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US President Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2021

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/us-president-donald-trump-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-2021-5817661.html

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Trump goes full Nazi.............

‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/

Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting “jarring medical neglect” within the facility, including a refusal to test detainees for the novel coronavirus and an exorbitant rate of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women.

The nurse, Dawn Wooten, was employed at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, which is operated by LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company. The complaint was filed with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by advocacy groups Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network.

Multiple women came forward to tell Project South about what they perceived to be the inordinate rate at which women in ICDC were subjected to hysterectomies – a surgical operation in which all or part of the uterus is removed. Additionally, many of the immigrant women who underwent the procedure were reportedly “confused” when asked to explain why they had the surgery, with one detainee likening their treatment to prisoners in concentration camps.

“Recently, a detained immigrant told Project South that she talked to five different women detained at ICDC between October and December 2019 who had a hysterectomy done,” the complaint stated. “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’”

“When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies,” the detainee said.

According to Wooten, ICDC consistently used a particular gynecologist – outside the facility – who almost always opted to remove all or part of the uterus of his female detainee patients.

“Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody,” Wooten said, adding that, “everybody’s uterus cannot be that bad.”

“We’ve questioned among ourselves like goodness he’s taking everybody’s stuff out…That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector. I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something…Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”

Wooten – who is being represented in the matter by the Government Accountability Project – also confirmed that many of the detained women told her that they didn’t understand why they were being forced to have the procedure. She explained that some of the nurses who didn’t speak Spanish obtained consent from detainees “by simply googling Spanish.”

The complaint details several accounts from detainees, including one woman who was not properly anesthetized during the procedure and heard the aforementioned doctor tell the nurse he had mistakenly removed the wrong ovary, resulting in her losing all reproductive ability. Another said she was scheduled for the procedure but when she questioned why it was necessary, she was given at least three completely different answers.

“She was originally told by the doctor that she had an ovarian cyst and was going to have a small twenty-minute procedure done drilling three small holes in her stomach to drain the cyst,” according to the complaint. “The officer who was transporting her to the hospital told her that she was receiving a hysterectomy to have her womb removed. When the hospital refused to operate on her because her COVID-19 test came back positive for antibodies, she was transferred back to ICDC where the ICDC nurse said that the procedure she was going to have done entailed dilating her vagina and scraping tissue off. “

Another nurse then told her the procedure was to mitigate her heavy menstrual bleeding, which the woman had never experienced. When she explained that, the nurse “responded by getting angry and agitated and began yelling at her.”

According to The Intercept, ICE declined to comment on the allegations in the complaint, while a LaSalle Corrections spox said it was “firmly committed to the health and welfare of those in our care.”

“We are deeply committed to delivering high-quality, culturally responsive services in safe and humane environments,” the person said.

Law&Crime reached out to ICE for comment. Law&Crime also reached out to DHS OIG to ask whether it has received the complaint and whether it will investigate the allegations in it. We will update this story if we receive responses.

Read the full complaint below:

https://www.scribd.com/document/476013004/OIG-Complaint#from_embed?campaign=VigLink&ad_group=xxc1xx&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate

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Trump supporters yelling "white power" and running red lights through Elon.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Vesper said:

Trump supporters yelling "white power" and running red lights through Elon.

 

 

Typical North Carolina

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England And Wales Want to Make Misogyny A Hate Crime

https://jezebel.com/england-and-wales-want-to-make-misogyny-a-hate-crime-1845149688



The Law Commission, an independent body that recommends legal changes in England and Wales, is recommending that misogyny be made a hate crime. Currently, hate crime legislation in the countries cover “protected characteristics” including race, religion, transgender identity, sexual orientation, and disability—the new recommendation would extend that list of protected characteristics to also include sex or gender. After reviewing the current hate crime laws, the commission said that the majority of evidence it had seen about gender-based crimes was related to misogyny, but that they would consult further on whether “sex or gender” as a protected category would cover both men and women, or just women.

The Guardian reports that this recommendation is just one part of a broader push for misogyny to be classified as a hate crime, with an emphasis on recognizing street harassment experienced by women. And this push has already begun to influence policy and practices on a local level—a pilot program in Nottinghamshire which treated public harassment of women as a gender-based hate crime found that the majority of the people interviewed wanted the policy to continue.

Professor Penney Lewis, the criminal law commissioner, said this about the recommendation:



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Why is trump in blackface??

 

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The NY Times just dropped Trump's taxes, the ones he has been fighting for years to keep secret, and its a shitshow, he is a clear and present national security threat and las lied on financial disclosures for years. Some years he paid zero or near zero US taxes, whilst claiming in public he made hundreds of millions. He is leveraged up the arse to Russian oligarchs via Deutsche Bank loans.

 

NYT: Trump has "Hundreds of millions in debt coming due."

 

 

THE PRESIDENT’S TAXES

LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html?smid=tw-share

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.

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WARNING: Trump’s debt is a National Security Emergency . He is a compromised asset of Putin & likely still working for multiple foreign powers incl Russia & Saudi Arabia to stave off financial ruin.

 

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How did Putin convince a 70 year old drug addict, to expose himself to criminal prosecution by stepping into the political spotlight?

1) bribes

2) blackmail (just a little nudge when necessary)

3) bait : contract for Trump Tower Moscow

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Channel 4 News investigation reveals a huge Trump campaign data leak, exposing how 3.5 million Black Americans were listed as ‘Deterrence’ - to try to stop them voting in 2016.

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12 minutes ago, Vesper said:

All class.

Loved this.

Here are some surprising things we’ve learned about the US president’s finances

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/hairstyling-donald-trump-taxes-numbers-us-president-finances

$750

Federal tax Trump paid in 2016, when he won the presidency.

$750

Federal tax Trump paid the following year.

Zero

Federal tax paid by Trump in 10 of the previous 15 years, including 2014 and 2015.

$100,000 a year

By comparison, the kind of figure regularly paid in federal taxes by Trump’s predecessors, Barack Obama and George W Bush

$70,000

Paid to style Trump’s hair for television, claimed as expenses.

$95,464

The total sum nine of Trump’s companies have paid as expenses to style Ivanka Trump’s hair.

$210,000

The amount written off as expenses to hire a photographer taking photographs at the Mar-a-Lago club.

$26m

“Consulting fees” charged as a business expense between 2010 and 2018, at least some of which appears to have been directed to a company co-owned by Ivanka Trump.

$434m

What Trump declared his earnings to be in the 2018 presidential public annual financial disclosure.

$47.4m in losses

What he had declared to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for tax purposes over the same period.

$421m

Outstanding loans that Trump owes, most of which becomes due within the next four years.

$73m

Revenue generated from outside the US, presenting a potential conflict of interest with US foreign policy.

$13m

Earned in one licensing deal for Trump Towers in Istanbul, including $1m since he became president.

$72.9m

The tax refund Trump claimed and was awarded, which is now the subject of a decade-long audit battle with the IRS. It covered all the federal tax he had paid between 2005 and 2008.

$1.4m

The annual average amount of federal tax paid by Trump between 2000 and 2017. It compares with the $25m in federal income taxes the average American with similar declared earnings could expect to pay.

$100m

The amount Trump could now have to pay back to the IRS, including penalties, if it finds against him in the audit.

$315m

The sum reported “lost” by Trump’s golf courses since 2000.

‘Tens of millions of dollars’

What Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, claims the president has paid in personal taxes since 2015.

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Will we actually watch a debate tonight, or two senile men taking turns swiping insults at each other? 

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51 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Will we actually watch a debate tonight, or two senile men taking turns swiping insults at each other? 

Id stick them in a cage. 2 men enter 1 man leave!

Id have preferred to see them on Rogan so there was someone not scared to ask the hard questions and not blow smoke up their arses.

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1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

 or two senile men taking turns swiping insults at each other? 

This is exactly why we should watch it. I will be disappointed if there is no heat between them.

Watching debate for me is like watching comedy show.

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3 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

This is exactly why we should watch it. I will be disappointed if there is no heat between them.

Watching debate for me is like watching comedy show.

Told my wife I'm getting a glass of wine and popcorn. 

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1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

This is exactly why we should watch it. I will be disappointed if there is no heat between them.

Watching debate for me is like watching comedy show.

Id rather see them roast each other!