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Trauma and Truth: Guess what feminists
now say constitues rape
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by Heather Mac Donald   
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Drones swamp US-Mexico border but federal 
agents powerless to stop them
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI identified this week unmanned aerial systems, or drones, as one of the greatest national security threats to America... rating it as severe a concern as cybersecurity hacks, critical infrastructure attacks, and terrorism. While drones are often thought of as techie toys, officials are becoming increasingly worried about the threat they pose and are warning it's only a matter of time until the devices are used to drop a bomb or fentanyl powder on people in a populated area. Drones are already used by transnational criminal syndicates and drug cartels. The technology is readily available to terrorist groups. Incidents that have gained public attention in recent years have largely involved inexperienced fliers losing control of the aircraft, but the military and law enforcement officers are already dealing with cases of drones being used for illicit purposes. Border Patrol agents and port officers belonging to the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency are dealing with drones being used as airborne spies. On the U.S.-Mexico border, drones are already being used to spy on federal law enforcement operations and smuggle contraband through the sky. The first drug smuggling incident via drone was documented in Nov. 2015. Now, it's a daily occurrence in some regions of the southern border, but it's rarely reported because CBP is unable to seize the devices. Arrests are rare...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drones-swamp-us-mexico-border-but-federal-agents-powerless-to-stop-them?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/13/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief
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Yes, Media Scolds, It's a Left-Wing Mob
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{townhall.com} ~ In the wake of the Kavanaugh fight, many Republicans and conservatives used their basic faculties... to detect a strong and distinct strain of intimidation tactics within the Left's manifestations of opposition. We witnessed  unhinged disruptions of hearings, violent and sexual threats against Senators, doxxing of elected GOP officials, hoards of agitators  charging past police to swarm the Supreme Court, banging on its doors while chanting, and 'activists' hounding elected Republicans out of restaurants. Elements of the Left were acting like an angry, dangerous mob. We also saw mainstream political figures within the dummycrats-Democratic Party winking at the mob, from liar-Hillary Clinton, to scumbag-Eric Holder, to scumbag-Mazie Hirono -- to say nothing of the more explicit calls for incitement and harassment from scumba/mad--Maxine Waters and scumbag-Cory Booker. These threats and out-of-bounds "protests" were correctly identified and denounced by Republican leaders. Mitch McConnell gave multiple speeches  condemning the mob, with other members chiming in with their stories and warnings.  Colorado Senator Cory Gardner revealed that someone texted gruesome beheading images to his wife's personal cellphone prior to the Kavanaugh vote, and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise -- who was nearly assassinated by a leftist last year -- wrote an op/ed calling on dummycrats-Democrats to more explicitly urge their base to reject irresponsible rhetoric and actions: As a survivor of a politically motivated attack, it is tragic to think this is an acceptable state of political discourse in our country. I refuse to stand for this and I will continue to call for an end to it. A healthy, strong democracy is not possible if anyone lives in fear of expressing their views. If this is going to stop, it must start with dummycrats-Democratic leaders, who need to condemn, rather than promote these dangerous calls to action. In America, we win battles at the ballot box, not through mob rule or intimidation. While it’s clear many dummycrats-Democrats refuse to accept the election of President Trump, if they want change, they need to convince people with their ideas and actually win elections, rather than call for violent resistance, harassment, and mob rule. As I see, working in Congress every day, it’s possible to agree without being disagreeable and address political differences in a civil manner. That’s an example leaders need to continue to set...
Busted: dummycrats-Dem Senate Candidate’s ‘Hurricane Relief’
Link Re-Directs to  dummycrats-Dem Fundraising Page
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by Peter D'Abrosca   
{bigleaguepolitics.com} ~ A Florida dummycrats-Democrat running for U.S. Senate was busted Thursday morning for apparently masquerading a Hurricane Michael donation link... as a dummycrats-Democrat fundraising tool. “Speaking of @NelsonForSenate fundraising during hurricane, this is interesting: The link his campaign posted to raise money for disaster relief efforts takes you to ActBlue, the  dummycrats-Democrat’s fundraising engine. Building donor list through hurricane relief contributions? #FLSen,” according to Free Beacon’s Brent Scher. Speaking of @NelsonForSenate fundraising during hurricane, this is interesting: The link his campaign posted to raise money for disaster relief efforts takes you to ActBlue, the  dummycrats-Democrat's fundraising engine. Building donor list through hurricane relief contributions?  #FLSen pic.twitter.com/gnq6JF1isW — Brent Scher (@BrentScher) October 11, 2018Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is fighting for dear life to keep his seat against surging Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican. ActBlue’s mission statement is to “empower small-dollar donors.” It is an independent software non-profit that has been used to raise over two billion dollars for dummycrats-Democrats and their causes since 2004...
The Purge Is Here: Hundreds of Political Social Media 
Pages Deleted Without Warning
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{activistpost.com} ~ My page of over two million Facebook followers (Anti-Media) was unpublished today... and I was also suspended from Twitter for no specific reason Anti-Media was also suspended from Twitter. Note: I’m now unable to find the list Prop or Not compiled, but suffice to say Anti-Media was on it, and so were multiple others purged today. To be safe, I’ll modify my statement in video from “a lot of the outlets” to “at least some.”Find me on Instagram and Twitter, assuming they revoke the suspension: @CareyWedler And Facebook, where my Carey Wedler public page is still alive:  https://www.facebook.com/CareyWedler/
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IDF kills three Gazans who blow hole in fence, 
cross border, run at troops
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ Seven Palestinians were killed and at least 252 protesters were injured in intense clashes with Israeli security forces along the Gaza border on Friday afternoon and evening... the Hamas-run health ministry said. In the most serious incident, in the south of the Strip, the IDF said several Gazans planted a bomb by the fence. After it exploded and blew a hole in the fence, some 20 Palestinians came through and ran toward Israeli soldiers stationed in a snipers’ position. Most of the Gazans pulled back and returned through the fence into the Strip. However, three continued to move towards soldiers, who fired at them, killing them. The bodies of the three were taken back into the Strip by the rioters, Hadashot TV said. “This is a blatant terror attempt that was thwarted by IDF troops quickly and professionally which prevented a possible terror attack against civilians and IDF troops,” the IDF said noting that a knife was found at the scene. The army said around 15,000 protesters hurled grenades, bombs, firebombs and rocks at Israeli forces at various locations along the border. Hadashot TV reported that for the first time soldiers were also being shot at with crossbows...
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Trauma and Truth: Guess what feminists
now say constitues rape
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by Heather Mac Donald 

{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court dealt the #MeToo and #BelieveSurvivors movements their first major defeat. Those feminist ideologies will continue wreaking havoc throughout American institutions, however — especially the claim that self-professed sexual-assault victims deserve unqualified belief.

That idea — that the presumption of innocence, fundamental to common law, should be suspended for accusations of sexual assault — has been the cornerstone of the campus-rape bureaucracy; during the Kavanaugh hysteria, that conceit jumped out of the ivory tower into the world at large. It will be no easy task to put it back. In preparation for the next Salem witch trial-like ordeal, therefore, it is worth empirically rebutting the #BelieveSurvivors mandate, as well as its corollary: the claim that if most self-professed rape survivors in our patriarchal culture don't report their assaults, that's because the "social and emotional" costs are too high, as California congressman Ted Lieu explained on MSNBC last Sunday.

Columbia University's infamous "mattress girl," Emma Sulkowicz, was conducting an on-again, off-again sexual relationship with another student, Paul Nungesser. Two days after one of their consensual couplings, in August 2012, Nungesser invited Sulkowicz to a party in his room. She texted back: "yusss," adding: "Also I feel like we need to have some real time where we can talk about life and thingz because we still haven't really had a paul-emma chill sesh since summmmerrrr." A week later, she suggested that they hang out together: "I want to see yoyououoyou." Two months later, she texted: "I love you Paul. Where are you?!?!?!?!"

It wasn't until eight months after their August 2012 coupling that Sulkowicz filed a campus-rape charge, alleging that Nungesser had anally raped her while she struggled and told him to stop. She claims that she waited so long to file so as to avoid re-traumatizing herself. Nungesser argues that she was simply chagrined that they had not become an exclusive couple. Whatever Sulkowicz's motivation for filing, it is impossible to read her post-coital pleas to Nungesser as the aftermath of the most terrifying experience a woman can have, short of murder, rather than as the attempts of a female to reel a favored male back into her orbit.

Nevertheless, Sulkowicz was canonized as a martyr to rape culture, thanks to her stunt of carrying around a mattress to protest Columbia's failure to expel Nungesser. New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand declared herself "inspired by Emma and all of her sisters in arms who have made their voices heard and given voice to thousands of other survivors all around the country." Gillibrand invited Sulkowicz to President scumbag/liar-nObama's 2015 State of Union address in order to "further amplify her voice."

In September 2013, two freshmen at Occidental College in Southern California had sex after both had been on a 24-hour drinking binge. After making out at a party in the male's dorm room, they conspired to evade the girl's friends, who had escorted her back to her own room. The male, known as "John Doe" in court papers, texted "Jane Doe": "The second that you away from them, come back." Jane responded: "Okay." John wrote back: "Just get back here." Jane responded: "Okay do you have a condom." John replied: "Yes." Jane texted back: "Good, give me two minutes." Before leaving her dorm room for their appointed tryst, Jane texted a friend from back home: "I'm going to have sex now." After their sexual encounter, Jane texted a smiley face to her friends. She then went to a common room and sat on another guy's lap, joking about NASCAR. The next day she went back to John's room to pick up her earrings and belt.

Jane reported their coupling to campus authorities only after seeing that John was unaffected emotionally by it, whereas she, having lost her virginity, felt distracted and unable to concentrate. Having been instructed in the ways of the patriarchy by Occidental's Title IX bureaucracy, she decided that she should not have to experience the psychological discomfort of randomly running into John Doe around campus, and that he should be expelled. Occidental was only too happy to comply. It found John Doe guilty of rape and expelled him in December 2013.

Jane's psychological distress was undoubtedly real. Sexual liberation pretends that males and females respond identically to one-night stands, and that the loss of virginity is just an insignificant way station en route to the rounds of casual sex expected of contemporary adults. In fact, women are hormonally and emotionally affected by intercourse in a way that most men are not. And traditional culture was right to regard the loss of virginity as a milestone in a girl's life, and to surround it with the sanctifying rituals of marriage.

But however understandable Jane's post-coital emotions, they do not justify converting what was clearly a mutually agreed-upon coupling into rape. Any male whose partner asks about condoms, then voluntarily enters his bed for the express purpose of sex, is going to assume consent, and with reason.

In 2014, Brett Sokolow, a prominent advisor on campus sexual-misconduct cases, provided another window into the consensual sex that the feminist-industrial complex converts into campus rape. In an open letter to the higher-education community, he described a series of trumped-up charges with which his Title IX consulting firm had been involved, including a female student who had spread rumors by social media that she had been raped by a male student. She then admitted to investigators that she had consented to their drunken hook-up. When asked why she had called the encounter rape, she replied: "You know, because we were drunk. . . . we just call it that when we're drunk or high."

In another case, a female student was caught by her boyfriend while cheating on him with another male student. She then filed a complaint of assault against that second male. The morning after their sexual encounter, they had exchanged texts. He wrote: "How do I compare with your boyfriend?" She responded to the boy she later accused of rape: "You were great."

In 1985, Ms. magazine published a study by psychologist Mary Koss that gave rise to the statistic that one in four college females would be sexually assaulted during college. The study also found that 42 percent of putative rape victims went on to have intercourse again with their alleged assailant — a behavior inconceivable in the case of actual rape. In fact, it was the researcher herself who classified the subjects as victims; 73 percent of the women whom the researcher designated as rape survivors said that they hadn't been raped, when asked directly.

According to the #BelieveSurvivors platform, the reason why most researcher-classified rape victims don't report their rapes is because the reporting process is too anti-female and re-traumatizing. In fact, most researcher-classified rape victims don't report because they don't think what happened to them was serious enough to report — another conclusion inconceivable in the case of actual rape.

In 2015, the Association of American Universities (AAU) conducted a sexual-assault survey at 27 selective colleges. The vast majority of survey respondents whom the AAU researchers classified as sexual-assault victims never reported their alleged assaults to their colleges' rape hotlines, sexual-assault resource centers, or Title IX offices, much less to campus or city police. And the overwhelming reason that the alleged victims did not report is that they did not think that what happened to them was that serious. At Harvard, for example, over 69 percent of female respondents who checked the box for penetration by use of force did not report the incident to any authority. Most of those non-reporters — 65 percent — did not think that their experience was serious enough to report. Over 78 percent of Harvard female respondents who checked the box for penetration due to "incapacitation" did not report. Three-quarters of them said that what happened to them was not serious enough to report. This is a judgment not allowed by the campus rape industry.

Even before the sexual revolution destroyed the norms that once governed the male libido and that steadied the relationship between the sexes, sex was the realm of ambiguity and indirection. The #BelieveSurvivors contingent asserts that survivors rarely if ever lie about their experiences — meaning, they rarely make those experiences up out of whole cloth. This assertion is mostly true; in most cases of alleged campus rape, something did happen between the accused and the accuser. The issue is how to classify what happened. (To be sure, there are rapes that go unreported, but there are also outright fabrications, such as the Rolling Stone University of Virginia campus rape hoax, which cost the magazine millions in damages, and the Duke lacrosse team rape hoax, for which the local prosecutor lost his law license.) The #BelieveSurvivors movement claims unique authority to interpret women's experiences, even if that means ignoring a woman's own classification of her experience as not rape.

The rest of us need not accede to this assertion of monopoly interpretive power. Our booze-fueled hook-up culture has made relations between men and women messier than ever, leaving many girls and women with pangs of regret — but those regrets do not equal rape. If we were actually in the midst of an "epidemic of sexual assault," as New Jersey senator scumbag-Cory Booker asserted the evening of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, we would presumably have seen women and girls take protective actions, such as avoiding frat parties and flocking to single-sex schools. None of those protective actions has occurred, however. Either women are too clueless to avoid patent danger, or the epidemic of sexual assault is a fiction. All evidence points to the latter conclusion. Judge Brett Kavanaugh may be the latest male to have his life torn apart by that fiction, but he won't be the last.

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