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'I've been used!' Kayne West says he's hanging up his political hat

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After weeks of infamy as the most famous Black face of the conservative movement, Kanye West wants off the Trump train, claiming he's been "used" and blaming fellow controversy-courter Candace Owens for ideologically seducing him.

Owens unveiled the logo for her "Blexit" movement - as in a "black exit" from the Democratic party - at Saturday's Turning Points Young Black Leadership Summit, boasting that West had helped design the logo, which he now denies. Not only is he pulling out of any further involvement with the campaign, he says, but "I never wanted any association with Blexit."


The rapper claims to be washing his hands of politics, tweeting regret that "I've been used to spread messages I don't believe in." He pledged to focus on creative endeavors going forward, though some might say his Oval Office performance earlier this month, during which he hugged the President and called his Make America Great Again hat a "Superman cape," was pretty creative.

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Flashback Anchor baby population in U.S. exceeds one year of American births

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The number of United States-born children who were given birthright citizenship despite at least one of their parents being an illegal alien living in the country now outnumbers one year of all American births.

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report reveals the booming number of U.S.-born children to illegal aliens who are given automatic citizenship, forever anchoring their families in the U.S.

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US midterm election has got America dancing the Monster Mash

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The sad reality is that last week's Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is only the latest float in the long-running parade of ghastly homicidal spectacles rolling across this land and will be just as forgotten in one week as was last year's Las Vegas Mandalay Bay slaughter of 58 concert-goers plus over 800 wounded and injured, a US record for non-military acts of violence. The Pittsburgh shootings elbowed the mass pipe bomber, Cesar Sayoc, out of the news cycle - but then Sayoc didn't manage to actually hurt any of the high-profile figures he targeted with his mailings. What I wonder - and what the news media has so far failed to report - is just how incompetent a bomb-maker Sayoc was. Fake news meets fake bombs.

One of the strange side effects of an epic American political hysteria is this strange ADD-like inability of the public to focus on anything for more than a few moments, even the most arresting atrocities. The hysteria itself is too compelling, like the actions of a human limbic system driving the collective public psyche from fight to flight on the wild horses of pure emotion. Reason has been discarded by the wayside just as a super-drunk person will shed his clothing even on a freezing night. Total culture war now beats a path toward all-out civil war, with the looming mid-term election as a fulcrum of history.

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The stock market has just reached a level of low not seen since 2009 - and it's far from over

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We continue to see extremely wild swings on Wall Street. On Monday, at one point the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 352 points, and then later it was down 566 points. At the closing bell the Dow had officially lost 245 points, and all of this extreme volatility is making investors very nervous. Investors like markets that are predictable, because it is a whole lot easier to make money when things move in a predictable fashion. When things get crazy, a lot of investors pull their money out and wait until things settle down in the marketplace, and that definitely makes a lot of sense. Right now, there is a lot of uncertainty about where things are ultimately headed. Some experts believe that the bull market will resume after this "correction" is over, but others believe that a bear market has now begun. And as you will see below, the fact that the S&P 500 has now broken a major trendline that has not been broken since 2009 is strengthening the case of the latter group.

Many had anticipated that we may see a bounce on Monday, but instead we witnessed another very large decline. According to Zero Hedge, all of the major stock indexes are now officially in correction territory...

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'Violent revolution' may come to US if Democrats don't win midterm election - Actor, James Cromwell

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© Reuters / Fred ProuserJames Cromwell
Actor James Cromwell has warned that a violent revolution could potentially be unleashed across the United States if the Democrats don't win back control from Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

The actor, who played George H.W. Bush in Oliver Stone's 'W,' issued the drastic warning at the fourth annual Carney Awards where he was honored for his work as a character actor. Speaking to Variety before the event, the long-time liberal activist said he worried about the direction the US was heading politically, claiming that political violence could be the next step.

Cromwell, who has been arrested multiple times over the years for his political activism, argued that the US always had the potential to be a "turnkey, totalitarian state" and that all people needed was "an excuse" to turn nascent fascism into real fascism.
"If we don't stop [President Trump] now, then we will have a revolution for real. Then there will be blood in the streets."

Comment: Cromwell seems to be speaking out of both sides of his mouth.


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Top Israeli Labor party leader skewered for calling on US Jews to move to Israel after Pittsburgh attack

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© Reuters/ Cathal McNaughtonPeople at the scene of the Pittsburgh shooting.
The leader of Israel's Labor party Avi Gabbay has been slammed as "grossly inappropriate" after he called on US Jews to move to Israel following the Pittsburgh shooting last weekend which killed 11 in a synagogue.

While people expressed their condolences to the victims of Saturday's shooting in Pennsylvania, Gabbay thought of a different way of embracing them. He called on Jews in the US to "immigrate more and more to Israel, because this is their home."

The statement was met with outcry, with Deputy Minister Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, taking a swipe at the opposition leader.
Avi Gabbay said things that should not be said because he simply does not understand. Through his words he adds insult to injury.
The politician simply missed the point in the whole story, Oren argued.

Gabbaya's suggestion also received little praise from people on social media, who blasted him as "ignorant" and as someone championing the same causes of neo-Nazis.

Comment: Labor party leader Avi Gabbay isn't the only one to crudely politicize the horrific killings at Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue:

Twitter erupts over 'Christian Rabbi' who fails to name Pittsburgh victims, asks people to pray for GOP at Pence rally


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'I am not an agent': Florida based company sues DOJ over required FARA registration for broadcasting Radio Sputnik

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One of the companies that broadcasts Radio Sputnik in the US is suing the Department of Justice over the requirement to register as a foreign agent, saying the 1930s law does not apply to radio and television media.

RN Broadcasting LLC has filed a lawsuit over the DOJ's demand to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), due to being a broadcaster of Radio Sputnik.

"I am not an agent," owner of RM Broadcasting Arnold Ferolito told Sputnik on Monday. "I am not an agent of any government. I'm an independent businessman who has made a business transaction, period."

FARA simply does not apply to the radio and television broadcasting industry, Ferolito argued, adding that his business does not meet any of the requirements to register under the law.

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With ranked choice voting, Maine gives 3rd parties a fighting chance in midterms

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According to important people on television, voting for a third party is irresponsible and selfish. But this puerile belief no longer holds water in Maine, which is using ranked choice voting in November's midterm elections.

Polls show that a comfortable majority of Americans think that a viable third party is necessary to make their representative government actually represent their views. But ironically, those who vote their conscience are often demonized as purists who allow one of the "lesser of two evils" to triumph.

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42% of British public unaware of war in Yemen, as Labour MP claims UK govt has 'blood on its hands'

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© Global Look Press / Rob PinneyCampaigners protest against the sale of British weapons to Saudi Arabia for use in the ongoing war in Yemen
Almost half of the British public are unaware a war is going on in Yemen, a Yougov poll has revealed, as a Labour MP accuses the government of having "blood on its hands" while it continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.

Keith Vaz, chair of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Yemen, told the Independent that it's the "forgotten war." His claim appears to be backed up by a recent poll commissioned by NGO Human Appeal, which found that 42% of British respondents could not identify Yemen as a warzone - a war that has seen three years of bloodshed and at least 10,000 people killed, according to the UN.

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'Fake News made me do it': Would-be terrorist's lawyers deploy 'Trump defense' in court

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© Reuters / HandoutPatrick Stein (Right) and convicted co-conspirators
Attorneys for wannabe bomber Patrick Stein are asking a judge to consider the toxic political climate when sentencing their client, who called himself "Orkin Man" and wanted to exterminate Muslim "cockroaches."

Stein is facing 15 years to life on charges of weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights. He was convicted in April alongside two other Kansas militiamen for plotting with an FBI informant and undercover agent to bomb an apartment complex in Garden City, where Muslim refugees from Somalia lived.

Comment: FBI entrapment of Muslims was useful in creating the illusion of terrorist boogeymen around every corner that the Deep State needed to continue on with their wars in the Middle East. Now, the entrapment of white male Trump supporters is being used as a means of demonizing Trump.