack on concert-goers in Las Vegas, the District of Columbia is raising the white flag in a court fight over that very issue, apparently hoping to limit what officials there would consider damage from an adverse ruling.

It was a panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that rejected the district’s requirement that people prove to police they have a “good reason” to want to carry a firearm, and then rejected the district’s insistence that the full court hear the arguments.

An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was the next possible step for District of Columbia officials, but they have now said they will not do that, giving up their own law apparently in the hope that there won’t soon be a Supreme Court ruling that could take down other, similar, laws in other parts of the country.

It was Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan M. Gottlieb, whose organization handled the Wrenn v. District of Columbia case, who noted the court ruling simply means wider opportunities for those who feel they may need to defend themselves to be prepared.

He said disallowing the demand in the district for people to convince government authorities of their “good reason” to have access to a weapon “represents one more advancement in our effort to win firearms freedom one lawsuit at a time.” (Read more from “D.C. Raises White Flag in 2nd Amendment Battle” HERE)

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California Now ‘Sanctuary State’

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California flexed its political muscle Thursday, beefing up protections for undocumented immigrants under a controversial law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that pushes back against President Trump’s policies.

Brown signed the bill to create a statewide sanctuary policy on the day Trump set as the deadline for immigrants aided by the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to request a two-year extension before the program is phased out. Brown also signed 10 other immigration-related bills that limit the growth of detention centers, expand education services for immigrants, and extend tenant and workplace protections for undocumented people.

Brown said the new laws will ensure “hardworking people who contribute to our state are respected.” (Read more from “California Now ‘Sanctuary State'” HERE)

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