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Boiler Room EP #74 – Dustification & The Crooked Witch of the Left | Tune in to the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR) for another LIVE broadcast of The Boiler Room starting at 6 PM PST | 9 PM EST for this special broadcast. Join us for uncensored, uninterruptible talk radio, custom-made for barfly philosophers, misguided moralists, masochists, street corner evangelists, media-maniacs, savants, political animals and otherwise lovable rascals.Join ACR hosts Hesher, & Spore along with Jay Dyer from jaysanalysis.com, Andy Nowicki from Alt Right Blogspot, Daniel Spaulding of Soul of the East and Stewart Howe of 21Wire for the 74th episode of BOILER ROOM. Dim the lights, dawn the headphones and indulge in some Boiler Room with the crew. This week we re continuing the 9/11 discussion one step further. Also, lets not forget #SickHillary #CrookedHillary, we d be remiss if we didn t do our best to dissect this series of anomalies being thrown around the media with regards to the health of the Crooked Witch of the Left.Please like and share the program and visit our donate page to get involved!BOILER ROOM IS NOT A POLICTALLY CORRECT ZONE! LISTEN TO THE SHOW IN THE PLAYER BELOW ENJOY!Reference Links: | 1real |
Comment on Friday funnies! by MeThePeople | Yesterday we saw a black teenager take a Trump poster and gleefully tear it up. It was a shopping area in Duval County Jacksonville, FL. Not downtown. What does it mean? That for many, political activism means vandalizing private property and suppressing freedom of speech. (yours not theirs)
An acquaintance who is in Chicago says his wife is voting for Hillary because it is time for a woman POTUS. He says he cannot speak about Trump at home or a riot starts, but says he is voting Trump because all Hillary’s campaign does is attack Trump, no policy. AT LEAST Trump has a plan. When I mention Benghazi, he says he is sorry about military casualties but those who enlist know the risks. I guess that it was diplomats running guns for Obama, doesn’t matter,
So these are mature people who run a business (3 rd generation), and this what filters through to them. This is the level of comprehension. So he volunteered the info that he was voting for Trump, and I do not abuse him or speak excessively about politics with him, and I forget what we were chatting about when it came up. He says he goes to church regularly and considers himself ‘religious’, but when speaking to him, he is pretty fuzzy about what the Bible says about forgiveness. If Trump loses and then buys an island and starts a country, I’d be interested in the costs involved. If Trump loses this country will not offer much of a future for my kids or grandchildren. | 1real |
Dem Senator ‘Increasingly Concerned’ Trump Will Fire Mueller And Rosenstein To Stop Russia Probe | Donald Trump is desperate to stop the investigation into his dirty Russian escapades and even went as far as firing FBI Director James Comey, who just happened to be investigating him. Now, Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she is growing increasingly concerned that Trump might try to fire both Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the probe into Trump s possible collusion with Russia and his obstruction of justice, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.Feinstein, who is the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, laid out her concerns in a statement on Friday. The message the president is sending through his tweets is that he believes the rule of law doesn t apply to him and that anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired. That s undemocratic on its face and a blatant violation of the president s oath of office, she wrote.Citing Trump s most recent tweets regarding the Russia investigation, which he has repeatedly called a witch hunt, Feinstein said Trump has embarked on an effort to undermine anyone with the ability to bring any misdeeds to light. The Senate should not let that happen. We re a nation of laws that apply equally to everyone, a lesson the president would be wise to learn, Feinstein said.Trump doesn t have the authority to fire Mueller. However, he can order Rosenstein to fire him. When Rosenstein testified before Congress, he said that he would only consider firing Mueller if there was good cause. But if Trump wanted to, he is able to fire Rosenstein and appoint someone who, after Senate confirmation, would follow his orders blindly.But Feinstein warned that this would be a huge mistake on Trump s part and would inevitably lead to a revolt of even his staunchest supporters. If the president thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he s in for a rude awakening. Even his staunchest supporters will balk at such a blatant effort to subvert the law, she said.The similarities between Trump and Nixon just keep piling up. If he were to go the route Feinstein fears, it would be the Saturday Night Massacre all over again and would probably lead to the same outcome: impeachment.Featured image via Win McNamee/Getty Images | 1real |
OBAMA TO GRANT WORK PERMITS FOR SPOUSES OF ILLEGAL ALIENS ON MAY 26, While 89% of Long-term Jobless Americans Would ‘Search Harder’ If Benefits Ran Out | 40% of Americans have given up looking for work. Obama logic: Don t cut or reduce benefits for those unwilling to look for work, just give their jobs to illegal aliens makes perfect sense.A Large Percentage Of Americans Have Given Up Looking For WorkA new survey by staffing firm Express Employment Professionals shows that 40% of America s unemployed have given up looking for work.Not only are the long-term jobless being left behind but nearly 50% hold themselves responsible for not finding a job, the firm s The State of the Unemployed survey found.The survey of 1,553 jobless Americans age 18 and older was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Express Employment Professionals between 7 and 29 April 2015. This survey shows that some of the troubling trends we observed last year are continuing. While the economy is indeed getting better for some, for others who have been unemployed long-term, they are increasingly being left behind. Meanwhile, more than 2 out of 5 unemployed Americans have been jobless for more than 2 years. That represents an increase from Y 2014, when 32% said they had been out of work for more than 2 years.48% report not having an interview in the last month; among them, 87% have not had an interview since the beginning of Y 2014 or earlier with 77% not having been on an interview since Y 2013.Among the unemployed, 14% are receiving unemployment benefits.Of those receiving benefits, 89% say they would search harder and wider for work if their benefits ran out before finding a job.Via:American workers who lost their jobs to foreign replacements are suing the federal government over a new rule that will allow more foreign workers into the job market.In a stated effort to encourage guest workers to stick around permanently, the Department of Homeland Security will now grant their spouses work permits in addition to visas. DHS estimates more than 100,000 spouses will be eligible to apply when it begins accepting applications May 26.The complaint, filed by the Immigration Reform Law Institute on behalf of the displaced workers, alleges DHS does not have the authority to make the rule, and that the rule violates federal labor protection law. IRLI is asking the judge to halt implementation of the rule until the case is heard. The larger implication is that Obama is arguing he has the executive authority to allow anyone to work in the United States, John Miano, the attorney for the displaced workers, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. [He] started with the children, then the parents, and now the spouses of H-1B workers. An update to the federal register indicates the Obama administration is also looking at expansions to other visa programs, he said. If the president can let illegal aliens work, he can let anyone work and he s doing it. The workers are former employees of tech giant Southern California Edison, which was recently investigated for firing hundreds of American workers after forcing them to train their foreign replacements. (RELATED: Senators Ask Feds to Investigate Guest Worker Visa Abuse)The biggest challenge will be convincing a judge the workers he represents have legal standing to bring the case, Miano told TheDCNF.He ll argue the rule is relevant to the displaced workers because it will result in more competition in their job market. The government will counter that the workers can t prove the rule will affect their future job prospects.If the judge agrees to hear the case, Miano will then make the case that DHS overstepped the bounds of its authority and that the rule violates labor protection law. The law states that foreign work permits cannot adversely affect American wages, but all we ve seen during this administration is standards of living fall and outsized corporate profits continue to rise, IRLI Executive Director Dale Wilcox said in a statement. Via: The Daily Caller | 1real |
Russian bombers hit Islamic State targets in Syria: RIA | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia s defense ministry said on Thursday long-range bombers had carried out air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria s Deir al-Zor province, the RIA news agency reported. | 0fake |
Republican Mailer Threatens To Out Voters To Neighbors If They Vote Democrat | New Mexico Republicans are resorting to intimidation tactics to scare voters into voting for Donald Trump.The Republican Party is literally sending out flyers to people across the state warning them that if they don t vote GOP on Election Day they will tattle on them to their neighbors and make life more difficult for them.According to the Daily Beast,The mailer shows a woman in a cold blue hue peeking through her blinds. When the Democrats win the election and you didn t do your part your neighbors will know, it reads, in all caps.The back shows a map of houses, some tagged with red check marks in blue pinpoints. Do your part in this election, it says. After all, voting is a matter of public record. While whether you voted or not is a matter of public record, who or what party you voted for is not. Obtaining and using such information to threaten voters is election fraud and voter intimidation, both of which are federal crimes.18 U.S, Code 594 states,Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.And a spokesman for the New Mexico GOP admitted that the party sent out the flyer, thus admitting to committing a crime. But when further questioned about the flyer, W. Tucker Keene hung up on the The Daily Beast.While Donald Trump and his deplorable supporters continue to cry about election fraud, their own party is committing that very crime in New Mexico. The question is do they have a problem with that or do they only care about non-existent election fraud that Democrats are supposedly going to commit?Because not having a problem with real election fraud just because it is perpetrated by Republicans would make them hypocrites.By outing people who vote Democrat, the New Mexico GOP would be putting Americans in danger of being persecuted or worse just because they voted a certain way.Sending out a mailer with the intent to intimidate voters is illegal and the New Mexico GOP should be under investigation by the Department of Justice. This is an outrageous dirty tactic and there needs to be serious consequences.Featured Image: Daily Beast | 1real |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Seeks Resignations of 46 US Attorneys | WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 United States attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration, the Justice Department said Friday. [Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by former President Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration have been asked to leave “in order to ensure a uniform transition,” Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said. “Until the new U. S. attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U. S. attorney’s offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecuting and deterring the most violent offenders,” she said in a statement. It is customary, though not automatic, for the country’s 93 U. S. attorneys to leave their positions once a new president is in office. The Obama administration allowed political appointees of President George W. Bush to serve until their replacement had been nominated and confirmed. The federal prosecutors are nominated by the president, generally upon the recommendation of a senator. One U. S. attorney appointed by Bush, Rod Rosenstein of Maryland, remained on the job for the entire Obama administration and is the current nominee for deputy attorney general. U. S. attorneys are responsible for prosecuting federal crimes in the territories they oversee. They report to Justice Department leadership in Washington, and their priorities are expected to be in line with those of the attorney general. | 0fake |
Russia to bar U.S. diplomats from monitoring its elections: RIA | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. authorities telling them that U.S. diplomats will not be allowed to conduct monitoring of future Russian elections, the RIA news agency cited a senior Russian official as saying. The move was Russia’s response to what it says was U.S. obstruction of Russian diplomats seeking to monitor Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election for possible violations, RIA quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying. | 0fake |
NUDGING TO WAR: U.S. Shoots Down Syrian Army Fighter Jet | 21st Century Wire says Yesterday a US F/A-18E Super Hornet is reported to have shot down a Syrian Army SU-22 jet near the village of Rasafah, south of Raqqa. Washington claims it was an act of collective self-defense because the Syrian jet had dropped bombs near US-backed forces. Syrian officials in Damascus deny the US claims, stating that their plane was downed while conducting a strike on an ISIS position. According to a statement released by Damascus, the US act of aggression in Syria airspace was a flagrant attack was an attempt to undermine the efforts of the army as the only effective force capable with its allies in fighting terrorism across its territory. Officials added that, this comes at a time when the Syrian army and its allies were making clear advances in fighting the (ISIS) terrorist group. US officials are claiming that pro-Syrian regime forces on the ground attacked the US-backed Kurdish militias under the SDF brand (Syrian Democratic Forces) near Tabqa outside Raqqa, after which time the US-led Coalition planes engaged Syrian military. US officials then claim that a Syrian planes dropped bombs near the US-backed forces. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issue this statement: We call on the United State and all others who have their forces or advisors on the ground [in Syria] to ensure the coordination in our work. Zones of de-escalation are one of the possible options to jointly move forward. We call on everyone to avoid unilateral moves, respect Syrian sovereignty and join our common work which is agreed with the Syrian Arab Republic s government. 21WIRE reported earlier this week how the presence of US and UK troops on the ground inside of Syrian sovereign territory may be provoking an escalation of an already tense situation in both Raqqa and in the region around al-Tanf. US-led coalition forces are supposedly there to train and assist anti-ISIS militias, but also anti-Assad rebel militias too. The US also also trying to impose self-styled deconfliction zones around al-Tanf.In recent months, the Syrian Army have been making huge advances against ISIS positions. This latest US attack on Syria indicates that the US do not want the Syrian Army involved in the liberation of Raqqa presumable to be able to stage-manage and control the operation and media coverage for its global audience, as the US did previously with Mosul in Iraq.A clear pattern has emerged with almost every US strike against Syrian forces inside of Syria in each and every instance, the main beneficiary appears to be ISIS.Based on past incidents where US forces have attack Syrian military assets, in each instance the US attacks have benefited ISIS on the ground leading many to conclude that the US Coalition forces are helping ISIS to gain strategic advantage against the Syria Army on the ground.Back in September 2016, US had attacked and massacred over 80 Syrian military soldiers after a Coalition airstrike on Dier Azor a US attack which allowed ISIS to strategically advance past Syrian Army defensive positions. In addition to aiding ISIS on the ground, this act by the US also ruined any chance of a viable ceasefire agreement with Russia and Syria at the time.A similar events took place on June 5, 2017 when US-led coalition forces attacked what they called pro-Syrian regime forces near the town of al Tanf in southeast Syria, claiming the Syrian forces including some 60 troops, had somehow entered what the US claim was a well-established de-confliction zone. The US strike helped to take pressure off of a retreating ISIS in the region.In addition to this, the US cruise missile strike Syria s Sharat airbase near Homs killed some 80 people, supposedly in response to an alleged ;chemical weapons attack at Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib Province.According to Aleppo MP Fares Shehabi, the US missile attack should be viewed as an act against an airport that is solely dedicated to fighting ISIS in Syria. And this attack is illegal, it s stupid. As it stands the US presence in Syria is in violation of both US and International Law. STAY TUNE FOR MORE UPDATESREAD MORE SYRIA NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire SYRIA FilesSUPPORT OUR WORK BY SUBSCRIBING & BECOMING A MEMBER @21WIRE.TV | 1real |
Venezuela decries 'ignorant' Trump's Cuba policy rollback | CARACAS (Reuters) - Cuba’s main regional ally, socialist-ruled Venezuela, slammed U.S. President Donald Trump’s tightening of restrictions on Cuba on Friday as an “offense” against Latin America. “His speech was aggressive and threatening, ... revealing his contempt and ignorance,” President Nicolas Maduro said in a speech. “We reject Donald Trump’s declarations against our brother Cuba. It is an offense against Latin America.” Reversing former leader Barack Obama’s detente with Cuba’s communist government, Trump ordered stricter regulations on American travelers and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the Caribbean island’s military. Maduro’s foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez earlier on Friday pledged Venezuelan solidarity with Cuba via regional blocs including the Alba group of leftist nations founded during the friendship of late leaders Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. “U.S. extremism aspires to cover the planet with misery, violence and death,” she said in a series of tweets blasting Trump and praising Cuba. Fellow leftist President Evo Morales, of Bolivia, also weighed in to condemn Trump’s move. “It’s an abuse of power by the U.S. empire not to listen to the whole world’s support against the blockade of Cuba,” he said. “Instead of asking Cuba to free political prisoners, Trump should expel the criminal politicians sheltered in the USA.” Mexico took a more moderate line, urging Washington and Havana to resolve their differences “via dialogue.” | 0fake |
Trump Tweets Fake List Of ‘Fake News’ The Media Has Run And Gets STOMPED By Twitter (TWEETS) | On Wednesday, Donald Trump once again lashed out at the media with a scathing article about 16 fake news stories that have been published since Trump became President*.'16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won' https://t.co/0dHld5kiVc Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2017The site featuring the list, The Federalist, is a known purveyor of right-wing hoaxes and is about as reliable as Betsy DeVos in any of the many bear attacks that occur in our schools year-round, but Trump saw a headline he liked and tweeted it out because, to him, fact-checking is a waste of time. Besides, Trump is in the middle of the largest anti-media campaign since Adolf Hitler went out of his way to discredit the media to allow him to more effectively consolidate power and this article aids that goal nicely:We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than epidemic, insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from the Centers for Disease Control: this phenomenon occurs when an agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the susceptible hosts. The agent in this case is hysteria over Trump s presidency, and the susceptible hosts are a slipshod, reckless, and breathtakingly gullible media class that spread the hysteria around like well, like a virus.It is difficult to adequately sum up the breadth of this epidemic, chiefly because it keeps growing: day after day, even hour after hour, the media continue to broadcast, spread, promulgate, publicize, and promote fake news on an industrial scale. It has become a regular part of our news cycle, not distinct from or extraneous to it but a part of it, embedded within the news apparatus as a spoke is embedded in a bicycle wheel.Whenever you turn on a news station, visit a news website, or check in on a journalist or media personality on Twitter or Facebook, there is an excellent chance you will be exposed to fake news. It is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the way the American media are run.The list that follows, unsurprisingly, contains stories with mostly minor errors that were all corrected quickly because that s how it works when initial reporting is incorrect. Others are simply stuff Donald Trump has done that The Federalist elected to simply say are fake news like his threat to send troops into Mexico, Trump s decision to ease sanctions on Russia, and the GOP rolling back Obama-era regulations that prevent the mentally ill from owning guns.Fortunately, not everyone is as stupid as Trump s followers and The Donald was quickly called out for sharing this list from such a disreputable source:Oh for Pete s sake. NOT ONE of these supposedly fake stories is actual fake news. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/2YK4REIMUG Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump #theresistance pic.twitter.com/bP7iJr6HkZ #TheResistance (@AynRandPaulRyan) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump @FDRLST pic.twitter.com/NueWae3hdZ paladine (@paladine) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump @FDRLST pic.twitter.com/ua6D83VATz paladine (@paladine) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump hey here's someone from YOUR team being mocked on uk tv for dishing out FAKE NEWS,practice what you preach & DO SOME WORK?? pic.twitter.com/KhyDqiILWs Darius Syrossian (@DariusSyrossian) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump @FDRLST well, 17 if you include this bullshit list. Benjamin Byron Davis (@Tooda) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump oh my god you're embarrassing. Jeremy Botter (@jeremybotter) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump The head honcho at this site is a known plagiarist. Try harder. https://t.co/CGKbfWhhWI Brenna Ehrlich (@BrennaEhrlich) February 8, 2017. @realDonaldTrump POTUS complaining about fake news from a fake news website. Fakenewsception? Trademark it. Lots of money for you there. Elie. (@eliefares) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump @FDRLST None of them are fake stories. They're stories with errors that were corrected. That's very different. (((Punch Nazis))) (@esjacobs) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump @FDRLST I hadn't heard of any of these stories. They are all obscure news stories that YOUR ADMINISTRATION has promoted. Kristina Wong (@mskristinawong) February 8, 2017More #FakeNews from the #SoCalledPresident: @realDonaldTrump wrong that media is not reporting on terrorism any more https://t.co/MIy0wzEIa2 pic.twitter.com/6V531eRLpR Khary Penebaker (@kharyp) February 8, 2017@realDonaldTrump Bowling Green Massacre and Alternative Facts dude. YOU are the number one source for bullsh*t. Tommy Campbell (@MrTommyCampbell) February 8, 2017Though he says the phrase a lot, even Trump likely doesn t actually believe the things he falsely calls fake news are fake news. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, explained Monday that the administration will keep using the term until the media realizes they are wrong for attacking Trump with facts. There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media, not just the pollsters, the majority of the media to attack a duly elected President in the second week of his term, he says. That s how unhealthy the situation is and until the media understands how wrong that attitude is, and how it hurts their credibility, we are going to continue to say, fake news . Gorka is a former editor for white supremacist propaganda website Breitbart, which President Steve Bannon used to run.Yes, fake news exists. You usually see it on sites like nbc.com.co.qwdsff4wf.org. But none of these stories, even the ones with errors, earn that classification. What does qualify as fake news is President Asterisk s claim that President Obama was born in Kenya, that millions voted illegally for his opponent, and that anyone who disagrees with Donald Trump or says anything unflattering about him is pushing fake news. Resist.Read more:Featured image via Getty Images (XXX)/screengrab | 1real |
Eric Holder’s Airbnb Runs Controversial #WeAccept Multiculturalism Ad - Breitbart | The tens of millions of Americans watching Super Bowl LI Sunday night were treated to a from company Airbnb, which launched its #WeAccept ad campaign with a spot highlighting diversity and multiculturalism. [“No matter who you are, where you’re from, who you love, or who you worship, you deserve to belong,” Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wrote on Sunday with a link to the #WeAccept campaign, which shows the faces of people of various ages, races, and religions along with the inspiring message. Former U. S. attorney general Eric Holder — who was hired by Airbnb last July “to help craft a policy” — also tweeted about the #WeAccept campaign. “This is who we truly are — We work together. We stand together. We are one nation. We are one people. @Airbnb @bchesky #weaccept together,” Holder wrote to his Twitter followers. This is who we truly are — We work together. We stand together. We are one nation. We are one people. @Airbnb @bchesky #weaccept together, — Eric Holder (@EricHolder) February 6, 2017, Hollywood and Silicon Valley have heavily opposed President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily suspending the U. S. Refugee Admissions Program. Super Bowl Sunday saw a series of politicized commercials meant to shine a spotlight on the administration’s immigration policies. But AirBnB’s #WeAccept effort is a longterm campaign, and it’s being spearheaded by Holder, who has already been hired by the California legislature to help lead the legal fight against Trump. In his role at the $30 billion company, Holder is crafting the company’s and housing policy, according to Chesky. Airbnb users received an email on Monday morning detailing the company’s intentions to provide housing for 100, 000 people over the next five years, including refugees. “Today we’re setting a goal to provide housing over the next five years for 100, 000 people in need. We’ll start with refugees, disaster survivors, and relief workers, though we want to accommodate many more types of displaced people over time,” the company’s founders announced. “To help people around the world facing displacement, we’ll work with our community of hosts to find not just a place to stay, but also a place to feel connected, respected, and a part of a community again,” Airbnb says. “In addition, Airbnb will contribute $4 million over the course of four years to the International Rescue Committee to support the most critical needs of displaced populations globally. ” Last year, Airbnb launched a investigation following charges of racism from black renters who took to social media and shared stories of being turned away by hosts once their race was disclosed. The hashtag “#AirbnbWhileBlack” trended online. Airbnb apologized for the discrimination complaints and began to enact a series of policies. Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter: @jeromeehudson | 0fake |
Obama says the Democratic nominee will be clear next week: PBS | ELKHART, Ind (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he expected the winner of the Democratic presidential nominating race would be clear next week after Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders compete in races in California and New Jersey. “I think that there has been a healthy debate in the Democratic Party, and it’s almost over,” Obama said during a town hall-style event broadcast by PBS. People will “probably have a pretty good sense next week,” of who the nominee will be, Obama said. Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, is the front-runner in the Democratic race. Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, lags her in the number of delegates needed to wrap up the nomination. California and New Jersey, which both have large numbers of delegates up for grabs, hold their votes next Tuesday. Obama has not endorsed either candidate in the Democratic race, though he has made clear his affection and admiration for Clinton, who was his opponent in the 2008 Democratic nominating race. Obama appointed Clinton as his secretary of state after winning the presidential election that year. | 0fake |
Trump's stop in Vietnam a poignant one for U.S. veterans | DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Whether they like President Donald Trump or not, the U.S. veterans who gather at Hoa s Place in Danang show little concern that he avoided the war that marked their lives. Trump flies into the Vietnamese resort of Danang on Friday for a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders, landing in a city that for many Americans of his generation was their first sight of Vietnam - and of war. He ll finally be able to put on his resume that he was in Vietnam, said David Clark, 68, who is originally from Akron, Ohio and calls Trump a joke . After serving in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969 with the Marine Corps, he has now returned to help with projects to address the legacy of the war. Trump never served in the military. He received five deferments during the Vietnam War, including one for bone spurs in his heel, the New York Times reported last year. The paper quoted Trump as saying the bones spurs had been temporary . Everyone I know tried to avoid it, said draftee Keith Soukkala, sipping a beer at Hoa s Place, a favored bar of veterans near Danang s China Beach . I stayed out as long as I could but I didn t have any bone spurs, said Soukkala, who splits his time between Vietnam and Alaska and said he voted for Trump. At 73, he is two years older than Trump and recalls landing in Danang to the humid heat and a certain smell in the air at the start of a 13-month tour with the Marine Corps dodging bombs hidden by the communist Viet Cong guerrillas. The seaside resort of Danang has a special place in U.S.-Vietnamese history: it was here that the first U.S. ground troops disembarked in 1965 in the escalation of a war that would last another decade before the communist victory. Close to some of the heaviest fighting in central Vietnam, Danang had a big U.S. air base. China Beach was a relaxation spot for U.S. soldiers back from combat. Now, Danang s beachfront hotels draw tourists from around the world. Gleaming office towers mark it out as one of Vietnam s most modern cities and one the communist government sought to showcase with the hosting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit which Trump will attend. It s also home to a community of U.S. veterans who returned to a country where a recent Pew Research survey showed the United States was viewed favorably by 84 percent of people. Clark came back in 2013 for a year and is still in Danang, busy with projects to destroy unexploded U.S. bombs and help families affected by the Agent Orange defoliant linked to illness and deformity. Mark O Connor, 67, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and once part of a helicopter assault team, visits as often as he can to provide bicycles to children in hill villages. On this visit, though, he said he had come back in the hope of seeing Trump - his support unaffected by the fact the president had not served in Vietnam. You know, more power to him, he said. You can t feel bad about him and not feel bad about everyone who went to Canada to avoid the draft. | 0fake |
McConnell on Trump Immigration Executive Order: ’I Don’t Want to Criticize Them for Improving Vetting’ - Breitbart | Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing President Donald Trump executive order halting immigration from seven countries to the United States, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ( ) said, “the extent they’re trying to improve the vetting process, I think that’s in order. ” “We need to bear in mind that we don’t have religious tests in this country and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims,” he added. Partial transcript as follows: RADDATZ: Do you support president Trump’s temporary immigration ban from these predominantly Muslim countries. SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL ( ) MAJORITY LEADER: Well, I think it’s a good idea to tighten the vetting process. But I also think it’s important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in this country and overseas. And we have had some difficulty in the past getting interpreters as you suggested in the earlier segment who are helpful to us treated properly. So we need to be careful as we do this. Improving vetting, something … RADDATZ: And yet right now they’re being detained so — do you support this or not support this. MCCONNELL: It’s hopefully going to be decided in the courts as to whether or not this has gone too far. I don’t want to criticize them for improving vetting. I think we need to be careful. We don’t have religious tests in this country. RADDATZ: In the past, you’ve called the Muslim ban completely and totally inconsistent with American values. The president says this is not an outright Muslim ban, even if this is temporary, how is this order consistent with American values? MCCONNELL: Well, if they’re looking to tighten the vetting process, I mean who would be against that? But I am opposed to a religious tests. The courts are going to determine whether this is too broad. RADDATZ: So it sounds to me like you are opposed to certain parts of this. If we’re detaining or holding back people who have helped Americans in the fight. MCCONNELL: Well, obviously I’m against that. RADDATZ: A religious test then you’re opposed to certain parts of this. MCCONNELL: Look, the president has a lot of latitude to try to secure the country. And I’m not going to make a blanket criticism of this effort. However, I think it’s important to remember, as I said, a lot of Muslims are our best sources in the war against terror. RADDATZ: So, do you think this will have blowback in the world? I mean, are you sensing that already? You’ve seen the reactions. MCCONNELL: Yeah, well, we’ll see. And it’s important, however, to emphasize it’s important to keep America as secure as possible and we’ll see how it plays out. RADDATZ: Just tell me again how you would summarize what happened with this executive order. MCCONNELL: How I would summarize. RADDATZ: Yes, how would you — what would you say about it? Others are saying it’s devastating, others are saying it’s . MCCONNELL: Well, I’m not saying either of those things, I’m saying what I just said a few minutes ago, which is to the extent they’re trying to improve the vetting process, I think that’s in order. We need to bear in mind that we don’t have religious tests in this country and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN | 0fake |
White House defends Trump criticism of Nordstrom for dropping Ivanka clothing line | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House defended President Donald Trump’s criticism of the Nordstrom retail chain on Wednesday, saying the firm’s decision to drop his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line for the coming season was politically motivated attack. “I think this was less about his family’s business than an attack on his daughter,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer told a news briefing. Although Nordstrom has said the decision not to carry Ivanka Trump’s line was based on its performance, Spicer said there had been “a direct attack on his policies and her name” and Trump was standing up for her because she was “being maligned because they have a problem with his policies.” | 0fake |
House Speaker Ryan backs swift action on Iran, Russia sanctions | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday he supported efforts to quickly act on legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia and Iran that passed the Senate nearly unanimously but has stalled in the House. Republican Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, “has indicated he wants to get moving on this quickly, and we want to honor that,” Ryan said at his weekly news conference. The Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act, which also includes new sanctions against Russia, passed the Senate 98-2 last week, a vote that looked like it might complicate President Donald Trump’s desire for warmer relations with Moscow. The measure must pass the House before it can be sent to Trump to sign into law or veto. The House parliamentarian found that the legislation violated a constitutional requirement that any bill affecting government revenues must originate in the House, something known as a “blue slip” violation. Democrats said they were skeptical about the explanation, noting that previous “blue slip” issues had been resolved in a matter of minutes. Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told reporters he had sent the Senate a solution clearing the way for it to take the bill back, change it and move it forward. Ben Cardin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Reuters the change did not appear to substantively alter the legislation and that staff was reviewing it to determine how to move ahead. Senior Senate Democratic aides said any bill involving sanctions or fines could be interpreted as affecting U.S. revenues. Trump’s fellow Republicans hold a larger majority in the House than in the Senate. Some lawmakers and congressional aides said the White House was concerned about a provision that would require Trump to obtain Congress’ approval before easing any sanctions on Russia. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Congress last week to ensure that any sanctions package would give Trump the flexibility to adjust sanctions. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the administration would not take a position before the bill advanced through the House. However, he acknowledged the White House needed to work with Congress on some areas of the measure. Ryan said he did not yet know if it would go through the formal markup debate and amendment process. Democrats have said that process could delay the bill for months. Asked if he supported the policy in the bill, Ryan said he supported sanctions. | 0fake |
Obama’s Musings on False Narratives and Fake Stories | Tweet Widget by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
So-called “fake news” has Obama shook up – probably because he and other presidents want to keep their monopoly on false narratives. “The ruling class, which Obama so faithfully serves, has lost control of the social and political narrative, without which it cannot ‘protect’ its wealth, privilege and power. It is a crisis of legitimacy, rooted in the crisis of capitalism, itself.” Obama’s Musings on False Narratives and Fake Stories by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“ People no longer believe the fake “news” and bogus narratives issued by the ruling class and its corporate and military misinformation specialists.”
President Obama traveled to Berlin last week to browbeat Europeans on why they should continue to play junior partners in Washington’s quest for full spectrum global domination, but kept returning to his post-election obsession: the existential threat posed by “fake news” on social media. It was as if the realization had just dawned on the lame duck president, that his own powers to create “facts” and manufacture “news” out of thin air would soon be gone. Without the Clintons in the White House to continue the neoliberal project, history might conclude that the First Black President’s only enduring legacy was...that he was the first Black president.
It’s a question of who gets to decide what’s “fake” or not. Obama fears that what he calls “fake” news begets fake history, which begets the fall of western civilization as the rulers would like people to imagine it. Fake news is a grave danger “in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television,” according to Obama . “If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect,” he told the Germans.
It was a magic kind of moment. The legendarily cool and collected Obama had just let out the secret: the ruling class, which he so faithfully serves, has lost control of the social and political narrative, without which it cannot “protect” its wealth, privilege and power.
“ When the people come to believe that the president’s narrative is a bunch of ‘propaganda,’ then future Obamas will no longer be able to protect the Lords of Capital from the pitchforkers.”
Was the world’s most powerful individual (until January 20) in despair over Facebook’s failure to erase three or four fictitious, yet ultimately inconsequential, stories from its pages? Of course not. Obama’s problem -- and capitalism’s crisis-- is that people no longer believe the fake “news” and bogus narratives issued by the ruling class and its corporate and military misinformation specialists. “If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, and particularly in an age of social media when so many people are getting their information in sound bites and off their phones, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” said Obama.
This is the man that told the nation’s assembled bankers, a year after the Greet Meltdown of 2008, “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks." When the people come to believe that the president and the corporate media’s narrative -- that the system can be fixed with a little tinkering -- is a bunch of “propaganda,” rather than “serious argument,” then future Obamas will no longer be able to protect the Lords of Capital from the pitchforkers.
Losing control of the narrative is what happened after Michael Brown’s murder in Ferguson, Missouri, when Black youth stopped listening to Obama’s fictitious sermon that racism is not endemic in America, a fake history that candidate Obama had successfully dispensed in his “A More Perfect Union” speech in Philadelphia, in 2008.
Obama’s targeted handful of phony social media articles generally favored Donald Trump. But the
biggest “fake news” of the recent campaign, promulgated by virtually the entirety of the ruling class ensconced in Hillary Clinton’s Supersized Tent, was that the Russians were scheming to despoil and disrupt the U.S. elections -- crimes Americans commit all by themselves every cycle through massive voter purges and other racist conspiracies. To Clinton and Obama’s horror, this McCarthyite deluge of fake anti-Russian news failed to sway the very “Middle Americans” that were thought to be the most belligerent, warlike constituency of all.
“The root of the crisis lies in the inability of late stage capitalism to offer anything that will stem the steady decline in the mass of people’s living standards and economic security.”
The Big Tent -- Wall Street, the national security establishment, and their media – have lost all credibility with the public, and Obama was still shaken by the realization when he traveled to Berlin. Donald Trump and his crowd’s credibility – their ability to weave a believable narrative – was nonexistent from the start among half the country, and will shrink even more over time.
The root of the crisis of credibility, which is really a systemic crisis of legitimacy, lies in the inability of late stage capitalism to offer anything that will stem the steady decline in the mass of people’s living standards and economic security. So deep is the decay, every amelioration of public pain would require the dismantling of capitalist structures of power, which is unacceptable to the rulers.
On the most basic level, the U.S. does not have universal health care because capital has entrenched itself in all aspects of health care delivery. The rulers cannot provide affordable housing because Wall Street has financialized the nation’s land and dwellings. Good jobs at living wages are impossible, as long as corporations are empowered to maintain their carefully crafted international supply chain for manufactured goods – the foundation of corporate globalization. Black America cannot break free of the Mass Black Incarceration State until Black people eject the police, as presently constituted, from their communities, which will also require ejecting the corporate collaborators of the Black Misleadership Class from positions of power. There can be no peace -- and no peace “dividend” for Americans – while predatory corporations and cartels dictate U.S. foreign policy. The cycle of decline and repression will continue until corporate power is broken and the banks are nationalized.
The rulers offer nothing, because the system is no longer capable of providing relief to the working and “superfluous” classes (that means most Black folks). They can only spin tales of fantasy and distraction – fake stories and phony narratives.
American “Exceptionalism” is “Manifest Destiny” with Native American genocide and Black slavery blotted out. It is the falsest narrative of all, tailored for imperial conquest and an “end of history” — meaning, the end of everyone’s narrative except the imperialist. BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at [email protected] . | 1real |
TROLL CONGRESSWOMAN WANTS YOU TO SELL YOUR GUNS TO THE GOVERNMENT | It s not for her to decide! We have the Second Amendment and that s enough for any American. DeLauro doesn t get to decide for us what s a gun that s ok to own. It might be a good idea to pick up the phone and voice your objection to this bill.Gun owners would receive tax breaks for voluntarily turning in high-powered assault rifles under new legislation proposed Monday.The Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act expected to be reintroduced next week by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) would provide gun owners with an incentive to turn in their firearms to local police departments. Assault weapons are not about hunting, or even self-defense, DeLauro said. There is no reason on earth, other than to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible, that anyone needs a gun designed for a battlefield. Though DeLauro is in favor of stronger guns laws that would completely ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, she emphasized this bill would not force gun owners to turn in their firearms. The legislation would provide up to $2,000 in tax credits for gun owners who voluntarily hand over assault weapons to their local police departments.The assault weapons legislation comes in response to the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., DeLauro s home state, in December 2012.Via: The Hill | 1real |
Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists - The New York Times | ROME — Those trying to divine the roots of Stephen K. Bannon’s dark and at times apocalyptic worldview have repeatedly combed over a speech that Mr. Bannon, President Trump’s ideological guru, made in 2014 to a Vatican conference, where he expounded on Islam, populism and capitalism. But for all the examination of those remarks, a passing reference by Mr. Bannon to an esoteric Italian philosopher has gone little noticed, except perhaps by scholars and followers of the deeply taboo, thinker, Julius Evola. “The fact that Bannon even knows Evola is significant,” said Mark Sedgwick, a leading scholar of Traditionalists at Aarhus University in Denmark. Evola, who died in 1974, wrote on everything from Eastern religions to the metaphysics of sex to alchemy. But he is best known as a leading proponent of Traditionalism, a worldview popular in and alternative religious circles that believes progress and equality are poisonous illusions. Evola became a darling of Italian Fascists, and Italy’s terrorists of the 1960s and 1970s looked to him as a spiritual and intellectual godfather. They called themselves Children of the Sun after Evola’s vision of a new order that he called the Solar Civilization. Today, the Greek party Golden Dawn includes his works on its suggested reading list, and the leader of Jobbik, the Hungarian nationalist party, admires Evola and wrote an introduction to his works. More important for the current American administration, Evola also caught on in the United States with leaders of the movement, which Mr. Bannon nurtured as the head of Breitbart News and then helped harness for Mr. Trump. “Julius Evola is one of the most fascinating men of the 20th century,” said Richard Spencer, the white nationalist leader who is a top figure in the movement, which has attracted white supremacists, racists and elements. In the days after the election, Mr. Spencer led a Washington conference in chants of “Hail Trump!” But he also invoked Evola’s idea of a prehistoric and spirituality — referring to the awakening of whites, whom he called the Children of the Sun. Mr. Spencer said “it means a tremendous amount” that Mr. Bannon was aware of Evola and other Traditionalist thinkers. “Even if he hasn’t fully imbibed them and been changed by them, he is at least open to them,” he said. “He at least recognizes that they are there. That is a stark difference to the American conservative movement that either was ignorant of them or attempted to suppress them. ” Mr. Bannon, who did not return a request for comment for this article, is an avid and reader. He has spoken enthusiastically about everything from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” to “The Fourth Turning” by William Strauss and Neil Howe, which sees history in cycles of cataclysmic and change. His awareness of and reference to Evola in itself only reflects that reading. But some on the consider Mr. Bannon a door through which Evola’s ideas of a hierarchical society run by a spiritually superior caste can enter in a period of crisis. “Evolists view his ship as coming in,” said Prof. Richard Drake at the University of Montana, who wrote about Evola in his book “The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy. ” For some of them, it has been a long time coming. “It’s the first time that an adviser to the American president knows Evola, or maybe has a Traditionalist formation,” said Gianfranco De Turris, an Evola biographer and apologist based in Rome who runs the Evola Foundation out of his apartment. “If Bannon has these ideas, we have to see how he influences the politics of Trump,” he said. A March article titled “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the ” in Breitbart, the website then run by Mr. Bannon, included Evola as one of the thinkers in whose writings the “origins of the alternative right” could be found. The article was by Milo Yiannopoulos, the provocateur who is wildly popular with conservatives on college campuses. Mr. Trump recently defended Mr. Yiannopoulos as a symbol of free speech after demonstrators violently protested his planned speech at the University of California, Berkeley. The article celebrated the youthful internet trolls who give the movement its energy and who, motivated by a common and questionable sense of humor, use and racially charged memes “in typically juvenile but undeniably hysterical fashion. ” “It’s hard to imagine them reading Evola,” the article continued. “They may be inclined to sympathize to those causes, but mainly because it annoys the right people. ” Evola, who has more than annoyed people for nearly a century, seems to be having a moment. “When I started working on Evola, you had to plow through Italian,” said Mr. Sedgwick, who keeps track of Traditionalist movements and thought on his blog, Traditionalists. “Now he’s available in English, German, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Hungarian. First I saw Evola boom, and then I realized the number of people interested in that sort of idea was booming. ” Born in 1898, Evola liked to call himself a baron and in later life sported a monocle in his left eye. A brilliant student and talented artist, he came home after fighting in World War I and became a leading exponent in Italy of the Dada movement, which, like Evola, rejected the church and bourgeois institutions. Evola’s early artistic endeavors gave way to his love of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and he developed a worldview with an overriding animosity toward the decadence of modernity. Influenced by mystical works and the occult, Evola began developing an idea of the individual’s ability to transcend his reality and “be unconditionally whatever one wants. ” Under the influence of René Guénon, a French metaphysicist and convert to Islam, Evola in 1934 published his most influential work, “The Revolt Against the Modern World,” which cast materialism as an eroding influence on ancient values. It viewed humanism, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution all as historical disasters that took man further away from a transcendental perennial truth. Changing the system, Evola argued, was “not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing everything up. ” Evola’s ideal order, Professor Drake wrote, was based on “hierarchy, caste, monarchy, race, myth, religion and ritual. ” That made a fan out of Benito Mussolini. The dictator already admired Evola’s early writings on race, which influenced the 1938 Racial Laws restricting the rights of Jews in Italy. Mussolini so liked Evola’s 1941 book, “Synthesis on the Doctrine of Race,” which advocated a form of spiritual, and not merely biological, racism, that he invited Evola to meet him in September of that year. Evola eventually broke with Mussolini and the Italian Fascists because he considered them overly tame and corrupted by compromise. Instead he preferred the Nazi SS officers, seeing in them something closer to a mythic ideal. They also shared his . Mr. Bannon suggested in his Vatican remarks that the Fascist movement had come out of Evola’s ideas. As Mr. Bannon expounded on the intellectual motivations of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, he mentioned “Julius Evola and different writers of the early 20th century who are really the supporters of what’s called the Traditionalist movement, which really eventually metastasized into Italian Fascism. ” The reality, historians say, is that Evola sought to “infiltrate and influence” the Fascists, as Mr. Sedgwick put it, as a powerful vehicle to spread his ideas. In his Vatican talk, Mr. Bannon suggested that although Mr. Putin represented a “kleptocracy,” the Russian president understood the existential danger posed by “a potential new caliphate” and the importance of using nationalism to stand up for traditional institutions. “We, the West,” Mr. Bannon added, “really have to look at what he’s talking about as far as Traditionalism goes — particularly the sense of where it supports the underpinnings of nationalism. ” As Mr. Bannon suggested in his speech, Mr. Putin’s most influential thinker is Aleksandr Dugin, the ultranationalist Russian Traditionalist and writer sometimes called “Putin’s Rasputin. ” An intellectual descendant of Evola, Mr. Dugin has called for a “genuine, true, radically revolutionary, and consistent fascist fascism” and advocated a theory of “Eurasianism” — which has provided a philosophical framework for Mr. Putin’s expansionism and meddling in Western European politics. Mr. Dugin sees European Traditionalists as needing Russia, and Mr. Putin, to defend them from the onslaught of Western liberal democracy, individual liberty, and materialism — all Evolian bêtes noires. This appeal of traditional values on populist voters and against elites, the “ Union” and “centralized government in the United States,” as Mr. Bannon put it, was not lost on Mr. Trump’s ideological guru. “A lot of people that are Traditionalists,” he said in his Vatican remarks, “are attracted to that. ” | 0fake |
TRUMP SAYS “NO” To Pro-Amnesty Koch Brother’s Influence…Won’t Meet With Them | Meanwhile, the Koch brothers are denying they were attempting to meet with Trump. They re probably too busy schmoozing with open-borders Paul Ryan and other more easily influenced politicians. Hillary will most surely be working overtime to capture those unspent millions that won t be going to Trump Trump tweeted this tonight:I turned down a meeting with Charles and David Koch. Much better for them to meet with the puppets of politics, they will do much better! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2016The Kochs are effectively indifferent between Trump and Clinton, though several Trump allies within the network have encouraged the billionaire donors to at least meet with the billionaire candidate. Donors who contribute at least $100,000 to the network are invited to hear from Charles Koch and Republican leaders both about the Kochs political work along with their philanthropic and policy-focused spending.Some Koch donors, upset by the leadership s unwillingness to back the Republican nominee, have called for the Freedom Partners retreat to feature a poll to decide whether to marshal their resources toward his White House bid. But Holden said unequivocally that a decisive survey of that kind would not happen.May, 2014 Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank notes that, More than 100 times on the Senate floor in the past few months, the Senate s top Democrat has invoked Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into conservative causes and campaigns. According to Reid, the Koch brothers are about as un-American as anyone I can imagine and are attempting to buy America. Well, if it is true and what these billionaires are truly engaged in a diabolical plot to undermine the country, then Reid must count himself as one of their prime accomplices.Guess who is putting up lots of money to pressure House Republicans to pass a massive amnesty and immigration increase bill similar to the one Reid championed in the Senate? That would be none other than the Brothers Koch. Immigration ReformThe Kochs have assembled a political operation some consider to be on par with the Republican National Committee, using a constellation of nonprofit organizations to drive elections and policy fights in recent years. They today have 1,200 paid staff members in 38 states.Yet their refusal to back Trump whose language on immigration and trade is found to be too incendiary by the libertarian-inspired Kochs is a leading reason why Trump is expected to be massively outgunned by Clinton and her allies in the advertising wars.The Koch network initially said they would spend $889 million in the lead-up to 2016, with about one-third of that figure dedicated to political activity. Yet Koch officials have scaled back their ambitions, with Holden saying Saturday that the sum was merely a wish list number. They are now on pace to spend about $750 million, including about $250 million on politics.About $20 million in television has already aired, network officials said, with another $20 million still planned for the fall. The network is currently active in five Senate races, and is currently weighing how to get involved in one more: Marco Rubio s reelection fight in Florida. Via: wmtw TV | 1real |
Militant attack on minister's convoy kills two bystanders in India's Kashmir | SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Militants attacked the convoy of a minister in the restive Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, killing at least two bystanders and injuring several others though the minister escaped unhurt, police said. A grenade hurled at the motorcade of Jammu and Kashmir Public Works Minister Naeem Akhtar exploded on the road after hitting a security vehicle, senior state police official Manoj Pandita told Reuters. Akhtar, who was on his way to inaugurate a project in the town of Tral in south Kashmir, told Reuters he was safe. The incident occurred despite tightened security in the town, which was home to former militant leader Burhan Wani whose death last year at the hands of Indian forces sparked massive protests that led to dozens more deaths. India has been fighting a long-running counter-insurgency campaign in Muslim-majority Kashmir, which both India and Pakistan claim in full but rule in part. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of pushing in militants from its part of Kashmir to carry out attacks, a charge denied by Islamabad. So far this year, around 44 civilians have been killed in militant attacks in the state, passing the highest annual total seen in the last eight years, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal. | 0fake |
TUCKER AND GUTFELD’S Hilarious Take On Miley Cyrus Crying Over ‘Thank You Hillary’ Note: ‘They shouldn’t be treating her like Mrs. Claus’ [Video] | Tucker Carlson and Greg Gutfeld are great together in their take on Hillary s never-ending book tour and recent Jimmy Fallon appearance. They discussed Fallon segment where women nauseatingly fawned over Hillary Clinton and Miley Cyrus even cried while reading a thank you note to Clinton. In what was supposed to be a somewhat serious moment, you couldn t help but ask yourself if this was a skit that had a punchline at some point. NAUSEATING DISPLAY ON FALLON: Singer Miley Cyrus and female writers on NBC s The Tonight Show read thank-younotes to Hillary Clinton about her loss to Donald Trump and the pain it caused many of her supporters during her appearance on the program Wednesday. TRANSCENDING FIRST LADYHOOD ???Cyrus and the writers said Clinton transcended first ladyhood and referred to all the work you ve done for public health care. The main focus was on her loss to Trump and the psychological pain they associate with it Cyrus was unable to contain her sobs Thank you, Hillary, for being a constant beacon of strength, hope, and determination for me and millions of other young women, Cyrus said. You ve been a role model and an inspiration and a voice of reason in uncertain times. I could go on and on, but I d like to get to the point, she concluded. Could I give you a hug? Tucker Carlson and Greg Gutfeld were spot on! IF YOU CAN MAKE IT THROUGH, HERE S THE SEGMENT THEY RE TALKING ABOUT:The laugh is hard enough to listen to! | 1real |
Catalan government says voters may use any polling station in referendum | BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia s regional government said it would allow voters in Sunday s banned independence referendum to vote at any polling station they found open in the region, if their designated voting booth was closed. In a further step to make it easier to vote, voting slips printed at home will be accepted as valid, Jordi Turull, the regional government s spokesman told a news conference. After a court banned the vote, Spanish police arrested Catalan officials, seized campaign leaflets and sealed off many of the 2,300 schools designated as polling stations. | 0fake |
HILLARY THROWS HER WEALTH AND STATUS Into The Faces Of Hard Working Americans | Hillary Clinton has said a lot of things that stick deep in the craw of honest, hardworking Americans before but this time she may have actually gone too far. In a seemingly innocent remark about how staying home and resting has brought her closer to the American people.Apparently laying in bed in one of many mansions with a staff to take care of her every need, and absolutely no worry of how she is going to pay her rent next month equals what it is like for a normal citizen to be suffering from illness in this day and age. I certainly feel lucky when I am under the weather, I can afford to take a few days off. Millions of Americans can t. They either go to work sick or they lose a paycheck. They toss back some Tylenols, chug some orange juice and hope the cough or the virus goes away on its own. I have met so many people living on a razor s edge, one illness away from losing their job, one paycheck away from losing their job. That goes against everything we stand for as Americans, because some things should not come down to luck. So while she was being pampered and waited on hand and foot we are supposed to believe that she was honestly contemplating that her situation in any way matched that of any hard working American going through being sick? All I heard was her throwing her wealth and status back into our faces.Maybe she realized that her diatribe wasn t working so she decided to quickly change focus and throw her own campaign staff under the but to deflect. You know, my campaign has said they could have been faster and I agree with that. I certainly expect them to be as focused and quick as possible, but I have to say from my perspective, I thought I was going to be fine and I thought that there wasn t really any reason to make a big fuss about it. So I should have taken time off earlier. I didn t, now I have, and I m back on the campaign trail. Hillary also dodged a question about whether she ever bothered to tell her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, that she was sick.Clinton responded by saying that her senior staff knew, and the information was provided to a number of people, but she did not say whether Kaine was one of those people. When a second reporter asked about why Kaine was not informed, and whether that has hurt their partnership, Clinton said she was not going to go into our personal conversations. Will this woman ever answer anything with a straight answer? Probably not, but we can all continue to be amused that she actually thinks any of us believe what she says.Keep powering through, Hillary.H/T [ Info Wars ] | 1real |
Highway Horror: Mexican Cartel Kidnap, Murder Beer Delivery Men | SAN FERNANDO, Tamaulipas — The lack of security conditions along highways where drug cartels operate in this border state presents an image of impunity as two beer delivery men were robbed at gunpoint, kidnapped and executed while they were making their regular deliveries. [Days after their kidnapping, authorities found the remains of the two men in an area near the state limits between Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. Last week, a large group of friends and loved ones gathered for the funeral procession that accompanied the late Jose Alberto Torres Gomez and Rommel Guadalupe Cano Hernandez to their final resting places in this city. According to the case file from the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office, the two beer distributors had left the San Fernando office of the Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma in order to make their delivery routes to the various rural communities in the region. It is believed that the employees had managed to sell and collect approximately $500, 000 pesos or a little less than $25, 000 USD, before they were kidnapped. After the beer company filed a report for its missing employees, authorities began a search operation and were able to locate the delivery truck three days after the kidnapping in the town of General Bravo. The bodies of the two victims were found last week on the side of the road by the 30 kilometer marking on the highway that connects China, Nuevo Leon, with Mendez on the border of Tamaulipas. The beer company claimed in its complaint that after the employees had left on their scheduled deliveries, they were last seen near the town of Mendez, Tamaulipas, where they are believed to have been kidnapped. The current motive appears to be the theft of the $500, 000 pesos from sales that the two employees are believed to have been carrying. The border between Tamaulipas and Nuevo León is an area controlled by factions of various drug cartels who are also believed to have been responsible for hijacking tourist buses. In months prior, cartel members in that region had been stopping passenger buses to rob tourists and even to carry out various kidnappings. Most of the crimes remain unsolved. | 0fake |
After nearly five years, Boehner could never land the ‘big deal’ he wanted | John A. Boehner never landed the really big deal he craved. Not the $4 trillion tax-and-entitlement deal he reached for in 2011, not the repackaged version a year later and not the immigration overhaul he sought in 2014.
He most clearly learned the limits of his power midway through his nearly five-year tenure as House speaker when he scaled down his ambitions for “Plan B” — a tactical gambit aimed at forcing Democrats to preserve Republican tax cuts. Conservatives rebelled because those making more than $1 million would have faced tax increases, and Boehner (Ohio) was left reading the “Serenity Prayer” to his Republican colleagues.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” the speaker said.
That utter defeat left him unable to “go big,” as he liked to say, his effort to find a legacy-defining piece of legislation coming largely to a close. In the three years since, he mostly has been treading water.
This month, Boehner found himself in much the same position as before. But conservatives weren’t revolting over tax cuts or a farm bill or health-care legislation. This time, they were after his job.
On Friday, he decided to spare his party another fight, particularly one that was all about him. In the same basement room where he abandoned “Plan B,” he announced his resignation, ending a run as speaker that came to be defined by internal revolts and missed opportunities.
[What John Boehner told me the night before he was quitting]
On Sept. 17, Republicans swore in their 247th member, giving them their largest House majority since 1930. Yet Boehner could never please his most conservative members. Fiscal deals negotiated with President Obama produced more than $2 trillion in savings and made the GOP’s tax cuts permanent for 99 percent of workers, but the far right painted both deals as sellouts.
Despite his early years as an agitator, Boehner never overcame the image that the conservatives saw: a country club Republican who loved to play 18 holes of golf and drink merlot afterward while cutting deals. In an era of shouting and confrontation, on talk radio or cable TV, Boehner’s easygoing style did not fit.
“John was fighting the 21st-century battles with 1990s tools, and you can’t just do that with a president of either party who is willing to push the envelopes of executive power,” Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), one of the lead rebels, said after Boehner’s surprise announcement Friday morning.
Aside from a Quixotic effort to cajole support for immigration legislation, Boehner has been stuck with a caucus bitterly divided between those willing to accept incremental progress toward conservative goals and those, like Mulvaney, willing to blow up the normal courtesies and practices in Washington.
“It’s like the Marine Corps: You spend 90 percent of your time on 10 percent of your guys,” Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.), an Iraq war veteran who still serves in the Marine Corps Reserve, said Friday. “I think that’s what ended up happening with Boehner toward the end, the last year or two. There was so much time dealing with fractious stuff inside the conference that it took a lot of time away from doing other things.”
Boehner decided to retire, effective Oct. 30, after his emotional reaction to Pope Francis’s visit on Thursday to the Capitol. The speaker spent the night at an Italian restaurant on Barracks Row with close friends and then Friday morning at his regular diner two blocks from the Capitol, where he affirmed his decision.
It was a long fall from September 2010, when Boehner and his leadership team introduced the “Pledge to America,” their governing document touted in the final days of the midterm election campaign that delivered a Republican House majority.
[How speakers of the House became an endangered species]
That 2010 class — 87 Republicans strong — ushered Boehner into the speaker’s chair but brought with it dozens of lawmakers from deeply conservative districts that distrusted all of Washington, Republicans and Democrats alike. Dozens of the freshmen became loyal foot soldiers to leadership, but they also feared that their biggest political risk would come in a Republican primary, not from a Democrat in a general election.
That meant that when the most conservative members aligned themselves with outside conservative groups pushing for a harder line, these more moderate Republicans sometimes bucked Boehner out of fear.
The first warning sign for the new speaker came within weeks of him taking over, when Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the fiscal expert for the caucus, presented a proposal for cutting about $40 billion from the 2012 federal agency budgets. The freshmen revolted, citing the “Pledge to America” and its call for $100 billion in cuts. Never mind that the fiscal year was half over; they wanted deeper reductions.
Boehner gave in, sending his troops back to draw up greater cuts to appease the right flank.
That scenario played out repeatedly throughout his term, most dramatically in the summer of 2011 when Boehner and Obama — after a much-hyped round of golf at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland — entered into negotiations aimed at a $4 trillion fiscal package of spending cuts and entitlement reforms.
Some called it the “grand bargain,” but Boehner called it the “big deal.” During one bargaining session in the White House Cabinet Room, he grew frustrated about the inability to reach an agreement, as Obama sat to his left and his deputy, then-Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), was on his right.
“I didn’t want this job to have a big title. I want to do big things,” Boehner told the group, according to a Democrat in the room.
[The Fix: John Boehner just sacrificed his career for the good of the GOP]
But as the talks grew close, Boehner balked at a demand from Obama for more than $1 trillion in tax increases.
The two leaders traded blame in dueling news conferences. As often happened, the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell (Ky.), stepped into the breach to reach a compromise that left conservatives griping.
The pattern repeated with more negotiations and retreats later that year and, after another McConnell-brokered compromise passed in late 2012, the new Congress was sworn in. A ragtag group of Republicans moved to deny Boehner the speaker’s gavel for a second term — the first of what would become effectively three coup attempts against him.
With Democrats voting for their leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), the conservatives tried to get enough Republicans to deny Boehner the majority. They had no alternative, no real plan, and it fell apart after several members prayed on whether to spare Boehner.
“Gone are the days when the leaders decide what the conference is going to do,” Rep. Lynn Jenkins (Kan.), who has been a low-level member of GOP leadership, said in the spring of 2013.
Boehner thought of retiring at the end of 2014, but Cantor lost in a stunning upset to a conservative who has linked arms with others against Boehner. With no heir apparent, he soldiered on through another coup attempt during a speaker vote in January and, as he said Friday, he had decided privately to retire at the end of this year.
But those botched coup attempts also sowed the seeds of an idea that would haunt him: that if they ever got enough rebels together, they could force a vote to deny him a majority from the Republican side of the aisle.
No speaker had ever lost his gavel under such a scenario, and his friends said that Boehner never wanted to rely on Democratic votes to keep the job. As a fight unfolded over the past two months about federal funding for Planned Parenthood, it became clear that 30 or more Republicans may have been willing to oust him if he extended government funding without a fight over the group.
The institution would endure a grueling ballot, and members he liked would have to take tough votes on Boehner’s behalf. So on Friday morning, a day after Francis’s address to a joint meeting of Congress, in the same room where his other fights ended, Boehner turned to the “Prayer of Saint Francis” to announce his retirement.
“For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life,” he said. | 0fake |
F.D.A. Warns Whole Foods on Failure to Address Food Safety Problems - The New York Times | Prepared foods are an increasingly important part of the grocery business, delivering fat margins at a time when sales of traditional packaged foods are lackluster. But the strategy also comes with serious risks. In the clearest example yet, the Food and Drug Administration this month sent a stern warning letter to Whole Foods Market, a longtime champion of fresh and healthy foods, saying that the company had failed to address a long list of food safety issues at its food processing plant outside of Boston. Among the problems cited: condensation dripping from the ceiling near food an sanitizer used on a work surface near the preparation of a salad and a failure to separate dirty dishes from . The letter from the F. D. A. is just the latest headache to afflict Whole Foods. Over the last couple of years, the company has struggled with slower growth as competitors have gotten better at copying what it did to distinguish itself in the grocery market. Other wounds have been like last year, when the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs called it out for mispricing some merchandise based on weight. Prepared foods, which have almost double the profit margins of packaged foods sold on grocery shelves, have remained a bright spot at the company — at least for now. Such foods accounted for almost 20 percent of its sales in 2014, ringing up $2. 7 billion in revenue. But the letter from the F. D. A. is the second black eye for health issues at the plant outside of Boston, known as its North Atlantic Kitchen, and could put some of those sales in peril. Phil Lempert, an expert on grocery store operations and marketing, said that the food safety crisis at Chipotle Mexican Grill late last year should have been a call for Whole Foods and anyone else in the business of preparing fresh foods for sale. “For Whole Foods to be in this predicament, frankly, there really is no excuse,” Mr. Lempert said. “Because Wall Street has put it under such pressure to expand growth, I think Whole Foods has gotten sloppy — there’s no reason anyone should have water dripping into foods. ” Last fall, Whole Foods voluntarily recalled batches of Curry Chicken Salad and Classic Deli Pasta Salad after a sample prepared at the North Atlantic Kitchen tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, a pathogenic strain of the bacterium. The plant is one of three preparation kitchens that help stock its stores in the Northeast, and South. (Most of the company’s foods are prepared at the stores themselves.) In February, the inspectors spent five days at the plant and then shared their findings with Whole Foods, which responded within 15 business days. The company told the F. D. A. that it had retrained employees to address most of the issues the agency raised. That response, however, failed to satisfy the F. D. A. “We do not consider your response acceptable because you failed to provide documentation for our review, which demonstrates that all your noted corrective actions have been effectively implemented,” the agency wrote in its June 8 warning letter. Whole Foods said the letter came as a surprise. The company said it had taken steps to correct the problems and would meet on Thursday with the F. D. A. to discuss what the issues are and how to address them. “What’s confusing to us is the fact that the letter identifies issues we’ve already corrected,” said Ken Meyer, the company’s executive vice president for operations. “We worked with a consultant and our own global food safety team,” he said, “to address their concerns and assumed we were in good standing with them until this letter arrived on Friday. ” Whole Foods now has about two weeks to provide evidence to the F. D. A. that steps it has taken bring the company into compliance. Otherwise, the company might have to pay the agency to reinspect the facility. Groceries have long offered prepared foods like rotisserie chickens and broccoli salad. But as business has declined in the center store, companies have upped their game, adding sophisticated meals that consumers can take home or eat in the store. Research this year from the Food Marketing Institute and Technomic found that sales of prepared foods in groceries increased 10. 4 percent from 2006 to 2014, making the prepared foods department one of the highest performers in the food business. While only 8 percent of the supermarkets responding to that survey reported sales growth of more than 5 percent, more than of them said they had growth at that level or higher in their prepared food businesses. The risk for grocery companies is that preparing food receives a higher level of scrutiny from regulators than selling food made and packaged by others. A bad inspection in one location, or reports of food illnesses, can damage an entire brand. Shares in Whole Foods fell nearly 5 percent on Wednesday. Last year, Costco recalled celery sticks and turkey dinners, King Sooper recalled curried chicken salad and Raley’s recalled its Asian Blue Cheese, Potato and Bacon salad after E. coli was found in celery supplied to all by a single supplier. Still, perhaps no company has been more aggressive about integrating prepared foods than Whole Foods. The company has long put bars and restaurants into its stores — a new store in Hawaii will have about 200 seats for shoppers to sit and enjoy a meal and a drink. “Whole Foods is one of the pioneers in providing restaurant quality meals to consumers,” said Joe Pawlak, managing principal at Technomic. Now, stores like ShopRite and Safeway are opening groceraunts, too. The oyster bar at one of the Mariano’s groceries in Chicago has become a place for a Friday night date, and a ShopRite in Morris Plains, N. J. added a atrium where people can enjoy a meal. Supermarkets tried moving into the food preparation business in the 1990s, Mr. Pawlak said, but offered too broad a menu and ended up throwing a lot of food away. “Now what’s happened over the last five or six years, they’ve hired food service professionals who understand restaurants and how items move on a menu,” he said. “That’s taken the quality up to where I can get just as good a meal at the grocery store as I can in many restaurants — and for a lot better value. ” An F. D. A. spokeswoman said the agency could not comment on whether its inspection of grocery food preparation operations was increasing. A Yahoo News analysis of the F. D. A. ’s food safety recalls in 2015 found that prepared foods accounted for more recalls than any other food category. | 0fake |
Trump Supporter Who Sucker Punched Black Protester: ‘Next Time, We Might Have To Kill Him’ (VIDEO) | The Donald Trump supporter who viciously assaulted an African-American protester at a recent campaign rally gave a terrifying interview to Inside Edition, and it confirms what many of us have sensed for a long time: It s only a matter of time before someone gets killed at a Trump rally.TV s Inside Edition caught up with the cowboy hat wearing Trump fan after the rally and asked him about why he sucker punched a young black man as he was being escorted out of the stadium. The man, whom police have identified as 78-year-old John McGraw, was all smiles. He beamed as he told the camera: You bet I liked it. Knocking the hell out of that big mouth. When asked why he needed to punch the 26-year-old, McGraw let his crazy fly at full force: We don t know if he s ISIS. We don t know who he is, but we know he s not acting like an American, cussing me. If he wants it laid out, I laid it out. McGraw believes the African American protester was from ISIS. However, his delusional bloodlust didn t end there. He went on to say that the man deserved it and warned that next time we see him, we might have to kill him. He again reiterated the idea that the man was a terrorist.The victim, Rakeem Jones, was reportedly sore but fine after the incident. However, police at the event decided to arrest him instead of McGraw.McGraw s violence is just another example of a disturbing trend at Trump rallies. As protesters continue to bravely come out to interrupt the Republican front-runner where ever he goes, his fans have taken to physically assaulting them. Based on McGraw s statements, the violence is inspired in part by delusional conspiracies gleaned from Fox News and the GOP that pretends Islamic terrorists, black people, and liberals are working together to destroy America. As such, people like McGraw feel no remorse for attacking them.Don t believe it, just let him tell you himself.Featured image via screen capture from Inside Edition | 1real |
London Terror: One Dead, One Arrested as Man Ploughs Van into Pedestrians Outside London Mosque | London police are investigating a suspected terror attack and have arrested a 48 year old on suspicion of attempted murder after a van was driven into a crowd of people on a London street near a mosque in Finsbury Park. Eyewitnesses have said the man got out of the vehicle and shouted “I want to kill all Muslims”. [One died during the attack and 10 were injured, but it is unclear whether the death was caused directly by the van ploughing into the crowd. Police said in a statement overnight that all the victims of the attack were from the Muslim faith. Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Cressida Dick said in a statement Monday morning: London has woken up to the news of another appalling attack on our city. My thoughts are with the family of the man who has died and with all those who were injured. My officers were on the scene almost immediately, and other uniformed and specialist officers quickly arrived to support them. They worked quickly with colleagues from the other emergency services to treat the injured. I want to thank all those members of the public who assisted police and emergency services in our task. There is now an ongoing investigation by our Counter Terrorism Command to establish why this attack was carried out. London is a city of many faiths and many nationalities. An attack on one community is an attack on all of us. Terrorists will not succeed in their attempts to divide us and make us live in fear. ” Extra officers are on duty in the area to help reassure the local community. They will be there for as long as they are needed. Communities will see additional officers patrolling across the city and at Muslim places of worship. We are working as hard as we can to protect all our communities, and we will not be defeated. In a separate statement, police said the attack happened while a man was already “receiving first aid from the public at the scene” and that this was the individual who had died. Because it was unclear whether the man had already died before the attack took place, police said “Any causative link between his death and the attack will form part of our investigation. It is too early to state if his death was as a result of the attack”. “No matter what the motivation proves to be, and we are keeping an open mind, this is being treated as a terrorist attack and the Counter Terrorism Command is investigating. ” Speaking to Sky News Monday, Miqdaad Versi, assistant of the Muslim Council of Britain described the moments leading up to the attack. He said: “This was a group of individuals who were praying at the Muslim Welfare House. They were just coming back from prayers and one individual happened to collapse on the floor, and people who wanted to help that individual came around him to support him, and at that moment in time that’s when the van mounted the curb and attacked that whole group, and resulted in that one injury that we’re aware of. ” Previous reports that there had been multiple individuals in the van, and that the driver was carrying a knife have not been confirmed by police Monday morning. The Finsbury Park Mosque outside which the attack took place had just let out after Taraweeh — special, Ramadan prayers. Prime Minister Theresa May has described the attack as a “terrible incident” while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is “shocked” by the “awful event”. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said in a statement: “We should make clear that if this attack is confirmed as a deliberate terrorist attack then this should be classed as an act of terrorism. “The British Muslim community requires all decent people to stand with us against this evil violence. “Rampant Islamaphobia [sic] has been on the rise for a number of years and those on the far right have perpetuated hatred against Muslims. They should be called out for their hatred. “The days ahead will be difficult, but with unity and tolerance we will prevail. We will not allow these far right extremists to divide our diverse communities. “Enough is enough, my condolences and prayers for all the victims and their families. They are in my prayers. ” The salafist Finsbury Park mosque has previously been in the news as having been the home of famed hate preacher Abu Hamza Al Masri, as well as having attacker Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe bomber Richard Reid as attendees. In recent years the mosque has changed its management team and has not been mentioned in connection with any recent terror plots. Eyewitness tells @jamesrbuk man drove van at pedestrians outside London mosque, then shouted “Kill me, kill me, I want to kill all Muslims” pic. twitter. — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 19, 2017, London Ambulance Service Deputy Director of Operations, Kevin Bate said: “We were called at 12. 15am to reports of a road traffic collision at Seven Sisters Road. “We have sent a number of ambulance crews, advance paramedics and specialist responses teams to the scene. An advance trauma team from London’s Air Ambulance has also been dispatched by car. “We are working closely with other members of the emergency services at the scene. “Our priority is to assess the level and nature of injuries and ensure those in the most need are treated first and taken to hospital. “More information will follow when we have it. ” | 0fake |
UK parliament to consider Northern Ireland budget in mid-November | LONDON (Reuters) - The British government expects to bring a budget for Northern Ireland before parliament at Westminster in mid-November, after the region s largest parties failed to reach agreement on forming a government, the Northern Ireland minister said on Thursday. I would expect the budget bill to be considered in this House shortly after the November recess, which ends on Nov. 13, James Brokenshire told parliament on Thursday. | 0fake |
PRO-TRUMP ROCKER #TedNugent Fires Back at Comparison to #KathyGriffin: “We’re talking apples and grenades” | Ted Nugent isn t having it! He s being compared to Kathy Griffin by the left and he s had enough of it!We will never forget the night before the election at the very last rally for candidate Trump TED NUGENT WAS THERE AND PLAYED HIS HEART OUT!Conservative rocker Ted Nugent, who once told a concert crowd that Barack Obama should suck on [his] machine gun, says its unfair to compare him to embattled comedian Kathy Griffin. There s no comparison whatsoever, Mr. Nugent said during a radio interview Wednesday on The Ben Ferguson Show, The Washington Examiner reported. We re talking apples and grenades here, he said. What Kathy Griffin did was downright vulgar, obscene, and a genuine variation of a death threat. I ve never threatened anybody. Ms. Griffin is facing a wave of backlash for doing a graphic photo shoot holding a realistic mock severed head of President Trump. She has since apologized for the photos and had them removed, but lost her long-running New Year s Eve gig at CNN as a result. Despite his history of off-color comments, Mr. Nugent was invited to the White House in April for a dinner with Mr. Trump. Liberals in the media immediately compared Ms. Griffin s controversial stunt to Mr. Nugent s past comments, claiming there is a double standard.Mr. Nugent, who serves on the NRA s Board of Directors, reportedly told a concert crowd in 2007: Obama, he s a piece of s . I told him to suck on my machine gun. Speaking in 2012 at an NRA convention in St. Louis, he said, We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. And in January of last year, he called for both Mr. Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be tried for treason & hung. Via: WT | 1real |
So Friends, Star Trek and Fresh Prince of Bel Air all live in the same universe and chairs PROVE it | Next Prev Swipe left/right So Friends, Star Trek and Fresh Prince of Bel Air all live in the same universe and chairs PROVE it
The brilliant @Edjeff over on Twitter notes, “Oh my god, Friends and Star Trek exist in the same chairiverse”
He’s right you know.
Friends chair:
Star Trek chair:
They are THE FUCKING SAME.
Now this is where it gets weird. @Hiddenasbestos says, “Hope you’re sitting down – so does The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”
Fresh Prince chair:
Yep. Definitely proof all three shows are in the same universe.
Or “chairiverse” as @Edjeff so eloquently puts it. | 1real |
Trump signs Russia sanctions bill, Moscow calls it 'trade war' | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump grudgingly signed into law new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, a move Moscow said amounted to a full-scale trade war and an end to hopes for better ties with the Trump administration. Congress overwhelmingly approved the legislation last week, passing a measure that conflicts with the Republican president’s desire to improve relations with Moscow. Trump signed the bill behind closed doors, without the fanfare that has customarily accompanied his signing of executive orders. He criticized the measure as infringing on his powers to shape foreign policy, and said he could make “far better deals” with governments than Congress can. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called the sanctions tantamount to a “full-scale trade war,” adding in a Facebook post that they showed the Trump administration had demonstrated “utter powerlessness.” “The hope that our relations with the new American administration would improve is finished,” he wrote. Trump’s litany of concerns about the sanctions, which also affect Iran and North Korea, raised the question of how vigorously Trump will implement them regarding Russia. “While I favor tough measures to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by Iran, North Korea, and Russia, this legislation is significantly flawed,” Trump said in a message to lawmakers known as a signing statement. He also issued a statement for the press about the bill. The new law allows Congress, which passed the measure to punish Russia over interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea, to halt any effort by Trump to ease sanctions on Russia. His hands were tied after the Republican-controlled Congress approved the legislation by such a large margin last week that any presidential veto of the bill would have been overridden. The legislation provoked countermeasures by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said on Sunday that the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia must reduce its staff by 755 people. Russia is also seizing two properties near Moscow used by American diplomats. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to improve relations with Russia. That desire has been stymied by U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings that Russia interfered to help the Republican against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. U.S. congressional panels and a special counsel are investigating. Moscow denies any meddling and Trump denies any collusion by his campaign. Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan welcomed the signing, saying it would send “a powerful message to our adversaries that they will be held accountable.” In his statements on the sanctions law, Trump complained about what he said was congressional infringement on the president’s constitutional power to set foreign policy, saying the law reflected congressional “preferences” rather than a legal mandate. “It is flagging those areas where the administration sees itself as having wiggle room to underenforce the law by citing claimed constitutional concerns,” said Harold Koh, a Yale Law School professor who was a legal adviser to the State Department during the Obama administration. The House’s top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, said the signing statement “raises serious questions about whether his administration intends to follow the law.” Trump said he was elected partly because of his successes in business, adding, “As President, I can make far better deals with foreign countries than Congress.” Trump’s signing statement was the latest in a series of mixed signals from the administration on Russia. “I feel like there’s several policies being implemented at once, and they’re not very compatible with one another. This is one more,” said Olga Oliker, a Russia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank based in Washington. Vice President Mike Pence, touring Baltic countries adjacent to Russia, has followed a hawkish line. Pence said Trump’s signing of the legislation would show that Congress and the president were “speaking with a unified voice” on Russia. However, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, like Trump, has been critical of the legislation. “The action by the Congress to put these sanctions in place and the way they did, neither the president nor I were very happy about that,” Tillerson said on Tuesday. The sanctions will affect a range of Russian industries and might further hurt Russia’s economy, already weakened by 2014 sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea. Besides angering Moscow, the legislation has upset the European Union, which has said the new sanctions might affect its energy security and prompt it to retaliate if needed. Several provisions of the law target the Russian energy sector, with new limits on U.S. investment in Russian companies. American companies also would be barred from participating in energy exploration projects where Russian firms have a stake of 33 percent or higher. The legislation includes sanctions on foreign companies investing in or helping Russian energy exploration, although the president could waive those sanctions. It would give the Trump administration the option of imposing sanctions on companies helping develop Russian export pipelines, such as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline carrying natural gas to Europe, in which German companies are involved. | 0fake |
Senate banking chair wants financial rules reform by early 2018 | (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee said on Thursday he wants to pass a major piece of bank reform legislation by early next year at the latest. Senator Mike Crapo, a Republican, intends to go beyond rewriting the 2010 Dodd Frank financial reform legislation and craft a bipartisan bill that advances economic growth and capital formation, he told attendees at a Chamber of Commerce event focused on capital markets. “My hope is ... that is either late this year or early next year. I’m not looking further than that,” Crapo said. Crapo’s agenda is being intensely watched on Wall Street, as his committee is widely seen as playing a critical role in crafting any rewrite of Dodd Frank. That 2010 law was enacted after the financial crisis, and the industry is eager to see if Republicans now in charge of the White House and Congress can significantly relax its requirements. Some of the Dodd Frank provisions that are most contentious prohibit banks from some higher risk investments and require higher capital requirements of the biggest banks. A bill that attacks Dodd Frank directly is set to be introduced in the House of Representatives soon by Jeb Hensarling, the Texas Republican who chairs the Financial Services Committee. But that bill is seen as a tough Republican approach that may not garner enough support in the Senate to be passed. Crapo said meaningful reforms would require a bipartisan approach, and he is working closely with Sherrod Brown, the top Democrat on the committee, to find areas of common ground. He also said he wants to go beyond simply revisiting Dodd Frank’s provisions and look more broadly at all rules and policies that impact economic growth, an approach he said might encourage Democrats to vote with him. He said he expects Congress to address financial regulatory reform after it finishes work on a tax reform bill. Crapo did concede that the current political environment is tough for passing controversial legislation in the Senate, and others in his party said they intend to push some of their favored Dodd Frank revisions through a budget process that would not require much Democratic support. | 0fake |
A Wizard Comes to the Stage: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Begins Previews in London - The New York Times | LONDON — The eighth installment of the Harry Potter series was presented on Tuesday evening at the Palace Theater here. Neither a book nor a film, it was a play, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. ” But whatever the medium, the Potter saga continued with unabated interest: fans dressed in Hogwarts costumes, curiosity about the fate of characters and the allure of magic. When we last left Harry Potter, in the very last pages of J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” he was a bureaucrat sending his middle child, Albus Severus, off to Hogwarts for the first time. After the violence and darkness that had marked his younger years in Ms. Rowling’s story, all seemed well. Now Harry is back — in a play, this time — and all is not well. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which had its first preview in London on Tuesday, begins with the final scene from “Deathly Hallows” and skitters rapidly forward a few years, sketching out Albus’s feelings of alienation both from Hogwarts and from his famous father. It is jarring and exciting to be seeing characters who seemed to be put to rest, suspended forever in place and time, suddenly reanimated. At the same time, the three main characters remained true to their younger selves. Ron still provides comic relief, Hermione remains cerebral and slightly bossy and Harry tries as hard as he can but doesn’t quite live up to his own expectations. It is odd to see it all unfold onstage when we are so used to approaching the story through Ms. Rowling’s books — reading them was a rite of passage for so many children (O. K. and adults) — or through the movies. But the audience at the Palace Theater here cannot be more thrilled or more appreciative or more ready to be caught up in the spirit of the undertaking. For those outside the theater and who wish to remain unburdened by details, spoilers will ensue in the next paragraph. Some scenes are filled with adolescent angst. At one point what appeared to be a live owl flew across the stage. The producers manage to create some literal stage magic. A wand moves papers across a desk, and books come out of a shelf and speak. SARAH LYALL As the line snaked around the Palace Theater, with people waiting for the play to start, a crowd milled outside, with many ticketless people clutching Potter books. On an especially balmy London day, some were in full Hogwarts uniforms, with capes and school colors. Many seemed to be in their 20s and enduringly loyal to the book series. “They were the best books I read in my childhood,” Jonathan Snow, 28, of Britain, said. “I just want to be back in that world. ” Ticketholders came from Canada, Italy, Singapore, Brazil, the United States and elsewhere. Erika Sloop, 25, and Dennis Allen, 27, from Tampa, Fla. who were in line, came to see the play three days after getting married in a wedding. The wedding party picked Hogwarts houses to join. They had tables decorated like Gringotts and the forbidden forest. Seating was arranged by a sorting hat and all the guests were given wands. They said the wedding date coincided with the performance. “We originally actually planned our honeymoon for Iceland,” Mr. Allen said. But when tickets became available on the Pottermore. com website, they changed plans. Inside the theater, the set seemed old, ornate and vaguely Hogwartian. The stage had suitcases on it and was surmounted by a large clock. A roar of applause rose when an announcement came that the show was about to start. ROSLYN SULCAS AND CHRISTOPHER D. SHEA Alohomora! Let the curtains draw back. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the eagerly anticipated new play that promises a fresh installment of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter saga, will shed its shroud of secrecy on Tuesday evening. For months, the clock has been ticking down on Ms. Rowling’s Pottermore. com website, counting the weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds until the first performance of “Cursed Child,” which is being presented in two parts at the Palace Theater here. The first in a run of previews begins at 7:30 p. m. ahead of the official opening night on July 30. The first performance of Part 2 is on Thursday on some days, the two parts can be seen consecutively. The story line of the play is by Ms. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, who wrote the script, and the creators have sought to impose intense secrecy about the plot and production. On Monday, Ms. Rowling posted a short video on Twitter with the hashtag #keepthesecrets by Tuesday afternoon it had more than 82, 000 views, with many commenters agreeing and others crying out to know what happens. “We simply want everyone who’s bought a ticket to #CursedChild to enjoy the onstage surprises,” Ms. Rowling wrote. That will become more difficult right after opening night, when reviews and the script (already the book on Amazon. com in Britain) will be published. The play sold out within hours of the online booking opening, and is full through May 27, 2017, although 40 tickets will be released on the Pottermore site each Friday at 1 p. m. for the following week. Tickets on resale websites are going for as much as $4, 800. It seems unlikely that in the age of social media, all secrets will be kept. The premise, though, is clear by now. The play begins where the final volume of the saga, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” left off, with an epilogue that showed some of the series’ principal characters — Harry, his friends Ron and Hermione, and Draco Malfoy — seeing their children off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross Station. The announcement in December that Hermione would be played by a black actress, Noma Dumezweni, caused an online uproar that is still reverberating and included a denunciation by Ms. Rowling of critics of the casting decision. Tidbits judiciously revealed by Pottermore have stoked intense speculation. “When we altered the font of the title slightly, people were interpreting what it meant,” said Colin Callender, who the show with Sonia Friedman. Photographs of cast members in costume provoked theories about which house the young Albus Severus, Harry’s middle son, will belong to (his cloak covered the house colors) and whether he and the young Scorpius Malfoy, son of Harry’s longtime foe, Draco, will be friends or enemies. (The name seems like a clue, no?) In the final book’s epilogue, Albus is given particular attention, and in a 2007 documentary, Ms. Rowling casually said, “Albus is the one I’m most interested in,” when talking about the way her fictional characters linger in her imagination. Is he the Cursed Child? For those who wish they could apparate to the Palace Theater, keep watching this space for clues. For those who don’t want to know, watch for spoiler alerts. ROSLYN SULCAS | 0fake |
Republican Favorability Of Putin Goes Through The Roof Because Russia Helped Trump Win | This is disgraceful and totally un-American.Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave after a new poll revealed that Republicans now see Russia as our friend and admire Vladimir Putin far more than we did just two years ago.A YouGov/Economist poll released in December shows that Putin s favorability has soared by 56 points among Republicans, likely bolstered by the fact that Russia helped Donald Trump win the election in November. Clearly, Republicans can be bought by murderous dictators as long as that dictator helps their party seize power.Trump specifically asked the Russians to continue meddling in our political process and they did. Trump has since stacked his cabinet with pro-Russia nominees and Republicans have joined Trump in defending Russia despite a CIA assessment concluding that Russia did interfere in our election to help Trump.Putin s net favorability among Republicans now stands at -10 percent, up significantly from the -66 in 2014. Democrats, meanwhile, still despise Putin.Um, wow Net favorability of Putin:Democrats July 2014: -54 Dec 2016: -62Republicans July 2014: -66 Dec 2016: -10(YouGov/Economist) Will Jordan (@williamjordann) December 14, 2016Here is Republicans and Democrats on Vladimir Putin since July 2014. pic.twitter.com/s4I6FY5cbt Will Jordan (@williamjordann) December 14, 2016In addition, Republicans now see Russia as a friend. Again, apparently it is easy to draw Republicans to the dark side. If Russia had rigged our political process decades ago, that whole Cold War thing would not have happened because Russia would have had a puppet in the White House long before now.It s not just Putin.Here are perceptions about whether Russia is a friend to the US or not, since 2011. pic.twitter.com/CrtVEB4Vws Will Jordan (@williamjordann) December 14, 2016As a net rating, the friendly rating for Russia among Republicans has swung from low of -75 in 2014 to -21 today. https://t.co/PrbOLQFY5a Will Jordan (@williamjordann) December 14, 2016That s also a 54-point swing from two years ago.It is absolutely deplorable to watch the Republicans Party bend over for Putin just because Russia helped their party win the election. If anything, Republicans should be outraged and concerned.Trump will now be a puppet who owes Russia favors. Trump has since chosen a close friend of Putin s as Secretary of State and wants to end sanctions against Russia. Trump also expressed his intention to possibly abandon NATO, which would open the door for Russia to be more aggressive toward Europe with no United States to challenge them.The only reason why Republicans are fawning over Russia and Putin is because they would not have won the White House without their assistance. This is a sad time for our country. The political party that once saw Russia as our mortal enemy is now happy to be in Putin s pocket. And that means we can expect more Russian meddling in 2020 unless the GOP and Trump face consequences.Featured image of Donald Trump by Joe Raedle/Getty, image of Vladimir Putin by Thierry Chesnot/Getty | 1real |
California State Senate Leader: ’Half My Family’ Here Illegally | California State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Léon ( Angeles) said last Tuesday that “half his family” was in the country illegally, using false documents, and eligible for deportation under President Trump’s new executive order against “sanctuary” jurisdictions. [De Léon, who introduced the bill, made his remarks at a hearing in Sacramento on SB54, the bill to make California a “Sanctuary State. ” He said (at 1:27:34 in the video that follows): … I can tell you half of my family would be eligible for deportation under [President Donald Trump’s] executive order, because if they got a false Social Security card, if they got a false identification, if they got a false driver’s license prior to us passing AB60, if they got a false green card, and anyone who has family members, you know, who are undocumented knows that almost entirely everybody has secured some sort of false identification. That’s what you need to survive, to work. They are eligible for massive deportation. Testifying before the Senate Public Safety Committee, De Léon defended the widespread practice by illegal aliens of using fraudulent documents to work and obtain benefits, dismissing any concerns California citizens may have about being the target of identity theft. In an interview the following day on KPCC 89. 3’s Air Talk with Larry Mantle, De Léon expressed outrage that President Trump’s executive order would include those who possess fraudulent documents or committed identity theft to obtain a Social Security number. “Someone simply who received or purchased a [fraudulent] Social Security card down at McArthur Park, or elsewhere in my district would be eligible immediately for mass deportation,” De Léon said (at 11:45 in the link above). “He’s trying to deputize police officers — and with the suspicion of someone being a criminal or having a broken taillight, that they themselves, as a local police officer, could call the ICE agents immediately and have that person deported without even legal due process. ” Host Larry Mantle asked him: “ … First of all, I just — I want to make sure I understand correctly: You don’t think purchasing a phony Social Security card and number should be a deportable offense?” De Léon replied: “I don’t think so … the vast majority of immigrants — hard working immigrants — have done that. I can tell you I have family members specifically who came here as undocumented immigrants, and they did the same thing. That’s what you need to do to survive in this economy. ” Mantle objected: “But of course the problem is, — and I know people too — who’ve had their Social Security numbers and identities stolen as a result of that … . ” De Léon minimized the problem, saying it was not the same as “Russian” hacking. Breitbart News’ calls to the President Pro Tem’s office were unreturned. Tim Donnelly is a former California State Assemblyman. Author, Patriot Not Politician: Win or Go Homeless, | 0fake |
Which States Are Americans Are Moving From, Where Are They Moving To…And Why? | Not everyone is moving for the same reason, but one thing is clear by these results Americans are sick of high taxes and an overburdensome state government and their moving on to more resident friendly states A low cost of living, no sales tax, and beautiful scenery (oh, naked bike rides, more strip clubs per capita than any other US city, and legalized weed) means Oregon is the top moving destination for Americans for the third year running, according to United Van Lines, with 69% of moves inbound. But, which states are Americans leaving in droves?Americans continue to pack up and head West and South, according to new data from United Van Lines.Oregon is the most popular moving destination of 2015 with 69 percent of moves to and from the state being inbound. The state has continued to climb the ranks, increasing inbound migration by 10 percent over the past six years. New to the 2015 top inbound list is another Pacific West state, Washington, which came in at No. 10 with 56 percent inbound moves.Moving In The top inbound states of 2015 were:Oregon South Carolina Vermont Idaho North Carolina Florida Nevada District of Columbia Texas WashingtonThe Northeast continues to experience a moving deficit with New Jersey (67 percent outbound) and New York (65 percent) making the list of top outbound states for the fourth consecutive year. Two other states in the region Connecticut (63 percent) and Massachusetts (57 percent) also joined the top outbound list this year. The exception to this trend is Vermont (62 percent inbound), which moved up two spots on the list of top inbound states to No. 3.Moving Out The top outbound states for 2015 were:New Jersey New York Illinois Connecticut Ohio Kansas Massachusetts West Virginia Mississippi MarylandSimply put, Americans are moving from heavily-regulated, bureaucratic, high cost-of-living states to more affordable states.This year s data from United Van Lines Via: Zero Hedge | 1real |
Trump's firm sought Moscow real estate deal during presidential run: Washington Post | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s company was pursuing a Moscow real estate deal while he was running for U.S. president in late 2015 and early 2016, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The Post report cited people familiar with the proposal and records viewed by Trump Organization lawyers. The newspaper said investors and Trump’s company had signed a letter of intent to build a Trump Tower in Moscow but the project, lacking land and permits, was abandoned at the end of January 2016, just before the U.S. presidential primaries began, according to several people familiar with the proposal. The White House initially referred Reuters’ queries to White House special counsel Ty Cobb and later to the Trump Organization. Neither responded immediately to a request for comment. The Washington Post report comes amid investigations by an independent special counsel and congressional committees into whether Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow to influence the 2016 U.S. election. Trump and the Russian government have denied any collusion. In July 2016, Trump denied business connections with Russia and said on Twitter: “for the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.” He told a news conference the next day: “I have nothing to do with Russia.” Discussions about the Moscow project began in earnest in September 2015, the Washington Post said, citing people briefed on the deal. An unidentified investor planned to build the project and, under a licensing agreement, put Trump’s name on it. However, it was unclear how involved or aware Trump was of his company’s negotiations, the newspaper reported. Before the project was dropped, a Russian-born real estate developer had urged Trump to visit Moscow to promote the proposal and suggested he could get Russian President Vladimir Putin to say “great things” about Trump, according to the report, which cited people briefed on the correspondence. Trump, who was elected in November 2016, never went to Moscow, the newspaper said. Details about the proposed deal were contained in a batch of emails to be turned over to congressional investigators shortly, the report said. | 0fake |
NANCY PELOSI Confused About Time: “Is it afternoon?” and Forgets What She Said Minutes Before…Term Limits Now! [Video] | Nancy Pelosi had another strange moment during her weekly press conference as she was confused about what time of day it was, struggled to recall her latest accusations against Russia just six minutes later, and again awkwardly stopped speaking mid-sentence and stared at reporters before resuming Classic Pelosi As Pelosi approached the podium on Thursday, she muttered to herself on the hot mic, It s afternoon. It is afternoon. Good afternoon everyone. She then immediately got confused about what time of day it was. Thank you for being here. I m honored this morning, or now afternoon she said. She went on to refer to her Democratic colleague as the chairman of a committee, before correcting herself and calling him the ranking member. Going off script proved to be a disaster.While denouncing Republican attempts to replace Obamacare, Pelosi said, And what does that mean? Higher costs, fewer benefits, uh, terrible age tax undermining Medicare, uh, uh, stealing from Medicare and Maid-icaid, as I should have said, mispronouncing the word.A statement about Medicaid left the listener to wonder what other things Pelosi thinks are covered by the program. As they do this, they re making an assault on Medicaid, which is, again, very dangerous to children and other living ch things, she said. AND OTHER LIVING THINGS ? HAHA! Pelosi then criticized Republicans on the hacking by Russia: They hacked our democracy. Twenty-one state, local election systems were per penetrated. Six minutes later, she struggled to remember the accusation Oy vey! We re finding out things that we didn t even know before. For example, was it how many states have been compromised in all of this? Twenty-one, Thompson muttered under his breath.Pelosi muttered Twenty-one. Twenty twenty-one states ALL WE CAN SAY ABOUT THIS IS TERM LIMITS NOW!READ MORE: AMERICAN MIRROR | 1real |
Adventures in Upscale Brooklyn - The New York Times | On a hot September day in Brooklyn, I got off the G train at Metropolitan Avenue and walked through Williamsburg, a neighborhood so thoroughly celebrated it has become something of a cliché. Though it is only one subway transfer from my Flatbush Avenue apartment, I hadn’t been to the neighborhood in years. Today, it has the same incongruous mix of old and new that defines gentrifying neighborhoods. I walked by condos next to ornate Orthodox churches and modest postwar townhouses. The crowd included men in suits, fashionably unfashionable neighborhood elders sitting on McCarren Park benches, and nannies pushing expensive strollers past industrial facades painted with colorful murals. Sleek restaurants had opened alongside bodegas, coffee shops and pharmacies — establishments that had somehow held on. Since I have lived the larger part of the last decade along the stretch of Flatbush Avenue south of Crown Heights known as Caribbean Flatbush, the version of Brooklyn that one finds in Williamsburg — the Brooklyn of national popular perception a sort of East Coast Portlandia, only richer — was largely foreign to me. Sure, I’d been to Smorgasburg, Brooklyn Flea’s roaming food market, so I knew that $10 jars of pickles and “artisanal mayonnaise” were not entirely mythological. I have drunk more than my share of lambrusco at my favorite Fort Greene happy hour bar, Olea, and devoted many Sundays to multihour brunches with girlfriends among the cozy brownstones of Cobble Hill or Prospect Heights. But while I’m not oblivious to its charms and temptations, upscale Brooklyn — whether hip or tony — is not my Brooklyn. So, as a writer and parent of a young child, being tasked with exploring the borough’s cushier corners felt like a dream assignment. Who, after all, wouldn’t delight in getting the blessing of your employer to eat and drink and treat yourself to the best of your town? Over a weeklong period, I searched out a side of Brooklyn that scarcely existed two decades ago. I visited boutiques and bistros, spas and cocktail lounges, cinemas and creative new waterfront parks. It was a quest that would not have been complete without at least one afternoon in Williamsburg. Across the skyline I spotted my destination: the futuristic silver tower of the William Vale, which had opened just nine days before. Among the newest in a series of luxury hotels that have opened in recent years in the borough — including the nearby Wythe and the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge — the William Vale is ostentatious even by the standards of “new Brooklyn. ” Along with its standard $ $500 rooms, each of which features an balcony, it offers a “garden residence,” a duplex suite with an enormous patio and an outdoor Jacuzzi. Starting rate: $6, 000 a night. The William Vale rises from its and surroundings like an opulent monument surrounded by nondescript headstones. As I waited for the elevator in the lobby, which was splashed with abstract color, I made small talk with the host, a thin man in a handsome suit, his hair parted down the middle like a 1950s film villain. “You’re from the neighborhood?” he asked as he escorted me to the 22nd floor. No, farther south, I told him. Flatbush. He looked perplexed. He lived in Upper Manhattan, he said. “In 15 years, I’ve probably been to Brooklyn only a handful of times. ” Now he was commuting here. It felt like the revenge of the bridge and tunnel crowd. At Westlight, the hotel’s Andrew Carmellini bar, I fought back my fear of heights and headed for the outer deck, peering across the East River to the full expanse of Manhattan. Servers wore vaguely retro navy blue dresses, and a Jason Schwartzman sported a wooden bow tie. While not going out of its way to defy stereotype, the place was welcoming — more casual, and less affected, than its showy, setting would suggest. In a loftlike room lit by globe lights, I pulled up a stool at the bar and ordered a $14 glass of Sonoma County sauvignon blanc, a fair price of admission for the dizzying views. Counterintuitively, perhaps, another stop I made in Brooklyn was Crown Heights, a neighborhood that was still closely associated with the 1991 riots when I arrived in the city in the . Today, it exemplifies gentrification. Along Franklin Avenue, chic new restaurants, bars and boutiques open with such frequency that if even a few months pass between visits, I sometimes find myself disoriented. Was that slick sushi spot there before? When did this wine bar open? Within blocks of one another, there is Aita, a Italian trattoria with pasta that is praised in superlatives an elegant Mexican restaurant with a tile bar and a pressed copper roof (Chavela’s) and Glady’s. The last of these serves a similar menu to so many jerk chicken places except that it has a Michael Jacober, who is a Per Se alum an evocative dining room and potent dark and stormy slushies with a fierce kick of ginger. As if overnight, one Crown Heights street has more fine restaurants than some cities. On a weekday afternoon, I met a girlfriend at Café Rue Dix, a bistro on Bedford Avenue, where we were greeted with a warm, unironic “Welcome to Africa. ” We sat at a sidewalk table during a happy hour that draws regulars from the neighborhood for its signature cocktail, the Kale Hemingway (white rum, green juice, lime and maraschino, $9) bread and spring rolls. The warm, comfortably weathered space does, somehow, feel both distinctly Crown Heights and vaguely Parisian, though this last impression may have been the cocktail talking. I ducked next door to Marché Rue Dix, a “cultural concept store” opened by Nilea Alexander, the (with her Senegalese husband, Lamine Diagne) of Rue Dix. The shop had flooring and sold chunky sunglasses and funky coats, candles and stylish African imports. Like the nearby and newly opened Crabby Shack, a bright and airy urban seafood spot, Rue Dix’s twin businesses gave me hope that at least some of the spoils of Crown Heights’ transformation might benefit black business owners. Like the wave of gentrification that has washed from Williamsburg ever deeper into Brooklyn — north into what was once the Polish enclave of Greenpoint, east into Bushwick and south through — I Ubered from neighborhood to neighborhood. It was a luxury I normally afford myself only on the increasingly rare, occasion of excess. But during my weeklong stint exploring upscale Brooklyn, I went out of my way to treat myself to such extravagances. I booked an afternoon “Urban Oasis” massage for $135 at Fort Greene’s Cynergy Spa, where a long, hallway led to a room with gilded mirrors and a white noise machine playing ambient water sounds. Despite its location at a busy intersection, the place somehow managed to feel like a refuge. Afterward, I dipped into Karasu, the hidden, bar behind the comfort food restaurant Walter’s, where a sophisticated, room featured a wall of Japanese whiskeys. Charles Mingus played overhead while I sipped a Nettai, a snow cone of rum, orgeat, mandarin and yuzu ($14) through a metal straw. I hadn’t felt so relaxed in months. Over the following days, I resisted impulse buys in boutiques like Sincerely, Tommy and Peace Riot drank rosé while watching vintage David Lynch at the cushy new Syndicated theater, in Bushwick, which has a full bar, a “seasonal ingredient” food menu and table service and with my husband, Tim, and toddler, Roxie, walked the length of Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, an area that reminds me more of Boston than Brooklyn and which is home to Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters. Along the promenade, I couldn’t help but look up at the windows overlooking New York Harbor and wonder, what would it be like to wake up to that view? Or with the new Pier Six park, a model of postindustrial urban redesign, as your front yard? During my week of big spending, I was especially excited for a lavish date night dinner with my husband. But deciding where to go proved difficult. I waffled over whether to really go all out at the widely recommended Blanca, a prix fixe restaurant behind Roberta’s in Bushwick. At $195 per person, not including drinks, tax and tip, it would have cost over $500. Twice, I made and canceled reservations. Finally, I decided. I just couldn’t do it. Instead, I booked a table at Olmsted for 10:30 p. m. on a Wednesday, an York dinner hour and the only reservation I could get. When Tim and I arrived, the place — with a living wall, exposed bricks that had been painted white, and a backyard aglow with lights — was packed. Early Nineties Naughty by Nature (“O. P. P.? Yeah, you know me”) played as we were seated at a table beside the open kitchen, where a man with tweezers and comfortable sneakers carefully placed final touches on plates. The whole dining room smelled like the area around the Ebbets Field apartment complex, where the Golombeck spice factory infuses several city blocks with the scent of cumin and coriander, curry and paprika. It was a comparative bargain at $145 for two, including cocktails. Everything was beautiful, from the delicate porcelain water glasses, and swirled like soft serve, to the bartender who wore long dreads and danced with the cocktail shaker as if it were a maraca. When the food arrived, one small plate at a time, it was beautiful, too. There was crawfish boil chicharrón in a newspaper cup, earthy chapati — small, flat disks served with cucumbers and labne — and a $12 rosemary cocktail of fire and acid. Amusing us both, Tim’s main was one giant slice of tomato. Having traveled from the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket just up the street, it was served breaded and fried, . How is it, I asked. “It’s like a grilled cheese,” Tim said. “It has that … ” he trailed off, transported to some cozy food memory. “I love putting tomatoes on my grilled cheese,” he said, as if struck by a revelation, an boy excited about food for the first time. We both laughed. We laughed at the novelty of my week and the fundamental strangeness of being granted the opportunity to step into a life so different from my own. But in the end, a week of excess was a reminder of one of the basic promises of New York life, which remains the ability to straddle multiple worlds and to get glimpses into those that aren’t your own. At the forefront of Williamsburg’s hotel revival, the Wythe Hotel (80 Wythe Avenue wythehotel. com) is housed in a 1901 waterfront factory. The (starting at $395) boutique hotel has an art cinema, a Marlow Sons sibling restaurant, Reynard, and the Ides, a “ ” cocktail bar where a draft pilsner will set you back $11. The new kid in town, the William Vale (111 North 12th Street thewilliamvale. com) claims the longest hotel pool in New York City, and has 183 guest rooms (from the $300s) with windows, balconies, designer décor and contemporary art. Not yet open, but now taking reservations for February 2017, the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge (60 Furman Street 1hotels. ) will be one of the few luxury hotels south of Williamsburg. Among its selling points are a restaurant by Seamus Mullen and a rooftop patio with a plunge pool and fire pit. In a nod to Brooklyn’s waterfront history, the room designs incorporate reclaimed wood from the old Domino Sugar factory. From $350. | 0fake |
The Militarized Police at Standing Rock is Working for This Man | The Militarized Police at Standing Rock is Working for This Man The months long Dakota Access Keystone XL pipleine protest at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation ... Print Email http://humansarefree.com/2016/10/the-militarized-police-at-standing-rock.html The months long Dakota Access Keystone XL pipleine protest at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation by Native Americans and those sympathetic to protection of our water supply has been met with heavy-handed and brutal clamp down by police and national guard. Militarized goons in battle dress have stormed protector camps with LRAD sonic weapons, attack dogs , tear gas, tazers , and even live ammunition ( killing horses ), while politicians and mainstream media do their best to ignore this growing atrocity, hoping to wait it out until the protestors give up. But, as the saying goes, Water Is Life , and the issue of life and death is at the root of this protection movement, therefore, for people concerned with life, giving up on this is simply unthinkable. The root issue justifying state oppression of the protest is capitalism, and the perception that money is more important than life itself.When the police and national guard attack U.S. citizens on private property to protect corporate interests, who are they really working for? The corporate dream of the Keystone XL pipeline is to create a profit stream for a small number of people at the expense of the natural world and anyone in the way. At the top of this pyramid of profit is Texas billionaire Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, the company responsible for the project. So who is Kelcy Warren? A native of East Texas and graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in civil engineering, Warren worked in the natural gas industry and became co-chair of Energy Transfer Equity in 2007. With business partner Ray Davis, co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, Warren built Energy Transfer Equity into one of the nation’s largest pipeline companies, which now owns about 71,000 miles of pipelines carrying natural gas, natural gas liquids, refined products and crude oil. The company’s holdings include Sunoco, Southern Union and Regency Energy Partners. Forbes estimates the 60-year-old Warren’s personal wealth at $4 billion. Bloomberg described him as “among America’s new shale tycoons”— but rather than building a fortune by drilling he “takes the stuff others pull from underground and moves it from one place to another, chilling, boiling, pressurizing, and processing it until it’s worth more than when it burst from the wellhead.” [ Ref. ] Shockingly, in 2015 the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, appointed Warren to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission which is an insult to environmentalists working to protect Big Bend National Park and surrounding sacred tribal lands from another $770 million pipeline project .“According to the governor’s office, the state parks and wildlife commission “manages and conserves the natural and cultural resources of Texas,” along with ensuring the future of hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for Texans.” [ Ref. ] This glaring conflict of interest has inspired Environmental Science major at UTSA and former Texas State Park Ambassador Andrew Lucas to begin a drive to have Warren removed from this environmental post. His petition is described here : Most people may know Kelcy Warren as the man behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The Dallas-based billionaire and CEO of Energy Transfer Partners has been making headlines for fast-tracking a 1100 mile crude oil pipeline across the Midwest and under the Missouri River, just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. No environmental impact assessment, no respect for cultural sites, and no regard for the local and widespread communities living along the river. A similar story is unfolding out in West Texas, where Warren’s company has split through the pristine Big Bend region with the 200 mile Comanche Trail Pipeline and nearly-complete 143 mile Trans Pecos Pipeline. These Pipelines mark the way for massive natural gas and oil developments in the Trans Pecos region. With untold damages unfolding for cultural and environmental resources at the hands of Energy Transfer Partners, it would surprise most to know that nearly a year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed Kelcy Warren for a 6 year term as 1 of the 10 commissioners who preside over Texas Parks And Wildlife… Why? Probably the $550,000 in campaign contributions Abbott received from Warren. ( Read More… ) Footage of militarized police using the Long Range Acoustic Device ( LRAD ) crowd control weapon against protectors at standing rock on October 27th, 2016: Final Thoughts Warren is listed as number 150 on Forbes list of wealthiest Americans with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion in September of 2016. He is the head of the Dakota Access Pipeline snake. If you are scratching your head wondering why militarized police and private security contractors are beating, gassing and attacking peaceful resistors, including women, children and the elderly, the answer is, they are doing it to protect the interests of Kelcy Warren and others invested in this pipeline project. By Isaac Davis, Waking Times About the author: Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and OffgridOutpost.com Survival Tips blog. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here . Dear Friends, HumansAreFree is and will always be free to access and use. If you appreciate my work, please help me continue.
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WATCH: Ivanka Trump Gets SKEWERED By Saturday Night Live For Helping Her Crazy Dad | Ivanka Trump is complicit in what her father Donald Trump is doing to America and Saturday Night Live hilariously made sure everyone knows about it.In yet another classic commercial spoof, Saturday Night Live brilliantly mocked Ivanka, portrayed by Scarlett Johansson, with an advertisement for a perfume called Complicit. As dressed in gold Ivanka walks across a ballroom where champagne is being served and guests are gawking at her as a narrator speaks highly about her without choking on the words. Every man knows her name. Every woman knows her face. When she walks into a room, all eyes are on her. She s Ivanka. And a woman like her deserves a fragrance all her own. A scent made just for her. Because she s beautiful, she s powerful, she s Complicit. She s a woman who knows what she wants, the narrator continues. And knows what she s doing. Complicit. Ivanka then walks up to a mirror and applies lipstick but her reflection is that of her father as played by Alec Baldwin. She doesn t crave the spotlight, but we see her. Oh, how we see her. The narrator then goes on to describe Ivanka using terms like feminist but has no idea why they apply to her. A feminist, an advocate, a champion for women, the narrator says. But, like, how? She s loyal. Devoted, but probably should ve bounced after that whole Access Hollywood bus thing, the narration continued in reference to Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women s genitals without their consent. Oh well, Ivanka said.The commercial then concluded with an epic and accurate slogan for the Complicit perfume. For the woman who could stop all this but won t. Here s the video via YouTube.Indeed, Ivanka Trump has a lot of influence over her father but she has failed to use it. Instead, white nationalists like Steve Bannon are pulling the strings and America is suffering for it. Ivanka Trump should be ashamed of herself and she should always be remembered as the one person who could have done something but didn t. That makes her complicit.Featured image via screenshot | 1real |
SUNDAY SCREENING: The Deep State: Hiding in Plain Sight (2014) | Our weekly documentary screening curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.Editor s Note: Although this is not an actual documentary film, this powerful interview segment is a must-see in order to grasp the concept of the Deep State in America, and further into the international arena. In this seminal interview segment, author Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, talks to veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers about Washington s shadow government now commonly referred to as the Deep State, where elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war, says Lofgren. Watch:Run time: 26 min Host: Bill Moyers Program: Moyers & Company Production: Public Affairs Television (2014)Also read Mike Lofgren s powerful essay, The Anatomy of the Deep State SEE MORE SUNDAY SCREENINGS HERESUPPORT 21WIRE SUBSCRIBE & BECOME A MEMBER @ 21WIRE.TV | 1real |
Trump Just Threw A Colossal Hissy Fit On Twitter, Now He Looks More Incompetent Than Ever (TWEETS) | Donald Trump has the maturity of a toddler, and he certainly put it on full display early Wednesday morning.Completely ruining the tone he was trying to set after traveling to Texas with First Lady Melania to visit the devastation the area was left in after Hurricane Harvey, Trump decided to go back to his childish antics and reignite his ongoing feud with the media. Attacking dying magazines , Trump said: After reading the false reporting and even ferocious anger in some dying magazines, it makes me wonder, WHY? All I want to do is #MAGA! Of course, let s for a second just ignore the fact that Trump loves painting himself as a victim, or the fact that several mainstream media networks are actually soaring and doing better than ever thanks to their anti-Trump reporting and coverage. It was the last line of Trump s ridiculous, whiny tweet where he stated All I want to do is #MAGA that gained the most attention and the reactions were pretty damn hilarious. Here are just some of the best responses: Apparently, Twitter users had a field day, as they often do whenever Trump displays how undeserving he is to be the leader of the free world. Trump never fails to humiliate America with his blatantly unprofessional behavior, and his Twitter account alone is a major source of anxiety and embarrassment for Americans throughout the country. As long as Trump has access to social media, he could humiliate or endanger the country at any moment and unfortunately, this behavior has become so common that we just expect this insanity from Trump on a daily basis now.Trump has done nothing to #MAGA, and shows no real genuine interest in improving the country beyond his own personal gain and that of his rich privileged friends.Featured image via Alex Wong/Getty Images | 1real |
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Qatari emir to attend Gulf summit despite row: foreign minister | DOHA (Reuters) - Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani is expected to attend the annual summit of Gulf Arab heads of state in Kuwait on Dec. 5 and 6, Qatar s foreign minister said on Sunday, despite a deep dispute within the group. The ministerial meeting will be attended tomorrow, and (for) the summit, god willing, the Emir, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said in a speech. The rift between the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council members Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on one side, and Qatar on the other had put this year s annual meeting in doubt. There was no immediate comment from other Gulf nations on the Qatari announcement. The dispute, which erupted in June, revolves around allegations by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt that Qatar supports terrorism, a charge Doha denies. The four countries have severed diplomatic, trade and travel links with Doha, in a move Qatar says is inflicting collective punishment on its people but its opponents call a legitimate response to its policies. Qatar says the four countries are trying to force Doha to fall in line with their own foreign policy. | 0fake |
RUSSIA HITS OBAMA…HARD: “We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. | U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a U.S.-Russian ceasefire and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated.Just a few days ago it was reported that Putin felt that if anything happened to damage the tentative ceasefire agreement that it would be Obama s fault. Seems he was right.Reuters reported:The United States military said the coalition stopped the attacks against what it had believed to be Islamic State positions in northeast Syria after Russia informed it that Syrian military personnel and vehicles may have been hit. The United States relayed its regret through the Russian government for what it described as the unintentional loss of life of Syrian forces in the strike, a senior Obama administration official said in an emailed statement. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in an emailed statement that Russian officials did not voice concerns earlier on Saturday when informed that coalition aircraft would be operating in the strike area. The 15-member Security Council met on Saturday night after Russia demanded an emergency session to discuss the incident and accused the United States of jeopardizing the Syria deal. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, chastised Russia for the move. Russia really needs to stop the cheap point scoring and the grandstanding and the stunts and focus on what matters, which is implementation of something we negotiated in good faith with them, Power told reporters. She said the United States was investigating the air strikes and if we determine that we did indeed strike Syrian military personnel, that was not our intention and we of course regret the loss of life. When asked if the incident spelled the end of the Syria deal between Moscow and Washington, Russia s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said: This is a very big question mark. I would be very interested to see how Washington is going to react. If what Ambassador Power has done today is any indication of their possible reaction then we are in serious trouble, Churkin told reporters. Moscow cited the strikes, which allowed Islamic State fighters to briefly overrun a Syrian army position near Deir al-Zor airport, as evidence that the United States was helping the jihadist militants. We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying. Power said Zakharova should be embarrassed by that claim. Churkin said Russia had no specific evidence of the United States colluding with Islamic State militants. The Syrian conflict has been a tug-o-war between Washington and Moscow for some time now. Both Putin an Obama have pulled maneuvers that could have been detrimental to all involved, but this latest air-strike was such an obvious and epic failure that Obama can t hide from. We have all felt that he supports the Islamic State terror group and if this accident doesn t show that then nothing will. Lets hope an pray that the ramifications aren t too harsh.The discussions are still being maintained in a diplomatic way thankfully and they haven t reached a level of action by Russia against the U.S. as of yet.H/T [ Reuters ] | 1real |
BLACK MEN FOR BERNIE FOUNDER Campaigns In Swing States For TRUMP: “Bill And Hillary Did Major Damage To Our Communities Last Time In White House” [VIDEO] | Apparently, using thug Michael Ferguson s mom as a prop at Black functions was not enough to be granted the Black vote Black Men for Bernie founder Bruce Carter s mission to restore black communities didn t end when Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. He opposed Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment then because he knew that they didn t represent the minority communities he engaged in politics to fight for.After the leak of internal DNC emails, Carter is convinced that the Democratic Party rigged the primary against his candidate and that Hillary Clinton s Democratic Party has no intention of changing the policies that led to the destruction of the communities he s working to improve.Bruce Carter still believes that Hillary Clinton is the poster child for the kind of cronyism, corruption, and evil that the Bernie revolution was built to overthrow. He doesn t believe Hillary Clinton when she labels Donald Trump and his supporters as racists because he knows she falsely labeled her opponents in the primary as sexist Bernie Bros. Carter s preparing to take the experience, knowledge, and contacts his group built during the primary to campaign against Hillary Clinton and for Donald Trump and other Republicans in battleground states across the country.Bruce Carter and Black Men for Bernie are at war with the Democratic establishment, whom he says pander for votes but haven t delivered meaningful results to minority communities for decades. Carter became politically active to support Bernie Sanders, who taught him how the establishment s only real constituency was the donor class. When he paired that knowledge with what he knew about the decline in the black and minority neighborhoods he loves, he realized Democratic politicians and the media had been lying. Bernie inspired us to disrupt the status quo because it only works for the elites and not regular people who are struggling, Carter told Breitbart News. If black communities vote for Hillary Clinton and Democrats in November, nothing will change because Democrats will continue to believe they don t have to do anything to earn our votes. Carter became one of the most prominent and recognizable supporters of the Sanders campaign by traveling the country in a tour bus and fleet of vehicles wrapped with the Black Men for Bernie logo and a picture of Sanders being arrested during the civil rights movement. His online videos received millions of views and featured celebrities like Mark Ruffalo and ice cream makers Ben and Jerry.This guy knows what he s doing when it comes to rallying the troops to get behind his candidate. Watch Carter organizing supporters for Bernie before Hillary cheated him out of the chance to become the Democrat Party candidate:Carter told Breitbart News that his greatest awakening of how Democrats exploit minority voters came when he learned from the Washington Post that the Democratic Party spends less than 2 percent of its campaign resources with minority-owned companies, even though they get better than 90 percent of the black vote. It is a practice that Carter calls political slavery. Now Black Men for Bernie are rebranding and again planning to tour the country with an emphasis on battleground states. Carter says he s going to organize black and minority communities to vote against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment. Donald Trump is a business man and a real estate mogul who could provide knowledge and resources to transform urban communities through the development of minority-owned businesses, Carter said. With this tour, we re going to show Mr. Trump and Republicans that the black and minority communities are ready to work with anyone willing to work with us to build opportunities in businesses, employment, and housing. We don t want welfare, we need opportunity. Carter had a lot of ideas when asked about what Trump could do to help him win black votes away from the Democrats. When Donald Trump tells black people, what do you have to lose by voting for me, he s getting close to a message that will work, but it s not quite there yet, Carter explained: We re going to go back to these communities in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and across the country to lead people to the facts about the Clintons and Democrats failures with our struggling communities, Carter said:For Carter and the Black Men for Bernie, they can t unlearn what they discovered about Hillary during the primary. We know that Hillary Clinton is for Hillary Clinton and the rich donors of the Clinton Foundation, Carter said. We know that Bill and Hillary did major damage to our communities the last time they were in the White House. We know they will lie about their opponents by unfairly labeling them sexists and racists and radicals. Donald Trump isn t a typical politician and he isn t beholden to the same old political powers, Carter continued. We want to earn our seat at the table in his administration and I think he and the Republicans are smart enough to realize that when we deliver them a historic number of minority votes, they better do a better job than the Democrats have done or they re never going to get an opportunity like this again. For entire story: Breitbart News | 1real |
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“I’m glad that he won”: The surprising Palestinian reaction to Netanyahu’s win | But Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection was regarded with apathy by many Palestinians in the West Bank, and some even welcomed the news – albeit as the best of several bad options.
“Under Netanyahu things will deteriorate. But if it can’t get any better, it might as well get worse,” Ahmad, who declined to give his full name, told Salon. His customers, browsing for phone accessories in central Ramallah, agreed. When you’re in the West Bank it doesn’t much matter who’s in the Knesset: settlement expansion, military crackdowns and wars have taken place on the watch of both the left and right, and there’s been realistic progress toward statehood under neither.
“The experience of the Palestinians is clear. Since the assassination of Rabin, nothing in Israeli politics has brought something good,” Huneida Ghanem, the general director of the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR), told Salon. “Time and time again, election after election after election has just brought something worse. Palestinians see this and in their head, they understand that nothing is going to change, that it will just get worse and worse.”
This year, Ghanem said, some did hope that Herzog and Livni had the potential to change things – a wish that only makes Netanyahu’s win even more disappointing. But she also believes that any trust in the pair’s center-left Zionist Union, which until the election’s final hours was billed as a likely winner, is misplaced. The sense is echoed across the West Bank, where most dismiss the Israeli opposition with a laugh, refusing to refer to it as “left wing” in any meaningful sense.
“Netanyahu, Herzog, Lieberman: if anyone from those Zionist parties become prime minister it won’t make any difference. They all have the same strategy to fulfill their ideology,” Bassam Shweiki told Salon. A literature enthusiast and activist, Shweiki speaks English with a London twang despite the fact he’s lived most of his life in Hebron. A West Bank city carved up by Israeli settlement enclaves and military closures, the city barely featured in election campaigns aside from a pro-settlement visit by right-winger Avigdor Lieberman.
“The Zionist ideology says Israel is the homeland for the Jewish people that God promised, so there’s no place for any other nations in the promised land,” Shweiki continued. “The strategy is to hold the peace process without announcing its death, while continuing to establish settlements, demolishing homes, confiscating Palestinian lands and so on, while deceiving the world by saying that there are negotiations.”
Shweiki’s view that expansion is inevitable in Zionism is shared by most in the West Bank, and it’s the reason many are even pleased at Netanyahu’s win. Unlike other leaders, they believe, he won’t obscure that fact, and with policies of occupation laid bare, pressure on Israel for a just solution can only increase.
“Personally I’m glad that he won. This proves to the world that it is Israel and its people that do not want peace,” Amer Khader, a postgraduate nutritionist from Ramallah, told Salon. “His speech was clearly stating that if he wins the Palestinian State will not see the light, that Jerusalem is forever the capital of the state of Israel, and for the continuation of the illegal settlements in the West Bank.
“What’s the worst that can happen? More houses to be taken when more than 2,000 have been demolished in East Jerusalem? Another war on Gaza? It’s already destroyed. More settlements? Let it be. It is just more isolation of Israel through its racist discriminatory apartheid policies.”
The bleak irony in Khader’s view comes from long experience. Even for those Palestinians who are able to vote – those citizens of Israel who make up some 20 percent of its population – the achievements of this election have transpired partly from the country’s right wing shooting itself in the foot. Last year, Israeli lawmakers raised the electoral threshold, a move supported in part by right-wingers who hoped it would push small Arab parties out of representation altogether. Instead, several Palestinian and left-wing parties banded together to create the Joint List, a broad coalition that won 14 seats and made Arab Israelis the third biggest power in the Knesset. Even as they bemoaned the Knesset’s rightward tilt, its leaders celebrated a new era of Palestinian political involvement on election night. “I came here to see resistance and to be proud of my community, to get the best for us and to further our aims of two states,” 18-year-old Razi Misherqui, wearing a party T-shirt and draped in a Palestinian flag, told Salon as the results came in. “I think Arab unity is really important and we can use this to show that we can make change and challenge what’s going on.” In Ramallah, Ghanem called the Joint List victory the “surprise story” of the election, and it was the only reason that many Palestinians bothered to watch the political news at all. But that doesn’t mean it’s a game-changer. Many Arab Israelis, believing any political activity in the Knesset is doomed to fail, still boycott the elections and even the Joint List’s most ardent supporters are measured in their optimism. Even as he pledged to challenge the consensus of the election, leading Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi bemoaned a “disappointing” result in which the “extreme right-wing got the upper hand.” And in the West Bank, where Palestinians haven’t been able to vote for their own representation in nearly a decade, hope for any changes the joint list might make is guarded. With peace negotiations bearing only bitter fruit, an occupation with no clear end and a political mood characterized by frustration and extremism, the only sure thing about the path to a solution is that it will be tough. “Nothing is going to come from the Israeli state if the Israelis don’t feel they don’t pay any price for the Israeli occupation,” Ghanem told Salon. “The last 10 years they’ve been building up this right-wing narrative, this plan for Eretz Israel in the political scene. Things that were once unacceptable to talk about are now part of the hegemonic discourse in Israel. And I’m not talking about buses on Shabbat, I’m talking about fascist, discriminatory policies – the settlement enterprise, the occupation. “People feel very failed by the international community,” she added. “As they’ve grown older they put so much hope into the peace process. Over the years they’ve tried violence, and that didn’t work; the intifada, and that didn’t work; peaceful resistance, and none of it worked. And then the international community came to them saying if you do this, if you do this, you can have a state. But they’ve done that, and it’s led nowhere.” Still, there’s a strong feeling in the West Bank that change from the outside looks more likely than from within the Israeli state. Real international pressure and action, Ghanem said, with a strong stress on the word “real,” is the best hope for statehood. If that’s the case, Khader said, than a Netanyahu win might be a blessing in disguise. “Netanyahu is the worst for the economy of Israel and its international relations. And the only way Israel will get weaker is through screwing their own relations, which is happening,” he told Salon. “Let it be. It won’t get any better till it is screwed.” | 0fake |
BREAKING NEWS ON CLINTON INFORMANT’S Gag Order Will Have Hillary Shaking In Her Pantsuit | THIS IS HUGE! The DOJ has authorized the FBI Informant to speak with Congress concerning alleged corruption involving Clintons & Uranium One:BREAKING: DOJ authorizes FBI Informant to speak with Congress concerning alleged corruption involving Clintons & Uranium One. #MAGA #DTS Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) October 25, 2017FOX NEWS REPORTED: In a statement, the department said it had authorized the informant to discuss the 2013 agreement known as Uranium One and related matters with the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Oversight committee, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.Finally- @RepDeSantis: It s about time DOJ authorized FBI Informant to speak w/ congress about Clinton Uranium Corruption. #TrumpTrain pic.twitter.com/tBnUjZGzzF Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) October 26, 2017OUR PREVIOUS REPORT ON THE INFORMANT: The lawyer for the FBI informant under a gag order that prevents him from going before Congress spoke out about what s to come with the Clinton/Russia Uranium story:Fox Business reported: An informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is under a gag order that prevents him from testifying before the United States Congress that Russian nuclear officials were involved in fraudulent dealings in 2009 before the Uranium One deal was approved.Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch blocked the informant from testifying last year and threatened criminal action against him if he were to do so.In an interview with FOX Business Lou Dobbs, Victoria Toensing, the attorney representing the FBI informant, said she has never heard of a criminal penalty for breaching a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). If it does and it is unconstitutional and it s invalid, if it prohibits my client from giving information to the legislature, the executive cannot say to people, Hey, you can t give information to another body of the government, Toensing said.KEY POINTS: The Republican leadership was blocking the investigation into both Benghazi and the Russia uranium scandal involving Clinton.Senator Grassley called on Sessions to release the info on the gag order by November 1st This should be interesting.The NDA (gag order) is unconstitutional and Toensing says this type of gag order has a criminal penalty. She says she s never heard of this type of gag order.Victoria Toensing is one of the best lawyers in DC and will get to the bottom of this one way or another. The plot thickens on this one | 1real |
Japan PM says it's not so easy to change Trump's mind on TPP | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday that it is not so easy to change U.S. President Donald Trump’s mind on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Trump will seek quick progress towards a bilateral trade agreement with Japan in place of the TPP deal he abandoned this week, when Abe visits the White House next month, an official in the Trump administration said on Thursday. | 0fake |
South Korea to hold summit with China on Saturday: Blue House | SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean president Moon Jae-in will hold a summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Saturday, South Korea s presidential office said in a statement on Friday. Last week, Seoul and Beijing agreed to move beyond a year-long stand-off over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea, a dispute that has been devastating to South Korean businesses that rely on Chinese consumers. The two leaders will both attend the APEC summit of Asia Pacific leaders in Vietnam s central city of Danang. | 0fake |
null | And neither Trump nor Hillary will do anything either. Outside of an electoral miracle, Americans will get even more screwed for at least the next 8 (not 4)) years. Especially now that ACA premiums are going up due to more corporate monopolization of it. The "Affordable" part of the name is an insulting joke.
The "free market" is one of the biggest myths in American history, right up there with the belief that we're a democracy. | 1real |
N. DAKOTA LEGISLATOR Proposes Bill To PROTECT MOTORISTS If They Hit Pipeline Protesters Intentionally Blocking Roads | Protesters who take to the streets in North Dakota might want to look both ways for changes in the rules of the road.A bill sponsored by state Rep. Keith Kempenich, R-Bowman, would protect drivers from legal consequences if they inadvertently hit, injure or kill pedestrians who are obstructing traffic.The legislation is a direct response to the massive protests around the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Kempenich said. The ongoing protests have shut down a nearby highway for months and stalled construction of a pipeline that would carry crude from the North Dakota oil patch. If you stay off the roadway, this would never be an issue, Kempenich said. Those motorists are going about the lawful, legal exercise of their right to drive down the road. Those people didn t ask to be in this. The legislation has drawn withering criticism from Standing Rock supporters, who worry that it could be open season for protesters on North Dakota roads.Kempenich said he wants to shift the blame for a crash from drivers to the people who choose to protest in traffic. The legislation, he said, would not protect someone who deliberately tries to run down a protester, and it would not let drivers off the hook if they hit a jaywalker or a child chasing a ball into the street. This bill puts the onus on somebody who s made a conscious decision to put themselves in harm s way, he said. You can protest all you want, but you can t protest up on a roadway. It s dangerous for everybody. Star TribuneHighways shouldn t be used as staging areas for protests, Kempenich said. They re intentionally putting themselves in danger, he said, adding that accidents could result.Blocking roads or highways has also been a tactic adopted on occasion by protesters in other movements, such as Black Lives Matter.A spokeswoman for the pipeline protests said she is concerned the bill, if passed, would give careless drivers a free pass to kill or maim people who are exercising their free speech rights. It is basically giving permission for vehicular homicide, and that is wrong, said Joye Braun, an organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. Nobody has the right to take the life of another person. The network is an activist group that opposes the pipeline, which would carry Bakken crude oil across the Missouri River just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Protesters say the pipeline s path crosses sacred land and could endanger the tribe s source of drinking water.Braun said she once was struck by a woman who objected to her video-recording a protest outside a fast-food restaurant in Mandan, and she worries the bill would embolden people to harm pipeline protesters. I believe there is a small element who may use this as an excuse to attack people, Braun said.The proposal has attracted some national attention. Robert Reich, a former U.S. labor secretary and liberal commentator, has criticized the bill.-Inforum | 1real |
Trump’s Ban Just Sentenced Two Christian Syrian Refugee Families To Persecution And Possible Death | Donald Trump claimed that his ban would make America safe while favoring Christian refugees. He lied.On Sunday, Trump defended an executive order banning refugees from seven nations from entering the United States by claiming that it won t affect Christians.Christians in the Middle-East have been executed in large numbers. We cannot allow this horror to continue! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2017Well, two Christian families are about to experience that horror despite almost stepping safely on American soil.According to NBC10, two Syrian families whose flight landed in Philadelphia were denied entry into the country and placed on a plane back to Syria despite being Christians and having family waiting for them at the airport.Two brothers and their wives and children fled Syria due to the war, persecution, and suffering taking place in the Middle Eastern nation. They have been working to come live in America for quite some time and it took months to go through the process of obtaining visas to get the opportunity to come here. Their travel plans had been set months in advance and they were looking forward to living in peace and making better lives for themselves in our land of opportunity.Pennsylvania resident and family member Joseph Assali called the situation a nightmare. This is like a nightmare come true, Assali said. They re all Christian citizens and the executive order was supposed to protect Christians fleeing persecution. But it turns out Trump s order doesn t just affect Muslims, but anyone who seeks refuge from the seven countries on the list, even Christians Trump promised would not be turned away. They came as legal immigrants and were going to try sorting things out while they re here, Assali continued, going on to state that his family members intended to become American citizens.But now they are on their way back to Syria, where they face persecution and possible death because of Donald Trump s bigotry and hatred.Here s the video via NBC10.Trump s order has caused and heartache around the world as families live in fear wondering if they will ever see their loved ones again. People are being detained at airports across the country or blocked from getting on planes just because they happen to be Muslim or from one of the countries on the list. People who have green cards are being affected and now even Christians are being punished by the order.But regardless of religion, any refugee should be granted asylum in this country. We are supposed to be a humanitarian nation, but by signing this ban, Trump turned against our values and gave terrorist organizations propaganda to use for recruitment. Trump is destroying the lives of millions of innocent people with this executive order and he needs to be stopped before he destroys our nation and everything we hold dear.Featured image via Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images | 1real |
Hillary Literally Laughs In The Face Of Reporter Who Pushes Insane Health Conspiracies (VIDEO) | In case you have been living under a rock, we recently learned that Hillary Clinton is human through a series of reports about That One Time She Coughed and The Time She Got Pneumonia. Yes, somehow anytime Clinton gets the sniffles, the Right pounces on it, using anything and everything they can to push absolutely bonkers conspiracy theories about the former Secretary of State s health (she s on her deathbed, don tchaknow).During an interview with ACB s Sarina Fazan Wednesday, the reporter asked Clinton perhaps one of the dumbest f*cking questions she has been asked regarding her health: if she would undergo neurocognitive tests to appease inflated, only-existing-on-Trump s-side-of-the-aisle concerns about whether or not her presidency will be like a four-year-long edition of Weekend at Bernie s.Hillary just laughed in her face. I m very sorry I got pneumonia, I m glad antibiotics took care of it, and that s behind us now, the former Secretary of State said, somehow managing to avoid knocking the reporter for starting off by claiming 9/11 was last week. Clinton explained that her health meets and exceeds the standards anyone else running for office has met, but Fazan was all so, ummmm, you gonna take those tests? There s no need for that, Clinton said firmly, surely wondering how the f*ck this woman got hired in the first place. The information is very clear. Hillary wasn t the only person laughing at Fazan, who also beat the dead horse that is the email scandal. Twitter lit up with people mocking the reporter for having the gall to waste time during an exclusive interview badgering the 2016 Democratic nominee about her health:@hannahfc and you are reporting this nonsense as if it is legitimate. Is this why you became a journalist? @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews (((David Galiel:-))) (@davidgaliel) September 22, 2016@Women4Trump @hannahfc @dmartosko @abcactionnews her career needs to die a hideous death Naked Punditry (@NakedPundit) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @abcactionnews oh jesus christ Chris (@hugetinymistake) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews No wonder media has an even higher negative rating than Trump these days. What dumb question! Violetta Argueta (@Vva10967) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews Wanna ask her if she covered up benghazi next? Any other conspiracy theories yall wanna fan flames of P. Williamson (@PWilliamson2006) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @albamonica @abcactionnews Has this reporter asked Trump if he'll undergo psychological tests? At least it's OBVIOUS he needs to. Peggy Holtman (@holtmapa) September 22, 2016@hannahfc @danmericaCNN @abcactionnews Sarina who (?) had the fucking you asked her WHAT??? Go back to school. Find a new career. (((bartnbeka))) (@bartnbeka) September 22, 2016@SarinaFazanWFTS Well at least people are talking about you for awhile even if it's for being a terrible journalist. Enjoy it while it lasts mattydean (@mattydean) September 22, 2016As some pointed out to this simpleton, Hillary released her medical records just after the 9/11 anniversary, which was more than a week ago. She was diagnosed with a mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia, was given antibiotics, and had to practically be tied down to keep her from rushing back out on the campaign trail because she has traditionally insisted on being f*cking Superwoman.What s next? Gonna ask her about Benghazi? Maybe she knows where Obama s real birth certificate is hidden. Could she have some inside information on a second gunman involved in the JFK assassination? Quit your job, Sarina. Seriously.Featured image via screen capture | 1real |
Rachel Maddow Goes Off-Script To Offer This Dire Warning About Trump’s National Security Advisor | Rachel Maddow decided to scrap a segment and go off-script to warn her viewers about Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. Donald Trump has offered Flynn the position of National Security Advisor and the MSNBC host finds this revelation too worrying to put off discussing. At this point in the show, I had something else we were going to cover, but I scrapped it because there s a thing I feel like I need to say about the Mike Flynn security announcement, Maddow said.Maddow explained that no one, such as Congress, has to approve this appointment in any way. Trump makes the offer and if Flynn accepts, then boom, it s a done deal. She then told America just why it is that this is such concerning news. So, this Mike Flynn thing is done, Maddow explained. But the choice of Mike Flynn is a different kettle of fish than anything we might have expected from the Trump campaign. Mike Flynn calls Islam a political ideology hiding behind a religion. He calls Islam a malignant cancer. He really did sit next to President Putin and take money to go to a gala. He s been a frequent guest on Russian state television, and says he sees no difference between Russian state television, and for example, MSNBC. After laying out her list of reasons why Flynn shouldn t be considered for any government position, let alone at the top of national security, Maddow explained to viewers what he will be doing in this position if he accepts it. He will now be the closest person to the president on a day-to-day basis on all foreign policy issues, on all military issues, on all national security issues, and he is way outside anything that anybody on the left, right or center might consider to be the mainstream, either in thought or temperament in terms of national security issues, and it s done, Maddow said.Maddow laid out Flynn s shady business dealings with Turkey. She also slammed his habit of handing out classified information that he wasn t even supposed to have in the first place, which has happened at least twice. Two former government officials with direct knowledge of the issue tell CNN that while Flynn oversaw intelligence in Afghanistan, he shared classified information with Pakistan on terror networks responsible for killing American troops, CNN recalled this week when Flynn s name was floated. The intelligence, the sources say, came from another agency. Flynn wasn t supposed to share it. They say he was trying to convince Pakistan to stop sheltering terrorists. Maddow concluded: I know he s not going to get as much coverage as the other people who have to get confirmed over the next few days but stick a pin in that. It s really, really important. Watch Rachel Maddow issue her dire warning about Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, here:Featured image via video screen capture | 1real |
O’Keefe Releases 4th Undercover Video: Robert Creamer’s Criminal $20,000 Foreign Wire Transfer Videoed | Email
The fourth video in a series has been released by James O'Keefe of Project Veritas from his undercover sting of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the election rigging and voter fraud tactics implemented by the Democratic National Committee. In this video, election rigging guru Robert Creamer is caught arranging an illegal $20,000 foreign contribution to Americans United for Change (AUFC).
Keep in mind that AUFC is the same organization that was behind all the hullabaloo at the Trump rallies. Take a look at the video.
According to the video's description:
In the effort to prove the credibility of the undercover donor featured in the videos and to keep the investigation going, Project Veritas Action made the decision to donate twenty thousand dollars to Robert Creamer's effort. Project Veritas Action had determined that the benefit of this investigation outweighed the cost. And it did. In an unexpected twist, AUFC president Brad Woodhouse, the recipient of the $20,000, heard that Project Veritas Action was releasing undercover videos exposing AUFC's activities. He told a journalist that AUFC was going to return the twenty thousand dollars. He said it was because they were concerned that it might have been an illegal foreign donation. Project Veritas Action was pleased but wondered why that hadn't been a problem for the month that they had the money.
Project Veritas reports:
In the effort to prove the credibility of the undercover donor featured in the videos and to keep the investigation going, Project Veritas Action made the decision to donate twenty thousand dollars to Robert Creamer's effort. Project Veritas Action had determined that the benefit of this investigation outweighed the cost. And it did.
"First thing, like I said, thank you for the proposal. And I'd like to get the $20,000 across to you. The second call I'm going to make here is to my money guy and he's going to get in touch with you and auto wire the funds to you," said the PVA journalist.
Creamer told the PVA journalist to send the money to Americans United for Change. Shortly after the money was released, the "donors" "niece" - another Project Veritas Action journalist - was offered an internship with Creamer.
In an effort to see how far Creamer would go with the promise of more money, another Project Veritas journalist posing as the donor's money liaison requested a meeting with Creamer.
Creamer, who has been to the White House at least 340 times and at least 45 of those times met with Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah, is heard saying, "Every morning I am on a call at 10:30 that goes over the message being driven by the campaign headquarters … I am in this campaign mainly to deal with what earned media with television, radio, with earned media and social media, not with paid media, not with advertising."
Creamer went on to speak about Obama, whom he claims to have known since the 1980s. During that time Obama was a community organizer in Chicago.
"Oh Barack Obama's was the best campaign in the history of American politics, I mean the second one, I mean the first was good too," said Creamer of Obama. "I was a consultant to both, the second one, was everything hit on every level and every aspect. He's a pro, I've known the President since he was a community organizer in Chicago."
"I was just at an event with him in Chicago actually, on Friday last. He is just as good as ever. I do a lot of work with the White House on their issues, helping to run issue campaigns that they have been involved in," he added. "I mean, for immigration reform for the… the health care bill, for trying to make America more like Britain when it comes to gun violence issues."
According to Project Veritas, "AUFC president Brad Woodhouse, the recipient of the $20,000, heard that Project Veritas Action was releasing undercover videos exposing AUFC's activities. He told a journalist that AUFC was going to return the twenty thousand dollars. He said it was because they were concerned that it might have been an illegal foreign donation. Project Veritas Action was pleased but wondered why that hadn't been a problem for the month that they had the money."
If that was not enough, following the release of the previous videos, "Americans United for Change fired Scott Foval and Robert Creamer announced to the DNC that he was stepping down from campaign responsibilities."
O'Keefe has filed suit with the Federal Elections Commission regarding the DNC, Hillary Clinton and Robert Creamer.
Here is the documentation referenced in the video: | 1real |
LOL! HILLARY GETS AMBUSHED At Book Signing…”Where’s the 33,000 emails? What happened To Seth Rich?” | Hillary was in the middle of a book signing for her new book What Happened when a brave young woman approached her with Hillary s new book in hand. As Hillary began signing her book, the young lady told Hillary it was great to see her. Hillary in turn, hilariously replied, Well, it s great for you to be here. When the young woman waiting for her book to be signed started to ask Hillary a few questions the mainstream media couldn t be bothered to ask during the election, things started to get interesting.Young woman: So the American people would really like to know, what happened to your 33,000 emails? <Hillary cackles> What happened in Benghazi? What happened to the millions of dollars that was supposed to go to the people Haiti? What happened to your health Hillary?Hillary: <Cackles> Ya know what? I m so sorry you believe things that are untrue. The young woman persisted: What happened to Seth Rich? What happened to your health Hillary? The young lady was then forcibly removed from the book signing table. On the way out she notices Hillary s loyal aide Huma Abedin and confronts her about her pedophile husband: Huma, it s so great to see you. I have a question for you. When are you going to divorce your husband for texting underage girls? The young lady was then told to leave, but not before she insisted she gets her signed book about What Happened , even though the truth about what really happened with Crooked Hillary will likely never be exposed.Watch here: | 1real |
WATCH What this Trump Hater Just Did In His UNDERWEAR | You are here: Home / US / WATCH What this Trump Hater Just Did In His UNDERWEAR WATCH What this Trump Hater Just Did In His UNDERWEAR October 29, 2016 Pinterest
Some guy in Wisconsin decided that he couldn’t wait to put some clothes on before he torched a Trump/Pence sign… and it was all caught on camera by the homeowners.
Kevin and Jane Leighty of Platteville, Wisconsin caught their angry neighbor on camera taking a blowtorch to their Trump/Pence sign in his underwear. Man wearing only his underwear takes blowtorch to his neighbors' Trump sign — and they caught it all on camera https://t.co/XxdHdjAveM pic.twitter.com/mwWFZAwlBI
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2016
According to Jane Leighty, witnesses walked past the scene of the crazed man setting his neighbor’s sign on fire and did nothing to stop him.
Although I wouldn’t recommend going near a crazy man with a blowtorch in his underwear, as Leighty noted, they didn’t even have to — they could have just called the police. Instead, according to the homeowner, some even congratulated the man for his criminal activity.
The people going by is what really hurts too that no one called the police just to say “hey go check this out.” They didn’t have to confront him. The two guys that come up and fist pumped him and go “yeah alright!” Really?
Leighty made it clear that she wasn’t going to back down in the face of a crazed fool and some punks who think it’s hilarious to set fire to someone’s property:
All we had was a little sign, you know, and if they’re offended by it they should have probably left that one there because every time they take it down it’s coming up bigger and better and the next one’s going to be a billboard.
Good for them. It’s a sad state of affairs when you can’t express your support of a candidate without someone vandalizing your property, but here we are.
There have been numerous instances throughout the election cycle of Trump supporters having their yard signs vandalized and in some cases being physically and verbally harassed and/or threatened for their support of the candidate.
Even with all these instances, the media has chosen to focus primarily on any incident they can dredge up at Trump rallies — which we now have confirmation, thanks to Project Veritas , that Democrat operatives incite via a tactic called “birddogging.”
These anti-Trumpsters — often liberals, although it’s unclear what this man’s political bent was for sure — have shown their true colors throughout this election cycle. They can’t handle the fact that someone else may not think the same way they do, which is truly pathetic.
Good for the Leighty’s; it takes guts to stand up for your rights, and that’s exactly what they are doing by not giving in to a crazed bully. | 1real |
Election 2016 and the Growing Global Nuclear Threat | Election 2016 and the Growing Global Nuclear Threat Playing a Game of Chicken with Nuclear Strategy Email This Page to Someone Your Name Here's something interesting from The Unz Review... Recipient Name Recipient Email =>
Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was the perennial question: “Whose finger do you want on the nuclear button?” Of all the responsibilities of America’s top executive, none may be more momentous than deciding whether, and under what circumstances, to activate the “nuclear codes” — the secret alphanumeric messages that would inform missile officers in silos and submarines that the fearful moment had finally arrived to launch their intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) toward a foreign adversary, igniting a thermonuclear war.
Until recently in the post-Cold War world, however, nuclear weapons seemed to drop from sight, and that question along with it. Not any longer. In 2016, the nuclear issue is back big time, thanks both to the rise of Donald Trump ( including various unsettling comments he’s made about nuclear weapons) and actual changes in the global nuclear landscape.
With passions running high on both sides in this year’s election and rising fears about Donald Trump’s impulsive nature and Hillary Clinton’s hawkish one, it’s hardly surprising that the “nuclear button” question has surfaced repeatedly throughout the campaign. In one of the more pointed exchanges of the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton declared that Donald Trump lacked the mental composure for the job. “A man who can be provoked by a tweet,” she commented , “should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.” Donald Trump has reciprocated by charging that Clinton is too prone to intervene abroad. “You’re going to end up in World War III over Syria,” he told reporters in Florida last month.
For most election observers, however, the matter of personal character and temperament has dominated discussions of the nuclear issue, with partisans on each side insisting that the other candidate is temperamentally unfit to exercise control over the nuclear codes. There is, however, a more important reason to worry about whose finger will be on that button this time around: at this very moment, for a variety of reasons, the “nuclear threshold” — the point at which some party to a “conventional” (non-nuclear) conflict chooses to employ atomic weapons — seems to be moving dangerously lower.
Not so long ago, it was implausible that a major nuclear power — the United States, Russia, or China — would consider using atomic weapons in any imaginable conflict scenario. No longer. Worse yet, this is likely to be our reality for years to come, which means that the next president will face a world in which a nuclear decision-making point might arrive far sooner than anyone would have thought possible just a year or two ago — with potentially catastrophic consequences for us all.
No less worrisome, the major nuclear powers (and some smaller ones) are all in the process of acquiring new nuclear arms, which could, in theory, push that threshold lower still. These include a variety of cruise missiles and other delivery systems capable of being used in “limited” nuclear wars — atomic conflicts that, in theory at least, could be confined to just a single country or one area of the world (say, Eastern Europe) and so might be even easier for decision-makers to initiate. The next president will have to decide whether the U.S. should actually produce weapons of this type and also what measures should be taken in response to similar decisions by Washington’s likely adversaries.
Lowering the Nuclear Threshold
During the dark days of the Cold War, nuclear strategists in the United States and the Soviet Union conjured up elaborate conflict scenarios in which military actions by the two superpowers and their allies might lead from, say, minor skirmishing along the Iron Curtain to full-scale tank combat to, in the end, the use of “battlefield” nuclear weapons, and then city-busting versions of the same to avert defeat. In some of these scenarios, strategists hypothesized about wielding “tactical” or battlefield weaponry — nukes powerful enough to wipe out a major tank formation, but not Paris or Moscow — and claimed that it would be possible to contain atomic warfare at such a devastating but still sub-apocalyptic level. (Henry Kissinger, for instance, made his reputation by preaching this lunatic doctrine in his first book, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy .) Eventually, leaders on both sides concluded that the only feasible role for their atomic arsenals was to act as deterrents to the use of such weaponry by the other side. This was, of course, the concept of “ mutually assured destruction ,” or — in one of the most classically apt acronyms of all times: MAD. It would, in the end, form the basis for all subsequent arms control agreements between the two superpowers.
Anxiety over the escalatory potential of tactical nuclear weapons peaked in the 1970s when the Soviet Union began deploying the SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile (capable of striking cities in Europe, but not the U.S.) and Washington responded with plans to deploy nuclear-armed, ground-launched cruise missiles and the Pershing-II ballistic missile in Europe. The announcement of such plans provoked massive antinuclear demonstrations across Europe and the United States. On December 8, 1987, at a time when worries had been growing about how a nuclear conflagration in Europe might trigger an all-out nuclear exchange between the superpowers, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
That historic agreement — the first to eliminate an entire class of nuclear delivery systems — banned the deployment of ground-based cruise or ballistic missiles with a range of 500 and 5,500 kilometers and required the destruction of all those then in existence. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation inherited the USSR’s treaty obligations and pledged to uphold the INF along with other U.S.-Soviet arms control agreements. In the view of most observers, the prospect of a nuclear war between the two countries practically vanished as both sides made deep cuts in their atomic stockpiles in accordance with already existing accords and then signed others, including the New START , the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 2010.
Today, however, this picture has changed dramatically. The Obama administration has concluded that Russia has violated the INF treaty by testing a ground-launched cruise missile of prohibited range, and there is reason to believe that, in the not-too-distant future, Moscow might abandon that treaty altogether. Even more troubling, Russia has adopted a military doctrine that favors the early use of nuclear weapons if it faces defeat in a conventional war, and NATO is considering comparable measures in response. The nuclear threshold, in other words, is dropping rapidly.
Much of this is due, it seems, to Russian fears about its military inferiority vis-à-vis the West. In the chaotic years following the collapse of the USSR, Russian military spending plummeted and the size and quality of its forces diminished accordingly. In an effort to restore Russia’s combat capabilities, President Vladimir Putin launched a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar expansion and modernization program. The fruits of this effort were apparent in the Crimea and Ukraine in 2014, when Russian forces, however disguised, demonstrated better fighting skills and wielded better weaponry than in the Chechnya wars a decade earlier. Even Russian analysts acknowledge, however, that their military in its current state would be no match for American and NATO forces in a head-on encounter, given the West’s superior array of conventional weaponry. To fill the breach, Russian strategic doctrine now calls for the early use of nuclear weapons to offset an enemy’s superior conventional forces.
To put this in perspective, Russian leaders ardently believe that they are the victims of a U.S.-led drive by NATO to encircle their country and diminish its international influence. They point, in particular, to the build-up of NATO forces in the Baltic countries, involving the semi-permanent deployment of combat battalions in what was once the territory of the Soviet Union, and in apparent violation of promises made to Gorbachev in 1990 that NATO would not do so. As a result, Russia has been bolstering its defenses in areas bordering Ukraine and the Baltic states, and training its troops for a possible clash with the NATO forces stationed there.
This is where the nuclear threshold enters the picture. Fearing that it might be defeated in a future clash, its military strategists have called for the early use of tactical nuclear weapons, some of which no doubt would violate the INF Treaty, in order to decimate NATO forces and compel them to quit fighting. Paradoxically, in Russia, this is labeled a “ de-escalation ” strategy, as resorting to strategic nuclear attacks on the U.S. under such circumstances would inevitably result in Russia’s annihilation. On the other hand, a limited nuclear strike (so the reasoning goes) could potentially achieve success on the battlefield without igniting all-out atomic war. As Eugene Rumer of the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace explains, this strategy assumes that such supposedly “limited” nuclear strikes “will have a sobering effect on the enemy, which will then cease and desist.”
To what degree tactical nuclear weapons have been incorporated into Moscow’s official military doctrine remains unknown, given the degree of secrecy surrounding such matters. It is apparent, however, that the Russians have been developing the means with which to conduct such “limited” strikes. Of greatest concern to Western analysts in this regard is their deployment of the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile, a modern version of the infamous Soviet-era “Scud” missile (used by Saddam Hussein’s forces during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988 and the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991). Said to have a range of 500 kilometers (just within the INF limit), the Iskander can carry either a conventional or a nuclear warhead. As a result, a targeted country or a targeted military could never be sure which type it might be facing (and might simply assume the worst). Adding to such worries, the Russians have deployed the Iskander in Kaliningrad, a tiny chunk of Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania that just happens to put it within range of many western European cities.
In response, NATO strategists have discussed lowering the nuclear threshold themselves, arguing — ominously enough — that the Russians will only be fully dissuaded from employing their limited-nuclear-war strategy if they know that NATO has a robust capacity to do the same. At the very least, what’s needed, some of them claim , is a more frequent inclusion of nuclear-capable or dual-use aircraft in exercises on Russia’s frontiers to “signal” NATO’s willingness to resort to limited nuclear strikes, too. Again, such moves are not yet official NATO strategy, but it’s clear that senior officials are weighing them seriously.
Just how all of this might play out in a European crisis is, of course, unknown, but both sides in an increasingly edgy standoff are coming to accept that nuclear weapons might have a future military role, which is, of course, a recipe for almost unimaginable escalation and disaster of an apocalyptic sort. This danger is likely to become more pronounced in the years ahead because both Washington and Moscow seem remarkably intent on developing and deploying new nuclear weapons designed with just such needs in mind.
The New Nuclear Armaments
Both countries are already in the midst of ambitious and extremely costly efforts to “ modernize ” their nuclear arsenals. Of all the weapons now being developed, the two generating the most anxiety in terms of that nuclear threshold are a new Russian ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM) and an advanced U.S. air-launched cruise missile (ALCM). Unlike ballistic missiles, which exit the Earth’s atmosphere before returning to strike their targets, such cruise missiles remain within the atmosphere throughout their flight.
American officials claim that the Russian GLCM, reportedly now being deployed, is of a type outlawed by the INF Treaty. Without providing specifics, the State Department indicated in a 2014 memo that it had “a range capability of 500 km [kilometers] to 5,500 km,” which would indeed put it in violation of that treaty by allowing Russian combat forces to launch nuclear warheads against cities throughout Europe and the Middle East in a “limited” nuclear war.
The GLCM is likely to prove one of the most vexing foreign policy issues the next president will face. So far, the White House has been reluctant to press Moscow too hard, fearing that the Russians might respond by exiting the INF Treaty altogether and so eliminate remaining constraints on its missile program. But many in Congress and among Washington’s foreign policy elite are eager to see the next occupant of the Oval Office take a tougher stance if the Russians don’t halt deployment of the missile, threatening Moscow with more severe economic sanctions or moving toward countermeasures like the deployment of enhanced anti-missile systems in Europe. The Russians would, in turn, undoubtedly perceive such moves as threats to their strategic deterrent forces and so an invitation for further weapons acquisitions, setting off a fresh round in the long-dormant Cold War nuclear arms race.
On the American side, the weapon of immediate concern is a new version of the AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile, usually carried by B-52 bombers. Also known as the Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO), it is, like the Iskander-M, expected to be deployed in both nuclear and conventional versions, leaving those on the potential receiving end unsure what might be heading their way. In other words, as with the Iskander-M, the intended target might assume the worst in a crisis, leading to the early use of nuclear weapons. Put another way, such missiles make for twitchy trigger fingers and are likely to lead to a heightened risk of nuclear war, which, once started, might in turn take Washington and Moscow right up the escalatory ladder to a planetary holocaust.
No wonder former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry called on President Obama to cancel the ALCM program in a recent Washington Post op-ed piece. “Because they… come in both nuclear and conventional variants,” he wrote, “cruise missiles are a uniquely destabilizing type of weapon.” And this issue is going to fall directly into the lap of the next president.
The New Nuclear Era
Whoever is elected on November 8th, we are evidently all headed into a world in which Trumpian-style itchy trigger fingers could be the norm. It already looks like both Moscow and Washington will contribute significantly to this development — and they may not be alone. In response to Russian and American moves in the nuclear arena, China is reported to be developing a “ hypersonic glide vehicle ,” a new type of nuclear warhead better able to evade anti-missile defenses — something that, at a moment of heightened crisis, might make a nuclear first strike seem more attractive to Washington. And don’t forget Pakistan, which is developing its own short-range “tactical” nuclear missiles, increasing the risk of the quick escalation of any future Indo-Pakistani confrontation to a nuclear exchange. (To put such “regional” dangers in perspective, a local nuclear war in South Asia could cause a global nuclear winter and, according to one study , possibly kill a billion people worldwide, thanks to crop failures and the like.)
And don’t forget North Korea, which is now testing a nuclear-armed ICBM, the Musudan, intended to strike the Western United States. That prompted a controversial decision in Washington to deploy THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) anti-missile batteries in South Korea (something China bitterly opposes), as well as the consideration of other countermeasures, including undoubtedly scenarios involving first strikes against the North Koreans.
It’s clear that we’re on the threshold of a new nuclear era: a time when the actual use of atomic weapons is being accorded greater plausibility by military and political leaders globally, while war plans are being revised to allow the use of such weapons at an earlier stage in future armed clashes.
As a result, the next president will have to grapple with nuclear weapons issues — and possible nuclear crises — in a way unknown since the Cold War era. Above all else, this will require both a cool head and a sufficient command of nuclear matters to navigate competing pressures from allies, the military, politicians, pundits, and the foreign policy establishment without precipitating a nuclear conflagration. On the face of it, that should disqualify Donald Trump. When questioned on nuclear issues in the first debate, he exhibited a striking ignorance of the most basic aspects of nuclear policy. But even Hillary Clinton, for all her experience as secretary of state, is likely to have a hard time grappling with the pressures and dangers that are likely to arise in the years ahead, especially given that her inclination is to toughen U.S. policy toward Russia.
In other words, whoever enters the Oval Office, it may be time for the rest of us to take up those antinuclear signs long left to molder in closets and memories, and put some political pressure on leaders globally to avoid strategies and weapons that would make human life on this planet so much more precarious than it already is.
Michael T. Klare, a TomDispatch regular , is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of The Race for What’s Left . A documentary movie version of his book Blood and Oil is available from the Media Education Foundation . Follow him on Twitter at @mklare1. (Reprinted from TomDispatch by permission of author or representative) | 1real |
Trump Jr.’s Lies About To Be EXPOSED; Meeting With Russian Lawyer Allegedly Recorded | The entire weekend, and now the beginning of the week, has had the news cycle spinning madly with news of the meeting Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort had with a shady Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign. The plot has thickened as Trump Jr. s stories regarding the reasons for the meeting and the nature of the conversations that took place there kept changing. Finally, things really exploded on Tuesday, when Lord Cheeto s mini me was forced to tweet out the actual emails that led to this meeting because if he hadn t the New York Times would have printed them for him. Said emails show that Trump Jr. knew he was meeting Russians for the explicit purpose of possibly gathering information that would damage the Clinton campaign.As if all of that isn t looking grim enough for Trump s eldest tyke, it seems that the meeting may have been recorded. Claude Taylor, who has worked on three Democratic presidential campaigns, tweeted out that potentially damning fact:A source with knowledge of the investigation tells me that IC had "ears on" Russian lawyer. The meeting was recorded. Donald, Jr is toast. Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) July 10, 2017Now, we all know that the Trumps routinely lie. They prove that all the time. Trump Jr. s story has changed radically over the course of the last few days alone. That in and of itself really should warrant scrutiny from the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, as well as Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In the meantime, Jared Kushner s security clearance needs to be revoked immediately, as he is a national security threat.As for Donald Trump Jr. if this meeting really was recorded, Claude Taylor s tweet is correct. He s toast. He has put out false statement after false statement, and something tells me he s still not telling everything the way it really went down. It should only be a matter of time before the entire Trump criminal enterprise is in jail.Featured image via John Sommers II/Getty Images | 1real |
Joy Villa Designer at Grammys: ’We Have to Support Our President’ | Singer Joy Villa donned a dress with the “Make America Great Again” slogan at the Grammys Sunday night, thanks to the help of one San Diego fashion designer. [Andre Soriano of La Mesa designed the dress to represent “love and togetherness” in addition to making a statement, KSWB reported. “I took my Trump flag from the front of my house and made the gown for her,” Soriano said. “We have to support our president. ” Villa walked the red carpet wearing a white cloak before taking it off to reveal the red, white, and blue Donald dress. Villa posted a picture of herself wearing the dress after the show on Instagram. “Go big, or go home. You can either stand for what you believe or fall for what you don’t,” the post read. “Above all make a choice for tolerance and love. Agree to disagree. See the person over the politics, carry yourself with dignity, always. ” Villa also held a purse shaped like a sacred heart. Soriano said they selected the purse to represent love, family, and togetherness. “We have to bring this country back,” he said. “There are a lot of people who don’t agree with our president, but they should give him a chance. Villa’s album sales spiked to the top spot on Amazon’s list of top 100 digital albums, and made it high on the iTunes top albums list after she wore the dress. | 0fake |
China's immoral treatment of Africa must stop | License DMCA With the U.S. more interested in finding Hillary's emails and measuring Trump's hand size, it's no surprise that Africa, the continent with the fastest economic growth rate in the world, has been painfully absent from this election cycle. With the notable exception of Green VP candidate Ajamu Baraka, virtually no candidate even bothered to second-guess the many covert operations carried out by U.S. military forces in Africa or to examine what Washington's role should be in promoting development in Sub-Saharan Africa. And for better or worse, that void has been rapidly filled by China. In an opinion piece published on October 23, China's newly appointed ambassador to Nigeria emphasized Chinese investors' eagerness to invest into the development of Nigerian infrastructure, manufacturing and agriculture. The ambassador, Zhou Pingjian, also noted the enthusiasm and optimism prevalent among the Chinese business community in Nigeria, stressing the prospect of a lasting and beneficial partnership between the two countries. These developments are just the latest example of China's desire to step up its involvement in Africa. While the relationship has existed since the 1970s, in recent years, China has taken this investment to a new level. At last year's Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Chinese President Xi Jinping encouraged African leaders to "open a new era of China-Africa win-win cooperation and common development" , pledging investments of $60 billion . During a time when Chinese involvement in Africa is rapidly increasing, surveys have shown that the African public holds a generally positive view of China's growing economic role on the continent. Surveys by Afrobarometer revealed that Africans rank China second only to the US as a model for their own country's economic development. In three out of five regions surveyed, China matched or even outpaced the US in terms of popularity as a model for development. In terms of perceived influence, China and the US were second only to former colonial powers. On average, 63 percent viewed China's influence as positive. While these positive attitudes may be linked to the potential positive effects on Africa's economic growth, as analyses from the World Bank suggest, China's involvement with African leaders does not necessarily benefit the local populations. In the past, Beijing has not hesitated to leverage its important role on the continent for its interests using the threat of withdrawal of support to ensure the success of commercial and political objectives. For example, in 2006, China's ambassador to Zambia threatened to cut ties if an opposition candidate who was critical of Chinese investment policies won power. - Advertisement - African leaders regard Chinese money pouring into their country as an appealing alternative to Western funds because in contrast to Western aid, Beijing does not insist on strengthening human rights or the rule of law. Consequently, China has come to forge close relationships with brutal and autocratic African heads of state. China has had longstanding ties with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe since funding his guerilla fighters in the 1979 Rhodesian Bush War. When Mugabe took power in 1980, China helped to build a new sports stadium, hospitals, and a power station. Most importantly, China became Mugabe's primary arms supplier. In the decades since, Mugabe and his administration have been accused of a wide range of human rights violations , including repression of activism and civil liberties, and violence leading up to elections, while Mugabe's security forces have even been accused of using torture camps. Last December, President Xi Jinping made it clear that China still shares a bond with Zimbabwe, promising multibillion-dollar investments. While it might be appealing to African politicians, China's willingness to look the other way when it comes to human rights violations has certainly not been good for the people of Zimbabwe. In another example, China's relationship with Egypt's increasingly autocratic President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been growing closer . With reduced tourism and support from Europe, Egypt has been turning towards China. For its part, the Chinese government is offering Egypt assistance with multiple infrastructure projects, including transport, housing, and power. China is looking towards Egypt as a focus of its "One Belt, One Road" plan to rebuild its ancient maritime Silk Road trade routes connecting China to Europe and Africa. China's business plans frequently serve to prop up dictatorial regimes, and often hold little benefit for the people suffering under them. In Djibouti, profit from foreign military installations rarely improves the lives of Djiboutians, 42 percent of whom continue to live in extreme poverty and 48 percent of whom are unemployed. Meanwhile, China continues to ramp up investment in the nation , investing in multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects such as a new port, two airports, a new railway and other projects. Most importantly, China has started building its first overseas military installation in Djibouti. This support continues despite the fact that Djibouti's strongman President Ismail Omar Guelleh was accused of killing opposition supporters in the run up to the general elections in April, during which he also severely strangled press freedoms . Despite enjoying a positive image among much of Africa's population, China's involvement in Africa often ignores glaring human rights abuses in order to accomplish political and commercial goals. While this might provide much needed funding for infrastructure in the short term, enabling autocratic regimes to act with impunity will be a detriment to Africans in the long run. For Africa to move past the post-colonial authoritarianism of last century, it needs aid that respects Africa's right to self-determination, but also does not tolerate human rights abuses and autocracy. - Advertisement - | 1real |
Senate Democrats seek probes of administration's secret messaging | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday called for government-wide investigations into the Trump administration’s use of secretive messaging phone applications and whether officials are ignoring or delaying responses to some Congressional oversight requests. Delaware Senator Tom Carper and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, both influential members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, asked the inspectors general at 24 executive agencies and departments to investigate whether officials are using apps for work that make it hard to trace communications. The apps encrypt messages and automatically delete them after they are read, which could run afoul of laws on preserving government records, the senators wrote. While Republicans control both the Senate and the House of Representatives, Democrats in Congress can still request that inspectors general, neutral investigators who check up on various federal offices, look into specific matters. They also asked the inspectors general if officials in the administration of Republican President Donald Trump are directing employees of government agencies to ignore requests for information from Democrats in Congress. Members of both parties objected after the administration said agencies do not have to honor requests made by senior Democrats on congressional committees. Democrats and public interest groups are worried that the Trump administration is hiding important information about possible wrongdoing and stonewalling potential critics. They are also worried about social media, where Trump has tweeted and then later deleted posts. The office of the Department of Justice’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, who also chairs the council of federal inspectors general, declined to comment on the letter. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. The federal government has strict laws on preserving records, which can be used to uncover and prosecute public corruption and collusion. Inspectors general themselves often rely on archived emails and text messages in investigations. Since Trump’s inauguration in January many Washington insiders have embraced messaging apps that promptly destroy chats, encrypt texts and phone calls, and leave no trace of communication on smartphones. Concerns about information security have grown in the wake of the hack of the Democratic party’s emails, criticism of candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server and laws that count communications from non-government accounts as federal records. Journalists and officials now frequently communicate via the encrypted Signal or Confide messenger apps. Confide is so popular that the company hosted a media and technology event during this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner weekend. | 0fake |
Senator Grassley asks Defense Department to explain EpiPen spending | (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley asked the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday to explain spending trends for the EpiPen emergency allergy treatment. The request followed a recent report by Reuters detailing how EpiPen price hikes by manufacturer Mylan NV had added millions to U.S. Department of Defense spending since 2008 as the agency covered more prescriptions for the lifesaving allergy shot at near retail prices. “We know the price increase for EpiPens is hitting individual consumers and Medicare and Medicaid,” Grassley, a Republican, said in a statement. “We need to determine whether taxpayers overpaid for the EpiPen through the Department of Defense and the VA and whether they deserve a rebate, as they do with Medicaid. Spending that isn’t warranted squeezes the health care budget.” Mylan agreed last month to pay $465 million to settle questions of whether it underpaid U.S. government healthcare programs by misclassifying EpiPen. The company raised the price for a package of two EpiPens by sixfold to more than $600 over the last decade. | 0fake |
WOW! ALEX JONES Releases Secretly Recorded Interview With Megyn Kelly: “I’ve never done this in 22 years, I’ve never recorded another journalist, but I knew it was a fraud, that it was lie” [VIDEO] | Alex Jones scooped NBC and Megyn Kelly with a secretly recorded conversation he had with Kelly, where she begged him to agree to allow her interview him. Kelly can be heard offering her assurances that she would never disparage him.The controversial Infowars host released the contents of their conversation which he claims to have recorded on his website Thursday night. Jones even released a teaser of what appears to be a secretly recorded conversation with Kelly (below). I ve never done this in 22 years, I ve never recorded another journalist, but I knew it was a fraud, that it was lie, Jones said in a video posted on Twitter. God, she was like, I want to get steaks with you, I m obsessed with you, oh my god, wiggling around in her seat. It was all crap. I knew it was all a lie. I said Sandy Hook happened, and she wouldn t even put it in the promo pieces. So we re going to release oh yeah the pre-interview. And then when they put the fraud out on Sunday which I ve asked them not to air because they re misrepresenting who I am and say I m as bad as Saddam Hussein we ve got the whole interviews here You re going to hear what I actually said it s all going to come out tonight. Entertainment WeeklyThe tweet was accompanied by an audio recording of what sounds like Kelly assuring Jones her interview would be fair.How Alex Jones outsmarted Megyn Kelly:Alex Jones Megyn Kelly Full Interview Leaked https://t.co/eUpED1XSoU #NBCFakeNews #msmFail #infowars Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) June 16, 2017 | 1real |
[Video] WATCH HOW MARCO RUBIO Handles Same Reporter Who Attempts Interview With Hillary | There s just something about Shrillary that almost makes you wonder if everything she does has to be staged Watch how differently Marco Rubio is able to handle an impromptu interview with this TMZ reporter vs Hillary Clinton (below): | 1real |
TIFFANY & CO. TAKES BIG RISK…Sides AGAINST Trump On Very Controversial Issue | Who knew? Tiffany & Co. just decided to show its hand when it comes to politics. We re not happy to tell you that the luxury retail jeweler just bought into the global warming scam hook, line and sinker The American jeweler is asking the president to keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement.The American jeweler took to social media to send a message to president Donald Trump. Dear President Trump, read the Instagram and Twitter posts. We re still in for bold climate action. Please keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement. The disaster of climate change is too real, and the threat to our planet and to our children is too great. The move comes on the same day that the president postponed his decision on whether or not to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, reports CNN. The goal of the agreement is to create a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2 C, according to European Commission s website.Trump intended on making an announcement before attending the Group of Seven nations summit in Sicily, Italy, on May 26-27, but now, he s going to make a decision after the G7, explained White House press secretary Sean Spicer.Trump has a long history with Tiffany & Co; he named his youngest daughter after the iconic jeweler and the brand s flagship store is connected to Trump Tower in New York. Following the election, sales at the flagship store tumbled 14 percent in November and December, compared with the same period last year. Tiffany & Co. even canceled its holiday window unveiling event due to post-election protests around the area.Read more: Hollywood ReporterWhat they re not telling you is this agreement is a HUGE redistribution of American tax dollars to other countries! So if we are to address the Climate crisis we need to challenge the structural causes of the crisis which lies on unequal distribution of wealth, of carbon, and of power. Whether it s political power, economic power, or even military power. -Camille Risler For many years the public at large has been spoonfed the idea that Global Warming Climate Change, is caused by man s excessive release of carbon into the atmosphere. And that the solution to the Climate crisis was to decrease the production of said gas.Over the past several years the Global Warming fanatics have changed their tune. Many of us in the new media have been warning about their true motives for year.Now, instead of the climate crisis being caused by carbon emissions, it is being caused by inequality.On Monday, during a press conference at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, Ms. Camille Risler, a representative of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) which is an organization listed as an official consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, stated that the cause of Climate Change is the unequal distribution of wealth, carbon, and power: This is the press conference of the Women and constituency. It is one of the nine official constituencies of the UNFCCC, and we are composed of 15 women s rights and feminist organizations from all around the world. So I m going to begin with kind of an overview of our positions and then I will give the floor over to my colleagues that will go more into details of each section of negotiations.I m Camille Risler. I m from France but I m living in Thailand. I m working for a feminist network that is called Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and I m working for the Climate Justice Program.So what we want to highlight here is that Climate Change is a clear symptom of an unequal and unjust world. Via: GP | 1real |
WATCH: Republican House Oversight Chair Literally Blamed Obama For Trump’s Michael Flynn Scandal | Republicans have apparently reached a new level of desperation to clear Donald Trump of all wrongdoing in his Russia scandal.Donald Trump chose Michael Flynn to work on his campaign. Donald Trump chose Michael Flynn to be his National Security Adviser. Donald Trump ignored the warnings about Michael Flynn. But somehow, Republicans are blaming President Obama anyway.As we all know, Flynn had dealings with Russia that he failed to disclose, including conversations with Russian officials about the sanctions placed by President Obama in retaliation against Russia for interfering in our national election.Flynn s ties to Russia run deep and one would think that Trump would have vetted Flynn. After all, Trump had plenty of time to do so during the campaign and after taking office.But he appointed Flynn anyway and even voiced his support of his National Security Adviser until the very end when Trump was forced to boot him out the White House.President Harry Truman once said that The buck stops here in reference to the fact that anything that happens during a president s tenure is the ultimate responsibility of the president.But Trump has done everything he can in an effort to escape any and all responsibility for what happens under his watch or lack thereof.And even Republicans have been making excuses to absolve him of any wrongdoing.That includes openly blaming President Obama for Trump s Flynn scandal.During an appearance on MSNBC on Tuesday, House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Cheffetz literally claimed that President Obama is at fault for this scandal. It was the Obama White House that this would have fallen under, Chaffetz told Greta Van Susteran. I don t think what happened here is really the fault of Donald Trump. Here s the video via VidMe.According to Cheffetz, the Obama administration is at fault because they vetted Flynn before he was appointed by Obama to head the Defense Intelligence Agency.However, prior to getting caught dealing with Russia earlier this year, Flynn had kept his ties to Russia under the radar. Those ties became much clearer after he got busted. Besides, Trump is the one responsible for hiring Flynn during the campaign and he is the one responsible for appointing him as National Security Adviser. Trump and his administration had lots of time to vet Flynn.So this falls directly and completely on Donald Trump. He had months to dig into Flynn s history, and clearly, he liked what he found. After all, they share a love of Putin and Russia in common.Cheffetz should just go ahead and resign immediately rather than serve out the remainder of his term. One would think that Cheffetz would feel free to do the right thing since he has chosen not to run for re-election. But it s apparent that he intends to lie and cover for Trump until the end. He should be ashamed.Featured Image: Screenshot | 1real |
Syria rebels await action from Trump on safe zones, Damascus silent | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels urged President Donald Trump to fulfill a pledge to create safe zones in their country, but analysts doubted he would proceed with a step that could drag Washington deeper into war, hasten Syria’s fragmentation and risk conflict with Russia. Trump told ABC News on Wednesday he “will absolutely do safe zones in Syria” for refugees fleeing violence and that Europe had made a mistake by admitting millions of refugees from Syria. President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents have long demanded safe zones to protect civilians who have fled government air strikes and bombardment of rebel-held areas. But reflecting uncertainties about the announcement, representatives of the insurgents voiced only cautious optimism. “We’ve seen no result on the ground from (U.S.) statements that were made six years ago. So therefore we await action before anything else,” said Fares al-Bayoush, a rebel commander in northwestern Syria. Qatar, which backs the rebels, welcomed Trump’s comments and “emphasized the need to provide safe havens in Syria and to impose no-fly zones to ensure the safety of civilians”. There was no immediate word from Damascus, but it is sure to oppose such a move as Assad has vowed to regain control of all Syria. Iran, which backs militias in Syria including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, would also oppose any U.S. intervention. Russia said it had not been consulted on Trump’s plan, warning that it should not “exacerbate the situation with refugees” and Washington should weigh up “all the consequences”. The creation of safe zones would mark a major shift in U.S. policy. Former U.S. President Barack Obama resisted an idea that would require a commitment to defend such areas from the Syrian government or its foreign allies, including Russia. Trump appears to see safe zones as a way to stem the tide of refugees which he sees as a possible threat to U.S. security. But there are no obvious answers as to how the United States would avoid the problems that have prevented it establishing safe zones in Syria before, including the complication of policing such an area in a war zone dotted with armed groups. “At this stage this is very much in the realm of political maneuvering,” said Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow and Syria expert at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. “I don’t think it is signaling imminent U.S. action.” Trump could order the State Department and Pentagon to produce a plan that would also create “safe areas” in countries surrounding Syria where millions of refugees already live. The Syrian government hopes Trump will end U.S. support for the rebels fighting Assad and refocus U.S. policy solely on fighting Islamic State, perhaps in cooperation with Russia. Trump has indicated he will do both. Almost six years of war has turned Syria into a patchwork of areas, some controlled by Assad, some by rebel groups and others by Kurdish militia or Islamic State militants. Previous discussion of safe zones in Syria has focused on rebel-held areas in the northwest stretching from Idlib province to the Euphrates river. Areas in the southwest at the border with Jordan have also been seen as a possibility. But the complications have grown since the Syrian opposition first called for safe zones, including the deployment of Russia’s air force to Syria. Defending a safe zone from attack by the Syrian government or its Russian and Iranian-backed militia allies would inevitably lead to an escalation, which is one of the reasons Obama had avoided this path in the first place, Sayigh said. Another big challenge would be how to police the area to maintain its neutral status as a safe zone, he added. While much of Trump’s Syria policy remains unclear, Syrian Kurds, who have generally avoided conflict with Assad, look set to remain central to U.S. strategy. The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia controls swathes of northeast Syria, where conflict with the government is rare and the U.S. air force mounts regular air strikes against IS targets. Syrian Kurdish autonomy in northern Syria alarms Turkey, which fears it could increase separatist sentiment among its Kurdish minority. Kurdish groups already govern northern Iraq, where the establishment of a no-fly zone in 1991 helped them on their way to autonomy from Baghdad. The YPG has links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a designated terrorist groups in Turkey. Growing Kurdish influence in northern Syria largely explains why Turkey launched a major incursion into Syria last year, helping insurgents from the Free Syrian Army drive both Islamic State and Kurdish militia away from the border. The operation dubbed “Euphrates Shield” has created what Turkish officials call a safe zone that is 100 km (62 miles) long. This week, a new Turkish-trained Syrian police force deployed in the town of Jarablus in that strip of territory. Turkey, which hosts 2.8 million Syrian refugees, has long advocated safe zones in Syria. But underlining the caution with which foreign governments are viewing Trump’s comments, Turkey said it was waiting to see the outcome of a “study” requested by Trump. Aid agencies in the region are concerned. Karl Schembri, Regional Media Adviser in the Middle East for the Norwegian Refugee Council, said that from the group’s experience, “we know that militarily enforced ‘safe zones’ rarely work and can actually put civilians at more risk”. | 0fake |
WATCH HILARIOUS SNL “Draw Muhammed” Contest Skit… | We d like to offer a special word of thanks to Pamela Gellar for shining the light on the truth about Americans who are being bullied into submission by muslim terrorists.https://youtu.be/D2mcRb_WXhYThis skit points out the ridiculousness of the argument by the left that we need to draw the free speech line at criticizing Islam. It s okay to criticize Christianity or Judaism. There s no need to fear criticizing other faiths, but criticize Islam and threats made against your life are apparently justified. Funny we don t remember seeing anything in the First Amendment that exempts American citizens from criticizing Muhammed or the Islam faith | 1real |
ICE Officers Surrounded by New Yorkers Trying to Protect Alleged Criminal Alien | Immigration officers called the New York City Police Department for backup after a group of local residents surrounded them in an apparent attempt to interfere with the arrest of a criminal alien. [Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers working in Queens arrested Hardat Sampat. The Guyanese national is accused of burglary and illegal after removal, according to a report by the New York Daily News. As officers took the foreign national into custody, his wife began to plead for his arrest, attracting the attention of others nearby. More than 30 local residents surrounded the officers and began shouting at them, attempting to stop the arrest. Officers called New York police officers to assist them controlling the crowd. The sanctuary New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC) released Sampat from custody despite an immigration detainer being put in place by U. S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) officials, according to an official ICE statement reported by PIX11 News. ICE stated Sampat has multiple pending charges with the Queens County Criminal Court. Sampat had been a passenger in a vehicle when officers began to make the arrest. In an attempt to interfere with the arrest the ICE officers, his wife reportedly moved the car to block traffic, NBC4 New York reported. Responding NYPD officers instructed the driver to move the vehicle and clear the roadway. The driver complied with the police order. ICE officers quickly left the scene with Sampat in custody. Officers transported the Guyanese national to the Manhattan Federal Court for processing, the New York Daily News reported. He is expected to be held at an immigration detention facility in New Jersey, relatives told reporters. Reports indicate Sampat allegedly burglarized the home of a woman he knew on April 9. He allegedly broke into her home a second time and vandalized the home with white spray paint. ICE officers arrested him as he attempted to go to a court hearing on the cases. Since a February announcement by New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill that his officers would no longer cooperate with ICE officials attempt to arrest criminal aliens, the agency has ignored more than 130 immigration detainers and released the criminals onto the streets of New York. This number is as of the April 7 ICE Declined Detainer Outcome Report. The report has since been paused pending adjustments to the data gathering methodology. Late last week, ICE officers arrested a registered sex offender the NYCDOC released, despite an immigration detainer issued by ERO officers, Breitbart Texas reported. “It is unfortunate that we continue to arrest convicted criminals off the street simply because the city refuses to honor detainers and releases them back into our communities,” New York ERO Field Officer Director Thomas R. Decker said. “Each time an officer is forced to pick up someone who could have safely been turned over it puts the officers’ safety, as well as the safety of the neighborhoods we serve, at risk. ICE strives to strengthen its relationships with local law enforcement entities in the interest of public safety. ” Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook. | 0fake |
VAN JONES Explains Why Rachel Maddow’s “Don’t Actually Gotcha” Moment Turned Into “A Good Night For Donald Trump” [VIDEO] | Is Van Jones on Trump s payroll yet or is he just tired of being on the party of losers? Van Jones appeared on CNN s Anderson Cooper show last night and mocked the ridiculous attempt by rabid leftist MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to embarrass President Trump as part of her jihad on the President.After laughing about all the hype, Jones told the panel: If all we get tonight is that Trump paid $38M to America s government, that s a good night for Trump. I m sorry. I was hoping and praying that it would show not only did he not pay no taxes, he actually charged the government that he actually got something back..@VanJones68: If all we get tonight is that Trump paid $38M to America s government, that s a good night for Trump https://t.co/kvYlq8udPf Anderson Cooper 360 (@AC360) March 15, 2017If you have the stomach for it, we included the full clip of MSNBC s Rachel Maddow s lame attempt at jihad on President Trump: | 1real |
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GIVES AWARD To Colorado Abortion Clinic For Killing More Babies Than Previous Year | I wish I could say I was shocked, but the sad truth is pro-abortion voters are the major reason America has been crippled by Obama for 8 years, and potentially looking at a continuation of his radical policies with a Hillary presidency. To hell with our nation, the abortion industry must be kept alive, no matter the cost Maybe you ve seen those awards given to local businesses for having a certain number of accident free days or hitting certain regional or area sales quotas. here s an award that will take your breath away for a terribly and horrific reason.Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains gave its Aurua abortion clinic an award for increasing the number of babies killed in abortions. The award coincides with the abortion quotes the Planned Parenthood abortion business is implementing on all o its affiliates:From a blog post by Abby Johnson on the award:Ever since I left Planned Parenthood, I have been talking about the abortion quotas that are established inside abortion facilities. Many abortion supporters refused to believe it, citing that surely Planned Parenthood wants abortion to be safe, legal and RARE. If they want something to be RARE, they certainly wouldn t have quotas, right?We recently had a clinic worker leave the affiliate, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. This affiliate runs the 2nd largest Planned Parenthood facility in the U.S. At this clinic in Denver, they give out various awards to their satellite clinics and post these awards on a bulletin board for everyone to see.When our former worker saw this award on public display, it really started to change her thinking about Planned Parenthood s motivation. This award was given to their Aurora clinic for exceeding abortion visits first half of fiscal year 2012 compared to first half of fiscal year 2013. This means that the Aurora Planned Parenthood exceeded the abortion quota that was imposed on them. And THAT is award worthy according to Planned Parenthood.Via: LifeNews | 1real |
Trump assails House speaker Ryan, McCain as 'disloyal' | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out at U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and other “disloyal” Republicans on Tuesday and vowed to campaign in whatever style he wants now that the party establishment has largely abandoned him. Trump, in a barrage of stinging Twitter posts, condemned the Republicans who have backed away from his White House run, deepening a dramatic rift in the party over his struggling campaign for the Nov. 8 election. “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to,” Trump said on Twitter, adding he would engage Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on his own terms. Describing “disloyal” Republicans as more difficult than Clinton, he said: “They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win - I will teach them!” A string of Republican officials and officeholders have distanced themselves from Trump since a 2005 video surfaced on Friday showing him bragging crudely to a reporter about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances. Despite the turn away from Trump by some elected Republicans, a Reuters/Ipsos poll of likely voters, released on Tuesday, found 58 percent of Republicans wanted Trump to stay atop their party’s ticket and 68 percent said the Republican leadership should stand by him. The poll, which was conducted after the second presidential debate on Sunday, showed Clinton’s lead over Trump widening to 8 points from 5 points last week, before the release of the video. Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, told party lawmakers on Monday he was breaking with Trump and would not campaign for him, all but conceding Clinton would win the presidency. The move angered some Trump supporters, although Ryan said he would not withdraw his endorsement of the New York businessman. Trump slammed Ryan as a “very weak and ineffective leader” and complained in another tweet that it was hard to do well with “zero support” from Ryan and others. He later said in an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly he neither wanted nor needed Ryan’s support. Ryan’s spokesman, Brendan Buck, said on Tuesday that the speaker “is focusing the next month on defeating Democrats, and all Republicans running for office should probably do the same.” Trump also took aim at U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, who said on Saturday that he could not vote for Trump. “The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary (I gave, he won), then dropped me over locker room remarks,” Trump said. There was no immediate reaction from McCain, who secured his primary election win in August. Many Republicans worry that Trump’s chaotic campaign could hurt their chances of holding majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate in next month’s election, and will inflict long-term damage on the party. In an extraordinary party revolt, nearly half of all 331 incumbent Republican senators, House members and governors have condemned Trump’s lewd remarks on the video, and roughly one in 10 has called for him to drop out of the race, a Reuters review of official statements and local news coverage indicates. Unlike Ryan, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told RNC members on Monday that the committee, the party’s leadership and fundraising arm, still backed Trump, two RNC members told Reuters. Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, also reinforced his support in television interviews on Monday. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a former 2016 Republican presidential contender who has became a close ally of Trump, also reaffirmed his backing, although he called Trump’s comments in the 2005 video “completely indefensible.” Trump, 70, who has portrayed himself as tough on national security, released a hard-hitting television advertisement on Tuesday featuring footage of Clinton, a 68-year-old former secretary of state, stumbling last month after leaving a service commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks. Her campaign said she had been diagnosed a few days earlier with pneumonia. “Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world,” the ad’s narrator says. “She failed as secretary of state. Don’t let her fail us again.” Both Trump and Clinton headed to the key battleground state of Florida on Tuesday. Before her Florida rally with former Vice President Al Gore, Clinton told a Miami radio station that Trump had “insulted everyone.” “People need to understand what’s at stake in this election,” she told WMBM. The White House said on Tuesday that Trump’s remarks about groping women in the video amounted to sexual assault. President Barack Obama said Trump’s remarks would disqualify him from a job at a convenience store, and should disqualify him from becoming president. Clinton, the first woman to be picked as a presidential nominee by a major U.S. party, tried to focus on Tuesday on issues that could win over undecided women voters, proposing to expand the child tax credit so that more low-income families can benefit and to increase by $1,000 a year the tax credit available to families for each child up to age 4. | 0fake |
Health Officials Split Over Advice on Pregnancy in Zika Areas - The New York Times | As the Zika virus bears down on the United States, federal health officials are divided over a politically and ethically charged question: Should they advise American women to delay pregnancy in areas where the virus is circulating? Some infectious disease experts are arguing that avoiding conception is the only sure way to prevent the births of deformed babies, according to outside researchers who serve on various advisory panels. Women’s health specialists, on the other hand, counter that the government should not tell women what to do with their bodies. Indeed, federal health officials have never advised all the women in a region of the country to stop having children. Moreover, they say, most babies conceived during Zika epidemics in Latin America have been born healthy. Several federal experts central to the discussion declined to be interviewed for this article. Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described the internal debate as “a very long conversation. ” For now, “we do not have a recommendation to not become pregnant,” Dr. Frieden said at a “Zika summit” held recently at disease agency headquarters in Atlanta. “We do recommend access to contraception. ” On Wednesday, the agency confirmed what many experts already believed: that the virus, which is usually mild in adults, can cause severe brain damage in infants. In view of the gathering evidence, health officials in some countries struck by Zika epidemics, including El Salvador and Colombia, have urged women to avoid pregnancy. Dr. Marcos Espinal, who directs the Zika response of the Pan American Health Organization, an arm of the World Health Organization, said in an interview that he thought advising women to avoid conception during an epidemic’s relatively brief peak months, as Colombia did, “is sound advice. ” Yet the W. H. O. does not follow that policy. Dr. Bruce Aylward, the agency’s head of emergency response, called avoiding pregnancy “a complicated decision that is different for each individual woman. ” Currently, the question affects Americans only in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and American Samoa, where the Zika virus is circulating locally. But if the virus spreads as expected this summer, women in Hawaii and many Gulf Coast states may also be faced with tough choices. Despite the C. D. C. ’s stance, Puerto Rico’s health secretary, Dr. Ana Ríus, has been advising women to avoid pregnancy, although she has done so in public interviews, not in a large health campaign. Women on the island may be following her advice, she said preliminary figures indicate that there are 8 percent fewer pregnancies than there were at this time last year. For women living on those islands, the disease agency’s current guidelines do not advocate delaying pregnancy, instead calling the timing of conception a “deeply personal and very complex decision” and suggesting that women consult their doctors for “pregnancy planning. ” But tourists visiting the islands receive specific advice to avoid pregnancy for eight weeks after a visit, and for six months if male partners have had symptoms of Zika infection. One expert familiar with the debate, Michael T. Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, described it as “two groups describing an elephant, one looking at the head and the other at the tail. ” Dr. William Schaffner, the chairman of department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, who also described the outlines of the split, said that withholding conception advice might leave couples adrift. “They have to think it through by themselves,” he said. “They may hear it from their doctors or mothers or friends at the beauty parlor, but not from the C. D. C. ” Advocates of delaying pregnancy give several reasons. First, they do not believe that even the most aggressive efforts can protect pregnant woman 24 hours a day for nine months. No country yet has stopped dengue or chikungunya, which, like Zika, are spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and the disease agency itself has warned that reductions of 80 percent to 90 percent in those mosquito populations sometimes does not reduce disease transmission. Second, no vaccine is expected to be ready for at least two years. Third, evidence is mounting that Zika outbreaks are intense but brief. In French Polynesia in 2013, the virus infected 66 percent of the population within seven months and then disappeared. Because women who recover from Zika appear to be permanently immune, experts argue that delaying conception spares them the risk of having a child with severe birth defects, along with the agonizing worry — and lets them conceive safely a year later. “It’s a ” said Dr. Peter J. Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “They should say, ‘Don’t get pregnant — watch TV for six months and you won’t have a badly hurt baby. ’” In framing the language of the guidelines, Dr. Frieden said he was “guided by the perspective” of Dr. Denise J. Jamieson, a medical officer in the disease agency’s division of reproductive health. In an interview, Dr. Jamieson described birth defects as a rare complication of Zika infection. Even during an epidemic, she said, “most women will have healthy babies. ” Further, Dr. Jamieson said, delays “would also prevent wanted pregnancies,” especially in older women struggling with fertility, for example. Advice from government doctors on such personal decisions, she added, “is not likely to be effective. ” Asked what advice she would have given during the last American rubella epidemic — which killed or severely handicapped an estimated 20, 000 babies — she answered: “I would have said, ‘This is an extraordinarily risky time to get pregnant.’ ” But she does not endorse giving the same advice this time, she said, because rubella was unavoidable in those prevaccine days, whereas now, “highly motivated women can take measures to avoid mosquito bites. ” Local health officials have offered a variety of perspectives. In the United States Virgin Islands, Michelle S. Davis, the territory’s new health secretary, said she had not advocated pregnancy delay, although individual doctors may be doing so. The story has played out differently in Puerto Rico, where the C. D. C. has said there could be thousands of pregnant women infected by late summer. Dr. Ríus, the health secretary, suggested in several public interviews that women delay conception until more is known about the virus. She also instructed public clinics to distribute condoms. She was accused of alarmism, and the island’s Roman Catholic archbishop criticized her condom plan. But in an interview at the Atlanta summit meeting, she said that a new pregnancy surveillance network created by the disease agency for the epidemic suggested that women there may be heeding her advice. Births are expected to number 28, 000 this year, below last year’s total of 30, 323. Prominent gynecologists in Puerto Rico also are advising patients to avoid pregnancy. Dr. Jose Alvarez Romagosa, a fertility specialist at the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan and star of a popular television show, “Latin Doctors,” said he had dissuaded three patients from conceiving in a single day. Dr. Manuel Navas, a fertility specialist and medical director of Pablo Hospital in Fajardo, a town where some of the island’s earliest Zika infections were detected, said he, too, was discouraging most patients from conceiving unless they were desperate for a child and he was sure they understood the risks. That was the advice he would give his daughter, he added. Asked how his patients reacted, he said, “They appreciate it. ” | 0fake |
GOP Debate Round 3: Expect Another Wild Night | BOULDER, Colo. -- It's expected to be another fiery, wild night as the Republican presidential candidates get together in Boulder, Colorado, Wednesday for their third debate.
So far, this presidential soap opera has clearly been entertaining and surprising.
The latest turn is a new CBS/New York Times national poll that shows retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson overtaking Donald Trump as the GOP frontrunner a development that has the billionaire scratching his head.
"Trump losing in polls to Carson. Carson? I don't think Carson is going to negotiate really well with China folks in all fairness, okay? I don't think so and I like him. I don't think so," Trump remarked at a recent rally.
Expect some Trump jabs Wednesday night. As for Carson, the doctor told CBN News he's hoping voters will see what he represents.
"I hope they will look at my life, look at the entirety of my life and see that it has been dedicated to the uplifting of people by leading a life that's not full of scandal, and adhering to the values and principles of our Judeo-Christian foundation," he said.
Carson's not the only candidate who is relying on faith to help his case. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, believes he will eventually move higher in the polls.
"I'm the only one on that stage that has a record of standing up to Washington over and over again, of defending the Constitution, of defending liberty, defending religious liberty, and I think that's why we're seeing such incredible enthusiasm among the grassroots," Cruz declared.
Cruz, Carson, Trump and others want to strike gold with the key evangelical voting bloc. While this debate could begin to show movement, political strategist Ralph Reed doesn't expect any tidal waves.
"This idea that there's going to be a coalescing behind one candidate, that's a myth. That's not going to happen. The evangelical community is very vibrant. It's not monolithic and it doesn't march to a single drummer and it's not easy to command," Reed explained.
Wednesday night's debate will focus mostly on the economy. That will give candidates like Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush a chance to tout their economic records.
Bush will take the opportunity to lay out his recently announced entitlement reform plan, a subject he spoke about at Regent University.
"My belief is that once you reach 67, or 66 now, your payroll tax as an employee you should keep it because that's the way you're going to save money more directly and be able to live a life of independence," Bush told the crowd.
It's just one of the topics on tap for what is expected to be yet another night of presidential must see TV. | 0fake |
WATCH: Fox News Host Dana Perino Is DONE Defending Republicans | Fox News host Dana Perino is finally so sick and tired of Republicans supporting Donald Trump despite all of the sexual assault allegations that she will no longer defend them.During Friday s edition of The Five, host and former George W. Bush press secretary Dana Perino slammed Donald Trump for talking about all of his accusers and insulting them instead of focusing on attacking Hillary Clinton.Perino is also furious that Republicans are still defending Trump s predatory behavior. The Republicans that are defending this are really irritating me, she said. I ve been like Mount Vesuvius all day. Perino then specifically named Ben Carson and Jeff Sessions as just two of the many Republicans who remain on board the Trump train despite the Republican nominee s comments about groping women and the various allegations made against him by multiple women and the many past statements he has made that are now coming back to haunt him.And after Juan Williams joked that someone is going to call for cutting her mic, Perino took a serious tone, looked straight into the camera and while slicing the air with her hand told Republicans that she is done defending them. Yeah, because women should be seen and not heard, apparently. After 20 years of defending these guys, done. Here s the video via YouTube.Perino is not the only Republican woman who has stopped defending Republicans due to their refusal to unendorse Trump.Wisconsin GOP activist Marybeth Glenn quit the party entirely in a series of posts on Twitter blasting Republicans for being cowards and legitimizing charges that conservatives are sexists after she defended them for years. He (Trump) treats women like dogs, and you go against everything I and other female conservatives said you were & back down like cowards, she wrote. I m sooo done. If you can t stand up for women & unendorse this piece of human garbage, you deserve every charge of sexism thrown at you. Now Perino just became the first Republican woman on Fox News to say she is done defending the GOP.In their refusal to withdraw their support from Trump, the Republican Party is destroying themselves by offending women across the country and now it is costing them allies in states and in the media. This is something that may take generations for the party to recover from. Of course, that s assuming they actually learn anything from the mess they made this year.Featured image via screenshot | 1real |
NFL STAR Delivers TOUGH Message About “Exterminating Blacks” For Any Voter Who Supports Hillary [VIDEO] | Hillary Clinton is a Planned Parenthood s champion. She was greeted like a rock star at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund event in June, 2016. She mocked Donald Trump s defense of life, while highlighting her undying support for destroying the life of the most vulnerable. She s been bending over backwards to pander to Blacks for their votes, while trying desperately to gain the confidence of the Black Lives Matter movement. But isn t Hillary s concern for Black lives just another one of her lies? She is the darling of Planned Parenthood after all, and their stated goal has always been to kill off the Black population? Finally, a prominent Black professional athlete is speaking out and telling the truth about the true intentions of this killing machine for profit.Christian NFL player Ben Watson does not hesitate to call out Planned Parenthood s targeting of minority women and their babies for abortions.In a recent interview with Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center in San Diego, the Baltimore Ravens player talked about the racial divide in America and how it factors into the abortion issue. abortion saddens me period, but it seems to be something that is really pushed on minorities and provided to minorities especially as something that they should do, Watson said.He pointed to Planned Parenthood s founder Margaret Sanger and her eugenic push to exterminate people she deemed unfit. Today, it s working, Watson said. We sit here and talk about advancing the black agenda, whatever that means, we talk about our interests, and what s important to us like having political power and advancement and all those things and then we are turning around and we are killing our children, Watson continued. And we are buying the lie that it s our personal decision to make. Here s Hillary Clinton slamming Donald Trump over his defense of life and her willingness to destroy it at a Planned Parenthood event:The NFL star said he is sympathetic to the women who are struggling with an unplanned pregnancy. But Watson, a husband and father of five children, said many men are not stepping up to help their children and the women in their lives like they should. He urged men to take responsibility for their actions. He need to be there to support her through the physical changes of the pregnancy, and help and provide emotional strength, and do it together, Watson continued. As much as he has a role in making the baby in the first place, it needs to take both of them the whole way through. Sometimes, Watson said he does have the opportunity to talk with other NFL players about abortion and his pro-life convictions. Just like in almost any career setting, Watson said they talk about many different things, including politics and religion. You ve got guys that consider themselves Conservative and pro-life, and you ve got guys that consider themselves Liberal and pro-choice, and it kind of goes back and forth, he said. What I love is that in most of the situations I have been in, not all of them, but most, even if we sometimes talk abrasively to each other, we still have love for each other. Last year, after the Center for Medical Progress began releasing its undercover Planned Parenthood videos, Watson wasn t shy about speaking up for unborn babies either.He posted on his Facebook wall:As horrific as it is, the issue isn t really the sale of human parts. It s the legal practice that allows this to even be a possibility. Killing children and simply discarding the leftovers is not any more acceptable than profiting off of them. #PlannedParenthood Asked if he has faced backlash for his stance, Watson told Turning Point, I won t say I m not afraid, and I will say that I ve received some flack for some of the things I ve said I decided that you know, if the spirit of God has prompted me to say something, I m gonna trust in God and say it. Via: Life News | 1real |
“I Think My Dog’s A Democrat” [VIDEO] | A MUST watch video!https://youtu.be/-5Z-jJ2Z4bU | 1real |
THE TRUTH ABOUT Phony Global Warming: Why Our Snake-Oil-Salesman-In-Chief Is So Desperate To Sell Americans On This LIE | No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. Obama State Of The Union speech, 2015There is a very good reason why the Left is now SHAMING anyone who doesn t believe in the phony science of global warming. In what amounts to essentially a money laundering scheme, the campaigns of some of the most dishonest politicians in Washington are being funded by the business owners who are hand-selected by those crooked politicians to receive billions for global climate change initiatives.The liberal media machine has spent decades bulldozing anyone who tells you global warming is a sham.They even came up with a clever little title deniers. Every time a heat wave hits, every time a picture of a lone polar bear gets taken . . . the left pounds the table for environmental reform, more policy, more money to combat climate change. But how much has the world really warmed?Their message is simple: Get on the man-made global warming bandwagon . . . or you re just ignorant.But how much has the world really warmed?It s an important question, considering the U.S. government spends $22 billion a year to fight the global warming crisis (twice as much as it spends protecting our border).To put that in perspective, that is $41,856 every minute going to global warming initiatives.But that s just the tip of a gargantuan iceberg.According to Forbes columnist Larry Bell, the ripple effect of global warming initiatives actually costs Americans $1.75 trillion . . . every year.That s three times larger than the entire U.S. federal budget deficit.So, has anyone stopped to ask . . . how much has the globe actually warmed?Well, we asked, and what we found was striking.According to NASA s own data via Remote Sensing Systems(RSS), the world has warmed a mere .36 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 35 years (they started measuring the data in 1979).Hardly anything to panic about; however, that does mean the world is warmer, right?The problem with that argument is that we experienced the bulk of that warming between 1979 and 1998 . . . since then, we ve actually had temperatures DROPPING!As can be seen in this chart, we haven t seen any global warming for 17 years.Weakening the global warming argument is data showing that the North Polar ice cap is increasing in size. Recent satellite images from NASA actually reflect an increase of 43% to 63%.This is quite the opposite of what the global warming faction warned us.In 2007, while accepting his Nobel Prize for his global warming initiative, Al Gore made this striking prediction, The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff. It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now. Al Gore could not have been more wrong.However, despite this clear evidence that the temperatures are not increasing, the global warming hysteria only seems to be increasing.For example: President Obama himself tweeted on May 16, 2014: 97% of scientists agree: climate change is real, man-made and dangerous. John Kerry, Al Gore, and a host of others have championed this statistic.Since then, it has become clear that this statistic was inaccurate.The Wall Street Journal went as far as to say, The assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction. Forbes headlined Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring 97% Consensus Claims. Come to find out, the study President Obama was citing was botched from the start.A host of other problems for the global warming crowd are emerging, such as . . .Leaked emails from global warming scientists state that the Earth is not warming, such as this one from Kevin Trenberth that states, The fact is that we can t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty we can t. Claude Allegre, the founding father of the man-made global warming ethos, recently renounced his position that man has caused warming.Proof is emerging that Al Gore and even President Obama have financially benefited from fueling the global warming hysteria (click here for an internal report on this).It is becoming harder and harder for the global warming community to ignore some of the scientific data that show the Earth is not getting warmer . . . instead, the world is getting cooler.Which makes one wonder why are we still spending $22 billion a year on global warming initiatives, and where is the money going? Global warming has been kept on life support for another crucial reason: It has been a practical ATM for every in-the-know political figure.Al Gore, for example, has been one of the most vocally aggressive crusaders for global warming. In 2001, before leaving office as vice president, Gore was worth less than $2 million. Since then, he has grown his wealth to $100 million . . . almost entirely by investing in a handful of green-tech companies . . . 14 of which received more than $2.5 billion in loans, grants, tax breaks, and more from the Obama administration.The Telegraph reports Al Gore could become the world s first carbon billionaire thanks to his investments in green companies . . . all of which benefit from tax dollars and government loans to prevent global warming. And he s not alone.You are likely familiar with the story of the failed Solyndra green energy initiative, which cost taxpayers $500 million; President Obama took a lot of flak for that.But here s a little-known side of the Solyndra story I bet you haven t heard: Obama, in essence, used taxpayer money to finance his re-election campaign . . . by funneling it through Solyndra.You see, when Solyndra fell on hard times, it passed into the hands of two large private equity investors . . . Goldman Sachs and George Kaiser. When $500 million in taxpayer money was given to Solyndra, both Goldman Sachs and George Kaiser benefited. Coincidentally, both have made contributions to Obama s election campaigns adding up to roughly $1.25 million.It doesn t stop there.In 2010, another federal loan of $400 million went Abound Solar. That resulted in a bankruptcy as well. But investors in Abound Solar seemed to do just fine . . . investors like billionaire heiress Patricia Stryker. Stryker has famously contributed $500,000 to the Coalition for Progress while throwing $85,000 toward Obama s inaugural committee. It s just a coincidence that the government handed a company she invested in $400 million just before bankruptcy . . . right?There s also A123 Systems, which paid one lobbying firm $970,000 to secure money from the government and received $279 million in federal assistance. The CEO of A123 Systems went on to fund multiple Democratic senators and contributed to Obama s campaign.First Solar received $646 million in government loan guarantees, and has since contributed more than $180,000 to Democratic campaigns.GE is notorious for spending tens of millions of dollars a year to buy green energy credits for its wind turbines and other green technologies credits which helped the firm pay ZERO taxes in 2011.There are a host of other examples of liberals getting wealthy off global warming initiatives just like these.You can see why green energy is such a profitable business CEOs and executives get to rake in millions of dollars, while politicians get lucrative donations for their campaigns . . . and scientists get all the funding they need to keep them going . . . all on your dime.But here s the cherry on top . . .While $22 billion of our money is being redistributed every year to greedy scientists, politicians, and corporations . . .$22 billion is just what is spent on these global warming initiatives.The reality is, these initiatives have ripple effects . . . mainly the regulations (from government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency) that shackle free enterprise and force us to rely on foreign energy.According to Forbes, the total cost of these ripple effects is a staggering $1.75 trillion annually.I want you to really think about that for a moment.We re watching $1.75 trillion per year . . . $3,329,528 per minute . . . go to waste.It s worse when you note that the U.S. Energy Information Administration says these regulations could ultimately cause gasoline prices to rise 77% over baseline projections . . . send 3 million Americans to the welfare line . . . and reduce average household income by a whopping $4,000 each year.Washington knows all of this . . . and is still barreling forward with its nonsense policies!They re just letting you foot the bill, while they pocket the benefits. Climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now. Fact is, organizations like the Environmental Protection Agency have handcuffed capitalism . . . based on a theory even its staunchest supporters have already renounced.The result: reduced business, higher energy and food costs, higher taxes, lost jobs, and more money going overseas.For entire story: NewsMax | 1real |
Japanese man kills wife and priestess sister with sword in bizarre family feud: media | TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man wielding a sword killed his sister, a Shinto priestess, on the grounds of a Tokyo shrine, then stabbed his wife to death before committing suicide, police and media said. Police declined to comment on a motive for Thursday s killings or the family feud. Shigenaga Tomioka, 56, attacked Nagako Tomioka, 58, chief priestess of the Tomioka Hachimangu shrine, as she got out of a car. Media reports said she was his sister. His 49-year-old wife, Mariko, stabbed and wounded the driver of the car with a sword, police said, before she too was killed. Shigenaga sent a threatening letter to his sister in 2006, saying he would send her to hell , the Sankei newspaper said. Shinto is the traditional religion of Japan and many shrines dot the country. The Tomioka Hachimangu shrine, established in 1627, has a close link with sumo and the emperor and empress visited in 2012. | 0fake |
Republican officials from 16 states back Trump in travel ban fight | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican officials from 16 U.S. states led by Texas said on Tuesday they have come to the defense of President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations, telling the Supreme Court the order did not unconstitutionally single out Muslims and was needed to protect national security. The officials filed a legal brief with the Supreme Court as it mulls whether to take up the Trump administration’s appeal of lower court rulings blocking the travel ban signed by the Republican president on March 6 and let it go into effect. In the states’ brief, filed on Monday, Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller wrote that the executive order does not mention religion at all and distinguishes people based only on nationality. “The executive order therefore is emphatically not a ‘Muslim ban,’” Keller wrote. Keller added that courts should be careful when second-guessing a president’s national security determinations, an argument that echoes the administration’s view that the judiciary should defer to the president on such matters. The brief said the order did not violation the Constitution’s ban on the government favoring or disfavoring any particular religion or its guarantee of due process. The filing came after the administration asked the high court last Thursday to allow the order to take effect. [nL1N1IZ03Q] Aside from Texas, the officials were Republican state attorneys general from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and West Virginia, as well as Mississippi’s Republican governor. Three Republican attorneys general came from states with Democratic governors: Louisiana, Montana and West Virginia. Most of the states had also backed Trump earlier in the litigation. Many Democratic state officials have opposed the ban in lower courts. The high court is due to review legal papers filed by the ban’s challengers, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, before acting. The briefs are due on Monday. A key issue before the justices in whether Trump’s comments during the 2016 president campaign, including calling for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” can be used as evidence that his order was intended to discriminate against Muslims. The administration filed emergency applications with the justices seeking to block lower court rulings that went against Trump’s order barring entry for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days while the U.S. government implements stricter visa screening. Trump’s order also called for suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days. The move comes after the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on May 25 upheld a Maryland judge’s ruling blocking the order. [nL1N1IR1FY] Potentially making it harder for his lawyers to win at the Supreme Court, Trump again commented on the case on Monday, tweeting complaints that his own administration had issued a “watered down, politically correct version” of an earlier order he signed on Jan. 27 that also was blocked by courts. [nL1N1J209L] | 0fake |
Interview: Sarah Anastasia, Muslim Makeup Artist And Skin Care Consultant | In the latest installment of “Islam In America,” Roqayah Chamseddine is joined by Sarah Anastasia, a 27-year-old Muslim makeup artist and skin care consultant based in Massachusetts. Sarah discusses her service work and the exploitation and abuse that workers often face.
She also talks about her sexual assault, how sexual assault survivors, specifically women, are often castigated for being assaulted, and what the reaction has been from her friends and family, including other Muslims.
Plus, in light of the release of Donald Trump’s “Access Hollywood” conversation with Billy Bush, which was recorded in 2007, Roqayah and Sarah examine the implications of this rhetoric about using his status as a celebrity to assault women and how it impacts survivors of sexual assault.
This interview is part of Roqayah’s Islam In America series, which amplifies the stories of Muslim-Americans and what they struggle with in their day-to-day lives beyond just Islamophobia.
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Below is a partial transcript of the interview:
ROQAYAH: Before we get into the second half of the interview, I want to warn those listening that the subject matter may be difficult because we’re going to be talking about sexual assault. It’s a confronting and inarguably painful issue for all people, especially those who have been victims or those who know someone who’s been sexually assaulted.
According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network or RAIN, one of out of every six American women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. About 3% of American men or one in thirty-three have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. And from 2009-2015, Child Protective Services substantiated or found strong evidence to indicate that 63,000 children a year were victims of sexual abuse.
According to the National Crime Victims Survey, since 1998, there have been 17.7 million American women who have been raped and 2.78 million American Men, and that’s according to the survey. There may be more because as we all know a lot of people do not come forward because of the stigmatization and other issues they may face from both the police or family.
So, before we delve into anything, I wanted to say thank you for letting me talk to you about your story because I know it’s a really painful issue to talk about, especially since you’re a survivor yourself. Feel free to divulge as much or as little as you’re comfortable with.
The reaction to you talking about your sexual assault, because you have talked in brevity on Twitter and I believe on Facebook to some extent—What was it like? What was the reaction like to you talking about it?
SARAH: Part of the reason why I posted it on social media was because I don’t—and I still really don’t. I felt like I didn’t really have anyone to talk to. What kind of, in as vague terms as possible, there was someone I was seeing out-of-state, and I went to go see him. His best friend ended up assaulting me. On top of this, my boyfriend, whatever you want to call him, obviously, ex-boyfriend now, blamed me for the entire thing and said it never happened when he was there. And called me all these disgusting names and said I deserved it. Plus, I was just thinking about it the other day because I hate to call it an anniversary but it’s been a year and like a week basically.
I was just thinking about it and how weird it was that it never happened, but then it was my fault for it happening. I was just thinking about that and how ridiculous it was. But anyways, I didn’t have anyone that I felt really comfortable talking to and also when it first happened, I was out-of-state so I had absolutely nobody. So it was very scary to me and I felt like Twitter—I don’t want to call Twitter a safe space—but I feel like it’s a place that I can express myself. Obviously, I get trolled like almost everybody does. But I was able to say what was happening almost like an open journal in some kind of play-by-play of what was happening.
Thankfully, a lot of my friends that follow me were very receptive obviously and asked me if I was okay, this and that. I just felt like it was kind of important to talk about, but at the same time, I didn’t want to tell any of my family members. I had like one friend I told. I just felt very scared, and I felt like I was going to be judged or nobody was going to believe me. So, it’s like what is the point of even telling a family member if they’re just going to blame me or say it didn’t happen or say I’m making it up or being dramatic. I project a lot in my head, and so I feel like I was like I don’t even want to go there because I’m going to be more stressed out. More anxiety. Everything so Twitter was just kind of the place I went to.
ROQAYAH: On that note, what have you gone through mentally, emotionally, and maybe even physically in light of the Trump tapes, where he gleefully talks about freely assaulting women? Because I know that many women have had stay away from social media because of this issue. They go through reliving their experiences. So what have you gone through?
SARAH: I actually went on a mini-vacation that weekend when everything happened with the tapes with my family and none of them know. So it was kind of this really bizarre kind of like me listening to all their opinions about it, and thankfully, for the most part, my family members were just like this guy is trash. He assaults women. He’s disgusting. He’s a piece of shit. Blah blah blah. But you had the few comments of, well, why are they coming out now? And that obviously hurts even more knowing that I never reported my assault. If I had said to them, oh by the way, I was raped too. It would be, well, why did it take you so long to come out type of thing?
So that weekend was not really the best weekend.
Just a lot of the same things that his defenders or his supporters or fans kind of say that are enabling him are the same exact reasons why I didn’t report my assault and why I didn’t tell so many people because of that same reaction. So it just brought back a lot of really bad memories and feelings.
ROQAYAH: People don’t understand what it takes to actually report sexual abuse. It’s more than going to the police and saying, hey, this happened to me and then it’s over with. It’s extremely intense. You have to not only tell a complete stranger what happened to you. You have to undergo oftentimes medical services that require you to undress yourself, do different kind of examinations, and then at the end of the day, your rape kit may not even be tested for years on end. There’s a lot more to it.
And then, finding out recently I believe based on reports in the Washington Post and elsewhere, cops will routinely laugh and mock sexual assault victims and try to manipulate them into recanting or telling them things like the kid is really young. Why you gonna ruin his life? So this isn’t just something, oh, you didn’t tell? Why didn’t you tell? It’s a lot more than filing a report and then going home and you’re fine. But I think a lot of people assume it’s that easy.
Do you think the language that Trump uses in those tapes, and uses otherwise to describe women, do you think that’s pervasive amongst men in the U.S?
SARAH: Oh, totally. Even before these tapes happened, like if you go back, I posted about this on Facebook. What he did to Miss Universe, even back to Rosie O’Donnell. He has always been so just disgusting. You can just tell he’s somebody who thinks they’re more powerful and so much more above women and just thinks they’re there to serve him and he can do whatever he wants to them and he’s rich and this and that. Like the same thing from the tapes.
It was more the reaction to the tapes that was surprising. Clearly, this is a huge issue in the U.S. You have not just with Donald Trump but you see this a lot of time on the news anyways. I remember with Steubenville and a lot of other cases, like that swimmer, Brock Turner. Like oh you’re ruining his wife and this and that and no one ever once thinks, oh, this poor woman’s life is completely ruined. I remember in Steubenville the women had to move out of the town because she was getting harassed.
It’s just so ridiculous to me and so hurtful that this is continuously happening, and obviously, with Trump too. And I think it’s beyond people who support him. I think there are people too who were like, oh, it’s just words. My mom and I saw some type of report where they went to some random town in Pennsylvania and a lot of them were saying oh that’s Trump’s personal life. I’m still going to vote for him. And it’s like, how is that personal life? He’s assaulting women. That shows how disgusting he is and just his character is so rotten.
ROQAYAH: A lot of these people defending him either know someone who talks like that or talk like that. I was not as angry about it and thankfully I began to say this is really bad. You need to stop talking about women like animals basically. Whenever I hear any guy defending what he is saying—I mean, it’s very simple. All you got to do is say I don’t support what he says. It’s really bad. There’s really not more to it, but men specifically are going out of their way to say, eh, this is normal. And I don’t talk like that but it happens and get over it and you’re being politically correct. It’s a bunch of bullshit they use to defend in reality what they are in real life.
So being a sexual assault survivor, have you had trouble talking about this to other Muslims? Because I know that sex and the subject of sexual assault is still unfortunately really taboo in our community.
SARAH: Thankfully for most Muslim women, my friends, they’ve either — well, I shouldn’t say thankfully because unfortunately some of them are like this happened to me too. I’ve had several people, friends either from real life or social media, contact me and be like this happened to me too, which is a whole other issue. But I haven’t really—Even when I was posting about it on Twitter, not that many men really replied. I did have a friend that was not that judgmental but he did ask me was I drinking, what was I wearing, and stuff like that. It’s like that’s not really relevant to the story because you’re not asking if he was drinking or what he was wearing. Why is that even a question? So that really bothered me.
ROQAYAH: I don’t know why. I don’t know why this is still an issue with men. There’s no reason why that will matter in the story. No one has a right to put their hands on another person without consent. So if you are butt naked and you are out of your mind drunk, it shouldn’t matter. You don’t have the right to touch anyone, especially in a situation where they might not be there mentally. That kind of thing really makes me sick.
SARAH: It just makes me very angry. In my head, it’s almost like are you doubting my story or—The only answer is, what if I was wearing a revealing outfit and I was doing shots at the bar or something (which I wasn’t)? Does that mean that I deserved it? I don’t get why you’re asking the question.
ROQAYAH: It serves no purpose whatsoever, and it works as a way for them to manipulate you and sort of doubt your story without coming out and having a spine to say I don’t believe you.
SARAH: Right, and especially I feel like from Muslims it’s like that whole extra, well, were you drinking because you’re not supposed to be? Well, were you wearing a revealing outfit? You shouldn’t have been.
ROQAYAH: That’s another issue with Muslims. It’s a bit off-topic, but since we brought up the subject, a lot of Muslims look down on other Muslims who drink or who don’t wear the hijab or don’t follow the religion as they think they should. And so we see when a lot of Muslims are in the news, and they do something terrible, they go, oh, well, he wasn’t really a Muslim. He was drinking. Or he wasn’t really a Muslim. He was having premarital sex. They don’t understand that sin doesn’t remove you from the fold of your religion in the way that they think. So people will make mistakes or do whatever, and it doesn’t make them any less of a Muslim than you because you’re so uber pious.
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Comment on BREAKING: Officer Charged for Killing Innocent Unarmed Father With His Hands Up on Video by Luke Yi | Home / BREAKING NEWS / BREAKING: Officer Charged for Killing Innocent Unarmed Father With His Hands Up on Video BREAKING: Officer Charged for Killing Innocent Unarmed Father With His Hands Up on Video
UPDATE: On Thursday afternoon, District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler directed his staff to file a first-degree manslaughter charge against Officer Betty Shelby in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher. According to the Tulsa World report:
A warrant has been issued for her arrest and arrangements made for her surrender.
Kunzweiler filed the charge after reviewing dash cam video and helicopter video that captured the shooting. He also reviewed citizen 911 calls, witness interviews and other evidence, according to a news release from the District Attorney’s Office.
“Officer Shelby, although now charged, is presumed to be innocent under the law until a judge or jury determines otherwise,” the release states.
Tulsa, OK — Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher Friday night when he experienced car trouble after leaving night classes at Tulsa Community College — and now, dash cam video of the shooting shows the man’s arms were in the air when Shelby took his life.
“His hands were in the air from all views,” pastor Rodney Goss of the Morning Star Baptist Church, who viewed footage from both dash cams and a police helicopter prior to the public release, told the Tulsa World . “It was not apparent from any angle at any point he lunged, came toward, aggressively attacked, or made any sudden movements that would have been considered a threat or life-threatening toward the officer.”
Police had thus far claimed Crutcher — whose SUV broke down in the middle of the road — approached the officers aggressively while refusing to obey commands to raise his arms, an action the helicopter pilot notes would perhaps be worthy of deploying the Taser.
“He’s got his hands up for her now,” the pilot says of Crutcher, adding a moment later the man appears uncooperative and may need to be tased.
Officer Tyler Turnbough then deployed his Taser against Crutcher, but Shelby fired before the electric jolt could even knock him to the ground. Video from one patrol car’s dash can and that as seen from a police helicopter circling above clearly shows Crutcher not acting aggressively as the cops surround and then murder him.
“It wasn’t a matter of minutes, it was a matter of moments,” Goss noted. “As quick as the officer released the Taser from his hand, Terence was falling to the ground having already been shot.”
Worse, he explained, the officers seemed not to treat their victim with any concern, and made no moves to provide first aid after the tasing and shooting.
“After having been shot, a couple minutes it appears, but it seemed like a lifetime, went by before anyone actually checked with him as far as pulse — as far as whatever the case may be,” Goss said.
Police on scene indeed appear infinitely more concerned with the panicked Shelby than they do with the man they just shot for no apparent reason, and footage bears out Goss’ statement it takes minutes for officers even to approach the dying man. As Crutcher lies mortally wounded on the ground, officers back away like frightened children, supporting Shelby by the arms. As the helicopter circles overhead, audio of the pilot shows he is quite startled by the inexplicable shooting.
Goss explained to the World that Crutcher moved slowly and deliberately throughout his brief interaction with the police.
But the cops’ predilection to employ force might have been a forgone conclusion, as he said, one officer is overheard in audio inexplicably describing Crutcher — the father of four, who was taking a night class in music appreciation — as “one bad dude.”
As Goss plainly summarized , “There was a perception problem before there was ever a shooting.”
Although authorities had refused to say whether or not a weapon was recovered at the scene, Crutcher’s twin sister, Tiffany insists her brother would not have been armed.
“One fact I do know is that my brother was unarmed,” she asserted in a news conference Saturday. “I’m just devastated.”
In a press conference prior to the release of the video he called “very disturbing” and “hard to watch,” Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan finally confirmed, “I’m going to tell you right now, right now, there was no gun on the suspect or in the suspect’s vehicle.”
Crutcher’s family, their attorneys, local pastors, and several activists were permitted to view the footage before police released it to the public.
“We wanted them to see it before it was released so they wouldn’t be blindsided by it,” Tulsa Police Sgt. Shane Tuell confirmed, according to ABC News . “We wanted to be able to have that intimate time with them, with their attorney, to see if they had any questions or concerns.
“With something of this magnitude, we’re trying an approach that we believe is necessary to further that transparency.”
Shelby, on the force since 2011, and Turnbough, an officer since 2009 — who were named by police on Sunday — encountered Crutcher’s stalled SUV as they were responding to another call. Both have been given the paid vacation, otherwise known as administrative leave, customarily ‘rewarded’ after the use of fatal force.
“We have to let justice take its course,” Goss said prior to the announcement the Department of Justice would conduct an investigation into the fatal shooting.
Activists gathered outside the Tulsa County Courthouse to protest the killing of Crutcher and the ballooning epidemic of police violence, while community leaders urged the public to remain calm upon release of footage.
“Protests are not a problem,” Chief Jordan told the press. “I grew up in the 60s and it’s a very valid way of people to protect their rights.”
Whether calm and justice will ultimately prevail hinges on whether or not Shelby receives proportionate punishment for taking the life of a wholly and utterly innocent man whose only crime — apparently a capital offense — was having car trouble at an inopportune moment.
This is what complying with police in America looks like. [ Editor’s note: While it was originally reported by multiple sources Terence Crutcher was a pastor , we have yet to confirm that information and have corrected the article to reflect this.] Share
i wonder what that cop dropped? Tom Harder
He didn’t drop anything. That was the suspect hitting the ground. Steve Smith
funny how you call the victim a suspect and not a PASTOR Antonio Cruz
pastor or not, it remain a suspect, until the end of the investigation. grapesodabanked
Suspect of what? He was just a random guy whose car broke down and they ran into him on their way to another call. Antonio Cruz
i do not know, what he is suspect of, I do know, in legal matters, is just a denomination for anyone, in any circunstance anywhere. Sillywilly
so if your wife or your child breaks down on the side of the road they’re suspect of something huh? Antonio Cruz
the answer is; yes anyone anywhere could be a suspect. Sevalo
So, in your mind, inhaling and exhaling makes one a suspect. Antonio Cruz
Please, for your own good, find a dictionary search for the word and then, come back, right now I am just wasting my time trying to make you understand, it is about semantics. Sevalo
From your posts that are filled with bad grammar and spelling errors, I suggest you consult not only your dictionary but also William Strunk’s The Elements of Style. Antonio Cruz
it might be because, english is not my first language, and my disability includes parcial hand movement and aphasia. in your case is just, the inability to understand your own language. Luke Yi
If you are not familiar with terminology in English perhaps you ought neither correct others’ English, nor weigh in about the legal validity of certain language.
Lawyers are experts in a very particular language. Luke Yi
“person thought to be guilty of a crime or offense”
Nice try but you ought to learn to use the dictionary yourself Sillywilly
suspect of what?? Having car trouble? billdeserthills
You must know cops refer to themselves as Us and they refer to us as Them–they lump anybody else with the criminals just like the bunch of stupid gang members they resemble Sillywilly
now that I can agree with BigJohnConnor
The answer is that you are a fucking moron who has no concept of the law or what it means to be a free citizen. Luke Yi
“Could be” is distinct from “is” Jordan Manicom
He was only a “suspect” to an assembly of fools. Steve Smith
His morality when he joined the force. Butch Taylor
Clearing Shelby and Turnbough of any wrong doing is promising to be the white wash cover up of all time. supersajin
Looks like paid vacation and a GoFundMe page is in those cops future… TroothFairy
Death penalty for cops who pull shit like this. Reaves
We can start by comparing whatever initial statement they gave to the videos we have. If an officer is intentionally deceptive, that should be a felony in its own right. TroothFairy
Completely agree. Cops need to be held to a much higher standard than ordinary citizens. d marino
They aren’t being held to ANY damn standard in today’s society. They are literally “getting away with murder”. billdeserthills
Much like our politicians, they both break their oath of office all the time Jan Miller Saylors
I think some of the above comments would certainly apply to Hillary Clinton,talk about above the law……There is no excuse to shoot an unarmed person with his hands up in the air,that is cooperating with the officer. Kevin Rogers
But he wasn’t cooperating with the officer… Officers don’t follow you to your vehicle when they feel threatened, they tell you to get on the ground. Christopher Pacella
they are they take a oath and there word in a court of law means more then yours d marino
They lie, a lot, even in court. Just like our high officials lie in court and nothing happens to the criminals of power (the cops, the lawyers, the Congressmen, the Judges, the President, etc.). edslides
YE and that is NOT discrimination. its called respect. it is expected of citizens, BUT doubly so, righteously so, for a man that swears an oath to uphold the law. accident? accidents have consequences. I kill a guy, i go to jail, period. read a few of your comments lately tooth fairy. you head is bolted on solid. it nauseates me how the cop had more compassion for the stupid fucking cunt that killed an innocent man that he/she/they had for the man they just shot. i AM SO FUCKING PISSED. David Hall
I am too, it just makes me want to puke. The sight of all the pussies cuddling up to the cunt that just murdered a man is beyond fucking words. All they cared about was her. The man is dying and they don’t give a fuck. And the low life scumbags wobder why America is against them and wants to kill all of them, every day we see why. This one takes it to a new low, even for the POS cowards and bullies. It really just makes me so fucking mad I could kill all of them POS and never lose a nights sleep. I used to wonder why guys would say when a cop was killed, good riddance…now I know why! What the fuck is the matter with the low IQ POS cops in the U.S. Thank God I don’t live in America. They have a real problem. soulshadow55
David, I totally agree with you. Just out of curiosity, what country do you live in? Lliss
Spoken by a guy who’s been arrested several times! lol Reinhold Von Kirschmann
She was charged with murder. Where’s your big mouth now? Point
Hmm… You sound like someone who would definitely leave a dying person unhelped – possibly even cause a person to die in the first place. Which makes essentially indistinguishable from the subjects your essay. Luke Yi
That’s not a very careful reading of the text, or the subtext, of david hall’s comment Point
I’m not certain there is much subtext to read from Mr. Hall’s post; I take his post as his pure and unadulterated feelings. He states the following:
“It really just makes me so fucking mad I could kill all of them POS and never lose a nights sleep.”
If I ever deliberately caused harm to a person, I know I’d never have a proper night’s sleep again. The idea that Mr. Hall would feel good about the killings of multiple people – let alone his own proposal to do it himself – seems to me precisely the mindset that supports the continued killing of people. Justsomeguy151
It’s called justice, that’s why you hate it. Point
Oh, that’s justice? Please, tell me more about your beliefs or opinions regarding justice. I am eager to hear them.
It sounds suspiciously though, that if we all agreed to follow your concept of “justice,” that we would end up with one, solitary, very sad person. The last person, and the only one to actually experience this “justice.” And frankly, the only reason he’s left is because there’s no one left to blow his brains out. Luke Yi
I think that was david halls point by the way–that this cycle of violence, which is being perpetrated in part under the auspices of the law, is leaving families bereaved, helpless, hopeless, sad, and alone.
I myself feel this disconnection. I would rather it were any other way.
But people, especially it seems white evangelicals, support “an eye for an eye” rather than the love and forgiveness suggested by the black families of the black victims at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church who were murdered by a white supremacist. Jan Honeycutt
No one in my church supports that the goes against the Bible. Luke Yi
I didn’t say anything about your church, Jan. I didn’t say anything about all Christians or all white people or all evangelicals. I said something that is true: some Christians advocate an eye for an eye. billdeserthills
That ‘eye for an eye’ stuff is from the Torah–You need to figure out which bunch of people you are trying to c rap on sonny boy Luke Yi
It’s in “Exodus” in the King James Bible.
No one needs you to reinterpret my words
But lies, distortions, and ad hominem as are par for the course aren’t you? Justsomeguy151
Easy, hypocritical POS. You think thee should be zero consequences for pigs murdering civilians for nothing but if pigs got their traitorous heads blown off for murder, THEN its justice. get it, POS? Point
I see. So to you, justice is blowing peoples’ heads off?
I guess if either of us want to see justice in action, we’re going to have to go somewhere like China. I hear there is lots of justice there. Luke Yi
He stated pretty clearly he’s upset by the situation. He employs the subjunctive tense rather than future tense to indicate a hypothetical.
As I said you’re not reading text or subtext carefully. Subtext requires understanding the background, or where the author is arriving at this point from.
David never said he was going to kill someone; he said he’s upset.
Or perhaps you’re the kind of person who, when you say “I could just kill my brother for doing that!” is actually considering killing him. Justsomeguy151
You must be fucking stupid to think that. Point
Well then I guess you’re right, and I must be fucking stupid.
Great chat, though.
I feel the same way, so glad to hear of your impending departure billdeserthills
I disagree, you aren’t related to a cop are you? Point
No, I’m not. Should it make a difference? billdeserthills
I don’t wanna be calling you a copsucker, if you aren’t one Point
Well… I’m a scientist, so I guess I’d be a sciencesucker.
Meanwhile, I’ve made my viewpoints pretty clear in this thread. You’ve reviewed it pretty carefully already, since you’ve replied to several of my comments individually.
I suggest that we can talk about the ideas I’ve been representing (which are very interesting), or me (which is considerably less interesting) – but the topics are quite separate. Which would you prefer to discuss? billdeserthills
You just done sucked the fun right outta this thread Point
A draw, then?
Who knows, if our viewpoints are so divergent, perhaps we can look forward to another go at it some other time. billdeserthills
You for or against a man’s right to Demand Satisfaction? Point
An interesting question: but I don’t know what you mean by “demanding satisfaction.” If it means you get to kill someone’s son because they killed your son, then no. I am against that. If satisfaction means that someone who harms or kills another person must answer for that in a court of law, then I am for it.
I would also like to know, if it is a right, where that right is documented? The only rights that I am aware that I have come from my U.S. citizenship, and are bestowed by the U.S. Constitution and the tributaries of law that emanate from it. When I travel outside my country, I’m no longer protected by my constitution.
I also believe strongly in the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Paris, 1948). While it is not a document with legal status, it serves to guide a fragmented and contentious world stage towards recognizing and acknowledging a series of “fundamental rights”– an ideal towards which we can strive.
One thing I do know: one does not have a “right” to something just because they claim it’s their “right.” I’m betting that people misunderstanding what their rights are – and are not – is a component in many examples of the continuing violence and contention between people now. Luke Yi
Those rights are actually not considered by the constitution or our founders to originate with the document or their ideas.
The founders considered these to be natural rights, endowed to us merely by our existence.
Of course, they thought only wealthy white males were actually human adults, and everyone else was an object for use, including women, children, and other races. billdeserthills
Lawyers seem to have made off with my right to ‘demand satisfaction’ then Point
…or, you never had such a right in the first place, and you simply invented it. billdeserthills
The Right to Demand Satisfaction did exist at one time, it seems to have ended in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s as a so-called scientist I am surprised you never heard of it– I hope you don’t also think dueling pistols are something I made up as well, mr so-called fancypants scientist Point
Hmm…“The Right to Demand Satisfaction.” Well, I guess we’ll just have to take your word on it. But honestly, it sounds like something you just made up. And “rights” simply don’t work like that.
In regard to “dueling pistols,” I’m afraid the example is not related to your earlier claim of some sort of “right.” In fact, if I’m not mistaken, duels were a matter of a code of honor, and had very little to do with rights.
It’s sort of interesting that you say your “Right to Demand Satisfaction” disappeared in “the late 1800’s or early 1900’s,” since it wasn’t long after that the modern concept of “rights” really began to enter our social consciousness. billdeserthills
Too bad the schools don’t do much of a job educating you kids these days Point
That’s fine. We’re done with our chat though, correct? billdeserthills
I suppose, you don’t really seem intelligent enough to discuss much–You can’t even remember simple things others write, even when that writing would be easily referred to, you still get it wrong–Sounds like you are just a modern-made problem waiting to happen to your next employer, sucks to be that guy, I suppose Point
Cheers. billdeserthills
I’m thinking you should definitely invest in a helmet, so you don’t fall down and cause yourself some brain damage Sounds like you need to preserve all the brain cells you can get Point
That’s also fine. I thought we were done with our discussion?
Since you have had nothing to say regarding our original topic of discussion – despite your several ongoing comments – may I suggest that at this time, we allow others to express themselves, and our discussion can become part of the archive of this article’s comments?
Cheers. billdeserthills
This isn’t a piece of paper, there is plenty of room for saying nothing at all here–besides the mods need something to do. Point
That’s going to be a problem for our friend, Billdeserthills, because he has indicated that a man has “a right to demand satisfaction.” He has also since indicated that “satisfaction” involves blowing someone’s head off. billdeserthills
Actually I said nothing of the kind. So sad to see modern education at work– Point
My bad – the person I intended to refer to is “Justsomeguy151.” billdeserthills
Sounds like you are getting smarter, I hope it isn’t just more BS Point
Cheers. billdeserthills
Totally unfounded–Hard to believe that You are actually a ‘scientist’–Real scientist’s use facts, before they shoot off they’re mouths–You should try it sometime–Facts can be your friend Luke Yi
We intentionally do not hire cops with IQs much above the mean. I understand the reasoning employed in that decision but believe it’s a moral error billdeserthills
It’s not just a ‘moral’ error–The money these so-called ‘police’ cost taxpayers Every Year could buy us all something real nice–Or even a whole bunch of Real Police Point
In many jurisdictions, it sort of depends on why you killed the guy. Christopher Pacella
innocent??? that nigger had his hands up. that means he was high on crack. Annica
Wow and your hate is the reason why there’s still racial tension. Unarmed, hands up don’t deserve to be shot dead in cold blood. Period. No human deserves that. No matter their race. Bigot. Justsomeguy151
Bigoted fagot, you’re not funny. In fact, you deserve to be brutally murdered by the very same pig’s you suck off. Point
Huh… so you do like blacks, but you don’t like gays?
Do you have a list, or something so that we can know ahead of time who’s ok, and who’s not?
It’s sort of weird, because usually people will either dislike both gays and blacks, or they won’t have a problem with either. But – eh – there’s no rules about these things. billdeserthills
Are You taking notes? Point
A list of the people who you don’t like. We’ve got blacks and gays so far. Anyone else?
I’m honestly not sure what your argument regarding gays is – I’ve read your comment a couple times, and it’s clear you don’t like them. What’s the point, though?
You’re welcome to like or to not like anyone you want, in my opinion. I don’t know if it’s a “right,” per se, but I treat it as though it is. But, if you’re going to say things that aren’t in fact true, then – if it’s a topic I am familiar with – I’ll probably say something to you about it. billdeserthills
I don’t really know any black or gay people, so I can’t say I don’t like them Point
Fair enough. Maybe I misinterpreted one of your earlier comments. Justsomeguy151
I don’t dislike gays although I hate what they do and the Gay Agenda. A list for what? Are you an idiot? We are all responsible for own actions and gays always say “I just can’t help it, I was born this way” (even though there are former gays so yes, they can definitely choose), so their perversion should be OK. Well pedophiles say the same thing but not too many people are falling all over themselves to defend them. Luke Yi
I’m certain you’re wrong about “kill a guy…go to jail”— the law has many different ways of treating killers depending on the particular circumstances.
That said I agree with the sentiment behind your expression Jan Honeycutt
If we shoot a criminal on our property we go to jail. Mike List
Not sure ‘much higher’ is good, but the parameters of police conduct need to be communicated and understood in good faith, by police and their clients. Luke Yi
Why wouldn’t higher standards be required of someone who in the course of their duties employs deadly force legally? Messier M41
They aren’t held to any standard, except whatever one they decide they want to be held to that day. If the military is being honored, then the police will say “we are just like them and we should be honored like them.” When they shoot unarmed people, the standard is “I was a scared little bitch and I wanted to make sure I got home to my family! How dare you question me!” freewheelinfranklin543
It is called Obstruction of Justice and it is a felony. Tmoney
Obstruction of justice is a felony? The obstruction the officer was talking about was not answering questions which is bullshit because you don’t have to answer questions it’s called the 5th amendment. Even if he was charged and even if it went to court that type of obstruction would be a misdemeanor. Obstruction is a broad term and can be a felony, but things like people filming an encounter and interfering with an arrest is misdemeanor obstruction. James
I’ve got a better idea. put them in the stocks and subject them to a lifetime of public humiliation and abuse. edslides
death is too generous. put that useless twat n general population in a state penitentiary, remember how dahmer got justiced? shanked in the terlet. this shit has got to be nipped in the fuckin bud. sooner rather than later. i dont care what color you are, this is just straight up bullshit. looked down the barrel of a cop gun myself twice, once for walking, once for questioning a “cops” authoritah. Jordan Manicom
I would have killed the pig billdeserthills
No you wouldn’t, I’ve had many people draw down on me and not all of them cops by a long shot–That ‘keepin it real’ bs isn’t worth a trip to jail–However you might second my desire to bring back Our Right to Demand Satisfaction? There was honor in that, someone gets slapped with a glove and someone gets killed (maybe) for their beliefs–Next time your politician disappoints you voting for the wrong side–Pistols at dawn scumbag! Or of course they could just run away, and look like dishonorable scum… Lliss
Did all of you guys on his blog get left back in at least one grade? You sound so infantile and dumb! billdeserthills
Fuck off twat, I wasn’t talking to you Luke Yi
Of course pistols were quite inaccurate then. Modern pistols would likely make that a death sentence. Also, the best shot gets their way, rather than the best person. billdeserthills
Dueling pistols are generally smooth bore, without rifling–They look to be intentionally created to be slightly inaccurate — Anyhow if you can’t shoot you could always hire someone to be your champion Luke Yi
Weapons were never designed to be intentionally inaccurate. Design of weapons has improved dramatically since the 1700s. billdeserthills
Why weren’t the barrels rifled then? At the time rifle barrels were rifled, so the weapon makers knew about the accuracy potential of rifling a barrel–You are so smart, answer me that smarty pants freewheelinfranklin543
Dahmer wasn’t shanked. He was beaten(to a bloody pulp) to death with barbells. Lliss
Again, Spoken by a cop hating guy who’s been arrested several times. Shut up Jerome Taylor
No you shut up!! Point
Notice the number of people who so easily and blithely call for the death of other people. They’re sort of in the majority.
And I walk around with these people on the street, every day, people thinking that there are people who need to be killed. And I’m sure some of them think that I need to be killed.
When I realize how little respect my fellow Americans have for life, it makes me feel like we should have hyper-aggressive cops.
If you’re calling for death, then I’m not even sure it matters why it should be so important whose death your calling for. The cops shot this man – he never bothered me, but you know what – there are plenty of people who he would have bothered. For example, America is filled with racists right now. They’ll be pleased.
Maybe this week, there will be another attack against police officers. Some people will be happy that some of them died.
I do know that there is almost no example where enough people were killed to solve whatever thing they thought was a problem. I know Hitler tried, but he missed some, and so whatever problem he thought existed because of jews, still exists. You – and a bunch of others – think that cops should be killed. Well, some folks think the same way, and have gone ahead and killed some cops. Turns out that we still have cop problems.
You know what I don’t like about these cops? That they’re reckless with life. That’s who I don’t trust: people reckless with life. Those who call for violence, who support it, overtly or silently, are the foundation of many complex contemporary social ills. Luke Yi
I think you lost track of your point when you called for hyper aggressive cops–wouldn’t they kill people? Doesn’t that mean you’re calling for killing people, which is the opposite of what you stayed you were for?
And yes, killing people literally ended Hitler’s reign of terror, so that particular problem was solved in part by killing people.
Your message is confused and mixed, you might just want to rewrite that post altogether for posterity. Point
Quite fair; my prior comment got a little out of hand.
To speak plainly: I am against all killing and injury of people. Regardless of reason. It’s an ethic I chose, and have developed based on what ultimately has been important to me, and in my honest opinion, to the long-term health of our society.
My confusing post is in response to those who make the argument – and there are many here – that the cop should be killed. The essential theme I was attempting to communicate is that there is no situation where killing someone has ultimately lead to a better world. billdeserthills
You are confused, the vast majority of people want to be peaceable and peaceful. Point
If you need it pointed out to you, I’m glad to: the population I’m referring to in reference to the “number of people” are those who have commented on this story. Not the general population. Sorry you misunderstood. billdeserthills
That just isn’t true, many people use these forums to blow off steam. I have blocked lots of people and even they had little actual desire to kill anyone. Put a gun in your pocket and you’ll see just how little it likely gets used Point
I’m quite sure that your view is the more “correct,” or more in-line with the intent of those posters. In fact, I’m sure I’ve “blown off steam” in the past also.
However: I consider that a very harmful steam. I consider it corrosive to the mind that creates the steam; I consider it poisonous to those who read it; and I feel that it is that very steam that – for a minority of us – eventually gives us the impetuous to harm another person.
And – frankly – such attitudes tend to be divisive rather than unifying. This really is a problem – the cops killing people (or – depending on what flavor steam percolates through your mind, a problem with black people) – and the solution is even more complex than the problem. Mind you, this site seems to have a bias on the political spectrum. There are other sites where I’m having conversations on this very same topic, only instead of telling people it’s wrong to want to kill – or wish the death – of a cop, I’m trying to get racists to tell me, sanely and rationally, their rationale for disliking black people.
See how it almost ruined our friendship? And neither of us blew off any steam – you and I had contention because of others’ steam.
Anyway, I enjoy that we can have this chat.
PS – you’re right, if I put a gun in my pocket, it wouldn’t get used. The same is true for many of us, even the steamy ones. My concern is the minority of folks who will use their gun. Luke Yi
Different strokes for different folks, no? Sometimes people must express their anger or (as is common for men of my age) suffer stress related illnesses such as heart attack, stroke, or high blood pressure. Luke Yi
I’m not convinced they are the majority, by any means. palvadore
The only reason LEOs behave so egregiously is because they are allowed to get away with smaller crimes.
Attacking the boot on our collective throat may help a little, but the solution is to look at those enabling the base corruption and immorality. The judges, DAs, Police Chiefs, and lawyers all have blood on their hands. Luke Yi
It is ironic to me that the same folks who believe in arming up to defend themselves from the federal government, simultaneously seem to believe the local (poorly trained) police can do no wrong. Point
I’ve always thought that the only people who deserve capital punishment are those who support capital punishment. Aleix
“I’ve always thought that the only people who deserve capital punishment are those who support capital punishment”“I’ve always thought”
so you support yourself being given capital punishment.
Think about that
Is deadly ain’t it? billdeserthills
You scientist folks sound backwards and all mixed up Point
I wouldn’t know. I only see one other person participating in our chat prepared to seriously discuss these issues, and I have no idea what he does for work. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s associated with science. Perhaps anthropology – he’s got a strong, strong insight to the human psyche. billdeserthills
So how is it that a ‘scientist’ such as yourself never heard of the scientific method? Point
Your question doesn’t really make any sense, I’m afraid.
I’m also getting a little bored with you. If you want to talk about me, it’s a very different topic. Start it elsewhere. I’ll remind you that the original topic addresses the desire of a rather sociopathic-sounding individual to see more people die in response to people dying. I think that’s a more interesting topic. billdeserthills
You can quit talking anytime you like Tmoney
Can anyone sync up the helicopter video with the ground audio with the shot? Police stated they used a taser and then shot him. Could the taser caused him to drop his hand or was he shot and then dropped his hand as a result of that. Even if he dropped his hand his car broke down on the road. How did it even come to being at gun point surrounded by police and a helicopter. These are the questions people should be asking. Freethinker
Mark my words. She will walk. They are all above the law. More than 1300 people were killed by cops last year. Out of 18 cases in 2015 in the US where cops were charged with manslaughter and or murder guess how many got convicted?…. [url=( http://thefreethoughtproject.com/record-number-cops-charged-murder-manslaughter-2015-single-officer-convicted )]ZERO[/url]Cops are untouchable and they know it. JW Mack
A job well done. Xman3
Why do you need some 5 officers, a helicopter to respond to a broken down vehicle and then kill the driver? And all of the high speed police cars endangering the public, again for a broken down vehicle? Tulsa obviously has too many police with nothing to do. Sillywilly
remember the old days when hanging was all the rage and everyone from miles around would come for a little excitement on a hot Friday night…kinda the same principle. Luke Yi
Tulsa was the home of the worst race riot in American history, during which whites destroyed an entire black community, literally the wealthiest black community in America, leaving ten thousand people homeless and killing many.
No whites were killed or injured in the riots, and no whites faced criminal punishment for their behavior.
6,000 blacks were arrested for trying to protect their homes and families and scores of blacks were killed
never came across that story before
thanks
You’re welcome. I’m still blown away.
Here’s a great documentary about the events: billdeserthills
Cops are bored, they make their own drama–It’s their own version of a snuff film Lliss
No you’re bored that’s why you are on a blog talking about people with real jobs. You would NEVER comprehend what it means to be a cop so just keep writing about shit you don’t understand billdeserthills
Just because you are an experienced ‘useful idiot’ doesn’t mean you actually know anything Luke Yi
https://youtu.be/2EeJ0U5pVi8 Lliss
Tulsa is extremely busy. This man was on pcp and that amount of officers is necessary to attempt to diffuse a bad situation and cause the person to rethink their actions and comply. Obviously you know nothing about police work besides what you watch on tv Rena Aleman-Walker
When did they release the results of there findings from the body and blood? Just because thats what she said it must be true….. I don’t think so. I have looked on a few news websites and they say that his her claim but IT DOESN’T SAY IT IS A FACT!!! Again you are looking with your rose colored glasses. pray58
Lliss stop spreading lies, there has been no results from blood work, so where do you get your information, and you accuse people of excepting false information from the news and then you post hearsay! Luke Yi
Symptoms of PCP use, for those who make claims without evidence:
They have dilated pupils. They have developed a temporary speech impediment (This can occur even when they are not on the drug). They do not move from one spot for hours. They are extremely sensitive to sound. They are seeing and hearing things that are not real. Their balance is off and they cannot walk without falling. Their eyes keep rolling back in their head. Their vision is blurry. They continually stare at nothing and are in a stupor state. They are having uncontrollable and irrational behavioral outbursts for no apparent reason KKN4LIFE
DAMN so Colin Kaepernick is STILL wrong and disrespectful grapesodabanked
Kaepernick is just a racist who wants to make everything about black people vs white people. Hugh Culliton
Actually, I think he just wants to see the law applied evenly, and to not see anymore unnecessary killings. I don’t think that meets the definition of “racist”. billdeserthills
I don’t think what he is doing is any more serious than flying the american flag upside down, or lighting it on fire and far as I can tell those things are still legal. obama refuses to place his hand over his heart when the pledge of america is recited, nor will he salute his men, so who is the real disrespectful person here? edslides
flying the flag upside down. do you understand why an AMERICAN might do that? billdeserthills
It signals an emergency, far as I know, I bet google has all kinds of reasons It isn’t ‘sticks & stones’– it doesn’t hurt anyone Sungoddess
I don’t salute the flag either because liberty and justice for all is bullshit ,second the president does salute his soldiers. I am a veteran and you only salute officers. A flag which is a piece of cloth, a song and a pledge to a nation that has screwed over many races of people does not make you a better person, the way you treat fellow human beings is what matters . Lliss
What Kind of veteran are you? I think you’re lying billdeserthills
That is all the bs I’m gonna read from you, twat–Begone palvadore
I agree with his point and I was enlisted and officer. Sungoddess
Not that I have to prove anything to you I served in the United States Army. I have no need to lie .what is your point anyway. Luke Yi
Obama doesn’t refuse to put his hand over his heart during the pledge. In fact, he’s been photographed with hand over heart while reciting the pledge many times.
Stop reading emails from your crazy great-uncle billdeserthills
Plenty of other disrespectful things obama does Luke Yi
Well then present the evidence of that, and I will answer that.
But you’re wrong about what you said and now you’ve admitted it, though evidently you will continue to hold your unsubstantiated beliefs. billdeserthills
You don’t find the thousands of lies obama has told to be disrespectful?–I suppose You think obama’s lies are unsubstantiated as well–What a wonderful ‘useful idiot’ you have become BigJohnConnor
You are a fucking asshole. john
Just say you don’t like black people and want us to die. Do you think this pastor deserved what he got? Yes or no KKN4LIFE
White people have a 400 year head start on racism remember they are the one’s who created it DUH!! How is Kaep’s racism making YOU suffer? Luke Yi
/s Yeah, there’s absolutely no history in America of any race or gender dividing the whole country up by race and gender and making laws preventing some races and genders from being able to equally participate in society. /s
Honestly, anyone who still feels that way should match the $1,000,000 contribution Kaepernick made edslides
I have one word for you bill. A-S-S-I-M-I-L-A-T-I-O-N. if i moved to afghanistan, i would feel remiss if i expected them to respect my freedom of choice. they wouldnt. he can protest all he wants. when an American physically calls him out on his bullshit, will you stand by your comment? this aint the middle east. we dont care how you do it over there. pulll that shit here, you WILL be taken to task. come to my country and disrespect my country , we will kill you. thats our policy. billdeserthills
I don’t expect tolerance to intolerant muslim scum, and I don’t see what colin is physically hurting, by donating $1,000,000 towards people who have suffered. Why not put your money where your mouth is, get contributions from all your kkk and fake nazi friends & see if you can top $1,000,000?(mod please put barfing emoticon here) ThomasJefferson
I’m still trying to figure out wtf point it was that ed was stressing bill.His analogy, (ASSuming there even IS one) STILL eludes me. But, if indeed you did figure it out, an excellent response I must say. Luke Yi
I think there is a whole presidential campaign for that billdeserthills
I think you are confused billdeserthills
I just keep seeing more and more people the police kill & I’m not seeing anyone Else doing much about it–When You put up a million of your own money to fight this problem I may begin to pay attention. poopiepants
thanks for your insight ed. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca3f6ec0bcffbe818b2a7f93e1b48f118316ea463ca54175b44ee47199e6de76.jpg john
Just say you hate black people and we can call it a day. Do you defend this video or not? palvadore
This has nothing to do with color. It’s just the latest example the media wants you to see. Cops kill more white men every year than blacks. The media just doesn’t want to show those examples. pray58
Where is you statistics for that statement, show proof! And I mean innocent white men being killed! palvadore
Can you meet your own demand and proove how many “innocent” Africans were shot by police? And please don’t use FBI statistics or anything that you can JUST fucking GOOGLE! Like the rest of us!
I protest police misconduct not because I give a care about the poor, poor, little black man that chose to live life with the evil white man. No! I protest for all the other races! Black lives don’t matter to me at all. Luke Yi
That’s not our policy. Our policy is ensconced in the constitution, and it’s most important amendment, the 1st, which provides freedom of expression FiuToYou
I hope you’re being a satirist here! I feel you are. Colin is a patriotic hero!!!! KKN4LIFE
HUH? Colin is a WARRIOR! Jerome Taylor
My point exactly!!! Stay tuned!! This ish is getting old, you think? Richard Norgard
“That looks like a bad dude, too. Must be on something’.”
I guess that makes it ok to kill him. Whatever happened to protect and serve? billdeserthills
The police protect & serve themselves Lliss
They definitely serves, keeping that dude outa somebody’s back yard Tricornes
I’ll take 10 dead idiots who won’t comply with police orders over one decent police officer getting a scratch on his pinkie. Reinhold Von Kirschmann
Notice how in the helicopter video, the guy says he looks like a bad guy, and me must be on something.. Guilty till proven innocent. Hope this domestic terrorist goes to jail. She is a murderer plain and simple. Good Canadian Kid
He’s black, so in the eyes of a cop that makes him a bad guy and a drug user. edslides
not that it matters, but male pattern baldness is kind of a white thing. gonna revisit this point, but it doesnt matter. murder is murder. Lliss
No he was considered a bad guy because he wasn’t complying and he was considered a drug user because of his erratic behavior and the drugs found at the scene. Please be fair and stop the cop hating bullshit. Yonnie Pietrovito-Moncrief
Liar, liar, pants on fire. The usual excuses for cop killers. Jerome Taylor
You noticed that too, huh?! Four cops with weapons drawn, because they felt endangered and their life threatened!! Now I’m convinced, Cops are pussies!! I’m sure their girlfriends are really proud of them!! ScarletPimpernil
It’s common play – consider family court, for example. There, a girl says “he scares me and I’m afraid for our children. No evidence is provided to support the claim, but the guy is, often, forever ejected from his own children(‘s)(s’) lives. billdeserthills
What erratic behavior or what drugs found at the scene?!! What video are you watching?!! Luke Yi
Officers did report finding PCP in the car, and the victim had a history of addiction.
However, according to this report, the vehicle had already been secured so officers knew there was no gun inside.
Sad story all around: it seems a man with a medical problem driving home from a college class in music appreciation died for no good reason.
You surmised all that from what’s not in the video. Good Canadian Kid
And the helicopter pilot was able to determine this just by looking at him? I’ll stop hating cops when they stop killing people who are having car problems. Sungoddess
What the hell us your deal are you just somebody who likes to chime in just to insult people with no facts ? Does that make you feel go about yourself you are exactly what I was talking about when I said bitch about not saluting a flag or standing for a song but can’t bother to be a decent human being. bumboclot
Nobody on the ground would have heard that so it didn’t have anything to do with the shooting. But I did find it an interesting comment. Other than being a big black guy, and ignoring the cop’s commands, what made him a “bad guy” to that helicopter cop? I mean, he wasn’t a robbery suspect, he had a broken down car. I wonder what they were referring to. Lliss
They were referring to the fact that 4 officers were trying to get him to comply with their orders to stop and instead he chose to keep walking away and reaching into his car for god knows what. That’s what they meant by seems like a bad guy. David Boccabella
When you get 4 excited officers – all screaming different orders – which one to you follow. Luke Yi
They could have heard it as all officers have radios on them. Lliss
Yea, normal people keep walking away from officers and reachin into their cars after being told to stop! He’s a BAD GUY you lame idiot. Keep watching the biased liberal news, increasing their ratings and making them rich off your dumb racist ass when the truth WILL come to light! The news is using all of you to promote their cop hating agenda! Not because they believe it but because it hypes the people and makes them rich!!! Read between the lines. They are biased! using words like “murder” and “gunned down” doesn’t she get her day in court? Isn’t she innocent before proven guilty?” Please you all are so one sided. You don’t want peace! You don’t want justice!! You want to be treated well and to treat others as badly as you feel you’ve been treated. That’s not justice! Keep watching he news. They’ll love you for it. Rena Aleman-Walker
You say that she deserves her day in court but did he get his? No, why? Because he was killed by another cop who for some reson didnt do there job. That’s not justice to be shot in a street, they developed less abrasive measures to bring a person to there knees. Number two did she see why or understand what was going on? NO, that is WHAT IS INJUSTICE.o you shut up because you are looking at the situation just as biase as the rest . So get off your soap box and shut up like you keep telling everyone else. palvadore
No matter the criminality or deprecation of the act, police officers will always find an out for other police officers. Rena Aleman-Walker
You are RIGHT!!! Because they have a alliance, a brotherhood if you will. They are NOT going to break because if one does that one will get SOOO MUCH flack for it. They would make that one LIFE SOO MISERABLE. THEY would NEVER!!!! Rena Aleman-Walker
It is ALWAYS BEEN HARD TO DO THE RIGHT THING!!!! I know that people say anything worth doing is never EASY but i think doing the RIGHT THING in the amidst of OPPOSITION IS EVEN HARDER. ScarletPimpernil
Where is the proof they did not tell him to put his hands on his car and he was complying? Reinhold Von Kirschmann
The window was closed you racist cop appologist. The reaching in the window was a police lie. But you don’t care about that. palvadore
A cop apologist doesn’t make someone a racist. Police misconduct is epidemic and against all citizens and non citizen alike. pray58
Lliss did he get his day in court, was he innocent before proven guilty, why does she have more rights then he got. Why is it alway deadly force when it comes to black men! Why were they bothering him any ways his car was broke down why all the harassment! Stop trying to justify this madness. Nicholas Hoey
WTF! All I am thinking is it shouldnt matter what you do for a living, if you kill anybody you must be judged just like everybody else! Luke Yi
What do you mean by bad guy? I didn’t hear anyone tell him to stop in any of the video I watched. And the vehicle had already been secured, so officers knew there was no gun.
Link the video and tell us the time code for when he is told to stop?
http://m.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/terence-crutcher-family-attorneys-allege-misinformation-from-police/article_392556ce-f698-54ed-9db9-fa9736493874.html?mode=jqm Reinhold Von Kirschmann
So you stupid idiot, what do you have to say now that she’s been charged with murder huh? Loser troll with a big mouth and no brains! Shut up an go hide in your delusional world. Reinhold Von Kirschmann
She was charged with murder, how come I don’t hear you flapping your ignorant mouth now huh? Loser Reinhold Von Kirschmann
How come after she was charged with murder, I don’t hear you flapping your ignorant mouth now. Why so quiet? Fool Susan Miele
and so are all the cops with her and in the air above her; they passed judgement, failed to render aid to him and will now stay silent while the cops cook up their story. Rogue cops cost us money
For all of their reckless behavior by these trigger happy fuck ups, It is time to start drug testing all cops. Training may be lacking but I will bet 5o percent of cops are on some type of illegal drug. Marc Tremmel
wouldn’t be surprised …but alcohol is their drug because it is “legal” police have a high rate of alcoholism billdeserthills
Police steal plenty of other people’s drugs to help maintain their other habits. Evidence rooms find theft going on by police billdeserthills
Large amount of steroid use going on too ThomasJefferson
LOL, unfortunately, they’re usually just drunks or on prescription poisons.One thing’s for sure, if they ALL had a little THC, administered to them before they were inflicted upon the world at the beginning of their shift, much of THIS type of insane tragedy would be avoided. Marc Tremmel
Why is the police chief calling him a suspected? if all that happened was his car broke down???…what is he suspected of doing…the police are INSANE…talk about guilty before innocent…and the sentence is death no matter what the “crime” is ….Tulsa, ok are you kidding me!?! lmfao like that is a criminal hot bed for terrorists billdeserthills
Damage control– So do all the cops get a paid vacation? Jeffboy
“the ballooning epidemic of police violence,” it is just that it was covered up before now. bumboclot
Yeah, more like the epidemic of camera coverage. The violence was always there. 2broke4 her
I wonder if they are going to do a sacrificial lamb, to keep this from going ballistic? Bob Btme
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/28/us/minister-who-sought-peace-dies-in-a-botched-drug-raid.html
>>>Minister Who Sought Peace Dies in a Botched Drug Raid
BOSTON, March 27— The Rev. Accelynne Williams, who for decades had comforted and counseled people throughout the Caribbean, retired to Boston six years ago to be near his daughter and to study the Scriptures. On Friday a police SWAT team searching for drugs broke down his apartment door without warning and handcuffed him. Minutes later, the 75-year-old minister was dead of heart failure.
The police, it turned out, had misread a floor plan provided by an informer; they had intended to raid an apartment on the floor above Mr. Williams. sfulmer
It looks like they form a wall to block the view of the camera after the shooting. Guy
In other words. Please don’t riot and burn down our town, while we decide what sort of spin we are going to put on it !
Broken down car in middle of road, = Death Penalty ! John Henry Gunderson
I am in no way trying to condone this, but it appeared to me, the man walked to his car, lowered his hands, and attempted to open the door of his vehicle. Good Canadian Kid
Watch the video again, their is more than ten seconds between the shot and when he falls to the ground. He lowered his hands AFTER he was shot! John Henry Gunderson
I’ll be the first to admit, the cops had no business pulling their guns on this man in the first place, and because of this, they need to be held responsible for what happened. But your the one who needs to watch the video again (I already did, about five times) The man lowers his hands, grabs the door, and then you hear the shot go off. Good Canadian Kid
Nope, watch it again and compare it to the video shot from the cop car, it sure looks to me like the killer shoots then steps to her right and Terence drops his arm. This is at the beginning of the 22 second mark of the helicopter video.
Is there someone out there who can sync up both videos and play them at the same time? John Henry Gunderson
On the dash cam you see him lowering his hands at the 50 sec. mark, then you here the shot fired and see smoke at the 52 sec. mark. Good Canadian Kid
Watch this video, it shows both the helicopter and the dashcam side by side, he had his hands up when shot. (at approx. 17 seconds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98R4e0RSry8 Lobo06
There is know accountabilty when chickenshit cops murder innocent people. She is on paid vaction giving and getting high fives for smoking another human being of color. Lobo06
Listening to these a-holes its clear they are going to cover thier backsides with all due speed and keep the white only club from getting what they so badly deserve. billdeserthills
Cops are indemnified, they cannot be convicted of a crime, in most cases–Ever wonder why although 3 cops a day are arrested, you almost never hear of one going to jail?
No way this will go unpunished. One week paid vacation, instead of two! *gasp* Jonathan Wint
Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby must suck mean cock….Not black against White Its Humans Against Blue! Becouse in this country Only BLUE LIVES MATTER! d marino
WTF is the helicopter guy talking about this is “one bad dude” and “he must be on something” comments? Where is any indication for those comments to be made?
He’s black and that’s oxygen he’s breathing. What other reason do they need? billdeserthills
Damage Control–Just that thin blue line sticking together anarchyst
…there WILL be a civil lawsuit…any award should be disbursed from the cops’ pension fund, NOT from the taxpayers. the cop should be charged and convicted just as any other civilian would be…with appropriate sentence carried out…it should be a felony, so he can never work in a police capacity ever again… Kurt Bailey
You say ‘This is what complying with police in America looks like’??? Are you on drugs? He was not following orders because he was walking to his car and not getting on the ground. The officers had no idea what he had waiting inside that truck (gun, bomb) or if he would use that truck to ram them. This is BS race baiting media. Jordan Manicom
So when the officers have no idea what is going on, they can shoot first and investigate later? They had no right to draw their weapons in the first place, anyone without their impunity would be charged for brandishing a weapon. DLHE
They will lie their way out of it, started already, he came after her aggressively and did not obey her commands, notice how they back away in tandum, these fools have loss their freaking minds, kill people and walk away, say my fault, no sorry no nothing. Thomas D’Angelo
What’s with the side argument on the side of the police vehicle starting at 1:08? That lady cop knew something. It looked like she tried to arrest that cop, he refused, then she ran away. FiuToYou
MURDER of an innocent man by a policewomen or man , should be treated JUST like a murder! This is too much! Paid vacation!! What bull sh*t. Thrown in jail would be correct! microphone
I’m doubting the validity of this post. After all, what’s a “dash can”? SuperLuminal Man
America is now a de facto police state —accelerating rapidly towards open tyranny. Michael
I just do not understand this – why were they even called to attend, a simple breakdown it is just weird billdeserthills
Somebody was too cheap for AAA–And he paid with his Life Robert Skinner
Do we know what he was reaching for in his right hand? Objecitvely speeking? Geelove
I thought both hands where up how could he be reaching for something? Robert Skinner
As he was going towards the car? Or was that me, I watched both videos tommoulton
I didn’t know they give Blind Police Officers Guns? or are they playing the wrong dialog to this video? And this just happened? This has to stop. Donald Trump hasn’t won yet! So that Shoot first and ask questions after isn’t the Policy yet. Cornelius Kappabani
Looks like one major fucked up accident to me caused by the bullshit training of Officers and Police Protocols. Officer Shelby herself sounds surprised and frightened and I have a hunch she will quit whatsoever facing the reality she just murdered a very nice person and father with no criminal record or anything. And there is no point in demonizing Shelby. Sue the shit out of the City, make the Officials understand that Police Training and Protocols are the cause of innocent people getting murdered by Police. Only then will things change. Only then Officers will become responsible for their actions. Davida Sefireth
Looks like people in the US are going to have to just stay in the house – forever – cause if you go out and God forbid you have the misfortune of encountering some problem better hope the pigs don’t just happen by.
– why, having to bend down to tie your fucking shoe lace and they may shoot you to death thinking that you are going for a gun … or some kinda dirty bomb up your arse!
What they really want, it looks like to me, is to have everybody raise their arms and say yes boss, whatever you say boss.
I just watched “Free State of Jones,”– great movie! in it there is this line: “…everybody at some point becomes the rich mans n….”!
Point is, to the rich we are all slaves! But first, they make some persons more obviously the slave than others, to create the social conditions for breeding the instruments of totalitarianism.
And, this black men kill more black men argument is just shit for distraction and excuse! – like what? – so maybe it isn’t that “bad” that white men kill some too?! Fuck that! These type of arguments use the fallout of systemic racism and poverty, to diffuse responsibility and confuse understanding about what systematic racism really is and how it metastasizes in a society.
Racism is a fundamental tool of tyranny – it excuses and normalizes the unlawful control of portions of a population. It fractures a population and authorizes terror. The purpose is always to maintain the power of the few over the many. The rich establish the roots of tyranny within a society through racism – it manifests a form of class ownership, ultimately providing the rich with the power and means to control large segments of society, effectively giving them ownership over the many and maintaining their position at the top.
The rich in their endless greed for more – wendigo spirits ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo ) – will eventually utilize the mechanisms of control established through the apartheid state to bring all of humanity under their yoke of ownership.
This is called totalitarianism!
Fighting racism is fighting the systemic roots of tyranny.
In circumstances like we see world wide today, when liberal democracies begin their decent into totalitarianism, by design, through the rise of fanatical nationalist fervour personified through the cult of the populous leader – classical totalitarianism, or fascism – or through the inversion of a democratic state into rule by corporate oligarchy – inverted totalitarianism, you always see the institutions of law and law enforcement radicalized beyond the scope of constitutional law – they become rogue entities serving the powers of gross ownership, that is the elite.
Therefore, I believe in what we see in the growing numbers of flagrant murders by police, is the transmutation of the police forces into the contemporary Gestapo.
There are many subroutines effectively promoting this … like their training which proposes that police first must establish “compliance” and that any resistance or suggestion there-off is “disobedience” of authority legitimizing the use of lethal force.
Cops are jacked up on the need to establish power and authority which subsequently turns citizens into victims!
The new world order means 1% Masters and the rest Slaves with some slaves given power to be bosses while thinking that they are also masters so they will keep the rest of the slaves under boot!
Welcome to the New World Order Moparman
Those POS get away with killing innocent people over and over and over again they know they will get away with it so they keep doing it it is total 100% BS Wilfred Bankole Ademokun
What a BAD BAD NEWS, if we don’t get JUSTICE on this case, and the killer cops are freed, go after the killer cops get them down. an eye for an eye. THIS ARE WHAT THE REPUBLICANS INTRODUCE IN 1969. KILL THEM AND LET THEM LOOK LIKE CRIMINALS. Am sure the killer cops have family, they will bury their own son soonest. ANIMALS IN HUMAN SKIN. ibrownie
You have just seen that your city is like every other city regarding above the law policing and killing of innocent citizen, the very citizens that pay their salaries. The whole world has now looked at America as a country that kills its people, sad to say but true, the audacity to have these officers on paid vacation is a slap in the face. Til the day I die I will never look at America the same. Rambro
Micah X Johnson, Gavin Eugene Long thank you brothers for poaching those pigs !!! Ibcamn
cops are pure criminals……..they have the god complex,judge dredd syndrome….cunts they all be,road pirates with guns….cops are criminals………. blastinbob
And the cops wonder why people run from the law this happens way to often the police are less and less trusted every day and it is their own fault. RS
It’s time to nationally ban all police forces, stand then down and rethink what we need. bumboclot
RIP to the poor guy who commited the horrible sin of having his car break down on him. As for the cop, I’m not so sure that this is anything more than a completely incompetent moron doing a job that is WAY beyond her abilities. She is such a screw up, if she was my partner, I’d quit the force. NewHampshire
Well, so long as we allow the illegal training of our local cops by foreign terrorists, this will continue. http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november222011/adl-occupy.php Martha Nassauer
What do we expect, when a hairdresser needs 12 months of training, as opposed to under 6 months of training for law enforcement? Is anyone really surprised? With a GED/High School Diploma, under 6 months of training, and these psychos are wielding badges, deadly weapons, fast cruisers and a whole lot of superior thinking? palvadore
Americans have no protection from a police officer no matter what crimes the police commit against you!
False reports, fabrication of evidence, torture, warrantless raids, abductions, force injections, harassment…those are just some of the assaults police commit against the law abiding population. Just try to report a crime in Kennesaw Ga and much worse may happen to you.
No justice – period! That makes you and me slaves. Jeff Glebe
How does this even happen? “Hi, officer, my SUV broke down..what’s that? No, no, I don’t have any weapons or drugs on me. As I was saying, my SUV broke down just over there…sure, I can put my hands up, is there something wrong? No, I don’t have a dead body in the back of my car, what makes you think that I…okay, I will walk calmly to the side of my vehicle. Officer, I really just need a tow…no, tow isn’t a ‘street word’ for I’m going to kill you.” Then the officer, goes, well, he sure looks dangerous, let’s go ahead and shoot him and make sure he isn’t a zombie or something. Dawn Mello
Enough of this shit. Cold blooded murder, plain and simple. Lliss
Saying “cops” and not “that particular. Cop” is just another example of prejudice: judging all of one group by the actions of one. STOP ALL PREJUDICE !!NO PREJUDICE IS JUST! Judge all people individually! STOP THE MADNESS!!! Rena Aleman-Walker
I dont understand any of this criminal cops. Nor the man in the helicopter for saying this looks like a bad dude. I mean how can you tell how he looks other then he is a black man. I MEAN REALLY THIS IS SO SAD!!This is the reason WHY I hate for my children to leave my sight. My sun’s are tall and large black men. In today’s White society that already means they are BAD…… this is shit!!! Marc Peek
Hey, hands up or not, don’t walk away from the police and then reach into your car window. Nothin to see here. Move along. Point
Interesting article. However, by injecting emotionally-charged language and patronizing metaphors, you have ostracized those who support a reduction in police powers and authority, and those who demand an increase for it, or otherwise feel that the current operations of police are acceptable.
Examples include:“Police on scene indeed appear infinitely more concerned with the panicked Shelby than they do with the man they just shot for no apparent reason.”
“As Crutcher lies mortally wounded on the ground, officers back away like frightened children…”
“Both have been given the paid vacation, otherwise known as administrative leave, customarily ‘rewarded’ after the use of fatal force.”
Usually, an argument featuring such a degree of bias and hyperbole is something I would ignore. Except I’m also accustomed to it from those whose primary arguments are in support of some form of racism, nationalism, or other form of bigotry.
Unfortunately, though I agree with the theme of your article, the arguments presented serve to diminish its utility. Cheri
I have so much respect for most police, they lay their lives on the line every day to keep us safe, but this video sure looks like murder, I saw his hands in the air, this must be treated as a murder. John Cokos
I’m trying to sift thru the official bullshit scenario that gets presented at every cop related murder. Folks what you saw in that video was a Ritualistic Snuff Movie carried out In Cold Blood by uniformed Sociopaths. The level of cold blooded disregard at someone who’s life was pouring out of him is just about impossible to rationalize. This story has only three outcomes after all the usual spin down and parallel reconstruction of the event’s that took place: They circle the wagon and that bitch goes on getting a paycheck.Tulsa goes the way of Ferguson and all hell beaks loose. They throw her under the bus regardless because she is now a toxic asset. She is found guilty of reckless homicide, gets fired, goes to jail. STOP FUNDING PAID VACATIONS FOR COPS THAT MURDER PEOPLE IN COLD BLOOD. DAN BAILEY19
THIS FOR THOSE OF YOU ALL WHO IS SEEM TO THINK SOMEHOW THESE OFFICER WAS IN THE RIGHT I WENT BACK AND FOUTH VIEWING THIS I WANTED TO BE SURE OF WHAT THE ONES IN THE AIR WAS SAYING AND I NOTICE THAT HE SAID THAT HE WILL HAVE TO RECORD THIS AND THEN HE SAID HE IS WALKING AND RIGHT AFTER THAT HE SAID HE ‘S FOLLOWING ORDERS BUT ONCE HE GETS CLOSE TO HIS VEHCILE THEN HE WANT TO SAY HE IS A BAD DUDE BUT ALL THE WHILE THEY LET HIM WALK WITH HIS HANDS UP UNTIL HE GETS TO HIS VEHCILE THAN ALL AT ONCE NOW HE IS A THREAT SO THEY TASE AND SHOOT HIM IF SHE FELT THEARTENED WHY THEN YOU WAIT UNTIL HE GETS TO THE VEHICLE TO EMPLOY THE TASE AND THEN SHOOT HIM.YELL AGAIN YOU WANT TO COVER UP THE FACT THAT YOU WAS WRONG IN WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE BE BLESS AnonGirl
Nothing will happen to the cop. She’s get desk duty after coming back from PAID leave and then go back out onto the field. The murderess will continue to patrol and may one day kill again if it happens.
The video shows the officer LIED about how things went down. LIED again when she claimed he was reaching into his vehicle because the video shows the window was CLOSED. Tim G Tim
I’ve got to say, I love what the FTP does overall. But seriously, you are really stretching with this one and a few others in recent past. The police have an insanely difficult job (no dispute) and just to keep this simple…. the word “pastor” in the title of your article is strictly for shock value, hands down! It doesn’t matter if this man was a pastor, cartel hit man, or a saint. Do the police on scene know he’s a pastor?? And why in the fucks sake is he walking TO HIS OPEN VEHICLE WINDOW with guns pointed at him???? Just scratch your head with that one for bit. Plain and simple that is NOT an innocent behavior. I carry a concealed pistol and probably would have done the same thing. How could anyone justify walking to their open car window in that circumstance? This is insane. Those officers were justified. You are inciting hate and division and need to check yourself. Guy
You’re wrong there dude ! The drivers side door window was up, proven because of the blood from the lung shot is both on the window and door !
So is you assumption of “Walking Away From A Cop, With Your Hands Up” Is justification for police murder. Unless, you are okay with the old adage, “I was in fear for my life” is ?
Just as the new and improved bandage of words like “Transparency, Building Bridges and Community Trust, are the new spin words of justifiable homicide !
All that proves one thing. Cops can kill with out remorse, for things as simple as perception of fear, all the while relying on Legal Immunity, Blue Union Membership, DA’s, The Court Legal System Setup and D.O.J.’s backing them up, in killing us ! How is that a good enough reason ? Considering, in the country of England with a population of over 35 million people, there has not been the amount of police shootings in the last 20 years, that has yet to equaled one year here ! Or the 53.000 people put in hospitals and seriously injured as the results of contact with our police, this year alone and the year isn’t over yet !
No, you are dead wrong about justification of the War that cops are waging against the American People. Why do you carry a concealed weapon ? If you felt safe, you won’t need too, all you would ever need to do is call a cop ! steve_2
You guys really should watch the video. When he was tazed and shot, his hands were not up, he was not complying with police commands to stop and raise his hands, and he reached inside the vehicle. As usual, obeying police commands is the way to not get shot. Good Canadian Kid
You should really watch this video that syncs the dash-cam with the chopper-cam. His hands were clearly up when he was shot. BTW: his window was closed so I don’t even begin to understand where you come to the conclusion that he was reaching inside his vehicle… Donna Bohdanyk
I want to puke. Joseph Mentor Nichols
Well he’s obviously trying to open his car door for some reason. I don’t even know why he’s walking to his car unless they told him to lean against it. Still, why back to his driver seat? I’m so confused.
I would hate to think that this dudes lack of common sense got him killed. It would be much more comforting to find out that the police shot him for no reason. Tmoney
Can anyone sync up the helicopter video with the shot on the ground video. I believe he drops his hand only after being shot, but if the ground audio was in the helicopter video it would be a better view and catch the timing of the shot. SSJRomance
Crutcher was not following officers commands and started walking back to his vehicle. That was his first mistake and made officers nervous. The second mistake was he reached into his vehicle. Do the officers have to wait until he pulls out a gun?
That’s what happened with the NY terrorist. The cop was yelling “show me your hands” and gave the perp too much time that allowed him to grab his gun and shot the officer 2 times. That is what officers are up against. Damed if you do damed if you don’t. Good Canadian Kid
How do you know he wasn’t following commands, the cop that shot him never bothered to turn on her recorder(s). He was just as likely returning to his vehicle as ordered to get his drivers license / registration / insurance.
When she shot him, his hands were up, look at this video that syncs the dash-cam with the chopper-cam. | 1real |
Политизация проблемы терроризма на саммите БРИКС | Новое восточное обозрение | Регион: Южная Азия Борьба с терроризмом становится ключевой проблемой для всех стран мира, и то, что к ней было обращено внимание участников 8-го саммита БРИКС, вполне закономерно. Но у Индии был особый интерес заострить на ней внимание после совершенного террористами из радикальной группировки «Джаиш-э-Мохаммад» («Воинство Мухаммеда») нападения на расположение индийского пехотного батальона близ города Ури в 10 км от Линии Коридора в штате Кашмир 18 сентября. Ответственность в гибели 18 своих военнослужащих Индия возложила на Пакистан, который, по её мнению, оказывает поддержку этим террористам. В своем твиттере Раджинат Сингх, министр внутренних дел, охарактеризовал атаку как трансграничное вторжение боевиков, подготовленных и вооруженных Пакистаном, и назвал его «террористическим государством». Выступая на 71-ой сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН, представитель Индии заострил вопрос о поддержке Пакистаном трансграничного терроризма, что имеет не только региональные, но и глобальные последствия. Индия ответила на нападение террористов точечным ударом по их базам на подконтрольной Пакистану части Кашмира, в ходе которого было уничтожено семь укрытий боевиков, ликвидировано более 35 экстремистов. Несмотря на протесты Пакистана, мировая общественность не осудила эти действия Индии. Отношения между странами вышли на новый виток конфронтации, в которой оказались вовлечены и страны БРИКС. Проблема терроризма, поставленная на повестку дня Нарендрой Моди на саммите,(а она требовала осуждения Пакистана) оказалась не такой простой в своем решении, поскольку затрагивала интересы других участников организации, прежде всего России и Китая. Открывая встречу, Н.Моди заявил: «В нашем регионе терроризм представляет большую угрозу для мира, безопасности и развития. Трагично то, что носителем терроризма является страна, расположенная по соседству с Индией. И террор, распространившийся во всем мире, связан с этой «плавучей базой». БРИКС должна единодушно противодействовать этой угрозе». Ещё ранее на встрече G 20 5 сентября Н.Моди призвал к изоляции и наказанию тех, кто спонсирует и поддерживает терроризм. Таким образом, обсуждая проблему терроризма, страны БРИКС де факто должны были ответить на вопрос, кого они поддерживают больше Индию или Пакистан в их борьбе за лидерство в Южной Азии. Несмотря на проведенные незадолго до саммита российско-пакистанские военные учения, Н.Моди решил не только не заострять на этом внимание, но приложил все усилия к тому, чтобы заручиться поддержкой России, которую он назвал (по-русски) «старым другом», и выразил ей признательность за безоговорочное осуждение террористической атаки на армейскую базу в Ури. В Совместном заявлении по итогам визита Президента Российской Федерации В.В.Путина в Республику Индию от 15 октября 2016 г. говорится, что стороны подчеркнули необходимость недопущения возникновения «тихих гаваней» террористов. Хотя такая формулировка носит достаточно расплывчатый характер и не указывает напрямую на Пакистан как на «тихую гавань» террористов, однако Индия осталась ею удовлетворена. Отвечая на вопросы журналистов относительно военных связей между Россией и Пакистаном, первый заместитель министра иностранных дел Индии С.Джайшанкар заявил, что Россия не будет делать ничего, что может навредить интересам Индии. Между Россией и Индией существует полное взаимопонимание. На саммите это нашло конкретное подтверждение в укреплении военно-технического и экономического сотрудничества между странами. Что касается Китая, то его позиция в отношении причастности Пакистана к террористической атаке на Индию была заявлена ещё ранее, когда он заблокировал выдвинутое Индией предложение о включении Масуда Азхара, укрывающегося в Пакистане лидера «Джаиш-э-Мохаммад», в список международных террористов, объявленных ООН вне закона. Индийская сторона считает его ответственным за целый ряд террористических атак на территории страны, включая совершенное 13 декабря 2001 г. нападение на парламент и 2 января 2016 г. – на авиабазу в г. Патханкот. Дело, конечно, не в фигуре Масуда Азхара. Как было официально заявлено, «Китай выступает против всех форм терроризма. Не должно быть двойных стандартов в противодействии терроризму. Но также недопустимо использовать борьбу с терроризмом как предлог для достижения политических целей». Действие КНР продиктовано чисто прагматичными экономическими и политическими соображениями, лежащими в основе её сближения с Пакистаном. В политическом плане Китай стремится использовать Пакистан в качестве геополитического игрока, способного противостоять усилению влияния Индии в Южной Азии, и как связующее звено с исламским миром. Вызывает опасения у китайского руководства и расширение военного сотрудничества между Индией и США, что может негативно сказаться на планах Китая в Индийском океане. В дополнение к геополитическому соперничеству между Китаем и Индией раздражающим фактором в их отношениях является и покровительство, оказываемое Индией Далай-ламе. В экономическом плане Пакистан представляет интерес для Китая в реализации его амбициозной инициативы «Один пояс и одна дорога». И хотя Н.Моди пытался убедить Си Цзиньпина в том, что у Индии и Китая, которые являются «жертвами терроризма», не должно быть различий в подходе к его противодействию, тем не менее китайский лидер в своей 10-минутной речи на саммите, признав растущую угрозу терроризма и осудив все его формы, ограничился заявлением о необходимости укрепления диалога по проблеме безопасности и партнерства в регионе. Позиция Китая по Масуду Азхаре осталась неизменной. Попытки Индии политизировать проблему терроризма на саммите БРИКС в целях политической изоляции Пакистана как страны «предоставляющей убежище для террористов и вооружающей их», не увенчались успехом. Лидеры пятерки сохранили разумный нейтралитет и проявили политическую дальновидность, чтобы не обострять обстановку в Южной Азии, чем могут воспользоваться террористы для активизации своей деятельности. Наталия Рогожина, доктор политических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник ИМЭМО РАН, специально для интернет-журнала «Новое Восточное Обозрение». 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Assad: Some Syrian Migrants Are ’Definitely’ Terrorists | Some migrants coming into Western states as Syrian asylum seekers are “definitely” terrorists, the Syrian President Bashar has said. [Terrorists pictured on the internet “holding machine guns or killing people” have since turned up in photographs of “peaceful refugees in Europe or the West” President Assad told Yahoo News, adding: “That’s true. ” But he declined to put a figure on how many of the 4. 8 million asylum seekers might be terrorists, saying “nobody has any number. Nobody knows. Because nobody knows all the terrorists. ” He also declined to say whether the figure might be “significant” highlighting that it took only 15 people to bring down the Twin Towers on . “It’s not about significant because you don’t need a significant number to commit atrocities,” he said. “It’s not about the number, it’s about the quality — it’s about the intentions. ” Speaking in his presidential office in Damascus, Syria, Assad would not take a view on whether the U. S. was right to halt the immigration of migrants from seven countries which posed a security threat, Syria included, but said that his priority was rather to ensure that Syrian asylum seekers return home. “For me, the priority is to bring those citizens to their country, not to help them immigrate,” he said. The interview was released as the British prime minister, Theresa May, defended government schemes to resettle 20, 000 Syrians in the UK over five years. At a Downing Street press conference, May told reporters: ‘We have been seeing quite a number of children and families being resettled here in the United Kingdom. “I think what we are doing in terms of refugees is absolutely right, on top of course of the significant financial support and humanitarian aid we are giving to refugees in the region of Syria — a commitment of £2. 3 billion, the second biggest bilateral donor. ” In the last few days, the government has come under fire for ending a scheme to bring child migrants from Calais into Britain. Announcing the decision, immigration minister Robert Goodwill told MPs that 200 children had been placed around the country and that councils had indicated they had the capacity for only 150 more. But the Archbishop of Canterbury slammed the move, calling on the government to take in nearly ten times as many children. He added: “I fear that this week’s decision does not meet the spirit of commitment that was given during the passage of the Immigration Act last year. ” | 0fake |
’Prey’ Review: An Immersive Though Sometimes Repetitive Sci-Fi Shooter RPG Hybrid - Breitbart | Arkane Studios’ revival of the Prey franchise may not be the epic adventure we were once promised, but it’s a thrilling science fiction adventure in its own right — if you don’t fault its reliance on some tropes.[ Prey is a hybrid shooter and RPG in the tradition of titles like BioShock and Deus Ex. It takes place on a massive space station of the future, on an alternate timeline that saw JFK survive his assassination attempt and the nation made leaps in technology that we still have yet to master today. Progressive exploration is married to a dark science fiction that is heavy on the jump scares, via shadowy aliens who dash about the ruined complex, turning into desk lamps or computer equipment in order to ambush when you stray close. But let’s start from the beginning, where Prey sets the stage. When I woke in an apartment of the future, something immediately felt “off. ” There were dark streaks on the floor in the corner, but otherwise, everything was laid out with perfect care and attention. There was a sense of artificiality that plagued me from the moment the player character, Morgan Yu, rose from his bed, all the way through the private helicopter ride to his new workspace. And by the time the veil was violently ripped away, the dread had already begun to set in. The first moment of Arkane’s Prey had just the right combination of platonic luxury and detail, and what followed was just the sort of mess that such a beginning suggests. But about a quarter of the way into the game, you’ll have already seen just about every trick the game has to offer. After that, your enjoyment depends a lot on how much you like recycling — both metaphoric and literal. Prey’s tale of hubris and unethical experiments gone awry isn’t half so surprising as the game seems to think. Unknown parties lead you by the nose via commlink to objectives, drawing you toward their inevitable revelations. Along the way, voice recordings and diary entries are of reworded instances of “Huh. That’s weird. But the boss says Everything’s Fine!” That isn’t to say the writing, though predictable, is bad. This is a perfectly competent Space BioShock, and the characterization works well enough to fill out the world with mildly interesting expository breadcrumbs to keep you poking around. But the heart of the game’s quality comes by way of its gameplay. Prey’s first person exploration and light elements support a combination of moddable weapons and expanding skills that will be instantly familiar to anyone who has enjoyed Arkane’s previous efforts. The staples of shooters are there, augmented by Deus skills and crafting mechanics that are simple yet effective. The game is also an unrepentant asking you to scavenge every one of its ruined corridors of everything from unused explosives to discarded paper and banana peels. This often leads to an inventory that is bursting at the seams with junk that you need to save for recycling, making you feel more janitor than hero. Scanning through your inventory for something useful among piles of literal trash breaks up decent pacing and tends to destroy the tension of the moment. These odds and ends you can’t directly use, you can throw into a recycling machine to extract crafting components. From those, you can assemble weapons, ammunition, and even extra skill points by way of “neuromods. ” Neuromods are the heart of Prey, in the same way that “plasmids” were to Ken Levine’s subaquatic horror adventure BioShock. Morgan uses them to acquire skills and abilities that progress from the merely advanced to the outright superhuman. In the beginning, that means exceptional strength, or the ability to repair complex machinery. Later, you will be able to harness the abilities of the aliens themselves. Prey is also adept at allowing different abilities to achieve objectives in different ways. While one person might roll between piled furniture in the form of a coffee mug, another might simply heft that machinery and toss it aside. Someone else might leap into the ventilation system above, crawling through a hatch. There is always a way to do just about anything you can think of, and it’s in these moments that the game shines. There are no “wrong” decisions in the massive skill tree. Everything is somehow viable, so you are free to choose whatever suits your play style — or, in my case, free to become paralyzed with indecision by the array. Regardless, Prey is a game that allows your to choose your adventure, moment by moment. Gunplay is almost as interesting. The “GLOO” gun you receive early on is capable of turning any part of the station into a harrowing platformer by creating traversable outcroppings or paralyzing aliens under a barrage of liquid adhesive. And while the shotgun is the most reliable — and least interesting — staple in your arsenal, it is far from the only choice available. Each weapon can have its stats enhanced, should you possess the requisite materials and skill to do so. Each is potentially viable from beginning to end, given the appropriate materials and attention. Prey ameliorates much of its repeated backtracking by opening new avenues to progress, a la “Metroidvania” games. As your skills grow, and you become more comfortable with the environment, paths that seemed impossible instead become obvious. You will become a walking mass of neuromods, eventually capable of taking any number of paths to your victory. … Eventually. All of these gameplay elements become progressively better with time, but in contrast to the story, their beginnings suffer. In the opening hours of the game, combat is a frustrating slog through a multitude of enemies leaping and dashing around, while you flail haphazardly with a wrench. Because they move so fast, and you cannot take more than a few swings before your arm muscles simply give out, it becomes a tedious exercise in beating things senseless between pauses to use the food and medical supplies in your inventory. Some of that tedium is cushioned by creative use of the environment, but it remains an awkward beginning to a game that can feel fantastic once it — and the player — find their footing. At the very least, Prey is a beautiful game. The environments are well thought out, with the sort of detailed verticality you might expect from the creators of work like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and Dishonored. For the most part, however, the setting is used less effectively. There is a considerable amount of time between being introduced to stealth mechanics and being able to use them in any practical manner. For much of the game, stealth means nothing more than getting the first shot off in combat before descending into yet another frantic encounter, guns (wrench?) blazing. For the most part, all of that clever architecture is just another way to stash collectible bits for the recycling stations. But for all of its uneven pacing and mechanics, Prey can be utterly fantastic. Moments spent drifting around in space outside of the station look, feel, and sound great. Each area of the station is visually distinct, and exploring their nooks and crannies is a consistently enjoyable experience. The weapons, once you’ve chosen your favorites and tailored them to your liking, are a lot of fun to use. The story, predictable or not, is consistently . Prey is a solid but imperfect addition to Arkane’s library of quality titles. It is BioShock In Space, with a dab of Future Dishonored. Neither of those is necessarily a bad thing, even if that smell has begun to fade. If you enjoy this particular blend of action, exploration, and environmental puzzle solving, Arkane’s Prey reboot makes for an easy recommendation. Follow Nate Church @Get2Church on Twitter for the latest news in gaming and technology, and snarky opinions on both. | 0fake |
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