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While Donald Trump has stated that Megyn Kelly is not the only reason that he is skipping the Fox News debate Thursday night, viewing his Twitter account leaves one believing that she is the main reason.
Reminiscent of his flurry of tweets aimed at Kelly following the first Fox News Republican debate in August, Trump is once again shooting out derogatory messages about her.
Among them is a retweet of suggestive pictures the Fox News personality posed for in 2010 for GQ Magazine:
With all eyes on the Fox News/Donald Trump debate feud filling the news cycle, many are wondering who is hurt most by the kerfuffle. If Rush Limbaugh is right, though, it seems the network is the one coming out worse for wear.
During his show on Wednesday, Limbaugh told his audience that many are telling him the network once hailed as the conservative news network is falling in people's esteem. He said "I'm here to tell you Fox News is not considered the conservative network it used to be."
In an interview on CNN, Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager, said Brooke Sammon, daughter of Fox News Channel Vice President Bill Sammon, serves as national press secretary for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is battling Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
Marco Rubio, like Ted Cruz, does not meet the "Natural Born" requirement to be President. Although born in Miami, his parents were not American citizens at the time, but Cuban.
Then again, it isn't like anyone actually goes to Huffington Post for fair and balanced representation of "the news". Soccer moms go to HuffPo to read stories about their goddess Hillary Clinton cracking a pot joke.
Amid a discussion that was both heated and contentious, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly managed to get a smile out of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on his Wednesday night show.
However, he did not get Trump to change his mind and agree to attend Thursday's Republican residential debate. In fact, O'Reilly had to agree that he had broken a pre-show agreement with Trump in which O'Reilly had promised not to bring up the debate.
divide-and-conquer and race-baiting
As casualties mount in Gaza, an uncharacteristic reticence about the conflict has settled over high-level Hollywood. Cultural affinity and political support for Israel run deep in the entertainment industry, as they have since Israel's founding in 1948. It's commonplace for top executives to be on a first-name basis with prominent Israeli politicians and business leaders. As a consequence, the current Israeli incursion into Gaza, even with its civilian and child casualties, has not generated public debate among executive ranks. The celebrities and athletes who have expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments are being dismissed — for now at least — as "uninformed," an adjective expressed to THR by several top executives.
The Huffington Post has started appending an editor's note to the bottom of posts about Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, calling him a "racist," a "liar" and a "xenophobe," and reminding readers of his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
"Note to our readers: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the U.S.," reads the note, which was added to an article about Trump's feud with Fox News published last night. The note also includes links to prior coverage of Trump's comments.
A Huffington Post spokesperson told POLITICO that the note will be added to all future stories about Trump.
Wow! The establishment is REALLY afraid of Trump, and like FOX News, Huffington Post just broadcast that they are part of the establishment!
Trump began to make noise hinting that he might not attend the event, and Tuesday evening he announced he would not participate in debate.
But Trump isn't staying away from the debate just because Kelly wasn't removed from the moderator panel. In fact, Trump says, the final straw was the snarky public letter Fox put out after he announced he was going to skip the debate.
"It was the childishly written and taunting PR statement by Fox that made me not do the debate," Trump posted on Twitter. "More so than lightweight reporter, Megyn Kelly."
In a surprise move, the Bank of Japan has introduced a negative interest rate.
BBC: The benchmark rate of -0.1% means that commercial banks will be charged by the central bank for some deposits.
It is designed to encourage them to use their reserves to lend to businesses in an attempt to counter Japan's economic slump.
The charge does not directly apply to ordinary customers' accounts.
The country is desperate to increase spending and investment.
One of the side effects of a moribund economy is falling prices - something that can send an economy into a downward spiral
Without Trump on stage, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie found themselves with more room to make their case to voters seeking a more mainstream candidate.
Both men have an eye on the Feb. 9 first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire, which comes on the heels of the Iowa caucuses on Monday and where an establishment Republican like them might have a better chance of standing out.
Senator Ted Cruz from Texas and Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, the two top challengers to Trump in Iowa, engaged in squabbles over immigration and national security and did not appear to threaten Trump's lead. He holds the edge over Cruz in polls of Iowa Republicans.
Trump's rivals mocked his decision to sit out the debate and found ways to criticise him.
(*As Expected !)
Limbaugh On Trump Skipping Fox Debate: I've Urged Republicans To "Stand Up For Yourselves And Demand Your Own Moderators"
Rush Limbaugh: "I Have Long Advocated That Republicans In General No Longer Have To Take It From The Media"
*** You're not going to triumph there. No matter how well you do, after you're gone they're going to portray you as something unfavorable. Why give them the chance? And I've asked Republicans this and the answer I get -- you have to do it. We can't avoid it. We can't run from the media. And I've always -- you're not running from them, you're just not giving them the chance to personally destroy you, insult you, or what have you. And I can -- I'll bet you I can find in our archives ***
Washington and London are all-out to demonize Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Only days after a British judge insinuated that Putin had ordered the murder of a former Russian intelligence agent, the BBC and the American Treasury Department were accusing the Russian president of financial corruption. Meanwhile, in the world of hard facts Washington and London are guilty of state terrorism involving the murder of millions of innocent people. We may marvel at the discrepancy. It's called brainwashing
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center at Iowa State University on January 19, 2016 in Ames, IA.
Trump: I want to do debate, but I don't like Megyn Kelly
Trump on shooting someone: 'Of course I was joking'
Trump talks Ted Cruz, Megyn Kelly and destroying ISIS
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Trump: I could shoot somebody and not lose voters
Republican presidential candidates (L-R) Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speak during a commercial break in the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center on January 14, 2016 in North Charleston, South Carolina.
One cant understand the Palestinian-zionist conflict without bringing the whole geopolitical context that happened for half a century (and even beyond that) before the actual ethnic cleansing of Palestine:
First, Palestine was inhabited by the native Palestinians (regardless of their religion) for Thousands of years before the zionist thought to build their "jewish state" in Palestine.
I've never heard Mark Dice talk about the Jews or Zionism, and he did not mention them, but this recent tweet from him about who runs Hollywood is very ... umm, 'interesting,' lol.
For years, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has repeatedly complained about the D.C. orthodoxy-enforcing tactic of labeling only those who subscribe to Washington pieties as "Very Serious People," or "VSPs." It's a term Krugman borrowed (with credit) from the liberal blogger Atrios, who first coined it to illustrate how Iraq War opponents were instantly marginalized in establishment discourse and only war advocates were deemed to be Serious. Krugman mockingly uses it so often that the New York Times created a special tag for the term. The primary purpose of the "VSP" tactic is to malign anyone who dissents from D.C. establishment pieties as non-Serious or un-Serious, thus demeaning the person as someone who can (and should) be ignored as residing on the fringe, unworthy of engagement or a real platform regardless of the merits of their position.
Something to keep in mind when the corporate media tells you the drinking water is safe.
As the UK marks Holocaust Memorial Day, social media users are reminding the Daily Mail of its historical attacks on Jewish refugees fleeing pre-war Nazi Germany, highlighting the paper's present-day attacks on migrants.
CNN has announced that they will air Trump's rally that he is holding live opposite the Fox News Debate in a bit of a shameless ratings play. The thinking here is that this might cut into Fox News ratings, but let's be honest: the people who were only tuning in to watch Trump were not going to watch tomorrow night anyway. The fact that he will be on CNN will not really change that equation.
Onion staffers may think twice before they produce more stories like Hillary Clinton Tries To Woo Voters By Rescinding Candidacy, Hillary Clinton To Nation: 'Do Not Fuck This Up For Me,' Hillary Clinton: The Merciless, Unrelenting March To The Presidency, or the signed Hillary Clinton editorial titled I'm Weighing Whether Or Not I Want To Go Through The Hell Of Appealing To You Idiotic, Uninformed Oafs.
Many news outlets covered Univision Communications' purchase last week of a stake in The Onion, the world's leading news publication. According to NPR, Univision bought a 40 percent controlling interest in the company, and also acquired the option to buy the remainder of The Onion in the future.
One also has to wonder about Clinton's connection to Comedy Central.
A couple of nights ago, on "The Daily Show". Trevor Noah did a hit piece on Bernie Sanders, including a photoshopped image of him buck naked from the back, with a garlanded g string.
Larry Wilmore, of "The Nightly Show", also appears to have been giving his marching orders to demonise both Trump and Sanders.
But I have noticed that neither has so much as breathed one quiet sentence, unflattering to Hillary Clinton.
Everyone knew that LaVoy Finicum kept a Colt .45 on his hip.
That common knowledge could help explain how the occupier in Oregon died.
In the moments before he was shot by authorities Tuesday afternoon, Finicum led a high-speed getaway attempt. He then reached for his waistband, prompting authorities to open fire, according to a CNN report.
The report, which cites anonymous law enforcement officials but has not been confirmed by The Washington Post, is corroborated by a statement from an occupier who said he was traveling with Finicum at the time of the traffic stop.
Another self-described witness disputes that, saying that authorities opened fire before the getaway chase and that Finicum had his hands up when he was shot.
(More "Damage Control" from the Zio-Washington Post)
The paper notes that researchers have suggested the Zika virus, which has stoked widespread panic in pregnant women in Mexico and Brazil, is likely the result of an upsurge in the mosquito population brought on by global warming. The carrier of the disease, a mosquito called the Aedes, is believed to carry other viruses, such as Dengue and Yellow fever.
The fact that GM versions of that exact mosquito were being released into the wild at that time is, of course, not to be considered as having anything to do with the problem.
Inevitably, the journalists left once a massive crackdown significantly reduced the number of deadly attacks against Israelis in the city. It is an all too familiar pattern for Palestinians, who know by now that it's only "escalation" when there are dead or wounded Israelis. Deaths, injuries, arrests and home demolitions inflicted on Palestinians by Israel are deemed business as usual, not worthy of further inquiry.
So we now have governments warning women not to get pregnant. A new form of depopulation. Don't get pregnant. If you do, and a mosquito bites you, you could give birth to a severely damaged child. Not only that, we have massive advisories against travel, for pregnant women. And 200,000 soldiers in Brazil, the site of the upcoming Olympics, are going door to door and distributing information about this new "plague." Are the soldiers also telling men and women not to have sex? Who knows?
So let's take a little side trip to Scam City and examine the science behind the Zika virus and the assertion that it is causing birth defects.
Those so-called "scientists" are at it again. First they tried to make us believe that men really landed on the moon. Now they're claiming, with characteristic cheek, that any other theory is mathematically impossible.
An Oxford physicist, Dr David Grimes, has created an equation which expresses the maximum longevity of any given secret as a function of the number of people who are in on it. A plot involving 125 people might last a century, whereas one involving the 411,000 employees of Nasa would leak within three years and eight months.
The corporate media must be in a panic if they are piling fake Apollo landings, flat earth, and the holocaust into one big pile! :)
Even more amazing, they are allowing comments on this one!
Even more amazing, they are allowing comments on this one!
And today it was revealed how Trump's decision may have been brilliant in light of shocking invitations from Fox News and Google to anti-Trump activists to participate and ask questions of the candidates — including a Muslim and an illegal alien.
FoxNews and Google invited three YouTube personalities who will be allowed to address the candidates directly at the debate. Two of them appear to have been chosen by Fox and Google because of their opposition to Trump's positions against radicals Muslims and in favor of deporting illegal aliens.
FoxNews and the RNC approved the liberal Google's choice of these radical activist. The third, Mark Watson, is a Black activist whose position on Trump is unknown.
The network, currently reeling from Trump's debate withdrawal, is not responding to media inquiries as to why they accepted radical leftist activists to question GOP candidates.
Wall Street might have had unrealistic expectations that the Fed would rule out a March rate hike or veer early from its stated hope to do four quarter-point rate hikes in 2016, says Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Boston Private Wealth.
For a long time, as he campaigned for president, a wide spectrum of establishment media insisted that Bernie Sanders couldn't win. Now they're sounding the alarm that he might.
Forty years ago, the legendary actor Robert Redford starred in one of the most celebrated journalism films of all time: "All The President's Men."
(*How About You Tell Us ? You're The Corporate "NEWS" Outlet !)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won't take part in Thursday's debate, claiming the Fox's Megyn Kelly isn't fair to him.
Kelly was hardly fair and balanced in the debates. She was in full-on attack mode right from the start as FOX wants to get Trump out of the race and move the party favorites forward; a repeat of how they treated Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012.
But FOX's hard line is going to blow up in their faces. The debate is going to be the losers, Megyn Kelly foremost among them, whining about Trump for on hour and a half. I don't intend to waste my time watching this debate and I suspect the audience numbers for the debate will be very low.
But FOX's hard line is going to blow up in their faces. The debate is going to be the losers, Megyn Kelly foremost among them, whining about Trump for on hour and a half. I don't intend to waste my time watching this debate and I suspect the audience numbers for the debate will be very low.
I was contacted by Israeli Army Radio, as a Hebrew-speaking journalist in Moscow. What do I think about British justice accusing Vladimir Putin personally of Litvinenko's murder? What do people of Moscow think of their President being a murderer? READ MORE
snip: Anyone who believes that this election will bring about any real change in how the American government does business is either incredibly naïve, woefully out-of-touch, or oblivious to the fact that as an in-depth Princeton University study shows, we now live in an oligarchy that is "of the rich, by the rich and for the rich."
Trump is not just taking on the construct of progressive ideology that has undermined the essence of American exceptionalism; Trump is not just exposing the immense number of faux-conservatives in media and political punditry; Trump is not just allowing us to see the scope of anti-American interest; no, he's taking on the very selfish foundation they've used to sell out our country. Heck, he's taking on all the "Decepticons" simultaneously.
...And however mistaken you may believe regarding my interpretation of your reporting is, I would like to remind you of two very important facts: In 1990 and 1991, Mr. Mansbridge, you told me that Iraqi soldiers were removing babies from incubators in Kuwaiti hospitals, throwing them on the floor, stealing the incubators and taking them back to Iraq. And in 2003, you told me Saddam Hussein had "weapons of mass destruction."
(Reuters) - The leader of an armed occupation at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon was arrested on Tuesday during a confrontation in which one person was killed and another was wounded, the FBI said.
Protesters were still occupying the remote Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon after leader Ammon Bundy's arrest and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was setting up a perimeter, a law enforcement official told Reuters.
The takeover at Malheur that started Jan. 2 is the latest flare-up in the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, a decades-old conflict over the U.S. government's control of millions acres of land in the West.
Four other people were taken into custody along with Bundy following the confrontation along Highway 395 in northeast Oregon, according to the FBI. A fifth individual was arrested by the Oregon State Police in a separate incident in Burns, Oregon.
The Chicago Tribune (1/24/16) is not happy with the choices voters are thinking of making this year:
Democrats and Republicans usually find comparatively safe, steady options. But this year, risky and disruptive options are in vogue. The way the campaign is going, it's easy to imagine that in 2016, voters in the sensible center will find themselves abandoned by the major parties.
Trump has made such threats before, but he said that the Fox News Channel, which is hosting the debate Thursday night, had gone too far by issuing press statements on Tuesday that he said kicked his concern about Megyn Kelly, one of the debate co-moderators. - They're dealing with someone who's a little bit different. They can't toy with me like they toy with everybody else," he added.
"We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president," Fox News said in the statement, adding this gem: "A nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings." -- Typical FOX News hard @ work...
(*Is That What You Wanted To Hear ?]
The Cleveland Police Department announced Tuesday that six of its officers involved in the 137-shot barrage that killed an unarmed pair after a car chase have been fired.
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Additionally, another six officers face suspensions ranging from 21 to 30 day and a 13th officer involved in the incident will be retired early.
Fox was very clear in its response.
"Sooner or later Donald Trump, even if he's president, is going to have to learn that he doesn't get to pick the journalists—we're very surprised he's willing to show that much fear about being questioned by Megyn Kelly," Fox said in a statement.
The issue isn't the President picking the journalists but the journalists trying to pick the President!
The first month of the year isn't even over yet and as people in the Northeast are digging their way out of one of the biggest snowstorms in recorded history, Time magazine has a message for you: "2016 Expected to Be the Warmest Year on Record." Yes, they couldn't even wait for the temperature readings to be evaluated in the months to come to make that prediction. Just as much of the mainstream media have already declared 2014 and 2015 based on highly questionable evidence, they are already declaring 2016 to be even hotter based on absolutely no evidence other than pretending to read future temperatures.
Prize-winning Oscar nominee 'Son of Saul' sparks anti-Semitic reactions, with social media users slamming it as 'Jewish propaganda'.
*hyperlinks/videos live at source*
hat tip: The Intercept
The big deal about Ms. Clinton is the same for all "leaders" of both US political parties:
They are War Criminals for engaging US military into armed attacks that are the Orwellian opposite of what war law prevents in crystal-clear letter and intent.
They are guilty of Crimes Against Humanity for ongoing intentional policy of poverty that's killed over 400 million human beings just since 1995 (~75% children; more deaths than from all wars in Earth's recorded history).
They are criminally complicit in the destruction of nearly all rights lawfully guaranteed in the US Bill of Rights within the US Constitution, and in Orwellian inversion of limited government.
Ms. Clinton acted in Orwellian opposition to her Oath-sworn job as US Secretary of State with ongoing violations of the US Constitution through US Wars of Aggression, various US War Crimes, and support of other nations' Wars of Aggression.
"The Saudis hate Iran. They are geopolitical rivals. They don't want to see Iran's economy get any better and oil prices are big factors in the Iranian economy"
Former U.S. Energy Secretary and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson
"All I know is," the Dirty Harry star said, "there are thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them–the majority of them–haven't won Oscars." -- He admitted he wasn't paying too much attention to those upset over the annual movie awards adding, "a lot of people are crying, I guess."
The outcome of the US presidential primaries was supposed to be Hillary Clinton, the wife of an ex-president, vs. Jeb Bush, the son and brother of other ex-presidents: both worthy but somewhat boring candidates, and both definitely members of the "establishment". Less than a week before the first primary, the Iowa caucuses, Bush is dead in the water and even Clinton is looking vulnerable.
It seems that the spirit of deference that once sustained an empire remains alive within some of Holyrood's committees. These pocket battleships of the Scottish parliament are deemed to be one of its most palpable successes; regularly eliciting clarity and exerting transparency from dozens of evasive, public sector executives on the gravy train. Yet, observing two of them at work in recent weeks revealed a marked difference in tone and attitude.
Today I give my annual lecture about politics and the media to my City University London post-grad students.
It is built around the undeniable reality of the nexus between politicians and journalists, overlapping elites who appear to much of the public as separate and mutually antagonistic.
People over 75 may be asked to give up their free TV licence or make a voluntary contribution to it, under plans being considered by the BBC.
The corporation must absorb the loss of £650m worth of licences for over-75s from 2020 as part of a funding deal agreed with ministers last year.
A report on ways to appeal for voluntary contributions is due in 2016.
The BBC has refused to comment on suggestions that older celebrities might front a publicity campaign.
The media claimed that Yulia Tymoshenko was a charming and innocent politician, sent to prison by a kleptomaniac Yanukovich.
German Der Spiegel has turned this image of the 'gas princess' on its head though, by publishing the contents of several internal emails, written by employees of a PR company paid to 'assist' in securing her release.
Turns out, Yulia herself seems to have been exposed as a total con artist. All those whiny claims of suffering this or that inhumane treatment, MSM press lenses in tow were a complete sham. Bought and paid for.
Sort of a Ukrainian Hillary!
German Der Spiegel has turned this image of the 'gas princess' on its head though, by publishing the contents of several internal emails, written by employees of a PR company paid to 'assist' in securing her release.
Turns out, Yulia herself seems to have been exposed as a total con artist. All those whiny claims of suffering this or that inhumane treatment, MSM press lenses in tow were a complete sham. Bought and paid for.
Turns out, Yulia herself seems to have been exposed as a total con artist. All those whiny claims of suffering this or that inhumane treatment, MSM press lenses in tow were a complete sham. Bought and paid for.
Sort of a Ukrainian Hillary!
While at the checkout line the other day I saw this TIME-Life magazine titled 'Modern Day Conspiracy Theories.' The issue covered many topics, including NSA spying, whether vaccines caused autism, the Sandy Hook controversy, and many other issues. I briefly flipped through the issue and found a section on 9/11. They presented a chart describing 5 or so theories regarding 9/11. The top was that the U.S. government had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks and did nothing to prevent it. They last theory listed was that Israel did 9/11 to justify wars and Israel's agenda. I do not recall their exact words, but I was very shocked that such a publication would even mention this! They did not present it in a disparaging manner.
Gun owners are portrayed as angry white men. Gun owners are portrayed as elitists rather than as populists. The mainstream news deliberately ignores young women who have chosen to own and carry guns for self-defense. The media ignores minorities and the poor who choose to own a gun to protect their family. The media sells us the violence committed with a gun rather than reporting on the lives saved with a firearm. You're left with a distorted view of the world if you only get your news glancing at the mainstream news.
The British government has launched a new website aimed at battling what it calls "the spell of twisted ideologies". On the site, parents and teachers can find advice on how to identify signs of radicalization in youths.
Conspiracy theories have changed fundamentally as they've made their way from obscure bookstores to your extended family's Facebook posts. They've lost their mythological aspects and become more darkly existential, as well as drifted further and further toward the political right. It's no longer dreaming about hidden alien technology–it's about seeing the grieving families of shooting victims on TV and thinking they're hired actors.
The phrases "crisis actor," "creeping sharia," and "white genocide" didn't exist when the X-Files first aired, and they don't really exist for the new series either. Thanks to social media and fake news sites, we're awash in conspiracy theories—from Obama's plans for a military invasion of the American Southwest to subliminal messages about interracial sex encoded in the new Star Wars movie—that the show's creators have decided, reasonably, to ignore in favor of almost quaintly old-fashioned stuff like Roswell and gravitational warp drives. It seems like real life has finally gotten too weird for The X-Files.
National Review's effort to take down GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has been billed as a symposium of "conservatives against Trump." However, that billing may be undermined by the discovery that several of the contributors National Review relied upon to pen their anti-Trump manifesto are supporters of the open borders immigration agenda, which National Review itself previously declared would bring about the end American conservatism.
Let me put it this way. Forget the name is Trump. If a candidate could guaranteed fix everything that's wrong in this country the way the Republican Party thinks it's wrong, if it were a slam dunk, if it were guaranteed, that candidate will still be opposed by the Republican Party establishment. If they've never heard of him before or if he's never been in politics before, if he's not part of the structure, the infrastructure, if he hasn't paid his dues, if he's not part of the clique, they don't want him in there. It's exclusionary and it's got all kinds of people who want to get into it, who want to climb that ladder, who want to be at the top, and you just don't get there.
In many ways it's not merit based like so many other things in life are. So there is a natural enmity to outsiders, to intruders. And when an outsider or intruder gets in, gets a nose under the tent and starts making noise, then the establishment lifelong members start caucusing together to figure out how they can get rid of this intruder who might just shake everything up. When it comes time to get rid of the intruder all they know to do is what they've always done. They go to their playbook. Whatever party politics playbooks there are, they go to them.
(*Isn't The Dealey Plaza play in those books ?)
Fox News showed no signs of giving in to Mr. Trump's displeasure with the questioning, stating just a week following the first debate that all three moderators would again host the debate in January.
The Islamic State(also known as Daesh) is the bastard child of the US's drive to achieve regime change in Syria.To that end the US and its allies instigated an armed insurrection against the Syrian government.
ISIS Boss's Boss's Boss's Boss's Boss's Boss
Major corporate media outlets in the United States are reporting on a new viability for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, based on his rise in the polls nationally and in Iowa and New Hampshire -- and possibly, though this goes largely unmentioned, based on his big new advertising purchases from major corporate media outlets. In independent progressive media as well, there's a small flood of maybe-he-can-really-win articles.
Left unsaid: Bernie is leading in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire because Democratic voters are fed up with Hillary, and while she may never go to prison, most people feel she ought to! The revelation that her private server contained SAP classified material was a real wake-up call! The only hope Hillary has of winning is to steal the election.
A host of conservatives are trying to derail the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump through a National Review cover story that denounces Trump. The article questioned his knowledge of key issues, criticized several major Trump policies, and said Trump is not a candidate who embodies bedrock conservative principles.
The list of conservatives opposing Trump includes Glenn Beck, David Boaz, L. Brent Bozell III, Mona Charen, Ben Domenech, Erick Erickson, Steven F. Hayward, Mark Helprin, William Kristol, Yuval Levin, Dana Loesch, Andrew C. McCarthy, David M. McIntosh, Michael Medved, Edwin Meese III, Russell Moore, Michael B. Muskasey, Katie Pavlich, John Podhoretz, R. R. Reno, Thomas Sowell and Cal Thomas.
Latest word is that the anti-Trump issue triggered a flood of cancellations for the National Review.
Zeifman said that Rodham wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents.
After the Nixon impeachment investigation was finished, Zeifman fired Rodham and said he refused to give her a letter of recommendation.
According to the Calabrese column as reported by TruthOrFiction.com, Zeifman said he regrets not reporting Rodham to the appropriate bar association.
Interesting piece of propaganda that lays out the facts and quotes, then tries (unsuccessfully) to cast doubt on it all.
Last night, National Review published a special edition of its magazine, devoted to attacking Donald Trump. Less than 12 hours later, NR publisher Jack Fowler sent the below letter to "friends of the magazine." This is a very unusual letter. It suggests to me that cancellations to the magazine must be pouring in because of the Trump attack edition.
While addressing Israel's leading national security think tank on Monday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro offered a harsh, relatively unprecedented assessment of the country's apartheid legal system.
After the speech received media coverage in Israel, Netanyahu shot back: "The ambassador's statements … are unacceptable and wrong."
by John Pilger
The original Australians are the oldest human presence. To the European invaders, they did not exist because their continent had been declared terra nullius: empty land. To justify this fiction, mass murder was ordained. In 1838, the Sydney Monitor reported:"It was resolved to exterminate the whole race of blacks in that quarter."
"The most eyebrow-raising moment in the premiere is when O'Malley brings the 9/11 terrorist attacks into his conspiracy framework. "9/11 was a false flag operation," O'Malley declares on his Truth Squad with Tad O'Malley show, echoing on Infowars theory.
On 3rd December 2015 at the United States Capitol in Washington a statue was unveiled in honour of Richard "Dick" Cheney, former vice President to George W. Bush. In line with all other past vice-presidents a marble bust will now rest alongside all other United States vice-Presidents.
Coincidentally, the previous day witnessed the British parliament, specifically the House of Commons, inadvertently honour Cheney in the debate on whether to extend the military intervention aimed at ISIS in Iraq into ISIS's supposed heartland in Syria.
Republican National Committee spokesperson Allison Moore said that "debate partners can't have a predisposition towards or against any candidate."
The ruble jumped the most since August, rebounding from its lowest level on record, as a recovery in crude prices encouraged investors to buy assets in the world's biggest energy exporter.
Pennsylvania's governor has declared a state of emergency as an approaching winter storm targeting the Washington area and the Northeast is expected to dump more than a foot of snow on much of the southern part of the state.
Taking no chances, CBS 60 Minutes program also manages to denigrate the brave Syrian Arab Army, just about one of the most heroic forces fighting ISIL and other brutal terrorists in the Middle East.
"British military advisers are in control rooms assisting the Saudi-led coalition staging bombing raids across Yemen that have killed thousands of civilians, the Saudi Foreign Minister and the Ministry of Defence have confirmed
Tonight at 10:00 PM EST/7:00 PM PST: In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall, host Andy Steele is joined by Dana Carson, an activist from the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. They review a recent public exchange they had with "$keptic" Michael Shermer at a talk he recently gave in the Bay area.
Also watch from 2010 >> Joshua Blakeney and Anthony J. Hall Investigate Michael Shermer's Academic Credentials
Shermer email to Blakeney - "If I am, as some have suspected, an agent of disinformation for the U.S. government to divert attention away from the real 9/11 conspiracy, then you would think that they would have provided me with paperwork documenting my adjunct professorship . . . not to mention my doctorate . . . I have nothing to send you in that regard . . . I trust you'll take my word for it."
The BBC has an "ingrained" culture of quashing dissent, serving staff have warned, as a leaked draft of an official report expressed concerns that "a predatory child abuser could be lurking undiscovered in the BBC even today".
A draft of the Dame Janet Smith review of practices at the BBC found that the fear of whistleblowing at the organisation was "even worse" in the current era than at the time Jimmy Savile was abusing children while working for the broadcaster.
A new study commissioned by BTIG Research and analyst Rich Greenfield (registration required) found that 56% of those surveyed would happily ditch ESPN if it meant saving them $8 a month. 60% of females say they would ditch the channel for the $8 discount, while 49% of males would do the same. And while ESPN could pursue a standalone streaming service, 85% of those polled say they wouldn't subscribe at $20 a month, even if it bundled in all of the additional ESPN channels such as ESPN 2 and ESPN 3.
I'm sorry, but this campaign has all the promise of things referred to as "ab-so-luet-ly FREE!" in late-night TV infomercials selling us crap that never actually works. But, really, you would have a better chance of dicing an onion properly in the White House than getting anything worthwhile out of the Scam House. Color me cynical, but first of all: We ain't seen nothing yet as afr as the damage Obama has left to do. And we ain't seen nothing yet as far as the damage future presidents will do, too.
"He's young, he has Robert Redford good looks, he's conservative and he's rich!" began CNN anchor Mary Alice Williams. In 1988 Donald Trump was interviewed by CNN's Larry King and NBC's Chris Wallace (Now FNC), at the Republican National Convention.
What a bad week for the war party. Darn you, Iran! The country that the armchair warriors most love to hate refuses to play the villain's role assigned by the neoconservatives, "humanitarian" interventionists, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the establishment media.
A last-minute town-hall-style event, announced Wednesday by CNN and scheduled to take place just one week before the Iowa caucuses, could be a saving grace for Hillary Clinton, whose presidential campaign has faced an unexpectedly formidable challenge from Democratic rival Bernie Sanders.
Some of the information contained on Clinton's unauthorized email server was so highly classified that McCullough and his team reportedly had to seek special permission just to look at it. Fox News was one of the first media outlets to obtain a copy of the IG letter, and broke the story late Tuesday afternoon.
But the story didn't seem to interest the Times, which buried the story in the bottom right corner of A16 in its print edition Wednesday morning.
After submitting the "South Carolina Responsible Journalism Registry Law," state Rep. Mike Pitts, a Republican, basically told the Post and Courier of Charleston that he was trolling the media; he knew journalists would flip out over the proposal to curtail 1st Amendment freedoms (we did), and he figured that reaction would stand in contrast to their lack of outrage over efforts to limit 2nd Amendment rights.
Good one!
Last fall, Marketplace commissioned lab testing for samples of fish oil, vitamin C and protein powder supplements to see if consumers are actually getting what they pay for.
Based on those test results, Marketplace reported that Emergen-C and two protein powders: GNC Lean Shake 25 and Cytosport Muscle Milk failed to live up to label claims.
However, subsequent re-testing of the samples has found that the lab results and analysis provided to Marketplace were incorrect, and that there is no evidence of problems with those products.
From the Polish media we learn that German authorities ordered the destruction of CCTV evidence of the Cologne attacks.
We know that the Polish media cannot be trusted because Law and Justice (PiS) has been busy stacking the state media overseeing with its own cronies. To be sure the previous pro-EU leftist government had done the exact same, but that is okay because it was done in pursuit of the goals of social justice. As exemplified by, say, the German and Swedish media, which have been ordered at the highest levels to avoid reporting on minor political issues, such as the mass rape of their own women by refugees. What refugees? What rape? What Turkish sponsorship of ISIS? Hey, look over there – isn't Julian Assange a chauvinist pig for not wearing a condom during consensual sex?
A look at some of the key events in the development of the Flint water crisis:
Every false flag in the making is detected ahead of time by somebody's intelligence services—usually more than one country—because spying today is so effective and so universal. Officials in possession of this secret information often pass it on to the country that's targeted, in the sincere belief that a heads-up will be appreciated.
But often the information isn't welcomed—-because the fix is already in. Treasonous assets within the targeted country's chain of command, who are prepared for the possibility of a leak, take measures to block the information from reaching those who might act on it in a meaningful way.
HMMMMM!It all depends on where you put the thermometer. Maybe they should try a rectal thermometer!
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to measuring global warming, it's all about altitude.
Temperature readings taken close to Earth's surface — about 6 feet off the ground — show a slightly warmer planet than measurements taken from on high by satellites in orbit.
And that discrepancy has given ammunition to climate-change doubters.
Government agencies and most scientists rely primarily on ground measurements, and they show that 2015 was the warmest year on record.
The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities found in 1975 that the CIA submitted stories to the American press:
The CIA and other government agencies also put enormous energy into pushing propaganda through movies, television and video games.
Now that the stories are resurfacing, they could hamper Mrs. Clinton's attempts to connect with younger women, who are learning the details of the Clintons' history for the first time. Several news organizations have published guides to the Clinton scandals to explain the allegations to a new generation of readers.
Oscar winner Sean Penn and Mexican film and TV star Kate del Castillo recently played staring roles as citizen journalists and scooped the world's major media outlets by scoring a sit-down interview with a notorious Mexican narco-trafficker: Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (aka Chapo Guzmán).
As one of the longtime leaders of the powerful Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization, Guzmán has been on the run from law enforcers for years — having previously twice escaped from high-security Mexican prisons.
Penn said in a recent interview with CBS News that the story he authored for Rolling Stone magazine earlier this month based on the visit with Guzmán was intended to spur a deeper discussion about drug-war policy. Instead, it drew a round of cackles from major U.S. media machines like the Washington Post, which characterized Penn's first-person account as being self-absorbed and an insult to the dozens of Mexican journalists who have been murdered covering the drug war.
The corporate media has been pretending that the independent media are unimportant, but when someone with Sean Penn's star power joins our ranks, corporate media starts to sweat!
By Brandon Turbeville
South Carolina has long been known for the ridiculous and off-world bills its State House regularly submits to a vote. Indeed, the residents of the state are routinely subjected to a demonstration of the utter uselessness of the majority of its "representatives" as well as their lack of understanding and concern for civil liberties, Constitutional rights, and the general welfare of the State.
Enter another freedom-shredding bill submitted by the Constitutional non-scholar Mike Pitts, a Republican State House member from Laurens, S.C....
Despite the economic crisis in Russia, President Vladimir Putin's approval rating will be the last to suffer as Russians view him as a "savior" to the country and are much more likely to turn on other politicians, the head of Russia's Public Opinion survey firm told national daily Izvestia.
While Russia is in recession and will remain so this year, according to International Monetary Fund projections, Putin's approval has soared according to both state and independent pollsters. In October, state pollster WCIOM estimated 89.9 percent of Russians supported Putin while later that same month independent pollster Levada Center estimated the figure at 88 percent.
Obama administration announced new online initiatives to bolster its foreign policy narratives and as a means to counter others, for example, this network, RT.
Maybe a better course of action would be for the US State Department to ask itself why fewer and fewer people trust and believe it?
CrossTalking with Mark Sleboda, Don DeBar and James Carden.
Also see: Uncle Sam Got a Shiny New Propaganda Bullhorn for Christmas
The EU has no-one else to blame for its present stresses and strains but itself, owing to its craven subservience to Washington's reckless policies.
The American and British governments are launching yet another media campaign to demonize Russia, with tall claims that the Kremlin is infiltrating European political parties and news media. The dastardly Russian aim, we are told, is to destroy the European Union.
Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Washington and its trusty sidekick in London are desperately seeking to turn back the clock to the "good old days" when they could control their public through scare stories.
Enter another freedom-shredding bill submitted by the Constitutional non-scholar Mike Pitts, a Republican State House member from Laurens, S.C. Pitts' bill would establish a "responsible journalism registry" to be operated by the South Carolina Secretary of State. -- The summary of the bill states that it would "establish requirements for persons before working as a journalist for a media outlet and for media outlets before hiring a journalist" as well as establish penalties, fines, and jail sentences for violations. And, of course, "for other purposes."
Waking Times
Our reality is carefully constructed by powerful corporate, political and special interest sources in order to covertly sway public opinion. Blatant lies are often televised regarding terrorism, food, war, health, etc. They are fashioned to sway public opinion and condition viewers to accept what have become destructive societal norms.
snip: Once you are charged in America, whether you did the crime or not, you are almost always found guilty. Because of this, as many activists have discovered, the courts already are being used as a fundamental weapon of repression, and this abuse will explode in size should there be widespread unrest and dissent. Our civil liberties have been transformed into privileges—what Matt Taibbi in "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap" calls "conditional rights and conditional citizenship"—that are, especially in poor communities, routinely revoked. Once rights become privileges, none of us are safe.
On New Year's Eve the German city of Cologne witnessed mass organized sexual assaults on hundreds of German women.
For five days following the assaults the German media failed to report them.
When under public pressure they eventually did, it turned out that a string of similar assaults had also happened simultaneously in various other German cities.
One thing is very clear. There is some real political power pushing this refugee flood!
But most Americans still don't understand that the U.S. mass media is untrustworthy because it's completely manipulated to promote propaganda.
Noam Chomsky points out that big status quo-loving corporations own the media, cater to other big status quo-loving advertisers, and filter out stories which question the status quo.
WebMD is the most visited health site on the web. While the general belief is that it's a trustworthy source of "independent and objective" health information, it's become quite clear that WebMD is a shill, using its influence to primarily promote corporate-backed health strategies and products.
Partnerships and sponsorships1 color WebMD's recommendations across the board, and "passive" promotion techniques, where advertisements are designed to look more like editorials, have become commonplace.
Sean Penn & Kate del Castillo Scooped the Press and Embarrassed the US & Mexican Governments in Interview with Chapo Guzmán Oscar winner Sean Penn and Mexican film and TV star Kate del Castillo recently played staring roles as citizen journalists and scooped the world's major media outlets by scoring a sit-down interview with a notorious Mexican narco-trafficker: Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (aka Chapo Guzmán). As one of the longtime leaders of the powerful Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization, Guzmán has been on the run from law enforcers for years — having previously twice escaped from high-security Mexican prisons.
But the truth is that Assad is not starving the people of Madaya. The people of Madaya are suffering because their village is overrun with the savages supported by NATO, the GCC, and Israel. Unfortunately,the Western media that insists upon calling them "rebels" and "activists" instead of what they are.
May, who along with Clarkson and Richard Hammond, will present a new, big-budget car show for Amazon Prime, said that it was also unfair on Chris Evans, the new Top Gear host, to air the two-part Christmas special, showcasing how brilliant the previous version of the programme was.
He told Radio Times: "The BBC may have ruled me out, but I don't rule out the BBC. I was surprised they showed lots of Top Gear compilations over Christmas. I thought, 'Oh, so now they're celebrating us,' but I also thought it's harsh on Chris Evans. Just as he's trying to launch his version of the programme, the BBC is saying, 'Look how brilliant it was before.'"
The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities found in 1975 that the CIA submitted stories to the American press:
Iranian soldiers removed two SIM cards from two handheld satellite phones but otherwise returned all weapons, ammunition and equipment when they released 10 U.S. sailors and their two boats last week, the Pentagon said Monday.
The first public report from U.S. Central Command into the incident provided that and other new details but did not answer the key question of why the U.S. Navy crews deviated from their course in the Persian Gulf and entered Iranian waters.
(* no No NO! they took the SIM cards!
Official Pentagram Souce)
just another way to make the PTB richer and more powerful
The Republican National Committee (RNC) officially voted on Monday afternoon to sever its business relationship with NBC News for the previously-scheduled Feb. 26, 2016, GOP presidential primary debate.
More than once over the past week, Glenn Beck accused Trump of voting for President Obama. Beck made the comments on Fox News's O'Reilly Factor. Last week, Beck also tweeted, accusing Trump of voting for Obama. Beck's tweet read, "Why do you keep saying things like you didn't vote for @BarackObama ?… just admit it @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ZgL9OAOZck"
The link to the image, which ironically no longer exists but can still be seen on Beck's Facebook page, contained an image of Trump's twitter account and a tweet that read, "I always vote for the winners. Congratulations to my friend @BarackObama." The tweet seemed real enough, but there's one big problem. Looking closely at the tweet shows the twitter verified check-mark is missing, as well as the delete button, revealing it is a fake.
"She's not doing the big rallies because she can't get the big crowds," said the Iowa Clinton ally. "Maybe people are too anxious over this, and that anxiety is spilling over into cautiousness and overthinking decisions. Everyone's on edge given how much we've invested in Iowa."
– From the Mashable article: Bernie Sanders is Surging in Iowa and Hillary Clinton's Campaign is Freaked
Hillary Clinton's campaign is absolutely imploding right now. When people get desperate, they do desperate things, and the latest move by the Clinton campaign reeks of putrid, panicked desperation.
What I am referring to are recent accusations that Bernie Sanders has "gone negative" by releasing the following television ad. Let's take a watch:
That this woman will resort to anything to achieve her goals is well known to the people familiar the Clinton's sordid and corrupt history.
And the reality is that she will take money - anyone's money for her campaign - in return for favors to that nation or corporation which have contributed. That has been made very clear throughout the existence of the Clinton Foundation, where the "pay to play" privilege was, and is, clearly on display.
And if you take a look at the clip here, Sanders is very clear, honest, and forthright about what he intends to do to reform the banking industry, none of which bothers me, either in tone or message.
Hillary Clinton is learning that the sting of her husband's decades-old sex scandals still isn't over and that now she is also being called-on to answer for them. -- "She's got one of the great women abusers of all time sitting in her house, waiting for her to come home for dinner," is how Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump describes it.
Bernie Sanders was amped, angry and astringent at Sunday night's Democratic presidential debate. Hillary Clinton did not win the night so much as Sanders, with his red-in-the-face diatribes, lost it.
The WaPo (when they are not pushing for total gun confiscation) is trying to re-write the record of the Democratic Debate.
Op-Ed by Afraa Dagher
In the midst of all the useless, distracting noise generated by the Zionist mainstream media – the sole purpose of which is to hypnotize the masses in such a way that works to Israel's benefit – is the fact that the whole of Syria is under siege and all the Syrian people are starving in some manner. And not just starving for a few days, weeks, or months, but rather for years, since the beginning of the so-called 'Arab Spring' that brought with it Western-created revolutions that have midwifed the diabolical children of destruction, poverty, destitution, violence, terrorism, and civil war...
The two brothers spearheading a campaign against the Oregon militia and occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are far from a mere grassroots organization. Both attorneys, Zachary and Jake Klonoski are two extreme left-wing statists who, not surprisingly, have a long history of being tied up with and working for the government. In addition, both of their parents have a long history of being political operatives for the Democratic party. Their father was a professor and Chairman of the Democratic Party for decades and their mother is a U.S. District Judge appointed by Bill Clinton. Zach works for the Mayor of Portland and Jake is an Army vet who shills for these disastrous undeclared wars, insisting the at the public should be more grateful. Let me introduce you to the Klonoski brothers, who started 'G.O.H.O.M.E. Getting Occupiers of the Historic Oregon Malheur Evicted.'
Israel executes people without trial nearly every day. Any other description is a lie. If there was once discussion here about the death penalty for terrorists, now they are executed even without trial (and without discussion). If once there was debate over the rules of engagement, today it's clear: we shoot to kill – any suspicious Palestinian.
Miscommunication whips up worries about infiltration. Fiore's release said Briels had determined "men posing as 'militia' were the FBI." Briels tells U.S. News he did indeed catch undercover FBI agents in small-town Burns, near where armed protesters are occupying a federal wildlife refuge, but that they were not posing as militia."They weren't posing as anything other than dishonest people," he says. "They were perceived as militia by the locals, but they weren't posing out there with a shirt that said 'I'm militia.'"
Manchurian President, Cult Leader, or bankster puppet?
Fred Hiatt, whose Washington Post editorial page has been beating its drum incessantly for more U.S. intervention in Syria, comes at that same theme from another angle with a signed column that criticizes President Obama's State of the Union address. Hiatt's critique illustrates some recurring and fallacious patterns of thought that arise in debate about U.S. intervention and especially military intervention.
Democracy has been projected on to a fictitious screen of good guy and bad guys. The people watch as impotent spectators, no longer even aware of the real story out there.
Ever since armed white ranchers took over federal property in Oregon the unfolding drama has resembled a parody of a Hollywood Western. Trouble is, no-one is quite sure who's wearing the white hats as opposed to the black ones.
religion and the state reinforce each other
climate science and the state reinforce each other
One of a growing number of rural and big-city law enforcement officials who openly encourages responsible gun ownership, Judd believes guns allow citizens to defend themselves when police cannot.
Even mainstream media outlets have voiced concerns over the appointment. A number of journalists and observers are questioning the potential impartiality of an appointee who has worked so closely with Big Pharma for so many years.
The Guardian newspaper is braced for significant job losses after it burnt through more than £70m in cash last year, according to people familiar with its performance.
As the whodunit mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 nears the 1½-year mark, the Obama administration could open U.S. intelligence files and help bring justice for the 298 people killed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Instead, a separate mystery has emerged: why has the U.S. government clammed up since five days after the tragedy?
Over the following week it turned out that mass assaults of a similar nature had also happened in cities in Scandinavia.
Recently it has become known that similar assaults took place on a mass scale earlier last summer in Sweden, and went unreported.
Want a chuckle over what the pro-President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an Turkish media has been broadcasting to corroborate the Machiavellian heroism of the downing of a Russian jet?
Disabled Navy veteran Raymond Schwab moved to Colorado last year to free himself from addictions that grew out of the pharmaceuticals prescribed by the VA to treat his service-related physical and psychological injuries.
As Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access points out, medical cannabis is an effective treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where other drugs fail. Veterans are successfully treating themselves despite the federal government's prohibition.
Because Schwab is legally using medicinal cannabis in Colorado, officials in prohibitionist Kansas have abducted five of his children, ranging from 5 to 16 years of age.
The ransom demanded by the Kansas "child protection" bureaucracy is a promise that Schwab will refrain from using cannabis, and four months of "clean" urinalysis test results.
This is completely insane, on the part of the Federal government, but demonstrates, once again, that pharmaceutical company profits cannot be allowed to be threatened by effective, natural treatment for PTSD.
An Israeli legal group with intimate ties to the state's intelligence agencies has admitted to faking an ostensibly pro-Palestinian Facebook page and using it to post anti-Semitic statements including "Death to all the Jews."
"ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies. People will tell you in the region that if you want somebody who will fight to the death against Hezbollah, you don't put out a recruiting poster saying 'sign up for us we're gonna make a better world.' You go after zealots and you go after these religious fundamentalists. That's who fights Hezbollah. It's like a Frankenstein."
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Realtor extraordinaire Suzy Trotta sneak peeks Brownlow Lofts. (with photos!)
According to my own information, several units have sold in just the last couple of weeks. Interest seems to be picking up, as the project nears completion.
Hats off to Danny Fielden and the rest of the crew and subcontractors of Cardinal Construction for being such good across the street neighbors during construction. We've enjoyed having your in our neighborhood, and we look forward to folks moving into Brownlow as early as June 1, from what we've heard.
You can see Brownlow Lofts for yourself this Sunday, April 19 during the Fourth and Gill hometour, from 1-6 pm, along with some beautiful Victorian and Craftsman style homes. Tickets are $10. Start at Central United Methodist Church at 201 Third Avenue. Children 12 and under are free.
more here from Matt Edens in MetroPulse.
Must be a heckofa realtor extraordinaire
How does she get $175-200/sq. ft.? If she does, they must not be overpriced. But holy moley! Just sayin'.
compares to downtown lofts @
compares to downtown lofts @ $225-$250 per square foot.
A bit of history on this very important project
There is a history here and history is important. No project better underscores the importance of taking the time to set a solid policy framework and following through than does this one. And no project shows the benefits of aggressive use of the city's power to use Tax Increment Financing than does this one.
This is a solution to a long-standing issue in the community, one that stood without any answer for ten or more years. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that without the policies we have developed that this tremendous improvement to this property would not have ever been possible. We would be looking at a further rotted building that much closer to demolition or fire.
To those who say that "If a project does not work without a TIF it should just not happen," well the public interest in making this happen is absolutely obvious. Previously the taxes were negligible. Needless to say, the only public financial participation in this is about 70% of taxes that the project will bring in upon consummation of the sales. Not only would the 30% we are getting be absent without the TIF, there would have been expenses to government with expensive calls to the property for police and fire services, among others. The streets and roads and utilities are already there.
A key neighborhood is now much better off, and people will find reasonably priced housing in a great area near downtown. Despite criticism of Cardinal and KPH, they completed the project as they committed to doing, and delivered a quality affordable housing alternative in the core of the city.
Note Betty's comment in the thread referenced below, which was accurate, in my opinion, about the hostility felt by the neighborhoods nearby toward attention paid to the area by the city. I think any fair minded person can drive, or better yet, walk or bike in the Broadway Central area and see the difference only a year or two has made. In reading the discussion below just project to where we now are. Policy matters, and application of the policy matters. Thanks to council members Frost and Hultquist for their support of the general policy of one-parcel TIFs for such situations in their districts and for all of council, and commission, as I recall, for support of the specific TIF request.
And preservation of discussion such as this is one of the reasons Knoxviews is a tremendous resource. We can gradually learn as a community what works and does not work and what the arguments surrounding decisions are all about.
From Knoxviews thread on Browlow circa 2006. The whole thread is well worth reading. (link...)
A bit more context
Submitted by Bill Lyons on Sun, 2006/09/24 - 11:39pm.
A few other clarifications and a bit more context might be helpful. First, the time period is crucial. No TIFs of this sort are possible anywhere unless the property is in a redevelopment area. That is why a redevelopment area is necessary for the South Knoxville Waterfront project. When David Dewhirst spoke with us very early on in 2004 we quickly eliminated the TIF as a possibility because Brownlow School was not in a redevelopment area but in an historic neighborhood that was not a candidate for such an area. We were very concerned about the development of Brownlow and aware of the development challenges and did offer to pursue a PILOT tax abatement under the CityLife program. This would have allowed him to also pursue historic tax credits while receiving tax abatements. The rules regarding historic tax credits mandate rental rather ownership for a number of years.
This was about the time that problems emerged with the South High property in south Knoxville. We were approached by many people, including many in South Knoxville as well as Knox Heritage, about any role the city could play. We did find some solutions that would help the proposed development but tax abatement just did not seem to fit the situation and the project went on hold. At that time I began to explore the option embedding a solution to this problem in a larger policy – the redevelopment of historic schools that were no longer in use. In most cases the neighborhoods had a great interest in home ownership but the schools presented tremendous challenges to any potential developer.
The area around South High likewise did not seem to be good for a redevelopment area any more than did that around Brownlow. Our template for redevelopment areas was certainly broader than just one structure. At that time we became convinced that it was in the neighborhood's interest, and certainly in the city's interest, to see if we could pursue one-parcel redevelopment area under a program specifically tailored for helping abandoned historic schools. We checked this with the appropriate lawyers and were told it was indeed acceptable under the applicable state laws and regulations. We envisioned a program geared to restoring historic school buildings – all producing no property taxes at all - for home ownership. While South High was our first concern we also recognized the applicability to Brownlow and perhaps to others. We discussed this concept with council members Frost and Hultquist and both thought it was a very good idea. I communicated this policy to council in early 2005. We received very favorable reaction.
Of course the first step in such a process is for council to request that a redevelopment area allowing TIFs be drawn up for a school property in question. That only allows a TIF. It does not guarantee one at all. A separate application for a TIF must be made, with financials, development plans, etc. and the plan and TIF must be then recommended to council, who must vote to approve the specific TIF. Our main impetus in doing this was to find a solution for South High School, but we were aware that it could be helpful to Brownlow.
We later became aware that the property had changed hands and of community meetings between Cardinal and the 4th and Gill neighborhood folks. We were told of the neighborhood's interest in the development of the school into condominiums rather than rental units. At that time we suggested that it might be a good time to set the wheels in motion to prepare a one parcel redevelopment plan as we had envisioned under the new policy.
At present nothing has been done past the initial request to KCDC. They have not yet prepared the redevelopment plan Hence there is not yet any legal basis for a TIF, has been no application for a TIF, no recommendation to council for a TIF, and certainly no council vote creating one. We do not "offer TIF's" to one party and not to another. We can only explain the tools at the city's disposal, the criteria for assistance, and suggest that folks apply if they think they qualify. We would have loved to have been able to have worked toward a TIF in addition to exploring a PILOT for Brownlow with David Dewhirst but our discussions took place way before the chain of events started in regard to South High that led us to create the policy for historic schools. We would love to see Brownlow School rehabilitated. We also think it was the right thing to do to put a program in place to help rehabilitate old historic schools and to encourage home ownership in the affected neighborhoods.
I am really glad it happened. It would not have happened if a few of our loudmouthed negative neighbors had their way. Thankfully most of us saw what the city was doing with Brownlow and showed up to support them in the first creative thing they have done in a long time. I would like to hear from Betty now that this is almost done. Personally we have gotten more attention from Bill Haslam in our area of town than I ever ever believed would happen. I would never expect any credit to him from McDaniel. And McDaniel, will you please just leave it alone already on Minvilla and that Ray Abbas works for the Salvation Army. The shame of it all. Working to help people in a social service agency.
Getting a little personal?
Getting a little personal in our attacks aren't we Mr. 4th and Gill Neighbor? Mr. McDaniel simply mentioned the near completion of the Brownlow Lofts and you branch off onto defending Mayor Haslam and Ray Abbas as if they were somehow being attacked in the information provided by Rocketsquirrell.
You're a hitting a little below the belt, aren't you?
And, to compare the Minvilla "project" with the Brownlow Lofts is a bit of a stretch, isn't it? The Lofts at Brownlow will be owner occupied and those owners will be subject to property tax. Not so with the Minvilla. I also doubt if there is more than seven million tax payer dollars tied up in the Brownlow Lofts. Correct me if I am wrong?
Sounds as if someone named Betty and Mr. McDaniel are not two of your favorite people....but, clearly, Mayor Haslam and Ray Abbas are. I do agree with you on one point, "THE SHAME OF IT ALL." If Mr. Abbas has a position on the Minvilla or the homeless industry in our community he has yet to state it. If he is elected EXACTLY what does he plan to do about the ever growing problem facing the business community and the neighborhoods in North Knoxville? A fair question for a candidate, don't you agree? And keep in mind, you brought Ray into this discussion not Rocketsquirrell.
Really mindboggling, I guess
The last time I was in Brownlow was ten or eleven years ago, and I'm having trouble imagining those rooms then looking so nice now. And I am psyched to see it finally happening!
Knox 2009
Didn't mean to dis the project. I can't believe downtown prices either, but I thought this market would at least flatten things a bit. There are a lot of free standing homes that have been on the market a long time. That means glut and overpricing. But, again, if lofts sell, that means they're wanted.
It is totally wrong to trash
It is totally wrong to trash Abbas because he works for the Salvation Army. It helps people, period. Your attitude is caustic. I feel sorry for you, but you don't in any way speak for our neighborhood.
McDaniel manages to ruin any
McDaniel manages to ruin any talking we do in 4th and Gill. He damn near ruined the Brownlow project.
Are the units $175 - $250/ sq. ft. or did Ms Trotta get her arithmetic wrong? Because that doesn't fit my definition of affordable. I'm not complaining or anything because there is plenty of affordable housing a few blocks away.
I'm glad to see the project be successful.
"Capitalism will never fail because socialism will always be there to bail it out." --Ralph Nader
I think I answered my own question, he lofts are (relatively) affordable because they are small. I liked that some of the units had doors so you could have outdoor space along with your loft. That is a rare combination.
South facing, too. Good place to soak up the winter rays. Just need some shade trees for summer.
"Capitalism will never fail because socialism will always be there to bail it out." --Ralph Nader
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Spreading Kindness During the Holidays is Spreading
Have you heard the news? Random Acts of Kindness are popping up everywhere! In just the first five days of December, I've heard of many stories of people showing kindness and it's quite inspiring. Let's take a look. Today's #31RAOK: bought lunch for the person in line after me in the dining center. — Kathryn... Read more »
The LMS #31RAOK Big Giveaway!
Giving Tuesday 2013
Are you familiar with Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday began in 2012 as a response to the hyper-consumerism of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday and to encourage a mass movement to put the "giving" back into the holiday season. The idea is to take one day to give to non-profit organizations. I wrote... Read more »
Day 2: 31 Days of Random Acts of Kindess Update & Apology
In my excitement to kick off #31RAOK yesterday, I goofed. I promised that there would be a giveaway on Little Merry Sunshine today and that was a mistake. I apologize for my error. In my excitement to give all of my readers this fantastic gift, I forgot that there were two other days of Random... Read more »
What Are Your Favorite Holiday Songs?
Christmas is my favorite holiday (aside from my birthday, which is June 16, if you want to mark it on your calendar) and I love everything about it. Decorations. Church music. Popular music. Fruit Cake (oh, God, how I love my Nana's Fruit Cake). But the music is the absolute best part of it. If... Read more »
Thanksgiving Week Gratitude List
Over the course of this month, I've noticed that my Facebook wall has been filled with daily expressions of gratitude from my friends and family, sort of Advent Calendar like, but for Thanksgiving. If you're not familiar with this Thanksgiving month tradition on Facebook (I can't believe I'm saying there are "traditions" on Facebook), each... Read more »
WHAT Did You Say? Or My Life Is A Series of Miscommunications
I'm not exactly sure what it is about conversations with my friends and family, but we seem to have quite the history of misunderstanding each other. This goes back at least 31 years to the night my brother asked my dad if he could have herpes as his dessert. Just the other day my coworker... Read more »
ChicagoNow Blogapalooza - My Weighty Challenge
Every now and again ChicagoNow holds Blogapalooza where the community managers invite all the bloggers (that includes ME, ya'll!) to write for one hour about a particular topic. Participation is option, but because I'm new, I've obviously never participated before and I felt like this was a perfect opportunity to do a little community bonding.... Read more »
New Experience #146: Register Someone to Vote
Longtime readers will remember that last week, I became a Deputy Voter Registrar. As I was talking about it around my office, I learned that my cube neighbor, Russ, has never registered to vote and he was interested in doing so. On Monday, we took care of that. Everything went smoothly until the end, when... Read more »
Welcome to Little Merry Sunshine 2.0
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