Thursday, April 11, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Documents Detailing Google’s ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation Of Special Search Results | The Daily Caller
Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.
Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by Google’s Trust & Safety team. “T&S will be in charge of updating the blacklist as when there is a demand,” reads one of the documents shared with The Daily Caller.
Ocasio-Cortez: We Have To Break "The Mistaken Idea" That Taxes Pay For All Spending | Video | RealClearPolitics
Ocasio-Cortez: We Have To Break "The Mistaken Idea" That Taxes Pay For All Spending | Video | RealClearPolitics:
"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared that we must "break the mistaken idea" that taxes pay for 100% of government spending in an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep on Thursday to promote her 'Green New Deal' legislative proposal.
"The first thing that we need to do is kind of break the mistaken idea that taxes pay for a hundred percent of government expenditure. It's just not how government expenditure works," Ocasio-Cortez explained.
Ocasio-Cortez believes that the economy will grow if money is borrowed to make an "investment" in the Green New Deal and it will eventually pay for itself.
The host reminded Ocasio-Cortez that thinking is exactly what was behind the Trump tax cut -- something she opposes -- that it will pay for itself, and it "hasn't turned out to be true at all."...
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"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared that we must "break the mistaken idea" that taxes pay for 100% of government spending in an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep on Thursday to promote her 'Green New Deal' legislative proposal."The first thing that we need to do is kind of break the mistaken idea that taxes pay for a hundred percent of government expenditure. It's just not how government expenditure works," Ocasio-Cortez explained.
Ocasio-Cortez believes that the economy will grow if money is borrowed to make an "investment" in the Green New Deal and it will eventually pay for itself.
The host reminded Ocasio-Cortez that thinking is exactly what was behind the Trump tax cut -- something she opposes -- that it will pay for itself, and it "hasn't turned out to be true at all."...
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Who Commits Most of the World’s Extremist Violence? | City Journal
Who Commits Most of the World’s Extremist Violence? | City Journal
"Last week, the New York Times featured an illustrated timeline of “white extremist” killings over the last nine years, with lines demonstrating citation and affiliation among the killers.
According to the Times, the record shows “an informal global network of white extremists whose violent attacks are occurring with greater frequency in the West.”
The idea that white supremacist violence is a growing global threat has gained more currency recently, notably in the wake of the ghastly Christchurch mosque massacre, when an avowed white nationalist murdered 50 Muslims.
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, asserted that “White supremacists committed the largest # of extremist killings in 2017.”
No one will deny that racial hatred is an evil ideology, and that people who kill in the name of white supremacy commit evil—but is it true that white extremists are sowing a growing amount of worldwide mayhem?
The evidence suggests otherwise.
Even a superficial glance at the record indicates that of the nearly 20,000 people killed in thousands of extremist killings in 2017, white supremacists were responsible for very few..."
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"Last week, the New York Times featured an illustrated timeline of “white extremist” killings over the last nine years, with lines demonstrating citation and affiliation among the killers.
According to the Times, the record shows “an informal global network of white extremists whose violent attacks are occurring with greater frequency in the West.”
The idea that white supremacist violence is a growing global threat has gained more currency recently, notably in the wake of the ghastly Christchurch mosque massacre, when an avowed white nationalist murdered 50 Muslims.New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, asserted that “White supremacists committed the largest # of extremist killings in 2017.”
No one will deny that racial hatred is an evil ideology, and that people who kill in the name of white supremacy commit evil—but is it true that white extremists are sowing a growing amount of worldwide mayhem?
The evidence suggests otherwise.
Even a superficial glance at the record indicates that of the nearly 20,000 people killed in thousands of extremist killings in 2017, white supremacists were responsible for very few..."
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Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it - CNN
Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it - CNN
"On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
...The cadaver assigned to Nielsen's team was a 99-year-old woman who had died of natural causes.
Her name was Rose Marie Bentley, but the students didn't know that then.
...But as the students and their professors were soon to find out, Bentley was special, so special she deserved her own unique spot in medical literature and history books.
The reason?
A condition called situs inversus with levocardia, in which most vital organs are reversed -- almost like a mirror inside the body.
That, along with a host of other weird but wonderful abnormalities, made Bentley a sort of medical unicorn..."
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"On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland....The cadaver assigned to Nielsen's team was a 99-year-old woman who had died of natural causes.
Her name was Rose Marie Bentley, but the students didn't know that then.
...But as the students and their professors were soon to find out, Bentley was special, so special she deserved her own unique spot in medical literature and history books.
The reason?
A condition called situs inversus with levocardia, in which most vital organs are reversed -- almost like a mirror inside the body.
That, along with a host of other weird but wonderful abnormalities, made Bentley a sort of medical unicorn..."
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Judicial Watch Uncovers ‘Cover-Up’ Discussions in Latest Production of Clinton Email Documents - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch Uncovers ‘Cover-Up’ Discussions in Latest Production of Clinton Email Documents - Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that it uncovered 422 pages of FBI documents showing evidence of “cover-up” discussions related to the Clinton email system within Platte River Networks, one of the vendors who managed the Clinton email system. The documents also show Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Charles McCullough forwarding “concerns” about classified information in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The new documents uncovered by Judicial Watch also contain Clinton’s 2009 classified information Non-Disclosure Agreement bearing her signature.
An October 2016 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046)) forced the release of the new FBI documents. Judicial Watch lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to comply with a July 7, 2016, FOIA request seeking:
The new documents uncovered by Judicial Watch also contain Clinton’s 2009 classified information Non-Disclosure Agreement bearing her signature.
An October 2016 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046)) forced the release of the new FBI documents. Judicial Watch lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to comply with a July 7, 2016, FOIA request seeking:
Pedophiles Are Now Calling Themselves 'Minor Attracted Persons' And Want Inclusion In LGBTQ Movement • Now The End Begins
Pedophiles Are Now Calling Themselves 'Minor Attracted Persons' And Want Inclusion In LGBTQ Movement • Now The End Begins:"Pedophiles seek to be a part of the LGBT community, even going so far as to make a “Pride” flag for Gay Pride Month.
The “MAP/NOMAP community” tries to pull at people’s heartstrings by claiming that pedophiles are misunderstood marginalized people, and that as long as their attraction to children is not acted upon — or in some cases when they get permission from the child — that they should not be villainized
Pedophiles are rebranding themselves as ‘MAPs’ or ‘Minor Attracted Persons’ in an effort to gain
acceptance and be included into the LGBT community..."
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History for April 11
History for April 11 - On-This-Day.com
Lizzie P. Bliss 1864 - Co-founder of New York City's Museum of Modern Art, Dean G. Acheson 1893, Percy Julian 1899 - Scientist
Oleg Cassini 1913 - Fashion designer, Joel Grey 1932 - Singer (Katz), dancer, actor ("Cabaret"), actress Jennifer Grey's father, Louise Lasser 1939 - Actress ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "Slither")
1945 - During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.
1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Judicial Watch rightly puts the screws to Justice and the FBI
Judicial Watch rightly puts the screws to Justice and the FBI:
Because Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., seems loath to do real oversight, the outside organization Judicial Watch is very much on target in filing a lawsuit demanding “records of the planning and preparation of the raid of the home of former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone.”
Former Trump lawyer John Dowd, whose judgment is not always the best but who is a savvy veteran of the Justice Department and of white-collar criminal battles, was right this week to compare the heavily armed commando-like raid of Stone’s home to “an amphibious landing.”
“I used to be in the Marines,” he said. “I've done an amphibious landing. I couldn't believe they were doing one at Stone's house! It's muscular, it's over the top, it's designed to scare.”
Former Trump lawyer John Dowd, whose judgment is not always the best but who is a savvy veteran of the Justice Department and of white-collar criminal battles, was right this week to compare the heavily armed commando-like raid of Stone’s home to “an amphibious landing.”
“I used to be in the Marines,” he said. “I've done an amphibious landing. I couldn't believe they were doing one at Stone's house! It's muscular, it's over the top, it's designed to scare.”
Mayor Carter didn't have $100k for Independence Day fireworks but does have $225k for a “human-powered gliding” competition - American Experiment
"On Independence Day last year, there was no “rocket’s red glare” or “bombs bursting in air” to give “proof through the night that our flag was still there” in Saint Paul.
The city’s mayor, Melvin Carter, cancelled its fireworks for the first time in recent memory. He explained
“As I’ve considered the budgetary priorities we manage across our city in the first year of my administration, I’ve decided I can’t in good conscience support spending tax dollars on a fireworks display in St. Paul this year”
Bluntly, he said “The fact of the matter is that we just don’t have $100,000 to spend blowing up rockets over our city”...Of course, he could have let others pay for it.
The Star Tribune reported that
Read all.Mayor Melvin Carter’s office declined multiple offers to help pull together a July 4 fireworks display in St. Paul after he announced in late June that the annual event would not happen. ...What wasn’t announced at the time was the public price tag for the “human-powered gliding” competition and how the Sept. 7 event will be paid for. ...The energy drink’s extreme-sporting events come at a cost of roughly $225,000 in public sponsorship, money that the city and its tourism bureau have searched for “under every seat cushion,” according to Visit St. Paul Chief Executive Terry Mattson..."
It's Lit! NYC Can No Longer Test For Weed When Hiring Or Probation Folks | News Talk 1090 WKBZ-AM
It's Lit! NYC Can No Longer Test For Weed When Hiring Or Probation Folks | News Talk 1090 WKBZ-AM"The NYC Council announced that they just passed bills prohibiting marijuana testing being required as part of the hiring process in New York City, and banning the City from requiring marijuana testing for people on probation.
BREAKING: The @NYCCouncil just passed bills prohibiting marijuana testing being required as part of the hiring process in New York City, and banning the City from requiring marijuana testing for people on probation. Thank you @JumaaneWilliams & @DRichards13 for your leadership.
Tune in to watch live as I preside over the @NYCCouncil Stated Meeting, where we're passing my legislation prohibiting pre-employment marijuana testing: council.nyc.gov/live/#MarijuanaJustice
Trump Slaps Iran With Historic Sanctions | The Daily Caller
Trump Slaps Iran With Historic Sanctions | The Daily Caller:President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization in a major escalation of a pressure campaign on the Islamic Republic.
The IRGC is a quasi-military organization within the Islamic Republic which acts at the behest of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Rasmussen: Trump's Approval Rating Rises to 53% With Public Giving Him High Marks for His "Not Collusioney" Style
Rasmussen: Trump's Approval Rating Rises to 53% With Public Giving Him High Marks for His "Not Collusioney" Style
"Rasmussen: Trump's Approval Rating Rises to 53% With Public Giving Him High Marks for His "Not Collusioney" Style
"Rasmussen: Trump's Approval Rating Rises to 53% With Public Giving Him High Marks for His "Not Collusioney" Style
I was just being silly about that last part, though I imagine having that conspiracy theory monkey off his back is contributing to his rise.
Here's Rasmussen's write up.
Note the graph comparing Obama's and Trump's approval ratings through each of their tours in office.
Obama was at 46% at this point in his presidency.
Note the graph comparing Obama's and Trump's approval ratings through each of their tours in office.
Obama was at 46% at this point in his presidency.
The media always treated Obama as if he was popular, which he was not.
He was merely beloved by the media and their sex-partners.
He was merely beloved by the media and their sex-partners.
Trump, meanwhile, is treated as if he's intensely unpopular.
He's not.
He is merely loathed by the media and their sex-partners."
He's not.
He is merely loathed by the media and their sex-partners."
"What is the best temperature for the planet for both plants, animals and people"---Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming
Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming
Becoming tired of fighting alarmists I simpley ask two questions. What is the best temperature for the planet for both plants, animals and people, not likely todays temp. Second what is the best level of CO2 for plants and people. Then we can discuss exactly what to do about it. Other than saying "todays temp" and "lower CO2" without any data I have not yet gotten a response.
Woman arrested at Mar-A-Lago had cash, signal detector in hotel room, prosecutors say | Fox News
Woman arrested at Mar-A-Lago had cash, signal detector in hotel room, prosecutors say | Fox News:
A woman arrested at President Trump's Mar-A-Lago club last month had $8,000 in U.S. and Chinese currency in her hotel room as well as a signal detector meant to spot hidden cameras, a federal prosecutor in Florida said Monday.
Yujing Zhang, 32, was ordered held until her bond hearing resumes April 15 in West Palm Beach federal court. Zhang was arrested on March 30 and was charged with unlawfully entering a restricted area and making false statements to federal law enforcement.
Prosecutor Rolando Garcia told U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman that the government was not making allegations of spying against Zhang at this time, but noted there are "a lot of questions that remain to be answered." Garcia claimed that Zhang would present a "serious risk of flight" if she were released while she awaits trial, as she has no ties to the United States.
Yujing Zhang, 32, was ordered held until her bond hearing resumes April 15 in West Palm Beach federal court. Zhang was arrested on March 30 and was charged with unlawfully entering a restricted area and making false statements to federal law enforcement.
Prosecutor Rolando Garcia told U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman that the government was not making allegations of spying against Zhang at this time, but noted there are "a lot of questions that remain to be answered." Garcia claimed that Zhang would present a "serious risk of flight" if she were released while she awaits trial, as she has no ties to the United States.
Fined $55K for calling a male a male
Fined $55K for calling a male a male
"We told you this was coming.
We warned you it would happen.
We were not crying wolf.
We were telling you the truth.
And now it is here, as a headline announces: "Canadian tribunal fines Bill Whatcott $55,000 for expressing Christian views on 'transgenderism.'"
In other words, Whatcott called a biological male (who identifies as a female) a "biological male." That was his crime.
What a miscarriage of justice.
What an assault of freedom of speech and expression.
"We told you this was coming. We warned you it would happen.
We were not crying wolf.
We were telling you the truth.
And now it is here, as a headline announces: "Canadian tribunal fines Bill Whatcott $55,000 for expressing Christian views on 'transgenderism.'"
In other words, Whatcott called a biological male (who identifies as a female) a "biological male." That was his crime.
What a miscarriage of justice.
What an assault of freedom of speech and expression.
...But, as I have stated often, this was always the end-goal of radical LGBT activism: the opposition must be silenced. (And until it is legally silenced, it must be socially shamed.)...
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Walrus Deaths Were Due To Polar Bears – Andrew Montford | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Walrus Deaths Were Due To Polar Bears – Andrew Montford | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
"Andrew Montford has followed up the Netflix walrus porn story, with a damning piece for the Spectator:
This all came about as the result of the latest episode of Our Planet, the new wildlife extravaganza from Netflix. As is normal for such programmes, the story that accompanies the animal eye-candy is told by Sir David Attenborough and, as is positively compulsory, it is spiced with multiple references to the horrors of global warming. In fact, we are told, it is us who should shoulder the blame for the slaughter of the walruses, because shrinking sea ice caused by climate change forces them to haulout – leaving the water to take refuge on the shore instead.
"Andrew Montford has followed up the Netflix walrus porn story, with a damning piece for the Spectator:
"Over the weekend, social media and the newspapers were full of stories of Pacific walruses plunging over sea cliffs to their deaths.
Heart-wrenching film of the corpses of these magnificent beasts piled up on the shore have been driving many to tears.
Heart-wrenching film of the corpses of these magnificent beasts piled up on the shore have been driving many to tears.
This all came about as the result of the latest episode of Our Planet, the new wildlife extravaganza from Netflix. As is normal for such programmes, the story that accompanies the animal eye-candy is told by Sir David Attenborough and, as is positively compulsory, it is spiced with multiple references to the horrors of global warming. In fact, we are told, it is us who should shoulder the blame for the slaughter of the walruses, because shrinking sea ice caused by climate change forces them to haulout – leaving the water to take refuge on the shore instead.
The programme ends with Attenborough directing viewers to a website run by WWF, the co-producers of the series. It is therefore, in essence, an eight-part, multi-million pound fundraiser.
Which is a pity, because there is now considerable evidence emerging that the story is not quite what it seems."
For a start, as the zoologist Susan Crockford has documented for the GWPF... thinks that the footage on the Netflix show comes from a well-documented incident that took place in the village of Ryrkaypiy, in eastern Siberia, in October 2017.
September and October are the peak period for walrus haulouts, and there are numerous examples, which date back to the 1960s, of the cliff phenomenon taking place on Wrangel Island, a few hundred kilometres to the north.
However in 2017, as the Siberian Times reported, the colony attracted polar bears that frequent – and indeed at the time terrorise – the area.
The bears drove several hundred walruses over the cliffs to their deaths, before feasting on the corpses.
They continued to frequent the area right through into the winter..."
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Nolte: Scientists Prove Man-Made Global Warming Is a Hoax
Nolte: Scientists Prove Man-Made Global Warming Is a Hoax
"The far-left ThinkProgress reports that scientists have finally proven that the theory of man-made Global Warming is a total hoax.
Of course, no one will admit it, but that is exactly what has happened.
A new scientific study shows has revealed the following:
Yes, you read that correctly, three million — million — years ago CO2 levels on Earth were the same as they are today, but there is one major difference between three million years ago and today…
"The far-left ThinkProgress reports that scientists have finally proven that the theory of man-made Global Warming is a total hoax.
Of course, no one will admit it, but that is exactly what has happened.
A new scientific study shows has revealed the following:
Current CO2 levels of 410 parts per million (ppm) were last seen on Earth three million years ago, according to the most detailed reconstruction of the Earth’s climate by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and published in Science Advances.
Yes, you read that correctly, three million — million — years ago CO2 levels on Earth were the same as they are today, but there is one major difference between three million years ago and today…
Three million years ago, we humans were not driving cars or eating the meat that requires cow farts; we weren’t barbecuing or refusing to recycle or building factories; there was no Industrial Age, no plastic, no air conditioning, no electricity, no lumber mills, no consumerism, no aerosols.
In fact, three million years ago, there were probably no human beings on Earth, at least not human in the way we use that term today. And yet…
CO2 levels were the same then as they are now…
Hmmm…?
But I thought humans warmed the planet? That’s the hustle we’ve been sold for three decades now — you know, that WE are the problem..."
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All the Progressive Plotters – American Greatness
All the Progressive Plotters – American Greatness:
Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop the hated Trump from even entering the White House.
When that did not work, B-list Hollywood celebrities mobilized, with television and radio commercials, to shame electors in Trump-won states into not voting for the president-elect during the official Electoral College balloting in December 2016. Their idea was that select morally superior electors should reject their constitutional directives and throw the election into the House of Representatives where even more morally superior NeverTrump Republicans might join with even much more morally superior Democrats to find the perfect morally superior NeverTrump alternative.
When that did not work,
When that did not work, B-list Hollywood celebrities mobilized, with television and radio commercials, to shame electors in Trump-won states into not voting for the president-elect during the official Electoral College balloting in December 2016. Their idea was that select morally superior electors should reject their constitutional directives and throw the election into the House of Representatives where even more morally superior NeverTrump Republicans might join with even much more morally superior Democrats to find the perfect morally superior NeverTrump alternative.
When that did not work,
Do Dems hate Trump more than they love America? - Christine Flowers
Do Dems hate Trump more than they love America? - Christine Flowers
"The most troubling thing about the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was the reaction of so many on the left when they learned that Donald Trump was not a Russian asset.
They were, to put it mildly, disappointed.
...Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, gave an interview to the Washington Post, where he rejected Mueller's findings, stating that "undoubtedly there is collusion."...
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, continued to insist that despite the Mueller report clearing the president and his associates from colluding with the Russians, "We know there was collusion … why there's been no indictments, we don't know."
...Instead of exulting in joy, many Democrats acted like kids who hadn't gotten everything on their Christmas list.
That's frightening.
There is something twisted in the idea that Americans would rather have their partisan dreams fulfilled than be assured that the man who leads us...is not a traitor.
...when news of the report was released, something was unleashed on the left that convinces me there are people there who hate Trump more than they love this country..."
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"The most troubling thing about the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was the reaction of so many on the left when they learned that Donald Trump was not a Russian asset.
They were, to put it mildly, disappointed.
...Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, gave an interview to the Washington Post, where he rejected Mueller's findings, stating that "undoubtedly there is collusion."... Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, continued to insist that despite the Mueller report clearing the president and his associates from colluding with the Russians, "We know there was collusion … why there's been no indictments, we don't know."
...Instead of exulting in joy, many Democrats acted like kids who hadn't gotten everything on their Christmas list.
That's frightening.
There is something twisted in the idea that Americans would rather have their partisan dreams fulfilled than be assured that the man who leads us...is not a traitor.
...when news of the report was released, something was unleashed on the left that convinces me there are people there who hate Trump more than they love this country..."
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