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Fake news MSM - Would you like the whole truth or fake mud with that?

Joann Nova
JoNova
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:46 UTC
Fake News Outlets
© We Are Change
The decrepit legacy media is now so low there are competing stories in the same week discussing which form of decay is the worst.

Is it that the media suppresses the good news, or that it amplifies the bad - throwing fake mud that is never cleaned up? It's two sides of the same corrupt, self serving coin. Pass on these links to friends who think the legacy media still has journalists with , a) a backbone or b) ethics.

Suppressing the Good News is the media's dirtiest tactic

Steve Sheldon
Here are headlines you won't read in almost any major American newspaper, hear on any of the evening news programs, or see in your Yahoo "news" feed:

Dow Hits 87 Record Closes Since Trump Elected

Texas Hero Was NRA Instructor

Dow Reaches Four 1,000 Point Milestones in One Year for the First Time Ever

ISIS on the Run, Almost Completely Destroyed

New Home Sales Highest in a Decade

Texas Hero Uses AR-15 to Save the Day

Dow Hits Two Streaks Lasting More Than Ten Days, First Time Since 1959

Trump Donates One Million Dollars of His Own Money to Hurricane Victims

U.S. Economy Gains Over Six Trillion in New Capital

U.S. Senator Viciously Attacked by Deranged Socialist Neighbor

U.S. Economy Grows at 3% for First Time Since Bush Administration

Unemployment Rate Lowest in 17 Years
h/t David E.
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Star of David

Israeli "Crime Minister" Netanyahu brushes off 6 weeks of protests over his festering corruption


RT
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:12 UTC
bibi netanyahu
© REUTERS/ Sebastian Scheiner/Pool
Protests are continuing against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He remains defiant in the face of corruption cases against him, but his allies have pushed through a new law that would impede any possible prosecution.

Thousands of people marched against the Israeli PM in Tel Aviv over the weekend, denouncing Netanyahu as a "crime minister." There are currently two cases against him being investigated by the police: one alleges that Netanyahu improperly accepted luxury gifts, while the other alleges that he abused power by cracking down on a newspaper in exchange for favorable coverage from its competitor.

Protests have now continued for six weeks, although demonstrations last weekend were attended by fewer people than in its first weeks. Activists say the protests against the PM will continue.


Comment: Quick, someone call for an emergency UN Security Council meeting to support Israelis in their call for freedom!

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The real reason Iranian protesters took to the streets: Govt's new budget, Trump's meddling in Iran's economy

Trita Parsi
The Nation
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:01 UTC
tehran iran student protest
© AP PhotoA student continues to demonstrate after anti-riot police threw a smoke grenade on protestors at Tehran University, December 30, 2017.
When the Iranian protests broke out last Thursday, I immediately reached out to friends, family, and organizers of the Green Movement, which erupted after the 2009 stolen elections, to find out what was going on. But almost everyone I spoke to gave me the same answer: We don't know. We haven't been able to piece it together yet. We are all confused.

But one person had quickly managed to put together the Persian puzzle: Donald Trump.

Although it took him days to figure out what was going on in Charlottesville, Iran was a piece of cake for America's most unpresidential president. Since then, he has shot off half a dozen or so tweets purporting to support the protesters. In reality, however, the tweets seem more aimed at fanning the flames than aiding the demonstrators.

There is no evidence that the protesters in Iran are taking their cues from Trump - or even paying attention to him. Unlike the 2009 protests, when some of the demonstrators called on Barack Obama to speak out against the Iranian government's brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, no chants have been heard in Iran calling on Trump to do or say anything at all. Nor has any evidence emerged to substantiate the accusation that the protests were orchestrated from abroad.

In the eyes of most Iranians, Trump has shown nothing but animosity toward the Iranian people since he took office.

Comment: Amen. The American government doesn't care at all for the Iranian people. It's all a PR show. They don't even realize that many protesters were hard-liners who would be more happy with an Ahmedinejad government - hardly the American-style "freedom and democracy" the Trump admin seems to think the Iranians are calling for. Cynical. Opportunistic. Sad.

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'Crazy numbers': Civilian deaths by Western airstrikes practically double in 2017

Karen McVeigh
The Guardian
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 02:00 UTC
airstrike by US
© Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty ImagesSmoke billows following an airstrike by US-led coalition forces targeting Islamic State fighters in Mosul, Iraq.
British involvement under scrutiny after study identifies 42% rise in number of civilians killed by explosives

More than 15,000 civilians were killed by explosive weapons in 2017, a jump of 42% in a year, according to a global survey seen by the Guardian.

The rise - driven by airstrikes, which killed almost double the number of civilians in 2017 compared with the previous year - coincided with US-led military operations to reclaim the Islamic State strongholds of Mosul, in Iraq, and Raqqa, in Syria.

MPs said the figures were "deeply concerning" and raised questions over the transparency of legal criteria used by the Ministry of Defence to determine whether an individual is an Isis combatant.

The UK has said it has no credible evidence of its airstrikes resulting in civilian deaths, while the US military has revealed it unintentionally killed at least 801 civilians in Syria and Iraq.

The global survey, compiled by Action on Armed Violence, an organization that highlights civilian harm from explosive weapons, suggests the civilian death toll from air-launched explosives rose by 82%, from 4,902 in 2016, to 8,932 in 2017.
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Mr. Potato Head McMaster: Russia interfering with Mexican election!

Mallory Shelbourne
The Hill
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:55 UTC
McMaster
© The InterceptNational Security Advisor H.R. McMaster
National security adviser H.R. McMaster says there are early signs of Russian interference in Mexico's upcoming presidential election.

Providing the keynote address for the Jamestown Foundation, McMaster pointed to Mexico as an example of where Russia is engaging in a disinformation campaign.

"You've seen actually initial signs of it in the Mexican presidential campaign already," McMaster said in previously unreported remarks made during the Dec. 15 address. His comments were first highlighted on Sunday by Mexico's Reforma newspaper.

Mexico's presidential election will take place in July.

McMaster's comments came in response to a question about the "growing relationship" between Russia and China. He also referenced the Catalan independence referendum last year as another case of Russian meddling.

"For example with Russia we are concerned, increasingly concerned, with these sophisticated campaigns of subversion and disinformation and propaganda. The use of cyber tools to do that," McMaster said.

"As you see, this is really a sophisticated effort to polarize democratic societies and pit communities within those societies against each other and create crises of confidence and to undermine the strength within Europe."

Comment: McMaster is delusional. "Early signs" of Russian interference means that Russian media have written at least one article on the upcoming Mexican elections. "Sophisticated campaigns of subversion and disinformation and propaganda" mean that Russian media have brought attention to the same issues that election candidates have brought attention to. "Polarizing democratic societies" means writing about polarizing issues that the societies and politicians in question are responsible for polarizing in the first place.

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Snakes in Suits

Will Christopher Steele turn on Killary if hauled before federal investigators?

Jacob Wohl
Offended America
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:06 UTC
christopher steele
© Press AssociationChristopher Steele
On Friday, Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham sent a formal referral to the Department of Justice, calling for federal investigators to inquire about instances where the Senators believe that Steele lied to congressional investigators. This referral makes the first call for charges by any bi-partisan investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 election.

Christopher Steele is a British Citizen who who compiled the now infamous dossier that was the motivation for the start of an FBI Counter-Intelligence investigation into Trump Campaign that began in late 2016. Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign along with the DNC funded the creation of the dossier through a $12.2M payment through Clinton's personal lawyer Marc Elias and Private Intelligence firm Fusion GPS.

Prior to Steele's work for the Clinton Campaign on behalf of Fusion GPS, Steele made a lucrative career as an investigator, running his own firm Orbis Business Intelligence. Now, with the recommendation of two senior senators that Steele be investigated by the DOJ, his lucrative career as a spy-for-hire hangs in the balance.

Comment: If Steele does get hauled before investigators it would be music to our ears if he sung like a canary about Killary. But it's unclear whether the Justice Department will even take Grassley and Graham up on their recommendation, or if this will simply fall back into the memory hole. In the meantime it certainly has the left up in arms in order to defend 'Russiagate'.

The Atlantic is reporting that this is just team Trump attacking political rivals, ignoring the obvious fact that the entire Russiagate fiasco has been exactly that - a way for Trump's political rivals to attack him. And, more importantly, as Alexander Mercouris writes, 'The difficulty the Democrats and Fusion GPS face in dismissing the Senators' letter is that neither Grassley nor Lindsey Graham are obvious Trump loyalists.'

Perhaps 'Russiagate' has served its purpose, and now it's time to tie up loose ends and move on with Trump serving as the new 'Obama'. Time will tell.

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Trump's not-so-secret weapon is the economy

Monica Crowley
The Hill
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:10 UTC
Trumpusahat
© HotAir
President Trump is getting it done.

You'd never know it by watching and reading the "mainstream" media, which devotes endless cable news panels and column inches to ruminations on the possible grounds for his removal from office.

What the leftist media will not tell you is that Trump is delivering a stronger U.S. economy built on a revival of free-market economics, lower taxes, deregulation and smaller government. And he's doing it while facing monolithic opposition from the ruling class, making his achievements even more remarkable.

Not a single Democrat voted for the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, which cut individual rates and slashed the corporate rate (for which Democrats from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama advocated once upon a time). The Democrats tried desperately to torpedo it, because they know that it's going to power economic growth - and that, while good for the American people, is bad for them.

Prior to its passage, the economy was already expanding at a healthy three percent clip just with Trump's sweeping deregulation efforts, deconstruction of ObamaCare, liberation of the energy sector, renegotiation or withdrawal from bad trade deals, enforcement of immigration law and the profound psychological shift of finally having a pro-business president in office. Once the tax cuts are fully in play, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin predicted stretches of four or five percent growth.

Comment: Economic growth finds its traction by adjusting governmental, societal and production levers to provide a fertile growth medium and an economic impetus that is sustained and compounded over a period of time. The most remarkable economic rises come after profound periods of neglect, mismanagement and inconsistency. Is it all Trump's brilliance? Or can we attribute part of the currently projected success to the depth and breadth of the economic negative handed forward, courtesy the Obama administration.

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Snakes in Suits

When the DOJ killed the Clinton Foundation probe, some FBI investigators were livid

Guy Benson
Townhall
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:25 UTC
KillBill
© Townhall
On Friday, I addressed new reports that federal officials may be revisiting the Clinton email scandal -- writing that while serious questions remain about some of the curious irregularities surrounding the original investigation (which resulted in no charges), Democrats may have a point when they suggest that President Trump's ostentatious public demands for a new probe of 'Crooked Hillary' call into question the apolitical nature of the DOJ's decisions. Trump's critics are leveling the same accusation over the revelation that the Clinton Foundation is also receiving renewed legal scrutiny. In case you missed it last week, here are the basics of that development:
The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes. The probe may also examine whether any tax-exempt assets were converted for personal or political use and whether the Foundation complied with applicable tax laws, the officials said. One witness recently interviewed by the FBI described the session to The Hill as "extremely professional and unquestionably thorough" and focused on questions about whether donors to Clinton charitable efforts received any favorable treatment from the Obama administration on a policy decision previously highlighted in media reports.
I don't think it's an unreasonable reaction to at least raise concerns over whether perhaps one politicized Justice Department has given way to a new politicized Justice Department, just with the partisanship reversed. Are law enforcement officials again being pressured to serve the political agenda of the party in power? That's a fair worry; the president has not been subtle.

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Trump and Bannon distract as the trap is sprung on Killary

Tom Luongo
Halsey News
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Julian and Steve
© unknown
This is a difficult week of news to parse if you aren't a full-blown conspiratard like me. Back in August Halsey English and I made waves with our theory that President Trump and Steve Bannon were working with Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange to roll up their Democrat opposition protecting Hillary Clinton from prosecution.

This week we see all of the dots finally connected and conveniently Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury is leaked which casts shade on Trump and Bannon's relationship. It has now boiled over into a very public feud.

To Distract, Perchance to Dream...

Part of me doesn't believe a word of this and feels it's all a distraction, if not a ploy by Trump, to attack Bannon just as he's setting the trap for everyone involved in the phony Russia-gate story. It's no secret that Bannon had little use for both Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner setting policy in the White House.

And his statements to Wolff, if true, I'm sure angered Trump greatly. Using Trump's fierce loyalty to his family against him would be a surefire way to create a breach between him and Bannon that wasn't there previously.

Because let's not forget that Bannon is a loose cannon. He has very strong opinions on how to fight this 'WAR' against the political left. I'm still convinced that he was behind the outing of Harvey Weinstein which began the entire backlash against Hollywood, helping to enable Trump's Department of Justice in uncovering pedophilia and human trafficking.

And this culminated with Trump's expansive Executive Orders from a few weeks ago declaring a State of Emergency with respect to 'human rights violations' and 'corruption.' Those executive orders are targeted directly at all of Trump's political enemies.

Comment: It seems the legal aspects in the Hillary-DNC-Abedin-Obama-Clinton Foundation-Fusion GPS-FBI-Mueller Investigation controversies are moving and shaking like earth tremors before 'the big one'. If the above speculation is anything like the reality, it is a lesson on how to defy gravity.

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Jeremy Corbyn is patron of BDS group now blacklisted by Israel


RT
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:18 UTC
JCorbin
© Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool/ReutersJeremy Corbin
The leader of the UK's Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign which has been included on Israel's so-called BDS blacklist.

The organization is among 20 groups whose activists have been barred from entering Israel due to their support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Corbyn is a long-time supporter of the group which describes him as a "tireless" pro-Palestine campaigner. His commitment to upholding human rights and international law - ending the Israeli occupation, ending the siege on Gaza, opposing settlements in the West Bank - has never wavered," the group, one of the UK's leading pro-Palestinian campaigners, previously said in a statement.

However, a spokesperson for the Labour leader revealed last month that Corbyn does not support the BDS movement. "Jeremy is not in favour of a comprehensive or blanket boycott. He doesn't support BDS. He does support targeted action aimed at illegal settlements and occupied territories," the spokesperson said, adding that Corbyn would be happy to buy Israeli goods himself.

The Islington North MP has made several trips to Palestine throughout the years. After a visit to the Gaza strip in 2013, he described the area as, "one huge suffering refugee camp," the Independent reported.

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