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Why do they hate Tucker Carlson?

Justin Raimondo
AntiWar.com
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson
Because he's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.

No one is allowed to dissent from the official Establishment line: that's the new dispensation in the media, and it is being enforced by the political class, which has launched a series of smear campaigns against anyone who dares question the conventional wisdom. Anyone who questions the veracity of the media, starting with our President, is deemed an "enemy of democracy," because the media is supposed to be the foundation stone of a free society.

But what happens when the media becomes an instrument in the hands of Power, a weapon in the arsenal of a Deep State intent on exercising its veto over our democratically elected government?

That's a question fake-"libertarian" Conor Friedersdorf doesn't want you to even contemplate. Why? Because then, like Tucker Carlson, you'd be "hurting America." That's right, folks: "Tucker Carlson is Hurting America Again"! Yes, again!

Oh, when will they make it stop?

Comment: Carlson types have become the sticker-faces for the self-righteous.

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Video shows French priest slap baby during baptism


Fox5
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 07:26 UTC
French priest slaps baby during baptism
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A Reddit user has posted a video showing a priest slapping a baby during a baptism.

The video, which was also posted on YouTube, has a French title that translates to "A priest slaps an infant during his baptism."

At first, the 43-second video clip shows the priest, who is speaking French, attempting to comfort the crying baby.

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US cities see spike in cheating spouses

Ashley May
USA Today
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:35 UTC
Ashley Madison
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Cheating husbands and wives might be most common in Seattle, according to a report from infidelity website Ashley Madison.

The dating site for married men and women analyzed its 2017 data, and revealed which cities had the most member signups per capita in a release shared with USA TODAY. The data specifically was pulled from the summer of 2017 and also found that women signups hit an all-time high in July.

"We know that these women are coming to our site because we provide a discreet platform for like-minded adults to connect and potentially meet," Ashley Madison's president and CTO Ruben Buell said in a statement.

Seattle's top spot might be partly because it is the birthplace of Starbucks, Ashley Madison suggests, as the coffee chain has the most used gift cards by men who purchase credits on the website.
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Outspoken fmr Secret Service agent Gary Byrne files civil RICO suit against Hillary and Bill, Clinton Foundation, Podesta and Soros

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:08 UTC
killary cartoon
Conspiracy theorists (and conspiracy factists) are running wild as infamously outspoken former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne has filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) suit against what some call the Democrat Deep State.

Defendants in the case include:
CLINTON FOUNDATION, CLINTON-GIUSTRA ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP, MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA, CORRECT THE RECORD, AMERICAN BRIDGE 21ST CENTURY, CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON, SHAREBLUE, DAVID BROCK, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, GEORGE SOROS, JOHN PODESTA,JONATHAN WACKROW, JAN GILOOLY and CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE.
Quite a rogue's gallery.
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Unfit for travel: Nazi-saluting drunk tries to escape on tug vehicle after EasyJet rampage


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:42 UTC
EasyJet
© Emmanuele Contini/Global Look Press
A Northern Irish native has been sentenced to three months in jail by Antrim Magistrate's Court after abusing and attacking staff during a drunken rampage, before trying to get away on an airport tug vehicle.

Paul Anthony Burgoyne, 51, who resides in Shepshed, Leicestershire pleaded guilty to a total of nine offenses on Tuesday, which included common assault and recklessly endangering the safety of an aircraft. He was also fined £500 ($660) and ordered to pay £600 ($795) to the plane's captain, according to Leicestershire Live.

The commotion started on a flight from George Best Belfast City Airport to Birmingham, where Burgoyne became enraged after flight crew for the budget airline requested that he open a neighboring window blind prior to take-off.

Perturbed by what he apparently considered to be a dictatorial request, Burgoyne reacted by raising his right arm with a straightened hand and shouting: "Alright, mein Fuhrer" - a reference to the greeting reserved for the ruler of Nazi-era Germany, Adolf Hitler.
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The Israeli Occupation: 10 normal things Palestinians are prevented from doing

Adam Hamze
The Huffington Post
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:32 UTC
protest palestine
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A protest in London on Nov. 17, 2012 against Israeli attacks on Gaza.
It affects almost all aspects of their lives.

The Israeli government and some U.S. politicians are attacking the Obama administration for permitting a recent U.N. Security Council resolution that condemns Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Secretary of State John Kerry faced further ire on Wednesday after saying the settlements threaten prospects for peace in the region.

Yet part of the reason the administration decided to speak out forcefully about the settlements is because they are such a key feature of Israel's occupation ― now approaching its 50th year. The occupation affects almost every aspect of Palestinians' lives in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
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US lawmakers question Google's partnership with China over Huawei ties


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:37 UTC
huawei
© Philippe Wojazer / Reuters
US lawmakers have questioned Google's "strategic partnership" with Chinese major smartphone producer Huawei saying it "could pose a serious risk to US national security" and American consumers.

Huawei, which is the world's third-largest smartphone maker by market share, is running the Google-owned Android operating system on its devices. In January, Google and Huawei signed a partnership to work on a new standard of mobile phone messaging.

"We urge you to reconsider Google's partnership with Huawei, particularly since your company recently refused to renew a key research partnership, Project Maven, with the Department of Defense. This project uses artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of US military targeting, not least to reduce civilian casualties," said a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai signed by both Republican and Democrat lawmakers.
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NSA moves all its top secret data to cloud developed by Amazon


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:27 UTC
NSA headquarters
© Reuters
The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland
The US National Security Agency is "systematically moving" all its data to a cloud-computing service, the chief information officer has said. In 2017 alone the agency tripled collection of data through US telecom companies.

The cloud - designed to harvest and store all sorts of NSA-relevant data, including foreign surveillance and intelligence information around the world - offers easy access to the data to "connect dots," Greg Smithberger told NextGov.

Centrally funded by the NSA, all data stored in this cloud will be available to all of the 16 other agencies.
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Family

Poll finds majority of Americans support Trump and blame immigrant parents for child detention crisis


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:28 UTC
texas detention center
© Mike Blake / Reuters
A new Rasmussen poll has found that a majority of Americans side with President Donald Trump, and blame illegal immigrant parents for the current child detention crisis at the Mexican border.

According to the poll, 54 percent of likely voters said that the parents of detained children are to blame for knowingly breaking the law in the first place. Only 35 percent blame the Trump administration for the crisis.

The President has come under fire in recent weeks from Democrats, celebrities, and the Twitter #resistance for his administration's policy of separating the children of illegal immigrants from their parents and detaining them.

As his administration struggles to secure Democrat votes for a new immigration bill, President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending the policy of separating children from their law-breaking parents. The new order allows families to be detained together, except "when there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child's alien parent would pose a risk to the child's welfare."
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'Social problem'? Sexual assaults have permanently shut down Sweden's largest music festival


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:29 UTC
Bravalla Festival in Norrkoping, Sweden
© Izabelle Nordfjell / Reuters
A police officer at the campsite at Bravalla Festival in Norrkoping, Sweden
Organizers of Sweden's largest music festival say they have permanently pulled the plug on the annual event after it became plagued by sex assaults.

Once Sweden's largest four-day musical event, the Bravalla Music Festival was not held this year, after dozens of women and girls reported that they had been sexually assaulted at last year's event.

Kajsa Apelqvist, who heads public relations for FKP Scorpio, the festival's organizer, said there was no plans to bring the event back in 2019. "It's a very disappointing decision to take, but the overall picture we have is that we cannot develop the festival in the way we want to be relevant to our visitors in the future," Apelqvist told Sweden's Norrköpings Tidningar.

When asked about the sex attacks reported at the 2017 event, Apelqvist said: "We have always claimed that it is not a festival problem but a social problem. How we ensure our visitors' safety is something we are constantly developing, and that's something we'll never finish."

Last year, Swedish police received four rape and 23 sexual assault reports during the festival. In 2016, there were five reports of rapes and at least 12 of sexual molestation.
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