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Email Despite the fact that voting is the cornerstone of our democracy only 60 percent of eligible voters turn out in a presidential election But this year we may see that number spike because groups of incredible volunteers are doing everything they can to get out the vote Theyre hitting the road and oiling up the sidewalks to help voters slide uncontrollably to their polling places Democracy FTW You might not know their names but these hardworking men and women are out there in the trenches from Maine to California slathering thick black oil on the ground so every American can skid down the road windmilling their arms wildly to try and stay upright and careen straight through the doors of a voting booth Republican or Democrat these patriotic volunteers want every American to have access to a frictionless slick of oil that leads right to a polling place Yes These incredible volunteers are absolutely killing it Rather than letting our election be decided by a select few people from across the nation are volunteering their time to make sidewalks welllubricated and slippery for as many voters as possible As of this morning footpaths have been oiled in all 50 states giving people who would not otherwise have the time or desire to vote the opportunity to lose their balance and slide forward at alarming speeds with their arms flailing and legs kicking until they crash facefirst into a registered polling location We might live in a democracy but we wouldnt have a truly representative election without the help of a select few everyday heroes So when the polling stations close and every last slippery oilcovered voter has put their ballot in the box and slid back out the door remember those brave volunteers because we couldnt do it without them

Dear AmericaWhether you voted for Trump or not surely you can join me in admitting the past few years have been devoid of optimism Weve been pessimistic on the economy on the social foundation of our country our standing in the world our concern over potential for war our healthcare our jobs and generally speaking our futureFor some of you Barack Obama may be a likable character While many of us believe hes corrupt and wrong in his way of thinking its understandable that many of his voters found him to be generally likable For those who do the truth is he betrayed you He betrayed all of usHis healthcare law was sold to you as a law that would make healthcare affordable and wouldnt change the plandoctor you have Most of us are now finding that was a lie Were losing our plans and doctors and costs are skyrocketingHis economic policy enriched the mega rich while crushing jobs His environmental policy has pumped billions of our dollars into the pockets of special interests killed off jobs and did absolutely nothing for the environment His tax policy is painful If you pay taxes you know this to be the caseHe spends money like it grows on trees For him its not an issue He lives in the high castle and will never have to worry about money But you and I Yeah its an issueHe dragged us nearly into world war with Russia He collapsed the Middle East in a way that has rippled across the globeWe can disagree on issues but surely we can agree this hasnt been a good situation Something has to change Hillary Clinton wasnt going to change anything She was going to take Obamas burning agenda and throw gasoline on itWe now have an opportunity Donald Trump has his flaws We all have concerns about it No secret there But his plan is something we should all get excited about That is of course provided he actually follows through with itTrump is likely to relax tensions with Russia Hes likely to pull back our nonsensical involvement in the Middle East Hes likely to repeal and replace Obamacare Hes likely to initiate a tax and economic policy that WILL invigorate business growthFor businesses Trump has a plan that will help create spenders And for consumers his plan will help us earn and retain more financial stabilityThis is a good thing Its good for liberals conservatives and independents Its good for AmericaNot long ago there was a time when Americans were optimistic hungry for success and excited to work hard for it Weve exiting a period of time where that mentality has been nonexistent Were entering a time where it can exist againWeve got a mess on our hands There is much work to do to clean it up But it can be cleaned up and we can flourish as a result of itThat is if we unify and optimistically strive for success as a nationIts time America Its long overdueLets make America great againEric Odom

Principal Krystal Hardy has dedicated herself to improving the culture and upping the test scores at a struggling New Orleans charter school Her thirdgraders for one take 14 standardized tests including Common Core ones each yearThirdgrade students at Sylvanie Williams College Prep elementary school read individually in class on Jan 16 2015 in New Orleans Fifty percent of the children here started the academic year below grade level in reading and math The goal is to help them catch up and keep making progressThis story is the third in a yearlong series following Krystal Hardy a firstyear principal trying to bring order and improve test scores at a struggling New Orleans charter school The project is a partnership between The Christian Science Monitor and The Hechinger Report a nonprofit nonpartisan news outlet that covers inequality and innovation in education and is affiliated with Teachers College Columbia UniversityA week before their final round of Common Core tests the fifthgraders at Sylvanie Williams College Prep a charter school in New Orleans are reviewing the procedures for solving a multipart word problem in math Their principal Krystal Hardy looks onPay attention Ive seen these kinds of questions on the PARCC test says math teacher Tiffany Labrie referring to the Common Core tests that most students in Louisiana take this month This calls for converting ounces to pounds so you can use your reference sheet she tells them indicating a handout on every deskDont forget you can use the reference sheet today but also on the what asks Ms Labrie rhetoricallyPARCC echoes Labrie Youll have those reference sheets during the PARCC tests Remember to use themMs Hardy who is in her first year as principal has staked her career on improving the culture and upping the test scores at this struggling elementary school located in a gritty part of New Orleans Central City neighborhood At the start of the academic year in August 50 percent of the approximately 400 students nearly all of whom are AfricanAmerican and most of whom are poor scored below grade level in reading and math Their road to improvement is paved with testsIndeed like most public school students across America pupils at Sylvanie Williams get tested often although Hardy is trying to balance the datadriven instruction with a strong social justice curriculumThe earliest tests this year helped teachers figure out which students had learned the material and which ones needed that lesson again After five months Hardy and her staff began diving deeper comparing test results with worksheets that students completed in class When they saw patterns of errors the teachers themselves worked through the problems trying to figure out exactly where the students were going wrongTheir findings have already dramatically changed the way teachers teach And the teachers are noticing that student achievement is picking upWe were able to administer targeted medicine says HardyInstead of saying Some of these students arent good at multiplying she says we could start to say for example that 40 percent of these students in this class dont seem to understand the placevalue concept in threedigit numbers and about 40 percent say understand the concept but are not paying attention to details when they computeStudents at Sylvanie Williams take annual tests in science and social studies aligned to the states standards plus two rounds of Common Core tests in English and math developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers PARCC In some grades students also take three sets of benchmarking tests three or four times a year In the end thirdgraders who get tested the most take a whopping 14 standardized tests per year in addition to exit tickets teachergenerated assessments at the end of a unit of studyTesting infuses many aspects of the school day The walls of Hardys office and the teachers conference room are hung with posters sporting bar charts that show test results Students and teachers talk about the test the test day and reaching basicOutside a thirdgrade classroom a colorful handdrawn poster names the children who have achieved the advanced mastery and basic levels on one test In another classroom a teacher has written out in magic marker a severalfootlong list of standards 4NF5 Express equivalent fractions and add fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 presumably to keep his own teaching on target for the Common Core math testAlthough a vocal minority of parents whose children tend to be enrolled in more affluent schools around the country have refused to let their kids take the Common Core tests no Sylvanie Williams families have opted out And Hardy is predicting the final round wont be a problem for her scholars Theyre used to it she says simplyEarly in the year diagnostic test results helped distinguish what had been taught from what had been learned Hardy keeps a close eye on lesson plans teachers submit them to her each week so she knows what material is being coveredBy January armed with more data Hardy and her teachers and coaches were really poring over the test results And thats when the dialogue around instruction began to shift The teachers started collaborating on how to quickly and directly backfill the specific foundational skills that students need to move forwardAfter that point says fourthgrade teacher Terrance Mitchell I think as a school we really started to see the achievement of our students begin to accelerateAlthough Hardy is committed to running a testdriven school the data focus has its frustrations Because the Common Core exams are new this year the PARCC administrators need to perform technical calculations on the results This means that scores on the tests will be released to Hardy after Sylvanie Williamss school year ends too late for teachers to use that data to coursecorrectState political leaders are maneuvering to scuttle or at least modify the use of the Common Core in Louisiana so its not certain that the standards that the students are being asked to meet this year will even be around next yearThe schools relentless focus on standards and testing reduces time for less defined but often more meaningful types of lessons ones that help kids understand themselves their fellow students and the world around them But Hardy has tried to squeeze these kinds of experiences into the school dayIn January she took 40 students on a field trip to Selma Ala to join the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the march to Montgomery And one morning she taught a unit on poverty in America which included having third fourth and fifthgraders compare weekly expenses with median income for high school dropouts college graduates and those with a masters degreeRecently a fifthgrade blackboard showed the remnants of a vibrant discussion about young black men police and excessive force Because of the demographic our children come from many will face immense challenges and unique realities Hardy saysWe need to prepare them to understand how the world will engage with them They need to understand how to engage with it And maybe create the possibility that they will act as change agents in their worldHardy accepts that her school and her tenure as principal will be evaluated largely on test scores But she is adamant about maintaining what she sees as crucial parts of education that no test will measure This project is a partnership between the Monitor and The Hechinger Report a nonprofit independent news website focused on inequality and innovation in education and is affiliated with Teachers College Columbia University 2015 The Christian Science Monitor and The Hechinger Report

Youve probably seen this chartIt uses analysis from VoteView to show how the House has grown more polarized over time Democrats in the House have become more liberal Republicans have become much more conservativeYou may also have seen this chart but if you havent you probably at least are familiar with the conceptIt shows the ranges of weekly approval ratings for President Obama over the course of his administration In other words each time 82 percent of Democrats approve of Obama the 82 percent bar gets a little higher For the most part opinions of Obama havent changed much among Democrats or Republicans his overall approval rating is usually a function of how independents feel about himObama isnt the first president to see such polarization in his approval ratings The first president to do so was the guy before him George W Bush Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton each had some polarization in their second terms but it wasnt nearly as wide a gapWhich leads us to a natural question How does the polarization of Congress which is a measure of the behavior of members of Congress compare with the polarization of approval of the president a measure of public opinionThats a question we can answerOver time the gap between the political leaning of Republican and Democratic caucuses on Capitol Hill has widened steadily though not continuously This compares DWNOMINATE scores from VoteView which is a measure of how liberal or conservative each member of Congress is against a baseline The figures below essentially measure the distance between the two lines in the first graph aboveOver that same period opinions of the president have similarly widened again with some fits and startsThere are two lines here one using the first Gallup approval rating of the new year and the other averaging the ratings over the year You can see how attitudes shift the gap plummets as a president becomes equally popular or unpopular with each partyAnyway this suggests that as Congress has gotten more polarized so too have opinions of the presidentsBut theres a clearer way to look at this Plotting the gap in how Democrats and Republicans look at the president on one axis and the gap between the two parties in Congress on the other you can see clearly how both the former and latter have grown more extreme The higher and further to the right a dot the greater the polarizationIn other words this polarization isnt only a function of Congress and gerrymandering Theres been a broader polarization thats taken place reflected in how each party views the presidentWhat it doesnt tell us is the cause As complicated as these data are this was the easier part of the analysis

The US economy added just 38000 jobs in May 122000 fewer than expected and the weakest growth since 2010 The unemployment rate slipped down to 47 the Department of Labor announced on FridayThe report added to concerns that the US economy is slowing ahead of a crucial meeting of the Federal Reserve and was immediately seized on by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Terrible jobs report just reported Only 38000 jobs added Bombshell he wrote on TwitterA strike by 40000 Verizon workers impacted the numbers the labor department said and without the strike the number of jobs added would have been 72000 which is still less than half the expected job growthThe unemployment rate is now the lowest it has been since November 2007 and job gains in 2016 have slowed sharply from the 240000 average of the last two years On Friday the Department of Labor also cut its assessment of the number of jobs added in March and April by 59000The weakness in Mays payrolls was widespread Manufacturing lost 10000 jobs construction shed 15000 jobs and temporary help fell by 21000 wrote Paul Ashworth Capital Economics chief US economist in a note to investors A June rate hike from the Fed is now very unlikelyMays report is the last before the Feds next meeting on 1415 June when the US central bank may raise interest rates again The gain was the smallest since September 2010 and is sure to add to speculation that a rate hike could be delayed until July already uncertainty about Britains referendum to exit the EU That vote will take place on 23 JuneAfter the economy added 160000 jobs in April 40000 fewer than expected economists expected the job growth in May to come in at 160000 Over the past 12 months employment growth had averaged 232000 jobs a month but economists expected the 44day strike of 40000 Verizon workers to affect the May figuresThe last time Verizon workers went on strike for two weeks in August 2011 the department of labor reported that the economy added no jobs that month The following month however it reported a growth of 103000 jobs and noted that the spike partially reflected the return to payrolls of about 45000 striking workersThe recent strike ended last week after the labor department helped Verizon and the union representing the striking workers reach a tentative dealAs job growth slows Barack Obama has moved to defend his economic legacy Earlier this week while speaking in Elkhart Indiana he described the US economy as the strongest most durable economy in the world and pointed out that over the past six years US businesses have created more than 14m new jobsDespite the drop in unemployment wages are still growing too slowly and that makes it harder to pay for college or save for retirement said Obama before pointing out that so far this year wages have grown at a rate of about 3 Until recently his administration had described wages as the unfinished business of this recoveryEconomists believe that a wage growth of 3 to 35 is necessary to help reach the Federal Reserves 2 inflation goalLast week Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said that she expects the US labor market to continue to improve and that in the coming months it might be appropriate for the Fed to increase interest rates In December the Fed increased interest rates for the first time in nearly a decadeIm not sure it plays an important role in our policy making beyond us just monitoring the US data and general global financial conditions and having confidence that things are still on a good track Charles Evans president of the Chicago Fed told CNBC on Friday Evans who is a nonvoting member of the Feds policysetting committee said that he expects two rate hikes this yearAs the labor market tightens we should see wage growth rise however its clear that we are not at a level consistent with full employment With wage growth this low there is simply no threat of wageled inflation said Elise Gould senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute The Fed should bear this in mind when it meets later this month and not be too quick to raise rates and slow the economyA week ago Yellen said that the US jobs market is nearing full employment

CNN The aggressive Jeb Bush that his allies have been waiting for emerged this week and it was an attack on his family that got him goingThe former Florida governor launched his most forceful attempt yet to paint Donald Trump as an unserious candidate unfit for the foreign policy decisions that face the countrys commander in chiefFirst he punched back hard at Trumps suggestion that his brother George W Bush bore responsibility for the September 11 2001 attacks and that Trump could have prevented themIn a series of interviews Bush then questioned Trumps intellectual heft and understanding of complex world eventsTuesday he leveled his most blistering critique to date with a National Review oped accusing the real estate magnate of echoing the attacks of liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and the fringe left on national security issuesLets be clear Donald Trump simply doesnt know what hes talking about Bush wrote adding that Trumps bluster overcompensates for a shocking lack of knowledge on the complex nationalsecurity challenges that will confront the next presidentThis is a critical moment for Bush who like other establishment Republicans has been unable to break through against Trump As much as Bush and his allies like to talk about having resources for the long game early next year the next few weeks are key for whether his foreign policy message and electability arguments will click into place and capture the interest of votersPolls have shown very little excitement about his candidacy in any sector of the Republican base That fact is not only evident in polls but also in interviews with voters on the ground in early states who often describe Bush as lacking dynamism enthusiasm and energyDespite heavy advertising in New Hampshire and an impressive list of endorsements in the early states a CNNORC Poll released this week showed Bush tied in an unimpressive third place with Florida rival Marco Rubio at 8And even after raising 134 million last quarter many heavyhitting Republican donors particularly those who supported Mitt Romney are still on the sidelines attracted to the candidacy of Marco Rubio and eying other contenders like John Kasich and even Chris ChristieAs part of the campaign to assuage concerns of donors and allies who have watched in surprise as he struggles Bushs longtime strategist Mike Murphy who runs the Right to Rise super PAC also emerged in a rare interview to blast Trump as a false zombie frontrunner and outline his theory of the race on why Bush will outlast the other GOP candidatesHes dead politically hell never be president of the United States ever Murphy said of Trump in an interview with Bloomberg Politics Murphy who is legally prohibited from coordinating with the Bush campaign jabbed Trump by predicting that his bid would collapse and adding I dont think you can be a frontrunner if youre totally unelectableNoting that hes worked with Bush for 18 years Murphy argued that Bush builds slowly and gets better and better pointing to his improved debate performances as an example of thatSome of Bushs most stalwart supporters have long felt that a pivot to foreign policy could help his standing in the fieldHis exchange with Trump after the real estate magnate called his brothers administration a disaster during the CNN debate was one of his strongest performances of the night and this weeks 911 debate seemed to help him sharpen his critiques of TrumpBush allies still believe Rubio is vulnerable on the question of experience because of his short stint in the US Senate and the ease with which his rivals could compare him to Barack Obama who won the presidency just four years into his first term on Capitol HillAnd while his bungled response to questions about his brothers decision to invade Iraq created problems for Bush earlier this summer the renewed debate over 911 this week offered Bush an opening to critique Bill Clintons handling of Osama bin Laden in the 1990sThe Clinton administration made a mistake of thinking bin Laden had to be viewed from a law enforcement perspective Bush said in an interview with FOXs Sean Hannity Similarly President Obamas polices seemed to be focused on that as wellMurphy appeared to use Bushs air war this week to emphasize the candidates staying powerHe can outlast the noise his candidate performance will be excellent and were an amplifier Murphy said in the Bloomberg Politics interview alluding to the 100 million war chest raised by the independent group earlier this summer Laying out the super PACs strategy for navigating the primary he argued that the group can keep Bush on the air and get his message out through the gantlet of primariesWe see February 1 to March 15 45 days as our period to seize the nomination and get in front Murphy said outlining his theory of the race We have the resources to pursue that campaign Most of these other guys are all running on spec Were at a point now where were significantly funded for those 45 days cash in the bank today Nobody else is in that situation in this race Nobodys closeStill outsider candidates Trump and Ben Carson led the pack in the CNN poll with 27 and 22 respectively and their supporters expressed a far higher level of enthusiasm about their candidaciesNearly a third of Trump supporters and a quarter of Carson backers said they were very enthusiastic about the two mens bids When Bushs supporters were asked that same question only 3 said they were very enthusiastic about his candidacyBush has not fared much better in early state polls despite having a sizable organization on the ground a dozen staffers in Iowa 13 in New Hampshire seven in South Carolina and more than a halfdozen in NevadaIn what could be a sign of things to come for the campaign one surrogate who recently has come to his aid on the fundraising front is his brother Behind closed doors during a recent fundraiser George W Bush expressed confidence in his brothers slow and steady approach to the race and distaste for another rival Ted Cruz who worked on George W Bushs campaignThe former president will also headline a fundraiser for his brothers presidential campaign while hes in town for a BushCheney alumni event according to an invitation obtained by CNNWhile the elder Bushs presidency has created a headache for Jeb Bush by forcing him to constantly explain to voters how his leadership style would differ from his brothers allies noted the irony this week of the fact that Jeb Bush seems animated and passionate when defending his brotherI think as a general matter that Jeb Bush does not want to be engaged in combat with Donald Trump because youre distracting from your own message and your own ability to get better known if youre just known for fighting with somebody said Charlie Black a Republican veteran strategist who advised President George HW Bush but is neutral in the 2016 raceIn this case because Jebs brother was attacked theres no doubt that hes going to come out strong and be aggressive said Black But going forward Bush will need to move his message beyond Trump to show he can sustain his own spotlight When Trump hits Jeb Jeb should not respond surrogates should respond and let Donald fight with the surrogates

Killing Obama administration rules dismantling Obamacare and pushing through tax reform are on the early todo list

Despite her repeated statements that she will leave public service once her successor is in place buzz about a possible second run for the presidency by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in full force following the showing of a tribute video of her careerBefore delivering remarks on US and Israeli relations Friday the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution rolled out a video replete with soaring music and effusive praise of Clintons career by highprofile leaders and luminaries and with it continued speculation about whether she really has run her last political raceAs someone who knows a thing or two about political comebacks I dont think we have heard the last of Hillary Clinton Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the videoI have an instinct that the best is yet to come said Tony Blair the Middle East envoy and former British prime ministerThe video was part of the ninth annual forum by the Saban Center that focuses on the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and the US role in dealing with itClinton has repeatedly said that she intends to retire to private life once her successor is confirmed by the Senate and that another run for the White House is not in the cards for herLook Im flattered I am honored she told CNNs Wolf Blitzer this year about calls by other Democrats for her to consider another run in 2016 That is not in the future for me but obviously Im hoping that Ill get to cast my vote for a woman running for president of our countryBut with other notable figures like Sen John McCain RArizona adding a healthy dose of bipartisan praise for Americas top diplomat in the video the neverending question of will she or wont she seemingly lives another day The blogosphere and airwaves were full of predictions Monday that the video signaled Clinton would make another run for the White HouseThe film was like an international endorsement four years in advance of the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary wrote David Remnick of The New Yorker magazineClintons onetime competitor and current boss added to the tributeA lot has been said about our relationship and heres what I know President Obama said in the video You havent only been one of my closest partners you have become a great friendPalestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Israeli President Shimon Peres and former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright added their praise for Clinton in the video as wellI am somewhat overwhelmed but Im obviously thinking I should sit down Clinton said to laughter as she took the stage to begin her remarks I prepared some remarks for tonight but then I thought maybe we could just watch that video a few more times

Share on Twitter Its the twelfth or even better thirteenth time youve carved pumpkins for JackOLanterns and its becoming a real drag Have no fear trickshooter Kirsten Joy Weiss is herewith a way to brighten up your Halloween Daywhile making it a bit smokier as well All you need is a 22 rifle a few pumpkins ammunition and a safe space away from people especially liberals to do your worst to our favorite holiday gourd Oh and this handy tip from our guide Youre not looking to carve a hideous grin on your pumpkin using the bullet entries but rather youre going for the exit points to get that ghoulish appearance Thats sure to make an impression on your trickortreaters Yeah you bet theyll be picking treat Our expert guide also recommends making it a game But just like with Halloween trickortreating always practice safety first Happy Halloween

2061 Views November 08 2016 32 Comments commentercorner SakerAdmin The following comment was selected by modkl from this post Modkl found this dissertation on the various troll techniques to be quite well written and very education We think other members of the saker community would also enjoy it by Anonymous How To Identify Trolls And Forum Spies Cryptome Cointelpro Techniques for dilution misdirection and control of a internet forum There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what or who is on it We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of an uncontrolled forum Technique 1 Forum Sliding If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum it can be quickly removed from public view by forum sliding In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to age Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a forum slide The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist which can be called upon to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public To trigger a forum slide and flush the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then replying to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list and the critical posting slides down the front page and quickly out of public view Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and nonissue items Technique 2 Consensus Cracking A second highly effective technique which you can see in operation all the time at httpwwwabovetopsecretcom is consensus cracking To develop a consensus crack the following technique is used Under the guise of a fake account a posting is made which looks legitimate and is towards the truth is made but the critical point is that it has a very weak premise without substantive proof to back the posting Once this is done then under alternative fake accounts a very strong position in your favour is slowly introduced over the life of the posting It is Imperative that both sides are initially presented so the uninformed reader cannot determine which side is the truth As postings and replies are made the stronger evidence or disinformation in your favour is slowly seeded in Thus the uninformed reader will most like develop the same position as you and if their position is against you their opposition to your posting will be most likely dropped However in some cases where the forum members are highly educated and can counter your disinformation with real facts and linked postings you can then abort the consensus cracking by initiating a forum slide Technique 3 Topic Dilution Topic dilution is not only effective in forum sliding it is also very useful in keeping the forum readers on unrelated and nonproductive issues This is a critical and useful technique to cause a Resource Burn By implementing continual and nonrelated postings that distract and disrupt trolling the forum readers they are more effectively stopped from anything of any real productivity If the intensity of gradual dilution is intense enough the readers will effectively stop researching and simply slip into a gossip mode In this state they can be more easily misdirected away from facts towards uninformed conjecture and opinion The less informed they are the more effective and easy it becomes to control the entire group in the direction that you would desire the group to go in It must be stressed that a proper assessment of the psychological capabilities and levels of education is first determined of the group to determine at what level to drive in the wedge By being too far off topic too quickly it may trigger censorship by a forum moderator Technique 4 Information Collection Information collection is also a very effective method to determine the psychological level of the forum members and to gather intelligence that can be used against them In this technique in a light and positive environment a show you mine so me yours posting is initiated From the number of replies and the answers that are provided much statistical information can be gathered An example is to post your favourite weapon and then encourage other members of the forum to showcase what they have In this matter it can be determined by reverse proration what percentage of the forum community owns a firearm and or a illegal weapon This same method can be used by posing as one of the form members and posting your favourite technique of operation From the replies various methods that the group utilizes can be studied and effective methods developed to stop them from their activities Technique 5 Anger Trolling Statistically there is always a percentage of the forum posters who are more inclined to violence In order to determine who these individuals are it is a requirement to present a image to the forum to deliberately incite a strong psychological reaction From this the most violent in the group can be effectively singled out for reverse IP location and possibly local enforcement tracking To accomplish this only requires posting a link to a video depicting a local police officer massively abusing his power against a very innocent individual Statistically of the million or so police officers in America there is always one or two being caught abusing there powers and the taping of the activity can be then used for intelligence gathering purposes without the requirement to stage a fake abuse video This method is extremely effective and the more so the more abusive the video can be made to look Sometimes it is useful to lead the forum by replying to your own posting with your own statement of violent intent and that you do not care what the authorities think inflammation By doing this and showing no fear it may be more effective in getting the more silent and selfdisciplined violent intent members of the forum to slip and post their real intentions This can be used later in a court of law during prosecution Technique 6 Gaining Full Control It is important to also be harvesting and continually maneuvering for a forum moderator position Once this position is obtained the forum can then be effectively and quietly controlled by deleting unfavourable postings and one can eventually steer the forum into complete failure and lack of interest by the general public This is the ultimate victory as the forum is no longer participated with by the general public and no longer useful in maintaining their freedoms Depending on the level of control you can obtain you can deliberately steer a forum into defeat by censoring postings deleting memberships flooding and or accidentally taking the forum offline By this method the forum can be quickly killed However it is not always in the interest to kill a forum as it can be converted into a honey pot gathering center to collect and misdirect newcomers and from this point be completely used for your control for your agenda purposes Conclusion Remember these techniques are only effective if the forum participants do not know about them Once they are aware of these techniques the operation can completely fail and the forum can become uncontrolled At this point other avenues must be considered such as initiating a false legal precidence to simply have the forum shut down and taken offline This is not desirable as it then leaves the enforcement agencies unable to track the percentage of those in the population who always resist attempts for control against them Many other techniques can be utilized and developed by the individual and as you develop further techniques of infiltration and control it is imperative to share then with HQ The Essential Saker from the trenches of the emerging multipolar world 2795

Dont Panic dd42bb October 30 2016 mattzap That sounds like the worst possible answer DC Dude DCDude1776 October 30 2016 Thats not entirely unbelievable seeing as Weiner was up to all sorts of things he wasnt eager to share with the wife Then again its not a great defense to mount when trying to counter charges that Hillary Clinton and her aides at the State Department were extremely careless with their handling of sensitive materials Trending If Hillary wants to know what new information the FBI has Sharyl Attkisson knows someone she could ask Thats weird though the story before was that Abedin would forward government emails to her Yahoo mail account so she could print them for the boss who liked paper copies so that she could relax to the familiar comforting sound of the office shredder grinding away But all someone had to do was log into her Yahoo account and ktumulty She used his computer at least once to check her email or maybe he was checking her email Spouses are known to do that

BNI Store Nov 4 2016 MODERATE INDONESIA Protest against a Christian governor turns violent as more than 100000 Muslims demand death for Christian governor who blasphemed Islam JARKARTA The biggest street protest in years shook this sprawling capital today in a stark display of the more conservative militant strain of Islam taking hold in the worlds largest Muslim country Which Hillary Clinton has called a shining example of a moderate Islamic country WSJ Police said an estimated 100000 people turned out for a rally called by hardline Muslim groups against the capitals Christian governor whom they accuse of having committed blasphemy Blasphemy is a criminal offense in Indonesia and prosecutions have increased in the past decade President Joko Widodo had met with other political leaders amid calls for calm but critics say he has been too slow since taking office in 2014 to respond to worsening tension for fear of being labeled antiMuslim Religiosity is rising especially among the middle class said Yon Machmudi an Islamic politics expert at the University of Indonesia A sense of identification is increasing Protesters were taking aim at Basuki Tjahaha Purnama known as Ahok who is the most prominent politician among the countrys oftenpersecuted ethnic Chinese minority He was elected deputy governor in 2012 and elevated to the top job in 2014 after his boss Mr Widodo was elected president Some hardliners had tried to block his ascent then saying Muslims shouldnt be ruled by a kafir or nonbeliever Mr Purnama now running for reelection angered the groups again by citing a verse of the Quran in a public address in late September He has apologized and said he would cooperate with a police investigation but has since been the target of protests Vice President Jusuf Kalla met a group of protest leaders and said afterward that police would pursue a blasphemy case against Mr Purnama Nearly 90 of Indonesias 250 million people are Muslim and are becoming more radical every year as seen by head scarves for women once rare are now widely worn and Islamic schools are expanding A movement to ban alcohol is gaining steam and sales have been banned from convenience stores Travel to Mecca for the minor pilgrimage of umrah once a relatively uncommon undertaking for middleclass Indonesians is newly popular Security experts say the rising conservatism paves the way for potential violence pointing to some religious hardliners who have rebranded themselves as cells of Islamic State What weve seen in the last 18 months to two years is increasing crossover from organizations that started out nonviolent but hardline to organizations which are now committed to using violence said Sidney Jones director of the Jakartabased Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict Gang of Indonesian Muslim men below beat to death members of Ahmadiyah sect which Muslims reject as part of Islam because of its call for nonviolence

When Facebook entered the news business in 2006 it set out to cover its own users Facebook had launched as a static collection of profiles but now every time a user uploaded a new photo or changed her favorite quote the development surfaced in a rolling stream of updates that Facebook called the News Feed Every status update was a news story the algorithm that chose which stories to boost was called the publisher The publisher Facebook told its users at the time was interested in stories like Mark adds Britney Spears to his Favorites and your crush is single again As David Kirkpatrick reported in his 2010 book The Facebook Effect Mark Zuckerberg articulated the News Feeds guiding principle to staff like so A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa The New York Times would cover the African conflict The News Feed would show you the squirrelNow Facebook is poised to begin publishing New York Times stories directly to its own site Last year the Pew Research Center deemed Facebook the secondmost popular source for political and government news among American Internet users just behind local TV Facebook has officially entered the newsnews business What kinds of stories does its publisher value nowA new study published online in Science last week sheds some light Three researchers all Facebook employees culled data from 10 million Facebook users 7 million news articles shared on the site and the users combined 38 billion potential exposures to that content in order to find out how ideologically diverse news and opinion spreads or doesnt among liberal and conservative users They found that the News Feed algorithmwhich has long been accused of shielding users from politically oppositional contentdecreased the visibility of ideologically crosscutting news by 8 percent for liberals and 5 percent for conservatives From there liberals were 6 percent less likely to click on a story from a conservative source like Fox News while conservatives were 17 percent less likely to click over to a leftleaning site like the Huffington Post The Facebook researchers concluded that individual choice has a larger role in limiting exposure to ideologically cross cutting content than Facebooks engineers do All in all users are exposed to more crosscutting discourse in social media than we had all thoughtThe study is a clever bit of misdirection I dont doubt its resultsgetting your news from Facebook isnt as ideologically isolating as say watching Fox News or MSNBC But its title Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook makes Facebook sound like a pulsing marketplace of political opinion and news Meanwhile Im scrolling down my News Feed and finding videos of Tina Fey fauxstripping and an orangutan cuddling an armful of tiger cubs Facebook may help nudge liberals a little to the left and conservatives a little to the right but its greatest influence over Americans is toward political disengagementThe liberals and conservatives tracked in the Facebook study actually represent a slim slice of the sites users The study included only people who proudly complete the political views section of their profile and just 4 percent of adult Americans on Facebook fit the bill Thats a curious group to focus on because the generation thats most active on Facebook is also the least likely to identify with a political orientation Last years Pew report on the beliefs and behaviors of millennials81 percent of whom are on Facebookfound that a full 50 percent of millennials consider themselves politically independent Their political disaffiliation rivals or exceeds that of any group Pew has ever studied in its 25year existence Instead millennials are building their own networks Pew concludednot through political parties organized religion or marriage but through social media Facebook isnt just facilitating communication between members of different political parties It is replacing political partiesMillennials the New America Foundation found last year are less likely to vote or pledge allegiance to a party but they do engage in some civic uses of social media Slate has a publishing partnership with the New America Foundation Heres one sad data point supporting that conclusion Fortyfour percent of millennials have liked a piece of political material on social media Meanwhile a study published last year in New Media Society found that being active on Facebook does not encourage teenagers to become more politically engaged It doesnt inspire them to join protests or sign petitions or affix buttons or even post political thoughts on the Internet But it does inspire them to spend more time entertaining themselveschatting with friends downloading songs shopping online and engaging in other consumeristoriented activities This is a convenient outcome for Facebook Its easy to see why Facebook would prefer young people to see Facebook as a shopping mall rather than a soapbox These users are easier to monetize and less likely to offendAfter Eli Pariser Upworthy CEO and the author of The Filter Bubble What the Internet Is Hiding From You parsed the Facebook study he admitted that the algorithms contribution to the partisan divide was smaller than Id have guessed But he also noted that the study elided a more basic question How does Facebooks algorithm manipulate the spread of news in general One of the more revelatory data points embedded in the study concerns the proportion of hard content stories about stuff like campaigns war health care and abortion and soft content links about sports entertainment food gadgets and fashion shared on the site After assessing millions of links the researchers declared over 90 percent of them soft Really soft Examples include a Blind Melon video a Cyber Monday sale and a link to a collection of inspirational photos paired with motivational quotes And the study assessed only the content that links off of Facebook Consider all the engagement announcements and pet photos that dominate your News Feed and Facebooks journalistic priorities appear even fluffierIn theory Facebook presents an unprecedented opportunity for political crosspollination In a 2012 study on polarization and social media Stanford researchers cited studies dating back to 1967 showing that people do not encounter attitudechallenging information in large part due to their social milieu habits and lack of perceived benefits for seeking out such information But on Facebookusers connect with friends past friends extended family members coworkers neighbors and strangers many of whom are likely to hold political beliefs that differ from their own Just dont expect them to talk about it on Facebook Last yearPew studied how Americans discussed Edward Snowdens leaking of NSA documents and found that while 86 percent of Americans would share their opinion among friends over dinner only 42 percent of social media users were willing to post about it online Americans were more willing to share their views if they thought their audience agreed with them And the silence followed Facebook users even after they logged off Facebookers were 50 percent less likely to discuss Snowden in person than nonusers wereSo instead of sparking political debates Facebook users convene over the soft stuff The Facebook researchers found that while pieces of hard news tend to circulate in ideological silos soft content percolates across the aisle I may scroll past one liberal friends links expressing unconditional allegiance to Hillary Clinton but Ill stop and like her video of a Great Dane puppy throwing a temper tantrum This makes Facebook a powerful force for human connection but a poor destination for political engagement The Facebook Effects Kirkpatrick put a rosier spin on the situation Now that we include Facebook on our list of legitimate news sources he said journalists can boast that young people are reading more news than ever before The one catch Theyre just reading about their friends

Polling site corruption enraged voters on November 8 2016 at 600 am EDT as several New Yorkers stood in line awaiting their chance to partake in this years presidential electionBrooklyn Located at 450 Pacific Street at least 20 people were waiting for the doors of Public School 38 the Pacific School for a half hour before leaving for work Public School 9 Teunis G Bergen located at 80 Underhill experienced a 2hour delay Many New Yorkers were enraged with pollingsite corruption as they stood on long lines to no avail Bronx Bronx County Supreme Courthouse located at 851 Grand Concourse could not adequately accommodate the voters with mobility impairmentsNew York City CS 154 Harriet Tubman Learning Center located at 250 West 127th Street only had one of four working ballot scanners This produced a 2hour delay for voters Yorkville Community School located at 412 E 88th Street only had one of six ballot scanners working producing a 2block line New Yorkers throughout the city are enraged about the polling site corruption they have experienced Update NY Daily NewsThe Board of Elections has released that a mistake by an office clerk omitted 126000 registered voters names from the list in April Written by Jhayla D WallsEdited by Jeanette SmithSourcesPix11 Broken Machines Vanishing Names Leave New Yorkers Waiting for Hours at Polling StationsNew York Times Long Lines and Minor Glitches for Voters on a Peaceful Election DayNY Daily News NYC Voters Complain of Long Lines Broken ScannersTop and Featured Image Courtesy of Coventy City Councils Flickr Page Creative Commons LicenseFirst Inline Image Courtesy of Subfinitums Flickr Page Creative Commons License 2016 Elections New york polling corruption pollingsite corruption

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Home WORLD NEWS WHAT EVERYDAY LIFE IS REALLY LIKE IN CUBA UNDER RAL CASTRO WHAT EVERYDAY LIFE IS REALLY LIKE IN CUBA UNDER RAL CASTRO 0 102816 Cuba is like going back in time Its old and dirty Theres no advertising probably because theres nothing to sell The only billboards are propaganda for the dictatorship with the faces of Fidel or Ral Castro Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos You hear on the radio again and again in 1958 or since the Revolution followed by news on Venezuela the monopolization of private supermarkets of the right and their alliesthe international pressthanks to public policies of the Venezuelan governmentfamine has declined Money is the key factor determining how a person is treated If you are a foreigner things are great given that apart from having money the regime forces Cubans to try to make a good impression though it is difficult to pretend The government behaves as if foreigners were royalty and Cubans were commoners The same happens with CubanAmericans who fled the island and return to visit because they come back with purchasing power Cubans work for practically nothing The average salary for a Cuban is US 20 A nurse earns 40 per month A teacher earns 20 per month and a doctor earns 60 per month There are two markets in Cuba the Cuban peso market and the dollar market The dollar market has decent products while poor quality products are valued in Cuban pesos With the salary of a Cuban the possibilities are limited to buying products in pesos because only foreigners can buy products in dollars Usually when one goes to the market looking for a food item it is not available Sellers say they might have it tomorrow but they rarely do Other times sellers do not have any money for giving change to the customers or no packaging like napkins plates cups bags etc Each family has its own sales control for food items book which indicates the amount of food that families can buy from the government Often they are the only things accessible and reasonably priced for a Cuban salary Fruits vegetables and meat are not part of the Cuban peso system so not everyone gets to enjoy such things The sales control book only includes rice beans sugar coffee and pasta Together they still arent enough to form a healthy diet Post navigation

Let us be clear Republicans in the Senate are under no obligation to interview vote on or confirm President Obamas pick for the Supreme Court It does not matter that the president has nominated Judge Merrick Garland who is widely admired as a competent jurist It is not about the person it is about principle but the GOP leadership has been remarkably inept at framing what that principle is and why they are in the rightThe point is this President Obama has caused this conflict by diminishing the role of the legislature and assuming unprecedented power for the executive branch He has purposefully skirted Congress for the better part of seven years instead pushing ahead on his mostly unpopular agenda through regulations and executive orders As a result the Court is being asked to act as referee ruling on the legality of Obamas my way or the highway presidency You dont change a referee in the middle of a contestThis isnt about Judge Robert Bork or the Biden Rule this is a fight about President Obama undermining the checks and balances established in the ConstitutionFor instance President Obama has tried to essentially shut down our coal industry through new EPA regulations limiting carbon emissions These rules would create a massive dislocation to our economy which has long benefited from cheap energy including abundant coal That there is a significant cost to the economy is clear Hillary Clinton recently said Were going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business How right and how cruelly nonchalant that statement is As reported in the New York Times The plan could transform the nations electricity system cutting emissions from existing power plants by a third by 2030 from a 2005 baseline by closing hundreds of heavily polluting coalfired plants and increasing production of wind and solar powerBecause of the sizeable cost to the economy lower courts have ruled against the presidents anticoal regulatory blitz The Supreme Court in an unprecedented move issued a stay requested by 29 states and numerous other groups which prevents implementation of the carbon rule while a lower court assesses its legality In effect the courts will rule on whether the White House is allowed to unilaterally punish one of our heritage industries and tens of thousands of workersAnother important issue before the Supreme Court is President Obamas executive action allowing some 6 million people living in the country illegally to be protected against deportation This unilateral effort to rewrite our immigration laws is opposed by a majority of Americans but it is a politically useful policy for Democrats hoping to win Latino votes Because of possibly harmful consequences 26 states sued to prevent the order from taking effectLast fall the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of those states upholding an earlier injunction that blocked implementation of the presidents executive order At the time Ken Paxton Attorney General of Texas which is leading the suit said Today the Fifth Circuit asserted that the separation of powers remains the law of the land and the president must follow the rule of law just like everybody else Thats the pointFor the Republican leadership refusing to consider Mr Obamas nominee is a matter of principle and also an opportunity to reward voters for having elected a Republican Congress Mitch McConnell John Boehner and others have come under heavy criticism for not effectively countering President Obamas policies In fairness substantial resistance from Congress led the president to go his own way using whatever tools he could find to pursue his legacy agenda Many think those tools went beyond the rightful scope of the executive branch Now it is up to the Supreme Court to decideBecause the Court will weigh whether Mr Obama has overstepped he cannot be allowed to put his thumb on the scale by adding another sympathetic jurist This is the message that Republican leaders need to send to voters the president has abused his authority and we rely on the Supreme Court to reestablish the checks and balances that prevent an imperial White House The GOP should not be cowed by the bloviating of the New York Times they are on the right side of this battleLiz Peek is a writer who contributes frequently to FoxNewscom She is a financial columnist who also writes for The Fiscal Times For more visit LizPeekcom Follow her on TwitterLizPeek

You are here Home US Progressive Hypocrisy On Tolerance BRUTALLY Exposed Progressive Hypocrisy On Tolerance BRUTALLY Exposed October 27 2016 Pinterest Robert Gehl reports that in her Washington Post article explaining why she and her lady friends decided to drive around the neighborhood and steal Donald Trump signs from private property theres one line that explains perfectly the leftist mentality The liberal idea that your feelings are more important than the law your personal opinions or grudges or perceived injustices grant you permission to commit criminal acts with little regard to the consequences Betta Stothart wrote her article in The Post on Tuesday she provided a link to her Twitter feed which was brand new at the time she wrote it but has already been taken down confessing to driving around her Falmouth Maine neighborhood with two other compatriots stealing dozens of Donald Trump signs from peoples yards She was caught and arrested and now has to go to court She tells us shes sorry but shes not Because her feelings about this campaign are more important Read how she describes her situation I committed a crime this month along with two of my friends Im not the lawbreaking type In fact as a 52yearold mom my life is pretty predictable and boring But this election a particular candidates boasts about women pushed me over the edge In the suburban uppermiddleclass part of Maine where I live Republicans and Democrats live together mostly in harmony In every election cycle theres some tension But the 2016 presidential campaign has been different Tensions in my town are running at a fevered pitch Which is how three middleaged moms came to be running down the road tearing up the Donald Trump signs along our version of Main Street Wed been talking about the infamous Billy Bush tape and the women who have since come forward to share their own stories of abuse We were angry Getting Trumps name off our median strip seemed like the best way to express our rage These three women must have been proud of themselves probably laughing heartily as they committed theft trespassing and violated the First Amendment of their neighbors Why Because she thinks she was assaulted by the signs In retrospect I realize I shouldnt be proud of my transgression Hanging out with a bunch of moms we started grousing about the proliferation of signs Can you believe someone would put that many Trump signs so close together on our roads Its so rude Who is this jerk We felt assaulted by the number of signs The idea of cleansing our streets seemed like the fastest way to restore balance and alleviate our election stress at least that night it did Assaulted This is exactly why the Left is so dangerous They are assaulted by ideas by mere thoughts or opinions that are not their own They will do anything and Ms Stothart did to silence any dissent And she writes that in retrospect I realize I shouldnt be proud of my transgression She doesnt say she isnt proud she merely tells us that in retrospect she shouldnt be proud Which tells us that she is She is proud of what she did When asked what she would say to the victims of her trespassing and theft she offers no apology merely a justification that Trump is bad and that because she herself was a victim of an unwanted sexual advance it justifies her behavior She claims shell go to court in December with some sense of humility and shame shell explain and apologize But shes not sorry Not really To her and the millions of Leftists like her the ends justify the means Silence dissent crush the opposition tear down and destroy any thing that strays from your worldview This is the world that Ms Stothart lives in She still lives in it today She takes pride in suppressing the political view of her fellow Americans She writes that the agitation and fear is rising on both sides No Ms Stothart I have yet to see a single story about a Trump supporter violating the Constitutional rights of a Hillary Clinton supporter by stealing yard signs This is liberal America This is Ms Stotharts America This is not the America I want to live in

Our fight for LGBT equality is not nearly over Senator Kirsten Gillibrand DNY stated emphatically in an interview with me last week on SiriusXM Progress And Im hopeful very hopeful that the Supreme Court will say its unconstitutional to ban gay marriage But thats really just the beginning of fighting for our rights We have to actually make sure all LGBT couples can have full parenting rights have full social security and other federal benefit rights We want to make sure companies cant discriminate against members of the community because of who they love and who they are And its really important to take on discrimination wherever it existsToward that end Gillibrand last week reintroduced the Every Child Deserve a Family Act which she originally introduced in 2013 and which would bar adoption and foster care agencies that receive federal dollars from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation Though Gillibrand says shes seeking bipartisan support in the Senate and will continue speaking with Republicans so far cosponsors include a handful of fellow Democrats such as openly lesbian Sen Tammy Baldwin DWis and Sen Elizabeth Warren DMass and independent Vermont Sen Bernie Sanders who is running for the Democratic nomination for the presidencyOnly seven states ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in adoption and only five explicitly ban discrimination in foster care Gillibrand said in the interview So we have a long way to go We only have a few states protecting LGBT parents The reality is there are two million LGBT individuals and families that are willing and able to take on these parenting obligations to adopt these children or foster these children who desperately need it Unfortunately there are 400000 children in the US foster care system today and more than 20000 of them are going to ageout before finding a permanent home So we should be caring for these kids We should give them the loving families they deserveThe bill if it becomes law would only affect those agencies that take federal money and they are free to optout from receiving fundsIf youre getting the benefit of federal funds you cant discriminate Gillibrand said Its unconstitutional and you should not be able to use our taxpayer dollars to discriminate against individuals based on their sexual orientation and who they love So I think its important we fight against it particularly when our taxpayer dollars are being usedThis legislation would prohibit adoption agencies and foster care agencies including religious adoption agencies and foster care agencies from providing services in many cases Lori Windham Senior Counsel with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty told the Catholic news agency EWTN News Peter Sprigg senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council is quoted in the same article saying there are unique problems with allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children Claiming there is overwhelming evidence while not citing any studies Sprigg said I think its legitimate to disfavor them or to exclude them altogether

Having just spent an hour on Sunday evening watching Donald Trump in a town hall setting with Foxs Greta Van Susteren moderating from Madison Wisconsin I am left with one impression I dont want to buy a car from this guyI have no idea what the final outcome of this nomination battle will be or whether Trump can be elected president of the United States but I do know this he can dance and hes one hell of a salesmanAfter having experienced for him probably the worst week of this election cycle I was curious if he would clean up or restate some of his controversial statements on abortion 4 different answers in a week his dismissal of NATO and the United Nations his comments suggesting Japan and South Korea might need to arm themselves with nuclear weapons and along with Saudi Arabia pay the US a lot more money for our services because they are all rich and we are 20 trillion dollars in debt Yes its true the United States is not the policeman of the world or nor should we be Trump also didnt add any details for his plan to pay off the debt in 8 years by not raising taxes He didnt restate or make any of it clearerIt was an hour of performance not substance and certainly not anything different from what weve heard him say in various debates or in the hundreds of hours he has performed on televisionHes gonna repeal ObamaCare and put in a system of many options not defined or explained that will be better less expensive and everybody will be covered and everyone will be happy with their coverage And no ones going to die in the streetsTaxes are going to be lower for everyone but the rich hedge fund guys who arent paying their fair share OK I agree with him on that oneHes going to renegotiate all the bad trade deals starting with the most recent Iran deal Again I agree with that one And hes also going to bring all the jobs home from China and Mexico and any other countries that have stolen our them Of course Im not quite sure how this is going to work because there were no details provided in his answersHes going to knock out ISIS stop airline mergers fix the college education program because costs are too high and kids are being ripped offHes gonna stop the drug epidemic in New Hampshire because they are good people and gave him his first real victory He did give details on this oneHe going to make one call into Mexico to someone I assume to Enrique Pea Nieto who is the 57th president of Mexico Hes also the guy to talk to about paying for the 10 billion fence and tell him to cut off the drugs or elseIf you missed the hour on Sunday night dont worry you because you will see a similar version of the Donald Trump show again and the sound bites will be the sameTrump has said that one of his heroes is the great heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali who at the end of his career invented theRope a Dope to keep from getting hit and to wear out his opponents by evading their punchesDonald Trump has perfected his own version of Rope a Dope keep talking and avoid specificsNow about that used car Dont worry it will be the greatest and it will be the cheapest and best looking and I will be very happyUnfortunately for Trump on Sunday night while he was Rope a Doping in Madison the Cruz team was kicking his tail in North Dakota and picked up at least 18 of the 25 delegates who are either supporting Cruz or are against TrumpThe long fight for the Republican nomination is a long way from finished and Donald Trump is still marching onCruz is running a great grass root campaign and Trump is running a great marketing effort He is the product and he is the number one salesmanEdward J Rollins is a Fox News contributor He is a former assistant to President Reagan and he managed his reelection campaign He is a senior presidential fellow at Hofstra University and a member of the Political Consultants Hall of Fame He is a strategist for Great America PAC an independant group that is supporting Donald Trump for president

CNN Republicans began their debate Thursday night with insults and ended with three candidates pledging to back Donald Trump should he win the nominationFlorida Sen Marco Rubio and Texas Sen Ted Cruz took more shots at Trump in Fox News debate and through it all the billionaire businessman seemed to relish standing center stage defending himself against foes and moderators while showing his mettle to supportersAll three were happy to deflect efforts to drag them into sustained policy discussions and kept things personal Ohio Gov John Kasich was content to stand to the side and watch it allHere are seven takeaways from Thursdays Republican debateMinutes into the debate Trump was boasting about the size of his penisClearly annoyed that Rubio had joked days ago about the size of Trumps hands suggesting as Trump put it that if theyre small something else might be small the Republican frontrunner made a claim seldom heard during a presidential debateI guarantee you theres no problem I guarantee you he saidIt was a PG13 start to a twohour food fight that parents wouldnt have wanted their kids to watchEarly on as Rubio pressed Trump for more policy details the two gave each other nicknames Dont worry about it Little Marco Trump said to which Rubio responded Lets hear it Big DonaldTrump said Florida wouldnt elect Rubio dogcatcher after all of his missed Senate votes Cruz gave Trump instructions on letting go of his anger Donald learn not to interrupt its not complicated Count to 10 Donald Count to 10 Count to 10Later when Cruz told Trump to breathe Rubio jumped in and joked that the two were doing yogaI really hope that we dont see yoga on this stage Cruz answeredAnd then Rubio pointed to Trump whod just admitted his flexibility on policies and said Well hes very flexible so you never knowIt seemed as if Fox News had grown tired of Trumps opponents inability to knock him down so the moderators decided to do it themselvesChris Wallace had a realtime fact check queued up when Trump asserted hed cut 500 billion in spending pointing out that his strategies eliminating the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency which Trump called the Department of Environmental Protection would save just a fraction of that amountIt forced an awkward and unspecific claim about other things out of TrumpIm not only talking about drugs Im talking about other things he said Well save more than 300 billion a year if we negotiate We dont negotiateMegyn Kelly took her shot later on setting up three clips of Trump taking one policy position and then days later taking the opposite positionTrump was unmoored insisting he had logical explanations about his reversals on Syrian refugees the war in Afghanistan and more and that by the way it doesnt matter much anywayYou have to have a certain degree of flexibility he saidTed Cruz needs Trumps momentum to ebb as much as anyone but he didnt spend much of the night on the attack For the most part Cruz stood aside and watched Rubio and Trump rip each other to shreds and then turned to the audience and threw up his handsMegyn let me just ask the voters at home Is this the debate you want playing out in the general election he saidCruz took his shots at Trump too but he let Rubio do the dirty work betting that he rather than the Florida senator will reap the benefitsRubio for instance built on the attack line Mitt Romney started earlier in the day regarding Trump University pressing Trump over and over to admit he was ripping off the people who paid 36000 for his courses at a school thats now the subject of a classaction lawsuitCruz is trying to coopt the angry electorate that Trump has tapped into and his pitch is simple Trump is the villain youve been mad atFor 40 years Donald has been part of the corruption in Washington that youre angry about he saidIts entirely possible that the debate did nothing to change Cruzs fortunes But he does have a big opportunity on the horizonOf the four states to only allow Republicans to vote in GOP nominating contests Cruz has won three thanks to his strength among conservatives and the rules limiting Trumps ability to expand the electorate And all four states set to vote Saturday Kansas Kentucky Louisiana and Maine have closed contestsKasich will not under any circumstances engage directly with his foes on the debate stageAs the Democrats tell me all the time I can get the crossover votes he boasted early in the debate adding that hes often told at town halls that he seems to be the adult on stageIve talked about issues I have never tried to go and get into these kinda scrums that were seeing here he saidHe demonstrated his experience on economic and budgetary challenges and foreign policy and showed no signs of backing out of the race anytime soon especially not before Ohios March 15 primaryFor Rubio thats all a big problemThe man who won the hearts of the Republican establishment by confronting Trump headon in the last debate was ready to hit the billionaire again and again but a 1for11 Super Tuesday intervened and some of the shine wore offHe confronted Trump once again baiting the business mogul by calling him names attacking his business ventures and accusing him of knowing nothing about policy even though he struggled with a raspy voiceOn the campaign trail Trump has proposed changing US libel laws so that politicians can more easily sue journalistsBut on Thursday night Trump said the bond between reporters and politicians who agree to go offtherecord is too strong to break That he said is why he wont ask The New York Times to release a transcript or recording of an offtherecord conversation he had with the newspapers editorial board about immigrationI think being off the record is very important I will honor it he saidThen Trump allowed as his foes claimed that he might have softened his hardline stance he has taken on the campaign trail that he will build a wall on the USMexico border and deport 11 million undocumented immigrantsI will say that in immigration as well as with anything else there has to be tug and pull You have to be able to have some flexibility he said I may have said something like that with The New York Times But I am not going to release something off the recordTrumps opponents pounced on his remark but they could be misreading his support Many Trump backers say they know he cant achieve everything he proposes but believe hell fight for it more effectively than anyone elseIn an interview with CNNs Dana Bash afterward he defended that flexibility saying Im flexible with everything You cant just say this is it and Im never going to talk he said With that being said you have to make great dealsComing less than 12 hours after Mitt Romney launched a scathing broadside against Trump the candidates answer to the last question of the debate was particularly strikingFox News moderators asked Rubio Cruz and Kasich whether theyd back Trump if he wins the nominationAll three said yesThe moment wont help Rubio who had joined the NeverTrump movement of Republicans vowing not to support Trump on Twitter last week with that crowdMore important though is what they didnt sayThe premise of the question was that Trump had already won the nomination But there are scenarios in which Republicans could have more chances to stop that from happening even after all 50 states voteA better question Would the Republican field support the candidate who wins the most delegatesSo what does this changeTrump struggled with policy details butted in when other candidates were speaking and sparred with the moderatorsSo what else is newHis sharp and sharply personal exchanges with his rivals might have been amped up Thursday night but still sounded much like Trumps first 10 debatesThe frontrunner doesnt get rattled or lose his wit even when he is under attack from everyone else on stage He often seems to relish it as if his foes criticism gives him an excuse to stop holding backNone of the debates so far have changed the trajectory of the race in part because Trump is the master of the debate postgame finding ways to deflect weak points and suck up media oxygen while branding his foes with nicknames like Little Marco and Lyin Ted and claiming victory no matter what happened

CNN Hillary Clintons decision to personally raise money for a super PAC supporting her campaign is agitating her progressive critics who see the move as further proof that the Democratic presidential frontrunner doesnt share some of their valuesThere was never any expectation that Clinton would renounce super PAC money this election cycle But liberal activists determined to use the Democratic primary to pressure Clinton to embrace a progressive agenda say the idea of the former secretary of state personally wooing the wealthiest class of donors runs counter to the populist rhetoric shes employed this yearWithin days of announcing her White House bid Clinton had called out wealthy investors for paying too little in taxes and pledged to get big money out of politics At the time it was a welcome message for liberal Democrats who are uncomfortable with Clintons close ties to Wall Street and find the prominent role of super PACs in elections utterly distastefulBut the recent revelation that Clinton will personally fundraise for a super PAC supporting her campaign a decision to play by the rules of a system she has condemned as dysfunctional has invited fresh eyerolling It has also exposed a core tension for Democrats who have increasingly embraced super PACs at the same time that they decry the explosion of soft money in national politicsClinton seems to be having fun on the campaign trailClintons campaign is explaining the decision as a matter of political necessityWith some Republican candidates reportedly setting up and outsourcing their entire campaign to super PACs and the Koch Brothers pledging 1 billion alone for the 2016 campaign Democrats have to have the resources to fight back a Clinton campaign official said in an email who spoke anonymously to discuss the sensitive topic of fundraising There is too much at stake for our future for Democrats to unilaterally disarmClintons expected involvement with Priorities USA has highlighted the contrast between her and Vermont Sen Bernie Sanders an independent who is Clintons only declared rival to date for the Democratic presidential nomination as well as other potential challengersAn independent from Vermont seeking the Democratic presidential nomination Sanders has aggressively opposed super PAC donations A longshot candidate without a national fundraising operation Sanders has no chance of matching Clintons fundraising haul and has little to lose by going after millionaire and billionaire donorsOn Capitol Hill last week Sanders told CNN that Clintons decision to personally court super PAC donors was unfortunateWere living in a world since Citizens United where multimillionaires and billionaires are playing a horrendous role in the political system Sanders said referring to the Supreme Courts 2010 ruling that paved the way for super PACs to direct virtually uncapped amounts of money to aid political candidates Thats why I believe that we need to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of electionsPhil Noble a South Carolina Democratic activist and supporter of former Maryland Gov Martin OMalley a potential Democratic candidate for president said the development underscores what progressives view as a fundamental disconnect between Clinton and middle class votersIts not that she raises a bunch of money for a PAC that causes her problems with middle class voters That is a symptom as opposed to the ailment Noble said The larger illness is she is out of touch with middle class voters she does have a lifestyle and a history that is about as alien to middle class voters as corporate jets are to a SubaruAnd activists who are pushing Massachusetts Sen Elizabeth Warren to challenge Clinton see campaign finance reform as a major issueBeing a true champion for working families like Elizabeth Warren is about clearly and unequivocally supporting such critical priorities as a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United said Erica Sagrans campaign manager for Ready for Warren a movement dedicated to drafting Sen Elizabeth Warren into the 2016 raceClintons personal involvement with Priorities USA marks the latest chapter in the Democratic Partys evolving relationship with super PACsDemocrats initially fiercely opposed Citizens United But for all of their rhetoric against super PACs and as much as the party continues to use the Supreme Court decision as a political rallying cry over the years political interest has largely won out over progressive idealismIn 2012 President Barack Obama reversed course declaring after years of keeping his distance from super PACs that his campaign would participate in raising money for Priorities USANow that tension is being brought to new heights as the partys next likely presidential nominee personally plans to drum up support for a super PAC backing her candidacyClinton allies also see that her fundraising prowess and the depth of her connections with the kinds of donors who can cut multimillion dollar checks will likely make her a formidable competitor against any Republican candidate she may face in the general election Officials are careful to emphasize however that Clinton and everyone else involved with her campaign will strictly follow the law as they solicit funds for Priorities USAThe 2016 money race is well underway on the other side of the political aisleDeclared GOP candidates including Sens Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida as well as expected candidates like former Florida Gov Jeb Bush are on a fundraising tear And theyve shown no signs of distancing themselves from super PAC money Cruz launched his campaign in March and the senators allies declared that an affiliated network of proCruz super PACs had raised upwards of 30 million in just a matter of daysThe stiff competition against Republican money is a reality that some progressive leaders say they cannot ignoreFormer Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said it would be unwise for Clinton to reject super PAC moneyUnfortunately if you dont play by the same rules everybody else does you end up losing elections said Dean founder of Democracy for America one of the groups behind the draft Warren movement The key is to change the rules and I think we have a much better chance of doing that with her as president than we do with one of the Republicans

Carol Adl in Middle East News World 0 Comments Donald Trump has warned that Hillary Clintons policy towards Syria would lead to World War III arguing that the Democratic nominee would drag the US into a confrontation with nuclear armed Russia Trump said Youre going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton adding that What we should do is focus on ISIS We should not be focusing on Syria The US Republican presidential nominee made the remarks on Tuesday during a Reuters interview in response to Clintons proposal for the establishment of a nofly zone and safe zones in Syria Press TV reports On October 7 the Democratic nominee said a nofly zone was required inside the warravaged country to stabilize fighting a move that was opposed in Congress due to the risk of entering into conflict with Russia since a USenforced nofly zone would mean the US could shoot down Russian fighter jets should they enter Syrian airspace Clinton also described the situation in Syria as incredibly complex since the intervention of Russia Youre not fighting Syria anymore youre fighting Syria Russia and Iran all right Russia is a nuclear country but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk Trump said The Republican nominee also referred to the removal of Syrian President Bashar alAssad from power as a secondlevel priority to defeating Daesh Assad is secondary to me to ISIL Trump said Russia might down US planes Meanwhile US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also warned about the consequences of Clintons push for a nofly zone in Syria that could spark a conflict with Russia Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations Clapper said Clintons proposal for the establishment of a nofly zone in Syria could lead to Russia shooting down American planes there I wouldnt put it past them to shoot down an American aircraft if they if they felt that was threatening to their forces on the ground he said I take stock in the nature of the weaponry that they deploy and why they why they did that Clapper said of Russian weapons recently deployed to Syria The system they have there is a very advanced airdefense system Its very capable And I dont think theyd do it and deploy it unless they had some intent to use it During the third and final presidential debate last week Clinton reiterated her remarks on a nofly zone that could save lives and hasten the end of the conflict in Syria A foreignbacked militancy has been going on in Syria since March 2011 with a plethora of armed groups each supported by one foreign country or another fighting the Assad government Since 2014 the United States along with a number of its allies has been leading a socalled antiterror campaign in Syria and neighboring Iraq Instead of helping to rein in the Takfiri terrorists the air raids have killed many civilians and caused extensive damage to the countrys infrastructure

Killing Obama administration rules dismantling Obamacare and pushing through tax reform are on the early todo list

Comments Republican nominee Donald Trump is an admitted serial sexual predator His own recorded words confirm as much as do the dozen or so women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct His campaign is desperately fighting to put a lid on the growing awareness that Trump will be testifying under oath during a trial in federal court under the accusation of raping a thirteenyearold girl and a previously undisclosed second girl who was even younger The case was thrown out in May due to a clerical error but refiled in June with two new witnesses Joan Doe and Tiffany Doe who both say they worked as party planners for convicted child rapist and billionaire Jeffery Epstein Part of that planning appears to have been procuring girls for the party as Joan Doe revealed in her deposition that she convinced victim Jane Doe to attend four different parties with promises of money and meeting contacts in the modelling industry a story that matches the account of another person who would arrange for underage women to attend Trumps parties At one of these parties Jane Doe was forced to perform oral sex on Trump with a twelveyear old named Maria At the fourth and final encounter Tiffany Doe says I personally witnessed Defendant Trump telling the Plaintiff that she shouldnt ever say anything if she didnt want to disappear like the 12yearold female Maria and that he was capable of having her whole family killed Maria hadnt been seen since the previous encounter Trump then forcibly raped Jane Doe who was then raped and sodomized again by Jeffery Epstein who was apparently furious tha t Trump had ta ken her virginity and not him beating her in his fury Donald Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that Ive known Jeff for 15 years Terrific guy Hes a lot of fun to be with It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do and many of them are on the younger side No doubt about it Jeffrey enjoys his social life Epsteins brother Mark also testified that Trump flew on Jeffreys private jet at least once and records indicate that Trump called Epstein twice in November of 2004 Epstein eventually recieved a slap on the wrist 13 months in prison and registration as a sex offender for decades of abuse according to lawenforcement officials and alleged victims between the years 1998 and 2007and possibly even earlierhe ran a particularly vile pyramid scheme that involved paying minors around 200 at a time to perform sexual massages nearly every day and then recruit even younger girls to do the same The more you do the more you are paid one said During these massages girls as young as 13 told police they were instructed to get undressed Epstein would masturbate or penetrate them they saidwith his finger or a vibrator or his allegedly eggshaped penis The details keep coming and the picture they paint grows darker and more horrifying by they day How much more evidence does America need How many more stories need to be told before the word of one rich man is outweighed by literally dozens of contrasting accounts Donald Trump is a sexual predator and a possible pedophile he deserves a jail cell on Rikers Island not the White House

0 comments After catching all kinds of flack from his liberal counterparts for his opinion that racism is not as major an issue as racebaiting Democrats make it out to be rapper Lil Wayne has doubled down and clarified his stance in an astounding video sharing his memory of the day a white police officer saved his life at 12yearsold Watch

The Trump campaign is coming apart from the inside according to Regent Universitys Dr Gerson MorenoRiano and only the days ahead will show whether the candidate can bring people together not only in his inner circle but in the Republican PartyRegent Univeritys Dr Gerson MorenoRiano talks more about Trumps challenge with Evangelicals Watch aboveTrump fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski Monday amid reports of disagreements and infighting among the staffI think whats happened with the Trump campaign is I think its fractured itself internally MorenoRiano said I think that it is trying to meet a number of different objectives and keep a number of constituencies very very happy and it has been unable to do soAnd I think this is just symptomatic of a broader a more deeper problem within the American electorate particularly GOP evangelicals he addedMorenoRiano said the test for Trump is to find a way to bring his message under control and highlight the core concerns of GOP constituencies including evangelicalsThe dilemma has always been whether Trump himself has what Ill call the internal characterbased resources to pull this off he explained He is a man who is very direct very strongminded and the question is Does he have enough discipline both personally and professionally enough political discipline to pull this off I think at the end of the day its his question to answerThe decision to fire his campaign manager comes just one day before Trump is set to meet with hundreds of evangelical leaders in New York City to answer their questions and lay to rest the many concerns they have about his conservative and Christian bona fidesMorenoRiano listed abortion religious liberty and the Supreme Court as some of the most important issues he can address in the meeting including the question Are you truly someone who understands the evangelical mindset those areas of deep concernBut he pointed out evangelicals themselves are not unitedThey need to bring unity to the table and I just dont see that he saidSince the 1950s evangelicals have failed to rally around any candidate and thats too big a burden to place on Trump he said I think theyre going to try to assess whether hes truly evangelical or not so its a big challenge for him to try and unite them around a common denominator Thats going to be difficult

Theres a lot of disgust in America with politicians inability to get things done In the race to win the Republican presidential nomination that disgust has so far benefited outsider candidatesNoncareer politicians Donald Trump Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson have all promised to ride in and fix WashingtonBut new research by Nolan McCarty a professor at Princeton University and other political scientists suggeststhis disgust and Americas political dysfunction wont be that easy to fixWorking with political scientist Boris Shorand economistJohn Voorheis McCarty has released a new study thatshowsthat thegrowing ideological gap between the Republican and Democratic parties a common obstacle to getting anything done in Washington is not just due to politicians incompetence or their unwillingness to work together Its due at least in part to a deeper structural problem the wideninggap betweenthe rich and poorMcCarty says he shares some of the disgust that Americans feel about polarized politics and gridlock in WashingtonBut I think its important for readers and voters to understand thatthese problems are not just simply because career politicians are acting in bad faith or as Donald Trump would say theyre stupid losers Theyre really deep structural problemshe saysBy looking at extensive data on US states over the past few decades the researchers showthat the widening gap between the rich and the poor in recent decades hasmoved state legislatures toward the rightoverallwhile also increasingthe ideological distance between those on the right and those on the leftThis map below shows the Gini coefficient a measure of income inequality for each state going back to 1997 A lower Gini figure indicates that people in the state are earning more equal incomes while a higher one marked here in darker green shows that incomes are more unequal You can disregard theaxes here they just showlatitude and longitudeThe paper argues that this trend has gone hand in hand with thegrowing political divideThe states that have the highest levels of inequality or the fastest growth in equality have also tended to see the most political polarization the paper saysUsing a scale of state legislator ideology that looks at annual surveys of the beliefs of candidates since the mid1990s the researchers map whereDemocrats haveshifted to the left and Republicans have shifted to the right at the state levelThemap belowgives an ideological score in each state for each chamber in most states aHouse of Representatives and aSenateA more negative score and a deeper blue color on the map indicate that the state chamber is more liberal while a positive score and deeper red color show the state is more conservative You can see that blue states have become bluer and red states redder since 1997A look at party composition in each state shows the same trendIts not just that these two trends of inequality and polarization are happening simultaneously The researchers use statistical methods to eliminate other factorsand show that a states income inequality has a large positive and causal effect on its political polarizationFurthermore these results have increased in magnitude in recent years and seem to be concentrated in the states that are reddest by the end of the sampleIn other wordsgrowing inequality is astrong force pushing both parties farther from the centerThepaper doesnt specifically say why this happens except that politics gets more polarized with each election It appears that people on either end of the economic spectrum have beendeveloping even more differentpolitical preferences and electing people to represent those preferencesInterestingly however the study showsthatinequality is affecting the two parties in different waysFirst the researchers find that Democrats as a whole have shifted farther to the left than the Republicans have to the right with very liberal Democrats becoming even more liberal Butat the level of the state legislature they find that ideology as a whole has shifted slightly to the rightThe reason is that there has been a change in the partisan balance with Republicans winning more seats from moderate Democrats over timeAs the Democrat party has shrunk nationally over the course of the last 15 years the disproportionate effect has been the replacement of moderate Democrats with Republicans and that has tended to happen most often in states with high levels of inequality or where inequality is growing the fastest McCarty saidThe map below which showsthe percentage of seats held by Republicans illustrates how that has happened The percentage of seats held by Republicans has increased especially through the South and middle America since 1997This study offers evidence that inequality leads to political polarization Though they have yet to produce definitive findings the researchers also believe as many others in their field do that political polarization also in turn produces more inequality creating a vicious feedback loop of inequality and polarized politicsHow does that work Not only are more conservative lawmakers less likely to favor redistribution the political gridlock that results from having a more polarized system makes it harder to pass bills that might reduce income inequality such as increasing the minimum wage strengthening union bargaining power or increasing redistribution through welfare researchers sayThe researchsuggests that political polarization is not just a product of gerrymandering the way districts are drawn or caused by features of the state political system such as having closed partisan primaries McCarty saysInstead heargues that Americas political polarization is areflection of bigger broader changes in the United States in particular that thecountry has become much more diverse in terms of its economic racial and ethnic makeup than it was in the 1950s The diversity unsurprisingly has a direct impact on the political system and we have yet to figure out how to repair the system to reflect a more diverse society McCarty saysSo what does this mean for average voters in the near term For one they should be skeptical of candidates who promise an easy fix to political dysfunction in WashingtonThese are deep complicated problems and people need to think big picture about what underlies them They werent solved by electing Barack Obama theyre probably not going to be solved by electing Donald Trump McCarty saysYou might also likeWhat its like to be a part of the worlds richest 1 percent in 15 incredible photosThe growing wealth gap that nobody is talking aboutWhat people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

Jindal a Republican who is considering a presidential run suggested that politicians like President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton changed their views on gay marriage because of polling indicating more Americans in support of gay marriageIm not one of those politicians Jindal said on CNNs New Day My faith teaches me that marriage is between a man and a woman I dont believe in discrimination against anybody Im not for changing the definition of marriageJindal may be in the minority on the issue when it comes to the issue but that wont be the case if he joins a crowded Republican primary expected to be full of samesex opponents like former Arkansas Gov Mike HuckabeeHuckabee a staunch social conservative who sought the GOP nomination in 2008 said Monday on CNN suggested he doesnt think hell be on the wrong side of history when it comes to samesex marriage When you say the wrong side of history lets just be reminded that theres been a relatively and I mean a very relative brief history of samesex marriage The overwhelming history is the natural law of marriage biblical marriage he said So I dont think theres a side of history thats overwhelming at this point People have their opinions But Huckabee whos insisted social issues wont be the linchpin of his probable candidacy argued that the presidential race will be focused on the economy and proposals to combat poverty Jindals comments came as he sounded off on the battle over samesex marriage brewing in neighboring Alabama where officials in dozens of counties refused to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples on Monday the first day in the states history samesex couples have been allowed to wed after a federal court ruling overturned the states ban Samesex couples wed in Alabama despite efforts to block them Jindal sidestepped questions about whether county officials should respect the federal ruling and lawfully issue samesex marriage licenses Instead the governor said he hopes the Supreme Court will rule to uphold states legislative bans on gay marriage when the court rules on the issue by this summer Louisianas legislature overwhelmingly amended the states constitution in 2004 to define marriage solely as the union of a man and a woman But if the Supreme Court overturns samesex marriage bans around the country which it may very likely do Jindal said the US Congress should pass a constitutional amendment upholding states samesex marriage bans an allbutimpossible endeavor requiring twothirds support in the House and Senate

Most recent environmental concerns regarding pollution have been largely focused on water and land pollution Though these are undeniably major concerns facing our planet there has been a tendency

While Russias increased presence in Syria gives the regime another leg to stand on some in Damascus say Moscow could also temper Irans influenceStarbucks will expand in China and it looks like a smart ideaThis Sept 15 2015 satellite image with annotations provided by GeoNorth AllSource Analysis Airbus shows Russian tanks and armed personnel carriers at an air base in Latakia province SyriaRussias increased military assistance to Syria provides President Bashar alAssads embattled regime with a welcome boost to its hold on power after a series of territorial losses this year to rebel forcesBut while Russia appears to have coordinated its military expansion with Iran Mr Assads other key ally the move could also serve as a counterbalance to Tehrans powerful influence in Syria a phenomenon that has generated ripples of unease in some circles of the Damascus regimeRussia and Iran are staunch allies of Assad and collectively have provided diplomatic financial military and material support to help his regime stave off the challenge posed by opposition groupsBoth countries have much at stake Syria is one of the few Middle Eastern countries where Russia continues to wield influence and it provides Iran with a vital geographical conduit to its Lebanese protg Hezbollah It is also a key component of the axis of resistance an alliance of countries and parties opposed to Israel and Western regional interestsBoth Iran and Russia want to preserve the political system in Syria to keep Assad in power says Rajab Safarov the director of the Moscowbased Center for Studying Modern Iran Assads defeat would have a serious impact on Iran and wouldnt suit the interests of Moscow eitherStill despite the shared interest of Moscow and Tehran in the Assad regimes survival there are differences that Russias expanding military presence in Syria may expose in the coming monthsUntil recently the Iranians had much a bigger involvement on the ground than the Russians So I think the increase in Russian arms supplies is probably an attempt to balance the situation on the ground says Nikolay Kozhanov a visiting fellow of the RussianEurasia program at Londons Chatham House and nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Moscow CenterRussia continues to work with the Syrian state while Iran has set up a parallel security structure of local militias and foreign Shiite expeditionary forces from Lebanon Iraq Afghanistan and Pakistan granting it prolonged influence in Syria if the Assad regime fallsRussia seeks to preserve the territorial integrity of Syria and prevent it from breaking into militiarun fiefdoms That is a goal shared by the Assad regime which continues to fight for distant and isolated areas in the far north south and east of the country despite a critical manpower shortage in the decimated Syrian ArmyThe priority of Iran on the other hand is to hold onto the western periphery of Syria with access to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Mediterranean coast In recent months Iraniansupported forces including Hezbollah have pulled back from outerlying areas to concentrate on securing the key real estate from south of Damascus to Latakia on the coast in the northwest corner of the countryThe Russians see it as important that the country remain with its current borders but I think the Iranians will be satisfied with control over certain areas of the country with proIranian groupings that would ensure their access to Lebanon and Hezbollah says Mr Kozhanov previously a diplomat at the Russian Embassy in Tehran Thats the difference and that difference is clearly understood in MoscowThe Assad regime owes Iran much for coming to its rescue with billions of dollars for the cashstrapped economy and deploying thousands of Shiite fighters against rebel forces But that Iranian lifeline came at a price Iranian military commanders rather than Syrian Army generals have been shaping much of the regimes defense according to Arab and Western diplomats in the region Tellingly Iranian and Hezbollah officers rather than the Syrian Army recently conducted ceasefire negotiations with a rebel group over the besieged oppositionheld town of Zabadani 17 miles northwest of DamascusFurthermore there have been allegations that Iran has been tampering with Syrias demographic geography by settling Shiites including the families of foreign fighters in and around Damascus and preventing Sunnis from returning to their homes in some regimeheld areas Last year the Assad regime passed a decree allowing Shiite doctrine to be taught in schools alongside Sunni Islam Shiite mosques are proliferating as well as stalls selling Shiite books pamphlets and motifs in Sunni areas of DamascusThe level of Iranian influence has fueled unease in Damascus reportedly even within the regime itself There have been several reports in the past year of top Syrian figures grumbling that Syria was giving up its sovereignty to IranHowever Russias expanded role in Syria could serve as a counterweight to Irans pervasive influenceSome observers are reading the Russian intervention as an attempt to preempt the total Iranization of the Syrian state as much as it is an attempt to rescue the regime says Faysal Itani resident fellow at the Atlantic Councils Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle EastThese differences aside Russian and Iran continue to share a vested interest in the Assad regimes survival While the level of coordination between Moscow and Tehran is unclear at this stage it may be no coincidence that signs of a Russian military buildup began shortly after a reported visit in late July to Moscow by MajGen Qassem Suleimani commander of the Quds Force the external operations wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Lebanons As Safir newspaper reported Tuesday that Suleimani paid another visit to Moscow last weekI believe Iran and Russia are getting closer in the course of the Syrian crisis although they have had different approaches in dealing with the situation says Kayhan Barzegar director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies in TehranStill their common interests should ensure continued cooperationIn fact its Russia that currently needs a powerful regional partner to shape its new politicalsecurity doctrine in the region says Mr Barzegar I think Russia is careful to not upset Iran in the new circumstances especially in a time that there is an ongoing thaw between Iran and the WestStaff writer Scott Peterson contributed to this report from Tehran and contributor Olga Podolskaya from Moscow

Warren a hero of progressive Democrats is the latest party leader to fall in line behind Clinton after she clinched the requisite number of delegates earlier this week over rival Bernie SandersWarren told MSNBCs Rachel Maddow tonight I am ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States and to make sure that Donald Trump never gets anyplace close to the White HouseThe endorsement comes the same day that President Obama also endorsed Clinton in a video and announced he would campaign with his former 2008 rival next weekBut Warrens backing may be more politically important for Clinton than Obamas blessing The Democratic senator who remained neutral throughout the contest championed many of the same economic inequality issues and Wall Street reforms Sanders drew attention to in the primaryShe said tonight the 2016 election is not about one candidate its about all of us coming together coming together to fight to level the economic playing fieldIn fact she was urged by many progressive groups early on to challenge Clinton herself and the Ready for Warren organization who tried to lay the groundwork for her run ended up endorsing SandersEven though she remained on the sidelines Warren has emerged as a fierce attack dog against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump calling him a nasty thinskinned fraud just Thursday He in return has derided her as Pocahontas an allusion to a controversy that emerged during her 2012 Senate run after she had claimed Native American ancestryTonight Warren said Trump had cheered for the 2007 economic crisis because he knew how to make a profit from it What kind of a person does that she asked an insecure moneygrubber who cares about nothing but himself That cannot be the man who leads the United States of AmericaWarren has been floated as a possible vice presidential pick for Clinton a choice that could help allay some concerns among progressives about the former secretary of states nominationBut there was immediate backlash online to Warrens anticipated nomination Many supporters took to her Facebook page with profane comments calling her a sell out for not endorsing Sanders

Friend from university is an arse now 311016 A MAN who bumped into an old university friend has discovered that he is now a total dickhead Julian Cook lost contact with former housemate Martin Bishop for over eight years ago during which time Bishop has become a moneyobsessed macho twat who thinks he is the bollocks Office worker Cook said Instead of talking about old times he kept asking me what sort of car I have Then he blathered on about taking home serious Ks from folio development resales assuming I knew what that meant because otherwise I would not be a proper man The worst bit was when he told me about some fringe political group hes into called Libertarian England No actually it was when he said pussy alert when a woman walked past He probably just works and socialises with dipshits but I wouldnt rule out one of those injuries that turns you into a psychopath Maybe he fell off a raft at a teambuilding weekend and hit his head on the riverbed We parted on friendly terms but now he wants me to join his weights oriented gym and go to a lapdancing club which is odd because he used to be into Star Trek Generations Share

President Barack Obama insisted Thursday that Islamist terrorist groups committing atrocities from the Middle East to Africa to Europe do not represent Islam calling the idea that the West is at war with Islam an ugly lieThe president addressed delegates from more than 60 countries at the closing session of a summit on Countering Violent Extremism hosted by the US State Department in WashingtonObama said the nations gathered must remain unwavering in our fight against terrorist organizationsIn one part of the address the president appeared to be responding to administration critics who have pointed out that the White House refuses to use the term Islamic when referring to terrorist groups such as al Qaeda ISIS and Boko Haram who are committing atrocities against Jews Christians and other nonMuslimsObviously there is a complicated history between the Middle East and the West and none of us I think should be immune from criticism in terms of specific policies But the notion that the West is at war with Islam is an ugly lie and all of us regardless of our faith have a responsibility to reject it he cautionedOn Wednesday the president explained he doesnt want to mention Islam when talking about terrorism because it would give Islamic radicals a tool they can use to recruit new fightersWe must acknowledge that groups like al Qaeda and ISIS are deliberately targeting their propaganda to Muslim communities particularly Muslim youth he saidWhat can be done to be more effective in the fight against Islamic terrorism Cliff May president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies offers more insight to the presidents summit speechBut even the president refused to admit any connection between the Islamic State terrorists and Islam he said we need to tackle the issue head onWe cant shy away from these discussions And too often folks are understandably sensitive about addressing some of these root issues but we have to talk about them honestly and clearly Obama saidBut critics are mocking the president and his administration for not using phrases like Islamic terrorismThursdays New York Post shows a picture of the president blindfolded with the caption Islamic Terror I Just Dont See ItCliff May president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies says the president and his administration need to acknowledge that radical Islam is behind terrorism andgroups like ISISWere kind of avoiding making decisions now and were saying things that really nobody thats informed about these matters can actually believe Cliff May president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies told CBN NewsHe thinks hes doing it because he wants to avoid the impression that this is in any way a religious war it was 21 Coptic Christians who had their heads taken off by the Islamic State May saidThis weeks White House summit came after the State Department recently and quietly hosted a meeting with members of the Muslim Brotherhood much to the outrage of the governments of Egypt and Saudi ArabiaIsraelis were also surprisedWe just dont understand because we know the history of the Muslim Brothers We know exactly who they are Zvi Mazel former Israeli ambassador to Egypt saidSo how come the United States the administration in that case the president himself and the State Department receive delegation of the Muslim Brothers he asked

Massive Hillary For Prison sign held up at World Series game 5 infuriates liberals See what made liberals so mad By Staff Writer October 31 2016 INTELLIHUB A massive Hillary For Prison sign was held up at the post games show for the World Series game number five which made liberals furious Sunday night During the show the sign was displayed prominently behind the commentators Youtuber Mark Dice reported HillaryForPrison

Trump and Brexit Defeat Globalism for Now Anyway 14 2016 Trumpism as a stress test for democracy A series of populist antiglobalism shocks is a test for Western democracies Trumps stunning ascent to the White House is the clearest signal yet of an antiestablishment revolt unfolding in major democracies stretching across the Atlantic Swiss Info Tech Was Trumps victory actually created by the very globalist elites that Trump is supposed to have overcome There are some who believe the elites are actually splintered into numerous groups and that domestic US elites have positioned themselves against the banking elites in Londons City We see no fundamental evidence of this The worlds real elites in our view may have substantive histories in the hundreds and thousands of years US elites are basically in the employ of a handful of families individuals and institutions in our view It is confusing because it is hard to tell if Hillary for instance is operating on her own accord or at the behest of higher and more powerful authorities It is probably a combination of both but at root those who control central banks are managing the worlds move towards globalism History easily shows us who these groups are and they are not located in America This is a cynical perspective to be sure and certainly doesnt remove the impact of Trumps victory or his courage in waging his election campaign despite what must surely be death threats to himself and his family But if true this perspective corresponds to predictions that weve been making for nearly a decade now suggesting that sooner or later elites especially those in Londons City would have to take a step back More The vote to propel Trump to the US presidency reflects a profound backlash against open markets and borders and the simmering anger of millions of bluecollar white and workingclass people who blame their economic woes on globalisation and multiculturalism There are a few parallels to Switzerland that the losers of globalisation find somebody who is listening to them said Swiss professor and lawyer Wolf Linder a former director of the University of Berns political science institute Trump is doing his business with the losers of globalisation in the US like the Swiss Peoples Party is doing in Switzerland he said It is a phenomenon which touches all European nations Again this article presumes that Trump has won and that he intends to attack the larger globalist enterprise and the bankers funding it On the other hand it could be that both Trump and Brexit have been engineered to look as if the tide is turning against globalism when it is not Why would those in charge want to portray this point of view when it may not be so Because of what we call the Internet Reformation that has blasted open the secretive manipulations of the globalist elite in the past decade or so It is almost impossible for globalists to promote internationalist memes in this environment Yet it is the secretive injection of internationalist memes into the body politic that moves society toward the globalist enterprise As we have suggested before it is perfectly possible that a decision has been made to pretend to grant the larger society a victory over internationalism Following this analysis certain trends would be identified and encouraged that would seem to portray globalism as falling back on its metaphorical heels In truth if this analysis is correct globalisms retreat is a kind of pretense that will steer society less obviously in a globalist direction One way this could happen is by ensuring the splintering of Europe but not in a way that actually reduces control from Brussels It will APPEAR to be so but wont actually happen The same thing could take place in the USA under Trump Again this is not to say that Trump is party to this plot or even approves of it But the idea that Trump is part of a cooption is certainly a feasible alternative to an alternative analysis that takes what is happening at face value Nonetheless even if an alternative elite strategy has been decided on to realize globalism in another fashion it ought to be pointed out that things have changed And the Internet and its revelations are surely responsible This is a very big deal and it is one that ought to be emphasized repeatedly Brexit and Trump could be somehow the result of a different elite approach but the approach HAS changed nonetheless Think of it this way Hillary represented the blunt approach toward the realization of further globalism Her way included an aggressively expanded war and the pursuit of other globalist trends Trump rhetorically anyway has a different approach in mind that would gut many internationalist trends If Trump follows through on his rhetoric the trend toward an internationalist world will be reduced And while there is controversy over Trumps recent staff appointments we should also bear in mind that the Trans Pacific Partnership TPP and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP both seem to be failing now If indeed Trumps election has damped the progress of TPP and TTIP this is a huge event As weve pointed out both agreements effectively substituted technocratic corporatism for the current sociopolitical model of democracy The elites were trying to move toward a new model of world control with these two agreements This is similar to what happened after the advent of the Gutenberg Press when the elites of the day moved away from royal control and apparently swapped in democracy It seems evident that internationalism is now going to take a longer time to realize than we thought However this observation may not be entirely accurate if Trump turns out to be something other than his rhetoric suggests or if Brexit is denied in Europe Additionally one of the elites most powerful operative memes today is populism vs globalism that seeks to contrast the potentially freedomoriented events of Trump and Brexit to the discarded wisdom of globalism See here and here The reality of these two events the victories of both Trump and Brexit stand as signal proof that elite stratagems have been defeated at least temporarily Though whether these defeats have been selfinflicted as part of a change in tactics remains to be seen Conclusion But the change has come One way or another the Internet and tens of millions or people talking writing and acting has forced new trends This can be hardly be emphasized enough Globalism has been at least temporarily redirected

Arnaldo Rodgers is a trained and educated Psychologist He has worked as a community organizer and activist Clinton appalled by effort to recoup veterans bonuses By Arnaldo Rodgers on October 26 2016 veteran By Cristiano Lima Hillary Clinton slammed the California National Guard and Pentagon on Monday for reportedly demanding soldiers who fought in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago to return enlistment bonuses they received for their service I am appalled that National Guard officials are attempting to recoup money from soldiers who accepted bonuses a decade ago the Democratic nominee said in a statement released Monday night in response to the reports which first appeared in the Los Angeles Times These troops deserve our support and our deepest gratitude they served admirably and upheld their part of the bargain she said It is unacceptable to now subject them and their families to undue financial burdens thanks to to mismanagement from the California National Guard and rigid bureaucracy on the part of the Pentagon Read the Full Article at wwwpoliticocom Related Posts No Related Posts The views expressed herein are the views of the author exclusively and not necessarily the views of VNN VNN authors affiliates advertisers sponsors partners technicians or the Veterans Today Network and its assigns Notices Posted by Arnaldo Rodgers on October 26 2016 With 0 Reads Filed under Veterans You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 20 You can leave a response or trackback to this entry FaceBook Comments You must be logged in to post a comment Login WHATS HOT

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By Nathaniel MaukaCongress overwhelmingly voted for the Patriot Act nearly 16 years ago and our civil liberties have never been the same since As if this singular bill passed by George W Bush wasnt invasive enough allowing big banks to demand our internet data and more the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act CISA makes cyberspying by the shadow government and the financial entities controlling it a forgone conclusionAs with most shadow government legislation the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is packed with hidden surveillance allowances CISA was quietly passed to allow government to demand that private companies hand over personal information to them at will It also allows companies to mine data under the auspices of governmentcreated urgencyThe mere fact that this act passed in late 2015 is monumental since it has been before Congress in different forms for over a decade The election seems to have offered the perfect cover as Americans and activists were too busy arguing over Trump vs Hillary Scott Talbott senior vice president of government relations at the Electronic Transactions Association believes the value of sharing our personal data as a means to be alerted of cyber threats outweighs any hazard to our civil liberties Talbott states The value is that everyone can be alerted to cyber threats and take precautionary countermeasures before they materialize and spread he said Before CISA corrective measures could be taken only after the cyber threat had done its damage CISA allows each company to serve as an early warning system to the entire economy Who exactly would be determining if someone is a threat is the meat of the sandwich though CISA is ripe for abuse just as the Patriot Act has beenThe Patriot Act has made it legal for law enforcement to spy on people without probable cause to enter their homes or even to strip search them before theyve been to court had the opportunity to argue a case or given authorities a motive for this type of interrogationThe stated purpose of the Patriot Act was to deter terrorist acts in the United States but what do you do when the terrorists have already taken over your country CISA simply expands the reach of a shadow government which has already been proven to reach beyond the boundaries of constitutional lawMore importantly who specifically is CISA targeting After multiple hackers have infiltrated computer systems at the White House the State Department the Pentagon and the Office of Personnel Management along with the Democratic National Committee and numerous multinational banks run by the cabal is the shadow government simply trying to create a stopgap before their most elusive yet damning information is made publicCISA certainly will expand the reach of government surveillance on citizens as it has been conducted by the the National Security Agency NSA before former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed itI think this bill was meant to be a surveillance bill from the start said Justin Harvey CSO of Fidelis Cybersecurity adding that he is dubious that the stated intent of the bill to use collective intelligence to warn of potential cyber attacks and possibly stop them before they occur will resultUnder the guise of sharing cyber threats CISA allows companies to wholesalecollect information that may not even be a threat and then pass it along for government bodies to determine if it is indeed a threat If this sounds like circular logic it is just the beginning of the odd verbiage within the bill Its justifications for entering every possible orifice for datagathering are more confounded than an octopus in a straight jacketThe government can already enter your personal property including your home your body your cell and your computer but now they will have a legal inroads to declare you a cyberthreat simply for sending an email This begs the question who is the real cyberbully CISA seems to be nothing more than a prevarication covering the acts of an elite few who dont want their secrets exposedNathaniel Mauka is a researcher of the dark side of government and exopolitics and a staff writer for Waking Times This article Distracted by Election 2016 Noone Resisted the Deep States Patriot Act 2 was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Nathaniel Mauka and WakingTimescom It may be reposted freely with proper attribution and author bio Delivered by The Daily Sheeple We encourage you to share and republish our reports analyses breaking news and videos Click for details Contributed by Waking Times of wwwwakingtimescom Waking Times is an independently owned and operated online magazine that seizes on the transformational power of information to trigger personal revolution and influence humanitys evolution

A growing number of prominent Republican women are worried that as members of their maledominated party step up to defend Donald Trump against accusations of sexual assault they are causing irreparable damage to the GOPs deteriorating relationship with female votersTrump has faced questions throughout his campaign about his crass comments about women but concern escalated this month following the release of a 2005 video in which Trump boasted that he had sexually assaulted women and subsequent allegations by 11 women that Trump had inappropriately touched or kissed them A series of mostly male Republicans have come to Trumps defense dismissing the accusers as liars and some worry further alienating the female voters that the party desperately needs to surviveFor nextgeneration professional women the party is going to have to do something very very drastic to change the course of where this candidate has taken us said Katie Packer a deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney in 2012 I think the leaders in our party are going to have to aggressively reject this Come November 9 they better be prepared to make very strong statements condemning all of Trumps behaviorThis division within the Republican Party comes as polls suggest the nation is on the verge of electing its first female president even as misogyny remains a part of American life and culture Ironically it is Trumps candidacy rather than Hillary Clintons that has brought sexism to the forefront of political debateThe difference between talking about Donald Trumps accusers and being fascinated by sexThe controversy also comes as the Republican Party continues to struggle to attract women who make up a majority of the electorate and who have supported the Democratic presidential candidate in every election going back to 1992 President Obama won women by 11 points in 2012 and several polls show Clinton leading among women by an even bigger margin this yearA growing number of wellknown female Republican strategists and politicians have had it with Trump Sen Kelly Ayotte RNH said earlier this month she cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women Former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina whose looks Trump once mocked said Donald Trump does not represent me or my party And former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice wrote on Facebook earlier this month Enough Donald Trump should not be PresidentThe latest flareup came Tuesday night when former House speaker Newt Gingrich R exploded at Fox News Megyn Kelly during an interview repeatedly shaking his finger at her and accusing her of being fascinated with sex because she brought up allegations of sexual assault against Trump In a scolding tone Gingrich tried to tell Kelly which words she could or could not useGingrich once had a fascination of his own with Bill Clintons sex life as he was a driving force behind the movement to impeach Clinton following a consensual sexual relationship he had with a young former intern Clinton became the second president in American history to be impeached by the House but he was acquitted by the Senate Voters meanwhile punished the Republicans for what they saw as an overreach The GOP lost five House seats in the 1998 midterm elections which led to Gingrichs resignation as speakerTrump and his supporters deemed Gingrichs interview a victory with the campaigns director of social media tweeting that Kelly is not very smart and telling his followers Watch what happens to her after this election is overCongratulations Newt on last night That was an amazing interview Trump said at a ribboncutting at his new hotel in Washington on Wednesday We dont play games Newt rightTwo of the women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct piled on Juanita Broaddrick tweeted Beauty is only skin deep Megyn Kelly is ugly as hell on the inside Paula Jones wrote in a tweet that has since been deleted Woohoo he slammed this nasty heiferBut many other Republican women have concluded in recent weeks that this is not the party they knowLooks like Newt Gingrich just proved my point again tweeted Amanda Carpenter a conservative commentator and former communications director for Sen Ted Cruzs presidential campaign Carpenter wrote this week in The Washington Post about how her party has left women like her behind by ignoring Trumps chauvinism that was welldocumented in decades worth of publicly available smutty television radio and print interviews long before he became the nomineeIf the GOP has truly convinced itself that openly engaging in sexual assault fantasies is something normal that men do among one another I have a suggestion Relocate the Republican National Committee headquarters into a mensonly locker room Carpenter wrote Eliminate all pretenses of wanting to let women inChristine Matthews a Republican pollster said in an interview that Democrats no longer have to push a war on women narrative because its playing out on its own thanks to Trump and comments like those that Gingrich made on TuesdayIts just one more clueless middleagetoolder white guy taking to task a woman Matthews said Its so unhelpful on every levelOne GOP woman wonders why the men in her party wont defend herNicolle Wallace former communications chief for George W Bush who is now a political commentator tweeted that Republicans are now engaged in a hot war against women that will end badly for the partyMen like newtgingrich are a big reason the GOP has lost women Packer wrote in another tweet Men like him dont make women like me want to share a tent wthemEarlier this week Kellyanne Conway Trumps campaign manager and the first woman to lead a GOP presidential nominees campaign seemed to struggle when asked by CNNs Dana Bash if she believes the women who have accused Trump of sexual assaultI believe Donald Trump has told me and his family and the rest of America now that none of this is true Conway said These are lies and fabrications Theyre all made up And I think that its not for me to judge what those women believe Ive not talked to them Ive talked to himTrump has repeatedly denied allegations of abuse or sexism and has bragged about empowering female employees in his businessesNobody has more respect for women than I do Trump said during the last presidential debate when asked about his accusers prompting laughter from the crowd in Las VegasCarrie Almond president of the National Federation of Republican Women has traveled to 39 states in an RV this year talking with thousands of women who enthusiastically support Trump and believe the party speaks for themIts very important to not put all women into the same basket because not everyone sees everything the same way said Almond who is from MissouriWhen confronted with criticism Trump tends to go after women in much more personal and demeaning ways than men even though he insists he is an equalopportunity counterpuncher Trumps attacks on female journalists accusers and rivals over the past year have been heavy with criticism of their looks their intelligence and their mental healthAfter the first debate during the Republican primary which featured three moderators two men and one woman who all peppered him with uncomfortable questions Trump zeroed in on the woman Kelly for asking him about comments he makes about women After the debate Trump said that Kelly had blood coming out of her eyes blood coming out of her whereverDonald Trump calls her Crooked Hillary but his fans just say bWhen the Muslim American parents of a soldier killed in Iraq in 2004 appeared at the Democratic National Convention in July in opposition to Trumps candidacy Trump zeroed in on the mother Ghazala Khan saying in an ABC News interview She had nothing to say She probably maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say Khan later said it is still too difficult for her to talk about her sons deathIn early September when the hosts of MSNBCs Morning Joe were critical of Trump he zeroed in on the female host Mika Brzezinski tweeting Just heard that crazy and very dumb morningmika had a mental breakdown while talking about me on the low ratings MorningJoe Joe a messTrump has told NBCs Katy Tur to be quiet when she pressed him during a news conference and snapped at CNNs Dana Bash on Wednesday that she was rude to ask about the propriety of holding an event boosting his new Washington hotel He urged his millions of Twitter followers to search for a seemingly nonexistent sex tape of a former Miss Universe whom he had criticized as fat And he has accused Hillary Clinton of lacking a presidential lookWhen Trump made a similar critique of Fiorina during the primaries she responded I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr Trump saidTrumps rallies have also been hotbeds of incendiary rhetoric around gender including popular antiClinton Tshirts in many locales proclaiming Trump that bJohn Weaver a GOP consultant who worked on the presidential campaigns of Sen John McCain RAriz and Ohio Gov John Kasich said he is stunned by the misogyny the lack of understanding of where this country is now coming from Trumps campaignIf you have a gender gap the size of the Snake River Canyon why do you trot out Newt Gingrich and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and your nominee to talk about it and further make it worse said Weaver noting that all three men have been married three times The only ones I can see who seem to be obsessed about sex in this campaign are those three peopleWeaver continued Hes going to lose the general election and the credit goes to the women of America who are saving us from this guy

A day after police killed two terror suspects in eastern Belgium a bomb scare forced the evacuation of the busy Gare de lEst train station in Paris and Secretary of State Kerry joined French President Hollande in a visit to the sites of last weeks attacksWhy is Angela Merkel calling for a ban on the full Islamic veilFrench German and Belgian police arrested more than two dozen suspects in antiterrorism raids Friday as European authorities rushed to thwart more attacks by people with links to Islamic extremists in the Middle EastRob Wainwright head of the police agency Europol told The Associated Press that foiling terror attacks has become extremely difficult because Europes 25005000 radicalized Muslim extremists have little command structure and are increasingly sophisticatedHighlighting the fears a bomb scare forced Paris to evacuate its busy Gare de lEst train station during Friday mornings rush hour No bomb was foundVisiting a scarred Paris on Friday US Secretary of State John Kerry met French President Francois Hollande and visited the sites of the attacks last week on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket Twenty people including the three gunmen were killedFrench and German authorities arrested at least 14 other people Friday suspected of links to the Islamic State group Thirteen more were detained in Belgium and two arrested in France in an antiterror sweep following a firefight Thursday in the eastern Belgian city of VerviersTwo suspected terrorists were killed and a third was wounded in that raid on a suspected terrorist hideout and federal magistrate Eric Van der Sypt said Friday that the suspects were within hours of implementing a plan to kill police on the street or in their officesBelgian authorities were searching for more suspects Friday and found four militarystyle weapons including Kalashnikov assault rifles in more than a dozen raids Mr Van der Sypt saidI cannot confirm that we arrested everyone in this group he saidBelgian authorities did not give details of the people detained or even those killed but said most were Belgian citizensBelgian authorities stressed that the targets of their crackdown had no known connections to last weeks attacks in neighboring FranceBelgium has seen a particularly large number of people join extremists in Syria and is the worst affected country in Europe relative to population size said Peter Neumann of the Londonbased International Center for the Study of Radicalization He estimates 450 people have left Belgium to fight with Islamic radical groups in Syria and that 150 of them have returned homeAcross Europe anxiety has grown as the hunt continues for potential accomplices of the three Paris gunmenThe Paris prosecutors office said at least 12 people were arrested in antiterrorism raids in the area targeting people linked to one of them Amedy Coulibaly who claimed ties to the Islamic State group Police officials earlier told AP that they were seeking up to six potential accomplicesParis is at its highest terrorism alert level and police evacuated the Gare de lEst train station after a bomb threat The station one of several main stations in Paris serves cities in eastern France and countries to the eastIn Berlin police arrested two men Friday morning on suspicion of recruiting fighters for the Islamic State group in Syria Prosecutors said 250 police officers participated in the dawn raids on 11 residences that were part of a monthsold investigation into a group of Turkish extremistsMr Kerrys visit to France came after the Obama administration apologized for not sending a higherlevel delegation to Sundays massive rally in Paris which drew more than 1 million people to denounce terrorismMr Hollande thanked Kerry for offering support saying Youve been victims yourself of an exceptional terrorist attack on Sept 11 You know what it means for a country Together we must find appropriate responsesIn a separate speech to diplomats Hollande said France is waging war against terrorism and will not back down from its international military operations against Islamic extremists in Iraq and northern Africa Frances Parliament voted this week to extend airstrikes against Islamic State extremists in IraqThe Belgian raid on a former bakery was another palpable sign that terror had seeped deep into Europes heartland as security forces struck against militants some of who may be returnees from jihad in SyriaThat investigation had started well before last weeks rampage in Paris but Belgian authorities are separately looking for possible links between a man they arrested in the southern city of Charleroi for illegal trade in weapons and Mr Coulibaly who killed four people in the kosher supermarketSeveral other countries are also involved in the hunt for possible accomplices to Coulibaly and the gunmen who attacked the newspaper brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi The Kouachi brothers claimed allegiance to Al Qaeda in Yemen Coulibaly to the Islamic State group

November 6 2016 at 1031 pm humans are stupid especially Amerikkkans while the sheep continue to consume irrelevant trinkets in there capitalistic society like sheep grazin on grass in an enclosed field Russia is preparin to crush Amerikkka with a iron gauntlet China NKorea and Iran will play there parts too it wont be this year it wont be next year and likely not even 2018 but by 2019 somethin really bad is goin to happen mark my words

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Hollywood Florida CNN Donald Trumps new delegate guru told Republican Party insiders at a posh resort here on Thursday that the billionaire frontrunner is recalibrating the part that hes been playing and is ready to work with the GOP to evolve as a candidate past the divisive primaryMeanwhile 1100 miles away in Harrisburg Pennsylvania Trump told his supporters the Republican system is rigged and crookedThis is the dilemma facing the Republican National Committee and its members meeting here this week Can they cope with Trump an unpredictable personality who has come this close to winning the presidential nomination with a campaign leaning heavily on direct anger at GOP officials and institutionsPaul Manafort Trumps senior adviser and a longtime Republican operative said that Trump understands the changing nature of the campaign and is prepared to evolveHe recognizes that things arent static That what is right to start the campaign isnt necessarily the way you finish the campaign Manafort told CNN Thursday night after he met with RNC officials hereBut Manafort did not want to call anything a dtente between Trump and the GOP establishment Theres no reason to have a detente I mean theres not a fight he saidI mean the Trump campaign and the RNC are working together on a bunch of different things but the focus has been on getting the nomination he said Now that were approaching the nomination the focus is on blending the party and the campaign so that we can run as a united team and thats what we started to do here this weekendThe Trump campaign is approaching things here as if it already won the nomination There was no focus in the closeddoor meeting with Trumps people and the RNC on the effort to secure the 1237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination a source inside the room saidInstead Manafort contrasted Trump with Hillary Clinton Trump has personality negatives that can be fixed by campaign consultants like him but Clinton has deep character negatives dealing with issues of trust he told the room according to audio obtained by CNN from someone who attended Manaforts presentationThe part that hes been playing is now evolving into the part that youve been expecting The negatives will come down the image is going to change but Crooked Hillary is still going to be Crooked Hillary Manafort told the packed room which attendees described as too small and jammed with what appeared to be more Trump supporters than RNC members the intended audienceTrump Manafort said has been playing two roles in the campaign one in public onstage with voters and one in private that is more subdued and will start appearing moreTrump is an outsider and thats why many of you dont know him but when hes sitting in a room hes talking business hes talking politics in a private room its a different persona Manafort told the crowd When hes out on the stage when hes talking about the kind of things when hes out on the stump hes projecting an image thats for that purpose and the two youll start to see coming together in the course of the next several monthsShortly into a slide presentation that focused on Trumps ability to win a general election contest Manafort asked his assistant to end the slideshow and said Actually I know what Im gonna say Manafort said to some laughs according to an attendee and meeting audioAfter the meeting Manafort said the message was received wellI mean we had a very good meeting Manafort told CNN I think people were hungry to find out with the campaigns intentions were what Donald Trumps intentions were We answered all the questions I think they left there they have a better understanding of the integration of the campaign with the party as we move towards the general electionTrump recently brought in Manafort and Rick Wiley Scott Walkers former campaign manager after it was clear Ted Cruz was winning delegates with an intense ground game Manafort said the new hires also should calm nerves among jittery Republicans hereThey know Rick Wiley they know me so were bridging that relationship while he goes about finishing the job for the nominee Manafort told CNN earlier ThursdayCruz speaking on the Mark Levin Show Thursday night said Trump is trying to snow over Republican voters Donald is a New York liberal who is pretending to be a conservative to try to fool Republican primary voters Cruz saidHes telling us hes lying to us Cruz added What his campaign manager says you look at what his campaign manager is telling us this is just an act this is just a show building a wall when he talks about anything its all an act and a showTrump was the only candidate of the remaining three not to show up here in person John Kasich and Cruz both spoke to party leaders at private receptions Wednesday night and hosted smaller groups for private meetings outside of the resortAnd Trump himself is showing no signs of letting up He is the only candidate who can reasonably get to 1237 delegates before Cleveland and has Cruz and other Republicans out to stop him on subsequent ballotsIn Harrisburg Trump compared the primary system to Crooked Hillary Clinton getting two attacks against his enemies in oneThe system is rigged the voting is rigged the whole deal is crooked 100 almost as crooked as Crooked Hillary Its a crooked deal Trump said And thats why you have a case where I go in and win with the vote and these guys go in they buy delegates they buy them dinners they send them to hotelsThe continuing blasts against the party from Trump and pressure from Cruz and Kasich led RNC leaders earlier Thursday to back off proposed rules changes for the convention amid very vocal fears they would be perceived favoring one of the threeThe party is like the lawyer in a divorce court said Holland Redfield the RNC committeeman from the Virgin IslandsSurely theres a lot of whining going on Redfield said Here you have candidates that have also said to each other they are not supporting whoever gets out of this process I mean come on So they put the party in the middleKasich senior adviser John Weaver said that RNC members were pushing for the Ohio governor to stay in the race even with only one state victory Ohio and fewer delegates than Marco Rubio who dropped out last monthWeve run into a lot of people here who are encouraging us to go the distance because the people at this meeting particularly have a charge of putting together a winning ticket Weaver saidKen Cuccinelli Cruzs chief delegate hunter said the death threats made against Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House came up repeatedly in meetings between Cruz and RNC members WednesdayThey are definitely on the minds of lots of people here especially when they saw Steve House one of their colleagues getting death threats That comment was made repeatedly with various observations about it and those tactics in these meetings Cuccinelli said And this was the members making the comments not us bringing them upCruz kept his Wednesday presentation focused on his plan for winning the White House the partys ultimate goal and detailing his strategy in upcoming states like Pennsylvania according to RNC members who attended his speech And he added how he could help their own party efforts with his promised coattailsHe touched on that a little bit with the downballot effect we come out of that election hopefully with some big wins said Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bill Currier who attended the Cruz speechDo leaders take Trump seriouslyBut with their options dwindling some party leaders here said they could make the distinction between Trumps sharp attacks on the party and his political strategyI think thats just part of his persona I never take that stuff seriously or personally said Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason He cannot be elected without the Republican Party Thats the long and short of it He needs us We need a candidate and he needs us so we all need to work togetherHenry Barbour a party national committeeman from Mississippi who has said in the past it would be very hard for him to vote for Trump agreedI think thats Donald Trump being Donald Trump Hes an insurgent candidate trying to appeal on a populist level I dont take it that he really means it said BarbourThe populist furor sparked by Trump along with his campaign message that he is being cheated out of the nomination with the publics voice being ignored has exposed a deeper rift in the Republican Party which may have to be worked out after November no matter who is their nominee and no matter which party wins the White HouseIf somehow or another it comes to pass that the results of the primary choose our nominee ahead of the convention as far as Im concerned its the end of the national Republican Party said RNC Committeeman Curly Haugland of North DakotaHaugland and some other party veterans have argued that the public and some incredibly angry Trump supporters are simply learning what has been true of every previous nominating contest The party picks its candidate for the White HouseIt cant be rigged if the rules have been public and transparent for nearly a year and weve done it this way since 1856 Barbour saidBut in 2016 it wont be Barbour deciding whats rigged and what not

By Zero HedgeIt has been at least a few weeks since Deutsche Bank appeared in the flashing red breaking news sections of newswires with news that was mostly negative And while the stock has since rebounded materially wiping out all losses since the DOJs 14 billion RMBS settlement leak it appears that not everything is back to normal for the largest German lender Because in what may be the worst news yet for DBs employees moments ago Bloomberg reported that the German Bank is exploring alternatives to paying bonuses in cash as Chief Executive Officer John Cryan seeks to boost capital buffersAccording to Bloomberg DB executives have discussed options including giving some bankers shares in the noncore unit instead of cash bonuses Another idea under review is replacing the cash component with more Deutsche Bank stockThe supervisory board may discuss the topic of variable pay at a meeting on Wednesday though no final decisions are expected the people said the day before it reports thirdquarter earnings The measures if pursued in the coming months would mostly impact the investment bank the people said The Frankfurtbased lender is still considering other alternatives they saidAs Bloomberg adds any bonusrelated decision will depend on the size and timing of Deutsche Banks settlement with the US Department of Justice over a probe into the the sale of faulty realestate securities Last year Deutsche Bank awarded staff 24 billion euros 26 billion of bonuses for 2015 145 billion euros of which was for the combined investment banking and trading unit Of the 24 billion euros 49 percent was deferred stock and cash while the remainder was paid out immediately It appears that DB wants to take the 49 number and make it biggerThe idea echoes a similar move by Credit Suisse Group AG at the height of the financial crisis when the Swiss firm used its most illiquid loans and bonds to pay employees yearend bonusesThe report is comparable to a similar announcement made exactly one year ago when DB announced it may slash bonuses by as much as one third Since then however DBs aggressive cost cutting initative has made life for the banks employees progressively more miserable Since taking over in 2015 Cryan has suspended the dividend reduced bonuses cut risky assets frozen new hiring and announced plans to shed some 9000 jobs The CEO has already said Deutsche Bank may fail to be profitable this year after posting the first annual loss since 2008 last year Now DB bankers may end up getting paid in some of the billions in impaired tanker loans carried quietly on the banks book if not CDS or interest rate swaps Those DB certainly has a lot ofShould DB be successful with this significant shift in compensation strategy without leading to an exodus of workers it will likely be attempted at other banks as the core problems facing Deutsche Bank namely declining profitability have now become systemic across the entire banking sector Which is bad news for investment bankers everywhereSource Zero Hedge

Black Trump Supporter We need somebody that loves America My word to all black Americans Lets not be deceived Infowarscom October 27 2016 Comments Speaking with MSNBC outside a rally in Charlotte North Carolina a family of black Donald Trump supporters who explained they like Trump because of his allinclusive rhetoric and because he actually cares about America I delivered a speech in Charlotte North Carolina yesterday I appreciate all of the feedback support Lets MAGA httpstcoVQ8NgyUbjD pictwittercomObj1B6ZqDP Donald J Trump realDonaldTrump October 27 2016 My word to all black Americans one thing I would like to say Lets not be deceived a woman named Gloria told MSNBC Look at the record Look at the promises that have been made over the past from the Democratic party Were not voting for a party were voting for a man who has been standing by all citiz He loves America We need somebody that loves America And he also loves all people all people And theres that perception out there that he has no black supporters WRONG He does Trump admired Glorias comments so much he tweeted her statement out to his 128 million followers saying he appreciated all the feedback and support NEWSLETTER SIGN UP Get the latest breaking news specials from Alex Jones and the Infowars Crew Related Articles

Pope Francis on Tuesday announced sweeping revisions to the Catholic Churchs marriage annulment process changes that are designed to speed up and simplify the often lengthy procedure The revisions according to Vatican experts appear to bethe mostfarreaching made to the churchs annulment process in centuriesThe announcement featuring changes that willmake it easier for Catholics to remarry comes about a month before a major meeting at the Vatican where Catholic leadership will examine the churchs views on family issues including divorce and remarriageThechanges will eliminate a requirement that all annulment decisions get a second judgment and will allow local bishops to expedite the annulment process for some cases The annulment process will be free of charge though many dioceses had already eliminated the administrative fees for marriage annulments according to a Vatican spokesmanThe revisions also expandthe role of localbishops in judging nullificationproceedingsAlthough dramatic thechanges do not alter the Catholic Churchs teaching that marriages are permanentThe revisions were announced in two Apostolic Letters from Francis which translated from their Latin titles are called The Gentle Judge The Lord Jesus andThe Meek and Merciful JesusThe documents were released in Latin and Italian at a Vatican news conferenceCurrent Catholic teaching on marriage doesnt recognize divorce Catholics who are granted a civil divorce and then remarry are ineligible to take Communion a key part of active Catholic life Instead a Catholic who wants to end his or her marriage must be granted an annulment a process that many Catholics believe is too costly and complicatedWhat has Pope Francis actually accomplished Heres a look at 8 of his most notable statementsThe popes changes dont resolve whether divorced and remarried Catholics may take communion the Rev Thomas Rosica an Englishlanguage spokesman for the Vatican said in an email instead they put the questioninto a new context for further examination by the churchThe changes will probably split Catholic opinion between those who believe that a streamlining of the annulment process is needed and will help bring back more Catholics to the church and those who worry that the revisions could make it too easy to move on from a marriage which Catholic teaching dictates is apermanentsacramentIn a recent Pew poll 62 percent of American Catholics said the church should allow Catholics who divorce and remarry without an annulment to receive CommunionThe number of annulments in the United States has been on the decline in recent decades Annulment procedures in the country dropped from 72308 in 1989 to 23302 in 2014 according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown UniversityVast majority of US Catholics who left the church cant imagine returning study saysAn annulment is granted by a Catholic tribunal if it agrees that a marriage originally thought to be valid wasactually missing at least one crucial element from the start meaning that it was never really a true marriage in the first place The length of the process varies between dioceses but can take 12 to 18 months according to the US Conference of Catholic BishopsOne of the changes implemented by the pope will eliminate the second instance of that tribunalmeaning that all couples seeking annulment will have to obtain only one sentence from a single tribunal The moral certainty reached by the first judge according to law should be sufficient the letter readsIts a sweeping reform its a dramatic reform saidChad Pecknold a theologian at Catholic University Its a reform which essentially takes away the whole judicial process for deciding whether a marriage was null or notAnother change will reduce the process of that first tribunal down to one judge Pecknold noted Formerly a tribunal consisted of at least two priests and one canon lawyer who could be a layman or clericFrancis has changed that and placed the responsibility of the first instance of the tribunal into the hands of a single judge who must always be a member of the clergyPecknold added A lot of my canon lawyer friends want to quit todayAusten Ivereigh a papal biographer and commentator on the Vatican called it revolutionary that Francis has granted bishops the power to nullify a marriage a power that has rested with church courts Bishops he said could also delegate that power to priests This will make annulments more accessible especially in much of the developing world where Ivereigh said many areas have no church courtsThis is the most farreaching reform to the Churchs nullity process in 300 years he addedTuesdays announcement is procedural and makes no change in the way the church sees marriage and its permanent natureHowever Ivereigh said the change shows Francis has been listening to regular Catholics and the reason for this change is that society has changed This speededup procedure recognizes and reflects a new realityHe predicted that some conservatives would be critical of this change because they will see it undermining the concept of marriage as a bond that cannot be dissolved The bestknown of this group is American Cardinal Raymond Burke who led the Vaticans supreme court until he was removed by Francis because Ivereigh said Burke opposed annulment changesAnother change announced Tuesday will allow bishops the ability to further expedite the annulment process for some particularly straightforward cases a process that Pecknold said would allow the bishop to essentially write a noteThat process could be open to abuse he added The moment that you put in an exception that makes everybodys job easier guess what everybodys going to doKurt Martens a professor of canon law at Catholic University said the expedited process would apply to Catholic couples facingcertain conditions including those who have an abortion a grave contagious disease children from a previous relationship or imprisonment Essentially Martens said the church is providing a path that looks like the Catholic version of nofault divorceVIDEO Pope emphasizes forgiveness for abortions during year of mercyThe changes move the church away from a set of 18thcentury safeguardsmeant to make sure that the annulment process wasnt subject to abuse Martens said Those changes set up by Pope Benedict XIV included a provision that would require a mandatory appeal of the lower courts decisionWhat guarantee do you have for a fair trial if you take away those guarantees that were put in the past Martens said Sometimes you want to go so quickly you miss elements and make mistakes Procedure law takes time to unfoldMartens said the way Francis changed the annulment process was unusual because he did not go through the Synod on the Family as expected in OctoberIf I were a bishop I would be upset Martens said Its a bit strange and even a sign of contradiction that a pope who is big on consultation and collegiality seems to forget that on something like this Its highly unusual for legislation like this to get through that wayFrancis for his part acknowledged some of those concerns in his lettersThe extent to which an abbreviated process of judgment might put the principle of the indissolubility of marriage at risk did not escape me Francis wrote Thus I have desired that in such cases the Bishop himself shall be constituted judge who by force of his pastoral office is with Peter the greatest guarantor of Catholic unity in faith and in disciplineDespite those concerns the changes come with a notable silver lining for Catholics seeking to annul their marriages and return to a closer relationship with the churchIn terms of the average Catholic who is seeking annulment this makes an already painful situation easier and that is Pope Franciss intent Pecknold said You can see a clear pastoral eye on this decision He doesnt want any long waits he basically wants the decision to come from the bishopFrancis has spokenbefore of his desire to reform annulment in the pastThe sacraments give us gracehe saidearlier this year to jurists of the churchs final court of appeals for annulments And a marriage proceeding like an annulment touches on the sacrament of marriageHow I wish all marriage proceedings were free of charge he addedIn August Francis urged Catholic clergy to keep open doors and be more welcoming todivorced and remarried CatholicsStay up to date on the papal visit Sign up here to follow Washington Post stories about Pope Franciss visit to the US and well email you as theyre published

GOP Presidential Hopefuls Serve Up Ice Cream Cheese And Red Meat To IowansGOP presidential hopefuls spent Saturday night serving up ice cream cheese and political red meat to potential Iowa caucus votersAt the Iowa Republican Partys annual Lincoln Day Dinner fundraiser the first part of the evening was rigid Each of the 11 possible candidates present was given a strictly enforced 10 minutes to make their pitch before later wooing voters at their hospitality suites downstairs with homestate fare in a more relaxed environmentSome candidates served up surprises to the crowd too which could make a critical lasting impression for underdog candidatesSen Lindsey Graham RSC got the most laughs of the evening declaring he was the halftime entertainment as he took the stageThe more you drink the better I sound so keep drinking he joked If you need to go to the bathroom go ahead Wont bother me a bitHe jabbed at Iowa Sen Chuck Grassleys famously frugal ways The one thing I learned about this dinner is it was free for Chuck or he wouldnt have been hereHe also ribbed freshman Sen Joni Ernsts memorable 2014 hog castration ad When I saw that ad with the pigs I made sure Id never offend JoniBut the hawkish senator quickly turned serious taking a jab at his frequent foe Rand Paul the libertarianleaning Kentucky senator Paul who has already officially announced his candidacy had used his own time to reiterate his opposition to the NSAs controversial wiretaps telling voters I want to catch terrorists but I also want to protect the ConstitutionGraham who could announce his 2016 plans June 1 promised that if someone under his watch as president was thinking of joining ISIS or planning a terrorist attack Im not calling a judge to get a warrant as Paul called for Im calling a drone and were going to kill youGraham also gave cover to another potential 2016 rival former Florida Gov Jeb Bush who fumbled questions this week on whether he would invaded IraqThe former US Air Force JAG Corps lawyer blamed the deterioration in the Middle East on Obamas withdrawal of troops in the region not on former President George W BushIf you fought in Iraq Graham said its not your fault its going to hell Its Obamas faultBut Paul didnt spare Bush that scrutiny Without mentioning his likely rival by name he said the question of whether the Iraq War was a good idea was a valid question Not because were talking about history but because were talking about the Middle East where history repeats itselfPaul said the same question should be asked of Hillary Clinton If she ever takes any questions he quipped He then pivoted to an indictment of Clintons reaction to the 2012 consulate attacks in Benghazi Libya which he said should disqualify her as presidentWhen Bush took the stage he began by acknowledging his family in a nod to the controversy of this weekYou all know me as George and Barbaras boy for which Im proud he said Some of you all may know that Dubya is my brother Im proud of that tooEarlier on Saturday Bush defended his answers this week when he was asked by Fox News Megyn Kelly Knowing what we know now would you have authorized the invasion in Iraq After saying he would Bush tried to clarify the next day saying he interpreted the question wrong before finally fully walking back the answer Thursday saying he would not have gone into IraqI misstepped for sure I answered a question that wasnt asked he told voters at a town hall at Loras College in Dubuque on Saturday morningLater that afternoon when taking questions from reporters in Iowa City he said all candidates were going to make mistakesIf youre looking for a perfect candidate he said he probably existed 2000 years agoAt the Lincoln Dinner Bush took aim at Obamas foreign policy echoing part of his stump speechName a country where the relationship is better than the day that Barack Obama came into office he asked Iran Cuba I rest my caseForeign policy hits against both Obama and Clinton were familiar refrains from other speakers tooIran enemy Israel friend Its real simple said former Sen Rick Santorum RPa who won Iowa in 2012Gov Bobby Jindal RLa assailed Obama for what he saw as not standing up for religious liberty in the face of threats abroad The United States of America did not create religious liberty he said Religious liberty created the United StatesBen Carson who has never held political office but is a Tea Party favorite saw his first lead in a poll of Republican primary voters While our enemies are magnifying and metastasizing were shrinking back said Carson a retired pediatric neurosurgeonFormer Texas Gov Rick Perry tried to offer a hopeful historical reminder We made it through Jimmy Carter Well make it through Barack ObamaHis speech ran long and like a scene out of an Academy Awards ceremony music began to playAnother candidate who got the proverbial hook was Carly Fiorina the former HewlettPackard CEO Her microphone was cut off to the verbal frustration of the crowd She briefly continued to speak while the audience could not hear herHer speech though was well received including getting the loudest applause of the night with this jab recalling how she was asked when she announced her official campaign last week if a womans hormones would affect her ability to do the job as presidentCan anyone think of a single instance where a mans judgment was clouded by his hormones And in the Oval Office she said a notsosubtle shot at former President Bill ClintonFiorina also got applause as she contrasted her own previous meetings with foreign leaders to Clinton Fiorina boasted how she would stand up to Russian and Iranian leaders As shes done in previous cattle calls Fiorina drew notice as the only woman in the field and positioned herself as a natural foil to Clinton the likely Democratic nomineeWhen the formal speeches concluded GOP faithful mingled downstairs meandering from room to room that candidates had set up Some of the longest lines to meet candidates were in the suites of Graham and Fiorina who attracted renewed interest after strong performances The lines for Bush Carson and Walker were winding tooSeveral candidates turned to their home states for inspiration Jindals was Mardi Grasthemed passing out green gold and purple beads and promising bandanas for supporters of local Duck Dynasty star Willie RobertsonClad in a red apron Walker stood behind a table scooping ice cream and serving up Wisconsin cheese A HarleyDavidson motorcycle was on display next to him a nod to Ernsts inaugural Roast and Ride in a few weeks while autographed cheesehead hats were on his book table in the crowded roomPerry also served ice cream a nod to the favorite dessert he says he usually grabs at the end of a day spent campaigning And as Iowa Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann noted the event and likely caucus lineup offered something for everyone of all palates in the GOPIts like going into BaskinRobbins and not knowing which flavor to take he said at the end of the dinner I want a taste of every single one

Lots Of Candidates Want To Simplify Tax Code Heres What They Get WrongTheres something almost Name That Tuneish about the way the GOP candidates are talking about tax brackets these days Currently there are seven Donald Trump wants four Jeb Bush says he can get them down to three Chris Christie and Marco Rubio want two Ben Carson does them one better one 10 percent rate inspired by the BibleTheyre not alone President Obama has advocated fewer brackets as wellWhy do this One of the most common reasons they give is that it would make the tax code simplerAs Rubios tax plan puts it The tax code is in desperate need of simplification and bracket consolidation is an important first stepHes right on the first part The Internal Revenue Code is impenetrably unfathomably complicatedBut heres the reality Cutting brackets wont really help that muchIts a very mild form of simplification said William Gale codirector of the UrbanBrookings Tax Policy Center at the Brookings Institution a leftleaning Washington think tank The real complication in the system is in the tax base not in the rate structure Figuring out how you calculate capital gains or figuring out whether youre eligible for the earned income tax credit for lowerincome Americans given the child rules once youve got that then you just plug in the ratesThink about your own taxes it can be complicated to figure out how much you owe when you have things like investment income wages from selfemployment or lots of deductions But once you fill in the boxes and subtract all that out figuring out your rate is easy and if youre using a program like TurboTax the computer does it for youCutting taxes as a whole tends to be the real goal behind ratecutting said Ed Kleinbard professor of law and business at the University of Southern California After all no one ever tries to simplify tax brackets upwardThe number of brackets has an almost imperceptible effect on the complexity of tax law as it is lived by the individual taxpayer Kleinbard said Taxpayers are not left to their own devices engaged in highlevel mathematicsWhat does simplicity look likeSo reducing the number of brackets isnt the clearest path to simplification What is Making the rest of your tax preparation experience easier says one expertSimplification does not necessarily mean that taxes are a simple mathematical function of income said Matthew Weinzierl a Harvard University assistant professor who studies what optimal tax systems look like After all with TurboTax its easy to have a computer do a complex calculation for you Instead what economists typically have in mind is that a tax system should be easy to understand transparent and hard to gameA lot of these bracketcutting ideas come alongside proposals to limit deductions And that in its own right is a great step toward simplification Bush for example wants to cap the amount of total deductions most people can take not counting the charitable deductionMost economists think a tax base with fewer such loopholes is less subject to evasion and less distortionary to economic activity Weinzierl saidThe idea is that these loophole closures offset the tax revenue lost from cutting brackets But thats not how it always worksThe call for fewer tax brackets in every case has as its real motive lowering the tax burden on the highestincome Americans not making life simpler for the middle class Kleinbard argued Consider Bushs tax proposal as an example While it limits deductions it also would overwhelmingly benefit the highest earners and grow the national debt unless there is unprecedented growth in the economyCutting deductions and loopholes makes for a great sound bite but its far tougher than it sounds The politically popular mortgageinterest deduction is a great example of this It tends to benefit higher earners more but despite constant calls to simplify the tax code its so politically popular that it has proved impossible to eliminateCutting deductions isnt the only way candidates could fight for simpler taxes They could also pledge to combat efforts of tax preparers to keep tax preparation itself complicated Voxs Dylan Matthews and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Robert Greenstein have reported that HR Block pushed for changes that would have quadrupled the earned income tax credit forms length making it harder for lowincome families to get the credit that is without HR Blocks help The company has defended itself hereThere are also unsexy opportunities to make the code less complicated For example Kleinbard argues that some long hyperspecific definitions could be trimmed downIf you really care about complexity the place to look for example is the definition of whos a dependent Kleinbard said People fight over whether a child is a dependent of one parent or another It turns out to be an incredibly complicated topic and nonsensically so If you look for simplicity youd actually want to look at things like a consistent and simple definition of dependent So theres plenty of room for simplification and politicians often point to the socalled 70000 page tax code as proof of that However railing against the page count may be a misguided line of attackOne nitpicky reason is that the tax code itself is not in fact 70000 pages long as Slate pointed out last year That distinction belongs to a compilation of court decisions surrounding the tax code according to the Tax Foundation The statutes themselves are about 2700 pages longBut far more important Kleinbard said some complexity is inherent to a tax code that tries to govern a complicated economyThe tax code is thousands of pages long for a very simple reason It is a model in the economic sense of all of economic activity he said Most Americans dont spend a lot of time worrying about the taxation of cutting timber or of being crew on a tuna boat But there are rules for that and you may find the rules irrelevant to you but the rules are complex for a reasonOK so how many brackets should there beAmericans want a tax code thats simpler to some degree And brackets arent really going to simplify the code all that much But that still doesnt answer one key question Is there a right number of bracketsTheres an entire branch of economics dedicated to this kind of question Its called optimal tax theory and Google Scholarsearching it will dump you into an afternoonlong intellectual rabbit hole Weinzierl who studies this said theres no magic numberThe number of brackets is generally considered unimportant Weinzierl said Any desired level of progressivity can be obtained with a number of different bracket structures so the specific number isnt that importantBut some experts believe that our current sevenbracket system could use some tweaking Thomas Piketty author of last years bestselling Capital in the 21st Century and University of California Berkeleys Emmanuel Saez for example have argued that a higher top marginal rate would be bestGiven the growth of uberhighearners Weinzierl said that idea is popular among economistsMany economists would argue that the lack of such a bracket is odd since it means that a family earning 750000 is likely to pay the same marginal tax rate as a family earning 10 times as much he said The basic idea here he adds is that if were going to have more than one bracket and thus allow ourselves something other than a flat tax its quite limiting not to have a bracket for the highest earnersAnd heres another compelling complication The US may have already stumbled onto a pretty good system Earlier this year economists at the Minneapolis Fed found that the current US system warts and all is in fact nearly optimal beating out other optimal options like a flattaxplustransfer systemTrying to understand all of these taxpolicy contradictions at once might understandably make your eyes glaze over But the ultimate takeaway is simple When a politician advocates simplifying the tax system theres usually a good reason to be skeptical

Syrians wait near the Turkish border during clashes between ISIS and Kurdish armed groups in Kobani Syria on Thursday June 25 The photo was taken in Sanliurfa Turkey ISIS militants disguised as Kurdish security forces infiltrated Kobani on Thursday and killed many civilians said a spokesman for the Kurds in KobaniResidents examine a damaged mosque after an Iraqi Air Force bombing in the ISISseized city of Falluja Iraq on Sunday May 31 At least six were killed and nine others wounded during the bombingA member of Afghanistans security forces stands at the site where a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in front of the Kabul Bank in Jalalabad Afghanistan on Saturday April 18 ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack The explosion killed at least 33 people and injured more than 100 others a public health spokesman saidA Yazidi woman mourns for the death of her husband and children by ISIS after being released south of Kirkuk on April 8 ISIS is known for killing dozens of people at a time and carrying out public executions crucifixions and other actsOn April 1 Shiite militiamen celebrate the retaking of Tikrit which had been under ISIS control since June The push into Tikrit came days after USled airstrikes targeted ISIS bases around the cityA Kurdish marksman looks over a destroyed area of Kobani on Friday January 30 after the city had been liberated from the ISIS militant group The Syrian city also known as Ayn alArab had been under assault by ISIS since midSeptemberISIS militants stand near the site of an airstrike near the TurkeySyria border on Thursday October 23 The United States and several Arab nations have been bombing ISIS targets in Syria to take out the militant groups ability to command train and resupply its fightersCundi Minaz a female Kurdish fighter is buried in a cemetery in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc on Tuesday October 14 Minaz was reportedly killed during clashes with ISIS militants in nearby KobaniA Kurdish Peshmerga soldier who was wounded in a battle with ISIS is wheeled to the Zakho Emergency Hospital in Duhuk Iraq on Tuesday September 30Syrian Kurds wait near a border crossing in Suruc as they wait to return to their homes in Kobani on Sunday September 28Aziza Hamid a 15yearold Iraqi girl cries for her father while she and some other Yazidi people are flown to safety Monday August 11 after a dramatic rescue operation at Iraqs Mount Sinjar A CNN crew was on the flight which took diapers milk water and food to the site where as many as 70000 people were trapped by ISIS But only a few of them were able to fly back on the helicopter with the Iraqi Air Force and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters

Heres an interesting factoid about contemporary policing In 2014 for the first time ever law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog Armstrong Economics last weekOfficers can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with a crime yes really through the highly controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture Last year according to the Institute for Justice the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds That same year the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at 35 billionArmstrong claims thatthe police are now taking more assets than the criminals but this isnt exactly right The FBI also tracks property losses from larceny and theft in addition to plain ol burglary If you add up all the property stolen in 2014 from burglary theft motor vehicle theft and other means you arrive at roughly 123 billion according to the FBI Thats more than double the federal asset forfeiture haulOne other point Those asset forfeiture deposit amounts are not necessarily the best indicator of arise in the use of forfeiture In a given year one or two highdollar cases may produce unusually large amounts of money with a portion going back to victims thereby telling a noisy story of yeartoyear activity levels the Institute for Justice explains A big chunk of that 2014 deposit for instance was the 17 billion Bernie Madoff judgment most of which flowed back to the victimsFor that reason the net assets of the funds areusually seen as a more stable indicator those numbers show how much money is left over in the funds each yearafterthe federal government takes care of various obligations like payments to victims Since this number can reflect monies taken over multiple calendar years its less comparable to the annual burglary statisticsStill even this more stable indicator hit 45 billion in 2014 according to the Institute for Justice higher again than the burglary losses that yearOne final caveat is that these are only the federal totals and dont reflect how much property is seized by state and local police each year Reliable data for all 50 states is unavailable but the Institute of Justicefound that the total asset forfeiture haul for 14 states topped 250 million in 2013 The grand 50state total would probably be much higherStill boil down all the numbers and caveats above and you arrive at a simple fact In the United States in 2014 more cash and property transferred hands via civil asset forfeiture than via burglary The total value of asset forfeitures wasmore thanonethird of the total value of property stolen by criminals in 2014 That represents something of a sea change in the way police do business and its prompting plenty of scrutiny ofthe practiceThe surprising reason more police dogs are dying in the line of dutyMost Americans dont realize its this easy for police to take your cashPolice chases kill more people each year than floods tornadoes hurricanes and lightning combined

The Republican presidential candidates kicked off the 2016 election year on Monday with a burst of new attacks and advertising including Donald Trumps first TV ad of the season as they entered the final sprint to Iowa and New HampshireAs Trump rolled out his TV spot in both earlyvoting states Ben Carson released a new tax plan just days after shaking up his struggling campaign Ted Cruz was launching an aggressive 36county tour across Iowa while Marco Rubio used a security speech Monday in New Hampshire to slam those who voted to rein in Americas intelligence effortsThe speeches the ads the bus tours and the proposals all reflect an effort by the campaigns in the stillcrowded field to effectively relaunch with less than a month to go until the leadoff Iowa caucuses and after that the New Hampshire primaryCarson who has endured a precipitous drop in the polls and switched up his top campaign staff last week unveiled a plan Monday to scrap the tax code and replace it with a 149 percent flat taxNo deductions no loopholes it applies to everybody across the board the retired neurosurgeon told Fox NewsOnce the darling of Iowa conservatives Carson has seen his numbers plummet there as Cruz the Texas senator has shot to the front of the field nudging past TrumpThough Trump still holds the lead in most New Hampshire polls the billionaire businessman is seeking to energize his bid by putting money behind his first TV ad of the race His campaign announced it would be spending at least 2 million a week on the ad split between Iowa and New HampshireThe ad reprises Trumps call to build a wall along the USMexico border and to take the Islamic States oil but begins by defending the controversial proposal he made after the San Bernardino terror attack to ban Muslims from entering the USThe narrator in the ad says The politicians can pretend its something else but Donald Trump calls its radical Islamic terrorism Thats why hes calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until we can figure out whats going onTrump isnt the only one talking tough in the final stretchFlorida Sen Rubio at an American Legion post in New Hampshire took an implicit shot at candidates like Cruz in blasting lawmakers who voted to rein in the NSA while vowing to restore such intelligence programsIf ISIS had lobbyists in Washington they would have spent millions to support the antiintelligence law that was just passed with the help of some Republicans now running for president Rubio chargedHe also blasted Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton as incompetent and said She has lied referring to her public explanations regarding the Benghazi terror attackKeep the Promise a super PAC supporting Cruz launched its own ad in Iowa that mocked Rubio over a video clip he put out in October joking about fantasy football the proCruz ad juxtaposes that against images of ISIS fighters and the refugee crisis to question his seriousnessCruz meanwhile is keeping a packed schedule as he launches a sixday 36county bus tour in the Hawkeye State and tries to maintain his lead thereEven the lowerpolling candidates are taking another crack at breaking through Former Pennsylvania Sen Rick Santorum who won the Iowa contest in 2012 launched his first TV ad in the state on Monday also going after CruzThe ad starts with a clip of the Texas senator reading a Dr Seuss classic Green Eggs And Ham on the Senate floor which he did during a filibusterlike speech opposing ObamaCare in 2013You want someone to read one helluva bedtime story Ted Cruz is your guy a narrator says If you want to protect America and defeat ISIS Rick Santorums your president Because serious times need serious peopleSantorum though is polling at under 1 percent in the state as Cruz and Trump maintain an unrivaled leadNew Hampshire by contrast is a much tighter contest No fewer than five candidates are jockeying closely for the position behind Trump in the polls right now Rubio Cruz New Jersey Gov Chris Christie Ohio Gov John Kasich and former Florida Gov Jeb Bush

US uses Tunisia as drone base for Libya operations report Published time 26 Oct 2016 2053 Get short URL US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julianne Showalter Reuters Washington has been secretly operating drones from a base in Tunisia since June US officials have admitted The unarmed US Air Force Reaper drones are said to be gathering intelligence on Islamic State targets in the neighboring Libya Trends Arab world protests Islamic State Intelligence obtained by the drones flying out of the unspecified base in Tunisian territory has been used in more than 300 US airstrikes against Islamic State IS formerly ISISISIL in the Libyan city of Sirte Despite the airstrikes and a push from Westernbacked Libyan militias on the ground IS militants remain entrenched in the city The existence of a secret drone facility in Tunisia was admitted on Wednesday by US officials speaking to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity There are some 70 US military personnel overseeing the drone operations in Tunisia Pentagon officials told the paper The US government has not officially acknowledged the operation while the Tunisian embassy declined to comment to the Post US military now flying Predator or Reaper drones from Tunisia Niger Italy Djibouti Jordan Turkey Afghanistan Kuwait Qatar UAE Craig Whitlock CraigMWhitlock October 26 2016 The US sought access to an air base in Tunisia to close a critical blind spot for US intelligence operations in North Africa Since the Westernbacked rebellion against the government of Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 Libya has become a major base of operations for IS as well as AlQaeda militants US aircraft fly actual bombing missions from the Naval Air Station in Sigonella on the Italian island of Sicily Surveillance drones have also been based there but the Italian government has refused to grant permission for armed drones until earlier this year citing concerns of an antiwar backlash at home the officials said Tunisia was the first North African country to overthrow its government in 2011 launching the socalled Arab Spring that led to upheaval in Libya Egypt Lebanon Syria and elsewhere The Obama administration has kept the negotiations secret because of concerns for Tunisias young democracy and possible terrorist attacks officials told the Post Read more Tunisia From hope to disillusion Islamic State has already claimed a number of attacks in Tunisia including the June 2015 massacre of almost 40 foreign tourists at the beach resort of Sousse and the November 2015 bombing of a presidential escort bus that claimed 12 lives It was an IS attack on a town bordering Libya in March 2016 that helped the Tunisians make up their minds about the drone base the US officials said Under the terms granting the Pentagon access to the base the US committed to help build up Tunisian intelligence collection capabilities the Post reported Though currently only unarmed surveillance drones are based at the facility they could be armed in the future if the Tunisian authorities give their permission US officials told the paper Washington has sought to expand the network of its drone bases across Africa Last month the Intercept obtained documents showing that the US has been building a 100 million drone base in the central Niger town of Agadez from where the remotely operated craft could stage operations in Algeria Libya Chad Nigeria and Mali

More debates Fewer candidates Were still talking about Iowa Its your Thursday edition of For the Record lets get to itTwo more Republican candidates dropped out of the race Wednesday leaving eight candidates nineif you count Jim Gilmore but thats like counting Pluto as still being a planet Senator Rand Paul is out dealing a blow to anyone who wanted to make political donations solely in Bitcoin 2012 Iowa Caucus winner Rick Santorum also suspended his campaignAfter careful consideration Santorum threw his 04 worth of influence at Marco Rubio while Paul says he wont make any endorsements in the primary though he says hellback the eventual Republican nomineeFor Paul he returns to Kentucky to focus fulltime on his reelection campaign for SenateA few months back Paul said hed give up to 500000 to help pay for an early Kentucky caucus which would have enabled him to run both for president and senator for a few months longer heres hoping he kept the receiptRick Santorum meanwhile is heading home to bingewatchTouched by an Angel on NetflixOn theKblerRoss model of grief Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are stuck on denial about the Iowa results You might say that Trump is onanger but no hes justlike that On the Democratic side the official results say Hillary Clinton edged Sanders by 029 one of the closest caucuses in Iowahistory stillTeam Sanders is looking into how coinflipping in some precinctsaffected the ultimate outcomeOne question still unanswered If a coin landed on its edge did those delegates go to Martin OMalleyOn the Republican side Donald Trump is calling for a complete dooverbased on Ted Cruz staffersspreading rumors that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race and encouraging Cruzs precinct captains to try to lure Carson supporters to their side Trump is insistingactually won the caucuses based on his strong predebate poll numbersSo why were the polls and caucus results different Experts are suggesting it was a strong getoutthevote effort by Cruz plus a number of lastminute deciders plus the decline of land lines and the increase in cellphone use which actuallymakes a lot of sense because SORRY NEW PHONE WHO IS THIS was pulling in 8 support in late JanuaryTheres another Democratic debate tonight9 pm EST on MSNBC this time with only Hillary and Bernieon the stage OMalley who dropped out of the race following the Iowa caucuses will see no significant decrease in speaking timeBut wait this debate wasnt on the original schedule said no normal person anywhere Its true this debate is one of fouradded to the Democratic debate schedule just as the race gets more heatedYesterday the two campaigns argued over Twitter about the definition of progressivea debate that spilled over into last nights town hall meeting in Derry New Hampshire The tldr version Sanders says Clinton is too moderateon military intervention the financial industry and trade Clinton says compromise is needed because animportant part of being a progressive is making progressThe fun part will be during the general election when the Democratic nominee will spend months telling the country how centrist and mainstream they areIf the political gods formed a humanout of campaign contributions and sadness and then made it run for president this is what it would look like

OUT OF LEFT FIELD Gingrich slutshames Megyn Kelly Adele M Stan Misogyny isnt just baked into the Trump brand it is the Trump brand Published 26 mins ago American Prospect When as a campaign surrogate and oncepowerful white man you answer allegations that your candidate may be a sexual predator with a sexlaced attack on your female interviewer youre probably a misogynist A desperate misogynist Thats what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is looking like this morning During a Tuesday discussion of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trumps sinking poll numbers Gingrich accused Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly of being fascinated with sex when she dared to mention that Trumps fortunes began falling after the now infamous Access Hollywood video featuring Trump boasting about his selfproclaimed prerogative to sexually assault women became public on October 7 and nearly a dozen women came forward to allege that Trump had either assaulted them or otherwise taken liberties with their bodies

Really the only unusual or exciting thing about this jobs report is how unusual it is for something so thoroughly expected and nongamechanging to happen Adding a bit over 200000 jobs a month is both what analysts thought would happen and also a trajectory that is consistent with a continued slow decline in unemployment but no real labor market boomDive deeper into the data and the basic lack of surprises only continues Labor force participation is up but only very slightly Hourly wages are up but only very slightlyTheres nothing about this jobs report that is likely to change the Federal Reserves mind about anything and therefore no reason to expect financial markets to have any particular reaction Those who think the Feds current course is dangerously inflationary will keep thinking that Those who more correctly think the Feds current course is unreasonably inflationaverse will keep thinking that as well Janet Yellen will keep thinking shes on the right trackWage growth appears to have settled into a steady pattern that is somewhat better than what we saw at the depths of the recession but far below what was considered normal before the recession Partially offsetting this overall consumer price inflation has been abnormally low for a couple of years now There are also some compositional effects pulling average wages down as a large cohort of inexperienced 20somethings have been entering the workforceOverall it is a little difficult to understand why some of the small upward bumps have been interpreted in some quarters as a sign of an imminent inflationary breakout Even the strongest wagegrowth months have been weak compared with 2006 or 2007 years that were not exactly halcyon days for the American workerPerhaps the clearest sign of how notyetcompleted Americas recovery comes from looking at the level of fulltime jobs which is still well below where it was in 2007The population needless to say has grown in the intervening years meaning that the failure to fully catch up in job growth makes it difficult for rankandfile workers to gain bargaining leverage

Hes done more to bring our education system sometimes kicking and screaming into the 21st century more than anybody else Obama said at a White House ceremony America is going to be better off for what hes doneDuncan leaves the administration as the longestserving education secretary in US history Obama saidIts a record that I truly believe that no other education secretary can match he said Arne bleeds this stuff He cares so much about our kids And hes been so passionate about this workWhile speaking about the impact his parents both educators had on him Duncan got emotionalAll our lives we saw what kids could do when given a chance and thats why we do this today he said Obama has selected Deputy Secretary of Education John B King Jr to replace him In an internal memo to Department of Education staff Duncan cited the commute between his home and family in Chicago in announcing his departure and called his job the greatest honor of my life We have been lucky to have an a amazing team here from Day One but I honestly believe our team today is the strongest its ever been Duncan wrote So its with real sadness that I have come to recognize that being apart from my family has become too much of a strain and it is time for me to step aside and give a new leader a chance Obama brought Duncan with him to Washington from Chicago where he served as the citys schools chief Hes long been one of the presidents closest friends in the administration their relationship forged in the days before either came to national prominence Duncan along with Obamas first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior advisers Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod formed a hometown crowd for the Obamas when they arrived to the White House Jarrett remains in her post at the White House though Axelrod and Emanuel have both returned to Chicago Emanuel as the citys mayor and Axelrod as chair of a politics institute at the University of Chicago Education Secretary Arne Duncan will step down in December an administration official said Friday October 2 Katherine Archuleta director of the Office of Personnel Management resigned July 10 a day after revealing a data breach of government computers was vastly larger than originally thought Margaret Hamburg commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration announced February 5 in an email to staff that she was stepping down after six years as commissioner Jennifer Palmieri Obamas communications director left in spring 2015 She now serves as the director of communications for Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign Dan Pfeiffer one of Obamas chief strategists and closest advisers departed from the White House in early March officials confirmed Marilyn Tavenner the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services top administrator who was involved in the rollout of Obamacare announced in an email to staff that she was resigning at the end of February 2015 Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned in October 2014 after multiple security breaches involving the President The firestorm began after an intruder scaled the fence and entered the White House on September 19 2014 Gen David Petraeus stepped down as director of the CIA on November 9 2012 after an FBI investigation confirmed he was having an affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell He served the position for a little over a year Gen Eric Shinseki resigned in May 2014 after it was revealed that Veterans Affairs administrators had conspired to cover up wait lists that were months long leaving sick and dying veterans waiting for care Kathleen Sebelius resigned as secretary of Health and Human Services in April 2014 after months of backlash against her role in the faulty rollout of Healthcaregov Shirley Sherrod a former official with the Department of Agriculture was forced to resign from her position in 2010 after a conservative blogger published a video of her questioning whether to help a white man losing his farm since so many black people lost their farm land before him When it was discovered that the video was taken out of context the USDA offered her another job which she declined In June 2010 Obama relieved Gen Stanley McChrystal from his post as commander of US forces in Afghanistan after disparaging comments McChrystal made against the administration in Rolling Stone magazine Three months after Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed a state dinner in November 2009 Desiree Rogers stepped down as White House social secretary Suzanne Barr a senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned September 1 2012 amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged by at least three Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees Duncan said he had not made a decision about his next steps besides spending time with his family and added that he expected to find work that involved expanding opportunity for children Over the years that I have known him and especially in the months we have worked together here Ive come to recognize John as one of the most passionate courageous clearheaded leaders in our field Duncan said Duncans departure means Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack will be the sole remaining Cabinetlevel secretary who has been with Obama since 2009 Obamas Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan started in 2009 as his Housing and Urban Development secretary In the early days of the administration Duncan and Obama often played pickup basketball on the weekends in Washington Duncan is among the group of close Obama confidantes who participated in the Presidents Election Day pickup game in 2012 though Obamas days on the court have waned in favor of days on the golf course As education secretary Duncan pushed reforms to improve the quality of education including advocating for the controversial Common Core requirements Many Republicans say the requirements provide unnecessary federal interference in school curriculum He also implemented the administrations Race to the Top funding program that has states compete for federal school funding as well as gone after forprofit colleges for predatory practices

Posted on July 15 2015 by Dr Eowyn 33 Comments Its a topsyturvy world when lawbreakers those who illegally enter and stay in the United States are sacred cows while those who criticize the lawbreakers are ostracized and demonized On June 16 2015 when Donald Trump announced that hes entering the crowded race to become the 2016 Republican presidential nominee he made some remarks about illegal immigration which brought the wrath of the PC Left on his head Trump said When Mexico sends its people theyre not sending their best Theyre sending people that have lots of problems Theyre bringing drugs Theyre bringing crime Theyre rapists I will build a great wall and nobody builds walls better than me believe me and Ill build them very inexpensively I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I will make Mexico pay for that wall Mark my words For saying that one business after another severed their ties with Trump Univision and Comcasts NBCUniversal cancelled plans to broadcast Trumps Miss Universe beauty pageant Mattress giant Serta said it will stop selling Trumpbranded products Department store giant Macys also cut its ties with Trump Such righteous indignation You would think Trump were a heinous mass murderer or a childmolester or serial rapist or bestialist But Macys antiTrump move has backfired TMZ reports July 13 2015 Macys is paying the price for sacking Donald Trump because weve learned thousands of customers are cutting up their Macys credit card in protest Sources connected to the department store tell TMZ Macys has received complaints from approximately 30000 customers since ending its relationship with Trump nearly 2 weeks ago Were told the store has been inundated with complaints from customers who believe the department store is unfairly punishing Trump for his views on immigration Our sources say thousands of customers have vowed never to shop at Macys again and many of them say theyre cutting up their Macys credit card to make a statement Were told the complaints have come in various ways including phone Facebook and email A Macys spokesperson would only say Our Facebook page is often times used by our customers to express their feelings or points of view Many times it does not correlate to any action Join the boycott against Macys

As Harris lay struggling and dying he told the surrounding officers Im losing my breath One officer yelled back at him Fuck your breath Then he insisted that the dying man be handcuffedFuck your breath encapsulates in only three words the systemic disregard that police regularly show to Black people in America Just last week we watched Michael Slager execute Walter Scott in South Carolina for daring to run away Now this week we are also tuning into the trial of former Chicago Police Officer Dante Servin who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the killing of 22yearold Rekia Boyd in March 2012 In the cases of Eric Garner in Staten Island Tamir Rice in Cleveland Walter Scott in South Carolina and Eric Harris in Tulsa we have seen video of law enforcement officers not only critically injuring citizens but also refusing to administer medical care with fatal consequencesGiven the origins of policing in this country and their connections to slave patrols and other forms of racialized social control I am under no illusions that the police have ever held Black life in high regard Police complicity and participation in lynchings and in the KKK make that clear But the explicit tacit refusal of Black peoples right to breathe is still significant The fact that the Tulsa County Sheriffs Office is a paytoplay force is significant The fact that white men can sign up with government approval for the right to play cops and robbers on the weekends is appalling That Black lives provide fodder for statesanctioned sport should have us in the streetsThere is something about the logics of selfgovernance under the terms of neoliberalism that make this moment feel more pessimistic than our trite narrative of linear progress on racial issues would have us conclude In 2012 the United Arab Emirates gave 1 million to the New York City Police Foundation According to an NYPD spokesperson the money was used to upgrade equipment and aid in criminal investigations In both New York City and Tulsa private funding of law enforcement significantly impacts the way local policing is done In Tulsa it results in the paytoplay scheme In New York City it allows for large infusions of cash donations whose specific uses do not come under public scrutiny because they are private fundsThese forms of neoliberal policing in which private citizens and private monies impact the culture of policing but escape governmental checks and balances endanger us allIn New York such actions enable the purchase of unspecified forms of equipment that might for instance be used to exacerbate the culture of militarized policing in the NYPD Part of this money allows the NYPD to travel to the UAE to learn counterterrorism measures In the wake of 911 some external training might be helpful but essentially this sounds like a case of the NYPD being allowed money to play global cops and robbers and to then test out these tactics on the Black and Brown people who are policed heavily within the cityIn the case of Tulsa this privately underwritten form of law enforcement placed an underprepared pretend deputy into a serious confrontation As a result Eric Harris lost his lifeBut he did not just lose his breath As he lay dying he was refused the right to breathe That refusal came in a chorus of other taunts about how he was getting what he deserved because he chose to run His breath seeped out of his Black body as public service officers taunted him in a barrage of profanityWhy is the refusal of breath to Black people endemic to the American condition What about the Black body makes the lifebreath that we all hold so dear so sacred such a profane and devalued thing in the hands of white peopleIn 1977 the famous writer and American prophet James Baldwin returned to America after living in France for more than three decades In an interview at the New York Times he said I left America because I had to It was a personal decision I wanted to write and it was the 1940s and it was no big picnic for blacks I grew up on the streets of Harlem and I remember President Roosevelt the liberal having a lot of trouble with an anti lynching bill he wanted to get through the Congressnever mind the vote never mind restaurants never mind schools never mind a fair employment policy I had to leave I needed to be in a place where I could breathe and not feel someones hand on my throat Baldwin names a moment that sounds similar to our own The vote is insecure from racial tampering Indiana has just passed legislation that allows businesses including eateries to discriminate against customers based on religious assessments of their fitness to be served Our public schools are in abysmal condition and throughout the country fast food workers are waging the FightforFifteen a campaign for a 15 minimum wage Baldwin illuminates for us the way that America exists as a place predicated on the refusal of Black breath and the denial of Black peoples right to move freely in the world without losing our lives for having a broken taillight or playing with a toy gun or for standing on the street chatting with friends This refusal of breath is not only antiBlack but multigenerational and harder to combat because of the way neoliberalism and acts of privatization have invaded police forces As Eric Harris breath left him other officers reminded him that you ran Similar charges were levied against Walter Scott by pundits and commentators last week Why did he run Neoliberal structures of selfgovernance demand that we all control ourselves and do the right thing in order to avoid negative consequences Meanwhile the conditions that enable us to actually do the right thing continue to slip away Walter Scott ran because as a poor Black man who was in arrears on his child support he did not want to be subject to a long prison sentence and fines he could not pay The sense of precariousness about not being able to enjoy simple pleasures like going for a ride on the weekend because you might find yourself in prison interminably for bills you cant pay is surely not just These are not justifications for Walter Scotts wrongdoing They are reminders that many of us manage to do the right thing because we live in conditions that allow us to pay bills adequately support our children and find sufficient employment Many many Americans a disproportionate number of them Americans of color do not live in such conditions Yelling at them or executing them for making bad choices in a system that offers limited options shows us how often we miss the point Under this kind of logic the supposed lack of control of workingclass Black and Brown people justifies the stultifying overpolicing of our communities the stranglehold of our prison system saddling Black people with jail time fines probation parole and a constant sense of threat and finally the ultimate refusal of ones breath by a triggerhappy police officer if you fail to submit in any way to this unjust state of affairs Something must change For we are all losing our collective breath We all watch as the police and the state communicate their clear disregard for the value of Black life The weight of historical injustice and present injustice constricts makes us writhe in agony makes us go out to protest That the officers in each of these three killings are being tried is nothing to celebrate We do not celebrate our country for doing the right thing Charging those who unjustly kill others with murder or manslaughter is basic Figuring out how to let Black people live is apparently far more complicated

17 Shot Dead As Chicago Records Deadliest Weekend Of 2016 Published Zero Hedge After a summer of extreme violence homicides in Chicago were supposed to slow down going into the fall and winter months But that certainly does not appear to be happening as the city just recording its most violent weekend of the entire year with 52 people shot and 17 of them killed This weekends violence brings the tally of year to date killings in Chicago to 646 an annual runrate which implies the most violent year since the mid90s According to the Chicago Tribune of the 17 victims from this weekends violence 7 of them were under the age of 20 with the youngest victim being only 14 The weekend toll also was deadlier than the three long summer holiday weekends when violence typically spikes because of the warm weather Six people were fatally shot over the Memorial Day weekend five over the Fourth of July weekend and 13 people over Labor Day weekend according to Tribune data This past weekend there were shootings in every area of the city but the Far North and Northwest sides according to police Of the 17 people who were killed seven were younger than 20 The youngest was 14yearold Demarco Webster Jr described by his grade school principal as one of her best students Demarco had planned to run for student council and try out for basketball and he was being recruited for an NAACP leadership program A little more than 24 hours later 17yearold twins Edward and Edwin Bryant were killed in an apparent driveby shooting in Old Town Police responding to calls about gunfire found one of the boys lying on the sidewalk in the 400 block of West Evergreen Avenue and another around the corner in the 1300 block of North Hudson Avenue The two brothers as far as we can tell they didnt have any documented gang affiliation said Johnson who noted police recovered video of the shooting But the individuals they were with did While journalists suggested that the police department was caught off guard by gang violence linked to large crowds around Wrigley Field police Superintendent Eddie Johnson insists that extra resources were deployed to the most dangerous neighborhoods around Chicago It was a tough weekend but that just goes back to what Ive been saying all the time he told reporters Listen until we start holding repeat gun offenders accountable for these crimes were going to keep seeing cycles of gun violence like this Johnson denied that the department was caught off guard by the mostly gang violence on the South and West sides while deploying hundreds of extra officers for crowd control outside Wrigley Field for the Cubs three World Series games over the weekend We had canceled days off as well as required 12hour shifts over the entire weekend so Im confident that we had the resources out there in the most dangerous neighborhoods he said According to HeyJackass killings from this weekend bring YTD Chicago homicides up to 646 a 51 increase versus last year Meanwhile YTD killings imply a runrate of 775 homicides for the year which would be the highest since the mid90s And of course the majority of the violent crime continues to occur in the gangridden South and West side neighborhoods Finally roughly 95 of the violent crime committed so far in 2016 has been against minority citizens with nearly 80 of the shootings going unsolved Share This Article

2013 7157 4 Virtually no one in the Zionist media is asking for the perpetrators to be trialed and punished accordingly But there is more Scholar Rebecca Gordon who has corresponded with this writer last summer has recounted in her meticulously documented study Mainstreaming Torture Ethical Approaches in the Post911 United States When I had occasion in Jordan in 2006 to meet an Iraqi sheik who had been tortured by US forces his first question to our little group was whether all American women were promiscuous sluts like the ones who had tormented him by forcing him to look at their naked breasts during his detentionThe psychological trauma of sexual humiliation had damaged this man sufficiently so that polite conversation with American women even those who were likely to be sympathetic was beyond him 5 This is just the tip of the iceberg Gordon discusses one case after another and describes what happened when politicians deliberately abandoned the moral order and pursued perpetual wars in the Middle East at any cost Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped was just a fair game 6 Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box with a sandbag on his head and attaching wires to his fingers toes and penis to simulate electric torture was also quite common 7 Detainees were also sodomized with chemical lights and broom sticks 8 Gordon writes on the very first page For many years the United States had secretly funded research on torture at US and Canadian universities One product of this research was the Central Intelligence Agencys KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual with its sections covering noncoercive and coercive techniques first printed in 1963 The United States had also provided covert training and support to torture regimes in other countries around the worldfrom Greece to Uruguay Chile to El Salvador Indonesia to Vietnam The Phoenix Program implemented during the Vietnam War by US armed forces and the CIA involved the torture and deaths of tens of thousands of Vietnamese as part of the US counterinsurgency project designed to break the will of the Viet Cong In the testimony before Congress military intelligence officer K Milton Osborne provided some details of the methods used The use of the insertion of the 6inch dowel into the 6inch canal of one of my detainees ears and the tapping through the brain until he dies The starving to death of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages They simply starved her to death in one of the hooches at that very counterintelligence headquarters There were other methods of operation which they used for interrogation such as the use of electronic gear such as sealed telephone attached to the genitals of both the men and womens vagina and the mans testicles and wind the mechanism and create an electrical charge and shock them into submission 9 Between 1968 and 1971 the Phoenix Program was responsible for torturing and killing more than twenty thousand people 10 many of whom had nothing to do with terrorism These were not isolated cases The CIA conducted these essentially diabolical operations on several continents 11 If history is not enough what about the recent charge by Amnesty International that the USled coalition in Syria has killed at least 300 civilians 12 And what about Saudi Arabia a US ally deliberately targeting impoverished Yemens farms and agricultural industry 13 Stephen Kinzer a visiting scholar at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University has recently written Anyone who believes the United States is not fighting enough wars in the Middle East can be happy this week We have just plunged into another one Twice in recent days cruise missiles fired from an American destroyer have rained down on Yemen The Pentagon a practiced master of Orwellian language calls this bombing limited selfdefense Since 2002 our drone attacks have reportedly killed more than 500 Yemenis including at least 65 civilians We are also supplying weapons and intelligence to Saudi Arabia which has killed thousands of Yemenis in bombing raids over the last year and a half including last weeks attack on a funeral in which more than 100 mourners were killed 14 So the logic is pretty simple the New World Order ideology does not and cannot make sense at all And if we have to fight ISIS then we have to support the Assad government if we have to support the Assad government then the whole idea that Assad is a brutal ruler loses its political force if that idea goes down the tube then the New World Order propaganda against Assad is categorically false In short we can ignore flaming Neocon Charles Krauthammer when he said last November that Assad is a dictator and a destroyer 15 This brings us to another vitally important issue New World Order agents spent millions upon millions of tax dollars supporting ISIS or alNusra in Syria for absolutely nothing BarnesDacey and Levy concluded their article by saying Western leaders have defined ISIS as a threat to their national security That should now translate into a more nuanced Syria policy including working with Iran and encouraging the nascent SaudiIranian opening 16 I simply could not hold my laughter For decades New World Order agents in America and Israel have hammered the spurious idea that Iran is a terrorist state and that it wants to wipe Israel off the map 17 they also spent millions upon millions of dollars trying to destabilize the country both politically and ideologically Remember how Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran s main nuclear enrichment facilities significantly expanding Americas first sustained use of cyberweapons 18 Remember how New World Order agents in America and Israel developed Stuxnet specifically to attack Iran a country that has zero nuclear weapons 19 The New York Times itself acknowledged then that the cyberattack was aided by Israel 20 In the same vein the Washington Post reported that Stuxnet was the work of US and Israeli experts 21 And it was developed way back in 2007 Remember how Bush also made false accusations against Iran and even trained the terrorist group the MEK right here in America 22 Remember how he worked with Israel to perform a covert operation in Iran Mr Kissinger you have the right to remain silent Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law You have the right to speak to an attorney and to have an attorney present during any questioning If you cannot afford a lawyer one will be provided for you So all the tax dollars that were spent on destabilizing Iran for more than a decade was a waste At the same time decent American military hospitals continued to lack funding many of the hospitals are so small and the trickle of patients so thin that it compromises the ability of doctors and nurses to capably diagnose and treat serious illnesses much less take on surgeries Twothirds of the hospitals last year served 30 or fewer inpatients a day less than a third as many as the typical civilian hospital Nine served 10 or fewer so few that Dr Lucian L Leape a leading patientsafety expert at the Harvard School of Public Health said I think they should be outlawed 23 Obviously New World Order agents dont care either about military hospitals and even soldiers In fact they dont care about anyone at all They just care about spreading their essentially diabolical system Soldiers are just pawns As Henry Kissinger diabolically declared military men are dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy 24 Once those dumb stupid animals can no longer be of service to NWO agents then they just dump them They have already dumped at least 360000 thousand veterans who may have brain injuries 25 1 Julien BarnesDacey and Daniel Levy To Beat ISIS Focus on Syria NY Times September 1 2014 2 In 2011 the Pentagon declared that the socalled war on terror could cost at least 5 trillion The 5 Trillion War on Terror Time June 29 2011 3 For a recent study on similar issues see Rebecca Gordon Mainstream Torture Ethical Approaches in the Post911 United States New York Oxford University Press 2014 4 Dan Murphy Iraq Violence More Than Doubles in 2013 Is Country Headed Off the Cliff Christian Science Monitor December 20 2013 5 Rebecca Gordon Mainstream Torture Ethical Approaches in the Post911 United States New York Oxford University Press 2014 53

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Email In Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves the late geneticist Dr MaeWan Ho a visionary voice who opposed GMOs identified pollution from wireless technologies as a pressing issue of our times Noting evidence for DNA damage cancers microwave sickness and impairment of fertility she concluded Evidence is emerging that the health hazards associated with wireless microwaves are at least comparable to if not worse than those associated with cigarette smoking Since the advent of radar followed by mobile phones and dense WiFi networks such anthropogenic radiation has skyrocketed Although it is nonionising and does not destabilise molecules directly evidence of other harm has been growing since 1950s studies on radar workers According to the updated Bioinitiative Report 2012 by 29 precautionary scientists effects on biology feature in several thousand peerreviewed papers Yet troubling new findings rarely filter into the media Or global Green discourse Though many studies have reported no significant effect research by University of Washington biology professor Henry Lai and others reveals that wirelessindustry funding is far more likely to yield such findings Toujours ils crent doubte they are forever creating doubt explains former Luxembourg Green MP Jean Huss whose research on the wireless industry inspired the Council of Europe to call for many precautions 2011 including protection of warning scientists and wired internet in schools But wirelessproduct marketing has a loud voice Few of us realise that genetic effects and free radical damage both disease risks over time are the most common cautionary findings Devicecrowded spaces such as our peak commuter trains or allwireless classrooms may be creating a subtly toxic environment Wideranging oxidative harm to animals has been found from WiFi sources And linked prediabetic and precancerous changes Groundbreaking work by biochemistry professor Martin Pall Washington State University winner of eight international awards reveals a viable mechanism for such harm But as with other inconvenient truths it is going unheard Beewhispers the sensitivity of life on Earth Lifes exquisite electrophysiology is still being discovered Researchers at Bristol University reported in May that bees hairs are highly sensitive to flowers delicate EMFs In controlled trials in Switzerland bees reacted to mobilephone signals with highpitched piping a cue to desert a hive Other studies show that mitochondria the tiny power houses in our cells are at risk from our new EMFs And that even DNA in its delicate antennalike structure may be frequencysensitive The longterm ecological implications of our new anthropogenic radiation are not known But peerreviewed studies revealing harm to birds tadpoles trees other plants insects rodents and livestock offer clues Biology professor Lukas Margaritis at Athens University for example uncovered harm to fruit flies from just a few minutes exposure to our everyday wireless devices including cordless phones Bluetooth and even digital baby monitors Reviewing research Indias Ministry of Environment and Forests warned that sensitive habitats may need some protection The UKs Digital Economy Bill about to receive its final seal has sensible proposals for increasing countrywide access to fibre broadband a technology that does not in itself stoke microwave pollution though wireless addons do so But probe beyond the bill to Ofcoms 5G consultations and new EMF exposures emerge part of global trend The worldwide rush towards 5G or fifth generation wireless rollouts is set to raise our pulsing pollution to new levels Untested high microwave frequencies are being lined up to increase bandwidth automation and usage at great profit to the industry These millimetre and centimetre waves though too weak to heat us may pose possible risks to our skin and deeper surface tissue including that of plants Highdensity transmitters are envisaged A troubling prospect for the many hundreds of patients seen by professor Dominique Belpomme s clinic in Paris patients whose disabling symptoms from wireless technologies are supported by new brain scans and blood tests A delegation of scientists have petitioned for such electrosensitivity to be recognised as an environmentallyinduced illness with an International Disease Code 2015 Riptides when profits outpace caution Pushing for fast rollouts the wireless industry is also in conflict with the Internatonal EMF Scientists Appeal to the United Nations Signed by 223 scientists from 41 nations it calls for remedial action such as new safety limits wavefree zones and education of doctors to protect our DNA fertility and nervous systems plus children and pregnant women from growing wireless exposure And from rising mainselectricity fields Signs that such caution may be needed are growing The pulsed polarized microwaves used by wireless technologies pose more biological risks than smooth or natural waves Weak millimetre waves have a known potential to increase antibiotic resistance what ecological effects might they risk perhaps if used universally Studies also reveal a risk to skin pain receptors Published associations between radio masts and skin cancers though at lower frequencies plus mobilephone masts and EMFsensitive cancers Adilza Dode Minas Gerais University 2013 raise further questions In his summer press conference Tom Wheeler former head of the CTIA the vast telecoms lobby group and controversial chair of the Federal Communications Commission proposed unbridled massive deployment of commercial 5G transmitters taking off in 2020 Anticipating tens of billions of dollars of economic growth with US telecoms first out of the gate he warned Stay out of the way of technological development Turning innovation loose is far preferable to expecting regulators to define the future With no mention of healthtesting carbon costs or corporate responsibility the FCC voted unaminously to go ahead by releasing swathes of untested high frequencies for private sector exploitation so setting a trend To questionable ends added to other issues how will our communities be affected by addiction to 5G multistream videos How will it impact our spiritual communion with Nature Many American health activists and cautioning scientists are aghast Dr Joel Moskowitz director of community health studies at the University of California warns precaution is warranted before 5G is unleashed on the world Former government physicist Dr Ron Powell points out the plans would irradiate everyone including the most vulnerable to harm from radiofrequency radiation pregnant women unborn children young childrenthe elderly the disabled and the chronically ill It would set a goal of irradiating all environments Fracking the air Faultlines in safety This drive to mine the electromagnetic spectrum comewhatmay has echoes of fracking and other headlong trends In Captured Agency the Harvard ethics report on the FCC and the wider wireless industry Norm Alster exposes ruthless hardball tactics supported by armies of lawyers at expense to our health Microwaves Science and Lies 2014 filmed by Jean Hches across Europe exposes similar patterns that are driving our pulsed radiation to risky levels Western safety limits based only on high levels that heat tissue far exceed those of Russia China and some other nations Professor Yuri Grigoriev longserving chair of Russias nonionising radiation protection body RNCNIRP warned the UKs Radiation Research Trust ionising radiation is monitoredbut levels of nonionising radiation are constantly increasing and ubiquitous it is out of control Urgent action is needed Stealthy pollutionraisers such as the 5G Internet of Things with 30 billion tiny transmitters forecast for 2020 and also sadly wireless smartmeters 1 2 vetoed by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine may run counter to a cherished Green goal that of nurturing healthy environments Can we manage our energy perhaps in more biosensitive ways Court claims for wirelessmeter health harm supported by medical testimonies including by neurology professor Andrew Marino Louisiana are sweeping America Professor Pall explains such meters high intensity microwave pulses may be more toxic than we realise We know from the nanosecond studies these can be very damaging Data obtained by a judge revealed allhour housepiercing pulses every few seconds New dataoverwiring innovations if free of dirty electricity may offer inspiring alternative ways forward Chrysalis a paradigm in waiting To create in Wheelers phrase a global 5G ecosystem of wireless supersaturated environments at insidious risk over time to living ecosystems not least our own bodies is dysfunctional And spiritually disturbing It suggests a mindset deeply at odds with the orchidlike beauty of the Earth But cleaner innovations such as LiFi ecodectplus phones and the latest fibreoptics suggest a wiser course A new paradigm safer connectivity plus more balanced use is emerging And reminds of other stepchanges in awareness From pesticides to organic from smokefilled to smokefree We can accede if we wish to our rising planetary smog To safety limits as high as the moon in many scientists eyes And to wireless rollouts growing carbon costs Or taking pause we may begin to call the industry to account plus governments lulled by it We may air helpful new findings such as risks from tabletlike exposures Alexander Lerchl Jacob Bremens University 2015 And stark risks from passive exposure bared by Leif Salford medical professor at Lund University We may defend DNA if we wish from ionizing and published nonionizing risks just as we defend our planet And alongside French Green Party MPs Laurence Abeille and Michle Rivasi plus the interntional Baubiologie movement we can explore electromagnetic hygiene Uplifting possibilities for a safer cleaner world Lynne Wycherley is a nature poet with six published collections Working in parallel with pioneering doctors she has been investigating nonionising radiation for 5 years This article originally appeared in The Ecologist More articles by Lynne Wycherley next

Im not going anywhere Im leading every poll and Im going to make our country great again Trump told CNNs Chris Cuomo on New Day on Tuesday morningIm not getting out Im going to win OK Trump added The answer is Im going all the way and Im going to winTrump said Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press that he would get out of the race if his poll numbers plummeted and he had no chance of winning setting off speculation among pundits that Trump might soon drop out of the GOP presidential contestTrump remains the leading contender for the GOP nomination in all the major polls but that lead has slipped in recent weeks as contenders like retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and businesswoman Carly Fiorina gain on the billionaire candidateThe latest poll in Iowa from NBC NewsWall Street Journal shows Trump leading Carson by just 5 points down from a doubledigit lead just weeks ago And in New Hampshire Trumps lead has also slipped to 5 points ahead of Fiorina down from 10 points just two weeks ago Trump also took the opportunity Tuesday to once again slam Sen Marco Rubio RFlorida as a total lightweight and even knocked Rubio for past financial difficulties Take a look at his past hes got 12 in the bank Rubio is not the guy thats going to be negotiating with the kinds of people you have to negotiate with to turn this country around Trump said RELATED First on CNN Trump sent prank care package to Rubio Trump has been jabbing at the Rubio campaign in recent weeks as the Florida senator got positive reviews for his debate performance last month and has risen in the polls His campaign sent a case of Trump Ice Natural Spring Water to Rubios headquarters a dig at the time Floridian who once took a memorable gulp from a water bottle while giving the Republican response to President Barack Obamas State of the Union address Later on Tuesday the Republican also defended his support for eminent domain which allows government to seize private land and pays the owners in return Some conservatives such as the influential Club for Growth which is attacking Trump for his position oppose the power in order to protect property rights Eminent domain when it comes to jobs roads the public good I think its a wonderful thing Trump told Fox News Bret Baier I fully understand the conservative approach but I dont think it was explained to most conservatives

43 Views November 08 2016 GOLD KWN King World News On election day today John Embry told King World News that the greatest wealth transfer in history nears as the Deep State is now pulling out all the stops Deep State Desperation John Embry Eric mercifully election day in the US has finally arrived to put an end to the ugly spectacle which has been billed as the presidential campaign The capper came on Monday when in response to the FBI ending its investigation of Hillary Clintons email transgressions the Dow magically rallied back to 18200 a level which had been defended for months by the powers that be Continue reading the John Embry interview below Advertisement To hear what billionaire Eric Sprott Rick Rule are doing with their own money and which 7 billion company John Embry Dr Marc Faber oversee click on the logo John Embry continues Simultaneously gold and silver were viciously attacked while virtually every other asset category including oil and copper which incidentally have terrible fundamentals rose in price This represents business as usual as the Deep State pulls out all stops to have their candidate Hillary Clinton elected I suspect that in the fullness of time Monday will be seen as one of the most ridiculous days in market history irrespective of who wins the election The sad fact is that the US problems now run so deep that no president has any ability at this stage to address the situation and bring back the good old days of sustainable growth and containable inflation I believe that we are going to see rising inflation in conjunction with a steadily weakening economy as the staggering debt load takes its inevitable toll I laughed when I saw the headlines in the New York Times and the London Financial Times in the wake of last weeks lousy jobs numbers which incidentally would have been a whole lot worse if they werent so heavily doctored The New York Times headline screamed Unemployment Hits 2008 Low Wages Increase The FT stated Wage Data Underlines Solid Jobs Market As Poll Nears These newspapers are now so compromised that they shouldnt be referred to as newspapers but rather government propaganda machines The old Soviet Pravda operation would be green with envy In reality US federal government tax withholdings are now falling giving a much better indication of the true state of the US economy The sharp fall in gold and silver on Monday provided yet another excellent buying opportunity But irrespective of who is the next US president both metals will be heading sharply higher as financial reality overtakes the present preelection fantasy I would echo James Turks excellent advice on KWN yesterday when he said Own assets I believe he is dead right and as Ive said many times before this saga is over we are going to witness the greatest wealth transfer in history and one best be on the right side of that transaction As The World Awaits The US Election Outcome Buckle Up For Some Rough Times

By Reuters 716 pm Heading into the homestretch of the presidential campaign Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is looking to harness some celebrity star power to help get out the vote and energize volunteers in battleground states By Roberta Rampton DAYTONA BEACH Fla Reuters Heading into the homestretch of the presidential campaign Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is looking to harness some celebrity star power to help get out the vote and energize volunteers in battleground states Jennifer Lopez will headline a free concert for Clinton supporters in Miami on Saturday giving the former secretary of state a chance to connect with the key demographic of millennials she has sometimes struggled to reach and some visual counterprogramming to the latest email controversy to roil her race for the White House The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Friday it is investigating more emails as part of a probe into Clintons use of a private email system a latebreaking surprise that will likely continue to get extensive media play leading up to the Nov 8 vote Celebritydriven events like the concert can serve as a bit of a distraction from the controversy said Eric Kasper a political scientist at the University of WisconsinEau Claire It is a way to kind of take the edge off things because it tends to be more positive Kasper said The JLo concert is the first in a series Next week Clinton will take the stage with Jay Z in Cleveland and then with Katy Perry in Philadelphia on Nov 5 A Harvard University poll this week showed that among likely voters aged 18 to 29 Clinton is leading Republican rival Donald Trump a celebrity in his own right who starred in the reality television show The Apprentice But turnout is a concern The exceptionally negative tone of this years race for the White House has soured young Americans on politics ReutersIpsos polling shows Presidential candidates have long sought to create buzz with help from celebrity pals said Tevi Troy who chronicled the strategy in his book What Jefferson Read Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted 200 Years of Pop Culture in the White House Campaigns do it to reach out to people who are not necessarily interested in politics but are interested in pop culture said Troy a presidential historian who worked in the George W Bush White House The events are like a larger version of a campaign yard sign a way to show a groundswell of support behind a candidate and a way to appeal to fans of the musicians said Kasper who has studied the intersection between pop culture and politics It can create a kind of psychological connection that we otherwise might not have when a politician endorses a presidential candidate for instance Kasper said Reporting by Roberta Rampton Editing by Leslie Adler Concert plus campaign Clinton turns to celebrities in homestretch added by Reuters on Sat Oct 29th 2016

Worst Of Saudi Economic Slump Yet To Come 11072016 PRESS TV Experts say the outlook for Saudi economic recovery will remain murky for many months to come with some even warning that the worst of the economic slump for the kingdom is yet to come Reuters in a report quoted several Riyadhbased experts as saying that there would be a high degree of uncertainty over the status of the Saudi economy in 2017 That would mainly be a result of the remaining challenges from the private sector The Saudi economy may appear to have escaped a fiscal and currency crisis that loomed at the start of 2016 However experts said threats from certain basic problems still remain and will haunt the kingdom next year The government owes its success to temporarily escape crisis to unpaid bills rather than sustainable spending cuts The government has reduced or suspended payments that it owed to construction firms medical establishments and even some of the foreign consultants who helped to design the economic reforms Reuters added quoting the experts The estimated unpaid dues for construction firms alone totaled 80 billion riyals Experts further warned that this could store up obligations for Riyadh in the future Reuters elsewhere emphasized that signs of the economic slump could be seen in Riyadh and other major cities where discounts of 50 percent or more are offered by stores selling clothes and consumer electronics and there is a surge in people offering secondhand cars for sale The biggest uncertainty may be how authorities can push through a key part of their reform drive added the report The most important issue for the Saudis may be determining how they plan to foster a vibrant private sector that does not depend on oil revenues while at the same pushing ahead austerity policies that are suppressing private demand Experts also warned that the status of the Saudi job market over the next few years Between 1 million and 2 million of Saudi Arabias 10 million foreign workers may leave over the next couple of years as the economic slowdown causes layoffs and the government seeks to steer Saudi citizens into jobs previously held by foreigners Reuters added

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CNN The State Department announced Friday that it will not release 22 emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton because they contain top secret information the highest level of government classificationThe decision coming three days before the Iowa caucuses could provide fodder for Clintons political opponents especially Republicans who are likely to make note of the emails top secret designation Clintons email use has haunted her on the campaign trail since it became public early last year that she maintained a private server while leading the State DepartmentState Department spokesman John Kirby said the documents totaling 37 pages were not marked classified at the time they were sent but are being upgraded at the request of the Intelligence Community because they contain sensitive informationBut Kirby said a separate review by the bureaus of Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research is being held into whether the information in the emails was classified at the time they were sent and received He would not say when the review began or how long it would go and acknowledged its possible there could be classified emails that werent marked as suchIts certainly possible that for any number of reasons traffic can be sent thats not marked appropriately for its classification That is certainly possible Kirby saidBut he added that he wasnt going to make any judgments about this particular caseAll I can tell you definitively is it wasnt marked classified at the time it was sent Kirby saidA senior State Department official said the review began very recently and was initiated by the State Department but the official wouldnt say what prompted itA spokesperson for the Intelligence Communitys inspector general declined to commentKirby also said 18 emails comprised of eight email chains between Clinton and President Barack Obama are being withheld in full to protect the Presidents ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel But Kirby said they have not been determined to be classified and said they will ultimately be released in accordance with the Presidential records actId love for people to see what I did and I hope that will happen she saidBrian Fallon a spokesman for Clintons campaign said in a statement that Fridays announcement was a case of overclassification run amok and reiterated Clintons position that the emails be made publicBut later Friday Fallon declined to say whether Clinton would ask Obama to declassify the emails when pressed by CNNs Wolf Blitzer on The Situation RoomThe President easily could declassify all of these emails if she asked him and if he agreed right Blitzer askedId really be surprised if this has risen to the Presidents level Fallon replied Because again this a mundane matter of fulfilling a FOIA requestAsked Friday if he had certainty and confidence that Clinton will not be indicted over the email controversy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said any decision to prosecute Clinton would rest with the Justice DepartmentThat is a decision to be made solely by independent prosecutors Earnest said But again based on what we know from the Department of Justice it does not seem to be headed in that directionThe State Department released more than 900 of Clintons emails Friday 242 of which received classification upgrades 11 to secret and 209 more to confidential along with the 22 emails containing top secret information but the release fell well behind the judgeimposed timetable for producing all of her emailsAmong the most interesting correspondenceThis months release was supposed to be the final one and include just over 9000 pages of documents the largest number to dateThat delay was then compounded by a huge snowstorm that shut down the federal government for several days according to the State Departments motionSeveral prominent Republicans including presidential hopefuls quickly condemned Clinton the Democratic 2016 frontrunner over Fridays developmentsThe new email release is a disaster for Hillary Clinton At a minimum how can someone with such bad judgment be our next president GOP frontrunner Donald Trump tweetedFlorida Sen Marco Rubio said Clintons email use was a disqualifier for the White HouseHillary Clinton put some of the highest most sensitive intelligence information on her private server because maybe she thinks shes above the law Rubio said at a town hall event in Clinton IowaTexas Sen Ted Cruz told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that Clintons email controversy would seriously imperil her presidential aspirationsWe are talking about serious offenses for which the Obama Justice Department threw the book at General David Petraeus Cruz said And justice needs to be enforced fairly and impartiallyAnd Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted that Clinton and the Obama administration have obfuscated and misled at every available opportunity adding that she has removed all doubt that she cannot be trusted with the presidencyBut Rep Adam Schiff DCalifornia the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said classification determinations are often very complexIts important to remember that none of these emails had any classification markings at the time they were sent and Secretary Clinton and her staff were responding to world events in real time without the benefit of months of analysis after the fact Schiff saidMeanwhile Clintons top Democratic 2016 rival Vermont Sen Bernie Sanders said in a statement that there is a legal process in place which should proceed and not be politicizedThe American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails he said then to applause

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Patty Sanchez 51 used to eat 13000 calories a day and weigh more than 320 kilograms as she tried to satisfy boyfriends fantasiesPatty weighed more than 320 kilograms when she split from her feeder boyfriend who was constantly encouraging and enabling her weight gain Patty Sanchez has gone from 320 kilograms to 215 kilograms after years of constant eating with the encouragement of her exboyfriend and online fat fetishists Having purposefully consumed up to 13000 calories per day for years on end it is a minor miracle in itself that Patty has made it to 51 and is in position to change her lifestyle After splitting from her boyfriend of ten years Patty soon realized that she had become very isolated and vulnerable due to her sizeThe motheroffour has spoken out about the positive effect weight loss has had on both her personal and family life also allowing her to undertake a wide range of everyday tasks previously impossible to her I was tremendous and I was dying a slow deathI realized that the feeding relationship I was in and the squashing was benefiting others but it wasnt for me The weight loss had a lot to do with my break up with my ex I was being served every meal daily and when we broke up I had to take care of myselfI never feared death before it was something I never thought about when I was getting bigger and bigger But when I reached my lowest and couldnt walk to the bathroom without getting winded I was worried I wouldnt be there for my kids and grand kids My struggles didnt fully surface until I was single and had no one to help me and couldnt cook bathe or leave the house it was very lonely she said in an interview Today with the help of her sons Patty eats 3000 calories a day and is more mobile She said I stay away from fast food and eat more vegetables fruits and poultry Now I can do things that people take for granted that I couldnt do like walk bathe and paint my toenails which I couldnt reach for years My children are very proud of me for changing my life around we have a better relationship now she addedSizzling Feed SOURCE

He who has no name speaks Italian earthquakes were retribution for antiJewish UNESCO vote GPD is our General Posting Department whereby we share posts from other sources along with general information with our readers It is managed by our Editorial Board Trump Supporter Arrested for Voting Twiceto fight vote rigging By GPD on October 29 2016 Terri Rote is seen in a police booking photo on Oct 27 2016 DES MOINES Iowa Des Moines police have charged a woman with election misconduct a Class D felony after officials reported she voted twice Des Moines police Sgt Paul Parizek says officers charged 55yearold Terri Rote with firstdegree election misconduct on Thursday after being notified by elections officials that she had submitted two absentee ballots According to an Iowa Public Radio report Rote voted two times for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump I wasnt planning on doing it twice it was spur of the moment Rote said in an interview with the radio station before she added an oftrepeated line on the Trump campaign trail The polls are rigged She was booked into the Polk County Jail and released after posting a 5000 bond

Its like were testing the proposition that candidates themselves dont matter that the only thing that matters is their party affiliation Were offering up people two totally garbage candidates and then saying OK what if we made it worseThats Reason magazine Editor in Chief Katherine ManguWard kicking off a new Reason podcast hosted by me and featuring guest Eli Lake who writes about national security for Bloomberg ViewIn the 40 minutes of fastpaced wideranging conversation we talk about whether alleged past assaults by Donald Trump should disqualify him from the presidency how Wikileaks is confirming everyones lowest opinion of Hillary Clinton and how Gary Johnsons lack of guile may make him unsuited to be commander in chief Also Does the United States need to bust Russias lip to maintain international order and are we living in a fully postfact worldProduced by Ian Keyser Listen by clicking belowSubscribe to our audio podcast at iTunesSubscribe to our video podcast at iTunesLike us on Facebook

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Donald Trump believes he won the first presidential debate Hes proclaimed that publicly and told me so himselfSome of his advisers disagree and they believe his debate prep was something of a disasterOne wellplaced source told me that there were too many people in the room during these sessions as many as a dozen at a time and some including two generals had no experience with debates or even campaigns The result was that the candidate got lots of conflicting advice on what to say and do from a team that hadnt even agreed internally on the best strategiesIm also told that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell hardly unabashed Trump fans provided debate advice by phoneThe result in this sources view is that Trump was overprepared which left him without a clear plan to deliver his message or respond to Hillary Clintons jibesA harsher indictment was delivered to the New York Times one in which Trump advisers attempted to blame the bossIts striking that they would criticize their candidate from behind a curtain of anonymity In effect theyre saying hey dont blame us we tried to tell him but he wouldnt listenOr viewed another way they are using the press to send him a message that he needs to change his approach for the second debate in St LouisNow much of this is inside baseball Hillary Clinton is widely credited even by many conservative commentators as having delivered a strong performance at Hofstra and kept her opponent on the defensive She will probably get a polling bump of a couple of points But Trumps supporters remain in in his corner after watching him go toetotoe with a former secretary of State without committing a major gaffeWhen campaigns are in a tailspin loyalty sometimes melts as its consultants and strategists scramble to salvage their own reputations at the boss expense But Trump against all the odds set by the pundits is in an extremely competitive race against Clinton and could win the thingCampaign advisers to Donald J Trump concerned that his focus and objectives had dissolved during the first presidential debate on Monday plan to more rigorously prepare him for his next faceoffbut that whether he is open to practicing meticulously is a major concernYes that is the sound of some folks throwing the nominee under the busThese unnamed sources were privately awash in secondguessing about why he stopped attacking Mrs Clinton on trade and character issues and instead grew erratic impatient and subdued as the night went on In interviews seven campaign aides and advisers most of whom sought anonymity to speak candidly expressed frustration and discouragement over their candidates performance The Gang of Seven is clearly ticked offThe last time this kind of internal carping hit the press during the let Trump be Trump debate Paul Manafort was gone and Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway were tapped to run the showTrumps fans are angry at the media coverage portraying him as having lost the debate at least according to my Twitter feed And who knows Its not like the press hasnt been repeatedly wrong about TrumpBut a story in which some of Trumps own advisers are anonymously quoted as saying he was erratic in a debate watched by 84 million people doesnt help the cause Even if the Times reporters sought out these sources you dont usually see Hillary advisers anonymously griping about their candidateEven successful campaigns go through neardeath experiences Clinton was sliding in the polls through her pneumonia period and Democrats were starting to panic In the end the burden is on Trump himself and not his inner circle to find a way to winHoward Dean standing by his ludicrous suggestion that Donald Trump might have a coke problem makes me want to scream Its outrageous for a doctor exgovernor and former presidential candidate and party chairman to act like a smear merchant Kudos to MSNBCs Joe Scarborough for calling on his colleague to apologizeA former Chris Christie ally David Wildstein has testified that the governor laughed when he told him the George Washington Bridge lanes were being closed as an act of political retaliation I dont know if thats true and the former presidential candidate has denied it but imagine if Trump had chosen Christie as his running mateHoward Kurtz is a Fox News analyst and the host of MediaBuzz Sundays 11 am and 5 pm ET He is the author of five books and is based in Washington Follow him at HowardKurtz Click here for more information on Howard Kurtz

Dead Coloradans are Lining Up to Vote for Hillary Is the zombie apocalypse upon us According to a report by the Washington Examiner Local officials in Colorado acknowledged very serious voter fraud after learning of votes cast in multiple elections under the named of recentlydeceased residents A local media outlet uncovered the fraud by comparing voting history databases in the state with federal government death records Somebody was able to cast a vote that was not theirs to cast El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Chuck Broerman told CBS4 while discussing what he called a very serious pattern of people mailing in ballots on behalf of the dead Its not clear how many fraudulent ballots have been submitted in recent years CBS4 reported that it found multiple cases of dead people voting around the state revelations that have provoked state criminal investigations There are dozens of documented examples of dead people voting and they can be found all over the internet One thing is for certain The Clinton operatives seem to believe in the old adage if you aint cheatin you aint tryin On October 1st it was reported Young Virginia Democrat Andrew Spieles confessed this week to registering 19 dead people to vote for Hillary You cant stop these people You can call the election rigged if you want but how can we argue with people who have the power to summon the dead When I die I plan to vote conservative OK my attempts to be humorous are often lost in an overcrowded sea of stupidity This would not seem to be the exception The only good Hillary voters are obviously the dead ones because at least they have plausible deniability Hey bro I didnt vote for Hillary I died in 1960 Likely story Article posted with permission from DCClothesline Dont forget to Like Freedom Outpost on Facebook Google Plus Twitter You can also get Freedom Outpost delivered to your Amazon Kindle device here shares

7 fans Advertisement Human right groups are alarmed at the spate of deaths of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQM workers in the custody of paramilitary force in Karachi The MQM has called these brutal deaths as extrajudicial killings On September 30 Syed Abdul Naveed a MQM worker who was killed in the custody of paramilitary force According to MQM sources Naveed was brutally and inhumanly tortured to death while in custody and his dead body was dumped by the paramilitary rangers in rural Sindh area called Ounger in the District of Thatta 24NewsHD TV reported on August 28 that a MQM worker was killed in police custody Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Provincial Assembly MQMs Khawaja IzharulHassan called this terrorism by the government agencies In March MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar said that some forty MQM workers were beaten up in Central Prison in Karachi by paramilitary force in order to extract favorable statements from them Not surprisingly in MayDirector General DG Rangers Major General Bilal Akber accepted that a deceased MQM worker Aftab Ahmed was tortured by Rangers in custody for 90 days Generals statement came after pictures and videos were seen doing rounds on the social media showing the corpse of the deceased MQM worker having major torture marks across his body In June Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQM worker Waseem mysteriously died in custody at the Aziz Bhatti police station in Karachi Waseem had been arrested by the police a few days back for allegedly possessing illegal firearms According to DIG Police East Munir Sheikh an FIR was filed in light of the findings of the post mortem report and all the concerned police officials have been taken into custody Tellingly in August the Senates Functional Committee on Human Rights rejected a report submitted by Sindh paramilitary Rangers regarding the human rights violations in Karachi Operation declaring it fake and phony In the report prepared by an unknown human rights organization called Human Rights Commission on South Asia Sindh Rangers were given a clean chit Sindh Rangers has obtained a false report by a dubious NGO in a bid to convince the parliamentary body that it Rangers is not involved in human rights violations while conducting operation in Karachi Senator Farhatullah Babar said during the senate panel meeting Rangers commanded by Army Officers are deployed in Karachi under the AntiTerrorism Act which provides broad powers to the Rangers and other state security forces that have facilitated serious human rights violations according to the New Yorkbased Human Rights Watch Soldiers are permitted to shoot to kill after giving a warning but are not bound by human rights standards that permit the use of lethal force only in selfdefense or to protect the lives of others They can conduct arrests and searches of property without a warrant Advertisement The Rangers are a border security federal force under the Ministry of Interior but operate under the command of the Pakistan Army Military control over the Rangers effectively transfers key law enforcement duties in Karachi to the armed forces which has a long record of committing human rights violations with impunity the Human Rights Watch said The Rangers have been implicated in serious human rights abuses including torture and other illtreatment of criminal suspects extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances The Rangers have been implicated in abuses across the political spectrum Human Rights Watch said The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan HRCP a nongovernmental human rights organization has also criticized the Rangers for enforced disappearances and other violations of due process rights and stressed the need for transparency in security operations The Human Rights Watch in its annual report pointed out that under pressure from the military leadership the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ceded significant constitutional and decisionmaking authority to the armed forces in 2015 particularly in the areas of national security foreign policy and human rights The military muzzled dissenting and critical voices in nongovernmental organizations and media The Rangers a paramilitary force were given complete control over law enforcement in the city of Karachi where there were reports of extrajudicial killings enforced disappearances and torture Shafi Burfat exiled chairman of a nationalist group Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz JSMM in a statement published on his website criticized the operation against the MQM He says Advertisement Sindh is a permanent colony of Punjabi imperialism and Punjabi Army will savagely brutally execute every Sindhi conscious person who stands against the occupation oppression and aggression of Punjabi military establishment We strongly condemn harassment arrests abductions torture enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of MQM activists All the bloodshed plunder torture law enforcement violations are state created phenomenon created by Pakistani militarythe intelligence agency ISI and its local stooges to exploit the resources of Sindh About 90 percent of Pakistan army belongs to Punjab province Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQM came in direct conflict with Army on August 22 when its Londonbased selfexiled leader Altaf Hussain criticized the army and government officials of systematically targeting his workers

The first nine months of 2013 have convinced us of one thing Rand Paul acts and the rest of the potential 2016 Republican presidential field reactsOn drones the senator from Kentucky led a 13hour filibuster that drew Sen Marco Rubio RFla among others to the floor in support On Syria Paul was out front in his opposition to a military strike a position that more than two dozen of his Republican Senate colleagues came to sharePaul in short seems to be a step or two in front of the ongoing transformation of the Republican Party from a hawkish conservatism to a sort of populist libertarianismThats not to say of course that significant strains of resistance to the vision of the Republican Party that Paul is offering dont remain They do And it remains to be seen whether the establishment such as it is elected officials and major donors primarily can unite to keep Paul from the nomination in favor of a politically safer choice such as Rubio or New Jersey Gov Chris ChristieAnd Paul as he showed with his civil rights comments during his 2010 Senate campaign in Kentucky holds some controversial views that can and will get him into trouble in the glare of the national spotlightBut anyone who laughs at Paul as a serious contender dismisses him as just a carbon copy of his father former representative Ron Paul RTex or otherwise writes him off would do well to study the year in politics so far No one in the GOP has had a better year than Paul And its not all that closeBelow are our rankings of the 10 candidates with the best chance of winding up as the Republican presidential nominee While this should go without saying making predictions in 2013 about 2016 is something short of purely scientific10 Mike Pence The Indiana governor is flying way under the radar at the moment but he has the makings of a potential 2016 dark horse Social and fiscal conservatives like him hes a charismatic communicator and perhaps most important he doesnt work in Washington9 John Kasich The Ohio governors poll numbers have recovered remarkably well from his first few years in office and he now looks like a modest favorite for reelection against muchtouted Democratic nominee Ed FitzGerald If Kasich wins in 2014 he has a case to make as a swingstate Midwestern governor who previously served as the chairman of the House Budget Committee and who ran albeit briefly for president in 20008 Bobby Jindal We believe that Jindals stock was probably a bit too high a year ago and is now a bit too low His numbers in Louisiana still arent great but they are better than earlier this year Jindals decision to reject Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act will be a feather in his cap among conservative presidentialprimary voters7 Scott Walker The Wisconsin governor may have a bit more of a reelection race on his hands than he originally thought with wealthy former Trek executive Mary Burke running for the Democratic nomination And we hear from reliable Wisconsin sources that Rep Paul Ryan RWis is more interested in running than we believed If Ryan runs its hard to see Walker also getting in6 Ted Cruz Cruz is the biggest attraction among rankandfile Republicans at the moment He evokes genuine passion among the base and thats not ever to be underestimated But its also worth remembering that Rep Michele Bachmann RMinn held that title once upon a time and she held it much closer to the time when people were actually set to cast votes for president5 Jeb Bush This is our holdingpattern ranking for the former Florida governor If he announces that hes running or even that hes moving toward running heck wed take a Bush trip to Iowa New Hampshire or South Carolina then he is probably our No1 on the list4 Paul Ryan See the note above about our previous underestimating of Ryans interest in running The coming fights over the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling are readymade for Ryan and will reincrease his profile nationally We still are skeptical that he has the political chops to run a twoyearplus campaign for the Republican nomination though3 Marco Rubio Rubios frontrunner status has clearly come into question in the aftermath of his work to pass comprehensive immigration reform through the Senate The bills fate remains decidedly uncertain in the GOPcontrolled House and is still not popular among the partys grass roots For those who write off Rubio because of immigration however go back and watch his speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention He is someone of considerable political talent2 Chris Christie Yes Christie has something of a base problem given the false idea that he somehow cost Mitt Romney the 2012 election because of his embrace of President Obama after Hurricane Sandy But Christies regularguy populism is a nice fit for the times1 Rand Paul Hes not a clear frontrunner But if you are looking for a candidate who can a raise the money b has a clear and compelling message and c has an obvious edge in an early state Iowa then Paul is the only person in the top three who checks all three boxes We repeat what we said above Underestimate him at your peril

Russian military might joined French warplanes Tuesday as the two nations struck back at the Islamic State four days after terror teams carried out coordinated attacks in Paris leaving 129 people dead10 French fighter jets carried out new airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria according to French defense minister JeanYves Le DrianAlso twelve Russian longrange bombers including supersonic Tu22M Backfires flew from a base in Mozdok Russia near the border of Georgia and Azerbaijan and launched cruise missiles inside Raqqa a US official with knowledge of the mission told Fox NewsThe supersonic bombers flew over the Caspian Sea Iran Iraq and into Syria before unleashing a volley of cruise missiles into RaqqaThe US military is still assessing the damageA defense official in the Middle East tells Fox News that despite the countries shared objective of targeting ISIS it is highly unlikely the French and Russians coordinated their strikes That official also said he did not think the French would communicate with the Russians in secretFox News is told Russia did inform the US before launching the new assault The official characterized the Russian effort as not devastatingThe Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the crash of a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month killing 224 people On Tuesday Russias security service said a homemade explosive device brought down the airliner calling it a terrorist actCruise missiles were also fired Monday from the Caspian Sea from Russian Navy missile boats some of the same vessels which launched a similar salvo into Syria last monthRussias defense minister also said its warplanes fired cruise missiles on militant positions in Syrias Idlib and Aleppo provinces Sergei Shoigu told reporters the missiles were fired from Tu160 and Tu95 warplanes The Islamic State has positions in Aleppo province whereas Idlib has the presence of the Nusra militant groupMeantime President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian missile cruiser Moskva currently in the Mediterranean to start cooperating with the French military on operations in Syria Putin said a French aircraft carrier task force is to approach the Moskva soon and the cruiser is to cooperate with them as with alliesGermany and Italy ruled out any role in the air campaign against ISIS in Syria German Foreign Minister FrankWalter Steinmeier said it doesnt make sense if we add to the 16 nations which are carrying out air attacksGermany is providing weapons and equipment to Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in northern Iraq Steinmeier said it was the right strategy because they are holding ground and making slight territorial gainsItalian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti said her country was already planning to beef up its actions in Iraq While ruling out an Italian military role in Syria she said Italy assured France of its maximum availability in other cooperationAlso Tuesday France invoked a neverbeforeused article of the EUs Lisbon Treaty obliging members of the 28nation bloc to give aid and assistance by all the means in their power to a member country that is the victim of armed aggression on its territory French Defense Minister JeanYves Le Drian said EU partners could help either by taking part in Frances operations in Syria or Iraq or by easing the load or providing support for France in other operationsThe airstrikes came as The Wall Street Journal citing two Western security officials reported that 27yearold Abdelhamid Abaaoud had been sought as a target for an airstrike but could not be located A Western intelligence official told the paper that efforts to monitor communications between Abaaoud in Syria and jihadists in Europe were complicated by an inability to tell whether Abaaoud or his teenage brother was speakingAbaaoud was named by French officials as the key figure suspected of planning and organizing the Paris attacks which included a series of suicide bombings outside the countrys national stadium and a massacre at a concert hallHe came to public notice in Belgium last year for taking his then 13yearold brother with him to Syria and appearing in an ISIS propaganda video in which he boasted about his pride in piling the dead bodies of infidel enemies into a trailer At some point Abaaoud returned to Belgium only to escape the authorities in January of this year after police foiled a plot to attack officers he had masterminded on behalf of a cell based in the Belgian town of Verviers In the ensuing gun battle two of Abaaouds alleged accomplices were killed but Abaaoud somehow escapedHe told the monthly ISIS magazine Dabiq in its February issue that he slipped away from European intelligence agencies because Allah blinded their vision He added My name and picture were all over the news yet I was able to stay in their homeland plan operations against them and leave safely when doing so became necessaryFrench officials who identified Abaaoud as a prime suspect to The Associated Press cited chatter from ISIS figures that Abaaoud had recommended a concert as an ideal target for inflicting maximum casualties as well as electronic communications between Abaaoud and one of the Paris attackers who blew himself upWestern officials told the Journal they had no knowledge of the planned attacks on the French capital as they sought Abaaoud and admitted they did not know whether his death would have been enough to stop the attacks which were carried out by seven suicide attackers including a set of three brothersA Belgian official told the Journal it is certain that Abaaoud knew Salah Abdeslam who was being hunted by authorities across Europe early Tuesday on suspicion of his having been involved in the Paris terror The two jihadists grew up not far from each other in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek and spent time in the same prison for petty crimesPeople in Paris fought back in their own way by continuing to eat drink and be merry Bar and restaurant owners urged people to return to their local nightspots Tuesday relaying the message online and on social media with the slogan Tous au bistrot Everyone to the bistroThe message is backed by restaurant website Le Fooding which says people should go out to pay tribute to the victims support the food and drink industry and show that France will not give in to fearOther Parisians are posting pictures on Twitter of themselves on the citys many cafe and restaurant patios using the hashtag JeSuisAuTerrasse Im on the patioFox News Lucas Tomlinson and The Associated Press contributed to this reportClick for more from The Wall Street Journal

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Email Six Gulf Protectors were arrested outside the New Orleans office of the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management They were taken into custody by Federal Protection Service agents of the Department of Homeland Security during an action by Nonewleasesorg urging President Obama to cancel oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico We began the event in solidarity with those from the Sioux Nation who are standing up to the Dakota Access pipeline said Anne Rolfes of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade one of the organizations participating As Gulf Protectors we are calling on President Obama to live up to his climate legacy and permanently cancel future leases in the Gulf of Mexico The six arrested were Alicia Cooke Danil Faust Alison Kalnik Ben Quimby Noah Rahman and Reverend Jim Vanderweele Booked on federal charges of obstructing an entrance to a federal building they were advised they have to each pay a fine of 530 or go before federal court for trial Alicia Cooke a member of 350 Louisiana explained why she was willing to be arrested To maintain a livable climate experts estimate that around 80 of existing fossil fuel resources must stay in the ground At current consumption levels we need to place an immediate moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure projects and we also must scale back on existing projects The industry and government executives who dismiss our concerns out of hand because we drive fuelpowered vehicles or use air conditioning are missing the point A transition to a renewable energy economy at the speed required by science will not be easy for any of us It will take a fullhearted acceptance of climate science and an enormous collective will But when you look at the climate math it is quite literally our only choice Iris Carter of Concerned Citizens of Norco explained why she was there to protect the Gulf Oil is killing people Just look at my own family I grew up between a Shell refinery and a Shell chemical plant and when my mother and sister got sick the doctors asked if we lived near pollution Its not fair And now people have to go and fish in the Gulf after oil companies leave all that mess Look what they left from the spill that BP did That was bad And its no better They keep going out and drilling and spilling in our Gulf And thats just not right Cheri Fotlin of BOLD Louisiana challenged the feds for excluding the public The head of BOEM Abigail Hopper had promised to come down and meet directly with our communities who continue to be adversely affected by oil production in and along the Gulf At the last minute she backed out Additionally BOEM recently stopped allowing public participation at pointofsale lease auctions At every turn our voices have been oppressed by this federal agency We deserve to be heard If she wont come to us then we have no choice but to go to BOEM ourselves to make our wishes known We want protection We want respect for our lives No new leases not here not anywhere Four others were arrested in August at the same place and charged with state criminal trespass Their trial is still pending The group promises to return and escalate their actions to protect the Gulf

The popular conservative argument that George W Bush kept us safe from terrorism has always been somewhat undermined by the fact that the vast majority of domestic terrorism deaths in American history occurred while Bush was in office But it turns out that it took Donald Trump to offer an argument that Democratshave always shied away fromtelling Bloomberg TVWhen you talk about George Bush I mean say what you want the World Trade Center came down during his timeAs phrased by Trump the argument is provocative to the point of poor taste but in attempting to rebut it Jeb Bush went and made exactly the explicit claim that the doctrine of Bush kept us safe has always avoided that the period of time during which Bush kept us safe includes 911 itselfPreJeb nobody made the argument in that way because its obviously ridiculousInstead keptussafeism has tended to indulge in the fantasy that Bush was inaugurated in midSeptember 2001 rather than early late January Through this metaphysical sleight of hand the events of 911 themselves neither refute nor bolster the notion that the Bush years were a time of safety With his clumsy effort to parry Trump however Jeb has given away the whole gameAfter all we clearly were not safe on 911

Hillary Clintons historic moment finally arrived on Tuesday night accompanied by an intensely personal speech from her husband Bill that sought to recast her image as a symbol of the political establishmentShes the best darn changemaker I ever met in my life insisted the former president recalling decades of Hillary Clintons work as a social radical This woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anythingOn a night when she became the first woman to be nominated by a major party to run for the White House Hillary Clinton fully embraced the historic significance of the occasionShe joined the party by live satellite link from New York to the accompanying sound of breaking glass disrupting a black and white montage of the 44 male presidents of the United States who have gone before herI cant believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet said Clinton If there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch can I just say I may become the first woman president but one of you is nextAmid a growing populist challenge from Republican Donald Trump and scenes of revolt from some Bernie Sanders supporters her husbands powerfully persuasive speech may go some way to restoring momentum to the campaignHillary will make us stronger together he said You know it because she spent a lifetime doing it I hope you will do it I hope you will elect her Those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrows tend to think more about our children and grandchildrenThe speech capped a pivotal day for the party as it sought to move on from scenes of division and capitalise on Clintons symbolic breakthroughShe will address the crowd directly on Thursday in a formal acceptance of the nomination but for now speeches first from Michelle Obama and now from Bill Clinton have done the most to counter a much darker vision of America presented by Republican candidate Donald TrumpIf she wins shes coming back for you to take you along on the ride for Americas future said former president Clinton as he recalled campaigning with coalminers in West Virginia and urged to the party to do more to create more new jobs in the US economyIt was almost the only overtly political message of his own In contrast with past speeches where the former president has risked overshadowing the campaign this one sounded more like the personal speeches made by the wives of male candidatesIn an azure blue tie that picked out the colours of the arena and with his hands shaking slightly Clinton delivered a highly personal account of their courtship and marriage that seemed at times to be an attempt to make America fall in love with the girl he first met in the spring of 1971Skipping over the awkward moments in a very public and at times visibly flawed marriage Clinton instead said I married my best friend recalling two failed proposal attempts and then describing when Clintons water broke during her pregnancy with Chelsea undoubtedly a first in a speech about a US presidential candidateThe first time I saw her was in a class on political and civil rights she had big blond hair big glasses wore no makeup and exuded a sense that I found magnetic said a clearly infatuated and somewhat awed Clinton I knew I might be starting something I couldnt stopAfter spending nearly an hour describing her political and personal accomplishments he turned only briefly to her opponent And he issued a direct challenge to the twodimensional cartoon image of his wife which had been painted by her political foesHow does this square with what you heard at the Republican convention One is real the other is made up said Bill You just have to decide which is which my fellow Americans Good for you because earlier today you nominated the real oneThe wellreceived speech seeking to rewrite the accepted wisdom about her candidacy may help galvanise the campaign in much the same way Bill Clinton helped revive Barack Obamas listless 2012 effortBut the space was created by another reconcilation between competing Democrats earlier in the eveningBernie Sanders left the arena with his head held high on Tuesday In contrast to the chaotic scenes of protest from his supporters that marred attempts at unity on day one the room largely came together for the historic night with few boos at allThe healing was helped by fresh opportunities for the Sanders campaign to celebrate its success and vow to continue its fight for more radical social reform Because this is a movement fuelled by love it can never be stopped or defeated said Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as she formally proposed Sanders for the nominationShortly before calling for a suspension of the rules to move directly to the nomination of his former rival Sanders appeared emotional as he listened to his tearful brother Larry announce delegates from the Democrats Abroad primaryThe pageant of democracy hid some controversy too A small group of Sanders supporters staged a sitin of the media centre largely in protest at the partys use of superdelegates to bolster Clintons margin of victory in states where Sanders won the most votesClinton was at home watching events from her New York state home in Chappaqua but her daughter Chelsea was on hand in a venue packed with rising female stars from the Democratic party and wider US societyFormer secretary of state Madeleine Albright herself a noted breaker of glass ceilings received one of the warmest welcomes of the evening for a commanding speech that listed Clintons foreign affairs experience Trump she claimed has already done damage just by running for presidentOscar winner Meryl Streep signed off the night by asking What does it take to be the first female anything It takes grit and it takes gracePlacing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt she told the delegates You people have made history and youre gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president shell be the first but she wont be the lastLena Dunham creator and star of the HBO series Girls led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clintons breaking of glass ceilings and Trumps dismissive comments about womenAccording to Donald Trump my body is probably like a two she began His rhetoric about women takes us back to a time when we were meant to be beautiful and silentDonald Trump is not making America great again he is making America hate again added fellow actor America Ferrera from the TV series Ugly BettyCalifornia senator Barbara Boxer emerged on stage to the soundtrack from Rocky Philadelphias de facto theme tune Are you ready to elect the very first woman president of these United States of America Yes came a reply that sounded less hesitant than usual as confidence among Democrats growsSome of the most powerful political messaging came via prepared video footage that interspersed live speakers with clips of Trump exposing his lack of respect for women or damning him with his own words as he described pregnancy as an irritant for employersThere were also the first hints of the national security issues which are likely to be a big feature of the latter part of week Republicans watching on television have criticised the Philadelphia convention for ignoring pressing safety issues in a stadium devoid of the usual flags that tend to dominate US political setsSurvivors of the 911 attack on New York paid moving testimony to the support they received from Clinton as a local senator When New York needed her she was there said Lauren Manning a burns victim whose emotional speech provided some of the most powerful character testimony yetOthers tried a lighter tack in the campaigns conscious effort to try to humanise a candidate still regarded as aloof and chilly by some AmericansKentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes began the night recalling that the soontobe nominee loves lifestyle TV and can devour buffalo wings Barbara Mikulski said Clinton would fight for macaroni and cheese issues boasting again of her taste for downtoearth foodThere were echoes of a similar attempt to add colour to the largerthanlife media image of Trump at last weeks Republican convention as both campaigns grapple with the historically low favourability ratings of both candidates But while Trump was pictured as a ruthless winner by his business associates Clinton surrogates queued up to claim she was a people person the opposite of the public stereotype

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October 29 2016 A man with no DIY experience has set aside around 15 minutes to assemble a 300 piece cabin bed this weekend Having glanced through the 36page instruction booklet 40yearold Nick Ferguson plans to start the job at around 6pm on Saturday and will definitely be done by quarter past if not slightly before Ill simultaneously be making a vegetarian chilli he said And Im going to complete both tasks in a cool and fun way that involves my three young children Meanwhile Mrs Ferguson was hastily making plans to take the kids to her mothers DIY with Nick is what you might call a journey she said One that begins relatively calmly progresses to high strength alcohol and ends with him screaming Rudyard Kiplings If into the mirror at around 130am Usually with a serious injury to his face or hands Matt Ward

The revival of middleclass jobs has been one of Obamas mantras since he took office in 2009 fighting the worst economic crisis in generations It was a major theme of his last State of the Union address and is expected to feature in the one scheduled for TuesdayObamas administration can take credit for stabilizing the US economy which is growing again and last year added jobs at the fastest clip since 1999But for the middle class the scars of the recession still run deep Federal Reserve survey data show families in the middle fifth of the income scale now earn less and their net worth is lower than when Obama took officeIn the six years through 2013 over the recession and recovery that have spanned Obamas tenure jobs have been added at the top and bottom of the wage scale a Reuters analysis of labor statistics shows In the middle the economy has shed positions whether in traditional trades like machining or electrical work whitecollar jobs in human resources or technical ones like computer operatorsThe trend is in plain sight in Dalton Georgia a manufacturing hub 90 miles 145 kilometersnorth of Atlanta Massive factories that made it the carpet capital of the world were slammed by the collapse of the housing bubble During the recession with machines idle they began investing heavily in new technology and are now laying plans to restore some lost jobsBut the new positions are more skewed to the high and low end and there will be fewer of them per dollar of output than before the recession said Brian Anderson president of the Greater Dalton Chamber of CommerceWe can produce a whole lot of new carpet with not a lot more people Anderson said Companies have spent between 15 and 2 billion on retooling and innovation reducing demand for labor while higher than average regional unemployment continued to hold down wages he saidFirms like flooring giant Shaw Industries pared jobs dropping 5000 from a prerecession labor force of 28000 but with new technology have rebuilt revenue to near previous levels The company is boosting wages for master mechanics to around 30 an hour but feels no pressure to increase wages for the unskilled positions it retainsThe heavy investment in robotics and mechanization has raised expectations said Paul Richard Shaws vice president of human resources It has put more emphasis on associates that can bring technical skillsAhead of Obamas annual address the business community is expecting the president to press for passage of the TransPacific trade treaty though a debate rages within the Democratic Party over whether that would create more middle class jobs than would be lost to increased importsOthers say he may seek more overtime pay for midlevel salaried workers propose a higher federal minimum wage or renew calls for major infrastructure spendingObama has proposed expanded access to community college education and improved family leave policies while some of his allies have called for an outright wealth transfer from the top to the middleFor Obamas legacy none of that may matterThe forces at work in the American economy appear so entrenched that Obama may be remembered as the president who pulled the nation from its worst downturn since the Great Depression but failed to arrest deepening economic inequalityThe Federal Reserve under Obama appointee Janet Yellen has put money in almost all Americans pockets with near zero interest rates that have held down mortgage payments allowed companies to reinvest and boosted job creationBut the Feds Survey of Consumer Finances shows how uneven the distribution of that stimulus has been Between 2010 and 2013 as recovery took hold and stock markets soared the average net worth of families in the top 40 percent of income earners grew For all others average net worth shrank declining 19 percent for the middle fifthSimilarly the average earnings for families in the top 10 percent grew more than 9 percent from 2010 through 2013 while those at other levels stagnated or shrank For the middle fifth average earnings fell 46 percentOver the six years through 2013 the middle fifths average annual family earnings fell to 47243 from 53008 while their average net worth dropped to 170066 from 236525Obama had a good start in ending the recession and a good start to recovery and then we were knocked off that trajectory said Josh Bivens an economist with the Economic Policy Institute a leftleaning think tank that advocates higher minimum wages and other policies to boost incomesBivens blamed the end of stimulus programs and a standoff in Congress over the federal debt ceiling that curbed government spending for the loss of initial momentumTo a degree the administration has also been a captive of broad technological and global trends Automation and the offshoring of manufacturing and service jobs continue to transform industries and communities such as DaltonObamas changing rhetoric over time appears increasingly to acknowledge the magnitude of the challengeIn 2011 he called the erosion of middle class jobs a Sputnik moment that should energize the country to outproduce and outinnovate the rest of the world By last year the tone was more tempered The cold hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by let alone get ahead And too many still arent working at all Obama said in last years State of the Union address Our job is to reverse these trends It wont happen right away

In this News Brief Joe Joseph is joined by good friend and legendary YouTuber ChangeDaChannel to discuss the election and all the controversy surrounding the ClintonsIts no surprise to most that the Clintons are as corrupt as they are but it has been fairly surprising that with the abundance of evidence that has come forth there isnt more outrageWhat can we expect in the days and weeks ahead Joe and Ken muse about whats to comeWatch on YouTube Source BREAKING I believe I have connected a convicted child abductor who was caught stealing children in Haiti with the Clintons from TheDonald Check out ChangeDaChannel on YouTube Delivered by The Daily Sheeple We encourage you to share and republish our reports analyses breaking news and videos Click for details Contributed by The Daily Sheeple of wwwTheDailySheeplecom This content may be freely reproduced in full or in part in digital form with full attribution to the author and a link to wwwTheDailySheeplecom

The race for president the battle for control of Congress and hundreds of state and local races are all being decided TuesdayHeres a guide to help you sort through whats at stake and who might have the edge

Americas ongoing diversity explosion should be greeted with optimism because of the opportunities it presents for revitalizing our country energizing our labor force and providing greater connectivity to the global economy But there is a hidden danger lurking in the form of an emerging generation gap with strong racial overtones that left unchecked could become a significant obstacle to progressThis gap has been greatly inflamed by the rhetoric of the presidential primaries Its potential harm was illustrated in the canceled Donald Trump event earlier this month in Chicago which saw young people of mixed races protesting against the views of what one of them called white suburbanites who embrace often angrily a vision of America that would shut them outWith more than a subtle focus on race each partys candidates have also been talking to different generationsHillary Clinton emphasizes concern for children in Flint Michigan ending child poverty and deportation and reforming the criminal justice system Bernie Sanders reaches out to young people concerned about student debt and jobs In contrast Trump continues to talk tough on immigration and keeping out Muslims on maintaining traditional American values backing strong policing and protecting the middle class from tax increasesThese stances mirror generationally different attitudes revealed in a 2012 Pew Survey that showed that more than half of white baby boomers and seniors view the rise of newcomers from other countries as a threat to traditional American values and customs a view that was held by a minority of the millennial generation born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s Generations are also divided on the role of government with older people eschewing more services and higher taxes and younger ones embracing the programs those services support

CNN First he ducks into the shower of his prison cell fully clothed Then he leans down but its not clear what the infamous drug lord is doing the short shower wall blocks him from the surveillance cameraSeconds later Joaquin El Chapo Guzman gets back up sits down on his cell bed and changes his shoes He goes back into the shower and bends down again behind the wall but never resurfacesGuzman Mexicos most notorious drug kingpin slipped through a hole under the shower and escaped through a milelong tunnel to freedom authorities saidAnd the newly released closedcircuit video shows how calmly and easily he did itMexican Interior Minister Miguel ngel Osorio Chong said Guzmans cell was videotaped 24 hours a day But the surveillance had two blind spots for privacy the toilet and the showerGuzman didnt just evade the cameras he also sidestepped another security measure with alarming easeGuzman had a bracelet that monitored his every move the interior minister said But he left the bracelet behind before he crawled into the tunnelThe hunt is back onInvestigators on both sides of the USMexico border are searching for signs of the fugitive drug lord But its no easy task a top Drug Enforcement Administration official saidThe cartel headed by Chapo is probably the most wellfinanced vicious criminal entity we have ever seen with unlimited resources both to bribe corrupt and to transport Deputy DEA Administrator Jack Riley said So our job in this particular case as much as it was over year ago when we captured him is to use every legal tool we can cooperate with our counterparts and hit the ground The hunt is back onThe United States and Mexico are exchanging intelligence including details from informants in the manhunt and the United States is providing technical support a Mexican official saidReports claiming authorities from the two countries arent working together simply arent true Riley saidChapo is hoping and planning on the fact that the good guys the cops on both sides of the border dont talk to each other dont connect the dots Riley said And Im here to tell you were doing that better now than we have ever done it And if I was him Id be looking over my shoulderIts likely prison workers helped Guzman break out the interior minister told reporters Osorio Chong said he has already fired the prison director and other prison officialsThey released what they said was a recent picture of Guzman showing him with a shaved head and face but without his trademark mustacheHow he did itThe tunnel began with a 50by50centimeter 20by20inch opening inside the shower of Guzmans cell Rubido said The tunnel stretched for about a mile and ended inside a halfbuilt houseIts likely the Sinaloa cartel had spent years infiltrating the countrys prison system a Mexican official told CNN Whoever helped in the plot likely had the architectural plans for the prison that pointed them toward the shower area the official saidAnd this wasnt the first timeNicknamed Shorty for his height Guzman already had pulled off one elaborate escape from a maximumsecurity prison In 2001 he managed to break free while reportedly hiding in a laundry cart It took authorities 13 years to catch him closing in as he was sleeping at a Mexican beach resortThe Sinaloa cartel moves drugs by land air and sea including cargo aircraft private aircraft buses fishing vessels and even submarines the US Justice Department has saidGuzman has been a nightmare for both sides of the border He reigns over a multibilliondollar global drug empire that supplied much of the marijuana cocaine and heroin sold on the streets of the United StatesChicago has labeled him the citys Public Enemy No 1And Riley who spent years fighting Guzmans cartel there said hes personally angered over the escapeI spent nearly five years fighting what he was doing to the city what he was doing to the communities by bringing heroin in and working a business relationship with street gangs he said For me personally it was a milestone to see him in jail And when I got the call at 230 in the morning last Saturday I about passed outBut no matter what it takes he said investigators will find a way to capture himI am sure his security is probably second to none in the country But thats not going to deter us It didnt deter us the first time Riley said This guy is going to be back in jail

WASHINGTON Despite leading a massive independent political operation and pumping untold millions into US elections billionaire Charles Koch is irritated at his extreme lack of influence in the Republican Party presidential primaryIn a candid interview over a lunch of tilapia and pulled pork sandwiches with the Financial Times Koch said he has presented the 12 remaining Republican candidates with a list of issues that he and his brother David care about to no avail It doesnt seem to faze them much he said Youd think we could have more influenceKoch and his political operation announced they would spend approximately 889 million over the course of the twoyear 2016 election cycle This spending would not just cover electoral lobbying and other political expenses but also Kochs gifts to universities so theyll teach curriculum adhering to his libertarian economic philosophy and to likeminded nonprofit think tanks influencing and expanding policy debatesDespite all this promised spending both Charles and David Koch have declined to endorse a candidate in the primary which may be why they lack influence Their refusal to endorse stems from a desire to save resources for the general election and avoid adding fuel to an internecine conflict within the party they most closely identify with But as Koch reveals in his comments to the Financial Times he veers far from Republican orthodoxy on some basic policy questions notably foreign policyIn his own statements Koch has always adhered to a common libertarian position of nonintervention He criticized the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq under President George W Bush which was backed by congressional majorities in both parties at the time And now he is criticizing Republicans for their belligerence towards Muslims and a certain GOP candidates shortsightedness for proposing to carpetbomb land held by terrorist groupsWe have been doing this for a dozen years he said We invaded Afghanistan We invaded Iraq Has that made us safer Has that made the world safer It seems like were more worried about it now than we were then so we need to examine these strategies

by Yves Smith Private equity shills are readying the Blame Cannon for the industrys widely forecast fall in returns Who are the allies of the private equity firms attempting to villianize as the cause of deteriorating performance Not the 01 Masters of the Universe who are always and every the sole cause of Good Things but never never to be found when Bad Things occur No its those evil populists interfering with the proper operation of the world according to private equity that is messing up returns Were not making this up From the Wall Street Journal The rise of populist politicians in western nations could challenge the ability of privateequity firms to do business and make money according to a report from Hamilton Lane one of the largest advisers to investors in the industry The backlash against globalization may cause higher taxes on privateequity firms create more regulation drive more volatility and restrict economic growth Hamilton Lanes annual review said This is utterly ludicrous if youve been paying attention From the first half of 2015 the average EBITDA multiple for PE purchases was over 10X higher than the peak of the last cycle in 2007 Even limited partners who are leery of saying a bad word about private equity like CIO Chris Ailman of CalSTRS described PE acquisitions as priced to perfection The trading prices of the private equity firms that are public shows that equity market investors believe that private equity firms will not earn any carry fees over the next couple of years And as weve pointed out repeatedly since the second half of 2015 senior officers of prominent private equity firms have increasingly been warning that private equity returns going forward will be lower than levels of the past And none of them used Putin um Trump um populism as the excuse for why returns were going to decline Hamilton Lane has more reason than most to blame private equitys declining fortunes on external forces rather than the obvious factors of too much money chasing too many deals and if the Fed ever pulls it off rising interest rates being particularly punitive to high risk strategies like private equity which is fundamentally levered equity As weve pointed out private equity has doubled its share of global equity from 2005 to 2014 Hamilton Lane is not just a consultant to private equity it is deeply conflicted by virtue of being a private equity fund of fund manager which means it needs to play nice with the general partners in order to maintain access to funds And the limited partners it has advised on private equity need excuses they can take to their boards and broader constituencies when private equity returns fizzle So its easy to blame those nasty anticapitalists rather than admit that private equity has always been a cyclical play and the end of a cycle is nigh In fact it should have occurred after the 2007 deal frenzy but private equity was an accidental beneficiary of central banksrescue the financial system emergency operations and got a stay of execution In a sign that the public is getting smarter about private equity 80 of the comments on the Wall Street Journal story were not buying what Hamilton Lane was selling The other 20 were general criticism of populism rather than votes of support for private equity This skew should not be surprising given some of the strained claims Hamilton Lane made Notice in the quote above that the first and presumably therefore the most important problem for private equity was higher taxes on privateequity firms which almost certainly refers to closing the carried interest loophole But readers are supposed to believe that that would dent their ability to make money for investors when those investors are almost without exception exempt from US taxes Now some private equity industry members have stomped their feet and said theyd quit if they had to pay more taxes Its hard to take this hissy fit seriously since there are not other lines of work in which theyd earn remotely comparable pay even with a bigger tax bill At the largest firms the typical annual pay is eight figures and for the top dogs at big and some mediumlarge funds nine figures And its not as if talent makes as much of a difference as the general partners would have you believe Industry data shows that no one has a secret sauce Top quartile funds are less likely to perform well in the next period then by chance An investor in private equity should stop wasting time picking winners They should try to avoid crooks and otherwise attempt to index So who might leave the industry if anyone The departures are more likely to take place at the smallest funds or ones with mediocre performance since the difference in tax treatment would have a bigger impact on the ability of the principals to maintain what is perceived to be an adequate lifestyle Ironically thinning out the marginal players is if anything likely to be salutary for industry performance With too much competition for deals the winning bid is often made by someone who is desperate to win a deal as in their investors perceive them to be too slow at putting money to work or not well informed But the Hamilton Lane whinge is a harbinger of the sort of excuses you can expect to hear from both general partners and limited partners over the coming years the tired old whocoulddanode in new garb 0 0 0 0 1 0

During a debate between Rep Tammy Duckworth and Sen Mark Kirk RIL for his US Senate seat in Springfield Illinois Kirk mocked Duckworths ancestry saying in rebuttal of her comments on the true cost of war I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington His remark came in response to her statement that My family has served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution I am a Daughter of the American Revolution Watch courtesy of Deadspin Senator Mark Kirk mocks disabled Iraq war vet Tammy Duckworth in debate for her mixedrace heritage httpstco3Znpd2Uvfq pictwittercomcpWYBKri4l Deadspin Deadspin October 28 2016 Kirk of course has claimed to receive military honors he did not in fact receive For him to attack Duckworth is not only the height of hypocrisy but mocking her ancestry is appalling The Republican position as restated here by Kirk is that its okay to come from another country as long as youre white Neither Kirk nor his campaign has apologized Kirk has said Trump should quit over his misogynist comments apparently its okay to make racist comments When Duckworth said her family had served since the American Revolution she wasnt joking and she set Kirk straight in a tweet My mom is an immigrant and my dad and his family have served this nation in uniform since the Revolution ILSEN pictwittercomehEBHswFMs Tammy Duckworth TammyforIL October 28 2016 The Illinois senator has unendorsed Donald Trump one malignant clown calling another a malignant clown and this latest move has given Kellyanne Conway a rare opportunity to gloat tweeting The same Mark Kirk that unendorsed his partys presidential nominee and called him out in paid ads Gotcha Good luck httpstcoIV7miL317s Kellyanne Conway KellyannePolls October 28 2016 With a single sentence Mark Kirk proved you dont have to support Donald Trump to be a deplorable

LAS VEGAS Katy Perrys glamour Tom Steyers money Univisions megaphone and organized labors muscle along with a late assist from Barack Obama each helped lubricate Harry Reids welloiled political machine over the past 48 hoursThe media tends to focus on the lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton relative to President Obama which is real but a few thousand more ballots were cast in Nevada on Saturday during the first day of early voting than during the kickoff day four years ago when there was a similar flurry of activity to propel Democrats to the polls And that was before Air Force One touched down yesterday afternoonIt is a testament to the power of the organization that Reid the retiring Senate minority leader has built over three decades and thathe is now using to get Clinton and his handpicked successor Catherine Cortez Masto across the finish lineAs much as 60 percent of the vote will be cast before Nov 8 in the Silver State Democrats for several cycles have dominated early voting running up the score so that Republicans struggle to overcome it on Election DaySince handily winning the Republican caucuses here in February Donald Trump has been stronger in Nevada than in most other battlegrounds The race remains tight here a function of the relatively high percentage of lowincome whites without college degreesLets face it Nevada is always close Obama who carried the state twice said during a rally at a high school in North Las Vegas Nevada always makes you a little nervous because you dont know whats going to happen But thats what makes it excitingThe bulk of Nevadas Democratic voters are concentrated in Clark County which includes Vegas During a twoweek window the race is on to lock in Clintons narrow advantage in the polls by getting as many of her supporters as possible to one of 97 early voting sites The Reid machine fully activated is a sight to behold Unions play a huge role Reid kicked off his Saturday with a 9 am speech at the Iron Workers Union in the suburb of Henderson Cortez Masto joined him Then she went to the Carpenters Union training center at 1015 am and the Service Employees International Unions office on Sunset Boulevard a little after noon A taco truck parked out front served dual purposes the promise of free lunch built a crowd while trolling the Trump surrogate who warned during a recent cable interview that a Clinton victory would mean a taco truck on every corner A shuttle bus ferried people to the nearest polling location A few hours later pop star Katy Perry drew a diverse young crowd of 500 to the courtyard in front of the student union at the University of Nevada atLas Vegas The 31yearold didnt sing but she did get right to the point Perry talked about how she likes to procrastinate as much as anyone else but thats not okay when it comes to early voting Lets cut the crap Weve all got excuses Dont put it offShe then lamented thatvotes in Nevada matter more than hers does in California Im not just here to see a Cirque show she said You guys are importantPerry wore a blue leather dress red heels and a white Tshirt that said Nasty Woman which is what Trump called Clinton during their debate right here on the campus of UNLV last Wednesday night As she spoke about how shes been campaigning for the Democratic nominee since the cornfields of Iowa a guy in the audience yelled that Clinton should appoint her to be an ambassador Not yet she replied Ive got to put out a record or fourThen Perry introduced Cortez Masto Its important to not just vote for president the singer concluded Weve got a crew Weve got a clique We all run together We need to vote for the right senators tooShe announced at the end of her speech that she would take sophomore Kendra Patterson president of the campus Black Student Organization to vote for the first time Perry and her entourage piled into three black Escalades and headed for the nearest polling placeNextGen the climatechangefocused super PAC bankrolled by liberal billionaire Tom Steyer had a dozen volunteers working the Perry rally in orange Tshirts They handed out water bottles and had a coach bus in front of the student union to shuttle anyone who wanted a ride to go vote Early voting also gives Democrats more opportunities to turn out Latinos who have never voted before Mi Familia Vota and Voto Latino cohosted a fourhour block party Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of a mall that has an early voting site There was live Spanish music and allyoucaneat plates of free tacos from a popular local eatery There were two bouncy houses face painting and popcorn for the kids Steyers group helped pay for the event and Univision Radio a cosponsor promoted it on the air Staffers directed attendees to go inside the mall to vote At around 6 pm Saturday there were about 100 people in line for tacos and another 50 voting inside They waited in a line between a candy store and a cosmetics shop The Clinton team is investing heavily in doortodoor canvassing to run up herearly vote numbers Pilar Grullon a field organizer for the Nevada Democratic Party led a training session for 40 volunteers before Perry arrived at UNLV The native of the Dominican Republic said her mom worked two jobs to make ends meet but that her family still relied on public assistance including food stamps and Medicaid to get by She recently became the first in her family to graduate from college All of those services that my family depended on are at risk in this election she saidGrullon spent 15 minutes giving volunteers tips on how to give a little extra push to registered Democrats who might be reluctant to vote early Everyone got commit cards to get people to write down exactly when and where they will vote And they got leaflets with the number for a hotline that Clinton supporters can call to get a free ride to the polls You walk through and you make a plan with the voter at every door Grullon saidShe encouraged volunteers to be forceful If a mom tells you her daughter is voting for Hillary dont take her word for it Note that and someone else will come back to find her Be scrappy If theres a gate wait for someone to come to the gate If they speak Spanish and you cant mark it down and someone else will go Dont engage anyone who wants to talk smack about our candidates It is a waste of your time For good measure she even told everyone to smile Part of the Democratic strategy is to unashamedly pester people until they vote The campaigns find out who voted at the end of each day So they can stop targeting potential supporters once they havecast a ballot During the training session Grullon urged her door knockers to tell people that they wont get bothered once theyve voted If you dont want somebody to knock on your door or call you anymore go vote she said And it will stop SeriouslyThis turns out to be a powerful incentive in a state where almost every commercial is about the election Beatriz Martinez 27 voted Saturday inside a temporary trailer that has been set up in a Target parking lot in Las Vegas Asked why she went on the first day she said We got tons of texts saying early voting started this morning from the Clinton campaign people from the climate change people from the party people She and her boyfriend a law student supported Bernie Sanders in the caucuses but rallied behind Clinton after she wrapped up the nominationMartinez also brought her dad with her to vote The 58yearold was born in Mexico and speaks Spanish He became a US citizen more than a decade ago but had never voted before Saturday The chance to vote against Trump changed that He was very excitedAt the end of Saturday Democratic staffers celebrated news that 39148 people had voted in Clark County compared to 33187 in 2012 Of those 55 percent were registered Democrats and 27 percent were registered Republicans Hitting the churches The work continued early Sunday Ruben Kihuen a state senator challenging Republican Rep Cresent Hardy arrived at a Baptist church just before 8 am to warn that all the progress of the Obama years could unravel if Democrats do not win I was trying to convey the sense of urgency of getting to the polls he said in an interview after the service as he headed to a second church to deliver the same closing argument This election could be won during early voting if you run a strong campaign Five hours later Obama arrived in Kihuens congressional district for a rally aimed primarily at turning out African Americans The president took the stage at Cheyenne High School after Boyz II Men performed The End of the Road Speaking in front of a giant sign that said VOTE EARLY Obama told an audience of 5100 Youve got the winning hand Youve got blackjack But youve got to make sure to turn over the card by voting This game does not start on November 8th The game ends on November 8thBringing back a fictional character whom he invoked often in campaigns past Obamaadded with a hint of nostalgia I need you to call up cousin Pookyand say Pooky its time to voteI need you to go call Jesse and say Jesse come on Dont be sitting on the couch Its time to vote Everybody has got to vote early Thats how we won in 08 Thats how we won in 2012 Thats how were going to win in 2016 The Republican effort to push early voting pales in comparison and it certainly lacks the star power The RNCled victory program has 66 staffers spread across eight offices in Nevada more than in 2012 The state Democratic Party declined to provide a staff count but said it has 17 field offices But even GOP operatives marvel at the Reid machine They are trying to play catch up but they acknowledge that their only hope to carry Nevada is to win big among those who vote on Election Day Starting this weekend the GOPs field staff pivoted to knocking on the doors of registered Republicans who are probably with Trump but do not routinely voteRep Mark Amodei chairman of Trumps campaign in Nevada hosted a modest early vote kickoff event at the RNCs Reno office on Saturday morning Republican Senate candidate Joe Heck meanwhile campaigned with Ted Cruz in Reno and Elko less populated but redder areas of the state Heck a congressman from Vegas alienated many Trump supporters by rescinding his support So he campaigned with the Texas senator in an effort to shore up his conservative base Many Republicans familiar with Nevada worry about this nightmare scenario If Trump loses decisively along the Eastern seaboard New Hampshire Virginia North Carolina andor Florida the networks could declare that Clinton is the presidentelect before polls even close in Nevada Many core GOP voters typically cast their ballots while commuting home from work What if a couple percent of them decide that the election is over and its not worth waiting in line Because Republicans are so reliant on these voters and Democrats will have so many votes locked in from early voting it could lead to a downticket bloodbath At the very least it could tip a close Senate race to Cortez Masto Happening today at 10 am Eastern The 202 goes live with Gary Johnson I just landed after taking the redeye back from Vegas so I can interview the Libertarian presidential nominee Join us inperson at The Washington Post Live Center or watch a livestream of our hourlong conversation hereWHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Fighting resumed in eastern Aleppoappearing to shatter Moscows humanitarian pause in air raids that allowed rebels and civilians to temporarily flee the Syrian city Hugh Naylor ScoopPlans to send heavier weapons to CIAbacked rebels in Syria stall amid White House skepticism by Greg Miller and Adam Entous As rebelheld sections of Aleppo crumbled under Russian bombing this month the Obama administration was secretly weighing plans to rush more firepower to CIAbacked units in Syria The proposal which involved weapons that might help those forces defend themselves against Russian aircraft and artillery made its way onto the agenda of a recent meeting President Obama held with his national security team And thats as far as it got Neither approved nor rejected the plan was left in a state of ambiguity that US officials said reflects growing administration skepticism about escalating a covert CIA program that has trained and armed thousands of Syrian fighters The operation has served as the centerpiece of the US strategy to press Assad to step aside But US officials said there are growing doubts that even an expanded version could achieve that outcome because of Moscows intervention Obama officials said now seems inclined to leave the fate of the CIA program up to the next occupant of the White House Bill Murray received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Centerplayfully accepting the nations top honor for comedy after a twohour salute From Peggy McGlone My theme tonight is what is it like to be beloved a straightfaced Murray told the crowd as he accepted his award Its hard to listen to all those people be nice to you You just get so suspiciousMurray actively avoided receiving the award for weeks before the event telling The Posts Geoff Edgers I really thought if I dont answer the phone for awhile maybe theyll just move on to someone else The program will be broadcast Friday at 9 pm on PBS ATT announced a planned 854 billion acquisition of Time Warner on Saturdaya blockbuster merger that wouldradically reshape the media landscape Brian Fung Todays A1 How megadonors helped raise 1 billion for Hillary Clinton by Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy Determined not to fall behind in the money race she has ramped up her appeals to rich donors and shrugged off restrictions that President Obama had imposed on his fundraising team Even as her advisers fretted about the perception that she was too cozy with wealthy interests they agreed to let lobbyists bundle checks for her campaign including those representing some foreign governments Top aides wooed major donors for super PACs taking advantage of the leeway that campaigns have to legally collaborate with the groups on fundraising An analysis by The Post found that more than a fifth of the 1 billion donated to help her bid was given by just 100 wealthy individuals and labor unions many with a long history of contributing to the Clintons VirginiaGov Terry McAuliffes super PAC donated nearly 500000 to the campaign ofJill McCabe the wife of an FBI official who later helped oversee Clintons email investigation From the Wall Street Journals Devlin Barrett Campaign finance records show Mr McAuliffes politicalaction committee donated 467500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr Jill McCabe who is married to Andrew McCabe now the deputy director of the FBI McCabe was the thirdlargest recipient of funds from the governors super PACThe governors office strongly denied any potential connectionsaying McAuliffe supported Jill McCabe because he believed she would be a good state senator This is a customary practice for Virginia governors a spokesman said in a statement Any insinuation that his support was tied to anything other than his desire to elect candidates who would help pass his agenda is ridiculous An increasingly confident Clinton touted herself as listmaker in chief at a North Carolina rally on Sunday dismissing Trump with a few jokes as she focused primarily on her todo list as president From Anne Gearan Weve got challenges dont get me wrong Clinton said at an outdoor rally on a sparkling fall afternoon Ive laid out a whole agenda about dealing with those challenges she said adding that she is sometimes criticized for the detail of those proposals She spent relatively little time marking out the ways she claims Trump is unfit to be president or even comparing herself with him and she delved happily into discussions of technical education student debt infrastructure spending and economic growth HRCwill rally in the Tar Heel State alongside Michelle Obama on Thursday their first sidebyside appearance this year TheWikiLeaks emails show how many cooks are in Hillarys kitchen The Boston Globes Annie Linskey notes that there were at least 37 messages exchanged about justone tweet on the minimum wage And the team considered 84 possible slogans before settling on Stronger TogetherAlso seemingly everyone in Clintons orbit offerssuggestions for how the candidate could connect better with average voters Former Michigan governorJennifer Granholm for examplewanted Clinton to try working in some lowwage service jobs to combat the perception that she is out of touch Among her suggestions Clinton could make hotel beds clear tables at a Dennys mop floors in a school or work in a daycare center or a nursing home for a day The New Yorker endorsed Clinton praising the Democratic nominee as a distinctly capable candidateThe election of Hillary Clinton is an event that we would welcome for its historical importance and greet with indescribable relief Trump held a rare Sunday rally in Naples Fla halting from his teleprompter speech to suddenly ask the crowd if he was right to run for president FromJenna JohnsonWhen Im president if companies want to fire their workers and leave Are you okay Listen When Im president this is to me like this is why I started Are we glad that I started Are we happy Trump said as the crowd encouragingly cheered him on Well Ill let you know on the evening of Nov 8 whether Im glad The Trump brand continues to takea huge hit because of the campaign so the Trump Organization has decided to launch a new brand of hotels that will NOT carry his name From Bloombergs HuiYong Yu James Nash Scion a line of hotels that will target younger clients was unveiled last month in a press release that quoted three different Trump Organization executives but not the candidate The new brand is planned for use at city and resort locations intended to appeal to a new and different type of guest in more locations around the globe Hes now a polarizing figure When he was putting his hotels together he wasnt said consultant BruceHimelstein Theres definitely an impact Trump received his first major newspaper endorsement from the Las Vegas ReviewJournal a paper owned by casino billionaire and Trump donor Sheldon Adelson In a statement the papers editorial board acknowledged Trump has his flaws but will bring needed disruption and change to WashingtonFacebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz has now given 35 million to antiTrump efforts If the first 20 million yielded cheers the second 15 million generated stunned silence Gabriel Debenedetti reportsin Politico The deeply private 32yearold who is worth 127 billion is a longtime philanthropist but political newcomer He hasnt started to build contacts with local operatives And he hasnt said a word publicly about his political involvement Former Apprentice staffers said Trump forced them to come to work in the days immediately following Superstorm Sandy even though a state of emergency was in effect following the deadly storm From the Daily Beasts Gideon Resnick and Asawin Suebsaeng We all had to come in right after Sandy a former staffer recounted We were in his building and we fought with a manager who said Its not from me its from Donald Trump himselfWe had to work straight through it another staffer said The city was shut down no traffic lights etc I would bike from Brooklyn to Trump Tower he said of his first days back at work Meanwhile Trump was publicly taking credit for giving storm refugees shelter in Trump Tower something that he was required to do by law Breitbart News is planning to announce the hiring of former Red Sox pitcher and Trump supporter Curt Schilling to host a political talk show six months after he was fired from ESPN for sharing an antitransgender Facebook post The news also comes as Schilling weighs whether to challenge Elizabeth Warren for her Senate seat in 2018 New York Magazine Trump traveled to Gettysburg Saturday to deliver what was billed as a closing argument for his campaign and outline plans for the first 100 days of a Trump administration but he spent most of the speech airing a litany of grievances instead From Jenna Johnson and Jose DelReal Trump vowed to sue the women who have accused him of sexual assault branding them all liars and blasted the media for attempting to poison the minds of American voters After more than 13 minutes on the subject Trump read several numbered lists of things that he would do on his first day in office or during his first 100 days Nearly all were things that he has repeatedly promised to do but this was the first time he listed them in a speech Johnson and DelReal noteTim Kaine slammed Trumps speech as evidence of the selfinterested campaign he has run At the end of the campaign all along hes been running a selfinterested mefirst campaign not an Americafirst campaign Kaine told reporters in Pittsburgh And here he is saying that in the first 100 days Im not changing I may be POTUS but Im really going to focus on settling scores and oh by the way now that Im president I could really settle some scores Abby Phillip Trump said in a 2012 interview that he does NOT believe in deporting undocumented immigrantsAsked on CNBCs Squawk Box about his views on immigrant labor Trump said he was probably down the middle I understand how as an example you have people in this country for 20 years theyve done a great job theyve done wonderfully theyve gone to school theyve gotten good marks theyre productive now were supposed to send them out of the country I dont believe in that he said Clip uncovered byCNNs AndrewKaczynski Kellyanne Conway conceded that Trumps campaign is behind on Meet the Press but she pointed to enthusiasm at her clients campaign eventsas evidence that he can still winLet me tell you something You go out on the road with Donald Trump this election doesnt feel over Conway added on CNNs State of the Union Later Conway distanced herself from Trumps lengthy tirade against women who accused him of sexual misconduct telling host Jake Tapper Well he delivers his own speeches This is his candidacy Hes the guy whos running for the White HouseShe outlined a potential path for the Republican nominee on Fox News Sunday saying they are focused on winning the states of Florida Ohio Iowa North Carolina and possibly Nevada while protecting the traditionallyred states of Arizona and Georgia Jenna Johnson RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sought to minimize Trumps claimsof a rigged election telling John Dickerson that he merely wants to reserve all options Hes saying he wants to reserve all options and if there is grounds for a recount I will exercise my options Priebus said on CBS He is not willing to not concede if he loses and theres no fraud Eric Trump said his father would accept election results if they are fair I think what my father is saying is I want a fair election the younger Trump said on ABCs This Week rattling off statistics that reportedly show 2 million people on the voter rolls right now who are dead and 14 percent of all noncitizens in this country are registered to vote If its a fair outcome he will absolutely accept it theres no question about it Amy B Wang Tim Kaine suggested Clinton would be open to exploring new Asian trade deals as president despite her opposition to the TransPacific PartnershipYou never close the door if you can get a deal thats going to be good for American workers and our economy the Virginia senator told Chuck Todd We arent against trade As Clinton builds a lead writein campaigns flower and falter by David Weigel According to the FEC just 136040 writein votes were cast and tabulated in the 2012 election But this year that number could be much higher with multiple campaigns underway to normalize the act of writing in a name Evan McMullin the independent conservative candidate who entered the race too late to appear on many ballots will be an official writein candidate in most of the country Several fringe candidates have earned similar status and some of Sanderss diehard fans are spreading the word that many states will also count any ballot with his name scrawled across it Although Clintons favorability rating has ticked up in recent weeks many voters are already casting ballots in an environment where both major presidential candidates are unpopular One problem Writein votes are not treated the same as filledin ballots In many states the votes are not counted or reported at all In others a misspelling or an alternate name say Evan McMullen or Bernie instead of Bernard Sanders would not be tallied Obama will today endorse 30 more House candidates is addition to some150 state legislative candidates across 20 states later in the week From Politicos EdwardIsaac Dovere The endorsementswhich will come along with a variety of robocalls social media mailers photos of Obama with the candidates taken and even a few radio adsare Obamas biggest investment in state races ever by far and come as he gears up to make redistricting reform at the state level the political priority of his postpresidency From VIRGINIAThey crossed the border illegally and cant vote But they can knock on doors by WaPosAntonio Olivo Unable to vote in the presidential election a group of undocumented immigrants is knocking on doors in Northern Virginia in support of Clinton and other Democratic candidates convinced that the outcome of the vote will determine whether they can secure a path to citizenship in the country they have known since childhood The voteseekers are some of the 750000 recipients of temporary legal status under the Obama administrations 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Four years after the DACA program was launched many of the beneficiaries are still in a kind of limbo unsure about whether their status would be renewed under a President Trump and concerned that their family members could be deportedFrom NORTH CAROLINA Trump message clashes with GOPs mostendangered governor by Politicos Elena Schneider North Carolina Gov Pat McCrory is desperate to talk about his economic achievements after a year mired in contentious debate over social issues including the states transgender bathroom law The only problem Trump keeps coming to town and telling voters how terrible the economy is Its the most glaring example this year of the disconnect between Trumps apocalyptic rhetoric and the message of achievement that many Republican incumbents are trying to use to win reelection It has been known to happen before there was reportedly friction between affable Mitt Romneys campaign and some recoverytouting GOP governors in 2012 But the gap between McCrorys Carolina Comeback theme and Trumps doomandgloom assessments yawns particularly wide as McCrory faces the toughest reelection challenge of any governor in the country in 2016 From PENNSYLVANIA GOP frets over Trumps downballot impact by the Boston Globes Tracy Jan Here in the Pennsylvania suburbs a political shift is underway Republican leaders worried about Trumps presence atop the ticket are focusing as much of their attention on state races as they are on their presidential nominees fate in a crucial swingstate battleground With Trump trailing in the polls the question of the hour is what effect his lack of support might have on other GOP candidates on the ballot Polls show Sen Pat Toomey clinging to a narrow lead over Katie McGinty But Trump has fallen more than six points behind Clinton in Pennsylvania and is 28 points behind in the Philadelphia suburbs creating a whirlpool that could swallow the Republican senator Trump is making a final push in FLORIDAhunkering down in the Sunshine State as the race enters its final stretch From the Wall Street Journals Beth Reinhard and Janet Hook He is slated to headline five rallies over three days in the nations largest battleground where more than a million voters have already mailed in ballots But in one potentially ominous sign for Mr Trump Democrats are holding their own against Republicans in mailin ballots in Florida a mode of voting that the GOP traditionally dominates The more traction Democrats gain in early voting the harder it will be for Mr Trump to catch up even if polls narrow near Election Day Trump will continue a push in northern and central parts of Florida for the next two days while the Clinton campaign seeks to drive up turnout in the more liberal southern region Also in the Sunshine Stateformer Colombian President Alvaro Uribe campaigned with Marco Rubio yesterdayHe joinedthe senator at a Miami restaurant as he seeks to shore up support among expat Colombian voters Miami Herald Severaloutside Republican groups are now explicitly breaking with Trump urging votersto elect a divided government rather than giving Clinton a blank check From the New York Times Alexander Burns and Amy ChozickThe Congressional Leadership Fund is slated to begin running ads that attack Democratic candidates as rubber stamps for Clinton Meanwhile the Chamber of Commerce and the Senate Leadership Fund have launched a wave of Senate commercials asking voters to limit Clintons power by supporting downballot Republicans insteadHeres an example from Missouri An ABC News tracking poll finds Clinton up 12 nationally among likely voters 5038Clinton holds a 20point advantage among womenand has a threepoint edge with menTrumps rhetoric has caused problems 69 percent said they disapprove of Trumps response to questions about his treatment of women while 59 percent reject his suggestion that the election is rigged in Clintons favorAnd he could face turnout problems ABCs survey found a sevenpoint drop among Republicans who plan to vote on Election Day A CBS NewsYouGov poll conducted in Texas after the third debate showed Clinton within striking distancetrailing him by just 3 points in the state The majority of his Texas backers are over age 45 the survey found Meanwhile hes down by at least eight points among voters under 45The CBS poll found Clinton up just 3 points in Florida 4643 however Iceland a land of Vikings braces for a Pirate Party takeover by Griff Witte The party that could be on the cusp of winning Icelands national elections on Saturday didnt exist four years ago Its members are a collection of anarchists hackers libertarians and Web geeks It sets policy through online polls and thinks the government should do the same It wants to make Iceland a Switzerland of bits free of digital snooping It has offered Edward Snowden a new place to call home And then theres the name In this land of Vikings the Pirate Party may soon be king The rise of the Pirates from radical fringe to focal point of Icelandic politics has astonished even the partys founder a poet Web programmer and former WikiLeaks activist But this after all is 2016 The win would offer a vivid illustration of how far Europeans are willing to go in their rejection of the political mainstream adding to a string of insurgent triumphs emanating from both the far left and far rightLets start with this face from Hillary Clinton as she watches the Cubs winClinton an Illinois native grew up as a Cubs fan Here are photos of her with legendary Cubs announcer Harry CarayBill Murray also a Cubs fan was in DC to collect the Mark Twain prize at the Kennedy Center Here he is crashing the White House press briefing room to talk about his teamHeres a quick look at the state of the raceKaty Perry was out on the campaign trail for ClintonA top lawyer at the powerhouse firm Gibson Dunn reiterated his offer to represent pro bono anyone who Trump sues for accusing him of sexual misconductThe Los Angeles Times wrote about the time Trump threatened to sue the paper in 2008 for an accurate story about Trump UniversityMeanwhile Trump is once again criticizing the USmilitaryThe old very awkward TrumpPence logo was backBreitbart is no fan of Paul RyansAnd the Drudge Report continues to get nastier and nastier toward HRCMeanwhile a supporter told Mike Pence to tell Trump hes tired of the crapLike this from GOP operative Doug HeyeLets recap what its like to be a reporter at a Trump rallyPlus a note from Jake Tapper on that word lugenpresseJohn Kerry Ban Kimoon and other leaders attended a screening of Leonardo DiCaprios climate change documentary Before the FloodShelley Moore Capito and Cheri Bustos are enjoying the first taste of fallAnd finally Jason Chaffetz is courting the Instagram likes with this photoOn the campaign trail Clinton stumpswith Elizabeth Warren in Manchester NHwhile Kaine campaigns in Miami and Palm Beach Fla Biden stumps for Clinton in Dayton and Toledo Ohio Trump is in St Augustine and Tampa Fla Pence stops in Salisburg and Greensboro NCAt the White House Obama is in California for fundraisers He appears on ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Live tonightOn Capitol Hill The Senate and House are outNEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN DC Partially sunny and breezy today should be a quintessentially perfect fall day The Capital Weather Gang forecasts A cold front sneaks through the region early on It kicks up the wind a bit but has little effect on temperature With lots of sunshine highs still aim for the upper 60s The Redskins lost to the Detroit Lions 1720 A DC police officer was arrested and charged with driving under the influence while on duty Authorities said they were alerted to Arthur Thompsons impairment by a supervisor investigating a citizen complaint early Sunday Spencer S Hsu No worries for incumbent Rep Don Beyer in Va as Election Day approaches by Patricia Sullivan Rep Don Beyer DVa has some quirky ideas about what legislation he would pursue if he wins a second term in Congress next month He wants to push for a billiondollar economic development project in hardhit coal communities far from his suburban Northern Virginia district He longs to revise the federal budget process And hed like to see larger multimember congressional districts as was allowed before 1842 I dont want to be naive and I dont want to be Don Quixote said the affable auto dealer But I want to talk to 200 people about this in the next two years When you are the incumbent Democrat in one of the countrys deepest blue districts you can afford to dream A bilingual millennial who describes himself as leaning libertarian on many social issues Hernick 35 has tried to appeal to young voters who want Congress to address the national debt end political gridlock and speed the pace of changeSenAl Franken DMinn provided The Post with a list of his 10 favorite political sketches on Saturday Night Live Among them are Jon Lovitz as Michael Dukakis in 1988 saying I cant believe Im losing to this guyHeres the SNL take from this weekendon the final presidential debateFor his opening monologue as SNL host Tom Hanks spoke to America like a dadIn this sketch Hanks plays Doug a white contestant and Trump supporter on Black JeopardyPBS debuted its behindthescenes Hamilton documentary Hamiltons America with cameos from Obama George W Bush Paul Ryan Elizabeth Warren and others Heres the extended trailerAs a bonus here are two 2016themed Hamilton parodies from YouTube the song is The Election of 1800Mark Cuban has a new business idea per this Funny or Die video putting people into voluntary comas for the duration of a Trump presidencyWyclef Jean dressed up as Sanders Clinton and Trump for the video version of his updated track If I Was PresidentTerry Tate is back as the office linebacker only this time hes taking down TrumpThe Human Rights Campaign released this digital ad in Florida featuring a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootingLast but definitely not leastin this political ad the wife of a candidate defending his seat on the Travis County Commissioners Court implores voters to reelect him so that hell get out of the house

In August 2016 the announcement of the discovery of a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri artists impression above stimulated the imagination of experts and the general public This star is the nearest star to our sun though it is 10 times less massive and 500 times less luminous This discovery together with the discovery in May 2016 of a similar planet orbiting an even lowermass star Trappist1 convinced astronomers that such red dwarfs as these lowmass stars are called might be hosts to a large population of Earthlike planetsComputer simulations of the formation of planets orbiting in the habitable zones of low mass stars such as Proxima Centauri by astrophysicists at the University of Bern show that these planets are most likely to be roughly the size of the Earth and to contain large amounts of waterWhat might these objects look like What could they be made of Yann Alibert and Willy Benz at the Swiss NCCR PlanetS and the Center of Space and Habitability CSH at the University of Bern carried out the first computer simulations of the formation of planets expected to orbit stars 10 times less massive than the sunOur models succeed in reproducing planets that are similar in terms of mass and period to the ones observed recently Alibert says regarding the results of the study forthcoming as a letter in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics Interestingly we find that planets in closein orbits around these type of stars are of small sizes Typically they range between 05 and 15 Earth radii with a peak at about 10 Earth radius Future discoveries will tell if we are correct the researcher addsIn addition the astrophysicists determined the water content of the planets orbiting their small host stars in the habitable zone They found that around 90 percent of the planets harbour more than 10 percent water For comparison the Earth has a fraction of water of only about 02 percent The situation could be even more extreme if the protoplanetary disks in which these planets form persist longer than assumed in the models In any case these planets would be covered by very deep oceans at the bottom of which owing to enormous pressure water would be in form of iceWater is required for life as we know it So could these planets be habitable While liquid water is generally thought to be an essential ingredient too much of a good thing may be bad says Willy Benz In previous studies the scientists in Bern showed that too much water may prevent the regulation of the surface temperature and destabilize the climate But this is the case for the Earth here we deal with considerably more exotic planets that might be subjected to a much harsher radiation environment andor be synchronous he addsTo start their calculations the scientists considered a series of a few hundreds to thousands of identical lowmass stars and around each of them a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas Planets are formed by accretion of this material Alibert and Benz assumed that at the beginning there were 10 planetary embryos in each disk with an initial mass equal to the mass of the moon In a few days computer time for each system the model calculated how these randomly located embryos grew and migrated What kind of planets are formed depends on the structure and evolution of the protoplanetary disksHabitable or not the study of planets orbiting very lowmass stars will likely bring exciting new results improving our knowledge of planet formation evolution and potential habitability summarizes Benz Because these stars are considerably less luminous than the sun planets can be much closer to their stars before the surface temperature becomes too high for liquid water to exist Considering that this type of star also represents the overwhelming majority of stars in the solar neighbourhood and that closein planets are presently easier to detect and study it is easy to understand why the existence of this population of Earthlike planets is of importanceThe Daily Galaxy via University of Bern Source Daily Galaxy

MecklenburgCatawba The complaints noted that the machines wrongly identified a voters choice but in all reported cases the voters were able to correct their ballots before casting them To my knowledge at this point we dont have any cases where elections officials noted significant problems with any machines based on these complaints Of course theyre all looked into and thats why we encourage people to immediately flag down an election official commented Gannon The NC State Board Of Election released the following statement regarding the complaints The NC State Board of Elections is aware that some voters have contacted advocacy groups or elections officials with concerns about touchscreen voting machines in several counties Similar reports have been made in recent elections and we take them very seriously We want to ensure voters that safeguards are in place to ensure touchscreen machines accurately record voters selections Touchscreen machines are tested thoroughly before each election They are recalibrated daily before voting begins to test and ensure accuracy If a voter notices an issue with selection accuracy of a machine they should raise their hand and notify an election official immediately If needed the machine may be taken out of service for recalibration and the voter may be moved to a different machine Also each touchscreen machine prompts voters to review their selections before casting their ballot As with paper ballots voters should check over their selections to ensure accuracy prior to casting their ballot On touchscreen machines voters also can review a realtime audit log that records all of their selections We urge all voters to carefully review their selections before casting their ballots and to immediately report any questions or concerns to elections officials said Kim Westbrook Strach executive director of the NC State Board of Elections

Clinton crime family must be taken down ARREST THEM ALL Clinton Podesta Abedin Lynch Mook Stephanopoulos and all the coconspirators Clinton corruption John Podesta crime family NaturalNews Its not just that the corruption and criminality of the Clintons knows no bounds its also that the democrat political machine trying to thrust her into power also has total disregard for democracy truth and ethics Their mission Put our nations worst political criminal into the White House by any means necessary including systematic lying fraud money laundering intimidation of opponents and even murder of those who might testify against her The Clinton machine is a mafia operation and every person involved in it must go to jailThat includes not just the deep operatives like Podesta Lynch and Abedin but also all the deep cover Clinton operatives pretending to be journalists including Stephanopoulos Maddow Hayes Milbank and all the rest see the list here Every one of these people has committed crimes of sedition against the United States of America and is guilty of attempting to defraud democracy steal the election and place a mafia criminal into power at the highest level of government through the deliberate pursuit of journalistic malpractice Seditious Clinton operatives must be arrested and put behind bars to protect America We the People are beyond the stage of merely wanting to vote you out of power and turn off your broadcast networks Its now time to seek your indictment and imprisonment so that you cannot be allowed to harm this society ever againEvery operative journalist and coconspirator with the Clinton Foundation the Clinton corruption and the Clinton murders must be arrested indicted and if found guilty by a fair trial sent to prison This nation needs to heal itself from the Clinton nightmare and the only way thats going to happen is if the criminal traitors sellouts and corrupt backstabbers are marched away in handcuffs and put behind barsA former FBI official said Sunday that Bill and Hillary Clinton are part of a crime family and argued top officials hindered the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server while she was secretary of State reports TheHillcom Kallstrom best known for leading the investigation into the explosion of TWA flight 800 in the late 90s said that Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nominee was a pathological liarHe also blasted Attorney General Loretta Lynch claiming that she impeded the investigation into Clintons private serverThe problem here is this investigation was never a real investigation he said Thats the problem They never had a grand jury empanelled and the reason they never had a grand jury empanelled Im sure is Loretta Lynch would not go along with that God forbid we put someone like that in the White House he added of ClintonKallstrom also said that FBI Director James Comey and the rest of the FBIs leadership were responsible for holding back the investigation not the rest of the bureauThe agents are furious with whats going on I know that for a fact he said Corrupt proClinton journalists should not be given any quarter in all this Much like the propagandists of the Third Reich they abuse their positions of power to operate in conspiracy with an outright criminal who acts against the interests of the American people Did you know that Hillary Clinton sold off uranium mining rights to the Russians because the oligarchs who made billions off the deal turned around and donated millions to her Clinton Foundation If you arent aware of this you need to watch Clinton Cash immediately The simple truth is that the entire democrat party is a massive criminal cartel What America has now come to realize via the Wikileaks email dumps the Project Veritas undercover videos and even the revelations of former FBI agents who know whats really happening inside the agency is that the entire democrat party is a massive criminal cartel From the DNC which actively conspired to sideline Bernie Sanders during the nomination process to the leftwing media which coordinates false smear attacks against Donald Trump every element of the democrat party is hopelessly corrupt Democrat political operatives abide by no laws no ethics and no boundaries They lie cheat and steal their way into power at every election and theyre desperately trying to steal this election tooIts not just that the Clinton crime family must be taken down you see Its that the entire democrat establishment should be disbanded or imprisoned There isnt a highlevel operative inside the DNC who isnt committing election fraud on a daily basis The coordination and collusion money laundering and paytoplay influence for sale schemes are all illegal yet they are the very foundation of the democrat establishment as it exists todayEvery one of these people needs to be arrested indicted and imprisoned This is the only way genuine democracy can be restored across America Aside from their criminality democrats policy ideas just dont work Even on policy alone democrats are total failures None of their ideas or policies actually work Look at Obamacare with its insurance costs now doubling every 23 years with coverage options crashing nationwide and the entire failed idea now on the verge of imploding This was hailed as an historic solution by Obama and the rest of the dummocrats who forced it through Congress and the Supreme Court In reality Obamacare was the dumbest idea ever attempted to solve the health care crisis and I called it that from its inceptionDemocrats are parasites on society who know nothing other than how to survive as government blood suckers by promising big ideas that routinely fail They confiscate money from taxpayers waste it on the most stupid policy ideas ever dreamed up while siphoning off billions for their own salaries bonuses and luxurious lifestyles Then if you oppose their complete idiocy they invoke the IRS to have you audited or arrested This is Amerika today under Obama and the ClintonsThis racket must end The Clintons and all their coconspirators must be sent to prison Donald Trump is right when he says this is Bigger than Watergate Theres no comparison The crimes of the Clintons are a thousand times larger and more damning to democracy than anything Richard Nixon ever attempted Corrupt leftist media still lying every hour in a desperate attempt to defeat Trump While all this is happening the corrupt leftist media Washington Post New York Times MSNBC CNN Google News Yahoo News etc has long since abandoned any pretense of engaging in journalism and is now allin for the Clinton criminal mafiaThey have thrown their reputations to the wind betting everything on the most corrupt criminal to ever seek the office of the presidency Theyre bleeding readers and viewers by the millions as fedup Americans change the channels or turn off their cable TV altogether who needs politicized ESPN anyway to seek out more accurate news online from sites like Natural News and Breitbartcom Even the mass censorship of political trends by Facebook and Twitter cant stop the avalanche of awakening now sweeping across America Across every sector of society the American people are saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH We will not allow the criminal democrats to steal this election and install a totalitarian dictator into the White HouseWe will vote against the establishment in record numbers We will overwhelm the fraud outvote the braindead leftists and achieve a landslide victory for Donald TrumpAnd if the corrupt criminal democrats still fake the numbers bribe the electoral voters or commit massive fraud to steal the election We the People will take to the streets and take our democracy back We the People will NOT accept a Clinton presidency under these conditions of massive fraud collusion and extreme media bias Based on everything we are seeing right now there is no scenario under which Hillary Clinton will be accepted as the legitimate victor of this election In no way has this been an open fair and free election It has been a warped onesided exercise in media collusion that isnt fooling anyoneIn the minds of the real American people Hillary Clinton is done for The People will not stand for more corruption collusion and criminals running our system The revolt has begun and it will sweep through the voting booths the electorate and if necessary the very streets of America to demand an end to the failed corrupt political establishment run by sinister criminals who belong behind barsGet ready my friends to take this country back First vote for Donald Trump as a vote against corruption and collusion of the leftist establishmentSecondly demand the arrest of all Clintonlinked operatives including those in the leftist lying mediaThirdly do not tolerate the theft of your democracy by corrupt Clinton operatives who are trying to steal this election If they steal the votes or steal the Electoral College outcome prepare to march in the streets to take your country back Yes Im calling for peaceful mass protests everywhere across America if the criminal democrats and corrupt leftist media steal this election through fraud Bring plenty of rope because you may have to swing across moats and scale the walls of the castle to finally reach the inner layers of corruption and criminality in Washington DC Thats a metaphor for the dumbasdirt leftwing media journalists who are too stupid to parse a sentence DEFEAT Clinton now or lose America to a totalitarian regime that will never let go of absolute power This is your LAST CHANCE to take America back If you allow the Clintons and the corrupt democrats to seize power through widespread fraud and theft there will never be an open fair and free election in America ever again All opponents of Clinton will be imprisoned or executed All conservative media outlets will be taken offline or silenced The borders will be opened to a massive wave of illegal aliens from all across the world and they will overrun and occupy America destroying it from within while the bigoted intolerant democrats turn the entire nation into a sanctuary nation where illegals have absolute immunity while patriots are executed or imprisoned by the millionsThats the American Holocaust youre going to be witnessing if you allow these criminals Clinton Abedin Podesta Stephanopoulos and all the rest to remain in power Throw them behind bars if you want to see your country survive the next four years

Home SOCIETY US NEWS SOME FLA RESIDENTS PLAN ARMED TRICKORTREATING AFTER CREEPY CLOWN THREATS SOME FLA RESIDENTS PLAN ARMED TRICKORTREATING AFTER CREEPY CLOWN THREATS 0 SHARES 102016 Some residents unnerved by scary clown threats in their communities say theyll be armed for Halloween trickortreating while authorities warn that widespread clown fears may endanger someone dressing up as a clown as a joke There have been numerous clown sightings in Brevard County and two men were arrested last week in Melbourne for allegedly threatening people while dressed as clowns and holding large bats sticks or axes according to a Florida Today reporter The incidents have made some residents so nervous that they planned to arm themselves when they go out Halloween night Since I have no gun I will be carrying a bat around on Halloween night said Pam Metz of Titusville Kimberly Kersey said shed carry a gun while taking her sons trickortreating in Palm Bay Ill be carrying for sure she said Im terrified of clowns already and if one messes with me or my kids itll be to the hospital or morgue they go Police typically increase patrols for Halloween Some law enforcement officials have urged people to reconsider dressing up as clowns to avoid inadvertently endangering themselves The problem is that someone dressed like a clown could scare someone and theres a possibility a possibility you could end up with someone getting shot said Palm Bay Police Lt Mike Bandish Cassandra Closson of West Melbourne gave the same advice to her 15yearold son and forbade him from dressing as a clown Just not worth any drama Closson told Florida Today Post navigation