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June 21, 2016

Harvard University Graduate, Ted "Unabomber" Kaczynski, Denies He Wrote Letters To Journalists



Ted Kaczynski

[From article]
The Unabomber wants to make it clear - he is not that creep who is sending letters to journalists agreeing to be interviewed.
'Some creep in Santa Barbara, California, has been sending letters in my name to various journalists, requesting an interview and expressing what he pretends are my opinions,' the Unabomber, also known by his real name Ted Kaczynski, 74, wrote to a reporter at BuzzFeed.
The reporter's name is Andrew Kaczynski, no relation to Ted.
The Unabomber is ticked off because of a letter that was sent to New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright in May. The sender claimed to be Kaczynski, and offered an interview to whichever journalist would affirm that he is not mentally ill.
It read: 'I am ready to speak to someone from the media regarding my brother's recent comments and to discuss how they are being used to torment me.'
'I am only granting one interview to one person. In order to determine who will get the interview, I am asking you to write me back affirming that you understand that I am NOT mentally ill, as my brother Dave, would have you believe.'
Wright then tweeted a snapshot of the letter with the snarky reply, 'Thanks, Ted, you're not nuts at all'.
Kaczynski, who was spared the death penalty after it was determined he suffered from schizophrenia, may indeed be mentally ill, however, he wants everyone to know he's not the person who wrote those letters.
At least one other journalist, Bryan Denson, formerly of the Oregonian, also received the same letter.
'I'm not going to give any interviews,' wrote the real Kaczynski from his Colorado prison cell. 'And I do not necessarily share the opinions expressed in that creep's letters.'
He then went on to scold journalists who bought that the letter was from him without doing any fact checking.
'Competent journalists would look at the post marks from the letters they receive. If a letter has been postmarked from California, then obviously I could not have sent it. Moreover, competent journalists would have checked the handwriting on that creep's letters against the samples of my handwriting that are readily available on the Internet.
'But many journalists are too stupid or lazy to take such precautions so they've been duped by the aforesaid creep.'
It's unclear how Kaczynski knew the original letters were postmarked from Santa Barbara. Kaczynski is serving his life sentence at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado.
This time the letter has the hallmarks of being legitimate.
'The letter is post-marked from Colorado, yes. It also has to be him because we mailed the letter to him at prison so it makes sense that he responded,' Andrew Kaczynski of BuzzFeed wrote to the DailyMail.com.
The Unabomber killed three and injured 23 people over the course of an 18-year bombing campaign that often targeted universities and airlines.
His brother, David, helped investigators identify Kaczynski, and recently wrote a book detailing stories about his brother as well as his personal struggle turning him in.
Kaczynski was arrested in April 1996 and avoided capital punishment after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to four life terms instead.
The fake Kaczynski's handwritten letter, which is dated April 4, 2016, was posted on Wright's twitter feed in May.
It read: 'I am ready to speak to someone from the media regarding my brother's recent comments and to discuss how they are being used to torment me.
'I am only granting one interview to one person. In order to determine who will get the interview, I am asking you to write me back affirming that you understand that I am NOT mentally ill, as my brother Dave, would have you believe.'
It also urged Wright to introduce himself and explain why he should be trusted.
The Unabomber’s trail of destruction had baffled the FBI from its barbaric outset in 1978, when he sent his first bomb to the University of Illinois at Chicago which exploded and injured a security guard.
The bomber set off another device in the cargo hold of an American Airlines flight in 1979, injuring 12 and forcing it to make an emergency landing.
He killed computer store owner Hugh Scrutton near his shop in Sacramento in 1985 and murdered advertising executive Thomas Mosser with a bomb sent to his home in North Caldwell, New Jersey in 1994.
The bomber also killed California Forestry Association president Gilbert Murray in 1995 with a package bomb sent to his Sacramento office.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3651477/Unabomber-writes-journalist-saying-earlier-letters-claiming-HOAX-creep-Santa-Barbara.html

Unabomber writes to journalist saying earlier letters claiming to be him were a HOAX and from 'some creep in Santa Barbara'
Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, says he is not the man who wrote to journalists in May claiming to be him
The real Unabomber has written to BuzzFeed saying that the media was victim of a hoax and he never wrote letters to journalists
He carried out 18-year bombing through mail, targeting airlines and universities, killing three and injuring 23
Brother David recognized his writing style in Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto and tipped investigators
Kaczynski was arrested in 1996, diagnosed with schizophrenia and sentenced to four life sentences
The 'fake' Ted recently penned a letter to New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright saying he was not mentally ill
By KIRI BLAKELEY and OLLIE GILLMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:06 EST, 20 June 2016 | UPDATED: 21:20 EST, 20 June 2016

June 5, 2016

Increased Jew Hatred In Massachusetts, Politicians Are Role Models



Newton Mayor Setti Warren responded to a question from Charles Jacobs at a community discussion at a community meeting on April 7.
Photo: KATHERINE TAYLOR FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Interesting article yet lacking in specifics. Professor Sarna recognizes the role of politicians in creating a hateful atmosphere. Campaigning for president former U.S. Senator, First Lady, and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton called Republican candidate Donald Trump, crazy and dangerous. That is the pervasive attitude promoted by police, lawyers, courts, and politicians toward persons with disabilities. It is seldom recognized as hateful not even by journalists, who join in the hate campaign against disabled persons. Not distinguishing between lawful and unlawful discrimination in Massachusetts, the Attorney General indicates her less than thoughtful idea on the issue. Though she is quick to note any slight toward homosexuals and their powerful lobbyists. The AG seldom notices or expresses any concern about institutionalized bigotry toward persons with disabilities. Then there is the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who was a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Being relentlessly humiliated for her identity by conservative journalists she was unable refrain from employing personal attacks against Donald Trump. Is she a role model indicating her approval of hatred toward persons with who she disagrees?  

[From article]
Reports of anti-Semitic incidents are soaring this year across New England, an increase fueled by vandalism, harassment, and other acts at schools and colleges, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League.
According to the ADL, there have already been 56 anti-Semitic acts in the region this year, nearly as many as for all of 2015, when 61 were reported.
The data alarmed Jewish clergy and academics, who said the incidents suggest a rising level of intolerance that may feed on the rhetoric from the contentious political season.
“Clearly, people are acting out on some long-held stereotypes and hatred toward Jews, and it’s designed to send a message of intimidation,” said Robert Trestan, director of the New England Regional Office of the ADL. “We’re increasingly living in an environment where incivility is becoming common and accepted practice.”
[. . .]
Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna said he believes a combination of social media, anti-Israel sentiment, and rhetoric from politicians has led to a sense of public acceptance of some anti-Semitism.
“There is a sense today that this kind of hatred is more acceptable and that the public square has become coarser than it had been in the past, and indeed, one senses that even in presidential politics that there is often a relationship,” Sarna said.
“We look to a candidate as role models. When they employ very coarse speech, and people take notice, it’s not a surprise that other folks do the same thing.’’
[. . .]
Among the schools scheduled to take part are all four middle schools in Newton. At Newton’s F.A. Day Middle School, three anti-Semitic incidents were reported this academic year, including graffiti reading “Burn the Jews” scrawled in a boy’s bathroom.
The incidents prompted Newton officials to hold a public meeting, which in itself became a divisive event.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren said Wednesday that he was not surprised to hear about the uptick in anti-Semitic incidents.
[. . .]
Harvard Law School emeritus professor Alan Dershowitz said it was hard to measure the current state of anti-Semitism in statistics since many incidents go unreported.
He said he receives around 50 anti-Semitic e-mails, letters, and phone calls each year but does not report them to law enforcement.
[. . .]
Attorney General Maura Healey, who has yet to see the full data, called hate crimes an “egregious” type of an attack.
“Even a single incident of bias and hate is one too many. Discrimination is unacceptable in any form,
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/01/adl-anti-semitic-incidents-nearly-match-reports/V2rDzJULWVCtnpksXyIBLO/story.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Neptune+Web+E-Blast&utm_content=Boston+Globe+Admits%3A+Anti-Jewish+Incidents+Abound+in+the+Hub&utm_campaign=Boston+Globe+anti-semitism+article

Anti-Semitic incidents are soaring, group says
By Steven A. Rosenberg
GLOBE STAFF 
 JUNE 02, 2016

May 15, 2016

Propaganda Promoted By Major Media and Prominent Journalists




[From article]
First they came for the baker, and I said nothing, because I was not a baker.
Then they came for the photographer, and I did nothing, because I was not a photographer.
Then they came for the institution of marriage, but I was not married.
Then they came for the girls' bathrooms, but I was not a girl.
Then they came for the tolerant in the name of tolerance, but I didn't understand.
Calling themselves progressives, they seek to destroy progress.
They rewrite history to control the future.
They have deformed the Constitution into a suicidal playbook.
Their appointed justices say the Constitution is a living document.
But if the Constitution is living, then it is dead.
They have replaced Jeffersonian individualism and free enterprise with the Leviathan State.
[. . .]



They steal from the worker through taxing his wages and give it to those who vote for a living.
Voter fraud is justified as a means to end. Nothing is beneath them.
They disarm the law-abiding to make victims defenseless against the emboldened criminal.
Before, they came for the Jew, but now they also come for the Christian and Western civilization itself.



Yet they protect the illegal alien and Muslim immigrant hordes.
They shame our cultures and our borders, but theirs are sacrosanct.
They tell us it is our fault that we are blown up and beheaded.
They prey on the humane and decent and use their humanity and decency against them.
They brandish pseudo-phobias as both spear and shield.
Shouting for racial justice, they incite racial hatred.
Failing incitement, they fabricate hoax incidents of hate against themselves for attention and sympathy.
[. . .]



They crusade on campus to enslave free minds and enforce conformity to an ideological assimilation of attitude.
They attack Judeo-Christianity with religious fervor yet worship at the altar of secular atheism while embracing sharia.
They strive to enslave the people of the planet in the name of saving the planet.
They foment panic of plant food while ignoring data of epochs past.
They use the siren song of entertainment media to demoralize, desensitize, and dumb down.
Now I see the truth as the scales of my public education and trust in media fall from my eyes.
Yet now the twin tides of the nihilist and the zealot ooze forth to pillage and rape.
Pillage of my culture and rape of women because they are daughters of the infidel, or maybe just because their skin is white.
They feel entitled through self-esteem, though they are retarded from generations of ideological inbreeding.
They demand charity for merely existing and reparations for something that never happened to them.
Left, thy name is hate. Yet with gnashed teeth, they call us the haters, because we hate what they are doing to all that we love.
They wage guilt and gall.
They worship mayhem and madness.
They bond in a cult of duplicity and death.
Oppose not this sacrilege at your own peril.
Pacifism in the face of evil is the greater evil.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/march_of_the_orwellians.html

May 11, 2016
March of the Orwellians
By W.R. Wansley

February 10, 2016

White House Cronies In Homeland Security Use Journalists To Smear Whistleblower



Special Agent Taylor Johnson

[From article]
The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday dismissed an ICE whistleblower it was secretly smearing to reporters after she testified before Congress about her troubles with the agency.
Special Agent Taylor Johnson — who had a storied career until she irked Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid by objecting to a visa program for foreign investors tied to the senator’s son — says she declined to take a $100,000 severance package because it included a non-disclosure agreement.
Gee, what a great use of taxpayer money that would have been. Pay a woman not to talk about what already got nationwide coverage when she talked about it before Congress.
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Todd Breasseale did not respond to multiple inquiries about the reason for Johnson’s dismissal and why they tried to buy her silence.
Despite all the media coverage of her case, including a Washington Gadfly report that the ICE press secretary with the approval of Breasseale was peddling confidential information to discredit her in violation of the Privacy Act, Taylor is not surprised she got the boot.
“My entire chain of command was appointed by Obama,” she remarked. “They can do anything they want.”
In testimony last June to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Johnson said she was stripped of her gun and badge, without explanation, after discovering fraud and abuse.
“Some of the violations investigated surrounding the project included bank and wire fraud, and I discovered ties to organized crime and high-ranking politicians and they received promotions that appeared to facilitate the program,” Johnson testified.
She said that during her investigation in 2013, she “discovered that EB-5 applicants from China, Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia had been approved in as little as 16 days” and that case files “lacked the basic and necessary law enforcement queries.”
At ICE, Johnson had amassed many awards and never had any disciplinary problems. But everything changed abruptly in 2013 when she invoked the ire of Senator Reid by holding up a visas (sic) for a foreigner investor in a Las Vegas casino represented by his son, attorney Cory Reid.
The Senator’s office complained to Johnson’s Special Agent in Charge. She was then placed on administrative leave, without explanation, on October 13, 2013.
Under pressure from Senate Democratic staffers Johnson did not mention in her testimony the role Reid’s office played in her ouster. But the DHS Inspector General concluded in a report last March that U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) director Alejandro Mayorkas intervened in “an unprecedented matter” to approve EB-5 visas for the Las Vegas casino investors after pressure from Reid’s office.
The report essentially vindicated complaints by Johnson and other DHS employees about the program.
DHS has never given any public explanation for the disciplinary action it took against Johnson. After the hearing a DHS spokeswoman said they do not talk about personnel matters. But this past December, ICE press secretary Gillian Christensen, citing confidential information from Johnson’s file, tried to convince this reporter off the record that she was a dishonest and a problem employee.
That argument is going to be even harder to peddle now that the Department would have allowed Johnson to leave with a clean work record and $100,000 in spending money if she promised to keep her mouth shut.
Johnson is soliciting donations on gofundme.com to cover legal fees for a possible federal lawsuit.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/09/exclusive-ice-whistleblower-fired-after-refusing-dhs-hush-money/

EXCLUSIVE: ICE Whistleblower Fired After Refusing DHS Hush Money
EVAN GAHR, Investigative Journalist
12:57 AM 02/09/2016

February 5, 2016

Belgian Reporter Assaulted On Air By Germans in Germany



RTBF journalist Esmeralda Labye (pictured left) was describing the atmosphere at the Cologne carnival not far from the main station (right) when the attack happened.

[From article]
A Belgian journalist has told how drunken German yobs whispered 'would you sleep with me tonight' into her ear and then sexually assaulted her live on air.
Esmeralda Labye had been unaware of the young men making obscene gestures behind her back as she reported live from the Cologne carnival - where more than 2,000 police had been drafted in following multiple sexual assaults in the city over New Year's Eve.
But while the New Year's Eve assaults have been largely blamed on a mob of young migrant men, the assault on Ms Labye was carried out by Germans.
[. . .]
‘When I started my broadcast at 1.14pm, two or three men monopolised attention. I didn’t see them, as I was focusing on my live broadcast and they were behind me.
‘I got a kiss on the back of the neck. It was women’s day in Cologne, and there was a lot of kissing. In this context I wasn’t worried, so I continued my report.
[. . .]
‘Almost immediately, a young German sang in my ear: “Would you sleep with me tonight?” Then I felt two hands rest on my shoulders.
‘Later, I could see on the footage that the person behind me mimed an obscene gesture – something that shouldn’t have been on camera. He was mimicking sexual intercourse a number of times.
‘I could clearly see on my left a man made a finger to the camera. Many times even. I thought that, logically, there would be no problem, given the large police presence.'
The broadcast lasted for a total of 90 seconds, after which Ms Labye waited a couple of seconds to allow those in the studio to thank her before she went off air.
‘It was at that moment that one of the three men around me touched my breasts,' she revealed.
‘I lost my temper. Knowing we were no longer live, I turned around and told them in English: "You did that twice, not once! Don’t touch me, don’t touch me!".
'The three drunks didn’t seem to understand why I was angry, but they left without a word.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3433445/Female-reporter-sexually-assaulted-man-live-camera-reports-Cologne-festival.html

'He whispered 'would you sleep with me tonight' and grabbed my breasts': TV reporter sexually assaulted live on air tells how she was groped by three drunk German yobs who simulated sex behind her
RTBF journalist Esmeralda Labye was reporting from the Cologne carnival
While live on air, a man sexually assaulted her by grabbing her breast
Police are looking for two men, wanted in connection with the attack
Police have confirmed that there were 18 reported cases of sexual assault and 181 people arrested at the carnival
By NABILA RAMDANI and FLORA DRURY and TOM WYKE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:57 EST, 5 February 2016 | UPDATED: 14:16 EST, 5 February 2016



January 14, 2016

Donald Trump Exposed? A Critical Look




[From article]
In 2013, after flirting with running for the Republican presidential nomination a year earlier, Donald Trump essentially endorsed Bill DeBlasio, who was known to be a committed socialist with a long record of being on the extreme left. Trump said,
“I think pretty strongly that he’ll be a good mayor. Maybe a very good mayor and I don’t think he’s going to want to kill the golden goose.”
This was said before the election when there was a viable Republican candidate running against DeBlasio. Just how committed to conservative principles is Donald Trump? Does he really have a core set of principles?
[. . .]
Over the years Trump has contributed enormous sums of money to individual Democrats and party campaign committees including the most unethical and partisan Senate Majority Leader in recent history, Harry Reid. Trump has justified these contributions as being necessary to essentially buy influence in order to get his real estate projects etc. approved. Perhaps so, but that does not explain when asked in February of 2014 who were his favorite journalists, he listed such liberal luminaries as: Maureen Dowd, Diane Sawyer, Andrea Peyser, George Stephanopoulis, Bob Scheiffer and Mika Brezinski. Therefore, does Trump, in his heart, still believe what he said in 1999 when he quit the Republican Party saying, “I just believe the Republicans are just too crazy right.”?
Donald Trump will turn 70 in June of this year. An age when one’s character and belief system has been firmly established for some period of time. Yet as someone his senior I must ask him: “Donald, who the hell are you and why should the American people trust you with the fate of the country potentially hanging in the balance.”?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/who_is_donald_trump.html

January 13, 2016
Who is Donald Trump?
By Steve McCann

December 30, 2015

Journalists Misleading Voters and Taxpayers on Behalf of Wealthy Elite




[From article]
Now's the time to reread Melville. This was the Year of the Swindle. Melville's Confidence-Man depicts all the chicanery of cultural and political discourse in the U.S. today. Consider the money quotes from Melville's book alongside the biggest con games played this year.
[. . .]
Think of the middle-American everyman, someone with strong moral values but struggling. Let's call him John. He wants his country to be moral and God-fearing, but he also might need a helping hand from the government despite all his efforts to take care of his family without asking for handouts. He's the one person nobody cares about in politics. Democrats think he's a homophobic bigot, and Republicans don't consider him a "job creator."
[. . .]
Whether it was immigration, Islamophobia, gay marriage, campus rape, racial diversity, or the environment, a similar pattern played out ad nauseam in 2015. John reacts with compassion and concern when he sees suffering. He trusted authorities
[. . .]
John got swindled. If he decides to say to Hell with everyone and vote for Trump, I can't blame him. (I wish he'd vote for Cruz, but by now John probably won't trust anyone in government on anything.)
The rise of Trump has intrigued many people not so much because he reveals anything about the left, but rather because of what he reveals about the sense of betrayal people like John feel about the promises made by the Republican Party.
[. . .]
A few conservatives in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, and Washington control the right-wing media. It seems that every week this cadre unveils another aerobically cross-trained, elite-educated, and telegenic spokesperson, describing the optimistic future that ostensibly awaits us if only we could stop caring about traditional family structures, chastity, and the sanctity of life.
[. . .]
Just pretend you are okay with sodomy and abortion, and this time it will work; all those fiscally-conservative-but-socially-liberal people who've been holding out will rush into the arms of the conservative movement, and singing angels will descend from the heavens.
Perhaps nobody embodied this call for trust, and won our trust, more than Paul Ryan. And we all saw how that budget bill turned out – the biggest "achievement" in his early months as the supposed "Tea Party favorite" speaker of the House.
[. . .]
They want high taxes on other people and heightened entitlements for themselves. This deflection of concern and sacrifice coupled with a need for easy social standing is largely why they don't care about the unborn, God's commandments against sin, or the right of children to a mother and father.
[. . .]
Con games depend on illusions and bluffs. [. . .] Trump is not the problem or even a symptom. He's just the whistleblower on a sinking steamboat.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/paging_melvilles_ghost_the_top_swindle_of_2015.html

December 27, 2015
Paging Melville's Ghost: The Top Swindle of 2015
By Robert Oscar Lopez

December 19, 2015

New York Post Headline Writer Dies at 74



Vincent Musetto, Greatest Headline Writer Of All

[From article]
Vincent A. Musetto, who wrote the greatest headline in New York newspaper history, died Tuesday at 74 from cancer.
He is survived by his wife, Claire, and a daughter, Carly — and will be mourned as well by New York Post employees past and present who were inspired by his professionalism and quirky talent during his Post career from 1970-2011.
His spirit will be missed, too, by millions of Post readers who never knew him.
Post editor- in-chief Col ­Allan said, “V.A. Musetto was one of the legends of our business, and he became famous for a truly classic headline.
“But for those who worked with him and mourn him today, V.A. offered so much more: Humor. A sharp critical eye. A personal warmth with his colleagues, and deep love for The Post and its readers. All will miss him.”



“Headless Body in Topless Bar” ran on The Post’s front page on April 15, 1983. As witty as it was horrific, it expressed with unflinching precision the city’s ­accelerating tailspin into an abyss of atrocious crime and chaos.
“Headless Body” soon became the stuff of pop-culture legend. “Saturday Night Live” worked it into routines and David Letterman invited Musetto onto his late-night show to talk about it. It even became the title of a 1990s crime movie.
But Musetto, a managing editor, had to fight to get “Headless Body” into the paper. He pleaded with then-executive editor Roger Wood, who was equally appalled by the crime.
A psycho had invaded a Queens after-hours joint, shot the owner to death and then — on learning a female customer was a mortician — ordered her to cut off the victim’s head, which cops later found in the madman’s car.
But Wood thought the headline too raunchy even for The Post’s sensationalist, Fleet Street-style of the time. A quieter headline ran with the first version of the story on an ­inside page of the afternoon edition.
But Musetto stuck to his guns, and “Headless Body in Topless Bar” ran on Page 1 the next day.
It prompted witless snarking in egghead circles. The Post’s legendary metropolitan editor, Steve Dunleavy, countered, “What should we have said? ‘Decapitated cerebellum in tavern of ill repute’?” (The New York Times came close with, “Owner of a Bar Shot to Death; Suspect is Held.”)
[. . .]
From 1979 into the ’80s, The Post published eight daily editions, and Musetto put out four of them. His zany style belied crack news judgment and craftsmanship. Dressed only in black, balding but with a hippie-length beard, he tooted horns and kicked over trash cans in heat-of-battle deadline moments.
Vincent Musetto was born in May 1941 in Boonton, NJ. He toiled at the Staten Island Advance before he joined The Post as a copy editor, and after his newsroom years served as entertainment editor and a film critic.

http://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-critic-vincent-musetto-dies-at-74/

The genius behind ‘Headless Body in Topless Bar’ headline dies at 74
By Steve Cuozzo
New York Post
June 9, 2015 | 3:52pm

November 18, 2015

Politicians Clueless How To Protect American Citizens




[From article]
After 50 years of the most backward, dysfunctional cultures pouring into the civilized world, the media are forced to blatantly lie to us whenever immigrants attack:
[. . .]
We can’t assimilate them. These days, second-generation immigrants are just as likely to shoot up Fort Hood as the first-generation Tsarnaev brothers are to blow up the Boston Marathon.
[. . .]
Successful countries must allow themselves to be overrun by backward cultures so that no country thinks it’s better than another.
[. . .]



While liberals’ idea of retaliation is to post the French flag on their Twitter profiles, Republicans think the way to get tough is to go to war in Syria.
[. . .]
Not to be a stickler, but ISIS didn’t slaughter 3,000 Americans on 9/11, blow up the Boston Marathon, murder nine Americans at Fort Hood, or open fire on a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
ISIS didn’t kill Kate Steinle, commit mass murder on the Long Island Railroad, introduce Palo Mayombe and Santeria to our country, bring slaves and concubines from India to San Francisco, or burn down hundreds of acres of national parks to evade border agents.
ISIS doesn’t import 90 percent of the illegal drugs that kill thousands of Americans every year, steal billions of dollars from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, or rape little girls, nuns and dogs in our country.
ISIS isn’t responsible for Sweden suddenly becoming the rape capital of the world, the Eritrean asylum seeker who stabbed a mother and a son to death at an Ikea store in Vasteras a few months ago, or the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh being stabbed to death on a street in Amsterdam.
All that — and more! — is the result of Third World immigration to the First World.
The West’s importation of Stone Age people is a completely self-inflicted wound. It’s as if the civilized world decided to amputate a leg. You know what? We’re too healthy and pure. Peg legs are stylish!
[. . .]



Isn’t keeping murderers out of the country literally the least our government can do? America has been pretty generous to the rest of the world, taking in more than twice as many refugees as the rest of the world combined. As Donald Trump says, now we need a “pause.”

http://humanevents.com/2015/11/18/when-the-third-world-attacks/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

When the Third World Attacks

Wednesday Nov 18, 2015 5:39 PM

October 6, 2015

Professional Report on Cambridge, MA City Council Candidate Forum






Mr. Sennott was able to record some of the discussions at the various tables. It was not possible to hear all of what the many candidates said. Voters have limited attention spans and it gets worse by the year. It was reassuring to see none of the candidates discuss the role of Harvard University, teachers unions, and public employee unions for setting policy parameters for the city. It is not as if these candidates or the sitting councilors (or even the City Manager) can influence what those three 800-pound gorillas do with city resources. Who will sponsor a forum so that voters and taxpayers can see and question the three real powers behind the curtain?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151006/NEWS/151007220/?Start=1

Cambridge candidate forum focuses on affordability, transportation
By Adam Sennott
Cambridge (at)wickedlocal.com
Posted Oct. 6, 2015 at 2:38 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

September 14, 2015

Black, Latino, Elite Politician Multi Millionaire Whiners Make For Hilarious Complaints




[From article]
Brandon Marshall, the New York Jets wide receiver and occasional sports commentator, charges that the National Football League is racist. He alleges that the league favors white players over black athletes like him, especially white marquee quarterbacks.
Aside from the fact that Marshall recently signed a three-year contract for $27 million — and, for example, African-American lineman Marcell Dareus just concluded a contract extension with the Buffalo Bills for six years at $100 million — examine Marshall’s whimper in light of the demography of the National Football League.
Currently, African-Americans comprise about 12% of the population. Yet they make up about 67% of the current meritocratic, but allegedly racist NFL roster. In the quota parlance of affirmative action engineering, they are “overrepresented” in one of America’s most prestigious and compensated industries at over five times their percentages in the general population. Nor are blacks just the purported grunts on the battlefield of the league; they make up 16% of the head coaches and 24% of the league’s general managers.
[. . .]
Whatever — but it is hard to figure out how an African-American multimillionaire (e.g., $9 million per annum in compensation) could complain that being black proves a burden in the present-day NFL. Perhaps Marshall might have been paid $10 million per year?
His writ is about as absurd as empathizing with Oprah because she once alleged that a white clerk at the zillionaire Swiss Trois Pommes boutique neither immediately acknowledged her celebrity status nor showed her quickly enough a $38,000 Tom Ford crocodile-skin purse on the shelf. Hence was born “handbag racism.”


Multi Billionaire Oprah Winfrey, Focusing Her Anger At Deprivation On a Retail Clerk

[. . .]
Univision newsman Jorge Ramos recently disrupted a Donald Trump news conference to recite yet another litany of supposedly ethnically insensitive attitudes shown toward Latinos who enter the U.S. illegally. Ramos has crafted a lucrative career by blurring the line between journalist and pundit activist, and by damning U.S. immigration law and the unfairness and inhospitality of the United States toward illegal immigrants. Note that naturalized citizen Ramos left Mexico to immigrate to America, ostensibly because what he routinely can now say in the United States would have landed him in jail in Mexico — in the manner that should Americans enter Mexico illegally in the way Mexicans cross the border into the U.S., they would be jailed, then summarily deported at best and at worst serve prison time for a variety of crimes, among which spelled out in the Mexican Constitution would be altering the racial essence of Mexican demography.



Ramos has parlayed his carping at the perceived unfairness of his adopted country into becoming the highest paid journalist in the world at a reported $75 million a year, paid out by the Spanish-language television corporation owned by a non-Latino Los Angeles billionaire.
[. . .]
The cult of the whining victim is now ubiquitous. Two high-school football players in Texas, angry that their team is losing and galvanized by their whining coach, decide to take out a referee and smash him with two cowardly hits. The reason? They claim the flattened ref got what he deserved — because of course he was a racist.
[. . .]
In the logic of whining, Michael Brown did not commit a felony or two in the last minutes of his life, from strong-armed robbery to assaulting a police officer, but was instead begging for his life with “hands up” and shouting “don’t shoot.”
[. . .]



The poor man in the inner city has more computing power in his palm with an Apple smartphone than did the billionaire twenty years ago in his study — but, of course, not as versatile a phone perhaps as that of today’s billionaire, and thus he can legitimately whine that life is not fair due to the machinations of someone else.
The bane of our age is not poverty but parity, or rather the perceived absence of a state-mandated equality of result.
[. . .]
The Obama administration mastered this natural trait of privileged scapegoating. For the first six years of Obama’s administration, all supposed achievement was Obama’s; every confirmed failure was the legacy of Emmanuel Goldstein, aka ex-President George W. Bush.


Emmanuel Goldstein, Object of Government Hatred, In George Orwell's 1984 

[. . .]
Poor Mrs. Clinton. She was misled about her server, or did not want a handful of clumsy duplicative communication devices or did nothing improper or at least nothing illegal, or at least nothing indictable, or at least differently from past secretaries of State, or never sent classified material, or at least never material that was stamped officially confidential. Who then caused this scandal? The New York Times, Fox News, the right-wingers, the Republicans, or the Clinton-haters.

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/weariness-of-whiners/?singlepage=true

The Weariness of the Whiners
The cult of the whining victim is now ubiquitous.
by Victor Davis Hanson
September 13, 2015 - 4:42 pm

August 15, 2015

Two Boston Columnists View Effect of Limitless Immigration




[From article]
Massachusetts already is a sanctuary state — it doesn’t matter if there’s a law on the books or not, illegal aliens don’t need no
stinkin’ laws!
Just an EBT card, or three, or 10.
The whole country is one
big sanctuary, unless you’re an American.
Perhaps you recall the late Auntie Zeituni, Obama’s aunt, living in public housing in South Boston. Until she got “asylum,” like the Tsarnaevs, she was an illegal. She admitted it on TV.
Obama’s Uncle Omar — he was the rarest of illegal aliens. He actually had a job. He had a driver’s license, too, one that he had obtained illegally, but no one ever dared confront him about it.
Remember when Deval Patrick decided to grant illegal aliens in-state tuition at public colleges? He couldn’t get it through the Legislature, so he just issued an executive order.
Last week on my radio show I asked Gov. Charlie Baker if he’d ever rescinded that illegal, high-handed handout.
Answer: Of course not.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/08/carr_with_or_without_new_immigration_laws_we_re_living_in

Carr: With or without new immigration laws, we’re living in a sanctuary state of mind
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald

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[From article]
Gov. Jindal knows our immigration system needs to be overhauled with action — not talk. He said the president must shut the porous border immediately and together with Congress implement a legal immigration system — where laws are respected and enforced versus ignored or selectively enforced by liberal officials who support sanctuary cities and the many illegals who exploit them.
“Congress needs to pass my package of bills, called Partners In Crime. We need to say, ‘Mayors, councilmen, if you are going to flaunt federal law, there should be two consequences.’ One, they should be criminally liable as accessories. They should be held liable for the crimes committed by illegals in these so-called sanctuary cities,” Jindal said. “Second, we will say to the families, ‘We will give you the opportunity to hold them civilly liable. You can sue not only those officials who are allowing these sanctuary policies but also those who refuse to prosecute those officials.’ ”
[. . .]
“There is no question that illegal immigration is exacerbating crime problems in many American communities, including Massachusetts,” Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Herald.
“One problem is that the Obama administration has been gradually dismantling enforcement and allowing too much illegal settlement. But local policies play a big role, too,” she said.
It’s time to defund sanctuary cities and hold officials accountable for refusing to enforce the law. If not, we’ll continue to see more American families destroyed at the hands of criminal illegals.
This should infuriate every legal immigrant and American among us.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/adriana_cohen/2015/08/adriana_cohen_immigration_laws_costing_american_lives

Adriana Cohen: Immigration laws costing American lives
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
By: Adriana Cohen
Boston Herald

July 16, 2015

Boston Columnist and Mayor, Offended By Stereotyping of Illegal Aliens, But Not Persons With Disabilities?




Curious that Mayor Walsh is extremely offended by Donald Trump's constitutionally protected speech which the Mayor says stereotypes Mexican people. (Peter Gelzinis, "Walsh, Trump dust-up won’t end with apology," July 16, 2015, Boston Herald) I do not recall ever reading or hearing about the Mayor or any politician or journalist expressing offense at the daily stereotyping of persons with disabilities. They are considered stupid and ignorant. Cognitive disabilities are believed to be evidence of criminal behavior, i.e., all persons accused of mental illness are dangerous and violent. Some negative stereotyping is OK? Trump's comments can be verified by reading news reports about crimes. The same journalists who report crimes by illegal aliens, slur persons with disabilities by suggesting mental illness causes crime ("suspect has a history of mental illness," e.g.) , when there is no evidence for that drug company propaganda.
[From article]
“Absolutely not,” Walsh, the son of two immigrants, told me yesterday. “I based my comments on what I heard him say about people, Mexican people … stereotyping them, painting them with a broad brush.
“This is inappropriate. He’s a presidential candidate, running for the highest office in the country, and I think you have to understand that there are hardworking immigrants in the country. To me, what I heard, and what a lot of people heard, is that he painted everyone with that same brush, saying everyone was a criminal or a drug addict, and that’s just not true.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/07/gelzinis_walsh_trump_dust_up_won_t_end_with_apology

Gelzinis: Walsh, Trump dust-up won’t end with apology
Thursday, July 16, 2015
By: Peter Gelzinis
Boston Herald

June 24, 2015

Politicians and Journalists Distort Reality, Mislead Voters, Taxpayers and Readers




[From article]
The media’s WHITES ARE TERRORIZING BLACKS campaign reflects reality as accurately as the media’s other campaign, WHITE MALE COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE RAPING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!
[. . .]
Ordinary people keep hearing that we are in the middle of an epidemic of white-on-black violence and think, Surely the media wouldn’t be making this up, so I must be misinformed.
According to a preposterously, laughably, ridiculously bogus report on “hate crimes” produced by Eric Holder’s Justice Department, blacks are far more likely to be victims of hate crimes than whites are. It would be like a government report asserting that most rapes are committed by elderly white women.
[. . .]
(Yes, according to our federal government, Hispanics are “Hispanic” when they are victims of crimes, but “white” when they are the perpetrators.)
[. . .]
In 2008, the most recent year for which such data seems to have been collected, FBI surveys show that, out of 520,161 interracial violent crimes, blacks committed 429,444 of them against whites, while whites committed 90,717 of them against blacks.
In other words, blacks commit more than 80 percent of all interracial violent crime.
[. . .]
White-on-black violence is freakishly rare everywhere in America, except liberal imaginations.
http://humanevents.com/2015/06/24/theres-a-reason-we-mostly-hear-about-micro-aggressions/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

There’s A Reason We Mostly Hear About ‘Micro-Aggressions’

Ann Coulter
Wednesday Jun 24, 2015 4:11 PM

June 14, 2015

Katie Couric To Receive $10 million Per Year At Yahoo




[From article]
Veteran newscaster Katie Couric is renewing her Yahoo! contract where she will remain as its global news anchor.
Couric, 58, who had been negotiating the contract for the last few months, was reportedly earning $5-6 million prior to the renewed deal which will up her annual pay package to $10 million, according to the New York Post.
The new deal, which has been agreed to by both parties but not yet been finalized, also has some targets she must hit to reach the $10 million pay package, the report said.[. . .]
She worked at CBS Evening News until 2011, while also doing segments for 60 Minutes, a job that earned her a reported salary of $15 million a year, the most ever for a journalist at the time.
Her most famous interview came in 2008 when she sat down with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for a series of pieces that many believed doomed Palin and McCain's campaign.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3122979/Katie-Couric-renewing-contract-Yahoo-10m-year.html

Katie Couric renews Yahoo contract and lands pay rise at $10m per year
Katie Couric will remain as Yahoo's global news anchor, Yahoo confirmed
Her contract, which has been agreed to but not finalized, reportedly ups her annual pay package from $5-6 million to $10 million
By MYRIAH TOWNER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:13 EST, 13 June 2015 | UPDATED: 09:35 EST, 14 June 2015



June 5, 2015

Google's You Tube Censors Crime Reporting Due To Sensitivity Claims




This is continuing use of civility and sensitivity for censorship. It is one element of the effort to create the feminist-therapeutic state. Forgotten by prominent children of prominent political figures like Chris Cuomo, is that the purpose of the concept of free speech and the First Amendment is to protect offensive speech, speech that you hate. Speech that you like needs no protections. In ancient Athens there were no laws or constitutional amendments protecting free speech. It was a 1200 year tradition supported by the citizens of that democracy. Their contributions to knowledge about humans remain valid today. Misguided universities and journalists promote censorship of unpleasant truths, inhibiting the search for truth in the name of good.



[From article]
Colin Flaherty, author of “White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It,” told WND his channel was suspended for two weeks after he posted a video featuring violence by African-Americans against white children. Flaherty also posted a video of what the author called “black mob violence against a white child.”
“Soon after, YouTube yanked it down: It said it had received complaints that I had violated the YouTube policy against posting ‘shocking, sensational or disrespectful’ videos, especially involving ‘minors participating in a harmful or dangerous activity,’” he told WND. “So YouTube kicked me off for two weeks, though my channel remains open and subscriptions have jumped dramatically.”[. . .]
“White children and adults around the country are victims of black mob violence and black on white crime that is wildly out of proportion. And reporters and public officials ignore, deny, condone, excuse, encourage and even lie about it. That’s what I call ‘shocking.’
[. . .]



Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil rights activist, president and founder of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), and author of “Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America,” said: “The conservative white politicians and media are afraid to discuss black crime due to the fear of being attacked as racist. The white and black liberals won’t discuss it because they want the races to remain divided so they can continue with their agenda of redistributing wealth and taking from whites to give to minorities.”



[. . .]
Peterson believes there is never a good reason not to report black crime, even if such reports are exploited by white racists. He told WND, “Not talking about black crime is allowing the problem to get worse because blacks don’t believe they’re wrong about anything.”
Yet there are increasing efforts by both major media companies and the federal government to manage and possibly even censor the national conversation.
[. . .]



Peterson suggests the government may indeed try to weaken the First Amendment and control public debate.
“We have a dishonest president and government right now and they’re trying to stop anyone who is exposing what they’re doing. This administration uses the IRS and other federal agencies to intimidate and bully American citizens. And what will happen is it will drive the conversation underground and shut down other points of views from getting out to the general public,” he said.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/youtube-censors-crime-reporting/

June 4, 2015
YOUTUBE CENSORS CRIME REPORTING
Channel suspended after video posted on violence by African-Americans

May 1, 2015

FBI Informant Al Sharpton Gets Physical With Reporter



FBI Informant Sharpton, left, with Fox News reporter Leland Vittert

[From article]
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the embattled mayor of Baltimore, is obviously a talented and capable individual. The daughter of a pediatrician and a member of Maryland's state legislature, she distinguished herself as a lawyer and later as the youngest person ever elected to Baltimore's City Council. A few years later, when City Council president Sheila Dixon, also a woman, was elected mayor, Rawlings-Blake succeeded her as president. And when Dixon was forced to resign as mayor – yes, forced because of her conviction for embezzlement – Rawlings-Blake became the city's new mayor, a position she solidified a year later by running for and winning the office with 84% of the vote in the general election. In other words, this is a woman who knows her way around, is capable, and can take care of herself, even during the city's current troubles.
So why did (Rev.) Al Sharpton, a male, a non-Baltimore resident, an MSNBC talk show host – and a tax evader to boot – pop up in that city to run interference for her, even shoving a reporter, Leland Vittert of rival FOX News, when he tried to question Her Honor?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/05/rev_al_sharpton_disrespects_balto_female_mayor_stephanie_rawlingsblake.html

May 1, 2015
Rev. Al Sharpton disrespects Balto female Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
By Ethel C. Fenig

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[From article]
“At the press conference, we will answer all questions,” Sharpton said. But as Vittert kept tailing them, a second man stepped between the reporter and the mayor and began pushing him away.
Sharpton threw up his arm as well and gave a light shove. “Relax! Relax!” he said when Vittert recoiled and yelled, “Whoa!”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/30/al-sharpton-gets-in-physical-confrontation-with-fox-news-reporter-video/

Al Sharpton Gets In Physical Confrontation With Fox News Reporter [VIDEO]
3:31 PM 04/30/2015
ALEX GRISWOLD

April 26, 2015

White House Correspondents Dinner Lost Its Way, More Like Hollywood Celebrity Awards



Appearing on the Red Carpet 2013. Are these White House journalists?

The focus on celebrity reflects the priorities of the nation, and especially journalism, not just White House journalism.

[From article]
Everyone knows the White House Correspondents Association dinner is broken. What started off decades ago as a stately formal celebration of the best of presidential reporting has morphed into a four-day orgy of everything people outside the Beltway hate about life inside the Beltway—now it's not just one night of clubby backslapping, carousing and drinking between the press and the powerful, it's four full days of signature cocktails and inside jokes that just underscore how out of step the Washington elite is with the rest of the country. It's not us (journalists) versus them (government officials); it's us (Washington) versus them (the rest of America).
[. . .]
The week acts as a tacky and vainglorious self-celebration at a time when most Americans don’t think Washingtonians have much to be commended for.
Even those who enjoy it tend to concede that the week is a circus.
[. . .]
When the White House Correspondents’ Association teamed up with the History Channel in 2014 to make a short video about the Association’s history, this is how they described their own dinner: “The first and foremost mission of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is to promote journalism education through the scholarship fund.”
Those are their words.
So why, then, does the Association only dole out around $100,000 in scholarships annually when some of the richest people in the world are at their dinner? (See: Rupert Murdoch, George Lucas, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Steve Case, Sheila Johnson, Ryan Seacrest.)
Let’s not forget that this is a town known for its fundraising prowess. If you think those folks won’t cut some serious checks for the scholarship program as the president of the United States and other notables look on and applaud you, then you don’t know how fundraising works.
[. . .]
But, this being the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner and all, there should be one area in which the president should get ribbed as much as is warranted: How he treats the press. Ask any White House correspondent: They’re furious about how difficult their jobs have become (for reference, see Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee’s roundup of the “8 ways the Obama administration is blocking information”).
Well, this is your dinner and the president is your guest: Hold him to account.
[. . .]
Most disturbing is the fact that almost half of the Association’s annual outlays go to its executive director, a ratio that Berger called disturbing. In many years, the executive director gets paid more than gets doled out in scholarships.
[. . .]
We’ve made our annual Superbowl a vainglorious self-celebration in a time when everyone outside the Beltway thinks we’re as ugly as it gets.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/white-house-correspondents-dinner-117287.html#.VTwQu90--yM

Nerd Prom Is a Mess
How to fix Washington’s worst week.
By PATRICK GAVIN
April 23, 2015

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http://www.c-span.org/video/?325411-2/2015-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner

April 25, 2015
2015 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
C-Span

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http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/inside-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-aka-nerd-prom/

Inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner aka ‘Nerd Prom’
New York Post
By Harry Shuldman
April 26, 2015 | 1:14am

April 6, 2015

Mother Of New York City's WABC-TV News Anchor Confronts News Director




[From article]
Another source said Lisa, along with other Channel 7 reporters, was put under a “tremendous amount” of pressure. She would commute into Manhattan daily as early as 2 a.m., complete her last shoot around lunchtime, and then be in the office working more stories in the afternoon. The source said, “Camille is a bully and will target people she doesn’t like, most often women. Lisa’s colleagues applaud Lisa’s mom for standing up to Camille.”



Page Six reported last week that WABC veteran Sarah Wallace is preparing for a legal battle after she was abruptly ousted by Edwards — who has been nicknamed “Camevil” in the newsroom — after 30 years at the station.

http://pagesix.com/2015/04/05/grieving-mother-says-abc-boss-worked-daughter-to-death/?_ga=1.96423647.212440808.1402078759

Grieving mom confronted WABC boss who ‘worked daughter to death’
By Emily Smith
New York Post
April 5, 2015 | 1:27am

March 21, 2015

Prosecutor Due To Accuse President of Argentina, Found Dead, Journalist Missing



Argentine President Cristina Kirchner claimed that prosecutor Alberto Nisman (above), who died a day before he was due to accuse her of covering up a Jewish bombing in 1994, was murdered to 'implicate' her.

[From article]
An Argentine prosecutor who died mysteriously last week told a reporter prior to his death that he had evidence tying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
The Washington Free Beacon first reported that Rouhani was part of the secretive Iranian government committee that approved the AMIA bombing, according to witness testimony included in a 500-page indictment written by the late Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was appointed to investigate the attack.
The bombing, which killed 85 and injured hundreds, is believed to have been authorized by Iran and carried out by its terror proxy Hezbollah. Nisman’s indictment implicated numerous high-profile Iranian officials in the attack and prompted Interpol to issue “red notices” for their arrests.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/argentine-prosecutor-rouhani-involved-in-amia-bombing-decision/

Argentine Prosecutor: Rouhani Involved in AMIA Bombing Decision
Said privately he had evidence Rouhani was involved in decision to authorize bombing
BY: Alana Goodman
Follow @alanagoodman
January 26, 2015 11:10 am

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[From article]
An Argentine prosecutor found dead shortly before he was about to make explosive allegations about President Cristina Kirchner took a bullet point-blank
to his forehead, justice officials said Saturday.
Authorities said Diego Lagomarsino, a computer expert and colleague who said he had brought prosecutor Alberto Nisman a handgun Saturday night at his request, has been barred from leaving Argentina.
Nisman was found dead with a bullet to the head in his Buenos Aires home on Sunday, just before he was set to go before a congressional hearing to accuse Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman of shielding Iranian officials implicated in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people.
It was Argentina's worst terror attack in modern history. It has never gone to trial fully. Several pretrials were cancelled amid serious irregularities involving judges and Argentine intelligence staff.
Investigators, who initially said Nisman appeared to have committed suicide, have not ruled out homicide or "induced suicide."
[. . .]

http://news.yahoo.com/colleague-slain-prosecutor-barred-leaving-argentina-215640674.html;_ylt=AwrTWf0KR8RUDUYAlBXQtDMD

Argentine prosecutor shot point blank in forehead: official
January 24, 2015
Yahoo News

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Firefighters and rescue workers search through the rubble of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community centre in this July 18, 1994 picture after a car bomb rocked the building, killing 84 people and injuring 300 others.

[From article] The journalist credited with being the first to to report the shooting dead of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman has vanished.


Missing: Damian Pachter told his employer on Friday he was followed by unknown people and feared for his safety.
Damian Pachter, of the English-language Buenos Aires Herald, reported on Friday he was followed by unknown people and feared for his safety but did not elaborate, his employer said.
Mr Nisman was found dead last Sunday, the day before he was to testify before congress about his explosive allegations that President Cristina Kirchner shielded Iranian officials wanted in the South American country's biggest terrorist attack.
The official in charge of investigating his death said last night that he appeared to have been shot at point blank range but added that there was no firm evidence that anyone else was involved.
[. . .]

Sara Garfunkel, mother of late prosecutor Alberto Nisman, leaves the office of prosecutor Viviana Fein, who is investigating Nisman's death, on Thursday.

Kirchner argued that Alberto Nisman did not commit suicide, but was instead killed in an 'operation' against her government.
Mr Nisman, the lead prosecutor in the case, was found dead under suspicious circumstance with a gunshot to his head at his home.
Prosecutor Viviana Fein, who is leading the investigation into his death, said yesterday that the shot had been fired 'from a distance no greater than a centimetre'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2925205/Journalist-reported-suspicious-death-prosecutor-set-accuse-Argentine-president-bombing-cover-vanishes-saying-feared-safety.html

Journalist who reported suspicious death of prosecutor found shot at point blank range and set to accuse Argentine president of bombing cover-up 'vanishes' after saying he feared for his safety
Damian Pachter is believed to be first to report Alberto Nisman's death
Journalist told employer he was followed and feared for his safety
Prosecutor was found dead at his home with a gunshot wound to his head
Officials say that he was apparently shot from point blank range
He was to accuse the president of shielding Iranians implicated in bombing
Investigators suspect Nisman killed himself, but have not ruled out murder
By JENNY STANTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 21:18 EST, 24 January 2015 | UPDATED: 08:59 EST, 25 January 2015