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Pat Caddell: 'CNN unbelievably biased towards Clinton, now smearing Trump supporters as racists'

Dan Riehl
Breitbart
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
CNN
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CNN talking heads: Monica Schipper, Gary Gershoff, Nicholas Hunt, Stephen Lovekin
Political analyst Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM on Friday, "They just call everybody a racist," referring to CNN. Caddell called the network "outrageous."

Caddell said, "What they have not admitted is their complicity in Hillary Clinton's campaign, or their unbelievable bias, and worse, their smearing of people, including Steve Bannon and others so that they could make some political points."

He laid the blame on having someone from Hollywood like Jeff Zucker running the network. "I don't think it will go very well if that continues," said Caddell. "They need to start with, 'Hey, we did some not very professional things during this campaign,'" he added.

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Disgusting Louisiana lawmakers celebrate birthday at Capitol with cake depicting women's body


WGNO
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:01 UTC
birthday cake depicting a woman’s body
Two New Orleans area state lawmakers are outraged over a birthday cake at the Capitol today.

State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, posted a photo on her Twitter page of a birthday cake depicting a woman's body. In the tweet, she said there was a second cake - removed from the party - that depicted a woman's vagina.

The cakes were apparently ordered to celebrate the birthday of state Rep. Mark Abraham, R-Lake Charles. According to The Advocate, lawmakers deny that there was ever a second cake of a woman's vagina.

Peterson told WGNO that she didn't see the cake depicting a vagina, but that a staffer told her it was there and was removed before people saw it.
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Jordan Peterson: Gender pronouns and free speech war

The Rubin Report
Youtube
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:01 UTC
Jordan Peterson
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan Peterson (Professor of Psychology) joins Dave Rubin to discuss the gender pronoun controversy he has found himself in, political correctness, free speech, and more.

Part 1:


Comment: The gender pronoun debate has reached new levels of absurdity, but it can now be clearly seen as a symptom of encroaching fascism under the guise of "political correctness" or "Liberal and Progressive Values". What must be realized is that these values are nothing but an empty shell ideology that conceals total pathology underneath.The main ponerization process begins among "intellectuals" at universities because those are the guides and teachers of the young. Universities train teachers of even younger children, and thus it becomes easy to poison an entire society in a single generation if you have the power to determine what is "correct".

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Ambulance

At least 91 people killed, hundreds injured as train derails in India


RT
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:18 UTC
Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016
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Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016
At least 91 people were killed and scores injured when 14 cars of an express train derailed near the town of Pukhrayan in Uttar Pradesh in northern India, AFP reported, citing police. Relief teams have rushed to the scene.

"The death toll has unfortunately increased and it is 91 now," Daljit Singh Chawdhary, additional police director general of Uttar Pradesh state, said, as cited by AFP.



Rescue operations are under way," Indian Express cited Anil Saxena, a spokesman for Indian Railways, as saying.



However, the death toll is expected to rise as the rescue operation is under way. All the hospitals in the area are mobilized to receive the injured.


The incident happened some 100 kilometers from the city of Kanpur, the second-largest industrial city in India, at about 3:00 a.m. local time, when most of the passengers were asleep.

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Americans no longer trust their institutions

Clare Malone
Fivethirtyeight
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:54 UTC
American institutions
We live in interesting times, but I've often wondered what it would have been like to be alive for the dawn of politics, for our first encounters with one another when we started to make rules that would help hunting and trading and fishing and fornicating and building happen smoothly. I wonder what it would have been like to be there for the birth of our first institutions, "a custom, practice, or law that is accepted and used by many people," as Merriam-Webster would have it. Marriage, government, religion, banks — these are the great sandstone blocks of rule and repetition upon which towering civilizations are built.

And yet in the year 2016, most members of the American civilization don't trust that the building blocks are sound. According to Gallup, Americans' average confidence in 14 institutions is at only 32 percent. It is perhaps no coincidence that the country just elected Donald Trump to be president, choosing a Washington outsider with no experience in politics who ran on a platform of basically doing everything differently from how it's being done now.
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Network

Inside Gab: The new twitter alternative championed by Alt-Right

Cale Guthrie Weissman
FC
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
A dispatch from the new censorship-defying social network in the wake of "the purge" of alt-right users on Facebook and Twitter this week.
Gab social media logo
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The purge is happening. At least according to the universe of alt-right users on social media: Many of them claim that in recent days their Twitter accounts have been suspended and that their posts on Facebook are not being promoted or shared like they used to. It's all part of a crackdown on "fake news" in the wake of reports that misleading reports shared on Facebook and Twitter helped influence the election. To many, these efforts are an overdue attempt to maintain online civility. But to others it's blatant censorship.

For those alt-right individuals and other social media refugees who feel that their views are suppressed, there's a new social network that promises a digital space for completely free and unfettered communications. Gab, a platform that looks and feels like a combination of Twitter and Reddit, is meant to "put people first and promote people first," as it was described to me by its founder. And this week, it's been attracting thousands of users, many of them alt-righters exiled from Facebook and Twitter, though its founder insists that it aims to expand beyond that community and build a more diverse audience. Even Richard Spencer, who leads the far-right National Policy Institute think tank and is widely credited with inventing the term "alt-right" had his Twitter account suspended on Tuesday and soon increased the frequency of his posts on Gab.
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Ambulance

Dr Sircus: Political freak-out


Dr Sircus
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:01 UTC
guy freaking out
You know I never thought I would enter politics but I have, at least by writing about it. It is a glorious time to be watching politics these days because so much is happening. What happens in politics, I am realizing (after 64 years), is important because these are the people who largely decide our long-term fate.

We have every reason to be nervous because the mainstream of political power both here and in Europe are freaking out as their voting public is turning against the horror show they have allowed to go on for decades. If you include the ruling elite in this, which we should, since they pull the puppet strings on the politicians, then the foulness of action has been going on for almost forever.

The ruling classes on our planet have pretty much done all the wrong things putting us squarely into the mess we find ourselves in today. This essay is not for anyone who believes everything is fine for I am not about to do any convincing. The worst does not have to happen for us to see it on the horizon as a probable future. There are hundreds of trillions of dollars in debt in our world. Don't you think that will crush us and our children sooner than later?
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Did the 'dead' and felons vote to cloud N. Carolina's governor race?

Colleen Jenkins
Yahoo News
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
McCrory, Cooper
© The Advocate
Republican Governor Pat McCrory and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper
North Carolina's gubernatorial race was undecided 10 days after the Nov. 8 vote and new allegations by the Republican incumbent's campaign about felons and dead people casting ballots could leave the outcome in limbo for weeks.

Republican Governor Pat McCrory, trailing Democratic challenger Roy Cooper by about 6,300 votes according to the state elections website Friday afternoon, has not conceded. Under state law, Friday was the deadline for counties to certify their results. But challenges over the validity of hundreds of votes and reviews of provisional ballots were expected to delay the reports from many, if not all, of the state's 100 counties, elections officials said.

The uncertainty has been punctuated this week by a war of words, with McCrory's campaign accusing Cooper of being lax on voter fraud and Cooper's campaign calling the incumbent dishonest and desperate. "It is unfortunate to see that rather than accepting the results, Pat McCrory is going to go down by besmirching Republican election officials (and) by impugning voters," Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Cooper campaign, said in a call with reporters on Friday. McCrory's campaign, however, argues it is following the legal process to ensure all legitimate votes are counted.

Protests being filed by registered voters in some 50 counties argue that up to 200 ballots should be thrown out because they were cast under the names of dead people or by felons or individuals who voted more than once, according to the campaign. McCrory representatives also said thousands of votes in 12 counties may have been part of an absentee ballot fraud scheme.

Comment: From national macrocosm to state microcosm, voting scheme fractals permeate the election cycle, and a good bet the shenanigans are endemic to both parties.

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Pirates

Ahrar al-Sham: "Moderate U.S.-supported rebels" in Syria, just terrorists in Germany


AP
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:48 UTC
Zvanično: Potpuna saradnja turske vojske i terorista Ahrar-Ol-Šama u Siriji
© syrianfreepress.wordpress.com
Ahrar al-Sham in Syria
German prosecutors on Friday charged two Syrian men with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations they fought with a militant Islamist group in Syria.

Prosecutors said 24-year-old Kamel T.H.J. and 22-year-old Azad R. allegedly fought with the ultra-conservative Ahrar al-Sham against other rebel groups and Syrian government troops in the Aleppo area from at least August 2013 until April 2014, when the younger man was injured.

The two then traveled to Turkey together and then in 2015 onto Germany for the injured fighter to receive medical care.

Both suspects, whose names weren't released in line with German privacy laws, were arrested in April and have been in custody since then.

Also on Friday, federal prosecutors announced the arrest of a 17-year-old Afghan citizen in Germany for alleged membership in a foreign terrorist organization.

Abdullah S.K., who was arrested Thursday, is suspected of joining the Taliban in Afghanistan and participating in weapons training and combat operations from 2013 to 2015, according to investigators.

The prosecutors' statement alleged he fired shots at Afghan police officers and soldiers several times.

The statement did not say where in Germany he was arrested or how he came to be in the country.

Comment: This is getting absurd. Ahrar al-Sham is a terrorist organization, full stop. Every Western official responsible for supporting them should be in prison.

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Hourglass

The depressing economic realities that Donald Trump will inherit from Obama

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Trump Obama
It would be a grave mistake to understate the amount of damage that has been done to the U.S. economy over the past eight years. In this article, I am going to share some economic numbers with you that are extremely sobering. Anyone that takes a cold, hard, honest look at the numbers should be able to see that our economy is in terrible shape. Unfortunately, the way that we see things is often clouded by our political views. Up until the election, Democrats were far more likely then Republicans to believe that the economy was improving, but now that is in the process of completely reversing. According to Gallup, only 16 percent of Republicans believed that the economy was getting better before the election, but that number has suddenly jumped to 49 percent after Trump's election victory. And the percentage of Democrats that believe that the economy is getting better fell from 61 percent to 46 percent after the election. Here are some additional details from Gallup...
After Trump won last week's election, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now have a much more optimistic view of the U.S. economy's outlook than they did before the election. Just 16% of Republicans said the economy was getting better in the week before the election, while 81% said it was getting worse. Since the election, 49% say it is getting better and 44% worse.

Conversely, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents' confidence in the economy plummeted after the election. Before the election, 61% of Democrats said the economy was getting better and 35% worse. Now, Democrats are evenly divided, with 46% saying it is getting better and 47% saying it is getting worse.
The truth, of course, is that the result of the election did not somehow magically alter the outlook for the U.S. economy.

We still have a giant mess on our hands, and the following are 11 very depressing economic realities that Donald Trump will inherit from Barack Obama...

Comment: And as former gov't insider David Stockman put it here:
For months and years to come, the Imperial City will be ungovernable and the nation will be racked with fiscal, financial, political and even constitutional crisis. By kicking the can in a ruinous direction for decades, America implicitly opted eventually for the bleeding cure.

To wit, the giant stock market bubble will now crash. The stock-price obsessed C-suites of corporate America will now panic and begin pitching inventory and workers overboard. We will be in an official recession within 6 months. The Federal budget will plunge back into trillion dollar annual deficits very soon.

Accordingly, Washington will descend into permanent warfare over the debt ceiling and an exploding $20 trillion+ public debt. Any notion of a Trump economic revival program—-even if it could now be confected—will be stillborn in the financial and fiscal chaos ahead.


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