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An uncensored inside look at a Donald Trump rally

Peter Kizenko
The Duran
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:37 UTC
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I received a phone call from my good friend Steve (an ardent Trump supporter) Thursday morning exclaiming that Trump will be in Pennsylvania on Saturday and do I want to go. I quickly looked at the map to see where Johnstown, PA is and said I'm in.

Trump was scheduled to speak at 4:00 pm at the Cambria County War Memorial, home of the immortal ice hockey comedy Slapshot! We quickly downloaded our tickets and were advised to arrive early even though doors were opening at 1:00 pm. I woke up at 4:30 am Saturday morning to begin my trek West. As Steve said, "The Colonialists had it tougher.."

We decided on the Mohegan Sun Pocono as our meeting point and hit the road around 8:00 am. Weather forecasts called for heavy rain all day with 25 mph winds but we would not allow that to deny us. Although we hit a couple pockets of rain the storm never really materialized. (We hypothesized that the DNC had hacked the National Weather Bureau in an effort to deter attendees.) Rolling into Johnstown around noon we knew we were close when we saw a line snaking over the bridge and beyond.

Comment: You won't read about any of this in the MSM - wonder why? Or listen to: Trump is far from an ideal choice to be president. His popularity comes from the fact that much of the American middle class are disgruntled and grasping at anything that offers them hope or change. But is Donald the pied piper leading them to be drowned?

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Che Guevara

Dakota Access Pipeline protest heats up: Police fire on media drones, mass arrests, treaty rights declared


RT
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:04 UTC
Dakota Access Pipeline protesters
© Terray Sylvester / ReutersDakota Access Pipeline protesters square off against police near the Standing Rock Reservation and the pipeline route outside the little town of Saint Anthony, North Dakota, U.S., October 5, 2016.
Protests over development of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota led to more than 125 arrests and a highway blockade over the weekend, as pipeline opponents claimed "unceded territory" in the direct path of construction.

Meanwhile, local law enforcement fired on two unmanned media drones, claiming that "protesters attacked a helicopter with a drone," and that the helicopter pilot and passengers were "in fear of their lives."

The weekend developments marked a distinct heightening of tensions between self-proclaimed water protectors and law enforcement. Roadblocks went up on State Highway 1806 on Sunday, as water protectors declared eminent domain and set up a new winter camp on private land known as Cannonball Ranch. The property was recently purchased by Dakota Access pipeline company, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, developer of the pipeline.

The Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) camp coordinator Mekasi Camp-Horinek said Oceti Sakowin's new frontline camp — just east of State Highway 1806 and 2.5 miles north of the Cannonball River, along the proposed path of the pipeline — is part of an occupation that is planned to persist "until the pipeline is permanently stopped."

Comment: Pipeline protest at Sacred Stone encampment now a city of 4,000 with a growing infrastructure
Mainstream media has all but ignored the ongoing protest, despite both its ballooning size and pertinence in the continuing struggle for Native Americans fighting naked government and corporate exploitation.


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Attention

Single mother fatally shot by cops on Muckleshoot tribal land was 5 months pregnant


RT
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:01 UTC
Davis
© Renee Davis / Facebook
An investigation is underway into the fatal shooting of a single mother from the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe by Kings County police, in her home on the reservation. She was five months pregnant and was holding a gun at the time of the incident.

Renee Davis, 23, had been struggling with depression when King County deputies turned up at her home on Friday night. The reservation is located 30 miles south east of Seattle in Washington state.
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Hearts

World boxing champion Manny Pacquiao builds 1,000 homes for poor in home town

Amanda Froelich
True Activist
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Manny Pacquiao

After earning millions for fighting Floyd Mayweather, the boxer and politician used a portion of his earnings to construct homes for 1,000 poor families in his hometown.

Manny Pacquiao is more than a world-class athlete or a Filipino politician. He's a compassionate activist who paid for 1,000 homes to be built to help out underprivileged families in his hometown.

Earlier this year, Pacquiao proclaimed his good deed on Facebook:
"I'm so happy giving this houses free to my constituents in Sarangani Province from my own pocket more than thousand families are the beneficiaries."
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Network

Chinese CCTV camera firm behind Friday's internet outage threatens Western accusers with lawsuits

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:30 UTC
network DDOS attack in US
As we reported earlier today, according to Bloomberg, Internet-connected CCTV cameras made by a Chinese firm, Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology were infected with malware that allowed hackers to takeover "tens of millions" of devices and launch the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks which brought the internet across much of the US, and especially on the east coast, to a virtual crawl for hours on Friday.

As Bloomberg first reported, and many others confirmed, the company itself admitted its culpability, with the security camera maker saying "its products were used to launch a cyber-attack that severed internet access for millions of users, highlighting the threat posed by the global proliferation of connected devices. The attackers hijacked CCTV cameras made by Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co. using malware known as Mirai, the company said in an e-mailed statement. While Xiongmai didn't say how many of its products had been infiltrated, all cameras made before September 2015 were potentially vulnerable."

However, just a few hours later, the company appears to have changed its tune.

As IP Video Market reports, "the Chinese video surveillance manufacturer, Xiongmai, whose equipment numerous sources blame for driving massive Internet attacks over the past month has fired back, defending itself against allegations. Moreover, they have involved the Chinese government's Ministry of Justice threatening legal action against those defaming them."

Comment: More on this massive DDoS internet attack:

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Attention

Battle for Mosul: Iraqi army kills 772 militants, Daesh responds with terror


Sputnik
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:59 UTC
Iraqi army soldiers
© AP
Iraqi armed forces freed 74 villages and killed 772 Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh) militants in the first week of the campaign to retake Mosul, the army command said Monday.

The Iraqi government launched an offensive on October 17 to reclaim the Daesh stronghold with air support from the US-led coalition. The operation involves Kurdish forces and Sunni tribal fighters.

Twenty-three Daesh militants have been captured, the operations center said as cited by Shafaq News. Iraqi security forces seized two bomb-making factories, detonated 397 improvised explosive devices and destroyed 127 booby-trapped vehicles.

Comment: Meanwhile Daesh is responding with more terror:
Daesh Militants Throw 16 People Off Bridge in Mosul

Daesh militants have executed 16 citizens of the Iraqi Mosul, throwing them off the bridge, the source told Sputnik news agency.

On Saturday, Daesh militants executed 284 men and boys in the Mosul area amid the Iraqi army's offensive to drive the militants out of the city.
Daesh Militants Burn Pharmaceutical Plant in Iraqi Province

Militants from Daesh jihadist group burned down a pharmaceutical plant in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, near Mosul, a source told Sputnik news agency.

According to the source familiar with the matter, the plant received an international ISO certification in 2007 and was considered one of the best pharmaceutical plants in the northern part of the country.


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Most tortured prisoner at Guantanamo Bay released after 14 years without being charged

May Bulman
Independent
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:55 UTC
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mr Slahi was release on Monday 17 October after being held in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years without charge
A man who is widely regarded as the most tortured prisoner in the history of Guantanamo Bay has been released without charge after nearly 14 years.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national who wrote a best-selling memoir about life in the detention centre, was reunited with his family after US officials ruled he did not pose a strong enough threat to national security to continue his detention.

The Guantanamo Bay Diaries, published in January 2015, provided the first in-depth account of ritual humiliation and mistreatment suffered by inmates in the controversial American military prison.

In his memoir, Mr Slahi describes being shackled, blindfolded, made to stand for long periods, stripped naked, denied water and subjected to sleep deprivation, loud noise and threats of violence. In one passage he describes being sexually abused by female interrogators. In another, he wrote that he was transported out to sea, forced to drink salt water until he vomited and then beaten in the face and ribs while immersed in ice to hide the bruising.
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Stock Up

Social Media Patterns Show Landslide Victory for Trump

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:44 UTC
landslide
Current polls show the race for President is much tighter than it really is. Ann Coulter warned us years ago in her best seller Slander that Democrats and the liberal media always use polls to manipulate and discourage conservatives from voting. Thanks to social media there is more and more evidence that the polls are way off and if things stay as they are, Trump will win in a landslide!

It's evident Hillary has a hard time filling a Union Hall while Trump regularly turns people away from his stadium and arena venues.

Now this - Analysis from social media provides additional support that Trump is likely to win in a landslide.

So how bad is it?

Evidence from 'The Truth Division' shows that if you look at social media, Trump is killing Hillary!

Comment: Political Science prof Helmut Norpoth: Trump has an 87% chance of defeating Killary.


Here's one of the latest polls, from Investor's Business Daily:
poll
Basically, they're showing Trump and Clinton in a dead heat, so that they can swing the election like they did in 2000. "So close!"

See also:

Mainstream media unanimously supports Killary, but online polls suggest huge majority of Americans support Trump

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After embassy banned Assange from internet usage, Anonymous retaliates by taking down Ecuadorian govt webmail


RT
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 03:29 UTC
anonymous
© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Hacktivist group Anonymous said it had shut down the Ecuadorian government mail in retaliation for its decision to cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet connection for the period of the US presidential elections.

"Shut Down The Internet; We'll Shut Down Your Communications!" read the tweet posted by Anonymous on Sunday night.

The claim, supported by a screenshot with "connection timed out" messages in response to the pinging of the supposed government address/port, could not be immediately verified.

The Ecuadorian Embassy in London disabled Assange's internet access on Monday after WikiLeaks published a new batch of leaks from Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta.
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Platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles and Google AMP will discourage small independent web publishers

Jan Dawson
ReCode
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:47 UTC
internet publishing platforms phone
© Facebook
Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s.

One of the wonderful things about the rise of the web, twenty-something years ago, was the way in which it democratized publishing — suddenly, anyone with an idea could set up a website and make it available to anyone. Early on, publishing online required at least a rudimentary understanding of code. To be an online writer meant you also had to be a coder. But, services quickly emerged that created WYSIWYG editors for online publications, so literally anyone who had used a word processor could create online content.

Recently, however, we've seen the rise of proprietary formats like Google's AMP, Facebook's Instant Articles and the Apple News Format, which threaten to de-democratize publishing on the web. To be clear, I'm not making a philosophical argument about the closed nature of these platforms but something much more practical: Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s.

Comment: Yet another way to control information access.

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