"JOURNALISM: Media Ignores Fact That Cops And NBC Reporter Were Attacked At Charlottesville.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and the silence makes perfect sense."
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
JOURNALISM: Media Ignores Fact That Cops And NBC Reporter Were Attacked At Charlottesville.
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"JOURNALISM: Media Ignores Fact That Cops And NBC Reporter Were Attacked At Charlottesville.
"JOURNALISM: Media Ignores Fact That Cops And NBC Reporter Were Attacked At Charlottesville.
Devin Nunes: Clinton campaign colluded with 'nearly every' top official at the DOJ and FBI
Devin Nunes: Clinton campaign colluded with 'nearly every' top official at the DOJ and FBI:
The dossier, published last year by BuzzFeed, contains unverified claims about the Russians having information on President Trump that could be used as leverage. Republican investigators are concerned the FBI deceived a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court when it used information from the dossier without disclosing its Democratic benefactors to gain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The dossier, published last year by BuzzFeed, contains unverified claims about the Russians having information on President Trump that could be used as leverage. Republican investigators are concerned the FBI deceived a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court when it used information from the dossier without disclosing its Democratic benefactors to gain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Who could be behind this....?.-----‘I would murder him, for the people’
‘I would murder him, for the people’
The rhetoric against President Trump occasionally has drawn the interest of law enforcement officials.
“Hanging with Trump” T-shirt
- Madonna, for example, said she was just trying to “express herself” when she made threats against the president during Women’s March in Washington in January 2017. “Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” she told fellow Trump-haters...
- The Daily Caller reports that several members of antifa, the far-left movement known for violent protests against the president and conservatives, may be under scrutiny.
- One potential criminal express a desired to “do” Trump “like Gadhafi.”
- Another wanted to “murder the president.”
- “I would murder him, for the people,” said another.
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Sessions' DOJ compels school district to communicate to parents in 'language they can understand'
Sessions' DOJ compels school district to communicate to parents in 'language they can understand'
"The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island announced on Monday that they had reached a settlement with the school district of Providence, Rhode Island, to provide English language services to the district’s 8,000 students who are not fluent in English, and to communicate with the parents about school offerings in “a language they understand,” thus providing interpretation services.
...The Justice Department declared in its statement, that the Providence school district is now required to properly identify and place students who are not proficient in English upon their enrollment in the district’s 41 schools, and “communicate with parents about program offerings and other essential information in a language they understand..."
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"The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island announced on Monday that they had reached a settlement with the school district of Providence, Rhode Island, to provide English language services to the district’s 8,000 students who are not fluent in English, and to communicate with the parents about school offerings in “a language they understand,” thus providing interpretation services. ...The Justice Department declared in its statement, that the Providence school district is now required to properly identify and place students who are not proficient in English upon their enrollment in the district’s 41 schools, and “communicate with parents about program offerings and other essential information in a language they understand..."
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Tornado Probabilities
Tornado Probabilities:
"This is the probability of a tornado within 25 miles of a given point on August 14.
Note that there is a higher chance of a tornado in mid-August in Lower Michigan than in Oklahoma.
The most likely area to see a tornado is Central Florida - where they have interacting sea breezes and an occasional hurricane and also NE Colorado....
Michigan averages 16 tornadoes per year.
This year we have had just one, a rather small EF0 on Aug. 1 at Taylor, near Detroit.
Wisconsin has had eight tornadoes, all of them small EF0 twisters."
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"This is the probability of a tornado within 25 miles of a given point on August 14.
Note that there is a higher chance of a tornado in mid-August in Lower Michigan than in Oklahoma.
The most likely area to see a tornado is Central Florida - where they have interacting sea breezes and an occasional hurricane and also NE Colorado....
Michigan averages 16 tornadoes per year.
This year we have had just one, a rather small EF0 on Aug. 1 at Taylor, near Detroit.
Wisconsin has had eight tornadoes, all of them small EF0 twisters."
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Evidence: Trump Tower meeting set up by Hillary operatives
Newly released records and a pattern of efforts by Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures to connect the Trump campaign to Russia indicate the infamous Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Trump campaign staff may have been a set up.
The Most Stupid Meme on the Internet. [VIDEO] - Victory Girls Blog
The Most Stupid Meme on the Internet. [VIDEO] - Victory Girls Blog
"Internet memes, especially the political kind, are supposed to be clever little axioms that promote a cause.
...But then there is the meme that is so blatantly stupid, I’m surprised it doesn’t break the internet.
I saw that meme recently.
I couldn’t believe the amount of derp it contained.
It looks like this:
...Whoever put this historical travesty online should hang their head in shame, along with all the other morons who actually promote this.
...In reality, the Communists were just as brutal as the Nazis, and there is really little difference.
In fact, their body count is even higher.
Except that our meme-maker probably never learned about this in school.
He probably didn’t know about the Holodomor, the artificial famine that Stalin used against the people of the Ukraine.
Why did Stalin kill these people?
Simply because Ukrainians rejected collectivization, so Stalin deported and murdered farmers and took their grain.
He also ordered the murder of religious and cultural leaders, leaving society in shambles.
Mass starvation resulted, and about 4 million died in the early 1930’s..."
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"Internet memes, especially the political kind, are supposed to be clever little axioms that promote a cause.
...But then there is the meme that is so blatantly stupid, I’m surprised it doesn’t break the internet.
I saw that meme recently.
I couldn’t believe the amount of derp it contained.
...Whoever put this historical travesty online should hang their head in shame, along with all the other morons who actually promote this.
...In reality, the Communists were just as brutal as the Nazis, and there is really little difference.
In fact, their body count is even higher.
Except that our meme-maker probably never learned about this in school.
He probably didn’t know about the Holodomor, the artificial famine that Stalin used against the people of the Ukraine.
Why did Stalin kill these people?
Simply because Ukrainians rejected collectivization, so Stalin deported and murdered farmers and took their grain.
He also ordered the murder of religious and cultural leaders, leaving society in shambles.
Mass starvation resulted, and about 4 million died in the early 1930’s..."
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History for August 15
History for August 15 - On-This-Day.com
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769, Sir Walter Scott 1771, T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") 1888
Julia Child 1912, Ben Affleck 1972, Jennifer Lawrence 1990 - Actress (TV: "The Bill Engvall Show," Movies: the "Hunger Games" series)
1848 - The dental chair was patented by M. Waldo Hanchett.
1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone.
1911 - The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company.
1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and passenger ship SS Ancon.
1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Democrats view socialism more favorably than capitalism: Gallup - Washington Times
Democrats view socialism more favorably than capitalism: Gallup - Washington Times:
Democrats view socialism more positively than capitalism, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
Fifty-seven percent of Democrats in the poll hold a positive view of socialism, compared to 47 percent of Democrats who hold a positive view about capitalism, Gallup found.
Democrats view socialism more positively than capitalism, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
Fifty-seven percent of Democrats in the poll hold a positive view of socialism, compared to 47 percent of Democrats who hold a positive view about capitalism, Gallup found.
Young Minds Are Undermined by Today's Fashionable Philosophies - Foundation for Economic Education
Young Minds Are Undermined by Today's Fashionable Philosophies - Foundation for Economic Education
"If there's a rise in suicides and depression among young people, maybe we should be looking at the philosophy being promoted everywhere that influences kids.
Rates of teenage depression and suicide in America are rising.
Attempts to explain this increase have centered around ideas that are now pervasive in academia and entertainment media: identity politics, victim-culture, the unearned “self-esteem movement,” and the dreaded post-modernism (as it applies to philosophy and the humanities, not the arts).
I contend that a lot of these ideas ultimately serve to destabilize young people’s sense of their own individuality and wreck their ability to deal with reality in ways that are most likely to leave them depressed and despondent.
The SCARF Model
In part, I began thinking about this because my colleagues at the Foundation for Economic (FEE) and I have recently started to import some ideas from David Rock's "SCARF" model for the media we produce, and I became curious about how this might apply to society at large.
For those unfamiliar with the idea, “SCARF” is built around the concept that people are constantly seeking to avoid pain and get more rewards for their activities and that most of these behaviors center around five specific motivations (which together make up the acronym "SCARF"):
"If there's a rise in suicides and depression among young people, maybe we should be looking at the philosophy being promoted everywhere that influences kids.
Rates of teenage depression and suicide in America are rising.
Attempts to explain this increase have centered around ideas that are now pervasive in academia and entertainment media: identity politics, victim-culture, the unearned “self-esteem movement,” and the dreaded post-modernism (as it applies to philosophy and the humanities, not the arts).
I contend that a lot of these ideas ultimately serve to destabilize young people’s sense of their own individuality and wreck their ability to deal with reality in ways that are most likely to leave them depressed and despondent.
The SCARF Model
In part, I began thinking about this because my colleagues at the Foundation for Economic (FEE) and I have recently started to import some ideas from David Rock's "SCARF" model for the media we produce, and I became curious about how this might apply to society at large.
For those unfamiliar with the idea, “SCARF” is built around the concept that people are constantly seeking to avoid pain and get more rewards for their activities and that most of these behaviors center around five specific motivations (which together make up the acronym "SCARF"):
- Status
- Certainty
- Autonomy
- Relatedness
- Fairness
...these are the emotions that motivate employees...
It makes a lot of sense.
If you know that people are often motivated by improving their relative status among their peers, then you know that by offering people public praise, you’re bolstering their sense of pride in their work and helping them achieve their status-seeking goals and, on the flip-side, you know that if you berate them publicly, you’ll be smashing their sense of status among their peers and that embarrassment may ruin their desire to continue working effectively..."
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It makes a lot of sense.
If you know that people are often motivated by improving their relative status among their peers, then you know that by offering people public praise, you’re bolstering their sense of pride in their work and helping them achieve their status-seeking goals and, on the flip-side, you know that if you berate them publicly, you’ll be smashing their sense of status among their peers and that embarrassment may ruin their desire to continue working effectively..."
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Illegal Immigrants Are Far More Likely to Commit Serious Crimes Than the U.S. Public | Intellectual Takeout
Illegal Immigrants Are Far More Likely to Commit Serious Crimes Than the U.S. Public | Intellectual Takeout
"President Trump recently held a conference with family members of U.S. citizens killed by illegal immigrants.
...In response, the Associated Press published a “fact check“ claiming that illegal immigrants are more law-abiding than the general public.
Various media outlets, such as the New York Times, Yahoo!, and a number of NBC affiliates published this article.
The Washington Post ran a similar story, and other media outlets and so-called fact checkers have made similar claims in the past.
The truth, however, is that comprehensive, straightforward facts from primary sources—namely the Obama administration Census Bureau and Department of Justice—prove that illegal immigrants are far more likely to commit serious crimes than the U.S. population.
Studies that claim otherwise typically suffer from fallacies condemned by academic publications about how to accurately analyze data..."
Read the data!
"President Trump recently held a conference with family members of U.S. citizens killed by illegal immigrants.
...In response, the Associated Press published a “fact check“ claiming that illegal immigrants are more law-abiding than the general public.
Various media outlets, such as the New York Times, Yahoo!, and a number of NBC affiliates published this article.The Washington Post ran a similar story, and other media outlets and so-called fact checkers have made similar claims in the past.
The truth, however, is that comprehensive, straightforward facts from primary sources—namely the Obama administration Census Bureau and Department of Justice—prove that illegal immigrants are far more likely to commit serious crimes than the U.S. population.
Studies that claim otherwise typically suffer from fallacies condemned by academic publications about how to accurately analyze data..."
Read the data!
Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy
Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy:
Feinstein’s dealings with the Chinese must be investigated. But so too ought the links between federal officials and all of our adversaries, be it the Chinese and Russians, the Pakistanis and Iranians, or the Muslim Brotherhood and its state supporters. Feinstein is only one politician. How many other relationships with American politicians have the Chinese and our other adversaries fostered? How many spies might they have recruited?
We need a top-to-bottom reform of our government’s vetting efforts, and enhancement of our counterintelligence capabilities. Attempts by foreign countries to infiltrate our political offices pose a grave national security threat, as Feinstein’s record clearly shows. With people like her on pertinent congressional committees, however, how many foxes have been elected to guard the henhouse? Representatives’ responses to reform measures will help us find out.
We need a top-to-bottom reform of our government’s vetting efforts, and enhancement of our counterintelligence capabilities. Attempts by foreign countries to infiltrate our political offices pose a grave national security threat, as Feinstein’s record clearly shows. With people like her on pertinent congressional committees, however, how many foxes have been elected to guard the henhouse? Representatives’ responses to reform measures will help us find out.
Family say they have been forced to close cafe after complaints over the Union Jack flags in food | Daily Mail Online
Family say they have been forced to close cafe after complaints over the Union Jack flags in food | Daily Mail Online
"Family say they have been forced to close their cafe after complaints over the Union Jack flags they stuck in their fry-ups
Tiny toothpicks with the flags have been inserted in fry up's since Cafe 164 opened in Hornchurch, east London, in 2016.
"Family say they have been forced to close their cafe after complaints over the Union Jack flags they stuck in their fry-ups
- Station 164 in Hornchurch will shut at the end of the month over repeated abuse
- Owners Carol Brown and Candy Merrett were called 'racist' over tiny flags
- England and Union Jack flags were put in breakfasts prompting anger online
A family cafe is being forced to close down after the owners were repeatedly abused and called 'racist' - all because they put Union Jack and England flags in their food.
Tiny toothpicks with the flags have been inserted in fry up's since Cafe 164 opened in Hornchurch, east London, in 2016.
But Carol Brown and daughter Candy Merrett faced a wave of abuse - mainly from people who had never eaten there, recently.
Since the World Cup this summer the flags began to get a negative response, Candy, 30, said.
The mum-of-one said three to four customers every week have moaning about the one-inch flags stuck in their toast, sandwiches and Full English breakfasts.
On Thursday, Candy said she had received so much abuse on social media over the the novelty flags she will close the London themed cafe at the end of the month..."
On Thursday, Candy said she had received so much abuse on social media over the the novelty flags she will close the London themed cafe at the end of the month..."
Trump’s Honeymoon with Media Almost Over - WSJ
Trump’s Honeymoon with Media Almost Over - WSJ
"For anyone who believes that the editorial pages of American newspapers have been insufficiently critical of President Donald Trump, the Boston Globe has a solution.
Determined not to keep readers guessing, the Globe is urging editorial boards across the country to publish simultaneous condemnations of Mr. Trump’s rhetorical attacks on the press in their Thursday editions.
"For anyone who believes that the editorial pages of American newspapers have been insufficiently critical of President Donald Trump, the Boston Globe has a solution.
Determined not to keep readers guessing, the Globe is urging editorial boards across the country to publish simultaneous condemnations of Mr. Trump’s rhetorical attacks on the press in their Thursday editions.
On Friday the Associated Press reported:
‘‘We are not the enemy of the people,’’ said Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor for the editorial page of The Boston Globe, referring to a characterization of journalists that Trump has used in the past. The president, who contends he has largely been covered unfairly by the press, also employs the term ‘‘fake news’’ often when describing the media.
Mr. Trump says that he is referring only to “fake news” purveyors—not all members of the press corps—as enemies. The AP report elaborated:
The Globe has reached out to editorial boards nationwide to write and publish editorials on Aug. 16 denouncing what the newspaper called a ‘‘dirty war against the free press.’’...
CNN said over the weekend that more than 100 newspapers have now agreed to participate. Organizing large coalitions of people to simultaneously express similar messages is generally the work of politicians and public relations executives, rather than journalists.
...one case where the Globe’s editorial board may not benefit from its separation from the news staff.
Reporters who have ventured out to talk to Republicans have likely discovered the common belief among such voters that media professionals are almost entirely lined up in opposition to Mr. Trump and tend to parrot each other’s attacks.
Therefore announcing that dozens or perhaps hundreds of ostensibly independent editorial pages will publish similar Trump critiques at the same time probably isn’t the best way to expand readership among the rightward half of the electorate.
...one case where the Globe’s editorial board may not benefit from its separation from the news staff.
Reporters who have ventured out to talk to Republicans have likely discovered the common belief among such voters that media professionals are almost entirely lined up in opposition to Mr. Trump and tend to parrot each other’s attacks.
Therefore announcing that dozens or perhaps hundreds of ostensibly independent editorial pages will publish similar Trump critiques at the same time probably isn’t the best way to expand readership among the rightward half of the electorate.
If the Globe’s effort is actually not intended to broaden its audience but instead to energize those who already oppose the President, this again may be a strategy more suited to politics than to journalism.
The AP has more on the point of all this:
Pritchard said she hoped the editorials would make an impression on Americans.
‘‘I hope it would educate readers to realize that an attack on the First Amendment is unacceptable,’’ she said. ‘‘We are a free and independent press, it is one of the most sacred principles enshrined in the Constitution.’’
The First Amendment does not say that the government cannot criticize the press.
Mr. Trump enjoys free speech just as his media adversaries do.
Mr. Trump enjoys free speech just as his media adversaries do.
Rather, the First Amendment prevents government from infringing on the rights of Americans to speak and publish.
And on that score, there’s a reasonable case that Mr. Trump’s predecessor presented a greater threat to press freedom, to say nothing of Mr. Trump’s 2016 opponent.
Mrs. Clinton wanted to restrict the ability of Americans to make a documentary about her.
We don’t recall editorial boards joining together to announce they were not with her..."
‘I would murder him, for the people’
‘I would murder him, for the people’:
The Daily Caller reports that several members of antifa, the far-left movement known for violent protests against the president and conservatives, may be under scrutiny.
“Multiple members of the progressive protest group who gathered outside the White House Sunday threatened President Trump with physical violence and murder,” the report said. “The Secret Service tells The Daily Caller they are now ‘aware’ of the threats and are ‘investigating’ the progressive protesters.”
“Multiple members of the progressive protest group who gathered outside the White House Sunday threatened President Trump with physical violence and murder,” the report said. “The Secret Service tells The Daily Caller they are now ‘aware’ of the threats and are ‘investigating’ the progressive protesters.”
2016 Trump Tower Meeting Looks Increasingly Like a Setup by Russian and Clinton Operatives | RealClearInvestigations
2016 Trump Tower Meeting Looks Increasingly Like a Setup by Russian and Clinton Operatives | RealClearInvestigations
"The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Republican presidential campaign staff and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties remains the cornerstone of claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election.
A growing body of evidence, however, indicates that the meeting may have been a setup -- part of a broad effort to tarnish the Trump campaign involving Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures and Department of Justice officials.
This view, that the real collusion may have taken place among those who arranged the meeting rather than the Trump officials who agreed to attend it, is supported by two disparate lines of evidence pulled together for the first time here: newly released records and a pattern of efforts to connect the Trump campaign to Russia.
The first line of evidence includes emails, texts, and memos recently turned over to Congress by the Department of Justice.
They show how closely senior Justice Department officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked with employees of Fusion GPS, a Washington-based research firm reportedly paid $1 million by Clinton operatives to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign.
They reveal that then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, the fourth-highest-ranking official at DOJ, coordinated before, during and after the election with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, who did work for the Clinton campaign and Russians; and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who was employed by Simpson...."
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"The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Republican presidential campaign staff and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties remains the cornerstone of claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election.
A growing body of evidence, however, indicates that the meeting may have been a setup -- part of a broad effort to tarnish the Trump campaign involving Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures and Department of Justice officials.
This view, that the real collusion may have taken place among those who arranged the meeting rather than the Trump officials who agreed to attend it, is supported by two disparate lines of evidence pulled together for the first time here: newly released records and a pattern of efforts to connect the Trump campaign to Russia.The first line of evidence includes emails, texts, and memos recently turned over to Congress by the Department of Justice.
They show how closely senior Justice Department officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked with employees of Fusion GPS, a Washington-based research firm reportedly paid $1 million by Clinton operatives to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign.
They reveal that then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, the fourth-highest-ranking official at DOJ, coordinated before, during and after the election with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, who did work for the Clinton campaign and Russians; and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who was employed by Simpson...."
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