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Electors in anti-Trump movement denied court orders

Zoe Tillman
BuzzFeed News
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:16 UTC
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© MinnPost/Jaime AndersonThe Electoral College of the imperfect union.
Two federal courts and a state supreme court on Friday handed losses to members of the electoral college who are seeking the right to vote for a presidential candidate of their choice, as opposed to the candidate who won the popular vote in their state.

The cases involve states that Hillary Clinton won in November — California, Colorado, and Washington — but they're part of a broader effort to embolden electors elsewhere who may want to vote against Donald Trump in states that he won. A favorable ruling for challengers in one court could provide a template for electors who want to challenge similar laws in their state.

With electors nationwide set to meet on Monday in their states to vote for the president and vice president, a federal district judge in San Jose, California, and a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday denied requests to block enforcement of laws in California and Washington that require electors to vote for the winner of the popular election in those states. The Colorado Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a case brought by electors in that state, leaving in place a lower court judge's ruling against the electors. A case in federal court is pending.

Donald Trump won 306 electoral votes, compared with Hillary Clinton's 232 votes. Anti-Trump electors and activists want to convince other electors not to vote for Trump in order to bring his total down below the threshold of 270 electoral votes that he needs to win. A tie would send the election to the US House of Representatives.

Comment: A tale told by electors full of sound and fury...so far signifying nothing.

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"So sad": Trump proposes "safe zones" for Syria

Mark Landler
New York Times
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:19 UTC
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© Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesPresident-elect Donald J. Trump wishing supporters a “merry Christmas” at the start of a rally in Hershey, Pa., on Thursday.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Thursday that the United States would create "safe zones" in Syria, his first reference to such an American role in the war there since he was elected, and one that comes as the Syrian government has all but recaptured the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.

"When I look at what's going on in Syria, it's so sad," he told a crowd here. "It's so sad, and we're going to help people." Mr. Trump said he would ask the Persian Gulf nations to put up money for the project, adding, "We'll build and help build safe zones in Syria, so people will have a chance."

Mr. Trump talked during the campaign about building safe zones, presenting them as a way to stem the tide of refugees into Europe. But this was the first time he had repeated the proposal since he began receiving intelligence briefings. Some analysts and military commanders have warned that it would be a significant and potentially dangerous undertaking on a complex battlefield over which Russian planes have been flying raids.

Comment: Trump doesn't necessarily mean "no-fly zones". Scott Adams comments:
And guess what? Trump has been telling you his persuasion play against ISIS for over a year. You didn't recognize it because it is disguised as something else.

And guess what else? I have been describing that same persuasion play against ISIS to you for over two years. [...] I called my idea for a persuasion play against ISIS a "filter fence." Trump calls his persuasion play "safe zones." Same thing.
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Safe zones would be a big deal to the psychology of the region. It would give hope to the innocent. It would give ISIS a new thing to worry about. It would be large and physical and influence lots of things around it. But most of all - and this is the important part - it creates a mental categorization that has in one bucket the people who are in the safe zone and in the other bucket the people who are not. And the people inside will probably mostly be women and children - also known as the future of ISIS.

The long term persuasion play is to slowly drain ISIS of any illusion that someday they will be happily making love to their multiple wives while their many children are studying the holy scriptures. You ruin that illusion by putting the women and children from ISIS territory in the safe zone, unavailable to the adult men of ISIS now or later. Once ISIS has been reduced to nothing but horny, angry men with no biological future, they will turn on each other because all of that energy has to go somewhere. Here I'm assuming the border countries have their own walls to keep ISIS in. That's happening as we speak.

Humans are biological entities before they are mental entities. Our biology influences our minds. And our most important biological imperative is to reproduce. When ISIS sees their biological future escaping to safe zones it will leave them with nothing. Their caliphate will become a jail.

Once you have the safe zones up and running then you also have to do something about the drug that ISIS gives their fighters. It's called Captagon, or in some cases it might be meth by another name. Apparently that's the secret ingredient to their violent ways. The persuasion play in this case is to create mountains of counterfeit Captagon pills with either too-weak, too-strong, or different chemistry. You want ISIS to no longer trust their drug sources. That will get in their heads too.

And that's how you beat ISIS with persuasion.


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Why liberals can't handle the truth about "Russian hacking" and Trump

Caleb Stephen
Intellihub
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:10 UTC
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© Katy Levinson/FlickrRussians!!
Donald J. Trump won the U.S. election by a landslide but butthurt, sore liberal losers are not having any of it.

Instead, as we've seen, they've turned to malevolent tactics in an effort to express their disapproval of the democratically elected billionaire real estate tycoon.

First they tried rioting and that didn't work. Then they tried sending death threats to electoral college members and that failed. The 'fake news' narrative also failed. Jill Stein's recount was an epic fail, but only after she had carted away $6.3 million dollars from the gullible voters she scammed as part of her election recount campaign

Now since all of the above failed, they've turned to another tactic - which, I might add, is probably not the last one in their arsenal.

Spoiler alert: It failed overnight.

This time it's The Washington Post attempting to insult our intelligence by pushing the notion that Russia helped Trump win the White House by leaking hacked information to Wikileaks.
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Huffpo exposes itself as a MSM fake news rag by calling on electors to make Killary president

Alex Mohajer
Huffington Post
Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:59 UTC
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The time is now for the Electoral College to fulfill their constitutional duty and obligation to defend America against a demagogue.

Our nation is at a crossroads. In November, Americans cast their vote for president, and despite winning the majority of the popular vote by a substantial margin, Hillary Clinton will lose the presidency under the Electoral College system.

In any other election the conversation might end right here. But from the outset, this has not been an ordinary election year, and these are not ordinary circumstances. Donald Trump is the president-elect, he does not have a popular vote mandate, and his rival, Hillary Clinton, is on course to earn the most votes for a presidential candidate in history, second only to President Obama.

So what happened? Friends, we have been engaged in the politics of blame, and spent too long pointing fingers at one another. The blame game needs to end, and it needs to end NOW. Wallowing in our defeat is a mistake. Blaming our superb, historic candidate is a mistake. Infighting about who is to blame shifts the narrative away from what we should ALL be talking about:

Comment: Barf. The author's spurious arguments are beyond wrong. The only global and sociopolitical crisis that the author laments is one that Killary would have fomented if she'd taken office and one that will continue if the mainstream media continues to drown the public in lies.

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German politicians want to fine Facebook if it fails to remove 'fake news' within 24 hours


RT
Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:48 UTC
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© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
The parliamentary chairman of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), Thomas Oppermann, has asserted that social media giants like Facebook should be required to remove fake news and illegal posts within 24 hours or face fines up to €500,000 ($522,000).

"Facebook has not used the opportunity to effectively regulate the issue of complaint management itself," Oppermann said in an interview with Der Spiegel on Friday. Therefore, "market dominating platforms like Facebook will be legally required to build a legal protection office in Germany, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," he added.

German politicians fear that hate speech and 'fake news' could influence public opinion ahead of the federal elections next year, with far-right parties gaining momentum on growing discontent with Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy.

Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) party has acknowledged in a statement that, while social media platforms offer "completely new possibilities of political communication," they also harbor some dangers. The CDU claimed on Friday that Facebook and other social media sites have increasingly become platforms for spreading 'fake news' and hate messages, citing manipulation of political discussions on the web as one of the greatest dangers.

Comment: Add fines to the charges of treason and you have a recipe for total narrative dominance.

Germany wants to charge 'fake news' site operators with espionage

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Putin didn't hack those DNC emails, not even close

Mike Whitney
Counterpunch
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
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The neocon-driven propaganda campaign to prevent president-elect Donald Trump from taking office took an unexpected turn on Thursday when CBS posted an article claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorized the alleged hacking of the DNC. According to the report:
"American intelligence officials say they are convinced that Russian hacking of our presidential election was approved by President Vladimir Putin. Sources confirm to CBS News they believe Putin was aware of attacks that began in July of last year.

An official investigation is still going on. But this is the first time the hacking that plagued the Democratic National Committee until Election Day has been linked to Putin, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues.

The hacks were so widespread and sustained over such a long period of time that U.S. Intelligence sources say it could not have been carried out without the knowledge of senior levels of the Kremlin. CBS News has learned that investigators believe the initial cyberattack involved thousands of malicious emails aimed at the U.S. government, military and political organizations." ("Vladimir Putin likely gave go-ahead for U.S. cyberattack, intelligence officials say", CBS News)
As is true with earlier reports on the same topic, CBS fails to provide the names of any of its "U.S. intelligence sources", any corroborating evidence to support its allegations, or any proof that its speculative stitching together of isolated facts produce an accurate account of what actually took place. No where in the entire hysterical narrative, do the authors mention the fact that neither the DNC nor the Podesta emails were "hacked" by a hostile foreign power, but "leaked" from within the DNC itself or by agents operating at the NSA.
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US raises bounty for Islamic State leader Baghdadi's head to $25 million


RFE/RL
Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:17 UTC
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
© AFPIslamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as seen in Mosul in 2014.
The United States on December 16 more than doubled its previous reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program offered $25 million for information that would help locate Baghdadi, up from $10 million it offered in October 2011.

Baghdadi, an Iraqi whose real name is Ibrahim al-Samarrai, declared himself the caliph of a huge swath of Iraq and Syria two years ago. Followers call him "Caliph Ibrahim."
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Homeland Security Committee: CIA gives media info but not Congress


RT
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:14 UTC
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© Reuters/ Gary CameronCIA Director John Brennan
The chairman of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has slammed the CIA's refusal to brief Congress on allegations of Russian hacking. "It is disappointing that the CIA would provide information on this issue to the Washington Post and NBC but will not provide information to elected members of Congress," Homeland Security Chairman Senator Ron Johnson said on Friday.

Citing concerns over a "growing threat to our security" said to be posed by "the cyberattack capabilities of America's rivals and adversaries," Johnson said he arrived to Washington this week and requested that the intelligence agency provide a briefing on Russia's alleged involvement in the recent US presidential elections. "The CIA refused this request," Johnson's statement read, with the senator expressing his "disappointment" over who the CIA decides to share its information with first of all.

On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee had planned a meeting with the agency on the issue, but the CIA failed to participate. Its director, John Brennan, declined to provide a briefing, saying he was occupied with a review ordered by the president, according to Fox News.

The US Intelligence Community had claimed it was busy working on a review on the topic of 'foreign influence on US elections' requested by President Barack Obama. The Director of National Intelligence said his community would brief senators and "make those findings available to the public consistent with protecting intelligence sources and methods" after it finishes the Obama-ordered review. "We will not offer any comment until the review is complete," the statement said.

Earlier this week, NBC reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "personally involved" in the alleged hack that damaged Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign. Back in October, the same news outlet released a report suggesting that the CIA was planning a "clandestine" cyberattack on Russia, to "embarrass" its leadership for its alleged efforts to influence the US presidential elections.

Comment: Congress should read the alternative news and see what is really going on. There are slim chances the report to the president will be factual (he knows full well it is not Russia) versus an agency spit-back of Obama-dictates to undergird his political purposes, which are: to foment a war nobody else wants, cover his tracks and provide Trump the worst possible circumstances going into office.

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Pacing and leading: Trump tells his supporters they were "vicious, violent" now "cool and mellow"


RT
Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:05 UTC
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© Lucas Jackson / ReutersU.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a USA Thank You Tour event in Orlando, Florida, U.S., December 16, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump told enthusiastic crowds at a 'Thank You' rally in Florida that his victory has transformed them from "vicious and violent" to "cool and mellow."

Trump made the comments on Friday as he recapped his election campaign and path to victory, while paying tribute to the "incredible" crowds that attended his rallies.

"You people were vicious, violent, screaming, 'Where's the wall? We want the wall!' Screaming, 'Prison! Prison! Lock her up!' I mean you are going crazy. I mean, you were nasty and mean and vicious and you wanted to win, right?"

"But now, you're laidback, you're cool, you're mellow. You're basking in the glory of victory and we're already getting to work," he said.

Trump was met by zealous chanting as he told some 11,000 supporters that they were now "not nearly as vicious or violent because we won."

Comment: And this is how it's done. Scott Adams pretty much nails Trump's method, here: How to break an illusion: Trump the master-persuader is just getting started. Trump is not only amassing a large base of support, he is leading them towards a more moderate, "mellow" disposition. That's pretty much the opposite of what a Hitler would do.
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© Lucas Jackson / ReutersPeople react while listening to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speak during a USA Thank You Tour event in Orlando, Florida, U.S., December 16, 2016


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Tiptoeing into quicksand, China to build relations with Trump administration


Sputnik
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:51 UTC
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© AFP 2016/Johannes Eisele
China is making its first steps to build relations with the new administration of US President-elect Donald Trump, cautiously probing his stance and his advisors after Trump's loud statements rejecting the "one China" policy. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said top diplomat Yang Jiechi, who outranks the foreign minister, had met with Trump advisers, including his pick for national security adviser, retired Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, in recent days. "Both sides exchanged views on China-U.S. ties and important issues both are concerned with," Geng said, without elaborating.

However this meeting speaks much for itself marking that China has started to build its relations with the new Trump administration, journalist Mikhail Korostikov wrote for Sputnik China.

Little is known about the place and the time of this meeting. Allegedly it was held during transit in New York on Yang's way to Latin America. It appears that the meeting was the first high-level contact between members of Trump's administration and Chinese officials. Previously, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping congratulated Donald Trump on the phone after his surprise victory at presidential elections.

Then Xi stressed that in 37 years since China and the United States established diplomatic relations, bilateral ties have been continuously growing and moving forward, which has brought about substantial benefits to the peoples of the two countries. Facts have shown that cooperation is the only correct choice for the two countries in dealing with their relations, Xi also said.

Comment: So much depends upon Trump's understanding of current geopolitical snaffus and hard-line positions versus a cooperative environment that has a chance to come to amicable solutions.

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