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SACKED: Australian Company Fires Employee Over Opposition To Same Sex Marriage

An Australian party company is under fire after its owner, Madlin Sims, sacked one of her employees over his opposition to Australia’s upcoming same-sex marriage referendum.

Sims posted on Facebook Monday that she’d fired one of her contractors after she’d expressed a contrary view to her own, about legalizing same sex marriage. Likening her political position to “racism,” and calling his argument “hate speech,” Sims claims she booted the employee on the spot because “it’s not okay to be homophobic.”

According to a follow up interview Sims gave to News.com.au, the firing stemmed from a Facebook post the employee had put up, publicising her view that the same sex marriage referendum would turn problematic. Sims and her brother apparently approached the employee and asked her to take the post down. When she refused, they booted her.

“Today I fired a staff member who made it public knowledge that they feel ‘it’s okay to vote no.’ Advertising your desire to vote no for SSM is, in my eyes, hate speech,” Sims posted. “Voting no is homophobic. Advertising your homophobia is hate speech. As a business owner I can’t have somebody who publicly represents my business posting hate speech online.

“It’s not okay to vote no. It’s not okay to be homophobic,” she went on. “This isn’t a matter of opinion or even religion. It’s a matter of the love and livelihood of real human beings. Freedom of speech is there for a reason and so are consequences. Vote against homophobia. Vote for equality. Vote yes.”

After making the initial post – and after the post went viral and sparked fierce online debate – Sims returned to “clarify” her remarks and ended up making her situation worse, claiming that she’d known for some time about her employee’s contrary views, and simply could no longer tolerate his intolerance.

“FYI this wasn’t a “you’re voting no, you’re fired” situation. There were prior conversations had. As a business that works with children of all kinds, we have a responsibility to working with vulnerable people and having someone who is out & proud about their beliefs (of which are statistically proven to have horrible effects on young members of the gay community) is a risk for the wellbeing of the children we work with,” she updated.

Sims told a newspaper in Australia that she’s received a “torrent” of abuse for her actions, but defended firing her contractor, saying it was all done in a polite and respectful manner (except, of course, the whole putting-it-on-Facebook part).

Sims also claims that she didn’t fire the employee because of her views on same sex marriage, but because the employee refused to keep those views under wraps. You can believe what you want, apparently, but you aren’t allowed to be public with your viewpoint around Ms. Sims if you want to keep your job.

Its not clear, at the moment, whether the fired employee has a case against Ms. Sims for discrimination.

Australia isn’t due to vote on whether to legalize same sex marriage until later this year. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has mailed out a postal survey to Australian citizens to guage their support for the measure, and those results won’t be available until November 15. On the whole, Australians appear to be split on the issue, with support for same sex marriage actually declining by about five points in recent weeks.

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Exposing the Traitors in the Deep State

The comical publication the Onion ran a special volume, Homeland Insecurity, with the headline, “Run for Your Lives.” I thought of that in the wake of the decision by hard-liners Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka to voluntarily leave the White House rather than continue to fight for rational pro-American policies in the Trump Administration against what has been called the Deep State.

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Black Lives Matter Targets Jefferson

The vandalization of a statute of University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson by students and Black Lives Matter rioters suggests the Left is escalating the ugly Cultural Revolution-style upheaval that President Obama encouraged in office.

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Obama’s UN Global Expansion of Community Organizing

It should surprise no one that former President Barack Obama will host an upcoming gathering of civic leaders from around the world on the 31st of October, the day the United Nations celebrates ‘World Cities Day’.

Obama and the UN are on the same obsessive mission to take over the world country by country by first globalizing the West, city by city.

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Trump: We Will ‘Totally Destroy North Korea’ if ‘Rocket Man’ Forces Us to Defend Ourselves

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will "totally destroy North Korea" if forced to defend itself during a speech before the United Nations on Tuesday.

Trump, who recently referred to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man" in a tweet, used the term again during his first speech before the U.N. General Assembly. Castigating North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and belligerent behavior, he called on the body to unite against the rogue regime.

"No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles," Trump said. "The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime."

Hopefully, Trump said, such an action will not be necessary, calling on the U.N. to perform its stabilizing role. Trump thanked Russia and China for joining in recent unanimous Security Council votes to impose sanctions against the rogue country, but he said more has to be done.

"It is time for all nations to work together to isolate the Kim regime until it ceases its hostile behavior," he said.

"When decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength," he said. "No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well-being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea."

Trump recalled the regime’s recent "deadly abuse" with the story of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was detained in North Korea for a year-and-a-half and returned to the U.S. in a coma. He died a few days a later.

"If this is not twisted enough, now North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life," he said. "It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime, but would arm, supply and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict."

The Trump administration has called on China, as North Korea’s chief trading partner, to do more to press the Kim regime into coming to the negotiating table.

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Manafort Wiretapping Revelations from CNN could roil Mueller investigation

If true, this is a blockbuster, that vindicates one of President Trump’s most famous and most roundly criticized tweets, and which may have far-reaching implications.  CNN is claiming in an exclusive report based on unnamed sources (which always means caution is necessary) that:

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

This seems to vindicate President Trump’s roundly ridiculed assertion of wiretapping in the Trump Tower.

Manafort not only spoke to Trump in this period, he lived in the Trump Tower. Also vindicated are Devin Nunes, who was forced to recuse himself from the Russia probe for revealing this to he president and public,  and Mark Levin, who was roundly criticized for being the source for Trump’s tweet about wiretapping in the Trump Tower.

The information was fed to Robert Mueller’s team that has been searching for a crime. It was the Comey-led FBI in the Lynch-led DoJ, in the Obama presidency, that reportedly used the FISA Court to obtain a warrant, quite possibly based on the phony dossier, that has provided material to get Manafort and pressure him to find something to squeal about and catch a higher-up. The legitimacy of that warrant now is in question. I am not a legal scholar, but it seems to my eyes that a fishing expedition powered by a phony warrant lacks legitimacy.

There could be legal trouble ahead for Comey and Clapper.  As Kristina Wong noted at Breitbart:

The Justice Department and the FBI denied that Trump was being wiretapped.

Comey later in March disputed Trump’s claims — in testimony that lawmakers could now find misleading.

He told the House intelligence committee, “With respect to the president’s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI.”

The New York Times also reported that Comey had said Trump’s claim was false, and that he had asked the Justice Department to publicly reject it, according to the BBC.

James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, also told Congress that intelligence agencies did not wiretap Trump, nor did the FBI obtain a court order to monitor Trump’s phones, according to the BBC report.

The New York Times has just revealed some more details of the level of bullying being employed as Team Muller puts the squeeze on Manafort to squeal, and find some sort of Trump crime to trade for leniency in whatever charges they may be able to find against him.

Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, set up secret offshore bank accounts. They even photographed the expensive suits in his closet.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.

The moves against Mr. Manafort are just a glimpse of the aggressive tactics used by Mr. Mueller and his team of prosecutors in the four months since taking over the Justice Department’s investigation into Russia’s attempts to disrupt last year’s election, according to lawyers, witnesses and American officials who have described the approach. Dispensing with the plodding pace typical of many white-collar investigations, Mr. Mueller’s team has used what some describe as shock-and-awe tactics to intimidate witnesses and potential targets of the inquiry.

Mr. Mueller has obtained a flurry of subpoenas to compel witnesses to testify before a grand jury, lawyers and witnesses say, sometimes before his prosecutors have taken the customary first step of interviewing them. One witness was called before the grand jury less than a month after his name surfaced in news accounts. The special counsel even took the unusual step of obtaining a subpoena for one of Mr. Manafort’s former lawyers, claiming an exception to the rule that shields attorney-client discussions from scrutiny.

The Times delicately presents this hardball as “set[ting] a tone.”

Professor Jacobson wryly observes:

 A 17th attorney was added, inching Team Mueller closer to the size of the entire U.S. Attorney’s Office for the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

 

If true, this is a blockbuster, that vindicates one of President Trump’s most famous and most roundly criticized tweets, and which may have far-reaching implications.  CNN is claiming in an exclusive report based on unnamed sources (which always means caution is necessary) that:

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

This seems to vindicate President Trump’s roundly ridiculed assertion of wiretapping in the Trump Tower.

Manafort not only spoke to Trump in this period, he lived in the Trump Tower. Also vindicated are Devin Nunes, who was forced to recuse himself from the Russia probe for revealing this to he president and public,  and Mark Levin, who was roundly criticized for being the source for Trump’s tweet about wiretapping in the Trump Tower.

The information was fed to Robert Mueller’s team that has been searching for a crime. It was the Comey-led FBI in the Lynch-led DoJ, in the Obama presidency, that reportedly used the FISA Court to obtain a warrant, quite possibly based on the phony dossier, that has provided material to get Manafort and pressure him to find something to squeal about and catch a higher-up. The legitimacy of that warrant now is in question. I am not a legal scholar, but it seems to my eyes that a fishing expedition powered by a phony warrant lacks legitimacy.

There could be legal trouble ahead for Comey and Clapper.  As Kristina Wong noted at Breitbart:

The Justice Department and the FBI denied that Trump was being wiretapped.

Comey later in March disputed Trump’s claims — in testimony that lawmakers could now find misleading.

He told the House intelligence committee, “With respect to the president’s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI.”

The New York Times also reported that Comey had said Trump’s claim was false, and that he had asked the Justice Department to publicly reject it, according to the BBC.

James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, also told Congress that intelligence agencies did not wiretap Trump, nor did the FBI obtain a court order to monitor Trump’s phones, according to the BBC report.

The New York Times has just revealed some more details of the level of bullying being employed as Team Muller puts the squeeze on Manafort to squeal, and find some sort of Trump crime to trade for leniency in whatever charges they may be able to find against him.

Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, set up secret offshore bank accounts. They even photographed the expensive suits in his closet.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.

The moves against Mr. Manafort are just a glimpse of the aggressive tactics used by Mr. Mueller and his team of prosecutors in the four months since taking over the Justice Department’s investigation into Russia’s attempts to disrupt last year’s election, according to lawyers, witnesses and American officials who have described the approach. Dispensing with the plodding pace typical of many white-collar investigations, Mr. Mueller’s team has used what some describe as shock-and-awe tactics to intimidate witnesses and potential targets of the inquiry.

Mr. Mueller has obtained a flurry of subpoenas to compel witnesses to testify before a grand jury, lawyers and witnesses say, sometimes before his prosecutors have taken the customary first step of interviewing them. One witness was called before the grand jury less than a month after his name surfaced in news accounts. The special counsel even took the unusual step of obtaining a subpoena for one of Mr. Manafort’s former lawyers, claiming an exception to the rule that shields attorney-client discussions from scrutiny.

The Times delicately presents this hardball as “set[ting] a tone.”

Professor Jacobson wryly observes:

 A 17th attorney was added, inching Team Mueller closer to the size of the entire U.S. Attorney’s Office for the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

 

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James Comey Tried to Discredit Trump’s Wiretapping Assertions That Proved True

James Comey Tried to Discredit Trump’s Wiretapping Assertions That Proved True

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18 Sep, 2017
18 Sep, 2017

The FBI had wiretapped President Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort before and after the election, contrary to what former FBI Director James Comey suggested earlier this year.

CNN reported:

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

The CNN report also noted that Manafort has a residence in Trump Tower, although it said it was “unclear” whether the wiretapping took place there or not.

President Trump asserted in a series of Tweets on March 4 that the Obama administration had ordered a wiretap at Trump Tower during the election.

“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” he tweeted.

“Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!”

“I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!”

“How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”

Later that month, then-FBI Director James Comey disputed Trump’s claims to the House intelligence committee.

“With respect to the president’s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI,” he told the committee, according to the BBC.

Comey may have tried to skirt the question of wiretapping Trump’s campaign by denying wiretapping “directed at” Trump himself, since the surveillance warrant was on Manafort, according to the report.

However, it is clear from CNN’s report that the warrant targeted the Trump “campaign.” The report notes the warrant of Manafort “was part of the FBI’s efforts to investigate ties between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives.”

The report also notes that surveillance of Manafort occurred during a period of time when Manafort “was known to talk to” Trump.

Earlier this year, Comey had also asked the Justice Department to publicly reject Trump’s tweets, “senior American officials” told the New York Times.

The Justice Department issued a court filing on September 2 stating, “Both FBI and [National Security Division] confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets,” it said.

But about two weeks later, the FBI told reporters who had filed Freedom of Information Act requests that it could neither “confirm or deny the existence of records” pertaining to wiretapping of Trump Tower.

It is not the first time that Comey may have misled lawmakers.

He told the House Judiciary Committee last September that he had decided not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton until after the FBI interviewed her.

However, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee last month obtained transcripts by two senior FBI officials that revealed Comey had drafted a statement exonerating Clinton months before the FBI interviewed her.

He also told senators in May that he had never been an anonymous source in news reports, but later told senators that he had made memos of his private conversations with Trump and given them to at least one friend to leak to the media.

Comey oversaw the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential elections and potential collusion with the Trump campaign, until he was fired by Trump in May.

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How Many Americans Can’t Name A Single First Amendment Freedom?

A poll published on September 12 by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) sought to gauge Americans’ civic literacy with some basic questions about the American Constitution. The poll was conducted between August 9 and 13, and 1,013 American adults were polled.

Below are some of its keys findings:

45 percent could not articulate a single freedom codified by the First Amendment.

39 percent “strongly” or “somewhat favored” congressional prohibitions on “news media [reporting] on any issue of national security without first getting government approval.” 49 percent “strongly” or “somewhat opposed” such a measure.

26 percent could not name any of the three branches of the federal government; consistent with previous years’ polls of the same question: 21 percent in 2016; 22 percent in 2015; 25 percent in 2014; 24 percent in 2013; 22 percent in 2011.

26 percent could name all three branches of federal governance; down from previous years’ polls of the same question: 26 percent in 2016; 31 percent in 2015; 26 percent in 2014; 28 percent in 2013; 38 percent in 2011.

“Americans are poorly informed about basic constitutional provisions,” concludes the APPC via its findings.

Read the questions and see the poll’s methodology here.

Democrats and the broader left typically refuse reforms of the educational apparatus, increasing competition and embracing market forces. Reforms, of course, that could improve Constitutional literacy.

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Mueller’s “Russian investigators” Come Equipped With Obama and Clinton Axes to Grind

“The Conservative Alerts-dubbed “probe-that-became-a-witch-hunt ” that is Robert Mueller’s FBI investigation into Russia collusion has mushroomed, or should we say ‘‘metastasized’ ,  into ‘Old Home Week’ for lawyerly Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton partisans.

These anything but ‘independent’ lawyers are zooming in to Mueller’s special counsel’ probe like flies to you-know-what.

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