Category — Science

The individuals pictured below have not yet been charged with any crime or otherwise called to account for their constitutional misconduct. For now, no one currently in authority seems to care about their efforts to defame an entire religion, tear children from the arms of their parents in the dead of night on the basis of a hoax call, turn courts and judges into police collaborators, or play cynical procedural games to aid a state government in its effort to drive out a religious minority.

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It seems that Natalie Malonis may have been behind last Friday’s leak of the CASA report (actually filed by the Jeffs’ guardian ad litem) that allegedly discloses Jeffs’ personal diary entries and photos reporting on her “marriage” to Ray Jessop. Malonis, after (apparently) approving of the leak to serve her own political objectives, suddenly moved Monday to “seal” the leaked CASA report. Deseret News reports this morning (July 22):

On Monday [July 21], Malonis filed papers seeking to have the report prepared by the Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) sealed, saying, “The report and attachments contain sensitive information pertaining to allegations of sex abuse of a minor.”

Malonis acknowledged that the timing was a little late but said she was trying to protect her client. “It would prevent any further dissemination, at least from the court,” she [said] Monday night.

July 29 update: Natalie Malonis responded to this story by saying, “The CASA report did not come from me, and I am not the one who sent it around to the media.  I do not even have a complete copy of it with attachments myself. If I had filed it, I would have filed it under seal.   I did what I could do as quickly as I could.”

“Trying to protect her client”? A “little late”? “Further dissemination at least from the court?” What’s really going on here?

The report leak appears to be part of a plan coordinated by the State of Texas, aided and abetted by a nationwide crime syndicate that Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer calls an Empire Built on Taking Children. Their immediate objectives? Salvage the power of Texas CPS, defend the child-snatching industry, get rid of pesky Jeffs’ defense attorney Alan Futrell, and run the FLDS out of the State by inflaming the public with sensationalistic slices of data no matter how unreliable. This has been the CPS pattern from the beginning.

But why, if you want the public to see all this stuff, would you move to seal it after first revealing it? Because, arguably, the leak was illegal and violated Malonis’ duties to represent the best interests of Teresa Jeffs. By moving belatedly to seal it, Malonis gives the CPS-collaborator Texas courts an excuse to let Malonis off the hook. More on the hook, below. [Read more →]

Al Gore — great, white compulsive CO2 opportunist — can’t stop bloviating on global warming.  If we could just stick Gore’s own carbon footprint in his super-sized mouth, we might save an endangered iceberg or two.  National Post reports: [Read more →]

The 50,000-strong American Physical Society this week re-opened, then not-so-smoothly tried to shut down, debate over whether evidence for anthropogenic global warming — “Thropo Glo Wo” to conserve syllables — really is “incontrovertible” as the APS has previously claimed.

In the June 2008 edition of APS’ newsletter Physics & Society, the Editor wrote:

There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO₂ emissions are very likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.”

The newsletter is posted on the APS website, but the APS quickly tried to hide this all-to-obvious family disagreement, posting the note (above) on its homepage. Funny that the APS would raise the “non-peer-reviewed” status of its own newsletter to refute the easily- and widely-verified assertion that real scientists (as opposed to Al Gore) disagree over how much “thropo” there is in “glo wo.” We’re glad to see this scientific iceberg begin to melt. [Read more →]

Raila Odinga (pictured, right, with Barack Obama in 2006) has admitted signing a Memorandum of Agreement, on August 29, 2007, with Kenya’s National Muslim Leaders Forum (NAMLEF) promising to share government power in exchange for Muslim support in Kenya’s violently contested 2007 presidential elections. Odinga is a cousin of Barack Obama for whom Obama campaigned in 2006.

On February 24, 2008, I reported that the agreement Odinga signed was this one, in public circulation as early as November 9, 2007, posted on the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya’s website :

Despite NAMLEF and Odinga claims (and Snopes and Truth or Fiction silliness) to the contrary, circumstantial evidence — detailed below — still suggests this may be the agreement that Odinga signed and that a later version, published on November 27, 2007, is a fake. (Notably, Barack Obama’s own “Fact Check” website does not mention the name Odinga. I’ll let readers interpret Obama’s Odinga omission.) [Read more →]

As practically everyone in America knows, the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires police to obtain a warrant signed by a judge before they enter private property to look for evidence of a crime or to apprehend a suspect.* A judge — before signing a warrant — must find “probable cause” to support the government’s forced entry onto private property.

But mystery surrounds the circumstances that led, eventually, to Judge Barbara Walther signing the warrant that authorized Texas Rangers, Sheriff Doran, and Texas CPS to enter FLDS homes on the YFZ Ranch at the beginning of April. One of the mysteries is suggested by this story first broken, on May 22, 2008, by ABCNews: [Read more →]

I have previously pointed to a trail of contracts and invoices obtained through an Open Records Act request that — together with other sources like this April 10 Texas Lawyer article — shows that the Texas Supreme Court, with Justice Harriet O’Neill in the lead, collaborated with Texas CPS and lower courts, on April 11-12, to rig the outcome of the FLDS case by “training” attorneys ad litem (AALs) representing only the children in preparation for what was supposed to be a “full adversary hearing” on April 17-18.

Further review — detailed below — shows that O’Neill and the Court went way beyond mere training (which would have been bad enough on its own) to indoctrinating the kids’ AALs and poisoning their view of the FLDS religion. This indoctrination would cause the AALs to lean toward the CPS view and, therefore, more readily agree with pro-CPS courtroom and negotiating moves.

Later, the Supreme Court, including Harriet O’Neill, sat in judgment over the FLDS case, reviewing the very CPS and lower court work product that O’Neill and the Court helped to create.  The majority opinion in the case, while rejecting Walther’s statutory violations (and holding that the evidence was insufficient to authorize the original CPS raid and child removal) was strangely muted, effectively opening the doors of the FLDS homes for further CPS and lower court harassment.  Not surprisingly, O’Neill wrote a dissenting opinion that provided additional political and legal cover for CPS and Judge Barbara Walther.

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Is that a shocking headline or what? I’m working on building a resume to work at KUTV-2 in Salt Lake.  How am I doing?

Anywhoo . . . A BYU engineering professor has worked a miracle in Ghana, harnessing kid power to generate electricity in otherwise powerless towns. Click on the picture (above) for the full story. And  don’t nobody tell Texas CPS!

Can you say “cover-up”? Somebody’s lying in West Texas — in addition to the usual pathological CPS propaganda muppets.

Several weeks ago, I passed along a May 22, 2008 report from ABCNEWs quoting a “statement” by Texas Ranger Leslie Brooks Long. According to the statement, before Judge Walther signed the infamous fraudulent search warrant authorizing entry into the YFZ Ranch, a different Schleicher County judge “refused” to sign it. The ABCNews story remains on the website. Here’s the verbiage as of July 1, 2008, at about 5 pm EDT: [Read more →]

The man on the left is former NBA referee Tim Donaghy. On the right, is current Texas Supreme Court Justice and Kiddy Kommission Chair Harriet O’Neill. What do they have in common? Read on, then you be the judge. Let’s just say I know one reason why O’Neill wouldn’t take questions from the public at yesterday’s “public” Kommission hearing in Austin.

I’m still absorbing what I have here. These Documents (a series of invoices for training services, 3.1MB) if authentic — and I have very good reason to believe they are — appear to show that the Supreme Court of Texas attempted to “fix” the outcome of the April 17-18 “adversary hearing” in which the FLDS parents were supposed to be able to fairly contest the removal of their children from their homes 14 days earlier. [Read more →]