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2018-09-18 15:21:20 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Agencies scramble to prep Russia probe files for release after sweeping Trump order**
*FOX News* - <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/18/agencies-scramble-to-prep-russia-probe-files-for-release-after-sweeping-trump-order.html>

Trump ordered declassified involve a renewed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against former campaign aide Carter Page and text messages from disgraced former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

Republicans on Capitol Hill, including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., are touting the president’s order, saying it covers “pretty much everything that he wanted…and the text messages are a bonus,” a source said of Nunes.

The president also ordered the release of unredacted text messages from fired FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, former FBI counsel Lisa Page, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

2018-09-18 20:13:42 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Project Veritas Releases 'Deep State Unmasked' Video: 'Resist Everything. Every Level. F*** S*** Up'**
*Daily Wire* - <http://archive.fo/ICKYR>

James O'Keefe's Project Veritas has released their first dose of undercover footage allegedly revealing the shadowy actors of the "deep state." In Tuesday's footage, an employee of the State Department and a member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) admits to working on DSA work while on the clock and makes it clear that his goal is to "resist everything" at "every level."

State Department employee Stuart Karaffa tells undercover Project Veritas reporters that he drafts communication for his DSA activism on the taxpayers' dime, though he's careful not to leave a "paper trail."

"I'm careful about it," he says in the footage. "I don’t leave a paper trail, like I leave emails, and like any press s*** that comes up I leave that until after 5:30. But as soon as 5:31 hits, got my, like, draft messages ready to send out."

Karaffa also boasts about assisting the DSA by monitoring Virginia campaign finance and election news while on the clock.

"You could put two and two together probably," says the State Department employee. "So with web traffic, I mean I could make the case before a court of law that — I’m going to the Virginia sort of, campaign finance website — that I’m just interested in what people are doing politically. But if they also go and look at like DSA minutes and like Officer positions they’ll be like, 'That’s weird, you were the co-chair of the electoral caucus, and you spent three hours on a Virginia campaign finance website.'"

"Maybe someday I’ll go to board of elections jail, probably not," Karaffa scoffs. It's unlikely, he explains, because of the weak oversight and strong protection for firing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLuqQe8DqQ
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2018-09-20 17:41:56 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Brett Kavanaugh Accuser’s Classmate Retracts Claim ‘Incident Did Happen’**
*Breitbart* <https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/20/brett-kavanaugh-accusers-classmate-retracts-claim-incident-did-happen/>

She had no idea that she'd have to go into specifics and defend allegations, then have face plastered all over MSNBC & Twitter.

2018-09-21 02:22:19 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Justice Dept. examining whether employee violated ethics rules**
*The Washington Post* - <https://archive.fo/4fiEv>

Justice Department officials said Wednesday that they are examining claims in a surreptitiously recorded video that a junior agency employee may have used government resources to help further her political protest activities.

Allison Hrabar, a paralegal in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, was recorded during her participation in Democratic Socialists of America activities, in which she discussed her efforts to find the home addresses of a target of one of the group’s protests.

The recordings were made by Project Veritas, an activist group led by James O’Keefe that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets. The group released a video Wednesday that included clips of Hrabar talking about her activities for DSA. The video also featured a former Department of Health and Human Services worker saying that she sometimes received advance word of policy decisions being made by the Trump administration.

In June, Hrabar participated in a protest against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as she ate at a D.C. restaurant. Months earlier, Hrabar was part of a protest at the home of a lobbyist for a private prison company.

Another snippet in the video shows her saying: “What’s kind of lucky is at the DOJ, we can’t really get fired.”

Federal employees can be fired, though the process is often difficult and drawn out.

If Hrabar used government access to research data­bases to inform her protest activities, that would be a violation of federal law prohibiting federal employees from using government resources to engage in political advocacy.
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2018-09-21 02:41:00 UTC  

‼ ⚠ **Captain Kirk JT revealed to be a homosexual from scientific measurements**


The owner of famous alt- right white supremacist 4Chan hate server Outer Heaven has been recently unveiled to be a homosexual according to scientifc research by a joint research team of Harvard and MIT graduates.

According to a report by the scientists, Captain Kirk JT holds the current record for having the highest nlgga and gay levels in all of humanity. While surveying gay levels of the U.S. population, the researchers observed extremely high homosexuality levels eminating from the cellar of an East Los Angelos Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The owner of the KFC in question seemingly had no idea Kirk was living on site, as they had never gone into the cellar except for one time in 2007 when a customer was reportedly robbed, murdered, and raped in that order by Tyrone Niggeus Watermelon III Jr.

After the many years of Kirk radiating homosexuality from the cellar, the chicken used in KFC was infected with gay- which the team of researchers link to a record high estrogen level increase in men living in California, particularly African Americans.

Captain Kirk JT has been removed from the premises and will be kept in a maximum security lead-lined cell. Further tests will be conducted in Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and even parts of Utah and Idaho to confirm whether Captain Kirk's homosexuality has spread to any surrounding states,
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2018-09-21 11:27:41 UTC  

🇮🇱 **America 'One Of 45 Countries' Infected By Uber-Powerful Israeli Smartphone Spyware**
🇺🇸 *Forbes* - <https://archive.is/UBlm6>

Some of the world’s most sophisticated Android and iPhone spyware has been found floating around America for the first time. It's one of as many as 45 countries in which NSO Group malware was uncovered. And together they may represent breaches of American and other nations' computer crime laws against cross-border hacking, not to mention a severe concern for citizens’ privacy, according to the researchers who uncovered the professional spy software.

The malware of concern, dubbed Pegasus, is the creation of NSO Group, an Israeli company valued at close to $1 billion. It can hide on Apple or Google devices, spying via the camera, listening in on conversations through the microphone, stealing documents and siphoning off once-private messages, amongst other surreptitious activities.

Now it seems infections of NSO’s Pegasus tool have metastasized across more nations than previously believed. In a report released Tuesday, researchers from Citizen Lab, based out of the University of Toronto, claimed Pegasus had spread its wings in as many as 45 countries. Previously, Citizen Lab told Forbes it had evidence of as many as 174 individual infections across Android and iOS phones.
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2018-09-21 13:08:22 UTC  

@amsalem did you do this

2018-09-21 17:23:29 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Republicans Reclaim Seat Not Held in 139 Years**
*FOXNEWS* - <http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/21/newt-gingrich-texas-offers-blueprint-for-red-wave-election-in-november.html>

Blue wave in November? More like red tidal wave.

"You may not have read about this GOP victory, because the liberal national media is not exactly excited to report that Republicans reclaimed a seat they had not held in 139 years."

"…this victory is even more frightening because the district is 73 percent African-American and Hispanic."

2018-09-22 05:21:22 UTC  

🇹🇼 **3-D printed gun crusader Cody Wilson arrested in Taiwan on sexual assault charge**
🇺🇸 *LA Times* - <https://archive.fo/ZlFpv>

Taiwan authorities have arrested and jailed the owner of a Texas company that sells blueprints for untraceable 3D-printed guns and who is wanted on suspicion of sex with a minor, a National Immigration Agency spokesman said.

The agency said it arrested Cody R. Wilson on Friday at a Taipei hotel after the U.S. government voided his passport.

Taiwan immigration officials now are “negotiating” with the de facto American embassy in Taipei on how to proceed on deporting Wilson to the United States, a spokesman for the agency said.

Because Wilson’s passport is now invalid, he has no “legal basis” to stay in Taiwan under local laws, the agency said in a statement.

Washington and Taipei do not have an extradition treaty that would facilitate a deportation, but the two governments do cooperate on security issues and U.S. relations with Taiwan have improved under President Trump.

“Our agency will coordinate with the American Institute in Taiwan (de facto embassy) to arrange for the travel documents to be issued as soon as possible and arrange for his return to his country as soon as possible in an appropriate manner,” the statement said.

It’s unclear why Wilson came to Taiwan.
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2018-09-23 14:26:21 UTC  

🇺🇸 **White House Drafts Antitrust Order to Investigate Google and Facebook's Business Practices**
*Time/Bloomberg* - <https://archive.fo/XLNlQ>

The White House has drafted an executive order for President Donald Trump’s signature that would instruct federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to open investigations into the business practices of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and other social media companies.

The order is in its preliminary stages and hasn’t yet been run past other government agencies, according to a White House official. Bloomberg News obtained a draft of the order.

The document instructs U.S. antitrust authorities to “thoroughly investigate whether any online platform has acted in violation of the antitrust laws.” It instructs other government agencies to recommend within a month after it’s signed actions that could potentially “protect competition among online platforms and address online platform bias.”

The document doesn’t name any specific companies. If signed, the order would represent a significant escalation of Trump’s antipathy toward Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies, whom he has publicly accused of silencing conservative voices and news sources online.
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2018-09-23 15:52:10 UTC  

Good

2018-09-24 02:22:34 UTC  

🇺🇸 **New Yorker: Brett Kavanaugh Exposed Himself at Freshman Party; Kavanaugh Denies**
*Breitbart* - <https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/23/new-yorker-brett-kavanaugh-exposed-himself-at-freshman-party-kavanaugh-denies/>

The New Yorker reported a new accusation Sunday evening against Judge Brett Kavanaugh: that as a college freshman at Yale University, a drunken Kavanaugh “exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party,” and that when she tried to push him away in her drunken condition she accidently touched his penis.

2018-09-24 02:43:25 UTC  

<:trump:284711336934375425>

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/302132944380624906/493613397687140352/22cc2b495943eba5dbeae44d4123f3cf2a2c6a410ee5ccf0f8a7b22ba98c3816.png

2018-09-24 04:06:19 UTC  

Legend says they come in pairs

2018-09-24 04:56:45 UTC  

everyone said this was coing

2018-09-24 04:56:46 UTC  

lmao

2018-09-24 07:11:11 UTC  

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 **Iran warns U.S, Israel to expect a 'devastating' revenge: state TV**
*Reuters* - <https://archive.fo/JIfxU>

The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned U.S. and Israeli leaders on Monday to expect a “devastating” response from Iran, accusing them of involvement in Saturday’s attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz that killed 25 people.

“You have seen our revenge before ... You will see that our response will be crushing and devastating and you will regret what you have done,” Hossein Salami said in a speech before the funeral of the victims in Ahvaz, broadcast live on the state television.
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2018-09-24 15:01:47 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Rosenstein Resigning?**
*Axios* - <https://www.axios.com/rod-rosenstein-resign-justice-department-trump-cf761f4c-fca3-4794-92d4-a56c9e32ff43.html>

Rosenstein resigning or on his way to be fired this Monday morning, mixed reports.
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2018-09-24 17:35:11 UTC  

^false reports,it was a regularly schedualed meeting between him and the chef of staff.

2018-09-24 20:23:20 UTC  

YUP, we been bamboozled, the media jumped the gun, fgts in the media reporting different variations too of him resigning or fired, was a total shit show and then some.

2018-09-24 23:38:08 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Axios Issues Critical "Clarification" To Rosenstein Resignation Report**
*Zero Hedge/Axios* - <https://archive.fo/AOPo6>

Jonathan Swan, the Axios reporter who initially broke the news this morning that Rod Rosenstein had "verbally resigned" and subsequently triggered a drop in the Dow that erased billions of dollars in value, has issued an important "clarification" that - as fate would have it - changes the story from a major news-cycle-dominating revelation to a barely noteworthy tidbit.

After sparring with Vanity Fair reporter Gabriel Sherman, who suggested that Swan "got played" by a White House insider looking to distract from the second Kavanaugh revelation, Swan has admitted that the phrasing of his initial report was a little off. Instead of reporting that Rosenstein had "verbally resigned", Swan said he meant to say that Rosenstein had verbally offered his resignation to Chief of Staff John Kelly.

```Note for readers: I regret the way I wrote this morning's version of the story. By saying Rosenstein had "verbally resigned" to Kelly rather than "offered his resignation," I conveyed a certainty that this fluid situation didn’t deserve. It’s an important nuance, and I regret the wording.```

Speaking to reporters at the United Nations, President Trump finally commented on the political event du jour, saying he's looking forward to meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday to discuss his future and "determining what's going on", after Axios reported earlier that Rosenstein told Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly that he was resigning.

"We’ll be determining what’s going on,” Trump told reporters at the United Nations on Monday. “We want to have transparency, we want to have openness and I’m looking forward to meeting with Rod at that time."
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2018-09-25 02:22:04 UTC  

🇮🇱 **In a blow to Israel, Russia says it will send Syria powerful antiaircraft missiles**
🇸🇾 🇷🇺 *The Washington Post* - <https://archive.fo/6Whnd>

Russia said Monday it would equip Syria with sophisticated air defense systems, a move that could worsen a rift with Israel by limiting its ability to bomb across its northern border.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow would send Russia’s powerful S-300 ground-to-air missile systems to Syria, a longtime ally, in the next two weeks. Israel, which has repeatedly bombed Iranian targets in Syria, has long opposed such deliveries, and Russia up to now has refrained from supplying the weapons.

But the downing last week of a Russian reconnaissance plane with 15 service members aboard changed the dynamic. The plane was shot down by a Syrian missile, but Russia faulted Israel for the crash because an Israeli fighter jet allegedly had used the Russian plane as a screen against Syria’s air defenses.

Israel, by contrast, said that its air force had not violated any agreements with Russia and that Israeli jets had already returned to Israeli airspace when the missiles were launched. The crash was one of the deadliest incidents for regular Russian service members in the Syrian war.

“Today, the situation has changed, for no fault of ours,” Shoigu said in a televised statement Monday announcing the S-300 deliveries.

Shoigu said Russia also will jam military aircraft communications in the airspace next to Syria over the Mediterranean Sea while upgrading Syria’s air defense command systems.
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2018-09-25 06:04:28 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Ted Cruz And Wife Chased Out Of DC Restaurant By Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters**
*ZeroHedge/Gateway Pundit* - <https://archive.fo/O5Z2R>

Senator Ted Cruz, a supporter of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, was verbally assaulted by a group of protesters at a DC restaurant Monday night while trying to dine with his wife, as seen in a video posted by twitter account Smash Racism DC.

The protesters, chanting "we believe survivors," blocked Cruz's wife from exiting the restaurant at one point, prompting the Texas Senator to ask them to "let my wife through."

In another clip, a woman claiming to be a survivor of sexual assault approached Cruz and his wife accompanied by her backup chanters, asking to discuss Brett Kavanaugh, "I know that you're very close friends with Mr. Kavanaugh. Do you believe survivors sir? We believe survivors. Senator, I have a right to know what your position is on Brett Kavanaugh. I'm a survivor of sexual assault. There are now three people that have come forward and said that Brett Kavanaugh attacked them. Have you talked to him about that?"

https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1044408931169300481
https://twitter.com/SmashRacismDC/status/1044408830564683776
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2018-09-25 07:23:36 UTC  

i cant wait till hes on the bench

2018-09-25 10:35:32 UTC  

*bhash thuh fash!!11!111!!*

2018-09-25 11:25:59 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Third Kavanaugh accuser, a former US Mint employee, '100 percent credible,' Avenatti says**
*USA Today* - <https://archive.fo/LR3fB>

A third woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct will come forward in the next 48 hours, according to Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film star and alleged President Donald Trump mistress Stormy Daniels.

Following a Monday hearing over Daniels’ lawsuit against Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen over a hush-money deal, Avenatti told reporters he has been hired by a former employee of both the State Department and the U.S. Mint who has information of a sexual nature about Kavanaugh and his high school friend Mark Judge.

“It will relate to how they behaved at countless house parties,’’ Avenatti said.

Avenatti also told reporters the woman, whom he did not name, has multiple security clearances and will “literally risk her life’’ by coming forward. He called her “100 percent credible,’’ saying she has multiple witnesses to corroborate her story and would be willing to take a polygraph if Kavanaugh does as well.

Avenatti didn't disclose how his client met Kavanaugh and Judge or reveal details on the timing of the alleged misconduct.
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2018-09-25 15:59:27 UTC  

*I'll bring out thousands of whores, got thousands of them baby, I'll bring them all out!* - Avenatti

2018-09-25 16:04:06 UTC  

<:gayfrogs:319792618576019466> **FOUNDER OF GROUP THAT HARASSED TED CRUZ TWEETED ABOUT DEAD COPS, ASSASSINATING MIKE PENCE**
*Info Wars* - <https://www.infowars.com/founder-of-group-that-harassed-ted-cruz-tweeted-about-dead-cops-assassinating-mike-pence/>

Antifa professor back in the spotlight after restaurant confrontation. He's the long neck fgt that plays the woman role in Star Wars Ep. VIII, previously was a professor at John Jay College in NYC.

The founder of the ‘Smash Racism DC’ group that harassed Senator Ted Cruz and his wife in a restaurant last night is Antifa professor Mike Isaacson, who previously tweeted about teaching “future dead cops” and assassinating Mike Pence.
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2018-09-25 18:53:24 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Bill Cosby Sentenced To 3-10 Years Behind Bars For Sexual Assault**
*Philadelphia CBS Local* - <https://archive.fo/fCcHk>

Bill Cosby learned his fate inside a Montgomery County courtroom on Tuesday. The 81-year-old actor and comedian has been sentenced to three to 10 years in a state facility for sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee at his home in 2004.

O’Neill also ruled Cosby as a “sexually violent predator.” The classification means that Cosby must undergo lifetime counseling and report quarterly to authorities. His name will appear on a sex-offender registry sent to neighbors, schools and victims.

Cosby’s lawyer argued for bail after the ruling, but O’Neill pushed back, saying he will not treat Cosby any differently under the law.

“I’ve imposed sentencing at this stage,” said O’Neill. “If you want to take it up with another court, you can.”

Cosby’s lawyers had fought the “sexually violent predator” designation, arguing that Pennsylvania’s sex-offender law is unconstitutional and that he is no threat to the public at his age. But O’Neill said prosecutors had met their burden of proof by “clear and convincing” evidence.

Cosby was found guilty in April on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Jurors convicted Cosby of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand without consent, while she was impaired and after incapacitating her.
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2018-09-25 19:53:14 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Michael Avenatti Makes His Twitter Private, Citing ‘Trump Trolls’**
*Daily Caller* - <https://archive.fo/Hupi5>

Lawyer Michael Avenatti said Tuesday that he was “forced” to make his Twitter account private after receiving some unwelcoming comments, which he says are due to his recent representation of an anonymous woman claiming Judge Brett Kavanaugh was involved in gang rapes in high school.

Avenatti tweeted Sunday that he represents a woman with “credible information” regarding Kavanaugh and has since demanded the Senate Judiciary Committee not only question Kavanaugh on his involvement in a “train of men” that he claims drugged and gang-raped women in high school, but also asked the committee to allow more witnesses to testify.

Since his announcement, Avenatti has attempted to prove the credibility of his accusations without revealing who his client is and without providing any evidence so far.

Avenatti’s claim made without any proof apparently has not sat well with the Twitter community. Avenatti tweeted Tuesday that he’s been “forced” to make his account private “because the bots and Trump trolls are out in full force due to my representation re Kavanaugh.”

A senior Democratic aide also told The Daily Beast that Avenatti “has a tendency to sensationalize and make his various crusades more about himself than about getting at the truth.”

Another Democratic source told the outlet that while he or she believes he represents a credible allegation, Avenatti has “undercut it. If he had vetted it through a media outlet and had journalists represent it in a well-reported way or have the committee introduce it, it would have been better.”

Avenatti says he will make his Twitter public as soon as he is able to.
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2018-09-25 19:54:38 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/302132944380624906/494235301401722880/4chan_avenatti.png

2018-09-26 05:55:00 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet**
*Bloomberg* - <https://archive.fo/rjIw1>

Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married.

New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on. Generation X and especially millennials are being pickier about who they marry, tying the knot at older ages when education, careers and finances are on track. The result is a U.S. divorce rate that dropped 18 percent from 2008 to 2016, according to an analysis by University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen.

Demographers already knew the divorce rate was falling, even if the average American didn’t. Their question, however, was why? And what do current trends mean for the marital prospects of today’s newlyweds?

“The change among young people is particularly striking,” Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University, said of Cohen’s results. “The characteristics of young married couples today signal a sustained decline [in divorce rates] in the coming years.”

Young people get the credit for fewer divorces because boomers have continued to divorce at unusually high rates, all the way into their 60s and 70s. From 1990 to 2015, according to Bowling Green’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research, the divorce rate doubled for people aged 55 to 64, and even tripled for Americans 65 and older. Cohen’s results suggest this trend, called “grey divorce,” may have leveled out in the past decade, but boomers are still divorcing at much higher rates than previous generations did at similar ages.
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2018-09-26 09:27:56 UTC  

🇺🇸 **Yale study: Illegal immigrant population likely double, possibly triple previous estimates**
*The Washington Times* - <https://archive.fo/BBtyE>

Professors at Yale University have roiled the immigration debate with a new study calculating there are between 16 million and 30 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. — as much as three times more than most demographers figure.

The professors’ model looked at estimates of how many people came illegally, and how many people likely left, and concluded there are a lot more people who arrived than the 11 million suggested by traditional estimates. The model says the most likely figure is double that, at about 22 million.

If true, the numbers would mean U.S. officials have done a poorer job of catching illegal immigrants than imagined, and that one out of every nine people living in the U.S. is here illegally.

“Policy debates about the amount of resources to devote to this issue, and the merits of alternative policies, including deportation, amnesty, and border control, depend critically on estimates of the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., which sets the scale of the issue,” said the academics, Professors Jonathan S. Feinstein and Edward H. Kaplan and postdoctoral associate Mohammad Fazel-Zarandi, all at the Yale School of Management.

They published their findings in PLOS ONE, an open access scholarly journal, and sparked fierce pushback from the demographers who study the issue and say the professors’ numbers are impossible.
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2018-09-26 10:18:45 UTC  

🇮🇱 **Israel Is Giving China the Keys to Its Largest Port - and the U.S. Navy May Abandon Israel**
🇨🇳 *Haaretz* - <https://archive.is/g7JF4>

China will operate Haifa port, near Israel's alleged nuclear-armed submarines, and it seems no one in Israel thought about the strategic ramifications.

Shaul Horev dropped a bombshell, but hardly anyone noticed. Horev, an Israel Defense Forces reservist brigadier general who has served, among other posts, as the navy chief of staff and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, is currently director of the Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy at the University of Haifa. At the end of August, the center held a conference, to which participants from the United States were invited, to examine security issues relating to Israel and the Mediterranean region.

In an interview with the religious-Zionist media outlet Arutz Sheva, Prof. Horev noted that one topic that came up at the event was Chinese investments in Mediterranean ports, and in Israel in particular. Pointing out that a Chinese company will soon start operating Haifa Port, he said that Israel needs to create a mechanism that will examine Chinese investments to ensure that they do not put Israel’s security interests at risk.

“When China acquires ports,” Horev said, “it does so under the guise of maintaining a trade route from the Indian Ocean via the Suez Canal to Europe, such as the port of Piraeus in Greece. Does an economic horizon like this have a security impact? We are not weighing that possibility sufficiently. One of the senior American figures at the conference raised the question of whether the U.S. Sixth Fleet can see Haifa as a home port. In light of the Chinese takeover, the question is no longer on the agenda.”
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2018-09-26 13:22:17 UTC  

🇺🇸 **W. Virginia's Decision to Allow Smartphone Voting for Midterms Raises Serious Security Concerns**
*PJ Media* - <https://archive.fo/aIN2T>

For the first time in our nation's history, voters in 24 counties in W. Virginia will be able to vote using their mobile phones. While some are hailing the decision because it will make voting easier for members of the military deployed overseas, experts are warning of possible security breaches.

"Voatz has developed a secure mobile voting application that allows voters to receive, vote, and return their ballots electronically," the press release claims. "The application also utilizes blockchain technology to store electronically submitted ballots until election night, and requires a heightened standard of identity verification for users than traditional absentee ballot processes. This project is unprecedented in United States history, being the first mobile voting application and first use of blockchain technology in a federal election."

In order to use the mobile technology, users register with Voatz by taking a picture of their government ID and also a selfie video of their face. Voatz then uses facial recognition software that (they claim) can verify the voter's identity. Once approved, voters can cast their ballots using Voatz's app. After the vote is cast it is added to the blockchain, a digital ledger of sorts, popularized by digital currencies such as Bitcoin.

The state of W. Virginia admits that there are "substantial" security concerns, but explained that Voatz will be utilizing "federal standards for software development, regular maintenance and security upgrades, in-depth penetration testing, source code auditing and audits of the system’s cloud infrastructure. After surpassing those requirements, the pilot moved forward."
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2018-09-26 17:25:35 UTC  

🇺🇸 **BREAKING: Michael Avenatti Reveals Client Making ‘Gang Rape’ Allegation Against Kavanaugh**
*MediaITE* - <https://archive.fo/UfmsE>

Attorney for Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, earlier this week, claimed to have a client with a third allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. He made the announcement, and tweeted lurid accusations, without offering the identity of the client or any evidence.

Today, Avenatti tweeted a name and photo of that client, along with a sworn statement from the alleged victim laying out her serious allegations.

In the statement, Julie Swetnick, a current government employee, alleges Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge attended a party where she was drugged and gang raped by a series of boys. While she does not accuse Kavanaugh of assaulting her, she claims she witnessed him participate in the gang rapes.

```In approximately 1982, I became the victim of one of these “gang” or “train” rapes where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present. Shortly after the incident, I shared what had transpired with at least two other people. During the incident, I was incapacitated without my consent and unable to fight off the boys raping me. I believe I was drugged using Quaaludes or something similar placed in what I was drinking.”```

https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044960940884709378
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2018-09-26 18:26:07 UTC  

🇺🇸 **GEORGE SOROS FUNDED FUSION GPS, HIS SPOKESMAN CONFIRMS**
*The Daily Caller* - <https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/26/george-soros-funded-fusion-gps/>

A spokesman for left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is acknowledging that he indirectly funded Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier

Sources have told The Daily Caller News Foundation in the past that Soros helped fund Fusion’s post-election work on Russian interference in the election process

Soros’ spokesman told The Washington Post that Soros donated to the Democracy Integrity Project, a group founded by a former staffer to Sen. Dianne Feinstein

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