"The Kellogg Company’s namesake nonprofit, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has given over half a million dollars to the community organizing group Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a pro-open borders group headed by Opal Tometi, one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement."
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Kellogg Foundation Supports Group Headed by Cop-Killer-Loving Black Lives Matter Founder
Kellogg Foundation Supports Group Headed by Cop-Killer-Loving Black Lives Matter Founder:
"The Kellogg Company’s namesake nonprofit, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has given over half a million dollars to the community organizing group Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a pro-open borders group headed by Opal Tometi, one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement."
"The Kellogg Company’s namesake nonprofit, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has given over half a million dollars to the community organizing group Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a pro-open borders group headed by Opal Tometi, one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement."
Facebook Is Relying on Liberal Fact-Checkers
Facebook Is Relying on Liberal Fact-Checkers
In an announcement Thursday, the social media giant said it was going to crack down on fake news through a variety of ways, including letting users report what they deem to be fake news.
"Facebook doesn’t think you know what’s “fake news” and what’s not.
In an announcement Thursday, the social media giant said it was going to crack down on fake news through a variety of ways, including letting users report what they deem to be fake news.
But one item on Facebook’s list of methods to crack down was particularly concerning:
We’ve started a program to work with third-party fact-checking organizations that are signatories of Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Code of Principles. We’ll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations. If the fact-checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why.
When you look at the signatories on the Poynter list, you’ll find seven from the United States: ABC News, The Washington Post, Snopes, Associated Press, FactCheck.org, Climate Feedback, and Politifact.
Aha.
Talk about the devil being in the details. These are hardly unbiased fact-checkers—conservatives have raised alarms about several of them. Let’s go through some examples:..."
Read on!
For What It's Worth
For What It's Worth :: SteynOnline:
"Over the summer, I met a lady from southern Germany who had found herself on the receiving end of some vibrant multicultural outreach from one of Mutti Merkel's boy charmers.
As a result, she no longer goes out after dark.
She had also decided - with reluctance, because she enjoyed it - to cancel her participation in a local Christmas market, where she'd sung carols every year - in broad daylight.
"Over the summer, I met a lady from southern Germany who had found herself on the receiving end of some vibrant multicultural outreach from one of Mutti Merkel's boy charmers.
As a result, she no longer goes out after dark.
She had also decided - with reluctance, because she enjoyed it - to cancel her participation in a local Christmas market, where she'd sung carols every year - in broad daylight.
"Why would you do that?" I asked.
"Because it's Christmas," she said, "and I'm worried Christmas will be a target."
A young boy tried to set off a nail bomb at a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, but the device failed to detonate, prosecutors have confirmed.The boy, a German citizen of Iraqi heritage, attempted to blow up the device at the Ludwigshafen Christmas market on November 26th. When the device failed to detonate he gave up, before trying again on December 5th, prosecutors said on Friday.This time he took the explosive device, hidden in a rucksack filled with nails, and placed it in a bush near the town hall.Fortunately a pedestrian spotted the bag and alerted police, who then had specialists carry out a controlled explosion, Focus magazine reported on Thursday, citing security sources.
Christmas markets are a grand German tradition, but probably not for much longer.
I wake up to stories like this every morning, and I can't write about them all..."
I wake up to stories like this every morning, and I can't write about them all..."
In A Battle Of Wits Against Kellyanne Conway, Josh Earnest Is Unarmed | The Daily Caller
In A Battle Of Wits Against Kellyanne Conway, Josh Earnest Is Unarmed | The Daily Caller:
"It’s one thing when the usual suspects of far-left activists and media propagandists spout such irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric. It’s quite another when it is done by the Press Secretary to President Obama from a podium in the White House.
In this particular case, Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest has decided to engage in a battle of wits with former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Unfortunately for him, as the joke goes, in a battle of wits with Conway, he entered the fray an unarmed man."
In this particular case, Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest has decided to engage in a battle of wits with former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Unfortunately for him, as the joke goes, in a battle of wits with Conway, he entered the fray an unarmed man."
Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers”
Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers” | Vanity Fair:
"Maybe I’m just pissed off, but I really don’t give a shit about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.
He was irked, in particular, at Abedin’s seemingly superfluous breach of decorum during a post-election event.
On the day after Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to Donald Trump, this person said, Abedin appeared within the rope line while Clinton greeted her morose and woebegone supporters.
“You’re staff, O.K.?” this adviser continued. “Staff is staff. You’re not a principal.”
(A spokesperson for the Clinton campaign notes that Abedin was seated alongside the rest of the campaign’s senior leadership team that morning. Abedin declined an interview request.)
In the bizarre month since Clinton’s loss, few people besides the candidate herself have seen their fortunes overturned as significantly as has Abedin, 40, the glamorous and charismatic former vice-chair of the campaign.
For two decades, Abedin has been a fixture inside Clinton’s inner circle; she began her career as a college-aged White House intern and rose to become Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department.
As a former adviser to Bill Clinton once put it to me, over time Abedin morphed into “a mini Hillary” herself.
She wasn’t merely an aide, but rather an amalgamation of adviser, best friend, confidante, and perhaps even surrogate daughter. Abedin “inspires loyalty, and she’s loyal back,” one Clinton aide told Amy Chozick in her widely read dissection of Clintonworld for The New York Times Magazine, in 2014..."
"Maybe I’m just pissed off, but I really don’t give a shit about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.
He was irked, in particular, at Abedin’s seemingly superfluous breach of decorum during a post-election event.On the day after Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to Donald Trump, this person said, Abedin appeared within the rope line while Clinton greeted her morose and woebegone supporters.
“You’re staff, O.K.?” this adviser continued. “Staff is staff. You’re not a principal.”
(A spokesperson for the Clinton campaign notes that Abedin was seated alongside the rest of the campaign’s senior leadership team that morning. Abedin declined an interview request.)
In the bizarre month since Clinton’s loss, few people besides the candidate herself have seen their fortunes overturned as significantly as has Abedin, 40, the glamorous and charismatic former vice-chair of the campaign.
For two decades, Abedin has been a fixture inside Clinton’s inner circle; she began her career as a college-aged White House intern and rose to become Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department.
As a former adviser to Bill Clinton once put it to me, over time Abedin morphed into “a mini Hillary” herself.
She wasn’t merely an aide, but rather an amalgamation of adviser, best friend, confidante, and perhaps even surrogate daughter. Abedin “inspires loyalty, and she’s loyal back,” one Clinton aide told Amy Chozick in her widely read dissection of Clintonworld for The New York Times Magazine, in 2014..."
At present rate, almost 14,000 Syrians would enter US this fiscal year, 98% Muslim
At present rate, almost 14,000 Syrians would enter US this fiscal year, 98% Muslim « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
"Two days ago, I reported on the total number of refugees being rushed in to the US right now presumably to beat an expected cut-off of resettlement from at least some countries (terror-producing) of the world after Donald Trump becomes President on January 20th.
"Two days ago, I reported on the total number of refugees being rushed in to the US right now presumably to beat an expected cut-off of resettlement from at least some countries (terror-producing) of the world after Donald Trump becomes President on January 20th.
And, although we reported new proposed sites have been placed on hold (see Bloomington, IN), there are still plenty of existing sites where refugees are being placed at the highest rate in recent memory.
Here is a map from Wrapsnet.org showing the numbers and placement of Syrians admitted to the US in the first ten weeks of this fiscal year (Oct. 1, 2016 to Dec. 10, 2016).
2,671 have been placed, and at this rate we would expect 13,889 by September 30th, 2017, if Donald Trump doesn’t do what he promised.
This map is for the first 10 weeks of FY17. Florida is 132 (couldn’t fit whole map in shot) and Alaska and Hawaii are zero.
Here are the top ten states so far in FY2017 receiving Syrians.
Data from Wrapsnet puts the percentage of Muslims at 98% and the vast majority of those are Sunnis (remember it is the UN choosing our refugees!).
Just a reminder, this is only data for resettled refugees and does not take in to account Syrians getting in to the US through other means.
Mollie Hemingway Speaks Truth to Facebook: 'PolitiFact Is a Joke'
""5 Major Problems With Facebook’s Attempt To Limit ‘Fake News’." The most passionate argument was with PolitiFact.
The second problem listed was "PolitiFact is a joke. They should be trusted with nothing. They are the worst candidates to adjudicate fakery in the entire media establishment. Even among the disreputable 'fact' 'checking' class, they are noteworthy for their awfulness." They cannot be trusted with hard facts on Planned Parenthood."
Sorry, Not Sorry: Neither the Media Nor Their Owners are Going to Change
Sorry, Not Sorry: Neither the Media Nor Their Owners are Going to Change:
"...the “supreme religion of the U.S. press corps is reverence for power.”
Their priesthood is a cabal of anonymous sources; their catechism is war everlasting.
And so, the vulgar philistines on the plains, who foolishly prefer peaceful relations, steady work, and free healthcare to profiteering wars abroad, must be endlessly misled.
Don’t expect this to change...
Mostly because 90 percent of the MSM is owned and operated by six conglomerates that have little interest in changing the system that profits them, or in changing the editorial narratives that support the system.
And most probably, like Barack Obama and Madame Secretary, because the media believes Trump voters are “a basket of deplorables” that are too unfixably ignorant to understand why Hillary was the right choice.
...Yet now, pundits unironically tell us, we live in a post-factual era.
...Then, fast forward to this fall, and witness the MSM spending the entirety of 2016 labeling all Trump supporters as white supremacist racist xenophobes clustered around their gun cabinets in landlocked flyover states.
To be fair, they also spent a fair amount of time tediously whitewashing Hillary’s bloodbath in Benghazi so the liberal intelligentsia could reaffirm their sagacious tropes about the moral universe being “…not black and white, but shades of gray.”
...Both the EU and the U.S. efforts are transparent acts of attempted thought control.
More than anything else, they tell us that if the press hasn’t learned its lesson, neither has the ruling class.
...For every unnamed source, we should attach a burden of proof.
For every piece of patriotic jingoism, a Dickensian qualifier.
And for every article of false faith, a bill of indictment."
Lots more here!
"...the “supreme religion of the U.S. press corps is reverence for power.”
Their priesthood is a cabal of anonymous sources; their catechism is war everlasting.
And so, the vulgar philistines on the plains, who foolishly prefer peaceful relations, steady work, and free healthcare to profiteering wars abroad, must be endlessly misled.
Don’t expect this to change...
Mostly because 90 percent of the MSM is owned and operated by six conglomerates that have little interest in changing the system that profits them, or in changing the editorial narratives that support the system. And most probably, like Barack Obama and Madame Secretary, because the media believes Trump voters are “a basket of deplorables” that are too unfixably ignorant to understand why Hillary was the right choice.
...Yet now, pundits unironically tell us, we live in a post-factual era.
...Then, fast forward to this fall, and witness the MSM spending the entirety of 2016 labeling all Trump supporters as white supremacist racist xenophobes clustered around their gun cabinets in landlocked flyover states.
To be fair, they also spent a fair amount of time tediously whitewashing Hillary’s bloodbath in Benghazi so the liberal intelligentsia could reaffirm their sagacious tropes about the moral universe being “…not black and white, but shades of gray.”
...Both the EU and the U.S. efforts are transparent acts of attempted thought control.
More than anything else, they tell us that if the press hasn’t learned its lesson, neither has the ruling class.
...For every unnamed source, we should attach a burden of proof.
For every piece of patriotic jingoism, a Dickensian qualifier.
And for every article of false faith, a bill of indictment."
Lots more here!
Here’s What The Media Is Ignoring While Blaming Russia For Hillary Losing
Here’s What The Media Is Ignoring While Blaming Russia For Hillary Losing | The Daily Sheeple:
"According to a “secret CIA assessment,” Russia intervened in the U.S. election to undermine confidence in the electoral system and boost support for Donald Trump.
The president-elect has already rejected this notion, though the implications of claims regarding Russian involvement are still unclear.
"According to a “secret CIA assessment,” Russia intervened in the U.S. election to undermine confidence in the electoral system and boost support for Donald Trump. The president-elect has already rejected this notion, though the implications of claims regarding Russian involvement are still unclear.
Once again, this kind of pro-Clinton/anti-Russian-based narrative has already been completely debunked.
For example, in his recent article, “Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence,” Glenn Greenwald brilliantly explains why this story does not merit our attention.
He astutely notes:
For example, in his recent article, “Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence,” Glenn Greenwald brilliantly explains why this story does not merit our attention.
He astutely notes:
“There is still no such evidence for any of these claims. What we have instead are assertions, disseminated by anonymous people, completely unaccompanied by any evidence, let alone proof. As a result, none of the purported evidence — still — can be publicly seen, reviewed, or discussed. Anonymous claims leaked to newspapers about what the CIA believes do not constitute proof, and certainly do not constitute reliable evidence that substitutes for actual evidence that can be reviewed.”
Until such evidence is produced, rather than wasting time speculating on the extent of Russia’s involvement in the U.S. elections, we could instead turn to the real issue at play here.
The CIA, an entity that has interfered in sovereign governments across the geopolitical chessboard for decades, has accused another country of doing exactly what the agency does best without offering any physical evidence for their claims.
Let’s say Russia did intervene in the U.S. elections; it would be the most fitting example of “chickens coming home to roost.”
No entity should ever interfere in any sovereign elections, but clearly, if one is going to accuse others of doing so and cry wolf when they feel aggrieved, perhaps they should take a step back to reconsider what they have done to the rest of the world countless times.
As even the Washington Post — an establishment mouthpiece — points out, the United States has a long history of interfering in other countries’ elections.
As even the Washington Post — an establishment mouthpiece — points out, the United States has a long history of interfering in other countries’ elections.
According to Foreign Policy, the U.S. has gone beyond interfering with elections — it has overthrown seven governments since World War II..."
Much more here!
Much more here!
When morons have control of your "free money"-----Muskegon takes risk to revive downtown
Remember this "uplifting" story back in June, 2015?
Most Americans pay more in state and local taxes than in federal taxes.
Most of what affects your everyday life is determined by the decisions of local officials.
The feds do NOT provide your police, fire protection, courts, jails, water, sewer.
Educate your children, maintain your roads, parks public buildings.
Setting spending and taxes.
Here, in my community, is another example of citizens allowing (encouraging?) total idiots to waste money on personal quests.
This story had wide, glowing TV and newspaper coverage last year.
Not so much these days.
Click for story and video
Muskegon takes risk to revive downtown | Fox17:
"MUSKEGON, Mich.-- After waiting more than a decade for private investors, the city of Muskegon is now taking the fate of its downtown into its own hands.
They’re moving forward with a unique plan to revitalize and rebuild downtown despite the risks.
The city is stepping outside the box by buying up properties and land to develop homes and sell them. They purchased a plot of land south of downtown by 4th and Houston.
They built nine houses that they are planning to sell for $160,000-$180,000.
“I think people have been expecting us to have some sort of leadership in moving the city forward,” said the City Manager Frank Peterson.
Peterson said they are sick of waiting around for the private sector to invest, so they are taking matters into their own hands..."
And who did the city buy the properties from?
And what did they pay the owners?
This is now.
Only one of the nine currently occupied.
Sold? Rented? City quiet on that.
8 of 9 still "for sale":
The city loved publicity a few months ago:
Most Americans pay more in state and local taxes than in federal taxes.
Most of what affects your everyday life is determined by the decisions of local officials.
The feds do NOT provide your police, fire protection, courts, jails, water, sewer.
Educate your children, maintain your roads, parks public buildings.
Setting spending and taxes.
Here, in my community, is another example of citizens allowing (encouraging?) total idiots to waste money on personal quests.
This story had wide, glowing TV and newspaper coverage last year.
Not so much these days.
Click for story and video
Muskegon takes risk to revive downtown | Fox17:
"MUSKEGON, Mich.-- After waiting more than a decade for private investors, the city of Muskegon is now taking the fate of its downtown into its own hands.
They’re moving forward with a unique plan to revitalize and rebuild downtown despite the risks.
The city is stepping outside the box by buying up properties and land to develop homes and sell them. They purchased a plot of land south of downtown by 4th and Houston.
They built nine houses that they are planning to sell for $160,000-$180,000.
“I think people have been expecting us to have some sort of leadership in moving the city forward,” said the City Manager Frank Peterson.
Peterson said they are sick of waiting around for the private sector to invest, so they are taking matters into their own hands..."
And who did the city buy the properties from?
And what did they pay the owners?
This is now.
Only one of the nine currently occupied.
Sold? Rented? City quiet on that.
8 of 9 still "for sale":
The city loved publicity a few months ago:
Not Fake News: ObamaCare Subsidy Costs Will Jump 30% Next Year
"The Center for Health and Economy finds that, even if enrollment for next year is relatively flat — they predict the number getting subsidies will go from 9.4 million this year to 9.7 million, which given current enrollment trends seems reasonable — ObamaCare's subsidy costs will still climb from $32.8 billion this year to $42.6 billion next year. That's an increase of 30%.
In case you're wondering, the Center for Health and Economy is not an Obama-hating right-wing, fake-news outfit.
It's a nonpartisan research group founded two years ago by many of the leading health care economists in the nation."
4 Steps Facebook Is Taking to Crack Down on ‘Fake News’
4 Steps Facebook Is Taking to Crack Down on ‘Fake News’"Facebook announced Thursday an aggressive plan to combat so-called “fake news,” giving users more power to report hoaxes and empowering fact-checking outlets as arbiters.
...“We’ve focused our efforts on the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain,” wrote Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s vice president of product management for news feed, in a blog post announcing the changes Thursday.
Here’s the skinny on Facebook’s four steps for cracking down on “fake news”:
1) It’s now easier to report “fake news”
Facebook is giving its users an option to flag a post they believe needs scrutiny.
You’ll be able to click the top right corner of a post to report it as a hoax....
2) Fact-checking organizations will be arbiters
Facebook is working with outside fact-checking organizations accreditedby Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network to help it determine what content is fake.
They include ABC News, The Associated Press, Climate Feedback, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, Snopes, and The Washington Post—all of which have been accused of liberal bias in the past..."
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History for December 18
History for December 18 - On-This-Day.com:
Ty Cobb 1886 - Baseball player, Willy Brandt 1913, Betty Grable 1916
Keith Richards 1943 - Musician (Rolling Stones), Steven Spielberg 1947 Movie producer-director, Brad Pitt 1963 Actor
1898 - A new automobile speed record was set at 39 mph (63 kph).
1903 - The Panama Canal Zone was acquired 'in perpetuity' by the U.S. for an annual rent.
1912 - The discovery of the Piltdown Man in East Sussex was announced. It was proved to be a hoax in 1953.
1916 - During World War I, after 10 months of fighting the French defeated the Germans in the Battle of Verdun.
1940 - Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Operation "Barbarossa" was launched in June 1941.
1950 - NATO foreign ministers approved plans to defend Western Europe, including the use of nuclear weapons, if necessary.
1957 - The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania went online. It was the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States. It was taken out of service in 1982.
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives began the debate on the four articles of impeachment concerning U.S. President Bill Clinton. It was only the second time in U.S. history that process had begun.
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Electoral College death threats won’t be the last bid to overturn the election | New York Post
Electoral College death threats won’t be the last bid to overturn the election | New York Post:
"So bitter are American liberals that they may go down as the sorest losers since the invention of democracy. They’re apt to try anything to overturn voters’ decision.
Certainly Election Day didn’t stop them, even though the Electoral College outcome was unambiguous, a landslide indicating that Donald Trump had secured 306 electoral votes to the 232 won by the Democratic nominee.
To the losers, that was a mere sideshow — something to be overturned somehow, anyhow."
Certainly Election Day didn’t stop them, even though the Electoral College outcome was unambiguous, a landslide indicating that Donald Trump had secured 306 electoral votes to the 232 won by the Democratic nominee.
To the losers, that was a mere sideshow — something to be overturned somehow, anyhow."
Senate Quietly Passes The "Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act"
Senate Quietly Passes The "Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act" | Zero Hedge
"While we wait to see if and when the Senate will pass (and president will sign) Bill "H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017", which was passed by the House at the end of November with an overwhelming majority and which seeks to crack down on websites suspected of conducting Russian propaganda and calling for the US government to "counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly,” another, perhaps even more dangerous and limiting to civil rights and freedom of speech bill passed on December 8.
Recall that as we reported in early June, "a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth has been quietly introduced in Congress.
As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information.
Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.”
As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information.
Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.”
Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles..."
Read on!
Read on!
Records: 95 Detroit poll books missing for several days
Records: 95 Detroit poll books missing for several days:
"Detroit elections officials waited several days to deliver nearly 100 poll books to Wayne County officials charged with certifying the presidential election, newly released documents show.
County clerk officials on Thursday released a memo to State Elections Director Chris Thomas that said 95 poll books from the 662 precincts weren’t available at the start of the canvass, which began the day after the Nov. 8 election.
Five of those poll books, which contain the names of voters and ensure the integrity of elections, were never delivered to county canvassers and presumably remain missing.
The revelation comes atop other irregularities that have prompted a state audit.
Among other issues, The Detroit News reported this week that voting machines registered more votes than they should have in one-third of all city precincts..."
County clerk officials on Thursday released a memo to State Elections Director Chris Thomas that said 95 poll books from the 662 precincts weren’t available at the start of the canvass, which began the day after the Nov. 8 election.
Five of those poll books, which contain the names of voters and ensure the integrity of elections, were never delivered to county canvassers and presumably remain missing.
The revelation comes atop other irregularities that have prompted a state audit.
Among other issues, The Detroit News reported this week that voting machines registered more votes than they should have in one-third of all city precincts..."
It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton's advantage all but disappears.
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton's overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton's huge margin of victory in one state — California — "
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton's advantage all but disappears.
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton's overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton's huge margin of victory in one state — California — "
D.C. schools spokeswoman issues call to ‘get rid of’ white men
D.C. schools spokeswoman issues call to ‘get rid of’ white men | EAGnews.org
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – The spokeswoman for District of Columbia Public Schools announced on her personal social media pages that she’d like to abolish all white men, then sort of apologized.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – The spokeswoman for District of Columbia Public Schools announced on her personal social media pages that she’d like to abolish all white men, then sort of apologized.
D.C. Public Schools spokeswoman Hilary Tone linked to a news story on Twitter Tuesday about President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to head the Department of Energy with the headline “Rick Perry chosen to run agency he once threatened to abolish.”
“In that case, I would like to be Secretary of White Men,” Tone tweeted.
She also took to Facebook.
“If wanting to get rid of something qualifies you to run it,” she posted, “I would like to be Secretary of White Men.”..."
big!!-----Did Facebook Just Kickstart the Real Infowar?
Did Facebook Just Kickstart the Real Infowar? - The Daily Beast
"In an effort to combat the spread of fake information, the social-media giant is stifling intentional fake-news writers while sparking a fight with people who view such a move as censorship.
Facebook detailed a new plan Thursday to target the rapid spread of fake news across its site, a phenomenon that received renewed attention in the weeks following the 2016 election, with accusations that it may have influenced the behavior of voters.
...Now the move from the internet’s largest social-media platform has some intentional fake-news writers, who created their websites to “satirize” right-wing conspiracies or exploit Facebook’s algorithm, believing they’ll soon be out of business.
But the new program also has conspiracy theorists, ones who believe Hillary Clinton’s fictitious ties to the occult are the “real news,” excitedly drawing battle lines over the future of the news on social media.
Should Facebook’s fact-check initiative take off and result in censorship of propagandist sites, editors at websites like Infowars and alt-right leaders insist it will only reinforce the belief that certain ideas are being suppressed in favor of facts from mainstream outlets.
One editor told The Daily Beast the Facebook plan proves that now the “‘Infowar’ isn’t a cliché, it’s perfectly apt.”..."
"In an effort to combat the spread of fake information, the social-media giant is stifling intentional fake-news writers while sparking a fight with people who view such a move as censorship.
Facebook detailed a new plan Thursday to target the rapid spread of fake news across its site, a phenomenon that received renewed attention in the weeks following the 2016 election, with accusations that it may have influenced the behavior of voters....Now the move from the internet’s largest social-media platform has some intentional fake-news writers, who created their websites to “satirize” right-wing conspiracies or exploit Facebook’s algorithm, believing they’ll soon be out of business.
But the new program also has conspiracy theorists, ones who believe Hillary Clinton’s fictitious ties to the occult are the “real news,” excitedly drawing battle lines over the future of the news on social media.
Should Facebook’s fact-check initiative take off and result in censorship of propagandist sites, editors at websites like Infowars and alt-right leaders insist it will only reinforce the belief that certain ideas are being suppressed in favor of facts from mainstream outlets.
One editor told The Daily Beast the Facebook plan proves that now the “‘Infowar’ isn’t a cliché, it’s perfectly apt.”..."
Now electoral college voters who will back Trump are sent DEATH THREATS: Republican student, 22, reveals chilling promise of 'bullet in the back of your mouth' | Daily Mail Online
Now electoral college voters who will back Trump are sent DEATH THREATS: Republican student, 22, reveals chilling promise of 'bullet in the back of your mouth' | Daily Mail Online:
"Members of the Electoral College are being threatened as they plan to vote on Monday for Donald Trump.
The New York Post found a number of Republican electors who find themselves being berated by Americans who would prefer them not to cast a vote for the Republican president-elect, who won the Electoral College, but not the popular vote. "
The New York Post found a number of Republican electors who find themselves being berated by Americans who would prefer them not to cast a vote for the Republican president-elect, who won the Electoral College, but not the popular vote. "
Fossil Fuel is “Green Energy” - Principia Scientific International
Fossil Fuel is “Green Energy” - Principia Scientific International
"We have today one of the most astonishing examples of a regression in scientific education.
It used to be common knowledge and taught in schools at all levels that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a vital, airborne plant food, but it is currently being condemned as being a “pollutant” because many people have come to believe, due to a massive disinformation campaign, that higher levels of this plant food would be harmful to the biosphere.
So pervasive, so effective is this ongoing disinformation campaign that it is now considered by many to be a moral imperative for humanity to abandon the use of its primary source of energy—burning hydrocarbons—because doing so produces CO2.
Let me say that again.
So pervasive, so effective has been the campaign that has demonized CO2—the gas that feeds the biosphere—that it is now generally accepted that humanity has a moral obligation to limit its production of it, even if doing so would cause a profound regression in global economic development!
They say that they have “science” on their side but do they?
Let’s review what science “knows” and what it doesn’t.
Science knows that plants using the energy present in sunlight through a process called photosynthesis combine carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) to form carbohydrates (CH2O) and expel free oxygen (O2)—the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe.
What does the word “carbohydrate” mean?
Carbo – refers to carbon
Hydrate – refers to water
The chemical formula is well known and is often taught in elementary or middle school.
CO2 + H2O + photons → [CH2O] + O2
This is a chart of what science knows about historic, optimal and current levels of atmospheric CO2 in parts per million.
The dark green line at 4,000 ppm is where the CO2 level have been in the Earth’s distant past when plant growth was much more robust and dense forests covered much of the Earth’s surface.
The light green line at 1200 ppm is where the CO2 level needs to be for optimal plant growth.
The bottom yellow line at 400 ppm is the current atmospheric concentration of CO2.
True scientific knowledge is based on empirical experimentation and extensive scientific experimentation has demonstrated that ~1200 ppm is the optimal CO2 level for robust plant growth. So well-established is this knowledge that owners of greenhouses spend a lot of money pumping CO2 into their greenhouses to achieve CO2 concentrations in excess of 1000 ppm in order to augment the rate at which they can grow their produce.
Never the less for some odd reason many people have come to believe that it is a moral imperative to keep CO2 levels from returning to that level..."
Very important!
Read on!!
"We have today one of the most astonishing examples of a regression in scientific education.
It used to be common knowledge and taught in schools at all levels that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a vital, airborne plant food, but it is currently being condemned as being a “pollutant” because many people have come to believe, due to a massive disinformation campaign, that higher levels of this plant food would be harmful to the biosphere.
Let me say that again.
So pervasive, so effective has been the campaign that has demonized CO2—the gas that feeds the biosphere—that it is now generally accepted that humanity has a moral obligation to limit its production of it, even if doing so would cause a profound regression in global economic development!
They say that they have “science” on their side but do they?
Let’s review what science “knows” and what it doesn’t.
Science knows that plants using the energy present in sunlight through a process called photosynthesis combine carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) to form carbohydrates (CH2O) and expel free oxygen (O2)—the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe.
What does the word “carbohydrate” mean?
Carbo – refers to carbon
Hydrate – refers to water
The chemical formula is well known and is often taught in elementary or middle school.
CO2 + H2O + photons → [CH2O] + O2
This is a chart of what science knows about historic, optimal and current levels of atmospheric CO2 in parts per million.
The dark green line at 4,000 ppm is where the CO2 level have been in the Earth’s distant past when plant growth was much more robust and dense forests covered much of the Earth’s surface.
The light green line at 1200 ppm is where the CO2 level needs to be for optimal plant growth.
The bottom yellow line at 400 ppm is the current atmospheric concentration of CO2.
True scientific knowledge is based on empirical experimentation and extensive scientific experimentation has demonstrated that ~1200 ppm is the optimal CO2 level for robust plant growth. So well-established is this knowledge that owners of greenhouses spend a lot of money pumping CO2 into their greenhouses to achieve CO2 concentrations in excess of 1000 ppm in order to augment the rate at which they can grow their produce.
Never the less for some odd reason many people have come to believe that it is a moral imperative to keep CO2 levels from returning to that level..."
Very important!
Read on!!
Islamism in Europe
Islamism in Europe:
- Ironically, those who dare to speak out against extremists either face severe consequences, such as death threats, or are called anti-Muslim bigots. This kind of response often discourages progressive voices from speaking out, and understates the progress of counter-extremism even within the Muslim community. Opposition voices still might be there -- more than ever. They just go underground.
- Since the unprecedented terror attacks in France, Belgium and Germany, citizens across the Europe have been living in constant fear. They seem to be sick and tired of the Muslim extremists; children might be in danger on their way to school, and shopping takes place under the protection of soldiers.
- With Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and Italy's referendum, there seems to be a snowball effect. The growing influence of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the National Front in France, the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, the Freedom Party Austria and the Five Star Movement in Italy all appear to be byproducts of the same rhetoric.
- The dull reaction of a vast number of European Muslims to the rising wave of terror and violence has also contributed to this shift. Increasing numbers of native-born Europeans seem angry and distrustful of their fellow Muslim citizens, especially when everyone else has come out loud and clear in denouncing terrorist crimes.
German authorities and those across Europe seem finally to be strengthening their campaign against the militant far-right, including Muslim extremists, during the past few weeks.
This awakening, however, seems to be coming after a major price that Europe had to pay in terms of death and chaos unleashed by terrorists in Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark, and so on.
Governments across the Europe seem to be switching into panic mode to prevent the rise of European radicalism through the rise of the far-right, racism and nationalism throughout the entire continent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel sounds as if she is backing down a bit from championing the influx of migrants and her slogan of "We can do it!" in developing a multicultural society. She not only vowed to Germans in an address last week that the migrant crisis must never be repeated; she also called for an all-out ban on the full-face veil covering in Germany.
Following Merkel's lead, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière also proposed a partial ban on veils, and pronounced them contrary to assimilation.
The dramatic shift in policy might be a consequence of the planned and perpetrated acts of terrorism by extremist Muslims, many of whom are the migrants on whom Merkel placed her hopes. It might also be the result of the resultant rise of European neo-Nazis. More likely, it would appear to come from an eye to re-election..."
This awakening, however, seems to be coming after a major price that Europe had to pay in terms of death and chaos unleashed by terrorists in Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark, and so on.Governments across the Europe seem to be switching into panic mode to prevent the rise of European radicalism through the rise of the far-right, racism and nationalism throughout the entire continent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel sounds as if she is backing down a bit from championing the influx of migrants and her slogan of "We can do it!" in developing a multicultural society. She not only vowed to Germans in an address last week that the migrant crisis must never be repeated; she also called for an all-out ban on the full-face veil covering in Germany.
Following Merkel's lead, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière also proposed a partial ban on veils, and pronounced them contrary to assimilation.
The dramatic shift in policy might be a consequence of the planned and perpetrated acts of terrorism by extremist Muslims, many of whom are the migrants on whom Merkel placed her hopes. It might also be the result of the resultant rise of European neo-Nazis. More likely, it would appear to come from an eye to re-election..."
WaPo Op-Ed: Christian Celebration of the Virgin Mary is Hurtful to Rape Victims
WaPo Op-Ed: Christian Celebration of the Virgin Mary is Hurtful to Rape Victims | Mediaite:
"The Washington Post published an op-ed Friday by a pastor who complained that the annual Christmastime celebration of the Virgin Mary was hurtful to her as a rape victim.
“Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary.
As a rape victim, that hurts me,” wrote Rev. Ruth Everhart, complaining that, “Church culture tends to be fixated on sexual purity year-round, but during Advent, I’m tempted to blame it on the Virgin Mary.
After all, she set an impossibly high bar. Now the rest of us are stuck trying to be both a virgin and a mother at the same time.
It does not seem to matter that this is biologically impossible.
Everhart said that after being raped at gunpoint at the age of 20, “every Advent I feel a sense of kinship” with the Virgin Mary.
“I know what it’s like to be a good girl whose life got upended by what someone did to her body.”
“Still, I study her this time of the year — always dressed in blue with downcast eyes — and want to ask: ‘How was it really? And how do you feel about what the patriarchy has done with you?'”
“Mary is not responsible for what we’ve done to her story.
Church culture has overfocused on virginity and made it into an idol of sexual purity.
When it comes to female experience, the church seems compelled to shrink and distort and manipulate,” Everhart argued."
"The Washington Post published an op-ed Friday by a pastor who complained that the annual Christmastime celebration of the Virgin Mary was hurtful to her as a rape victim.
“Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary.
As a rape victim, that hurts me,” wrote Rev. Ruth Everhart, complaining that, “Church culture tends to be fixated on sexual purity year-round, but during Advent, I’m tempted to blame it on the Virgin Mary.
After all, she set an impossibly high bar. Now the rest of us are stuck trying to be both a virgin and a mother at the same time.It does not seem to matter that this is biologically impossible.
Everhart said that after being raped at gunpoint at the age of 20, “every Advent I feel a sense of kinship” with the Virgin Mary.
“I know what it’s like to be a good girl whose life got upended by what someone did to her body.”
“Still, I study her this time of the year — always dressed in blue with downcast eyes — and want to ask: ‘How was it really? And how do you feel about what the patriarchy has done with you?'”
“Mary is not responsible for what we’ve done to her story.
Church culture has overfocused on virginity and made it into an idol of sexual purity.
When it comes to female experience, the church seems compelled to shrink and distort and manipulate,” Everhart argued."
Planned Parenthood referred to FBI for criminal charges
Planned Parenthood referred to FBI for criminal charges:
"Several Planned Parenthood affiliates have been referred by a Senate committee to the Department of Justice for investigation and possible prosecution for their involvement in a baby body parts trade that was exposed in 2015 through a video sting operation.
The videos contained interviews with Planned Parenthood and other abortion industry officials in which they negotiated over the price of the body parts of aborted infants, one famously suggesting higher pay because, “I want a Lamborghini.”"
The videos contained interviews with Planned Parenthood and other abortion industry officials in which they negotiated over the price of the body parts of aborted infants, one famously suggesting higher pay because, “I want a Lamborghini.”"
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