Chelsea Manning, an anti-secrecy activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose release of classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010 sparked worldwide controversy over transparency in the military and whistleblower protections, was taken into custody at a federal court on Friday after a federal judge found her in contempt of court for refusing to answer questions before a secret grand jury.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chelsea-...d=61556616

Libertarian view:
The courageous Chelsea Manning has the right not to testify to a Grand Jury or any jury. Murray Rothbard explained this in 1978.
No branch of government owns your body in libertarian law. Therefore, it doesn’t own what you may or may not know, or have heard, or have seen, or have thought. It doesn’t own your capacity to speak or write or otherwise transmit words.
A court that fines you, jails you, or holds you in contempt for not speaking is attempting to coerce testimony. The process in this respect resembles torture. The court, in denial of your right not to testify, acts as if it owns you or part of you.

Jussie Smollett update: 'Empire' actor indicted on 16 felony counts by grand jury.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
https://abc7chicago.com/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-16-felony-counts-by-grand-jury/5177586/

Putin Thanks Women For Taking Care Of The Home And Staying Beautiful On International Women’s Day
by Tsarizm StaffMarch 8, 201912 13360
Alexei Nikolsкy / TASS
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Russian women for everything they do in life, like taking care of the home and staying beautiful. He made the remarks to a group of Russian female policewomen on International Women’s Day, which was celebrated throughout the Soviet Union.
“You manage everything at work and at home, whilst staying beautiful, bright, and charming,” Putin said, adding that “It is hard to imagine the history and development of our country without the contribution of the great Russian women.”
“What does a young woman need to maintain her figure? Three things: a workout machine, a masseuse and a suitor,” Putin told the police officers.
Putin also told the female police staff that when they patrol the city woodland parks, the number of accidents drops “because those who wish to commit suicide look at you and want to live again,” reported The Moscow Times.

“Our women’s ability to achieve success is remarkable. You manage to cope with everything at work and take care of the family. Your love unites, encourages, supports, consoles makes us feel warm,” reported Russian state news agency TASS on Putin’s official comments.
“You are destined to go the whole way of creating new life – the miracle of childbirth. This great happiness of motherhood and child-rearing transfigures this world, fills it with kindness, gentleness and sympathy and asserts the traditional values that have always made Russia strong,” Putin said.
“We shall be always indebted to you,” Putin said in his address to the women of the nation. “This is true of each of us and of the state in general, which remains obliged to do so much for the sake of those who spare no effort in rearing their children.
The Russian leader emphasized women’s immeasurable emotional generosity, wrote TASS.

“True, it is a gift of nature, but you, dear women, multiply this gift a hundred times with your attitude to work and your dear ones,” he said.
“You are reliable co-workers and managers of great responsibility. You are capable of feeling the subtlest nuances and taking a competent and creative attitude to any undertaking,” Putin said. “It is hard to imagine the history and development of our country without the creative contribution of the great women of Russia. These days there are no professional heights you are unable to achieve.”

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/whites-r...32992.html
A Pennsylvania billboard has sparked an outcry and accusations of racism — but the man who put it up insists that he’s simply trying to strike up a “conversation” about race.

Quote:In his latest attack on transparency, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded a rule requiring U.S. intelligence officials to publicly disclose the number of civilians killed by drone strikes.
https://theantimedia.com/trump-cancels-r...e-strikes/

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams discuss this on Ron Paul's Liberty Report today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...cLxSTn8dPk

AOC ‘Facing Jail Time’ As Campaign Cash Scandal EXPLODES

by Jenn Carter
Earlier Monday 24News reported on an FEC complaint alleging that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff illegally funneled more than $1 million in campaign donations to two companies he owned.
Well Monday evening, as details continue to unfold, it appears the campaign cash scandal is far more serious than first thought, and also involved the Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez herself.
DailyCaller has revealed that Ocasio-Cortez and her chief aide,
Saikat Chakrabarti, both controlled the outside Political Action Committee (PAC), a “massive violation” of Federal law that could open them both up to “substantial civil penalties” and “even jail time” for AOC and her top staffer:

Quote:Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti obtained majority control of Justice Democrats PAC in December 2017, according to archived copies of the group’s website, and the two appear to retain their control of the group, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. If the Federal Election Commission (FEC) finds that the New York Democrat’s campaign operated in affiliation with the PAC, which had raised more than $1.8 million before her June 2018 primary, it would open them up to “massive reporting violations, probably at least some illegal contribution violations exceeding the lawful limits,” former FEC commissioner Brad Smith said.
Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the FEC that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled the PAC while it was simultaneously supporting her primary campaign, and former FEC commissioners say the arrangement could lead to multiple campaign finance violations. The group backed 12 Democrats during the 2018 midterms, but Ocasio-Cortez was the only one of those to win her general election.
“If the facts as alleged are true, and a candidate had control over a PAC that was working to get that candidate elected, then that candidate is potentially in very big trouble and may have engaged in multiple violations of federal campaign finance law, including receiving excessive contributions,” former Republican FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
And fellow former FEC commissioner Brad Smith told TheDCNF that if “a complaint were filed, I would think it would trigger a serious investigation.” He also noted that such a probe could potentially result in jail time for Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff, Chakrabarti.

http://www.unz.com/kbarrett/ilhan-omars-...-are-true/
Some people just can’t handle the truth. Case in point: America’s Jewish Establishment and the Shabbat goys on their payroll, who are all squealing like stuck pigs in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s pointed remarks about Jewish-Zionist power.

Been trying real hard to figure out how what Ilhan Oman said about the stodgy old white gentiles in congress is "antisemitic" ?? Both Dems and Repubs are demanding that she retract and apologize, For what ?

There is one thing that unites Dems and Repubs, and that is Israel lobbyist's cash. There is absolutely no other explanation for the unconditional love and staunch protection from criticism that Israel gets. Israel is our number one ally (ahead of the Euros), makes no sense. Yes, we have a close heritage and should be friends. But Israel is of little strategic importance of the US, either economically or militarily. They are a peace impediment. They are why we are at constant war in the middle east.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/...to-israel/

They have been taken over by the small people.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-whit...f776530551

White nationalists, bigots and assorted conspiracy theorists are as commonplace at CPAC, which is organized annually by the American Conservative Union, as Republican senators, U.S. House members and presidents. Brimelow, for example, was a featured panelist at CPAC in 2012.