PP EX Hides Profits from Baby-Parts Sales

PLANNED  PARENTHOOD  EXECUTIVE  SOUGHT  TO  HIDE  PROFITS  FROM  BABY-PARTS  SALES

A new video released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) appears to show how Planned Parenthood uses accounting gimmicks to hide profits created through the sale of body parts of aborted babies.

A financial benefit “is what staff and management need to see,” says an executive at a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas.

 

 

The video highlights footage from the April 9, 2015 visit of investigative journalists David Daleiden — director of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) — and CMP employee Sandra Merritt to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s (PPGC) abortion facility in Houston.

“We had two levels of invoicing for them. We had it recorded as ‘per consent,’” explains PPGC Director of Research Melissa Farrell. In the video, Farrell states “per consent” is the phrase used in PPGC budgeting in place of “per specimen” for fetal tissue.

Farrell discusses that while a woman may consent to supply her aborted baby’s tissue, the specimen itself may not be useable for experimentation.  “There’s probably some situations where somebody would consent and then just not, we didn’t get a sample, or she changed her mind, or something happened to the specimen,” she says, adding, “Now obviously, we don’t want to end up paying for material that we can’t use,” and suggests that there be a line item fee or “something else that represents the specimens."

“I just don’t want it to turn into a situation that is not financially beneficial for you,” says Merritt.  “Yeah, yeah. And we’ll, I’ll take you up on that. I’ll take you up on that. I’ll take you up on that,” Farrell repeats, laughing. “We definitely want to do that, because that’s what staff and management need to see."

PPGC CEO Melaney Linton also appears in the video advising that Farrell will “work on all of that with you” when it comes to “remuneration” and “compensation” for fetal tissue.

Farrell explains to Daleiden and Merritt over lunch that her department – which has overseen the organization’s fetal tissue supply program since 2006 — “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here."

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), chairman of the House’s Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, said the new video footage is “deeply disturbing.” Blackburn said in a statement:

The comments in this video by an employee of a large abortion provider are deeply disturbing and seem to demonstrate a willingness to obfuscate and hide their true intentions. The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives is examining these issues and this new video, once again, raises more questions about the medical procedures and business practices used by entities involved in fetal tissue procurement. Our panel intends to follow the facts where they lead us.

Daleiden and Merrit – who were indicted by a Harris County, Texas grand jury while Planned Parenthood was entirely cleared of wrongdoing – are presenting themselves to the court in Houston on Thursday morning. At that time, national pro-life leaders will present over 100,000 signatures calling on District Attorney Devon Anderson to drop the charges against the journalists, Operation Rescue reports.

According to Associated Press, these are not the first allegations of bias Anderson – who ran for office as a pro-life Republican — has faced:

Anderson was barely three months into office when the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue accused a Houston doctor of performing late-term abortions. The activist behind those allegations, Troy Newman, was also a founding member of the Center for Medical Progress — the anti-abortion group headed by Daleiden

Operation Rescue had released disturbing photos and accusations from the former staff of Dr. Douglas Karpen. A grand jury declined to indict Karpen; the abortion provider’s lawyer, Chip Lewis, said Karpen was smeared by doctored pictures and false allegations made by individuals who were paid by Operation Rescue.

Lewis, a longtime political donor in Houston whose beneficiaries include Anderson, said he helped soften the political fallout for her in Republican circles.

“I told them, ‘Don’t hitch your wagon to this. They’re crooks, and it’s going to be exposed,'” Lewis said, referring to Operation Rescue.

Kansas-based Operation Rescue has denied paying informants and had questioned the evidence seen by the grand jury. Anderson’s handling of both cases is also questioned by Texas Right to Life, a prominent anti-abortion group that endorsed the district attorney in 2014.
“It’s incomprehensible,” Conway said of Anderson’s actions.

Anderson acknowledged in August that a prosecutor on her staff was a board member of the Houston Planned Parenthood clinic but said that person would not be involved in the grand jury case. In a statement announcing Monday’s charges, Anderson said, “As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us."

Lewis said the assistant prosecutor who oversaw the Karpen investigation also handled the Planned Parenthood case. “I don’t think she forgot what she uncovered,” Lewis said.....

Planned Parenthood attorney Josh Schaffer said a prosecutor told him the grand jury never even voted on possible criminal charges against the nation’s largest abortion provider.

“Planned Parenthood’s self-interested political maneuvers will never silence free speech or the citizen press,” Daleiden said in a statement. “The new video released today shows that no amount of half-baked barratry can conceal Planned Parenthood’s barbaric harvesting and profiting off baby body parts.”

Peter Breen, special counsel with the Thomas More Society – which is representing Daleiden, said:

The charges against David Daleiden are legally and factually baseless. David used standard undercover journalism techniques to catch Planned Parenthood staff agreeing to alter abortion procedures to get more intact organs and tissue from aborted babies, presumably without telling their patients. David also caught Planned Parenthood staff discussing how to adjust accounting line items to conceal profits from baby body part transactions. Planned Parenthood’s lawyers in Houston have now admitted they dreamed up and demanded the charges against David, apparently in order to distract prosecutors and the public from their own bad acts. We intend to seek to have these charges dismissed at the earliest opportunity.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/03/video-shows-planned-parenthood-accounting-tricks-to-hide-profits-from-baby-parts-sales/

U.S. and 'domestic extremists'

U.S.  EYES  WAYS  TO  TOUGHEN  'FIGHT' ?  AGAINST  'DOMESTIC  EXTREMISTS' ??

By Julia Harte, Julia Edwards and Andy Sullivan 

February 4, 2016

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. 'Justice' Department is considering legal changes to combat what it sees as a rising threat from 'domestic anti-government extremists', senior officials told Reuters, even as it steps up efforts to stop Islamic State-inspired attacks at home.

'Extremist groups' motivated by a range of U.S.-born philosophies present a "clear and present danger," John Carlin, the 'Justice' Department's chief of national security, told Reuters in an interview. “Based on recent reports and the cases we are seeing, it seems like we’re in a heightened environment."  !!?? (No kidding - the U.S.A. cabal corporation murders Americans in cold blood and they are now noticing a 'heightened environment." How observant they are.)

Over the past year, the Justice Department has brought charges against 'domestic extremist suspects' accused of attempting to bomb U.S. military bases, kill police officers and fire bomb a school and other buildings in a predominantly Muslim town in New York state.

But federal prosecutors tackling 'domestic extremists' still lack an important legal tool they have used extensively in dozens of prosecutions against Islamic State-inspired suspects: a law that prohibits supporting designated terrorist groups.

Carlin and other Justice Department officials declined to say if they would ask Congress for a comparable domestic extremist statute, or comment on what other changes they might pursue to toughen the fight against 'anti-government extremists'. (How about U.S.A. cabal anti-American extremists)

The U.S. State Department designates international terrorist organizations to which it is illegal to provide "material support." No domestic groups have that designation, helping to create a disparity in charges faced by international extremist suspects compared to domestic ones.

A Reuters analysis of more than 100 federal cases found that domestic terrorism suspects collectively have faced less severe charges than those accused of acting on behalf of Islamic State since prosecutors began targeting that group in early 2014.

 

Over the past two years, 27 defendants have been charged with plotting or inciting attacks within the United States in the name of Islamic State. They have faced charges that carried a median prison sentence of 53 years - half of the defendants faced more, and half faced less.

In the same period, 27 adherents of U.S.-based 'anti-government ideologies' have been charged with similar activity. They faced charges that carried a median prison sentence of 20 years. ('anti-'government' = Americans don't agree with your - U.S.A. cabal's - stealing our homes and lands, CPS stealing our children, taxing us to the point of poverty,  imprisoning Americans on rogue criminal charges, and murdering Americans standing for our 
Constitution, our 1st and 2nd Amendment rights, and our efforts to return our nation to its Republic government.)

Carlin said his counter-terrorism team, including a recently hired counsel, is taking a “thoughtful look at the nature and scope of the domestic terrorism threat” and helping to analyze “potential legal improvements and enhancements to better combat those threats."

America's Youth

Potential 'terrorism threat' - DOESN'T chop off heads, or cut off limbs, or eat victim's internal organs, or chop off hands and feet and sex organs or set people on fire or shoot classmates at school, but he DOES love our Great God, loves his family, friends and his country, and he honors his parents and friends - he's a real 'threat' - 

to WHO?  the CABAL ??!!

The counsel, who was appointed last October and has not been named publicly, will identify cases being prosecuted at the state level that “could arguably meet the federal definition of domestic terrorism," a Justice Department official said.

That would give the department a direct role in more domestic extremism cases.

Recognizing that domestic threats were “rapidly evolving, and had the potential to grow,” the department in March 2015 rated disrupting such terrorists as a key component of its broader counter-terrorism efforts, officials said.

THE THREAT PENDULUM

The Justice Department aggressively pursued domestic extremists after Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people.

The government shifted its focus to international terrorism after al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.  But in recent years anti-government activists, like those who occupied a wildlife preserve in eastern Oregon last month, have regained prominence.

As law enforcement experts confront domestic militia groups, "sovereign citizens" who do not recognize government authority, and other anti-government extremists, they also face a heightened threat from Islamic extremists like the couple who carried out the Dec. 2 shootings in San Bernardino, California.

"A new development we're seeing is that when it comes to ISIL investigations, the flash-to-bang time from radicalization to action appears to be happening faster than with other types of terrorists," said Michael Steinbach, the head of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division.

As a result, government agents are quick to investigate people who appear sympathetic toward Islamic State, current and former officials say. But some say the government has been overzealous in its pursuit of Islamic State suspects.

Similar actions by extremist suspects have yielded sharply disparate sentences.

Eight Islamic State-related defendants have been sentenced so far, to prison terms that range from three to 20 years, the Reuters review found. Over the same period, 18 domestic extremists have been sentenced to terms from one day to 12 years.

Prosecutors say Harlem Suarez, 23, of Key West, Florida, tried to buy a bomb last year from an undercover FBI agent as he plotted attacks on behalf of Islamic State. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison and has pleaded not guilty.

Michael Sibley, 67, left two unexploded pipe bombs and a Koran in a park in Roswell, Georgia in 2014 in what he later told police was an attempt to highlight the danger of Islamic terrorism. He pleaded guilty and faces a maximum of five years in prison.

"A different standard is being applied to Muslims than to other people," said Daryl Johnson, a former counter terrorism expert at the Department of Homeland Security who now works as a law enforcement consultant.

"SPRING-LOADED"

Steinbach said that the FBI can never open up any type of investigation “just on the basis of race, creed, or religion,” but he added that federal agents are "spring-loaded" to open investigations into Americans who support groups on the State Department list of 'designated terrorist organizations' (i.e., Christian, patriot, constitutionalist, loves his country, desires return of the Republic government, military vet).

The maximum penalty for supporting one of these groups has been raised from 10 years to 20 years in prison since 2001.

It has been applied in 58 of the government's 79 Islamic State cases since 2014 against defendants who engaged in a wide range of activity, from traveling to Syria to fight alongside Islamic State to raising money for a friend who wished to do so.

'Judges' (magistrate NOT judge for the law of the sea - who told them to come ashore? send them back and sink their da*n ships) usually issue sentences below the maximum, but some charges trigger sentencing "enhancements" that raise the baseline sentence a judge can issue – and the material support charge raises it more than most.

Domestic groups enjoy greater constitutional protections because being a member of those groups, no matter how extreme their rhetoric, is not a crime.

Prosecutors can bring “material support” terrorism charges against defendants who aren't linked to groups on the State Department's list, but they have only done so twice against non-jihadist suspects since the law was enacted in 1994.

The law, which prohibits supporting people who have been deemed to be terrorists by their actions, carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Current and former federal prosecutors say they rarely consider that statute in domestic terrorism cases because it is often hard to convince a jury that someone who is not affiliated with a foreign group can be guilty of terrorism.

William Wilmoth, a former federal prosecutor who invoked that law in a 1996 case against a West Virginia militia member, said he was surprised to hear that it isn't used more often.

"These guys have every right to have off-center political views," he said. "But when they made affirmative steps to blow up an actual federal facility... we thought it was an important place for us to go and prosecute."

  

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-eyes-ways-toughen-fight-against-domestic-extremists-060402478.h

FBI - What Ya Gonna Do When They Lay You Off?

FBI - What ya gonna do when they lay you off after the Hammond and Bundy Ranch Debacle?

Were ya gonna work......

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You gonna work for $6/Hr as a Walmart Greeter?

What ya gonna do when the economy falls and you get fired?

What ya gonna do?

The News You Need

Dr William B. Mount

Posted by William Mount at 8:12 PM

Unleash the dogs of peace.

 

 

Unleash the dogs of peace.

This will touch your Heart.

 

So nice to see those brave
dogs being looked after!

 

This is my human there are
many like it but this one is mine...

And the guy on the left has a
BIG smile on his face. It's his dog and he is glad it found another lap to sit
on instead of his.(Note the brown leash)

 

Oh Come On We Both Fit On This
Thing!See!?

 

 

I totally saw the dog and is
wonderful wing man, never really paid attention to anything else until I started
reading the comments. Thank you to our military and their very special dogs who
are sent into the worse case scenarios.

 

My son was half of a K9
couple. His first partner was Banjo, explosives detection. Oh, the stories we've
heard! His second partner was Brit, drug dog. I have nothing but the utmost
respect for all K9 teams.

 

He/she deserved it! Thank you for your service, sweet
little puppy.

 

Look at the power in the
thighs and shoulders of this soldier. And that beautiful, determined face. I
grew up being told by my Air Force father that women could never serve in
combat. Oh, yeah? Tell that to this American soldier! To paraphrase Lincoln:
"SHE who shall have borne the battle..."

 

He looks so fierce, but sad..
Tears rolling down his/hers face.

 

They trust each other!

 

The dog survived, the handler
sadly did not.

 

He is receiving a medal for
his service to our Country...well deserved.

 

Let's go for a walk they said.
It'll be fun they said.

 

Best friend I could of ever asked for!!!

 

IF ONLY we humans would love
one another this way too.

 

Every K9 soldier would give
their life for their partner, no question they r angels of war...bond beyond
words.

 

Hey, that's an Israeli
soldier!

 

The love of a dog is the closest thing to the love God
has for the human race. smile
emoticon
Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for
his friends ...

 

Thank you for your service .Now run free over the rainbow
bridge

 

Not a K9 Soldier, but
nonetheless a dog who will serve. His contribution to morale and mental health
of the soldiers who found him, take care of him, and will hopefully bring him
home with them should also be recognized. Not a War Dog, but still a Dog of
War.

 

THAT is an awesome picture!!!

 

The sharp dried weeds/grass
was probably hurting the dog's feet. Saw another picture once where the human
soldier was carrying his dog over burning hot sand. If it's too hot or cold on
the ground for you to go barefooted, it's too hot or cold for animals
too.

He ain't heavy he's my
brother!

 

This is the family of fallen
Marine Cpl Dustin Lee. They were allowed to adopt "Lex".

 

"that's not a dog, THAT'S A
MARINE." - Gny Sgt. Leroy Jethro Gibb, USMC "NCIS"

 

He looks like he's saying its
okay we got this covered.

 

Look after them like they
looked after you

OFF THE GRID RADIO....

Quietly across the nation, organic farmers are making progress in their battle to raise organic, GMO-free crops without the threat of cross-contamination from genetically modified fields. And, perhaps most surprisingly, a federal court has sided with the farmers. That's the subject of today's edition of Off The Grid Radio, as organic farmer Elise Higley tells us the latest news out of Jackson County, Oregon, where voters approved and a federal judge recently upheld a new law that prohibits the growing of GMO crops - handing biotech companies such as Monsanto and Syngenta a big loss. Elsewhere across the U.S., organic farmers are pushing for "GMO-free" zones within counties, whereby organic farmers can grow their crops without fear of contamination from non-traditional crops. Higley, who also is executive director of the Our Family Farms Coalition, an advocacy group for family farms and traditional seeds crops, tells us: How cross-contamination could ruin a family's entire organic crop - and result in it literally being owned by biotech companies. What will happen to GMO crops in Jackson County now that such plants are banned. Why she believes organic farmers could lose millions of dollars in domestic and international markets if a solution isn't found to prevent cross-contamination. How the livelihoods of even non-organic family farmers are being threatened by Monsanto and GMO crops. Finally, Higley tells us how supporters of organic and traditional farmers can join the fight to protect the rights of small farms. If you like inspiring stories of modern-day Davids defeating Goliath, then this show is for you! Click here to listen to this week's interview.