LA Sheriff ‘Urged’ Attorney General to Prosecute Reporter for Leaking List of Bad Cops
More corruption is rising to the surface in the City of Angels after it was revealed that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department a number of years back leaked a list of problem deputies to Los Angeles Times reporter Maya Lau, only to then turn around and investigate her for it.
The LA Times reported this week that the then-LA County Sheriff’s Department – there has since been a change in sheriffs – “urged the state attorney general to prosecute” Lau, this after a seven-year investigation that began back in 2017 at the order of then-Sheriff Jim McDonnell.
McDonnell’s team launched a probe for answers as to who leaked the list, which contained about 300 names, to Lau. That probe quickly lost steam but was resurrected in 2018 after Alex Villanueva’s office took over the case, this according to a recently unearthed 300-page investigative file.
Lau was classified by the sheriff’s department as a criminal suspect for allegedly receiving “stolen property,” aka the bad cop list. Diana Teran, the department’s constitutional policing advisor, was later identified as the leaker even though she was the one who reported it in the first place. Teran vehemently denies any involvement.
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New LA sheriff says cops don’t “monitor journalists;” they “respect the freedom of the press”
A few years pass and 2021 arrives, bringing with it a transfer of the case to Attorney General Rob Bonta. Bonta’s office declined to prosecute Lau back in May, citing “insufficient evidence.”
“I’m glad this investigation is over, and it’s an outrage that the sheriff’s department would criminally investigate me as a reporter for doing my job,” Lau commented back in 2021 after the case was dropped.
“It’s the kind of action that’s aimed at intimidating journalists from digging into government agencies.”
The department issued a comment about the case more recently stating that under the leadership of Sheriff Luna, anyway, “we do not monitor journalists and we respect the freedom of the press.”
As a journalist, added David Snyder, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, Lau is immune from the type of attempted prosecution that LA’s old sheriff allegedly tried to execute against Lau.
“You’re not authorized to break into a file cabinet to get records,” Snyder said. “You’re not authorized to hack computers, but receiving information that somebody else obtained unlawfully is not a crime. Publishing that information is protected under the First Amendment.”
The leaked records in question date all the way back to 2014 when Teran worked at the Office of Independent Review. At that time, she was compiling a Brady List of officers with a history of disciplinary problems, relying on information from both the district attorney’s office and sheriff’s department databases.
In late 2014, Teran stopped adding new names to the list because she believed the sheriff’s department had started to maintain its own list. One year later, Teran joined the sheriff’s department as a constitutional policing advisor, after which she came to the realization that Lau and other reporters were inquiring about deputies on the Brady List.
Teran was suddenly concerned, based on these developments, that her list had been leaked. After accessing public records requests, Teran learned that there were striking similarities between her list and the reporters’ list.
AG Rob Bonta’s office then received the case in 2021, only to drop it rather promptly.
“A criminal with a badge is still a criminal,” one commenter noted about the critical importance of rooting out bad cops from law enforcement.
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Islamist Cleric Fundraising to Convert Remote Scottish Island into Muslim ‘Homeland’
The owner of a tiny island off the coast of Scotland has vowed to reject any offers to purchase the land made by a radical Islamist cleric intent on creating a new Muslim homeland governed under Sharia law.
Torsa, the 270-acre island to the west of Scotland is on the market for around £1.5 million (€1.78 million) and is uninhabited but for a 3-bedroom farmhouse included in the sale.
The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported how controversial radical Islamist preacher Sheikh Yasser al-Habib had plans to purchase the land and develop a safe haven for Muslims from around the world.
Al-Habib had announced his desire to build a school, hospital, and mosque on the island, and for residents to adhere to Sharia law — the fundamental legal code of Islam, despite the territory remaining under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom.
However, MailOnline reported on Monday that the current owner assured concerned locals he would not sell the land to anyone considered to be a bad fit with the local community.
The island is around 1.2 miles long and 0.5 miles wide. It is only accessible by private boat and has not been permanently inhabited since the 1960s.
Local residents of adjacent islands expressed their contempt for Al-Habib’s plans.
“The proposal for setting up a sectarian religious outpost on a rural Scottish island is immoral,” said Alastair Redman, a local councillor.
“The fact that he wants to involve an idyllic setting in prejudiced preaching is simply unacceptable,” he added.
Alastair Fleming, a local resident of the neighboring island of Luing, said locals would hamper any plans with planning objections and questioned how viable Al-Habib’s plans were for an island so remote and small.
“It is not an easy island to set up a community on and I am perplexed as to why he has chosen Torsa. Even if he did buy the island, I do not think he would be able to carry out the works he is proposing,” he told MailOnline.
The Kuwaiti-born preacher, now based in London, has a chequered past. He claimed asylum in Britain after being sentenced to 10 years in prison in his home country for upsetting Sunni Muslims by “questioning the conduct and integrity of some of the ‘companions’ of the prophet Muhammad.”
In Britain, he has run military-style training regimes in the car park of a mosque in Buckinghamshire, and is the founder of controversial satellite channel Fadak TV, which has been scolded by Britain’s media regulator Ofcom on multiple occasions for “hate-filled broadcasts.”
The cleric, however, remains a popular figure among his audience with a following in the hundreds of thousands and is using his television channel to raise funds to buy the island.
Savills, the estate agent conducting the sale, insists it remains on the market.
Video of Trump Shooting Appears to Show Suppressed Rifle Fire from 1st Floor Window Under Crooks, Fired Toward Trump Podium
A user on X (@realDJstew724) has posted a video that he says he recorded himself at the Trump shooting, capturing what appears to be the firing of a suppressed rifle from inside a first floor window of the very same building on which Crooks was crawling (on the roof).
Although further confirmations are needed — and this user says he will post his raw video within a day or so — unless this is some sort of elaborate hoax requiring very technical audio and video alterations, this video appears to have captured a new shooter that has previously not been known to exist.
Importantly, this apparent shot took place just over 9 seconds after the first round was fired, meaning it would be round #10, making the counter-sniper shot from U.S. Secret Service round #11, at approximately 16 seconds after the first round was fired.
The following two images capture what appear to be muzzle blast from a rifle fired from inside a room of the first floor of the building.
An audio signature accompanies this muzzle flash, coming across as the firing of a suppressed rifle.
You can watch the full video of the slow-motion version here, posted on Brighteon, but this video is somewhat pixelated due to the rendering at a lower bitrate:
A higher bitrate video is found in my Twitter / X post here:
BREAKING – New rifle fire signature (sound + visual rifle flash) recorded and posted by @RealDJstew724 (on X), appearing to show suppressed (sniper) rifle fire from a first floor window underneath the Crooks roof, fired TOWARD the Trump podium. Approximate time is 9.15 seconds… pic.twitter.com/fnlEI8Po7D
— HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) July 28, 2024
And you can download the full video directly from my Telegram post at this link.
CONCLUSIONS: The source of this video needs to be vetted. We have reached out to the user who posted it, and we are requesting original, raw video for further analysis. If this video is a hoax, it would represent a very difficult hoax to carry out, requiring strong technical skills in audio and video editing. If it is authentic, it completely changes the line of questioning (and timeline of events) surrounding this attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump.
If this video is authentic, then there is another shooter who clearly wasn’t aiming for Crooks.
Alberta’s Danielle Smith says Conservatives Must Embrace Homosexual ‘Couples’ as ‘Nuclear Families’
(LifeSiteNews) — In a wide-ranging interview with Jordan Peterson, a prominent member of Canada’s Conservative Party, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, insisted that conservatives should “modernize” their view of what the nuclear family looks like, including homosexuals “couples” seeking to obtain children.
Smith, who describes herself as a “conservative libertarian,” asserted that conservatives need to embrace “a broader view of the nuclear family.”
She noted that homosexuals “increasingly are wanting to have children” and claimed that there is “a growing gay conservative movement” that accepts the value of “monogamy” and “free enterprise.” However, the overwhelming majority of homosexuals accept “open” relationships and polygamy, as Smith failed to mention, and homosexual relationships are notorious for their short duration.
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“Conservatives have a little bit of a difficult time in modernizing their view of what that nuclear family looks like, but I think the principles are the same,” she added.
Peterson didn’t flinch, and let Smith’s comments on homosexual parenting pass by, then dove back into the conversation when Smith turned to the topics of the bleak hopelessness of the left’s worldview and dangers of “transitioning” for gender-confused youth.
‘The conservative proclivity not to be too judgmental’
Earlier in their discussion, Peterson had noted that “there is a proclivity among conservatives not to be too judgmental with regard to alternative family forms — single mothers, divorced people, and all the variant forms that human intimate relationship might take — and there is a necessity for understanding and tolerance in that regard, but you said earlier that it’s vital for the conservatives … to not forget to bring forward what was vital in the past.”
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However, what has been “vital” throughout modern civilization is mothers and fathers raising the children they create together. To do so with a missing mom or dad was always viewed as tragic for the children involved.
Peterson perhaps meant to imply homosexual pairings when he referred to “alternative family forms,” but he failed to mention homosexual “marriages” outright as being among those unable to “bring forward what was vital in the past.”
Destabilizing society
Peterson explained that “the idea that the nuclear family is the minimal viable social unit is probably true. You fragment below that and you probably destabilize your people [and] you also destabilize your society.
However, he was unwilling to challenge Smith’s assertion point-blank about the need for conservatives to expand their view of the nuclear family to include homosexuals seeking to raise children, perhaps demonstrating his own “proclivity … not to be too judgmental with regard to alternative family forms.”
‘Everybody belongs in the conservative movement, but not every idea does’
“Everybody belongs in the conservative movement. But not every idea does,” noted Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us, the world’s premiere children’s rights organization, after the Republican National Committee revised its official platform, dropping any mention of protecting the definition of marriage.
“Conservatism requires defending the reality that children have a right to life” and “children have a right to their mother and father,” declared Faust, before delivering a powerful punchline: “Thus man/woman marriage is the building block of society.”
‘Conservatism is founded upon timeless principles’
If you support homosexual “marriage,” “it means you’re not a movement conservative,” explained Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, in a 2021 Ethics & Public Policy Center interview.
Conservatism is founded upon timeless principles. “Movement conservatism means ideas tethered to the permanent things, eternal principles that are 100 times more important than any political party or its fortunes in any election cycle,” said Roberts. It recognizes “the existence of an enduring moral order that all of us have imprinted on our souls, or you know, for our atheist friends, on our nature.”
“Same-sex marriage contravenes our understanding of an enduring moral order. Which is at the root of being a movement conservative,” said Roberts.
Roberts made clear that there are “conservatives who are not movement conservatives because they are weak and wrong on the social issues [including] marriage.”
WHO Pushes for New mRNA Bird Flu Vaccines
The World Health Organization has announced a new project to accelerate the development of mRNA vaccines for bird flu, so they can be distributed in poor countries around the world.
The project, which aims to develop mRNA vaccines for the H5N1 strain, will be led by Argentinian company Sinergium Biotech.
Sinergium will establish a “proof of concept” with preclinical models, before sharing its data with manufacturers in poorer countries so they can manufacture vaccines themselves.
The UN health agency said the project would be implemented through the mRNA technology transfer program it established with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The program’s goal was to help low- and middle-income countries to develop and produce their own vaccines using new mRNA technology. It involves 15 manufacturing partners in countries from South Africa to Ukraine and Vietnam.
“This initiative exemplifies why WHO established the mRNA Technology Transfer Program,” said the agency’s chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a statement.
“When the next pandemic arrives, the world will be better prepared to mount a more effective and more equitable response.”
Meanwhile, a new study has shown that people who received an mRNA COVID vaccine are at a 620% increased risk of myocarditis and a 175% increased risk of pericarditis.
Researchers in South Korea looked at health data for over nine million South Koreans, and found that those who received mRNA vaccinations for COVID were a significantly elevated risk for a variety of cardiac and neurological conditions.
As well as the significant increases in risk for myo- and pericarditis given above, individuals who received an mRNA vaccination were at 62% increased risk for Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological condition.
There was also a 16% increased risk of the most common form of lupus and a 58% risk of bullous pemphigoid, a blistering skin condition. Booster shots were associated with increased risks of autoimmune conditions such as alopecia areata (hair loss), psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Another South Korean study recently found significant increases in the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive impairment in individuals given mRNA COVID vaccines.
Women’s Competitive Cycling Destroyed by Transgenders after Three Male ‘Transwomen’ Take Top Spots at Washington’s Marymoor Grand Prix Bike Race
A triplet of men who identify as “transwomen” “won” the recent Marymoor Grand Prix bike race at the Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome in Redmond, Wash., thanks to the venue’s strict “no bullying” policy.
“Bullying,” in this context, means excluding biological males from the all-female race even though they are not females but simply identify as such within the specially protected LGBTQ+ classification system for sexual deviancy.
According to reports, the Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome has been hosting controversial sports events for years that allow “transwomen” to participate in all sorts of female sports based on their self-chosen “gender identities.”
At the recent Grand Prix, at least three men were present in the female category during the women’s Madison race, a high-speed, two-person relay race. The race involves one partner from each team starting while the “resting” partner pedals slowly along the top of the track.
“Partners exchange positions by pulling even with each other and then relaying or ‘slinging’ the incoming partner into the race,” reported En-Volve.com about how the race works.
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UCI governing body for cycling banned transgender athletes in 2023
The three men who participated in the Madison race as “transwomen” and won include:
1) “Jenna” Lingwood, born as James, the women’s masters 40+ national cyclocross champion who placed first
2) Jordan Lothrop, a cyclist from Canada who had been racing with men as recently as 2023, who placed second
3) Eva Lin, born as Henry, who used to race for San Jose State University’s (SJSU) men’s team, who placed third
“Teams that had one male and one female went 1-2-3 in the women’s Madison at the Marymoor Grand Prix,” wrote a women’s rights advocate on X in jest about the “victories.” “I wonder what gave those teams an edge over the 100% female teams?”
Note that in July of 2023, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world governing body for cycling, banned all transgender athletes from participating in any of their events that have already gone through male puberty. UCI’s previous barriers, which included testosterone level restrictions, were deemed as not “sufficient to completely eliminate the benefits of testosterone during puberty in men,” according to a statement from the group.
“Given the current state of scientific knowledge, it is also impossible to rule out the possibility that biomechanical factors such as the shape and arrangement of the bones in their limbs may constitute a lasting advantage for female transgender athletes,” UCI further said.
UCI president David Lappartient added that his governing body has a “duty to guarantee, above all, equal opportunities” for all cycling competitors, which means keeping men out of women’s races.
“It is this imperative that led the UCI to conclude that, given the current state of scientific knowledge does not guarantee such equality of opportunity between transgender female athletes and cisgender female participants, it was not possible, as a precautionary measure, to authorize the former to race in the female categories,” Lappartient said.
Two months prior to UCI’s decision to ban transgender athletes, British Cycling introduced its own new policy creating a third “open” category of cycling in which people of any gender identity and sex are allow to compete.
“The female category would be restricted only to biological women, including those who identified as transgender, but who had yet to undertake hormone therapy,” reports explain.
“However, as noted by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, USA Cycling has not adopted these new, stricter policies that prevent biological males from competing with and beating women and girls.”
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