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  • Dark Web Child Pornography Facilitator Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Advertise Child Pornography

    02/06/2020 3:57:03 PM PST · by ransomnote · 6 replies
    justice.gov ^ | February 6, 2020 | DOJ
      Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 6, 2020 Hosting Service Contained Over 8.5 Million Images of Child Exploitation Material A dual national citizen of the United States and Ireland pleaded guilty in federal court in Maryland to conspiracy to advertise child pornography.Eric Eoin Marques, 33, of Dublin, Ireland, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang to conspiracy to advertise child pornography.  In his plea agreement, Marques admitted that between July 24, 2008, and July 29, 2013, he conspired to advertise child pornography by operating an anonymous web hosting service (AHS). Marques was extradited to...
  • The 'Ultimate Feminist' Defending Harvey Weinstein

    02/06/2020 3:53:01 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    Insider ^ | Feb 5, 2020 | Michelle Mark
    Not long after the star witness in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified about a traumatizing sexual encounter with the Hollywood producer and another woman, defense attorney Donna Rotunno approached the lectern for her cross-examination. She presented the accuser, Jessica Mann, a 34-year-old hairstylist, with copies of an unpublished blog post that prosecutors recovered from her phone. "You told the jury the threesome was horrifying because it was something you didn't want to do," Rotunno said. "I would like you to read the note from your phone to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury." "Do I have to?" Mann asked,...
  • Rasmussen Poll: Plurality of Voters Say Trump Has Made America ‘Stronger’

    02/06/2020 3:51:41 PM PST · by Hojczyk · 10 replies
    Breitbart ^ | February 06, 2020 | DR. SUSAN BERRY
    A Rasmussen poll released Thursday finds American voters tend to say President Donald Trump has made America “stronger” and that they are more “optimistic about the nation’s future than they have been in years.” According to the survey results, 46 percent of likely U.S. voters think the nation has grown stronger since the president’s election in 2016, while 41 percent say Trump has made the country weaker. Additionally, 50 percent of those surveyed say America’s best days are in the future, a drop since April 2019’s record high of 54 percent, but, as Rasmussen notes, “still higher than it has...
  • Statement from the President (re elimination of al-Qa’ida leader Qasim al-Rimi in Yemen)

    02/06/2020 3:50:50 PM PST · by ransomnote · 10 replies
    whitehouse.gov ^ | February 6, 2020 | White House
     NATIONAL SECURITY & DEFENSE    Issued on: February 6, 2020   At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, the United States conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and a deputy to al-Qa’ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.  Rimi joined al-Qa’ida in the 1990s, working in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden.  Under Rimi, AQAP committed unconscionable violence against civilians in Yemen and sought to conduct and inspire numerous attacks against the United States and our forces.  His death further degrades AQAP and the global al-Qa’ida...
  • Brawl breaks out as Ukraine's lawmakers debate land reform

    02/06/2020 3:49:54 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 22 replies
    ABC News AP ^ | 02 06 2020 | Staff
    Ukraine's parliament is debating a proposed law to allow sales of the country's rich farmland, a high-tension issue that sparked a brawl among lawmakers Thursday. Proponents say that allowing sales of farmland that are currently outlawed would significantly boost Ukraine's struggling economy. Opponents argue the land could end up in the hands of businesses that would crush small farmers or of foreigners, including Russians. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who supports land sales, says the question of allowing foreign ownership should be put to a referendum. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the parliament building during the debate. Inside the chamber, supporters of...
  • Remarks by President Trump to the Nation (12:21 P.M. EST on February 6, 2020)

    02/06/2020 3:47:23 PM PST · by ransomnote · 3 replies
    whitehouse.gov ^ | February 6, 2020 | President Trump
    East Room 12:21 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Wow. (Applause.) Well, thank you very much, everybody. Wow. We’ve all been through a lot together, and we probably deserve that hand for all of us, because it’s been a very unfair situation. I invited some of our very good friends. And we have limited room, but everybody wanted to come. We kept it down to a minimum. And believe it or not, this is a minimum. But a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months, but really, if you...
  • Key witness told Team Mueller that Russia collusion evidence found in Ukraine was fabricated.

    02/06/2020 3:46:55 PM PST · by Hojczyk · 31 replies
    Just the News ^ | February 06, 2020 | By John Solomon
    Editors Note: Just The News officially launches later this month but we are offering you a sneak peek with this story of the sort of reporting we will be doing. One of Robert Mueller’s pivotal trial witnesses told the special prosecutor’s team in spring 2018 that a key piece of Russia collusion evidence found in Ukraine known as the “black ledger” was fabricated, according to interviews and testimony. The ledger document, which suddenly appeared in Kiev during the 2016 U.S. election, showed alleged cash payments from Russian-backed politicians in Ukraine to ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. “The ledger was completely...
  • Bishop approves closed-door wedding for daughter of infamous Mexican drug lord El Chapo

    02/06/2020 3:45:44 PM PST · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | February 6, 2020 | Martin M. Barillas
    Bishop approves closed-door wedding for daughter of infamous Mexican drug lord El Chapo MEXICO CITY, February 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The daughter of narco-terrorist Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán had a private wedding Mass behind closed doors at a Catholic cathedral in Mexico. According to Mexican daily La Reforma, Alejandrina Gisselle Guzmán Salazar, El Chapo’s eldest daughter by his first wife, was married in a lavish ceremony to Édgar Cázares at the cathedral in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on January 25 as relatives and fellow narcotics cartel members  looked on. The historic cathedral church in Culiacán was cordoned off with yellow tape,...
  • Op-Ed: A birth tourism crackdown is turning U.S. government agents into the pregnancy patrol

    02/06/2020 3:45:07 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 19 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | FEB. 6, 2020 | CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON
    As a consular officer, I issued hundreds of tourist visas to pregnant women traveling to the United States whose primary purpose was so-called birth tourism — gaining U.S. citizenship for their child by having their baby here.
  • Remarks by President Trump at the 68th Annual National Prayer Breakfast

    02/06/2020 3:44:10 PM PST · by ransomnote · 5 replies
    whitehouse.gov ^ | February 6, 2020 | President Trump
    Washington Hilton Washington, D.C. 9:11 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Well, thank you very much. I’m working very hard for you, I will tell you. (Laughter.) And sometimes you don’t make it easy, and I certainly don’t make it easy on you. (Laughter.) And I will continue that tradition, if I might, this morning. And, Arthur, I don’t know if I agree with you. (Laughter.) But I don’t know if Arthur is going to like what I’m going to say. (Laughter.) But I love listening to you. It’s really great. Thank you very much. And thank you, congressmen, for...
  • 30,000 Coronavirus cases now

    02/06/2020 3:43:41 PM PST · by cba123 · 52 replies
    Just noting, we pass yet another milestone.
  • Democrats kill GOP-backed resolution to rebuke Nancy Pelosi for ripping up SOTU speech

    02/06/2020 3:42:41 PM PST · by blueyon · 25 replies
    the blaze ^ | 02/06/20 | Nade Madden
    House Democrats voted Thursday to kill a Republican resolution that would have formally chastised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for tearing up a copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech Tuesday night. The measure was introduced by Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) Wednesday and formally disapproves of Pelosi's move to rip up the speech, saying that the speaker's actions were "a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of the joint session, to the discredit of the House." Since the resolution was introduced as privileged under House rules, Granger was able to force the chamber to consider it...
  • Remarks by Vice President Pence at the 68th Annual National Prayer Breakfast

    02/06/2020 3:42:32 PM PST · by ransomnote
    whitehouse.gov ^ | February 6, 2020 | VP Mike Pence
    Washington Hilton Washington, D.C. 7:35 A.M. EST THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you all for that warm welcome. And would you join me in thanking Congressman Robert Aderholt — (applause) — who has dedicated his career to serving the people of his great state, but also to this extraordinary bipartisan tradition? Congressman, it’s an honor to be with you early today. To leaders in faith and in public life who are gathered here today, to all our distinguished guests: Good morning. AUDIENCE: Good morning! THE VICE PRESIDENT: It’s an honor to be with all of you and with the President...
  • Corey Feldman: 'The Biggest Problem in Hollywood is Paedophilia'

    02/06/2020 3:36:02 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 44 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Thu 6 Feb 2020 | Hadley Freeman
    At first glance, Corey Feldman’s house looks ridiculous. A crooked Christmas wreath hangs on the front door, even though it is late January. Feldman’s assistant lets me into the two-storey home in the hills of Los Angeles, and when I walk into the living room I have to bite the insides of my cheeks to stop myself from gasping: hanging above the fireplace is a drawing of Feldman from his 80s teen glory years. The bookcases are packed with vintage toys, most still in their boxes, most from Feldman’s own movies: there’s Goonies merch, Gremlins memorabilia, The Lost Boys souvenirs....
  • Republicans That Broke Ranks and Voted to Acquit Bill Clinton - and what happened to them

    02/06/2020 3:32:49 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 30 replies
    John Chafee (RI) Article I: NG; Article II: NG - Died in October '99; succeeded by son Lincoln, who then became a Democrat Susan Collins (ME) Article I: NG; Article II: NG - Still in office Slade Gorton (WA) Article I: NG; Article II: G - Defeated by Maria Cantwell in 2000 Jim Jeffords (VT) Article I: NG; Article II: NG - Became an independent in 2001, chose not to run in 2006 - succeded by Bernie Sanders Richard Shelby (AL) Article I: NG; Article II: G - Still in office Olympia Snowe (ME) Article I: NG; Article II: NG...
  • Man Says He Burned $1M in Cash to Avoid Paying Ex-Wife Child Support

    02/06/2020 3:31:22 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    Fox5 ^ | February 6, 2020
    A Canadian businessman and failed mayoral candidate was thrown in jail for 30 days after telling a judge he burned 1 million Canadian dollars in cash -- in two separate bonfires -- to avoid paying his wife spousal and child support as part of their divorce settlement, according to a report published Tuesday. In an Ottawa Superior Court hearing last week, Bruce McConville, 55, told a judge he withdrew about 1 million Canadian dollars -- about $750,000 USD -- in 25 separate withdrawals from six separate bank accounts. He claimed he then burned the cash in two bonfires – $743,000...
  • Gary Sinise awarded Congressional Medal of Honor Society award for supporting veterans

    02/06/2020 3:26:23 PM PST · by mgstarr · 20 replies
    SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) -- A special honor has been awarded to a Hollywood hero. Gary Sinise, known to many as beloved "Lieutenant Dan" in the classic film "Forrest Gump," was given the Patriot Award at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. It's the highest honor given out by the organization, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In the years since Sinise made "Forrest Gump," he's spent his off-camera time raising money for veterans groups.
  • Hillary Clinton tells Ellen she’s ‘disappointed’ that more Senate Republicans aren’t like Mitt Romney

    02/06/2020 3:24:21 PM PST · by kevcol · 47 replies
    Twitchy ^ | February 6, 2020 | Doug P.
    As you know, Sen. Mitt Romney yesterday became the first senator in history to vote to remove a president of his own party from office, and he received plenty of Democrat and media praise for that. . . "I was still disappointed that not more of the Republicans were willing to take the stand that Mitt Romney took." Hillary Clinton responded to President Trump's acquittal following his impeachment hearings
  • Women of color quit Elizabeth Warren’s campaign in Nevada: report (tokenized, toxic work environment)

    02/06/2020 3:20:46 PM PST · by Libloather · 41 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/06/20 | Andrew O'Reilly
    Six staffers of color working in the early voting state of Nevada have reportedly left Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign amid complaints of feeling tokenized and having to deal with a toxic work environment. The staffers, all women, have all left Warren’s 70-person Nevada team since November, with three of them saying they felt marginalized and that their grievances were not addressed despite taking them to their superiors or to human resources staff, Politico reported Thursday. “During the time I was employed with Nevada for Warren, there was definitely something wrong with the culture,” Megan Lewis, a field organizer who joined...
  • Trump unleashes impeachment fury in acquittal 'celebration'

    02/06/2020 3:07:18 PM PST · by Freedom'sWorthIt · 64 replies
    WRAL.com and Associated Press ^ | 2/6/20 | JILL COLVIN, JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER
    WASHINGTON — Exulting in his impeachment acquittal, a defiant President Donald Trump took a scorched-earth victory lap Thursday, unleashing his fury against those who tried to remove him from office and pointing ahead to his reelection campaign. Triumphantly waving newspaper front pages that declared him “ACQUITTED," Trump denounced the impeachment proceedings as a “disgrace” and portrayed himself as a victim of political foes he labeled "scum," “sleaze bags” and “crooked" people. Hours earlier, he unleashed broadsides that stunned the crowd at an annual bipartisan prayer breakfast “It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops," Trump declared in a...