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US military reinforcing in Syria amid Golan plan: Debka
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Impeachment Still a Possibility for Trump?
Newsbusters
March 25, 2019
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Sunday night reacted to the Mueller Report letdown by wondering if impeachment was still a possibility. Despite the finding of no collusion and a lack of obstruction, Blitzer offered this question to Dana Bash: “And the question is, Dana, very quickly, impeachment. Are they going to do anything or are they going to listen to Nancy Pelosi and say, ‘Forget about it?’”
Instead of throwing cold water, Bash suggested, “We’re not there yet. I think the most important thing that we’re going to look for next is what Jerry Nadler just said, which is he’s going to have Barr come up, they’re going to grill him on this. Maybe even Mueller. And then they’re going to take the next step.”
Even NBC and MSNBC journalists were more attached to reality. Kasie Hunt on MSNBC proclaimed, “The bottom line here is the likelihood the President is removed from office by impeachment before November 2020 is all but nil after this.”
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May says 3rd vote on Brexit deal not ready to go ahead, laments ‘collective failure’ (WATCH LIVE) — RT UK News
Prime Minister Theresa May delivers her Brexit update statement in the House of Commons, following an EU summit with the bloc’s 27 leaders, admitting that her current deal cannot command the support of UK MPs.
With pressure being cranked up on May to the point of serious questions being asked about whether she can see the week out as PM, Parliament must come up with a Brexit deal that can garner the support of a majority of MPs. If not, the UK could potentially crash out of the EU on April 12 without a deal.
Addressing MPs, May told the House that she concedes, at present, there is no chance of her deal getting through on a third “meaningful vote.”
As things stand there is still not sufficient support in the house to bring back the deal for a third meaningful vote.
Earlier, May’s task of pushing through her own, twice defeated deal in a third attempt became nothing more than impossible, after various media report that the DUP are still not backing her agreement.
No shift in DUP position after the call between Foster and May
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) March 25, 2019
Cabinet finishes and there are reports Theresa May is thinking of having Meaningful Vote 3 tomorrow.
Minutes later DUP sources say they won’t be backing the PM if she does.
Pretty much killed that plan instantly….
— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) March 25, 2019
Earlier Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn met with the prime minister for face-to-face Brexit talks. A Labour spokesperson released a statement shortly after their discussions claiming that May had suggested separating the Withdrawal Agreement from the political declaration, which Corbyn refused to accept.
The European Commission has released a statement suggesting that it looked increasingly likely that the UK will leave the EU without a deal on April 12, adding that they had completed its ‘no-deal’ preparations.
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Jailed whistleblower’s wife details his confinement to RT — RT USA News
Hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld was sentenced to 10 years in prison for exposing Boston Children’s Hospital for a medical kidnapping. His wife joined RT to talk about how the US is protecting abusers while punishing whistleblowers.
After doctors at Harvard affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital misdiagnosed 15-year-old Justina Pelletier’s rare blood disorder as a mental condition, she was confined against her family’s will, and forcibly separated from her parents. Denied medication and treatment, she lost the use of her legs and suffered incredible pain before Martin Gottesfeld exposed the situation by launching a cyber-attack against the hospital’s network.
While Pelletier was reunited with her family as a result, Gottesfeld was arrested and prosecuted for the hack which saved her from horrific conditions. His wife Dana spoke with RT about the case.
Martin is currently being held in the “special housing unit” at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. According to Dana, He has been held in “small confinement” for over a month, facing conditions “analogous to solitary confinement.” The facility is “well known for protests inside and outside the jail,” particularly in light of a recent situation where the prison lost power and heat.
To make matters worse, he will soon be moved to the communications management unit, a part of the facility which heavily restricts outside communication and according to Dana, is generally “reserved for terrorists, and people who are politically inconvenient.” The staff at the facility have allegedly indicated that Martin is being moved to the special unit in order to restrict his behind-bars activism.
Dana stressed that no patients were harmed by the attack, or even “potentially harmed,” and that US prosecutors are showing that they will “back Harvard institutions and big money” even “at the expense of the lives of children.”
RT spoke with Martin himself shortly after his arrest in 2017, the hacktivist describing the charges against him as “100% political” and “an attempt to indemnify torturers.” During his imprisonment, he has been outspoken regarding his case as well as the extensive human rights violations he claims to have witnessed in the US’ prison facilities.
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The Mueller Report Is In
The Robert Mueller investigation which monopolized political discourse for two years has finally concluded, and his anxiously awaited report has been submitted to Attorney General William Barr. The results are in and the debate is over: those advancing the conspiracy theory that the Kremlin has infiltrated the highest levels of the US government were wrong, and those of us voicing skepticism of this were right.
The contents of the report are still secret, but CNN’s Justice Department reporter Laura Jarrett has told us all we need to know, tweeting, “Special Counsel Mueller is not recommending ANY further indictments am told.” On top of that, William Barr said in a letter to congressional leaders that there has been no obstruction of Mueller’s investigation by Justice Department officials.
So that’s it, then. A completely unhindered investigation has failed to convict a single American of any kind of conspiracy with the Russian government, and no further indictments are coming. The political/media class which sold rank-and-file Americans on the lie that the Mueller investigation was going to bring down this presidency were liars and frauds, and none of the goalpost-moving that I am sure is already beginning to happen will change that.
Say it again: Mueller has indicted *zero* Americans for conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election, which was central impetus for the Special Counsel in the first place. Anyone who denies this is an abject liar https://t.co/gRQdr01ZCv
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 22, 2019
Can we get it any clearer than this?? From the NYT: https://t.co/47APcLxf0l pic.twitter.com/gvtDLGblSp
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
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‘More Than $25 Million’ For ‘Nothing’
Mediaite
March 25, 2019
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared on the Today show Monday morning to react to Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s report, which was summarized by the attorney general on Sunday.
“This is a two year waste of taxpayer time and dollars. They spent over $25 million on this just to find out that there was nothing there,” Sanders said. “This should never happen to another president, and we want to make sure that the institution of the president is protected.”
The Mueller investigation, which probed Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether there were any cooperation between the Trump campaign and those efforts, resulted in the indictment of 34 people and three Russian companies.
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Boris lampooned for ridiculous Moses analogy for PM May on Brexit — RT UK News
Boris Johnson has provoked ridicule after urging PM Theresa May to summon up the spirit of Moses in Exodus and tell the Pharaoh in Brussels to “let my people go.” But did he think of what his metaphor actually entails for the UK?
Writing in the Telegraph, the gaffe-prone former foreign secretary hit out at the UK government, claiming the reason the country will not be leaving the EU this Friday, as planned, is because they have “chickened out.” He then called on May to make one last plea to Brussels to set the UK free from their hold.
It is time for the PM to channel the spirit of Moses in Exodus, and say to Pharaoh in Brussels – let my people go.
Many on social media have pointed out that there is one serious problem with Johnson’s biblical metaphor.
It is true to say that Moses did indeed call on the Egyptian Pharaoh to “let my people go” to find the Promised Land. However, what followed for Moses’ Israelites, was 40 years of wandering in the wilderness.
I don’t think Boris has really read Exodus. Moses murdered an Egyptian, got short shrift from Pharaoh, spent forty years in the wilderness during which some of his people bowed down before the golden calf and had to he given new commandments.
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) March 24, 2019
Oh dear! Someone should probably tell Boris Johnson that Moses was practically the inventor of Free Movement. If he was around today he’d have probably parted the English Channel to make movement even freer.
Also, Boris, he was the actual guy who wrote down: Thou shalt not lie. pic.twitter.com/sa0TEZl1GJ— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) March 25, 2019
Johnson’s angry attack came after May held a Brexit crisis meeting of Tory ministers and MPs at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country house residence, which included the former London Mayor.
As rebellious MPs pile pressure on Theresa May to resign, she has reportedly promised chief Brexiteers to step down if they back her troubled divorce plan, according to ITV’s political editor.
May has offered to swap her political career for the prospect of the Brexit deal being approved by Parliament, according to ITV political editor Robert Peston.
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CNN roasted for warning US voters to stay off Twitter if they want to understand 2020 elections — RT USA News
An analysis by CNN’s Harry Enten has been torched on Twitter for stating the apparently obvious, that social media is almost never a reflection of overall sentiment in the real world.
Enten cites a CNN national poll on the leading Democratic pretenders for the 2020 US presidential election. According to their data, Joe Biden is the frontrunner but Enten argues that you may not know this judging by social media, namely Twitter, as Bernie bros are often the most vocal online.
Enten elaborates that Twitter can often be seen as a second home for many journalists, again highlighting the inherent weaknesses in the social media platform when it comes to “accurately capturing the sentiment of the Democratic electorate.”
There is also the minor inconvenience that Biden has yet to officially announce he is running in the 2020 presidential election.
Social media typically skews in favor of younger voters, Enten argues, leading to a significant age gap in Democratic voters who use Twitter and who cast their ballots at polling station, which can throw off predictions when it comes to sentiment in the party as a whole.
However, this point has been disputed.
For instance, polling in 2016 showed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders ahead by 26 points with voters aged 45 and below. Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was ahead by 32 points among voters aged 45 and above, a demographic which makes up roughly 60 percent of the Democratic party’s electorate.
This may have been why the Democratic Party’s support for Clinton was perceived as such a betrayal of Sanders by many of his ardent supporters.
In addition, liberal-leaning Democrats are far more vocal on social media than their moderate or conservative Democrat counterparts. Overall, the lesson CNN’s Enten is pushing is that social media is not real life, and the vocal partisans online are frequently overshadowed by the silent majority in the real world.
CNN’s methodology drew criticism online, with many pointing to inherent demographic issues within the network’s own viewership and polling sample sets.
Cnn: Try polling enough younger people next time, instead of having “N/A” for all the age groups under 49 for the dem/dem leaning polls.
— chinogenome (@chinogenome1) March 24, 2019
CNN is a has-been with a median viewer age around 60. Younger audiences are looking forward with alternative media and Twitter. Sorry not sorry CNN.
— Jonathan B. Solomon (@JBS_Seattle) March 24, 2019
I agree that we shouldn’t use twitter as a way to “understand” the 2020 Dem primary. I also, however, do think that listening to CNN is a terrible way to “understand” the 2020 Dem primaries. @CNN, start doing fair polls with a representative sample. Then we’ll talk. https://t.co/wtN42acFum
— Joseph (@josephsakata) March 24, 2019
Ok, but also stay off network television.
Just in general.
— A-A-ron H (@armahillo) March 24, 2019
While the organization itself was criticized by several online commentators for biased coverage.
You hired Jeff Sessions spokesperson to run 2020 coverage.
— Zaroc 🍞🌹 (@UndeadZaroc) March 24, 2019
“Want to understand the 2020 Democratic primary? Just listen to our pro-establishment propaganda fed to us by our corporate advertisers and owners.”
— 🥔 Life of Riley 🥔 (@Tidmarsh_in_ID) March 24, 2019
In other words, you want us to only consume sources carefully vetted by the rich Boomer establishment which, deep down, would rather live through four more years of Trump tax cuts than let a real progressive end their reign of corruption. No thanks.
— Rebecca Haninger (@Beatissima) March 24, 2019
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Trump’s Golan Heights Tweet Disregards History, Law and Ethics
On March 22, 2019, President Donald Trump unceremoniously tweeted that the United States would recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights. He explained that such sovereignty “is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and regional stability.” Everything about this tweet is wrong – as a matter of law, policy and fact.
The Golan Heights, located in the southwest of Syria, was seized by Israel during the 1967 War when, in the course of six days, Israel also came to control Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as well as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The United Nations, which was in session during the war, deliberated the matter for nearly six months. Controversy revolved around whether Israel should be compelled to withdraw from the Arab territories immediately or whether it could, as the Lyndon B. Johnson administration urged, be able to retain them as consideration in exchange for permanent peace. Despite Syrian and Palestinian opposition, in 1967 the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 242, which established the land-for-peace framework sought by the United States and Israel that declared that the territories would be returned in exchange for permanent peace.
The Resolution proved ineffective due to a lack of political will to establish peace together with Israel’s desire to retain the territories. The Israeli government developed this legal argument: Because no sovereign existed in the West Bank and Gaza – Egypt and Jordan never had legitimate title and Palestinians were not sovereigns – no country could claim better title to the territory than could Israel. Thus, Israeli officials argued, the West Bank and Gaza could not be occupied as a matter of law and are better described as “disputed” rather than occupied territories. This novel legal argument enabled Israel to establish legal presence as a military authority in the Palestinian territory adhering strictly to Occupation Law, most notably its proscription…
The TSA’s Role as Journalist Harasser and Media ‘Watchdog’
Sometimes you have to leave the United States to understand how far this country has evolved towards becoming a police state.
I got a good example of this just last week on a trip with my harpsichordist wife to Vienna where she had been contracted to perform on Austrian State Radio in Vienna a concert of music by a leftist Jewish composer who settled in the US after fleeing from Austria just ahead of the Nazi Anschluss that took over and incorporated that country into Germany.
In retrospect, the first indication of a problem occurred the night before our flight, when we tried to make our seat assignments and print our boarding passes for the next day’s flight. My wife managed to easily get both her passes for the London Heathrow leg and for the leg on to the Vienna International Airport. My boarding pass for the second leg of the trip came up and got printed okay too, but when we tried to print my boarding pass from Philly to London, it wouldn’t come up. Instead there was a message on the website saying we’d have to obtain that pass at the check-in counter. (Eventually by trying on both the American Airlines and the partner British Airlines site, she was able to get that boarding pass printed too, somehow.)
At the Philadelphia International Airport, the next day, I got my initial boarding pass without a problem. But going through the TSA security checkpoint, I was pulled aside for what i was told was a “random” special inspection. Later, at our plane change…
Weaponizing the World Bank and IMF
This is a transcript of the full interview with PressTV for their Program “Economic Divide”, of which sections were aired in this broadcast – “U.S. military use of IMF, World Bank”
Background
The U.S. Army states that major global financial institutions — such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — are used as unconventional, financial “weapons in times of conflict up to and including large-scale general war,” as well as in leveraging “the policies and cooperation of state governments.”
PressTV: Are these so-called financial institutions guilty of that, and how do they do it? If so, this would point to the fact that these organizations are NOT independent.
Peter Koenig: Let me start with the fact that indeed these organizations are not independent at all.
The World Bank and IMF are fully controlled by the US. The US has a de facto veto power, since it possesses about 17% of the votes, and it takes 85% to overrule the veto – impossible.
OECD is an organization of some 34 so-called industrialized countries, also dominated by the US and her mostly vassal states of the European Union, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand — so of course, they are controlled by the US, or simply, the West.
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No. 1—‘The Sleazy Origins of Russia-gate’ – Consortiumnews
From the “scandal’s” outset, Consortium News adopted journalistic skepticism, led by founding editor, the late Robert Parry, with Ray McGovern, Daniel Lazare, Patrick Lawrence, Joe Lauria and VIPS debunking much of the irresponsible mania that seized the land.
In the wake of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report in which no one was accused of “colluding” with Russia to steal the 2016 U.S. presidential election, we begin a series of republication of articles originally appearing at Consortium News that called the entire fiasco into question. Bob Parry was in the forefront of Russia-gate skepticism, recognizing its domestic and geopolitical dangers.
We begin with this article by Bob Parry published on March 29, 2017.
The Sleazy Origins of Russia-gate
By Robert Parry
Special to Consortium News
An irony of the escalating hysteria about the Trump camp’s contacts with Russians is that one presidential campaign in 2016 did exploit political dirt that supposedly came from the Kremlin and other Russian sources. Friends of that political campaign paid for this anonymous hearsay material, shared it with American journalists and urged them to publish it to gain an electoral advantage. But this campaign was not Donald Trump’s; it was Hillary Clinton’s.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
And, awareness of this activity doesn’t require you to spin conspiracy theories about what may or may not have been said during some seemingly innocuous conversation. In this case, you have open admissions about how these Russian/Kremlin claims were used.
Indeed, you have the words of Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, in his opening statement at last week’s public hearing on so-called “Russia-gate.” Schiff’s seamless 15-minute narrative of the Trump campaign’s alleged collaboration with Russia followed the script prepared by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele who was hired as an opposition researcher last June to dig up derogatory information on Donald Trump.
Steele, who had worked for Britain’s MI-6 in Russia, said he tapped into ex-colleagues and unnamed…
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Maybe Trump ‘Repaying’ Putin for Kremlin’s Election ‘Help’
Breitbart
March 25, 2019
After special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s final report found no collusion between Donald Trump or his 2016 campaign and Russia, the editorial board of the Washington Post spun a new conspiracy – Trump’s “deference” to Russian President Vladimir Putin could be “repayment for the Kremlin’s help during the presidential race.”
The Post did not specify to which “deference” it was referring. Trump has taken a hardline approach toward Russia, rejecting its annexation of Crimea, sanctioning Russian entities and checking Russian influence in Syria among many other actions.
The newspaper’s editorial board also stated as fact that Putin interfered in the 2016 election specifically to assist Trump in the presidential race when there was no consensus conclusion reached on that assessment by the U.S. intelligence community and serious questions have been raised about the unsubstantiated claim.
Shortly after the release of Attorney General William P. Barr’s summary of Mueller’s main conclusions on Sunday, the Washington Post published an editorial board piece titled, “Trump did not collude with Russia. But he’s wrong to say Mueller exonerated him.”
In the editorial, the Post allowed that Mueller’s conclusion of no collusion, as per Barr’s summary, “should be a relief to Americans worried that the nation’s senior leaders acted as agents of a foreign power during the 2016 election.”
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UK Islamophobic incidents soar 600% in week after Christchurch terrorist attacks — RT UK News
Anti-Muslim hate incidents reported across the UK have increased by nearly 600%, in the week following the New Zealand mosque attacks that saw 50 Muslim worshippers killed by a white supremacist.
Tell MAMA, a British organization that monitors Islamophobic incidents, revealed that nearly all cases that have been recorded comprised of “language, symbols or actions” linked to the Christchurch terrorist attacks.
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They cite people pretending to point a gun at Muslim women as an example of the correlation to the New Zealand killings.
The director of Tell MAMA, Iman Atta OBE, claims that the spike in Islamophobic cases illustrates how some people have an ongoing and persistent hatred of Muslims, seeing them as “fair game.”
Muslims in New Zealand were killed and British Muslims feel the anger of bigots. It is perverse.
The monitoring group also revealed that the sharp rise in anti-Muslim hate incidents reported to them are higher in number in the last seven days than in the week after the Manchester terrorist attack in 2017.
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Facebook erased 1.5mn instances of NZ mosque attack video in 24 hours after massacre
28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant has been charged with the brutal murders that saw Muslim worshippers at two Christchurch mosques gunned down as they gathered for Friday prayers, March 15. It was the worst shooting in the country’s history.
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When it comes to identifying and evaluating the key vulnerabilities and inherent risks of the banking and financial system, there are few who have the insights and practical experience that is required to truly understand the scale of the issue and its investing implications. This is precisely why Claudio Grass turned to Dr. Markus Krall, who graciously agreed to share his thoughts and observations, as well as his outlook on the future of the financial system and the economy.
Dr. Markus Krall, managing director of the consulting firm goetzpartners, has worked in the financial industry for over 25 years. Over the span of his successful career, he has amassed extensive global experience working with leading international corporations, regulatory bodies, governments and supranational institutions, from a consulting as well as from a line role perspective, mainly in banking, primary insurance and reinsurance, and regulatory affairs.
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After fascist terror attack, New Zealand and Australia stoke tensions with Turkey
After fascist terror attack, New Zealand and Australia stoke tensions with Turkey
By
Tom Peters
25 March 2019
Last week the Australian and New Zealand governments furiously attacked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his response to the March 15 Christchurch mass shooting, in which Australian fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant killed 50 people in two mosques.
Addressing a political rally on March 18, Erdogan likened Tarrant’s white supremacist ideology to the anti-Muslim views of Allied soldiers sent to fight the Ottoman Empire in World War I. His comments prompted immediate, belligerent denunciations from the Australian and New Zealand political establishment and media, which glorifies the role of the Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) in WWI, especially the disastrous attempted invasion of Turkey via the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
The Anzac “legend” is a central ideological tool used by Australia and New Zealand’s ruling elite to promote patriotism and militarism particularly amid acute social tensions over poverty and inequality. It has helped create the environment that fuelled the growth of fascist groups and led to the Christchurch massacre.
Speaking to a crowd near the Gallipoli battle site, Erdogan declared that Tarrant’s shooting “wasn’t an individual attack, this is organised,” contradicting claims by New Zealand police that Tarrant acted alone. Turkish authorities believe he was backed by a well-resourced organisation and may have been planning terror attacks in Turkey, which he visited twice in 2016.
Referring to the defeat of the Allies at Gallipoli, Erdogan said anyone travelling to Turkey with views like Tarrant’s would face the same fate. “Your grandparents came, some of them returned in…
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US President Donald Trump has claimed “complete and total exoneration” after the Justice Department announced Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
Attorney General William Barr, a Trump appointee, said in a four-page summary of the report released on Sunday that Mueller’s team had concluded that no one in Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.”
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Many of the president’s opponents had accused him of obstructing the Russia probe when he fired former FBI Director James Comey in 2017.
Responding to the conclusion of the investigation, Trump on Sunday denounced Mueller’s probe as an “illegal takedown that failed,” and called for a new probe to “look at the other…
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Prison Planet.com » Bernie Sanders calls for NZ style gun grab
American Mirror
March 22, 2019
Three days is all it took for politicians in New Zealand to ban so-called “military style” rifles in the wake of horrific attacks on mosques that left 50 kiwis dead.
The laws haven’t been formally approved by the country’s parliament, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the ban on “all military style semi-automatic weapons” takes effect immediately, regardless.
“Today I am announcing that New Zealand will ban all military-style semi-automatic weapons. We will also ban all assault rifles. We will also ban all high capacity magazines,” Ardern said, according to ABC News. “We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semi-automatic or any other type of firearm into a military style semi-automatic weapon.”
It’s the kind of overnight gun control Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders can get behind.
The socialist senator from Vermont praised the government’s move to limit gun rights in a post to Twitter late Wednesday.
This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like. We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States. https://t.co/lSAisDG9Ur
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 21, 2019
“This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like,” Sanders posted, along with a link to The Washington Post’s coverage of the gun grab.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
He ignored the fact that the right to bear arms is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
“We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States,” Sanders wrote.
Ardern said she expects New Zealand lawmakers to approve the new restrictions by the end of a two week session that concludes on April 11, and she called on retailers to halt the sales of the banned weapons and return unsold supplies.
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Prison Planet.com » Bernie Sanders calls for NZ style gun grab
American Mirror
March 22, 2019
Three days is all it took for politicians in New Zealand to ban so-called “military style” rifles in the wake of horrific attacks on mosques that left 50 kiwis dead.
The laws haven’t been formally approved by the country’s parliament, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the ban on “all military style semi-automatic weapons” takes effect immediately, regardless.
“Today I am announcing that New Zealand will ban all military-style semi-automatic weapons. We will also ban all assault rifles. We will also ban all high capacity magazines,” Ardern said, according to ABC News. “We will ban all parts with the ability to convert semi-automatic or any other type of firearm into a military style semi-automatic weapon.”
It’s the kind of overnight gun control Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders can get behind.
The socialist senator from Vermont praised the government’s move to limit gun rights in a post to Twitter late Wednesday.
This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like. We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States. https://t.co/lSAisDG9Ur
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 21, 2019
“This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like,” Sanders posted, along with a link to The Washington Post’s coverage of the gun grab.
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He ignored the fact that the right to bear arms is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
“We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States,” Sanders wrote.
Ardern said she expects New Zealand lawmakers to approve the new restrictions by the end of a two week session that concludes on April 11, and she called on retailers to halt the sales of the banned weapons and return unsold supplies.
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May tells Brexiters she’ll quit if they vote for her Brexit deal
As rebellious MPs pile pressure on Theresa May to resign, she has reportedly promised chief Brexiteers to step down if they back her troubled divorce plan, according to ITV political editor.
The UK prime minister has just offered to swap her political career for the prospect of the Brexit deal being approved by Parliament, according to ITV political editor Robert Peston.
I am reliably told that Theresa May told Boris Johnson, Iain Duncan Smith, Steve Baker, Jacob Rees-Mogg, David Davis et al at Chequers that she will quit if they vote for her deal, including the backstop they hate.
However, there isn’t “a lot of trust” that May would actually quit, as “she gave no specifics.” Another problem is that even if she persuaded all Tory MPs to support her Brexit plan, she still doesn’t have enough votes for it to pass through Parliament.
Brexiteer Nigel Evans said Monday that a number of Tory lawmakers wanted an orderly replacement of leadership once May manages to get her deal over the line. His comments come after the UK press on Sunday reported that May was facing a coup from angry ministers who want an emergency prime minister installed to see the Brexit deal through.
“Clearly a number of people do not want the prime minister anywhere near the next phase of negotiations which is the future trading relationship between ourselves and the European Union,” Evans told BBC radio.
He added that May should resign if her Brexit deal is rejected by Parliament for a third time, if it goes to a vote later this week.
Evans’ comments were echoed by fellow Eurosceptic MP, Andrew Bridgen.
“I hope that the cabinet will tell the prime minister that the game is up,” Bridgen told Sky News ahead of Monday’s meeting of ministers.
Noting that May had lost the confidence of the parliamentary party, the cabinet, and Tory members across the country, Bridgen called for fresh elections that would see MPs supportive of Brexit elected to the House of Commons. However, he shied away from backing any opposition Labour Party motion that would bring down May’s government prematurely.
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With Mueller finished, US media turns to… John Travolta for collusion gossip — RT USA News
With Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe wrapped up, one can’t blame the liberal media for trying to keep the ‘Russian Collusion’ narrative on life support. Enter the latest Russian agent: ‘Grease’ star John Travolta.
The Hollywood star’s recent trip to Russia – a PR jaunt to a country fascinated by aging celebrities – didn’t escape the eagle-eyed Russia sleuths over at the Daily Beast. “Why is John Travolta palling around with Putin’s cronies in Russia?” the liberal news site asked on Saturday. Raw Story later picked up and rewrote the story.
The ‘Pulp Fiction’ star’s transgressions included meeting with “elite members of President Vladimir Putin’s court,” having his picture snapped by Russian paparazzi, and praising Russia’s culture of “music, ballet, and avant-garde artists.” He also chatted with Kremlin press spokesman Dmitry Peskov about the “Russophobic moods” of American authorities and reportedly said that “ordinary Americans” hold a positive attitude towards Russia, seemingly despite the best efforts of US media.
Travolta’s Russia visit saw the veteran actor attend a music awards ceremony at Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi Theater. However, the presence of a Kremlin official meant the Beast only saw a sinister propaganda effort. The article sarcastically noted that Travolta “did everything just the way the Kremlin wanted him to,” meaning he smiled at Russian TV cameras and thanked his hosts.
Well, he was hardly going to skip down the road to the Kremlin and snoop through Putin’s office looking for an envelope with ‘Collusion Evidence’ written on it, was he? Still, that wasn’t going to stop the Daily Beast looking for ulterior motives.
For almost two years, the news site has been breathlessly charting every twist and turn of Mueller’s investigation. The Daily Beast reported the now-infamous ‘Steele Dossier’ (which accused President Trump of, among other things, hiring two Russian prostitutes to pee on a hotel bed) as credible, questioned whether the president was actually “a Russian asset,” and promised readers that Mueller “is connecting the dots” and “has got Trump on collusion.”
Raw Story too has been feeding its readers a steady diet of collusion and conspiracy. The site accused Trump of a “desperate cover-up” of his alleged Russian ties, promised “damning evidence” of a Kremlin/Trump plot, and called the Russia non-story “the single greatest scandal in the history of the US.” Trump, it said, was “running scared” from Mueller’s investigation.
Now that that’s not actually happening, the adjustment must be difficult. Indeed, pundits and anchors from all networks have served up an impressive display of denials, evasions, and on-air strokes in recent days. Some, like the Daily Beast, are just determined to keep the party going, even after everyone else has long since gone home.
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http://www.democracynow.org – Even as tobacco companies are legally barred from selling cigarettes to children, they are reportedly profiting from child labor.
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Prison Planet.com » YouTube Continues To Censor Alex Jones; Bans Secondary Channel Over NZ Massacre Opinions
Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
March 22, 2019
The censorship seemed to have cooled off, but only for a moment. Now, YouTube has taken it upon itself to ban Alex Jones’ (the creator of InfoWars) from his secondary channel on the video websites.
Resistance News, which was a secondary Infowars channel on YouTube, according to Media Matters, was banned from the platform because of how Jones described last week’s New Zealand mosque shootings. He called the shootings a “false flag” operation and opined about Muslims. Jones continues to operate his website in the wake of major censorship.
Sadly, Jones isn’t the only one being censored. The New Zealand massacre has lead to massive criminalization of free speech worldwide. Governments are demanding social media platforms such as Facebook censor anyone who doesn’t toe the line and spout the government’s official narrative – the only narrative you’re allowed to ponder.
According to Engadget, Resistance News had more than 64,000 subscribers by the time YouTube killed the channel, which exclusively hosted Infowars videos. Articles on the Infowars site also embedded Resistance News videos. The now-deleted New Zealand video included footage from the gunman’s live stream of the shooting, according to the aforementioned report by Media Matters. Jones also included a clip of Rush Limbaugh promoting the false flag theory, while the video reportedly ended with ads for Infowars products. The Resistance News channel had posted several other videos related to the attack.
YouTube permanently banned Jones’ Infowars channel in August of last year, and they announced that their algorithms would no longer suggest “conspiracy videos” to users.
YouTube expelled Jones from the platform back in August and later removed some other Infowars channels. In January, YouTube its algorithms would no longer recommend conspiracy theory…
Mueller probe finds no collusion or conspiracy between Trump & Russia
Attorney General William Barr has released a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated report, finding no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016.
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HUD’s Inspection System Gets a Poor Grade in Congressional Watchdog’s Report
This article was produced in partnership with The Southern Illinoisan, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network in 2018.
The federal government’s system of inspecting taxpayer-subsidized housing is fundamentally flawed, and leaders at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development haven’t taken adequate steps to fix it, according to a congressional watchdog report released Thursday.
The findings of the Government Accountability Office mirror those of an investigation by The Southern Illinoisan and ProPublica last year, which documented numerous cases in which substandard housing complexes received passing — and in some cases, glowing — scores from HUD. The news organizations built an online tool to allow users to look up the scores of taxpayer subsidized housing developments near them.
The GAO faulted HUD for failing to implement critical recommendations that senior staff made over two years ago to improve the agency’s inspection protocols, which are designed to protect low-income families living in federally subsidized housing and prevent landlords from gaming the system.
Those recommendations included changing the scoring system to place more emphasis on health and safety concerns facing tenants inside their units, shortening the time frame that property owners have to address emergency conditions identified during inspections, and creating a system to verify whether landlords are actually making promised repairs.
Emily Benfer, director of the Columbia Law School’s Health Justice Advocacy Clinic and a visiting law professor there, said the GAO report was a “call to action to HUD that they have to improve their administration and oversight of the conditions of their properties.”
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Restricting Brenton Tarrant’s The Great Replacement
A censorious and censoring attitude has engulfed responses to the mental airings of the Christchurch shooter. Material in connection with Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman behind the killing of 50 individuals at two mosques in New Zealand, is drying up; his manifesto, for one, is being disaggregated and spread through multiple forms, removed from their various parts with blunt razors. Doing so does a disservice to any arguments that might be mounted against him, but having a debate is not what this is generally about.
Arguments on banning the incendiary and dangerous are easily mounted against a range of publications. The smutty supposedly corrupt public morals; the revolutionary supposedly give citizens strange and cocksure ideas about overthrowing the order of things. Then there are just the downright bizarre and adventurous, incapable of classification, but deemed dangerous for not falling into any clear category. Certitude is fundamentally important for the rule-directed censor and paper shuffling bureaucrat.
One example stands out, a testament to the failure of such efforts and the misunderstandings and distortions that follow. Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, as a stellar case, was banned in Germany after the Second World War. In January 2016, it was republished on the expiry of copyright held by the Bavarian government. As Steven Luckert remarked in The Atlantic at the time, “the history of the book, and of Hitler’s words more generally, demonstrates…
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With RussiaGate Over – LewRockwell
During most of the RussiaGate investigation against Donald Trump I kept saying that all roads lead to Hillary Clinton.
Anyone with three working brain cells knew this, including ‘Miss’ Maddow, whose tears of disappointment are particularly delicious.
Robert Mueller’s investigation was designed from the beginning to create something out of nothing. It did this admirably.
It was so effective it paralyzed the country for more than two years, just like Europe has been held hostage by Brexit. And all of this because, in the end, the elites I call The Davos Crowd refused to accept that the people no longer believed their lies about the benefits of their neoliberal, globalist agenda.
Hillary Clinton’s ascension to the Presidency was to be their apotheosis along with the Brexit vote. These were meant to lay to rest, once and for all time, the vaguely libertarian notion that people should rule themselves and not be ruled by philosopher kings in some distant land.
Hillary’s failure was enormous. And the RussiaGate gambit to destroy Trump served a laundry list of purposes to cover it:
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- Undermine his legitimacy before he even takes office.
- Accuse him of what Hillary actually did: collude with Russians and Ukrainians to effect the outcome of the election
- Paralyze Trump on his foreign policy desires to scale back the Empire
- Give aid and comfort to hurting progressives and radicalize them further undermining our political system
- Polarize the electorate over the false choice of Trump’s guilt.
- Paralyze the Dept. of Justice and Congress so that they would not uncover the massive corruption in the intelligence agencies in the U.S. and…
The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
He has sent so many cliques and groups into titters of anger, and the indignant have attempted to turn on him. The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale. Dissent and disagreement are lethal toxin to such affected notions as “diversity” and “inclusiveness”.
It should be very clear that meaningless terms such as diversity and inclusiveness do very little to the content of actual intellectual conversation. Ideas are there to be debated, not accepted by high caste strictures. The modern academic environment suggests something quite opposite: a policing rationale, an insistence on thought control that is insidious and all too common in managed structures. When incorporated into the university structure, the bureaucrat takes precedence over the intellectual, the mindless cherry picker over the polymath. The more ideas you have, the more of a threat you will be, requiring regulation and the occasional ostracising. In broader public spaces, this may even require you losing a platform altogether.
Which leads us, then, to Jordan Peterson, agent provocateur and psychology professor at University of Toronto who was led to believe that he would be taking up residence for two…
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The presidential seal fell off US President Barack Obama’s lectern, clattering to the stage, as he delivered a speech at a women’s conference on Tuesday.
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Video: Julian Assange: Stratfor Hacker Jeremy Hammond Guilty Plea Part of Crackdown on Journalism, Activism
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Prison Planet.com » Turkish Foreign Minister Says Maduro Vowed to CONVERT to ISLAM ‘Someday’
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March 22, 2019
The promise was made after the Venezuelan President saw “The Resurrection: Ertugrul”, a television series detaqiling the life of Ertugrul, the father of Osman I, who founded the Ottoman Empire.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that during his meeting with Nicolas Maduro last year, the Venezuelan President told him that he may convert to Islam.
Speaking at Alaaddin Keykubat University in Alanya, Cavusoglu recalled that after his talks with Maduro in Caracas in September 2018, he showed him a video of the Turkish Foreign Minister’s meeting with actors from “the Resurrection: Ertugrul”, a television series which focuses on the history of the Ottoman Empire.
Cavusoglu specifically mentioned Maduro’s positive reaction to the movie, citing the Venezuelan President as saying that “these TV series tell the story of real Islam” and that thanks to the show, he will embrace Islam “someday”.
“We are happy and proud to hear such words”, Cavusoglu underscored.
His remarks come amid the ongoing political standoff in Venezuela, which escalated after the country’s opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president on 23 January.Maduro dubbed Guaido a puppet of the United States, claiming that Washington was once again attempting to back a coup in Venezuela and wanted “to unleash an oil war to invade our homeland and rule here”.
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Google flipped seats, shifted millions of votes to Dems in 2018 midterms, researcher tells RT — RT USA News
Google’s biased search algorithm actually flipped seats in the 2018 US midterm elections, according to a researcher who found the search engine’s “dramatically biased” results could have shifted over 78 million votes to Democrats.
“Upwards of 25 percent of the national elections in the world are being decided without people’s knowledge by Google’s search algorithm,” senior research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology told RT, calling the search engine the “deciding factor” in close races.
Epstein’s study of three 2018 California House races found Google played the deciding role in flipping those Republican-held seats to the Democrats, influencing millions of undecided voters by controlling what they saw when they searched 500 election-related terms. Google’s results showed a “significant liberal bias,” unlike Bing’s or Yahoo’s – and with 90 percent of the search engine’s market share in the US, that bias is enormously influential.
Search results favoring one side of an issue can influence anywhere from 20 to 80 percent of undecided voters, depending on the issue and demographic group, Epstein said. He has spent six years investigating the role of what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) in swaying public opinion, more recently focusing on the political ramifications by looking at various countries’ elections.
“People trust algorithmic output. They trust Google. They think because it’s generated by a computer, they don’t see the human hand – they think it’s impartial and objective and, because of that, their opinions change,” Epstein said.
While Google denies it manipulates search rankings to manipulate political sentiment or makes election-specific tweaks, Epstein says their response is disingenuous – he never claimed they re-ranked results, merely that the results they displayed were biased.
We found very consistently that on Google they ended up with search results favoring liberals and favoring liberal news sources, and it was quite a dramatic effect.
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Russian Ministry of Defence released footage of US Air Force’s nuclear capable bomber B-52H Stratofortress over international waters of the Baltic Sea.
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Fall River, Massachusetts: Jewish cemetery vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti
Fall River, Massachusetts: Jewish cemetery vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti
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Kate Randall
23 March 2019
On Sunday afternoon, March 17, police in Fall River responded to a report of vandalism at the Hebrew cemetery on McMahon Street in the southeastern Massachusetts city. The discovery was made by a cemetery maintenance worker. It is believed the vandalism occurred either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Police originally reported that “approximately 25 gravestones” were defaced. But following a row-by-row examination of the cemetery on Tuesday, they announced on Wednesday that 59 gravestones had been defaced with anti-Semitic language and swastikas. Some had also been toppled over.
Gravestones were defaced with black magic marker. In addition to swastikas, anti-Semitic phrases included “Heil Hitler,” “Expel the Jews” and “Oy vey! This is MAGA country,” a reference to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
According to the Fall River-based Herald News, the phrase “The Day of the Rope” was written on at least two gravestones. This appears to refer to a book of fiction about a white nationalist uprising against the United States government.
The anti-Semitic incident in Fall River took place just days after the March 15 fascist terror attack on two Muslim mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left 50 dead. It also occurred less than six months after the October 27, 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11.
The Fall River attack, while claiming no lives, was inspired by the same white nationalist, fascistic views propounded by the Trump administration and right-wing governments in France, Italy, Brazil and…
Mueller issues equivocal report, concludes Russia probe
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings fail to implicate US President Donald Trump in collusion with Russia in 2016, but do not exonerate him on the charge of obstruction of justice either. Read more
Nigel Farage back on the frontline
RT
March 22, 2019
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has announced that he will lead his new Brexit Party into the European elections if UK MPs decide to delay Brexit beyond May 22.
Farage, who has ostensibly appointed himself leader, told various media, including the BBC and Sky News on Friday morning: “I will take over as leader of the Brexit Party and lead it into the European Elections.”
Nigel Farage says that if the UK takes part in European elections, he will lead his new Brexit Party. When asked who is financially backing the party, he replies “don’t worry, they’re all UK registered” https://t.co/d7fl8711cE pic.twitter.com/KTI2KmsYND
— Sky News Politics (@SkyNewsPolitics) March 22, 2019
It comes after the Brexit Party’s leader, Catherine Blaiklock, quit over a series of alleged Islamophobic statements and retweets of far-right figures on social media.
It is not yet known if Farage has officially been elected as leader, as the party does not, as yet, appear to have a formal infrastructure to conduct such a vote.
The right-wing MEP vowed to put out a whole host of Brexit Party candidates if the UK participates in the upcoming EU elections in May, adding: “If we fight those elections, we will fight them on trust.”
On Thursday night, the EU agreed to PM May’s request for a delaying to Brexit beyond the March 29 deadline. Brussels announced two new exit dates depending on what happens next week in the UK parliament.
The UK will have to leave the bloc on April 12 unless British MPs agree to May’s Brexit deal. If the withdrawal agreement is passed by next week, EU leaders have agreed to grant an extension until May 22.
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Men’s sperm have been decreasing in number and getting worse at swimming for some time now—and, at least in the United States and Europe, new research says it’s getting worse. Daniel Noah Halpern writes, “A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades: We’ve become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely. Men are doomed. Everybody knows this. We’re obviously all doomed, the women too, everybody in general, just a waiting game until one or another of the stupid things our stupid species is up to finally gets us. But as it turns out, no surprise: men first. Second instance of no surprise: We’re going to take the women down with us.”
In July of 2017 the BBC reported that, “Humans could become extinct if sperm counts in men continue to fall at current rates.” Researchers assessing the results of nearly 200 studies say sperm counts among men from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, seem to have halved in less than 40 years. Dr Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist, told the BBC that if the trend continued humans would become extinct.
“If we will not change the ways that we are living and the environment and the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future,” Levine said. “Eventually we may have a problem, and with reproduction in general, and it may be the extinction of the human species.”
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“Mock The Russiagaters. Mock Them Ruthlessly”
Caitlin Johnstone
Medium.com
March 24, 2019
The Robert Mueller investigation which monopolized political discourse for two years has finally concluded, and his anxiously awaited report has been submitted to Attorney General William Barr. The results are in and the debate is over: those advancing the conspiracy theory that the Kremlin has infiltrated the highest levels of the US government were wrong, and those of us voicing skepticism of this were right.
The contents of the report are still secret, but CNN’s Justice Department reporter Laura Jarrett has told us all we need to know, tweeting,“Special Counsel Mueller is not recommending ANY further indictments am told.” On top of that, William Barr said in a letter to congressional leaders that there has been no obstruction of Mueller’s investigation by Justice Department officials.
So that’s it, then. A completely unhindered investigation has failed to convict a single American of any kind of conspiracy with the Russian government, and no further indictments are coming. The political/media class which sold rank-and-file Americans on the lie that the Mueller investigation was going to bring down this presidency were liars and frauds, and none of the goalpost-moving that I am sure is already beginning to happen will change that.
Say it again: Mueller has indicted *zero* Americans for conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election, which was central impetus for the Special Counsel in the first place. Anyone who denies this is an abject liar https://t.co/gRQdr01ZCv
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 22, 2019
Can we get it any clearer than this?? From the NYT: https://t.co/47APcLxf0l pic.twitter.com/gvtDLGblSp
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
It has been obvious from the very beginning that the Maddow Muppets were being sold a lie. In 2017 I wrote an article titled “How We Can Be Certain That…
#Resistance licks wounds, MAGA camp enjoys salty popcorn & memes — RT USA News
As the Russiagate conspiracy theory disintegrates in the wake of the Mueller report’s conclusions, Resistance Twitter is struggling to cope, while Trump supporters are basking in their foes’ suffering.
The anti-Trump coalition largely seized on the line in Attorney General William Barr’s report summary stating the document “does not exonerate” Trump of obstruction charges, demanding the release of the special counsel’s report. The reality-based community could only look on in amazement. And laugh.
Some screeched about a cover-up,
The fact that Robert Mueller’s report did NOT exonerate Donald Trump on the key question of whether he committed obstruction of justice is a damn good indication that Trump DID obstruct justice. #ReleaseTheFullReport
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) March 24, 2019
Okay. #MuellerReport renders one thing evident…the president can not be exonerated. Don’s new word, exonerate, won’t matter to the Southern District of NY either. The president is a liar. Taxes and bank records will show this and the SDNY is Don’s fate. Stay tuned…
— Simplified Politics (@SimplifiedPoli1) March 25, 2019
The moving of goalposts commenced,
Again, you guys do realize that Barr’s letter specifies that there were efforts to influence the election (1. Social influence campaign, 2. DNC hack), right? People seem to keep flossing over that in their dumbass touchdown dances.
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 24, 2019
Barr’s letter confirmed @realDonaldTrump was under investigation. Barr & Rosenstein concluded evidence insufficient to establish @potus committed obstruction of justice, but quoted Mueller stated “report does not exonerate him.” Trump lied to the public today about that finding. pic.twitter.com/KHEsYfwf88
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) March 24, 2019
So many hot takes today in the absence of data.
1) We have Barr’s letter. Not Mueller’s report.
2) Muellers report was narrowly focused on *intent*.
3) Mueller did find additional data that warranted offloading investigation/prosecution to other legal jurisdictions.
Chill.
— Bryan William Jones (@BWJones) March 24, 2019
…and Barr was declared compromised.
The fix was in when Trump replaced his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, with Matt Whitaker (in an acting capacity) and then Barr. This is a sad day for the rule of law.
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— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) March 24, 2019
I don’t want to hear complaints about the Mueller investigation after 11 Bengazi hearings with @HillaryClinton that produced nothing & the faux e-mail scandal that produced nothing. There was collusion & obstruction but Barr, a Trump appointee is covering this up for his Fuhrer.
— John Melendez (@stutteringjohnm) March 24, 2019
Don’t believe a word of the Mueller report from Rumps puppet AG!! Let us read it. I bet you $100 it’s not as Barr reported. But there are plenty of other investigations not headed up by people in his control. This is the end of the beginning but not the end
— Jeff Kravitz (@jeffkravitz) March 25, 2019
Conservatives gleefully pronounced the Resistance DOA,
That scraping noise you may hear in Washington this afternoon is the sound of people who boosted the Trump-Russian collusion story trying to get the egg of their faces. I wonder if Adam Schiff will ever be able to get it off.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 24, 2019
Celebrating with memes,
and mocking the inability of the self-appointed opposition to come to terms with reality.
Others were more gentle in their mockery.
Maybe, in the end, the Mueller Report was about the all the memories and friends we made along the way. #MuellerReport
— Kevin Berger (@KevinBerger1230) March 24, 2019
While Russiagate skeptics with no love lost for Trump predicted the next step of the madness.
Turning on Mueller and impugning his integrity and competence is the inevitable outcome – it’s the only play the Trump/Russia devotees have – and here’s the start: https://t.co/btey70xrIw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 24, 2019
Congratulations to all the resistance Russiagate hustlers and spooks current and former who just massively increased Trump’s chances of re-election https://t.co/wbuOLRjzUR
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 24, 2019
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Jim Crow in Our Climate Crisis
Critics of House Resolution 109 (H. RES. 109)—the “Green New Deal” (GND) introduced in Congress by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)—have condemned this nonbinding resolution for its inclusion of aspirations which, in their view, have nothing to do with climate change. In particular, what they find irrelevant are the aspirations that address social and economic inequalities, such as providing “high quality health care” and “affordable, safe and adequate housing” for all.
As objectionable as they find these goals, many critics are more disturbed by the aspirations that address the harms suffered specifically by communities of color as a result of historic and present day systemic discrimination. Though they are willing to acknowledge that communities of color are more vulnerable than whites to the impacts of climate change, Resolution critics—including those who are for the passage of some green new deal (just not this one)—are unwilling to accept that these communities’ past and present experiences of discrimination might have something to do with our climate crisis. Consequently, they reject any attempt to redress these harms through climate change legislation, and suggest that mention of these in H. RES. 109 is good enough reason to reject altogether the resolution.
In response, supporters of H. RES. 109 and of more radical GNDs have noted that the communities most vulnerable to and affected by climate change are the least responsible for creating the climate crisis. Moreover, these same communities (supporters argue) are disproportionately subjected to environmental harms produced by fossil fuel and other toxic industries due to politicians’ discriminatory and industry-friendly industrial zoning decisions, such as those that have produced Louisiana’s infamous–and deadly–Cancer Alley.
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The Real Parallels Between Donald Trump and George Orwell
“I think this was true of George Orwell — whatever the virtues of his political writing, he served for almost 20 years as a policeman of the “Left”. He didn’t really engage with the arguments of opponents; rather, he tried to close off their views by tagging them as “soggy, half-baked” Socialists, “Fascifists”, “quislings”, and “crypto-Communists”. A year before his death, he turned over a list of “suspect” names to British intelligence services. For me, that was an episode that had a powerful symbolic importance.” — Noam Chomsky
“I have said before, though, that one aspect of the seemingly endless popularity of the Zombie story in film and TV is based in a desire FOR apocalyptic end of time events. Somewhere buried within the bourgeois mind is a desire to wash it all away and start over. And with that comes, in standard Hollywood terms, a new frontiersman mentality — it is to do Manifest Destiny again, only better, and starring ME.”—John Steppling
“Homophobia in the Service of Anti-Trumpism is Still Homophobic”—Kollibri Terre Sonnenblume
It takes close to zero genius, imagination or insight to write a dystopian novel. They are released now like junk mail. One can hardly get through a week without being bombarded by the latest book telling you the world is going to end. Strangely enough such books are not just met with critical acclaim, but with excitement. It is the liberal’s version of the Book of Revelation. Many…
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US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
The US coup with the self-proclaimed Venezuelan puppet president Juan Guaidó has been failing. Right-wing Latin American countries and the European Union, while willing to go along with the charade farce president, have not been willing to take military action against Venezuela.
This week the US was caught seeking to create violent chaos with imported mercenaries disguised as Venezuelan military, funded by assets seized from Venezuela as part of the US economic war. Telesur reports the government unveiled telephone conversations and other evidence between leaders of the right planning violence against the country that came from a Guaidó aide.
Earlier this week Guaido’s ‘chief of staff,’ Roberto Marrero was arrested along with his bodyguard. In announcing the arrest, Minister of Interior Justice and Peace Nestor Reverol said that Venezuela had dismantled a “terrorist cell” that planned to attack and destabilize Venezuela. As a result of that arrest evidence has been uncovered about a terror campaign planned against Venezuela.
The arrest uncovered new evidence about the terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition. Mission Verdad reports on a press conference by Jorge Rodríguez, Minister of Communication and Information which described how the arrest of Marrero led to the discovery of widespread terrorist plans. The new evidence points to a plot funded by assets seized by the United States from Venezuela and channeled into…
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Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive – Consortiumnews
The Trump administration’s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy, writes Pepe Escobar.
By Pepe Escobar
in Bangkok
Special to Consortium News
Is this the Age of Anxiety? The Age of Stupidity? The Age of Hybrid War? Or all of the above?
As right populism learns to use algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and media convergence, the Empire of Chaos, in parallel, is unleashing all-out hybrid and semiotic war.
Dick Cheney’s Global War on Terror (GWOT) is back, metastasized as a hybrid mongrel.
But GWOT would not be GWOT without a Wild West scarecrow. Enter Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama. On the same day the State Department announced a $1 million bounty on his head, the so- called “UN Security Council IS and Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee” declared Hamza the next al-Qaeda leader.
Since January 2017, Hamza has been a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the State Department – on par with his deceased Dad, back in the early 2000s. The Beltway intel community “believes” Hamza resides “in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.”
Remember these are the same people who “believed” former Taliban leader Mullah Omar resided in Quetta, Baluchistan, when in fact he was safely ensconced only a few miles away from a massive U.S. military base in Zabul, Afghanistan.
Considering that Jabhat al-Nusra, or al-Qaeda in Syria, for all practical purposes, was defined as no more than “moderate rebels” by the Beltway intel community, it’s safe to infer that new scarecrow Hamza is also a “moderate”. And yet he’s more dangerous than vanished fake Caliph Abu Baqr al-Baghdadi. Talk about a masterful example of culture jamming.
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A hefty case can be made that the Empire of Chaos currently has no allies; it’s essentially surrounded by an assortment of vassals, puppets and comprador 5thcolumnist elites professing varied degrees of – sometimes reluctant – obedience.
The Trump administration’s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy – as in the whole episode of designating State Department/CIA…
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Prison Planet.com » With RussiaGate Over Where’s Hillary?
Tom Luongo
March 24, 2019
During most of the RussiaGate investigation against Donald Trump I kept saying that all roads lead to Hillary Clinton.
Anyone with three working brain cells knew this, including ‘Miss’ Maddow, whose tears of disappointment are particularly delicious.
Robert Mueller’s investigation was designed from the beginning to create something out of nothing. It did this admirably.
It was so effective it paralyzed the country for more than two years, just like Europe has been held hostage by Brexit. And all of this because, in the end, the elites I call The Davos Crowd refused to accept that the people no longer believed their lies about the benefits of their neoliberal, globalist agenda.
Hillary Clinton’s ascension to the Presidency was to be their apotheosis along with the Brexit vote. These were meant to lay to rest, once and for all time, the vaguely libertarian notion that people should rule themselves and not be ruled by philosopher kings in some distant land.
Hillary’s failure was enormous. And the RussiaGate gambit to destroy Trump served a laundry list of purposes to cover it:
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
- Undermine his legitimacy before he even takes office.
- Accuse him of what Hillary actually did: collude with Russians and Ukrainians to effect the outcome of the election
- Paralyze Trump on his foreign policy desires to scale back the Empire
- Give aid and comfort to hurting progressives and radicalize them further undermining our political system
- Polarize the electorate over the false choice of Trump’s guilt.
- Paralyze the Dept. of Justice and Congress so that they would not uncover the massive corruption in the intelligence agencies in the U.S. and the U.K.
- Isolate Trump and take away every ally or potential ally he could have by turning them against him through prosecutor overreach.
Hillary should have been thrown to the wolves after she failed. When you…
‘Trump is still bad!’ Media & Dems refuse to swallow Mueller’s red pill, grasp at obstruction straw — RT USA News
With a summary of the long-awaited Mueller report published at last, the #Resistance’s media-political axis are doing their best to spin it as proof that Trump is guilty of SOMETHING – and that the full report will vindicate them.
Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the still-unpublished special counsel report poured cold water on most of the lingering Russiagate embers, stating that not only was there no evidence the Trump campaign conspired or collaborated with the Russian government, but that there was insufficient evidence the president obstructed justice – leaving a tiny window of possibility through which the #Resistance immediately began cramming itself.
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Mueller probe finds no collusion or conspiracy between Trump & Russia
And cram they did. The media was afire with desperate attempts to spin the unspinnable.
The AP subtly arranged its headline for maximum effect, while the BBC had passed on to the “acceptance” stage of grieving.
Trump just said it is a “complete and total exoneration.”
Barr, literally quoting from Mueller: “While the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 24, 2019
Barr’s letter is careful to say he does not believe there is proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, of acts of obstruction with a nexus to an official investigation & corrupt intent. That is how he couches his obstruction finding & it leaves a lot of gray area Congress should explore.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 24, 2019
Most pundits clung to the gray area implied by “evidence not sufficient.”
Let me be clear, I CONCEDE NOTHING! If #MuellerReport didn’t look into Trump’s business ties with the Russians before the elections and didn’t look into his secret meetings with them after the election, then this is an epic debacle that looked into the exact wrong things.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) March 24, 2019
The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur lamented that Mueller had focused on the wrong things the whole time – it wasn’t about the election, dummies, it was about before and after the election!
A dour-looking Rep. Maxine Waters suggested that Trump had actually hypnotized his “sycophants” by repeating the “no collusion” line. “This is not the end of anything!” the congresswoman defiantly told Joy Reid. “There’s so much that needs to be – you know – taken a look at this point.”
The Department of Justice has suggested it cannot provide Congress with evidence as to people not indicted.
Not true. It can, and it has, when the need for transparency is strong.
The DOJ gave us more than 880k pages from the Clinton email probe. It must now do the same here. pic.twitter.com/bvIKOqnLF0
— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) March 24, 2019
Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wouldn’t let go of his impeachment dreams, demanding the release of all the evidence Mueller collected. “We know that the special counsel was not permitted to indict a sitting president, and we ought to see what evidence he produced,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, threatening to sue the Justice Department if it didn’t cough up the goods.
In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future.
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) March 24, 2019
House Judicial Committee chair Jerry Nadler thought that was a great idea, announcing his committee would haul Barr in to testify to exactly what he meant with that “does not exonerate” line the media chose to latch onto.
Barr made it clear before he was nominated that he didn’t think Trump committed obstruction of justice. That’s why Trump made him AG.
If Mueller did present arguments and evidence for why the President of the United States obstructed justice, they need to be made public. Now. https://t.co/Ii5SemEOPt
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) March 24, 2019
Sen. Ron Wyden blamed Barr for letting Trump get away, suggesting Mueller had dropped the ball by not indicting the president for obstruction himself – evidence be damned.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer also released a statement demanding the release of the full report along with “underlying documentation.” After a 19-month investigation, there was surely a needle in this haystack, and the American people deserved to have a look.
Perhaps the best response came from former FBI director James Comey, whose firing triggered the appointment of Mueller as special counsel in the first place. What did it all mean? Why are we here? When a manufactured conspiracy falls in the forest, does it make a sound?
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NJ Governor Signs ‘Rain Tax’ Bill
In what is one of the most corrupt and vile things to have ever happened to the American political system, residents of New Jersey will now be taxed when something 100% out of their control happens. New Jersey’s governor Phil Murphy signed 19 bills into law on Monday, one of which, was the so-called “rain tax.”
Unfortunately, there were supporters of this tyrannical and wholly dictatorial law. Dubbed S-1073, supporters call it “flood defense,” and say it will serve as a long-needed tool to manage flooding and dirty runoff from rainwater. So there are actually human beings on earth who want others and themselves stolen from because it rains. There is nothing more disturbing that the current political path the United States is currently one. It’s downright horrifying, actually.
Government is downright evil and shameless when it comes to taxation. These pillagers of the public just sit around all day thinking and dreaming of events and things to tax. – Judy Morris Report
“Most importantly, it gives communities a way to access new resources in a fair and equitable manner, and invest in related benefits such as additional green space. We urge the governor to sign it,” said New Jersey Future’s Chris Sturm, who serves as the advocacy group’s managing director for policy and water, according to a report by Patch.
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Theresa May’s allies rush to her support amid ouster plot reports
The British prime minister’s major allies in the cabinet say she will stay in charge despite reports that up to 11 ministers are planning to oust her. Read more
Two US school shooting survivors have committed suicide
Two survivors of a deadly school shooting in the US state of Florida have killed themselves. Read more
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Prison Planet.com » Twitter Bans User For Laughing At Rachel Maddow’s Tears Of Despair Over Mueller Report
Zero Hedge
March 24, 2019
As left-wing news outlets were forced to cover the completion of the Mueller report sans high-level indictments (Trump Jr., for example), Rachel Maddow had a grand-mal meltdown after having been forced by MSNBC to cancel a fishing trip and drive in to work on a Friday night.
Maddow fought back tears as she reported on her own collapsing narrative, to which Twitter user ‘Karli Bonne’ (@kbq2251) posted a video of herself laughing at Maddow’s despair.
As the video began to go viral, Twitter suspended her account.
Bonne then tweeted the video from another account (@kbq225) which was quickly amplified by several people, including actor James Woods, who truly gives zero f*cks now that Hollywood has blacklisted him for being openly conservative.
#Maddow either choking on kitty litter chunks or facing the hard cold reality she’s the worst journalist in television history. Always certain, but rarely right… #LifeIsJoyous pic.twitter.com/VCe9dwXp2y
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 23, 2019
#Maddow was actually crying. Crying! Not since her drunken liar goddess #Hillary got pummeled in the election have I seen such agony etched onto the face of this bonehead. Dear God, this is so much fun… #MuellerReport
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 23, 2019
Cry me a river!!! They just suspended my account again!! @kbq2251 wth not even a email this time O well here we go again!! Thanks schills I’m still lol no collusion!😂🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/a1ZxE7AsUY
— Karli Bonne’⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@kbq225) March 23, 2019
The original account (@kbq2251) who posted the video of Rachel Maddow Crying has been Suspended by Twitter.
Spread this video everywhere because Twitter obviously doesn’t want you to see it. pic.twitter.com/Gq6iSYIfMT
— ALX 🇺🇸 ❌ (@alx) March 23, 2019
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It’s a shame our country had to go through this
President Trump has greeted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report – which found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016 – enthusiastically, calling it a “Complete and Total EXONERATION.”
No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2019
Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on Friday, after almost two years of investigation. Barr released a summary of the report on Sunday, explaining that Mueller found no evidence of ‘Russian collusion,’ and insufficient evidence of obstruction of justice.
“It’s a shame that our country had to go through this,” Trump told reporters after Barr’s letter went public. “To be honest, it’s a shame your president had to go through this.”
“This was an illegal takedown that failed,” he continued.
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Mueller probe did not find that Trump campaign conspired with Russia
Trump had repeatedly criticized Mueller’s probe, calling it a politically-motivated “witch hunt,” and an “illegal and conflated investigation in search of a crime.” Trump had also called Mueller “out of control” and referred to his legal team as a “band of angry Democrats.”
With Mueller’s report finished, Trump’s opponents have shifted to pressuring Barr to release its underlying evidence. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that this evidence “may be even more important to the truth than the report itself.”
Among Trump’s most ardent opponents, the report has seemingly done little to sate their desire to go after the President. California Rep. Adam Schiff (D), currently heading a House Intelligence Committee investigation into alleged ‘Russian collusion,’ tld ABC News on Sunday that he believes he believes “compelling” and “significant evidence of collusion” still exists.
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Australian PM seeks to cover up political roots of fascist attack in New Zealand
Australian PM seeks to cover up political roots of fascist attack in New Zealand
By
Mike Head
23 March 2019
Over the past week, millions of Australians have sought, via vigils, petitions and social media posts, to voice their revulsion and outrage at the massacre of 50 Muslims at two New Zealand mosques.
Adding to the shock and concern is that this terrible crime, one of the worst acts of fascist violence since World War II, was carried out by a young man, Brenton Tarrant, 28, who was born and bred in Australia.
By contrast, while feigning sympathy for the victims, the entire political and media establishment is desperately denying any responsibility for creating the social conditions and political climate for such atrocities.
In a speech last Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an end to “mindless tribalism.” While appealing for an end to “hate, blame and contempt,” his sole purpose was to insist that there was no link between the Christchurch attack and Australia’s notorious record of demonising and incarcerating refugees.
Morrison claimed that “legitimate policy debates” about “border policy” and slashing the migration intake were being hijacked by “tribalists” of both “the left and the right.” Tarrant had “rightly been denounced” for exploiting concerns about immigration to justify a mass killing, but “equally” anyone must be denounced if they seek to connect government policy to “racial hatred.”
This attempt to wall off refugee and immigration policy from the murders committed by a self-proclaimed “ethno-nationalist” is utter hypocrisy. There are palpable connections between Tarrant and the bipartisan regime of “stopping the boats,” detaining asylum seekers indefinitely and vilifying Muslims, which has been…
Trump, US lawmakers await details of Mueller report
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Does Most of Your Paycheck Go to Rent? That May Be Hurting Your Health
New data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans’ health – and that some communities are affected more than others.
The 2019 County Health Rankings, an annual collaborative report from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, shows that 11 percent of U.S. households are severely burdened by housing costs. This means that more than 800,000 households spend at least half of their income on housing.
In communities with high housing costs, residents rate their health as lower, are less likely to be able to purchase enough quality and nutritious foods, and have higher rates of child poverty.
As a health researcher, this is a theme that I have seen in studies over and over again.
The Most Burdened Households
While many communities face high housing costs, these burdens are not universally shared. Renters are more likely than homeowners to spend more than half of their paycheck on housing. The costs of homeownership have improved over the past few years, but housing costs for renters have not.
There are also racial differences. More than 1 in 10 white households spend more than half of their income on housing, with a median income of US$56,000. But among households headed by Blacks, the median income is $33,000 – and about 1 in 4 Black households experience these housing costs burdens.
Another key finding from the County Health Rankings report is that segregated communities with more households headed by Black residents are twice as likely to face severe housing cost burdens than white households.
Why are Black Americans more likely to spend so much of their incomes on housing? One reason is that Black neighborhoods were targeted in a process called redlining, especially between the 1930s and 1965. Banks and other lenders excluded Black communities from favorable loans and…
Does Most of Your Paycheck Go to Rent? That May Be Hurting Your Health
New data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans’ health – and that some communities are affected more than others.
The 2019 County Health Rankings, an annual collaborative report from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, shows that 11 percent of U.S. households are severely burdened by housing costs. This means that more than 800,000 households spend at least half of their income on housing.
In communities with high housing costs, residents rate their health as lower, are less likely to be able to purchase enough quality and nutritious foods, and have higher rates of child poverty.
As a health researcher, this is a theme that I have seen in studies over and over again.
The Most Burdened Households
While many communities face high housing costs, these burdens are not universally shared. Renters are more likely than homeowners to spend more than half of their paycheck on housing. The costs of homeownership have improved over the past few years, but housing costs for renters have not.
There are also racial differences. More than 1 in 10 white households spend more than half of their income on housing, with a median income of US$56,000. But among households headed by Blacks, the median income is $33,000 – and about 1 in 4 Black households experience these housing costs burdens.
Another key finding from the County Health Rankings report is that segregated communities with more households headed by Black residents are twice as likely to face severe housing cost burdens than white households.
Why are Black Americans more likely to spend so much of their incomes on housing? One reason is that Black neighborhoods were targeted in a process called redlining, especially between the 1930s and 1965. Banks and other lenders excluded Black communities from favorable loans and…
Prison Planet.com » Tucker Calls For Roger Stone Pardon, Thinks Adam Schiff And Eric Swalwell Should Resign In Disgrace
Daily Caller
March 24, 2019
Tucker Carlson on Friday called for President Donald Trump to pardon Roger Stone “very soon,” while asserting that Democratic California Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell should resign from office for peddling the Russia collusion conspiracy theory.
“This has been a disaster,” Carlson said on his show, hours after special counsel Robert Mueller sent his Russia investigation report to the Justice Department.
Agency officials said the report marks the end of the 22-month-long investigation, and no further indictments will be issued. The probe ends without any Trump associates being charged with conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election. Stone was indicted on Jan. 24 on charges related to his testimony in 2017 before the House Intelligence Committee.
“And what about the victims of this monstrosity? Roger Stone is facing life in prison,” Carlson said.
“All to find collusion. But there was no collusion. Stone is still looking at life in prison. Where is Roger Stone’s pardon? His pardon from the president? Let’s hope it comes very soon.”
Carlson also called out Schiff, Swalwell and CNN’s Jeff Zucker for promoting collusion conspiracy theories throughout the investigation.
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Trafficking or Commercial Sex? What Recent Exposés Reveal
Donald Trump’s consensual extra-marital affairs with two adult sex workers – along with his repeated denials, his “fixer’s” accusations and his contempt for popular indignation – has turned what once would have been a sex scandal into just another pathetic media story.
However, the recent revelations about the sexual exploits of entertainer R. Kelley and investment banker Jeffrey Epstein pose a more profound question: Is there a difference between “consensual,” adult sex work and sex trafficking with under-age girls?
A couple of weeks ago, the news media had fun reporting on the latest sex scandal involving an all-American 1 percenter. No, this one didn’t involve Trump or Stormy Daniels but rather Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football franchise. He reported visited the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, FL, on January 19thand 20th, mere hours before the Patriots’ AFC Championship game. Most tantalizing, the local police released videos of the alleged sexual engagements between Kraft and women working at the spa.
Jupiter Police Detective Andrew Sharp stated at a press conference, “The video that we obtained, it shows the act that took place. On every gentleman that you have a list of, the act that took place is recorded on that video.” He added, “Does the video contain Mr. Kraft inside receiving the alleged acts? The answer is yes.” Kraft has been charged with two counts of soliciting; he allegedly paid $100 and…
NASA to send a helicopter to Mars — RT USA News
Not content with rovers, NASA’s next Mars mission will include a helicopter that will be the first human craft to fly around another planet and could potentially pave the way for groundbreaking exploration on Mars and beyond.
The Mars 2020 Rover will land on the Red Planet in early 2021 with a small helicopter on board, to test if it will be able to fly. Until now, the only man-made objects that have visited Mars are rovers, orbiters and landers.
The helicopter mission will last 30 days and will consist of five flights, some of which will simply be hovering tests, just 10 feet off the ground.
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Should the first mission be successful, it could open up a whole new world of potential for planetary exploration. Currently, robotic explorers have been limited to the red planet’s surface, and can’t get to every nook and cranny.
“We envision helicopters opening doors to new types of exploration on Mars,” Håvard Grip, flight-control and aerodynamics lead for the Mars Helicopter said. “In the future, we could imagine doing things like regional exploration using multiple helicopters or going to inaccessible areas or biologically sensitive areas using small helicopters.”
Mars has a far thinner atmosphere than Earth, meaning that flying just above the surface is the equivalent of being at 100,000 feet in Earth’s atmosphere. Helicopters usually fly at a max of 10,000 feet.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory created an extremely light chopper, weighing just four pounds, with blades that will spin at 3,000 rpm, 10 times faster than most ordinary helicopters. It was approved for the Mars mission in May and will be fitted with solar power batteries, and a heater.
It isn’t just the thin atmosphere that presents a challenge for the chopper, though: the distance between Earth and Mars means there would be a communication delay of at least a few minutes, so the helicopter needs to be able to fly itself and stay in contact with the rover.
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Politics Has Failed – LewRockwell
With each passing day, we get closer to the shift in the tide that will sweep away this self-serving delusion of the ruling elites like a crumbling sand castle.
Those living in revolutionary times are rarely aware of the tumult ahead: in 1766, a mere decade before the Declaration of Independence, virtually no one was calling for American independence. Indeed, in 1771, a mere 5 years before the rebellion was declared, the voices promoting independence were few and far between.
The shift from a pre-revolutionary era to a revolutionary era took less than a year. Perhaps no one exemplified the rapidity and totality of radicalization more than Benjamin Franklin, who went from an avowed Loyalist bent on reform to a dedicated, zealous revolutionary at the tender age of 70. (Old dogs can learn new tricks, at least in revolutionary eras.)
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Recall that news could only travel as fast as a ship between seaports or a horse on the colonies’ minimalist roads, and it took days to travel between Boston, Philadelphia and New York, and much longer to reach Williamsburg and Charleston and points west. Communications were slow and limited, and this makes the rapid change of the political tide even more extraordinary.
Are we in a pre-revolutionary era? Here’s clue #1: politics has failed. When the political process can no longer fix what’s broken, politics has failed. When entire classes of citizenry no longer feel represented, politics has failed. When the system delivers a steadily declining standard of living to the bottom 80% of households, politics has failed.
Clue #2: having failed, the political machinery passed the baton to the central bank, which…
The Matrix: 20 Years Later
by Andrew M. Johnson / March 24th, 2019
“Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.”
Those words were first spoken twenty years ago and sent people flocking to movie theaters to find out just what the Matrix was. When The Matrix came out, I was going through a phase of spiritual exploration, with a particular focus on Gnosticism, so the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces resonated with me at the time. Although the number of essays and books written about the movie and its implications has waned over the years, the imprint left by The Matrix on pop culture remains to this day.
Despite the adoption of the term “red pill” by conservatives and various elements of conspiracy culture (proving once again that the Right continues to steal imagery from the Left), The Matrix is a very anti-capitalist movie as shown by its literal use of human resources, a theme the Wachowskis would revisit in their later movie Jupiter Ascending.
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they…
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Prison Planet.com » Leftists Harass, Threaten Alex Jones Then Deceptively Edit the Footage to Portray Jones as the Bad Guy
“Eat shit Alex Jones, you’re gonna get it, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!”
Paul Joseph Watson
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March 24, 2019
A group of leftists hurled threats and abuse at Alex Jones during an incident in Austin, Texas last night before deceptively editing the footage to make it look like Jones had initiated the confrontation.
Jones went for dinner at Lucy’s Fried Chicken on South Congress with his wife and Joe Rogan.
They took their seats at a small bar area inside the restaurant. Most of the seating for customers is outside.
Within 5 minutes, a dark haired man entered the bar area from outside, approached Jones, leaned in to his ear and seethed, “Eat shit Alex Jones, you’re gonna get it, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!”
Jones ignored the man, but 10 minutes later was confronted by another individual, who told him, “Fuck you, fuck your family!”
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Further obscenities were shouted towards Jones and his wife a third time when the door to the outside briefly swung open.
At this point, Jones told his wife to finish her meal as he felt the situation was going to end badly and wanted to pay the tab and leave.
As soon as Jones and his wife walked outside to leave, he saw a bunch of stereotypical wild eyed, crazy looking leftists screaming about “eating and killing the rich”.
The group had chosen to sit at the table right by the exit door and all had their cameras rolling, having clearly set up the confrontation.
Jones then recognized one of the men who had threatened him earlier. The individual started shouting “eat shit eat shit” over and over again.
Knowing that the footage would be posted to the Internet, Jones began recording video.
Footage of the confrontation was later posted to Reddit and went viral. However, it cut out the part where the leftists initiated the incident by hurling violent threats at Jones and his wife as they sat…
3,000 British soldiers given viagra to help with combat-related erectile dysfunction — RT UK News
Some 3,000 British soldiers have reportedly received viagra and 60 were given psychosexual therapy to deal with the effects of active duty on their sex life, with many experiencing erectile dysfunction from PTSD.
The statistics come from British Ministry of Defence documents over the last five years, the Sun reports. Couples counseling was also offered in a number of cases to provide extra support for marriages under strain.
A shocking one in every 90 servicemen return from combat with some form of erectile dysfunction, largely down to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the Daily Mail reports.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs reports that troops with PTSD are “significantly more likely than their civilian counterparts to report erectile dysfunction or other sexual problems.” The US military spends $84 million a year on erectile dysfunction medications for troops, a chunk of which goes to retired veterans receiving Pentagon healthcare coverage.
A 2014 study found erectile dysfunction is nearly three times higher among US military servicemen under 40 than the rest of the civilian population.
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Diana Ross’ support for Michael Jackson ‘in the name of love’ prompts anger — RT USA News
Singer Diana Ross has come under social media fire after the diva expressed support for the late Michael Jackson, following renewed allegations that the King of Pop sexually abused boys at the peak of his career.
Calling Jackson a “magnificent incredible force” to her and others in a tweet on Saturday, the Supremes singer referenced her 1965 hit in asking the two accusers of a recent HBO documentary “to stop in the name of love.” In it, the two adult men document allegations of molestation by Jackson while they were kids and working in the entertainment industry in the 1980s and 90s.
This is what’s on my heart this morning. I believe and trust that Michael Jackson was and is A magnificent incredible force to me and to many others.
STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE— Ms. Ross (@DianaRoss) March 23, 2019
Her comments in support for Jackson come after fellow singer Barbra Streisand received a whirlwind of outcry for saying in a recent interview that the alleged abuse “didn’t kill” the victims. Streisand later apologized for her comments saying she was “profoundly sorry” for any “pain or misunderstanding.”
Ross’ tweet found some vindication among his fans who thanked her for her support for Jackson amid the allegations. However, many expressed consternation at her comments, prompting yet another wave of disgust from netizens on social media.
Million thanks to you, Diana. Michael loves you too🌹🌹🌹
— MsSunnySideUp (@MsSunnySideUp1) March 23, 2019
I’m sure Michael had real good side. A lot of people, heck everybody has some good as well as bad. He had problem’s. He was child like & i expect he was generous. R.I.P. Michael
— KristeeKat (@WeResistHim) March 23, 2019
The truth already came out, it’s public record except the mass media refuses to report it. They deliberately refuse to allow Brandi Jackson on air because they know her story ruins Robson’s narrative and timeline
— Believe the victims of false accusers (@Hammertonhal) March 24, 2019
Well if he performed at the Bill Clinton Inaugural Gala and was allowed 3 songs then there is no way he could have been a pedophile you guys!!! pic.twitter.com/oJIfHPwJnU
— Lazycat (@Lazycat48576974) March 23, 2019
In other words “he didn’t hurt ME so I don’t care what he did to anyone else.” Gross.
— This Barbara Does NOT Support Child Rape (@barbaramcthomas) March 23, 2019
The problem is that you may believe that and he probably was the amazing person you knew and loved. But you do not know that he didn’t do what he is accused of, there’s no way you could know definitely. Take a step back from YOUR relationship, and look at these peoples stories.
— kiwi (@Thranduilholmes) March 23, 2019
You’re aff yer heed. He’s a paedophile who should have been imprisoned a long time before he died. Would you have been tweeting this if he’d been a plumber…oh sorry you’d have had no idea who he was then would you?
— James Dornan SNP (@glasgowcathcart) March 23, 2019
No Diana, just no. Just because you knew and liked someone doesn’t mean they’re innocent. You saw him with those boys and never thought it was strange for an adult to not have friends his age? One of the boys was 7 when the grooming and abuse started! What’s wrong with you?
— Vote Dem for the Planet (@Brasilmagic) March 23, 2019
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The disaster at Russia’s biggest power plant, which left dozens dead, could have been prevented, according to the head of the Russian Accounts Chamber.
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If Mueller Report Is Held, America May Not See 244th Year
Breitbart
March 24, 2019
Democrat 2020 candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke warned from the campaign trail in South Carolina Friday night there may not be another year of America if the Mueller report is not made public.
“Republicans and Democrats should do whatever they can to make sure their constituents, the American people, can read that report, form their own judgement, make their own decisions, and that the truth comes out,” O’Rourke said at a campaign stop in South Carolina Friday.
O’Rourke warned that America may not see another year if details of Russian interference in the 2016 election included in the Mueller report are not made public, saying, “This is an unprecedented attack on this country and on our democracy, and we are owed the facts. And if we do not receive them, 243 years in, there’s nothing that guarantees us a 244th.”
“For this democracy to succeed, people must put our country before their party, the next election, the approval of the president. What matters now is the future of the United States,” he said.
The Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election was handed over to U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Friday night. Barr has indicated he may have initial information to Congress on the report as soon as this weekend.
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Barbra Streisand rolls back on controversial Michael Jackson comments after outrage — RT USA News
Barbra Streisand has apologized for her controversial comments about Michael Jackson’s alleged abuse victims that ignited an outrage tsunami on Saturday.
The singer sparked anger when she said in an interview with the Times that while she “absolutely” believed Jackson’s abuse accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the alleged molestation “didn’t kill them,” and that Jackson’s “sexual needs were his sexual needs.”
Streisand posted an apology on her website Saturday, writing she was “profoundly sorry for any pain or misunderstanding” she caused by not choosing her words more carefully, “because the words as printed do not reflect my true feelings.”
“I didn’t mean to dismiss the trauma these boys experienced in any way,” she continued. “Like all survivors of sexual assault, they will have to carry this for the rest of their lives. I feel deep remorse and I hope that James and Wade know that I truly respect and admire them for speaking their truth.”
Streisand’s earlier comments saw her receive a deluge of criticism and mockery on social media; even the director of the Leaving Neverland documentary, Dan Reed, tweeted her over her remarks.
The singer also released a statement to Variety, in which she said, “To be crystal clear, there is no situation or circumstance where it is OK for the innocence of children to be taken advantage of by anyone.”
She also walked back her comments about blaming the boy’s parents. “It’s clear that the parents of the two young men were also victimized and seduced by fame and fantasy.”
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Barbra Streisand rolls back on controversial Michael Jackson comments after outrage — RT USA News
Barbra Streisand has apologized for her controversial comments about Michael Jackson’s alleged abuse victims that ignited an outrage tsunami on Saturday.
The singer sparked anger when she said in an interview with the Times that while she “absolutely” believed Jackson’s abuse accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the alleged molestation “didn’t kill them,” and that Jackson’s “sexual needs were his sexual needs.”
Streisand posted an apology on her website Saturday, writing she was “profoundly sorry for any pain or misunderstanding” she caused by not choosing her words more carefully, “because the words as printed do not reflect my true feelings.”
“I didn’t mean to dismiss the trauma these boys experienced in any way,” she continued. “Like all survivors of sexual assault, they will have to carry this for the rest of their lives. I feel deep remorse and I hope that James and Wade know that I truly respect and admire them for speaking their truth.”
Streisand’s earlier comments saw her receive a deluge of criticism and mockery on social media; even the director of the Leaving Neverland documentary, Dan Reed, tweeted her over her remarks.
The singer also released a statement to Variety, in which she said, “To be crystal clear, there is no situation or circumstance where it is OK for the innocence of children to be taken advantage of by anyone.”
She also walked back her comments about blaming the boy’s parents. “It’s clear that the parents of the two young men were also victimized and seduced by fame and fantasy.”
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Free Felicity Huffman! – LewRockwell
Poor Felicity Huffman is being raked over the coals for paying a lousy $15,000 to get her daughter extra time to take the SAT.
Jared Kushner’s father paid $2.5 million to get him into Harvard — and arranged for two of his beneficiary politicians, Sens. Ted Kennedy and Frank Lautenberg, to make calls on his offspring’s behalf.
“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it,” a former administrator at Jared’s private high school told Daniel Golden, author of the 2006 book, “The Price of Admission.” “There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard.”
Welcome to the baby boom’s remaking of college admissions!
For decades, going to college was a matter of social class, not IQ, talent or merit. From 1900 to 1960, only a tiny percentage of Americans even went to college, about 2 to 5 percent until well after World War II.
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It wasn’t until the ’60s that admission to college first began to be based on a universal standardized test, the Scholastic Aptitude Test. This fulfilled the dream of Harvard president James Conant, who believed that SAT-based admissions would redeem America’s promise of a classless society.
Recall that England’s law of primogeniture was one of the best things that ever happened to this country. If you are a small island nation and want to keep land from being chopped up every generation, it makes sense to mandate that entire estates be bequeathed to the first-born son. But that left a lot of smart second-, third- and fourth-born sons — not to mention daughters — out in the cold.
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Canada extends military missions in Ukraine and Mideast, allies with Trump in refugee crackdown
Canada extends military missions in Ukraine and Mideast, allies with Trump in refugee crackdown
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Roger Jordan
23 March 2019
In a series of announcements barely reported in the media, Canada’s Liberal government has intensified its right-wing, militarist and anti-refugee policies.
The Liberals’ budget, delivered Tuesday, confirmed that Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF) military training operations in the Middle East and Ukraine will be extended, for two and three years respectively. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Minister for Border Security, Bill Blair, has revealed he is in talks with Washington to fast-track the expulsion of refugee claimants who flee Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant crackdown by crossing into Canada.
Tuesday’s budget commits Ottawa to investing some $1.39 billion over the next two years to maintaining Canada’s participation in the US-led war in Iraq and Syria, and in advancing Canadian imperialist interests throughout the oil-rich region. Since Canada joined the latest Iraq-Syria war in 2014 under the previous Conservative government of Stephen Harper, it has played a critical role in facilitating the death and destruction wrought by US-led military operations in both countries. This includes abetting deadly air strikes that claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and the almost total destruction of Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city, and Raqqa in Syria.
Conscious of the widespread opposition to the Mideast war, the Trudeau government in February 2016 recalibrated the mission, ordering the withdrawal of fighter jets and the deployment of additional Special Forces troops and command personnel. Deployed to northern Iraq in what was ostensibly a “training” mission, the Special Forces troops provided frontline advice and…
Trump Administration Losing 94 Percent of Lawsuits Over Illegal Policy Changes
The Trump administration is losing court battles at an unprecedented rate, with many losses coming because officials failed to follow basic rules in changing policy.
Federal judges have ruled against the administration at least 63 times since Trump took office, The Washington Post reported. Two-thirds of those cases involved complaints that the administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act, a 1946 law that set procedural requirements that federal agencies must follow when unilaterally changing policies or regulations.
The normal “win rate” for the government in such cases is about 70 percent, the Post reported, but according to the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, the Trump administration’s win rate in these cases is just 6 percent.
“What they have consistently been doing is short-circuiting the process,” Georgetown Law professor William Buzbee told the Post, adding that the administration doesn’t “even come close” to providing legitimate explanations for the rule changes, “making it very easy for the courts to reject them because they’re not doing their homework.”
Only some cases involve bumbling officials. Others involve the president’s innate ability to torpedo his own agenda. At least a dozen decisions in which judges have ruled against the administration have involved Trump’s tweets or comments.
Just last year, a federal judge ruled against the administration’s move to end temporary legal status for immigrants from Central America, Haiti and Sudan because Trump’s “shithole countries” remark suggested the policy was motivated by ethnic or racial bias.
Trump has repeatedly complained that he keeps losing in court because of “Obama judges,” but numerous Republican-appointed judges have reached the same conclusions as those appointed by Trump’s predecessor.
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American Workers Should Want to Transfer Technology to China
The US government is fighting with all it has to keep China behind in technology. In his State of the Union Address, President Trump claimed this is to stop “the theft of American jobs.” But in reality this war on technological advancement in China destroys American jobs and hurts American consumers and entrepreneurs.
The first indication that this is not a normal trade dispute was the criminal indictment of a Chinese corporation and three individuals for stealing technology from the “American” Micron corporation. Everything about this indictment is curious. The technology that was allegedly stolen was neither developed in the US nor ever put into production in the US. Micron acquired the technology in 2012 when it acquired Elpida, a corporation that developed the technology in Japan and then produced it in Japan and Taiwan. After Micron acquired Elpida, it did not move it to the US. On the contrary. Its strategy, its spokesman explained, was “to be a global leader…For this reason, Micron is establishing manufacturing, technology and business centers of excellence that will…optimize our global footprint”; to implement this strategy, it then fired hundreds of employees in Boise, Idaho,and opened an additional manufacturing plant in mainland China.
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Trump ‘beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to collude with the Russian government’
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March 24, 2019
Beto O’Rourke this morning in SC: You have a president, who in my opinion beyond a shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government, a foreign power to undermine and influence our elections.
(h/t: @BrentScher) pic.twitter.com/mxlSztoUGg
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 23, 2019
While speaking on Saturday, 2020 presidential candidate former Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) stated that President Trump, “beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government,” to influence the election.
O’Rourke said, “You have a president, who in my opinion, beyond the shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government, a foreign power, to undermine and influence our elections, the sanctity of the ballot box, the ability for each and every single one of us to make informed decisions about those who seek to represent us, and hold positions of public trust.”
He added, “If you’re wondering about collusion, then when you saw the president of the United States standing next to the leader of Russia on that stage in Helsinki, Finland, defending him and taking his word for it against our own intelligence community in our country, in George Will’s words, not mine, that is collusion in action.”
O’Rourke further stated, “Ultimately, I believe this will be decided at the ballot box in 2020” by the voters.
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University of Georgia frat suspended over racist VIDEO — RT USA News
A University of Georgia (UGA) fraternity has been suspended after a video emerged showing a student mock-whipping another saying, “Pick my cotton n****r,” as others watched and laughed.
The video, which has circulated on social media, shows a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity hitting a fellow member with a belt as he repeatedly says, “Pick my cotton, bitch.”
The other student, who is lying in bed shouts, “I’m not black!” as the others in the room laugh. One then says, “You’re not using the right word.”
The student with the belt then changes his mantra to, “Pick my cotton n****r.”
UGA released a statement saying it was aware of the video showing students “using racist language and engaging in behaviors that mock the suffering of enslaved peoples.” Meanwhile, the university’s student government said it understands that an investigation is underway into the incident and the fraternity has been suspended.
The University of Georgia condemns racism in the strongest terms. Racism has no place on our campus. We will continue our efforts to promote a welcoming and supportive learning environment for our students, faculty and staff.
— UGA (@universityofga) March 23, 2019
Tau Kappa Epsilon released a statement saying it had expelled four of its members over the video and that it was “disgusted, appalled and angered” by the remarks made in the footage.
UGA has a controversial history with slavery. In 2015, construction crews discovered over 100 human remains in what was a former slave burial site on land now part of the campus. The school was criticized for first claiming the remains were of people of European descent, and then for quietly reburying the remains in a largely white cemetery.
It was also accused of failing to adequately address its past ties to slavery.
the issue is so much bigger than just suspending some students, when all is said and done they’ll be fine. the issue is a racist mindset that’s outlasted some 400 years of slavery, and it will continue to persist until those that perpetuate it decide they want to change.
— MNP (@wewantMor_) March 23, 2019
I see not much has changed with the frats from my time there.
— Mia 💯🙎🏽♀️ (@musingmia) March 23, 2019
@universityofga I’ve sat on Academic Honesty panels where UGA students were EXPELLED for signing each other into a class. I expect nothing less for those who display blatant RACISM.
Ensure integrity is upheld in ALL aspects.
— CHANEL KEALOHA (@ChanelKealoha) March 23, 2019
Lmao expelled from the Plantation of Georgia? No they will just kick the chapter for a few years until black folks forget and let them finish their degrees. Than in a few more years their will be a new video with different greek letters.
— Spencer Ray (@SpencerRay14) March 23, 2019
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Monetary Policy Takes Center Stage: MMT, QE, or Public Banks?
As alarm bells sound over the advancing destruction of the environment, a variety of Green New Deal proposals have appeared in the US and Europe, along with some interesting academic debates about how to fund them. Monetary policy, normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors, has suddenly taken center stage.
The 14 page proposal for a Green New Deal submitted to the US House of Representatives by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez does not actually mention Modern Monetary Theory, but that is th it’s e approach currently capturing the attention of the media – and taking most of the heat. The concept is good: abundance can be ours without worrying about taxes or debt, at least until we hit full productive capacity. But the devil is in the details….
MMT advocates say the government does not need to collect taxes before it spends. It actually creates new money in the process of spending it; and there is plenty of room in the economy for public spending before demand outstrips supply, driving up prices.
Critics, however, say this is not true. The government is not allowed to spend before it has the money in its account, and the money must come from tax revenues or bond sales.
In a 2013 treatise called “Modern Monetary Theory 101: A Reply to Critics,” MMT academics actually concede this point. But they write that “these constraints do not change the end result,” and here the argument gets a bit technical….
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Huge Defeat for Imperialists – LewRockwell
The miserably failed “humanitarian aid” delivery into Venezuela on February 23 is another nail in the coffin of the U.S. government’s coup attempt against President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela.
Before this day, the U.S. government and their allies, including Canada, thought that their puppet, self-declared “interim President” Juan Guaidó, still had a chance. The U.S. government made a callous bet that the installation of Guaidó, together with a cruel and illegal sanctions campaign against Venezuela would be enough to force the people of Venezuela to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Nicolas Maduro. However, they were badly wrong. The heroic people of Venezuela have stood up in defence of their sovereignty, self-determination, and their President, Nicolas Maduro. Together, they have defeated the imperialist attempted coup.
Was the “Humanitarian Aid” Ever Humanitarian?
The U.S. government and Guaidó, together with major mainstream media, have been spreading lies and manipulations about Venezuela and President Maduro to justify their illegal and anti-democratic intervention. It was especially clear when it came to how they built the case for the “humanitarian aid” delivery into Venezuela scheduled for February 23, 2019.
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A good place to start to uncover this deception is to ask the question – was the “humanitarian aid” ever humanitarian?
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Prison Planet.com » UK Denies Asylum To Christian Convert From Iran Because “Christianity Is Not Peaceful”
Zero Hedge
March 22, 2019
The UK has denied asylum to an Iranian man because he said on his application that he converted from Islam to the “peaceful” religion of Christianity, according to The Independent.
The Home Office quoted excerpts from the bible in the man’s rejection letter – saying the book of Revelations is “filled with imagery of revenge, destruction, death and violence,” and concluded that “These examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a ‘peaceful’ religion, as opposed to Islam which contains violence, rage and revenge.”
When contacted by The Independent, the Home Office essentially said “our bad” – claiming that the letter was “not in accordance” with proper policies for claims based on religious persecution, and that it was working to improve employee training.
Lawyers and campaigners said the case demonstrated a “distortion of logic” and a “reckless” approach to asylum seekers’ lives, stemming from a tendency by the department to “come up with any reason they can to refuse” cases. –The Independent
The asylum seeker’s caseworker, Nathan Stevens, tweeted “I’ve seen a lot over the years, but even I was genuinely shocked to read this unbelievably offensive diatribe being used to justify a refusal of asylum.”
Excerpt from a home office reasons for refusal letter for a convert to Christianity. I’ve seen a lot over the years, but even I was genuinely shocked to read this unbelievably offensive diatribe being used to justify a refusal of asylum. pic.twitter.com/R1wA1HMNwH
— Nathan Stevens (@nathestevens) March 19, 2019
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Prison Planet.com » Instagram will BLOCK anti-vaxxer hashtags in crackdown on medical fake news on the social-media site
Daily Mail
March 22, 2019
Instagram will block anti-vaxx hashtags in an ongoing attempt to crack down on medical misinformation being shared on the social-media site.
The Facebook-owned company announced it will minimise ‘recommendations of this content and accounts that post it’.
‘Short-term measures’ will include blocking hashtags associated with ‘known health-related misinformation’, including #vaccinescauseautism, #vaccinesarepoison and #vaccinescauseharm.
However, a spokesperson from the social-media giant warned it will take several weeks for the move to come into effect, with these hashtags still being active on Instagram today.
Vaccines are one of the greatest advances of modern medicine, rendering life-threatening diseases that could reach epidemic proportions into rarities.
The spread of misinformation online has been blamed for the ‘anti-vaxx brigade’, considered one of the greatest threats to public health worldwide.
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British commandos wounded in Yemen
A number of elite British commandos have sustained injuries in direct gunfights with Yemeni forces as part of what appears to be a secretive UK military campaign in Yemen, a new report says, adding a major twist to London’s involvement in Saudi Arabia’s deadly war against its impoverished southern neighbor.
The Mail on Sunday said it can reveal that at least five members of the UK’s Special Boat Service (SBS) troops had suffered gunshot injuries in fierce clashes with members of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who have been repelling the Saudi-led military invasion since March 2015.
The SBS personnel received treatment for leg and arm wounds in Yemen’s northern Sa’ada province, where the report said around 30 elite British forces had been based.
The injured soldiers had been taken back to the UK to recover, the report added.
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Wisconsin GOP’s Lame-Duck Power Grab Ruled Unconstitutional
A Wisconsin judge ruled on Thursday that laws passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in December to limit the powers of newly elected Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul were unconstitutional.
The lame-duck bills limited early voting, stopped the newly elected governor from expanding Medicaid coverage to more citizens, prevented him from withdrawing the state from a lawsuit attacking the Affordable Care Act, prevented the attorney general from representing the legislature in lawsuits, and further curtailed the administrative powers of the new government.
The lawsuit was brought by a coalition of plaintiffs, including three citizen’s groups, the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities. It argues that three bills passed last December in the lame-duck session as well as the confirmation of 82 nominees to various boards “are unenforceable” on the basis that “executive session” during which the laws were enacted “was not convened in accord with the Wisconsin Constitution.”
The Wisconsin Constitution Protects Against “Irregular, Capricious” Meetings of Legislature
The Wisconsin Constitution Article IV Section 11 provides for a “special session” convened by the governor and a regular session as provided by statute, but the statute makes no mention of an “extraordinary session.” The legislature’s policy on extraordinary sessions, which curtail public notice and participation and suspend the regular rules of debate, was created by a rule of the legislature, not a statute.
Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess issued a temporary injunction to block the laws. “The bottom line in this case is that the Legislature did not lawfully meet during its December 2018 ‘Extraordinary Session,’” therefore violating Article IV of the constitution.
The judge made clear…
Rick Perry, the Saudis and a Dangerous Nuclear Deal
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Since January 2017, the Trump Administration has been in negotiations to allow a sale of two nuclear reactors designed by American companies to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is troubling for at least two reasons. First, nuclear reactors may provide the Saudis with a backdoor to a nuclear bomb. Second, a February 19 interim report from the new Democratic majority on the House Oversight and Reform Committee alleges that the sale may involve conflicts of interest and other violations of federal law by Trump cronies inside and outside the Administration.
Reckless, corrupt, and illegal: the transaction is the quintessence of Trump. Only a super-salesman can convince Americans that the proposed deal is a good idea and not just a means to enrich Trump associates. Fortunately, the negotiations with the Saudis are being led by a man who describes himself as “America’s number one energy salesman”: US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.
“Of all the recent secretaries of energy, Perry knows the least about nuclear energy [and] nonproliferation policy,” observes Joe Cirincione, President of the nuclear watchdog Ploughshares Fund. Before he became secretary of energy, Perry didn’t even know that the Department of Energy (DOE) is in charge of the US nuclear stockpile. Perry forgot the name of the DOE during the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates while he was trying to list the three…
Why Joe Biden – LewRockwell
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Of 895 slots in the freshman class of Stuyvesant High in New York City, seven were offered this year to black students, down from 10 last year and 13 the year before.
In the freshman class of 803 at The Bronx High School of Science, 12 students are black, down from last year’s 25.
Of 303 students admitted to Staten Island Technical High School, one is African-American.
According to The New York Times, similar patterns of admission apply at the other five most elite high schools in the city.
Whites and Asians are 30 percent of middle school students, but 83 percent of the freshman at Bronx High School of Science, 88 percent at Staten Island Technical and 90 percent at Stuyvesant.
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What do these numbers tell us?
They reveal the racial composition of the cohort of scientists and technicians who will lead America in the 21st century. And they tell us which races will not be well represented in that vanguard.
They identify a fault line that runs through the Democratic Party, separating leftists who believe in equality of results for all races and ethnic groups, and those who believe in a meritocracy.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has expressed anger and frustration at the under-representation of blacks and Hispanics in the elite schools. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature have ignored his pleas to change the way students are admitted.
Currently, the same test, of English and math, is given to middle school applicants. And admission to the elite eight is offered to those who get the highest scores.
Moreover, Asians, not whites, are predominant.
Though 15 percent of all middle school students,…
Reining in the Yemen Conflict: The US Congress and War Making Powers
We keep hearing it. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is firm on the view that the Yemen conflict should conclude. “We all want this conflict to end,” he never tires of saying. “We all want to improve the dire humanitarian situation.” Then comes the nub, poking, irritating and undeniable: “But the Trump administration fundamentally disagrees that curbing assistance to the Saudi-led coalition is the way to achieve these goals.”
The Yemenis might be suffering and heading to oblivion, but the issue of resolving the conflict was not to handicap the Saudi-led coalition. Certain allies need succour and encouragement. To that end, the US would continue to give “the Saudi-led coalition the support needed to defeat Iranian backed rebels and ensure a just peace.” Such an attitude sits poorly in the humanitarian stakes, given that US assistance to the Saudi and Emirati aerial campaign has been indispensable in targeting civilian objects (schools, funerals, weddings, water treatment plants and medical clinics). An enforced coalition naval blockade has also sparked a broader crisis of starvation and disease, a famine that may prove to be one of the worst in living memory. These are not exaggerations.
A further absurdity also arises. Not only does continued US backing of Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s travails fail to pass the test of national interest, an argument can be made that it is distinctly against it. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)…
Prison Planet.com » Eric Bolling In Altercation After Man Allegedly Mocks His Son’s Death
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March 22, 2019
BlazeTV host Eric Bolling on Wednesday night was involved in an altercation with a man who, according to Bolling and another man who was with him, mocked the death of Bolling’s son.
Bolling was at Trump International Hotel with conservative activist Hayden Williams in Washington, D.C., when a man allegedly approached their table while holding a phone to his ear, before turning toward the two and saying, “Eric Bolling’s son killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad,” Bolling said on his show Thursday evening.
Bolling’s son, Eric Chase Bolling, died in September 2017 from a drug overdose.
“It was a drive-by hit on me using the most hateful words a human being can deliver to a grieving father. I got up and followed this hateful moron out of the hotel,” Bolling said, adding that he started recording as he chased the man down.
Bolling on his show released snippets of the video, which shows him confronting a man with a blurred-out face and yelling at him.
.@EricBolling was sitting with some friends at Trump Hotel in D.C. when a man walked by his table & said, loud enough for them to hear, Eric’s son “killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad.”
Eric followed the hateful man outside & started filming what came next… pic.twitter.com/51FhqG6Nmh
— BlazeTV (@BlazeTV) March 21, 2019
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Prison Planet.com » Eric Bolling In Altercation After Man Allegedly Mocks His Son’s Death
Daily Caller
March 22, 2019
BlazeTV host Eric Bolling on Wednesday night was involved in an altercation with a man who, according to Bolling and another man who was with him, mocked the death of Bolling’s son.
Bolling was at Trump International Hotel with conservative activist Hayden Williams in Washington, D.C., when a man allegedly approached their table while holding a phone to his ear, before turning toward the two and saying, “Eric Bolling’s son killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad,” Bolling said on his show Thursday evening.
Bolling’s son, Eric Chase Bolling, died in September 2017 from a drug overdose.
“It was a drive-by hit on me using the most hateful words a human being can deliver to a grieving father. I got up and followed this hateful moron out of the hotel,” Bolling said, adding that he started recording as he chased the man down.
Bolling on his show released snippets of the video, which shows him confronting a man with a blurred-out face and yelling at him.
.@EricBolling was sitting with some friends at Trump Hotel in D.C. when a man walked by his table & said, loud enough for them to hear, Eric’s son “killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad.”
Eric followed the hateful man outside & started filming what came next… pic.twitter.com/51FhqG6Nmh
— BlazeTV (@BlazeTV) March 21, 2019
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Prison Planet.com » Eric Bolling In Altercation After Man Allegedly Mocks His Son’s Death
Daily Caller
March 22, 2019
BlazeTV host Eric Bolling on Wednesday night was involved in an altercation with a man who, according to Bolling and another man who was with him, mocked the death of Bolling’s son.
Bolling was at Trump International Hotel with conservative activist Hayden Williams in Washington, D.C., when a man allegedly approached their table while holding a phone to his ear, before turning toward the two and saying, “Eric Bolling’s son killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad,” Bolling said on his show Thursday evening.
Bolling’s son, Eric Chase Bolling, died in September 2017 from a drug overdose.
“It was a drive-by hit on me using the most hateful words a human being can deliver to a grieving father. I got up and followed this hateful moron out of the hotel,” Bolling said, adding that he started recording as he chased the man down.
Bolling on his show released snippets of the video, which shows him confronting a man with a blurred-out face and yelling at him.
.@EricBolling was sitting with some friends at Trump Hotel in D.C. when a man walked by his table & said, loud enough for them to hear, Eric’s son “killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad.”
Eric followed the hateful man outside & started filming what came next… pic.twitter.com/51FhqG6Nmh
— BlazeTV (@BlazeTV) March 21, 2019
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivers Russia probe inquiry report
Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivers Russia probe inquiry report
By
Kevin Reed
23 March 2019
The special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a report late Friday to Attorney General William Barr bringing to a conclusion a 22-month investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. No details of the content of the report have yet been made public.
Barr notified the leaders and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, Democrats Jerrold Nadler and Dianne Feinstein, and Republicans Lindsey Graham and Doug Collins, in an official Department of Justice letter. Barr wrote that he is reviewing the confidential report and “may be in a position to advise you of the Special Counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend.”
Under the terms of the Special Counsel regulations, the Attorney General is required to notify Congress of any proposed action in Mueller’s report that he has vetoed because it is “so inappropriate or unwarranted under established Departmental practices that it should not be pursued.” Barr wrote that there are no such instances in the Special Counsel’s investigation.
The Special Counsel law also gives Attorney General Barr discretion in determining how much of the report will be shared with Congress and the public. He wrote that he is “committed to as much transparency as possible” and that this determination will be made in the course of his review.
Shortly after Mueller made his submission, NBC News reported that an unnamed senior justice department official confirmed that there are no sealed or further criminal indictments coming out of the probe. This means that no one in the Trump campaign has or will be charged with carrying out any criminal act in conjunction with Russia.
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“The House Price Deceleration Is Staggering”
Mark Hanson
March 22, 2019
RedFin puts out a monthly home sales report, which contains a lot of great data. The chart below shows Feb 2018 year-over-year price growth, which was off the charts, compared to Feb 2019 year-over-year growth, which was very weak.
This y/y growth deceleration is staggering, especially in the high-flying regions.
Very few regions escaped a significant deceleration with some prominent regions like San Jose and San Francisco even getting crushed on a year-over-year absolute basis.
The only thing that even comes close to this sharp of deceleration was circa-2007.
It was data like these I have been tracking that led to my call last year that there was no way the Fed could continue to hike in 2019.
For certain housing and related names, this is a killer unless prices re-accelerate quickly.
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The War of Lies – LewRockwell
Sixteen years ago, the US and Britain committed a crime of historic proportion, the invasion and destruction of Iraq. It was as egregious an aggression as Nazi Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland.
Large numbers of Iraqi civilians died from 2003-2007. Iraq’s water and sewage systems were bombed, causing widespread cholera. The UN estimated 500,000 Iraqi children alone died as a result. Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, said it was ‘a price worth paying.’
But not so much for the 4,424 US soldiers killed in Iraq, or the 31,952 wounded, many with devastating brain and neurological injuries. Nor for US taxpayers who forked out over $1 trillion for this botched war and are still paying the bill – which was hidden in the national debt.
In 2003, Iraq was the most advanced Arab nation in social welfare health, education, military power, and industrial development. But it was run by a megalomaniac, Saddam Hussein, who had been helped into power and sustained in his long war against Iran, by the United States, Britain and their Arab satraps.
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When Saddam grew too big for his britches, Washington lured him into invading Kuwait, another American-British oil satrapy. A hue and cry went out from Washington and London that Iraq had secret nuclear weapons that threatened the entire globe. War, thundered US-British propaganda, was urgent and necessary.
As I knew from covering Iraq for many years, it had no nuclear weapons and no medium or long-ranged delivery systems. What it did have was a chemical/biological laboratory at Salman Pak that was staffed with British technicians producing lethal toxins for use against…
Final Islamic State Stronghold in Syria Falls
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March 22, 2019
Fox News reported on Thursday that the final Islamic State stronghold in Syria, the village of Baghouz, has been liberated by the Kurdish-led, U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces. The report has not been officially confirmed as of Thursday evening, but if Fox’s information is solid, the ISIS “caliphate” has been destroyed.
Fox News mentioned Syrian media reports about the action in Baghouz, but its Thursday exclusive was based primarily on observations from its own team on the ground in Syria:
It’s the first time since we’ve been here in Syria for five days that the bombs have stopped dropping and the gunfire has disappeared. We have witnessed the end of the caliphate – the brutal empire that once ruled over 8 million people – is gone.
Troops here are now bringing down the black flags of ISIS. The flags no longer fly over the town, instilling fear.
The last five days, Fox News has witnessed the last major offensive up close -– with U.S.-backed SDF forces attacking ISIS from three sides, pushing the fighters back, house to house, then tent to tent, against the Euphrates River.
Inside Baghouz, it’s easy to see how they hid for so long – not just in tunnels but trenches and hundreds of cubby holes covered by tarpaulins, which blend in perfectly to the dirt.
In the end, the majority surrendered. In fact, since the start of the year about 60,000 have dripped into the desert, and most are now held in camps.
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Foreign-Owned Corporations Funnel Millions Into US Elections
After the Federal Election Commission hit the Jeb Bush-affiliated Right to Rise super PAC with a record fine for illegally soliciting donations from foreign donors, focus has shifted to how many foreign-owned companies actually participate in American elections. The answer? Quite a few.
Foreign-based corporations or U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-based corporations have contributed millions of dollars to super PACs and hybrid PACs following Citizens United v. FEC, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened up federal elections to direct corporate contributions.
Foreign nationals are barred from contributing to federal committees. However, a foreign corporation’s U.S. subsidiary is allowed to contribute to outside spending groups such as super PACs as long as no foreign national directs the contribution.
London-based British American Tobacco acquired Reynolds American, Inc. in July 2017 after owning a major stake in the U.S. company since 2004. Following the transaction, RAI ramped up its political giving, doling out $1.2 million to super PACs, more than any other domestic subsidiary in the 2018 cycle.
The company gave $600,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) and $450,000 to Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) in 2018. The GOP leadership-linked super PACs were among the top spenders in 2018 and were also particularly popular among foreign-owned corporations.
EnCana Oil & Gas USA, a subsidiary of Canadian company Encana, gave $200,000 to CLF and $100,000 to SLF in 2018. Jackson National Life Insurance, owned by British company Prudential PLC, contributed $100,000 to SLF and $25,000 to the “dark money”-supported Tennesseans for a Better Tomorrow.
Jane Seccombe, RAI director of communications, said RAI companies “have established internal policies and procedures to ensure that all political contributions are made in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.”
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Roaming Charges: Darn That (American) Dream
Abandoned mill and power plant along the Willamette River, West Linn, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.
+ If the Democratic race boils down to Biden and Sanders, you’ll have two candidates in their late 70s who voted three times to overthrow Saddam, approved the murderous sanctions on Iraq, supported the illegal war on Serbia, backed the racist and punitive Clinton Crime Bill and fronted a scheme to dump radioactive waste from New England near a small Hispanic town in West Texas.
+ Elizabeth Warren was in Mississippi on Monday talking about abolishing the electoral college, reparations for slavery and Native people, and breaking up the tech behemoths. (She also told the state to get a new flag.) She’s beginning to make Sanders’ speeches sound like the same old nighty-night tales Gramps has been telling the kids for years.
+ I’m not a huge fan of Warren. I don’t like her foreign policy positions or devotion to the Israeli apartheid state. She hasn’t done much on the environment and while she was claiming Native heritage did nothing to stop the DAPL. However, among an uninspiring herd of Democratic candidates she’s saying the most interesting things on the campaign trail and going to places you wouldn’t expect. Mississippi yesterday, Alabama today. Sanders is like a hot air balloon by comparison and one you’ve seen every year at the State Fair since 1965, when most of his ideas were given form.
+ Sen. Mike Gravel: “It’s simply not enough to go back…
The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
In 2010, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was given a 35-year prison sentence after she had leaked more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks. Perhaps the most notorious of the releases was a US military video that WikiLeaks titled ‘Collateral Murder‘. It showed the indiscriminate slaying of up to eighteen people in Baghdad on 12 July, 2007. The footage, taken from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, showed the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters journalist and his rescuers. A second Reuters staff member, employed as a driver and camera assistant, was also killed. Two young children, whose father was among those killed, were seriously wounded.
The video, together with the transcript of army exchanges during the indiscriminate US killings, shocked many around the world:
Let’s shoot.
Light ’em all up.
Come on, fire!
Keep shoot, keep shoot. [keep shooting]
keep shoot.
keep shoot.
[…]
Oh, yeah, look at those dead bastards.
Nice.
While in prison, Manning twice attempted to commit suicide and also spent time in solitary confinement. She was released in 2017, after her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama, two days before he left office.
On 8 March – International Women’s Day – Manning was once again jailed after she refused to testify against WikiLeaks, and its founder Julian Assange, before a grand jury in Virginia. A grand jury…
Prison Planet.com » Scientists develop radical robot translator that lets bees and fish ‘talk’ to each other for the first time
Daily Mail
March 22, 2019
Most of us already know about the birds and the bees, but a recent scientific riff puts a spin on the old adage.
Scientists have found a way to allow communication between a group of two normally separate species — fish and bees — employing the use of specially designed robotic interpreters.
Using a combination of embedded robotic ‘spies’ and terminals — one in a colony of bees and the other, a swimming animatronic robot, among a school of fish — researchers were able to capture signals from the two disparate species and translate them into a language that each could understand.
While a terminal inside the bees’ colony communicated by fluctuating air temperature, movement, and vibrations, the robot spy embedded in the school of fish changed its color, speed, and movements.
As a result, the bees began to swarm outside of their terminal while the fish started to change their swimming patterns, going counterclockwise.
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60 Years Ago, Racists in Congress Nearly Cost Hawaii Statehood – Consortiumnews
Racism in the U.S. Congress nearly derailed Hawaii becoming the 50th state, as Sarah Miller Davenport reports.
By Sarah Miller Davenport
University of Sheffield
The Conversation
Sixty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation making Hawaii America’s 50th state. The Hawaii admission act followed a centuries-old tradition in which American territories –acquired through war, conquest and purchase – became fully integrated states of the union.
But Hawaii was not an ordinary United States territory and would be unlike any other American state.
For one, Hawaii was not actually in America, at least not physically. Its islands lay in the Pacific, some 2,000 miles from the U.S. west coast.
And Hawaii would become the first state with a majority of people of Asian descent. Many had been ineligible for U.S. citizenship only a few years earlier, before the end of racial restrictions to naturalization.
These two defining characteristics – of Hawaii’s geography and demography – had led Congress to dismiss earlier bids for statehood before World War II. Hawaii was too far away and too Asian to be joined with the continental United States.
Asian Migration Conduit
Hawaii was annexed as a U.S. territory in 1898. That was five years after white settlers in the islands overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy to establish an American-led government.
Americans had first arrived as missionaries in 1820, and stayed on to establish sugar and pineapple plantations throughout the islands. A shortage of Hawaiian labor led them to seek workers from Asia – first China and later Japan and the Philippines.
(The Hawaiian gazette, 23 May 1902. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress)
Beginning in the mid-19th century, Hawaii became a major conduit for Asian migration to the American mainland, where anti-Asian racism led to a series of immigration exclusion acts. The first of these was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which eventually led to the near-total restriction of Asian migration in the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act.
Throughout this period, the American settlers who dominated…
Leipzig Book Fair: Mehring Verlag presents new German edition of The Heritage We Defend
Leipzig Book Fair: Mehring Verlag presents new German edition of The Heritage We Defend
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23 March 2019
Just in time for the Leipzig Book Fair, Mehring Verlag has published a new German edition of The Heritage We Defend by David North. It is available for purchase online here (English-language version here).
The first edition, published in 1988, has been expanded with a new preface as well as an extensive glossary and photo section. The new edition is now available as a bound hardcover. North will introduce the book today at the Leipzig Book Fair at 3:00 p.m. in Hall 5, Forum Sachbuch F401/G410.
North is the chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the US and chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site. He has played a leading role in the world Trotskyist movement for over 45 years and has authored numerous books on politics, history and Marxist theory.
The Heritage We Defend provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Fourth International. It is not only of historical interest, but also of immense contemporary political relevance. It deals with problems of the theory, programme and the strategy of Marxism, which are of vital importance for the construction of the world party of socialist revolution today.
At a time when global capitalism confronts a deepening crisis, the imperialist powers are preparing for a new world war, fascist groups are raising their heads, and class struggle is developing throughout the world, a thorough knowledge of the historical experiences of the workers movement is urgent. These experiences find their most conscious expression in the history of the Fourth International.
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The Amen Corner – LewRockwell
I’ve written about the media’s active complicity in pushing the EV Agenda. This includes the car media, which seems to have very few car people behind the bylines. Car people being people who regard cars as more than transportation – as a service or otherwise. And who – as journalists – ought at least to be asking relevant questions to get answers relevant to people who consider cars more than mere transportation.
Instead, they operate a kind of EV Pravda – the old Soviet journal that had as much “truth” in it as – well… Automotive News.
Which recently ran an article (here) about the “huge increase” in sales of Volvo’s plug-in hybrids and that “demand” was grossly “underestimated” for them. It hagiographically quotes Volvo’s CEO Hakan Samuelsson, who talks of “20 to 25 percent” increases in sales.
Hakan, as an aside, is the guy who thinks all cars should be electronically speed limited – and even prevented (also electronically) from “speeding” at all.
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By 2021, all new Volvos will be speed limited.
Well, anyhow, the “huge increase” in Volvo’s plug-in hybrid sales is actually pretty small – and mostly not here.
Volvo sold 26,800 plug-in hybrids last year . . . in Europe. In the United States, Volvo only sold 11,850 cars – including hybrid cars. See here.
Interestingly, Volvo doesn’t separate out hybrid from non-hybrid sales in its media materials, either.
Of course, soon, every car sold by Volvo will be a hybrid (or a full-time electric) car. Volvo has so decided.
But it’s still only about 12,000 cars – which amounts to barely a blip on the U.S. radar, as far as car sales are concerned.
For a…
Prison Planet.com » MoviePass co-founder testing new ‘PreShow’ app that awards users free movie tickets if they agree to be WATCHED by facial recognition cameras
Daily Mail
March 22, 2019
The co-founder of MoviePass has developed a new idea to get people to the theater.
Called PreShow, users would be able to earn free movie tickets if they agree to watch advertisements for blocks of time between 15 and 20 minutes.
There’s also another, creepier, twist to the proposed app: It will only unlock with facial recognition and it also tracks your gaze using facial recognition technology to make sure you’re actually watching the ads, according to CNET.
PreShow is being developed by MoviePass co-founder Stacy Spikes, who stepped down as CEO of the beleaguered ticketing company in 2016.
He launched a Kickstarter campaign for the PreShow app on Thursday and is seeking to raise $10,000.
The app would work as follows. Users login to PreShow, select a movie they want to watch and then view up to 20 minutes worth of ‘branded content’ to unlock free tickets.
After watching the ads, funds are distributed to a virtual credit card, which can be used to order tickets from your local theater.
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Prison Planet.com » Judicial Watch Uncovers 756 Pages Of New Hillary Emails That She Tried To Destroy, Several Were Classified
Weasel Zippers
March 23, 2019
BREAKING: Judicial Watch today announced it received 756 pages of newly uncovered emails that were among the materials former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified (1/4).
https://t.co/INxKemnrax— Judicial Watch 🔎 (@JudicialWatch) March 21, 2019
Via Judicial Watch:
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch today announced it received 756 pages of newly uncovered emails that were among the materials former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly stated that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of her work-related emails. In response to a court order in another Judicial Watch case, she declared under penalty of perjury in 2015 that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.”
In 2017, the FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. Until the court intervened and established a new deadline, the State Department had been slow-walking the release of those documents at a rate that would have required Judicial Watch and the American people to wait until at least 2020 to see all the releasable Clinton material. The production of documents in this case is now concluded with the FBI being only able to recover or find approximately 5,000 of the 33,000 government emails Hillary Clinton took and tried to destroy.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on May 6, 2015, after the State Department failed to respond to a…
Russiagaters recover from initial shock after Mueller probe winds up & are hell-bent on hunting on — RT USA News
Media and politicians who’ve spent about two years anticipating Robert Mueller’s probe and to kick Donald Trump out of the White House, seem to have survived the first shock of its mundane end, but believe their fight is not over.
The Special Counsel sent his report to the US Attorney General on Friday. Although the results are still not known to the public, it’s been leaked that it contains now new indictment. The news seemed to have sent mainstream media and pundits into disarray, and even drove some to tears.
However, by Saturday they all seemed ready for a new fight, brandishing statements and casting headlines that it is not over.
CNN has published a lengthy piece in the wake of the probe’s conclusion, which revolves around one simple idea: Trump’s ordeal is far from over. “If there is not legal liability for the President or his family in the Mueller report, it could still inflict significant political damage,” it said, all the while assuming that Mueller might have just failed to put paid to “the tradition that a sitting President can’t be indicted.”
CNN also rushed to say that, regardless of its content, Mueller’s report would fail to exonerate Russia from meddling accusations, just as it was unlikely to stop a barrage of accusations against Trump. “Whatever Mueller’s report says, the question of Russia’s assault on the last presidential election will stain the next one in 20 months,” the piece predicts.
The New York Times, meanwhile, cheered up Trump’s critics by saying that, even though it was over, the Mueller probe has given rise to a “dozen other investigations” that would definitely ensure a “legal threat” would “continue to loom over the Trump presidency.”
Robert Mueller’s inquiry may be over, but prosecutors across the U.S. are pursuing about a dozen other investigations that largely grew out of his work, all but ensuring that a legal threat will continue to loom over the Trump presidency. https://t.co/9lTcE6XSOI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 23, 2019
This idea was shared by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who also said that “there are obviously other investigations that have been spawned and spun off by the facts in evidence that Robert Mueller has found.” “I think there is a high likelihood that there are indictments in this president’s future,” he added.
Across the pond, Britain’s The Guardian meticulously recycled all past speculations about the “secret” meetings of Trump’s inner circle members and alleged “Kremlin agents,” as well as “security communication channels” supposedly established at the Russian embassy at the behest of the Trump administration, while also pondering how the probe might have come to end with nothing.
The paper then suggested that Mueller might have simply referred all future criminal cases “to other prosecutors.” “It is also still possible his report will be damning, establishing collusion or obstruction of justice in the court of public opinion if not a court of law, fueling demands for Trump’s impeachment and mortally wounding his chances of re-election,” the Guardian wrote.
Some ardent Trump critics apparently found an easier way to deal with this situation. Comedian Bill Maher simply said that the results of the probe change nothing and he still considers Trump to be a “traitor” – simply because he “has a TV.” Maher also assumed that the Democrats might be putting “too much trust” in the report, which does not look good for his liking.
The fresh assault by the Trump-bashers has sparked a backlash from some of the president’s supporters. “The American people know what a politically-motivated smear campaign looks like, and that’s exactly what this is,” a GOP chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, wrote in a Twitter post.
Democrats like Adam Schiff have already moved from crying collusion to arguing that the Mueller Report is just the beginning.
Give me a break.
The American people know what a politically-motivated smear campaign looks like, and that’s exactly what this is.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 23, 2019
Some of them, however, preferred to attack the probe itself. Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka even compared Mueller to convicted Boston gangster ‘Whitey’ Bulger – once the second listed fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
“Rod Rosenstein and Barack Obama cronies just spent $30 Million of your money to put Manafort in prison for mortgage fraud. Congrats Bob ‘Whitey Bulger’ Mueller and the rest of the demented and un-America Collusion Truthers,” he wrote in Instagram.
Fox News, meanwhile, went even further and questioned the whole Mueller probe, as well as the entirety of the final report, by saying that the whole investigation process was “flawed from the beginning” and the report should be flat-out rejected, regardless of its content.
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We Already Spend More Than Medicare for All Would Cost Us
Janine Jackson: The March 11 Washington Post headline told readers that the Medicare for All bill, recently introduced by Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, “reflects influence of hard-line progressive groups.” Not quite a hit piece, but something very like it, the article said “a slew of groups further to the left” shaped the bill, which would “upend health coverage for tens of millions of Americans,” and “cost many times more than the ACA.” Which is why, the Post claims, “To some progressives, this is a step (or steps) too far.”
Words like “upend” and “drastically” do their work. And at one point, “advocates on the left” are counterposed with “most health policy experts.”
“Supporters of the Jayapal bill insist there’s a groundswell of grassroots enthusiasm” for overhauling the country’s healthcare, the piece says—without reference to any of various polls that would indicate precisely that.
The thing is, public support for a fundamental change in the way we do healthcare persists, despite years of this sort of elite media treatment—perhaps because for most Americans, healthcare is not a partisan debate, but a crisis.
Joining us now to talk about how Medicare for All would respond to that crisis is Diane Archer. Founder and former president of the Medicare Rights Center, she is president of Just Care USA. She joins us now by phone from here in New York. Welcome to CounterSpin, Diane Archer.
Diane Archer: Glad to be here.
Well, can we start with just some basic information on Jayapal and more than 100 cosponsors’ Medicare for All Act? How, for instance, does it differ, or is it different, from the proposal Sen. Bernie Sanders put forward last year?
It’s quite similar to the Bernie Sanders bill. It is Medicare that we have today, only improved and expanded to everyone. And it’s improved by giving people vision, hearing,…
Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair
“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.”
—Phil Ochs, Introduction to “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” on the live album, Phil Ochs in Concert (1966)
Many self-identified liberals are far more than “ten degrees to the right of center” with regard to psychiatry. With the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, and then even more so following 9/11 in 2001, the United States has swung so far to the right that many self-identified liberals embrace, often unwittingly, a right-wing view in many aspects of society, including psychiatry.
Establishment psychiatry has historically been supported by the ruling elite in return for meeting the elite’s needs to maintain the societal hierarchy and political status quo. Psychiatry has met the elite’s needs by its various attributions—repeatedly proven to be scientifically unfounded—that emotional suffering and odd or frightening behaviors are caused by defects in individual biochemistry and genetics, rather than by trauma and societal defects created by the ruling elite.
In the past, right-wing psychiatry’s individual defect view—in combination with extreme nationalism that requires an entire population to efficiently meet the needs of its state-corporatist…
Capitalism is Anti-Social: Socialism is Anti-Capital
Consciousness is… from the very beginning a social product.
— Karl Marx
Given the degree of consciousness control suffered by people under the domain of privately owned political media and its stress on individual consumption, the very notion of social behavior, let alone socialism, can provoke outbursts of fear and loathing as the current idiocy over the term clearly shows. Fear that wealth will be taken away from people who don’t have any and given to some unworthies who have even less can reduce intellects and morality to a point at which president Trump begins to look like a humanitarian scholar with funny hair.
Social: having to do with human beings living together as a group in which their dealings with one another affect their common welfare.
This definition does not come from the Communist Manifesto but from a left wing tract called the New World Dictionary of the American Language. It defines what most of us are led to believe only in times of war or other threats to our well being which we must face, bravely, proudly as a nation of souls striving to work together to kill whoever the proposed enemy is. Otherwise, it’s the hell with everyone else, what’s in it for me, how can I trust any of these fools and why don’t they all acknowledge me and my identity group or my pets instead of themselves. Welcome to the commodity consuming humanity denying market forces of a malevolent social disease at the root of what should be called our climate…
My Open Letter to Sens. Graham, Rubio, et al.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin conducting hearings next Tuesday, March 26, on Senate Bill 7, the Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019—otherwise known as a national “red flag” gun confiscation bill. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Marco Rubio (R-FL). If this gun confiscation bill passes the U.S. Senate, it will most certainly pass the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, and President Donald Trump absolutely WILL sign it into law.
I am writing this open letter to Senators Rubio and Graham, President Trump and the untold numbers of legislators, judges and lawmen that will be working together to facilitate and execute the confiscation of the arms of innocent American citizens—citizens who have not even been charged with a crime.
I have purchased a full-page ad in the capital city newspaper in my home State of Montana, the Helena Independent Record, in which the following letter will appear this Sunday, March 24. I urge readers to feel free to use, copy, promote, publish, etc., this open letter in an attempt to bring this information to the attention of as many people as possible.
The GOP faithful are mostly in denial about what Donald Trump and many Republican senators are up to. They refuse to acknowledge that Trump, Graham, Rubio, et. al are about to enact a gun confiscation bill that rivals anything in Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia.
If S.7 becomes law, NO gun owner (and that means YOU) will be protected from the seizure of their firearms. It will not matter that they have not committed a crime; it will not matter that they have not been charged with a crime; and it will not matter that they have…
Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
by Alan MacLeod
The CBC (1/23/19) answers its question by saying he comes from a a “centrist social-democratic party.”
The Trump administration seems to have found their man in National Assembly leader and self-appointed president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó. Guaidó has been extremely attentive to US interests, promising to allow US oil companies to increase their activity in Venezuela. He has also pledged mass privatizations and harsh rounds of austerity, as FAIR contributor Ben Norton reported (Mint Press News, 1/24/19). Having met with and secured the support of the Trump administration before he acted, the previously unknown 35-year-old emerged as a prominent opponent of the leftist government, championed by right-wing nations in the region keen to see the end of President Nicolás Maduro’s administration.
Despite this, or rather precisely because of it, the media are presenting Guaidó not as a conservative (or further still to the right), but as a centrist social democrat who can unite a fractured nation. CBC (1/23/19) and Forbes (1/24/19) both described him as a “centrist social democrat,” the former adding that he is also an activist and a “salsa-loving baseball fan.” Others went further, claiming that he and his party are “center left” (Reuters, 1/24/19) or even “socialist” (London Independent, 1/24/19). The New York Times (3/4/19) claimed, more broadly, that Gauidó had “captured the heart of the nation” and that “a vast majority of Venezuelans support him.”
In reality, Guiadó’s Popular Will party has always represented the most radical right-wing elements of the Venezuelan opposition, perhaps the reason that Fox Business’ Trish Reagan (1/29/19) eagerly endorsed him as a “freedom fighter leading his country to democracy” amid “massive cheers from the people.” Popular Will has consistently favored confrontation and violence over negotiation; a recent opposition plan to amass an army of 200 soldiers to shoot their way across the border to bring Guaidó back into Venezuela after an overseas tour was only stopped by a panicked Colombian government, according to Bloomberg (3/6/19).
Newsweek (2/28/14) describes Leopold Lopez, the organizer of deadly opposition protests, as “charismatic, athletic and good-looking” and the owner of “impossibly adorable Labrador puppies.”
But Guaidó is merely the latest in a long line of Washington-backed Venezuelan conservatives the media has sugar-coated. Leopoldo López, a Harvard-educated “hardliner” (London Independent, 4/11/14; Guardian, 3/4/14) who led a wave of demonstrations in 2014 aimed at removing Maduro by force that left 43 dead, including some passersby beheaded with razor wire, was a darling of the press. The Washington Post (2/18/14, 3/29/14) described him as a “courageous,” “left-leaning” “moderate,” while Newsweek (2/28/14) discussed his “twinkling chocolate-colored eyes and high cheekbones.”
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles’ 2012 campaign platform advocated privatization or increased business influence across the country, in schools, the oil industry, healthcare, water and electricity, promising to work closely with the IMF and World Bank and to re-design the national curriculum at all levels to teach “the connection between property, economic progress, political liberty and social development.”
Nevertheless, Capriles presented himself as a social democrat, and the media followed suit. He was described as a “moderate” (New York Times, 2/24/14; Washington Post, 3/11/14) or even a “center-left reformer” (Miami Herald, 4/11/13), and a disciple of popular Brazilian democratic socialist President Lula da Silva (London Times, 3/8/13; Daily Telegraph, 4/7/13). This despite the fact that Lula had declared it “absurd” that he would support Capriles, and even campaigned against him and for Hugo Chavez.
Perhaps the most egregious Venezuelan example of this phenomenon was during the briefly successful US-backed coup of 2002. As business mogul Pedro Carmona was installing himself as a dictator, dissolving the constitution and firing every elected official in the country, declaring that he could rule by decree—and while hundreds of people were killed, imprisoned or publicly tortured—the New York Times (4/13/02) presented him as a savior. The paper editorialized, “Venezuela is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator”—meaning Chávez. Elsewhere (4/13/02) it called Carmona a “respected business leader” and a “level-headed” and “meek” “conciliator,” uninterested in personal power.
An iron law of journalism
This phenomenon of presenting any political figure Washington approves of as a centrist, moderate or other positively charged words is hardly confined to Venezuela. In fact, it is virtually an iron law of journalism that descriptions of US government-friendly groups will be designed to signal readers that they deserve support.
For instance, Guaidó was described (New York Times, 3/3/19) as enjoying support both from right-wing governments and Ecuador’s “center-left president,” Lenin Moreno. This is a highly questionable framing of Moreno’s position, considering that immediately after being elected, he offered to work with right-wing parties, cut the salaries of government employees, met with Trump officials to discuss handing over WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange (living in asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy) and very publicly went to war with his predecessor and former mentor, leftist President Rafael Correa. Even the Financial Times (1/2/18) noted that he was “unpicking Ecuador’s left-wing legacy.” However, this has met with approval in Washington, hence his subsequent designation as “moderate” (Financial Times, 12/28/18; Washington Post, 2/5/18).
Going back to the 1980s, the Washington-backed far-right Contra paramilitaries in Nicaragua were referred to as the “equivalent of the founding fathers” by President Ronald Reagan (New York Times, 3/2/85) and as “moderates” in the media (e.g., LA Times, 2/20/85).
The US-backed administration of El Salvador’s José Napoleón Duarte presided over some of the worst massacres and human rights abuses in Central American history. Yet the New York Times (6/8/88) presented Duarte as a “decent democrat” “deserving of sympathy and appreciation,” who was “beset on the left by dogmatic Marxist insurgents and on the right by death squads.” By conveniently ignoring Duarte’s links to those same right-wing death squads, the Times was able to present him as “holding the center ground” and being a “moderating” influence in Salvadoran politics, rather than a perpetrator of the violence.
Meanwhile, the label “moderate” was used by the Christian Science Monitor (2/6/87) to describe Indonesian military dictator General Suharto, who presided over a genocide against ethnically Chinese Indonesians in 1965–66 (FAIR.org, 10/18/17), and again in East Timor after 1975 (Extra!, 11–12/93). What made Suharto’s mass killing “moderate,” of course, was the active support of Washington (Extra!, 9–10/98).
Indeed, even Hitler himself was approvingly described by the State Department in 1937 as a “moderate” between the extremes of the German left and right. Leading news outlets likewise saw “a new moderation in the political atmosphere” of Nazi Germany (New York Times, 3/7/33) or “indications of moderation” on Hitler’s part (Philadelphia Daily Bulletin, 1/30/33; both cited in Daily Beast, 12/20/15).
It’s understood that by “moderate Syria rebels,” CNN (1/16/15) means the good kind. (And “equip” here is a euphemism for “arm.”)
The most notorious recent example of the media wishfully finding moderation is surely the case of Syria, where US-backed rebels are often prefixed by the term “moderate” (CNN, 1/16/15; NPR, 4/8/17; Wall Street Journal, 5/28/14) to distinguish them from jihadist groups like Al Qaeda/Al Nusra, Washington’s official enemies, although the line between them is frequently blurry, as Gareth Porter (FAIR.org, 3/21/16) has previously exposed. “Moderate” groups often work hand in glove with extremist forces. The Washington Post (2/19/16) admitted as much when it noted that moderate rebel forces were “intermingled” with jihadists, making negotiations problematic.
Very often, terms like “moderate,” “centrist” or “democrat” are not used in media to refer to any particular political outlook, but rather are used as a framing mechanism to convey the media’s approval—which usually depends on US government support. Regardless of their actions or political outlook, groups with media and official endorsement will be rewarded with such monikers.
In contrast, those media disapprove of will be denied such titles. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is dismissed as part of the “loony left” (Washington Post, 2/13/19), and Bernie Sanders is described as “far-left” (Detroit News, 3/18/19), largely on the basis of his support for Medicare for All. Though Ocasio-Cortez’s core platform enjoys widespread public support (FAIR.org, 1/23/19), and Medicare for All has gotten as much as 70 percent support in polls (The Hill, 8/23/18), these sorts of politicians are never going to be granted the “moderate” seal of approval.
Research assistance: Teddy Ostrow
Featured image: AFP depiction of Juan Guaidó (photo: Frederico Parra)
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Prison Planet.com » United Airlines Implements Policy Allowing Customers To Identify As ‘Non-Binary’
Daily Caller
March 23, 2019
United Airlines announced in a Friday press release that it will be the first U.S. airline to allow customers to identify themselves with a non-binary gender.
“United Airlines today announced it has become the first U.S. airline to offer non-binary gender options throughout all booking channels in addition to providing the option to select the title ‘Mx.’ during booking and in a MileagePlus customer profile,” the release began. “Customers now have the ability to identify themselves as M(male), F(female), U(undisclosed) or X(unspecified), corresponding with what is indicated on their passports or identification.”
The company tweeted out the announcement with the slogan “Fly how you identify.”
Fly how you identify. Our new non-binary gender options are now available.
— United Airlines (@united) March 22, 2019
The statement goes on to explain that United Airlines teamed up with Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and The Trevor Project to compile initiatives by which employees will be trained about “preferred pronouns and the persistence of gender norms, LGBT competency in the workplace and other steps to make United an inclusive space for both customers and employees.”
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Best #PeoplesVoteMarch placards in PHOTOS — RT UK News
A reported one million people took to the streets of London today to push for a second Brexit referendum, with the event bringing out what could be the most extensive and creative collection of placards you’ll see all year.
The march, organized by the People’s Vote campaign, calls for a fresh referendum to end the political deadlock over Brexit and ultimately to reverse current plans for the UK to leave the bloc.
Dubbed “Put It To The People,” its organizers say more than a million people joined the march on Saturday, before finishing with a rally in front of Parliament, putting it on a par with the Stop the [Iraq] War march in 2003 as the biggest in the country’s history, reports the BBC.
The sea of demonstrators was peppered with banners, posters and placards, ranging from the furious to the hilarious. Movie quotes and political puns were in full force across central London as protesters flaunted their creative side.
The Brexit debacle is reaching fever pitch as the original deadline of March 29 has been extended to April 12. Meanwhile, by Saturday morning a petition asking for Britain to just “remain in the EU” has garnered more than four million signatures – making it the most popular petition ever submitted to the Parliament website.
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Among the high-profile figures who participated in today’s rally was London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who warned the crowd about the upcoming “catastrophe.”
“We are now days away from falling off a cliff edge with catastrophic consequences,” Khan said. “It’s time to take this out of the hands of politicians and put it back to the people.”
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Prison Planet.com » Australia’s Gun Laws And Homicide: Correlation Isn’t Causation
Ryan McMaken
The Mises Institute
March 23, 2019
In the wake of the March 15 New Zealand shootings, advocates for new gun restrictions in New Zealand have pointed to Australia as “proof” that if national governments adopt gun restrictions like those of Australia’s National Firearms Agreement, then homicides will go into steep decline.
“Exhibit A” is usually the fact that homicides have decreased in Australia since 1996, when the new legislation was adopted in Australia.
There are at least two problems with these claims.
- First, homicide rates have been in decline throughout western Europe and Canada and the United States since the early 1990s. The fact that the same trend was followed in Australia is hardly evidence of a revolutionary achievement.
- Second, homicides were already so unusual in Australia, even before the 1996 legislation, that few lessons can be learned from slight movements either up or down in homicide rates.
A Trend in Falling Rates
As noted by legal scholar Michael Tonry,
There is now general agreement, at least for developed English-speaking countries and western Europe, that homicide patterns have moved in parallel since the 1950s. The precise timing of the declines has varied, but the common pattern is apparent. Homicide rates increased substantially from various dates in the 1960s, peaked in the early 1990s or slightly later, and have since fallen substantially.
This was certainly the case in the United States. US homicides hit a 51-year low in 2014, falling to a level not seen since 1963. This followed the general trend: peaking in the early 1990s, and then going into steep decline. And yet, we can’t point to any new national gun-control measure which we can then claim caused the decline. In fact, the data suggests gun ownership increased significantly during this period.
Australia followed the same pattern, although national homicide data…
Barbra Streisand comments on Michael Jackson abuse claims appal Twitter — RT USA News
Barbra Streisand has unleashed a firestorm of outrage for saying Michael Jackson’s alleged molestation of boys “didn’t kill them,” and that Jackson’s “sexual needs were his sexual needs.”
My interview with Barbra Streisand has caused a bit of a kerfuffle. Less due to the dog-cloning, motorway meltdown and Brexit-ruined-me tales than her views on Michael Jackson… https://t.co/AbXFcnOYiY
— Ed Potton (@ed_potton) March 23, 2019
Cancelled.
— you already know (@thekgstyle) March 23, 2019
Streisand’s controversial statements appeared in an interview with the Times, where she was asked about the Leaving Neverland documentary in which Wade Robson and James Safechuck detail allegations of sexual abuse by Jackson.
The singer and actor said she “absolutely” believes the two men, but when asked how she reconciles the man she knew with the man described in the documentary, she said, “His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has.”
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“You can say ‘molested’, but those children, as you heard say, they were thrilled to be there,” she continued. “They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them.”
Unsurprisingly, her comments ignited a tsunami of outrage and anger online, with many on Twitter accusing her of victim blaming and being ignorant about the effects of sexual abuse.
Barbara Streisand’s take on survivors of child sexual abuse: “It didn’t kill them”
Survivors of sexual abuse have higher rates of suicide, eating disorders, drug addiction, repeat victimization later in life, etc.
Child sexual abuse literally does kill people. https://t.co/k6lyjjyjNB
— Dani Bostick (@danibostick) March 23, 2019
Barbra Streisand’s comments on Michael Jackson’s accusers are … outrageous and perplexing to say the very least. pic.twitter.com/eFSTZUu4bz
— Alexander W. McCall (@awmccall) March 22, 2019
And just like that, Barbara Streisand became a victim blaming paedophile sympathiser. https://t.co/QBUx4n9jT5
— StrathclydeMark (@StrathclydeMark) March 23, 2019
In the interview, Streisand went on to explain the “combination of feelings” she has, saying she felt bad for both the victims and Jackson, and blamed the parents for letting their children sleep with him.
Many Twitter users reacted with sheer bewilderment at her insensitivity to potential sexual abuse victims, and even her fans expressed disbelief that she would say such things. Others took a more light-hearted approach to the shocking statements.
Barbra Streisand, in a bold move, went right past the “deny and slander the victims” phase and straight to the “yeah, he did it, but is pedophilia really that bad” end state.
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) March 23, 2019
Barbara Streisand just “hold my beer’d” the whole Mueller Report.
— Zach Braff (@zachbraff) March 23, 2019
barbara streisand had an enormous private upscale mall built in the basement of her house so she could “go shopping” without having to be around normal people. shocked to learn she’s a weirdo
— chair admirer (@KrangTNelson) March 23, 2019
Sees why Barbara Streisand is trending… pic.twitter.com/0xxnEE0D3p
— Sonda (@cvdillard) March 23, 2019
Who had Barbara Streisand Defends Pedophilia in the 2019 pool https://t.co/xZgR6r8ZGk
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) March 23, 2019
thoughts and prayers to barbara streisand fans during this time https://t.co/5wbsHnrUiF
— diane alston (@dianelyssa) March 23, 2019
I am really hoping for a clarification from Streisand to say this is wrong or she never said these things-this is very hard to believe.
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 23, 2019
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It’s Only Natural – LewRockwell
Freedom’s Progress?: A History of Political Thought, by Gerard Casey
The opening chapter of Casey’s book is entitled “The Dawn of History.” Through this chapter one can discern why much of what is advanced in today’s society is destructive to society. But before getting to this, Casey constructs what is unique about man:
Human beings are singularly badly constructed for survival. …David Hume comments, “Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis’d more cruelty that towards man in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities…”
Ibn Khaldûn offers that many dumb animals were given more perfect power than God gave to man. Man must consciously contrive necessary behaviors whereas other animals have such behaviors instinctually. These contrived behaviors begin at birth; from Frank Tallis:
“The human infant must have a high quality of care, and this is best delivered by two parents working together for an extended period of time – in effect, two parents in a monogamous relationship, sharing a strong pair-bond….”
A male and female, committed to each other for at least long enough to raise the children that they produce. Hard to see how human life on earth would ever have survived absent such an institution.
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Prison Planet.com » Trump put more women in top roles than Obama, Bush, Clinton
American Mirror
March 23, 2019
It’s no secret that President Trump can be brash about women. He described porn star Stormy Daniels as a “Horseface,” and mocked Rosie O’Donnell as a fat pig and “total loser.”
Trump also fessed up to “locker room talk” about how he likes to “grab them by the pussy.”
But the president’s actions speak much louder than his words.
Despite a few crude comments, Trump put more women in top advisory roles in his administration than any of the last three presidents, a powerful statement some believe is overshadowed by the media’s relentless focus on vilifying the president’s every move.
“I don’t think it’s gotten as much attention as the fact that he’s said things that are sexist,” Augusta University professor Mary-Kate Lizotte, an expert on women in politics, told The Washington Examiner. “It might not have as much of an effect because of negative coverage.”
The Examiner reports:
At the beginning of the third year of his first term as president, Trump has seven female top advisers, as compared to five for Obama, three for Bush, and five for Clinton at that point. He had eight as of December 2018, when United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley departed the administration.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
The top advisers are White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway; CIA Director Gina Haspel, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, senior adviser Ivanka Trump, Director of Legislative Affairs Shahira Knight, and Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp.
Those in Trump’s inner circle are only some of the women that have served in the administration, with others including Haley and former communications director Hope Hicks playing key roles early on.
Last May, the president appointed Gina Haspel as the head of the CIA, the first woman to ever hold that post, Fox News…
Corbyn hails teen who trounced Tory politics in viral speech — RT UK News
A teenager left social media gobsmacked by her articulate assessment of the Tory government’s responsibility for Brexit on BBC Question Time in Belfast on Thursday, earning herself the approval of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Somehow, 16-year-old Amelia was able to cut through the BS and break down how she sees responsibility for the current Brexit shambles lying on the shoulders of David Cameron and the Conservative Party.
She said the whole furore goes back to when then-Prime Minister Cameron was trying to negotiate with the EU and decided to make “the referendum policy because he didn’t want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to UKIP,” the UK Independence Party that had long campaigned to leave the European Union.
“What we need to look at is the fact that this is all caused by a party putting itself first before the country it is trying to govern,” the teen continued.
You did great Amelia. Came across really well and made clear, rational analysis, unlike most of our politicians, who have failed to do this over the past two years.
I would have been proud if a 16-year old daughter of mine had done as well…👍
— Tony T (@shrimptony) March 22, 2019
When they ask her one day what she’d say to her 16 year old self, she’ll say, “nothing really, nailed it”. https://t.co/66trzg6rRr
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) March 21, 2019
Amelia went on call for the UK to go “back to a general election and representative democracy, because that’s what this country was built on.”
Corbyn shared the BBC’s tweet of the clip, which has been viewed over 3.5 million times, writing, “Spot on.” Social media users largely applauded Amelia’s straight talking, and expressed relief that the younger generation is so promising.
“This is all caused by a party putting itself first before the country it is trying to govern.” Spot on. #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/A74tJ7nVq7
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) March 22, 2019
Our next generation are a credit to us. So informed and clues on. ✊🏻🌹
— Teri #JC4PM #Labour🚩 ♿️ 🇵🇸🇮🇪🏳️🌈 (@Card007Teri) March 22, 2019
You were spot on. 👏👏 I have faith in the future of this world because of people like you. No matter what the prevailing forces say or do. You are the future, not them.
— I Am Nothing 🌹 (@AKA_Porlek) March 22, 2019
Since shooting to viral fame, the Belfast teen has signalled she’s ready and willing to debate the current Tory PM in person, should the opportunity arise.
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Fox show guest mangles Venezuelan history, claims Chavez was president in 1980s (VIDEO) — RT USA News
A guest who appeared on right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren’s Fox News show appears to be very confused about Venezuela’s history, chiefly the years of Hugo Chavez’s term, despite it apparently directly affecting her own family.
Vanessa Rivera, a member of the ‘Network of Enlightened Women’, was part of a three-person panel of “conservative” contributors on the show to share their “inspirational stories of trials and triumphs on America’s college campuses.”
Part of Rivera’s rags-to-riches story appeared to begin with her mother fleeing a “socialist-ruined Venezuela”. However, she proceeded to either confuse her family’s timeline, expose her lack of knowledge about the country’s history – or both.
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“My mother left Venezuela in the 80s because under Hugo Chavez the “president” not dictator of the country, socialism was rampant and it was running the country,” said Rivera in a questionable summary of Venezuelan history.
Chavez actually didn’t become president of Venezuela until 1999, staying in power until his death in 2013. The gaffe was picked up on by several viewers who took to Twitter to point out the mistake.
Can you tell @CandidNessa that Chavez didn’t take power till 1990. Thanks.
— Brandolfski 🌹🥚 (@dagreatscienski) March 23, 2019
“Enlightened Woman” has a lapsus while denouncing “rampant neoliberalism” in the 80s when the Venezuelan neoliberal dictatorship destroyed the economy and in 1989 killed 3000+ people demanding food and work in Caracas (known as the “Caracazo”). #Venezuelahttps://t.co/QqBxx6ohs2
— taseenb (@taseenb) March 23, 2019
Never let bothersome things like historical facts get in the way of a narrative.
— RotoB (@RotoBansaii) March 21, 2019
Who can forget the famous socialism of… *checks notes*… the leadership that Chavez tried to orchestrate a coup against?
— Stoner_Freeman💀🚬🔥 (@piratesofdestny) March 22, 2019
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Mozambique Is Drowning. Nebraska Has Flooded. We Need a Green New Deal.
The ocean has come for the coastal African nation of Mozambique. Tropical Cyclone Idai, a devastating storm that pummeled the country with fierce winds, was followed by a massive flood that has obliterated dams, swept away homes and bridges, erased roads, shuttered airports, and damaged 90 percent of the city of Beira, home to more than 500,000 people. There are bodies in the water and no one to collect them, making diseases like cholera an imminent threat.
More than 1,000 are confirmed dead, a number that is sure to rise. Thousands more are homeless and seeking refuge. “Many people were waiting for food, water and medicine,” reports The New York Times, “in makeshift shelters in primary schools and other government buildings.” Satellite imagery over Mozambique shows a new flood-made inland sea that is 30 miles wide in places. “We’ve never had something of this magnitude before in Mozambique,” said non-governmental organization coordinator Emma Beatty. To the west in Zimbabwe and Malawi, more than 100 people are known dead, hundreds more are missing and the damage is extensive.
“There are at least three major ways that the Mozambique floods are related to climate change,” reports Eric Holthaus for Grist. “First, a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, which makes rainfall more intense. Idai produced more than two feet of rainfall in parts of the region — nearly a year’s worth in just a few days. Second, the region had been suffering from a severe drought in recent years in line with climate projections of overall drying in the region, hardening the soil and enhancing runoff. Third, sea levels are about a foot higher than a century ago, which worsens the effect of coastal flooding farther inland.”
For years, stories of massive climate disasters such as these may have felt distant to many U.S. readers, but the climate crisis has arrived here, too.
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Why Not Impeach?
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair
What sensate, morally decent human being could fail to appreciate newly elected Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s call “to impeach the motherfucker!” She was referring of course, to Donald Trump.
What her words, taken literally, call for is a formal indictment, rendered by the House of Representatives that would lead to a trial in the United States Senate. Conviction at trial, not impeachment by itself, would make Trump’s removal from office legally mandatory.
Tlaib surely knows this and so, most likely, do most of the tens of millions of Americans who agree with her and support the stand she took.
Therefore, when they call for impeachment, what they are really calling for is not impeachment per se, but the initiation of a process that, if successful, would cause the Donald to be gone in the way that the Constitution prescribes.
This assumes that Trump, his minions, and his supporters, a third or more of the population, don’t resort to extra-Constitutional means to hold onto power; or that, if they do, that their efforts fail.
Before Trump, the idea that an American president might defy the Constitution by seeking to hold onto power by force was unthinkable. Most people nowadays still think it is; and they are probably right. With Trump, however, anything, no matter how perfidious, is possible.
Were Trump gone, a process of de-Trumpification could begin. Not all the harm he has done, and will go on to do as long as he remains…
The Bible: Recipe for Genocide or Junk Sculpture?
What exactly is the religious rationale for Israel as a Jewish state? Who better to ask than an America Jewish secular journalist. We can assume that makes our investigative journalist a zionist (90% of Jews support Israel — DV Ed note: This is not a definition of a Zionist), but, as a journalist, and secular, our protagonist assures the reader he is interested in giving us as objective a version as can be expected.
David Plotz’s Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (2009) puts the Old Testament (OT) under his microscope, knowing virtually zip about the religion, not practicing, nor forced to go to Saturday Hebrew school. Locke’s ‘blank slate’, sort of.
Plotz loves the ironies and contradictions of his journey and the Bible itself. He starts out believing vaguely in the existence of God, but not observing the rituals. During his 365 days of plodding through the book, he comes to admire the rituals, and starts observing Shabat Friday dinners, complete with prayers, celebrating Passover, New Year, Sukkoth.
But he’s not at all happy with the God the OT reveals. “I leave the bible as a hopeless and angry agnostic. I’m brokenhearted about God. God made me rational so I must use the tools to think about him. Submit him to rational and moral inquiry. And he fails that examination. The history of Judaism is an effort to grapple with the bible’s horror.”
Wow….
Prison Planet.com » Google Influenced Midterm Elections, May Have Cost Republicans Seats: Study
Zero Hedge
March 23, 2019
New research reveals that Google built biases into its search results that influenced the 2018 midterm elections – possibly costing Republicans three congressional districts.
First things first – the study was conducted by Dr. Robert Epstein – a San Diego-based Harvard Ph.D. who founded the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. He’s also a Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), a UCSD visiting scholar, and served as editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.
He also supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 (just like Google!).
Down to the findings:
Epstein and AIBRT analyzed Google searches linked to three highly competitive southern California congressional races in which Democrats won, and found that Google’s “clear democrat bias” may have flipped the seats away from Republican candidates. According to the study, at least 35,455 undecided voters within the three California districts may have been persuaded to vote Democrat due to the biased Google search results.
Epstein says that in the days leading up to the 2018 midterms, he was able to preserve “more than 47,000 election-related searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo, along with the nearly 400,000 web pages to which the search results linked.”
Analysis of this data showed a clear pro-Democrat bias in election-related Google search results as compared to competing search engines. Users performing Google searches related to the three congressional races the study focused on were significantly more likely to see pro-Democrat stories and links at the top of their results.
As Epstein’s previous studies have shown, this can have a huge impact on the decisions of undecided voters, who often assume that their search results are unbiased. Epstein has called this the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME). –Breitbart
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‘Stay in EU’ petition hits 4mn as Brits prepare to march for ‘final say’ on Brexit — RT UK News
Millions have signed a request for Britain to stay in the EU as people prepare to march for the voters’ right to have the “final say” on Brexit, with London’s mayor among them.
The petition on the government-run website asking Britain to “remain in the EU”gained more than 4 million signatures on Saturday morning.
At the same time, thousands are expected to join the ‘Put It On the People March’ in London, demanding that the British public have the “final say” on Brexit. The organizers proposed a plan under which London would call off its immediate decision to quit the EU, and then carry out a separate referendum on the terms of Brexit.
Among those planning to attend the rally is London Mayor Sadiq Khan. “No matter how you voted, I’m sure you’ll agree: Brexit is a complete and utter mess,” he said on Friday, calling on others to join him on the streets.
The nation risks “falling off a cliff edge with catastrophic consequences,” Khan warned, referring to a looming no-deal Brexit.
The prospect of Britain leaving the EU remains the government’s default legal position after Prime Minister Theresa May’s hard-fought plan was rejected twice by Parliament. Consecutive defeats prompted May to frantically engage in a new round of talks with Brussels.
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Tusk: ‘Lots of space’ in hell for British MPs who vote against Brexit deal
The EU refused to renegotiate the deal, but agreed to move the UK’s withdrawal date from March 29 to May 22 – if lawmakers approve May’s plan next week. If not, she will have until April 12 to propose a new one.
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Attacker brutally beats 78yo woman on NYC subway as bystanders look on & film (GRAPHIC VIDEO) — RT USA News
NYC police are looking for a man who was caught on camera brutally kicking an elderly woman sitting on a subway train, as bystanders filmed the shocking assault and did nothing to stop him.
The NYPD are asking for the public’s help to identify the attacker, who repeatedly kicked a 78-year-old woman in the head while she sat on a northbound No. 2 train in the early hours of March 10.
Warning: Graphic footage
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The defenseless woman was sitting alone on the subway and attempted to block the attacker’s ruthless assault by shielding her face as he landed repeated blows to her head and body.
As shown in the footage, the attacker casually exits the carriage at the next station, apparently without any passengers attempting to stop him.
Please help us bring justice to this 78-year-old woman who was brutally kicked in the face on 3/10 at 3:10 am inside the 238th St/Nereid Ave subway station in the Bronx. If you have any info, call @NYPDTips at 800-577-TIPS. Your calls are anonymous! pic.twitter.com/yf2TYjNm9D
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) March 22, 2019
We are aware of a video that has surfaced on various social media platforms showing an individual kicking a fellow subway rider in the Bronx. Our @NYPDDetectives are on the case and actively investigating this heinous assault. pic.twitter.com/nqVOUZqHA6
— NYPD Transit (@NYPDTransit) March 22, 2019
A bystander alerted an officer to the incident at that next stop, Wakefield Street Station, and the woman was treated by emergency medics for bleeding and swelling from cuts to her face, but refused any further treatment.
The horrifying footage has led to a social media campaign to identify the perpetrator.
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Mexican government intervenes to end Coca-Cola strike in Matamoros
Mexican government intervenes to end Coca-Cola strike in Matamoros
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Alex González
23 March 2019
On Wednesday, the Federal Arbitration Board declared the ongoing strike by 700 Coca-Cola workers in Matamoros “illegal,” opening the door for lawsuits and mass arrests if the workers continue to picket the city’s bottling facility. The federal government, led by the “leftist” Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), alleges that the Union of Laborers and Industrial Workers of the Maquiladora Industry (SJOIIM) never presented the appropriate documents to initiate strike proceedings at Coca-Cola.
The intervention by federal authorities signals a marked escalation in the attack against the working class. This action openly shows that the local, state, federal and court systems are jointly operating on behalf of the corporations and against the workers. Over 4,700 workers have now been fired, with the blessing of the union and the government, as a reprisal for the strike wave in Matamoros.
“This was a technical work stoppage, there was never a strike, we have notified all parties and the union leader. This stoppage did not exist, a strike was never launched,” said María Eugenia Navarrete, head of the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration (JFCA).
After learning that the union had betrayed their strike, a group of Coca-Cola workers attempted to enter SJOIIM headquarters Wednesday evening and speak to union leader Juan Villafuerte. A physical confrontation ensued after union thugs forcefully denied the workers access to the building.
On Thursday, a temporary legal protection was granted by local courts against the federal ruling. Although the union claims to have filed the paperwork, it is entirely credible that the SJOIIM delayed filings in order to sabotage the…
ACLU Demands DOJ ‘Swiftly’ Release Special Counsel Report to the Public
Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday submitted the highly-anticipated report based on his nearly two-year investigation into alleged Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. elections, possible collusion between the Trump campaign, and so-called “related matters.”
“This is not just about protecting civil and human rights and upholding the rule of law – this is about restoring trust in our elections and shining light on potential crimes and corruption that threatens our democracy. The people and their elected representatives deserve the truth.”
—Vanita Gupta, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RightsIn response, the ACLU immediately called for the report to be made public.
According to the Associated Press:
The comprehensive report, still confidential, marks the end of Mueller’s probe but sets the stage for big public fights to come. The next steps are up to Trump’s attorney general, to Congress and, in all likelihood, federal courts.
The Justice Department said Mueller delivered his final report to Attorney General William Barr and officially concluded his probe of Russian election interference and possible coordination with Trump associates. The report will now be reviewed by Barr, who has said he will write his own account communicating Mueller’s findings to Congress and the American public.
As NBC News notes, “It is not clear how soon, if at all, the public will see the details of Mueller’s findings.” Shortly after news of its submission, however, the ACLU demanded the report not be concealed from the voting public.
“Elected officials work for the people and we deserve to see government business conducted in daylight,” said ACLU’s national legal director David Cole. “The American people have a right to know if President Trump and his associates coordinated with Russia to interfere in our elections, the full extent of Russian efforts to affect our elections, and any attempts to interfere with Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. We urge the Department of Justice to release the report swiftly, once it has minimally redacted any information that is properly withheld.”
If the DOJ decides not to make the Mueller report public, Cole added, “Congress should use its subpoena powers to make sure the truth sees the light of day.”
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights echoed the ACLU’s call.
“No one, not even a president, is above the law,” said Vanita Gupta, the group’s president and CEO, in a statement.
“The American public must have confidence that their elections are fair and free from undue foreign influence,” Gupta said. “Accordingly, Attorney General Barr must make the report available to Congress and the public. Just this month, a unanimous, bipartisan House of Representatives called for the report to be public. This is not just about protecting civil and human rights and upholding the rule of law – this is about restoring trust in our elections and shining light on potential crimes and corruption that threatens our democracy. The people and their elected representatives deserve the truth.”
Several outlets release “everything-you-need-to-know” videos about the Mueller probe for those who may have lost track:
In a letter sent to top members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees just after 5 PM eastern, Barr confirmed that Mueller had “concluded his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters” and that he would follow, possibly within hours or days, with additional information. “I am reviewing the report,” Barr said in the letter, “and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend.”
Read the full letter from Barr below:
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Trump Policies ‘Literally’ Could ‘Cause People’s Death’
Free Beacon
March 22, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said Donald Trump’s policies could “literally” cause people to die, during the same interview where he called for “radical love” in politics.
During an interview on “Pod Save America,” the New Jersey senator told former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, “I do what I have to do to get shit done,” before flip-flopping on his position in favor of the Senate filibuster.
Booker blamed the budget reconciliation process for eroding the Senate, which requires only a simple majority and was first used during the Obama administration to make changes to Obamacare after Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death.
He said reconciliation has allowed the Republican majority to do “awful things,” such as allowing most Americans to keep more of their money.
“I understand that the erosion of the Senate, already, has allowed this [Republican] party to do awful things, Trump tax cut, for example,” Booker said. “And if I was president I want people to know very tactfully, let’s talk tactics, I will use reconciliation to roll back the Trump tax credits, and do the kind of things that I think to have a tax system that reflects our values, our morals, and frankly what is better for our economy.”
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US media suffers panic attack after Mueller fails to deliver on much-anticipated Trump indictment — RT USA News
Important pundits and news networks have served up an impressive display of denials, evasions and on-air strokes after learning that Robert Mueller has ended his probe without issuing a single collusion-related indictment.
The Special Counsel delivered his final report to Attorney General William Barr for review on Friday, with the Justice Department confirming that there will be no further indictments related to the probe. The news dealt a devastating blow to the sensational prophesies of journalists, analysts and entire news networks, who for nearly two years reported ad nauseam that President Donald Trump and his inner circle were just days away from being carted off to prison for conspiring with the Kremlin to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Showing true integrity, journalists and television anchors took to Twitter and the airwaves on Friday night to acknowledge that the media severely misreported Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, as well as what Mueller’s probe was likely to find. They are, after all, true professionals.
“How could they let Trump off the hook?” an inconsolable Chris Matthews asked NBC reporter Ken Dilanian during a segment on CNN’s ‘Hardball’.
Dilanian tried to comfort the CNN host with some of his signature NBC punditry.
“My only conclusion is that the president transmitted to Mueller that he would take the Fifth. He would never talk to him and therefore, Mueller decided it wasn’t worth the subpoena fight,” he expertly mused.
Actually, there were several Serious Journalists who used their unsurpassed analytical abilities to conjure up a reason why Mueller didn’t throw the book at Trump, even though the president is clearly a Putin puppet.
“It’s certainly possible that Trump may emerge from this better than many anticipated. However! Consensus has been that Mueller would follow DOJ rules and not indict a sitting president. I.e. it’s also possible his report could be very bad for Trump, despite ‘no more indictments,'” concluded Mark Follman, national affairs editor at Mother Jones, who presumably, and very sadly, was not being facetious.
It’s certainly possible that Trump may emerge from this better than many anticipated. However! Consensus has been that Mueller would follow DOJ rules and not indict a sitting president. I.e. it’s also possible his report could be very bad for Trump, despite “no more indictments”
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) March 23, 2019
Revered news organs were quick to artfully modify their expectations regarding Mueller’s findings.
“What is collusion and why is Robert Mueller unlikely to mention it in his report on Trump and Russia?” a Newsweek headline asked following Friday’s tragic announcement.
Three months earlier, Newsweek had meticulously documented all the terrible “collusion” committed by Donald Trump and his inner circle.
But perhaps the most sobering reactions to the no-indictment news came from those who seemed completely unfazed by the fact that Mueller’s investigation, aimed at uncovering a criminal conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin, ended without digging up a single case of “collusion.”
This is scary. Hope she finds some help
— Chad Wensloff (@cwens70) March 23, 2019
None for colluding with Russia
— Troy Pallotto 🇺🇸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@TroyPallotto) March 22, 2019
For the last two years your network has engaged in a ceaseless, error-ridden, and unhinged effort to tie Trump to a conspiracy w/ Russia. It hasn’t panned out. If you’re not going to own up to that, why say anything?
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) March 22, 2019
The denials, evasions and bizarre hot takes are made even more poignant by the fact that just days ago, there was still serious talk about Trump’s entire family being hauled off to prison.
“You can’t blame MSNBC viewers for being confused. They largely kept dissenters from their Trump/Russia spy tale off the air for 2 years. As recently as 2 weeks ago, they had @JohnBrennan strongly suggesting Mueller would indict Trump family members on collusion as his last act,” journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted.
You can’t blame MSNBC viewers for being confused. They largely kept dissenters from their Trump/Russia spy tale off the air for 2 years. As recently as 2 weeks ago, they had @JohnBrennan strongly suggesting Mueller would indict Trump family members on collusion as his last act: pic.twitter.com/nPlaq5YVxf
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
While the Mueller report has yet to be released to the public, the lack of indictments makes it clear that whatever was found, nothing came close to the vast criminal conspiracy alleged by virtually the entire American media establishment.
“You have been lied to for 2 years by the MSM. No Russian collusion by Trump or anyone else. Who lied? Head of the CIA, NSA,FBI,DOJ, every pundit every anchor. All lies,” wrote conservative activist Chuck Woolery.
The Mueller report is in and there will be no more indictments. You have been lied to for 2 years by the MSM. No Russian collusion by Trump or anyone else. Who lied? Head of the CIA, NSA,FBI,DOJ, every pundit every anchor. All lies.
— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) March 23, 2019
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom was more blunt, but said it all: “Mueller – The name that ended all mainstream media credibility.”
Mueller – The name that ended all mainstream media credibility.
No matter what you think of Donald Trump. His unexpected rise to power has educated the entire world about what’s wrong with US politics, the fake news media and the deep state.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) March 23, 2019
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Israel Is Not Interested in the Golan Heights for Security
AMY GOODMAN: Just weeks before major elections in Israel that could determine the future of the embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump has bowed to his pressure by declaring the U.S. will recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, in defiance of international law and decades of U.S. policy. Trump announced the move via Twitter Thursday, writing, “After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!” exclamation point.
Netanyahu responded to the news during a joint news conference with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: President Trump has just made history. I called him. I thanked him on behalf of the people of Israel. He did it again. First he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved the U.S. Embassy here. Then he pulled out of the disastrous Iran treaty and reimposed sanctions. But now he did something of equal historic importance: He recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. And he did so at a time when Iran is trying to use Syria as a platform to attack and destroy Israel. And the message that President Trump has given the world is that America stands by Israel.
AMY GOODMAN: The Golan Heights area covers less than 500 square miles along Israel’s northeastern border with Syria. Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 after capturing the territory from Syria during the 1967 war, but the international community does not recognize its sovereignty. In November, the U.S. said it planned to vote against a U.N. resolution calling for Israel to end its occupation of the Golan Heights.
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A Pox on the Houses of Trump and McCain, Huxleyan Media, and the Myth of “The Vietnam War”
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You’re going to have to shut up or I’ll call the police…Get out of here you low-life scum.”
— John McCain’s statement to peace activists calling for the arrest of epic war criminal Henry Kissinger, January 29. 2015
Yes, Trump is Disgusting
Is it disgusting and pathetic that the mentally deranged President of the United States wakes up early in the morning to engage in hours of adolescent Twitter warfare with his personal and political enemies?
Is it ridiculous and pitiful that the tangerine-tinted Twitter-addict continues to attack the late United States Senator John McCain and McCain’s family months after McCain has been buried?
Is it sickening that the primary McCain sin Bad Grandpa Trump can’t seem to forgive is the former Senator’s failure to join Trump and the Republicans in kicking millions of ordinary Americans off the health insurance rolls?
Is it true that, as, George Conway – one of Trump’s recent Twitter enemies – tweets, Trump is a textbook case of malignant narcissism?
Is it creepy that Trump calls Kellyanne Conway, George’s wife and a top Trump counselor, “honey” and that Mrs. Conway sides with her demented boss over her husband in the Trump-Conway Twitter feud?
Is it distressing that the man with his fingers on the nuclear codes feels compelled to call George Conway “Mr. Kellyanne” and a “husband from Hell” – and to Tweet this about Conway: “I barely know him but just…
Day of Wrath | Dissident Voice
In all times some must be rich, some poore, some highe and eminent in power and dignitie; others mean in subjeccion.
— John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630I think I can see the whole destiny of America contained in the first Puritan who landed on those shores.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1830Today utopia is maligned because no one really wants to see its realization.
— Max Horkheimer, The Authoritarian State, 1940
I continue to see this repackaged antisemitism appearing everywhere, but perhaps most disturbingly on the left. And it seems tied into a growing cultic response regards the multiple environmental crises. And, thirdly, I see the retreat, from so many on the left, to a tacit or even overt endorsement of Democratic Party candidates or office holders. Often from people who claimed they were done with the Democrats, wanted to see them destroyed, etc. But are now describing the new “socialist” (sic) dems as, well… socialist. Suddenly, Tulsi or Omar or AOC are treated with comfortable amnesia. It is more proof, if any were needed, that marketing and advertising works.
There is no hope in anyone who cannot unequivocally reject all US actions against Venezuela. Unequivocally means stopping the liberal slandering of Maduro. He is the elected president. He represents Venezuela. He has also presided during a time of near constant pressure from U.S. funded and backed fascist opposition….
How Theresa May Botched – LewRockwell
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The Times page 1 is of January 18, 2017. Negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union about Brexit were just beginning. The “you’ll be crushed” arrogance in the headline characterizes the attitude the British government under May demonstrated during the talks.
Recently that attitude has somewhat changed. This screenshot was taken about an hour ago:
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Theresa May has said she “sincerely hopes” the UK will leave the EU with a deal and she is still “working on” ensuring Parliament’s agreement.Arriving in Brussels, she said that she had “personal regret” over her request to delay Brexit, but said it will allow time for MPs to make a “final choice”.
At the EU summit the PM spoke to the other 27 leaders to try to get their backing for a delay beyond 29 March.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn said his talks in Brussels were “very constructive”.
BBC Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming said Mrs May spoke to EU leaders for 90 minutes and was asked several times what her contingency plans were if she lost the third “meaningful vote” on her deal in Parliament.
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that if MPs vote down Mrs May’s EU withdrawal agreement next week, the UK will leave without a deal.
May asked the EU to move the hard coded March 29 Brexit date to June 30. She may be given May 23, the day of EU elections, as a compromise but only if her deal passes the British parliament.
A no-deal crash out on March 29 would create utter chaos for months. It would be catastrophic for Britain’s economy.
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‘Nobody in America Has Suggested Banning Any Guns’ (They Have)
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March 22, 2019
MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi said “nobody in America has suggested banning any guns” during coverage Thursday of new gun control measures in New Zealand, although in fact many people in America have suggested banning types of guns.
Velshi had on gun control advocate Shannon Watts and sought to take the conversation in a different direction than discussing the new gun bans in New Zealand following last week’s massacre at two mosques that left 50 dead.
“Nobody in America has suggested banning any guns, but we have so many guns in this country that it causes other problems, right?” he asked, going on to discuss a recent NBC News report on the prevalence of suicide by guns in the United States.
Velshi’s comment is curious, given the intense wave of support for gun control measures on the left, particularly in the past year since the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Florida.
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Prison Planet.com » Economic models indicate Trump on track to win re-election in ‘landslide’: report
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March 22, 2019
Despite low approval ratings and the cloud of the Mueller probe, President Trump would easily win a second term in office if the election were held today, according to economic models with a history of correctly picking presidential victors.
According to a report in Politico, a flourishing U.S. economy – featuring low unemployment numbers, cheaper gas prices and rising wages – paired with the historical advantage that incumbent presidents enjoy give Trump a strong shot at winning a second term in a “landslide.”
“The economy is just so damn strong right now and by all historic precedent the incumbent should run away with it,” Donald Luskin, the chief investment officer of TrendMacrolytics, a research firm that predicted Trump’s 2016 win, told Politico. “I just don’t see how the blue wall could resist all that.”
Yale economist and pioneering election forecaster Ray Fair reportedly also has Trump currently winning re-election on the back of the booming economy and his incumbent’s advantage.
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Texas chemical blaze reignites as authorities sue operator for pollution & health damages (VIDEOS) — RT USA News
After downplaying the health and environmental hazards of the massive Deer Park chemical tank fire for nearly a week, the Texas government has sued the facility’s operator for air pollution and ecological damage.
Locals living in the greater Houston area were advised to shelter in place for days, as emergency crews tried to contain the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) tank blaze, which erupted in Deer Park last Sunday and lasted all the way through Thursday – before reigniting again on Friday afternoon.
While residents anxiously waited for authorities to take care of the hazardous fumes, local health and emergency officials kept on reassuring the public that the emergency did not pose any danger to their health or to the environment, even though the blaze destroyed at least 11 above-ground fuel storage tanks.
“There continues to be a low health risk for the general public,” Harris County Public Health continued to insist on Friday, as black clouds of fume from the reignited fire covered large parts of Harris County.
Rejecting public concerns that the ITC fire resulted in leaks of benzene, authorities continue to insist that the local water system has not been contaminated. “The tests revealed no evidence of benzene in the water,” Nicholas Cook, Surface Water Treatment Plant Supervisor, told local news, noting that levels of cancer-causing trihalomethanes showed readings within an acceptable range.
Following a massive outcry from the local community over ITC’s questionable environmental practices and their inability to properly manage the fuel storage facility, the government of Texas has decided on Friday to sue the company for environmental damages.
“The state of Texas ..will hold ITC accountable for the damage it has done to our environment,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. “ITC has a history of environmental violations, and this latest incident is especially disturbing and frightening.”
“Finally, the Texas government is acting with real force to hold a polluter accountable rather than slapping it on the wrist or looking away entirely,” said Environment Texas Director Luke Metzger, as Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to “punish” the polluters.
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Unsealed documents shed light on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning
Unsealed documents shed light on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning
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Kevin Reed
22 March 2019
On Wednesday, the U.S. Eastern District Court of Virginia unsealed several filings concerning Chelsea Manning’s legal challenge to the subpoena attempting to force her to testify before a grand jury involved in fabricating charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
Among the unsealed documents is Manning’s legal motion of March 1 to have the subpoena thrown out on the grounds that it violates her First and Fifth Amendment rights, that it is an abuse of the grand jury process and that it is the product of illegal electronic surveillance by the government.
The documents include the government’s response to Manning’s motion and other filings related to unsealing the documents as well as a transcript of a March 5 hearing before US District Judge Claude Hilton on these matters.
Chelsea Manning—who has taken a brave and principled stand against the attempt to frame up Assange—was jailed on March 8 on civil contempt charges for refusing to testify before the secret grand jury. Judge Hilton cruelly sentenced her to jail indefinitely knowing full-well that she had already served seven years in prison—including long stretches in solitary confinement—even though she is recognized throughout the world as a courageous whistleblower and defender of the truth.
The unsealed documents shine a light on the desperate measures to which the US government has resorted in pursuing a legal pretext to prosecute Julian Assange. It also exposes the fact that Chelsea Manning has been the target of an endless campaign of intimidation and conspiracy in violation of her democratic rights.
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Central Banks Are Messing With Your Head
Human action and the interest rate
People value present goods more highly than future goods. For instance, an apple available today is considered more valuable than the same apple available in, say, one month. This is expressive of time preference — which is an undeniable fact, a category of human action.
The sentence “Humans act” is a logically irrefutable truth. It cannot be denied without causing a logical contradiction. By saying “Humans can not act”, you act and thus contradict your very statement.
From the true insight that humans act we can deduce that human action takes place in time. There is no timeless human action. Were it otherwise, people’s goals would be instantaneously reached, and action would be impossible — but we cannot think that we cannot act.
The market interest rate is expressive of time preference, and as such, it is also a category of human action. If determined in an unhampered market, the (natural) market interest rate denotes the discount that future goods are subject to relative to present goods.
If one US-dollar available in a year is trading at, say, 0.95 US-dollar, it means that the market interest rate is 5.0% (the calculation is: [0.95 / 1 – 1]*100).
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Should people start valuing present goods more highly than future goods — which is expressive of a rise in time preference —, the discount on future goods vis-à-vis present goods and thus the market interest rate go up.
If peoples’ time preference declines, the discount on future goods vis-à-vis present goods drops, and so does the market interest rate — meaning that people wish to save more and consume less out…
Prison Planet.com » Dems and Gun-Control Advocates Celebrate New Zealand Gun-Confiscation Plan
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March 22, 2019
American gun-control advocates and Democratic politicians took to social media to celebrate New Zealand’s plan to ban and confiscate many semiautomatic rifles and magazines on Thursday in the wake of the deadly Christchurch mosque attack.
New Zealand’s plan involves banning the sale and possession of any semiautomatic rifle or shotgun capable of accepting a magazine that holds more than five rounds of ammunition. Those who own such firearms would have to turn them in to police during a yet-to-be-determined buyback period or face criminal prosecution, fines, and jail time. The policy further restricts gun ownership in the country, which has a small number of gun owners. State officials enjoy wide authority to deny or revoke gun ownership licenses, which are required to purchase or own firearms.
Though they have traditionally avoided advocating for gun confiscation, many Democrats and gun-control advocates in the United States celebrated the actions of the New Zealand government and the speed at which they moved to enact the confiscation scheme.
A number of leading Democrats in Congress tweeted their support for New Zealand’s actions.
“‘Every semi-automatic weapon used in the terror attack on Friday will be banned. This legislation will be drafted and introduced in urgency,’” Rep. Ted Deutch (D., Fla.) tweeted. “Not thoughts. Not prayers. Action.”
“See,” Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) said of the confiscation plan. “It’s not that hard.”
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Midwestern Floods Threaten Indigenous Communities at Forefront of Climate Crisis
As Nebraska and the U.S. Midwest recover from devastating climate change-fueled floods, we speak with Lakota historian Nick Estes on how two centuries of indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life.” Estes’s new book is titled Our History Is the Future. He is a co-founder of the indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. While the Southern Hemisphere faces its worst tropical cyclone on record, states across the Midwestern United States are continuing to recover from unprecedented flooding this week that devastated communities in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and particularly Nebraska. Warming temperatures, snow melt and heavy rainfall led to a flash flood that overwhelmed the Missouri River. The rising waters breached levees, killing at least four people, destroying or damaging thousands of homes.
Much of the news about the flooding has focused its impact on farmers. But the climate-changed fueled weather has also hit Native American communities hard, with four tribal nations in Nebraska declaring a state of emergency. This is Larry Wright Jr., chair of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, speaking last week.
LARRY WRIGHT JR: Today I have declared a state of emergency for the Ponca Tribe in Nebraska in our territory, as it relates to our homeland, in Niobrara, as well as our communities in Norfolk and Sioux City. And we’ll continue to monitor the situation, as we move forward, with the flooding.
AMY GOODMAN: Scientists warn that more flooding is on the way as climate change-fueled extreme weather patterns around the planet. Santee Sioux Chairman Roger Trudell, whose tribe faced unprecedented flooding in Nebraska, told Earther, quote, “I’m just sorry that our national leaders, the people with the power to do something about it, just put their head in the sand and pretend that there’s no such thing as climate change or global warming or anything when…
Trump vs. McCain: an American Horror Story
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Why is Donald Trump deliberately picking a fight with the ghost of John McCain? It might seem he has nothing to gain and much to lose from this battle. Therefore many believe this is just more evidence of his narcissism, impulsiveness, and thoroughly nasty personality. Beware of underestimating Trump’s skillful and devious political acumen. As often, the president is speaking in coded language to his base, which regards McCain as the Judas who betrayed all those thousands of American POWs left behind in Vietnam.
In public culture, especially in the corporate media and on the national political stage, John McCain is almost universally acclaimed as a great “American hero.” Why? Traditional American heroes in our wars engaged in some heroic combat action. Sergeant Alvin York, the most celebrated American of the First World War, saved his squad from German machine gunners, personally killing twenty enemy soldiers, including six he shot with his .45 pistol when they charged with bayonets. The most decorated American of the Second World War was Audie Murphy, who at the age of 19 single-handedly held off an entire company of Nazi soldiers for an hour and led a counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition. Growing up in World War II, I knew the names of these heroes. Do you know the name of any authentic American hero of the Vietnam War? How about Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, who landed his helicopter in My Lai,…
Achieving Escape Velocity | Dissident Voice
I grew up with the idea that leaving Earth was inevitable. The Space Age had arrived and the sky was no limit. Per ardua ad astra was no longer a metaphor; it would happen, it was happening. Invisible radiation traveled through the air every afternoon to bring me indelible images of humans in space, benignly, bravely venturing out into the numinous beauty of the galaxy strung with stars, enticingly intercalated with exotic life. A chorus of ethereal voices accompanied their stalwart ship each time, as it boldly went where no man [sic] had gone before.
What it carried with it were clean, comfortably-appointed living spaces where slim, attractive people sported glittery, form-fitting synthetics and teased and pomaded hair that was preternaturally perfect. Mutual respect, affection and humor were their mainstays. There was racial harmony – for humans had united, at last! (Often against other species, but only if they threatened us first. Otherwise, we sought to befriend them.) Artificial intelligences informed, protected and consoled us, but knew their place, like good housemaids. If they overstepped, we pulled the plug. Our marvelous cultural diversity was still intact no matter how deracinated our existence had become, speeding along in a vacuum, light-years from home among the stretched-out stars.
Earth had figured it out. Humans had figured it out. We had solved all the challenges on our home planet, and now – on to the final frontier!
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‘Lots of space’ in hell for British MPs who vote against Brexit deal
RT
March 22, 2019
Donald Tusk, who last month blasted the architects of Brexit, suggesting there may be “a special place in hell” for them, believes the place of eternal suffering is big enough to also include British MPs voting against the deal.
The initial acerbic remark about hell made by the president of the EU Council targeted people who “promoted Brexit without a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely.” It caused quite a stir among participants and watchers of Britain’s dramatic divorce with the EU. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at one point remarked that he personally knew no hell except his current job.
The question of hell and who among British politicians deserves to be there returned on Thursday as the two European officials were announcing to a media conference that the union partially agreed to a British request to postpone Article 50. The two-part deal offers Britain a delay till May 22, provided the UK Parliament approves the Brexit deal next week. Otherwise it would only last till April 12.
A journalist asked Tusk if he sees hell a suitable place for MPs who now vote against the deal, to which the stone-faced Polish Catholic politician replied: “According to our Pope, hell is still empty. It means there is a lot of space.” The news conference was then wrapped up to the laughter of the audience and a parting shot by Juncker: “Don’t go to hell.”
Tusk was likely referring to last year’s controversy, which happened after an Italian journalist misquoted Pope Francis as saying that there was no hell. The Vatican had to disprove the claim and clarify the Catholic view on what hell is.
Or did Tusk actually mean Shakespeare and not the Pope? Who knows?
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‘Lots of space’ in hell for British MPs who vote against Brexit deal
RT
March 22, 2019
Donald Tusk, who last month blasted the architects of Brexit, suggesting there may be “a special place in hell” for them, believes the place of eternal suffering is big enough to also include British MPs voting against the deal.
The initial acerbic remark about hell made by the president of the EU Council targeted people who “promoted Brexit without a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely.” It caused quite a stir among participants and watchers of Britain’s dramatic divorce with the EU. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at one point remarked that he personally knew no hell except his current job.
The question of hell and who among British politicians deserves to be there returned on Thursday as the two European officials were announcing to a media conference that the union partially agreed to a British request to postpone Article 50. The two-part deal offers Britain a delay till May 22, provided the UK Parliament approves the Brexit deal next week. Otherwise it would only last till April 12.
A journalist asked Tusk if he sees hell a suitable place for MPs who now vote against the deal, to which the stone-faced Polish Catholic politician replied: “According to our Pope, hell is still empty. It means there is a lot of space.” The news conference was then wrapped up to the laughter of the audience and a parting shot by Juncker: “Don’t go to hell.”
Tusk was likely referring to last year’s controversy, which happened after an Italian journalist misquoted Pope Francis as saying that there was no hell. The Vatican had to disprove the claim and clarify the Catholic view on what hell is.
Or did Tusk actually mean Shakespeare and not the Pope? Who knows?
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Time to celebrate? Trump say ISIS fully destroyed in Syria. US-backed militants disagree — RT USA News
US President Trump has again boasted of victory over Islamic State terrorists. This time they’ve supposedly fully lost territorial control in Syria, but US-backed militants actually fighting IS on the ground disputed this claim.
Trump faced the media on Friday, yet again showing his favorite visual aid map of “ISIS defeat.”
“Here’s ISIS on Election Day. And here’s ISIS right now,” Trump told the reporters “You guys can have the map. Congratulations. I think it’s about time.”
Earlier on Friday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders stated that IS (formerly ISIS/ISIL) no longer held any territory in Syria, citing US acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who had briefed Trump on that purported milestone.
The bold claims of –supposedly– the ultimate defeat of the terrorist group have quite unexpectedly come under friendly fire, from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group. Mustafa Bali, the head of SDF press service, personally challenged Trump’s claims on Twitter. To add insult to injury, he posted pictures to prove what has really been happening in the area.
The Kurdish-led group, backed by the US, is actually fighting IS on the ground in eastern Syria. Over the past few weeks the fighting concentrated around the Baghouz area, where IS fighters and their families have been holed-up in a makeshift camp. On Wednesday, Trump had already managed to jump the gun on the subject of the final defeat of IS, on that occasion promising the group’s destruction “by tonight.”
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Intl Trade Unions Condemn Recognition of Guaidó – Consortiumnews
Even a labor group currently at odds with Caracas opposes foreign interference in the matter of the presidency, reports Ivar Andersen.
By Ivar Andersen
in Stockholm
Inter Press Service
More than 60 countries have recognized Juan Guaidó as legitimate interim president. But among international trade unions, support for Venezuelan self-determination is resolute.
On Jan. 23, the leader of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, declared himself interim president of Venezuela. His claim on the presidency was immediately recognized by the United States which, through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, called for the world to “pick a side.”
On Feb. 4, Sweden joined the U.S. side. “Sweden supports and acknowledges Juan Guaidó as the leader of the National Assembly and, in accordance with the country’s constitution, his attempts to serve as interim President of Venezuela, now responsible for making sure free and fair democratic elections will be called,” Margot Wallström, minister for foreign affairs said, in a statement that stressed the importance of solving the crisis peacefully.
The international trade union movement has chosen a different approach. On the same day as Guaidó declared himself president, the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas released a harsh statement:
Juan Guido sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president on Jan. 23. (National Assembly)
“We condemn the unilateral decision adopted today, January 23, by a group of governments of the region, notably led by the USA, to ignore the legitimacy of the government of President Maduro and to recognize the self-proclaimed ’president of the transition’, representative Juan Guaidó.”
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The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas is calling upon the government of Venezuela and the opposition to seek out dialog, and for the international community to support this, but also calls the support for Guaidó “a grave act of interference and intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign country, setting back the region to times we thought belonged to the past, in which coups d’état and military dictatorships were instigated.”
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McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we present in full Sydney Schanberg’s explosive story.
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John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.
Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.
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‘People Will Not Stand For It’ if Mueller’s Report is Against Me
Mediaite
March 22, 2019
In his latest interview with Fox Business, President Donald Trump tore into several high-profile figures from the Justice Department while promising that “people will not stand for it” if Robert Mueller‘s report doesn’t come out in his favor.
Maria Bartiromo asked Trump about the special counsel amid recent indications that Mueller is about to submit his findings to Attorney General William Barr. This prompted Trump to boast about his election victory before he shifted gears to rail against former AG Jeff Sessionsand Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.
“A deputy who didn’t get any votes appoints a man who didn’t get any votes, he’s gonna write a report on me,” Trump fumed. “Because we have an attorney general who nobody can believe, he didn’t tell me, but he rescued himself.”
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Mueller sends his ‘Russiagate’ report to US attorney general for review — RT USA News
After two years investigating President Donald Trump’s alleged ‘collusion’ with Russia during the 2016 elections, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has at last delivered his final report to Attorney General William Barr for review.
The Attorney General has yet to communicate the findings to the US Congress and decide how much detail would be made public. The White House has not yet received or been briefed on the findings, but the administration is “looking forward to the process taking its course.”
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The Democrats, who have spent years pushing the Russiagate narrative, have urged the AG not to share the report’s conclusions with the White House yet, claiming that, otherwise, the administration would try to interfere in which parts of the report are made public. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, a senior Democratic Senator from New York, say it is imperative that the report is released in “full.”
Trump, confident that the entire affair was a mere ‘witch-hunt’, had earlier indicated he would not mind if the report were made public, so it is unclear why the Democrats would assume the White House wants to interfere. Donald Trump’s legal team said the president was “pleased” that Mueller has finally delivered on his probe, noting that the Attorney General “will determine the appropriate next steps.”
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“I remain committed to as much transparency as possible, and I will keep you informed as to the status of my review,” Barr wrote, in a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees. The Attorney General also noted that he may advise on the findings of the report as early as this weekend.
The key question Mueller was trying to answer was whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia’s alleged attempt to sway the results of the US presidential elections back in 2016. Since his appointment as special counsel to head the investigation back in May 2017, the former FBI chief has managed to indict six former presidential advisers, 26 Russian nationals and three Russian companies – yet none of the charges proved any ‘collusion’ between Trump and Moscow.
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Although a handful of key Trump associates, including former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Republican operative Roger Stone, have been charged and have even pleaded guilty to procedural crimes, nobody has been charged with any offenses relating to collusion. The report might prove a further disappointment to many as, according to a senior Justice Department official, Mueller is not recommending any additional indictments.
Moscow has repeatedly rejected the allegations as absurd, emphasizing that, in contrast to what Washington might consider a modus operandi, it is not Russia’s state policy to interfere with other nations’ domestic affairs, and also noting that it was ridiculous and humiliating for a democratic superpower to complain that its elections were somehow influenced from outside.
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Prison Planet.com » The Truth About Hipsters
Conformity is not cool
Paul Joseph Watson
PrisonPlanet.com
March 22, 2019
A new study proves that hipsters are the ultimate conformists.
Turns out wearing the same uniform, facial hair & spouting the same opinions as everyone else doesn’t make you unique.
Imagine my shock!
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Have the Ides of March been delayed in 2019? Normally the Ides of March just means the date March 15th. Shakespeare made the expression ominous as it was the day that Julius Caesar was murdered. Today in 2019, the 29th of March seems more significant than the 15th. Because on the 29th, we first have the conclusion of Brexit. Or maybe we don’t! Brexit has been a tortuous process that after 3 years has got nowhere. All it has done is to reveal the EU elite’s megalomania as well as their intransigence. It has also revealed the complete incompetence of the UK government as well as Mrs May’s total indecisiveness and her inability to distinguish between activity and achievement.
VALUE OF CASH NO LONGER DOUBLE THE VALUE OF GOLD
March 29th is also very important in the banking world since it is the date when gold is recognised as a Tier 1 asset and thus equal to cash. Until now, gold was only a Tier 3 asset and its value was taken at 50% for the purpose of a bank’s solvency. It is of course totally ridiculous that cash or fiat currencies which we know always go to zero over time, should have been taken at twice the value of gold.
There are people speculating that gold becoming a Tier 1 asset will have major significance for the gold price. Also, some market observers even think that this is the beginning of a new era with gold again resuming the mantle of backing currencies or SDRs (Special Drawing Rights). Obviously this would require a substantial revaluation of gold in relation to the dollar in order to achieve sufficient cover for the debt outstanding.
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Prison Planet.com » Trump Signs Executive Order Promoting Free Speech on Campus
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March 22, 2019
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday tying federal research funding for colleges and universities to their policies governing free speech.
“We are delivering a clear message to the professors and power structures trying to suppress … young Americans and all Americans from challenging far-left ideology,” Trump said at the White House while flanked by free-speech advocates. “People who are confident in their beliefs cannot censor others. They welcome free, fair, and open debate, and that is what we are demanding.”
“Under the policy [that] I am announcing today,” the president continued, “federal agencies will use their authority under various grant-making programs to ensure that public universities protect [and] cherish … the First Amendment and [the] First Amendment rights of their students or risk losing millions and millions of federal taxpayer dollars.”
Trump’s executive order requires the 12 federal agencies that fund higher education research to include free speech protections when determining which schools receive tax-payer grants. To be eligible, public universities and colleges will have to reaffirm their obligation to uphold existing laws concerning “free academic inquiry.” Private institutions, on the other hand, will be required to outline and comply with their own “stated institutional policies” regarding free speech. In effect, this means private colleges and universities will have more leeway on restricting free speech than their public counterparts.
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Govt to offer MPs 7 options, including 2nd referendum – UK media — RT UK News
The battered cabinet of Prime Minister Theresa May will offer seven alternative options of how to proceed with Brexit, sources told Sky News. Those range from a no-deal Brexit to a second referendum.
According to the British news channel, Parliament may be offered a choice between revoking Article 50, a second referendum, the prime minister’s deal, her deal plus a customs union, the deal plus a customs union and single market access, a standard free-trade agreement, or a no-deal Brexit.
The sources said this approach is considered a viable way forward, considering that PM May’s Brexit deal would most likely be defeated for a third time if put to the vote next week. Once source said the cabinet was in “panic mode” now.
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Britain on Thursday was given a delay by the EU before it parts with the Union. Brussels said London will have until May 22 to prepare for the withdrawal, provided the UK Parliament approves the Brexit deal next week. Otherwise it would only last till April 12.
The deadlines are sooner than what the prime minister asked for and were set in this way due to the upcoming European Parliament election in May, which Britain will need to take part in if it remains part of the EU after mid-April.
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Catholic priest charged in Texas for allegedly molesting woman during last rites — RT USA News
A 75-year-old Catholic priest in Austin, Texas, has been arrested and charged for allegedly molesting a woman in hospice care while administering the last rites, the special prayers for Catholics who are gravely ill or dying.
The woman, who was in hospice care following diabetes complications, is accusing the priest of touching her breast and of attempting to put his hand down her diaper while she was thought to be dying.
Rev. Gerold Langsch was charged on Thursday with Assault by Contact. The alleged incident occurred last October and the unnamed victim reported the incident five days later. Austin police said the investigation was delayed due to the woman’s poor health.
The alleged victim says that Langsch molested her while administering the last rites, claiming he anointed her chest with holy water and then began to massage lotion onto her breasts, at one point pinching her nipple and asking her: “Does that feel good?”
The woman, who picked Langsch out of a police lineup this month, reportedly told investigators that the incident left her feeling shocked and confused.
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Langsch is no longer serving as a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Austin and lost his position at St. Paul Catholic Church after an “unrelated report that he had failed to maintain proper boundaries with an adult,” according to a statement from the diocese on Wednesday. They added that the misconduct in that report didn’t involve physical contact.
Langsch is currently out on $15,000 bail bond and, if convicted, faces a year in jail and a fine of up to $4,000. Austin police are now asking any other possible victims of his to come forward.
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New Zealand Recognizes Muslim Call to Prayer as News Anchors Wear Hijabs
Mosque leader calls on governments to ban “hate speech”
Paul Joseph Watson
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March 22, 2019
New Zealanders across the country stopped to recognize the Muslim call to prayer as news anchors and armed police officers wore hijabs in solidarity one week after the Christchurch mosque massacre.
The call to prayer preceded a two minutes silence. The video below appears to show the event at a shopping mall.
“Allahu Akbar”: New Zealand pauses for call to prayer before two minutes of silence. pic.twitter.com/5ctFQL0yey
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 22, 2019
In other capital cities such as London, “Allahu Akbar” rung out in memory of the victims.
Subhan’Allah, the adhan being recited at Trafalgar Square ?? pic.twitter.com/HCJrmPTzId
— habibah (@habibahx_) March 21, 2019
Meanwhile, according to one Guardian journalist, “New Zealand television journalists and anchors are wearing headscarves for their live broadcasts and using Arabic greetings.”
“New Zealand television journalists and anchors are wearing headscarves for their live broadcasts and using Arabic greetings” pic.twitter.com/ghglxviNz4
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) March 22, 2019
Another image shows an armed female police officer wearing a hijab as a show of support to the Muslim community.
Like many New Zealand women, Constable Michelle Evans of ?@NZ police? has donned a scarf today as she guards funerals after the #ChristchurchTerrorAttack pic.twitter.com/WgVuI6Nawu
— Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) March 21, 2019
Al Noor mosque prayer leader Imam Gamal Fouda called for governments “around the world” to “bring an end” to hate speech by cracking down on “anti-Muslim rhetoric” by individuals and media outlets.
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New Zealand Recognizes Muslim Call to Prayer as News Anchors Wear Hijabs
Mosque leader calls on governments to ban “hate speech”
Paul Joseph Watson
PrisonPlanet.com
March 22, 2019
New Zealanders across the country stopped to recognize the Muslim call to prayer as news anchors and armed police officers wore hijabs in solidarity one week after the Christchurch mosque massacre.
The call to prayer preceded a two minutes silence. The video below appears to show the event at a shopping mall.
“Allahu Akbar”: New Zealand pauses for call to prayer before two minutes of silence. pic.twitter.com/5ctFQL0yey
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 22, 2019
In other capital cities such as London, “Allahu Akbar” rung out in memory of the victims.
Subhan’Allah, the adhan being recited at Trafalgar Square ?? pic.twitter.com/HCJrmPTzId
— habibah (@habibahx_) March 21, 2019
Meanwhile, according to one Guardian journalist, “New Zealand television journalists and anchors are wearing headscarves for their live broadcasts and using Arabic greetings.”
“New Zealand television journalists and anchors are wearing headscarves for their live broadcasts and using Arabic greetings” pic.twitter.com/ghglxviNz4
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) March 22, 2019
Another image shows an armed female police officer wearing a hijab as a show of support to the Muslim community.
Like many New Zealand women, Constable Michelle Evans of ?@NZ police? has donned a scarf today as she guards funerals after the #ChristchurchTerrorAttack pic.twitter.com/WgVuI6Nawu
— Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) March 21, 2019
Al Noor mosque prayer leader Imam Gamal Fouda called for governments “around the world” to “bring an end” to hate speech by cracking down on “anti-Muslim rhetoric” by individuals and media outlets.
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‘Dr Evil’ tattooist given 3 years in jail over tongue-splitting & ear removal in UK (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) — RT UK News
A tattooist known as ‘Dr Evil’ who removed nipples and performed tongue splitting on clients has been jailed after an ear removal sparked an investigation that resulted in a 40-month jail sentence.
Dr Evil, real name Brendan McCarthy, was sentenced to three years and four months for carrying out procedures such as ear and nipple removals at his studio in Wolverhampton between 2012 and 2015. The controversial modifications were carried out without anaesthetic.
West Midlands Police started an investigation into the tattooist when images of McCarthy cutting off a customer’s ear circulated online, sparking complaints to the City of Wolverhampton Council.
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McCarthy pled guilty to three counts of causing grievous bodily harm at the Wolverhampton Crown Court last month and was sentenced on Thursday. Media reports state that he screamed when his sentence was read out, and many of his supporters in the court cried.
“He had no qualifications to carry out surgical procedures or to deal with any adverse consequences which could have arisen,” Judge Amjad Nawaz said. “There is a clear public interest element. There is also a need for deterrent.”
When he was arrested, McCarthy said he didn’t think he had broken the law because his clients had consented to the procedures. He has no medical qualifications and is licensed to carry out piercings and tattoos. Police said he did the modifications without knowing his clients’ medical or mental health backgrounds, and that they found out-of-date swabs, anaesthetic gel and needles at his studio.
“We all gave full consent, we were all happy, he talked us through the procedure, we knew he wasn’t a doctor despite playing on the Austin powers name of Dr Evil, he’s one of the best in the country I had multiple discussions with him about how the industry needs regulation,” one of his customers said.
Ezechiel Lott, the man whose ear removal sparked the investigation, told police he hadn’t realised the procedure wasn’t legal and felt “deceived.”
Over 13,000 people signed a petition in support of McCarthy, whose lawyers argued the consent he got from clients was a lawful defense. His case was brought to the Court of Appeal but three judges found the procedures were not the same as tattoos and piercings.
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On the Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion
On the sixteenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the US government threatens punitive action against International Criminal Court investigators for attempting to look into US war crimes, former George W Bush administration Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has decided to publish a Twitter thread claiming that Bush did not lie to the world about Iraq.
Here is a transcript of the full thread by Fleischer:
The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed “Bush lied. People died.” This accusation itself is a lie. It’s time to put it to rest.
The fact is that President Bush (and I as press secretary) faithfully and accurately reported to the public what the intelligence community concluded. The CIA, along with the intelligence services of Egypt, France, Israel and others concluded that Saddam had WMD. We all turned out to be wrong. That is very different from lying.
After the war, a bipartisan group was created to determine what went wrong, particularly why the intelligence community’s conclusions about Iraq were so different from what was found on the ground after the war. The group of experts was named the Robb-Silberman commission. It’s report was issued in March 2005. It can be found in full here. Its key finding was that that a “major intelligence failure” took place. It also stated that no intelligence service was pressured by the Bush Administration to conclude that Saddam had WMDs.
Here are the key quotes from their report:
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Beto Tells Supporters ‘We Do Not Need Any Walls, There Is No Border Crisis’
Floats conspiracy theory that it’s a plot to steal land
Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
March 22, 2019
Despite daily reports of hundreds of illegal immigrants being arrested every day attempting to cross the Southern border, Democrat presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke told an audience during a campaign stop that there is no border problem and building a wall would be a waste of money.
The video, taken in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shows Beto waving his hands in the air, declaring that the border crisis is actually a manufactured plot to steal land from ranchers.
“We do not need any walls – $30 billion, 2,000 miles long, 30 feet high.” O’Rourke urged.
“It will not be built on the international boundary line, which is the centerline of the Rio Grande River. That wall will be built well into the interior, on someone’s ranch, someone else’s farm, someone else’s home,” he added, without citing a shred of evidence to back the claim.
“You and I will be forced to take their property to solve a problem we do not have.” Beto exclaimed.
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O’Rourke’s claim that there is ‘no problem’ will be hard, even for Democrats, to swallow.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics prove that there are tens of thousands of illegal immigrants trying to cross every month, and that the number is rapidly rising.
More than 110,000 people were stopped in January and February alone, according to the figures.
Earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before Congress, warning that close to a million illegal immigrants are expected to attempt to cross the border into the US in 2019 alone, making the situation “truly an emergency.”
USBP reports indicate that there is rampant criminality among those trying to gain access to the country, including sex and drug trafficking.
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Farage mocks ‘cancel Brexit’ petition with signatures from Russia — RT UK News
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has reacted to a tweet making fun of the fact some Russians have signed a petition calling for Brexit to be stopped, suggesting that an investigation should be launched into “Russian collusion.”
Hugh Bennett, news editor at right-wing blog Guido Fawkes, took to social media on Thursday night after the ‘Revoke Article 50’ petition had passed the 1 million signatures barrier.
READ MORE: ‘I will take over as Brexit Party leader’: Nigel Farage back on the frontline
Bennett attached a data image from the petitions website, revealing that 12 Russians had signed up and cheekily asked: “I thought they were meant to be against foreign interference in our democracy?”
The tweet got picked up by the Independent MEP, who could soon be officially registered as leader of his new Brexit Party in the coming weeks. He seized on the irony of ‘Russian involvement’ in a pro-EU, UK petition, arguing that an inquiry was needed.
Bennett also noted verifiable interest in the stop Brexit petition from other countries such as Saudi Arabia and even North Korea, which has one signature. It couldn’t be from the big man, surely?!
The tweet triggered an avalanche of seemingly irate Remainers, not seeing the funny side and instead insisting it was “fake news.” Others living in various countries around the world felt the need justify their signatures.
I’ve signed from abroad, as I’m entitled to do. Anyone either resident in the UK or a UK citizen may do so. What evidence do you have that there is large scale fraud? I can tell you Brits living abroad are signing in large numbers, especially as so many were disenfranchised.
— 🇪🇺FemmeAuFoyer #FBPE #BitchesAgainstBrexit🇪🇺 (@margarance) March 21, 2019
I signed from Sweden. There was a nice box I ticked; “Are you a UK resident or UK citizen”. Yep!
— Jon Upsaliensis (@jonupsaliensis) March 21, 2019
Russia has been at the center of accusations concerning ‘collusion’ in foreign nations’ internal affairs, from the 2016 US presidential election to the 2016 EU referendum in Britain, despite a lack of concrete evidence to support such claims.
Farage announced on Friday that he will lead his new Brexit Party into the European elections if UK MPs decide to delay Brexit beyond May 22.
At the time of publishing this article, the petition had broken the 3 million barrier.
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Boom! Wisconsin GOP’s Lame-Duck Power Grab Ruled Unconstitutional
A Wisconsin judge ruled on Thursday that laws passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in December to limit the powers of newly elected Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul were unconstitutional.
The lame-duck bills limited early voting, stopped the newly elected governor from expanding Medicaid coverage to more citizens, prevented him from withdrawing the state from a lawsuit attacking the Affordable Care Act, prevented the attorney general from representing the legislature in lawsuits, and further curtailed the administrative powers of the new government.
The lawsuit was brought by a coalition of plaintiffs, including three citizen’s groups, the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities. It argues that three bills passed last December in the lame-duck session as well as the confirmation of 82 nominees to various boards “are unenforceable” on the basis that “executive session” during which the laws were enacted “was not convened in accord with the Wisconsin Constitution.”
The Wisconsin Constitution Protects Against “Irregular, Capricious” Meetings of Legislature
The Wisconsin Constitution Article IV Section 11 provides for a “special session” convened by the governor and a regular session as provided by statute, but the statute makes no mention of an “extraordinary session.” The legislature’s policy on extraordinary sessions, which curtail public notice and participation and suspend the regular rules of debate, was created by a rule of the legislature, not a statute.
Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess issued a temporary injunction to block the laws. “The bottom line in this case is that the Legislature did not lawfully meet during its December 2018 ‘Extraordinary Session,’” therefore violating Article IV of the constitution.
The judge made clear that Article IV was created by the people of Wisconsin in 1848 specifically to safeguard the citizenry from “irregular, capricious, precipitous and unpredictable meetings of the legislature,” in an era when irregular meetings were a regular occurrence, making public participation difficult.
“That the people’s liberty is imperiled by a legislature that can meet at will any time, with little warning and even less of a published agenda, was a genuine threat on the minds of the people in 1848,” wrote Judge Niess. “Through coiled reasoning, the legislature essentially adds language and meaning to the Constitution that the people of Wisconsin had not approved.”
The decision renders the three lame-duck laws and 82 nominees, including Scott Beightol’s appointment to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, null and void. As CMD has reported, Beightol is a Republican attorney, who represents corporations against complaints of discrimination and sexual harassment, with no higher education experience.
Governor Moves Swiftly to Pull Wisconsin Out of Legal Attack on Affordable Care Act
“Today’s ruling is a victory for the people of Wisconsin and for preserving the Wisconsin Constitution,” said Governor Tony Evers. “I look forward to putting this disappointing chapter behind us so we can move forward together to put the needs of the people of Wisconsin first.”
Following the ruling, the governor took immediate action to pull Wisconsin out of a multi-state lawsuit that challenged the Affordable Care Act. Wisconsin’s former Solicitor General was a lead lawyer in the suit that resulted in a Texas federal court ruling that ACA was unconstitutional. The governor and the attorney general promised to pull the state out of the lawsuit during their campaigns, but were prohibited due to legislation put into action during the lame-duck session.
“We are pleased with the court’s careful, thorough analysis,” said Jeffrey Mandell, an attorney with Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of Wisconsin citizens and voters. “We agree with the court that the Legislature’s arguments in defense of the December 2018 Extraordinary Session are meritless. Because the December 2018 Extraordinary Session was unlawful, today’s result was necessary and appropriate.”
Democratic legislative leaders quickly pointed out that the judge’s injunction of the law that allowed the legislature to hire private attorneys to represent GOP legislative leaders was now null and void. “Wisconsin taxpayers should not pay one more cent to hire private attorneys to defend [Speaker] Robin Vos’ indefensible power grab,” said Assembly Democratic Leader Rep. Gordon Hintz, who requested that Vos terminate any and all payments to the outside attorneys, including the former Solicitor General Misha Tseytlin who was making $500 an hour.
“Rep. Vos and Senator Fitzgerald should immediately reimburse the taxpayers of our state for the money they spent intervening in this lawsuit and trying to defend their unconstitutional actions. It’s time for their abuse of power and fiscal irresponsibility to end,” said Rep. Chris Taylor of Madison.
Today’s ruling was on one of four challenging the lame-duck laws. The advocacy group One Wisconsin Now convinced U.S. District Judge James Peterson to block the early voting restrictions in January of this year. A lawsuit brought by a coalition of labor unions, including Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Wisconsin chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), argues that the lame-duck session stole power from the executive and gave it to the legislature, violating the separation of powers doctrine. The Wisconsin Democratic Party filed suit arguing that the lame-duck statutes violate free speech and equal protection guarantees.
As for Governor Evers, who was not a party in this lawsuit, he is getting on with governing and representing the will of the voters. Erin Grunze, the Executive Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin said that the people of Wisconsin were “entitled to a government that represents their interests transparently, welcomes citizens’ input, and respects the limits of its constitutional authority.”
Via Common Dreams. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license.