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UFO Investigator - MAX SPIERS - Found Dead After Vomiting Black Liquid. | link a reply to: carewemust "Vomiting black liquid" caught my eye. I know bleeding internally can cause black vomit, sometimes it looks like coffee grounds. But something in the HeatStreet article that Fox news linked too also caught my eye: Max was buried in Canterbury cemetery after his mother arranged to have his body flown home a week after his death. A post-mortem examination was carried out by a pathologist in east Kent, but Vanessa says that more than two months later she still does not know the result, or whether there will be an inquest. She added: “Apparently, he had not suffered any obvious physical injuries but he could have been slowly poisoned, which is why the results of toxicology tests from his post-mortem are so important. [bolding by me] Activated charcoal -- which is black and readily available to anyone -- is used to treat poisoning, and could cause black vomit also. Could Spiers have suspected he was being poisoned and tried to self-treat with activated charcoal? I can't find much more about the black vomit... as in if someone was with him before/during/after he vomited the black liquid... or if it was found at the same time as he was found dead. | 1real |
El turismo, un filón que florece pese al bloqueo imperial, por Luz Marina Fornieles Sánchez | El turismo, un filón que florece pese al bloqueo imperial por Luz Marina Fornieles Sánchez Como para el resto de las esferas de la vida socio-económica de Cuba, la Revolución significó un vuelco rotundo para el turismo. Con el Primero de Enero de 1959 comenzaron a borrarse de un plumazo las secuelas de actividades que caracterizaron al sector: carreras de caballos, drogas, casinos y prostitución, entre otras.
Socios | La Habana (Cuba) | 28 de octubre de 2016 En el territorio presentado como el paraíso del libertinaje, se dio paso a las expropiaciones, nacionalizaciones de hoteles y otros inmuebles, y quedaron atrás las discriminaciones raciales y las playas fueron para el pueblo.
Fue así que el 20 de noviembre del 59 surgió el Instituto Nacional de la Industria Turística (INIT), primer organismo especializado en el ramo creado por la Revolución y su Presidente, el por entonces Primer Ministro Fidel Castro .
Una de las tareas acometidas rápidamente resultó la estructuración de un giro del ocio que respondiera a los valores culturales, históricos y sociales de la nación.
Como era de esperar frente a la magnitud de los cambios, el sector prácticamente desapareció de la escena antillana, debido principalmente a las consecuencias del bloqueo de EE.UU. , que desde entonces y hasta hoy se erigió en freno para las aspiraciones de la ínsula de abrirse al mundo.
La actividad turística foránea solo pudo resucitar a partir de 1974, y en 1975 ya se recibieron seis veces más visitantes que en el ejercicio antecedente. Con tal impuso continuaron los años 80, cuando surge el Campismo Popular (1981) y se aprueba la legislación para las empresas mixtas (1982).
Llegaron entonces los años 90 y hubo una explosión en la esfera. El fuerte período especial que vivía la nación era motivo más que suficiente para que el territorio antillano apostase por tal opción económica.
Cuando se ponderan las bondades del rubro, de inmediato se le reconocen sus significativos aportes monetarios, ser fuente de empleo y, a la vez, su accionar como motor impulsor para otro conjunto importante de ramas.
Para esa fecha los veraneantes que escogían este destino eran solo 327 mil, para quienes estaban alistados 12 mil cuartos; mientras que a partir del 2004, y de forma consecutiva, la Antilla Mayor rebasó la cota de los dos millones de arribos internacionales, y la tendencia alcista conllevó a números superiores en periodos subsiguientes.
Al cierre de 2015, por ejemplo, los flujos fueron de tres millones 524 mil 779 viajeros (17,4 por ciento de incremento)-, en tanto en el calendario en curso las previsiones apuntan a mucho más.
2016: RECORD HISTORICO DE TURISTAS
Cuba recibió recién la cifra de tres millones de visitantes internacionales en 2016, con 39 días de antelación a similar etapa del ejercicio precedente.
Con tal resultado el destino cubano refuerza su posicionamiento en el escenario turístico mundial, pese a persistir casi intacto el bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero, que mantiene ya por más de media centuria Washington sobre La Habana e impide a sus nacionales hacer turismo en su vecina ínsula al sur, lo cual viola la Constitución de La Unión.
Ello ha sido posible gracias a la labor de los trabajadores del turismo, a la cooperación de múltiples sectores de nuestra economía, al acompañamiento de los colaboradores internacionales, y muy especialmente al apoyo constante del Gobierno y su pueblo, protagonistas del desarrollo del giro en el país, según agrega la nota del Mintur.
DIFICULTA POLITICA DE BLOQUEO DESARROLLO DEL TURISMO CUBANO
El turismo en Cuba experimenta severas afectaciones a consecuencia del bloqueo impuesto por la Casa Blanca, según aseguran autoridades del propio MINTUR .
A consecuencias de tal yugo imperial solo en el período abril de 2014 a igual mes del 2015, las pérdidas ocasionadas a la actividad sin humo se estiman en 73 millones 416 mil 529 dólares, monto equivalente al programa inversionista de la industria nacional para el 2014.
El abastecimiento a la actividad constituye otra de las afectaciones registradas en el rubro a tenor con la criminal política, porque es imprescindible acceder a mercados lejanos- como Asia y Europa-, para garantizar suministros imprescindibles para el normal desenvolvimiento del ramo.
Considerado un sector estratégico para la reanimación de la economía autóctona, la actividad local de la llamada igualmente industria sin humo cuenta para su evolución con más de 62 mil habitaciones, 10 aeropuertos internacionales, una empleomanía bien capacitada e ingresos anuales por más de dos mil millones de dólares.
Los principales mercados son Canadá, EE.UU., Reino Unido, Francia, Alemania, España, Italia y por Latinoamérica, México y Argentina.
UN SECTOR ESTRATEGICO QUE JUSTIFICA TAL DESIGNACION
Augurios aparte, hablan por sí solas las imágenes de los muchos clientes en los diferentes destinos del patio (ya sean ciudades modernas o coloniales, balnearios, cayerías o entornos naturales) y la propia observación de esta redactora en sitios claves del panorama citadino, que ratifican a la industria del ocio como uno de los soportes más promisorios para la economía autóctona.
¿Será posible que este sea otro año récord para el turismo cubano? La respuesta a esta altura del almanaque es ya una rotunda afirmación. Con bloqueo o sin él, esta dinámica esfera seguirá ganando adeptos y continuará fiel a sus mercados tradicionales, aquellos que la han acompañado siempre, en las buenas y en las malas.
Luz Marina Fornieles Sánchez Fuente
Agencia Cubana de Noticias
La Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) es una división de la Agencia de Información Nacional (AIN) de Cuba fundada el 21 de mayo de 1974. | 1real |
New Russian envoy describes 'warm' meeting with Trump: agencies | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s newly installed ambassador to Washington said on Friday that he had a warm and constructive meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian news agencies reported. “I was received by President Trump, I presented my credentials. For my part I said that we are looking forward to an improvement in the relations between our two countries,” Tass news agency quoted the ambassador, Anatoly Antonov, as saying. “President Trump received me in a warm and friendly way ... The atmosphere was very genial, constructive and welcoming. At least, that was my personal feeling,” Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Antonov as saying. “We, together with his colleagues, his staff, agreed to continue our cooperation.” “I said that I look forward to working with the U.S government in the area of Russian-American mutual interests. And I said that, as far as Russia is concerned, we are ready to do that, we’re ready to take concrete steps.” Antonov took over as ambassador from Sergei Kislyak, whose contacts with members of Trump’s campaign team made him a central figure in the row over Russian influence on last year’s U.S. presidential election. A special counsel and congressional panels are investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the election, and whether members of the Trump campaign had improper contacts with figures linked to the Russian state. Russia denies trying to interfere in the election. Antonov, born in 1955, is a diplomat by training and before his posting to Washington was a deputy foreign minister. Between 2011 and 2016, he served as deputy defense minister, a period that coincided with Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. Two years ago, the European Union put him on its list of officials subject to Ukraine-related sanctions, citing his involvement in supporting the deployment of Russian troops to Ukraine. | 0fake |
#DNC GIVES ANTI-HILLARY Dems Free Speech Cage Outside Convention [VIDEO] | It s just cleaner that way You know, keeping anyone who disagrees with Hillary in a caged area Shutting down free speech it s the American Democrat way | 1real |
Germany's Merkel to name aide Altmaier as stand-in finance minister: sources | BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel s chief of staff will become acting and temporary finance minister when Wolfgang Schaeuble leaves office, sources in her conservative party said on Friday. The decision comes as negotiations to form a new government look likely to drag into 2018. The sources said Merkel had decided that Peter Altmaier would take over from Schaeuble, who agreed on Wednesday to become president of the lower house of parliament to let someone from another coalition party take the role. . Government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer would not deny the news, first reported by Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, but noted the Bundestag would not elect a new president until its first session, which must take place by Oct. 24. We will inform you about everything promptly after that, Demmer told a regular news conference. Altmaier, a conservative and close confidant of Merkel s, would take over after the 75-year-old Schaeuble is nominated by the conservative alliance at a meeting on Oct. 17. He would then hand over to whoever is named by a new coalition partner, probably the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), which urged Merkel to accelerate the process of forming a new government. Fifty-nine percent of Germans support Merkel s aim to create a three-way coalition with the FDP and the environmentalist Greens, a survey for broadcaster ZDF found. But a so-called Jamaica coalition - after the parties colors of black, yellow and green that match the Jamaican flag - has never been tested at the national level and there are serious differences on migration, energy, taxes and Europe. Complicating coalition talks is a debate between Merkel s Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU, which lost 10 percentage points in Sunday s vote. Eager to claw back support ahead of state elections in 2018, the CSU has redoubled its calls for limiting migration, something Merkel has opposed. Only 23 percent of Germans would favor the continuation of the grand coalition of Merkel s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD), which governed for the last four years. Almost two-thirds of those polled supported the SPD s decision to go into opposition at the national level after its worst election result in the post-war era on Sunday. Andrea Nahles, the SPD s newly elected parliamentary leader, said the conservatives, the FDP and Greens need to and will get(a coalition agreement) done . If Chancellor Merkel thinks the SPD is a tactical reserve option for an emergency, then she is wrong, Nahles told Bild. Altmaier himself suggested negotiations may take longer than four years ago, when a deal was done by Christmas. That s what I m hoping for, but what s decisive is the substance, not the date, Altmaier said in an interview published by Focus magazine on Friday. Exploratory talks are expected after the Oct. 15 election in the state of Lower Saxony, now ruled by a coalition of the SPD and Greens. But Wolfgang Kubicki, deputy leader of the FDP, urged Merkel to get the process started sooner. Everyone knows what needs to be done. There s no reason to wait any longer, he told the Handelsblatt newspaper. He said the conflict within conservatives should not result in Germany remaining without a new government for a long time. Underscoring the problems still ahead in forming a government, key officials with the Greens and FDP on Friday questioned a push by Merkel s conservatives to implement facial recognition technology in video surveillance. Kubicki told Der Spiegel: Widespread facial recognition would be a significant step toward a surveillance state. Konstantin von Notz, deputy of the Greens in parliament, echoed his concerns, adding, Then we wouldn t be living in a free country anymore. | 0fake |
After bloodshed, Venezuelan government and foes battle for votes | BARINAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Tirelessly traversing the lethargic plains of Venezuela, a brother of former leader Hugo Chavez and an ally of a famous opposition detainee vie for votes. The governorship race in Barinas state the Chavez family s stronghold - is the most emblematic of state elections taking place nationwide on Sunday just weeks after opposition-led protests that shook Venezuela and claimed at least 125 lives. At every rally, Hugo Chavez is out front, showing us the way, enthuses Argenis Chavez, 59, an electrical engineer and incumbent governor, jumping on a bike and evoking his late elder brother at every campaign stop. In Barinas, defeating the government means defeating the Chavez family who have wielded power at whim for 18 years, counters opposition rival Freddy Superlano, 41, wearing a shirt with the image of his arrested party leader Leopoldo Lopez. This year s prolonged protests failed to bring down the government of President Nicolas Maduro, but they hardened global opinion against the ruling socialists and led to U.S. sanctions. Now, opposition leaders want their demoralized supporters to turn out en masse at the gubernatorial polls to overturn Maduro s majority in 20 of Venezuela s 23 states. The government, in turn, wants to minimize seemingly inevitable losses, and trumpet the election as proof against accusations of autocracy in Venezuela. Look at our dictatorship then: an election where most candidates are from the opposition! Chavez ironically told Reuters, as red-shirted supporters danced around him at a rally. With voters angry over a crushing economic crisis, polls show the opposition coalition would win handily in normal circumstances. One recent survey gave the coalition, which aspires to win 18 governorships, 44.7 percent of voter intentions versus 21.1 percent for the government. Circumstances are far from normal in Venezuela, however, and the government has threatened to ban any candidates linked to violence in protests. Furthermore, as in past elections during the ruling Chavismo movement s 18-year grip on Venezuela, state resources are being mobilized heavily for official candidates. Distribution of subsidized food at government rallies is commonplace, state-run companies lend transport for the events, and state media give Maduro s candidates unfettered air-time. One opposition candidate s brother has been arrested for alleged car theft in what the coalition says is an attempt to intimidate its ranks. Perhaps the biggest disadvantage for the opposition is the electronic ballot sheet itself. Despite primaries to choose a single opposition candidate per state from the plethora of parties within the Democratic Unity coalition, the pro-Maduro election board is declining to modify the ballot list to narrow it down to one name. All initial candidates from before the primaries are listed on the ballot instead, something that could confuse opposition supporters and dilute their vote, benefiting the ruling Socialist Party s candidates. Further stoking opposition supporters skepticism, the election board is using a new vote machine provider after long-term partner Smartmatic accused it of inflating numbers in July s controversial election of a Constituent Assembly super-body. On a walkabout in an unpaved shantytown on the outskirts of Barinas city, Superlano told Reuters government candidates were using helicopters to campaign while he and other opposition aspirants spent hours on the road to reach remote communities. The government was also exploiting Venezuelans hunger, during a period of unprecedented scarcity, by handing out food bags in return for promises of votes, he said. It s a macabre plan, said Superlano, a lawmaker from Lopez s Popular Will party who won the opposition primary in Barinas. Even with all that, they are losing! Having dealt a hugely symbolic blow to Chavismo by winning five of six congress seats for Barinas in 2015 elections, the opposition now wants to end 18 years of nearly unbroken control of the governorship by Chavez family members. While there is widespread discontent over food shortages, idle land and rising malnutrition in a fertile region that should be Venezuela s bread basket, the government is running a rigorous campaign and painting Superlano as the candidate of the violence in reference to this year s protests. Maduro supporters say the opposition, backed by Venezuela s elite and the U.S. government, is intent on taking power by force to seize control of the nation s oil riches. They want war for Venezuela. We want peace, said 65-year-old retiree Ramon Alvarran, proudly wearing a red T-shirt depicting the eyes of Hugo Chavez at a rally for his brother. Elsewhere though, resentment against Maduro is palpable. My kids don t have a crumb in their stomachs yet today, said Daris Gonzalez, 36, whose three children had not eaten by lunchtime. Like many in her poor and once staunchly Chavista neighborhood, Gonzalez is now leaning toward the opposition. There has to be change. We cannot go on like this. Offsetting such sentiment, many young grassroots opposition supporters feel their leaders have sold out - and betrayed the memory of slain protesters - by entering an election on an unfair playing field. Abstentions could hurt their numbers. Should the opposition triumph on Sunday, the government can limit the impact by restricting funding and taking authority away from the governors offices, as it has done in the past when offices have fallen to opponents. Any overt dirty tricks, however, risk bringing more international sanctions or torpedoing an already fragile, foreign-led mediation with the opposition that Maduro needs to improve his international image. Following the gubernatorial election, the opposition wants to shift attention to demanding a date, and guarantee of free conditions, for the 2018 presidential election to advance their ultimate goal of ending socialist rule. People are very angry and their anger has a face: Maduro, said Carlos Ocariz, an opposition candidate trying to hold Miranda state for the opposition against a rising star on the government side, Hector Rodriguez. | 0fake |
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I agree,and think that should be a “high priority” action. As the video said it should have been “done yesterday”. Reply November 6, 2016 10:17 pm +Mikie Share On Facebook
I saw on Facebook that Snowden is making a “new” product, a device that looks like a phone case that supposedly prevents hackers from accesing your phone as you walk by, and I ROFLd. Why would anyone bother following you around the world, when your Google Android phone is sending every contact, sms, location, bookmarks and all the rest to the Google central servers. In the US of A. Last time I read about it few years ago that Google has a data centre consisting of 4 ACRES of computers.
Russians are creating an Android-like operating system for phones as well, and it’s a smart move. The sooner the better.
Chinese are even going so far as to make their own PROCESSORS. I guess experience with good old Pentium 66 left a bad taste ;) Reply November 6, 2016 11:25 pm Search articles | 1real |
JUST IN: Benghazi Attack Organizer On Way To U.S. After Being Captured In Libya In President Trump Approved Special Ops Mission | Remember when Hillary stood in front of the families and the 4 dead bodies of brave Americans and lied about an awful internet video being the cause of their deaths:Hillary was caught red-handed lying about the video by Rep. Jim Jordon (R-OH) in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi during her testimony:Will today s capture of a top militant who was instrumental in the Benghazi attack finally solve the puzzle about what happened in Benghazi? Will the lies of Hillary and Barack Obama finally be exposed? American Military News U.S. Special Operations Forces have captured a top militant who was instrumental in the Benghazi attack in Libya in 2012 that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, an information management officer, and two former Navy SEALs, according to a report by the Associated Press.The Associated Press reported Monday that Special Operations Forces have captured the unidentified militant and are transporting the militant back to the U.S. The officials say U.S. commandos captured the unidentified man in Libya and are transporting him back to the U.S. The officials say the mission was approved by President Donald Trump and done in coordination with Libya s internationally recognized government, the AP reported, adding that the officials weren t authorized to speak and demanded anonymity. The U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens; U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith; and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, both former Navy SEALs, were killed in the attacks against the diplomatic compound five years ago. | 1real |
Cal State Prof. Says Trump Should Have Twitter Access Revoked over Climate Change Beliefs - Breitbart | Professor Joseph Palermo of California State University argued that Donald Trump should have his Twitter access revoked because of his beliefs on climate change. [In an editorial piece for The Huffington Post, Palermo addressed his concerns over climate change denial on the political right. Palermo argued that Trump shouldn’t be allowed to use internet technology like Twitter because of his attitudes towards climate change science. “I’ve always believed that people who dismiss science in one area shouldn’t be able to benefit from science in others,” he wrote. “If Trump and his cohort believe the science of global warming is bogus then they shouldn’t be allowed to use the science of the Internet for their Twitter accounts, the science of global positioning for their drones, or the science of nuclear power for their weaponry. ” Palermo claimed that Trump wasn’t the only influential republican that he was concerned about with regards to attitudes towards climate change science. It’s not just the people around Trump who reject the science of climate change. The leadership of the Republican Party — from House Speaker Paul Ryan to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to the chairs of the key science and technology committees in Congress, to the Republicans’ favorite think tanks — all share the fossil fuel industry’s preference that the U. S. government does nothing to address the most serious planetary crisis humanity has ever faced. The Republicans’ cravenness on climate change is clear. After claiming for years that the science was “inconclusive” (or a “hoax”) they held the public position that they opposed any concerted action to reduce greenhouse gases because China and India would never go along. Then, in 2015, when China and India signed on to the Paris Climate accords, Mitch McConnell and the Republican leaders began telling foreign governments that the Republicans would fight against any international deal on climate change in any case. Palermo has a history of radical statements. Writing in the LA Progressive, Palermo claimed that the 2016 Presidential election “felt at times like the prolonged public lynching of the nation’s first black president. ” | 0fake |
Marseille attack suspect had shown Tunisian passport to police: prosecutor | PARIS (Reuters) - The man suspected of carrying out Sunday s attack in the French city of Marseille, killing two people, had presented a Tunisian passport when last stopped by police in Lyon just two days earlier, said the Paris public prosecutor Francois Molins. Molins told a news conference that the suspect s details came up on criminal databases and that he went by seven different identities - none of which were on French anti-terrorist check lists. He added that one such identity named him as Ahmed H , born in 1987 in Tunisia, and that French authorities were trying to identify the authenticity of the Tunisian passport and his real name. A soldier shot the suspect dead after he had stabbed two women to death at Marseille main train station on Sunday, in what officials described as a likely terrorist act Molins added that the suspect told police he lived in Lyon, was homeless, divorced and had problems with drug abuse. | 0fake |
Trump Campaign Admits They Are Trying To Steal The Election With Voter Suppression | Bloomberg reported :
To compensate for this, Trump’s campaign has devised another strategy, which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and his team are trying to shrink it. “We have three major voter suppression operations under way,” says a senior official. They’re aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans. Trump’s invocation at the debate of Clinton’s WikiLeaks e-mails and support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership was designed to turn off Sanders supporters. The parade of women who say they were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and harassed or threatened by Hillary is meant to undermine her appeal to young women. And her 1996 suggestion that some African American males are “super predators” is the basis of a below-the-radar effort to discourage infrequent black voters from showing up at the polls—particularly in Florida.
The effort was obvious, and according to the polling, it is failing.
Voter turnout among young women is expected to rise according to the latest Harvard IOP young voters poll. Sanders started flocking towards Clinton in August , and haven’t left, and early voting statistics show that African-American turnout is solid in swing states.
The Trump campaign has realized that they don’t have enough supporters to win, so they are adopting tactics that run contrary to the heart of democracy to shrink the electorate in critical states.
However, for voter suppression efforts like Trump’s to be effective, the campaign must have a credible messenger. Donald Trump is not a credible messenger to any of the voters that he is trying to deter, and he has no effective surrogates that are capable of delivering his message.
A voter suppression effort was expected from the Trump campaign. What is unexpected is that the campaign would publicly brag about it.
People on all sides of the political spectrum who care about basic democratic institutions should be alarmed by Trump’s public attack on democracy.
The good news for all Americans is that Democrats are already fighting back , and the Trump campaign’s dark efforts to steal an election appear to be failing. | 1real |
U.S. attorney general deflects lawmakers' questions on Clinton emails | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. law enforcement official, under questioning from Republicans at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, shed no new light on the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her handling of sensitive emails. Attorney General Loretta Lynch deflected questions about the department’s inquiry into Clinton’s use of a private email system while she was secretary of state, an issue that has hounded her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Republicans grilled Lynch at the House of Representatives committee hearing over Justice’s decision not to charge Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the Nov. 8 election. “Lynch has no intention of answering ... even the most basic questions about the legal elements the government is obligated to prove in a criminal prosecution,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Republican. Democratic lawmakers at the hearing largely avoided the subject, asking Lynch about gun control and policing reforms. Lynch referred questions about the department’s decision to an FBI-led investigative team that recommended not bringing charges. She said she was “extremely proud” of the team’s work, testifying one week after the FBI closed its year-long probe. The emails case is a favorite target for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, as well as other Republican politicians. Goodlatte and Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz asked the Justice Department on Monday to investigate whether Clinton committed perjury in testimony to Congress about the emails. Other investigations continue. At least one federal judge is seeking to establish whether Clinton set up the email system to thwart laws governing the public’s access to official records. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the district court in Washington, who is overseeing a lawsuit accusing the State Department of not complying with records requests by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, is considering whether to order that Clinton give testimony about the system under oath. Clinton’s lawyers argued against her having to testify in court papers filed on Tuesday, saying she had no more information to provide that was not already in the public record and that the Justice Department still had her emails and computer equipment. Judge Sullivan is due to rule on whether to order the deposition after a hearing next Monday. FBI Director James Comey told a congressional hearing last week he recommended against charging Clinton because there was insufficient evidence that she acted with bad intent. He added that any of his employees who handled emails the way Clinton did could be subject to dismissal or loss of security clearance. | 0fake |
1984 Unfolding as Public Surveillance Technologies Deployed Without Consent | Waking Times
We are fast approaching an era when humanity will be subjugated by a technological tyranny managed by an untouchable organization of elites, bureaucrats and paid public minders hired to monitor our behaviors, emotions and thoughts. In an environment like this, law and justice will be meaningless, as the tools of a technocracy can used to enforce the policies and whims of whoever monitors us, whether it be corporate employees, criminals, or abusive state actors.
Recent developments and roll-outs of advanced facial recognition technology are a hint of the coming ubiquitousness in using biometric, face-scanning, emotion-reading, all-seeing technology to govern every detail of daily life. Consider the following developments: It was recently reported that around half of Americans are already in police facial recognition databases, the vast majority having never been even accused of committing a crime or consenting to being included in the database. [ Source ] Increasingly, facial recognition is being used to scan concert and festival goers creating permanent databases of partiers. [ Source ] An experimental town in China is now using facial recognition to grant citizens entry. [ Source ] Facial recognition is now capable of reading human emotions, opening the door to a new world of possibility in pre-crime detection. [ Source ] The TSA is using emotion reading facial recognition technology to determine if a traveler is to be treated as a threat. [ Source ] Police nationwide are using the controversial Stingray system which allows them to listen to anyone’s cell phone conversations. [ Source ] California police are already using a computer system called ‘Beware’ to predict crime and preemptively stop it. [ Source] Microsoft recently conducted a major test during the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions, using emotion reading facial recognition technology to survey the crowd for threats. [ Source ] A Russian software developer has released an App that allows you to turn your smart phone into a facial recognition device. [ Source ] Some U.S. churches are using a consumer version of facial recognition to keep tabs on who is in attendance for Sunday service. [ Source ] Facial recognition, finger-print reading, and iris scanning is now being included in consumer technologies. [ Source ]
The justification for using this technology against a public who is never given the opportunity to consent or to op-out is, as always, public safety, as police and government agencies claim the technology is needed to spot criminal elements, gang members and other threats to the public. Here, a quote from George Orwell offers a glimpse of what the inevitable outcome of this is:
“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called.”– 1984 , George Orwell
Here, RT discusses how Microsoft used emotion reading facial recognition technology at political conventions and how some are resisting the way this technology is being introduced into our society. Final Thoughts
Privacy and anonymity are the enemies of the state, and it is being destroyed without our consent by both government and corporations who are deploying technology with no consideration of the human consequences. The possibilities for a techno-totalitarian future are grim, but without awareness and without motivation to resist, it is all but a forgone conclusion.
Orwell himself warned us of how this dark vision would force itself into fruition unless we stood against it. At the end of his life he even gave us this final warning. Are you listening? Isaac Davis . About the Author
Isaac Davis is a 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 . Like Waking Times on Facebook . Follow Waking Times on Twitter . This article ( 1984 Unfolding as Public Surveillance Technologies Deployed Without Consent Isaac Davis | 1real |
Chairman Devin Nunes: ‘Cannot’ Rule Out Senior Obama Officials in Intelligence Leaks - Breitbart | House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes did not rule out Senior Obama administration officials being involved in “incidental” communications of President Donald Trump’s transition team that were “widely disseminated. ”[When asked by Breitbart News if he could rule out any involvement of senior members of the Obama administration, Nunes replied, “No, we cannot. ” Nunes briefed President Donald Trump at the White House this afternoon, speaking to reporters immediately after the meeting. He confirmed that the new intelligence had nothing to do with the FBI investigation into Russia, but that it was picked up in normal intelligence efforts. “What I’ve read bothers me, and I think it should bother the president himself and his team, because I think some of it seems to be inappropriate,” he said. Nunes said that Trump was “concerned” by the news, “And he should be. ” “I don’t think the American people would be comfortable with it,” he said when asked to characterize the nature of the intelligence. Nunes said that some of the information was communicated to him by intelligence sources. “We’ve been asking for people to come forward and they came through the proper channels … I’m just going to leave it at that,” he said. He added that the National Security Agency was “cooperating very very well” with the ongoing investigation. Live at the White House — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes https: . — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 22, 2017, | 0fake |
TRUMP SUPPORTERS Heckle Clinton Chairman: “We Got Your Emails, John Podesta!”[Video] | Based #Trump supporters heckle @johnpodesta white @wolfblitzer tries to interview him. we got your emails, John Podesta! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/yblxHA9hOO MicroSpookyLeaks (@WDFx2EU7) October 19, 2016 | 1real |
China wants Bangladesh, Myanmar to solve Rohingya crisis bilaterally | DHAKA (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday urged Bangladesh and Myanmar resolve the Rohingya crisis through bilateral negotiations instead of an international initiative. The international community should not complicate the situation, Wang said in a press briefing at the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka. Actions in the United Nations Security Council must help Bangladesh-Myanmar bilateral cooperation to resolve the problem peacefully , the minister told reporters. Wang arrived in Bangladesh on Saturday for a two-day visit and from there he will go to Myanmar to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting. (ASEM) China supports resolving the crisis peacefully, bilaterally with mutual consultation between Bangladesh and Myanmar, he said. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August driven out by a military clearance operation in Buddhist majority Myanmar s Rakhine State. It is a complex situation and needs a comprehensive solution. Economic development of Rakhine State is needed. China is ready to help, Wang said. Earlier in the day Wang also met with Bangladesh s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence in Dhaka and assured her of China s support in solving the crisis. Myanmar will have to take back their nationals ensuring their safety, security and dignity for a durable solution to the crisis, Hasina s private secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted the prime minister as saying. We will not allow the land of Bangladesh to be used by any terrorist group to commit any act of insurgency in neighboring countries, Hasina added, according to Karim. Bangladesh s Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told Wang that Bangladesh is trying to resolve the issue both bilaterally and internationally as it could not afford the huge burden of the refugees. A statement from Bangladesh foreign ministry said that when the issue of displaced Myanmar nationals was raised, Wang stated that China would help resolve the issue and will not be partial to any side. He acknowledged that Bangladesh is facing the brunt of continuing influx of Rohingya refugees, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry statement said. A delegation of U.S. Congressmen is visiting Bangladesh to study the Rohingya crisis on Saturday. Sweden s foreign minister Margot Wallstrom, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Germany s foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kona will also visit Bangladesh this week. | 0fake |
BREAKING : Bay of Pigs Veterans Association Endorses Donald Trump – TruthFeed | BREAKING : Bay of Pigs Veterans Association Endorses Donald Trump BREAKING : Bay of Pigs Veterans Association Endorses Donald Trump Breaking News By Amy Moreno October 26, 2016 Our vets love Trump.
They know he’s the ONLY one who can fix the broken system.
Our vets are dying in the streets and the hallways of VA hospitals, while illegals and refugees enjoy taxpayer “freebies.”
The ONLY way this will change is by getting rid of the global liberals and voting AMERICA FIRST!
In an emotional meeting, Trump spoke to the Bay of Pigs veterans, who proudly endorsed him.
Donald reassured them all that we would “Make America Great Again.”
One vet, at the end of the clip, can be seen wiping his eyes.
He knows his country is LOST and this is the last chance to get it back.
Don’t let him down, America.
Watch the video: Truly honored to receive the first ever presidential endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. #MAGA #ImWithYou pic.twitter.com/U7xVj1ajMs
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2016 This is a movement – we are the political OUTSIDERS fighting against the ESTABLISHMENT! Join the resistance and help us fight to put America First! Amy Moreno is a Published Author , Pug Lover & Game of Thrones Nerd. You can follow her on Twitter here and Facebook here . Support the Trump Movement and help us fight Liberal Media Bias. Please LIKE and SHARE this story on Facebook or Twitter. | 1real |
EXPLODING AFRICAN REFUGEE POPULATION STRESSING WELFARE SYSTEM IN MINNESOTA Are Sending Millions Of Dollars Back To Africa | It s not just the our open southern borders we need to be concerned about. It s our State Department who seems to be hell-bent on populating our states with refugees from mostly muslim nations in Africa and the Middle East.This is one of those feel-good stories about how Minnesota is such a wonderful state with its ever-expanding African migrant population. If you are a Minnesotan it s probably a good thing to read.However, I caution readers on the numbers. The TwinCities Pioneer Press reports that there are about 85,000 Somalis in the whole US and that just isn t so the number is much larger. We painstakingly researched the numbers for just those entering the US through the refugee program and came up with over 100,000 in the last 25 years and that doesn t include a couple generations now of producing children. See this early post.You will see mention in the story that when census takers come around, the Africans are less than truthful about how many are living at the location.From TwinCities Pioneer Press:Of the 50 states, Minnesota has the ninth-largest population of African immigrants. About 60 percent come from East African nations such as Somalia and Ethiopia, and 25 percent from West African nations such as Nigeria and Liberia. The rest come from elsewhere in Africa.Of more than 85,700 Somalis officially known to reside in the U.S., nearly a third are thought to reside in Minnesota.Corrie, a professor at Concordia University in St. Paul, believes the state s African population produces $14 million in philanthropy within Minnesota each year, on top of $150 million in annual remittances to countries in Africa.I don t know why this is considered a good thing sending money out of America that will never benefit our economy!Some of the smart people on our side should get to work doing studies that will show the real picture including how much welfare is consumed by the immigrants, how costly is their medical care and education, the cost to the criminal justice system, and include an analysis of where the money goes!I m starting to think that glowing reports about how immigrants benefit the local economy include the money flowing into a state like Minnesota from the federal tax payer via welfare programs. Someone needs to find out!By the way, I don t see any mention in the Pioneer Press story about the fact that half of the state s Somalis live in poverty, here. Via: Refugee Resettlement WatchThe State Department has helped to relocate tens of thousands of refugees from the war-torn African nation of Somalia to Minnesota, where they can take advantage of some of America s most generous welfare and charity programs.But the effort is having the unintended consequence of creating an enclave of immigrants with high unemployment that is both stressing the state s safety net and creating a rich pool of potential recruiting targets for Islamist terror groups. Via: Washington Times | 1real |
Top Senate Republican: Will move on healthcare when support coalesces | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Leader McConnell said he expects to move on legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare as soon as his there are enough votes to pass the Republican-controlled chamber. The Kentucky Republican, speaking to reporters at a news conference, added that he does not expect to get much initial cooperation from Democrats, whose votes Republicans need to gain the 60 needed to pass bills. | 0fake |
Trump’s Potential Pick For Labor Secretary PROVES He Hates Workers | Throughout the campaign, many have tried defending Trump by saying that he was once a Democrat, so he must secretly be a liberal, or something. Well, Trump s pick for his cabinet are among the most conservative possible, and his pick for Labor Secretary is not only ber socially conservative, he would probably opt for slave labor if it was an option.Andy Puzder is the CEO of Carl s Jr. and Hardee s you know, that company that has family values ads like this one:We don t know if it s a shared love for scantily clad women in semi-pornographic settings that drew Donald Trump to Puzder, but Trump is considering him as Labor Secretary and that s very bad news for labor.In May, Pudzer penned a petulant op-ed in which he said he would replace all his employees with robots if Congress raised the minimum wage. That s right, the so-called populist President Elect wants someone in charge of labor who believes that if you can t dramatically underpay employees, then why have employees at all. Pudzer s salary is upwards of $5 million a year. His employees make somewhere around double the poverty level, assuming they are not parents and are working full time.Oh, it gets worse, a lot worse. Puzder, like many of Trump s picks, is painfully (to the nation) socially conservative. Puzder, in his previous life, was a trial lawyer and as a trial lawyer, he wrote one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws of that time.Puzder isn t completely in lock-step with the isolationist Trump, though. He does support free trade. Puzder s views run contrary to the key part of Trump s platform. Pudzer is for immigration reform, but it sort of seems to depend on who s in office. Pudzer loves the cheap labor that immigrants can provide, but not if President Obama is behind it.Immigration reform requires legislative action, not an executive mandate. On that point, last week, numerous business executives, political leaders and I sent a letter to the Republican members of Congress imploring them to reform our broken immigration system. The letter encourages Congress to pass legislation that discourages the rising tide of illegal immigration while fixing the unnecessary obstacles that send talented individuals elsewhere and make it harder for American companies to compete, grow and create jobs for American workers. Source: Real Clear PoliticsRegardless, Trump is sending a definite message to the nation, which is that his voters and the working people of America don t matter at all. Trump isn t going to save jobs, but he could help lower wages and Puzder is the perfect person to help do that.Featured image via Drew Angerer/Getty Images | 1real |
DELINGPOLE: Scott Pruitt Is Failing to Drain the Swamp at the EPA - Breitbart | President Trump’s attempts to drain the swamp are being undermined by one of his key administrators. [Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is more interested in building his political career than he is taking on the Green Blob, insiders report. Pruitt is also said to be behind attempts to remove at least one of the key phrases from the president’s Executive Order on the environment. It concerns a proposal to repeal the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on CO2 (the disastrous, unscientific, ruling introduced during the Obama Administration, which rebranded the harmless trace gas Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous substance). If Pruitt is successful and this clause is removed from the Executive Order it will represent a major setback for President Trump’s war with the Climate Industrial Complex. It may also put into jeopardy the promises Trump made on the campaign trail to scrap “any regulation that is outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers, or contrary to the national interest. ” “This is the president’s one shot at winning this battle,” an ally in the EPA camp warns. “It’s like the French heavy cavalry at Agincourt: lose momentum and he’s going to get stuck in the mud being shot to pieces by the English longbows. ” To understand the background to this story, you need to know who Scott Pruitt is and how he landed such a key job. The dismantling of the EPA, after all, is a core part of Trump’s program — so clearly it mattered greatly that the Administrator’s position should go to a capable, determined figure. Pruitt, a Republican lawyer, the Attorney General of Oklahoma seemed ideally qualified. One of his biographies describes him as a “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda. ” It was because of his combative track record — challenging his state’s rights against the federal bureaucracy of the EPA — that he landed the post of EPA Administrator. Since taking on the position, though, his appetite for doing what he was appointed to do appears to have diminished somewhat. True, his credentials as a climate sceptic are not much in doubt. Yes, he might even agree with President Trump that there’s a swamp out there that sorely needs draining. The problem is, insiders explain, is that the future of the EPA is of far less interest to Pruitt than his prospects of becoming either one of Oklahoma’s next senators or its next governor. “Pruitt wants to keep himself in the middle of the road so he can get himself elected,” one of my sources explains. “He’s not interested in managing the agency he’s interested in running for the senate and though of course he’s committed to the conservative cause, he’s more committed to himself. ” Of a piece with this was his recent spat with Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, over the EPA’s budget allowance. Pruitt — supposed to be a hawk — protested that he couldn’t accept the proposed 24 percent cut in the EPA’s $8. 2 billion budget. A furious Mulvaney responded by increasing the cut to 31 percent. Incurring Mulvaney’s wrath, my sources tell me, was all part of the plan. “It made Pruitt look like the guy who sticks up for his people. A good look for someone running for senator of Oklahoma. ” Meanwhile, most of the actual running of the EPA has been deputed to Pruitt’s Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson. Like Pruitt, like many in the upper circles of the EPA, Jackson is a member of the Oklahoma political set. He cut his teeth as an aide to Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe who, as Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has long been a scourge of the Climate Industrial Complex. Jackson often tried to warn off Sen. Inhofe from becoming too outspoken on climate change — not out of reasons of principle but purely as a matter of realpolitik. Sen. Inhofe, however, never gave much of a damn about caution: now 82, he has no reason to make friends and influence people by making out on green issues. Pruitt, on the other hand, has been much more alive to Jackson’s cautions. He got his fingers quite badly burnt after he recently said on CNBC that he did not consider carbon dioxide to be a major cause of global warming. At the time, I applauded Pruitt for saying what needed to be said. It was certainly an improvement on his disappointing performance at CPAC a few weeks before when he’d bounded around Tiggerishly repeating his favourite meaningless catchphrase “the future ain’t what it used to be” but proved himself quite incapable of answering a straightforward question about whether he believed in climate change. But I gather from my sources that there was blowback from the White House (why, it is not clear). This has made Pruitt more determined than ever not to stick his head above the parapet by doing anything that would make him even more unpopular than he is already with the Green Blob and its many fellow travellers in the squish branch of the GOP. Pruitt’s could scarcely come at a worse moment for Donald Trump. With his attempt to repeal Obamacare in temporary disarray, he badly needs a clear victory on one of his other battlefronts — not company commanders abandoning their positions at the very moment his flanks are most in danger. Already, the president has enough trouble on the environment front from other members of his inner circle. Both his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are true believers in the green faith and, like his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, have argued for the tone of the President’s Executive Order on the environment to be softened. If the clause on the Endangerment Finding is removed from the Executive Order, attempts will be made by Pruitt and others to pretend that this isn’t a problem. What matters is all the stuff President Trump is definitely going to do, like cancel Obama’s Clean Power Plan and putting the Paris climate agreement to the Senate so they can overturn it. But this is disingenuous and misleading. The Endangerment Finding isn’t some negligible, easily circumnavigable piece of legislation. It was deliberately introduced by environmentalist zealots at the height of the Obama administration as the poison pill which would cripple U. S. industry by rebranding “greenhouse gases,” including CO2, as a pollutant. This gives environmental lawyers carte blanche to sue any U. S. administration that fails properly to combat this alleged menace. Yet as Cato’s Pat Michaels explained in his lunchtime presentation at the Heartland Institute Climate Conference last week, the Endangerment Finding is based on an entirely flawed premise. It presupposes that the various computer models used to predict dangerous climate change as a result of rising CO2 levels are reliable and accurate. They are not. With time, the divergence between projected warming and observed warming has grown bigger, not smaller. This means, effectively, that the EPA’s Endangerment Finding declaration has no credible scientific basis whatsoever. In other words, the environmental movement has strayed so far beyond the realms of science that it has created several targets for any administration brave enough to take it on. This is an argument that can be won many times over: on the science on the economics even on the environment itself — which is being caused untold damage by misguided policies supposedly designed to save it. But what President Trump needs now more than ever are administrators with the political will to do the right thing — which is, after all, the reason so many Americans voted for him. If Scott Pruitt is not up to that task, then maybe it’s about time he did the decent thing and handed over the reins to someone who is. | 0fake |
A year after Trump's election, coal's future remains bleak | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after Donald Trump was elected president on a promise to revive the ailing U.S. coal industry, the sector’s long-term prospects for growth and hiring remain as bleak as ever. A Reuters review of mining data shows an industry that has seen only modest gains in jobs and production this year - much of it from a temporary uptick in foreign demand for U.S. coal rather than presidential policy changes. U.S. utilities are shutting coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace and shifting to cheap natural gas, along with wind and solar power. And domestic demand makes up about 90 percent of the market for U.S. coal. “We’re not planning to build any additional coal facilities,” said Melissa McHenry, a spokeswoman for American Electric Power, one of the largest U.S. utilities. “The future for coal is dictated by economics … and you can’t make those kinds of investments based on one administration’s politics.” Coal plants now make up 47 percent of AEP’s capacity for power generation, a figure it plans to shrink to 33 percent by 2030. (For a graphic on coal production, demand and employment, see: tmsnrt.rs/2zKY1tQ) The situation highlights the limitations of presidential policy on major industries and global economic trends. As some energy experts have said all along, the forces that will make or break mining are well beyond the powers of the Oval Office. A White House official did not respond to a request for comment. Trump has likely done all he can do to help the industry, said Luke Popovich, a spokesman for the National Mining Association, which represents major U.S. coal companies. “The government is no longer against us,” he said. “We now only have market forces to contend with.” Trump has taken action on many promises he made to coal interests in states that helped him win the election. The president started the process of killing former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, meant to reduce carbon emissions from power plants; ended an Obama-era moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands; ditched limits on dumping coal waste into streams; and started withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. Now Trump’s Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, is attempting to push a rule through the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that would subsidize power plants that store at least a 90-day supply of coal on site. The goal is to extend the life of some coal burning power plants, a move Perry says will make the electric grid more reliable. While the full impact of Trump’s coal policy could take years to understand, the changes so far are unlikely to boost domestic demand, energy analysts and utility officials said. Trump has cast the coal industry as a victim of burdensome regulation. The industry has lost more than 40 percent of its work force in less than a decade and seen production drop to its lowest levels since 1978. Its share of the power market has fallen to less than a third from about half in 2003. “We’re going to bring the coal industry back 100 percent,” Trump said at a rally in Virginia in August of 2016. So far, progress has been limited. U.S. coal production is on track to rise more than 8 percent in 2017 over the previous year, to 790 million tons, according to the Energy Information Administration. But 2018 output is expected to decline. The number of coal miners has also risen slightly to 51,900 in October, up about 2,200 since November 2016 - but down about 70 percent from a 1985 peak, according to the Labor Department. On November 1, Trump cited the modest production increases in a Tweet, saying, “It is finally happening for our great clean coal miners!” But these increases are largely attributable to demand for U.S. coal from Asian steel mills after temporary outages from their usual suppliers in Australia, according to James Stevenson, a coal analyst at IHS Markit. During the first six months of 2017, Asian countries took in 7.5 million short tons of U.S. coal, up 97 percent over the same period in 2016, according to the EIA. That demand will soon fade, Stevenson said. “We are not going to get a repeat of 2017,” he said of the spike in exports. Forecasts from utilities and the U.S. government reveal little reason for hope of a sustained coal rebound. Utilities are expected to shut down more than 13,600 megawatts of coal plant capacity in 2018. That follows a loss of nearly 8,000 MW this year and 13,000 MW in 2016, according to EIA and Thomson Reuters data. By 2025, coal-fired power plant capacity will dip to 226,380 MW, down about 30 percent from 2011, according to EIA. Three Texas coal plants owned by Vistra Energy Corp subsidiary Luminant are among the latest to close, bringing the number of plants that shut, or plan to, to 265 since 2010 - a figure higher than the 258 plants that remain, according to the Sierra Club, which has campaigned against coal. Vistra said the closures were forced by lower prices for natural gas and renewable power - and not by environmental regulations. Duke Energy, one of the country’s largest utilities, has shut down more than 5,400 MW of coal capacity since 2011 and plans to shed another 2,000 MW by 2024. Over the next decade, Duke plans to invest $11 billion in new natural gas and renewable power - and nothing in new coal-fired generation, said spokesman Rick Rhodes. A Nov. 2 report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - which has two of the largest coal producers in its district, Peabody Energy Corp and Arch Coal Inc - said coal-fired power plants “may eventually become obsolete.” Coal companies believe they can survive despite the troubling market outlook. Peabody expects a “modest number” of coal power plant retirements in the coming years, with some of that lost capacity shifting to remaining plants that will increase output, spokesman Vic Svec said. Arch spokeswoman Logan Bonacorsi offered a similar forecast. Robert Murray, the chief executive of privately-held Murray Energy Corp - one of America’s biggest underground miners - said Trump could do more for the industry. The administration, Murray said, should end tax breaks for wind and solar power and reverse an EPA finding that carbon emissions endanger human health. But Trump’s tax bill last week preserved most solar incentives, which have bi-partisan backing. And the EPA has so far steered clear of the so-called “endangerment finding” on emissions that is the basis of many fossil-fuel regulations, given the breadth of scientific evidence that would be needed to reverse it. Murray Energy, meanwhile, announced on Oct. 31 it will buy a 30.5 percent stake in a coal-mining partnership in Utah called Canyon Consolidated Resources, LLC. The deal might help the companies cut costs, but it’s unlikely to help workers: Murray said about 200 of 1,000 jobs in Utah could be lost. | 0fake |
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Re: More Americans Than Ever Are Losing Their Religion | More Americans Than Ever Are Losing Their Religion By Michael Snyder, on August 25th, 2016
Never before in U.S. history have so many Americans chosen to be unaffiliated with any particular religious group. As you will see below, the percentage of “nones” in this country has absolutely skyrocketed over the past decade. But not all faiths are losing members in the United States. In fact, Islam, Buddhism, Wicca and various New Age organizations have all experienced excellent growth in recent years. Sadly, almost all of the growth for the “nones” has come at the expense of Christianity. Americans are leaving the Christian faith in droves, and this is why many of our churches are less than half full on Sunday mornings. What we are doing right now is clearly not working, and hopefully we can get the church in America to wake up while there is still time to do so.
Earlier today I came across a brand new study from the Pew Research Center entitled “ Why America’s ‘nones’ left religion behind “. One thing that particularly stood out to me was the fact that most “nones” were once affiliated with a particular religion but have now discarded that label…
Perhaps the most striking trend in American religion in recent years has been the growing percentage of adults who do not identify with a religious group . And the vast majority of these religious “nones” (78%) say they were raised as a member of a particular religion before shedding their religious identity in adulthood.
Overall, the percentage of “nones” in this nation has been absolutely soaring in recent years. Back in 2007, “nones” made up 16 percent of the population, but now that number has risen to 23 percent. The following is from a different Pew Research Center report that was published last year …
Religious “nones” – a shorthand we use to refer to people who self-identify as atheists or agnostics, as well as those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” – now make up roughly 23% of the U.S. adult population. This is a stark increase from 2007, the last time a similar Pew Research study was conducted, when 16% of Americans were “nones.” ( During this same time period, Christians have fallen from 78% to 71%. )
I want you to notice one particularly sobering fact in the excerpt posted above. The seven percent increase in the percentage of “nones” was matched exactly by a seven percent decrease in the percentage of Christians.
It is time to face a very hard truth – Christianity is in rapid decline in America.
So why is this happening?
Is there an explanation for why so many people are leaving the church?
Well, here is some of the feedback that the Pew Research Center received while conducting their new survey…
About half of current religious “nones” who were raised in a religion (49%) indicate that a lack of belief led them to move away from religion. This includes many respondents who mention “science” as the reason they do not believe in religious teachings, including one who said “ I’m a scientist now, and I don’t believe in miracles .” Others reference “ common sense ,” “ logic ” or a “ lack of evidence ” – or simply say they do not believe in God.
This is such a tragedy, because during my decades of research into these things I have found that logic and reason should always point people toward the Christian faith and not away from it. There is an absolutely gigantic for Christianity out there, but unfortunately most people don’t know about it or they are not interested in considering it.
The biggest cultural shift has been happening among our young people. Most of them have been raised in an environment where God has been removed from almost every corner of public life, and the results have been beyond catastrophic.
In America today, 35 percent of all Millennials are “nones”.
Millennials are more than twice as likely to be “nones” as Baby Boomers (17 percent), and they are more than three times as likely to be “nones” as the Silent Generation (11 percent).
In other words, the younger you are the more likely you are to be religiously unaffiliated.
And this shows up in the church attendance numbers as well. Millennials are much, much less likely to be in church on any particular Sunday morning than the oldest Americans are. The following information comes from another Pew Research Center report …
Millennials – especially the youngest Millennials, who have entered adulthood since the first Landscape Study was conducted – are far less religious than their elders. For example, only 27% of Millennials say they attend religious services on a weekly basis, compared with 51% of adults in the Silent generation . Four-in-ten of the youngest Millennials say they pray every day, compared with six-in-ten Baby Boomers and two-thirds of members of the Silent generation. Only about half of Millennials say they believe in God with absolute certainty, compared with seven-in-ten Americans in the Silent and Baby Boom cohorts. And only about four-in-ten Millennials say religion is very important in their lives, compared with more than half in the older generational cohorts.
We are slowly losing an entire generation.
When you walk into most churches in America on Sunday morning, what are you going to find?
You are going to find that the congregation is dominated by “the greys”, and I am not talking about space aliens.
As the oldest Americans die off, the United States is becoming less and less Christian. We are on the exact same path that Europe has already gone down, but most churches are just going on with business as usual and don’t seem to even understand that we have a major crisis on our hands.
As I said at the top of this article, what we are doing right now is clearly not working, and if we continue on the path that we are currently on we will continue to lose young people by the millions.
America needs revival more than it has ever needed it before.
Let us pray that one arrives very soon. There Is A Mainstream Media Conspiracy To Hide Hillary Clinton’s Rapidly Failing Health » Grillsgt.
And then there are those who realized virtually all churches in their area are either preaching heresy, or are downright apostate. Mke
Or they are so watered down and user-friendly that you feel like you wasted a good part of your Sunday when you leave. I’m amazed at most churches I go into these days. Not a lot of comprehensive, honest Bible-teaching going on. That’s why people are walking away. Sure, some will walk away when you boldly teach the Bible, but that’s the way it is supposed to be. iris
Yes, people need truth. Can the church growth models! Preach the gospel. If church leaders won’t do it, that’s their problem, we can share Christ every day with those we come in contact with, by word and deed. I’m glad we’re in a congregation where it is shared every week. PoorBoy2
Could it be that all of these years of focusing on “Religion” and do’s and don’t’s instead of relationship with the one true God is bearing fruit? Though ritual and tradition can be meaningful and helpful, without relationship they are dead and empty leading to “nones”. Mike
I’d say it’s more related to greasy grace, once saved always saved no matter how backslidden you are, and “we don’t want to offend anybody” type teaching going on. Most of the teaching on the radio and in the churches is weak. Paul Patriot
So, do you think someone can lose their salvation based on works Can one obtain salvation by works
If someone is a backsliding “Christian” then I concur that they were never really saved.
Reference the parable of the sower and this will reveal the wheat and tares sitting next to one another in churches across this world.
If Jesus does not have the power to truly save you and by your actions you can lose that salvation, then his work on Calvary was not as great as the Bible says it was…….he is either the Savior or he is not, and a saved person will act a certain way, and not backside back into the pig pen, thus revealing their false conversion.
Just sayin…….I agree with you most teaching today is weak, there is no more preaching of he’ll and no more preaching that unless you are born again, you will not be saved…and that Jesus is the ONLY name j Der heaven in which we can be saved. algol2000
The righteousness of Jesus is for Jesus. Work out your own by following in his footsteps. iris
So very true! When Christians realize that it is His righteousness living in, guiding and empowering us, sanctifying us, redeeming us, we humbly and gratefully, submit to His leading in hope, peace and joy. We boast in Him, not in ourselves or our ability to do good, and have that blessed assurance. He is our confidence and our worth is in Him. We cling to what He has accomplished for us on the Cross, and even more, in what He is doing in our lives by God’s Holy Spirit. 1Corinthians 1:30-31. Grillsgt.
“8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.” Eph. 2:8-9 algol2000
The watering down, so to speak is in these very words, and has led to the blatant apostasy that you are witnessing. The grace that Jesus provides is so that God can be patient while you bring forth the fruits (works) required for sonship. Grillsgt.
A works-based salvation?? Seriously?? Do you also believe that one can lose their salvation? Not trying to sound snarky, but just asking about your views. watchmannonthewall
Why would Jesus speak about blotting a persons name out of the Book of Life if it is an empty threat? Wouldn’t He be guilty of atempted manipulation, deception, if one really can’t be blotted out? of course the writer of Hebrews refers to this in Hebrews 6:4-6 and again in 10:26-31.
Korah is a prime example in the OT, having seen all of God’s miracles and even been choosen to minister for God as Levite yet he rebelled and fire came out from God and the earth opened to receive him. The fire and opening of the earth is just a concealed OT way of indicating he went to the Lake of Fire for his rebellion!
Once saved always saved is another false doctrine that has made many feel comfortable in their sin! But Jesus said, “Depart from me you workers of lawlessness.” This was to people convinced they knew Him, but He said He didn’t know them! We need to make sure He knows us and this means, by definition, we walk in a “Lawful” manner! algol2000
A work-based salvation is what Jesus taught. “Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the pharisees and the pharisees, ye shall in no wise see the kingdom of heaven”. “Be ye perfect (in deeds) just as your heavenly father is perfect”.
On this earth, deeds are the basis for judgement in an earthly court, how much more so in heaven? Without laws to govern conduct, there can be no sin. Sin is the transgression of the law. And law-breakers will be punished by the Judge. watchmannonthewall
Can we take a look at scripture to see how well the statement you quoted, made by Paul, aligns itself to all of scripture?
God says in Isaiah 46:10 that He declares the end from the beginning. Let’s go to “the End”, work our way back to “the Beginning”, and see what God says in His Word, OK?
Rev. 20:13- “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of the according to THEIR DEEDS [works].” This is speaking only of those who are “lost”. What about the “saved”?
Rev. 14:13- “And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, ‘Write’, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!” “Yes” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labor, for their DEEDS [works] follow with them.”
The book of Revelation indicates the works by both saints and the wicked are noticed by God. See also in the message to each of the seven churches in Revelation 2-3, John records Jesus as claiming, “I know thy works…” Clearly Jesus considers “works” in His assessment of His people!
James, the brother of Jesus, had this to say about works (James 2:14-24): “What use is it brethren, if a man says he has faith, BUT he has no works? Can that [workless] faith save him?”…”Even so faith, if it has no works, is DEAD being by itself.”…Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of THE WORKS, faith was perfected…You see that a man is justified by works, and NOT by faith ALONE.” James states works are a necessary addition to faith. What does Paul say?
In Paul’s pastoral epistle to Titus, he writes the following (3:8): “This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently so that those who have believed God [those who have faith] may be careful to engage in good DEEDS.”
In his letter to Timothy (1 Tim. 6:17-18) Paul tells Timothy, “Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. Instruct them to do good [deeds], to be rich in good WORKS, to be generous and ready to share…” Again, Paul speaks about putting feet to one’s faith!
Just two verses after the one you quote in Ephesians above, Paul writes (v.10), “For we are His [the Father’s] workmanship created in Christ Jesus FOR good works, which God prepared beforehand , that we should walk in them.” God obviously expects His people to “do” good works, having prepared these ahead of time for them!
Jesus said the following concerning “works”: “For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and will then recompense every man ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.” (Mt. 16:27) Note that this specifically occurs with regard to the return of Christ and applies to His people, those who are “saved”! Jesus also said we are to let our light shine before men so they see our “good works” and glorify His Father. (Mt. 5:16) You see Paul agreed with Jesus’ teaching concerning His expectation of His people to perform “good works” and says they will be rewarded in the kingdom according to these.
So what are these “good works”? Lots of debate about this, but not surprisingly, scripture clearly identifies these. It is just that people don’t want to accept what God said that they tend to ignore His Words!
Paul tells us in 1 Timothy 3:16-17, “ALL Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS [traininng in the performance of “good works”],that the man of God may be adequate, and EQUIPPED for every good work”.
Paul says Scripture, OT and NT(and understand the NT wasn’t written when Paul wrote this to Timothy and Paul never claimed his letters were scripture as the Gentile “Church” made this claim many years later), is the source of instruction to identify and instruct us in the performance of “good works”. Paul just got done speaking to Timothy, in the prior two verses, about how he had known the “scriptures” from childhood. When Timothy was a child, none of the NT had been written! Not one word! Paul therefore told Timothy and US the OT contains the instructions regarding what God considers good works and how they are to be performed. We already have looked at the fact we will all be judged on how well we obey God’s instructions in this matter!
We see the NT, John, James, Paul , Jesus, all teach people, saved and unsaved , will be judged by their works. Where does “faith” enter the outcome? If one has saving faith, as James said Abraham did as evidenced by his obedience to God’s instructions, we will be obedient to God’s Word. Note James also says the devils “believe”, but we know they do NOT obey God’s instructions. How many of us are just like them?
Is being judged by our works just a NT expectation? James already used Abraham as an example to indicate it is not. Jeremiah (17:10) also says, “I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to EVERY man according to his ways, according to the results of his DEEDS.” Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden, according to their deeds!
The “greasy grace” of today is one catalyst for the current malaise affecting the people’s relationship to God and/or the lack of relevance Christianity has for many. Many of today’s preachers don’t even know scripture says what I just shared, straight from scripture, with you!
When Jesus said he came to destroy the “works of the devil” He was referring to destroying rebellion against obedience to God by empowering His people to obey His Word through the indwelling Spirit!
Unfortunately, the devil has now got many believing that once you say the prayer of faith, you’ve done all you need to do to go to heaven, but Scripture doesn’t teach that , does it? It actually teaches your faith is to be able to be seen by your daily walk, your works as defined by God’s Word! Now you know!! Just do it! Grillsgt.
Ephesians 2:10…” For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Notice Paul said, FOR good works, not by them. Also, Titus 3: 4-7…”4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” Now…does the Bible contradict itself, or could it be, one or more opinions of this subject might be mistaken? Grillsgt.
Right, PB2! There is a movement afoot to replace Christianity with “Churchianity”. AverGo
Exciting, If you believe that God’s Word, Never Returns Void. Then couple that with, Bring up a Man in the Way he should go, then Later he will not depart from it. Then as the Endtimes become more undeniable, God will bring back the Prodigal sons and daughters. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; watchmannonthewall
Both Paul and Solomon spoke of the children of the last generation being very rebellious and full of pride. It is the mirror image of what happened at the Exodus.
There it was the parents who did not believe God and obey Him, refused to go up and take the Land. Here, in this last generation, it is the children who have rebelled againt parents and Jeus even said the those of a man’s OWN household would be HIS worst enemies.
Understanding the passage, a paraphrase from Micah 7:6, the father, the man, is in the right and those opposing him are in the wrong!
Jesus never taught opposition to parents any more than He taught opposition to the Father! Both are the Creators of others and Creators are to be honored and obeyed by the Created. 1st commandment and 5th commandment- Love God and others and parents are the first neighbors we are to love! K
Which came first. People walking away from the Church? Or the Church walking away from real Godly teachings. Dale Graley
very good point Ambassador 2Co 5:20
A few years ago I was with a group of professed Christians who had this “as long as we believe in Jesus it doesn’t matter what else we believe” attitude. They were lamenting the dumbing down of America in our schools primarily but the dumbing down of culture in general as well. I asked them if they believed the USA was a Christian nation, now or in the past. They said yes to which I replied “you can’t dumb down a Christian nation unless you dumb down Christianity first.” As you can imagine that didn’t go over very well.
Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
That verse is a prophetic statement told in symbols, so those who don’t have eyes to see will not get it. Read the surrounding context and you can tell it’s about the end times. Anyway the symbol breakdown is this:
seven = completion or totality women = churches (bride of Christ) one man = Jesus bread = doctrine apparel = righteousness (white robes or filthy rags)
Reread Isaiah 4:1 with the symbols decoded and it says “And in the day all the churches shall say to Jesus, we will teach our own ways, and present ourselves to the world in any manner we see fit: only let us be called Christians to take away our shame. OriginalRS
The latter, most definitely. RageHard84
Dang. This question cuts to the point. I mean, there are churches which have abandoned sound doctrine and adopted heresies like serpent seed, the idea that homosexuality and transgenderism are promoted by the Bible when they’re really sins, it’s crazy. LowellST13
The government and the 501C3 tax exempt for Churches has dissolved sound doctrine. Churches have sold their soul to the devil, government, I get those two confused. I am fortunate to be part of an Independent Baptist Church that is sound in the KJV 1611 and if I have a problem with Sermon’s I look at the bible first and if it is there than it is my problem. I need to change, not THE CHURCH or the BIBLE THE BIBLE and how GOD Authored it is the same Yesterday, today, and forever AMEN David
repenting is not enough. If you can’t forgive others for their trespasses against you or harbor hate & anger towards others then God can’t forgive you and you won’t make it into heaven. Joan Camara
Can I have hate and anger toward evil people? krinks
The Church walking away from Godly teaching. When I was a young man in the early 70s I clearly recall very few politicians dared to proclaim their support for abortion. They feared the wrath of the Christian Vote. Only the far left Pelosi/Sanders type dared to proclaim such. Over time people stopped taking the Lord into the Voting Booth, emboldening the Perverts. Today rare is the politician that can get ahead by proclaiming Christian Principles. The DNC in hacked correspondence actually discussed the best way to get rid of Religious Liberty in America. Yet even at this most that call themselves Christians will vote for them. It is all I can do to not go to Church and cuss them all out for what they have allowed our nation to become. watchmannonthewall
K, great question! I’d like to give a shot as to the apex of the problem and answer a question Michael posed in his book, “The Rapture Verdict”, where he inquired if anyone knew what the “great apostacy” is, which Paul spoke of in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 saying, “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it [the Day of the LORD from verse 2] will not come unless the apostasy comes first [1] and the man of lawlessness is revealed [2], the son of destruction.” (NASB) We see there is first a great apostacy, which comes BEFORE the anti-christ and THEN the anti-christ is revealed (Michael pointed this out in his book). It agrees with Jesus’ timeline in Mt. 24:29-31 regarding the “gathering” of His saints! In fact, since the anti-christ is called “the man of lawlessness”, this should clue us in to the fact the “apostacy” is related to “lawlessness” increasing, a necessity to set the stage for the anti-christ, even as Jesus prophesied in Mt. 24:12. Recall, Jesus also said He did not know those who “PRACTICE lawlessness” in Mt. 7:23, even though these people were PERFORMING MIRACLES using His Name!! The KJV translates “apostacy” as “falling away” in 2 Thess. 2:3, and Strong’s says the term is used just twice in the NT: “Grk. #646- apostasia” and defines the term as “defection from truth”. The great end time apostacy is “defection from truth”. What is truth (Truth)?“All Thy commandments are Truth.” (Ps. 119:151) “Thy Law is Truth.” (Ps. 119:142)“Thy Word is Truth” according to Jesus (Jn. 17:17), and Jesus is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life “. (Jn. 14:6) Jesus also prayed for us saying, “Sanctify them by Thy Truth; Thy Word is Truth.” We, God’s people, are to be set apart from the world by “practicing” the Word of God, the Law, the Commandments, the Word of God, and Jesus! Using the substitution principle, we can define defection from Truth as a defection from God’s Commandments, His Law, His Word, and from Jesus. This should be easy to understand since present day Christian teaching has God’s Truth, His Law, His Word, and His Commandments as all put to death by Jesus Christ at the cross; of course, Jesus had to die since He is Truth also! Today’s Christianity, for the most part, worships ANOTHER resurrected Jesus, not the one of the NT! Can God’s Truth die…or is it forever? There are scriptures that say “No”, despite claims of portions of God’sWord passing away. In case one is not convinced, let’s look at two NT examples: The first is the murder of Stephen, called the first martyr of “the Church”, and the second is when Paul returns to Jerusalem after his third missionary journey to keep God’s Festival of Leviticus 23:15-21, Shavuot, or what we call Pentecost. Why was Stephen put to death? What does Scripture say?“And yet they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he [Stephen] was speaking. Then they secretly induced men to say, ‘We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.’ And they stirred up the people, and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and dragged him away, and brought him before the council [the Sanhedrin].”“And they put forth FALSE witnesses who said, ‘This man incessently speaks against this holy place, and the Law [the Law of Moses- but they were FALSE witnesses, meaning he did NOT speak against EITHER the holy place OR against Moses]; for we have heard him say that this Jesus will destroy this place and altar the customs which Moses handed down to us [but they were FALSE witnesses- so Stephen never spoke against the customs MOSES handed down to them]'”. (Acts 6:10-14) Please note: “the Church” definitely believes the customs Moses handed down were changed, but if that were true, wouldn’t the FALSE witnesses actually be TRUE witnesses? Well? Let God be true and every man a liar! What was it they thought Moses had taught them, the customs, but which he never really did? It was the Jewish Oral Law which Jesus referenced in Mark 7:9 where He referred to it saying, “You nicely set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition”! They had their own “traditions” which superceded God’s commandments, you know, sort of like how the Catholic church has its own traditions that are contrary to the Word of God, or how the Protestant Churches do the same. (See Romans 10:3 where Paul speaks of the same.) The second use of “apostasia” is found in Acts 21 and it actually gives us God’s definition of “apostacy”, if one will accept it! God loves to hide things in plain sight!“And when we [Paul and Luke, and others] had come to Jerusalem, the bretheren received us gladly. And now the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. And after he had greeted them, he begun to relate one by one the things God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.”“And when they heard it they begn glorifying God; and they [the elders] said to him, ‘You see brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, AND THEY ARE ALL ZEALOUS FOR THE LAW [the Truth!]; and they have been told about you that you are teachinig all the Jews among the Gentiles to forsake Moses [to GRK- “apostacize” Moses], telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according tot he customs.” (Acts 21:17-21) Note that the charges leveled against Paul are the same ones which Paul consented unto regarding the death of Stephen. It was about “the customs” of Moses. Paul did explain circumcision without a circumcised heart will not get you salvation before God. They didn’t much like that one, did they? God wants both, but especially the spiritual one! But that was one “custom” of Moses Paul taught against, the NT records these debates, but Moses never taught that! Moses said, “Circumcise therefore your heart and stiffen your neck no more.” (Deut. 10:16) And, “Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, or eyes to see, nor ears to hear.” (Deut 29:4) Moses clearly taught God wanted a circumcised heart so they could understand God”s instructions! The Acts passage lets us know James, the brother of Jesus, and the elders were rejoicing that so many of their Judean brothers were finally living out the Mosaic Law the way God intended it to be lived, zealously! There is no hint of the idea that following the Mosaic Law is to be avoided here, is there? Also, James and the elders reported to Paul that some of their Judean brothers had heard Paul was teaching the Gentiles and those in the Diaspora to “apostacize” the teachings of Moses. Stephen wans’t guilty of this and neither was Paul! , What are the teachings of Moses? They are the Law, the Commandments and the Word of God; they are “the Truth”, according to God’s definition! I did not say it! God did! You can find it in your own Bible! God plainly defines the great end time apostacy as a departure from the Law of Moses! Jesus accused the Jews of not even knowing what Moses said and informed them Moses would be testifying against them in the judgment. (Jn. 5:45-47) Has “the Church” forsaken, apostacized Moses in this day? You bet! This doctrine infiltrated the American church through the institutions of higher learning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has spread from there. It has been opposed by the RCC heirarchy from the 3rd century on, since if one puts God’s Word as the highest spiritual authority then the RCC heirachy is not the highest authority but rather is to be in submission to God’s Holy Word. Rome does not willingly abandon its power to claim to speak for God even for God Himself! I think the NT makes a great case for the great end time apostacy to be related to God’s shepherds teaching and encouraging His people to “practice lawlessness” by removing the standard of holiness God established through Moses and confirmed in Jesus Christ. Thisis why both jeremiah (23) and Ezekiel (34) speak of how the LORD is going to judge His shepherds uppn His return for the way they have destroyed His Word and people! One last point with respect to the OT: 1) Nearly the very last words of the last book written there, Milachi 4:4, are, “Remember the the Law of Moses My servant, even the statutes, and ordinances, which I commanded him in Horeb for ALL of Israel.” Paul says we have been grafted into Israel therefore this verse is for us, as Israel! (Romans 11:19-24 and Eph. 2:11-13) Everyone has a choice: one can begin to read Scripture as God had it written, a book of instruction on how He expects His family to live with one another, or one can decide to pick and choose favoite passages that seemto support our doctrine and the theologians, the leaders are nearly always wrong(!), and twist the scriptures to live according to the standard they want to live by in this life. We will all give an account of the things done in our body. However, if you love God, you will keep His Commandments, His Law, His Word, Jesus and Truth! If you want to know why today’s “Church” is dying, it is because it has perverted Gods’ Truth, which only brings death! God’s Word is bread and sustains life. Departing from life, means death! Paul Patriot
ONE thing to look at, and would make a great subject for a future article is the invasion and take over of the education system, via common core and other ideological brainwashing of young Minds, all in the name of “separation of church and state” which is a twisted invention and re interpretation of the 1st Amendment. The founders would not even recognize what is being done today as being remotely Constitutional.
So, the removing of Biblical principles from schools and teaching absolute morals and Godly accountability, thus opening up young minds for indoctrination…….has created thus anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-Bible………anti-US Heritage mindset that is and will lead to our destruction as a free society, and one that is and will continue to plead with the God of the Bible to judge this nation and pour out onto her what she deserves.
May we repent and call out to “nature’s God”…….the God of our heritage for restoration….if that is even possible at this point. Gay Veteran
hey, what are the parents doing??? religious indoctrination is THEIR job, not that of the State Jesus Freak
hey GV hopefully loving their kids like Jesus loves all of us sorry losers John
Do you get the irony in having a government endorsed school teach your children about morals and values and god’s accountability in public school? Apparently no one is accountable to god, especially our own government because they have yet to be punished by god’s wrath for all the evil mass murdering, lying, cheating, stealing they have done since the USA’s inception. Jim Davis
Too many bat-guano crazy people in churches. Not too mention the hypocrites, gossipers, back-stabbers, etc. eunuch is blocked word
And then a number of fundamentalist Christians have a holier–than–thou pious mindset. (no i’m not saying they’re all that way) Jim Davis
Was this a robo-post? WTF! Heather
Don’t judge unless you are perfect. Lorelei Vision
It’s not a judgment, it’s the Truth! I knew a “Christian” woman who gossiped about everyone, sometimes Falsely. When Biblical Scripture was pointed out to this woman, admonishing her “sin”, what did she do? She emphatically stated that she “would not change”! She continued to speak with “forked tongue” until she died, even though her gossiping actually harmed other people. Many religious people hate it when their sin is pointed out, they hate being shown their hypocrisy. That is why so many non-believers hate Christians – our sheer hypocrisy of “do as I say, not as I do” is deceitful, insincere, pretension and off-putting. Those that truly follow God and His word have no problem being told the Truth about themselves. If the chastisement is True, we will heed the admonishment and act accordingly. Just because we are “saved” doesn’t mean we are to go out in the world with a chip on our shoulder, we are to walk a higher path and be an example to others. If you can’t handle the Truth, then maybe you need to revisit your walk with God… Heather
Hi Lorelei! Thanks for the honest feedback. Yes, you are right, some Christians set very bad examples, and their words are only a reflection of what is in their heart. Their relationship with the Savior needs much work! I’ve been Born Again Christian for about 30+ years and in the first 10 years you would have never known it…drinking and everything else under the sun. My ‘communication’ with Jesus was non existent, therefore my lifestyle reflected the world, nor Christ. After much heartache, I began a dialogue with Jesus, put my trust In Him, etc and I haven’t been the same since. All we can do is pray for those who have wondered away. My guess is that this Christian woman dId not fully commit her life to Jesus. The New Testement (Bible) tells us exactly what God expects from us…to be like Christ! God bless, and Marantha Lorelei Vision
There is much Truth to your comment, Jim. How many Christians actually walk the walk? Not many that I have met… Dawg01
It is wrong to lump all churches together. I go to a church that is not perfect, but does it’s best to interpret the bible, preaches Jesus is Lord and Savior, does missions overseas including very dangerous areas, and does outreach for the community. What are you who are criticizing all churches doing to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and helping others. Grillsgt.
Google the Church of Laodicea, Dawg. “The Bible clearly prophesies that the Church of the end times will be characterized by apostasy. Paul said that the Antichrist will not be revealed until “the apostasy comes first” ~ Dr. David Reagan Joan Camara
Right! The “falling away”…..it’s definitely happening..! Grillsgt.
“3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. “ WWF
One thing I don’t like is sites that won’t approve your comment when you leave a Bible verse. Like Naturalnews had a story about Muslim terror so I put that verse about he shall be a wild man and guess what??? not approved! JF
Most sites today will not ‘approve’ anything that is anti-muslim. Grillsgt.
Yeah, no moral courage. Joan Camara
Mike Adams from naturalnews, is not a godly man, at all. He just knows about health, and likes to put government articles on his site too. shots = autism
There’s a page on natural news that discusses distillation and links to the H20 labs water distiller site. I left a comment pointing out that H20 labs sells the same distillers as Megahome but ups the price and my comment was rejected. Robert
It is more disturbing that anyone would find this disturbing. There are two ways, a narrow one and a broad one. Also bothersome is some saying that “whatever we are doing it isn’t working” as if there is a certain strategy to all this. Some few receive the gospel while most by far reject it. No surprise. We do not do anything. God remains sovereign. VigilanteCaregiver
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is still growing – both by births and converts.
Membership as of April 2016 was 15,634,199 folks. It keeps going up. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/statistical-report-2015?lang=eng Gay Veteran
cults tend to get bigger Guest
So is atheism a cult? And nice to see your back GV, I was starting me to miss you and your contributions! VigilanteCaregiver
If that’s about the homosexual usurper; he’s not atheist. He’s anti-Christ. Big difference. John
What if gay vet is not a vet nor gay? What if their name is just something being used to test people – to see how they will react to their comments based on said name?
It is interesting how everytime gay vet comments their sexuality is brought up and mocked/scorned by followers of christ. VigilanteCaregiver
GV’s pro-deviant, anti-christian, anti-unborn child, anti-American, anti-civilization, and anti-constitutional garbage is not acceptable.
She’s proudly wears her homosexuality in her name – of course we’re going to call her out on it. Homosexuality is a proven mental disorder; linked to narcissistic personality disorder and she really needs to get help as it’s dangerous physically, mentally, and emotionally. I will not enable someone with obvious mental problems and call it normal.
The LDS Church has instructed members to be loving towards those who suffer homosexuality, and we should. This person needs help. Acceptance and cognitive dissonance to self-harming behaviors and GV’s destructive and possibly criminal views is not loving – that is evil. Joan Camara
True enough! mleblanc138
I’m LDS too, but that number includes a lot of inactives and less actives. Think about all the people on your Ward’s list that never show up. Now multiply for every ward and I also hear the inactivity rate outside the US is way higher. VigilanteCaregiver
Half of our ward is disabled. We have low attendance during meetings, but go out and meet with them and their families at home.
We’re supposed to contact and do what we can for the inactive. Usually they’re inactive for a good reason. greanfinisher .
The country was never Christian to begin with. In fact, during the country’s entire history, only four popes had decided not to avoid the United States during their world tours. Heck, this country had spent the vast majority of its time inciting wars and expanding its empire so I would hardly describe it as being Christian. At best, it would more resemble the Roman empire, and even that characterization would be too kind. Make no mistake. Wealth, power and control have always reigned in the country, and not the Creator. Grillsgt.
How many nations did the US conquer and occupy, like the Romans? The nations we defeated in battle, i.e. Germany, Japan, did not become a possession. After the war, we helped to restore them to become free nations. greanfinisher .
The U.S. conquered and/or occupied a horde of sovereign lands during its history including those territories held by Mexico, Cuba, Ukraine, Libya, Russia, Dominican Republic, Columbia, Haiti, Kuwait, Puerto Rico, Jordan, Canada, Hawaii, Iraq, Panama, Guatemala, and Afghanistan. As per Germany, Japan and South Korea, all of these countries are still occupied by the United States, and answer only to their American masters. With tens of thousands of American troops holding these three countries hostage, they could hardly be described as free nations. Grillsgt.
Which of these “territories” do you believe we unilaterally invaded and occupied? Were they nations? And was the US the aggressor? Who drew first blood? Can you cite references? Grillsgt.
I think I see your reasoning. We have differing views what an empire is. Some examples that come to mind would be the Babylonian Empire, the Soviets, Ottomans, the Byzantines, Romans, etc. Yes, we did change the course of countries’ directions, but we are not the central authority, as the ones I mentioned. Mexico IS a sovereign nation, as are the other countries you listed. Others were occupied by tyrants, like Saddam Hussein, for example. Columbia was involved in the drug trade that was affecting the US. We could go on, but I think you get my drift. As for Germany, Japan, and South Korea, they want us there. John
Thank you greanfinisher for being one of the few quiet voices of reason that try to reach the unreachable. greanfinisher .
I can fully appreciate Grillsgt’s problem as he had likely been brainwashed and indoctrinated by the American propaganda machine. With time, he will eventually see things from a true perspective. Gay Veteran
“…This is such a tragedy, because during my decades of research into these things I have found that logic and reason should always point people toward the Christian faith and not away from it. There is an absolutely gigantic for Christianity out there, but unfortunately most people don’t know about it or they are not interested in considering it….”
every religion on the planet think their religion is THE religion!
btw, why does “god” never regenerate the limbs of amputees? it that happened then talk about “an absolutely gigantic for Christianity out there” Grillsgt.
A passage in Matthew touches on that thought…“The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.
2 He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3 and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.[a] 4 A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away. Matthew 16: 1-4
The “Sign of Jonah” was Christ’s death, burial, and Resurrection. Gay Veteran
but there are tons of people claiming “god” cured them, and yet NOT one amputee John
People really should study the human brain as it is the reason we have the mass psychosis called: religion.
It is a virus that spreads from generation to generation and never stops.
This includes not only the major religions in the world, but also those religions that subscribe to satanism, etc.
They are all just a farce created by clever tricksters who know more about our brains, motivations, etc than we do.
People do not have time to study themselves – they are too busy being children, going to school, falling in love, working 9 – 5, then golfing in their golden years or working till they drop to ever examine themselves and all the b.s. they have been taught.
They will continue this cycle with their own children and so on and so on. Because the beat goes on and on and never stops. Save for a few. DJohn1
The churches need to do some things. One of which is to establish what is fact and what is fiction. If I look at the material world then there are physical laws by which everything on this planet operates. One of those laws is the operation of gravity and the surface tension of water. It is mentioned in the BIble about Jesus walking on water and Peter attempting to do so. Without Jesus helping he could not walk on water. According to Jesus his faith was to weak. In the natural order of things Peter should drown when he attempts to walk on water. No representative of any religion that I know of can duplicate Jesus in walking on water. And there lies the problem. We live in the natural order of things. We live in the natural world with a set system of physical laws that none of us can break as Jesus could at will. Miracles are in the realm of the supernatural rather than the realm of the natural order of things. Yet many Christians have experienced Miracles of one kind or another. Just do not depend on Miracles. They are at the whim of our God and Creator. He decides what happens not us. I have felt the power of God in the form of the Holy Spirit before. Someone I was spiritually attached to confirmed this for me without prompting of any kind and 5,000 miles approximately between me and that person when I was 21. Yet none of this is taught anywhere that I know of. It is there. It is real. But it is not reproductable. So science has a huge problem attempting to reproduce anything that is talked extensively about in the New Testament. To them it is fable. It is myth without substance. And that basically in the form of Humanism is taught in the schools. So yes the old time religion of the churches is obsolete in not addressing the problem of science and natural laws of the universe. The young people are quick to pick up on this lack. They dismiss the Holy Spirit as a force. People like me have experienced it first hand and know different. I don’t have all the answers. If Jesus ever chose me for anything I would be totally surprised. I have met him only second hand in the Bible. As just about everyone in this time has done. IF Jesus as a God and as an immortal being came back, the forces of this world would attempt to kill him again. Those forces of this world do not represent all of humanity and they certainly do not represent me. Jesus gave many lessons in 3 years of ministry on this planet. One of which was Peter attempting to walk on water. Another concerning Peter was in his fear of crucifixion he denied Christ. The lesson is you do not know what you might do under the right kind of pressures. Jesus taught many things. One was the limits we put on ourselves. I have no clue to the answers that science information has come up with. Is the universe 13.5 billion years old. Are galaxies as common as a grains of sand on deserts? Is the Universe so large it is difficult to even conceive how large it is? The universe as we see it through our telescopes is so incredibly large as to be above the ability of most people to even understand. AS for me and mine, we worship the God of creation, the alpha and omega, the beginning of it all and the end of it all and are loyal to both God and his son, Jesus. When will Jesus come back? Only God knows. john
“Yet many Christians have experienced Miracles of one kind or another. Just do not depend on Miracles. They are at the whim of our God and Creator. He decides what happens not us.”
So you are saying that god decides if a child will be abused? Is that really OK with you from your own logistical standpoint? DJohn1
I am saying that God created it all. And no I am not all right with a lot of things allowed in this creation. But I wasn’t there when it was created and had no say one way or another in how it was created. I also do not have the big picture as God sees it. God is not human. God is also immortal and all powerful in this universe.
Look around you. This world is full of violent interactions. Yet good Christians once took out the predators. The result was a far worse disaster. The herds increased too fast and starvation loomed. All because we upset the balance of nature. Is a child being abused part of God’s creation or something else? Something wicked this way comes. God appears to have an opposite number in the Father of all Lies, Satan. This is documented fairly well in Job, the oldest book of the Bible.
When, not if, we succeed in finding life on another planet, will it follow the patterns of this world? The answer to that is it is likely. The reality of this world is it is a sick, violent place, and Christians are killed every day in other areas of the world. I do not agree with a lot of the reality I see out there. But only God can change it. To give him the glory is also to give him the responsibility. So in answer to your question ultimately the responsibility of this world lies on God’s shoulders. john
“So in answer to your question ultimately the responsibility of this world lies on God’s shoulders.”
That is exactly where you are wrong. Thinking that it is god’s responsibility is why the world is the way it is. We are responsible for evil and good. We make the choice in how we behave and how we treat other people. There is no satan and no god. If you want to see god look in the mirror. If you want to see satan look in the same mirror. We are all light and dark. watchmannonthewall
That’s what satan told Eve: “For God knows in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be LIKE God, knowing good and evil.” (Gen. 3:5)
Know what? Satan told the truth and you agreed. We all choose either the good or evil, but keep in mind only God, the Creator, gets to define what each term means.
The problem with Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was that neither was yet mature enough or had the wisdom necessary to properly choose between good or evil. To overcome this deficit, mankind makes up its own definition of each. Many people are still in the same place. Those who accept God’s definitions of “good and evil” are further along than others!
Those who have chosen to obey God and follow His Word, are being taught the wisdom to properly make that choice, now. When Jesus returns and teaches Torah in Jerusalem during the Millennium (Is. 2:1-4, Micah 4:1-4), there will be a quantum leap forward in righteousness as this wisdom is taught without error, not like today. MaxRockatansky33 Ebedmelech the eunuch
That’s because they’re not allowed to have a wife which is contrary to the Bible. There’s a guaranteed solution to stopping the priests’ abuse (unless they get T prescription) if you know about farm work but messing up could mean sepsis / fournier’s gangrene. Someone needs to have a lot of stuff like infection stoppers including colloidal silver and calcium bentonite clay which stops gangrene if you know how to use it. Messing up costs over 14 grand but if you pay a lot when there you might get most of it canceled, however each specialist sends a separate minor bill and the shrink charges 150.
The lack of androgens did not change any of my opinions, hobbies or worldview but it does remove reproductive desire completely including all interest in lib-i-do related stuff. For example I used to like piercings on some women but now it’s like why do they hurt themselves? Looks gross. Also lost most attraction to women. ALL aggression goes away and i’m also more docile.
Overall I don’t recommend it cause osteoporosis risk. I can’t have sugar, much coffee, much salt, fluoride water and I need real foods and sunshine on skin for vitamin D. Also wearing all that priest garb would require a lot of Estroven, evening primrose oil, black cohash–especially from month 3-4 until about a year when male men-opa-use ends & then they’ll just get normal heats. Taking hor-mo-nes and then quitting for awhile might retrigger male me-nop-ause but I’ll probably have to do this when food is hard to get. Rebel w/out a Cause
WTF? You’re recommending castration???? Isn’t that a little extreme, as in “eliminating” the natural way of things? How about you be like Paul and fight the “good fight”, and “finish the course”? Why resort to damaging/destroying what God gave you to begin with? Do you think God made a mistake…? SHOTS = AUTISM
I don’t recommend it, I’m saying it WILL stop the priest sxeuual abuses. The effects are REALLY extreme so if a priest had that tendency toward kids he should go on lupron or licorice root to lower androgen-based behavoir instead. carson
what is the falling away of 2nd thessalonains 2? Can folks fall away from what they were never near too? So there was a nearness and now a falling away from it? An atheist falling away into satanism as example isn’t what the verse is concerned with is it, it’s dealing with those falling away from a nearness but not quite thereness to Christ and also from ‘natural’ love and natural kindnesses etc etc (covered in 2nd timothy 3), falling away from goodness and natural love but mostly a nearness or form to Christ…
But what was a nearness to but not quite thereness..a ‘form of godliness but one which denied the power thereof’? religion’osity? But what does God direct those who are His to do with that anyway? ‘from such turn away” (2nd timothy 3:5).
The falling away is not the catching up, it’s falling away and is happening just as written.
and menkinds attempts to ‘grow the church’..via men’s means, worldly lures and baits and ‘programs’ and things pleasing to the flesh is NO answer, never should have risen to prominence anyway, unless God builds the house it doesn’t stand, God grants faith we throw out the seeds but God causes the growth..etc etc etc, those trying to grow the church via man should know that, it’s written all over after all.
unless God builds the house it doesn’t stand, and now all these churches are falling…hmmm. On the otherhand some churches are still preaching the truth, and not really ‘growing’ (although in truth they are growing in Christ, but pew sitters/numbers not so much) while other churches with the fleshly bent ear tickling lures are growing also, but here ‘growing’ and ensnaring further are interchangeable.
But rejoice always many are and many will be saved for sure, even while others fall away, rejoice when even one sinner repents. Richard
Why is religion losing ground? Because it never did anything for anybody. it doesn’t put food on the table. It doesn’t provide jobs. It doesn’t cure disease. It doesn’t prevent divorces. I doesn’t pay the mortgage. It had to be just a matter of time before people woke up and realized that religion was just a political ploy to keep the plebs down and satisfied with ‘their lot’.
OK, now let it rip, all you religious fanatics. I’m ready for you… Go for it… John
Richard thank you for speaking the truth. You will no doubt either be 1. ignored or 2. have a list of bible verses that blame adam and eve for the reason this world and many of the people in it completely suck. Cause it’s all about the sin. Yet who caused us to sin? God did by allowing the temptation to be placed before 2 innocent people. That would like placing one of those laundry pods in front of a toddler, along with a cookie and telling them they can eat the cookie but not the laundry pod. You know what would happen… Paul Patriot
So according to your comments, God is to blame for the mess we are in, because he gave us free will to choose, rather than making us robots.
Wow!!!! You have no idea the dangerous path you are walking, a path of blasphemous, accusing of the Living God of tempting the human race by giving them free will.
I pray you wake up and see the danger and foolishness of your pointing a finger at your creator…. TJAW
Apologies for butting into this discussion, but God is not my creator, because I do not believe in him. He is not real to me, so there is no “dangerous path”. Of course, you will attempt to convince me otherwise, but there is no solid argument that can be made for his existence. Atheism is on the rise for a simple reason – it’s better to think for yourself than blindly believe in fairy tales and exaggerated history. Paul Patriot
And you will continue in your rejection of God, and will be without excuse on judgement day. Just because he is not real to you, does not mean that he does not exist.
The Bible has had its enemies like you for thousands of years, yet it has been true and unwavering in its scientific, historical and prophetic truth, so, I will trust in writings that have proven themselves for centuries ( over man’s emotion and opinion and “feelings”)
Rest assured the Bible will be here and still be true long after you and I have died, and will continue to be a stumbling block to folks like you, and a source of peace, comfort and hope for folks like me.
God “is not real to me” as an excuse to run away fro the savior that calls them to repent (of their sins) and believe in the only name under heaven in which a man can be saved…Jesus.
No hard feelings, I appreciate you corresponding with me.
Hope you don’t mind, still praying for you…….I used to believe what you did, that’s why I know where you are and how blind I was once Jesus came into my life Paul Patriot
How blind I was until Jesus opened my eyes. TJAW
You are hopelessly deluded. Jesus died almost 2000 years ago. Whatever happened to him back then has absolutely no correlation to your life. TJAW
Even if I believed in God, even if there was concrete proof that he exists, he has done NOTHING for me. He does nothing for anyone. He does not rid the world of disease, he refuses to shield the world from terrorism and evil, he lets children starve to death and families suffer. I don’t need you to pray for me. I don’t live in your childish fairy tale world of angels and demons and spirits. IsabellaSpeaking
Saying that you know that God has done “nothing for anyone” implies that you know everything. Many people claim God has done a lot for them, so…how would you know otherwise…unless you know everything? And since you know everything, why don’t you rid the world of disease, shield the world from terrorism and evil, etc.? If not the whole world, then maybe one little part of it? Maybe, though, it can’t be done…not in this world… iris
(:!!! Can’t argue with that one at all. As for the veracity of the Bible: historical details, archeological finds and detailed fulfillment of hundreds of prophecies, (about 300 about the Messiah, alone, almost all of which were fulfilled by Yeshua of Bethlehem, the remaining ones all have to do with the end of days and Messiah’s return and reign on earth regarding the Messiah), the fact that 66 books, written 1500 years apart in some cases, by 40 authors from all walks of life, all having the same theme and going with each other, should give anyone doubting it, pause, at least. And the intricate patterning of the universe implies the opposite of random chance, not to mention the law of cause and effect. God bless! Paul Patriot
You are repeating the same mantra that has been repeated by God hating folks for centuries.
Our founding fathers would disagree with you regarding the role of religion and faith in society, and the positive influence absolute morals has. I agree, “religion” can be destructive, but, a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, will only produce citizens who strive to please God in their actions, and cause fell o human beings no harm, and on the contrary, a relationship with Jesus, will prevent divorce, adultery, drug abuse, rape, robbery, murder, and entitlement attitudes.
Again, it’s not “religion” that is beneficial per say, it is a personal relationship with the Savior. Paul Patriot
The “religion of peace” is not losing ground….somehow the pied piper of propaganda has brainwashed people to criticize Christinity due to its “intolerant” view of saying the Jesus is the only way to be saved from hell…….yet are silent about a religious ideology in which the founders teachings are obeyed, have shown over the past 1400+ years, that “religion of peace” leaves a path of death, destruction and oppression wherever is goes and gains the “upper house”, proving to be the most intolerant religion known by modern man.
No one here who criticize Christianity seem to want to speak out about Islam though……. iris
Yes, interesting, since Islam, like many religions, is based on man’s perceived ability to perform enough works of righteousness, as they interpret them. The ways of man are sinking sand. We can never do enough to make it into heaven, for only God is perfect. We need the salvation provided by Jesus Christ, first, last and always. All religions are mankind trying to get to God or to become God or a god. Christianity is a relationship with God, who humbled Himself to come to us as one of us, to give His very self in our place, and took the punishment we all deserve, in order to provide the way of reconciliation to our Holy Creator. He is “the Way, the Truth and the Life”. Maximus
I identify as a Christian. I just don’t attend church. My beliefs are mine and mine alone; I have a pretty good understanding with the Lord. If other’s think along the same lines, fine. If they don’t, well that’s fine too.
What gets me is the vilification of Christianity in modern times. I’m not worried about it personally. You either stand with Him or stand alone. horse777res
America has abandoned GOD, and GOD has abandoned America. The BIBLE says”The wicked shall be turned into hell, and nations that forget GOD.” Psalm 9:17 tacoma
All religions (with a few rarest exceptions) are based on the impossible. Christianity calls it miracle, other religions have other names. Miracles are impossible in the real world. It is delusion to believe they exist.
Religion is also about worshiping a god (or gods). The god represents the miracle. By doing this act of worship all kinds of powerful, even impossible benefits will happen. The differences between religions is one of different definitions of god, how to conduct the worship, and what kind of benefit will emerge. Only human beings of the past 10,000 years (but not earlier) do this kind of nonsense. It is the result of our powerful imagination.
Well the basic nonsense of worshiping gods is so great the leaders of religions were required to construct all kinds of fantastic structures and elaborate rituals to convince people to maintain belief and worship. Add to his are punishments and bloody enforcements. But why? The leaders want to keep their power over people, the age old human character.
Most religions offer ‘teaching’, some kind of wisdom. But teaching can certainly be offered without religion. An American Native (who treat lightning as a god) is as moral as any of the European religion without their teaching. Follower of Buddhism is at least as moral, likely much more, than followers of other major religions. But Buddhism does not have a god, and does not compel anybody to do anything.
But are there gods, are they real? Of course there are gods, history of religion list thousands of gods. They are real, but only in the minds of man. A god is software; can be created, defined, killed off at will. Anybody can make a god, based on something real (like the Sun) or fantasy. This is why to make the ‘establishment’ god one needs to wrap all kinds of fantastism and protection around it, make it special. The world always have enough fools to be taken in. 90% of humans are born followers, and they love to be led or fooled.
In the end, religions are just forms of sociology, politics, philosophy, mind over body.
There have been great debate between science and religion. Well there are as many religions as human can create them. There is only one science, one based solely only proven facts and accurate predictions. This is why 10,000 universities of the world offer scientific education. And the modern world of great achievements is build on engineering, which in turn is built on science. Rebel w/out a Cause
Oh my. I’ve read through a lot of the comments, and I have to make a few observations. 1) I graduated from a Independent Fundamental Baptist Bible college, which was controlled by an IFB church, which in turn was easily identified as a cult. And therein lies the rub. Too many “churches” are in reality “cults”. Following the preacher’s teachings as if they’re direct from God. Truth becomes warped. God’s “Word” becomes manipulative teachings to contribute to the preacher’s power and control. Don’t believe me? Google the Hyles family and the First Baptist Church of Hammond Indiana, and the cesspool of corruption it entailed. Even after the demise of Dr. Hyles, the corruption went on to bring down his successor. These are the things that turn people away from Christianity. Who can you trust? What teachings can you trust to be real, and not perverted and twisted? I’ve been a “member” of numerous churches. Only one would I trust to be called “Godly’. The rest were ALL manipulative, controlling, and deceitful. What does THAT tell you about “organized religion”? iris
Yes, indeed. MR.RANDY DOUGLAS MILLER
AS A LIFELONG PREACHERS KID AND GREWUP IN THE ANTI-SCIENCE CREATIONIST EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY I’M ABSOLUTELY ECSTATIC TO SEE THIS WONDERFUL THING HAPPENING.I’VE BEEN A “NONE” FOR DECADES! | 1real |
‘A noun, a verb and Donald Trump’: Rubio seeks to seize on Murphy’s flaw | Print
As Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy squared off in the final debate of their Florida Senate race, the discussion turned to the Syrian civil war. Rubio, a former presidential candidate and member of the Senate intelligence committee, challenged his rival’s understanding of the factions on the ground. Murphy, a two-term congressman, reverted to a familiar line.
“It just goes back to the same point,” he said, “that Senator Rubio continues to support Donald Trump, and it is shameful that he stands there with him.”
The audience laughed, faintly, at one of nearly 20 mentions of the Republican presidential nominee during the one-hour debate. When Murphy next mentioned Trump, Rubio was quick with a rejoinder based on a famous Joe Biden rebuke of Rudy Giuliani : “A noun, a verb and Donald Trump: that’s his answer to everything.”
The race in Florida, among the most closely watched in the country, could help determine whether Republicans keep control of the Senate. | 1real |
TEEN VOGUE Publishes Article To Teach Teen Girls How To Have Anal Sex: “ANAL 101, for teens, beginners” | Two months before the 2016 election, Teen Vogue featured a personal essay by Hillary Clinton, a conversation between Amandla Stenberg and Gloria Steinem, and an interview with Loretta Lynch.In their latest grotesque attempt to make immoral behavior appear to be mainstream for young girls, Teen Vogue asks their young readers. In the article, Gigi Engle suggests that young girls stay away from the internet when it comes to exploring the topic of anal sex and instead, rely strictly on Teen Vogue for all of their information. Hmmmm .that s an interesting concept; don t read anything else, just rely on Teen Vogue as your sole source of information. Sounds like indoctrination 101.Here s an excerpt from the article one might expect to find in Penthouse magazine:Teen Vogue When it comes to your body, it s important that you have the facts. It s not doing your sexual health or self-understanding any favors to keep you in the dark.With that sentiment in mind, we re here to lay it all out for you when it comes to anal sex.Why anal?Anal sex, though often stigmatized and shamed, is a perfectly natural way to engage in sexual activity. People have been having anal sex since the dawn of humanity. Seriously, it s been documented back to the Ancient Greeks and then some. So, if you re a little worried about trying it, or are having trouble understanding the appeal, just know that it isn t weird or gross.In a separate article, Vogue Magazine talks about a makeup manufacturer offering butt-plugs :OMG https://t.co/Wu0nbw3Wf3 Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) July 11, 2017Teen Vogue is filled with anti-Trump and anti-Republican propaganda. Scroll through their Twitter feed and you ll be hard pressed to find an article about fashion, makeup tips or how to handle mean girls in middle and high school. Articles like the one below are designed to incite anger and hate towards anyone who doesn t agree with the writers point of view, yet Teen Vogue is being passed off as Vogue magazine for teens."Tragically, the quality of education around the world is too often determined by race, gender, and zip code." https://t.co/OEKzvOomK5 Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) July 11, 2017Here s the same article with a different Tweet that s designed to incite hate and anger towards President Trump and his administration."This is beyond discriminating against communities of color and low-income students; this is cruel." https://t.co/bmCOGvStJa Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) July 10, 2017How did Teen Vogue become such a radical leftist indoctrination tool for teens?The Atlantic In May, 29-year-old Elaine Welteroth took over as editor from Amy Astley, who helped found the magazine in 2003. Welteroth, the digital editorial director Phillip Picardi, and the creative director Marie Suter have moved the magazine more aggressively into covering politics, feminism, identity, and activism. Together, the three have shepherded a range of timely, newsy stories, including an interview exploring what it s like to be a Muslim woman facing a Trump presidency, a list of reasons why Mike Pence s record on women s rights and LGBTQ rights should trouble readers, and a video in which two Native American teenagers from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe discuss the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.Teen Vogue was founded in 2003 at the behest of Vogue s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, who tasked Astley, the magazine s beauty editor at the time, to conceive test issues of a spinoff publication for teens. The publication s early focus was fashion. We are going to do what we do well, which is fashion, beauty, and style, Astley told The New York Times s David Carr shortly before its launch. A lot of other teen magazines are focused on relationships, boys, sex, and embarrassing moments. That is not our equity. At the time, Carr noted, many rival teen publications were struggling. And since Teen Vogue debuted, a number of them Elle Girl, CosmoGirl!, Teen People, Teen have folded. * One of the challenges is that teen audiences tend to evolve faster than the adults catering to them can catch up. It s always been such a volatile market because your audience morphs so rapidly, John Harrington, a publishing consultant, told The Times in 2013. The genius of the current iteration of Teen Vogue is that it s caught on to its current readers enthusiasm for topical issues in a timely enough fashion to actually engage them. I think in 2016 we found our footing and our voice as a publication in a strong way, Picardi, the publication s digital editorial director, told me via email. Obviously, the election has provided unique circumstances and a real need for someone to dissect the news for young people. Since we are, in particular, a brand that speaks directly to millions of young women, we have a responsibility to do right by them and view the news through that very specific lens. | 1real |
Mother Teresa Is Made a Saint by Pope Francis - The New York Times | VATICAN CITY — She was known throughout the world as Mother Teresa, considered a saint by many for her charitable work among the poorest of the world’s poor. On Sunday morning, Pope Francis officially bestowed that title at her canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Square. “I think, perhaps, we may have some difficulty in calling her St. Teresa: Her holiness is so near to us, so tender and so fruitful, that we continue to spontaneously call her Mother Teresa,” the pope said in remarks during his homily. It was a festive atmosphere at the Vatican, under a broiling summer sun, and several flags fluttered in the light breeze: from Albania, representing the Roman Catholic nun’s ethnic origins from Macedonia, to note her birthplace, Skopje from India, where she spent most of her life, working in the slums of Kolkata and from the many other countries where her humility and selflessness touched countless lives. When Francis proclaimed her St. Teresa at the end of the formal ceremony, in Latin, the crowd erupted in sustained applause. “We are proud of her, all of India is proud,” said Marina Borneo Sam, who traveled from Kolkata with her mother to be at the ceremony. “She may no longer be there, but we still feel her spirit around us. ” For some, Mother Teresa’s saintliness was so evident from the start that her canonization was just a formality. “For me, nothing has changed,” said Giovanna Tommasi, a lay member of the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa in 1950. “When you were fortunate enough to know her, as I did, then today’s celebration doesn’t change much. ” The canonization was a highlight of the Jubilee year, which the pope had proclaimed to celebrate the theme of mercy, and on Sunday he called Mother Teresa a “tireless worker of mercy. ” His homily was primarily addressed to volunteer workers celebrating the Jubilee. “Today, I pass on this emblematic figure of womanhood and of consecrated life to the whole world of volunteers: May she be your model of holiness,” Francis said. He also praised her “defense of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded,” emphasizing her relentless petitioning against abortion. Mother Teresa earned fame and accolades over a lifetime spent working with the poor and the sick, and with orphans, lepers and AIDS patients. She made the cover of Time magazine in December 1975 for an article that acknowledged her as one of the world’s “living saints. ” When told that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she said, “I am unworthy. ” A portrait of Mother Teresa, described by Pope John Paul II as an “icon of the good Samaritan,” was displayed on the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica and showing her in her distinctive white sari. The portrait was commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and painted by Chas Fagan, an American artist. Because of her celebrity, she stepped where many religious figures do not. “She made her voice heard before the powers of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime of poverty they created,” the pope said on Sunday. Mother Teresa’s supporters praise her selflessness and humility, noting that though she associated with royalty, government leaders and popes, she continued to live simply until her death, at age 87, in 1997. “She was one with us,” Sister Mary Prema Pierick, the superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, said at a Vatican news conference on Friday. “She never wanted or accepted anything not common with all the sisters. ” The order that Mother Teresa started with 12 nuns now numbers more than 5, 800 people in 139 countries, including two orders of brothers and one of priests. The congregation continues her work of ministering to the world’s least privileged, those she called “the poorest of the poor. ” Mother Teresa was “both mother and teacher,” Sister Prema said. “She lived the religious life with so much joy and enthusiasm that we all wanted to be close with her. ” Her gift, she added, was “to make everybody aware of their own responsibility,” and inspire people with the knowledge that “each one of us can make a difference. ” Mother Teresa was canonized 19 years after her death, remarkably fast for modern times. John Paul II, who is now also a saint, went against protocol when he allowed the canonization process to begin two years after her death, not the customary five. He beatified her in 2003 after a miracle, the healing of a woman, was attributed to her intercession. A second miracle, recognized by Francis last year, opened the way to sanctity. “I am very grateful for this miracle,” said Marcilio Haddad Andrino, a Brazilian who recovered from a brain infection in 2008 after his family prayed to Mother Teresa. Mr. Andrino came to Rome for the ceremony and was present at the Vatican news conference. “The merciful Lord looks at us all without any distinction,” Mr. Andrino said. “Maybe it was me this time, but maybe tomorrow it will be someone else. ” Mother Teresa, for all her acclaim, was not without critics. Some have questioned the hygiene and medical standards adopted by the sisters in some of the shelters and clinics run by the Missionaries of Charity. Others, like Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, have criticized what they call a “cult of suffering” that was prevalent in some of the homes run by the order. In a book, and in the documentary “Hell’s Angel,” the author and essayist Christopher Hitchens accused Mother Teresa of being an “ally of the status quo,” also calling her a “zealot” and a “fanatic. ” Mr. Hitchens charged that instead of empowering the poor to seek a better future, she instilled the idea that their condition was permanent. Her campaigns against birth control and abortion, which she once called “the greatest destroyer of peace today,” angered feminists and raised concerns with aid organizations. Some doctors and officials in India have also challenged the narrative of Monica Besra, the woman said to have benefited from Mother Teresa’s first miraculous intervention, saying Ms. Besra had been suffering from a cyst, not a tumor. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire and now the capital of Macedonia. Today, she is regarded as the city’s most important native, and celebrations for her canonization will be held there for a week. “Skopje and the citizens of Skopje will use this opportunity to thank the saint Mother Teresa and to continue on the path that she unselfishly showed us — the path toward understanding, compassion and love,” said Koce Trajanovski, the mayor of Skopje, where streets and clinics are named for her. A memorial in her honor has attracted more than 700, 000 visitors over the last five years. The canonization was broadcast live on the Vatican’s television station and streamed online through a Vatican website. It was presented on Vatican Radio in seven languages, including Albanian. Tens of thousands of people gathered at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, along with 15 official government delegations, including representatives of India and the United States. The chief Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke, said all 100, 000 tickets that the Holy See had made available had been distributed. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan looked out at the crowd that had filled the pews and remarked, “I thought St. Patrick’s would be empty this morning, because when I was watching the Mass this morning, it looked like the whole Catholic world was in St. Peter’s Square. ” Mr. Burke recalled a visit to the Vatican press room that Mother Teresa made “many years ago. ” “She’s not the only saint to have passed through here,” he said, “but there haven’t been many, I think. ” She is the perfect saint for the year of mercy, the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, the superior general of the Missionary Fathers of Charity, one of the religious institutes founded by Mother Teresa, said on Friday. Mother Teresa was “so aware of her need for mercy before God. She was very much at home with her own poverty,” added Father Kolodiejchuk, the chief promoter of her case for sainthood. “This Year of Mercy is first of all a reminder to all of us that before God we all stand in need of mercy so in this we are all poor. ” | 0fake |
Key Democrat calls Flynn immunity request 'grave and momentous' step | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat said on Friday that the panel would discuss with the Justice Department and the Senate Intelligence Committee any request for immunity from prosecution from Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser. U.S. Representative Adam Schiff called such a request “a grave and momentous step,” noting the interests of the Department of Justice in the matter. | 0fake |
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Ultra-Orthodox protesters arrested in violent clash in Jerusalem | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protesting the arrest of a prospective army conscript from their community clashed with police in Jerusalem on Sunday and eight men were detained, police said. Police used a water canon and mounted officers dispersed the protest that briefly turned violent near Jerusalem s military recruiting office which lies on the edge of one of the city s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. Although most ultra-Orthodox seminary students gain exemption from military service on religious grounds, they must obtain their exemption through a conscription procedure. Police said the protest was prompted by the man s arrest after he refused to turn up for recruitment. Last week Israel s Supreme Court ruled that parts of the conscription law that exempt seminary students were unconstitutional and gave the government a year to resolve the matter. Most Jewish Israelis, men and women, are called up for military service when they turn 18. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said protesters blocked streets and threw stones at police officers. Video footage showed officers kicking, punching and pushing some demonstrators and a few were dragged across a street. | 0fake |
WHY OBAMA’S LAWSUIT AGAINST NC Is Really About The Jack-Boot Of Government On America’s Throats | Obama is clearly attempting to strip Americans of our right to express our opinions on social issues based on our religion or morals. Americans have found themselves in a scary place, where we are remaining silent when we know we should be speaking out, because we re afraid of being shamed by the progressive Left. Meanwhile the Left continues to blur the lines of morality, hoping that they will erase all individual thought and speech.In a communist society, the individual s best interests are indistinguishable from the society s best interest. Thus, the idea of an individual freedom is incompatible with a communist ideology. The only reason to hold individual speech and information rights would be to better the society. Some of us care little about the debate over public bathrooms. We do, however, care about the ongoing destruction of federalism, individual choice, and good-faith debate.One reliable way to quash dissent and force moral codes on others is to liken your cause to that of the civil rights fight. Every liberal issue is situated somewhere on the great historical arc of equality and justice. If a person stands against even one of these causes which were once great but are increasingly trivial they have, according to the cultural imperialists of the Obama administration, aligned themselves with the Klan. Literally.After U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Department of Justice had filed a federal lawsuit to stop North Carolina from passing a controversial law this is the go-to characterization of conservative bills that pass with healthy majorities requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms matching their birth certificate, she had this to say:This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation. We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation; we saw it in the fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education; and we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex unions that were intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian Americans might one day be afforded the right to marry.Likening a spat over biologically segregated boy/girl bathrooms to the genuine, violent, systematic, state-sponsored, society-wide bigotry that took place in this country for a century is both intellectually and morally corrupt. It s not all a continuum. Yet this administration peddles these kinds of risible comparisons in the cause of self-aggrandizement all the time. Hans Fiene has coined it Selma envy.The present situation is significantly different, and in every possible sense less dire. It is the sort of social problem generally worked out amongst people in this country without unelected civil rights commissions punishing business owners for thought crimes. Under North Carolina s law no one was stopping a private company or coffee shop or big box store from having any kind of bathroom set-up they desire. I m pretty sure most voters don t comprehend this fact when they hear the distorted coverage of these laws in the news.North Carolina and other states have preemptively moved forward with these kinds to bills to head off the state redefining gender. Too late. The fact is that the federal government can simply announce that a man can be a woman and vice versa if they choose. It then compels everyone in country to accept this reality. Yet there is no government definition of what transgendered means, other self-identification, which can mean anything. Civil Rights Division Chief Vanita Gupta says: Transgender men are men. Transgender women are women. So sayeth Vanita Gupta, so sayeth we all. Or else. And now 300 million people have adhere to the Obama administration s relativistic notions about nature and gender.Now, from what I can gather the central anxiety of many people is not that the transgendered will take advantage of their children, but that any man can simply declare himself a woman, put on a wig, and go into a public bathroom. Maybe it s an irrational fear, maybe it s not. As a father who s had to send young daughters into busy public bathrooms, I know one thing for sure: I could not care less what Vanita Gupta has to say on the topic.In a broader sense, the suit is symbolic of the federal government s eight-year crusade to decimate any semblance of federalism and streamline progressive morality. The administration ignores state laws that conflict with federal policy when it approves and it sues states when it does not. States that pass law enforcement bills President Obama finds unsatisfactory will see the full force of the Justice Department come down on them. Those with drug legalization laws and immigration laws he does like, even if they conflict with federal law, have nothing to worry about. Whether one agrees in theory with these moves and I am liberal on drug legalization and immigration allowing Washington to selectively enforce law conflicts with the kind of republicanism that allows us to be diverse and deal with unique problems locally.For entire story: The Federalist | 1real |
Iran president defends Guards in show of unity anticipating Trump | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran s moderate president gave a full-throated defense of his one-time rivals in the Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday, as the country s pragmatist and hardline factions rallied together in the face of threats from Donald Trump. The U.S. president is expected to decertify Iran s nuclear deal with global powers this week and add its Revolutionary Guards military force to Washington s black list of terrorist groups under a strategy to increase pressure on Tehran. The threat of U.S. action has united the two main factions of Iran s leadership, with the pragmatists led by President Hassan Rouhani who seek greater openness to the West demonstrating their support for the hardline Guards. During a cabinet meeting shown on state television on Wednesday, Rouhani said U.S. action against the Guards would be a mistake beyond mistakes . They think that the Guards are a military entity. The Revolutionary Guards are not a military entity. They re in the heart of the people. The Revolutionary Guards, in all the days of danger, have defended our national interests, he said. We re one society. We re Iran. There are no differences between different factions in confronting the plots of our enemies, he added. Rouhani, the architect of Iran s 2015 deal with global powers to curb its nuclear program in return for the lifting of international sanctions, won re-election in a landslide five months ago on a platform promising greater openness to the world and reform at home. During an unprecedentedly bitter campaign, he repeatedly spoke out in public against the political influence of the Guards, accusing them of backing his hardline opponent to defend their economic interests. In recent days, however, the threat of new action from Washington has prompted a public display of unity from the rival factions among Iran s rulers. Today, the president of America has created conditions where Iran is more united than ever. Today, those who oppose the nuclear deal and those who support it are side by side. We all have one voice, Rouhani said. Newspapers on Tuesday ran pictures of the urbane, U.S.-educated Foreign Minister Javad Zarif laughing and hugging the commander of the guards, Major-General Mohammad Ali Jafari. Zarif brief lawmakers on Wednesday about the expected U.S. action and about Iran s plans for a response, according to members of parliament quoted in state media. In the closed session Zarif emphasized that if the Americans take any steps against the nuclear deal that the Islamic Republic of Iran will give them a more crushing response, Shahbaz Hassanpour, a lawmaker representing the city of Sirjan, told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). Lawmakers did not disclose the specific actions that Zarif had discussed as plans for Iranian retaliation. Trump s expected move to decertify the nuclear deal would not by itself withdraw the United States from the agreement, but would pass that decision on to Congress, requiring lawmakers to decide within 60 days whether to re-impose sanctions. The nuclear deal is supported by Washington s European allies Britain, France and Germany, as well as by Russia and China, all of which say Iran has complied so far. Adding the Guards to the terrorism blacklist could have economic consequences, since the elite military force also has a vast business empire in Iran. International banks are required to make sure their clients are not blacklisted. Washington has already blacklisted other entities and individuals for supporting Guards activities, but has not yet blacklisted the Guards themselves. During the meeting with Zarif, parliament members expressed their support for the Guards, Hassanpour said. Zarif also noted during the session that European countries will continue backing the nuclear deal regardless of what actions the U.S may take, Hassanpour told IRNA. | 0fake |
SNL Calls Trump A ‘Monkey’ So Racist Conservatives Whine That They Can’t Call Obama One (SCREENSHOTS) | Conservatives are downright furious after Saturday Night Live s Michael Che cracked a joke likening tangerine sh*tgibbon Donald Trump to a monkey with a machine gun. No, they re not mad because an insult was leveled at Trump (this time) they re furious that they don t get to apply the term to black people (specifically Obama) without facing criticism.On Sunday, Gateway Pundit that s the site that brought us the lie that Michael Brown fractured Darren Wilson s eye socket, for reference complained that African-American SNL cast member Michael Che used the word monkey to describe Trump. Taking the presidency away from Donald Trump now is like giving a monkey a machine gun and then trying to wrestle it back from him, Che quipped during the Weekend Update segment. At this point all we can do is pray that he can t figure out how it works, gets bored and just puts it down and walks away. Democrats and liberals skewered with impunity then-President George W. Bush with monkey comparisons all during his presidency. When Barack Obama became president in 2009 all such comparisons were deemed racist and resulted in people losing their jobs and being publicly shamed on the Internet, Kristinn Taylor whines in her article for the site. Now that a white Republican is soon to be president again, de-humanizing the president is politically correct again. Now, any intelligent person realizes that any such comparisons with regard to Bush were related to the actions of a single idiot while their Obama-monkey remarks are almost always related to his race. And, as we all know, people call Trump a monkey because his face is the exact color of a baboon s posterior (among other reasons). But conservative readers of the right-wing propaganda mill quickly jumped on board, filling the comment section up with stuff like, well, this: What is truly baffling is that these people somehow lack the self-awareness to realize they are racists.Watch the segment below:Featured image via Getty Images(Chip Somodevilla)/screengrab | 1real |
HOW DID THE FBI NOT REPORT THIS? Devastating Facts Not Mentioned In FBI Report Point To Hillary’s Pal Sid Blumenthal | Former NSA officer John Schindler reports on a devastating fact NOT mentioned in the FBI s investigation of Hillary Clinton conducting State Department business on an unsecure homebrew email server: Sidney Blumenthal s email read exactly like classified NSA reporting, as anybody acquainted with our SIGINT would immediately recognize. As one veteran agency official told me back in January, Blumenthal s email was NSA information with at least 90 percent confidence. Which was no coincidence, since an NSA investigation subsequently determined that Blumenthal s Sudan assessment was derived from their reporting in some cases verbatim. As I reported in March, NSA concluded that Blumenthal s Sudan report came from four different agency SIGINT reports, all classified Top Secret/SCI. Then it got worse:At least one of those reports was issued under the GAMMA compartment, which is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was). GAMMA is properly viewed as a SIGINT Special Access Program, or SAP, several of which Clinton compromised in another series of her unclassified emails.NSA had no doubt that Blumenthal somehow got his hands on some of their crown jewels information. It s word-for-word, verbatim copying, an agency official of them explained. In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report that was classified Top Secret/SCI. To add to the mystery, Sid emailed Hillary his personal assessment on Sudan only hours after some of those classified NSA reports were issued.Somehow Sid Blumenthal who in 2011 was not working for the U.S. Government in any capacity and had not held security clearances in a decade was reading above-top-secret NSA reports just hours after they appeared in tightly restricted GAMMA channels.Read more: Observer | 1real |
Irish parliament committee backs referendum on abortion up to 12 weeks | DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irish parliamentary committee on Wednesday recommended that an abortion referendum due next year should offer the choice of allowing terminations with no restrictions up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy, a more liberal position than some had anticipated. The cross-party committee s recommendations are not binding and the final wording of the planned referendum to change some of the world s strictest abortion laws will be down to the government and require the support of parliament. Abortion remains an acutely divisive issue in Ireland, where the once all-pervasive political influence of the Roman Catholic church has lessened in the past 20 years. Legislation was changed only in 2013 to allow terminations in cases where the mother s life was in danger, after a woman who was having a miscarriage died of sepsis in a hospital where her medical team refused her pleas to end the failed pregnancy. The government last year began a lengthy process to consider further changes and Prime Minister Leo Varadkar reiterated on Wednesday that he would like to call a referendum for next May once parliament has considered the committee s recommendations. A IPSOS/MRBI poll in October showed that 57 percent of voters would support abortion in cases of rape, fatal foetal abnormality or a real risk to the life of the mother. This was widely seen as a likely option to be offered to voters. Just 24 percent in the same poll said they would support a right to abortion in all circumstances up to the 22nd week of pregnancy. In supporting a recommendation to legalize the termination of pregnancy with no restriction as to reason up to 12 weeks, the committee cited the complexities of legislating for the termination of pregnancy for reasons of rape and incest. The measure was passed by 12 votes to five with four abstentions. The committee, which has been holding hearings on the matter for the past three months, voted against a recommendation to allow abortion up to the 22nd week of pregnancy. The committee s proposals will be included in a report due to be handed to government on Dec. 20. Some pro-choice activists have campaigned for a more liberal regime, closer to that of England, which allows terminations to be carried out up to 24 weeks after conception, while anti-abortion supporters demand no further changes to the law. | 0fake |
Rocky First Weekend for Trump Troubles Even His Top Aides - The New York Times | WASHINGTON — President Trump’s first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements, all eventually giving way to attempts at damage control. The problem is that what works on the way to the White House does not always work once a candidate gets there. To the extent that there was a plan to take advantage of the first days of his administration, when a president is usually at his maximum leverage, Mr. Trump threw it aside with a decision to lash out about crowd sizes at his swearing in and to rewrite the history of his dealings with intelligence agencies. The lack of discipline troubled even senior members of Mr. Trump’s circle, some of whom had urged him not to indulge his simmering resentment at what he saw as unfair news coverage. Instead, Mr. Trump chose to listen to other aides who shared his outrage and desire to punch back. By the end of the weekend, he and his team were scrambling to get back on script. New presidents typically find the adjustment from candidate to leader to be a jarring one, and Mr. Trump was not the first to get drawn into the latest flap in a way that fritters away whatever political good will comes with an inauguration. Former President Bill Clinton got off to a tough start by engaging on issues that were not central to his agenda, most notably gays in the military, and took a while to learn how to focus on his highest priorities. But Mr. Clinton showed none of the combativeness and anger of Mr. Trump. “The adjustment from private citizen to running the country is unbelievably hard,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a longtime adviser to former President Barack Obama. He said that what people, even new presidents, often fail to fully understand “is that after you stand out there in the weather and take the oath of office in front of an adoring crowd, you walk into that building and you are in charge of the free world. ” At first, at least, Mr. Trump seemed to be resisting the notion that he should adjust his approach now that he is in office. After all, his pugilistic style was a winning formula, one that got him to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the first place. Many of his supporters cheer him taking on the establishment. And some allies said any blowback would not matter long anyway. “Ultimately this is about governing,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has advised Mr. Trump. “There are two things he’s got to do between now and 2020: He has to keep America safe and create a lot of jobs. That’s what he promised in his speech. If he does those two things, everything else is noise. ” “The average American isn’t paying attention to this stuff,” he added. “They are going to look around in late 2019 and early 2020 and ask themselves if they are doing better. If the answer’s yes, they are going to say, ‘Cool, give me some more. ’” That is the long view and ultimately perhaps the most important one. The short view from many political professionals is that Mr. Trump’s debut was not a success. The president himself seemed to be trying to find a way forward as the weekend proceeded. He danced to “My Way” on Friday night and did it his way on Saturday, but by Sunday he seemed to be trying something different. A day after waves of opponents gathered in Washington and cities around the nation and world to protest his presidency, Mr. Trump began Sunday still in a mood to push back. “Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election!” he posted on Twitter in the morning. “Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly. ” Kellyanne Conway, his counselor, contributed to the combative mood in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd when she described the falsehoods that the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, had told reporters Saturday night as “alternative facts” — an assertion that lit up Twitter. However, Mr. Trump later adopted the more demeanor that presidents typically take. “Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy,” he wrote on Twitter. “Even if I don’t always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views. ” Mr. Trump faces a challenge few of his predecessors have confronted. Having won an Electoral College victory but not the popular vote, he entered office with less public support in the polls than any other president in recent times. After a transition in which he did relatively little to reach out to his opponents on the left and they hardly warmed to him, he found hundreds of thousands of protesters chanting just a few blocks from his new home on the first morning he woke up there. That has left the new White House feeling besieged from Day 1, fueling the president’s grievances and, in the view of some of his aides, necessitating an aggressive strategy to defend his legitimacy. “The point is not the crowd size,” Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, said on “Fox News Sunday” before the mood began to soften. “The point is that the attacks and the attempts to delegitimize this president in one day — and we’re not going to sit around and take it. ” Mr. Trump grew increasingly angry on Inauguration Day after reading a series of Twitter messages pointing out that the size of his inaugural crowd did not rival that of Mr. Obama’s in 2009. But he spent his Friday night in a whirlwind of celebration and affirmation. When he awoke on Saturday morning, after his first night in the Executive Mansion, the glow was gone, several people close to him said, and the new president was filled anew with a sense of injury. He became even more agitated after learning of a pool report by a Time magazine reporter incorrectly reporting that a bust of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. (The reporter, Zeke Miller, did not see the bust and, after realizing the error, quickly issued a correction and apology.) While Mr. Trump was eager to counterattack, several senior advisers urged him to move on and focus on the responsibilities of office during his first full day as president. That included a trip to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he had been coached to demonstrate support of the agency and criticize Senate Democrats for delaying confirmation of his nominee to lead it, Mike Pompeo. The advisers left thinking he agreed. But Mr. Spicer, who often berated reporters for what he called biased coverage during the campaign, shares Mr. Trump’s dark view of the news media and advocated an declaration of war. After racing through his words of reconciliation at the C. I. A. in Langley, Va. Mr. Trump launched into a rambling, unscripted discussion that drifted to the topic of crowd size, making a series of verifiably false claims. Mr. Spicer then went to the White House briefing room for his first turn at the lectern and issued a blistering attack on reporters, made his own false claims and then stormed out without taking questions. Some of the president’s supporters found the first weekend troubling. L. Lin Wood, a prominent libel lawyer who was a vocal defender of Mr. Trump’s on Twitter during the campaign, said that he considered it a dangerous debut. “To someone who believed we might have a good opportunity to change, it’s just a terrible start. Because he’s got a long way to go,” Mr. Wood said. “This is going to go downhill quickly if it’s not changed, and that’s not good for any of us. ” | 0fake |
The US Elections Do Matter But Not Necessary To Follow Them – Sheikh Imran Hosein | By Rixon Stewart on September 12, 2006
Is television an entertainment media or instrument of control, a ‘control mechanism’? In ‘Eisenhower’s Death Camps': A U.S. Prison Guard’s Story By wmw_admin on May 4, 2007
In Andernach about 50,000 prisoners of all ages were held in an open field surrounded by barbed wire. The men I guarded had no shelter and no blankets; many had no coats. They slept in the mud, wet and cold, with inadequate slit trenches for excrement. Holocaust, Hate Speech & Were the Germans so Stupid? – Updated By wmw_admin on March 23, 2011
The brilliant examination of the ‘Holocaust’ by Anthony Lawson has since been censored on the basis of a false Copyright infrigment. But as Lawson explains, this just another attempt to stiffle freedom of expression Did New York Orchestrate The Asian Tsunami? By wmw_admin on October 17, 2008
With Afghanistan and Iraq already lost, the Wall Street bankers were all desperately looking for other ways to control our world, when suddenly and very conveniently, the Sumatran Trench exploded. Trick or Treat? Joe Vialls investigates The Anglo-Saxon Mission Part II By wmw_admin on March 1, 2010
Former City of London insider reveals that the depopulation program would begin with a planned war between Israel and Iran. More importantly, he goes onto to describe how we can derail their plans for global dominance Letter from James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota to Jeff Blankfort on the Israel Lobby By wmw_admin on December 8, 2006
More than being an insider’s confirmation of the power of the pro-Israel lobby over Congress, the former US Senator’s letter also calls into question Noam Chomsky’s increasingly suspect looking motives The Oklahoma City Bombing: 30 Unanswered Questions By wmw_admin on July 11, 2003
Timothy McVeigh may have been tried and executed, but there are still too many unanswered questions about the Oklahoma City Bombing | 1real |
Lebanon's Hariri denounces Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary's visit to border | BEIRUT (Reuters) - The head of an Iran-backed Iraqi Shi ite militia has visited Lebanon s border with Israel accompanied by Hezbollah fighters, a video released on Saturday showed, in a show of Iranian influence that Lebanon s prime minister called illegal. Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iraqi paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, declared his readiness to stand together with the Lebanese people and the Palestinian cause , in the video footage widely circulating on social media. His appearance at the frontier is likely to be seen in the Middle East as an example of Tehran demonstrating its reach, and could add to tension in Lebanon, caught in a regional tussle between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri issued a statement saying the border visit by a paramilitary in uniform violated Lebanese law. He had instructed security chiefs to prevent any person from carrying out activities of a military nature on the country s territory and to prevent any illegal actions , and barred Khazali from entering the country, it said. Lebanon is still recovering from a crisis triggered a month ago, when Hariri announced his resignation while visiting Saudi Arabia, accusing Iran and Hezbollah of meddling in regional conflicts in violation of Lebanon s policy of non-intervention. Hariri returned to Lebanon two weeks later and withdrew his resignation last week, while his government restated its non-intervention policy. Hezbollah, a heavily armed Shi ite group that fights openly in Syria as an ally of Iran, serves in the power-sharing government with Hariri, a Sunni Muslim politician with deep business and political ties to Saudi Arabia. A commander in an alliance between Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said al-Khazali was accompanied by officers from Asaib Ahl al-Haq and visited the entire border with occupied Palestine . The commander did not say when the visit took place. In the video, an unidentified commander, presumably from Hezbollah, gestures toward military outposts in northern Israel and explains to Khazali that they were hit by Hezbollah missiles in previous confrontations between the group and Israel. We are now on the border separating southern Lebanon with occupied Palestine with our brothers in Hezbollah, and announce our full preparedness to stand united...against the Israeli occupier, Khazali says in the video. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in June that any future war waged by Israel against Syria or Lebanon could draw in fighters from countries including Iran and Iraq. Iran s Revolutionary Guards, who established Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982, have mobilized Shi ite militias from around the region in recent years. They have fought Islamic State in Iraq and helped President Bashar al-Assad in the war in Syria. | 0fake |
Joel McHale Performs In Bigoted North Carolina, But Then Did Something EXTRAORDINARY (IMAGE) | When faced with deciding if you re going to perform or not in a state that decided to make discrimination legal, many performers are left feeling there is only one option boycott. And while very effective, because not only does it remove revenue from the state surrounding the performance, it also pisses off a lot of people who were looking forward to the show. People, who will then want to know why one of their favorite performers decided not to show up, if they didn t know already.Comedian Joel McHale, however, went another route to combat the hatred of the new bigoted North Carolina anti-LGBT law. Instead, he decided to keep his performance date in Durham, yet he then donated every single dime from the show to the local LGBTQ organization.McHale s rep told People: Joel is vehemently opposed to HB2 and knows there are many in Durham (which recently passed a measure condemning the law) that share the feeling. He felt this was a good way to raise awareness and much needed funds for a local center that is on the front line of this important cause. The actor even wore a LGBTQ Durham shirt on stage in support of the local community who is devastatingly impacted by this outrageous law.@joelmchale @DPAC tonight in LGBTQ shirt & announced1 Donating all $ from show to LGBT Center2 He'll come back to NC after HB2 is repealed Demetri Ravanos (@DemetriRavanos) April 9, 2016 My good buddy @joelmchale made a nice shirt for the #LGBTQDurham community. #LGBTQ #joelMcHale gave all the money he made tonight to LGBTQ Durham, pretty sweet move.A photo posted by JF Harris (@jfharris_comedy) on Apr 8, 2016 at 7:41pm PDT During a video of the performance you can hear McHale call the law f*cking crazy, and completely lay into the absurdity of legislated hate.In this world, you can choose to love and embrace everyone as the people that they are, ironically something the Bible actually urges people to do once you get past the Old Testament, or you can choose to hate and live in the small, myopic mind that you haven t allowed yourself to escape. However, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hate is too great a burden to bear, it s actually easier to love, and hopefully the lawmakers in North Carolina realize this sooner than later.Kudos to you, Mr. McHale, this gesture will not be forgotten.Featured Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images | 1real |
London mayor says Britain should not host President Trump on state visit | LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Sunday that it would be wrong for Britain to host U.S. President Donald Trump on a state visit, describing some of the U.S. leader s views on Islam as ignorant . Khan and Trump have a history. During the U.S. presidential election campaign, Khan was among many people who spoke out against Trump s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, an idea he said would play into the hands of extremists. Trump has criticized Khan, accusing the mayor of making a pathetic excuse over his statement urging Londoners not to be alarmed by the presence of additional police on the streets in response to an attack in June. At the annual conference of his opposition Labour Party, Khan told an audience with GuardianLive that he thought having a state visit, which Prime Minister Theresa May has said is still planned, was wrong . I sometimes think people are ignorant, he said, adding that it was his job to educate them. | 0fake |
Obama will walk away from Iran talks if no inspections | WASHINGTON — President Obama said Sunday that his administration will walk away from negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program unless the United States can verify that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons.
"If we cannot verify that they are not going to obtain a nuclear weapon— that there's a breakout period so that even if they cheated we would be able to have enough time to take action — if we don't have that kind of deal, then we're not going to take it," the president said in an interview onCBS' Face the Nation.
"If there's no deal," Obama said, "then we walk away."
The United States and its allies have until March 24 to reach an agreement with Iran. Obama wants to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons while still allowing the country to enrich uranium to use for energy production.
"Over the next month or so, we're going to be able to determine whether or not their system is able to accept what would be an extraordinarily reasonable deal if in fact, as they say, they are only interested in peaceful nuclear programs," Obama told correspondent Bill Plante. "And if we have unprecedented transparency in that system, if we are able to verify that in fact they are not developing weapons systems, then there's a deal to be had, but that's going to require them to accept the kind of verification and constraints on their program that so far, at least, they have not been willing to say yes to."
He said talks with Iran, which have been going on for more than a year, have not cost the United States anything. Iran has been abiding by an interim agreement not to advance its nuclear program, the president said.
"We're not losing anything through these talks," Obama said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also appearing on Face the Nation, said he and Obama have the same ultimate goal in trying to ensure that Iran does't develop nuclear weapons. But Netanyahu said he doesn't trust that inspections will prevent the Iranians from cheating and developing weapons.
"I do not trust inspections with totalitarian regimes," Netanyahu said. "What I'm suggesting is that you contract Iran's nuclear program, so there's less to inspect."
Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress last Tuesday, warning U.S. lawmakers against a deal with Iran.
The Senate must weigh in on whatever deal is reached, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said.
"The Iranians are fomenting trouble in Syria, in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Yemen," McConnell said on Face the Nation. "All over the Middle East, they're on the march. They've had enhanced influence in Iraq. We can't ignore all of their other behavior in looking at the potential nuclear deal. What we do know about the deal is it looks like it will leave the (nuclear) infrastructure in place with one of the worst regimes in the world."
McConnell said he is working to put together a veto-proof majority to support a measure giving Congress the authority to approve or disapprove of any deal.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agreed that Congress has a role in whatever deal may be reached.
"Congress passed the sanctions itself, so Congress has very much an interest in the sanctions," Schumer said in a separate Face the Nation interview. "I pushed that it shouldn't be done before there's an agreement...but after that, yes, Congress has a right to weigh in and I support it." | 0fake |
CNN’s Reza Aslan Just Tore Into Trump’s Bigotry Big League; It’s GLORIOUS (TWEETS) | CNN s Reza Aslan is a world renowned author and religious scholar. Therefore, he really is way above Donald Trump on the scale of intellect. That makes what he had to say about the orange fool currently occupying the White House even more awesome.On Saturday night, after the news of the terror attacks in London broke, Trump, of course, used it as a reason to call for the courts to let him implement his Muslim ban. Aslan, who is of Middle Eastern descent and practices the Islamic faith, of course had to weigh in. He did it via Trump s favorite platform, Twitter, and it was nothing short of beautiful.This piece of shit is not just an embarrassment to America and a stain on the presidency. He's an embarrassment to humankind. https://t.co/Dl5tMQMhMO Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) June 3, 2017Aslan also went on to mock Trump when the official NBC Nightly News account refused to replay Trump s tweets on the London attacks:Translation: the president is a man baby that must be ignored in times of crisis. https://t.co/Kv1hIC7hEG Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) June 3, 2017Aslan is correct, of course. Donald Trump is an embarrassment. Not just to us. But to the entire species. We cannot pretend that his behavior is normal. We cannot pretend that banning people based upon religion and nationality is normal. We cannot pretend that having THREE white supremacists Stephen K. Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Sebastian Gorka working in the White House is normal.No, NONE of this is normal, and none of it is okay. The very fundamentals of this entire administration are completely un-American, and every time this bigoted, incompetent, man-baby president does something outrageous, we need to call it out.After all, the best weapon this White House has is the normalization of Donald Trump as president. If we do not allow that to happen, then we just might make it through this with out democracy in tact.Featured image via Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images. | 1real |
Clinton leads Trump by 4 points ahead of first presidential debate: Reuters/Ipsos poll | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton had a four-percentage point advantage in support over Republican Donald Trump ahead of their first U.S. presidential debate, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released on Friday. The Sept. 16-22 opinion poll showed that 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton, while 37 percent supported Trump. Clinton has mostly led Trump in the poll during the 2016 campaign, though her advantage has narrowed since the end of the Democratic and Republican national conventions in July. With just six weeks before the Nov. 8 election, Monday’s debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York will be the first of three between the White House rivals. It presents a major opportunity for them to appeal to voters who have yet to commit to a candidate after a mostly negative race in which Clinton and Trump have sought to brand each other as untrustworthy and dangerous for the country. The live, televised matchup is expected to draw a Super Bowl-sized television audience of 100 million Americans, according to some commentators. Among those watching will be people who so far remain on the fence. This could be a sizable group: Some 22 percent of likely voters said in the latest poll that they do not support either major-party candidate. That was more than twice the proportion of uncommitted voters at the same point in the 2012 election between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. These uncommitted voters appear to be leaning more toward Trump than Clinton, according to the latest poll, though they have not been convinced enough to say they will vote for him in November. It was also possible that some of these voters would pick an alternative-party candidate like Libertarian Gary Johnson or the Green Party’s Jill Stein. Clinton led a separate four-way poll that included Trump, Johnson and Stein. Among likely voters, 39 percent supported Clinton, 37 percent favored Trump, 7 percent picked Johnson and 2 percent supported Stein. The Reuters/Ipsos poll is conducted online in English in the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii. It included 1,559 respondents who were considered to be likely voters given their voting history, registration status and stated intention to show up on Election Day. It has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage points, meaning results could vary by that much either way. National polls have produced varying measurements of support for Clinton and Trump during the 2016 campaign. The differences are partly due to the fact that some polls, like Reuters/Ipsos, try to include only likely voters, while others include all registered voters. The Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll gathers responses every day and reports results twice a week, so it often detects trends in sentiment before most other polls. Polling aggregators, which calculate averages of major polls, have shown that Clinton’s lead over Trump has been shrinking this month. The most recent individual polls put her advantage at 3 percentage points. | 0fake |
Camera Catches Woman’s Spirit Leaving Body After Car Accident | posted by Eddie Those who don’t believe in the spirit life after death may change their tune after checking this out. Usually it’s some sort of visual proof one needs, and this accident video certainly provides just that. A tragic accident occurs when a truck hits a woman on a motorcycle. The woman hits a telephone pole, dies right away. Then this happens. You’ll likely have to review it several times as it’s hard for even the believers out there to realize what they are witnessing. The bike gets hit and the woman goes right into the power pole. That’s when suddenly a black silhouette of a person can be seen, haven risen out from the woman’s body. This certainly gives a lot of thought about the idea of afterlife, spirits, and so forth. Rarely do we see a death on video, as it happens. Especially one where the person dies instantly. Often people can remain alive after horrific accidents, part of their vitals still operating. But here, it is more than clear, that a life has indeed ended in brutally instant fashion. And with that, be warned that indeed it is pretty graphic, though it goes by quick. It’s a death and it’s not pleasant to view, but many may believe the fascinating after-image is showing a new life of spirit beginning. Share with others who can handle such a video and start a discussion on whether it appears real and could in fact be footage of an actual spirit leaving one’s body!
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#FireBenStein FOX NEWS’ BEN STEIN Calls President Trump “Bozo the Clown”…”Chuckles the Clown” [Video] | 1real | |
Russia's air force killed 850 militants in Syria in last 24 hours: Interfax | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia s air force has killed about 850 militants in Syria s zone of de-escalation in Idlib in the last 24 hours, Interfax news agency quoted Russia s Defence Ministry as saying on Wednesday. | 0fake |
China military sets up website to report leaks, fake news | BEIJING (Reuters) - China s military on Sunday launched a website inviting the public to report leaks and fake news, as well as illegal online activities by military personnel, the latest step in a push to ensure Communist Party control over the internet. Beijing has been ramping up measures to secure the internet and maintain strict censorship, a process that accelerated ahead of the party s five-yearly National Congress that took place in October. The new website is an effort to implement the guiding spirit of the Congress and will help maintain a clear internet space surrounding the military, according to 81.cn, the military s official news portal. Citizens are encouraged to use the platform to report online content that attacks the military s absolute leadership and distorts the history of the military and the Communist Party, the website said. Cases of military personnel illegally opening online social accounts and publishing unauthorized information should also be reported, it said. President Xi Jinping has made China s cyber sovereignty a top priority in his sweeping campaign to bolster security. He has also reasserted the ruling Communist Party s role in limiting and guiding online discussion. | 0fake |
WATCH: Trump Surrogate Tries To Spin Taco Truck Fiasco, Gets Laughed At (VIDEO) | On Sunday, during a panel segment on CNN s State of the Union, former MTV Real World reality TV star and Trump surrogate Rachel Campos-Duffy, tried her best to spin the recent #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner mega-gaffe. Her efforts received laughter from the other panelists, with Clinton surrogate Bakari Sellers remarking that they had never seen spin like that. In case you missed it, Latinos for Trump founder Marco Gutierrez warned that if we did not do something to stop illegal immigration and elect Hillary Clinton we will have taco trucks on every corner.Here s how Campos-Duffy tried to spin the narrative: What I think is really interesting is that taco trucks really are the ultimate symbol of American entrepreneurial capitalism. And I think what people want to know is not what some first-time surrogate fumbled, what they want to know about is who is going to help people who want to start taco trucks. Campos-Duffy then went on to say: And liberal policies have always over-regulated food trucks. What people want to know is who is going to help people start businesses, let them grow, become financially independent. Liberals over-regulate these kinds of small business owners and conservatives help them achieve their dreams. Excellent pivot, Jake Tapper remarked.Trump surrogate Andre Bauer was, believe it or not, quite fond of the analogy. Those are people that are business owners, they re working hard. We just don t want the people here that are stealing the hubcaps. Which, as Tapper pointed out was not at all what Gutierrez meant when he made the gaffe.You can watch the segment below. Featured image from video screenshot | 1real |
WHAT’S WRONG WITH PELOSI? Nancy Stutters, Stammers and Calls USDA the Department of Education [Video] | What s wrong with Pelosi? Nancy Pelosi is supposed to be the Democrat s leader in the House but she can t complete a thought! She held her daily presser to discuss the budget and how mean President Trump is for cutting entitlements like SNAP. Food stamps are so abused and have been for decades. You d think she d want some new ideas. She seems flustered and angry during the comments about the budget cuts.She s probably mostly angry that her iron grip on Congress is slipping.We have numerous examples of Minority Leader Pelosi stammering and losing her train of thought. Is it time for new leadership? You betcha but will the Dems dump Nancy for new blood?OUR PREVIOUS GAFFE-FILLED MOMENT WITH NANCY:Oh Lordy! Nancy is losing it! The Democrats are pulling out all the stops to prevent the sunlight from shining on the corruption within their party and within the intel agencies. In the short clip below, Pelosi calls the memo release a cover-up by the Republicans. That s pretty funny since the Republicans have been trying for over a year to get information from the Democrats and intel agencies involved in the cover-up of the Hillary Clinton email scandal.Pelosi has repeatedly called President Trump by the wrong name. She just recently called Intel Chair Devin Nunes Dennis :House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was on with Chris Cuomo and was pretty rattled. She pulled out all the stops on this even telling Chris Cuomo he doesn t know what he s talking about. She also just called Devin Nunes Dennis and then dropped this big fat whopper: They have made up a memo that isn t even true and they are lying to the American people "They have made up a memo that isn't even true and they are lying to the American people: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on GOP's release of FBI memo https://t.co/t0IH9jBe2B pic.twitter.com/Fkm5luMqUA New Day (@NewDay) January 30, 2018 Dennis ? Chris Cuomo probably felt like a nursing home orderly House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes has acted like a "stooge of the White House at the acquiescence or maybe the guidance of the Speaker of the House https://t.co/t0IH9jBe2B pic.twitter.com/OL8piZyhEx New Day (@NewDay) January 30, 2018We honestly can t keep track of the gaffes from Pelosi. | 1real |
Britain's May says action will be taken on sexual abuse in parliament | LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday action would be taken when there are allegations and evidence of sexual misconduct in parliament. I am very clear that we will take action against those where there are allegations that we see, and the evidence is there, that there has been misconduct, she told lawmakers. | 0fake |
LAWLESS FEDS REFUSE To Hand Over Communications On Global Warming Junk Science To Republicans | Oh, this is so ridiculous and so bogus that the intimidated researchers aren t handing over research documents and communications to the Republicans. If they want to preserve the integrity of the scientific process then they should be open and honest. Being secretive about results of research just shows the global warming scam is junk science they re trying to keep under wraps. The federal government s chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change. Citing confidentiality concerns and the integrity of the scientific process, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it won t give Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) the research documents he subpoenaed. At the center of the controversy is a study that concluded there has not been a 15-year pause in global warming. Some NOAA scientists contributed to the report. Skeptics of climate change, including Smith, have cited the pause to insist that increased greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are not heating up the globe. Smith, the chairman of the House Science Committee, vehemently disagreed with the study s findings. He issued a subpoena for communications among the scientists and some data, leading to charges from Democrats that he was trying to intimidate the researchers. Late Tuesday, NOAA provided Smith with some more information about its methods and data but refused to give Smith everything he wanted. NOAA spokeswoman Ciaran Clayton said the internal communications are confidential and not related to what Smith is trying to find out. More recently, a famous physicist came out against the global warming scam: WOW! WORLD S TOP PHYSICIST AND DEMOCRAT: Obama Backs Wrong Side In War On Climate Change , Follow The Money, Carbon Does Far More Good Than Harm Dr.Freeman Dyson, himself a longstanding Democrat voter, is especially disappointed by his chosen party s unscientific stance on the climate change issue. It s very sad that in this country, political opinion parted [people s views on climate change]. I m 100 per cent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue, and the Republicans took the right side. Part of the problem, he says, is the Democrats conflation of pollution (a genuine problem) with climate change (a natural phenomenon quite beyond mankind s ability to control). Via: Gateway Pundit | 1real |
Trump declares national emergency on opioid abuse | BEDMINSTER, N.J. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency and said his administration was drafting papers to make it official. “The opioid crisis is an emergency and I’m saying officially right now it is an emergency,” Trump told reporters in New Jersey. “We’re going to draw it up and we’re going to make it a national emergency. It is a serious problem, the likes of which we have never had.” Trump spoke about a week after a White House commission on the opioid crisis led by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recommended the president declare it a national emergency. The declaration could help unlock more support and resources to address the drug overdose epidemic, such as additional funding and expanded access to various forms of treatment, and it gives the government more flexibility in waiving rules and restrictions to expedite action. National emergencies are typically declared for short-term crises, such as the Zika virus outbreak or a natural disaster. It is unclear what Trump’s declaration will mean for a complex, long-term public health problem. “We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,” Trump said. “This is a worldwide problem, not just a United States problem.” More than 100 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, the commission wrote in a report, noting that “America is enduring a death toll equal to September 11th every three weeks.” Opioids played a role in more than 33,000 deaths in 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trump held a “major briefing” on the epidemic on Tuesday, but stopped short of following the commission’s recommendation. Instead, he talked mostly about stopping the flow of drugs into the United States and ensuring young people never start using drugs. He did not discuss access to treatment. | 0fake |
Clinton camp issues clarification on deleted emails, claims ‘every’ message was reviewed | Hillary Clinton’s camp late Sunday issued a significant clarification about the steps they say were taken to review thousands of personal emails before they were deleted, claiming her team individually read “every email” before discarding those deemed private.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill made the clarification in a written statement to Fox News. This comes after the former secretary of state’s office revealed last week that while more than 30,000 “work-related” emails were turned over to the State Department, nearly 32,000 were deemed “private” and deleted.
This admission raised questions over how her team decided to get rid of those messages. Merrill on Sunday clarified an earlier fact sheet that described some of those methods but did not say every email was read.
“We simply took for granted that reading every single email came across as the most important, fundamental and exhaustive step that was performed. The fact sheet should have been clearer in stating that every email was read,” Merrill said.
Clinton, a likely Democratic presidential candidate, tried to tamp down the controversy over her exclusive use of personal email while secretary of state during a press conference last week. But the admission that she deleted thousands of messages, and her insistence that her personal server remain private, stirred the ire – and curiosity -- of lawmakers who want greater access to her communications as secretary and complain much of it may be gone forever.
Whether the assurance that “every email” was read before being either deleted or turned over eases those concerns remains to be seen.
“I have zero interest in looking at her personal emails,” South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But who gets to decide what’s personal and what’s public? And if it’s a mixed-use email, and lots of the emails we get in life are both personal and work, I just can’t trust her lawyers to make the determination that the public’s getting everything they’re entitled to.” | 0fake |
THE VISION THING 16 : Information | The Vision Thing
By Paul Edwards
That this election is an abysmal disgrace is nationally acknowledged; that it is absolutely unique is not, although its undeniable. Never before has virtually the entire mainstream media avidly, emphatically endorsed one Presidential candidate while furiously, contemptuously vilifying the other. Never has a sitting President joined in general denunciation of a candidate. With ten days to go its affirmed by most key sources that Donald Trump cant win and Hillary Clinton will. Many pundits predict a landslide for her. Assume it. What then? The most hated President-elect ever will not be loved by the Congress she will confront. Even with a majority in the Senate--just possible--and in the House--not--prospects for a legislative agenda, should she have one, are non-existent. What Obamas phony charm failed to achieve, Hillarys lack of it will scarcely obtain. This presages four more years of stasis and nullity, of social and economic rot, financial chicanery, and national decay. As regards the composition of the Supreme Court--the panicky Liberal pitch for being with her--unless she nominates hidebound conservatives, which is probable, not a single selection will be confirmed during her term. So... paralysis in Congress, reaction in the Court; two limbs of government neutralized, gives us rule by a disliked, distrusted figurehead with the full power of Wall Street and the Imperial War-loving Establishment behind her. What then will be accomplished? First, the interests of The Empire will be promoted at least as robustly as in Obamas eight years of sycophancy. Including his Rube Goldbergian Obamacare, still foundering and gouging, nothing of any benefit to Americans was achieved under this charlatan who perfected the skill of describing an airplane crash as a triumph of gravity. So what will she do in office? Well, start with what she wont do. She wont make any effort to restrain The Big Casino, the Gold Sacks Mafia. They made her an offer she couldnt refuse. She wont attempt any closing of the inequality gap. That would entail clipping her base--Our Crowd of the Hamptons, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills. She wont meddle with Sick Care--fool me once...--or, corporate tax enforcement. Her Big Donors dont want to pay them and why should they, right? She can just let Labor die of its own raging leukemia. College grads have to stay in their parents basements and service their college debt via Macdonalds because Arbeit Macht Frei. No need to do anything about Global Warming so long as you denounce it boldly at international meetings. Best leave the environment in the hands of those who can turn idle nature into money. Besides, the solution to pollution is dilution and clearcuts grow back in a millenium or so. On the minor agenda, she knows there are still small poor countries who require our R2P and cluster bombs. Others have resources that, with the odd military coup or assassination, should come on line nicely. Africa, say, has low-hanging fruit, and the Latin American mess needs our firm hand to prevent Lefty dictators diverting perfectly good profits to their own societies. Turning to the major crises, Exceptionalism requires that they be made far bigger. Our Defense Industries cant be expected to muck along forever on paltry brushfire wars: Iraq, Afghanistan--though in fairness theyve profuced steady income streams--and Libya, no bonanza, and Syria, which Putins diabolical meddling prevented blossoming as we hoped. Still, theres no earthly reason we cant achieve a profitable Third World War simply by refusing to take the bait of Satanic Putins wimpy peace offers and calling them what they really are: a mortal threat to our Capitalist System. So much for her first Hundred Days. Beyond the panicked cheerleading of the Imperial Elite--those that the late, great George Carlin referred to as your owners--and their failing organs of crowd manipulation, and beyond the day Clinton takes office if their hopes are consummated, America faces a cataclysmic crisis of governance; one of the order of magnitude of the secession of The South under Lincoln. Clinton and Trump are the physical, mental and emotional symptoms of that crisis. Our dead system must, and will, have catharsis. Which of them precipitates it may not greatly matter. Or it may mean everything. As Brutus said at Philippi: Oh, that a man might know the end of this days business ere it come; but it sufficeth that the day will end and then the end is known.
Paul Edwards is a writer and film-maker in Montana. He can be reached at: hgmnude@bresnan.net | 1real |
Kremlin calls updated U.S. sanctions on Russia extremely negative | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Moscow regarded updated U.S. sanctions on Russia extremely negatively. The U.S. Treasury s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Tuesday published an amendment which bans U.S. entities from helping sanctioned Russian oil companies in exploration or production for deepwater, Arctic offshore, or shale projects anywhere in the world. Peskov said extending the original sanctions to cover projects globally was unacceptable for Moscow. | 0fake |
Exclusive: Atlantic City emergency fiscal management costs top $2.6 million | (Reuters) - New Jersey taxpayers will owe $2.62 million for roughly a year’s worth of work by a team of professionals called in to help turn around the distressed gambling hub Atlantic City, according to invoices obtained and compiled by Reuters. It is not clear what taxpayers have to show for it. Despite the work by a state-appointed emergency manager and the law and accounting firms he hired, so little progress has been made in reversing the seaside resort’s fortunes that lawmakers are now considering a full takeover of city operations. Reuters reported in September that the amount was $2.15 million, but invoice reports since then for additional work by restructuring lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom have pushed the total up by 20 percent. Reuters obtained the documents through a public records request. Governor Chris Christie appointed Kevin Lavin as emergency manager on Jan. 22, 2015. Since then, Lavin’s team has produced one report, in March. The Press of Atlantic City this month obtained a non-public draft of a follow-up report. A spokesman for Lavin told Reuters last week that a report is expected “within the coming weeks.” Four of the city’s eight casinos closed in 2014, pummeled by competition from neighboring states. That contributed to a 70 percent reduction in the city’s property tax base, to a projected $6 billion this year from $20.5 billion in 2010. Lavin and his team - including Skadden, Ernst & Young LLP [ERNY.UL], and mediator Donald Steckroth - were to review and propose solutions to the city’s immediate fiscal crisis, suggest possible longer-term fixes and negotiate with labor unions. Separately, the state had already appointed a monitor and had to approve the city’s budget and hiring. But lawmakers are seeking an even firmer grasp. On Tuesday, they introduced legislation that would strip Atlantic City’s elected officials of most of their control, except for the ability to file for municipal bankruptcy. “You can’t justify a $262 million budget for 40,000 people. It’s obscene,” Senate President Steve Sweeney, a co-sponsor of the bill, said earlier this week. “(The mayor and city council) need to make the tough decisions now.” Mayor Don Guardian and city council members denounced the takeover proposal. Guardian said on Wednesday the city trimmed $14 million from its 2015 budget and expects to cut $16 million more this year. | 0fake |
Ep #10: Patrick Henningsen LIVE – ‘Inside Esoteric Hollywood’ with guest Jay Dyer | Join Patrick every Wednesday at Independent Talk 1100 KFNX and Alternate Current Radio for the very best in news, views and analysis on all top stories domestically and abroad THIS WEEK: Episode 10 This week we briefly cover a few big stories including the upcoming US Presidential Inauguration and Obama s pardon and imminent release of Private Bradley-Chelsea Manning which looks to trigger Julian Assange s surrender to US authorities.In our main feature segment, host Patrick Henningsen is joined by special guest Jay Dyer, author of the new book Esoteric Hollywood, to discuss Hollywood and how deep state politics, propaganda, social engineering and occult symbolism is baked into some of the biggest blockbuster films of our time. Listen Listen to EP 10: Patrick Henningsen LIVE with Jay Dyer on Spreaker.This program broadcasts LIVE every Wednesday night from 8pm to 9pm MST, right after the Savage Nation, on Independent Talk 1100 KFNX over the terrestrial AM band across the greater Phoenix and central Arizona region, and live over global satellite and online via www.1100kfnx.com.LISTEN TO MORE INTERVIEWS AT PATRICK HENNINGSEN LIVE SHOW ARCHIVES | 1real |
Ex-Assistant FBI Director: Clintons Are a Crime Family | Ex-Assistant FBI Director: Clintons Are a Crime Family October
That's quite an endorsement . And if there's anything top FBI officials now, it's crime families. Certainly this is probably the first serious level of experience that Hillary can claim in any field.
“The Clintons, that’s a crime family, basically,” former assistant FBI director James Kallstrom said. “It’s like organized crime. I mean the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.”
“Kallstrom, best known for leading the investigation into the explosion of TWA flight 800 in the late '90s, said that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, was a “pathological liar.”
He also blasted Attorney General Loretta Lynch, claiming that she impeded the investigation into Clinton’s private server.
“The problem here is this investigation was never a real investigation,” he said. “That’s the problem. They never had a grand jury empanelled, and the reason they never had a grand jury empanelled, I’m sure, is Loretta Lynch would not go along with that.”
Kallstrom also said that FBI Director James Comey and the rest of the FBI’s leadership were responsible for holding back the investigation, not the rest of the bureau.
“The agents are furious with what’s going on, I know that for a fact,” he said.
But according to the media, the FBI investigating Hillary is the real crime. | 1real |
Factbox: Trump's evolving views of the Afghan conflict | (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was likely to open the door on Monday to a modest increase in U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan, where America is fighting its longest military conflict. In the past, Trump, who took office in January, was critical of former Democratic President Barack Obama’s approach to Afghanistan, saying the United States should not be nation-building and calling for Obama to withdraw troops. Obama also had evolving views, first committing an increase of tens of thousands of U.S. troops to reverse Taliban gains, then committing to a troop drawdown that he was unable to complete before leaving office. Following are some of Trump’s comments on the war, before and after he launched his White House run in June 2015. Oct 7, 2011 - When will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding Afghanistan? We must rebuild our country first. (Posted on Twitter, during a year when Obama’s troop surge had taken U.S. troop levels to more than 100,000.) Feb 27, 2012 - It is time to get out of Afghanistan. We are building roads and schools for people that hate us. It is not in our national interests. (Posted on Twitter) Jan 1, 2013 - Can you believe that the Afghan war is our “longest war” ever—bring our troops home, rebuild the U.S., make America great again (Posted on Twitter) March 1, 2013 - We should leave Afghanistan immediately. No more wasted lives. If we have to go back in, we go in hard & quick. Rebuild the US first. (Posted on Twitter) Dec 1, 2014 - Now Obama is keeping our soldiers in Afghanistan for at least another year. He is losing two wars simultaneously. (Posted on Twitter) March 3, 2016 - I think you have to stay in Afghanistan for a while, because of the fact that you’re right next to Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, and we have to protect that. Nuclear weapons change the game. (Said during a debate among Republican presidential candidates, when asked if he would withdraw troops from Afghanistan) July 18, 2017 - We’ve been there for now close to 17 years, and I want to find out why we’ve been there for 17 years, how it’s going, and what we should do in terms of additional ideas. I’ve heard plenty of ideas from a lot of people, but I want to hear it from the people on the ground. (Said during a meeting with service members to discuss Afghanistan.) | 0fake |
Judge Serves A Crushing Blow To The Florida GOP That Could Change The State’s Color | A Leon Circuit Judge in Florida has adopted a map of Florida Senate districts that is a huge win for voter s rights groups and a crushing blow to one of the most heinously corrupt political systems in the country. Florida registered Democrats outnumber Republicans. The state has a history of pulling off wins for Democrats like Barack Obama and Al Gore. The latter is proof of what the state is also famous for.Florida has a sad history of voter suppression. College students and new residents turned away because they either kept their home state license or hadn t switched it yet. It was OK to register, sorry, you just can t vote. Long lines and refusals are commonplace, as are difficult to read ballots. then there were the chads. Hundreds of thousands of votes tossed aside because of hanging chads.So why is the redistricting of Florida s Senate so important? it gives the Democrats a shot at a one-seat majority. Taking half of the legislative power in the state is the first step to maintaining Florida as a solidly purple state. Purple states tend to turn blue in presidential election years, and with a little bit of down-ballot voting, a Democrat could see the Governor s mansion.Florida s house districts were recently redrawn as well, but the more than 20 seat supermajority Republicans hold is from the rural districts where the south is still the south and everyone else be damned. Still, a purple Florida could lead to exciting advances in both the US House and Senate. Marco Rubio has shown what his service to his country means by abandoning his post. He doesn t want to play senator anymore, he wants to play president.That s the kind of quality red thinking we ve seen from Florida since the 1990s. We get to sit and listen to Jeb! brag about how great the Florida economy was when he was governor, never once mentioning that it was built on a bubble of real estate and construction. It was called a boom. Every tradesman known to man went into business for himself and made three phone calls, scheduled 6 months at a time of whatever it was they did and went to work.When the bubble exploded and the bottom fell out, thanks to further deregulation by brother George among other things, Florida was left in shambles; the housing market decimated. Banks went into mass foreclosure mode on such a scale that it will never truly be settled. Neighborhoods were abandoned as tradesmen lost their livelihoods almost overnight.This is the Republican plan in action because Florida is so strict with their building licenses and the costs with required insurances went so high that those enterprising tradesmen ended up working for big companies or leaving the state altogether when things started turning around. Many who lost everything found themselves working for half or less of what they were making before the crash.Florida deserves a break. Far too much idiocy comes from Florida conservatives. Or have we forgotten: George Zimmerman. Florida has a shot at redemption if those people who are registered Democrats get out and vote blue all the way down the ticket.Featured image via redstate.com | 1real |
With water cannons and Southern belles, Trump ends 'thank you' tour | MOBILE, Ala. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wrapped up his post-election “thank you” tour on Saturday with celebratory geysers from water cannons, greetings from hoop-skirted Southern belles and some gloating over the TV newscasters who had expected him to lose. In the last in a series of rallies Trump has staged during the past three weeks - mainly in battleground states that gave him the margin of victory in the Nov. 8 election - Trump came back to where it all began for his improbable presidential campaign. It was in Mobile, Alabama, last year where Trump, a real estate magnate and reality television star with no previous political experience, drew a huge crowd that gave notice to his rivals that he was a threat for the Republican presidential nomination. When his plane landed at the Mobile airport on Saturday, it taxied beneath blasts from two water cannon trucks. Stepping off the plane, a half dozen young women wearing Old South hoop skirts in a panoply of pastel colors were on hand to greet him. Speaking at Ladd-Peebles Stadium, where there was a steady drizzle that he said would ruin his suit, Trump relived his tense election night when he went from big underdog to eking out a victory over heavily favored Democrat Hillary Clinton. Faced with predictions that he would lose, Trump said he told his wife, Melania, that he was at peace with his campaign because he had worked so hard. “I went to my wife and I said, ‘You know what, I don’t feel badly about this,’” Trump said. Trump said the faces of the newscasters seemed to sink as his fortunes improved, part of his running diatribe against the U.S. mainstream news media that he claims is stacked against him. “They got paid a lot of money,” Trump said of television commentators. “They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, folks.” Trump, who will be sworn into office on Jan. 20, took swings at a few other favorite targets from his campaign: corporations that outsource jobs, Islamic State militants, drug dealers, illegal immigrants, and the political culture in Washington. But he pulled his punches when it came to first lady Michelle Obama, who in excerpts from an interview with Oprah Winfrey set to air on CBS on Monday, said: “We feel the difference now. See, now, we’re feeling what not having hope feels like.” “I honestly believe she meant that statement in a different way than it came out,” Trump said. Trump lost the popular vote by more than 2.5 million votes but still won 306 votes in the Electoral College, plenty more than the 270 required to win. With some Democrats now saying the Electoral College should be abandoned and that the presidential election should be decided by the popular vote, Trump said he’s happy with the system the way it is now. “I never appreciated it until now, how genius it was,” he said. | 0fake |
ISIS Said to Target Foreigners in Bangladesh Attack - The New York Times | The Islamic State assailants who killed 20 people in a restaurant in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, on Friday picked a place that attracted students, textile producers and employees at nonprofit groups. The people they killed were interested in art, world peace and international business. The victims were from at least four countries, and they were thriving in an interconnected world. The gruesome attack wrenched the customers of the Holey Artisan Bakery from a world of curiosity, tolerance and cultural exchange and thrust them into the world of global terrorism. After an standoff between the attackers and the Bangladeshi security forces, the death toll included people who were part of Dhaka’s group of Italians, and a group of young students with ties to America. Diego Rossini, an Argentine chef who survived the attack by escaping to the roof, told C5N, an Argentine television station, that the gunmen had singled out foreigners. “That’s who they were particularly looking for,” he said. But in the end, three Bangladeshis were listed among the dead, including Ishrat Akhond, a human resource specialist who also worked at art galleries and spent her spare time volunteering for nonprofits. JCI Bangladesh, a group focused on global peace and a former employer of Ms. Akhond’s, said in a Facebook post on Saturday that she had been killed. “A passionate and lovely human being,” a friend, Shakhawat Khan, wrote on Facebook. “She used to start her status with the following words, ‘I am happy because. ’” Nine Italians, whose identities were confirmed by Italian authorities on Saturday, were also among the dead. They were among about 200 Italians living in Dhaka, said Tullio Ferri, an Italian who lives there and a friend of eight of the nine victims. “It’s a small community,,” Mr. Ferri said. “We are all very close. We’re more like a family. ” He said that all of the Italians worked in the apparel industry. Some were producers, some direct clients, and others worked as agents for Italian importers. One of the victims, Adele Puglisi of Catania, Sicily, had for years managed the Dhaka office of a large Italian company that makes children’s clothing. The restaurant “was a place to go to feel more at home,” said Mr. Ferri, adding that it was a regular hangout for foreigners living and working in Dhaka. “Sometimes we went together, sometimes we met up there by chance,” he said. Another Italian victim, Nadia Benedetti, owned a textile business and had worked in Bangladesh for 12 years, her landlord, Tarique Hyder, said in a Facebook post. Mr. Hyder called her contributions to Bangladesh “remarkable. ” Another victim, Simona Monti, 33, was thinking of moving back to Italy because she had just discovered that she was pregnant. She loved her hometown, Magliano Sabina, just north of Rome, but she had taken a job in Bangladesh’s textile industry, said Alfredo Graziani, the town’s mayor. Claudia D’Antona had lived in India and Bangladesh for 18 years, said her sister Patrizia. Ms. D’Antona and her husband, Giovanni Boschetti, were not afraid of living in Dhaka, but they were careful, the sister said. She said that on Friday night the couple “had dined at that restaurant because they felt safe there, because of where it was, close to the embassy where they were married. ” Mr. Boschetti survived because he had been called away for a phone call and was outside when the gunmen attacked. Seven Japanese citizens who were in Dhaka to work on a project sponsored by the Japan International Cooperation Agency were also killed in the attack. Their names were not immediately released. A Indian student named Tarishi Jain was one of the first victims to be identified. In a statement that condemned the “brutal act of terrorism in Dhaka,” John Kirby, a State Department spokesman, said an American citizen had been killed at the restaurant. That victim’s name was not released. On Saturday, Emory University in Atlanta said that two of the victims, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were students at Oxford College, a division of Emory that enrolls only freshmen and sophomores. They were visiting family in Dhaka for the summer. The university said in a statement that Ms. Kabir was a sophomore from Miami and that Mr. Hossain was an Oxford graduate with plans to attend the university’s business school. The victims’ social media profiles reflected interests in world travel and in their school’s student community. Both listed Dhaka as their hometown on Facebook. In March, Mr. Hossain posted a Spirit Week flyer to his Facebook page. The colorful sign featured famous structures from around the world, including the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal. Both students knew Ms. Jain, who attended the University of California, Berkeley, and was a graduate of the American International School in Dhaka. At Berkeley, Ms. Jain participated in a business that and used the proceeds to support underprivileged entrepreneurs around the world. | 0fake |
Battered by Storms, West Virginia Struggles to Recover - The New York Times | CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Cole Chapman and his wife, Silvia Gabriel Fields, were having coffee on their deck when a nearby creek suddenly burst its banks, sending them and their two children sprinting to their pickup truck for safety. “We heard cracking and popping, and a sheet of water just started pouring into the yard,” Mr. Chapman said Saturday night. “It was like something totally exploded. ” Minutes later, their yard submerged beneath gushing, water, the family raced over muddy roads to higher ground. “My son was in the back seat, saying, ‘We’re going to die, we’re going to die,’” Mr. Chapman recalled. “I’m sitting there thinking, ‘I sure hope you’re not right. ’” The storms that swept West Virginia last Thursday created historic flooding and in the aftermath left hundreds of homes, buildings, bridges, roads and vehicles destroyed. The storms were tied to at least 24 deaths. The authorities said on Sunday that all of the people reported missing had been accounted for except in one county, Greenbrier, which suffered the greatest death toll in the flooding. Sixteen deaths were reported in Greenbrier County, all but one of them in the small town of Rainelle. The town’s mayor, Andrea Pendleton, wept as she surveyed her community on Saturday, The Associated Press reported. “I weep for my people,” she said. “I weep for the businesses. ” The county is home to a luxury resort and golf course that was scheduled to host a P. G. A. tournament from July 4 to 10. But the course, like much of the surrounding countryside, was overrun by floodwaters and the event was canceled. “Canceling the Greenbrier Classic is certainly the most prudent course of action as our foremost concern is the of those who are having to live through this tragic situation,” the P. G. A. Tour commissioner, Tim Finchem, said in a news release. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them. ” The owner of the resort said that while it was closed for business, he would offer a limited number of free rooms and meals to house some of the people affected by the floods. The powerful storms appeared to have caught many people off guard. Hundreds of people were left stranded, and bodies that were recovered from houses — including those of a man and two women at one location, all presumed to have drowned, officials said — suggested that either people did not have enough time to flee, or did not heed warnings to evacuate. The state remained under a state of emergency on Sunday, with more than 17, 000 homes and business still without power. Late Saturday, President Obama declared a major disaster in the state that frees up federal funding for relief in three of the counties — Kanawha, Nicholas and Greenbrier. More heavy rain is forecast for Monday in some of the areas in West Virginia already hit hard by flooding, but Greenbrier County is expected to be spared. Mr. Chapman recounted his family’s harrowing escape as his truck crashed and bounced over debris in the road. He said for what seemed like an hour, he fought through water, mud and rain to get to Clendenin, usually a trip. The pickup almost flipped at one point, he said, as he drove over a fallen tree. “There was enough water hitting the side of the truck to make it rock,” he said. The family escaped, drenched, with little more than the clothes they were wearing. “I left with just what I had in my pockets,” Mr. Chapman said. When he returned to the house later, he said, he saw that their aboveground pool had been lifted and dashed against the side of the house. The family has no flood insurance, he said, and he is unsure whether they will be able to return home. Storms had been in the forecast for Thursday, but their overpowering strength came as a surprise to many. Most of West Virginia and the western parts of Virginia received 1 to 3 inches of rain in a few hours on Thursday afternoon and evening, but the downpour was far more intense in some places. Parts of Greenbrier County, a sparsely populated area bordering Virginia, got 8 to 10 inches of rain, the National Weather Service reported. Power went out a couple of hours before the creek burst its banks, Mr. Chapman said. But he and Ms. Fields were unaware how quickly the swollen creek was rising. Neighbors reported finding out about flooding only after someone knocked on their door. Over the weekend in Clendenin’s tiny downtown, a church group grilled burgers in a parking lot next to a Dairy Queen that was demolished by the Elk River, which flooded to record levels. Another church group passed out clothes and cleaning supplies to those left homeless. In rural West Virginia, it is not uncommon for multiple generations of a family to live near the same small town. On Thursday, Ms. Fields and two other households of relatives were flooded out. Gerald and Naomi Fields, her parents, live in Clendenin. Mr. Fields said he knew they were in trouble when he saw “a massive amount of water coming off the mountain” on his way home from work on Thursday. He said a rescue team worked for hours to evacuate residents of a nursing home. “Those emergency workers literally put their lives on the line to get them out,” he said. “By 3 in the morning, when they were done, one man just collapsed from exhaustion. ” Another set of relatives 10 houses away lost everything. Ms. Fields’s older sister Erica Babbitt and her husband, David, said their house was ruined. “We’re going to be starting from scratch,” Mr. Babbitt said. For now, all 11 members of the three related households are staying at an empty church rectory in Nitro, west of Charleston. Mr. Babbitt said his church has rallied around them, feeding them, giving them clothes, shelter and a few personal items. Ms. Babbitt said she and her husband had been getting ready to move to Fairmont for a new job. “I was thinking about what it was going to take to move,” she said. “I guess I don’t have to worry about that now. ” | 0fake |
Sanders plan raises incomes but also U.S. deficits, analysts say | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ tax and benefit plans would raise income for most Americans but his proposal for single-payer healthcare would help generate record federal deficits, two Washington think tanks said on Monday. An analysis by the Tax Policy Center said that although most people would pay higher taxes under Sanders’ plan, the average household income would increase by nearly $4,300 in 2017 after his proposed benefits were factored in. Those benefits include an expansion of the Social Security government pension plan, paid family leave and free tuition at public colleges, ideas that have generated support for Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, as he seeks to become the Democratic nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential election. Only the wealthiest 5 percent of households would end up paying more in new taxes than they got back in benefits, according to the center, a joint effort run by two Washington-based think tanks, the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. But Sanders’ plans would also increase federal deficits to “unprecedented levels,” the center said, relying largely on a new estimate of the cost of his healthcare proposals published on Monday in a separate analysis by the Urban Institute. Sanders has proposed a single-payer healthcare system, a more significant overhaul than the tweaks that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton wants to make to the Affordable Care Act, a signature policy achievement of Democratic President Barack Obama. The Urban Institute estimated Sanders’ healthcare plan would require an increase in federal spending of $32 trillion over the next decade but that new revenue sources proposed by Sanders only covered just under half of that amount. The overall result would be an increase in annual federal budget deficits by $18 trillion over the next decade, the Tax Policy Center said. Warren Gunnels, Sanders’ policy director, called the new cost estimate “wildly” overestimated in a statement on Monday. He said the analyses were wrong to assume that state and local governments would stop their own spending on healthcare, thereby shifting $4.1 trillion in costs to the federal government. Gunnels said the reports also underestimated what the Sanders campaign forecast would be trillions of dollars in savings in administration, paperwork and drug prices seen in other Western countries with single-payer systems. The Sanders campaign has estimated that his proposed healthcare system would save more than $6 trillion over the next 10 years, compared with the current system. | 0fake |
Mongolia names biker enthusiast PM, kick-starting IMF rescue package | ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - Mongolia s parliament confirmed the nomination of motorbike enthusiast Ukhnaa Khurelsukh as prime minister on Wednesday, putting the country back on track to receive funds from a $5.5 billion IMF economic rescue package. Khurelsukh, of the ruling Mongolian People s Party (MPP), received unanimous approval from the lawmakers in attendance for his confirmation as Mongolia s 30th prime minister. He will face challenges in bringing back foreign investment to the mineral-rich former Soviet satellite and manage the country s heavy debt load. The International Monetary Fund has approved an economic bailout program to help relieve debt pressures and buoy the currency, the tugrik, that includes austerity policies. An IMF visit to review the program that included the disbursement of $37.82 million of the funds was delayed in September until a new government was formed. The IMF had said that once a new government was in place, it would engage with the authorities on how best to move forward with the program. Khurelsukh succeeds Jargaltulga Erdenebat, who was voted out of office in September amid allegations of corruption and incompetence. The new prime minister holds the title of colonel, although he only served in the military from 1989 to 1990. He projects a tough rule of law image, said Dale Choi, head of Altan Bumba Financial Group. He s a very tough and strong guy himself. I think the electorate likes it very much. Khurelsukh, 49. is seen as a leader to the party s so-called youth faction and is also a noted motorcycle enthusiast. He is president of the fan club for Harley-Davidson in Ulaanbaatar. Mongolia s democracy has been turbulent since its transition from a socialist state in 1990, and no premier has completed a four-year term since 2000. Government infighting and reshuffles have contributed to the delays of development projects. The closest Mongolia came to handing over the operations of state-owned Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi coking coal mine to a consortium of Mongolian Mining Corp, China Shenhua Energy and Sumitomo Corp was in 2015, before the parliament speaker stepped in to block the deal. We would hope to see the new government advance the privatization of Tavan Tolgoi, said Thomas Hugger CEO and a fund manager at Asia Frontier Capital. Mongolia s coal miners are looking to ramp up production to meet growing demand from China, but longstanding transportation issues continues to hold back sales. Mongolia s proximity to China means it could play a large role in coal supply to China, said Hugger, if a key railway is built. There s no reason Mongolia shouldn t be the largest supplier of coking and thermal coal to China. | 0fake |
The Pope Just Called Most American Employers (And Donald Trump) ‘Bloodsuckers’ | Pope Francis is no fan of Walmart or of McDonalds, or really of many American companies. In a powerful mass at the Vatican, he called companies that exploit workers bloodsuckers and the people who work there, slaves. He also said the employers were committing a mortal sin.During mass at the Vatican, he told a story about a girl who found a job working 11 hours a day for 650 euros ($729) a month, paid under the table . This is starving the people with their work for my own profit! Living on the blood of the people. And this is a mortal sin, he said at the service in his Santa Marta residence. Without a pension, without health care then they suspend (the contract), and in July and August (the workers) have to eat air. And in September, they laugh at you about it. Those who do that are true bloodsuckers. ($1 = 0.8919 euros)Source: ReutersIt s hard to read those words without imagining that the Pope is speaking directly to Americans. The United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn t offer universal healthcare. Fewer than half of Americans have a pension or even a 401(k). Only about half of employers offer any sort of retirement plan.Before Ronald Reagan, it was standard for companies to offer pensions and even health insurance. Then, 401(k) s which are a gift to Wall Street, came along, and pensions went away as some employers chose to offer nothing at all.Not only does this make the companies bloodsuckers, it s a bad business move, at least for companies that value their employees. Because people aren t tied to their jobs with pensions, they are leaving them. The average turnover rate is about 40 percent a year.Now, we know how hard Republicans fight against basic health care for all. We also know how hard they fight against a living wage, but we hear little about pensions, unless it s about companies stealing pensions from their employees. The Pope didn t mention that bloodsucking tactic. The fact is, though, that Republicans don t like pensions any more than they like healthcare or paid time off. They are doing their best to end them, whether it be public pensions or through destroying unions. Remind me, who are the Christians here?Featured image via Milos Bicanski at Getty Images | 1real |
SHUT IT DOWN! JUDICIAL WATCH PRES Calls Out Biased Mueller Witch Hunt “Are there any Trump donors on the team?” [Video] | Are there any Trump donors on the team? GREAT QUESTION BY TOM FITTON! Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton joined FOX News to explain Mueller s latest hire of Andrew Goldstein, a former prosecutor who worked under Preet Bharara in New York. Remember Prett Bharara? Trump fired him! Fitton questioned who is overseeing Mueller s day-to-day conduct, pointing to the 12 hires he has made for his legal team all liberal political hacks!Special Counsel Mueller s investigation is out of control. @realDonaldTrump DOJ should shut it down. https://t.co/IYr9Hiqkix Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 2, 2017A VERY KEY REASON FOR THIS WITCH HUNT TO END IS THAT: Several of the lawyers donated to Democrats and it seems that the team is searching for a crime. Fitton said: I don t understand what this investigation is about.. You know my count is 14, 15 lawyers to have working on this one investigation to investigate to investigate what? An employment dispute between Comey and the President? You have the conflicts caused by Comey leaking records to get Mueller appointed, you have Constitutional concerns about the way the office operates. Fitton then pointed out what s a big concern for most people watching this unfold: Are there any Trump donors on the team? IN CASE YOU HAVEN T HEARD HERE S OUR RECENT REPORT ON THE LOPSIDED GROUP OF ALL DEMOCRAT DONOR LAWYERS HELPING MUELLER TRY AND BURY TRUMP:Former NH Governor John Sununu let Alison Camarata have it when she asked about the Russia investigation and Robert Mueller. Sununu said that Trump should have been notified if he was under investigation and then he slammed Mueller for hiring all Dems.Camerota: Should the White House know if the President is being investigated for obstruction of justice? Sununu: If the President is being investigated for obstruction of justice, the White House should have been officially notified. Sununu: What bothers me the most and there must be a reason for it, is Mueller making four of his first hires so blatantly biased lawyers, pro-Democrat lawyers with a bias certainly against the President. Maybe Mueller has decided internally that this isn t going anywhere and that the only way he can have credibility on a decision saying that there s nothing there is to have that decision come from a group of lawyers that are so blatantly biased against the President. CNN Reports Three members of the legal team known to have been hired so far by special counsel Robert Mueller to handle the Russia investigation have given political donations almost exclusively to Democrats, according to a CNN analysis of Federal Election Commission records. | 1real |
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TEEN WEARING CONFEDERATE FLAG SHIRT TO MICHIGAN SCHOOL Told To Go Home Or Change It [Video] | A student at a Michigan high school stood up for his right to wear a Confederate flag shirt to school. There is not a rule against it but the principal felt it would interfere with learning. The effort to cleanse America of our past is in full force. Confederate monuments in different states have been removed and South Carolina removed the confederal flag from its capitol grounds. Do you feel this is freedom of speech or that the flag shouldn t be worn to school? CALEDONIA, Mich. (WOOD) A student at Caledonia High School was outraged when he was told to change his shirt, which showed the Confederate battle flag, or go home Wednesday morning.Donovan Stokes, a junior, said he was approached by the high school principal about his shirt. I wore everything as proper. This is just a shirt; it s the rebel flag. It was bullying. They were bullying me to take off my shirt and I did not have to go home. They cannot send me home. That is losing my education, said Stokes. The principal gave me two options and I requested a letter asking why he had to take the shirt off, she said.The letter stated because of what that flag is used to symbolize by others, we feel it could contribute to a hostile environment for many of our students. Jolene Stokes said she does not believe the shirt would create a hostile environment and her son believes that removing the shirt infringed on his freedom of expression. It s more of like a history thing and it s just a war flag from back in the day, and I don t think it meant anything by it, he said.The school district disagreed, saying it has a responsibility to create a safe and orderly learning environment. Any type of attire that might challenge that, might create disorder or disruption to the environment, we have responsibility to prohibit that attire. We love freedom of speech and we educate kids and we want them to know that they do have the right to stand up and speak their mind and share their opinions and we value that as much as anybody else. At the same time, if that is going to disrupt our educational setting, that has to come first. That climate that we create for students to learn and grow has to come first, so that s why we have to be able to respond the way we are responding, Caledonia Community Schools Superintendent Randy Rodriguez said.Rodriguez said it is especially important during considering the recent discussions in the nation about race and the battle flag. We are in a greater time of sensitivity right now for many reasons that have gone around the country, but also locally. I want all of our children to feel like this is a place that they belong, this is a place that they can learn and we re going to protect them all and we re going love them all, Rodriguez said.Donovan Stokes said he understands why people see the rebel flag as offensive. I can see how people could be offended by it due to the slavery thing, but that s because of the education. We are being taught in schools that this is not right, not just. I understand how people would totally get offended by this. People want to think of this as a hate flag, but this is really a patriotic flag than anything, he said.However, Grand Valley State University Associate Professor of History Scott Stabler said that historically, the flag was a symbol of resistance to the Civil Rights Movement and the battle flag was not the official flag of the Confederacy. It s a historical myth that it symbolizes something other than the Confederacy, which was all about sustaining the idea of human bondage. I think that people that carry the Confederate flag probably in their minds believe it stands for southern heritage, white southern heritage, but I don t think they have any clue as to what southern white heritage is, Stabler said.Stabler believes this situation could be an opportunity for learning. I think it s a point of learning what the student doesn t understand, what the flag might mean to people of African descent even to white people, because it means something to me, too, Stabler said.Stokes ultimately decided to take the shirt off rather than go home. The flag shirt is a tank top and he was wearing another long-sleeve shirt under it.He said a similar incident happened to him in middle school when he wore a belt showing the rebel flag. He said the student handbook does not directly state anywhere that he can t wear that kind of attire. He said he is not a racist and was not at all trying to promote hate or racism.Read more: WoodTV | 1real |
Turkish Minister: ‘Send 15,000 Migrants a Month to Europe to Shock Them’ | Turkey’s Foreign Minister has suggested directing tens of thousands of migrants to the European Union (EU) as a form of retaliation for European leaders blocking his government holding rallies in their countries. [“We have a readmission deal. I’m telling you Europe, do you have that courage? If you want, we’ll send the 15, 000 refugees to you that we don’t send each month and blow your mind,” said Süleyman Soylu on Thursday evening. “You have to keep in mind that you can’t design a game in this region in spite of Turkey,” Mr. Soylu added, according to a translation by Hurriyet Daily News. The “deal” referred to by Mr. Soylu was struck almost exactly a year ago with the EU. Turkey promised to stem the flow of Middle Eastern migrants entering Europe in exchange for billions in aid and accelerated travel for its citizens in the bloc. The “games” he claims are being played are attempts by European leaders to stop Turkish ministers leading rallies in support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expanding his power in an referendum. Millions of people living in Europe with dual Turkish citizenship are eligible to vote, and Mr. Erdoğan is keen to rally their support. However, some German districts stopped rallies going ahead, and the Netherlands imposed a blanket ban and even blocked a Turkish minister’s plane from landing to stop him attending. Mr. Erdoğan accused the Dutch of acting like “Nazis” in response. “Who are the main ones trying to get things done? Germany and the Netherlands. Are the elections going to be held in Germany? Will the charter change in Germany or the Netherlands?” Mr. Soylu said. Continuing: “This is our internal issue. What do you care? Why are you getting involved in it? Did you accept Turkey into the European Union? Did you provide support to Turkey in its fight against terrorism?” “There are games being played against Turkey in order to prevent it from becoming strong in the future,” he added. Mr. Erdoğan and his government have been threatening to “flood” Europe with migrants long before the deal with the EU was even signed. On 11 January last year, Mr. Erdoğan promised to “open the gates” to hundreds of thousands of migrants who could be transported into Europe by “bus” and even “plane” unless his demands were met in the lead up to the negotiations. | 0fake |
BLACK WOMAN IN CHARLESTON WARNS “There’s gonna be a race war against ‘Cracka’s'” | All the progress that s been made with race relations in America since the civil rights era has been ignored by so many angry blacks who ve bought into the carefully orchestrated Obama, Sharpton and Holder race war funded by their friend, George Soros. Since the liberal mainstream media wants to use the horrific massacre in Charleston to attack conservatives, disparage white people and act as if Dylann Roof s actions represent a normalcy, I thought it only fair to bring up the case of a black woman from Charleston, Sista Solove, who this week essentially asserted that white supremacy is leading us towards a race war against crackas. She made the statement on Wednesday while speaking with Breitbart Texas editor Brandon Darby outside the Mother Emmanuel American Methodist Church in Charleston.When he asked her what she thinks will ultimately result from Roof s actions, she replied, The real question is if it were the other way around, what would that be? https://youtu.be/_o-rzGRSu8sIf a black person if a nigga killed nine crackas, he would be dead. We wouldn t even be talking about his raggedy ass. Okay. But this cracka is, Oh, he s mentally ill. Oh, ya know, pray for him. Oh, they ve got support systems for him.No, it s an agenda, and there s going to be a race war because it continues to happen. You cannot go pray. You can t be a child at a playground. You can t wear a hoodie with Skittles. You can t be black.What s a good nigga supposed to do, Massa? What s a good nigga supposed to do not to get shot? That s a good question, ain t it?The reason Roof happens to be alive to this day is because he complied with police orders and did not resist arrest. This places him in stark contrast to the likes of, say, Mike Brown and Eric Garner.The comment about a child at a playground referred to 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who died in an unfortunate incident after a bystander reported a male sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people. The gun turned out to be fake, though according to reports, Rice reached for it when the cops told him to put his hands up.And as for the comment about how you can t wear a hoodie with Skittles, that referred to Trayvon Martin, who was justifiably shot by George Zimmerman after he attacked the guy for no legitimate reason whatsoever.Anyway. Sista Solove then delivered what Breitbart contributor Lee Stranahan accurately described as the academic Marxist message of white privilege that underscores the current Black Lives Matter movement :It s called white privilege. You don t understand where our anger comes from. No one gets it. Our history comes from our family telling us, Oh, you can t be black. Don t do this, don t go to that fountain, don t do this and we re still dealing with this shit. What are we going to do with the anger? What are we going to do with the anger? What do we do?Via: DownTrend | 1real |
POPE MAKES VISIT TO NUNS OBAMA REGIME IS SUING For Not Conforming To Obamacare Contraception Mandate | Leave it to our Community Organizer In Chief to bully nuns who ve committed their lives to helping the poor in our country over a contraception mandateIf Obama s rules apply to these nuns why don t they apply to the tens of millions who are living in the United States illegally? Pope Francis paid a short visit to the Little Sisters of the Poor community in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to support them in their court case over the contraception mandate, the Vatican s spokesman revealed.It was a short visit that was not in the program, Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, said at an evening press conference during the papal visit to the nation s capital. This is a sign, obviously, of support for them in their court case, he affirmed.The sisters have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration for its 2012 mandate that employers provide insurance coverage for birth control, sterilizations, and drugs that can cause abortions in employee health plans. The sisters have maintained that to provide this coverage would violate their religious beliefs.Even after the Obama administration modified the rules as an accommodation for objecting organizations, the sisters held that the revised rules would force them to violate their consciences.The majority of a three-judge panel for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in July that the Little Sisters of the Poor did not establish that the mandate was a substantial burden on their free exercise of religion, and thus ruled they still had to abide by the mandate.The papal visit was not on the official schedule for Pope Francis Washington, D.C. visit, which included Wednesday visits to the White House, a midday prayer service with the U.S. bishops at St. Matthew s Cathedral, and the canonization mass for St. Junipero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.It was a little addition to the program, but I think it has an important meaning, Fr. Lombardi said.He added that the visit is connected to the words that the Pope has said in support of the position of the bishops of the United States in the speech to President Obama and also in the speech to the bishops. Pope Francis, with President Obama at the White House, called religious freedom one of America s most precious possessions and had hearkened to the U.S. bishops defense of religious freedom. All are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it, he had said.In response to the news of the visit with the sisters, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, president of the U.S. Bishops Conference, said that he was so pleased to hear of the visit. As you know the last thing the Little Sisters of the Poor want to do is sue somebody. They don t want to sue in court, he insisted. They simply want to serve people who are poor and elderly, and they want to do it in a way that doesn t conflict with their beliefs.Via: Catholic News Agency | 1real |
Rubio considers running for re-election to Senate | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said on Wednesday he is considering running for re-election and may decide to jump into the race as early as this weekend, a move that could help Republicans retain their majority in the U.S. Senate. “I’ll go home later this week. And I’ll have some time with my family. And then, if there’s a change in our status, I’ll be sure to let everyone know,” the former Republican presidential candidate told reporters in the U.S. Capitol. Rubio, 45, first elected to the Senate in 2010, announced his retirement from the Senate in March after losing Florida’s presidential primary. But Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and others have been pressuring him to reconsider, citing polling data showing him to be the only Republican who can win the election in Florida. Rubio confirmed a Politico report that he was urged to run for re-election on Sunday in Orlando, Florida, by one of the Republicans contending for the seat, his friend Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera. The two men were in Orlando after the shooting that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub. Another Florida Republican hopeful, U.S. Representative David Jolly, has indicated he would step aside if Rubio entered the race. Rubio must decide whether to seek re-election by June 24, the filing deadline for Florida’s August primary. | 0fake |
Senior national security official to leave Justice Department | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Justice Department official who oversaw efforts to prosecute Islamic State sympathizers and pursue cyber criminals is leaving the Obama administration next month, he told Reuters on Tuesday. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, chief of the national security division at the Justice Department, is departing on Oct. 15, less than a month before the U.S. presidential election. The departure comes as the Obama administration has struggled to develop clear guidelines on how to pursue hacking amid growing threats posed by foreign nation-states and criminal groups. In an interview, Carlin, 43, declined to say where he was headed next. He intends to spend time with his family before starting a new job, likely involved in cyber security, he said. Carlin, who has served in government for more than 15 years, oversaw a range of prominent cases in three and a half years since assuming an acting rank of the Justice Department’s top national security lawyer in March 2013, including the prosecution of one of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers. He was confirmed full-time to the position in a 99-1 vote by the U.S. Senate in April 2014. Carlin focused on pursuing cyber criminals during his tenure running the national security division. His tenure included the unprecedented indictment of five Chinese military hackers in 2014 for alleged hacking into six U.S. companies in order to steal trade secrets, and the indictment of Iranian hackers earlier this year for alleged hacks on U.S. financial institutions and a New York dam. In a statement, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Carlin was a “trusted and tireless leader” who “used all the tools at his disposal to enhance our public safety and uphold our national security.” Carlin will be replaced by Mary McCord, principal deputy assistant attorney general, on an acting basis, the Justice Department said. Through a combination of legal cases, diplomatic sanctions and an effort to publicly name and shame hacking adversaries, Carlin sought to tame what he often called the wild west of cyberspace, where international norms for appropriate cyber activity are nascent or nonexistent. “We’ve laid a strong foundation in cyber, but we’ve got to do more, faster, given the state of the threat,” Carlin told Reuters. He said he hoped the next presidential administration could further “institutionalize” consequences from cyber crime. Most recently Carlin announced this month the formation of a threat analysis team to study potential national security challenges posed by self-driving cars, medical devices and other Internet-connected tools. Carlin’s appointment in early 2014 coincided with territorial gains by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria that propelled the militant group to global notoriety. Since then, the department has prosecuted dozens of people on counts related to Islamic State: more than 100 people have been charged since 2014 in public federal cases. Under Carlin, the national security division has also ramped up the Justice Department’s efforts to combat what it sees as a rising threat from domestic anti-government extremists. | 0fake |
SPECTRE OF BENGHAZI: DOJ Drops Charges Against Alleged Arms Dealer of Libyan Weapons | 21st Century Wire says The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is dropping all charges against an arms dealer whose weapons made it into the hands of radical Libya militants.Early this week a motion was filed by the DOJ to drop charges against an American arms dealer named Marc Turi, according to federal court records obtained by Politico.Also according to Politico: The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi. LIBYA FALLOUT (Photo Illustration 21WIRE s Shawn Helton)In the book entitled Definitive Report by both Jack Murphy (Army Green Beret) and Brandon Webb (Navy SEAL), a close friend of Glen Doherty (one of the Americans killed during the Benghazi siege) it was revealed that Obama s former deputy NSA advisor and current CIA director, John Brennan had been directing covert black-ops in Libya as well as other parts in North Africa, prior to the siege that left four Americans dead at a compound in Benghazi.Brennan s covert operations were said to have prompted retaliation inside the compound in Libya as former CIA director David Petraeus had been blackmailed into resignation by senior CIA officials.All of this information was preceded by a massive cover-up involving mainstream media, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, both of whom initially blamed the siege on a heavily propagandized YouTube film entitled, The Innocence of Muslims. This meme was spread on many major talk shows even though evidence failed to connect the film to the attack.In addition, the White House and President Barack Obama had many inconsistencies in their talking points about Benghazi, first labeling it a terror attack, then quickly shifting gears, denying that there were Al Qaeda operatives anywhere near the compound.US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was said to have helped manage a large gun-running operation from the Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, as he was also said to have helped ship guns to al-Qaeda-linked opposition to assist in the takedown of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi.In a Business Insider report from October of 2012, the Benghazi story dovetailed the growing proxy war in Syria: In March 2011 Stevens became the official U.S. liaison to the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan opposition, working directly with Abdelhakim Belhadj of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group a group that has now disbanded, with some fighters reportedly participating in the attack that took Stevens life.In November 2011 The Telegraph reported that Belhadj, acting as head of the Tripoli Military Council, met with Free Syrian Army [FSA] leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey in an effort by the new Libyan government to provide money and weapons to the growing insurgency in Syria. As 21WIRE has previously reported in 2014, It s worth noting here: like Libya s new militant governor of Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, the Chechen terrorist group Kata ib Mohadzherin s leader Airat Vakhitov was also under US supervision for years imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba circa 2002, after being captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Both were Belhadj and Vakhitov were released by the Pentagon only to be repatriated in the field again back into fighting regions to organise al Qaeda-type Islamist groups both active in countries which the US and NATO have been actively vying for regime change in Libya and Syria, respectively. You can draw your own conclusions here about what Guantanamo is in reality, a fact which was confirmed by thePenny Lane leaks regarding the recruitment of double agents out of Gitmo. Interestingly, in a NY Times article from December of 2012 entitled, U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell Into Jihadis Hands, we see an acknowledgement of an arms shipment at the behest of the Obama administration under the watchful eye of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton but the mainstream media appears to have provided cover for the White House and State Department by blaming Qatar for the weapons transfer to militants: The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats.No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to the attack that killed four Americans at the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in September.But in the months before, the Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand in helping arm Libyan militants, concerns that have not previously been reported. The weapons and money from Qatar strengthened militant groups in Libya, allowing them to become a destabilizing force since the fall of the Qaddafi government. The spectre of Benghazi looms large when connecting the Middle Eastern dots over the past five years.More from Zero Hedge below TRAIL OF BLOOD Many questions about 2012 s Benghazi terror siege remain unanswered. (Image Source: foxnews)DOJ Drops Charges Against Arms Dealer Who Threatened To Expose Hillary Arming Islamic ExtremistsZero HedgeIn what would under other circumstances likely be a major media spectacle, Politico reported that the Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer whom it had accused of selling weapons destined for Libyan rebels and who had threatened to expose Hillary Clinton s talks about arming anti-Qaddafi rebels.According to a motion filed in federal court in Phoenix, the DOJ on Monday filed a motion to drop the case against the arms dealer, an American named Marc Turi. One potential reason for the surprising move is that as Politico writes, the deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.Turi was indicted in 2014 on four felony counts: two of arms dealing in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and two of lying to the State Department in official applications. The charges accused Turi of claiming that the weapons involved were destined for Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, when the arms were actually intended to reach Libya. Turi s lawyers argued that the shipments were part of a U.S. government-authorized effort to arm Libyan rebels. It s unclear if any of the weapons made it to Libya, and there s no evidence linking weapons provided by the U.S. government to the Benghazi attacks.According to Politico government lawyers were facing a Wednesday deadline to produce documents to Turi s legal team, and the trial was officially set to begin on Election Day, although it likely would have been delayed by protracted disputes about classified information in the case. A Turi associate asserted that the government dropped the case because the proceedings could have embarrassed Clinton and President Barack Obama by calling attention to the reported role of their administration in supplying weapons that fell into the hands of Islamic extremist militants.Making matters worse, Turi s case had delved into emails sent to and from the controversial private account that Clinton used as Secretary of State, which the defense planned to harness at any trial. They don t want this stuff to come out because it will look really bad for Obama and Clinton just before the election, said the associate.Leery of admitting the actual truth, in the dismissal motion, prosecutors were vague saying that discovery rulings from U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell contributed to the decision to drop the case. The joint motion asks the judge to accept a confidential agreement to resolve the case through a civil settlement between the State Department and the arms broker.This story continues at Zero Hedge READ MORE ISIS NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire ISIS Files READ MORE LIBYA NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Libya FilesSUPPORT OUR WORK BY SUBSCRIBING & BECOMING A MEMBER @21WIRE.TV | 1real |
Coretta Scott King Wrote A Letter Opposing Jeff Sessions And Republicans Have Been Hiding It Since 1986 | This is how far Republicans will go to protect a racist in their party.Thirty years after Congress rejected Jeff Sessions nomination as a federal judge, the Alabama Republican who only had a problem with the KKK because they smoked marijuana is once again up for a critical government post that could set voting rights back for generations.Donald Trump s nomination of Sessions as Attorney General has raised alarm bells across the nation as civil rights groups fear he will gut the Justice Department, particularly the division that investigates and fights voting rights and civil rights violations.As a federal attorney, Sessions slapped voter fraud charges against black volunteers in his home state who were tasked with picking up and delivering absentee ballots to the post office so they could be counted. Sessions lost the case, and no one was indicted because the volunteers did nothing wrong. Sessions just hates black people and sees their voting as a crime.Even former colleagues testified that Sessions is a racist.According to the New York Times,In testimony before the committee, former colleagues said that Mr. Sessions had referred to the N.A.A.C.P., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other civil rights groups as un-American and Communist-inspired. An African-American federal prosecutor then, Thomas H. Figures, said Mr. Sessions had referred to him as boy and testified that Mr. Sessions said the Ku Klux Klan was fine until I found out they smoked pot. If you still need proof that Sessions is a racist, just consider that white supremacists cheered when Trump announced his nomination.But there is one piece of testimony that Republicans have been suppressing for decades that would be a nail in the coffin of Sessions effort to become Attorney General.In 1986, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote a letter of testimony to the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee that ended up rejecting Sessions.Buzzfeed reports that racist Senator Strom Thurmond refused to put the letter in the Congressional record and the contents have been kept from public view ever since. But Knight Rider reporter Aaron Epstein published a piece of it in 1986 that explains why we should not believe Sessions when he claims he isn t racist. For a century, the racial practices that characterized our region were established and enforced by men who, like Mr. Sessions, protested that they, too, were not personally hostile to blacks, King wrote.And that line alone should disqualify Sessions from ever being more than a racist senator. Because the last thing this country needs is a racist Attorney General in charge of the very institution that investigates voter suppression, discrimination, and hate crimes against people of color.Featured Image: Wikimedia | 1real |
May, Juncker call for faster Brexit talks | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker agreed over dinner in Brussels on Monday that the pace of negotiations over Britain s departure from the European Union should be stepped up. A joint statement described a constructive and friendly two-hour meeting, during which they reviewed the progress made in the Article 50 negotiations so far and agreed that these efforts should accelerate over the months to come . Announced less than 24 hours before they sat down, accompanied by their chief Brexit negotiators, David Davis and Michel Barnier, and just three days before May returns to Brussels for an EU summit, the meeting was held well away from reporters. Officials offered no immediate detail on the substance beyond the six-sentence communique. Both sides have been calling for a faster pace of talks as time ticks down to Britain s withdrawal from the EU in March 2019 and businesses warn that without clarity on what happens after that they may start switching investments early next year. The joint statement gave little else away, making no reference to the mutual blame game in which London and Brussels accuse each other of creating deadlock: May by failing to detail how much she is willing to pay to settle divorce obligations, the EU by sticking rigidly to a refusal to so much as talk about a future trade deal and transition to that until she does so. Wary that the prime minister, beset by feuds in her cabinet over a softer or harder break with the EU, might try to divide the other 27 states, some EU diplomats voiced concern she met Juncker and Barnier before meeting the other national leaders. Barnier has, diplomats say, suggested accelerating talks by starting internal EU discussions on a transition period in which Britain would stay in the single market. His idea hit resistance from heavyweights Germany and France, though the 27 now seem set to agree this gesture in an EU statement to be issued on Friday. A revised text circulated by summit chair Donald Tusk to EU governments on Monday retained wording that offers Britain the chance of talks on a transition to a future relationship almost immediately after the next EU summit in December. But at German and French insistence, it stressed the need for London to meet a series of key demands from the Union, notably on money it owes. May s spokesman, when asked before the meeting whether she would give more detail on Britain s financial offer, indicated she would not. That left some wondering what the point was. It will either be a very expensive dinner, costing about 30 billion euros, or else what is this? one EU diplomat said. | 0fake |
He Didn’t Like ‘Homeland.’ Now He’s Advising It. - The New York Times | A sharply dressed lawyer represented his clients before a panel in New York recently, claiming that because federal authorities tried to coerce them into becoming informants, they had the right to receive monetary damages. The argument took place in a federal appeals court in Manhattan, before a gallery of a few dozen people. But a similar version of a lawyer and his community’s concerns are now starring on the small screen, in the sixth season of the thriller, “Homeland. ” The lawyer Ramzi Kassem, a professor at the City University of New York School of Law, became the model for Reda Hashem, who runs a nonprofit legal clinic advocating for rights, together with the officer Carrie Mathison played by the show’s star Claire Danes. Mr. Kassem, the founder of the CUNY Clear clinic, which stands for Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility, served as more than just inspiration. He became, in a way, Homeland’s paid conscience consultant. “Initially I said, ‘Look, I’m probably not your guy because I really don’t like your show,” Mr. Kassem said, explaining that he felt “Homeland” exploited the stereotype of all Muslims as terrorists, and all people of color as threats. He agreed with the artists who subversively decorated the set last season with Arabic graffiti that read: “Homeland is racist. ” Alex Gansa, the and showrunner, wanted to confront these claims. “What better way to do it than hire somebody as a consultant who would call you out on a weekly basis?” he said. The television lawyer, played by Patrick Sabongui, represents a young man, Sekou Bah (J. Mallory McCree) arrested for links to overseas terrorists, after he posted videos sympathizing with terrorists. Ms. Danes’s character, a C. I. A. officer, shouts to an F. B. I. agent that their client was “just another Muslim kid you entrapped” by using an informant who posed as a friend. Reviews have been mixed for this season, which is being broadcast at a particularly resonant period: President Trump has heightened attention on potential domestic terrorist threats by his executive orders restricting immigration from countries with links to terrorism. Spoiler alert — Mr. Kassem said he was pleased, if not relieved, that the producers took some of his suggestions. “Is it a perfect depiction? Absolutely not — because they have to dramatize it,” Mr. Kassem said. “I think as far as mainstream cultural production goes, it is, so far, the single work that most accurately reflects how these predatory prosecutions go, how informants are used and pressured and how these cases get packaged. ” Reading and redlining every script became Mr. Kassem’s weekend job, and he continued to point out inaccuracies and tendencies toward what he felt were racist depictions. “He did it in a wildly entertaining fashion,” Mr. Gansa said, adding it wasn’t typical Hollywood obsequiousness, which was refreshing. “His notes were astonishing in their bluntness, in their lack of convention. ” The show’s media materials describe Reda Hashem as a “C. U. N. Y. law professor,” although the school and clinic are not mentioned by name. The dean of the Law School, Mary Lu Bilek, sent a note before the current season of “Homeland” was broadcast to faculty and students touting Mr. Kassem’s involvement and his directorship of both the Clear project and the Immigrant and Rights Clinic. Mr. Kassem said he was paid a standard fee, but declined to say how much that was. Last week, the Clear clinic earned a settlement in its lawsuit brought with the American Civil Liberties Union against the New York Police Department for its unwarranted surveillance of Muslims. And on March 1, Mr. Kassem represented four citizens or green card holders who claimed that by refusing to cooperate with the government, they were put on a federal No Fly list, causing lost wages. “This takes us one step towards establishing the law,” he said in court, “so in the future, agents will not overstep boundaries. ” Mr. Gansa said that he can hear Mr. Kassem’s cadence in Mr. Sabongui’s performance, though Mr. Sabongui, in an interview, laughed and said he did not intend to do a “biopic on Ramzi Kassem. ” The two met before the season and discovered they had a bit in common, each speaking French, Arabic and English. Mr. Sabongui, 42, grew up in Montreal, the son of Egyptian parents who are Coptic Christian. Mr. Kassem, 38, was born in Beirut, and grew up in several countries in the Middle East. He earned a law degree from the Sorbonne after graduating with both an undergraduate and law degree from Columbia University. “When we first met, Ramzi and I would both drop a couple of bars of Arabic, just to see, ‘what’s your accent? What’s your dialect?’ Then we did the same thing in French,” Mr. Sabongui, 42, said. “That moment felt like a moment of home. ” Mr. Kassem brought Mr. Sabongui to his favorite Senegalese coffee shop, Les Ambassades in Harlem, where he spoke to his fellow regulars in French, holding court. During the filming of a jail scene, at the Westchester County Correctional Facility in Valhalla, N. Y. Mr. Kassem was just as commanding. “He just took over the set,” Mr. Gansa said, “he showed us exactly what the lawyer would be doing, exactly where the meeting would take place, who would be waiting for whom. It made it feel verisimilar in a way we never could have done on our own. ” Mr. Kassem first became involved in defending against government overreach shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when Muslims were being investigated and detained in New York. He works with clients detained at Guantánamo, as well as whose passports were revoked and leads Know Your Rights sessions with his students. “It’s personal, it’s not just a principled impulse,” Mr. Kassem said. “I grew up in wartime in different places in the Middle East where there was a complete absence of any kind of order or fairness or justice, or in other countries that were under authoritarian rule. ” In working with the “Homeland” producers, Mr. Kassem approached it as his duty to change the Muslim narrative. He gave them all homework. He sent the writers the case of four men in Newburgh, N. Y. convicted of attempting to blow up synagogues in the Bronx in what originated as a government sting operation. He also included the sentencing statement of Tarek Mehanna, an Muslim convicted of conspiring to provide material support for terrorists. Mr. Mehanna watched jihadi videos and expressed his views online. Citing history lessons he learned as a student in suburban Boston, he said he had only exercised his First Amendment rights. In the fictional case of Sekou Bah, “we really pushed the limits of protected speech and how much protected speech we could tolerate in the age of terror,” Mr. Gansa said. He added of Mr. Kassem: “It’s not to say that we always agreed with him, or we always took his advice. ” Mr. Gansa said he also spoke with New York Police Department counterterrorism officers who worked with the unit that conducted surveillance in Muslim communities. Although it did not end well for Mr. Bah in Episode 4, he seemed to be a pawn in a much more sinister governmental game. If Mr. Kassem wanted to leave “Homeland” executives with one message, it was that the show had a social responsibility because judges and juries and prosecutors all watch. “That idea really resonated for us and we wanted to get it right,” Mr. Gansa said. “And in a way, Ramzi laid down a marker and we tried to honor it. ” | 0fake |
Factbox: Key court cases shed light on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch | (Reuters) - Neil Gorsuch has taken part in more than 2,000 court cases as an appeals court judge. Here are seven that offer insights into his legal views as he faces questioning this week in a U.S. Senate hearing on his nomination to become a Supreme Court justice. Frozen trucker Transam Trucking Inc v. Department of Labor, 2016 (bit.ly/2aUK2Ub) This case shows, liberals say, that Gorsuch rules for employers at the expense of workers. In it, he dissented from a three-judge panel that ruled in favor of truck driver Alphonse Maddin. He was fired after he disobeyed a supervisor and abandoned his trailer at roadside after its brakes froze. The panel ruled he was wrongly terminated. Gorsuch disagreed. ‘Chevron deference’ Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch (2016) (bit.ly/2bLfVgE) In an immigration case, Gorsuch criticized the “Chevron deference” legal doctrine that says courts should defer to federal agencies on interpreting the law. Gorsuch said it concentrates federal power “in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution.” If the court were to roll back the doctrine, presidents would have less leeway to interpret the law when issuing regulations through agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency. ‘Class clown’ A.M. v Holmes, 2016 (bit.ly/29VN4Jy) Republicans say Gorsuch does not put politics above the law and follows his own path. In some criminal cases, he has come down hard on prosecutors or government officials, while also sometimes defying colleagues on the bench. In this case, he decried the handcuffing and arrest of a seventh-grade “class clown” in Albuquerque who refused to stop burping in class, saying the police officer involved should not have gotten immunity from suit. Paraphrasing Charles Dickens, he said the law is not as much of an “ass” as to allow for that. ‘No trespassing’ U.S. v Carloss 2016 (bit.ly/2nLGzw3) Standing up for homeowners’ property rights, Gorsuch dissented from a decision to admit evidence discovered by police officers who approached, and later entered, a home despite several “No trespassing” signs outside. He lampooned the idea that the government can knock on anyone’s door, at any time, saying homeowners might be surprised to learn that “No trespassing signs have become little more than lawn art.” Transgender rights Druley v Patton (2015) (bit.ly/2ntFcEV) In a ruling highlighted by liberal activists as a sign he may be hostile to gay and transgender rights, Gorsuch joined a ruling against a transgender Oklahoma state prisoner who claimed prison officials violated her rights by denying her adequate hormone therapy and housing her with men. The court rejected her claims, saying she had not proved she would be “irreparably harmed without her requested hormone treatment.” Employee rights Hwang v. Kansas State University, 2014 (bit.ly/SsXD8J) In a case criticized by liberals, Gorsuch wrote the opinion when a three-judge panel ruled against Kansas State University professor Grace Hwang. She got six months of sick leave from the school when she was diagnosed with cancer. When she asked for more time, Kansas State refused. Hwang alleged illegal disability discrimination. Gorsuch said Hwang was a capable teacher and was legally disabled. But he wrote: “There’s also no question she wasn’t able to perform the essential functions of her job even with a reasonable accommodation.” He said the law was not intended to “turn employers into safety net providers for those who cannot work.” Hwang has since died. Religious freedom Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius, 2013 (bit.ly/2func5k) Liberals say this case shows Gorsuch sides with corporations over people and favors religious liberty over other interests, including womens’ contraceptive rights. Retailer Hobby Lobby argued it should not have to provide insurance coverage for female employees’ birth control, defying a rule by the administration of former President Barack Obama. Gorsuch concurred in an opinion favoring the company and expressed sympathy for evangelical Christian business owners. The Supreme Court later upheld the decision for the company. | 0fake |
Celebrating GLOBAL GRACE DAY, November 9, 2016 | Celebrating GLOBAL GRACE DAY, November 9, 2016 As every year, we celebrate the Global Grace Day on this November 9, 2016. First “Global Grace Day” at the Separation Wall in Israel-Palestine, November 9, 2005 By Dieter Duhm / terranovavoice.tamera.org
As every year, we celebrate the Global Grace Day on this November 9, 2016. It is a day of taking a decision for a future worth living. Its date reminds us of November 9, 1938, when Hitler Germany began its first massive attack against German Jews in what was called “Kristallnacht” or the “Night of Broken Glass.” Yet this date also reminds us of November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall was opened. The external wall that was overcome back then now also needs to be overcome within people so that we can find a way out of the unspeakable suffering people currently inflict on each other around the world. People shooting each other, intentionally killing one another – this does not belong to the plan of a humane world. Our goal is a world without war, without weapons and without fear.
First of all, immense gratitude to all those who are offering assistance in this world gone astray; gratitude to all peace workers, all communities and organizations working to support the many people currently fleeing, those that need to persevere in camps without protection, hungry and cold, those that are trapped in war zones (e.g. Mosul, Aleppo) without any prospect for help, those that cross the Mediterranean Sea in crowded dinghies and those that mourn their lost relatives. It is an unending suffering on all continents. Many volunteers travel from hotspot to hotspot trying relieve a kind of distress that can no longer be relieved. We need another solution if want to provide sustainable, lasting help. What could it consist of?
We need a new foundation for human coexistence. The relationship among people is the greatest crisis of our times. The morphogenetic field of war currently dominating this planet needs to be replaced by a new morphogenetic field of peace. The solution consists in creating new fields of life which the existing world of war cannot integrate, for they are anchored in the universal order, the field of the “Sacred Matrix.” This field arises when we create new communities that manifest the fundamental values of life – solidarity, compassion, love and mutual support. Liberating sexuality and the love between the genders from all false restrictions and prejudices, renouncing lies and forevermore ending all forms of sexual violence belong to the work of these communities as well.
“Sexpeace” is a key for healing. If truth, trust and love enter at the core issue of erotic love, the entire superstructure of society will change. A different relation to life develops (“re-ligio”), a new relation to animals and all beings. We experience this in Tamera on a daily basis. There is a power greater than all violence. This is the power of communities, which focus in total trust on a common goal for the future and are, while doing so, connected with the inner laws of objective ethics. They can no longer be corrupted nor governed. The power stronger than all violence – this is profound trust among people. Where there is trust, higher powers assist us as well.
In this spirit, we work on the global Healing Biotopes Project . All groups working for peace are warmly invited to join this network. In the name of love for all that lives. 0.0 · | 1real |
FAKE NEWS! MAXINE WATERS and JOY REID Make Outrageous Claims Against President Trump “Will make sure poor people aren’t getting too much from government” | 1real | |
Pakistani army says it has acted against militants including Haqqani network | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has taken action against all Islamist militants including the Haqqani network, the army spokesman said on Monday hours ahead of a U.S. announcement on Afghan policy that could herald a tougher stance towards Islamabad. “There are no terrorist hideouts in Pakistan. We have operated against all terrorists, including (the) Haqqani network,” spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor told a media briefing in Islamabad. He said evidence to that effect was shared with General Joseph Votel, chief of the U.S. Central Command, who visited Pakistan over the weekend. U.S. officials say Afghan’s Islamist Taliban insurgents and the allied Haqqani network, deemed the most lethal Afghan militant group, are supported by elements of Pakistan’s military and top intelligence agency, a charge Islamabad denies. U.S. President Donald Trump was expected in an address to the nation due at 0100 GMT to address the future of relations with Islamabad, part of a review of policy on the protracted war in neighboring Afghanistan. With Taliban insurgent forces no nearer to defeat after more than 15 years of conflict, Trump was likely to announce a modest increase in U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan, a senior administration official said. “As regard to U.S. policy, and even if it comes with certain coercive, you know, announcements, Pakistan shall do whatever is best in the national interest,” Ghafoor said. Votel met Pakistan’s army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, and on Saturday toured the Waziristan area that was long the base of local and foreign militants along the Afghan border, where Pakistan’s military waged a campaign to drive them out. Washington and Islamabad have at times had a rocky relationship, including over the secret U.S. raid inside Pakistan in 2011 that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Relations have been under scrutiny in Trump’s lengthy review of a new strategy and troop levels in the fight against the Taliban and other Islamist militants in Afghanistan. | 0fake |
CNN Panel On Melania’s Cyberbullying Stance: ‘Talk To Your Husband’ (VIDEO) | The wife of a cyberbully spoke today about what she would take on as First Lady if her husband is elected. Melania Trump wants to take on Internet bullies because our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, she said. We must treat each other with respect and kindness, even when we disagree, she added.It was as if Mrs. Trump has never seen Mr. Trump s Twitter timeline or heard his disparaging remarks about women, Mexicans, Muslims, blacks, people with disabilities and prisoners of war.On Twitter, the racist Alt-Right movement which backs Trump has coordinated to bully people off of the social site. Anyone who is active on that site, especially females, knows this is true.A CNN panel reacted to Melania s big speech today in disbelief. The irony in Mrs. Trump s speech was as thick as her husband s head.Brooke Baldwin noted that Donald Trump has attacked a lot of people and just not on Twitter. He has disparaged Heidi Cruz s appearance.Dana Bash said, Actually hearing the words out of her mouth, all I kept thinking was Have you met Donald Trump? Maybe you should talk to your husband, Bash said, about the example that he has set on this issue. Watch:We remember when Donald mocked a reporter s physical disability. When he mocked Sen. John McCain for being a prisoner of war while in captivity for 5 years in North Vietnam. McCain s captors slammed a rifle butt into his right shoulder and after being moved to a camp, he was tortured.By the way, Donald Trump received multiple deferments to avoid the Vietnam War. As a bit of irony, McCain supports Trump s bid for the White House. It s almost as if he s in captivity again.So does Ted Cruz, who lost his spine and conscience recently. After insulting Ted Cruz s wife, the Texas Senator also joined Team Trump.Hey guys, we know you ve met Donald Trump. And so has Melania. What we re saying here is that Melania is so full of shit, we re going to have to put a toilet flush on her jaw.Image via screen capture. | 1real |
Shoot-out between Colombia rebels kills 13, government says | BOGOTA (Reuters) - Thirteen people, including civilians, were killed during a confrontation between Colombia s ELN rebels and dissidents from the now-demobilized FARC guerrilla group in a remote area known for drug trafficking, the country s ombudsman said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Nov. 27 in the southwestern Narino region, a place where crime gangs and rebel groups are known to grow, process and smuggle coca, the base ingredient in cocaine. A hard-won peace accord was agreed with the now-disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group last year, ending some five decades of war. But an array of FARC dissidents, National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, right-wing ex-paramilitaries and crime gangs are still active in Colombia, competing for control of lucrative illegal mines and drug trafficking routes. In Narino, fighters from the ELN attacked members of the Rural Resistance, ombudsmen Carlos Alfonso Negret said in a report. The Rural Resistance are FARC dissidents who refused to demobilize following the peace deal. The ombudsman s office visited the area and was able to determine that there was an exchange of fire between the group that calls itself Rural Resistance and the ELN, Negret told journalists. There was crossfire that killed 13 people. Neither the report nor Negret specified how many of the dead were civilians. More than 11,000 fighters and collaborators from the FARC handed over their weapons this year as part of the peace accord. The group has kept its initials in its reincarnation as a political party. But Negret says some 800 former guerrillas did not demobilize, while other security sources and thinktanks put the number of dissident ex-FARC at between 700 and 1,300. The ELN and the government began their first ever bilateral ceasefire in October, part of peace talks taking place in Ecuador. The ceasefire is set to run through Jan. 9 and may be extended. The incident was a violation of the ceasefire, Negret said. It is the second act of violence which has overshadowed the ceasefire, after the ELN admitted to killing an indigenous leader in restive Choco province. | 0fake |
TRUMP’S STATEMENT On Muslim Immigration Is Spot On: “We have no choice!” [Video] | Donald Trump: With fifty people dead and perhaps more ultimately and dozens more wounded we cannot afford to talk around issues anymore. We have to address these issues head on. I called for a ban after San Bernardino and it was met with great scorn and anger. And now many are saying although the pause is temporary we must find out what is going on. We have to do it. | 1real |
U.S. challenged by rising North Korea tensions, Russia urges calm | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia urged hot heads to calm down on Friday as the United States admitted it felt challenged by North Korea s warning that it could test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific and President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un traded more insults. Trump called the North Korean leader a madman on Friday, a day after Kim dubbed him a mentally deranged U.S. dotard who would face the highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history in retaliation for Trump saying the U.S. would totally destroy North Korea if it threatened the U.S. or its allies. We have to calm down the hot heads, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters at the United Nations, where world leaders gathered this week for the annual U.N. General Assembly. We continue to strive for the reasonable and not the emotional approach...of the kindergarten fight between children. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expressed hope in an interview with ABC that sanctions and voices from every corner of the world could lead North Korea back to talks, but admitted intensifying rhetoric had left Washington quite challenged. North Korea s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, warned on Thursday that Kim could consider a hydrogen bomb test of an unprecedented scale over the Pacific. Ri, who is due to speak to the United Nations on Saturday, added that he did not know Kim s exact thoughts. In response, Tillerson said U.S. diplomatic efforts would continue but all military options were still on the table. North Korea s six nuclear tests to date have all been underground, and experts say an atmospheric test, which would be the first since one by China in 1980, would be proof of the success of its weapons program. A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington was taking Kim s threat seriously and added that any atmospheric test would be a game-changer. But he said there were questions about North Korea s technical capabilities and Washington did not give too much credence to Pyongyang taking such action. There s a certain amount of bluster that s taken for granted when you re dealing with North Korea, the official told Reuters. Pyongyang conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sept. 3 and has launched dozens of missiles this year as it accelerates a program aimed at enabling it to target the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile. Lavrov on Friday again pushed a proposal by Moscow and Beijing for a dual suspension of North Korean weapons tests and the U.S.-South Korean military drills to kick-start talks. Lavrov suggested that a neutral European country could mediate. He described the exchange of insults between the U.S. and North Korean leaders was quite bad, unacceptable. U.S. Treasury and gold prices rose while the Japanese yen strengthened on Friday as the exchange of barbs fueled geopolitical jitters and drove investors into assets considered safer during times of turmoil. The latest round of rhetoric began on Tuesday when Trump, in his first address to the United Nations, made the threat to destroy North Korea, a country of 26 million people. He also called Kim a rocket man on a suicide mission. His remarks ... have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last, Kim said in the statement carried by the North s official KCNA news agency on Friday, promising to make Trump pay dearly for his speech. South Korea said it was the first direct statement of its kind by a North Korean leader. Japan, the only country to suffer an atomic attack, called the North Korean threat to conduct an atmospheric test totally unacceptable . Trump on Friday tweeted: Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before. The White House said on Friday that Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in had agreed to Seoul s acquisition and development of highly advanced military assets and to increased deployment of U.S. strategic assets in and around South Korea on a rotational basis. It did not name specific weapons systems. On Thursday Trump announced new U.S. sanctions that he said allows the targeting of companies and institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea. Then when asked if diplomacy was still a possible, he said: Why not? The additional sanctions on Pyongyang, including on its shipping and trade networks, showed Trump was giving more time for economic pressure to weigh on North Korea. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said banks doing business in North Korea would not be allowed to operate in the United States. KCNA also published rare criticism of official Chinese media, saying comments on North Korea s nuclear program had damaged ties and suggested Beijing, its neighbor and only major ally, had sided with Washington. KCNA said Chinese media was openly resorting to interference in the internal affairs of another country and driving a wedge between the two countries. China s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said: All relevant sides should exercise restraint and dedicate themselves to easing the situation rather than irritating each other. The rhetoric has started to rattle some in other countries. French Sports Minister Laura Flessel said France s team would not travel to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea if its security could not be guaranteed. The 2018 Games are to be staged in Pyeongchang, just 80 km (50 miles) from the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, the world s most heavily armed border. (Corrects typographical error to dual in paragraph 12.) | 0fake |
Chris Christie Bolsters Political Team as Allies Launch Super PAC | New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is bulking up his political team in preparation for a likely presidential bid, adding three veteran operatives who played senior roles in George W. Bush’s re-election.
The Christie team is expanding its political operation as his allies launch a super PAC to raise large sums from wealthy supporters in order to advertise and conduct voter outreach on behalf of the New Jersey governor, in what most expect to be a prolonged and expensive nominating fight. | 0fake |
Donald Trump Endorses Paul Ryan and John McCain in Bid for G.O.P. Unity - The New York Times | GREEN BAY, Wis. — Donald J. Trump belatedly endorsed the of Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senators John McCain and Kelly Ayotte on Friday, moving to heal a deepening rift within the Republican Party touched off by Mr. Trump’s feud with the parents of a slain American soldier. “I support and endorse our speaker of the House, Paul Ryan,” Mr. Trump said at a rally here after announcing his backing of the senators. “He’s a good man. We may disagree on a couple of things, but mostly we agree. ” Mr. Trump ignited a controversy within his party on Tuesday when he said he was not “quite there yet” in supporting Mr. Ryan, echoing a similar line of doubt that Mr. Ryan, the nation’s most powerful elected Republican, had cast before eventually endorsing Mr. Trump for president. The endorsement on Friday, in Mr. Ryan’s home state, Wisconsin, had the rollout of a carefully crafted campaign event. A email was sent to supporters immediately after Mr. Trump’s announcement. Moments later, subscribers to Trump campaign texts received an alert that said, “Party unity will help Make America Great Again. ” He read the endorsement from a script. But before he got to those words, he spent several minutes in the mode he is known for. He predicted that the Green Bay Packers would have a strong season, excoriated Hillary Clinton and argued that the news media had misconstrued his suggestion at a previous event that a crying baby be escorted out. “The baby that had a voice that was superior to Pavarotti,” he said, adding, “I want to sponsor that baby. ” Mr. Trump turned the speech into a trifecta. He threw his support to Ms. Ayotte, who is facing a tight race in New Hampshire to retain her Senate seat. Mr. Ryan and Mr. McCain, an Arizona senator, are also up for beginning with primaries next week. “I need a Republican Senate and a House to accomplish all of the change we have to make,” Mr. Trump said. He added, “I understand and embrace the wisdom of Ronald Reagan’s big tent within the party. ” “Big, big tent,” he said. “Remember?” He paused to ask the Democrats in the crowd to raise their hands. Hardly anyone made a sound. Mr. Trump, looking unimpressed, offered that he did not need Democrats anyway. With the speech, Mr. Trump sought to move past a tumultuous week that began with his disparaging members of a Gold Star military family who had spoken out against him at the Democratic National Convention. Mr. Trump’s remarks drew rebukes from many Republicans, including Mr. Ryan, Mr. McCain and Ms. Ayotte, and set the course for the next few days. He caused a tempest with his remarks regarding Mr. Ryan and another with repeated proclamations about viewing a “secret tape” that showed Iran receiving pallets of cash from the United States. Perhaps signaling that he was in a forgiving and unifying mood, Mr. Trump on Friday morning issued a rare admission of an error, explaining on Twitter that the footage he had thought was a secret tape was instead a widely shown clip of American prisoners arriving in Geneva after being released by Iran. His squabbling with Mr. Ryan and the senators threatened to further splinter Mr. Trump’s relationship with the party and infuriated many officials, including Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, publicly, but peacefully, disagreed with him and backed Mr. Ryan. Mr. Priebus had made clear he hoped that Mr. Trump would get behind Mr. Ryan and the senators but told the nominee that he had to make the decision on his own. The endorsement of Mr. Ryan is unlikely to assuage some Republicans who are concerned by the combative Trump campaign and have grown frustrated that the controversies have made it more difficult to focus on Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic nominee. On Friday, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio told CNN that he was considering voting Democratic for the first time. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” Mr. Kasich said in response to a question on the possibility that he would not vote for a Republican for president. He added: “I wish that I could be fully enthusiastic. I can’t be. So I don’t know what’s going to happen at the end. ” In Wisconsin, a battleground state where Mr. Trump lost a primary decisively to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and endured unrelenting criticism from local conservative radio hosts, the speaker of the State House of Representatives greeted Mr. Trump with an open letter to fellow Republicans, saying, “We are Ryan Republicans here in Wisconsin, not Trump Republicans. ” “As Donald Trump has said stupid things and been rude to so many people over the past year, I usually chalked it up to inexperience and the spotlight of an incredibly hostile press,” the speaker, Robin Vos, wrote. “But since the convention, his lack of judgment has got to concern even the most ardent Trump supporters. ” And less than an hour before Mr. Trump took the stage, Mr. Ryan gave an interview to WISN, a Milwaukee radio station, offering more criticism of the presidential nominee. “I hope he doesn’t keep doing things like this and distort conservative principles that we have to defend,” Mr. Ryan told the station. He said he had not “changed anything” with regard to his support of Mr. Trump, but added: “I wish he would be a little more disciplined. What I say to him privately and what I’ve said publicly is Hillary Clinton is the one to focus on, not another Republican, not a private citizen criticizing you. ” Mr. Trump made his endorsement after striking notes of unity on Friday afternoon at a rally in Des Moines. He praised Mr. Priebus, saying he was doing a “fantastic job,” and complimented Mr. Pence, who was on the campaign trail with him for the first time since they had taken divergent positions on Mr. Ryan’s primary campaign. “If you don’t like me, that’s O. K.,” Mr. Trump told the Iowa crowd. “Vote for Pence because it’s the same thing. ” Mr. Trump also focused his message in Des Moines on Mrs. Clinton, peppering his remarks with extended riffs and insult lines against her and President Obama. “She is pretty close to unhinged,” Mr. Trump said, criticizing Mrs. Clinton’s immigration and foreign policy positions, in particular with regard to Iran. He also floated a conspiracy theory that the National Security Agency had the 33, 000 deleted emails from Mrs. Clinton’s account (there is no record, report or indication that this is true). “Does N. S. A. have them? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said. “Some people have been saying that, that the N. S. A. has them. ” The Clinton campaign has been quick to seize on Mr. Trump’s recent controversies. At a rally Friday afternoon in Milwaukee, the Democratic nominee, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, took aim at Mr. Trump for withholding endorsements of Mr. Ryan and Mr. McCain. “While we’ve been talking about jobs, Donald Trump has been going after a family of a war hero, or Donald Trump has been going after fellow Republicans and talking about why he won’t endorse them in their primaries,” Mr. Kaine said. “We’re talking about jobs, and Donald Trump is basically shadowboxing with every enemy he can think of instead of talking about what Americans want to talk about. ” | 0fake |
Victorious Obama Schools GOP War-Mongers: Breakthrough With Iran Based On ‘Smart’ Diplomacy (VIDEO) | While Republicans continue to reveal their true colors by openly complaining about the release of American prisoners in Iran, President Obama is using his latest diplomatic success to teach his critics a lesson in what effective leadership really looks like.Obama had deliberately waited to talk about the hostage exchange until the American prisoners were out of Iran and safe, but upon news that the swap was a success and that the United Nations had certified that Iran was upholding its end of a landmark nuclear disarmament deal, the White House held a press conference that quickly turned into a teachable moment for those who had irresponsibly advocated for war over diplomacy. This is a good day, because once again we re seeing what s possible with strong American diplomacy, Obama said at the White House. Yesterday marked a milestone in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, he noted. Most of important of all, we achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. And yet, somebody might want to tell the Republican Party that a victory like this without a single shot fired is considered a good thing. The friends at Fox and Friends were practically despondent when they had to tell their audience that the American prisoners in Iran were coming home.A good day for America is a bad one for Fox.Obama s negotiations were a massive blow to their narrative.For years, Republicans have insisted that the only way to get Iran to listen to the United States is through threats of war. Infamously, Republican Sen. John McCain ran for president on the platform of bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran. Even now, certain conservatives regret not being able to send troops into another Middle Eastern conflict. War is a tough addiction to kick.Nobody knows how much Republicans want war than President Obama. He s been boxing out the war-mongers for years. During his comments, he took a dig at those who say war is the only answer.Citing the cooling of tensions with Iran, Obama pointed out that his smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world has yielded results. America can do and has done big things when we work together, Obama said. We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure. But we can only do that if we stop listening to those who think threatening violence will make us look tough. America has tried that approach for decades and the situation with Iran had only been deteriorating. The change in recent months cannot be overstated.The nuclear talks have brought a sense of normalcy to relations with the U.S. and Iran, with top officials from each country in somewhat regular communication. While Obama emphasized that the U.S. continues to have deep concerns about Iran s destabilizing actions in the Middle East and its threats to Israel, he also opened up the prospect of Tehran working more cooperatively with the rest of the world.It s worth noting that those who want war with Iran represent a small minority of Americas mostly Republican politicians and Fox News hosts. It s not a coincidence that McCain s bomb Iran campaign strategy contributed to his being absolutely smoked by Obama s smart, patient and disciplined one in the election. It s also not a big secret that Americans are tired of sending young kids off to die in intractable wars in the Middle East. With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan finally winding down, it s only those in the GOP who seem eager to embark on a new one.If accomplishing America s goals of neutralizing Iran s nuclear program while avoiding war was the goal and for most of the country, it was then this deal represents a massive success for the country. For the bloodthirsty, it probably stings a little. Obama s clearly not sorry.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABl2Aeaycc]Featured image via White House | 1real |
7 Things You Need To Know About Trump Attorney General Pick Jeff Sessions | Daily Wire | 7 Things You Need To Know About Trump Attorney General Pick Jeff Sessions By: Aaron Bandler November 18, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that his selection for attorney general is Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has long been a favorite of conservatives. The Democrats already have the long knives out for Sessions, spit-balling their usual accusations of racism–which should indicate that Sessions will be an effective attorney general.
Here are seven things you need to know about Sessions.
1. Sessions has a 78 percent liberty score on Conservative Review . Sessions has been in the Senate for 20 years, and has been described by the Washington Times as "a tea partier before the tea party was cool," per Conservative Review 's biography .
2. Sessions has been one of the leaders in the Senate in fighting against amnesty. For instance, Sessions was among the most prominent members of the Senate leading the opposition to the Gang of Eight Bill. National Review , which dubbed Sessions "amnesty's worst enemy," explained how Sessions would reveal "true facts" about the bill in an attempt to persuade some senators that hadn't decided how to vote on the legislation. Sessions and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) would find other clever ways to oppose the bill, such as "an amendment to a resolution honoring the late Latino union organizer Cesar Chavez" in which Vitter noted Chavez's opposition to illegal immigration, putting Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) in "an awkward position."
In 2015, Sessions introduced a bill that would overhaul the immigration system, according to Conservative Review : Overturned the Zadvydas v. Davis Supreme Court case that Obama is using as an excuse to release criminal aliens after six months of detention Explicitly deputized the states to enforce federal immigration law Eliminated sanctuary cities by cutting off DHS and DOJ law enforcement grants Expedited deportation of gang members Applied the ramifications of treating illegal aliens as criminal aliens to those convicted of drunk driving Clamped down on loopholes that allow legal immigrants who commit crimes to continue on the path to citizenship instead of getting deported (this would address cases like the legal immigrant who murdered the family in the Washington, D.C. “mansion murders”)
Sessions has also fought efforts to increase legal immigration, as he has railed against it as "the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States."
"What we need now is immigration moderation: slowing the pace of new arrivals so that wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink and the forces of assimilation can knit us all more closely together," Sessions wrote in a 2015 op-ed in the Washington Post .
3. Sessions has also spearheaded efforts to crack down on budgetary issues. According to Conservative Review 's biography of Sessions:
In January 2011, he was named Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee. In this capacity, he led the Republican charge against Majority Leader Harry Reid and Barack Obama for not offering a serious budget proposal, given that the Senate had not passed a budget since April 2009. He has fought guerilla warfare, often a lonely battle, against Democrats spending by raising budget point of orders against the breach of budget caps. He has even fought his own party when his office put out devastating research against the Ryan-Murray budget deal. Sessions has also been a strong leader on welfare reform and publishing studies and data on the extent of the welfare state.
Sessions has voted against the TARP bailout, stimulus bills, and increases to the debt limit and has traveled through his state "with charts warning of the United States' 'crippling' debt," per the Washington Post .
4. Sessions endorsed Trump early on. To the surprise of many in the establishment, Sessions endorsed Trump in February, declaring , "I believe we are on a movement that must not fade away. This is a campaign, this is a movement. The American people are not happy with their government."
It shouldn't have come as a surprise though, given Session's record on immigration and that Sessions tends to be more protectionist on trade.
5. Sessions is well-liked by his Senate colleagues on a personal level. According to the Washington Post :
"Say what you will about him," former longtime Senate Democratic communications aide Jim Manley told the Almanac of American Politics. "He was always nice to [the late Ted] Kennedy and other Democrats as well."
Even people who have run against him have nice things to say about him. Stanley-Becker talked to Susan Parker, a Democrat who tried to unseat Sessions in 2002. During a debate, she asked for a tissue and Sessions handed her one. She joked she would use it to dry her eyes when Sessions made her cry, and he responded: "Please don’t say that. That’s my nightmare. I promise I’ll be nice."
It's no wonder then that Sessions will likely be confirmed by the Senate.
6. Accusations of racism against Sessions are absurd. When President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions, who at the time was a U.S. attorney, to a federal judge, the Democrats smeared Sessions with accusations of racism, which included: Calling a black attorney "boy." Quipping about the Ku Klux Klan: "I used to think they were OK, but they are pot smokers." Joking that a white attorney was "a traitor to his race" because he was collaborating with civil rights groups. Calling the NAACP and ACLU "un-American." Prosecuting a civil rights organization for voter fraud.
The last point isn't racist at all. The jokes, as Ben Shapiro has written , were made "in front of the black lawyer; even the lawyer accusing Sessions of racism acknowledged that Sessions was joking." Clearly Sessions meant them as harmless jokes. Sessions has also denied calling the lawyer "boy." The civil rights group Sessions prosecuted has faced accusations of voter fraud for many years.
Sessions' record on race actually shows that he has consistently fought against racism, as The Weekly Standard 's Mark Hemingway writes:
As a U.S. Attorney he filed several cases to desegregate schools in Alabama. And he also prosecuted the head of the state Klan, Henry Francis Hays, for abducting and killing Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random. Sessions insisted on the death penalty for Hays. When he was later elected the state Attorney General, Sessions followed through and made sure the Hays executed. The successful prosecution of Hays also led to a $7 million civil judgment against the Klan, effectively breaking the back of the KKK in Alabama.
7. As attorney general, Sessions would uphold the rule of law. The reason why Sessions has been such an immigration hawk is that he supports the rule of law. He has also fought against judicial activist nominees and is a strong supporter of the death penalty. Between that and his legal background as a U.S. attorney and Alabama attorney general, there is every reason to believe that Sessions will follow the law and not politicize the Justice Department.
"His interpretation of the law will not please everyone, but I predict it will be fairly applied without fear or favor," Robert Driscoll , former deputy assistant attorney general, wrote in National Review . "Clear cases will be prosecuted with vigor. Creative interpretations of the law may cease, but the meat-and-potatoes work of the division (intentional discrimination, police misconduct, disability law) will continue apace, conducted without impropriety or political favoritism. That alone will be a breath of fresh air." Tags | 1real |
Houston port continues salvage efforts to recover from Harvey damage | HOUSTON (Reuters) - Salvage efforts continued on Monday to remove a sunken drydock in an industrial portion of the Houston Ship Channel, home to major oil refineries and petrochemical plants, officials said. Port operations across the U.S. Gulf Coast oil and gas industry are slowly coming back, in many cases with restrictions on vessel draft, according to U.S. Coast Guard updates. It was unclear on Monday when the sunken drydock near Brady Island in the upper shipping channel would be cleared, said Alberto Hernandez, a watch supervisor at the Coast Guard’s Vessel Traffic Service in Houston. “There is no timeframe” for removing the drydock debris, he said. The area affected is the main stem of the ship channel. “This is the main port of Houston City Docks, they are blocked due to these salvage operations,” he said. The storm dumped as much as 50-inches of rainfall over the Gulf Coast, forcing officials to close or restriction operations at ports from Corpus Christi to Lake Charles, Louisiana. It is unclear when the drydock will be cleared from the Houston Ship Channel, which links the busiest petrochemical port to the Gulf of Mexico, and restrictions in that area of the channel lifted, said Alberto Hernandez, a watch supervisor at the U.S. Coast Guard. He said the Houston shipping channel is open to just past Exxon Mobil Corp’s Baytown refinery to vessels up to a 40-foot draft. Hernandez said there were ships exiting and entering the channel on Monday. | 0fake |
Awesome New App Helps Make Sure We All Continue To Hurt The Trump Brand As Much As Possible | We re all now living with the horrifying reality that on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. While there is nothing we can do about that, what we CAN do is make our collective displeasure with Trump and all he stands for heard loud and clear: By voting with our wallets.An anti-Trump group, Democratic Coalition Against Trump, has put out an app for both Apple and Android devices that keeps a handy running list not just of brands that belong to Trump and his family, but also of businesses that support the Trump brand, as well as those who helped this orange buffoon get elected. The group says of the app, via Executive Director Nate Lemur: This app is a first step in our larger Boycott Trump campaign, which will feature a unified grassroots movement centered on holding companies and individuals that help Trump in any way accountable,The campaign is all about empowerment By doing so we aim to give people a safe and productive way to voice their disapproval of Trump. We ve accepted Trump won the election but that doesn t mean we have to accept everything he stands for. That s not all, either. The group also has drawn up a list of organizations that will be supporting groups that Trump and his rag tag team of bigots are sure to attack during the next four years. You can download the Apple version of the app here, and the Android version here.Also, remember to follow feeds of progressive organizations on Twitter to keep up with the latest ways to join the resistance against Trump s authoritarian plans. America is counting on all of us to speak truth to power, and to not normalize this unthinkable reality. If we all band together, we just might survive the next four years.Featured image via Drew Angerer/Getty Images | 1real |
Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense | Written by Ron Paul Sunday November 13, 2016 In a disturbing indication of how difficult it would be to bring military spending in line with actual threats overseas, House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R – TX) told President Obama last week that his war funding request of $11.6 billion for the rest of the year was far too low. That figure for the last two months of 2016 is larger than Spain’s budget for the entire year! And this is just a “war-fighting” supplemental, not actual “defense” spending! More US troops are being sent to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere and the supplemental request is a way to pay for them without falling afoul of the “sequestration” limits.The question is whether this increase in US military activity and spending overseas actually keeps us safer, or whether it simply keeps the deep state and the military-industrial complex alive and well-funded.Unfortunately many Americans confuse defense spending with military spending. The two terms are used almost interchangeably. But there is a huge difference. I have always said that I wouldn’t cut anything from the defense budget. We need a robust defense of the United States and it would be foolish to believe that we have no enemies or potential enemies.The military budget is something very different from the defense budget. The military budget is the money spent each year not to defend the United States, but to enrich the military-industrial complex, benefit special interests, regime-change countries overseas, maintain a global US military empire, and provide defense to favored allies. The military budget for the United States is larger than the combined military spending budget of the next seven or so countries down the line.To get the military budget in line with our real defense needs would require a focus on our actual interests and a dramatic decrease in spending. The spending follows the policy, and the policy right now reflects the neocon and media propaganda that we must run the rest of the world or there will be total chaos. This is sometimes called “American exceptionalism,” but it is far from a “pro-American” approach.Do we really need to continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars manipulating elections overseas? Destabilizing governments that do not do as Washington tells them? Rewarding those who follow Washington’s orders with massive aid and weapons sales? Do we need to continue the endless war in Afghanistan even as we discover that Saudi Arabia had far more to do with 9/11 than the Taliban we have been fighting for a decade and a half? Do we really need 800 US military bases in more than 70 countries overseas? Do we need to continue to serve as the military protection force for our wealthy NATO partners even though they are more than capable of defending themselves? Do we need our CIA to continue to provoke revolutions like in Ukraine or armed insurgencies like in Syria?If the answer to these questions is “yes,” then I am afraid we should prepare for economic collapse in very short order. Then, with our economy in ruins, we will face the wrath of those countries overseas which have been in the crosshairs of our interventionist foreign policy. If the answer is no, then we must work to convince our countrymen to reject the idea of Empire and embrace the United States as a constitutional republic that no longer goes abroad seeking monsters to slay. The choice is ours. Copyright © 2016 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given. | 1real |
State Dept. IDs 2 Americans killed in Nepal quake; 2 others reportedly dead | The State Department identified two Americans who died in Nepal’s devastating earthquake, and reported two more dead Monday, as the death toll rose past 4,000 and survivors dug through the rubble of their villages seeking shelter and food.
Saturday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake triggered an avalanche that buried part of the Mount Everest base camp, killing 18 people, including foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts at the world’s tallest peak.
At least four Americans died in the quake, all at the Mount Everest base camp the State Department said Monday. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke identified two of the American victims as Ely Taplin and Vinh B. Truong.
Two others haven't been named yet, either because consular officials haven't confirmed their identities or next of kin haven't been notified.
“We express our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of those who died,” Rathke told reporters. He said the State Department was fielding hundreds of calls from Americans asking for assistance and concerned about the safety of loved ones in Nepal.
“We are supplementing our embassy staff to better respond to U.S. citizens and liaison with the Nepal government,” Rathke said.
In addition to the more than 4,000 dead in Nepal, another 61 people were killed in neighboring India, and China reported that 20 people had died in Tibet.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of families slept outdoors for a second night, fearful of aftershocks that have not ceased. Camped in parks, open squares and a golf course, they cuddled children or pets against chilly Himalayan nighttime temperatures.
"It's overwhelming. It's too much to think about," said 55-year-old Bijay Nakarmi, mourning his parents, whose bodies were recovered from the rubble of what once was a three-story building.
Reports received so far by the government and aid groups suggest that many communities perched on mountainsides are devastated or struggling to cope as they search for lost loved ones, sort through rubble for their belongings, and try to find food and shelter for their families.
Lila Mani Poudyal, the government's chief secretary and the rescue coordinator, said the recovery was slow because many workers -- water tanker drivers, electricity company employees and laborers needed to clear debris -- "are all gone to their families and staying with them, refusing to work."
World Vision aid worker Matt Darvas reached Nepal's Gorkha district -- the epicenter of Saturday's powerful quake -- early Monday afternoon. He said almost no aid had reached there ahead of him.
"It does not seem aid is reaching here very quickly," Darvas told the Associated Press by phone from Nepal.
Udav Prashad Timalsina, the top official for the Gorkha district, said he was in desperate need of help. "There are people who are not getting food and shelter. I've had reports of villages where 70 percent of the houses have been destroyed," Timalsina he said.
He said 223 people had been confirmed dead in the district, but he presumed "the number would go up because there are thousands who are injured." Landslides and other destruction delayed attempts to reach the district earlier, but Gorkha is feared to have extensive damage.
"Villages like this are routinely affected by landslides, and it's not uncommon for entire villages of 200, 300, up to 1,000 people to be completely buried by rock falls," Darvas said. "It will likely be helicopter access only."
"Further north from here the reports are very disturbing," Darvas reported. He says up to 75 percent of the buildings in Singla may have collapsed and the village, a two-day walk away, has been out of contact since Saturday night.
Local officials lost contact with military and police who set out for Singla, and Darvas says helicopters have had to turn back because of clouds. He says a few SUVs with foreign tourists bringing basic aid supplies had begun to reach Gorkha by early evening.
Jagdish Pokhrel, the clearly exhausted army spokesman, said nearly the entire 100,000-soldier army was involved in rescue operations. "We have 90 percent of the army out there working on search and rescue," he said. "We are focusing our efforts on that, on saving lives."
Kathmandu district chief administrator Ek Narayan Aryal said tents and water were being handed out Monday at 10 locations in Kathmandu, but that aftershocks were leaving everyone jittery.
"There have been nearly 100 earthquakes and aftershocks, which is making rescue work difficult. Even the rescuers are scared and running because of them," he said.
The capital city is largely a collection of small, poorly constructed brick apartment buildings. But outside of the oldest neighborhoods, many in Kathmandu were surprised by how few modern structures collapsed in the quake.
Emergency aid flights are landing in Nepal, with relief workers from several different countries who will try to locate and rescue victims. But the dire conditions and communication obstacles are adding to the chaos at the small airport in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, where there were major backups on the tarmac.
India's defense ministry says four Indian Air Force planes carrying communication gear, aid supplies and rescue personnel were forced to return to New Delhi today because of airport congestion.
The quake will probably put a huge strain on the resources of this impoverished country best known for Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The economy of Nepal, a nation of 27.8 million people, relies heavily on tourism, principally trekking and Himalayan mountain climbing.
The first nations to respond were Nepal's neighbors -- India, China and Pakistan. Other countries sending support Sunday included the United States, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Israel and Singapore.
An American military plane left Delaware's Dover Air Force Base for Nepal, carrying 70 people, including a disaster-assistance response team and an urban search-and-rescue team, and 45 tons of cargo, the Pentagon said.
The earthquake was the worst to hit the South Asian nation in more than 80 years. It destroyed swaths of the oldest neighborhoods of Kathmandu and was strong enough to be felt across parts of India, Bangladesh, China's region of Tibet and Pakistan.
Nepal's worst recorded earthquake in 1934 measured 8.0 and all but destroyed the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 0fake |
If they could, most Democrats would reelect Obama over Clinton | Print
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President Obama has received higher approval ratings in his final year than he has for most of his presidency. While most voters expect Hillary Clinton to continue many of his policies if she wins, a sizable majority of her current supporters would vote for Obama instead if the rules allowed it.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey shows that 70% of Likely U.S. Voters who support Clinton in the election say they’d vote for Obama if it was a legal option. Just 11% of Republican Donald Trump’s voters agree. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
Among all Likely Voters, 41% say that if Obama was legally allowed to run for a third term in office, they would vote for him over Clinton and Trump. Just over half (52%) still say they would not vote for him in that case.
Earlier this year before the presidential nominees were decided , 31% said they would vote for Obama if he legally could seek a third term, but twice as many (62%) said they would not support him. Those findings were little changed from last year after Obama commented about winning a third term in a speech in Africa. | 1real |
Eric Trump Just Got PUNKED By Latina Sisters Wearing ‘Trump’ Shirts Written In Spanish (IMAGES) | When it comes to the Trump family, one thing is for certain, they love photo opportunities, especially with those who they think may boost the image of the campaign.The Trump campaign knows they re losing, by a lot, with minorities, so any chance they can get to make it look like they re not, they seem to hop on board.Seemingly knowing this, a pair of Latina sisters, Annie and Ceci Cardelle from Salisbury, North Carolina, went to go see Eric Trump as he was out campaigning for his dad in their state.The sisters, ages 23 and 17, are Hillary Clinton supporters, and Annie wore a shirt that read Latina Contra Trump, which of course means Latina Against Trump. However, knowing neither Trump nor his supporters would likely notice this, and maybe thought it read Latina Con Trump which means with the sisters took a chance to take advantage of the moment.Ceci tweeted out: When you protest a Trump rally but no one realizes your shirt says Latinas AGAINST trump so they take pics w/ you like you re supporters. When you protest a Trump rally but no one realizes your shirt says "Latinas AGAINST trump" so they take pics w/ you like you're supporters pic.twitter.com/5ce8SZw5Mh CC (@cecicardelle) October 21, 2016These women are very proud of themselves, as they should be:No one at the rally realized my shirt said AGAINST tr*mp congrats, y'all played yourselves ? ? ? pic.twitter.com/qZ3x1ER8j0 Annie (@AnnieCardelle) October 21, 2016Here are the images the sisters shared on Twitter:via Twittervia Twittervia Twittervia TwitterAccording to Buzzfeed, no one seemed to notice that they were there protesting, which actually makes it all the more amusing and amazing. And Trump didn t take photos with everyone, so the campaign clearly saw it as a photo opportunity.Ceci said: I was sort of in disbelief when they actually called us forward. I was like, This is not happening. There s no way they don t see this shirt. via BuzzfeedAnd while reactions have been mixed, quite honestly these women deserve an award for not only their creativity but their bravery and follow-through.Featured image via Twitter | 1real |
Trump to deport everyone who is not Native American | Trump to deport everyone who is not Native American 14-11-16 PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump has confirmed plans to deport 318 million non-Native American immigrants. As part of a wider plan to restore America’s old values of shamanism, living in cone-shaped tents and going on vision quests, Trump will remove anyone who is less than 50 per cent Native American, including his family and himself. He said: “We have forgotten the tribal values that made this nation great. We have lost our connection with nature and no longer even fear the Wendigo, the mighty shape-shifter who comes with the winds. “By 2017 there will be buffalo back on all the plains, Kevin Costner is going to help me and I will scalp anyone who stands in my way.” Trump voter, Martin Bishop said: “This is exactly what we wanted from Trump. “ Kick all the foreigners out, including me, my wife, kids and everyone I know. It’s Brexit plus plus plus.” He added: “The antelope is my spirit animal.”
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President Makes Surprise Appearance After Super Bowl – And He Has Jokes (VIDEO) | President Obama made a surprise appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert after Super Bowl 50 concluded and didn t come unprepared. While carrying a football with him, he also came with a few jokes as well. Nobody knew he d be on the show, so it was definitely a shock to everyone watching. President Obama: After every Super Bowl, I call the winning team to congratulate them, and sometimes I also call the losing team, especially if I bet on them.Colbert: Sir, I hate to break this to you, but betting is illegal.President Obama: Ehh, I m the president. I hereby pardon myself.Colbert: Okay, fair enough.When he first came on the show via a video feed, it wasn t clear to the audience that the show wasn t being cast live. That soon became very obvious after a few more moments. They actually pre-recorded the interaction an entire week ago.He then made a few jokes about every Super Bowl winner being put on the back of the U.S. Constitution. We re sure a few conservatives out there will take that as an opportunity to take a few jabs at the president for not knowing the Constitution. To them we say, lighten up.Colbert: So, let me get this straght, you don t even know who won the game, sir?President Obama: Of course, I do. It was the Denver Broncos.Colbert: What? If this is a pre-tape, how could you possibly know that?President Obama: Stephen, I am the president and it turns out all the Super Bowl winners for the next 50 years are written on the back of the Constitution. That s the plot of National Treasure 3. After throwing the football to First Lady Michelle Obama, she can be seen doing her very best touchdown dance in a room full of kids. Turns out, Mr. Obama isn t supposed to be throwing footballs in the White House. Mr. President, shame on you.Featured image via screen capture. | 1real |
Cyrus Mistry joins AAP; Tata Sons shortlists candidates for chairman’s post | Cyrus Mistry joins AAP; Tata Sons shortlists candidates for chairman’s post Posted on Tweet (Image via intoday.in)
Ousted Chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry today joined the Aam Aadmi Party. Speaking to the media Cyrus Mistry said, “The media, government, regulators or politicians, no one is supporting me in fighting against the injustice I have faced. Kejriwalji is my only hope. So I joined the AAP.”
Speaking at the occasion, AAP supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said, “Having worked at Tata Steel several years ago, I have firsthand experience of how the board of directors of Tata Sons did not allow me to work. That is the reason I quit Tata Steel.”
“Just like Cyrus Mistry, I also took up the top job in Delhi because there were no other suitable candidate. I empathize with Cyrus Mistry when he says that Ratan Tata did not allow him to do work. In a similar way, Narendra Modi and Najeeb Jung do not allow me to do work in Delhi,” he added.
“Why should someone be fired for choosing to close loss making UK Steel business? First take care of Indians before subsidizing British citizens. Ratan Tata is a British agent. Even AAP does not fire its leaders so fast,” he declared
Meanwhile, our correspondent overheard this discussion between Cyrus Mistry and Rajdeep Sardesai.
Rajdeep Sardesai: So what I understand Mr. Mistry is that you are concerned about the rising intolerance by the majority against the minorities in India?”
Cyrus Mistry: No, I only said that I am concerned about the rising intolerance of the majority shareholders in Tata Sons against minority shareholders like me.
Meanwhile, AAP leader Ashutosh took to Twitter to blast Tata Sons.
“As per Cyrus Mistry, Tata Motors’ Nano plant in Gujarat is making losses. Even industrialists in Gujarat are losing money. Is this the Gujarat Model? Will Modi answer?” he tweeted.
“Cyrus Mistry spoke about risk of impairment in Tata Steal? Will Ratan Tata answer?” read his second tweet.
“Why was Cyrus Mistry not given a free hand to run Tata Suns? Will the Bored answer?” said his third tweet
A source who did not wish to be identified told our correspondent that Tata Sons is also planning to fire Cyrus Mistry from the board of directors and has already found his replacement.
After Ratan Tata asked for a versatile candidate with expertise in several fields and who is not afraid to speak his mind, a consultant suggested the name of Justice Katju. But Ratan Tata was not pleased at the prospect of being called an idiot in a board meeting and so vetoed the proposal. Instead Congress leader Ahmed Patel will be filling this post.
According to our source, the Tata Sons board was very impressed with Ahmed Patel after he told them that rather than abrupt firing, they should have kept planting stories in the media like “Ratan Tata unhappy with Cyrus Mistry’s decision to close down Tata Steel UK Business.”
This along with his ability to effectively manage a family trust and also manage a professional CEO without letting him drift from the group’s ethos and culture earned him a board seat.
Further, according to our source, several names came up during the latest board meeting to pick a new Chairman. Ahmed Patel suggested the name of Dr. Manmohan Singh but Ratan Tata vetoed it saying he wanted a person who could be a brand ambassador for the Tata Group.
Currently, there are 2 persons who are front-runners in the race for Chairman. One is Arvind Kejriwal. Several board members think that he will be a suitable candidate because he can just give speeches, visit offices and be a brand ambassador while the actual work could be left to the board.
Another name doing the round is Chetan Bhagat. Given his IIT, IIM qualifications along with his versatile persona of being an author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker, several board members think he is the perfect candidate for the heavily diversified salt to software conglomerate. Further, he is good with numbers, an area the Tata Group is struggling at this point in time. | 1real |
BREAKING: FORMER FBI DIRECTOR Appointed By Jeff Session’s DOJ For “Russia Probe” | PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST PUT THIS TO BED! The leakers are hopefully going to be exposed now (see statement below) that the DOJ has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller III as special counsel to its investigation into possible Russian interference in our presidential election. The Wall Street Journal reported:Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any investigation related to the 2016 race. Mr. Rosenstein said in a statement that I determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a Special Counsel to assume responsibility of this matter. He cautioned that his decision wasn t the result of a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. He signed the order on Wednesday. Mr. Mueller, a former federal prosecutor, served as FBI director from 2001 through 2013 and has a reputation for independence. Mr. Mueller has been a partner a WilmerHale, a law firm, but is stepping down from his role there to avoid any conflicts of interest, according to the Justice Department.NOTICE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT STATEMENT states that they will investigate related matters which opens up a can of worms for the leakers. They will now be fair game! The President released a statement: | 1real |
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