Israel Bombed Syria on Christmas After US Began Removing Troops Out of the Area

Russia accused Israel of violating Syria’s sovereignty and threatening two civilian flights near the airport when Israeli launched air raids in Damascus. It appears that Israel was applying the same strategy it used in September when it tricked Syria into accidentally firing on its own allies.
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Israel’s F-16 planes were launched out of Lebanon. Israel says its F-16 fighters jets were targeting Iranian forces inside Syria and that they flew near the airport only to protect themselves from anti-aircraft fire. As the US withdraws its troops, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that Israeli attacks will intensify to prevent Iran from expanding its influence in the area. Turkish forces are moving toward the Syrian border where the US-backed Kurds are in control. [Pity the people living in these areas while foreign powers play chess-games of war over their heads and in their streets.] -GEG

Following reports that Israel is plotting a full-scale offensive in Syria (after years of carrying out airstrikes on Iranian or Iranian-affiliated targets south of Damascus), Russia on Wednesday accused the Jewish state of endangering the lives of civilians during a Christmas Day bombing raid carried out by Israeli F-16s flying out of Lebanon.

According to Al Jazeera, Russia accused the Israelis of violating Israeli sovereignty and threatening two civilian flights landing at a nearby airport in Damascus during attacks on targets allegedly affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the Damascus countryside.

“We are very concerned by the attacks and how they were made. This is a gross violation of the sovereignty of Syria,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday.

“The provocative actions of the Israeli air force…directly threatened two airliners,” Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.

Syrian state media claimed it intercepted most of the Israeli missiles. Israeli, for what it’s worth, has denied that it planned an attack, saying that its fighter jets were merely protecting themselves from anti-aircraft gun fire.

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Talk of Building the Wall Continues Endlessly. Meanwhile Obama-Style Catch-and Release Continues.


The US government is in partial shut-down as President Trump is demanding funding for the wall.  US Border Patrol and Immigration Enforcement are overwhelmed at the southern US border. 25,000 South American migrants were apprehended in November of this year compared to 7,000 in November 2017. Apprehended does not mean sent back. This week, at least 400 illegal aliens were transported to a bus station in El Paso, Texas, and released. [This process will continue. Talk of the wall is political theater.] -GEG




Guatamalan Migrant Boy Dies in Spite of Medical Care by Doctors at US Border. Democrats Use This Tragedy to Criticize Trumps’s Immigration Policy.

An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala, Felipe Gomez Alonzo, died on Christmas Eve while he and his father were in custody of US Customs and Border Protection. The child was examined by doctors but died in spite of receiving medications. It is reported that the boy’s father told US officials that the child was feeling better after receiving treatment and he declined further medical attention for his son. President Trump’s opponents have seized on this tragedy to attack his immigration policies. -GEG

YALAMBOJOCH, Guatemala (Reuters) – Between heavy sobs, Catarina Alonzo explained that when her husband left Guatemala to try to reach the United States, they hoped taking their 8-year-old son would make it easier for the pair to get in. Instead, the boy fell ill and died.

Detained on the U.S. border, Felipe Gomez Alonzo died late on Christmas Eve in a New Mexico hospital a few weeks after setting off with his father, becoming the second Guatemalan child to die this month while in U.S. custody.

The two deaths have led to increased criticism of the Trump administration’s hardline stance on illegal immigration, as well as fresh scrutiny of why some migrants from Central America travel with children on the long, dangerous road north.

Speaking at her home in a mountainous region of western Guatemala, Catarina Alonzo said neighbors had told the family that taking a child would provide her husband with a way in.

“Lots of them have gone with children and managed to cross, even if they’re held for a month or two. But they always manage to get across easily,” she told Reuters in an interview.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has yet to give an official cause of death for the boy, prompting Democratic lawmakers to intensify calls for an investigation.

The Department of Homeland Security, which says that Felipe Gomez Alonzo and 7-year-old Jakelin Caal, who died on Dec. 8, were the first children to die in CBP custody in a decade, this week said it would step up medical checks of migrant children to try to prevent any more deaths.

Alonzo, an indigenous Maya and native speaker of Chuj, has little Spanish and communicated through a translator. Wearing a sweatshirt and a purple dress, she spoke outside her hut in Yalambojoch, a village of about 1,000 people near the Mexican border.

She related how her son and his father, Agustin, an agricultural worker, had left in early December to find work in the United States to pay off debts. The two also hoped the boy would get a better education in the United States, she said.

Still, Alonzo said her husband had doubts and at one point decided he did not want to take the boy. But that upset the boy, so they resolved he should go.

Alonzo’s sobs could be heard for minutes outside the house before she came out to be interviewed. Afterwards she went back inside to a tiny altar she had adorned with three photos of the boy that a local school teacher had printed out for her.

The altar stood to one side of a room with cement walls that serves as a bedroom and living area for Alonzo and her three surviving children. Adjoining it was a kitchen with a dirt floor and wooden walls.

Her husband remains in U.S. custody.

“NOW OR NEVER”

Marta Larra, a spokeswoman for Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry, said smugglers known as “coyotes” often encourage migrants to take children as a form of “visa.” Many coyotes, she noted, are trusted by migrant families, so their word carries weight.

But Lucas Perez, the mayor of Yalambojoch, said some coyotes are only interested in ripping off people. Still, for many migrants trying to cross the U.S. border, taking a child along was the “only option,” he told Reuters.

Describing migration from the area as “constant,” Perez estimated about 200 people from the tiny village live in the United States.

Agustin Gomez, the boy’s father, has two brothers in the United States he hoped to meet, his wife said.

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Triplets Became Severely Autistic Within Hours of Vaccination in 2007 and Continue to Suffer


Detroit, Michigan: Richie, Robbie and Claire McDowell received the pneumococcal vaccine on June 25, 2007, and within hours, they all become severely autistic at 9 months of age.  The parents were told autism is genetic but a geneticist countered that all three children could not shut down on the same day from a genetic defect.  None of the children fully recovered and Clair is still non-verbal and is not potty-trained.  The McDowells found out seven years later that the vaccine was contaminated and had been pulled from the market after it killed a 2-year old, which was hidden from the public.




Two Scandinavian Women, While Camping in Morocco, Were Brutally Murdered by ISIS Terrorists

Moroccan police arrested 18 men in connection with the rape and beheading of two women, Maren Ueland, 28, of Norway, and Louisa Vesterager, 24, of Denmark, while they were camping. The four suspects accused of direct involvement in the women’s deaths appear in a video pledging allegiance to ISIS. A gruesome video of the attack has been widely circulated by social media with men in the video calling the attack “revenge” for fellow jihadists in Syria. The Facebook page of Ms Ueland’s mother, Irene, has been spammed with hundreds horrible images of her daughter’s slit throat and Ms Jespersen’s severed head. Ironically, one of the victims, Maren Ueland, posted a video against discrimination of Muslims in 2015 and wrote, “Never judge people by their appearance.” -GEG

Thirteen suspects have been arrested in connection with the beheading deaths of two tourists in Morocco, the state-controlled 2M news agency reported.

Four are suspected of killing 28-year-old Maren Ueland of Norway and 24-year-old Louisa Jespersen of Denmark. Of those four, one had previously served a two-year sentence in an extremism-related case, Boubker Sabik, a Moroccan national security spokesman, told 2M.

Nine others were arrested in different cities for their alleged connection to the four murder suspects, 2M reported.

During the raids, authorities found “suspicious substances that could potentially be used in making explosives,” 2M said.

The bodies of Ueland and Jespersen were found Monday in the High Atlas mountain range.

Both women had been spotted with three men in their hotel in Marrakesh before heading to the Atlas Mountains to hike. They were found in Imlil, an unguarded and remote area on the mountain range.

The state-run Maghreb Arab Press reported that the pair had been killed with a “melee weapon.”

A video purporting to show the decapitations is being analyzed by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, the agency told CNN. The video’s authenticity has not been verified.

The Moroccan government has called the killings a “terrorist and criminal act,” and Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the killings seemed to be “politically motivated and thus a terrorist act.”

The four suspects accused of direct involvement in the women’s deaths appear in a video pledging allegiance to ISIS, but they do not reference the killings.

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70% of Venezuelans Are Starving, and Women as Young as 14 Are Surviving under Socialism by Selling, Sex, Hair, and Breast Milk.

Venezuela’s socialist/communist system has become even more dire as people literally are starving, suffering from lack of healthcare, and subjected to extreme, systemic violence. Women, some as young as 14, are turning to prostitution in search of a better life. Others are selling their hair and breast milk to support their families. Many Venezuelans with university degrees or decent jobs in what was once the wealthiest nation in Latin America, now are in survival mode. A doctor reported that some of his adult male patients now weigh no more than 77 pounds. Suicide is on the rise, because many feel that they are doomed to die anyway. Crime and violence have become rampant throughout the country. -GEG

Women fleeing socialist Venezuela have taken to capitalism in order to survive; selling sex, hair and breastmilk as they make the perilous journey into neighboring Colombia in search of a better life.

As Fox News Hollie McKay reports, the Colombian border city of Cucuta is virtual chaos – as “Rail-thin women cradle their tiny babies, and beg along the trash-strewn gutters. Teens hawk everything from cigarettes to sweets and water for small change.”

The young, the old and the disabled cluster around the lone Western Union office – recently established to deal with the Venezuelan influx – in the hopes of receiving or sending a few dollars to send home. Without passports or work permits, the Venezuelans – many with university degrees or decent jobs in what was once the wealthiest nation in Latin America – are now resorting to whatever it takes to survive. –Fox News

Men buying hair approach groups of women with their young children, offering them enough to feed their families for a short while. Local wigmakers in Colombia will pay between $10 – $30, depending on length and quality.

Other Venezuelan women – including girls as young as 14, resort to sex work on the streets of Cucuta – earning around seven dollars per john.

 

Both men and women are exposed to sex trafficking along the route from Venezuela to Colombia. According to several walkers, some women “chose” prostitution as a means to make money and earn rides along the way. And some heterosexual men “sell themselves on the gay market” for a little money.

Other women are manipulated or forced into giving “pimp types” their documents and identification cards, and are subsequently drawn into prostitution rings. That’s particularly the case in border areas, where many rebel and drug-trafficking groups operate. –Fox News

Back home in Venezuela, the situation is dire – as the socialist country suffers from starvation, disease, a lack of healthcare and extreme violence. Children have been dying from hepatitis and malaria.

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‘Fake News’ Reporter at Der Spiegel Could Face Charges for Embezzlement of Funds Meant for Syrian Orphans

Germany: Claas Relotius, a journalist with Der Spiegel, was caught writing made-up stories, and his editor never fact-checked his articles.  His work had received awards from CNN. He wrote negative reports about President Trump and fabricated propaganda stories that made Americans appear racist and xenophobic. For example, he wrote about seeing a hand-painted sign in a town in Minnesota that read: “Mexicans Keep Out,” but the sign did not exist. According to Der Spiegel, Relotius admitted deceiving readers in 14 stories.

Der Spiegel also received messages from readers saying Relotius was using a private email account to ask for donations to help Syrian orphans in Turkey. It is believed that the story he wrote is mostly fiction, and that he pocketed donations meant for the children. He is expected to be investigated for embezzlement. -GEG

The German reporter Claas Relotius, accused by top news magazine Der Spiegel of faking stories, could now face embezzlement charges.

Der Spiegel says it is filing a criminal complaint alleging he solicited donations for Syrian orphans from readers with any proceeds going to his personal account.

Der Spiegel said last week that Relotius admitted faking some stories.

The reporter, 33, has yet to comment on the embezzlement allegations.

In the latest development, Der Spiegel reports (in German) that it received messages from readers saying Relotius had used a private email account to ask for donations to help Syrian orphans in Turkey.

The money should be sent to his personal bank account, the magazine quotes readers as saying.

The publication says it is not yet clear what sort of response he received – how much money was collected or where it ended up.

Der Spiegel is gathering evidence to pass on to prosecutors.

Relotius’ appeal for donations was linked to an article he wrote about two Syrian street-children, a brother and sister, in Turkey – parts of which Der Spiegel says were faked.

A Turkish photographer who accompanied Relotius on the story said the reporter had made up some aspects of the boy’s life and heavily fictionalised others.

The photographer suspects that the sister may not have existed at all.

‘Institutional bias’

The American ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has also intervened, writing to Der Spiegel’s editor to demand an independent investigation and accusing the publication of institutional bias against the US.

Like many publications, Der Spiegel has carried stories critical of President Donald Trump.

One of the Relotius stories at issue centred on the US-Mexican border. Der Spiegel said its investigation revealed that he had fabricated information about seeing a hand-painted sign in a town in Minnesota that read: “Mexicans Keep Out.”

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GoFundMe Returns over $400,000 Scammed by New Jersey Grifters

Kate McClure, Mark D’Amico, and drug-addicted homeless veteran, Johnny Bobbitt, were charged with theft by deception in November after they concocted a story that Bobbitt had given McClure his last $20 after her car ran out of fuel, which left her stranded on the side of I-95 in a dangerous Philadelphia neighborhood. McClure’s boyfriend set up a GoFundMe donation page based on that lie, and they got $402,000 in donations to help Bobbitt. The couple pilfered most of the money, which prompted the homeless man to sue them. It was only then that the lie unraveled, and the three were arrested. -GEG

GoFundMe has returned over $400,000 to people who donated to a trio of scam artists who fabricated a story about a homeless good Samaritan.

39-year-old Mark D’Amico (left), 28-year-old Kate McClure (center) and 35-year-old Johnny Bobbitt (right) are facing theft and conspiracy charges.

All donors who contributed to this GoFundMe campaign have been fully refunded,” GoFundMe spokesman Bobby Whithorne said in an email, adding that “while this type of behavior by an individual is extremely rare, it’s unacceptable and clearly it has consequences.”

The company is fully cooperating with investigators.

Kate McClure, 28, Mark D’Amico, 39, and drug-addicted homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt, 35, were charged with theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception in November, after the three concocted a story that Bobbitt had given McClure his last $20 after her car ran out of fuel, leaving her stranded on the side of I-95 in a dangerous Philadelphia neighborhood.

The GoFundMe scam was uncovered after McClure and D’Amico refused to give Bobbitt over $300,000 of the $402,000 raised – causing Bobbit to lawyer up, alleging that the couple committed fraud and conspiracy by taking large amounts of the donations to “enjoy a lifestyle they could not afford” and using the account as “their personal piggy bank.”

The net proceeds were $360,000 after fees, which went into an account controlled by McClure. Bobbitt received approximately $75,000 of it according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina.

The entire campaign was predicated on a lie,” said Coffina during a November press conference. “Less than an hour after the GoFundMe campaign went live McClure, in a text exchange with a friend, stated that the story about Bobbitt assisting her was fake,” he said.

In one of the texts read by Coffina, McClure allegedly wrote to a friend, “Ok, so wait, the gas part is completely made up but the guy isn’t. I had to make something up to make people feel bad. So, shush about the made up stuff.” –ABC

After the story went sideways – and reports emerged that the couple had pilfered most of the money meant for Bobbitt, police raided McClure and D’Amico’s home looking for evidence in the case, and seizing a BMW they bought with charitable donations.

Coffina said that if Bobbitt hadn’t sued, the three might have gotten away with the scam.

D’Amico and McClure turned themselves in last month according to WPVI, while Bobbit was arrested in Philadelphia on charges of being a fugitive from justice.

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When Los Angeles Doubled Its Budget to Take Care of the Homeless, the Crime Rate among the Homeless Rose 50%


Spending on the homeless tends to increase homeless populations because vagrants move in to receive the benefits. These benefits, however, reduce the incentive to seek other solutions, thereby guaranteeing an expanding need. In Los Angeles, the 2018 homeless crime rate jumped almost 50% compared to 2017. This, in turn, required more police action, social workers, administrators, buildings and, of course, more money from taxpayers. Political strategists are not interested in helping homeless people. Instead, they elevate and reward the most disruptive elements among them to create havoc that can be used to justify more power and taxes to combat the havoc. All charity programs, when administered by people who are paid from taxes to do so instead of by the donors themselves or groups of volunteers, eventually become machines of self-interest, crisis, and destruction. -GEG

It wasn’t all that long ago that the nation watched transfixed in horror as fires tore apart California, destroying homes and claiming lives. In all the debates about global warming and forestry management, one singular cause of the fire was left unaddressed.

Global warming wasn’t starting the fires. People were.

Last December, the 422-acre Skirball Fire that forced the evacuation of 700 homes and took 10 days to put out was started by illegal cooking in a homeless encampment. The Leo Baeck Temple in Bel-Air, which celebrates “social justice”, even sued Los Angeles (both city and county) over fire damage for ignoring multiple complaints about the homeless encampment and the fire hazard that it posed.

This November, the Los Angeles Zoo had to evacuate its animals over a fire in yet another homeless encampment. That fire not only endangered lives, but diverted resources from fighting the much more serious fires in Ventura County.

But instead of shutting down the encampments, Mayor Garcetti, who has done more to legalize and subsidize homelessness in Los Angeles than any of his predecessors, sent “outreach workers” from the expanding behemoth of the LA Homeless Services Agency to ask them to please move.

That worked about as well as expected.

Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer blasted Garcetti for condoning campfires and refusing to arrest “homeless firebugs” and “vagrants” because there weren’t enough “No Trespassing” signs. “It’s unclear to me how many signs Mayor Eric Garcetti thinks he would need to cover the Santa Monica Mountains behind Bel Air and the Getty Museum,” he angrily wrote.

Brush fires are just one of the wages of the legalization and subsidization of the homeless. And while these fires are spectacular, they are not the most dangerous consequence.

Los Angeles had doubled its homeless budget to $450 million. Despite that its homeless population had only dropped to 39,826, a reduction of only 256 people. The only surprise in those statistics is that the population dropped at all. Homeless spending has the notorious effect of increasing homeless populations rather than diminishing them as vagrants swarm in and agencies inflate their numbers.

But while doubling its homeless budget didn’t significantly diminish the homeless population in Los Angeles, it did have another spectacular statistical effect on the wellbeing of city residents.

LAPD statistics showed that homeless crime actually increased by nearly 50%, jumping from 5,976 crime reports of homeless perpetrators in most of 2017 to 8,906 crime reports in most of 2018.

Los Angeles had doubled its homeless budget and doubled the amount of homeless crime.

Homeless advocates like to claim that the police wrongly arrest the homeless for quality of life offenses that other people get a pass on. If ordinary people aren’t arrested for public urination or campfires, why should the homeless?

That argument fueled the legalization of homelessness which allowed vagrants to urinate and defecate in public, resulting in businesses fleeing the affected areas, and Hepatitis outbreaks among homeless populations in Los Angeles and other major California cities, and it also allowed them to start fires.

Several epidemics and fires later, not to mention an outbreak of shoplifting and tents being set up in residential areas and outside small businesses, the full scale of homeless legalization looks even worse.

It’s not just the “quality of life” offenses or broken windows policing whose accomplishments helped bring back American cities in the 90s, but which the pro-Crime progressives have been reversing.

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California Sanctuary Law Got Illegal Alien Out of Jail, and He Killed 3 People!

As a direct result of California’s sanctuary law, Gustavo Garcia, a violent criminal with past deportations, was set free from jail. He shot and killed two people before speeding down a highway, driving in the wrong direction, and finally being killed in a police chase. -GEG

Summary by JW Williams

Authorities believe 36-year-old Gustavo Garcia is responsible for several shootings, two murders, a carjacking, multiple high-speed chases, speeding in the wrong direction on a highway, causing several accidents, and a shooting incident in Tulare County. Garcia died during a police chase.

SB 54, California’s sanctuary state law, is to blame for the deaths. SB 54 applies to illegal aliens who are in jail after committing a crime. It protects criminals by preventing police from notifying ICE if an illegal alien is going to be released from jail unless the illegal has committed a major felony. However, major felonies have been reclassified down to misdemeanor offenses under three California laws, Prop 47, Prop 57 and AB 109. In essence, California has de-criminalized crime.

Most illegal aliens who commit crimes are charged with only misdemeanors and do not qualify for notifying ICE. They are released back onto the streets instead of being deported. Alex Villanueva, the new Los Angeles County Sheriff, said that he is going to remove ICE from the county jails, meaning that ICE will close down its permanent offices in the jails.

Two days before Gustavo Garcia’s “reign of terror”, he was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance. He was held for only ten hours before being released. Within 48 hours, he went on a rampage. Garcia’s criminal record dates back to 2002, including charges for illegal possession of firearms and meth in addition to deportations in 2004 and 2014.

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GOP Representative Louie Gohmert Introduced Legislation to Remove Immunity from Tech Giants


Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 gives the tech giants immunity from lawsuits against what individuals post on their websites as the companies are supposed to act as neutral platforms.  However, the tech giants have been censoring those who politically oppose them, and should be treated as publishers instead of neutral platforms. Republican US Representative Louie Gohmert is pushing legislation that will remove the liability protections and will allow lawsuits to be filed against them for their bias.

Rep. Louie Gohmert pushed legislation on Thursday that will remove liability protections from the liberal tech giants. The bill will force the tech giants to pay for their biased campaign against their political opponents.

Rep. Louie Gohmert: “It is time for social media companies to be liable for any biased and unethical impropriety of their employees as any other media company. If these companies want to continue to act like a biased medium and publish their own agendas to the detriment of others, they need to be held accountable.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier…

It’s no secret that the Silicon Valley tech giants discriminate against conservatives and conservative content.

Facebook has been shutting down traffic to conservative websites since the 2016 election.

The Gateway Pundit spoke earlier with two of the top conservative publishers in America.

Floyd Brown is a conservative author, speaker and media commentator. In 2008 Floyd launched Western Journal which quickly became one of the top conservative websites in America. By 2016 Floyd’s organization of Western Journal and other conservative websites under his umbrella had more than a billion page views. Since 2016 Floyd’s organization lost 75% of its Facebook traffic.

Likewise, we spoke with Jared Vallorani from Klicked Media. Jared traveled to Washington DC with The Gateway Pundit and website owners at 100%FedUp in June to discuss Facebook targeting against conservative publishers with Republican lawmakers. Jared told The Gateway Pundit his organization Klicked Media, which hosts over 60 conservative websites, lost 400 million page views from Facebook in the last six months if you compare the traffic to a year ago.  Jared said, “We lost 70% to 80% of our traffic if you compare January to May 2017 vs Jan to May 2018.”

If you combine the total number of page-views lost by just these two conservative online publishers you are looking at a loss of over 1.5 billion page-views from Facebook in one year.

These are numbers from just two of the top conservative publishers in America.  This does not include the thousands of other conservative publishers across the country who lost all of their traffic coming from Facebook.  Here at The Gateway Pundit our Facebook traffic has been effectively eliminated after we were ranked as the 4th most influential conservative publisher in the 2016 election.

 

Facebook has also deleted prominent conservatives completely from their platform.  Alex Jones, Infowars, Laura Loomer, Gavin McInnes, triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage and Roger Stone have lost their pages in the last year.

The fact that Facebook is targeting conservative publishers should not be a surprise to Gateway Pundit readers.

We have been reporting on this for several months now. In July we released a study where we looked at several top conservative websites and discovered that the publishers had lost an average of 93% of their Facebook traffic.

On Thursday Congressman Gohmert pushed legislation that targets the liberal bias at the tech giants.

Via Congressman Gohmert’s webpage:

Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on his proposed bill, H.R.7363, that amends section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934:

“Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are now among the largest and most powerful companies in the world. More and more people are turning to a social media platform for news than ever before, arguably making these companies more powerful than traditional media outlets. Yet, social media companies enjoy special legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, protections not shared by other media. Instead of acting like the neutral platforms they claim to be in order obtain their immunity, these companies have turned Section 230 into a license to potentially defraud and defame with impunity.”

“Representatives of social media companies have testified in Congressional hearings that they do not discriminate against or filter out conservative voices on their platforms. But for all their reassurances, the disturbing trend continues unabated. Employees from some of these companies have communicated their disgust for conservatives and discussed ways to use social media platforms and algorithms to silence and prevent income to conservatives.”

“In one hearing, one of the internet social media executives indicated a desire to be treated like Fox News. Fox News does not have their immunity and this bill will fulfill that unwitting request. Since there still appears to be no sincere effort to stop this disconcerting behavior, it is time for social media companies to be liable for any biased and unethical impropriety of their employees as any other media company. If these companies want to continue to act like a biased medium and publish their own agendas to the detriment of others, they need to be held accountable.”

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Rand Paul Published His Annual ‘Festivus’ Waste Report

Senator Rand Paul released his annual ‘Festivus’ Waste Report that shines a light on how lawmakers are outrageously spending taxpayer money and running up debt that is now approaching $22 billion.  Highlights include: providing over $76 million in stipends to soldiers in the Somali National Army, devoting over $650,000 to develop a drama series to air in Afghanistan, spending more than $2.4 million to study daydreaming, and setting aside $18 million to support tourism in Egypt.

Ahh yes, it’s that time year of again. Where families gather ’round the smartphone or laptop to scroll through Rand Paul’s twitter feed during his annual Airing Of The Grievances. A Festivus tradition, Senator Paul has taken to the twittersphere every year to air his grievances with numerous government agencies, his colleagues on Capitol Hill, the President, and other political figures and causes.

For 2018, Paul started off with pointing out how WRONG liberals were when they swore Trump would drive us into WWIII.
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Read the full report here:

https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-releases-2018-%E2%80%98festivus%E2%80%99-edition-%E2%80%98-waste-report%E2%80%99