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Fomenting chaos: SPLC declares three of US' largest Army bases as Confederate monuments that activists need to 'take down'

Peter Hasson
The Daily Caller
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:48 UTC
Fort Bragg
© Reuters / Erich SchlegelSergeant First Class Erick Rodriguez stands guard before a news conference at Fort Hood, Texas April 2, 2014.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has declared three of America's largest Army bases Confederate monuments "with the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed" if activists don't "take down" the Army bases.

The SPLC included Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Benning in Georgia on a list of 1,500 "Confederate monuments" that the SPLC claims could inspire more violence like what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia last month. All three bases are named after Confederate military leaders.

The list makes no mention of renaming namesakes of Confederate monuments; taking the monuments down is presented as the only option. The recent leftist campaign against Confederate namesakes and monuments has included a willingness among some far-left actors to destroy government property to accomplish their goals.

Comment: Stirring the pot: SPLC warns of turmoil as it publishes new 'hate map' identifying Confederate monuments, cities and schools

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Florida Democrat election official: Non-citizens, felons possibly voted in elections

Fred Lucas
The Daily Signal
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:58 UTC
Brenda Snipes
© Marsha Halper/Miami Herald/Sipa Press/NewscomBroward County, Florida, Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes is pictured here at the county's Emergency Operations Center at the time of the 2004 elections.
A veteran Democrat chief election official in Florida has conceded in court that noncitizens and felons possibly voted, in a case that could have national implications for how localities clean up voter rolls.

Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes is defending her office against a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Rights Union, a conservative legal group that contends there are more voters registered on Broward's rolls than there are eligible voters in the county.

Those rolls are said to be inflated with not only noncitizens and felons, but also other ineligible people who have voted illegally.

On July 31, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that, in court, "Snipes acknowledged the processes her office [has] been using aren't perfect and that some noncitizens and felons have voted despite not being eligible - especially right before major elections, when groups are actively registering new voters."
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Red Flag

More Dicamba devastation: 'Miracle' weed killer that was supposed to save farms is killing them instead

Caitlin Dewey
The Independent
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:47 UTC
farmers
© The Washington PostMan-made disaster raises serious questions about the state of US agriculture
Controversial herbicide dicamba found to poison crops as well as pigweed chemical was intended to root out

Clay Mayes slams on the brakes of his Chevy Silverado and jumps out with the engine running, yelling at a dogwood by the side of the dirt road as if it said something insulting.

Its leaves curl downward and in on themselves like tiny, broken umbrellas. It's the telltale mark of inadvertent exposure to a controversial herbicide called dicamba.

"This is crazy. Crazy!" shouts Mayes, a farm manager, gesticulating toward the shrivelled canopy off Highway 61. "I just think if this keeps going on..."

"Everything'll be dead," says Brian Smith, his passenger.

Comment: More on Monsanto's Dicamba 'devastation':

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Israeli high court: Same-sex marriage not a right


Sputnik
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:54 UTC
lgbt israel
© AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit
Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that same sex marriage is not a right, rejecting the Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association's argument that same sex marriage should be allowed under the country's Basic Law of Human Dignity and Liberty.

Justice Elyakim Rubinstein spoke on the ruling, saying, "To all intents and purposes, Israeli civil law does not recognise same-sex marriage," according to Pink News. "Therefore, the petitioners' request to have the civil court rule on something under the jurisdiction of the rabbinical courts, which applies under certain conditions, is not applicable here ... In essence, the petitioners are asking the court to recognise same-sex marriage via court ruling, despite the fact that Israeli law does not recognise it."

The ruling was reached unanimously by Supreme Court Justices Rubinstein, Anat Baron and Neal Handel. The verdict states that under Israeli law, rabbinical courts hold the final word on marriages, and that since the High Court is not an ecclesiastical institution it has no right to allow such a ruling.
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L'Oreal fires first transgender model after racist "all white people are racist" Facebook rant

Chloe Kerr and Jon Lockett
UK Sun
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:43 UTC
Munroe Bergdorf
A transgender model who claimed "ALL white people are racist" in a shocking Facebook rant days after being unveiled in her new role has been sacked by her bosses.

Munroe Bergdorf, 29, was billed as "the face of modern diversity" and was one of five ambassadors to be added to L'Oreal's "YoursTruly True Match" campaign.

But she has now been dropped from her new role as the beauty company says the outrageous comments are at odds with its values.

She reportedly wrote: "Honestly I don't have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people.

"Because most of ya'll don't even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour.

"Your entire existence is drenched in racism. From micro-aggression to terrorism, you guys built the blueprint for this s***.
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Twitterverse roasts CNN's Jim Acosta for tweet on fake news Russia story

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:36 UTC
Jim Acosta CNN
© CNNCNN "journalist" Jim Acosta
Very fake news CNN's Jim Acosta decided to pivot back to the Russian collusion hoax after pushing the Trump-is-a-racist narrative for weeks.

CNN has invested a lot of time on the Russian collusion conspiracy even though they privately admit it's a 'nothing burger', but ratings ratings ratings!

Jim Acosta sent out a tweet Wednesday, "CNN: The Kremlin confirms it received Trump attorney Michael Cohen's email about a Moscow real estate deal."

Acosta is referring to a non story where Trump's lawyer sent an email to Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov about a real estate deal in Moscow that went UNANSWERED. Of course Jim Acosta forgot to mention that. What law is Trump's lawyer breaking? How does this unanswered email even create a news story? Well, if you're a fake news organization like CNN that spent countless hours pushing a Russian conspiracy, you will hang onto everything as long as the word 'Putin' or 'Russia' is in the story. Pathetic.

Comment: US President-elect's first press conference: Slams BuzzFeed as 'failing pile of garbage' - Rejects question from CNN, telling reporter 'you are fake news'

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Smoking

Too much time on his hands: NYC mayor introduces 7 new bills to eradicate smoking


Metro
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:11 UTC
cigarrette
© iStockA series of seven bills aims to reduce the number of smokers in New York City by 2020.
In an effort to get New Yorkers to quit smoking, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday announced seven bills aimed to cut the number of those addicted to the vice by 160,000 by 2020.

The legislation includes raising the minimum price of tobacco, including increasing per-pack prices to $13 from $10.50, which is expected to raise $1 million for public housing; limiting the number of retailers with tobacco licenses and cutting the current retailer number in half; creating a retail license for e-cigarettes and capping the number of those licenses; upping the cigarette license fee to $200 from $110; requiring residential building owners to create and disclose a smoking policy to current and future residents; banning smoking in building common areas; and barring pharmacies from selling tobacco products, which would begin when current licenses expire next year.

"Even though tobacco is a leading cause of premature death across the country, Big Tobacco will stop at nothing to hook people on these deadly products," de Blasio said in a statement. "We are sending a loud and clear message that we will not let their greed kill any more New Yorkers without a fight. These new laws will not only help reduce the number of smokers in our city, but also save lives."
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Latest BLS data shows Americans spent more on taxes in 2016 than food and clothing combined

Terence P. Jeffrey
CNS News
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:18 UTC
american taxes expenditures 2016
Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2016 than they did on food and clothing combined, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The same data also shows that in three years-from 2013 to 2016-the average tax bill for Americans increased 41.13 percent.

In 2016, according to BLS, "consumer units" (which include families, financially independent individuals, and people living in a single household who share expenses) spent more on average on federal, state and local taxes ($10,489) than they did on food ($7,203) and clothing ($1,803) combined ($9,006).

The average tax bill for American "consumer units" increased from $7,423 in 2013 to $10,489 in 2016, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Comment: Per capita taxes have more than doubled since JFK held office

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Pepe the frog illustrator forces author to withdraw 'hate book' from sale, wants all profits to go to Muslim charity


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:44 UTC
Pepe the frog
© Wikipedia
The artist behind the Pepe the Frog character has forced the author of a controversial book, which some believe depicts the cartoon as a hateful Islamophobe, to withdraw it from sale, demanding all the profits go to the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US.

Matt Furie, who came up with Pepe in the early 2000s as part of a comic series, exercised his intellectual property rights over the cartoon to stop the distribution of Eric Hauser's book, 'The Adventures of Pepe and Pede.'

The children's book "espoused racist, Islamophobic and hate-filled themes, included allusions to the alt-right movement and was deliberately targeted at children," according to the statement released by the WilmerHale law firm which is representing Furie.

Pepe was intended to be a "chill frog-dude" but was hijacked by the alt-right online and turned into a hate symbol, his creator said.
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Yale: Whitewashing of history on campus continues

Kyle Smith
National Review
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 02:51 UTC
Yale campus
© fox61.comYale University
Whatever the campus mob wants, the campus mob gets.

Yale Puritan Indian
© nationalreview.combefore and after
Yale's determination to take a giant jar of Wite-Out to history has reached a new level of fatuousness. This week the Yale Alumni Magazine reported that a stone carving of an Indian and a Puritan over an entrance to Sterling Memorial Library had been bowdlerized, with the weapon the latter was holding covered up. A head librarian, Susan Gibbons, said that she and the university's Committee on Art in Public Spaces found that the carving's "presence at a major entrance to Sterling was not appropriate." Yale ordered the musket of the Puritan to be covered up with a layer of stone that Gibbons said "can be removed in the future without damaging the original carving," the magazine reported.

It's instructive that even as Yale's administration rampages through history with a censor's eye and a vandal's paint pot, someone like Gibbons can tacitly acknowledge that the hysteria might die down in some future generation and that we should therefore make some of the cover-ups reversible. At the same time, though, it's impossible not to rue the irony of a period when librarians take on the duties of literally covering up the past. Perhaps the definition of librarian will gradually morph over the coming decades to "one who protects us from the historical record."

Comment: Mob mentality is never very good, not even intellectual mob mentality. What should not be tolerated is the intolerance for history past. It tells you where you came from, the struggles of ancestors and the fortitude, courage, foresight they had to offer future generations by example - good or bad. No matter the bias of today that is turning ugly and destructive, the past is not erasable, but apparently the lessons it teaches are. In that case, we were never here at all.

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