D.C. Delegate: Stop North Korea by Getting Rid of Our Nukes First:
"WASHINGTON -- D.C.'s delegate to Congress said that as nuclear tensions rise with North Korea, the United States should get rid of its nuclear weapons.
...North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in New York on Monday that Trump "claimed that our leadership wouldn't be around much longer and declared a war on our country."
...Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced Monday the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2017 to mandate a U.S.-brokered international agreement that would see America's nuclear stockpile disabled and dismantled by 2024..."
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Dinesh D'Souza: Colin Kaepernick's big lie | Fox News
Dinesh D'Souza: Colin Kaepernick's big lie | Fox News
"...The Democratic Left, symbolized by Kaepernick, seeks to portray themselves in resistance to oppression. In this view, Trump represents the party of oppression (bad America) and they represent the party of liberation (good America).
Kneeling at games is intended to convey a refusal to go along with American racism and oppression.
Yet historically, this gets things upside down.
Yet historically, this gets things upside down.
Who is the actual party of racism and oppression?
The Democrats.
Who is the actual party that resisted oppression?
The Republicans.
Here are a few unassailable facts to consider:
Here are a few unassailable facts to consider:
- --While the secession debate was between the North and the South, the slavery debate was between a pro-slavery Democratic Party and an anti-slavery Republican Party.
- --Two of the three Democrats that Lincoln identified as the champions of slavery—Stephen Douglas and James Buchanan—were Northerners. Only one, Roger Taney, was a Southerner.
- --Even after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Democratic platform in 1864 sought a treaty with the Confederacy that would most likely involve a restoration of slavery.
- --After the Civil War, the Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the Thirteenth Amendment freeing the slaves, the Fourteenth Amendment granting equal rights under law, and the Fifteenth Amendment giving blacks the right to vote.
- --Jim Crow is entirely a legacy of the Democratic Party. Every segregation law enacted in the South was passed by a Democratic legislature, signed by a Democratic governor, and enforced by Democratic officials.
- --After Republicans shut it down in the late nineteenth century, the Ku Klux Klan was revived in the early twentieth century by a progressive Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, who screened a pro-KKK movie in the White House.
- --For decades the Klan served, in the words of progressive historian Eric Foner, as “the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.” David Duke is an anomaly; virtually every KKK leader for the past 150 years has been a Democrat.
- --As historian Ira Katznelson shows, in order to get the New Deal passed, progressive icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt made deals with racist Democrats to block anti-lynching legislation and to exclude African Americans from most New Deal programs.
- --More Republicans than Democrats proportionately voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Bill of 1968. The main opposition to the civil rights movement came not from the GOP but from racist Democrats.
Are these acts of honest public disclosure and humble contrition?..."
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Obama-era Surveillance Timeline | Sharyl Attkisson
Obama-era Surveillance Timeline | Sharyl Attkisson:
"You can find many timelines that follow allegations of Russia tampering in the U.S. election and alleged involvement of Trump officials. But I couldn’t find any comprehensive timelines cross-referencing Obama-era surveillance of whistleblowers, journalists and other U.S. citizens with Russia surveillance allegations. So I built one. Please note: temporal proximity of events doesn’t necessarily imply a connection."
"You can find many timelines that follow allegations of Russia tampering in the U.S. election and alleged involvement of Trump officials. But I couldn’t find any comprehensive timelines cross-referencing Obama-era surveillance of whistleblowers, journalists and other U.S. citizens with Russia surveillance allegations. So I built one. Please note: temporal proximity of events doesn’t necessarily imply a connection."
Corporations Have Rights. Why Not Rivers? - The New York Times
Corporations Have Rights. Why Not Rivers? - The New York Times
DENVER — Does a river — or a plant, or a forest — have rights?
This is the essential question in what attorneys are calling a first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit, in which a Denver lawyer and a far-left environmental group are asking a judge to recognize the Colorado River as a person.
If successful, it could upend environmental law, possibly allowing the redwood forests, the Rocky Mountains or the deserts of Nevada to sue individuals, corporations and governments over resource pollution or depletion. Future lawsuits in its mold might seek to block pipelines, golf courses or housing developments and force everyone from agriculture executives to mayors to rethink how they treat the environment.
...suit was filed Monday in Federal District Court in Colorado by Jason Flores-Williams, a Denver lawyer. It names the river ecosystem as the plaintiff — citing no specific physical boundaries — and seeks to hold the state of Colorado and Gov. John Hickenlooper liable for violating the river’s “right to exist, flourish, regenerate, be restored, and naturally evolve.”
Because the river cannot appear in court, a group called Deep Green Resistance is filing the suit as an ally, or so-called next friend, of the waterway..."
DENVER — Does a river — or a plant, or a forest — have rights?
This is the essential question in what attorneys are calling a first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit, in which a Denver lawyer and a far-left environmental group are asking a judge to recognize the Colorado River as a person.
If successful, it could upend environmental law, possibly allowing the redwood forests, the Rocky Mountains or the deserts of Nevada to sue individuals, corporations and governments over resource pollution or depletion. Future lawsuits in its mold might seek to block pipelines, golf courses or housing developments and force everyone from agriculture executives to mayors to rethink how they treat the environment.
...suit was filed Monday in Federal District Court in Colorado by Jason Flores-Williams, a Denver lawyer. It names the river ecosystem as the plaintiff — citing no specific physical boundaries — and seeks to hold the state of Colorado and Gov. John Hickenlooper liable for violating the river’s “right to exist, flourish, regenerate, be restored, and naturally evolve.”
Because the river cannot appear in court, a group called Deep Green Resistance is filing the suit as an ally, or so-called next friend, of the waterway..."
Two former city employees rack up $614,0000 in Flint water crisis legal bills | MLive.com
Two former city employees rack up $614,0000 in Flint water crisis legal bills | MLive.com:
"FLINT, MI -- Two former city officials who worked under state-appointed emergency mangers have run up more than $614,000 in legal fees tied to the Flint water crisis, and there's no agreement for the state of Michigan to reimburse the city for those costs.
...invoices have built up even though neither Croft nor Johnson has faced a preliminary examination in Genesee District Court, a preliminary phase of the criminal cases against them and an indication that both could still have far to go in the legal system..."
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"FLINT, MI -- Two former city officials who worked under state-appointed emergency mangers have run up more than $614,000 in legal fees tied to the Flint water crisis, and there's no agreement for the state of Michigan to reimburse the city for those costs.
...invoices have built up even though neither Croft nor Johnson has faced a preliminary examination in Genesee District Court, a preliminary phase of the criminal cases against them and an indication that both could still have far to go in the legal system..."
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This Man Just Risked Everything To Leak AWFUL Truth NFL Doesn’t Want Americans To Know..! - Proud Trumpers
This Man Just Risked Everything To Leak AWFUL Truth NFL Doesn’t Want Americans To Know..! - Proud Trumpers:
"Stuart Varney has now joined Fox and Friends on Monday to talk about the NFL national anthem controversy. This Sunday, two-hundred NFL players and staff knelt down to protest the national anthem.
"Stuart Varney has now joined Fox and Friends on Monday to talk about the NFL national anthem controversy. This Sunday, two-hundred NFL players and staff knelt down to protest the national anthem.
Varney reminded the entire FOX and Friends nation that the NFL stadium has collected $1 billion in federal subsidies.
Stuart Varney: “There’s $1.1 billion in direct subsidies from taxpayers to the NFL… Taxpayer subsidies go to the building of stadiums. There have been 20 new NFL stadiums since 1997. All of them have received a degree of taxpayer subsidies.”
Wow. They don’t respect the country, yet all these NFL teams use taxpayer funds to build their massive stadiums.
According to Fox Sports, the American public has spent $7 billion to build and renovate NFL stadiums over the last 20 years. The US taxpayer often pays 46 percent of the cost to build these projects..."
Varney: NFL stadiums have collected over $1B in federal subsidies. My message to the NFL is "don’t bite the hand that feeds you."
Voter group puts 248 counties on notice over bloated voter rolls - Washington Times
Voter group puts 248 counties on notice over bloated voter rolls - Washington Times:
"The Public Interest Legal Foundation is warning nearly 250 counties that they could face a lawsuit over bloated voter rolls, after their own analysis released Monday found they have more people registered to vote than could theoretically be eligible.
New York City’s big counties are on the list, with New York County — also known as Manhattan — listing 54 percent more names on its voter rolls than the total number of people of voting age, according to Census Bureau figures.
The other boroughs also made this PILF list this year, as did San Diego in California."
"The Public Interest Legal Foundation is warning nearly 250 counties that they could face a lawsuit over bloated voter rolls, after their own analysis released Monday found they have more people registered to vote than could theoretically be eligible.
New York City’s big counties are on the list, with New York County — also known as Manhattan — listing 54 percent more names on its voter rolls than the total number of people of voting age, according to Census Bureau figures.
The other boroughs also made this PILF list this year, as did San Diego in California."
One In Four Michigan School District Teachers Chronically Absent [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
One In Four Michigan School District Teachers Chronically Absent [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"A new report released by the Thomas Fordham Institute found that school teachers in Michigan’s conventional school districts are almost twice as likely to miss 11 or more days of school than teachers in public charter schools.
In Michigan, 24.7 percent of school district teachers miss 11 days or more – which the federal Office for Civil Rights defines as “chronically absent” – while 12.4 percent of charter school teachers miss that many.
Nationwide, the report says, 28.3 percent of public school teachers and 10.3 percent of charter school teachers are chronically absent.
The report suggests that a significant factor in the difference between the groups is whether the teacher has a union collective bargaining agreement..."
"A new report released by the Thomas Fordham Institute found that school teachers in Michigan’s conventional school districts are almost twice as likely to miss 11 or more days of school than teachers in public charter schools.
In Michigan, 24.7 percent of school district teachers miss 11 days or more – which the federal Office for Civil Rights defines as “chronically absent” – while 12.4 percent of charter school teachers miss that many.
Nationwide, the report says, 28.3 percent of public school teachers and 10.3 percent of charter school teachers are chronically absent.
The report suggests that a significant factor in the difference between the groups is whether the teacher has a union collective bargaining agreement..."
History for September 27
History for September 27 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Nast 1840 - Political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey, William Conrad 1920, Wilford Brimley 1934 - Actor
Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1947, Shaun Cassidy 1958, Gwyneth Paltrow 1972 - Actress
1938 - The League of Nations branded the Japanese as aggressors in China.
1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.
1968 - The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.
1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
2004 - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Sessions to declare free speech 'under attack' on campus, in broadside at political correctness | Fox News
Sessions to declare free speech 'under attack' on campus, in broadside at political correctness | Fox News:
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to declare freedom of speech is “under attack” at American colleges and universities, during an address Tuesday taking aim at political correctness run amok on campus.
Sessions plans to tackle the hot-button issue of free speech on campus at Georgetown University Law Center, following a series of clashes at Berkeley and beyond over conservative speakers. "
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to declare freedom of speech is “under attack” at American colleges and universities, during an address Tuesday taking aim at political correctness run amok on campus.
Sessions plans to tackle the hot-button issue of free speech on campus at Georgetown University Law Center, following a series of clashes at Berkeley and beyond over conservative speakers. "
Hacking The Power Grid: They Can Induce Blackouts On American Soil AT WILL
Hacking The Power Grid: They Can Induce Blackouts On American Soil AT WILL
"The American power grid has been hacked.
It also appears that these hackers may take down the entire grid “at will” and induce blackouts when and where they choose.
"The American power grid has been hacked.
It also appears that these hackers may take down the entire grid “at will” and induce blackouts when and where they choose.
For an unknown reason, however, the hackers restrained themselves from taking down the power like they did in Ukraine recently.
They simply hacked their way into the system, although speculation is that they just wanted to look around…for now.
They simply hacked their way into the system, although speculation is that they just wanted to look around…for now.
You could have seen this one coming a mile away. The narrative is taking shape, folks. The boogie men are being put into place… and when the time is right, “The Powers That Shouldn’t Be”, will send the signal to their henchmen to set off the next crisis, stoking fear in everyone’s hearts. Out of chaos, order! –The Daily Sheeple
A report by internet security experts, Symantec, says that a hacking group called Dragonfly 2.0 has gained access to 20 power company networks.
The targets were in the United States, Turkey, and Switzerland. According to Symantec, the hackers did gain access to the interface they would need to control the power equipment, with which they could cause a widespread blackout..."Read on!
Fans of Best of the Web Today
Fans of Best of the Web Today:
"...I'm thinking more and more this Kneeling Protest is more about a group wanting to get rid of the presentation of the flag and playing of the national anthem.
"...I'm thinking more and more this Kneeling Protest is more about a group wanting to get rid of the presentation of the flag and playing of the national anthem.
Over 300,000 white Americans died in the war ending slavery.
Whites stood and bled next to blacks during the Civil Rights demonstrations in the 1960s.
A white President ordered the desegregation of the military.
A white President signed both the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Act.
For decades racial discrimination has been deinstitutionalized everywhere in the United States.
Whites stood and bled next to blacks during the Civil Rights demonstrations in the 1960s.
A white President ordered the desegregation of the military.
A white President signed both the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Act.
For decades racial discrimination has been deinstitutionalized everywhere in the United States.
Now we have seen the rise of the violent Black Lives Movement with open season on cops, and a Castro-loving football player, then earning $19 million per season starts a black protest against injustice against the Black Race.
The question I have is, where in America are black Americans being denied their rights or due process under the law?
On the other hand, the Black Community is rife with serious problems, teenage and/or unwed pregnancy, disasterous public education, unemployment and minimally skilled workers, gangs, drugs, and "leaders" promoting a victimhood mentality."
Fox News: Dinesh D'Souza on Colin Kaepernick's big lie
Fox News: Dinesh D'Souza on Colin Kaepernick's big lie:
"So are Democrats who pull down Confederate statues and protest the national anthem admitting the historical sins of their party? Are these acts of honest public disclosure and humble contrition?
Not at all. They are actually part of the Left’s big lie. The big lie is to take the historical crimes of the Democratic Party and project them onto someone else. Let’s blame America. Let’s blame the South. Let’s blame the white man. Let’s blame everyone except the people who actually committed those crimes.
The reason for targeting confederate statues is to make the South, not the Democrats, carry the burden for slavery.
"So are Democrats who pull down Confederate statues and protest the national anthem admitting the historical sins of their party? Are these acts of honest public disclosure and humble contrition?
Not at all. They are actually part of the Left’s big lie. The big lie is to take the historical crimes of the Democratic Party and project them onto someone else. Let’s blame America. Let’s blame the South. Let’s blame the white man. Let’s blame everyone except the people who actually committed those crimes.
The reason for targeting confederate statues is to make the South, not the Democrats, carry the burden for slavery.
'Bourgeois virtues' matter to everyone
'Bourgeois virtues' matter to everyone:
If we care about the poor, then we need to tell them the best way to improve their lives with middle class values.
Last week, ironic juxtaposition came to San Diego. University of San Diego Law Dean Stephen Ferruolo issued a statement critical of one of his faculty, Larry Alexander, who had committed the sin of coauthoring an oped with Amy Wax of Penn Law School. The two professors praised the “bourgeois virtues.” Also in San Diego that week, crews began hosing things down with bleach solution in an effort to halt a hepatitis A outbreak spread by people pooping in the street.
Ferruolo apparently thought there was something racist, or at least anti-multicultural, in the Wax/Alexander oped, which opened like this:
Read on!Too few Americans are qualified for the jobs available. Male working-age labor-force participation is at Depression-era lows. Opioid abuse is widespread. Homicidal violence plagues inner cities. Almost half of all children are born out of wedlock, and even more are raised by single mothers. Many college students lack basic skills, and high school students rank below those from two dozen other countries.The causes of these phenomena are multiple and complex, but implicated in these and other maladies is the breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture..."
"Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise."
We must take a close look at what all this kneeling on the field represents.
What the Kaepernick and BLM movement actually stand for.
http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles/
About #BlackLivesMatter
"Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes..."
We Affirm that All Black Lives Matter
"Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise."
What the Kaepernick and BLM movement actually stand for.
http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles/
About #BlackLivesMatter
"Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes..."
We Affirm that All Black Lives Matter
"Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise."
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