Ed Magee, the spokesman for county prosecutor Robert McCulloch, said they received the information from a “Twitter user” Wednesday morning.
“We are looking into the matter,” he said.
An account of possible jury misconduct surfaced Wednesday morning on Twitter, when several users sent messages about one juror who may have discussed evidence in the case with a friend.
In one of those messages, a person tweeted that they are friends with a member of the jury who doesn’t believe there is enough evidence to warrant an arrest of the officer, Darren Wilson.
The same person who tweeted about being friends with a member of the jury has also tweeted messages of support for Wilson.
Magee confirmed that information on the Twitter user and feed came from an activist, Shaun King.
The jury has been weighing evidence on the case since Aug. 20, within days of the Aug. 9 shooting. McCulloch told The Washington Post last week that both the FBI and county police’s investigations into the shooting are “pretty much done.” He also said that jurors should be done hearing all the evidence by later this month, but they could meet through mid-November.
Grand jury proceedings are confidential and if there has been a breach, the prosecutor’s office may have to start over with a newly empaneled group.
From [HERE] East Mississippi Correctional Facility, which houses many suffering from mental illness, is a "barbaric" private prison where inmates are beaten, exploited and mistreated by gangs and others, according to litigation filed Thursday.
"The prison is in chaos, with conditions so dangerous — violence, filth, callous denial of prisoners' serious medical and mental health needs — that the only meaningful remedy is an injunction to protect all prisoners," said Margaret Winter, associate director of the ACLU's National Prison Project.
Officials at the Utah-based Management & Training Corp. said they've made significant improvements since they took over the Meridian prison in July 2012.
"MTC is very concerned about the well-being of the inmates in our care as well as our staff and the community," said Issa Arnita, director of corporate communications. "We have worked hard to identify areas of improvement and we will continue to do so moving forward."
On Thursday, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center asked the federal court to certify the class of prisoners for the private prison.
If a federal judge steps in, the lawsuit would follow in the steps of class-action litigation brought against the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility and the State Penitentiary's Death Row and Unit 32.
From [HERE] and [MORE] An Oklahoma prosecutor has filed formal notification that he'll seek the death penalty against a Black man accused of beheading a white woman at a food processing plant.
Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn filed notice Thursday that he'll ask 30-year-old Alton Alexander Nolen to be executed if convicted of first-degree murder in last week's beheading of Colleen Hufford in Moore. Authorities allege Nolen attacked Hufford and another worker at Vaughan Foods after Nolen was suspended from his job at the plant.
The paperwork filed Thursday says the death penalty is warranted in the case because the killing was "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel." [MORE]
From [HERE] The US government on Tuesday insisted in a letter to the UN that the American-led airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State (IS) were legally justified because actions were taken in defense of Iraq. The US, with the support of Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, led the airstrikes without first seeking permission from the UN Security Council [official website] or the Syrian government. However, the US argued that under Article 51 of the UN Charter, [text] countries have the right to defend themselves with the use of force. International law dictates that force on another sovereign country may be used without the permission of the country's government or the UN in matters of self-defense. The airstrikes were legal, the letter stated, because Iraq asked the US for help in defending itself against IS attacks. Additionally, the Khorasan, [BBC backgrounder] who were also targeted in the attacks, were deemed by American intelligence to be a threat to the US. In her letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Ambassador Samantha Power [official profiles] urged that "States must be able to defend themselves ... when, as is the case here, the government of the state where the threat is located is unwilling or unable to prevent the use of its territory for such attacks." [MORE]
From [HERE] The latest figures indicate that more than 6,500 people are believed to have been infected in the region. Liberia is the worst affected country, having recorded around 1,830 deaths linked to the latest outbreak.
The outbreak is the world's most deadly - US President Barack Obama has called it a "threat to global security". Some studies have warned that the numbers of infected could rise to more than 20,000 by early November. The report said two new areas, in Guinea and Liberia, have recorded their first confirmed cases of Ebola in the last seven days. It also highlights the risk of infection for health workers trying to stem the outbreak.
From [HERE] The Pentagon is to start recruiting undocumented immigrants who came into the US as minors and possess valuable skills like speaking Persian and Chinese. The program offering the opportunity is capped at 1,500 recruits per year.
The new policy revealed by the DoD on Thursday expands the existing pilot program called Military Accessions Vital to National Interest, or MAVNI. It has been tried since 2008, offering positions in the US armed forces to foreigners living in America legally as refugees or under a temporary visa.
Starting next fiscal year, MAVNI will also apply to illegal residents who came to US with their parents before age 16, reports the Military Times. The potential recruits would be selected from those eligible for the 2012 Obama administration policy known as Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, or DACA. Getting a DACA illegal immigrant status involves a background check by the Homeland Security Department.
The Pentagon recruits some 5,000 foreigners each year, most of them ‘green card’ holders. The MAVNI program may account for up to 1,500 recruits annually, although the military services are not required to accept them. In practice the Army has been the only service to accept a significant number, while the Navy and Marine Corps are not seeking applicants under it. [MORE]
"I Love Niggers because Niggers are Me."He's Hard to miss: Andre Leon Talley leaves his Florence hotel as he heads to Kim and Kanye's wedding; the Vogue Contributing Editor was upset b/c he was blurred out of TV footage of the day. [MORE] "In the absence of white supremacy niggers would not exist." [MORE]
Despite their samsaric reality, many of the victims of white supremacy, especially Black people, mistakenly believe they are safe and free to do this and that in this so-called post-racial or benign environment. By and large, Black people function as children/consumer/beggars; free to only think feelings and serve white folks in this system of white control- while white people function as their parent, masters. White supremacists/racists hope and intend to keep all non-white people in a child like condition - endlessly engaging in activities such as clowning, singing, dancing, rapping, clubbing, shopping, church going, drinking, drugging and countless other things that have nothing to do with replacing the system of white supremacy with a system of justice.
Neely Fuller explains that, "White Supremacy (Racism) is the greatest system of injustice in the known universe. The people [white] who have chosen to practice this system do not allow any non-white people to do anything that definitely seems to lead to the establishment of justice and correctness among the people of the known universe. Under white supremacy, Black people are directly or indirectly, encouraged to do only those things that help to promote falsehood, non-justice, and incorrectness. They are encouraged and assisted in doing those things that help them to remain pitiful, primitive, stupid, and/or silly.
In a socio-material system dominated by White Supremacists, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by White Supremacists.
When a Black person needs serious help, he or she goes directly, or indirectly, to the White Supremacists and asks for that help.
Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by White Supremacists. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many people — particularly non-white people — prefer not to acknowledge. [MORE]
Many white defendants like George Zimmerman (in photo) are easily and routinely granted pre-trial release. From [HERE] and [MORE] The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Mississippi, and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center filed a class action suit [PDF] late yesterday against the Scott County (Mississippi) sheriff, district attorney, and judges after learning that the Scott County Detention Center has held people for as long as a year without appointing counsel and without indicting them. The county’s practices violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments’ rights to counsel, to a speedy trial, and to a fair bail hearing.
"This is indefinite detention, pure and simple. Scott County jail routinely holds people without giving them a lawyer and without formally charging them for months, with no end in sight. For those waiting for indictment, the county has created its own Constitution-free zone," said Brandon Buskey, Staff Attorney at the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project. "These prisoners’ cases are frozen, their lives outside the jail are disintegrating, and they haven’t even been charged with a crime. The county has tossed these people into a legal black hole."
One plaintiff in the ACLU’s suit, Joshua Bassett, has been in the Scott County Detention Center since January 16 of this year; he has been denied an attorney and a grand jury hearing. Another, Octavious Burks, has been in the jail since November 18, 2013. Neither Mr. Bassett nor Mr. Burks could afford their bail. Mr. Burks has been through this ordeal twice before. Since 2009, he has been jailed in Scott County on three separate charges without indictment or counsel.
The ACLU has evidence that many others have been trapped in the Scott County Detention Center for months at a time because they couldn’t pay bail and, like Mr. Bassett and Mr. Burks, were denied counsel and a grand jury hearing. [MORE]
From [HERE] Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson -- under fire for his department's handling of the Michael Brown shooting and the aftermath -- told CNN he has no intention of resigning.
Jackson said he is aware of calls for his ouster, but he's not going anywhere.
"I've talked to a lot of people who have initially called for that and then changed their mind after having meetings and discussions about moving forward," he told CNN. "Realistically, I'm going to stay here and see this through. This is mine, and I'm taking ownership of it."
His interview with CNN came Thursday afternoon, following the chief's earlier video apology to Brown's parents and the peaceful demonstrators who took to Ferguson's streets to protest Brown's death. [not available on video yet].
People who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice. [MORE]
From [HERE] Dr. Rick Sacra, the 51-year-old family physician from Worcester who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia five weeks ago, has recovered and was released from Nebraska Medical Center Thursday morning in Omaha. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that there is no sign of the Ebola virus remaining in his bloodstream.
“Right now I have to focus on getting well,” said Dr. Sacra at the press conference. He said at this point, he thinks he contracted Ebola while helping a patient deliver a baby through c-section in Liberia. At this point, no one else at the hospital where Dr. Sacra worked has contracted Ebola.
“When I got back to Liberia in early August, women literally had nowhere to go to deliver their babies,” said Dr. Sacra. “We were doing a lot of c-sections, and sometimes people don’t have the classic Ebola syptoms you were looking for. I know it was one of the people I did the c-section on. We were wearing standard protective gear, but obviously something didn’t go right somewhere.”
With regard to his recovery, the answer is still uncertain around what made the difference in his treatment for the Ebola virus. The doctors at Nebraska Medical Center said Dr. Sacra was given the experimental drug, as well as a blood transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly, the other physician who contracted Ebola who recently recovered at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., as well as supportive care. The numbers from the drug are too small to determine whether it was effective.
“We’ve done a lot of training for this, but we certainly had to make some little changes as we went along,” said Dr. Phil Smith, the physician in charge of Dr. Sacra’s care at Nebraska Medical Center. “We learned from Emory and the CDC and other places with experience. There’s a lot of information sharing going on right now.”
From [HERE] For African immigrants living in South Tel Aviv, there is only one fate they dread almost as much returning to their troubled homelands: being sent to Holot, a spartan detention center deep in the Negev desert.
Israel’s high court handed the community a huge reprieve when it ruled on September 22 that the government must close the much reviled Holot within 90 days, and then struck down a provision allowing foreign asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally to be held for a year without trial. The ruling states that detaining immigrants as prisoners “violates human rights in an essential, deep and fundamental way.”
The closure of Holot — assuming it happens — will not only set free the 2,200 Sudanese and Eritrean people detained there; it will also have a profound impact on an estimated 47,000 asylum seekers in Israel, many of whom live in South Tel Aviv.
According to local activists, African asylum seekers who had lived in the country for five years or longer were ordered to report to Holot when they went to the Ministry of the Interior to renew their visas. Since the high court ruling, community members no longer feel as though they are simply biding their time before being sent to the detention facility. [MORE]
Just a Straw Boss or Does he Really have his Finger on the Nuclear Button?According to Dr. Blynd a Straw-Boss is a Sambo who is appointed a certain oversight role for the white power Overseer. It is the job of the Straw Boss to establish a formal organization to effectively and systematically carry out the wishes of the white supremacist power matrix while serving his own personal needs and ends through patronage power." Also see Snigger.
From [HERE] City leaders were meeting behind closed doors Tuesday afternoon to hammer out a potential deal for Kevyn Orr's continued role in Detroit after his term as emergency manager expires.
"Michigan officials" (white people) along with Governor Rick Snyder, a racist suspect Republican (White Party), handpicked or selected Orr, a lawyer at the Jones Day law firm, in March 2013 to function as an emergency manager to oversee operations in Detroit, one of the largest cities to ever receive such "intervention." That is, they replaced Detroit's elected black leaders (the Mayor and City Council) with Orr and his team of flunkys.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a white man, corporation counsel Melvin "Butch" Hollowell and members of the Detroit City Council are among those in the closed session that started at 2 p.m. Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen, (another white man), lead mediator of the city's Chapter 9 bankruptcy case, also was in attendance.
Late Monday, Council President Pro Tem George Cushingberry Jr. said all sides are "close to an agreement" that will keep Orr in place until the bankruptcy case concludes in federal court. Then, control would be transferred back to Detroit's actual elected officials. Under Public Act 436, the state's emergency manager law, Orr could be removed as early as Saturday. [MORE]
(This house on 16773 Tuller Street is on sale for $1 with $932 owed in taxes. [MORE] Remax has many more less than $10,000. [MORE])
Update on Undercover Negro Removal/Land Grab/Gentrification Plans. From [HERE] Meanwhile on Tuesday Orr stepped back from a move to force the transfer of 45,000 city properties to the Detroit Land Bank.
City Council on Tuesday approved the transfer of a smaller number of foreclosed properties after Orr's reversal. The land bank, revamped this year under Mayor Mike Duggan's anti-blight plan, has successfully auctioned off hundreds of publicly owned vacant houses, and is seeking ownership of more city owned homes to be sold.
City Council has been reluctant to completely give up control over all the properties and was seeking a compromise.
White People Let Detroit Happen, they control everything of value in Detroit and have made all important decisions about it. The Packard Motors plant looks as if a wrecking ball has swung through the top floors, but the building has just been left to collapse.[MORE]
Orr acknowledged talks between the council and the mayor's office on the subject and withdrew a request for overriding approval from a state loan board to move the 45,000 foreclosed properties to land bank ownership.
The state's emergency management law, under which Orr was appointed last year, gives the loan board authority to approve measures pushed by an emergency manager and rejected by the council.
"In light of recent and ongoing discussions between City Council and the mayoral administration, I have determined that it is in the best interest of the city and local government to devise a long-term strategy for the management and development of the city's foreclosed residential properties," Orr said in a memorandum read to the council by a city lawyer Tuesday.
"Therefore, I am rescinding submission of this agreement and its related approval requests from both the City Council and the loan board." The council then approved the transfer of 10,316 properties to be addressed by the land bank. [MORE]
Racist Suspect Leadership. In photo St. Louis Mayor, Francis Slay. The Democratic Party has dominated St. Louis city politics for decades. The city has not had a Republican mayor since 1949 and the last time a Republican was elected to another city-wide office was in the 1970s. [MORE]. He is the longest serving mayor of the city of St. Louis having been re-elected to a fourth term in April 2013. Jeremiah Wilson "Jay" Nixon, also a racist suspect is the current Governor of Missouri. He is a democrat. [MORE]
The democratic party here and everywhere has done next to nothing to address White Supremacy/Racism and all the problems it causes such as poverty, economic inequality, economic development, unemployment, drug addiction, infant mortality, AIDS, chronic welfare dependency, affordable housing, homelessness, servant education, the administration of justice, police brutality, incarceration and other symptoms of white supremacy/racism. Their message is go pray or sing a song and please register to vote.
New report Asks "Where do We Stand?" Answer = Below White Folks. New Report underscores racial inequities in St. Louis region in Context of White Over Black System.From [HERE] Too often in St. Louis, the difference between owning a home, holding a job or living beyond your first year of life depends upon which side of the racial divide you stand, according to a new study that details an old problem.
The report's authors at the East-West Gateway Council of Governments emphasized Wednesday that the research segregation and disparity was under way well before Ferguson rioting placed the region's race relations under a national spotlight. [Neely Fuller explains that "there is no way to integrate racism. Racism can either be practiced or not practiced."[MORE]
The "Where We Stand" report compares the St. Louis region with 34 other metropolitan statistical areas. It found that St. Louis was the sixth most segregated among those peer regions "and tends to have a wider gap between whites and blacks than many of the peer regions on a range of social, economic and health indicators."
Among the findings, based on 2012 measures:
• The median household income of a white family was $59,041, while a black family had a median income of $30,479.
• The percent of white families living in poverty was 9.2 percent, while 30.6 percent of black families lived in poverty.
• A black infant was 3.6 times more likely to die in the first year of life than a white infant.
• Blacks were more than twice as likely to have no health care coverage than whites.
"The story has not changed much over the past 20 years," said Mary Rocchio, lead author of the report and manager of policy research at East-West Gateway. "Consistently, we have seen that there are differences between the opportunities and outcomes between the ways blacks and whites experience life in our region as well as in the United States as a whole." The Gateway council is comprised of regional leaders from Missouri and Illinois. [MORE]
From [HERE] The top official at the Drug Enforcement Administration struggled to explain her position on drug sentencing reforms that are backed by her bosses in the Obama administration during a House hearing Thursday.
In her first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee in over two years, DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart pivoted several times when asked whether she supported the Smarter Sentencing Act, which has been endorsed by Attorney General Eric Holder and is part of a broader effort to rein in the length of and use of mandatory minimum sentences in certain drug crimes.
Two Democrats in particular, Reps. Bobby Scott (Va.) and John Conyers (Mich.), questioned Leonhart on her opinion on rolling back the use of mandatory minimums for certain drug offenders, while Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) suggested Leonhart's bosses in the Obama administration were putting pressure on the DEA head to support the official policy of the administration of which she is a part.
Leonhart said the DEA "targets the baddest of the bad, the worst of the worst" and had trouble acknowledging a relatively simple fact: that mandatory minimums have regularly been used against low-level drug offenders even when federal judges disagreed with the sentences they were forced to impose.
"Sometimes the sentence is appropriate. Many times, it's just stupid," Scott told Leonhart at one point. "That's what the mandatory minimum requires the judge to do."
Barbara Lee, in photo, was the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the authorization of use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.From [HERE] Rep. Barbara Lee (Calif.), a staunch anti-war Democrat, said on Tuesday that she is "gravely concerned" about the expansion of U.S. airstrikes into Syria and the continuation of strikes in Iraq.
"It is clear we are rapidly becoming more involved in another war in the Middle East," said Lee, who has called on the president to seek authorization for sustained military action in Iraq and Syria.
"I have called and will continue to call for a full congressional debate and vote on any military action, as required by the Constitution," she added in a statement.
The Pentagon said the U.S. and partner nations conducted 14 strikes in Syria on Monday evening against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets and eight strikes against an al Qaeda affiliate known as the Khorasan group. Officials say the al Qaeda affiliate was in the "final stages" of executing an attack on Western targets, including potentially the U.S.
The strikes were a dramatic expansion of an U.S. air campaign against ISIS that until Monday had only struck targets in Iraq. Pentagon officials on Tuesday said the campaign could last "years."
Media - A mind shampoo and conditioning process of the Greater System --" the media is the mirage."[MORE]
From [HERE] A new study shows a large majority of African-American and Hispanic news consumers don't fully trust the media to portray their communities accurately, a statistic that could be troubling for the news industry as the minority population of the United States grows.
Three-fourths of African-American news consumers and two-thirds of Hispanics have doubts about what mainstream media report about their communities, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Media Insight Project. And while most say it's become easier to get news generally in the last five years, few feel the same way about news regarding their own community, the survey said.
African Americans and Latinos currently make up a third of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2043, the number of minorities is expected to eclipse the number of non-Hispanic whites, with the total minority population reaching 57 percent by 2060.
People of color who are "seeking out news about their communities, they can't find it. And what they see, they don't think is accurate," said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, which teamed with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on the project. The survey was funded by the American Press Institute and the McCormick Foundation.
When asked whether they thought news about their communities was accurate, 75 percent of blacks said only "moderately" or "slightly/not at all." When Hispanics were asked the same question, 66 percent replied "moderately" or "slightly/not at all." [MORE]
The Black print media as exemplified by Ebony, Essence, Emerge, EM and other similar national publications fit Frazier's characterizations "to a T." These publications along with their electronic media brethren are boringly innocuous, inoffensive and bland. Apparently frightened of provoking the disapproval of their national and multinational advertisers and of raising the ire of the White ruling establishment on whose favor they depend for survival, these media assiduously concern themselves with reporting the activities of Black celebrities, of the Black bourgeoisie, and with selling the products of White-owned manufacturers to Black customers. The Black media literally "deliver" the Black market to White merchants, their raison d'etre. The Black print media, especially the popular magazines which increasingly project the fashionable lives of Blacks "who have made it" in White society, are little more than fashion and consumer magazines. Their stock-in-trade is now fundamentally the same as White mass publications — celebrity features, male-female relations, career choices and opportunities, exercise and fitness features, self-help and pop psychology features. Controversial issues are superficially treated when dealt with at rare instances and are carefully and inoffensively "balanced." They are careful not to take any editorial position which can be interpreted as Black nationalist or Afrocentric in orientation. The deeper issues and controversies involving Afrocentrism and Black nationalism, involving deep ethnic confrontations between the Black and non-Black communities are virtually ignored or dealt with so gingerly and benignly as to be devoid of any real substance while not revealing where the Black media themselves stand relative to such issues. Afrocentric and Black nationalist interpretations of events and ethnic reality are essentially excluded from the national Black print media and local and regional electronic media. The views of Black nationalist scholars and intellectuals as well as activists are rarely featured in the Black media except when they are the objects of White media attack or have aroused broad White social disapproval, or are engaged in some controversial struggle with the White powers-that-be. Some nationalists and activists are not interviewed or presented even under these circumstances if their mere mention or presence may be interpreted by powerful Whites as representing Black media approval or support for their ideological orientation or social-political activism.
The Black media establishment is highly reactionary. Its agenda is generally set by the White media and ruling/corporate elite establishment. Once a Black person has evoked the full notice and approval or disapproval of the White media and ruling establishment, the Black media establishment compellingly presents him or her to their Black public. The Black media interaction with these noted or notorious persons or groups as defined by the White press or establishment, usually lasts as long as White media focus is maintained on them. Consequently, the White press markedly still determines the visibility or invisibility, the esteem or lack thereof, of Black persons, groups and ideas in the Black media establishment. Rarely does the Black media raise a Black person, group or ideology to prominence based on the intrinsic nature of their relevance to the Black community and to Afrikan liberation without having received some signal from the White media.
From [HERE] The Obama Administration is seeking to avoid any discussion of the massive costs of the new war on ISIS, with the White House pointedly refusing to provide any estimates on what the war has cost so far, or what it will cost in the future.
An unbudgeted war, the administration has so-far been paying for the airstrikes out of the Overseas Contingency Operations budget. That’s an $85 billion pool to draw from, but could end up being a drop in the bucket.
The refusal to provide estimates isn’t simply stubbornness about not wanting to have a debate on the war, of course. As the administration keeps announcing new escalations of the conflicts seemingly multiple times a week, exactly how big of a war we’re going to end up with might not even be clear to the war planners.
The last Iraq War, which spanned 2003-2010, cost over $2 trillion. The new war aims to not only target ISIS inside Iraq, but in neighboring Syria as well, and as the war goals continue to mount, so does the unfunded liability that is this new, open-ended war. [MORE]
From [HERE] The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect 20,000 people as soon as early November unless rigorous infection control measures are implemented, and might "rumble on" for years in a holding pattern, researchers said on Tuesday.
The WHO, in an initial roadmap issued on Aug. 28, predicted that the virus could strike 20,000 people within the next nine months. The current death toll is at least 2,811 out of 5,864 cases, according to United Nations figures.
The latest study, marking six months from March 23, when the WHO said it was informed of the Ebola outbreak in southeastern Guinea, reflects projections based on the data from a third wave of the virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone and worst-hit Liberia.
"With exponential growth, you'll see that the case numbers per week go up so that by the second of November, over these three countries our best estimate is over 20,000 cases, confirmed and suspected cases," Dr. Christopher Dye, director of strategy at the WHO, and co-author of article, said in a briefing.
Nearly 10,000 of those infected would be in Liberia, 5,000 in Sierra Leone and nearly 6,000 in Guinea, he said. But those numbers would only come about with no enhanced infection control. [MORE]
From [HERE] Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine for campaign finance fraud stemming from his use of straw donors to contribute to a U.S. Senate candidate in New York in 2012.
D'Souza, 53, raked in millions on a book and documentary film premised on the theory that President Barack Obama secretly works to subvert Western states in order to advance his father's supposed anti-colonialist leanings.
Entertainment Weekly called that film, "2016: Obama's America," the highest grossing conservative documentary ever made, a "nonsensically unsubstantiated act of character assassination."
The conservative darling styles himself as a defender of Christian morality and an opponent of people he casts as oppressive liberals in Washington.
When the FBI fingered D'Souza for a campaign finance fraud in support of Wendy E. Long - a friend from his days at Dartmouth College, who was running to unseat Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a Democrat - he initially maintained he was being selectively prosecuted for his controversial views. [MORE]
