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Hypocrisy: The Liberal media's tolerance for Elizabeth Warren's fake news

Brent Bozell
Townhall
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC
Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren
The network news divisions boast about how much they care about the truth and then rage against President Trump when he calls them makers of "fake news." But when it comes to the politicians they adore, especially those they wish would run for president, the truth takes a back seat.

Exhibit A right now is Elizabeth Warren, who falsely claimed in a professional directory to be descended from Cherokee Indians, so as to be listed as a minority when she was hired as a professor. When Trump makes fun of her by calling her "Pocahontas," the networks get oh so upset and call it a "racial slur." But they don't seem to care one iota about how American Indians feel regarding white people who take on a fake minority identity.

The story broke during Warren's 2012 campaign against then-Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts. In May, liberal writer Garance Franke-Ruta summarized for The Atlantic: "the progressive consumer advocate has been unable to point to evidence of Native heritage except for an unsubstantiated thirdhand report that she might be 1/32 Cherokee. Even if it could be proven, it wouldn't qualify her to be a member of a tribe." So a Senate candidate was committed a race-based fraud. CBS broadcast programs touched the story once.

Comment: Given the growing acceptance of transracialism, instead of claiming she is 1/32 Cherokee, Warren may find it more acceptable to say she identifies as 1/32 Cherokee. No one could argue with that. Rock solid.

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Ironic: Matt Lauer, who leaked Trump's 'access Hollywood' tape, fired over sexual harassment

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:59 UTC
Matt Lauer


Another massive hypocrite exposed

Matt Lauer being fired over allegations of sexual harassment is laced with irony given that Lauer is suspected to have played a key role in leaking the infamous Hollywood Access tape that was used to demonize Donald Trump as an abuser of women.

NBC announced it was terminating Lauer's contract following "a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace."

The network also revealed that it was "also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident."

Comment: You can read here about the 'Access Hollywood' leaked tape.

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White House chief of staff John Kelly's losing battle with Trump's Twitter feed

Annie Karni
Politico
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:14 UTC
Trump and Kelly
© Chris Kleponis/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
White House chief of staff John Kelly (right) does not try to manage President Donald Trump's Twitter feed, even though presidential tweets sometimes short-circuit the smoothly running operation Kelly is trying to build.
When John Kelly accepted the position of White House chief of staff last July, he framed his main function as imposing order, including instituting a formal process for the documents and news articles that reached the Resolute Desk.

But President Donald Trump's increasingly incendiary Twitter feed, which remains outside Kelly's control, has short-circuited that attempt at creating a functional system for controlling the flow of information into the Oval Office.

Twitter has allowed the president to continue accessing fringe websites and viewing racist videos simply by scanning his "mentions," according to two former aides who have observed how he uses the site. Trump doesn't use the direct-message function on the website, which would allow people he follows to privately share links with him - but he often looks at tweets that mention his handle, and picks up links and videos there.

Comment: It's a brave new world as the current President is using social media as no previous administration has. Perhaps what Trump posts is not PC, but it's unarguable that his tweets bring him closer to the public than press conferences and official statements ever could. See also:

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Nikki Haley spooks the UN: North Korea missile launch 'brings us closer to war' (video)


abc7
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:40 UTC
nikki haley UN
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Nikki Haley speaking at a U.N. meeting in New York City, Sept. 4, 2017.
Washington -- U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard "brings us closer" to a war the U.S. doesn't seek.

Haley, speaking at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, said that if war comes as a result of further acts of "aggression" like Tuesday's launch, "make no mistake the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed."

"The dictator of North Korea made a decision yesterday that brings us closer to war, not farther from it," Haley said. "We have never sought war with North Korea and still today we do not seek it."


Comment: The current 'dialogue' between the US and North Korea goes something like this: "You will be destroyed!" "No, you will be destroyed more!", and so on. However, the fact is that a war would represent too much to lose and too little to gain for both parties - so at this point in time it is still highly unlikely.

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As Americans enjoyed Thanksgiving, children starved to death in Yemen

Josh Carter
Halsey News
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Yemen
Thanksgiving. An American tradition.

A time when many take stock of the blessings they have in their families, see relatives they haven't seen in months, gorge themselves on massive feasts, watch some football, and beat each other up the very next day as they hunt for an early Christmas present for themselves.

The Thanksgiving ritual is as American as, well, apple pie.

As we come off yet another Thanksgiving weekend here in America, we are reminded that we truly have much to be thankful for.

This isn't the case in Yemen. In Yemen, the civilian population continues to be the ravaged by relentless war, and an ongoing Saudi-enforced blockade.

Yemen has been in turmoil since the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprisings, and has since devolved into further civil war. The Middle East, no stranger to proxy wars, showcases the deadly consequences of disastrous foreign policy in the Yemen conflict.
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Zakharova: Blasts 'absurd' US accusations of Russia 'violating press freedom'


TASS
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:34 UTC
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, these efforts actually indicate Washington's intention to further aggravate bilateral relations

Maria Zakharova
© Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Washington's attempts to depict Moscow's response to the US harassment of Russian media outlets as a threat to freedom are like a post-premiere party after a 'success' at the theater of the absurd, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook. According to her, these efforts actually indicate Washington's intention to further aggravate bilateral relations.

"Yesterday, the US Department of State said that the 'new Russian legislation that allows the Ministry of Justice to label media outlets as 'foreign agents' and to monitor or block certain internet activity presents yet another threat to media freedom in Russia,' while the law was adopted in response to Washington's persecution of the Russia Today TV channel," Zakharova noted. "It definitely is not a play at the theater of the absurd. It is a party following its successful premiere," she added.
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Oops! Unprotected top secret NSA, US Army data found online


Sputnik
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:45 UTC
National Securiy Agency headquarters NSA
© Associated Press/ Patrick Semansky/File
National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md.
A California cybersecurity company told the government in late September it had stumbled upon unprotected National Security Agency and US Army Intelligence and Security Command data relating to communications systems out in the open online, according to a new report.

The cybersecurity firm, UpGuard, found 47 files in total, three of which were available for download. Some of the files were apparently marked "top secret."

​"It is unclear to us what the precise relevance of the classified data we found is to active INSCOM [US Army Intelligence and Security Command] operations," UpGuard analyst Dan O'Sullivan said November 28. The biggest file was probably meant for collecting Pentagon data from remote locations, according to UpGuard.
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Corruption charges dropped for senior Saudi prince after he pays off Riyadh $1bn for release


RT
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:23 UTC
Saudi Arabian Prince Miteb bin Abdullah
© Philippe Wojazer / Reuters
Saudi Arabian Prince Miteb bin Abdullah
A senior Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah has been released in Riyadh after more than three weeks in detention. He was one of more than 200 princes, ministers and businessmen arrested in what the kingdom has called an "anti-corruption purge."

The former head of the National Guard who was once seen as a contender for the throne, Prince Miteb was freed on Tuesday after agreeing an "acceptable settlement" with authorities of more than $1 billion.

The 65-year old prince was the most politically influential royal detained under the orders of a newly formed anti-corruption committee headed by his 32-year-old cousin, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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US imperialism: Why there is no peace on Earth

David Stockman
Contra Corner
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:08 UTC
Fall of Berlin Wall
© R. Norman Matheny/Staff/File
Berliners climb on top of the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate in the hours after the Wall opened in November 1989.
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years later when Boris Yeltsin courageously stood down the red army tanks in front of Moscow's White House, a dark era in human history came to an end.

The world had descended into what had been a 77-year global war, incepting with the mobilization of the armies of old Europe in August 1914. If you want to count bodies, 150 million were killed by all the depredations which germinated in the Great War, its foolish aftermath at Versailles, and the march of history into the world war and cold war which followed inexorably thereupon.

To wit, upwards of 8% of the human race was wiped-out during that span. The toll encompassed the madness of trench warfare during 1914-1918; the murderous regimes of Soviet and Nazi totalitarianism that rose from the ashes of the Great War and Versailles; and then the carnage of WWII and all the lesser (unnecessary) wars and invasions of the Cold War including Korea and Vietnam.

We have elaborated more fully on this proposition in The Epochal Consequences Of Woodrow Wilson's War, but the seminal point cannot be gainsaid. The end of the cold war meant world peace was finally at hand, yet 26 years later there is still no peace because Imperial Washington confounds it.
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Thanks to Killary, Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets

Glenn Harlan Reynolds
USA Today
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:15 UTC
Hillary Clinton laughing
'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.

Black Africans are being sold in open-air slave markets, and it's Hillary Clinton's fault. But you won't hear much about that from the news media or the foreign-policy pundits, so let me explain.

Footage from Libya, released recently by CNN, showed young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned off as farm workers in slave markets.

And how did we get to this point? As the BBC reported back in May, "Libya has been beset by chaos since NATO-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col. Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011."

And who was behind that overthrow? None other than then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Comment: According to Joanne Moriarty, the slavery footage from CNN is fake news.
"THE NEWS ABOUT SLAVERY IN LIBYA IS A LIE"

The Great Tribes of Libya have confirmed to me personally that the slavery stories out of Libya are fake. The photos and videos are old and re-edited. I know this is true because I have some of the photos and videos in my files from 2011. Since the Zionists do not have Ghadafi to slander, they are now attempting to gin up hatred for Libya again - accusing the Libyans of doing what their own mercenaries did in 2011.
However, that doesn't take away from the fact that the situation in Libya was a direct result of Clinton and Obama's policies. See also:

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