Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Newt Gingrich: Mueller's fatal mistake | Fox News
Newt Gingrich: Mueller's fatal mistake | Fox News:
Mueller’s fatal mistake was revealed Saturday in The New York Times story titled, “White House Counsel, Don McGahn, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry.” Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman reported that there were at least 30 hours of interviews between the Mueller team and the White House Counsel.
Don McGahn asserted throughout the interviews that “he never saw Mr. Trump go beyond his legal authorities.”
Don McGahn asserted throughout the interviews that “he never saw Mr. Trump go beyond his legal authorities.”
South African govt approves first farm seizures from leaked list of 190
South African govt approves first farm seizures from leaked list of 190:
- South Africa begins seizing white-owned farms
- SOUTH Africa has targeted the first two farms for unilateral seizure after the owners refused an offer of one-tenth of the land’s value.
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History for August 22
History for August 22 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Langley 1834, Claude Debussy 1862, Deng Xiaoping 1904
Ray Bradbury 1920, H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1934 - United States General, Cindy Williams 1947 - Actress ("Laverne and Shirley")
1485 - The War of the Roses ended with the death of England's King Richard III. He was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. His successor was Henry V II.
1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James Cook landed there.
1851 - The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.
1938 - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
U.S. Steel to Invest $750M Thanks to Tariffs: ‘We Are Experiencing a Renaissance’
U.S. Steel has announced that they will invest $750 million at their 110-year-old steel manufacturing plant known as Gary Works in Gary, Indiana, crediting President Trump’s protective tariffs on steel imports.
Who needs democracy when you have data? - MIT Technology Review
Who needs democracy when you have data? - MIT Technology Review
"Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.--by Christina Larson
People in Beijing are always under the watchful eye of Mao—and myriad surveillance cameras.
In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story about an experiment in “electronic democracy,” in which a single citizen, selected to represent an entire population, responded to questions generated by a computer named Multivac.
The machine took this data and calculated the results of an election that therefore never needed to happen.
Asimov’s story was set in Bloomington, Indiana, but today an approximation of Multivac is being built in China.
...How do you effectively govern a country that’s home to one in five people on the planet, with an increasingly complex economy and society, if you don’t allow public debate, civil activism, and electoral feedback?
How do you gather enough information to actually make decisions?
And how does a government that doesn’t invite its citizens to participate still engender trust and bend public behavior without putting police on every doorstep?
...Xi Jinping... his strategy for understanding and responding to what is going on in a nation of 1.4 billion relies on a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data to monitor people’s lives and behavior in minute detail.
...But police are increasingly stopping petitioners from ever reaching Beijing.
“Now trains require national IDs to purchase tickets, which makes it easy for the authorities to identify potential ‘troublemakers’ such as those who have protested against the government in the past,” says Maya Wang, senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch.
“Several petitioners told us they have been stopped at train platforms.”
The bloggers, activists, and lawyers are also being systematically silenced or imprisoned...
...These initiatives include ...“social credit,” “smart city” plans, and technology-driven policing in the western region of Xinjiang.
Often they involve partnerships between the government and China’s tech companies.
The most far-reaching is the Social Credit System, though a better translation in English might be the “trust” or “reputation” system.
The government plan, which covers both people and businesses, lists among its goals the “construction of sincerity in government affairs, commercial sincerity, and judicial credibility.”
...The algorithm is thought to highlight suspicious behaviors such as visiting a mosque or owning too many books.
Blacklists are the system’s first tool..."
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"Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.--by Christina Larson
People in Beijing are always under the watchful eye of Mao—and myriad surveillance cameras.
In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story about an experiment in “electronic democracy,” in which a single citizen, selected to represent an entire population, responded to questions generated by a computer named Multivac.
The machine took this data and calculated the results of an election that therefore never needed to happen. Asimov’s story was set in Bloomington, Indiana, but today an approximation of Multivac is being built in China.
...How do you effectively govern a country that’s home to one in five people on the planet, with an increasingly complex economy and society, if you don’t allow public debate, civil activism, and electoral feedback?
How do you gather enough information to actually make decisions?
And how does a government that doesn’t invite its citizens to participate still engender trust and bend public behavior without putting police on every doorstep?
...Xi Jinping... his strategy for understanding and responding to what is going on in a nation of 1.4 billion relies on a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data to monitor people’s lives and behavior in minute detail.
...But police are increasingly stopping petitioners from ever reaching Beijing.
“Now trains require national IDs to purchase tickets, which makes it easy for the authorities to identify potential ‘troublemakers’ such as those who have protested against the government in the past,” says Maya Wang, senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch.
“Several petitioners told us they have been stopped at train platforms.”
The bloggers, activists, and lawyers are also being systematically silenced or imprisoned...
...These initiatives include ...“social credit,” “smart city” plans, and technology-driven policing in the western region of Xinjiang.
Often they involve partnerships between the government and China’s tech companies.
The most far-reaching is the Social Credit System, though a better translation in English might be the “trust” or “reputation” system.
The government plan, which covers both people and businesses, lists among its goals the “construction of sincerity in government affairs, commercial sincerity, and judicial credibility.”
...The algorithm is thought to highlight suspicious behaviors such as visiting a mosque or owning too many books.
Blacklists are the system’s first tool..."
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Don’t blame Ocasio-Cortez – blame her schooling - Israel National News
Don’t blame Ocasio-Cortez – blame her schooling - Israel National News:
"We should not be amazed that this newly hatched Socialist Democrat is so clueless about the economy and international relations.
Every time she appears on television she comes across dumber and dumber.
The Left’s new IT Girl, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez can’t seem to get it straight on anything.
We should not be amazed that this newly hatched Socialist Democrat is so clueless about the economy and international relations…namely, at the moment, the Palestinian-Arab/Israeli conflict.
...On what topic is she the expert?
Nothing much, apparently, yet she will be sitting pretty in the next Congress after her surprising defeat over a veteran incumbent.
...She came from Boston University.
No knock on that fine college. Just seems that these days our schools of higher learning are high on diversity and low on a well-rounded education.
...Get them while they’re young. Brainwash them and bamboozle them while they are still fresh-faced, runs the motto from the Left..."
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"We should not be amazed that this newly hatched Socialist Democrat is so clueless about the economy and international relations.Every time she appears on television she comes across dumber and dumber.
The Left’s new IT Girl, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez can’t seem to get it straight on anything.
We should not be amazed that this newly hatched Socialist Democrat is so clueless about the economy and international relations…namely, at the moment, the Palestinian-Arab/Israeli conflict.
...On what topic is she the expert?
Nothing much, apparently, yet she will be sitting pretty in the next Congress after her surprising defeat over a veteran incumbent.
...She came from Boston University.
No knock on that fine college. Just seems that these days our schools of higher learning are high on diversity and low on a well-rounded education.
...Get them while they’re young. Brainwash them and bamboozle them while they are still fresh-faced, runs the motto from the Left..."
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The Full List Of Anti-Trump Attacks And Harassment This Year Is Stunning | The Daily Caller
The Daily Caller compiled a list of nearly two-dozen incidents alone since January in which Democratic officials made violent jokes about the president and his supporters, Trump officials were harassed in public and other disturbing incidents that lowered the state of discourse.
Here’s the full list:
Minnesota: Muslims to show their “power” at Vikings Stadium event tomorrow (update) � Refugee Resettlement Watch
Minnesota: Muslims to show their “power” at Vikings Stadium event tomorrow (update) � Refugee Resettlement Watch
"...We first reported it here last Thursday, but this is a must-read filled with details and expert translations of what one might expect to hear at the “one-of-a-kind Muslim event that’s never happened before on U.S. soil.”
Here are just some of Hohmann’s opening paragraphs:
The Minnesota Vikings’ US Bank Stadium seats 65,000 people for pro football but the state’s imams are hoping to fill those seats with more than 50,000-plus Muslims chanting “Allahu Akbar!” on Tuesday, Aug. 21, in celebration of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Ahda...
Featured speaker DR. WALEED AL-MANEESE PH.D http://www.supereid.com/speaker/luis-gallop/
While an event of this size takes at least a year to plan, details about the Super Eid have been held under wraps. The first visible sign that it would happen came in mid-July, when a website popped up under the registered domain name of SuperEid.com.
“Super Eid” was formally announced by a group of 13 imams during a cryptic 20-minute press conference outside the US Bank Stadium, aired Aug. 7 on Somali TV of Minnesota.
The imams, speaking mostly in Arabic and Somali, said they were inviting tens of thousands of Muslims to come together to celebrate an Islamic holiday that involves not only the slaughter of animals but three hours of chanting “Allahu Akbar,” followed by feasting, merrymaking and events for children.
One imam exclaimed at the Aug. 7 announcement that “Super Eid 2018” is being designed as a statement to America that the best Islamic teachers, imams and scholars will be “coming together and showing the unity and the power of our community.”...
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