What media won't tell you about Trump and China - WND

5-10-19, WND.com -- Exclusive: Curtis Ellis cites 7 examples of Beijing's predatory practices. ... In fact, the Trump tariffs represent the first line of defense against China’s economic aggression against the U.S. and American private enterprise. Media commentators have downplayed or largely ignored ...  the forecasters’ doom and gloom never came to pass. The commentators who criticize the president for imposing tariffs don’t explain what they would do to punish China for its predatory actions and duplicitous dealings. Instead, they invoke economic dogma that says tariffs are pure economic poison. Never mind that their incantations don’t explain why China has prospered even as it has maintained the highest tariffs in the world.

Inflation is flat, and the latest numbers on economic growth for the first quarter of 2019 show 3.2 percent annual real GDP growth – an astonishingly good number. Fully 1 point of that GDP growth was due to reducing the trade deficit with China through the Trump tariffs. Thanks to tariffs, we see more investment in production in the U.S. and less off-shoring of American factories to China.

Here’s the biggest point the media commentariat has missed:

This is not about cheap T-shirts and TVs.

5-11-19, According to the latest numbers, the USA bought 539.5 billion dollars worth of goods from China last year, but they only purchased 120.3 billion dollars worth of goods from us.  For years they have been slapping enormous tariffs on the USA, stealing our intellectual property and making it exceedingly difficult for U.S. businesses to do business over there. They have been flooding our shores with cheap goods produced by government-subsidized businesses. So the USA can either allow them to keep taking advantage of us, or we can stand up for ourselves. But let there be no doubt – standing up to China will be extremely painful economically. 
 
Standing up to China definitely needs to be done, but it is very difficult to see how this is going to end pleasantly. In an unexpected development – President Trump began the process of raising tariffs on all remaining imports from China, valued at approximately $300 billion; increasing tariffs from 10% to 25%. This potential trade war is going to affect ‘the people’ [American consumers] in a number of different ways.

1. significantly higher prices at major retailers… price increases will be felt most acutely at large retail chains such as Wal-Mart that purchase goods in massive quantities from China.
2. according to the Trade Partnership analysis a 25% tariff on the remaining $325 billion in goods the U.S. imports from China, may cost the U.S. 2.1 million jobs and the average family of four more than $2,000 a year.
3. an extended trade war would mean big trouble for global financial markets.  Over 2 trillion dollars of global stock market wealth has been wiped out so far, but that is nothing compared to what could be coming…
4. Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist at LPL Financial said, “If the deal totally falls apart, we think there’s a pretty big chance of a market correction.” US stocks could fall as much as 5% over the next month.
   
5. It has been calculated this would result in a 2.1% hit to U.S. GDP in 2020, pushing the economy into recession later this year.
6. China’s economy would contract by 2.5%, while Europe and Japan would see average GDP losses of 1.5% and world GDP would be reduced by 1.7%.

Trump administration can’t back down now, or else it would lose all credibility. We shall see what happens.  As always, let us hope for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst. Price increases expected on: industrial equipment, machinery, clothing, hats, TVs, computer parts and food.
 
*Excerpted and adapted full original report from Michael Snyder here more here and here

5-9-19, ** -- When a business, industry, state or city decides to jump on the liberal "woke*" bandwagon, basically alienating half the nation, they’ll see dramatic loss of revenue and well being; examples:

1. Dick's Sporting Goods banned sales of guns to anyone under age 21 although a legal adult is 18 - the company lost $150 million in sales.
2. Natl Football League [NFL] permitted their players - during official games - to kneel during the US National Anthem and disrespect of the American flag.  Ratings tanked and has been forced to make $20 million in cuts slashing shows.

 
Both Dick’s & NFL decided to jump into politically divisive issues and in 2018 a study found that "intense sports fans, tend to endorse conservative policies.” So, they alienated the majority of their base; apparently forgotting the golden rule of business: Know your base, your customers and cater to them because that is what business is about.... the customers.
 
Hollywood and the comedy industry are dying because of the social justice monster.
Many comedians have decried how "political correctness," which is a favored tool of censorship for liberals, is "killing comedy."

• Mel Brooks: "We have become stupidly politically correct, which is the death of comedy. Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks."
• Jerry Seinfeld: "I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so PC."
• Gilbert Gottfried wrote "The Apology Epidemic," stating: "Imagine if the most brilliant comedians in history were working today. They’d never stop apologizing.”

 
Liberal ‘woke’ cities in California [Oakland & San Francisco] are destitute as they have the highest of taxes, most stringent of gun control and they suffer the most poverty and high murder rates. The high cost of living and lack of jobs is causing a grand exodus of the liberal ‘woke’ states.
 
The restaurant who is now #3 in the nation, Chick-fil-A is a success story that refused to submit when they were boycotted by the liberal tyrants. The company was created on and still honors Christian values on traditional marriage.  
 
Conclusion is simple you get liberally "woke" you’ll go broke, cause death, destruction and destitution, but if you refuse to cave to the liberal social justice monsters, you survive and thrive.....and are, in fact, happier people. Proverbs 3:9; Philippians 4:12-13; James 1:2-3
 
*Woke: According to Urban Dictionary - "The act of being very pretentious about how much you care about a social issue." The problem we see today stems from the overuse by liberal social justice monsters who think that being "woke" is an excuse to manufacture outrage over just about anything that offends their delicate sensibilities.
 
**Excerpted full original message from Susan Duclos, All News PipeLine here

5-7-19, * -- Recently Claas Relotius, a German reporter for Der Spiegel, wrote a piece about being embedded with a militia patrolling the Arizona border for illegal migrants. Gullible German leftist readers were regaled with tales of the militia, … with novelistic accounts of pro-Trump Americans that confirmed all the stereotypes of Der Spiegel’s readers. However, much of the article was factually wrong and that Relotius had never even bothered talking to the people he claimed to have been writing about. And a woman doing media relations for the militia contacted Der Spiegel and informed the magazine that he had never been there. That was the beginning of the end of the big lie about the recent Middle Eastern wars/events:

1. Syria: The 8 yr civil war story began with a group of boys who were reportedly detained and tortured after one of them spray-painted anti-government graffiti that international media outlets from CNN to Qatar’s Al Jazeera, Time & more broadcasted. As the story goes one boy scrawled “It’s Your Turn, Doctor” and started the cycle of violence that led to the fighting in Daraa & across Syria; the age and name of the boy has changed many times:
   1. in 2013 Daily Mail reported he was Bashir Abazed, 15 yrs old.
   2. In 2013 Germany it was 15 yr old Bashir Abazed and in 2016 he was Abdulrahman al-Krad
   3. in 2016 Canada’s Reuters reported it was 16 yr old boy named Mohammed
   4. in 2017 Globe & Mail reported it was Naief Abazid, 14 yrs old.
   5. in 2018 Al Jazeera reported it was Mouawiya Syasneh, 14 yrs old.
2. Egypt: The Arab Spring originated by the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, Obama administration and some of its European allies and the overthrow of the targeted governments.
3. Tunisia: A fake story of a street vendor who was slapped by a policewoman and his family blames his bizarre reaction of setting himself on fire, on a sexist reaction to being humiliated by a woman.

 
Reportedly, there are at least six boys who started the Syrian war with that grafitti. Some of them are actually men. They all have different names. Some have different ages. Even the accounts of the ages of their friends who were also there, ranging from 9-year-olds to adults, vary wildly between different stories from major media outlets.
 
In their sensationalist stories about how the Syrian Civil War began, media outlets failed to even acknowledge that other outlets had published claims that fundamentally contradicted their own. Instead, journalists who claimed to have interviewed the boy[s] in cafes, safe houses or ruined cities posing smilingly for photos or hiding their faces were celebrated and even honored.
 
Reporting on a war in another country is tricky, the media insists on the right to fact check conservatives and erase them from social media, but fails at the most elementary levels fact checking when it comes to its own stories. 
 
Claas Relotius was only the latest media journalist to wade into the story of the boy who started the war. He was lying; but it was a lie so commonplace in his industry that it was normative behavior. The 6 boys’ story is undeniable proof that the media cannot be trusted to police its own facts, let alone those of its political opponents. That it is not an industry of facts, but an assembly line of propaganda. And that it’s reporting on major issues, including wars in other countries, is quite often fake news.
 
If you don’t believe that, ask the media how the Syrian Civil War started. Then ask if his name was Mohamed, Naief, Bashir, Mouawiya, or Abdulrahman. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine at the above link.
 
*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Daniel Greenfield here

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​Der Spiegel 'fake news' reporter could face charges - BBC News-Dec 23, 2018
4-22-19, SCMP.com -- The German reporter Claas Relotius, accused by top news agencies for solicited donations for Syrian orphans and faking stories ... ​Relotius told Spiegel he regretted his actions and was deeply ashamed. “I am sick and I need to get help.” More here

1-27-19, InspireMore.com -- John Sims a Fire Dept Captain in Tucson Arizona got an unexpected bonus when he purchased his home in 2015. There's a 1961 era Cold War-era bomb shelter buried in his backyard! Did it collapse after all these years? John wanted to know and hired a consultant who used metal detectors to determine the spot where he should start digging.

He dug about three feet before hitting the jackpot: the metal cap covering the entrance. He fully understood the dangers posed by confined spaces, especially ones that haven’t disturbed in over half a century, mold and unhealthy air. He waited a day before descending the spiral stairs and found himself inside a fiberglass dome shelter filled with rubble.

He had people standing by in case it collapsed or the lid slammed shut or something. He said, 
“I was really hoping it was going to be a little microcosm … a time capsule full of civil-defense boxes, radiation detectors and cots and stuff like that; hoping it wasn't a septic tank!” It was just filled with debris and rubble.

He cleaned out the rubble - and so far - he's repaired the entrance and spiral staircase and outfitted it with genuine artifacts he found at a local high school’s fallout shelter; and intends to enjoy the cool year round 72 degrees retreat when the temps in Tucson hit triple digits. More here

5-2-19, Two seventeen year old friends, Tyler Smith and Heather Brown from Christ's Church Academy were swimming near St Augustine Florida and realized they were two miles out and couldn't make it back to shore. For two hours they tried ...  desperately fought the waves holding on to each other to stay above water. Realizing their efforts were exhausted they turned to God for help and prayed.

Captain Eric Wagner of the ship 'THE AMEN' told Fox News, "Over all the wind, waves, and engines, we thought we heard a desperate scream. Exhausted and near the end, the boy told me he called out for God's help. Then we showed up." Eric and his crew pulled the teens out of the water.​ It's a miracle. More here

No children or ducks harmed by novichok, say health officials | UK 
[did Gina Haspel trick the president or just more fake news?]
4-18-19, Guardian.Uk -- Health officials say no children or ducks harmed by novichok poisoning. The report about ducks & kids is bogus. President Trump is said to have been reluctant at first to expel Russian diplomats following last years reported attack in Salisbury, viewing the poisoning of the former Moscow agent Sergei Skripal as “part of legitimate spy games”. However, according to the NYTimes, he changed his mind after then deputy CIA director, Gina Haspel, showed him pictures of young children and ducks that apparently injured as a result of the Salisbury attack. The ducks - it was claimed were killed because of carelessness in handling the nerve agent on the part of the two Russian intelligence operatives alleged to have carried out the attack. “Mr Trump fixated on the pictures of the sickened children and the dead ducks,” the report said. At the end of the briefing, Trump embraced what Haspel had presented as the “strong option” and expelled 60 Russian diplomats. However, the report does not pass the smell test; somebody is again dishing out fake news. More here and here

Trump Expels 60 Russians, Closes Russian Consulate In Seattle After UK Chemical Attack
In 2018 President Donald Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russians from the United States and closed the Russian consulate in Seattle over a reported nerve agent attack perpetrated by Russia in the UK .... it is highly disputed as fact that the Russians poisoned anybody ... The NYTimes report has now opened yet more room for speculation surrounding events in Salisbury. There is either evidence which has not been publicly released by Britain - for unknown reasons - or the CIA was manipulating the material. 

NYT claims Haspel's CIA showed Trump (fake) pictures of dead ...
4-16-19, Clearly the writers in the likes of the Washington Post or New York Times might not know too many details regarding the Salisbury poisoning case in the UK, the Independent knows full well that there were no dead ducks and no sick children. And so since they're writing about it, they must know that either the CIA ...

4-11-19,  In June 2018 retired sergeant Allen Jones told the president while appearing with him at a Kansas City VFW event: “I’m going to be 95 years of age on April 11 of next year. Hopefully, you will allow me to bring my family into the Oval Office to meet you.” President Trump responded with an enthusiastic “Yes!”

Fast forward to Thursday, April 11, 2019 ... President Trump kept another promise hosting Sergeant Allen Jones, his family and other centenarians Floyd Wigfield, Sidney Walton and Paul Kriner at the Oval Office. Wigfield even won a promise from Trump for a ride aboard Air Force One back to the United States after June’s annual D-Day ceremony. Such fun! More here

4-11-19, * – Recently award winning [1] news outlet “WikiLeaks” founder, Julian Assange, was arrested by British police reportedly for breaching his British bail conditions and in relation to the U.S. arrest request. He was forcibly carried out [1 min video here] of the London Ecuadorian Embassy where he was given asylum in 2012 after he was released on bail in Britain. He was facing extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations that have since been dropped [here]. 
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A potential court battle is expected over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents. (Bradley aka Chelsea Manning fed stolen government documents to Wikileaks was “pardoned”  by Obama [2]) Edward Snowden also involved is in exile in Russia. [3]

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno appeared to suggest that a swift extradition to America was not likely he said, “Ecuador took the action due to repeated violations to international conventions and daily life. The discourteous and aggressive behavior of Mr. Assange, the hostile and threatening declarations of its allied organization, against Ecuador and especially the transgression of international treaties, have led the situation to a point where the asylum of Mr. Assange is unsustainable and no longer viable. In line with our strong commitment to human rights and international law, I requested Great Britain to guarantee that Mr. Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty. The British government has confirmed it - in writing - in accordance with its own rules."

ANALYSIS: "Deep state" behind arrest of Julian Assange
4-10-19, Natural News -- Forced “confessions??” If Assange can be forced to testify against Pres Trump by inventing false “facts” that the media can run with, it could revive the Russia collusion hoax and pressure AG Barr to back off.  DOJ investigation may lead to criminal indictments by June 2019 reportedly those likely to be indicted include: FBI Peter Strzok, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, FBI head Andrew McCabe, CIA John Brennan, James Clapper and many others who attempted to carry out treason against America.
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​'No Constitutional Difference' Between WikiLeaks And New York Times!'
4-12-19, ZeroHedge -- Lawyer and Professor Alan Dershowitz: If the New York Times, in 1971, could lawfully publish the Pentagon Papers knowing they included classified documents stolen by Rand Corporation military analyst Daniel Ellsberg from our federal government, then indeed WikiLeaks was entitled, under the First Amendment, to publish classified material that Assange knew was stolen by former United States Army intelligence analyst Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning from our federal government.

​*Excerpted and adapted full original report from CBN more
[1] Awards won in journalism more
[2] Bradley [Chelsea] Manning sentence commuted by Obama Jan 17, 2017 more
[3] Edward Snowden in exile more

Waffle House good Samaritan shot to death paying for meals, handing out cash ...
4-7-19, ABCNews -- Good Samaritan, 41 yr old Craig Brewer was fatally shot over the weekend while handing out $20 bills and paying for meals of strangers.
According to deputies, witnesses reported that the fight started when Hick's female companion became angry that Brewer’s Good Samaritan generosity didn’t extend to her.

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​Daily Mail, more here -- On Sunday, 4-7-19 a good Samaritan man, 41 year old Craig Brewer was shot dead after authorities say he got into an argument with a patron at a restaurant where the victim had been handing out cash and paying for strangers' meals. The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, said Mr. Brewer was gunned down at the Waffle House on Newbury Road in Gainesville, located about four miles from the University of Florida campus. Reportedly the killer was 25-year-old Ezekiel Hicks who got into a verbal argument with Brewer, because his lady friend didn't receive $20. so he went to his car got his gun went back into the restaurant and shot Mr Brewer in the head killing him. 

4-8-19, Excerpted * -- In 2018 San Francisco California reports that a park public restroom in the Golden Gate Boathouse costs $2 million or $4,700 per square foot. The modern bathroom had a third All-Gender option that shouldn’t have quadrupled the price.
In New York: An average park bathroom now runs to $3.6 million. One public bathroom has been under construction for twelve years. The Bronx bathroom began designing in ’06, with a projected completion date of ‘14. Procurement took another year. Construction took 2 years. 
In 2004, Seattle Washington paid $5 million for 5 self-cleaning toilets. Four years later the city tried to sell them on Ebay for an $89,000 minimum bid; but no one in the private sector had any interest in flushing that kind of money down the drain. Seattle finally had to let its million-dollar toilets for $2,500 each.

This is one gigantic plane - Stratolaunch, Paul G. Allen Project 
6-6-17, Stratolaunch -- code name "Roc" -- is the largest plane ever built. It's longer than a professional football field its tail height is 50 feet. It had to be constructed at California's Mojave Air and Space Port, inside a specially constructed 88,000-square-foot hangar.  It has 28 wheels and six 747 jet engines. It’s so big that it has 60 miles of wire coursing through it. It’s so big that the county had to issue special construction permits just for the construction scaffolding.  See three minute video here

Stratolaunch, the World's Largest Plane
4-17-12, Stratolaunch measures 385 feet long, weight 1.3 million pounds, more than 100 feet longer than an Airbus A380. It was built from the pieces of two 747s. Cost not confirmed, but in excess of $28 million. It will carry a SpaceX rocket into the sky for an aerial launch. 

Why did Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and owner of the Seattle Seahawks, building such a massive plane? It’s not to carry passengers, but rather rockets. The bigger the plane, the larger the rockets, or the greater the number. The company partnered with Orbital ATK to “air launch” the Dulles-based company's Pegasus XL, a rocket capable of delivering small satellites, weighing as much as 1,000 pounds, to orbit. The rockets would be tethered to the belly of the giant plane, which would fly them aloft, and once at an altitude of 35,000 feet or so, the rockets would drop and “air launch” to space. With airport-style operations and quick turnaround capabilities air launch is a cheaper and more efficient way to get satellites into space than rockets that launch vertically. For Mr. Allen, it’s all about LEO, or "low Earth orbit." He, and others, such as Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, are betting that they can reduce the cost of launching small satellites to space. [..snip] Stratolaunch is on track to perform its first launch demonstration as early as 2019. More from Washington Post here

4-3-19, Ms Addy Tritt, 25, a recent FHSU human resources graduate, said she felt the need to pay it forward with a shoe donation to help flood victims in Nebraska. 

Payless Shoe Source has been going out of business for a while now so Ms Tritt negotiated with the retailer to buy out all the remaining shoes at the Hays, Kansas store — 204 pair of shoes = 162 pair of baby shoes, 2 pair of men’s shoes and the balance women’s shoes.

The retail price of the shoes would have been more than $6,000. she paid $100.00.The shoes were part of a flood relief shipment taken to farmers in Nebraska by FHSU’s agriculture sorority Sigma Alpha this weekend. The sorority accepted ag-related donations last week at Orscheln’s and Tractor Supply Co. More here

 
MSNBC Fears Avocado Crisis if Trump Closes Border

4-1-19, Recently the hosts of cable media MSNBC worked themselves into an absolute frenzied panic over President Trump threatening to shut down the U.S. southern border in response to a recent spike in illegal immigration - what's the big issue? A possible avocado shortage. Reporters warned that consumers of guacamole and avocado toast would be hardest hit. Anchor Hallie Jackson breathlessly announced early in her 10:00 a.m. ET hour show: 

“We have lots more show to get to now, including this eye-popping headline. The U.S., listen to this, would run out of avocados in three weeks if President Trump shuts down the border with Mexico.” Ali Velshi actually opened his show by detailing the plight of “avocado lovers” across the country. “All of us are going to feel the impact of the border closure in the form of higher prices, shortages at supermarkets and other places that serve food.” Mission Produce, the largest distributor and grower in the world says Mexico’s supplies almost all of the avocados in the United States during the winter. The company says the United States would run out of avocados in three weeks if the border were closed.

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CALIFORNIA IS A MAJOR GROWER OF AVOCADOS ALSO FLORIDA IN THE USA!
The majority of avocados consumed in the U.S. are imported from Mexico. California is the largest producer of avocados grown in the U.S. There are more than 3,000 avocado growers in California farming on approximately 50,000 acres. More here

3-29-19, JACKSON, Miss. — The member of a black church, Hopewell Missionary Baptist in Greenville, Mississippi, Andrew McClinton, 47, has pleaded guilty to vandalizing and burning the church, also spray painting graffitti “Vote Trump,” a week before the 2016 presidential election. His sentencing is set for late April 2019.

Mike Chaney, state fire marshal said that investigators believe the graffiti was intended as a distraction from some other sort of wrongdoing. More here

Interesting we never hear of any hoax leftist hate crimes ... their crimes are genuine.

NUMEROUS DERAILMENTS 
IN THE USA - CAUSE UNKNOWN
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EUROPE: Alleged ISIS terror cell busted - Iraqi man suspected of attempted sabotage of trains
3-28-19, Authorities say Islamic terrorist group HEZBOLLAH interfered with the train tracks in an effort to cause a high-speed train derailment. Two Muslim suspects are believed to have formed a terrorist cell were arrested in Prague. They allegedly tried to commit mass atrocities twice in October 2018. Interfering with the train tracks leaving a steel cable stretched over the tracks between electrification masts on the Nuremberg-Munich line. The attack was unsuccessful and damaged only the driver’s cab, with no reported injuries to train passengers.

Tennessee USA train derailments increase 27% in 2018 
2-28-19, Last year, 2018 trains derailed 37 times in the Tennessee; a 27 percent increase in from 2017....

 USA ANOTHER Train Derailment
Sept 2016 -- Rush Hour Train Derailment -- More than 100 injured, one dead in NJ Transit Hoboken crash ... subway riders to sue ... More here

​ABC News -- Washington State Train Derailment 
12-18-17, ABC News -- Near Tacoma Washington Train derailed over freeway, 13 cars jumped tracks going 81 mph .... falling to highway ... several deaths​

Fox News -- Amtrak 26 derailments since 2014
Timeline with details behind the incidents here

Democrat senator Blumenthal links New Zealand massacre to Trump 
​3-15-19, Richard Blumenthal and a CNN anchor immediately blamed Trump and his allies for the mass shooting in New Zealand.

And the Natl Public Radio [NPR] for a news organization - government-funded news organization - it's sure awfully focused on what they WON’T report about a major story such as horrific recent mass killing in New Zealand. Anyone else old enough to remember when the basics of journalism included gathering and presenting the “Who” “What” “Where” “When” and “Why” of the event? Those days are over!

Brenton Tarrant is jailed for killing 49 Muslims and seriously wounding 20 when witnesses say he opened fire with a rifle in two New Zealand Islamic mosques in the city of Christchurch on Friday (Mar 15, 2019)... while the people were in prayer [what a coward!].

3-14-19, Victor Davis Hanson -- Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the epidemic of statue destruction during the French Revolution has the world seen anything like the current war on the past.

In the last two years there has been a rash of statue toppling throughout the American South, aimed at wiping out memorialization of Confederate heroes. The pretense is that the Civil War can only be regarded as tragic in terms of the present oppression of the descendants of Southern slaves --154 years after the extinction of the Confederate states. The statue of Robert E. Lee was removed after it was vandalized at Duke University.

The subtext of most current name changing and icon toppling is that particular victimized groups blame their current plight on the past. They assume that by destroying long-dead supposed enemies, they will be liberated -- or at least feel better in the present.

In 2015, Islamic terror group ISIS militants entered a museum in Mosul, Iraq, and destroyed ancient, pre-Islamic statues and idols. In 2001, the primeval Islamic terror group the Taliban blew up two ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan. Their mute crimes? They preexisted Mohammad and their very existence was sacrilegious to Islam. More here and here and here

R. Kelly's Legal Woes
3-7-19, CBS News -- Chicago has charged singer R. Kelly with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Reportedly at the time of the abuses, three of the four alleged victims were underage. Kelly pleaded not guilty howevder federal and state authorities in at least two states, New York and Illinois, are now investigating a variety of allegations. Kelly has faced intense scrutiny for more than a decade, which was reignited in January 2019 after the six-part Lifetime docu-series "Surviving R. Kelly." It featured interviews with seven accusers and former members of his inner circle. They all said Kelly preys on vulnerable women and young girls. He has been jailed with the additional charge of failing to pay back child support ... More here
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The Atlantic Compares R. Kelly's Hysterical Rant to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Testimony
3-6-19, The Atlantic published an article comparing singer R. Kelly’s behaviors and obscene outbursts during an interview with CBS's Gayle King over documented sex abuse charges to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh defending himself against unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations during his confirmation hearing. Video here

1. Media Compare Alleged Serial Underage Rapist R. Kelly to Judge Kavanaugh
2. 3-7-19, The latest outrageous example of the left trying to tear down the innocent by lifting up the guilty is comparing the Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh to Singer R. Kelly who was arrested for sexually abusing multiple under aged girls. Not content to just drag Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s name through the mud [again!] in that ridiculous witch hunt during his confirmation hearing in the fall. More here

Fair Play For Women [here] is now leading the way by speaking up on behalf of the female athletes who are unable to voice their concerns in public. We have a ground swell of athletes, sports scientists and coaches who support us and our aim is to facilitate the necessary experts to examine the physical attributes in the male body that makes it unfair to compete against natural women. NCAA policy is that male athletes who identify as transgender women can compete on women’s teams if they suppress their male testosterone levels for a full calendar year. 

Craig Telfer was a pretty good hurdler and all around athlete for the Franklin Pierce men’s track team last year, 2018 and finished second. This year, 2019 he's running as a girl calling himself 'CeCe Telfer' and breaking records. Many decry 'unfair!'
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2-25-19, A top-ranked runner in NCAA women’s track - a biological man, CeCe Telfer - is dominating the competition and setting records one year after competing as a man at the same level. “Senior CeCe Telfer (Lebanon, N.H.) won three Northeast-10 Girls Conference titles leading the Franklin Pierce University women’s track & field team and earn Most Outstanding Track Athlete honors at the NE10 Championships.

In January 2018, he/she competed on Franklin Pierce’s men’s team according to meet results from the Middlebury Winter Classic in Vermont. By that point Telfer had started using the name CeCe, while he was still competing on the men’s team. ​More here
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Tennis Star Martina Navratilova says, "Transgender Male Athletes in Women's Sports Is Unfair to the Women" | More here
​2-18-19, BleacherReport -- Martina Navratilova does not believe transgender [men who believe themselves to be women] should be permitted to lawfully compete against non-transgender women athletes. In the Sunday Times Navratilova said the practice is unfair: "It's insane and it's cheating. I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair. To put the argument at its most basic: a man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organization is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires." 

2-26-19, An Amtrak train traveling between Oregon and Los Angeles is stuck on the tracks, stranding almost 200 people for more than a day and a half. The train hit a tree that had fallen across the tracks, KOIN reported. It happened about 6:18 p.m. Sunday, KTVL reported. 

No one has been hurt, but 183 passengers and a dozen crew members have been stuck on Train 11 Coast Starlight because, “Conditions further deteriorated with numerous track blockages from snow and fallen trees,” CNN reported. Passengers reported that they are not able to get off the train or even open windows. “We’ve open windows, we’ve gotten yelled at for opening windows,” passenger Rebekah Dodson told KTVL. “We can’t get off the train because there’s four feet of snow in every direction, there’s nowhere to go.”

The nearest town is Oakridge but their power is out. The train still has power, heat and food for all the passengers, who will not be charged. One passenger says the train’s snack cart is empty and families have run out of diapers for their children, KOIN reported.

With more than a foot of heavy snow and numerous trees blocking the track, Amtrak decided, in the best interest of the passengers, the "safest place" was on the train where they were "provide food, heat, electricity and toilets. More here

1. Scaramucci Slip - In June of 2016 CNN claimed that former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci was under investigation by Congress for his alleged ties to Russia. CNN retracted it and apologized.
2. Trump Jr. Collusion - In Dec of 2017 CNN reported that Donald Trump Jr. received special access to documents stolen by WikiLeaks on Sept. 4, 2016. He actually was emailed about the documents on Sept. 14, 2016 — a day after they were already available to the general public.
3. 17 Intel Agencies Lie - During Congress hearing former Dir of Natl Intel James Clapper said that 3 intelligence agencies — the CIA, NSA and the FBI — concluded that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. Nonetheless, CNN repeatedly claimed that all 17 intelligence agencies came to the same conclusion about Russian meddling.
4. Comey Testimony Crumbles - On June 6, 2017, CNN reported that former FBI director James Comey would contradict Pres Trump’s claim that he was not under investigation. Comey actually ended up confirming Trump’s account.
5. Trump’s Fish Food - In Nov 2017 when Pres Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the pair took part in a koi fish feeding ceremony. CNN showed Trump dumping his entire box of food into the koi pond unprompted; but an unedited video revealed that Trump was simply following the lead of Abe, who emptied his box of food first.
6. A Clean Bill Of Health - In May of 2017 when Republicans were authoring a new health care bill, CNN claimed that GOP changes to Obamacare could make rape and sexual assault pre-existing conditions. False!
7. Officer Cuomo - In Oct 2016 CNN anchor Chris Cuomo inexplicably said that possessing WikiLeaks stolen documents is “illegal,” but insisted it’s “different for the media.” The Washington Post reported that it’s not illegal to possess or distribute illegally obtained material so long as you were not involved in the original hack.
8. Just Tap It In - In Sept 2017 reported the FBI did wiretap Manafort in Trump Tower after they had originally denounced Trump’s claim in March of 2017 that Obama was wiretapping phones in Trump Tower as a “flat-out lie.”
9. Zeleny’s Folly - On Jul 31, 2018 CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny tweeted that Pres Trump had not taken questions from reporters in at least a week. Just one day prior Pres Trump answered questions during a joint news conference with the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
10. Republicans Did (NOT) Fund The "Dossier" - The salacious and unverified Steele dossier was paid for by the Dem Natl Comm and Clinton campaign. Former Obama official and current CNN reporter Jim Sciutto claimed the dossier was “initially paid for by Republicans.” While Republicans bought standard opposition research from Fusion GPS, they stopped paying the firm well before it ever contracted with Christopher Steele to compile the anti-Trump dossier.
11. If You Build It, They Will Lie - CNN claimed that only Dem members of Congress gathered to pray before the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game — the first game after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot and nearly killed. Pictures of the prayer circle clearly show both Democrats and Republicans praying together, and CNN eventually deleted their tweet claiming otherwise.
12. CNN Gets Hit With A Cruz Missile - After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, CNN reporter Brian Stelter accused Republican congressmen of being “scared” to come on the network to debate gun control. Anchor Chris Cuomo specifically called out Texas Senator Ted Cruz for not rising to the challenge.  Sen. Cruz had done a 15 minute interview with CNN earlier that same day.
13. Silly Stelter! - CNN Brian Stelter accused the Repub Natl Comm of “misquoting” him in an ad attacking the credibility of Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury.” He said: “Real factual errors … makes you wonder about the overall content.” Stelter did utter those words and deleted his tweet and admitted: “I stand corrected: I thought this RNC ad misquoted me, but the quote came from a @CNNI TV hit.”
14. These Boots Were Made For Correctin’ - In Jan 2017 Nancy Sinatra made a quick joke about her late father’s song, “My Way,” being used at Trump’s Inauguration. CNN spun her tweet into an article claiming she was “not happy” about Trump using her father’s song at the Inauguration.  She said, “That’s not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN? What a rotten spin to put on a harmless joke.”
15. School Shooting Slip-Up - After a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, CNN reporters claimed that there were 22 school shootings on the year; wildly exaggerating the number of school shootings by using methodology that includes accidental firearm discharges on school property, domestic disputes, and other non-active shooter events. For example, one listed shooting at Savannah State University in Georgia involved just two people, neither of whom were students.
16. Where’s Melania? - Multiple CNN reporters speculated about the whereabouts of Melania Trump after a scheduled kidney surgery and then denied responsibility for any resulting conspiracy theories. While Stelter blamed random internet commenters for conspiracy theories about plastic surgery or a move back to NYC, CNN repeated such theories in an article and even asked Melania’s spokesperson to comment on them.
17. Fake News About Fake News - CNN cited a study from the Oxford Internet Institute to claim that fake news targeted swing states during the 2016 presidential election. However, the study says nothing of the sort; Twitter users didn’t receive nearly as much “fake news” as CNN initially claimed to readers.
18. Trump (Not) Ignorant About Japanese Cars - CNN Money’s Daniel Shane accused Pres Trump of not knowing that Japan makes cars in the US, however when reading his full remarks — which Shane left out — it's clear that the president was making a joke and knows that Japanese manufacturers make cars in the U.S. Shane ended up issuing a correction on his article.
19. Hands Up, Fake News - A CNN panel consisting of Margaret Hoover, Sally Kohn, Sunny Hostin and Mel Robbins displayed the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture in 2014 while talking about marches against police violence. The gesture seemed to be a reference to the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. While initial reports speculated that Brown had his hands up when he was shot by Darren Wilson, the DOJ concluded in a report in 2015 - physical and forensic evidence showed Brown’s hands could not have been above his waist.
20. Peace Be With You - CNN deceptively edited a video of Sherelle Smith and Kimberly Neal, the sisters of an unarmed black man who was shot by police. They claimed the two sisters were “calling for peace” amidst riots in their neighborhood. However, in a longer video, Sherelle says, “Y’all burning down s—t we need in our community. Take that s—t to the suburbs. Burn that s—t down. We need our s—t. We need our weaves. I don’t wear it. But we need it.” CNN removed the portion of their report about Sherelle and owned up to their error. 

Excerpted full report here from Daily Caller

2-20-19, * -- Listen and learn, addled enablers of fraud. The current Jussie Smollett “Fake Noose” hustle is a sick phenomenon that has run rampantly unchecked across the USA. Michelle Malkin has chronicled the self-victimization pathology for years; here’s a list:

1. Columbia University, 2007 - Psychology professor Madonna Constantine made the rounds on none other than ABC’s “Good Morning America,” claiming she found a “degrading” noose (made of hand-tied twine) hanging from her office door. It turned out she was desperately trying to distract from a brewing internal probe of her serial plagiarism and was eventually fired. Constantine faced no criminal charges over the Fake Noose incident.
2. Baltimore Fire Department, 2007 – A black firefighter-paramedic apprentice Donald Maynard claimed he found a knotted rope and threatening note with a noose drawing on it at his stationhouse. A federal civil rights investigation ensued and the NAACP cried racism — until Maynard confessed it was a fraud but faced no criminal charges over the Fake Noose incident.
3. University of Delaware, 2015 -- Black Lives Matter agitators and campus activists triggered a full alert when a student spotted a “racist display” of three “noose-like objects” hanging from trees. Police discovered the “nooses” were metal “remnants of paper lanterns” hung as decorations during an alumni weekend celebration.
4. Salisbury State University, 2016 -- Students, faculty and administrators were horrified when a stick figure hanging from a noose on a whiteboard was discovered at the school’s library. The N-word and hashtag #WhitePower also appeared in the menacing graffiti. Campus authorities immediately launched an investigation, which exposed two black students as the perpetrators. No charges filed against the Fake Noosers.
5. Kansas State University, 2017 -- A paroxysm of protest struck K-State after someone reported a noose hanging from a tree on campus. Black students lambasted authorities for not acting quickly enough. They stoked anger online with the hashtag #DontLeaveUsHanging and demanded increased security. But the “noose” was made of cut pieces of nylon parachute cord, which police believed had been discarded by someone who “may have simply been practicing tying different kinds of knots.”
6. Michigan State University, 2017 -- When a MSU student reported a noose hanging outside her dorm room, school administrators went into full freakout mode over the racial incident. Cops and the Office of Institutional Equity were immediately notified. “A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America,” the university president bemoaned. But it turned out the “noose” was a “packaged leather shoelace” that someone had accidentally dropped.
7. Smithsonian museums, 2017 -- NPR called the discovery of “nooses” lying on the grounds of two Smithsonian Institute museums the “latest in a string of hate incidents” after Trump’s election. The African-American museum director called them a “reminder of America’s dark history.” But the museums refused to release surveillance video and my public records request filed last November yielded zero corroboration of any hate crime. The Washington Post, New York Times and ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which all splashed the story front and center, have yet to follow up.
8. Mississippi State Capitol, 2018 -- ABC, CBS, CNN and Yahoo were among the media outlets that blared headlines about seven nooses and “hate signs” found hanging in trees by the capitol building before a special runoff election for U.S. Senate. The stories created an unmistakable impression that the nooses were left by GOP racists intending to intimidate black voters. In truth, the nooses were a publicity stunt perpetrated by Democrats.
9. Jussie Smollett, February 2019 -- Chicago police believe ‘Empire’ actor, Jussie Smollett PAID two brothers – by check, $3500.00 to attack him. The rope was purchased at Ace Hardware, the receipt was found. Jussie was arrested and charged for filing a false police report; he has been released on bond and lost his job. Daily Mail Report Here

In the wake of Smollett’s folly, media sensationalists bluster that there’s no way they could have known they were being strung along. Thanks for the valuable admission, elite news professionals, that you are not only dumb and blind but incompetent to boot. It doesn’t take a fancy journalism degree to learn from the long, sordid history of Fake Noose: When you’ve seen one social justice huckster, you’ve seen ’em all. *Excerpted and adapted full original report here

2-15-19, In Illinois Gary Montez Martin opened fire at a manufacturing facility warehouse in Aurora. He murdered five people and wounded several police officers before he was shot and killed by law enforcement.

Martin shouldn't have been allowed to own his firearm. He purchased a Smith and Wesson .40 caliber handgun in 2014, but was later discovered to have been convicted of an aggravated assault charge back in 1995 when he tried to apply for a concealed carry permit and was allowed to purchase the gun in error.  As a result, authorities wrote him a nice letter asking him to turn in his gun; if he was a law abiding citizen he would have ... but he wasn't.

Once again gun control laws already in place weren’t enforced; killers don't care about 'stupid' laws. More here

​Illinois No Gun law excerpts: Prohibited areas for concealed weapons

Jul 10, 2013 - PROHIBITED AREAS Section 65. Prohibited areas. (a) A licensee under this Act shall not knowingly carry a firearm on or into: (1) Any building ...

​​2-14-19, * -- In January 2019, the winter freeze might have shut down entire cities, but it couldn't slow down job growth as the economy roared through the cold and shattered projections with 304,000 non-farm jobs. Under Pres Trump there were job gains everywhere from transportation (27,000) to health care (42,000) to hospitality (74,000), construction gained 338,000 jobs in 12 months while manufacturing picked up 261,000 jobs in that same period. There was good news for many industries, but bad news for one. Alas, the poor fake news media.

The media is freezing colder than the polar vortex with thousands of lost jobs in January and February 2019. 

Miller vs Acosta: Statue of Liberty Poem | Here
Aug 2, 2017, President Trump's senior adviser, Stephen Miller, had to give a history lesson to CNN's Jim Acosta. Miller informed Acosta that to become a naturalized U.S. citizen speaking English is already required. But, moreover the poem Acosta quoted was not on the original statue but was added later. “When the Goddess of Liberty was given to the United States (in 1886) its donor’s agenda was to burnish France’s republican roots after the oppressive reign of Napoleon III and to celebrate the two nations’ commitment to the principles of liberty,” the New York Times reported in 2011.