Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
Carter Sherman, - Vice News
Stephan: I actually had to read up on what this Trumplican anti-choice bill was actually about because the implication seemed to be that babies were routinely being killed after they were born alive, and I knew that wasn't happening. In my view, the entire anti-choice movement is really about male dominance.
If the anti-choice people actually cared about babies they would be making strong cases for pre- and post-natal care, early childhood programs, healthcare for children, and a host of other policies that foster child wellbeing. But, of course, they don't do any of those things. In fact a very strong case could be made that the Trumplican anti-choice movement doesn't really like children. I have written about this several times in an entirely fact-based way. (See
Why Doesn't America Like It's Children)
Abortion politics are, to put it lightly, contentious. But in the coming weeks, the Senate will vote on what may be their third rail: abortions that occur late in pregnancy.
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set up votes for a 20-week ban on abortions and a bill known as the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act.” While neither are expected to hit the 60-vote threshold they’d need to pass, the vote on the “Born-Alive” bill is red meat for conservatives — and the legions of anti-abortion voters they’re hoping to galvanize ahead of the 2020 elections.
Depends on who you ask. Supporters say that the bill isn’t really about restricting abortion. It’s about saving newborns’ lives.
“It makes sure that a baby that is born alive during a botched abortion would be given the same level of medical care that would be provided to any other baby at the same gestational age,” Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said during a Senate committee hearing on the bill on Tuesday. Sasse, a Republican, has sponsored […]
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
Howard Koplowitz, - AL.com
Stephan: I always find it interesting to observe how anti-choice men who are quite comfortable telling women they don't actually have control over their own bodies develop a serious case of the vapors when a woman suggests something about the law controlling men's control over their bodies. Here is an example of what I mean from the Alabama house. Bravo Rep. Rolanda Hollis, say I.
Alabama House of Representatives
Credit: Montgomery Advertiser
A state representative from Birmingham filed a bill Thursday that would require Alabama men to get a vasectomy once they reach 50 years old or father three children, “whichever comes first.”
The legislation by state Rep. Rolanda Hollis, D-Birmingham, says that a man will have to pay for the vasectomy “at his own expense.”
Hollis said the bill is a response to last year’s abortion bill that passed the legislature and included a near-total ban on abortion.
“The vasectomy bill is to help with the reproductive system, and yes, it is to neutralize the abortion ban bill … it always takes two to tango,” she said. “We can’t put all the responsibility on women. Men need to be responsible also.”
Hollis explained that she is “both” pro-life and pro-choice.
“I do not believe that women should use abortion as a birth control, but I do believe that if a women […]
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Monday, February 17th, 2020
Katie Benner, Reporter - The New York Times
Stephan: Over 1,100 men and women, who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations, and who care about the integrity of American jurisprudence have spoken out. It is a collective act without precedent in American history. T0 their undying shame the Congressional Trumplican Party under Moscow Mitch isn't listening, are you?
Criminal Trump’s familiar William Barr
WASHINGTON — More than 1,100 former federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials called on Attorney General William P. Barr on Sunday to step down after he intervened last week to lower the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for President Trump’s longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr.
They also urged current government employees to report any signs of unethical behavior at the Justice Department to the agency’s inspector general and to Congress.
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Monday, February 17th, 2020
Tim McMillan, - Popular Mechanics
Stephan: I frequently have readers write me asking about UFOs. Usually it is hard to answer because getting well-grounded reliable information about this issue is very difficult. I would say the majority of what you read, hear or see in the popular media is nonsense. But here finally is some reliable information.
Before publishing it I checked with two friends, one of whom worked with the Bob Bigelow mentioned in this report. They both know what is real and what is not better than anyone else I know. I have also known Hal Puthoff who is quoted in this piece for many years. I asked: "Can this be taken seriously?" The response: "Yes, take it very seriously."
The government can’t keep its story straight about its involvement with UFO research. After a yearlong investigation, we bust open the files, break through the noise, and reveal the definitive, staggering truth.
As I sit in a small cafe in the shadow of the ancient Roman gates in Trier, Germany, talking to a person whose credibility seems beyond reproach, but who will only agree to talk to me if provide absolute assurances of anonymity, I can’t help but feel like I’m trapped in a Dan Brown novel. The Da Vinci Code, however, never dealt with unidentified flying objects.
“Was it about UFOs? Of course,” this person whispers with a grin of melodrama.
After almost a year of investigating the U.S. government’s interest in UFOs, what they’ve just said should neither be shocking, nor revelatory. Unbeknownst to them, they’ve only further confirmed what over a dozen other people with backgrounds inside the government and the now-defunct Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) have already admitted to me.
Just like the fictional Robert Langdon, the path to understanding these mysterious […]
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Monday, February 17th, 2020
PETER WADE, - RollingStone
Stephan: Under criminal Trump's administration, the full thuggification of the U.S. Border Patrol has been achieved. I don't see much difference between what Trump is ordering them to do, and what Hitler ordered the SS to do about going into cities to drag out Jews. The only difference between Hitler and Trump is the ovens.
Most Americans don't seem to be aware that 91% of the people who grow the food they eat, 62.8% of the people who work in slaughterhouses and seafood cleaning and packing companies, 28% of physicians and surgeons, 16% of nurses, 23% of nursing aides and home healthcare workers are immigrants. Without immigrants, you would starve, and as people who live in rural areas are discovering, you could be without healthcare.
Oh, did I mention that it is well documented that criminal Trump himself routinely has employed undocumented workers at all his resorts, golf clubs, and hotels? Like everything else he says, his pronouncements about immigrants are all lies. But the Trumpers don't care.
As for the Border Patrol thugs: I think they should be shunned by their neighbors, and when they come to an area or go into something like a supermarket everyone should turn their backs on them. They need to be ostracized by decent society.
Border Patrol agents holds a group thought to have entered the country illegally, near McAllen, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Credit: Eric Gay/AP/Shutterstock
President Donald Trump is deploying border patrol agents from tactical units to sanctuary cities across the nation to arrest undocumented people.
According to the New York Times, one hundred agents from the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), will assist local Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with arrests of undocumented people in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit and Newark, N.J.
The Times also notes that BORTAC is an elite tactical unit the goes through Special Forces-type training, carry stun grenades, and acts “essentially as the SWAT team of the Border Patrol.”
The president’s aggressive move counters those of local officials who have disregarded the administration’s call to enforce immigration policies that would lead to arrests and deportation of undocumented people.
ICE’s acting director, Matthew Albence released a statement that read in part, “As we have noted for years, in […]
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