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Is Donald Trump really the voice of reason the day after the attacks in Brussels? These left-leaning women from The View are besides themselves in having to admit that they agree with The Donald on his foreign policy and ISIS views.
Is Donald Trump really the voice of reason the day after the attacks in Brussels?
These left-leaning women from The View are besides themselves in having to admit that they agree with The Donald... and find him strangely 'reasonable.'
The co-hosts of ABC's "The View" appeared to soften a little on GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday, admitting that his foreign policy positions don't seem all that outrageous in the aftermath of the deadly terror attacks in Brussels.
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MSNBC host Chris Matthews was told to "stop talking" by someone in his earpiece in the middle of an anti-Wall Street rant during his show last night.
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Considering the stylized pictures of the procession and the public relations-esque media response to this event, one cannot help but wonder if this whole highly publicized response is just a way to shine a positive light on the myriad horror stories of rape and sexual assault that continue to spill out of the migrant wave across Europe, an attempt to push a story in the media that for once doesn't feature migrants raping women and children (although it still kinda does).
The media has already been caught time and again attempting to cover up migrant sexual abuse and rape.
I mean, come on. Look at this.
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Something was amiss in Arizona on Tuesday. As Hillary Clinton claimed victory in the state's Democratic primary, thousands of voters were left out to dry, with shuttered polling places, endless lines, and widespread reports of disenfranchisement.
In Maricopa County, which includes the capital Phoenix, voters waited up to five hours to cast a ballot after the County Elections Office slashed the number of polling sites from 200 in 2012 to just 60 this year. As the state's most populous county, this amounted to more than 20,000 voters for every available polling location.
Notably, many Latino areas were left with either just one or no polling places. Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell defended that decision, saying, "we looked at an area, and factored into that how many early ballots we usually get in that area and how many people normally vote at the polls. We didn't look at it as legislative districts. We looked at the overall picture of our voters."
While claiming to have CCTV footage from Tuesday's attacks in Brussels, CNN ran a clip of a chaotic scene of a smoke-filled subway tube with people running for their lives.
Citing the non-existent Twitter handle, @OnlinMagazine as their source, CNN showed a looped video of people frantically attempting to escape a burning subway while Chris Cuomo pretended he was a reporter.
The issue with this looped chaos used by CNN for dramatic effect is that it's not from March 22, 2016, in Brussels — It's from the April 11, 2011, bombing of the Minsk Metro in Belarus.
*hyperlinks live at source*
By guest author, diogenes (bio below).
PART 3.1-3.4: OLIGARCH'S PROGRESS (this article)
The Context of Progressive Origins [3.1]
By Matt Agorist
Tuesday morning, the city of Brussels was shaken by multiple bombing attacks at the airport and later at the metro station right next to the European Union headquarters...
During the massive search and presentation of information, some disinformation made its way out on the airwaves, as well as the interwebs.
While claiming to have CCTV footage from Tuesday's attacks in Brussels, CNN ran a clip of a chaotic scene of a smoke-filled subway tube with people running for their lives ... but there's a problem...
Reputable newspapers try to avoid the self-serving studies that industry groups put out to try to gain public support for their favored policies. But apparently the New York Times (3/17/16) does not feel bound by such standards. It ran a major news story on a study by Citigroup that was designed to scare people about the state of public pensions and encourage them to trust more of their retirement savings to the financial industry.
"VRT news agency apologised on Twitter for the [Brussels] CCTV footage being fake."
"Google's Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund is to contribute to the funding of Providence+, a joint project involving the Flemish public broadcaster VRT...".
I am not going to bother quoting from the article. It's basically a smear job saying that only white unemployed school drop-out morons support Trump.
Louis Wolf is a news correspondent, a writer, and a founder of both the CovertAction Bulletin (later renamed the CovertAction Quarterly), the Rock Creek Free Press and DC911Truth.org. In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall, Wolf discusses the life and career of AE911Truth attorney Bill Schaap, who passed away recently.
Lawrence Davidson examines the decision by the publisher McGraw-Hill to surrender to Zionist lobbyists and destroy the entire inventory of a textbook because it contained a series of four maps showing "Palestinian loss of land from 1946 to 2000".
The BBC has produced an uncritical documentary series on Barak Obama's presidential legacy using cash from the European Commission (EC) as the outgoing president ramps up his anti-Brexit lobbying ahead of a UK visit next month.
The George Soros funded liberal attack group Color of Change has sent over 20,000 emails to CNN calling for the network to terminate Jeff Lord and Andy Dean for positive comments the analysts have made about presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
Media Matters for America is a media watchdog group founded by David Brock and MoveOn consultant Tom Matzzie. It is supported by John Podesta's Center for American Progress (CAP). In addition to supporting the war in Afghanistan, CAP played an instrumental role in the election of Obama. It receives money from George Soros and undisclosed corporate sources. Media Matters specializes in attacking Fox News and routinely attacks Alex Jones.
Has also called for shutting down Republican convention
Britain's state-owned network BBC has a track record of downplaying the risks of fallout from nuclear disasters. So the 5th anniversary of Fukushima provided the BBC with another opportunity to persuade us that if our communities should one day become contaminated with fallout from a major nuclear disaster, even at levels currently requiring evacuation, we should have no concern whatsoever.
"A 7 percentage point gain . . . translates to at least 15 million American adults becoming aware of Building 7 over the past 2½ years." — Ted Walter
More Than Twice As Many Respondents Suspect Controlled Demolition Over Fires As The Cause Of WTC 7's Collapse
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: AE911Truth recently commissioned a survey by the online polling firm YouGov. Ted, can you talk to us about this survey?
Ted Walter: Sure! First of all, prior to this survey, we had done three other surveys with YouGov. The first was a. . .
Learn more >> http://www.ae911truth.org/news/256-news-media-events-yougov-poll-2016....
Impressive but scary technology
The San Bernardino County D.A. participated in a bombshell interview which until this point has remained somewhat obscure. But his facts exonerate those who have been referred to as conspiracy theorists. Mike Ramos, a Republican who has been the D.A. for 14 years, is determined to find out about this alleged third shooter. The radio host asks, "What's the indication that there might be a third shooter involved in the attack?"
An ugly feature of life in modern Washington is that anyone who dares criticize Israel's treatment of the Palestinians can expect to be subjected to nasty accusations of "anti-Semitism" and other attacks that are meant to make the target politically untouchable.
This past Friday, March 18, Laurence Kotlikoff, a Forbes contributor, Professor of Economics at Boston University and bestselling co-author of Get What's Yours: The Secrets To Maxing Out Your Social Security, tweeted the headline of an article he had just posted at Forbes: "JPMorgan Chase – The True Story of America's Most Corrupt Bank." The Tweet linked to a two-page article by Kotlikoff at Forbes, which began with these two paragraphs:
"Between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, we've heard a lot about the corruption on Wall Street. But, if you want to understand exactly what happened and why, read JPMadoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook.
It's not news that many presume MSNBC's top dog Phil Griffin is in a perilous spot. After all, he has passively presided over a period of comparatively dismal ratings for the network and the small moves he has made have consistently seemed to backfire. Maybe most important, it took Comcast hiring back NBC veteran Andrew Lack to oversee NBC News and MSNBC for the cable net to even feel like a serious place for news at all.
Now the New York Post's Claire Atkinson is offering some specific speculation on Griffin's demise. She points to the hiring of Janelle Rodriguez from CNN to oversee MSNBC dayside programming — a position that Atkinson had previously pointed out was Griffin's primary job at this point.
Nobody likes a liar, and the corporate media will not regain their audience and profits until they start remembering their job is to inform and educate the public, not spoon feed us corporate and government propaganda. Edward R. Murrow has been proven right!
With all of the non-stop coverage of the 2016 presidential election, have you noticed as of late that Donald Trump has not said a peep about Ted Cruz not being eligible for the presidency? Earlier this year, Trump questioned whether Cruz was a natural born citizen because he was born in Calgary, Canada (to a U.S. citizen mother). Trump asserted this very question would be caught up in the court system for years. Much editorial space was spent on major newspaper and TV networks discussing this issue. Many legal scholars even agreed that Trump may have a case against Cruz.
This weekend, it occurred to me, this issue has faded from the public eye.
This issue may have faded from the establishment media eye, but over in the Independent media, it is alive and kicking, especially since it has been revealed that Ted Cruz' mother was a Canadian citizen at the time of his birth. Since Canadian law at that time did not recognize dual-citizenship, Ted's mother had to renounce her US citizenship! That means Ted Cruz was born in Canada of two Canadian citizens.
A Washington Post editorial claims that stopping Trump is the only way to "defend our democracy." In other words, those troublesome voters are the problem. A New York Times columnist raised the prospect of assassination. Sure, it was a joke. Make that joke about Obama or Clinton and see who laughs. I would be delighted to support a more conventional candidate who has Trump's courage and appeal, but we don't always get to pick our revolutionaries. And make no mistake, Donald Trump is leading a political revolution that is long overdue.
A group of men who appear to be organizers of today's massive Anti-Donald Trump rally in New York City are thrilled they were captured saying they believed CNN's coverage of the event was "great" because it made the chaotic protest that lead to dozens of clashes with the police out to be "nonviolent."
The audio, captured exclusively by Breitbart News, also shows that the organizers want to give the impression that the video was "nonviolent," despite the fact that they know there was violence at the protest, which they want the media to chalk up to "a few troublemakers."
At one point, the organizers can be heard discussing a video that they say is "amazing" but that they admit they will not be putting out, presumably because it contradicts the nonviolent narrative they wish to promote.
Filmmaker and author William Brandon Shanley has launched several lawsuits totaling over $1 Trillion against Big Media over their "coverage" of the Sandy Hook "Massacre".
In his statement, Shanley says:
"After exhaustive research, the good news is that overwhelming evidence reveals that no children or teachers died at Sandy Hook two years ago. For relief, I have filed lawsuits against the media in US District Court in New Haven for Fraud and Terrorism.
Part of his abundant evidence includes "Exhibit D": The Connecticut State Police dash cams record no evacuation of children from the school at critical moments, which he calls "Smoking Gun evidence no children died at Sandy Hook."
Shanley's Complaint continues:
The attack hit the websites for newspapers Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Industri, Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad and lasted for an hour or longer.
Karin Olsson, Espressen's deputy editor-in-chief, tells Radio Sweden that the daily paper first noticed something was wrong about 8:20 pm.
"The news site was down and we noticed that our competitors Aftonbladet had great problems updating and giving access to its readers," Olsson says.
After an hour, Olsson says the paper was able to "manage" the attack and redirect the incoming traffic that was deliberately targeting the site. Olsson says that Expressen can only speculate why media outlets were singled out.
Shortly before the sites become inaccessible, an anonymous Twitter account alluded to the cyber attack against the media writing that "this is what happens when you spread false propaganda Aftonbladet.se #offline @Aftonbladet".
George Soros has just declared war on America. With the Soros millions behind them, a brand new far Left anarchist group named after the Arab Spring hoax of a few years back, has vowed to set America on fire both figuratively and literally. These are the exact same people that caused mass disruptions at Donald Trump's rally in Chicago last week. They are vowing to not quit until thousands of them are in jail for crimes against the government. Though they don't mention Trump by name, they are obviously aiming to stop his run for the presidency as they just attempted to do in Chicago.
The corporate media report on this incident leaves out the KKK provocation and merely reports that a Trump supporter beat someone up.
Have you noticed? The media has actually created a magical "news bubble" around us like a mythical rainbow unicorn where nothing else is happening in the world besides what would appear to be all-out WORLDWIDE anti-Trump propaganda spewing from every corner and crack of the planet, as if American citizens live in a tiny box where the only news that's happening right now is how evil, horrible, and hated by the Establishment, world leaders, movie stars, etc. Trump is. (Which, by the way, just makes everyone want to vote for him more, so if the plot is to destroy the GOP so Hillary takes it, then bravo, it's working.) The propaganda is so thick, if you watch it too long you might go blind.
Never again will the mainstream media be believed.
Never again will the two parties be believed.
A generation of US citizens will walk around for the rest of their live's knowing they live with a fundamental lie of government representation .
There are no more "conspiracy theorists" because the conspiracy theories have all been made open for all to see. There are no disbelievers left. There is only everyone and those paid or incentivized to spread false disbelief.
I have no idea how it will affect the future but I am certain it will greatly affect it in one or more ways.
The Silicon Valley's technotronic oligarchy have been exposed as a mere extension of the CIA in terms of playing a role in Washington's state policy of regime change in Syria.
This latest email release reveals how then US Secretary of State, and now Democratic presidential favorite Hillary Clinton colluded with executive at Google to launch a digital PR onslaught against the president of Syria, Bashar al Assad.
This is all part of Google's 'color revolution' business, and also part of the Smart Power Complex used to manufacture public consent for 'humanitarian interventions' globally.
Not quite the warm fuzzy image of Google we were fed in the movie "The Interns", is it?
Anti-Trump ad spending accounted for only one in six Republican ad spending dollars in the week before and after Trump won the New Hampshire primary. But in just the first three days of this week, anti-Trump forces have doled out a whopping $7.6 million – making up two in every three GOP ad dollars spent. This means anti-Trump advertising increased 900 percent between the first two weeks in February and the days before the crucial March 15 contests in Florida and Ohio.
Trump's mentor was Roy Cohn, who reportedly ran child abuse rings for the CIA.
Webmaster addition: This illustrates how desperate the anti-Trump people are getting. Next they will claim Trump shot Kennedy!
Trump's Art of Fascism: How to Pose as a Radically Anti-Establishment Demagogue in the Eyes of the Voters, While Never Making Any Serious Attacks on the Actual U.S. Power Structure of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve
This film documents how Hollywood distorted the image of Arabs for propaganda purposes. The excellent movie has been shown all over the world to standing ovations and positive press, but not in the USA!
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is firing back after conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks called for the GOP to reject Trump.
"While I have never met @nytdavidbrooks of the NY Times, I consider him one of the dumbest of all pundits- he has no sense of the real world!" Trump tweeted early Saturday morning.
Good for Trump. The establishment media "elites" need a good dose of humble.
Everybody's got something to say about Jeffrey Goldberg's extensive article at The Atlantic, The Obama Doctrine. Since it was published last week, reviews have been more prolific than dandelions. It's got a theme running through it; militarily, has the U.S. lost its deterrence credibility because of Barack Obama? And the article opens, closes, centers on, and drives home Obama's failure to bomb Syria in August 2013 after Bashar al-Assad allegedly crossed Obama's previously-stated red line.
Goldberg gnashes on this idea over and over in the interview. He's not reporting the story, he's driving it — for the neocons.
Closer examination of the video reveals that the elderly, pony-tailed man appears not to have punched the young black man in the face, at all. Rather, he struck him intentionally only with his forearm in the upper part of the body near the younger man's face. It looks like a glancing blow administered for maximum show but to little effect, sort of like what we see in professional wrestling matches. In a related article The Post reveals that the older man, John McGraw, an Air Force veteran, has been a "cowboy action" reenactor. A 2009 article from the mountain town of Hendersonville, NC, about McGraw is still more revealing. We learn that he is an Air Force veteran, that he had been a serious boxer in his youth, that he has deep and old ties to Las Vegas, where he was a friend of Sammy Davis, Jr., among a number of celebrities, and that at the time of the article he was still working as a sham gunfighter in wild west reenactments.
"If you tried to create the ideal moderate Supreme Court nominee in a laboratory, it would be hard to do better than Judge Merrick Garland," declared the New York Times editorial board (3/16/16), describing Barack Obama's nominee as "a deeply respected federal appellate judge with an outstanding intellect, an impeccable legal record and the personal admiration of Republicans and Democrats."
"Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews--and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering. Because...we have seen...the greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the [line]."
--Marlon Brando on Larry King Live
Megyn Kelly has broadened her war on Trump.
Now, she's not just dedicating her program to Trump-bashers but she's openly attacking Donald Trump supporters.
As the aggressive behavior of his supporters becomes as much of a story as the violence implied in his politics, Donald Trump is bringing together folks who agree on little else to denounce him. It's true Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have policies in some ways even more regressive than Trump's, but then neither of them is openly pining for the days when protesters were carried off on stretchers.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
- Joseph Stalin
Danny Williams has long claimed to be the illegitimate son of Bill Clinton, and now the 27-year-old black man from Arkansas is putting new pressure on the former President and his presidential-hopeful wife.
9/11 Free Fall Radio: Marti Hopper, PhD, Clinical Psychologist
Tonight at 10PM EST/7PM PST: In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall, host Andy Steele and guest Marti Hopper, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology, discuss the resistance some people have to the evidence for controlled demolition seen on 9/11. They suggest points that 9/11 Truth advocates can make that may persuade fellow citizens to listen to the scientific evidence, to do their own research, and to support a new investigation of the World Trade Center destruction.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush surprised most pundits by bowing out of the 2016 Presidential race fairly early.
There is an old axiom in marketing: Good advertising makes a bad product fail faster.
If you doubt that, may I submit Exhibit A: The 2016 campaign for the Republican nomination for President of Jeb Bush. It now joins the likes of the Ford Edsel and Coca-Cola's "New Coke" as a bona-fide marketing flop of an enormous magnitude.
In each case, be it Edsel, New Coke or Jeb!, logic dictated a winner. Research for all three concluded a marketplace that was theirs for the taking.
All three were rooted in strong family brand equity and even carried the brand name forward.
Snyder told the panel at a contentious hearing that the state Department of Environmental Quality repeatedly gave him assurances that the water being piped in from the Flint River was safe -- when in fact it had dangerous levels of lead.
But Cummings said the governor should have done more to push back against state experts. He says the committee has documents "showing that people all around the governor were sounding the alarms, but he either ignored them or didn't hear them."
The chairman of the oversight panel, Republican Jason Chaffetz of Utah, says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also deserves blame. He told EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, "You failed."
He also took issue with McCarthy's comment that it was "courageous" for the EPA's Midwest regional chief to resign as the crisis got worse.>>>
Fairfax staff striking in solidarity with colleagues in protest at plans to cut 120 editorial jobs have said it is time to take a stand.
Russia says it is "surprised" by a US court ruling against Iran over the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
"I am lawfully surprised: what did the Americans do in Afghanistan for 15 years, if Iran is to blame for everything?" Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday.
Last week, a New York court ordered Iran to pay $7.5 billion in damage to families of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and $3 billion to a group of insurers over related claims.
The court issued the ruling after it said Iran had failed to defend itself against allegations of involvement in the attacks.
Notice the return to Code Napoleon; you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent! That is not how things are done in America!
Top-flight US online publishers are serving up adverts that attempt to install ransomware and other malware on victims' PCs.
Websites visited by millions of people daily – msn.com, nytimes.com, aol.com, nfl.com, theweathernetwork.com, thehill.com, zerohedge.com and more – are accidentally pushing out booby-trapped adverts via ad networks, warn infosec researchers.
And this right after the UK Culture Minister advocated government ban ad-blockers!
And once again, the not-as-mighty-as-they-like-to-pretend NSA, always eager to viol;ate the 4th Amendment and spy on law abiding citizens, is proving to be very "limp" when it comes to real computer criminals.
And once again, the not-as-mighty-as-they-like-to-pretend NSA, always eager to viol;ate the 4th Amendment and spy on law abiding citizens, is proving to be very "limp" when it comes to real computer criminals.
One day last June, MSNBC's Chris Matthews opened his show with some news: His wife, Kathleen Matthews, a former local news anchor and Marriott hotel executive, had announced a run for Congress, seeking to replace Chris Van Hollen in Maryland's 8th District. Matthews enthusiastically endorsed his wife's candidacy, and vowed to "offer Kathleen whatever help I can."
The longtime host of Hardball added: "As a journalist, I also know how important it is to respect certain boundaries on my support for her both in my public role and here on MSNBC. And while most of you know that our show doesn't typically cover congressional races, I will continue to fully disclose my relationship with her as part of MSNBC's commitment to being transparent and fair in our coverage."
Since the episode at Donald Trump's rally in Chicago, we have heard statements from a rather flaccid and pathetic mainstream media that Donald Trump is "dividing the country, creating racial divisions" and "inciting people to violence."
Donald Trump winning the US presidency is considered one of the top 10 risks facing the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The research firm warns he could disrupt the global economy and heighten political and security risks in the US.
The money-junkies are running scared. Trump won't go along with the agenda of continued debt-slavery of the people.
snip: "The whole world is against us," is quite a common justification in Israel itself, of the international reaction to Israel's Apartheid practices. With time, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and feeds on past notions that are no longer applicable. No matter how many companies divest from Israel – the latest being the world's largest security corporation G4S – and, no matter how many universities and churches vote to boycott Israel, Israeli society remains entrenched behind the slogan and its disconcerting sense of victimization.
Many Israelis believe that their country is a 'villa in a jungle' – a notion that is constantly enforced by top Israeli leaders. Right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is purposely advancing the crippling fear in his own society. Unable to see the unmistakable crimes he has carried out against Palestinians for years, he continues to perpetuate the idea of the purity of Israel and the wickedness of everyone else.
Trump segment at 15 min in -- but do yourself a favor and rewind (rewind?!) to the beginning: the whole video is excellent. Well done Deek!
Fox News announced Wednesday that the network has canceled the Republican presidential primary debate scheduled for Monday in Salt Lake City, after first Donald Trump and then John Kasich said they would not attend.
Why should Donald show up? Every debate has been a "Get Donald" hate-fest. He's winning. He doesn't need to make himself a target any more.
The recent elections to parliaments of three lands in Germany were dubbed as the turning point in the political life of the country. German voters have expressed distrust to political old-timers - the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats - the CDU and the SPD. A young party of eurosceptics - Alternative for Germany (AfD) is coming to replace them. The party advocates Germany's friendship with Russia.
The new definition of Hitler: Anyone who refuses to go along with the status quo!
If CBS has its way, and gets its price, there could be some big changes coming to local radio.
Variety reports that the media company is looking to sell or spin off some or all of its 117 stations, and that could mean changes at KYW 1060 Newsradio, sports talk's 610WIP (94.1 FM), Oldies 98 (WOGL 98.1), WPHT 1210 talk radio, WZMP AMP96.5 contemporary hits, and WXTU country 92.5.
That's a lot of prominent stations in a lot of different formats.
"If those radio stations cannot control the public's mind, they are of no use to us any more!" -- Money Junkies
Now you see it, now you don't
Super Tuesday 3: Marco Rubio drops out; Trump, Clinton win Florida
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has won the GOP presidential primary in his home state, according to a CNN projection
Rubio is dropping out of the presidential race after losing the Florida primary to Donald Trump and failing to unite the Republican establishment against the billionaire front-runner.
"America is in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami and we should have seen this coming," Rubio said
Hillary Clinton has won the North Carolina and Florida
Donald Trump will probably clinch the GOP presidential primary nomination with wins in Florida, Illinois, and maybe even Ohio on Tuesday.
But that's where the good news for Mr. Trump ends, because he's about to find out that what's worked for him in the early stages of his campaign and through the primary elections won't carry over to a general election contest. And that's especially true with Hillary Clinton being the likely Democratic presidential nominee.
The establishment has been singing requiems and writing obituaries for Donald Trump since day one, but Trump keeps rising from the media-created ashes like a phoenix, because We The People are fed up with the establishment ... which includes Hillary Clinton!
As of Friday March 4th, democracy ended in Turkey, but you'd hardly have known it by reading the international 'news' at the major (and at most of the minor) U.S.-based 'news' sites, as of around 4PM Eastern time in the U.S., nearly a day after the event. Nor has it been announced even now, ten days after that historic event occurred.
Last month Cuban baseball stars and brothers Lourdes and Yulieski Gourriel left the national team in the Dominican Republic in order to pursue careers in Major League Baseball. It was reported widely from the official Communist Party newspaper Granma to regional and national news outlets. The coverage certainly represents a change from some years ago, when the issue would have been considered taboo, but was unremarkable considering the progression of Cuban society and media since then.
The scrapped Top Gear Cenotaph stunt reportedly cost licence fee payers a huge £100,000.
Host Matt LeBlanc was seen driving around Westminster as shooting took place for the new series of the BBC Two show, which is due to air in May.
Pictures showing the car and large tyre circles left on streets near the war memorial in Whitehall were criticised as "gravely disrespectful" by retired Colonel Richard Kemp.
Filming for the day - which required some roads be closed - is believed to have cost around £100,000.
Meanwhile, bosses have confirmed they will not be airing footage of the stunts filmed near the Cenotaph in London following a fierce backlash.
(INTELLIHUB) — Thousands of radical leftist protesters descended on downtown Chicago Friday in what many mainstream news outlets originally called a grassroots reaction to the "hate and terror" of the Donald Trump campaign.
NATO Supreme Allied Commander Philip Breedlove recently took US hawks' campaign of Russia-baiting up a notch, suggesting Russia and Syria have 'deliberately weaponized' refugees to 'break European resolve'. The remarks, and the mainstream media's ability to convey them with a straight face, are an indication of a broken system, experts suggest.
Last month, the Free Thought Project reported on the above the law tax haven established inside the United States by the Rothschilds. Before that, Baron David de Rothschild was indicted by the French government after he was accused of fraud in a scheme that allegedly embezzled large sums of money from British pensioners. Earlier this month, the French government announced that it has launched an investigation into the entire Swiss branch of the Rothschild's banking empire. The world is waking up to the fact that these very powerful families operate in a legal class far separated from the one we find ourselves subject to.
Comedian George Lopez posted a disparaging and vulgar caption along with a video of a startled Donald Trump grabbing the arm of his Secret Servie agent today. The attacker himself re-posted Lopez remarks on twitter.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post is under fire after one of its front page "poor shaming" stories about a homeless woman led to the destruction of her property by city thugs Wednesday.
Iran test-launched two ballistic missiles Wednesday emblazoned with the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" in Hebrew, Iranian media reported, in a show of power by the Shiite nation as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visited Jerusalem.
Although this artcicle claims Iranian media reported on the missile graffiti, no specific media outlet is named. And one has to wonder why such a provocative message would be allowed on a test missile, or why the Iranian media report it, knowing it plays into the US and Israeli propaganda effort.
In any event, below is the highest resolution image I could find of the test, and no signs of any such message are visible.
This is just another lie to start a war!
In any event, below is the highest resolution image I could find of the test, and no signs of any such message are visible.
Despite saying last June that he would be 'transparent and fair in our coverage' when his wife announced she was running as a Democrat for the open seat in Maryland's 8th District, it seems MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews has gone back on his word.
Guests on his long-running cable-news show - mainly current and former prominent politicians - have contributed at least $79,050 to Kathleen Matthews's campaign - and her husband hasn't uttered a word about the money.
How Bernie Sanders Supporters Shut Down Donald Trump's Rally in Chicago
(*They Used Violence ! And every single candidate in the race , along with the media , blamed Donald Trump At the same time practically giving Kudos To Sanders , who's nowhere denying that he's the instigator , or at least a willingness to be a distraction for the real instigatress .)
"Hillary Clinton proudly lists Mayor Rahm Emanuel as one of her leading mayoral endorsers," Mr. Sanders said. "Well let me be as clear as I can be: based on his disastrous record as mayor of the city of Chicago, I do not want Mayor Emanuel's endorsement if I win the Democratic nomination."
Mr. Sanders went on to say that Mr. Emanuel was not the type of leader that he would want to be connected with because the mayor has closed schools and fired teachers while keeping close ties with Wall Street banks. Mr. Sanders also criticized the city for paying banks that "lured the school system into a risky investment in an exotic debt-financing scheme."
The darkening of Turkey's fragile democracy is a growing cause for alarm, not only for Turks but for the world at large. In a region already overwhelmed by bouts of anarchy, the unrelenting march by Turkey's authoritarian president toward one-man rule looms as a mortal threat.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is gradually destroying what remains of a free and independent press in Turkey. What is alarming about this is that his country, positioned crucially at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, sharing borders with Iran, Iraq and Syria, was once regarded as the region's model Muslim democracy
(*Grandstanding For 'The Semblance' Of A Much Needed Positive Headline !)
Megyn Kelly Defends Trump Against Protesters: You Can Oppose Him, But 'Is This the Way?'
Tonight on The Kelly File, Megyn Kelly took protesters who shut down a Donald Trump rally in Chicago to task, using a similar talking point to that of colleague Bill O'Reilly.
Invoking the First Amendment, she shared her belief that Trump's rights had been taken from him. She also said that people who came to hear him speak had their rights taken, too.
Check out the pic of Trump and the other 3 candidates....eerie!
The four remaining Republican presidential candidates clamored during their latest debate to be considered most likely to begin another massive ground war in the Middle East, this time in pursuit of an end to jihadist group Islamic State.
Meanwhile, the comments section on this Reddit post in the Relationships section where the supposedly "rational" people are talking about those crazy "conspiracy theorists" is worse than the original post itself.
They keep mentioning JFK, which is the first time the phrase "conspiracy theorist" was weaponized by the CIA as a way to attack anyone who challenged the official government narrative. That's not a "conspiracy," here's the declassified CIA memo to prove it.
Guess what the Select Committee on Assassinations ultimately ruled JFK's death was back in 1979?
That's right.
A "conspiracy".
You don't say…
NOBODY! That's right, nobody!
Bad blood between Cruz and Bush go back to when they were on opposite sides of a bitter lawsuit. Bush wanted to spare the life of an illegal alien rapist. Cruz wanted him executed, and Cruz won at the Supreme Court. Texas gave the guy the needle and GWB was still mad. Bush's words about Cruz? "I just don't like the guy."
The decision not to throw his weight behind any single candidate comes a week after 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney – who attacked frontrunning contender Donald Trump – also declined to endorse any single Trump opponent.
(*Neil must really be The Black[est] Sheep of the family !)
A court ruling, on March 10th, in a Southern District of New York (Manhattan) lawsuit, raises serious question as to whether Preet Bharara, U.S. President Barack Obama's Prosecutor for Wall Street crimes, is a glory-hound fake, who cares little or nothing about destroying Wall Street's innocent relative small fry, in order to provide to the public the false impression that the Obama Administration is pursuing criminality by the really big fish in Wall Street's authentic mega-firms. (TRAC Reports, the service that tracks federal prosecutions, reported in 2015, "Federal White Collar Prosecutions at 20-Year Low" and that this was especially so for "Bank Fraud.")
This is not a rhetorical question.
In (*Wednesday) night's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton was asked about how Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the Americans who was killed in the Benghazi attacks, accused Clinton of lying to her at her son's funeral.
Without skipping a beat, Clinton answered: "She's wrong, she's absolutely wrong."
Now, I have to ask: Why would Smith say it if it weren't true?
This is not a rhetorical question. I really am asking! I'm a pretty doggone creative person, but no matter how hard I try, I just cannot seem to think of a single reason why Smith would lie about this.
One or more FBI agents from a special "elite national unit" are suspected of lying about shots that were in fact fired at Oregon Occupier, rancher and family man LaVoy Finicum while he and others were en route to meet with the Sheriff of a neighboring county on Jan. 26, and are currently being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice.
A US judge ordered Iran to pay over $10 billion in damages to families of victims who died on September 11, 2001 – even though there is no evidence of Tehran's direct connection to the attack. The same judge earlier cleared Saudi Arabia from culpability.
The default judgement was issued by US District Judge George Daniels in New York on Wednesday. Under the ruling, Tehran was ordered to pay $7.5 billion to 9/11 victims' families, including $2 million to each victim's estate for pain and suffering, and another $6.88 million in punitive damages. Insurers who paid for property damage and claimed their businesses were interrupted were awarded an additional $3 billion in the ruling.
The ongoing US assassination program just completed one of its most deadly strikes on record in the country of Somalia, killing an estimated 150 people. Rest assured though, the US government said that all the victims were "militants". The US government also stated that the airstrikes were in self-defense, so you know, no big deal.
Questions linger about LePage's endorsement of Trump
Some see the influence of New Jersey Gov. Christ Christie in the Maine governor's about-face.
At a private meeting of Republican governors in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, LePage urged his fellow chief executives to disavow Trump, according to a story published Saturday in the New York Times. LePage urged his fellow governors to distance themselves from Trump by penning an open letter "to the people," the Times reported, but the letter was never written.
Six days after the governors' meeting, LePage endorsed Trump>>>
(*submitted for those suspecting VOTE FRAUD up they-ah in Maine !)
Mankind is no longer leaving it up to just praying for rain – technology now determines the weather.
El Niño has brought some much needed rain to California in recent months, but a Los Angeles storm earlier this week may owe some credit to unnatural modifications.
For the first time since 2002, the Department of Public Works has turned to cloud seeding, using generators to shoot silver iodide into the clouds to produce more rain.
El Niño has brought some much needed rain to California in recent months, but a Los Angeles storm earlier this week may owe some credit to unnatural modifications.
For the first time since 2002, the Department of Public Works has turned to cloud seeding, using generators to shoot silver iodide into the clouds to produce more rain.
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, is it fair to play the full Nazi card against him? David Brooks--the fellow who was so impressed by the crease in Obama's pants--apparently thinks so.
On today's Meet the Press, commenting on images of Trump supporters at a rally responding to his request to raise their right hands to pledge to vote for him, Brooks said "if we're going to get Trump, we might as well get the Nuremberg rallies to go with it." Have a look at the photos below and compare the Trump rally to a real Nuremberg rally. Really, Chuck and Dave?
Mainstream media in the UK is exacerbating Islamophobia by referring to politically motivated murders perpetrated by Muslims as "terror" attacks, while branding similar crimes by white supremacists "racially motivated," a new study argues.
During a Town Hall style meeting, hosted by Fox News' Megyn Kelly, Rep. Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz spewed a non-stop stream of Establishment propaganda from his mouth like vomit.
Here's a plea to #NeverTrump voters in Florida and Ohio considering voting for Ted Cruz: Don't do it.
For the past several weeks, the Republican establishment has frantically been looking for someone, anyone, who can stop Donald Trump. And of all the GOP contenders, Cruz has demonstrated that he might — just might — be that person. After all, while Donald Trump has won 15 contests and has 458 delegates, Cruz isn't that far behind, with seven wins and 359 delegates. Marco Rubio has won a measly two. John Kasich is 0-for-24.
But here's the thing: Cruz's success has not inspired a single person who has actually worked with him to join his cause.>>>
Beware, Americans! Wall Street is desperately trying to rig the oil and gasoline markets again.
I've been following this scheme for nearly 10 years as speculators, led by the Goldman Sachs gang, tried to convince people that the world is running short of oil and that the price would soon go to $200 a barrel. That would have meant more than $5 for a gallon of gas.
The scam artists even had a fancy name for it: peak oil, a phrase coined by a Shell Oil employee decades before and laid to rest until Wall Street latched onto it.
And just about everyone in the media bought into this cockamamy idea>>>
The billionaire businessman called his campaign a movement "of competence and common sense and low taxes and [secure] borders and it would be so foolish to give it away."
Trump was referring to a conference held by the conservative American Enterprise Institute at Sea Island off the coast of Georgia over the weekend, where one of the topics reportedly was stopping Trump from securing the Republican nomination.
"I know all these people," Trump told Hannity. "These are people that are taking advantage of our country. They don't want to have strong borders. They want stuff flowing across the borders. They don't want to have taxation when countries treat us unfairly because they benefit from that."
"Politicians will do what's right for the people that gave them the money," Trump added later, "not what's right for the country."
Just two weeks ago, there were calls for Cruz to fall in behind Rubio for a unity ticket. Now, it seems very clear that unity will work in the other directions and that if the Republicans have a chance to stop Trump from taking over their party it will be Cruz at the top and Rubio as the junior partner.
The sincerity of Rubio's attacks on Trump as a "con man" who is unfit for the presidency will be revealed by whether he not only drops out, but if he enthusiastically campaigns for Cruz in Florida for the next five days.
(*Rubio has what it takes to come up behind Cruz , and Enthusiastically Start Pumping !
Up His Rhetoric )
Ted Cruz's Senate Colleagues Still Steer Clear of Him
Texan's wins in Republican presidential primaries don't lead to endorsements in chamber
WASHINGTON—The Senate's long-lasting affection for its own members may have reached its limit with the presidential campaign of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
Republican senators contemplating a likely choice between business mogul Donald Trump or the conservative, uncompromising Mr. Cruz aren't ready to coalesce around either as their presidential nominee—despite the fact that the Texas senator is one of their own.
"I'd rather have Marco Rubio," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch>>>
Fox Business Reports Rubio Will Drop Out Before Florida If Polls Don't Improve
Citing top Marco Rubio donors, Fox Business reported Wednesday that the Republican candidate will drop out of the presidential race before the crucial Florida primary if his poll numbers don't increase in that state.
"They're saying barring some better polling… he will likely suspend before Florida. That's what his money-men here in New York City are telling me," host Charles Gasparino reported.
"The feeling is despair," he said bluntly.>>>
US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she was "deeply concerned" by reports that Iran had tested multiple ballistic missiles and said the country should face sanctions for its actions.
"This demonstrates once again why we need to address Iran's destabilizing activities across the region, while vigorously enforcing the nuclear deal," Clinton said in a statement.
"Iran should face sanctions for these activities and the international community must demonstrate that Iran's threats toward Israel will not be tolerated,"
Political and economic elites' success in manufacturing mass ignorance represents the largest impediment to democratic empowerment today. Stoking fear of and contempt for the "other" – including minorities and the poor, is a common tactic employed in election to gain voter support. So is the stoking of hubris – as seen in the demonization of the poor, and in the rhetorical glorification of those "who work" against those (allegedly) "who don't." Unfortunately, countless Americans fall victim to divide and conquer techniques employed by elites. The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office.
The GOP is conspiring against it's own political process here. Openly.
In doing so, the average Joe's conservative "leaders" are blatantly conspiring against him and the American people's votes, against their wishes about who the Republican nominee should be, against who they want to vote for as president. The elite GOP is thus conspiring against the American plebs, and they're doing it with the elite heads of tech companies and the mainstream press.
Just think about that for a second.
That's where we're at America.
Fox News host Megyn Kelly gave Donald Trump some rare praise during Tuesday night's election coverage, saying that part of the GOP frontrunner's appeal was that his speeches are a "breath of fresh air."
The corporate MSM pundits are ignoring the YUUGE upset yesterday in Michigan. Bernie Sanders pulled off an epic upset and it barely gets a mention by the in-the-bag-for-Clinton corporate media. If you ever needed more proof that polls conducted by these morons are as worthless as an Obama promise, see the polls below regarding Michigan. Clinton can't beat a died in red socialist when she has more money than the Vatican supporting her.
In a general election between Clinton and Trump, many disaffected, poor, jobless, and even union workers will vote for Trump. His anti-immigration and anti-NAFTA, anti-TPP stances will resonate with these people. Clinton is the establishment candidate.
Establishment gonna faw down go BOOM!
Political and economic elites' success in manufacturing mass ignorance represents the largest impediment to democratic empowerment today. Stoking fear of and contempt for the "other" – including minorities and the poor, is a common tactic employed in election to gain voter support. So is the stoking of hubris – as seen in the demonization of the poor, and in the rhetorical glorification of those "who work" against those (allegedly) "who don't."
Media and government officials keep telling us the economy looks great, but a peek behind the curtain tells a different story.
Morgan Freeman, the famed actor who most people would want to narrate their lives, had some surprising commentary regarding the cable news media's coverage of the Baltimore uprising.
Republicans who don't support Donald Trump are more likely to prefer either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio should the race go to a one-on-one contest, or would even favor a contested convention rather than have Trump take the nomination, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll reveals.
The headline is misleading. Note that the poll was taken among Republicans who do not support Trump. Given yesterday's results, (despite Cruz being caught cheating again here in Hawaii) it is clear that this is already a one on one race between Donald Trump and Ted "Born in Canada" Cruz. And Trump is winning.
Trump isn't Adolf Hitler… Hitler was not a two-bit charlatan with an arrestable-offence spray tan. He had unshakable beliefs
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to complete the security barrier in the area of Jerusalem in the aftermath of the three terror attacks Tuesday, in which an American graduate student was killed and 15 people were injured.
The attacks occurred around the time that US Vice President Joe Biden landed in Israel for a two-day visit.
(*You know , the same way Syria used sarin gas , on it's own citizens , August 21, 2013 , the same time The UN went to inspect )
The debauched Saudi royals, the same lazy criminals who die from obesity and self-inflicted diabetes whilst they are starving and bombing Yemen, the same people who poured billions upon billions of dollars to kill Syrians in an attempt to create an Islamic state in lieu of its secular government, that scourge of a family that rules with an iron fist wreaking havoc and creating wars between Arabs and Muslims and never once fired a single bullet at Israel, they actually had the audacity to call the shots and had Hezbollah declared as a terrorist organization. Strange days indeed.
*hyperlinks/videos live at source*
Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change's insightful 11-minute video with former US Marine Ken O'Keefe:
Among hundreds in alternative media, I document illegal US/UK/Israel lie-started and illegal Wars of Aggression that continue hundreds of years of psychopathic would-be empires, now focused on Syria with documented use of nuclear weapons by imperial forces (1-minute video):
We've documented and proven that US "officials" outrageously lie to demonize Russia (and here) acting at the request of Syria's government for military operations within their own borders against rogue terrorists. These terrorists apparently are agents of the US/UK/Israel illegal Wars of Aggression for empire (also here, here, here).
As for Hillary being elected, nothing in my view could be a greater disaster. She has a murderous record, and I doubt she has told the truth twice in her entire life
The 60-second spot, titled "Corrupt Marco," asserts Rubio has "spent years defrauding the people of Florida," and recounts his using a Republican Party credit card to buy personal goods and services and for flights he double-billed to taxpayers and the party. It also dings him for his dismal Senate voting record.
"Another corrupt, all-talk, no-action politician," a narrator says in the ad.
Trump said in a statement that he believes Rubio is "lightweight" and "dishonest."
"In my opinion, he is a total crook and I am doing the people of Florida a great favor by further exposing him," he said.
(*Honestly , I share the opinion .)
Reuters hit piece on Diplomat's complaints about Trump was pure garbage.
Telling the truth, of course, must lead to publishing the truth.
And then follow-up investigations would be done to flesh out the story further; to prompt people with inside knowledge to emerge from their closets and confess their complicity.
The Oregon State Trooper who shot and killed Robert 'LaVoy' Fincium, one of the leaders of the armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife National Refuge, were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Recently, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a press conference with about 150 journalists from around the world, including representatives of the western media.
Mister Lavrov was brief and concise; however, the question period lasted for some two hours. A breadth of topics was discussed, including the re-convening of the Syrian peace talks in Geneva, diplomatic relations in Georgia and, tellingly, the increasingly fragile relations with the US. This has not been reported on in Western media.
This followed close on the heels of reports (again, not to be found in Western media) that the US has quadrupled its budget for the re-armament of NATO in Europe (from $750 million to $3 billion), most of which is to be applied along the Russian border. The decision was explained as being necessary "to combat and prevent Russian aggression."
Turkish authorities have seized control of the Cihan news agency, according to a statement from Cihan, widening the crackdown against supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, an influential foe of President Tayyip Erdogan.
Cihan said on its website late on Monday an Istanbul court would appoint an administrator to run the agency on a request from a state prosecutor, days after authorities seized control of the leading Gulen-linked newspaper, Zaman.
(*"F" The Party !)
(*I'm a Donald Trump Supporter and I Approve his use of necessary profanity
http://ktla.com/2016/03/07/anti-trump-ad-makes-an-issue-of-his-use-of-... )
That provision, which is state law, could come into play this year as opponents of GOP front-runner Donald Trump attempt to block his path to the nomination.
All of a sudden, straight out of nowhere, Ukraine creeps back into the news.
There is renewed fighting in the rebellious eastern regions. There is political warfare in Kiev. There is paralysis in the upper reaches. There is some new formation called the Revolutionary Right Forces occupying the Maidan—the very same Independence Square where, two years ago this past Sunday, months of protests tipped into violence and an elected president was ousted.
>>>President Ronald Reagan's famous political advice appears lost among the White House candidates who embrace him as a guiding light.
It's known as the 11th Commandment: Thou shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
The 40th president didn't author the advice about restraint on the campaign trail, and he didn't always follow it to the word, but he recognized the GOP needed to avoid infighting that could lead to a splintered party and a November defeat.
A former California Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, coined the phrase in the mid-1960s to tamp down bickering between political factions in Reagan's first run for governor. A similar split between conservatives and moderates contributed to Barry Goldwater's defeat in the 1964 presidential election.>>
A CNN commentator claimed Saturday that Donald Trump will put people in camps and do away with the writ of habeas corpus if he is elected President.
Daily Beast columnist Sally Kohn was taking part in a CNN panel, and when asked what her final thoughts were, she blurted out that Trump would become a rabid dictator.
"And that's OUR job!"
After Sunday's Democratic debate, NBC News reporter Kristen Welker tipped Hillary Clinton's communications director Jen Palmieri off to questions before conducting an interview in the spin room.
Prize-winning New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer made headlines recently when she released a new book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, that revealed how the father of the Koch brothers once helped build a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was a pet project of Adolph Hitler. Overall, the book tells the tale of a small number of ultrarich donors—including Richard Mellon Scaife and Harry and Lynde Bradley—who did much to create the modern conservative moment, with a strong emphasis on billionaires Charles and David Koch.
Right after the Feb. 25 Republican debate, front-runner Donald Trump was interviewed at length on the debate stage by CNN's Chris Cuomo. The move seemed a bit odd, since during the debate Trump dominated the speaking time compared to the other candidates. And now he was given even more time, immediately after the showdown, to address the CNN audience. (Sen. Ted Cruz was later interviewed, but Trump's immediate interview seemed like an attachment to the actual debate.)
A massive wave of government propaganda is coming and the method of transmission will be Hollywood. Hollywood is one of the most important brainwashing tools to keep the masses ignorant of reality and government corruption. And as we've seen in the past, it is designed to reinforce numerous government lies the masses are supposed to believe. Whenever Hollywood releases a film endorsing a government narrative it usually represents the final phase of a false flag, staged event narrative being sold.
Remember what former CIA director William Casey said. Until EVERYTHING that everyone believes is a lie, the control system feels they are not done lying to you yet.
When these films have been made (meaning that the money necessary to make them has already been spent), and the films are premiering, please take a moment to write to the heads of studios which have produced this drivel, and let them know, in no uncertain terms, that you will never, ever watch these movies, not even when they start appearing on cable TV, because you hate to be lied to, under the guise of "artistic liberty", because this is govenment propaganda, pure and simple.
Then, please encourage your friends to do the same.
It will be a lesson learned by studio executives; no one, in the food chain in Hollywood, wants to be associated with a turkey which lost money big-time, which is precisely what these films deserve to do.
Reading this title, you may be thinking that this a joke, and I really just despise Donald Trump. Although I truly despise the man, the comparison to Adolf Hitler is quite serious, and terrifying to think about. So you might be asking, what could have Trump possibly done to be compared to one of the most evil men in history?
It is a joke. The author just don't see it.
"There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an 'Independent Press'! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~John Swinton (1829–1901) was a Scottish-American journalist, newspaper publisher, and orator
The case could be made that Hillary is the reincarnation of Countess Elizabeth Bathory! :)
"There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an 'Independent Press'! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~John Swinton (1829–1901) was a Scottish-American journalist, newspaper publisher, and orator
On Saturday Donald Trump made Orlando supporters raise their right hands and vow to vote in the primary. The visual isn't helping dispel the growing concern that Donald Trump shares too many characteristics with the leaders he admires, like Hitler, Mussolini, and Putin.
If the recent "Super Saturday" elections are a sign, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is in deep trouble.
To be sure, a victory in Florida on March 15 would give him momentum, but the Catch-22 is that it's hard to win Florida without momentum (his Sunday win in Puerto Rico was fine but isn't exactly a big mo-shifter). And if Rubio loses his home state, which is entirely possible, not only would it spell doom for his presidential chances, it would also serve as a major embarrassment.
Rubio's chances seem increasingly slim.
(*Is Marco Rubio the Great GOP
[ ] - Hope
[X] - Dope )
Published on Apr 29, 2013
Illuminati Exposed - Donald Trump Admitting Everything is a lie.
This month, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, Political and Media Advisor to Syria's President. The methods used to undermine Shaaban's message should come as no surprise.
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I think they are using this on Hillary's interviews. I have worked with this system myself and it leaves subtle artifacts, which I noticed watching Hillary on the "We Hate Donald Trump" network (formerly FOX News) Friday.
The U.S. Secret Service has acknowledged to CBS News that it is currently investigating Glenn Beck's threats to kill Donald Trump. This is not the first time beck has been involved with death threats or has threatened someone's life. In 2007, Beck told Congressman Ron Paul that Paul's supporters were threatening Beck's life. And in 2005, Glenn Beck threatened to kill filmmaker Michael Moore. Beck began, "I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, ya know? And I could just be choking the life out of him. I stopped wearing my 'What would Jesus do' band and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now."
Clinton hardly comes across as a technological whiz.
At one point, she asks her communications adviser how to charge her iPad and update an app. Asked if she has wireless Internet, the secretary replies: "I don't know if I have wi-fi. How do I find out?"
Clinton tells another aide that she is "never sure which of my emails you receive, so pls let me know if you receive this one and on which address you did."
In her final year on the job, she apologizes to someone for being slow to respond to an email, describing her BlackBerry as having "a nervous breakdown on my dime!"
Technological problems included the State Department's unclassified email system, too.
The department's technology is "so antiquated that NO ONE uses a State-issued laptop and even high officials routinely end up using their home email accounts to be able to get their work done quickly and effectively," policy chief Anne-Marie Slaughter laments in 2011.
The Washington Post is trying to prop up Hillary with the "Okay, she's an idiot about computers, but that doesn't mean she should not be President" defense. The Washington Post also seems to forget that ALL State Department emails are classified by default.
Setting that aside...
Remember China-gate from 1996? Then President Bill Clinton authorized the sale of sensitive US technology to China and Chinese money was donated to his re-election campaign!
Was Hillary playing the same game, selling US secrets delivered via a private server with weaker security than the Ashley Madison website in exchange for "donations" to her "charitable" foundation?
It is time to look past the server itself to what may be the biggest spy scandal in US history!
Setting that aside...
Remember China-gate from 1996? Then President Bill Clinton authorized the sale of sensitive US technology to China and Chinese money was donated to his re-election campaign!
Was Hillary playing the same game, selling US secrets delivered via a private server with weaker security than the Ashley Madison website in exchange for "donations" to her "charitable" foundation?
It is time to look past the server itself to what may be the biggest spy scandal in US history!
My fellow terrorists...
Glenn Beck Says Media So Badly Misreported His On-Air Remarks That Secret Service Showed Up to His Texas Studios
"If I was close enough and I had a knife. Really. I mean the stabbing just wouldn't stop."
Glenn actually threatened ME, not Donald Trump. So, I am now stuck in the odd situation of defending my boss for threatening my life.>>>
(*talk about falling on one's own sword !)
(*It's all fun and games until the secret service launches an investigation , then , of course , that's not what he said . Expect this to go the same way Limbaugh's Oxycontin escapades went , in court http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12536446/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/limba... )
(*Expext BEX . The only thing interesting is the Headline , which is , of course CORRECT . After that , this article reverts itself into an LATimes 'Hit Piece' on Donald Trump .)
The reporter, who was contracted in 2014 to take footage for Megyn Kelly's 'Kelly File' on FOX News, reported on his personal blog yesterday about the latest developments and the FBI subpoena issued to him.
Inside Ted Cruz's plan to sink Marco Rubio in Florida
The strategy is not without risk: A Trump victory in Florida puts him 99 delegates closer to clinching the GOP nomination, weakening rivals' hopes of keeping him from reaching the delegate threshold and then defeating him at a brokered convention. And keeping Rubio from climbing is likely to cost millions of dollars.
A February poll showed Rubio 16 points ahead of Cruz, but 16 points behind Trump, who led the field in the Quinnipiac University survey at 48%.
During the 2008 presidential race, Glenn Beck was interviewing Congressman Ron Paul and made a secretive and ominous reference to alleged death threats made to Beck by Ron Paul supporters and 9/11 truthers. During the December 18, 2007 broadcast, Beck said "Okay. Dr Paul. I'm gonna take a break and in the break I'm gonna feed something down to your location that I'm not gonna show on the air. My life has been threatened . Uh, I had to wear a vest and have securities . I..I..I've got a SWAT team to watch my family because of people who say they support you. I want to show you something that is out on the internet , about me, and from people who say they support you. And I want to get your thoughts on this, and let's set to rest some things when we come back. Shall we?"
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- This hotel has 12 rooms
- Check-in time 2 PM-9 PM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
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- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
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Mansfield House Hotel, Scottish Borders
from beginning to end was made to feel like a special guest . the staff can't do enough. if anyone needs to show someone what customer service is just come here .
Mansfield House Hotel, Scottish Borders
Helpful staff, drinks a little overpriced.
Excellent staff, very helpful and willing. Only slight snag was that the hot water took a while to come through (about 4 minutes) to the shower and or tap. Everything else was excellent, order for dinner was cooked straight away as they knew we were a little short on time. Ah one other negative note is the bar prices for drinks, think it worked out at 7 or 8 pound for 1 bottle of cider and 1 can of irn-bru.
Mansfield House Hotel, Scottish Borders
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I stayed here 1 night, lovely setting in its own grounds. I had my evening meal in the bar area which was nice, the breakfast was very good, overall a nice place
Mansfield House Hotel, Scottish Borders
Room was small. No elevator so be prepared to carry bags. Room at the top has a gorgeous view, is large and roomy but we opted out because it was a narrow staircase and quite a few steps to carry our bags, nice setting for hotel with lovely garden. Hotel was quiet with only a couple of rooms taken. Lovely large front lounge room
Mansfield House Hotel, Scottish Borders
Very good breakfast
Overall it was really good. breakfast was excellent but bed was not great.Located top pf hill, good view.
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DOMINIC LAWSON: Cognac at breakfast? I'm more worried Dave's nemesis is drunk on federalism
As a last-ditch attempt to block Jean-Claude Juncker from becoming President of the European Commission, Britain's diplomats have been told to brief that the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg is too much of a boozer to do the job.
Thus we have yesterday's eye-catching headline: 'Cameron vs Juncker . . . the EU "drunk who has cognac for breakfast".'
And how do we know his beverage of choice at 8am? 'A senior diplomatic source says: "Mr Juncker reportedly has cognac for breakfast."' Or, in plain English: 'Someone from the Foreign Office claims he's heard someone else say that Jean-Claude likes to start his day with a cup of Courvoisier.'
Jean Claude Juncker, who is hoping to become the next president of the European Commission
Oh, and he's also guilty of inappropriate use of cigarettes: Juncker's successor as chairman of the body of EU finance ministers, known as Eurogroup, is quoted as saying that although smoking and drinking were 'prohibited' during their meetings, the Luxembourger flouted these rules, and was 'a stubborn smoker and drinker'.
Given that Nigel Farage has won vastly more votes than he has lost by being seen as 'a stubborn smoker and drinker', Downing Street's briefing (whether or not via the Foreign Office) hardly seems likely to make British voters man the barricades against the idea of Juncker as head honcho in Brussels.
More to the point (since the decision is to be made this week in a closed session of European heads of Government) such tactics are entirely counter-productive: it makes it seem as though Her Majesty's Government are engaging in foul play, like bad losers. Or, as one European foreign minister put it to me at a not entirely alcohol-free dinner last week: 'Why is it that you Brits always end up stamping your feet and whining it's unfair that you can't get your own way? That really doesn't work in the EU.'
In fact, David Cameron had thought he would get his way without foot-stamping — even though the arch-federalist Juncker had received the support of the European Parliament, whose vote is supposed to be 'taken into account' by national leaders.
David Cameron had thought he would get his way without foot-stamping - even though the arch-federalist Juncker had received the support of the European Parliament
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, had apparently indicated to the PM that she would help him in blocking Juncker — and on this basis Cameron went very public with his opposition, presumably hoping to gain the political credit when another candidate was duly appointed President of the Commission. In this, it is important to understand that the Foreign Office had advised Cameron that to succeed in any EU initiative it is only necessary to have Mrs Merkel as an ally — and the PM has wooed and schmoozed her accordingly.
But this strategy disintegrated spectacularly when the German media — which regards the European Parliament with a reverence it is not accorded in the UK — rose up almost as one to denounce the idea of helping the Brits block Juncker's candidacy.
Merkel, who like any other national leader gives absolute primacy to opinion within her own country, instantly backed down, leaving Cameron looking like Wile E Coyote running off the edge of a cliff and belatedly releasing that there is no longer a road beneath his feet.
Though this has come as a deeply unpleasant surprise to Downing Street, it should not have. But at least it should help to shed Number 10's other illusion: that Merkel can or will bring other European nations to back whatever Cameron needs, so that if an In or Out of the EU referendum is held in 2017, the PM will be able to sell a successful 'renegotiation' to the British electorate.
As more than one German diplomat has told me ever since January 2013, when Cameron declared — as a way of stopping more Tory voters defecting to Ukip — that he would go for such a referendum: 'We would very much like Britain to stay in the EU, but we will never put ourselves in the position of being on your side, if the rest of the EU are against giving what you ask for.'
The truth is that under Europe's system of Qualified Majority Voting, Britain has lost whatever power it once had to block on its own any development it disliked: and under the Lisbon treaty of 2007, the choice of Commission President was itself made subject to QMV — so Cameron cannot veto Juncker as John Major did to scupper the Belgian Jean-Luc Dehaene's nomination to the Presidency 20 years ago.
It is one of the ironies in this that the system of Qualified Majority Voting was created by the Single European Act of 1986, championed by the woman who regarded her successors as Brussels patsies . . . one Margaret Thatcher.
As Prime Minister she willingly acceded to this wholesale abandonment of the national veto, having been persuaded by the Foreign Office that it would for all time apply only to matters of trade. As some others warned at the time (including, as it happens, the Treasury) it was never going to stop there.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, right, had apparently indicated to the PM that she would help him in blocking Juncker
Combine that with the expansion of the EU to 28 nations (which was itself warmly embraced by successive British PMs in the hope of spinning the EU's centre of gravity away from the Franco-German alliance) and the difficulty for Cameron is mathematically apparent.
Since 1973, when we joined what was the European Community, our voting representation in the European Parliament has decreased from 20 per cent to 9.5 per cent, in the Council of Ministers from 17 per cent to 8 per cent, and in the European Commission from 15 per cent to 4 per cent.
The Commission itself has no voting powers — if appointed President, Jean-Claude Juncker will not have that.
But he would have the sole right of proposing any Europe-wide legislation, through the European Parliament — and the latter sees a victory for Juncker as a victory for its own desire to gain ascendancy over national parliaments. As one official told the Guardian: 'That makes this a federalist turning point.'
Last week the London Mayor Boris Johnson claimed that any likely alternative President of the Commission would push for more power to attach to the bureaucratic centre (Brussels) and that therefore Cameron's battle to block Juncker's appointment was irrelevant.
Well, perhaps. But I can't forget what a Luxembourg politician who has known Juncker for more than 20 years told me: 'Jean-Claude wants to abolish de facto the member states of the Union.'
That is the problem with Juncker, not whether he is partial to a drink or three before dinner.
The devil and the deep blue sea
Last year, the Cabinet had been united in supporting military intervention against the noxious Syrian regime of Bashar al Assad — but were defeated in a Commons vote.
I wrote then that the British government was proposing to support militarily the Sunni militia chief who was filmed devouring the ripped-out heart of a captured Syrian government soldier: we would be choosing extremely dangerous people as the supposedly lesser evil. Now, as Lord (Michael) Forsyth — one of the few Tories who opposed Blair over the Iraq invasion — has pointed out, the Sunni militias the Cabinet proposed to support in Syria are the same sort of people the hawks now say we should be bombing in Iraq.
However humiliating it might be for our foreign policy if Baghdad falls to these militias, imagine how much more embarrassing it would have been if Parliament had not stopped the government from supporting their earlier onslaught on Damascus.
It is risky enough supporting one side in the Sunni-Shia conflict, but to back both sides is deranged.
Cameron Ward, who was knocked over and killed by Wayne Payne who was doing 60mph in a 30mph zone
At the conclusion of Wayne Payne's trial for causing death by dangerous driving, his lawyer told Birmingham Crown Court that the 31-year-old was 'remorseful and sorry for knocking over five-year-old Cameron Ward, while driving at more than 60mph in a 30mph zone: 'He is going to live with what he did until the day of his own death.'
Perhaps this alleged contrition persuaded the judge to give Payne bail over the weekend, to see his own children before beginning a five-year sentence.
Yet this permitted Payne to make this observation to Cameron Ward's bereaved parents, as he confronted them outside the courtroom at the trial's end: 'S*** happens, life goes on.'
Defence lawyers' claims for their clients' deep remorse rarely convince: this was a spectacular demonstration of just why they shouldn't.
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