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Just when I thought I had been creeped out all I could for a week, along comes Alan Dershowitz again to make sure we remain sufficiently disgusted and extra creeped out.
Alan Dershowitz. Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images
Below is a recap of the past week or so in the life of Alan Dershowitz, the attorney and TV pundit who stands accused of having sex with two of billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged under age trafficking victims at his direction:
First, in an op-ed in Newsmaxon July 17, Dershowitz publicly condemns an imminent New Yorker “hit piece” about him and his connection to Epstein, claiming that it’s full of lies. A week and a half later, the piece comes out, with both of his accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Sarah Ransome, going on the record about their experiences with Dershowitz. The article also reveals that he has a history of smearing rape victims in the press, of strangely fixating on men accused of rape in his law school classes, and of arguing to lower the age of consent to 15.
In response, Dershowitz decides … to tweet more about that last topic. No we sh!t you not!!!
Dershowitz seems to have forgotten that he suggested in his 1997 op-ed unearthed by the New Yorker that the age of consent be lowered to 15, not 16. In fact, at the time, he wrote emphatically, “It certainly should not be as high as 17 or 16.”
Despite his decision to add a year to that original number, he apparently still thought it was a good time to double down on his views. As in the op-ed, he repeated a faulty analogy comparing statutory rape laws and the constitutional right to abortion, as if they contradict each other.
This is what we might call a prime example of the fallacy that one can successfully “post through it.” Consider this a PSA that a Twitter meltdown is never a good idea, especially if you’re being sued for defamation by multiple people.
“It would be a terrible thing to criminalize lies.”
At least ten bills are working their way through the California state legislature that would expand the state’s “red flag” law, according to the Los Angeles Times. The bills would, among other things, expand the list of people who could request gun confiscation orders and extend the duration of the orders from one to five years. We have truly entered dangerous waters. American states are one by one becoming little Communitarian / Bolshevik strongholds.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is ready and willing to sign whatever gun confiscation schemes the legislature cooks up.
The governor signaled his support at a press conference touting the new ammunition background check law set to take effect July 1. He said he hoped a number of legislative efforts “to expand the scope of the red flag laws” would get to his desk. “I expect they will be supported overwhelmingly upstairs,” he added, referring to the legislature.
Of the ten bills that would expand and/or modify the state’s red flag law, two have the most serious potential to affect California gun owners. AB-61, introduced by Assembly Members Philip Ting, Al Muratsuchi, and Eloise Gómez Reyez, would expand the list of people authorized to ask a judge for a gun confiscation order.
Under current state law, an immediate family member or a law enforcement officer can request a judge to confiscate a person’s firearms if there is a “substantial likelihood” that the person poses an immediate danger to self or others. AB-61 would further allow an employer or a coworker who has “substantial and regular interactions with the person and approval of their employer” to request the order. It would also permit an employee or teacher of a secondary or postsecondary school, with approval of the school administration staff, to request a student’s firearms be removed, provided the student has been attending the school for at least six months. This is reminiscent of the Soviet Union. In Bolshevik Russia the citizens were used as weapons of the state in a similar campaign as if you “see something say something” style. Citizens in Bolshevik Russia would also use the state as a weapon against people who they had issues with or did not like. They would use this process to get even. And the government did not mind this as it kept everyone divided, controlled and in fear of government. In other words misuse of the process still served government interests.
The second bill, AB-12, would expand the maximum length of a gun confiscation order from one year to five years. In determining the duration of the order, the court would consider how long a person is “likely to continue” to be a danger to self or others. The bill allows the person under the order to request every year that the order be lifted, but they must prove that there is “no longer clear and convincing evidence” that they present a danger.
Other bills affecting red flag laws would require police departments to standardize their gun confiscation procedures and allow gun owners to voluntarily surrender their firearms to a court.
News of the expanded red flag laws comes the same week that California gun owners will be required to pass a background check for ammunition purchases.
America - we have been trying to warn you. What we were told about what they would never do 15 years ago by gun control advocates they are not only doing, but going way beyond.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp agreed on Monday to pay about $25.3 million, including a criminal fine, to settle U.S. charges it made improper payments that were used to bribe government officials in Hungary and other countries. No one apparently gets jail time.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Microsoft Hungary will pay the $8.75 million criminal fine, as part of a three-year non-prosecution agreement in which it “admits, accepts and acknowledges” responsibility for employees’ misconduct.
Microsoft also agreed to pay nearly $16.6 million to settle related civil charges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its activities in Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey, without admitting wrongdoing.
Both settlements resolved charges that Microsoft violated the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, after the Redmond, Washington-based company failed to properly account for the improper payments in its records.
In an email to employees, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the settlements “involved employee misconduct that was completely unacceptable,” and said the “small number” of employees involved in Hungary were no longer with the company.
“There is no room for compromise when it comes to ethical business practices,” Smith said in the email’s subject line.
Prosecutors said the Hungarian scheme generated at least $14.6 million of improper profit for Microsoft between 2013 and 2015, in connection with the sale of software licenses to Hungarian government agencies.
Executives and employees at Microsoft Hungary, which is based in Budapest, were accused of falsely telling Microsoft that steep discounts were needed to complete the transactions.
Prosecutors said the savings should have gone to customers, but were instead used by intermediary resellers in part to pay bribes to government officials, with Microsoft recording the discounts as legitimate business expenses.
The SEC accord also resolved charges over improper travel and gifts to officials in Saudi Arabia and Thailand through “slush funds” maintained by third parties, and an unexplained discount on a transaction involving Microsoft’s Turkish unit.
“We will hold subsidiaries and, where appropriate, the parent corporations accountable wherever FCPA violations occur,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in Manhattan said in a statement.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Dan Grebler and Susan Thomas
While life is always going to throw us a curve ball, and crazy people are being made even crazier via an all out assault on everything and anything natural or normal, the one thing we all could do to assure that the least amount of casualties would occur from the result of an alleged crazy or bad person with a gun, is for all of us normal folks to be well regulated (with arms in food and well kept working order and sufficient and well cared for ammunition - arms kept in good and well maintained working order) and always vigilantly armed and ready, relaxed but prepared for whatever life throws your way.
You want to empower women? Arm them. There is no greater force equalizer and empowerment tool than arms.
You can’t be there to keep an eye on your elderly mom and dad? Arm them and when you do have time, take them to the range for practice. Even old folks with fuzzy memory recall can train for muscle memory.
You want to go to a festival where you know large groups of people will be? Arm yourself. If the festival or event does not allow it, DONT GO. Your life and well being are worth more than a concert.
Folks, police have no duty or obligation to protect you. The Supreme Court has ruled on this several times now. Any politician or good ole “law abiding citizen” who believe in the “serve and protect” propaganda are likely older and lived through times where the police were more like Andy Griffith and less like Universal Soldier. They likely have also never been the victim of a violent crime in which their life or bodily safety were threatened or damaged only to find out that the police are there after the most emergent of situations has already occurred.
I was walking down an urban street in NJ one night many years ago. Carrying a gun there was illegal and I obeyed the law. There was something else illegal there and then too. Armed robbery with a baseball bat and 3 thugs. But they didn’t care about the law as much as I did at the time. I was struck in the back, from behind as the other 2 blocked my forward motion. I went down, my spine was so swollen but thank God not broken, that to get help I had to drag myself down the sidewalk to an open store. I couldn’t move my legs and I thought I was paralyzed for life. That injury now in conjunction with Lyme Disease has me just about crippled. I am in intense pain every day of my life, and I only had about 40 bucks on me. And the truth is with those odds 3 against 1 and one with a deadly weapon, I would have handed over the money. My life and health was worth more than 40 dollars to me. But I was robbed of my health and also sentenced to a life time of torture via the pain.
I blame politicians even more than the perpetrators. The guys who robbed me, even though they are lowlife scumbags, would have had no power over me, and no ability to harm or to rob me if it hadn’t been for politicians intentionally and directly interfering with my God given right to protect myself. People who are surrounded by armed guards and affluence, who only see the bad city streets through the windows of their limos when they campaign, are the ones who are responsible for a life time of misery and pain. Please don’t let them do to you what they did to me.
Stand up for your rights. Become active. And for Gods sake forget the sellouts at the NRA and get behind
Israel’s Innovation Authority released its from start-up to smart-up nation report on technology and AI, including challenges.
(From January 2019). And Microsoft, since engineer Satya Nadella became CEO, has shifted towards the cloud, AI and new industries/technologies – Azure is a big driver of the business and initiatives such as the partnership with Blackrock around retirement are opening doors to new industries.
Lastly, we discussed how Israel’s famous Unit 8200 has been responsible for a number of the most innovative and advanced startups for AI and technology, with high profile examples like NSO making front page news.Let’s combine them all. Back in 2002, Microsoft hired Shelly Landsmann as Defense Sector Manager for Microsoft in Israel when she graduated Bar-Ilan University/Technion. Fast forward a decade plus and she becomes General Manager for Microsoft in Israel after acquiring startup Adallom. Adallom was founded by three young intelligence officers within the Israeli Intelligence Corp/Unit 8200after their Technion studies. They started the company out of the military in 2012 and sold it for around $320 million in the summer of 2015. Assaf Rappaport is now the GM for Microsoft R&D, and Ami Luttwak is the CTO for the unit. Great coup for these young engineers, including access to Azure’s and Microsoft’s resources, and part of Microsoft’s strategy to buy cybersecurity companies to create their own security tools. In 2016 they renamed the company Microsoft App Cloud Security. In more than one ways this is a blueprint: for young startups to get a big check and plug into larger organizations resources; for large firms to acquire unique tech and talent; and for industries to transcend their old ways.
Microsoft CEO Nadella has been betting the company on AI, as have Amazon, Google, Facebook, AQR, JP Morgan, RenTech, IBM, and others.
(RTR TRUTH MEDIA) — An Ultra Orthodox Talmudic Jewish woman has been tapped to head the National Security Agency’s new Cybersecurity Directorate.
Anne Neuberger of Baltimore has worked at the NSA for the past decade. She helped establish the U.S. Cyber Command and worked as chief risk officer, where she led the agency’s election security efforts for the 2018 midterms. She currently is an assistant deputy director the agency.
She previously was the deputy chief management officer at the U.S. Navy and worked for the secretary of defense.
Neuberger, 43, also known as Chani, is from the heavily Jewish Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Borough Park, where she attended the Bais Yaakov Jewish day school for girls, according to the Yeshiva World News. She is a graduate of Touro College in New York and Columbia business school, and worked in the White House Fellows program.
I for one am obviously concerned with this appointment, not because I do not believe Neuberger is capable, or lacks the capacity to handle the post, but due to obvious reasons to those who are intimately familiar with the Zionist movement and the tenets of the movement. It was Theodore Herzl essentially the equivalent to the Israeli State as George Washington is to America, who said that it was “pointless for a Zionist to be a Patriot in their host nation” as the entire basis for the World Zionist Movement was Israel first, Israel right or wrong as Miss Shaloni the former education minister said on “Democracy Now”. She also said that the labeling of those who criticize Israel or any of these facts with the term or slander of name calling someone as “antiSemitic” as a trick that they use to silence said criticism.
It has not just been one lone voice that has made this truth known. Victor Osteovsky, a former Mossad agent also made this tactic known clearly and truthfully. I have a lot of respect for especially Jews who have or who still hold positions within the state or their community who come forward with honesty and integrity.
And I know that people are not used to people calling these issues into question. Matters of “dual loyalty” and the ideological beliefs of those of not only the Ultra Orthodox Talmudic Jewish faith, but of political Zionism which is the fundamental religiously based belief that the Jews are God’s chosen people and that he promised them the land and or real estate of Israel, the boundaries of which are often described by the Yinon plan or known as “the Greater Israel Project”. As a student of comparative religion I do find some validity or original Biblical basis to this belief system, at least as it was prior to the Biblical period known as the period that Israel broke from the covenant of God, disobeyed God and therefore was punished to be dispersed among the nations until such time as the Mosiach returns and the Messianic Era begins. The reason I bring this up is that since 1948 many Jewish Bolsheviks were relocated to Palestine at at that time through a British Mandate which some, in fact many say had no authority to grant Palestine to these emigres 80% of which between 1946-48 were from the Black Seaports in Russia, and to displace the population that was already living there for many generations.
The reason I bring this up is that this foreign belief system to the American founding that was a Constitutional and predominantly Christian nation in belief, and a Christian Republic by legal framework, and the traditional understanding of Talmudic Judaism was that it was and is an anti-Christian faith. This is according to many sources within the Talmud but also in Law 1 of the Noahide Laws which state that Isolotry is forbidden. The punishment for this is death by decapitation once the Messianic Era begins according to some Ultra Orthodox Rabbis. Please be advised that far from all Jews know about this. Many who would likely still stand with their religious leaders but whom are either non observant or moderately so when I have shared this information with them, they appeared genuinely shocked. But I consider them similar to many Catholics who are so culturally, but whom are not really religious or practicing. I do believe that the majority of Orthodox Rabbinical Talmudic Rabbis absolutely know these things. And as we see they are always stepping up the pressure on people like Netanyahu for him to “take action” and do all he can to pave the way so that the Mosiach will return.
Netanyahu is urged to take more action:
I would like to think that everyone who is an American citizen would put the best interest of America first, and that they would never violate the tenets of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, but as of right now there are American politicians with absolutely no foreign entangling allegiance known to me who are actively and openly in direct contradiction with these tenets they swore to preserve protect and defend. I’ve listened to their attempt at articulating their rationale’ in their excuse for doing so. Some have said, “it is my constituents who have elected me and therefore my responsibility to see their will honored. The problem with that explanation though is that their 1st obligation is to the Constitution / Bill of Rights, and then to their constituents and only if what their people seek comports with it. I can only hope that Ms. Neuberger understands this moral responsibility and can put her Zionist loyalties as well as the Talmudic teachings that clearly state that all non-Jews are not equal to God’s chosen people. This is a religious ideological supremacism that in no way can be held while serving in any capacity in American government.
As for her history working for the US Government all I know is what we recently have been told and that she is extremely capable of her assignment.
Neuberger told The Wall Street Journal that the directorate will more actively use signals intelligence gleaned from expanded operations against adversaries. As part of its mission, the directorate will work to protect the U.S. from foreign threats by sharing insight into specific cyber threats with other federal agencies as well as the private sector.
I would be curious to know what if any involvement, training, association with, or former joint assignments Neuberger has had with Unit 8200 or the Talpiot program. Israeli cyber security according to Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly dominating the world market and the American tech companies, such as Amazon and Microsoft, as well as Facebook which has long been suspected of being one of the most massive intelligence and data gathering operations the world has ever seen mass spread across the globe, and they are all opening locations in Israel if they have not already.
Neuberger will be one of the highest-ranking women at the NSA since Ann Caracristi was named deputy director in 1980, according to the newspaper. Neuberger will report to the agency’s head, Gen. Paul Nakasone.
The story "Orthodox Jewish Woman To Head NSA’s Cybersecurity Dept" used in part here was written by Marcy Oster. This article was written by the Staff of RTR Truth Media
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