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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's greatest role model, Hillary Clinton, aided sexual harassers

Daniel Greenfield
Frontpage Magazine
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:48 UTC
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Poor Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

Someone told her she should be president? Why? Who knows. Maybe it was funny at the time. And despite having accomplished nothing, except getting the nod for a job she was unfit for because of political connections, Senator Gillibrand is trying to become President Gillibrand, forcing the entire nation to have to learn to spell her name.

The trouble is that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has no accomplishments to her name. So she boosted her brand by claiming to have been the victim of sexual harassment. That's not quite enough to be president. So she tried to jump on the #MeToo movement.

And then it all fell apart.
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Recycle

Guardian's latest propaganda piece "Putin stealing election" shows their ignorance and complete lack of integrity

Catte
OffGuardian
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:46 UTC
This appeared in the Guardian today (thanks to Peter in the comments for alerting us):
putin guardian headline

We won't bother doing an analysis of its lies, stupidities and racism. Simon Tisdall, author of the piece, could easily find out the reason Putin is virtually certain to return as president isn't because the election is rigged but because people in Russia overwhelmingly support him. Even Gallup admit that much. Even the more level-headed western outlets acknowledge it. It's a fact beyond dispute. Putin doesn't need to rig anything on order to win an election.

But Tisdall's brutish conviction is proof against facts. Any facts, even Western-backed facts. Instead of doing even basic research he prefers to riff for umpteen paragraphs on something that is a total, demonstrable lie.

Comment: The Guardian has gone downhill so fast that it's basically turning itself into a trashy tabloid. Here's another example of the Guardian pushing the 'narrative'. Not even Jordan Peterson is safe from their drivel.

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Columbia event discusses 'obligation' to 'redistribute' your own wealth to 'marginalized people'

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:49 UTC
wealth redistribution
Two students at Columbia University are hosting a workshop later this month to encourage their peers to "redistribute our own wealth" to "marginalized people."

"Class Privilege and Radical Redistribution" is organized by Columbia University students Amy Wang and Claire Klinger, and will feature a roundtable discussion on "learning about our obligation to redistribute our own wealth."

"Do you pay full tuition? Are you graduating debt-free?" the event description asks. "Do you feel uncomfortable about how much money your family has and avoid the topic as much as possible?"

Students will spend the first half of the February 22 event "mapping out how our families came into money and what communities that money is extracted from," after which they will "explore how to mobilize our financial privilege to support marginalized people."

Comment: Right, so should give all your money away to atone for your sin of living a 'privileged life', or you're just as bad the 'oppressors'. But don't feel bad, even though it's totally your fault for taking part in it.

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People

Thousands of migrants pour across the Alps headed for France and Germany

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Migrants into France and Germany
© Unknown
Thousands of migrants are attempting to traverse the Alps to get out of Italy to their preferred destinations of Germany and other Northern European countries.

Volunteers working with migrants in the region say that they are finding more and more migrants with injuries sustained from extremely cold temperatures. They say that thousands of migrants are attempting to cross the Alps and that many end up in hospital, Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio reports.

Joel Pruvot, a male nurse who works with a group that helps migrants at the Briancon ski resort near the French border with Italy, said that he sees many migrants who need medical attention after trying to cross the mountains.

Comment: Regime change and globalization ignite Europe's refugee and migrant crisis

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Boat

Couple sells all to sail the world, boat sinks on day 2


SF Gate
Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:48 UTC
couple _loses_sailboat
© Jim Damaske/Tampa Bay Times via AP
Tanner Broadwell holds his dog with Nikki Walsh at Madeira Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018.
A couple who abandoned their workaday lives to buy a sailboat for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure instead lost almost everything when it sank on day two of their journey off Florida.

News outlets report that Tanner Broadwell, Nikki Walsh and their pet pug escaped injury when the 28-foot boat hit something and capsized Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico near Madeira Beach. But the couple says just about everything else on the boat floated away.

"How do I have everything," Walsh told the Tampa Bay Times, "and end up in a s----- hotel with nothing?"

The couple had no sailing experience, save for some help from Broadwell's father.

Comment: That sounds like a lesson unlearned!

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Eye 1

German instructor accused of indoctrinating students with Nazi ideology


RT
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:16 UTC
Dietfurt
© Stefan Auth / www.globallookpress.com
A view on the old city of Dietfurt an der Altmuehl, Bavaria, Germany.
A small German town was shocked to learn that an instructor at a local vocational school has allegedly been spreading Nazi ideology among his students. The man reportedly encouraged the trainees to learn Nazi songs and slogans.

The scandal broke after a student at the college in the Bavarian town of Dietfurt an der Altmuehl secretly filmed the instructor encouraging the students, some of whom were underage, to shout Nazi slogans and sing Nazi songs banned in Germany. The video taken in late January was obtained by police.

The footage allegedly shows a group of students sitting together with the instructor in the college billiard hall, drinking beer and smoking. The instructor begins asking the students about their places of birth and then urges them to shout Nazi slogans, according to Bavarian Radio, which obtained parts of the video.

Comment: It's pretty easy to spot low-level behavior like this and expose it for what it is. A much more difficult task is exposing how the drivers of the Nazi ideology are emerging in different forms today, particularly when they take a liberal shape.

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South Korean court rules government responsible for prostituting women to US soldiers


Sputnik
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:48 UTC
South Korea
© AFP 2018/ Jung Yeon-Je
For the first time, the South Korean government's role in developing a prostitution system around US bases in the country has been acknowledged by a court. The South Korean government encouraged prostitution in towns near US military bases and justified this policy as strengthening their military alliance and securing a stable dollar influx.

"The state viewed the right for sexual self-determination and, moreover, the very personality of the plaintiffs, expressed in their sex, as a tool to achieve state targets and thus violated its commitment to respect human rights," the Seoul High Court ruling from February 8 reads. The court ruled that the government must pay compensation to 117 "comfort women" who filed a lawsuit against the Republic of Korea.
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Better Earth

Israel's conscientious objectors and their lives after the army

Alasdair Soussi
Al Jazeera
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
conscientious objectors
© Tatyana Gitlits
Haggai Matar, right, refused outright to serve in the Israeli army
When Adam Maor was released from prison after refusing to serve in the Israeli army as a conscientious objector, he left his native land for an eight-year stay in Europe.

"I really felt a need to get away for a while," said the 34-year old, who served 21 months in various forms of incarceration between the winter of 2002 and September 2004.

"I started my studies in Geneva, Switzerland - and I also lived some time in Paris, before returning home to Israel."

Maor was part of a publicised group of five "refuseniks" who defied Israel's compulsory military service laws and refused to serve as a stand against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Back in November 2003 - two years before Israel "disengaged" from Gaza - Al Jazeera reported: "The Israeli organisation, Courage to Refuse, claims that there are 1,000 Israelis who are refusing military duty for one reason or another, and a further 562 have pledged not to sign up."

Comment: Conscience has been awakened in some Israelis - but are they too few, and are they too late to help stop the path of destruction and carnage their nation is on - and the inevitable response that will come from those they attack?

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Alarm Clock

Obama portrait artist likes to paint African-American women holding heads of decapitated white women


True Pundit
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:55 UTC
kehindewiley
Can you imagine if Donald Trump's official portrait artist painted white women holding the decapitated heads of African-American women?

There would be social chaos.

But as Americans we are supposed to sit back and applaud Obama's artist for chopping off the heads of white women to be carried like a trophy by African-American women?

Bullshit.
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Green Light

White House proposes $1.5 trillion dollar plan to rebuild crumbling infrastructure


RT
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:16 UTC
collapsed bridge
© Scott Cohen / Reuters
Remains of the collapsed I-35W bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007.
President Donald Trump has announced a sweeping infrastructure plan worth $1.5 trillion. It is part of a broader $4 trillion-plus budget plan that envisions public-private partnerships to revamp America's aging structures.

The 55-page infrastructure plan "is a roadmap for the Congress to draft and pass the most comprehensive infrastructure bill in our nation's history," according to the White House. It outlines spending which it claims will stimulate at least $1.5 trillion in new investment in areas including roads, waterways, natural resources and bridges.

The infrastructure package aims to target "more than traditional infrastructure -- like roads, bridges, and airports -- but addresses other needs like drinking and wastewater systems, waterways, water resources, energy, rural infrastructure, public lands, veterans' hospitals, and Brownfield and Superfund sites," according to the document. The latter two describe sites that require environmental cleanup.

Comment: It's no secret how bad the infrastructure within the United States has become. Using state resources for rebuilding makes sense and would provide a strong boost for employment. It's hard to understand how such a small incentive from the federal government in relation to the state governments' role is seen as a 'giveaway' when the people's state taxes would be used where they are desperately needed. Screaming about 'privatization' really doesn't mean much. Private businesses doing this kind of work employ thousands upon thousands of American workers, who are needed for such a monumental task.

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