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>Facebook and Instagram Remove Pro-Iran Content in Effort to Comply with Trump Sanctions
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tech/instagram-iran-soleimani-posts/index.html
Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani to comply with US sanctions, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to CNN Business Friday.

The Iranian government has called for nationwide legal action against Instagram in protest, even creating a portal on a government website for the app’s users to submit examples of posts the company removed, Iranian state media reported.

Instagram is one of the few western social media platforms that is not blocked in Iran. Facebook and Twitter are blocked but some Iranians access those sites using VPNs.

In a tweet, Iran’s government spokesperson, Ali Rabiei, called Instagram’s actions “undemocratic.”

Instagram shut down Soleimani’s own account on the platform last April after the US government designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization. Soleimani was an IRGC commander.

“We operate under US sanctions laws, including those related to the US government’s designation of the IRGC and its leadership,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.

Iranian soccer player Alireza Jahanbakhsh, who has a verified Instagram account, posted a photo of Soleimani after his death. Jahanbakhsh said Instagram had removed that post.

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This is the 6th consecutive time that the Democrats have debated and nobody bothered to make a thread about it. I guess nobody cares because everyone knows its rigged.
Did anyone see that massive ovation Trump got at the college football game last night?
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/01/14/rigged-critics-cry-foul-as-cnn-debate-slants-against-bernie-sanders/
>‘Rigged’: Critics Cry Foul as CNN Debate Slants Against Bernie Sanders
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are infuriated by the results of the seventh Democrat presidential debate in Iowa because it appears that moderators favored Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the debate hosted by CNN on Tuesday.

The clearest example of bias cited by debate watchers was when CNN moderator Abby Phillips had the following exchange with Sanders and Warren:

>Phillips: You’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman couldn’t win the election?

>Bernie: Correct.

>Phillips: Warren, what did you think when Sanders said a woman couldn’t win the election?

>Warren: I disagreed. Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-08/the-catholic-church-s-strategy-to-limit-payouts-to-abuse-victims

Dioceses are aggressively moving and reclassifying holdings to shrink the value of their bankruptcy estates.

More dioceses are filing for bankruptcy now that rules are changing about how much time a victim has to sue over abuse. Seven states and the District of Columbia passed laws in 2019 that suspend the statute of limitations on civil sex abuse suits, and at least three other states are considering them.

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In many cases, churches precede bankruptcy by transferring and reclassifying assets. The effect is to shrink the pot of money available to clergy abuse victims. That and Chapter 11’s universal settlements and protections from further claims have been an effective one-two punch for limiting payouts. A Bloomberg Businessweek review of court filings by lawyers for churches and victims in the past 15 years shows that the U.S. Catholic Church has shielded more than $2 billion in assets from abuse victims in bankruptcies using these methods. “The survivors should have gotten that money, and they didn’t,” says Terry McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org. “The Catholic Church has behaved like a business. It hasn’t behaved like a religion that lives by the rules it espouses.”


COUNTDOWN TO POPE FRANCIS CONDEMNING THE GAYS IN THREE >>> TWO >>>

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'Teacher of the Year' kneels during anthem at college football championship attended by Trump
>The martyr Kelly Holstine said she did so "to stand up for marginalized" people.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/teacher-year-kneels-anthem-college-football-championship-attended/story?id=68326303
During a ceremony honoring the 2019 "Teachers of the Year," one in particular stood out.

The honoree from Minnesota, Kelly Holstine, chose to kneel during the national anthem at the NCAA football championship game on Monday, where the ceremony took place, "to stand up for marginalized and oppressed people," according to a tweet she wrote, which included a photograph of her kneeling.

"Like many before, I respectfully kneeled during Nat’l Anthem because, 'No one is free until we are all free,'" she wrote, referencing former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and citing a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kaepernick protested police brutality against black Americans by kneeling in 2016.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were also in attendance for Monday night's game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.

Holstine, an English and language arts teacher at Tokata Learning Center in Shakopee, has been outspoken about her activism before.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-opens-investigation-into-purported-monitoring-of-former-amb-marie-yovanovitch/

immigration (pushed by crazy jews) of Muslims into gay/jew infested EU causes shift to square knives to keep everyone from killing each other
https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/uk-company-to-sell-knives-with-square-tips-after-sharp-rise-in-knife-crime/

Meghan Markle: Megxit reveals truth about royal family’s money https://www.rctopnews.net/en/news/meghan-markle-megxit-reveals-truth-about
‘Quite improper’: ‘Murky’ royal truth Meghan and Harry accidentally revealed ...

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Gemma Watts, 21, from Enfield, north London, duped her victims into thinking she was a 16-year-old boy called Jake Waton, sent intimate pictures and even spent time with some of the girls' parents. Disguised with her long hair tied into a bun and wearing a baseball cap, baggy jogging bottoms and a hoodie, Watts convinced them she was a boy.

All of Watts' victims believed they were in a relationship with a teenage boy until police revealed she was in fact an adult woman. Watts, who once had a promising football career, is facing jail after pleading guilty to seven sexual assault and grooming charges. The offences relate to four girls, including a 14-year-old from Hampshire and three 15-year-olds from Surrey, Plymouth and the West Midlands. Police fear there may be up to 50 victims.
http://archive.is/VWA2f

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SEATTLE — The advertisement that grabbed Thom Kroon's attention marketed a no-longer-used fire station as a "unique residential dwelling.”

So Kroon purchased the property from the City of Seattle in a 2012 auction.

Kroon told KIRO 7 he “thought we had essentially bought a residential property” for $712,000.
The Seattle man then spent thousands of dollars on interior remodeling, and for more than three years, his extended family and friends used the firehouse for holidays, celebrations, charity fundraisers, graduation parties and as an office until a Land Use Notice of Violation arrived in July of 2016.

According to the City of Seattle's violation letter, a "complaint about this property" had been received. A Housing and Zoning Inspector "investigated" and found "violations of the Seattle Land Use Code."

Kroon was ordered to "discontinue all unauthorized uses including but not limited to office and residence" because "the legally established use of the property is as a public facility (fire station.)"

“I thought it was sort of a joke when they said it’s still a fire station,” Kroon recently told KIRO 7. “I said, ‘Should I buy a truck?’ I mean seriously, this is just crazy! You sell a residential property and then you tell me it’s still a fire station?”

According to a civil lawsuit Kroon recently filed in King County Superior Court, the 2016 letter was "the first time the City had notified... the Kroon family that Fire Station 38 was not - as the City had represented - a residential dwelling."


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The Ukrainian club of the First League Agribusiness ceased cooperation with striker Igor Sikorsky because of the player’s trip to Russia, which is confirmed by his Instagram photo.

"It’s a pity, but today football is politics. When the war and the front line bring the seriously wounded and killed, Heroes are buried almost every day in different parts of Ukraine, the Ukrainian football community cannot stand aside, as if it doesn’t concern her," reads the club’s statement.

https://korrespondent.net/sport/football/4183579-ukraynskyi-klub-rastorh-kontrakt-s-yhrokom-sezdyvshym-v-otpusk-v-rossyui

https://www.newsweek.com/devin-nunes-remembers-talking-lev-parnas-1482480

Devin Nunes has said he now remembers a phone call he had with Rudy Giuliani and his indicted associate Lev Parnas, a month after the House Intelligence Committee released call logs involving the trio.

The California Rep. told Fox News on Wednesday night that he "just didn't know the name" when the data was first released, noting that his office was "dealing with people every day."

He also recalled going back to check where he was when the phone call took place, describing the conversation as "very odd" and "random."

When he appeared on Fox News after the House Intelligence Committee released his personal call logs in early December, Nunes said his team had "not been able to confirm" whether he spoke with Parnas.

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BIDEN LEADS IN FIRST FOUR PRIMARY STATES
BIDEN IN CHARGE AND INEVITABLE
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/iowa/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/new-hampshire/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/nevada/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/south-carolina/
YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH THE NUMBERS

A Vietnamese man described by the authorities in Europe as a major people smuggler is behind bars after he was arrested in the United Kingdom.

Khanh Chan, 39, also known by the name of Khanh Ngoc Nguyen, was part of an international trafficking network, actively smuggling people from Vietnam to Europe between 2015 and 2017.

In September last year, Khanh was jailed for eight years in his absence by a court in Paris after he was convicted of people smuggling.

He was initially thought to be hiding in London, but investigators from the National Crime Agency (NCA) working with the French authorities tracked him down to an address in Bexhill-on-Sea on the south coast of England.

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https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/01/17/vietnamese-human-trafficker-arrested-in-uk

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NRA Handing Out 30-Round Mags in VA to Fight Northam Gun Ban
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/12/nra-30-round-mags-va-fight-against-northam-gun-ban/
The NRA will be handing out 1,000 30-round magazines in the Virginia Capitol City of Richmond Monday as part of the fight against Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) gun grab.

The NRA used a Sunday night tweet to explain that Magpul Industries — a renowned magazine and firearm accessory maker — sent 1,000 magazines to the gun rights organization in order to have them given out to pro-Second Amendment Virginians on Monday.
Monday is January 13, the day on which the NRA has asked its members to flood into Virginia Senate meetings and ensure that pro-Second Amendment voices drown out those calling for gun control.

Democrats in the Virginia legislature have already put forward a number of bills, one of which is Delegate Mark Levine’s (D) HB 961.

Levine’s bill bans “assault weapons,” “high-capacity” magazines, certain triggers, and suppressors, among other things. The bill puts forward a means by which “assault weapon” owners can apply for a license to retain their gun, but the trade-off is that their names are entered into a database.

Owners of “high-capacity” magazines, certain triggers, and suppressors, will have a grace period to get rid of the accessories/devices, after which they will face felony charges for possessing them. Also LMAO@all the fags who are going to get angry at seeing moar epic breitbart on their 4chan

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https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/477464-google-ordered-to-turn-over-jussie-smolletts-emails-to-special
Google has been ordered to turn over actor Jussie Smollett’s emails and other private information to a special prosecutor investigating the allegedly staged attack reported by the “Empire” actor last year, The Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.

A Cook County judge on Dec. 6 signed off on two warrants ordering Google to supply the information, according to a copy of the warrants obtained by the Tribune.

Investigators’ reportedly sought Smollett’s emails, photos, location data and private messages from November 2018 to November 2019.

The warrants are part of the investigation of special prosecutor Dan Webb, who was appointed to the case in August the State Attorney's office dropped charges against Smollett for allegedly filing a false report claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack at the end of January 2019.

It’s not clear if Google has handed over the data on Smollett and his manager, according to the Tribune. A spokesperson for the company told the newspaper he could not comment on specific requests for records from law enforcement.

A Google spokesperson was not immediately available for comment when contacted by The Hill Wednesday night.

Smollett had told Chicago police last year that he was assaulted by two men that he alleged beat him, placed a rope around his neck and poured unknown chemical substances on him as they yelled racial and homophobic slurs.


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