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New York Times bigot Sarah Jeong trashed the New York Times, repeatedly

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:16 UTC
Sarah Jeong
© Spencer Platt/Getty Images, Twitter/@sarahjeong
The New York Times went out on a limb to defend its new hire, Sarah Jeong, after the far-left writer's long history of racist tweets drew public attention. Since then, more posts have surfaced showing Jeong's history of trashing the very newspaper that now defends her.

Before being hired to serve on the paper's editorial board, Jeong made a hobby of publicly trashing the New York Times and its columnists. As Jeong said in 2013:


Jeong's ham-fisted excuse for her racist tweets, which include multiple tweets comparing white people to dogs and another expressing "joy" in being "cruel to old white men," was that she was "imitating the rhetoric" of trolls who attacked her. The New York Times uncritically repeated that excuse in its statement defending Jeong. It's unclear how her attacks on the paper follow the same logic, unless there's some hitherto unknown pro-Times sentiment among the web's trolling communities.


Comment: Good point. Perhaps her being a 'female minority' helps them to fill their 'diversity and equity' quotas. NYT claims they 'reviewed her social media history' so her stance wouldn't be unknown to them. Why isn't this an issue?


As recently as last year, Jeong was making flippant, celebratory comments about a lawsuit against her future employer.


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Heart - Black

WWII-era plane crash kills all 20 aboard in Swiss Alps


RT
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:05 UTC
swiss plane crash alps
© FILE PHOTO Credit: JU Air
Twenty people have died in a crash involving an old-time German-built Ju-52 plane, operated by a company offering panoramic flights over the Swiss Alpine resort of Flims, local police confirmed.

A turboprop Junkers Ju-52 transport plane - capable of seating 17 passengers as well as two pilots and one flight attendant - went down over the Swiss Alps on Saturday.

Earlier, local media reported that the adventure flight was fully booked. Ju-Air, a company which offers observation tours in the retro planes, said on Saturday that one of its aircraft was involved in an accident.

Comment: It seems like there are a lot of aircraft crashes lately - the links below are just some of the stories from 2018 - but is that really the case or is just because we're more likely to hear about them? If there has been an increase in crashes, is it because something is changing in our atmosphere making them more vulnerable?

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Pistol

NRA facing a financial crisis, it states, in lawsuit against New York State officials

Shannon Van Sant and Brian Mann
NPR
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:12 UTC
NRA advertisement
© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe National Rifle Association, which held its annual meeting in Dallas in May, has filed a lawsuit against New York state officials claiming they are pressuring financial institutions to stop doing business with the organization.
The National Rifle Association says it could soon face a financial crisis that will force it to shut down some of its operations, including broadcasts by its NRA TV division. The gun rights group blames a campaign by Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo aimed at discouraging insurance companies and other financial institutions from doing business with the NRA.

The organization has filed a lawsuit against Cuomo and the New York State Department of Financial Services in federal court, alleging that Cuomo and state regulators seek to "deprive the NRA and its constituents of their First Amendment rights to speak freely about gun-related issues and defend the Second Amendment."

Brian Mann, who reports for NPR and North Country Public Radio, says the suit claims Cuomo's actions could "deprive the NRA" of banking, insurance and other financial services that are "essential to the NRA's corporate existence."

Comment: See also:

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Wolf

Anti-Marxist and Leftist rally groups scuffle at Berkeley park - several arrests made


RT
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:41 UTC
antifa scuffle berkeley
© Ruptly
Berkeley police have arrested several people as scuffles broke out during two opposing rallies in downtown Berkeley, California. One demo is against Marxism in America, the other group is counter protesters.

Seventeen people were arrested in connection with Sunday protests, Berkeley police said, posting the offenders' mugshots on its Twitter page. Most were detained for possessing banned weapons, battery, vandalism and working with others to commit a crime.

The epicenter of the protest was Civic Center Park where several scuffles broke out.
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Attention

Guardians of the Magnitsky myth wield the hammer of censorship

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:02 UTC
browder
© ReutersBill Browder in the US Senate
In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don't hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reported Robert Parry on Oct. 28, 2017.

As Russia-gate becomes the go-to excuse to marginalize and suppress independent and dissident media in the United States, a warning of what the future holds is the blacklisting of a documentary that debunks the so-called Magnitsky case.

The emerging outlines of the broader suppression are now apparent in moves by major technology companies - under intense political pressure - to unleash algorithms that will hunt down what major media outlets and mainstream "fact-checkers" (with their own checkered histories of getting facts wrong) deem to be "false" and then stigmatize that information with pop-up "warnings" or simply make finding it difficult for readers using major search engines.

Comment: Browder is a greedy, lying weasel who happens to have enough money to be able shut down most of his critics. Truth will out in the end.

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Heart - Black

Sick cop who sexually assaulted a young boy to make child porn will not go to jail, gets deal instead

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 14:09 UTC
sicko cop Donald Fair
45-year-old Donald Fair, a former El Paso County Sheriff's deputy, is avoiding jail time after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting a young boy by creating child pornography and sharing it on the internet. Fair struck a deal with prosecutors where he will receive 10 years of probation and be put on the sex offender registry.

According to CBS, the Colorado Springs Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children unit was contacted by the Department of Homeland Security in August 2017, regarding a tip they received about possible child exploitation happening in the area. Interpol reportedly matched Fair's IP address with that of a child pornography distributor.

Fair reportedly took explicit images of a young boy and posted them on a dark-web pedophilia site with the caption "If this interests you, email me back ... and we can talk."

After his arrest, The El Paso County Sheriff's Department made the following statement:
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Briefcase

Russiagate again exposed as farce in court - Judge Ellis loses patience with bumbling Mueller prosecutors

Colin Kalmbacher
Law & Crime
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:08 UTC
Judge T.S. Ellis
© Diego M. Radzinschi/The National Law JournalT.S. Ellis, III, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Va, at the Investiture ceremony of Stuart Nash to be Associate Judge at the D.C. Superior Court. June 4, 2010.
Paul Manafort's third day on trial over charges of bank fraud and tax evasion was cut a bit short on Thursday after government attorneys made the same mistake twice in a row.

The last witness called to the stand was J. Philip Ayliff, a certified public accountant (CPA) at Paul Manafort's long-serving tax-preparation agency, Kositzka, Wicks and Co. (KWC), of Richmond, Virginia. As time inched along during the last witness's testimony, nothing of particular interest seemed to be occurring at all.

Ayliff was mostly providing foundational testimony regarding the basic functions of a tax-preparation company. Prosecutors then moved on to specifics and attempted to "publish" one of Manafort's e-file forms. Judge T.S. Ellis III's weariness all but amazed the courtroom as he denied the request-complete with an actual and pronounced finger-wag-before shouting:
"No! You move it along!"
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Eye 2

Al-Nusra terrorists in Idlib reject Turkey's demand to disband


Sputnik
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 16:48 UTC
Al-Nusra ISIS Syria
© Flickr /coolloud/Sputnik/FileAl-Nusra Front terrorists with ISIS flag.
In February 2018, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged that the Turkish army will do its best to destroy the threat of terrorism in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib.

Militants from Al-Nusra Front* have rejected Turkey's demand for dissolution of the terrorist group's units in Idlib province in Syria's northwest, according to the Syrian newspaper Al-Watan.

The developments came after Ankara demanded that al-Nusra Front militants join the so-called "Northern Syrian Army," which is being formed by the Turkish military.

Also, Turkey urged al-Nusra Front's foreign mercenaries to return to the countries from which they arrived and surrender to the law enforcement agencies there.
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Snowflake

Wilfrid Laurier University still unspeakably clueless: Trading 'free speech' for 'better speech'

Rex Murphy
The National Post
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:21 UTC
lindsay shepherd
© Dave Abel/Toronto Sun/PostmediaTeaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd speaks at a rally in support of free speech at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., on Nov. 24, 2017.
It's only when progressives lose control of an issue that they agree to even have it discussed. This is then called a conversation

The president of Wilfrid Laurier University recently published a statement on free speech at Laurier and in the academy generally. It was a sad effort.

She built a Giza-sized pyramid of clichés and virtue-speak about something she was pleased to call "better speech" - as opposed to that decayed old concept, hustled by the likes of John Stuart Mill, Voltaire, and the framers of the American Constitution, known as "free speech."

Amid the vast waste of anodynes, platitudes and non-sequiturs, it was difficult to pick out a winner - the most tired, numb and vacant verbalism. But I struggled and chose, from her opening sentence, her claim that Laurier "has been at the centre of the campus free-speech conversation during the past year."
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Light Sabers

Trump mocks LeBron James in Twitter rant over unfounded accusations of stirring racial tensions


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 17:21 UTC
trump and LeBron James
© Oliver Contreras / GLOBAL LOOK PRESS / USA Today Sports / Reuters / Global Look Press
Donald Trump has issued the latest barb in his spat with NBA star LeBron James, responding to an interview the basketballer did with CNN in which he accused the US president of trying to divide the country along racial lines.

In an interview with CNN's Don Lemon aired earlier in the week, the LA Lakers star said Trump had stirred racial tensions in US sports in an attempt to "divide" the nation.


Comment: By now, a sensible person might have realized that that's actually what the mainstream media has been doing for years, while the evidence suggests that Trump is actually doing the opposite:

Trump hit back in a tweet on Friday night in which he mocked James and questioned his intelligence.

Comment: LeBron appears to have drunk the MSM koolaid and merely spouts the same identity politics lines that they do. The irony in his statements are that he's sowing division among people, precisely the thing he's accusing Trump of doing:

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