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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SENDS URGENT MESSAGE TO DEDICATION OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM~40,000 "PALESTINIANS" VIOLENTLY PROTEST~IRANIAN GROUP OFFERS $100,000 TO BLOW UP NEW EMBASSY~CALLS FOR MORE VIOLENT JIHAD~TURKEY RECALLS AMBASSADORS

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SENDS URGENT MESSAGE TO DEDICATION OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM 
PM Netanyahu's Remarks at Dedication Ceremony 
of US Embassy in Jerusalem
דברי ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו בטקס חנוכת השגרירות האמריקנית החדשה בירושלים. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at the dedication ceremony of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem.

Nikki Haley Speaks at UN Security Council Meeting on New US Embassy May 15, 2018

Condemns Violence by "Palestinians" & U.N. Inaction

40,000 Palestinians protest America's 

Israeli embassy move

Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon on Palestinians protesting President Trump's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the fallout from President Trump pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.

Iranian group offers $100,000 to anyone who blows up the new US Embassy in Jerusalem

BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Some devote themselves to building, others to destroying. The Iranian Justice Seeker Movement thinks that when it calls for destruction and bloodshed, that it is being righteous. It declared: “Whoever bombs the embassy’s building will receive a $100,000 award. It is necessary to mention that the steps by Trump to transfer the US Embassy to Holy Qods [Jerusalem] has led to the anger and hatred of Muslims and liberators throughout the world.'”
Anger and hatred is the entire motivating force of the global jihad.
“Iranian Group Offers $100,000 to Blow Up New U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, May 14, 2018 (thanks to Ken):
A hardline Iranian organization is reportedly offering a $100,000 reward to any person who bombs the newly opened U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, according to a translation of Farsi language reports.
A group known as the Iranian Justice Seeker Student Movement is reported to have disseminated posters calling for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, which has been opposed by Palestinian and Iranian officials as an affront to the holy city.
“The Student Justice Movement will support anybody who destroy the illegal American embassy in Jerusalem,” the poster states in Farsi, Arabic, and English, according to an independent translation of the propaganda poster provided to the Free Beacon.
There will be a “$100,000 dollar prize for the person who destroys the illegal American embassy in Jerusalem,” the poster states.
The call for an attack on the new embassy is just the latest escalation by hostile Islamic states and leaders who have lashed out at the United States and President Donald Trump for making good on a campaign promise to relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s declared capital city of Jerusalem.
News of the bomb threat was first reported by the University Student News Network, a regional Farsi-language site that aggregates relevant news briefs.
“The Student Movement for Justice declared, ‘Whoever bombs the embassy’s building will receive a $100,000 award,'” the report states. “It is necessary to mention that the steps by Trump to transfer the US Embassy to Holy Qods [Jerusalem] has led to the anger and hatred of Muslims and liberators throughout the world.'”…
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REPORT: IRANIAN GROUP OFFERS $100K TO BLOW UP NEW US EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM

Iran, Palestinians view embassy move 

as affront to holy city

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
An extremist Iranian group is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who bombs the newly opened U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, accordingto reports.
The Iranian Justice Seeker Student Movement group has distributed posters calling for the destruction of the embassy.
“The Student Justice Movement will support anybody who destroy the illegal American embassy in Jerusalem,” the poster states in Farsi, Arabic, and English, which was given to The Free Beacon.
“There will be a “$100,000 dollar prize for the person who destroys the illegal American embassy in Jerusalem,” the poster states.
Former Pentagon advisor Michael Rubin said that terrorism is central to the Iranian government’s philosophy.
“Unfortunately, terrorism directed toward diplomats and embassies has become a central pillar of the Islamic Republic’s culture,” Rubin said.
“Terrorism is lionized in Iranian schools. This bounty is more the rule than the exception. To blame Washington or Jerusalem is to blame the victim and give terrorists a veto over U.S. policy.”

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Al-Qaeda top dog calls for jihad against U.S. as embassy opens in Jerusalem

BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
American officials have always counseled appeasement in the face of this intimidation: give the jihadis what they want, and maybe they won’t hurt us. That course of action, however, only encourages more intimidation. President Trump is right to call a halt to such appeasement, and to stand strong.
“Al-Qaeda Terrorist Leader Calls for Jihad Against U.S. as Embassy Opens in Jerusalem,” by Simon Kent, Breitbart, May 14, 2018 (thanks to Ken):
Muslims should wage jihad against the U.S. as a response to America’s decision to move its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital Jerusalem, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said on Sunday.
The Egyptian doctor who assumed leadership of the global terror group after its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 made his call in a video titled “Tel Aviv is Also a Land of Muslims.”
U.S. President Donald Trump “was clear and explicit, and he revealed the true face of the modern Crusade, where standing down and appeasement does not work with them, but only resistance through the call and jihad,” al-Zawahiri said, according to a transcript provided to AFP by the SITE monitoring agency.
He added that Bin Laden had declared the U.S. “the first enemy of the Muslims, and swore that it will not dream of security until it is lived in reality in Palestine, and until all the armies of disbelief leave the land of Muhammad.”
Al-Zawahiri argued that Islamic countries had failed to act in Muslims’ interests by entering into the United Nations, which recognizes Israel, and following Security Council and General Assembly resolutions rather than bending to the will of sharia (Islamic law)….
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Turkey recalls ambassadors to Israel & U.S. over Israel defending itself from violent Gaza protesters

BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
According to the Jerusalem Post: “Some 40,000 Palestinians took part in violent demonstrations at 13 different locations along the fence, throwing stones, explosive devices and Molotov cocktails at the fence and IDF troops, as well as burning tires and launching burning objects such as kites with charcoal or containers of burning fuel with the intention of setting fires in Israeli fields, the IDF said.”
Erdogan considers Israel defending itself against these violent protesters so egregious that he has recalled his ambassadors to Israel and the U.S.
“Turkey recalls ambassadors to Israel, US over Gaza ‘genocide,’” by Alexander Fulbright, Times of Israel, May 14, 2018:
Turkey on Monday recalled its ambassadors to Israel and the United States in protest of the Israeli military’s deadly response to riots on the Gaza border.
The announcement was made by Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag, who also declared three days of mourning over the 55 Palestinians the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said were killed in the riots.
“Israel is wreaking state terror. Israel is a terror state,” Erdogan told Turkish students in London in a speech broadcast by state television. “What Israel has done is a genocide. I condemn this humanitarian drama, the genocide, from whichever side it comes, Israel or America.
“We will continue to stand with Palestinian people with determination,” he added.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said Jerusalem was aware of reports on Turkey’s intention to recall its ambassador but had not received an official notice.
Turkey’s announcement came after South Africa announced the immediate recall of its ambassador to Israel in protest of the Gaza deaths.
Monday’s clashes, the deadliest yet in the weeks-long violent “March of Return” protests, came the same day the US inaugurated its new embassy in Jerusalem.
Citing Hamas sources, Hadashot TV news said 10 of the terror group’s members were killed in the clashes, including a son of its co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi. The IDF’s spokesman said Hamas deployed 12 separate terrorist “cells” to try to breach the border at different locations, and that all were rebuffed.
Erdogan, whom Israel has accused of providing aid to Hamas, the terror group that runs Gaza and backs the protests, said, “We will not allow today to be the day Muslim world loses Jerusalem.”
The Turkish president has positioned himself as a defender of the Palestinians and harshly criticized the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and its relocation of its embassy to the city, saying earlier that the move was a violation of international law.
Turkey’s decision to recall its envoys to Israel and the US came as thousands gathered in Ankara to condemn the US embassy relocation, burning American and Israeli flags, and protesting the deadly clashes along the Israel-Gaza border.
Demonstrators carried banners that read: “Al Quds belongs to the Muslims,” the Arabic name of Jerusalem. They chanted “God is great” and slogans calling for holy war and martyrdom. One speaker called Americans “dogs” as people shouted “Jerusalem is ours, it will be ours.”…
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BREAKING: Turkey Recalls Ambassadors From U.S. And Israel After Over 50 Palestinians Killed In Gaza


CALIFORNIA'S EXAMPLE COULD TAKE THE WHOLE COUNTRY DOWN~DEMOCRAT INTRODUCES BILL TO REQUIRE CELEBRATION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY IN MAY~SCHOOL GLORIFIES ISLAM IN YEARBOOK

CALIFORNIA'S EXAMPLE COULD TAKE 
THE WHOLE COUNTRY DOWN
California with its bankrupt economy, culture of unemployment, madcap representatives, crumbling power grid, crippling taxes, and unattainable real estate prices has created an exodus of Californians heading east. But California has always claimed to be at the heart of America's future. So why is everyone leaving?
California Pushes Communist Celebration in Schools Katie Petrick Reports:
California is continuing its quest for crazy town capital, as now one lawmaker wants to celebrate a communist holiday instead of American presidents’ birthdays. Miguel Santiago (D-53rd) introduced legislation in the California State Assembly in February requiring the celebration of International Workers’ Day, better known as May Day. The intent of the bill is to “commemorate the history of the United States labor movement.” Assembly Bill 3042 also includes elimination of February birthday celebrations for Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Instead, presidents are to be honored with Presidents’ Day, thus making room for May Day. | https://bit.ly/2wCMsE4

California: Public high school yearbook has lavish two-page Islam presentation entitled “ALLAH AKBAR”

BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/05/california-public-high-school-yearbook-has-lavish-two-page-islam-presentation-entitled-allah-akbarrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:


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I can’t believe this!!! A high school in Rancho Cucamonga has a spread in their year book that says ALLAH AKBAR. Not one mention of Christianity in the year book!

“Allahu akbar” means Allah is greater, i.e., greater than your god. It’s a declaration of superiority. Jihad mass murderers the world over scream “Allahu akbar” as they murder people.” 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta reminded himself to “shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.”
And here it is in the Rancho Cucamonga High School yearbook, because they are tolerant, multicultural, diverse, and against “racism.” The Rancho Cucamonga High School yearbook contains no pages on Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. Why does it contain these pages on Islam? Because it is the prevailing view among Leftists today that Muslims are persecuted, harassed and discriminated against on a large scale in America today, and that this happens because of Americans’ ignorance of Islam.
Both claims are nonsense. The FBI’s latest hate crime statistics show that Jews are twice more likely to be the victims of hate crimes than Muslims. Yet there is no presentation on Judaism in Rancho Cucamonga High School’s yearbook. And if anyone does have a negative opinion of Islam, it is because of jihad terror, not ignorance of Islam.
These pages on Islam are in the Rancho Cucamonga High School yearbook as a testament to how successful Islamic advocacy groups and their Leftist allies have been in deflecting attention away from the reality of jihad terror and portraying Muslims in the U.S., however spuriously, as a victim group needing special consideration and accommodation.

MICHIGAN'S CIVILIZATION JIHAD EXPOSED: MUSLIM GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE IN MICHIGAN, CALLED OUT ON MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TIES, CRIES "RACISM" & "ISLAMOPHOBIA"~SLAMS REPUBLICAN COLBECK AS "HATED" BY MUSLIMS

"Anger and hatred is the entire motivating force of the global jihad."-Robert Spencer

MUSLIM MICHIGAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR SHOWS HIS TRUE UNCIVIL, JIHADIST COLORS & RACIST HATRED TOO

CHARGES REPUBLICAN WITH THE USUAL 

"RACISM" & "ISLAMOPHOBIA"

Abdul al-Sayed: 

"Now you may not hate Muslims, but I’ll tell you, 

Muslims definitely hate you!”…"

Video: Michigan gubernatorial candidate called out on Muslim Brotherhood ties, cries “racism” and “Islamophobia”

BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/05/video-michigan-gubernatorial-candidate-called-out-on-muslim-brotherhood-ties-cries-racism-and-islamophobiarepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
“Now you may not hate Muslims, but I’ll tell you, Muslims definitely hate you!” Abdul al-Sayed claims he is a victim of “racism” and “Islamophobia.” But he was a member of the Muslim Students Association, which is demonstrably a Muslim Brotherhood organization. Imagine if he had been a member of a student organization that had been established by the Justice Department to be tied to the Ku Klux Klan. Do you think that he would be able simply to claim that he was being unfairly victimized when questioned about that? But the establishment media will continue to portray Colbeck as a bully, a “racist,” and a hate-filled “Islamophobe,” and never address the real concerns about Abdul al-Sayed, who is being groomed for a top slot in the organization.
“First-ever Muslim candidate for Governor comes unhinged over question about Sharia,” by Leo Hohmann, May 18, 2018 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
Michigan’s first-ever Muslim candidate for governor, Dr. Abdul al-Sayed, took a shot at fellow gubernatorial candidate Patrick Colbeck on Thursday that some Republicans are saying went below the belt.
Colbeck, speaking at a candidate’s forum in East Lansing, expressed his concerns about Sharia law and the extremist Muslim Brotherhood’s tactic of civilization jihad. Colbeck took exception with an article he says was planted by Sayed supporters in the left-of-center website Buzzfeed,  which painted Colbeck as a fringe extremist using “unfounded conspiracy theories” against Sayed.
Rather than address Colbeck’s concerns, Sayed called Colbeck a racist Islamophobe whom Muslims “definitely hate.”
Sayed, 33, the former public-health director for the city of Detroit, was on stage Thursday at the Michigan Press Association with several other Democrat and Republican candidates for governor running in the Aug. 7 primary.
Sayed refused to answer a question from the moderator about the Islamic legal system known as Sharia, other than to say that, if elected, he would uphold the constitutions of the U.S. and State of Michigan.
“I take [the Constitution] particularly seriously because it guarantees me two things. A, the right to pray as I choose to pray, and for me that means I put my face on the ground 34 times a day,” Sayed said.  “Some people choose not to pray at all. Then in Article Six it also tells us that no religious test should be held over someone wishing to serve under this Constitution. It’s an incredible document.”
Sayed leveled charges of racism and “white supremacy” at Republicans in general but saved his most severe critique for Colbeck, the one GOP candidate who has dared to talk about the issue of creeping Sharia in a state that has the country’s highest concentration of Muslims and has the nation’s first case of female genital mutilation working its way through the federal courts. Michigan also recently had a case involving a possible honor killing in which a 15-year-old Muslim boy in Farmington Hills allegedly pushed his mother to her death at a time when she was going through a divorce from his father.
Colbeck, an aerospace engineer and two-term state senator, said his concerns are not about individual Muslims. Rather, he worries about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been declared a terrorist organization by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and whose influence in the U.S. was spelled out in the Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America, a document seized by the FBI in 2004 and presented as evidence in a terror-financing trial that sent five members of an Islamic charity called the Holy Land Foundation to prison in 2008 for funneling money to Hamas.
“This is one of those areas that got me ticked off in regard to the fairness of the media,” Colbeck told the audience Thursday. “They pitched this comment around my concern about the Muslim Brotherhood as a concern about Muslims in general. I love Muslims. It’s not an issue. The issue is about terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood.”
After he berated Colbeck as a racist, and lectured the other Republicans on the panel for not condemning Colbeck as a racist and white supremacist, the normally cool-headed Sayed became visibly angry and showed he is not above expressing some hatred of his own.
“What frustrates me more is not that you have blatant racism on the part of certain people, but what frustrates me more is in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, is not when bad people speak out but when good people fail to speak out, and what I have not heard is the Republicans on this panel, decisively and swiftly call out this kind of Islamophobia, this kind of racism, in the context that they are wanting to represent the state that has the highest per-capita number of Muslim Americans in the country. Now you may not hate Muslims, but I’ll tell you, Muslims definitely hate you!”…
Dick Manasseri, spokesman for Secure Michigan, one of the groups that has concerns about the incremental advancement of Sharia in Michigan’s Muslim enclaves, including female genital mutilation, honor violence and polygamy, said he was surprised to see Sayed come unhinged in response to a calmly-communicated concern by Colbeck.
“Dr. Abdul definitely lost his cool,” Manasseri said. “I think what we saw was an outburst. Abdul was not cool. Patrick is purposely trying to not make this his only issue, but when it comes up he’s not afraid to address it and Dr. Abdul showed he just can’t handle it. All he has in his bag of tricks is the canned response that everyone who asks about Sharia is a racist and an Islamophobe.”
Since Islam is not a race, and some of the most populous Muslim countries such as Syria and Bosnia are filled by Caucasians, the charge of racism is disingenuous at best, nonsensical at worst, Manasseri said….
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DEM MUSLIM CANDIDATE FOR MICHIGAN GOVERNOR TELLS GOP OPPONENT: 

“MUSLIMS HATE YOU”

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed gets heated during debate


BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/dem-muslim-candidate-for-michigan-governor-tells-gop-opponent-muslims-hate-you/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Michigan’s first ever Muslim candidate for governor caused controversy when he told his Republican opponent during a debate, “Muslims hate you.”
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is running as a Democrat in the August 7 primary. Michigan has the United States’ highest concentration of Muslims and recently had a case involving a potential honor killing. Two metro Detroit doctors were also recently accused of carrying out female genital mutilation on four children.
As Leo Hohmann explains, the exchange began when, “Sayed refused to answer a question from the moderator about the Islamic legal system known as Sharia.”
Sayed’s Republican opponent Patrick Colbeck then complained that he was being smeared as an Islamophobe simply for being critical of the Muslim Brotherhood.
“They pitched this comment around my concern about the Muslim Brotherhood as a concern about Muslims in general. I love Muslims. It’s not an issue. The issue is about terrorist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Colbeck.
Sayed shot back by angrily accusing Colbeck of being a racist.
“What frustrates me more is not that you have blatant racism on the part of certain people, but what frustrates me more is in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, is not when bad people speak out but when good people fail to speak out, and what I have not heard is the Republicans on this panel, decisively and swiftly call out this kind of Islamophobia, this kind of racism, in the context that they are wanting to represent the state that has the highest per-capita number of Muslim Americans in the country,” said Sayed.
He then explicitly told Colbeck that Muslims hate him.
“Now you may not hate Muslims, but I’ll tell you, Muslims definitely hate you!,” said Sayed.
Dick Manasseri, spokesman for Secure Michigan, a group that has expressed concerns about the creeping encroachment of Sharia law, said Sayed came off second best in the exchange.
“Dr. Abdul definitely lost his cool,” Manasseri said. “I think what we saw was an outburst. Abdul was not cool. Patrick is purposely trying to not make this his only issue, but when it comes up he’s not afraid to address it and Dr. Abdul showed he just can’t handle it. All he has in his bag of tricks is the canned response that everyone who asks about Sharia is a racist and an Islamophobe.”
The Muslim Brotherhood connection with Sayed has been made because he served as vice president of the Muslim Student Association, which many accuse of being a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, whose goal is the worldwide establishment of Sharia law.
Philip Haney, a counter-terrorism expert and retired member of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Targeting Center, said Sayed’s response to immediately hide behind identity politics when confronted by the question was predictable.
“He did what those guys tend to do, which is to change the narrative whenever the issue of Sharia comes up and make it about racism and so-called Islamophobia,” Haney said. “But he showed his true colors there at the end. He’s not as slick as he thinks he is.”
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NRA SUES N.Y. GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO OVER BACKROOM EXHORTATIONS & PUBLIC THREATS

NRA SUES N.Y. GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO OVER BACKROOM EXHORTATIONS & 
PUBLIC THREATS 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The NRA Sues New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York State Department of Financial Services Over Alleged Attack on First Amendment Rights New York, NY.
New York ~ -(Ammoland.com)-  On Friday, May 11, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, the NRA filed a lawsuit claiming that Gov. Cuomo, and his Director of Financial Services (DFS) have engaged in a “campaign of selective prosecution, backroom exhortations, and public threats” designed to coerce banks and insurance companies to withhold services from the NRA.
The NRA argues that such tactics vastly overstep DFS’s regulatory mandate, and seek to suppress the speech of Second Amendment supporters and retaliate against the NRA and others for their political advocacy.
The lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in damages to redress harms inflicted by the DFS campaign.
“Political differences aside, our client believes the tactics employed by these public officials are aimed to deprive the NRA of its First Amendment right to speak freely about gun-related issues and in defense of the Second Amendment,” says William A. Brewer III, partner at Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors and counsel to the NRA.
“We believe these actions are outside the authority of DFS and fail to honor the principles which require public officials to protect the constitutional rights of all citizens.” Among other things, the lawsuit cites a pair of “guidance” letters issued on April 19, 2018, by the DFS to the CEOs of banks and insurance companies doing business in New York. Styled as regulatory “risk management” advisories, the letters encourage institutions to “take prompt actions” to manage “reputational risk” posed by dealings with “gun promotion organizations.” The same day, Cuomo issued a press release in which Vullo directly urged “all insurance companies and banks doing business in New York” to “discontinue[] their arrangements with the NRA.”
Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo issued a press release in which Vullo directly urged “all insurance companies and banks doing business in New York” to “discontinue[] their arrangements with the NRA.”
The lawsuit claims that the “guidance” letters were accompanied by back-channel communications and targeted enforcement actions, which further reinforced the Cuomo administration’s message that it is bad business in New York to do business with the NRA.
The lawsuit explains that the DFS mandate – preceded by an “investigation” orchestrated by gun-control activists into insurance programs sponsored by the NRA – has already caused several insurance companies to sever relationships with the NRA and to plan to cancel the insurance policies of lawabiding New York consumers. According to the complaint, the directive of Cuomo and Vullo has had its intended effect – to advance Cuomo’s longstanding opposition to gun-rights supporters and to distort insurance markets in the service of a political agenda.
The lawsuit says, “As a direct result of this coercion, multiple firms have succumbed to Defendants’ demands and entered into consent orders with DFS that compel them to terminate longstanding, beneficial business relationships with the NRA both in New York and elsewhere. Tellingly, several provisions in the orders bear no relation to any ostensible regulatory infraction. Instead, the orders prohibit lawful commercial speech for no reason other than that it carries the NRA brand.”
On May 2, 2018 and May 7, 2018, Lockton Companies, LLC and Chubb Ltd., respectively, announced they will pay millions of dollars in fines to DFS and cease doing business with the NRA – for no other reason than many of the insurance programs with which they are associated carry the NRA brand. On May 9, 2018, Lloyd’s of London announced that it is directing insurance underwriters to terminate any existing partnerships [with the NRA].
The lawsuit explains that these outcomes are the culmination of years of political activism by Cuomo against the NRA and gun rights organizations.

As recently as April 20, 2018, Cuomo called the NRA an “extremist organization” and urged New York companies “to revisit their ties to the NRA and consider their reputations…”

In the face of such attacks, the NRA continues to educate the public about the Second Amendment, defend the NRA and its members against political and media attacks, and galvanize participation in the political process. The NRA claims that in response, Cuomo and DFS are taking actions to silence the organization.
Citing the Supreme Court’s landmark Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan case, the lawsuit argues that “viewpoint discrimination applied through ‘threat[s] of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion, persuasion, and intimidation’ violates the Constitution where, as here, such measures chill protected First Amendment activities.”

PROJECT MAVEN: GOOGLE EMPLOYEES RESIGN OVER PENTAGON CONTRACT

Project Maven: Google Employees Resign Over Pentagon Contract

Google Employees Revolt, Refuse to Work On Project Maven AI Drone Project For The 

Pentagon

Around a dozen Google employees have quit and close to 4,000 have signed a petition over the company's involvement in a controversial military pilot program known as "Project Maven... Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0...

PROJECT MAVEN: GOOGLE EMPLOYEES RESIGN OVER PENTAGON CONTRACT

Tech experts boycott AI program analyzing objects from drone footage

BY JAMIE WHITE
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/project-maven-google-employees-resign-over-pentagon-contract/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
About a dozen Google employees have resigned in protest over the company’s involvement in a Pentagon AI program known as Project Maven.
“Project Maven focuses on computer vision — an aspect of machine learning and deep learning — that autonomously extracts objects of interest from moving or still imagery,” according to Marine Corps Col. Drew Cukor.
“There is no ‘black box’ that delivers the AI system the government needs, at least not now,” he said. “Key elements have to be put together…and the only way to do that is with commercial partners alongside us.”
That’s where Google comes in. But some employees have resigned due to ethical concerns of AI in drone warfare as well as worries about Google’s political motivations for participating in a such a project.


“At some point, I realized I could not in good faith recommend anyone join Google, knowing what I knew. I realized if I can’t recommend people join here, then why am I still here?” a resigning Google employee told Gizmodo.
“I tried to remind myself right that Google’s decisions are not my decisions. I’m not personally responsible for everything they do. But I do feel responsibility when I see something that I should escalate it,” another added.
“Actions speak louder than words, and that’s a standard I hold myself to as well,” a third resigning employee said. “I wasn’t happy just voicing my concerns internally. The strongest possible statement I could take against this was to leave.”
In addition to the resignations, an internal Google petition signed by over 4,000 employees asks CEO Sundar Pichai to cancel its contract with the Pentagon on Project Maven’s development.
“We believe that Google should not be in the business of war. Therefore we ask that Project Maven be canceled, and that Google draft, publicize and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology,” the petition reads.
“This plan will irreparably damage Google’s brand and its ability to compete for talent. Amid growing fears of biased and weaponized AI, Google is already struggling to keep the public’s trust. By entering into this contract, Google will join the ranks of companies like Palantir, Raytheon, and General Dynamics. The argument that other firms, like Microsoft and Amazon, are also participating doesn’t make this any less risky for Google. Google’s unique history, its motto “Don’t Be Evil,” and its direct reach into the lives of billions of users set it apart.”
Google pushed back against its employees, assuring them that the technology it develops won’t be used in lethal military application.
“Maven is a well-publicized DoD project, and Google is working on one part of it—specifically scoped to be for non-offensive purposes and using open-source object-recognition software available to any Google Cloud customer,” a Google spokesperson said last month.
“The technology is used to flag images for human review and is intended to save lives and save people from having to do highly tedious work.”
“Any military use of machine learning naturally raises valid concerns. We’re actively engaged across the company in a comprehensive discussion of this important topic and also with outside experts, as we continue to develop our policies around the development and use of our machine learning technologies.”
Google has not yet responded to the latest resignations.

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