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1999 Dan Rather interview on Bill Clinton sexual assault allegations exposes media's Democrat bias

Matt Vespa
Town Hall
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:53 UTC
Dan Rather
We're not excusing what Roy Moore is accused of - it's ghastly. The man is accused of being inappropriate with multiple women; with another, a Trump voter, claiming he sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old. The Republican Party had abandoned Moore; the optics of this is just too terrible to maintain support.

It gets worse; Guy wrote today about how this man was banned from a Gadsden mall because he was trolling for high school dates and badgering teenage girls in the process. All of the accusers were teenagers at the time. Yet, one thing the Media Research Center observed was the coverage. Societies mature and change, and yes, maybe it's a good thing that when a woman comes forward with her story about sexual assault, they're not attacked.

That was not the case when Bill Clinton had sexual assault allegations hurled in his direction. And the media mostly fell silent in reporting the allegations. Tim Graham of Newsbusters even found an old 1999 clip from Don Imus' then-radio show, in which Dan Rather, pre-Killian Documents, said that even if the Juanita Broaddrick allegations are true, it was a long time ago, and that we should move on:


Comment: All of the allegations against Moore have something in common, timing. This fact should not be ignored when looking at the individual cases.


Comment: As the author points out, it's not just the allegations that are of interest here. Democrats by and large get preferential treatment by the media, because of their mostly Democrat owners, editors, and writers. So, are these Moore allegations another nothingburger designed to hurt a potential Trump ally, or is there something to them?

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British parents withdrawing kids from school trips to mosques - council responds by "cracking down" on Islamophobia

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:17 UTC
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A council in Britain is taking action to crack down on "Islamophobia" in response to some parents refusing to send their children on mosque visits arranged by schools.

After it emerged that some pupils were being prevented from going on school trips to mosques by their families, Staffordshire's Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) produced a document claiming mosque visits are vital in preparing children for life in "diverse" Britain.

While families have the right to remove their children from school trips, SACRE said it was a "serious matter" that pupils have been withdrawn from mosque visits. Some parents have cited concerns over cost and safety in their requests, while others deplored a "political agenda" behind the activities, according to the Stoke Sentinel.

To counter this trend, SACRE is issuing schools with guidance on how to counter the trend, which includes a template letter to parents claiming that mosque visits play an important role in "helping to prepare and equip pupils for life and citizenship in today's diverse and plural Britain".

Comment: Both responses are to be expected (the parents' refusal, and the charge of Islamophobia). Just image if parents refused to let their children visit the synagogue!

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Red Flag

Opioid crisis leads Canada to consider offering heroin to drug addicts outside of hospitals


RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:37 UTC
heroin needle
© Michael Weber / Global Look Press
The Canadian Health Ministry is proposing that heroin be administered to drug addicts outside hospitals. Canada says that it is battling a severe public-health crisis which could kill over 3,000 people due to opioid overdoses this year.

Health Canada suggested "remov[ing] some of the regulatory restrictions specific to diacetylmorphine [pharmaceutical grade heroin] in the Narcotic Control Regulations," the ministry said in a statement.

"These proposed changes would allow [heroin] to be administered to patients outside of a hospital setting and provide an additional treatment option for healthcare providers," it added. According to the proposed amendments, heroin-assisted treatment can be considered part of a "comprehensive treatment plan that could include other related services, such as primary healthcare and counseling."
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UCLA players thank Trump and China after negotiating their release for shoplifting near Shanghai


RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:16 UTC
UCLA Players
© Lucy Nicholson / NASAUCLA basketball players Cody Riley, LiAngelo Ball and Jalen Hill speak at a press conference
The three UCLA basketball players who were arrested in China thanked President Donald Trump for negotiating their release. They also face an indefinite suspension over accusations of shoplifting.

Cody Riley, Jalen Hill and LiAngelo Ball, the younger brother of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, appeared next to UCLA head coach Steve Alford at a press conference on Wednesday. The players admitted to misconduct, apologized, and thanked the authorities, the school and President Trump for securing their release.

The three freshmen were arrested on November 7 on suspicion of stealing from a Louis Vuitton store near the Hyatt Regency hotel in Hangzhou, where the UCLA and Georgia Tech teams were staying ahead of their season-opening game in Shanghai. UCLA has indefinitely suspended Ball, Riley and Hill over the incident.

Comment: Not only is it juvenile to shoplift, it's incredibly insulting to do so as a guest in another country. These young men are very lucky that the Chinese authorities decided to extended more courtesy than these players were able to demonstrate themselves.

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Pentagon report finds US Army failed to report up to 20% of crimes to FBI


RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:54 UTC
us army
© Saba Al-Bazee / Reuters
After an Air Force veteran with a criminal history was able to buy guns and kill 29 people in a Texas church, a Pentagon-wide investigation found that the Army is failing to alert the FBI about soldiers' criminal histories in a "significant amount" of cases.

On Wednesday, Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, told Pentagon reporters that there have been "gaps and failures" on the part of the Army to report the criminal activity of soldiers to federal civilian law enforcement agencies.

"The data I saw, and again we are drilling into it to make sure it's accurate, we have a significant amount of omissions that concern the secretary and I, and it clearly tells us that we need to tighten up as well," Milley said, according to CNN.
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No Entry

Comply with the law or else: DOJ sends memo to 29 'sanctuary' cities


RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:54 UTC
border patrol immigrant
© Mike Blake / ReutersU.S. border patrol agents detain a man after he was spotted crossing illegally into the United States along the Mexican border near Calexico, California, U.S.
The Justice Department is ramping up efforts to force so-called "sanctuary cities" to comply with federal law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo giving 29 jurisdictions until December 8 to prove their compliance, or lose federal funding.

"Jurisdictions that adopt so-called 'sanctuary policies' also adopt the view that the protection of criminal aliens is more important than the protection of law-abiding citizens and of the rule of law," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. "I urge all jurisdictions found to be potentially out of compliance in this preliminary review to reconsider their policies that undermine the safety of their residents. We urge jurisdictions to not only comply with Section 1373, but also to establish sensible and effective partnerships to properly process criminal aliens."

Section 1373 is a federal statute regulating local cooperation with federal immigration officials. Compliance with 8 US Code Section 1373 is required before the DOJ can disburse the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant funding.
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Venezuelan company found burying alive millions of healthy chicks to drive up prices amid food shortage

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:30 UTC
baby chicks
Despite a food shortage in Venezuela, Protinal Proagro, a company which has received millions of dollars to produce food has been caught burying alive millions of healthy chicks.

Carlos Herrera, an editor for Argentina-based Primicias 24, revealed:
"What is happening in the process is that once the chicks are hatched and out of the incubators, they are not being dispatched to chicken farms to grow and mature and then distributed into the food chain on the national level ... but they are being diverted and buried alive in mass graves so as to contribute to the shortage of chicken and eggs for the population and by extension cause price rises and inflation."
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Red Flag

The postmodern rules of sexuality are like having an ashtray with a no-smoking sign

Slavoj Žižek
RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:13 UTC
me too protest
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Women's protests are a great awakening, but with many dangers. It could eventually be a case of rules being made to be broken.

Last week, the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler helped organize an, outwardly straightforward, conference in São Paulo, Brazil. Butler may be well-known for her work on transgenderism, but the title of the event was 'The Ends of Democracy' and thus had nothing to do with the topic. Yet, nevertheless, a crowd of right-wing protesters gathered outside the venue where they burned an effigy of Butler while shouting "Queimem a bruxa!" (Portuguese for "Burn the witch!").

This weird incident is the latest in a long series, which prove that sexual difference is today politicized in two complementary ways: the transgender fluidification of gender identities and the resulting conservative backlash.

Indeed, the famous description of the capitalist dynamics in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto should be supplemented by the fact that global capitalism has seen sexual "one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible." And that, also in the domain of sexual practices, "all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned." Because perhaps capitalism tends to replace the standard normative heterosexuality with a proliferation of unstable shifting identities and/or orientations?
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US puppet agency WADA declares Russian anti-doping org 'non-compliant' - Russian sports minister calls decision 'politicized'


RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:00 UTC
rusada
© Anton Denisov / Sputnik
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has decided at a meeting of its Foundation Board on Thursday against reinstating RUSADA after the Russian organization was declared still "non-compliant" with the WADA code.

"WADA Foundation Board approves the recommendation by the Independent Compliance Review Committee that RUSADA remain non-compliant," WADA wrote on Twitter.

Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov denounced the decision by WADA's Foundation Board, saying that the two roadmap demands Russia did not meet, according to the ruling, are politicized. Those are to acknowledge an existence of a state-sponsored doping program in Russia, and to provide access for WADA officers to the sealed Moscow laboratory.

"These two demands are obviously of a political nature," Kolobkov said, as cited by R-Sport.
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Mexican drug cartels have gained a stronghold in Texas, reaching far beyond the border


RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 04:25 UTC
drug bust texas
© Eric Thayer / ReutersA car filled with bales of marijuana is seen at a police station in La Grulla, Texas

A new report reveals that a half-dozen Mexican drug cartels have gained a stronghold in the state of Texas that reaches far and wide. This after mass arrests of Mexican mafia members and confiscations of their drugs and firearms in California.

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration's 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment reveals that six Mexican drug cartels have a far-reaching stranglehold over several Texas cities. It also finds that Mexican cartels now smuggle more drugs into the US than any other criminal organization.

One of the criminal groups, the Gulf Cartel, has a hold on Texas cities such as McAllen, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Houston and Beaumont in the state's tip and coastal bend area. The group mostly brings in marijuana and cocaine in through between the Rio Grande Valley and South Padre Island in Texas.

Comment: Hidden hand of the US government / CIA?

El Chapo Guzmán, Washington's Drug Problem, and the North American Police State
On their way to becoming multinational operators, the cartels had the help of the self-styled 'masters of the universe' in Wall Street and the CIA. Without their involvement they could never have 'made it'. High-level US involvement was present throughout the cartels' rise. Long before the cartels came on the scene, these usual suspects were already long in the game. In a very real way, the cartels are merely the Latin American arm of a very North American business.
See also: U.S. government and top Mexican drug cartel exposed as partners

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