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Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan finished, officials say

JERUSALEM – The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan is finished and President Trump has been briefed on its contents, two senior administration officials told Fox News on Sunday.

The final draft of the administration’s “Deal of the Century” is 175 to 200 pages long — and fewer than five people have access to the complete document, sources told Fox News.

“The plan is done… [the president] is happy with the parameters of the deal,” a senior administration official said.

Israel: Construction underway on massive new barrier surrounding GazaTrump was briefed by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Senior Adviser Jared Kushner and special envoy for Mideast peace Jason Greenblatt multiple times on the specifics of the deal, Fox News is told.

Officials said that the plan is unlikely to be released before upcoming Israeli elections on April 9. “We are not going to do anything that threatens Israel’s security,” a senior administration official said.

Kushner is set to visit Warsaw, Poland, later this week to attend a summit hosted by the United States and Poland to discuss regional issues regarding the Middle East, including Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Israel announces strikes on Iranian targets in SyriaOfficials said Kushner’s meetings in Warsaw represent a significant opportunity for the administration to remind regional partners that peace between Israelis and Palestinians could strengthen U.S. efforts to counter Iranian influence in the Middle East.

At the end of the month, Kushner is expected to travel with Greenblatt to five Gulf countries to discuss the specifics of the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace deal with regional leaders as he tries to garner more support for the plan.

Administration officials have said Trump is hopeful about the plan’s ability to move forward. “We have been given a different set of circumstances,” a senior administration official said.

Famed GOP Operative Targeted by Mueller’s Deep State Goons

In an outrageous pre-dawn SWAT-style raid, Roger Stone was arrested as if he was a violent fugitive determined to flee. The seven-count indictment Mueller has finally concocted features charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. 

By Donald Jeffries

Roger Stone was scheduled to be on this writer’s radio show on Friday, Jan. 25. As it turned out, the events of that morning made his appearance impossible.

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In a pre-dawn SWAT-style raid on Stone’s Fort Lauderdale, Fla. home, America’s militarized police force dragged the 66-year-old and his 72-year-old wife outside in their nightclothes. Stone was not a dangerous serial killer. He was not wanted for any violent crime. He had instead been indicted the previous day by a grand jury on extremely spurious process charges as part of Robert Mueller’s Deep State-fueled witch hunt into Russian “collusion” in the 2016 presidential election.

“At the crack of dawn, 29 FBI agents arrived at my home with 17 vehicles, with lights flashing, when they could have contacted my lawyer,” Stone declared after a court appearance later that Friday.

“A SWAT team, searching the house, scaring his wife, scaring his dogs—it was completely unnecessary,” Stone’s attorney Bruce Rogow said. “A telephone call would have done the job, and he would have appeared. Mr. Stone has nothing to hide.”

Rogow accurately called the arrest a “spectacle,” and the charade continued in the hearing later that day in a Fort Lauderdale courthouse, where the nonviolent political operative was shackled around the waist, wrist, and ankles.

The seven-count indictment, featuring charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice, continued to push the fantasy that shadowy, unnamed Russian figures hacked into emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and then shared them with WikiLeaks. As always, what was revealed in those emails is glossed over by our toothless, state-controlled mainstream media. The very real collusion to deny Bernie Sanders the Democratic Party nomination, in order to benefit Deep State queen Hillary Clinton, has been twisted and distorted into “Russians” conspiring with Trump officials to deny Clinton the presidency. Julian Assange has all but named former DNC staffer Seth Rich as the individual who leaked the emails, before he was murdered for no logical motive in Washington, D.C.

The militarized assault on Stone’s residence evoked memories of the government attack on the Branch Davidians’ group home (repeatedly referred to as a “compound” in the fake news media) in 1993. The pre-dawn timing reminded the few Americans left who understand real history of the kind of tyranny that was routine under President Abraham Lincoln.

While there was little criticism of the armed attack in the kept press, President Donald Trump took to Twitter and proclaimed, “Greatest witch hunt in the history of our country! No collusion! Border coyotes, drug dealers, and human traffickers are treated better. Who alerted CNN to be there?” Trump referred to the extremely suspicious fact that the most overtly anti-Trump media outlet had seemingly been tipped off about the raid, and were on hand at such an uncustomary hour to capture exclusive, dramatic footage.

Many conservatives were justifiably outraged.

“You don’t have to be a Roger Stone fan to be horrified by the stunt the FBI pulled off in conspiring with CNN this morning,” Jordan Schachtel of Blaze TV tweeted. “The completely unnecessary raid is a routine that is straight out of a third-world police state. There is no defense of such an excessive show of force.”

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This was nothing new during Mueller’s swamp-supported “investigation.” A source had told Fox News, during the earlier raid on former Trump associate Paul Manafort, that the dozen agents involved were “designed to intimidate.” Former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Joseph diGenova stated, “I am appalled that the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have permitted a vindictive use of arrest in a non-violent case with a defendant who was willing to surrender.”

The establishment, as always, rallied around the Deep State flag. “It is no conspiracy,” longtime television talking head and legal analyst Greta Van Susteren assured the masses on Twitter. An unnamed federal law enforcement source told Fox News that the operation was “standard” and “nothing out of the ordinary.” The New Republic headlined a story “The False Martyrdom of Roger Stone.” Other outlets mocked the “selective outrage” on the right. The cretinous John Podesta gloated in a Washington Post article that, “I admit I smiled when Roger Stone’s arrest was announced. . . .” Many reports used the disparaging term “dirty trickster” in describing Stone.

Stone remained defiant.

“I’m 66 years old,” he said following his arrest. “I do not own a gun, I do not have a valid passport, I have no prior criminal record, I’m charged with nonviolent process crimes. I believe this is a politically motivated investigation. There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the president, nor will I make up lies.”

Donald Jeffries is a highly respected author and researcher whose work on the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations and other high crimes of the Deep State has been read by millions of people across the world. Jeffries is also the author of two books currently being sold by the AFP Online Store.

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Ex-NYT Chief Jill Abramson Accused Of Rampant Plagiarism In Book On Ethical Journalism

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson has been accused of plagiarizing massive sections of her new book on ethical journalism, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts.

Citing examples from just three chapters, VICE correspondent Michael Moynihan noted several passages from the book which Abrams copied – or slightly changed – without properly attributing the authors. 

(click on the tweets to read Moynihan’s thread which contain further examples)

Abramson rejected the claims, telling Fox News “I certainly didn’t plagiarize in my book. There are 70 pages of footnotes showing where I got the information.”

In a 2008 Slate article, Abramson – then TIME‘s executive editor said: “I think when you take material almost word-for-word and don’t credit it, it is [plagiarism].”

After initially claiming the criticism was nothing more than sour grapes by VICE, Abramson said later on Twitter: “I endeavored to accurately and properly give attribution to the hundreds of sources that were part of my research,” adding “I take seriously the issues raised  and will review the passages in question.”

The book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, wrote that Abramson’s book bad given “an extraordinary degree of transparency toward its subjects; each of the four news organizations covered in the book was given ample time and opportunity to comment on the content, and where appropriate the author made changes and corrections. If upon further examination changes or attributions are deemed necessary we stand ready to work with the author in making those revisions.”

Perhaps the plagiarism can be attributed to John Stillman – a freelance journalist who Abramson credits with research, reporting and writing. 

Abramson doesn’t record interviews?

As noted by Variety’s Erin Nyren, Abramson has come under recent fire for an interview with The Cut in which she admits that she doesn’t record interviews – instead relying on her “almost photographic memory.” 

“I do not record,” said Abramson. “I’ve never recorded. I’m a very fast note-taker. When someone kind of says the ‘it’ thing that I have really wanted, I don’t start scribbling right away. I have an almost photographic memory and so I wait a beat or two while they’re onto something else, and then I write down the previous thing they said. Because you don’t want your subject to get nervous about what they just said.”

The Satan-loving Left can’t stand speaking the word “God” so they’re trying to remove “so help you God” from congressional oath

(Natural News) Now that Democrats control the House of Representatives, they’re busy tackling the most important and pertinent issues of our day, which to them includes removing all references to “God” from the oath that’s recited by witnesses who testify before Congress. Proposed new rules obtained by Fox News reveal that God-hating Democrats – which…

FORMER OCASIO-CORTEZ CAMPAIGN AIDE CALLS ‘GREEN NEW DEAL’ A PLAN TO ‘REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH AND POWER’ FROM RICH TO POOR

“America’s ruling class is freaking out about [Ocasio-Cortez’s] proposal to redistribute wealth and power from the people on top to the people on the bottom,” Waleed Shahid tweeted Tuesday, referring to a Fox News segment on the “Green New Deal.”

Antifa Organizer Arrested for Violent Racist Attack Against Latino Marines

Antifa organizer arrested and charged for violent racist assault against Latino marines

An Antifa organizer has been arrested and charged on multiple felony counts in connection with a racially charged attack against two hispanic US Marines during a trip to Philadelphia. 

Joseph “Jose” Alcoff, a.k.a. “Chepe” and “Jose Martin,” faces 17 charges, including multiple counts of aggravated assault, conspiracy, terroristic threats, ethnic intimidation and one count of robbery while inflicting serious bodily injury.

Zerohedge.com reports: Alcoff’s arrest comes two months after the arrests of Thomas Massey and Tom Keenan – who is considered a “leader” of the Philadelphia Antifa cell, and was charged in 2011 with Alcoff in connection with a New Jersey riot.

The Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, testified in December that a group of 10 to 12 Antifa members called them “Nazis” and “white supremacists” and attacked them on the street despite their denials that they had no association with the right-wing group demonstrating nearby.

During the attack, Godinez said he shouted “I’m Mexican” at the mob, which allegedly led the attackers to call him a “spic” and “wetback.” –Daily Caller

Torres gave his account of the incident to Fox News in December.

Based on an affidavit filed in the case, the investigation into Alcoff was aided in large part due to reporting by the Daily Caller – which has covered Antifa, and “Smash Racism DC” in particular.

Alcoff is an organizer of Smash Racism DC, the Antifa group responsible for mobbing Fox News host and DCNF co-founder Tucker Carlson’s house in November and for chasing Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz from a D.C. restaurant in September.

Alcoff made significant efforts to separate his true identity from his fanatical personas, “Chepe” and “Jose Martin,” TheDCNF reported in December.

When speaking as Chepe and through his Twitter handle @sabokitty, Alcoff has called for the killing of the rich and encourages using violence to bring “a world without capitalism, without private property … that is socialist and communist.”

Alcoff pled not guilty to the charges and is currently out on $15,000 bail. His lawyer did not immediately return a comment. –Daily Caller

Smash Racism D.C. has made headlines over the last several years – engaging in confrontations  with Senator Ted Cruz, and showing up to the door of Fox News host Tucker Carlson in November.

Of note, Smash Racism DC co-founder – fired college professor Michael Isaacson, made headlines tweeting about teaching “future dead cops” and assassinating both President Trump and VP Mike Pence the day before they won the 2016 election. Isaacson describes himself as a “pansexual” activist not limited to a gender or sexuality.

Issacson made the media rounds after his controversial tweets – even appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show on September 14, 2017 in a performance he was widely ridiculed over.

Isaacson was caught on an undercover Project Veritas video in January 2017 encouraging his supporters to “throat punch” conservatives, which he refers to as Nazis.

“Generally speaking, Nazis will only actually attack people if they strongly outnumber them because Nazis are essentially cowards. So if it’s three of them and a homeless guy, they’re going to beat him up. If it’s one of them and like six other people, they’re gonna run the f*ck away,” he said.

Seems like a nice bunch of kids…

3rd DC Antifa Arrested, Charged With Multiple Felonies In “Ethnic Intimidation” Attack On Latino Marines

An organizer with Washington D.C. Antifa cell “Smash Racism DC” has been arrested on multiple felony counts in connection with a racially charged November attack against two hispanic US Marines during a trip to Philadelphia with their helicopter unit. 

Joseph “Jose” Alcoff, a.k.a. “Chepe” and “Jose Martin,” faces 17 charges, including multiple counts of aggravated assault, conspiracy, terroristic threats, ethnic intimidation and one count of robbery while inflicting serious bodily injury, according to the Daily Caller. 

Alcoff’s arrest comes two months after the arrests of Thomas Massey and Tom Keenan – who is considered a “leader” of the Philadelphia Antifa cell, and was charged in 2011 with Alcoff in connection with a New Jersey riot. 

Thomas Massey (left), Joseph Alcoff, Tom Keenan

The Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, testified in December that a group of 10 to 12 Antifa members called them “Nazis” and “white supremacists” and attacked them on the street despite their denials that they had no association with the right-wing group demonstrating nearby.

During the attack, Godinez said he shouted “I’m Mexican” at the mob, which allegedly led the attackers to call him a “spic” and “wetback.” –Daily Caller

Torres gave his account of the incident to Fox News in December.

Based on an affidavit filed in the case, the investigation into Alcoff was aided in large part due to reporting by the Daily Caller – which has covered Antifa, and “Smash Racism DC” in particular. 

Alcoff is an organizer of Smash Racism DC, the Antifa group responsible for mobbing Fox News host and DCNF co-founder Tucker Carlson’s house in November and for chasing Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz from a D.C. restaurant in September.

Alcoff made significant efforts to separate his true identity from his fanatical personas, “Chepe” and “Jose Martin,” TheDCNF reported in December.

When speaking as Chepe and through his Twitter handle @sabokitty, Alcoff has called for the killing of the rich and encourages using violence to bring “a world without capitalism, without private property … that is socialist and communist.”

Alcoff pled not guilty to the charges and is currently out on $15,000 bail. His lawyer did not immediately return a comment. –Daily Caller

Smash Racism D.C. has made headlines over the last several years – engaging in confrontations  with Senator Ted Cruz, and showing up to the door of Fox News host Tucker Carlson in November.

Of note, Smash Racism DC co-founder – fired college professor Michael Isaacson, made headlines last year after tweeting about teaching “future dead cops” and assassinating both President Trump and VP Mike Pence the day before they won the 2016 election. Isaacson describes himself as a “pansexual” activist not limited to a gender or sexuality. 

Issacson made the media rounds after his controversial tweets – even appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show on September 14, 2017 in a performance he was widely ridiculed over.

Isaacson was caught on an undercover Project Veritas video in January 2017 encouraging his supporters to “throat punch” conservatives, which he refers to as Nazis. 

“Generally speaking, Nazis will only actually attack people if they strongly outnumber them because Nazis are essentially cowards. So if it’s three of them and a homeless guy, they’re going to beat him up. If it’s one of them and like six other people, they’re gonna run the f*ck away,” he said.

Seems like a nice bunch of kids…

Americans’ Surging Contempt for Billionaires

by Eric Zuesse, Strategic Culture: The commentary on January 2nd by Fox News host Tucker Carlson was headlined at youtube “Tucker: Leaders show no obligation to American voters” and it represents a historic turning-point in American political culture. This, from the Republican Party’s news-site, Fox, refers to America’s ruling class — the controllers of both Parties — as “mercenaries,” […]

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Fox News turns against indy media, praises NewsGuard which gives them a green rating even though Fox pushes fake news

(Natural News) Many independent media journalists wondered how long it would take the sons of NewsCorps founder Rupert Murdoch to ruin Fox News for conservative viewers once they gained full control over the company, and that process appears to be advancing as expected. Fox News technology contributor Kurt “The Cyberguy” Knutsson appeared on the network’s…

Disney Director Bryan Singer Accused of Raping Multiple Children

Bryan Singer accused of raping multiple young children

Disney director Bryan singer has been freshly accused of sexually abusing and raping multiple children, according to a bombshell report. 

The new allegations are just the latest in a long list of abuse claims brought against Singer of the years.

Foxnews.com reports: The report was published Wednesday by The Atlantic and the outlet said it was based in 50 sources — including the four men, who would not identify themselves for fear of repercussion. The exposé notes that the victims in question were left with psychological damage, substance-abuse problems, depression and PTSD after their experience.

In a statement provided to Fox News, Singer denounced the report as a ‘homophobic smear piece.”

“The last time I posted about this subject, Esquire magazine was preparing to publish an article written by a homophobic journalist who has a bizarre obsession with me dating back to 1997. After careful fact-checking and, in consideration of the lack of credible sources, Esquire chose not to publish this piece of vendetta journalism. That didn’t stop this writer from selling it to The Atlantic,” he told Fox News. “It’s sad that The Atlantic would stoop to this low standard of journalistic integrity. Again, I am forced to reiterate that this story rehashes claims from bogus lawsuits filed by a disreputable cast of individuals willing to lie for money or attention. And it is no surprise that, with Bohemian Rhapsody being an award-winning hit, this homophobic smear piece has been conveniently timed to take advantage of its success.”

One of the new accusers claimed Singer fondled him on a movie set when he was just 13 in 1997. Another claimed he was 17 when Singer had sex with him at a party at his house that same year while a third man alleged Singer had sex with him when he was just 15. A fourth man said he had sex with Singer when he was 16 after meeting the director at a series of parties the man claimed were designed to link underage boys with older men. All of the victims noted that Singer was aware of their ages at the time and was himself in his 30s.

This is not the first time that Singer has been accused of sexual misconduct with underage boys. In 2014, an aspiring model and actor named Michael Egan filed a civil suit against the director claiming Singer forced him to have sex during parties in California and Hawaii in the 1990s. Although Singer denied the allegations and the lawsuit was eventually dropped, more men started to come forward with allegations against Singer.

The Atlantic allegations come as the “X-Men” director’s work is being called into question after he was fired from the hit film “Bohemian Rhapsody” with just weeks left on production. His name remains in the film’s credits as the principal director due to the Directors Guild of America rules. “Eddie the Eagle” director Dexter Fletcher was brought in to finish directing the film after Singer reportedly vanished from the set for days, called for delays in production and became increasingly difficult to work with.

In a recent interview, the star of the Oscar-nominated film, Rami Malek, said that he was so engrossed with getting into character as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury that he was never even aware of the numerous sexual misconduct allegations against Singer.

“As far as I knew, I was considered before Bryan was even attached,” he told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday. “So I had my head down preparing for this for about a year ahead of time, and I never really looked up.”

He continued: “I didn’t know much about Bryan. I think that the allegations and things were, believe it or not, honestly something I was not aware of, and that is what it is.”

Big Tech Companies Continue to Target Political Dissidents

Silicon Valley continues to target and harass politically incorrect political dissidents with no end in sight. Now Patreon has joined the other big boys in shutting down those with whom they disagree.

By John Friend

Conservative commentators and other political dissidents continued to feel the effects of an increasingly brazen censorship and de-platforming campaign led by some of the top technology companies in Silicon Valley as 2018 came to a close.

In December, Patreon, a leading crowdfunding site that allows content creators to set up a profile and raise money from supporters in the form of one-time or recurring donations, banned the profiles of two prominent conservative political pundits: Milo Yiannopoulos, a former editor of Breitbart News, and Carl Benjamin, a British YouTuber commonly known as his online alias Sargon of Akkad.

“I’ve had a miserable year or two, banned and de-platformed and censored and blacklisted,” Yiannopoulos lamented on his Patreon page before his account was quickly suspended by the company. “Now I need your help. I want to get back on my feet and come roaring back in 2019.”

Needless to say, Yiannopoulos will have to find another platform to get back on his feet if he’s to “come roaring back,” as Patreon banned the controversial pundit shortly after he created the account.

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Patreon stated in a tweet that “Milo Yiannopoulos was removed from Patreon as we don’t allow association with or supporting hate groups on Patreon.”

Yiannopoulos has long been associated with the Proud Boys, a pro-Western fraternal organization founded by Gavin McInnes that has come under extreme scrutiny in recent months.

The Proud Boys have been hysterically denounced by many mainstream media outlets, political commentators, and anti-American activist organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group” that is responsible for political violence, false claims endlessly repeated by the fake-news media.

Benjamin was also banned from the crowdfunding platform last month. Benjamin had been using Patreon to allow his viewers and supporters to fund his independent journalistic endeavors, which netted the British commentator $12,000 per month, according to the site. Patreon told “Vice News” that Benjamin was banned from its site for his “violation of hate speech in our guidelines.”

The tech giant has accused the YouTube star of using “racial and homophobic slurs to degrade another individual.”

The irony of banning Benjamin, though, is that he doesn’t even call himself a conservative. He characterizes himself as a classical English liberal and is considered to be only slightly left of center on the political spectrum.

In related news, a number of leftist activist groups have organized a campaign to demand that advertisers stop placing ads with Tucker Carlson’s popular Fox News program. Carlson has been a major critic of the radical left and their attempts to destroy America with massive Third World immigration, amnesty for illegal aliens, open borders, and forced multiculturalism. These very vocal far-left groups want advertisers to boycott Carlson’s show in an effort to shut down and de-platform the increasingly popular host. Thus far, the calls for a boycott have been largely unsuccessful, and Fox News has commendably stood by and supported Carlson.

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“We cannot and will not allow voices like Tucker Carlson to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts from the likes of Moveon.org, Media Matters, and Sleeping Giants,” Fox News said in a statement to “The Daily Wire.”

“Attempts were made last month to bully and terrorize Tucker and his family at their home. He is now once again being threatened via Twitter by far-left activist groups with deeply political motives.”

The statement went on to read: “While we do not advocate boycotts, these same groups never target other broadcasters and operate under a grossly hypocritical double standard given their intolerance to all opposing points of view.”

We can expect the First Amendment free speech rights of dissident commentators, pundits, and independent media outlets to continue to be challenged by the radical left and large corporate tech companies—like those dominating Silicon Valley—as we enter 2019.

John Friend is a freelance writer who lives in California.

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High School Teacher Suspended For Showing Fox News Documentary About Due Process In College

by Ashe Schow, Daily Wire: A high school teacher in the wealthy suburban New York town of Bedford has been suspended for showing his students a Fox News documentary as part of a lesson plan to prepare them for college. Mike Poplardo is an economics teacher at Fox Lane High School in Bedford. In May […]

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Alec Baldwin Pleads Guilty After Punching Man In Dispute Over Parking Spot

Actor Alec Baldwin, who is best known for portraying President Trump on Saturday Night Live, has pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment following an incident last year when he punched a man during a dispute over a parking space in New York City, according to Fox News.

The actor appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday where he agreed to attend a short anger management program as part of his plea. Because Baldwin didn’t have a record (despite numerous incidents where he got aggressive with photographers and was famously thrown off a flight after refusing to stop playing “Words with Friends” on his phone), the DA felt comfortable recommending a violation charge of harassment in the second degree.

Baldwin

The actor will need to pay a charge of $120 and provide proof of payment and completion for the classes by March 27. As part of the deal, photos and video of the incident will be destroyed.

The actor’s lawyer declined to comment on the plea. Police said that Baldwin and the man had started arguing and shoving each other after the man parked in a spot that Baldwin said a family member had been holding for him. In addition to the incidents cited above, Baldwin was handcuffed back in 2014 after getting into a dispute with a police officer.

The NYPD said at the time that Baldwin, who had no identification on him, “refused to [identify] himself, became belligerent, cursing and yelling. He was then placed in handcuffs.”

Baldwin went on a twitter rant after the arrest where he accused the police of allowing the media to “terrify” his daughter.

Covington Catholic School Students Invited to White House Following Fake News Smear?

High school students at center of controversy after being misrepresented by mainstream media

Covington Catholic School Students Invited to White House Following Fake News Smear?

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The Covington Catholic High School students involved in a viral incident at a pro-life march Friday have been invited to meet with President Trump at the White House, according to reports.

A tweet from Fox News host Laura Ingraham claims that the MAGA hat-wearing students could meet with the president as early as Wednesday.

“EXCLUSIVE on the new #LauraIngrahamPodcast — the Covington Catholic students threatened by the leftist internet mob will be meeting with @realDonaldTrump at the White House as early as tomorrow,” Ingraham wrote in a tweet Tuesday.

One of the mothers of the students who attends Covington Catholic school, however, told The Gateway Pundit writer Cassandra Fairbanks they have not yet received an invitation.

Other White House reporters, including CBS News’ Fin Gomez, disputed claims that the students were invited, but did not rule out a possible future visit.

Video of the students went viral over the weekend after various mainstream media reports claimed the boys were mocking a Native American at a protest in DC.

That account was discredited, however, after more video emerged showing the boys did nothing as activist Nathan Phillips approached and proceeded to beat a drum in one Nick Sandmann’s face.

Before the full details came to light, various celebrities and mainstream media personalities on both sides of the political spectrum jumped to conclusions in vicious smear attempts geared to slander Trump supporters.

Since the incident, the president has issued two tweets on the media’s fake news smears of the Covington students.

New Ebola Outbreak Kills 410, Disease Is Expected To Spread For Months

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reports that 410 people have died in the most recent and ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Over 700 have been sickened in what is the second worst Ebola outbreak in recorded world history.

Making matters worse, the outbreak, which began back in August, is expected to worsen, spread, and continue to infect people for about six more months.  It is spreading in part due to “community resistance [to treatment], population movement, violence against health workers, and political instability,” the Center reported according to Fox News affiliate KTVU.

The World Health Organization has about 450 people working in the DRC to fight Ebola, but they caution that the experimental vaccine might be in short supply, and have warned about potential “shortages.” There is currently enough vaccine for the area, according to the report by KTVU, but if the viral infection spreads, experts say that any vaccine shortages would be “critical.”

In an interview with CIDRAP News, Peter Salama, MD, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) deputy director-general for emergency preparedness and response, said: “This is the most complicated setting we’ve ever experienced in order to stop an Ebola outbreak,” said Salama. “At a minimum, it will take six further months to stop.”

So far, there have been some positive developments.  There was a decrease of cases in Beni, the hotspot for Ebola activity. “If we can control the outbreak in Beni, we can do it anywhere,” Salama said. Now, the focus is on Butembo and Katwa, areas with nearly 1 million people. Other hot spots include Komanda and Oicha, but Salama said caseloads are lighter there. “I feel we will be able to get on top of those with access, which will leave Butembo and Katwa as the main priority,” said Salama.

“Though this is the 10th outbreak in the DRC, this is a community and region that has never seen Ebola. There was no baseline knowledge among healthcare workers of in the community about the disease,” said Salama.

This outbreak began in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. Political instability and population movement as well as violence against health care workers, has limited the response efforts at times and has allowed the disease to continue to take hold of communities.

“I Will Dog Walk You” – Cardi B Threatens Fox’s Tomi Lahren In Twitter Feud Over Government Shutdown

Cardi B has moved on from feuding with rival rapper Nicki Minaj to throwing down on twitter with former Fox News personality Tomi Lahren.

After Cardi B (we the explicit encouragement of her marketing team, we imagine) made a splash in the days before the Women’s March by posting a profanity-laced rant calling on Trump to end the government shutdown, earning a place on the signs carried by the pussy hat wearing set…

…She roused the anger of #MAGA twitter by posting a meme calling on Trump to go without pay until he ends the shutdown.

Prompting a mocking tweet from Tomi Lahren.

Instead of just letting it go, Cardi B did what any self-respecting girl from the Bronx would and threatened to “dog walk” Lahren.

Something that even Lahren couldn’t dispute. But issuing violent threats doesn’t make your ideas any less moronic.

The “Bodak Yellow” rapper responded by accusing Lahren of being “blinded by racism”…unintentionally supporting the Fox News politicians’ point.

Then turned to attacking some random guy who chimed in on twitter.

Even AOC, fresh off her latest controversy where she refused to condemn anti-semitism at the Women’s March, got involved.

We’re looking forward to the next installment of Cardi B feuding with Republicans on Twitter where she brands Anne Coulter an “opp”.

Nets Ignore Dem Congresswoman Accused of Firing a Rape Accuser

On Thursday, news broke that Texas Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee was named in a lawsuit accusing her of firing a female staffer in retaliation for their plan to sue the Congressional Black Caucus for an alleged rape she was a victim of. While the news was slow to circulate, it broke in the afternoon and thus gave the broadcast networks plenty of time to get a report together. But neither ABC, CBS, nor NBC decided to cover it that evening.

While leading into a report about the lawsuit, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed it was a “pretty amazing story that’s not getting enough attention tonight.”

“This former employee claims that she was raped by a former Congressional Black Caucus Foundation employee and was fired by Jackson Lee’s office after the employee planned to sue,” Fox News reporter David Spunt added before detailing what the lawsuit alleged happened (click “expand” to read):

The former Jackson Lee staffer, named Jane Doe in a lawsuit filed just last Friday, says a former intern coordinator for the caucus foundation named a man named Damian Jones. She is saying he raped her in 2015. Jane Doe says that Jones was her supervisor at the time. Doe reported the alleged rape to authorities but the investigation was inconclusive when it came to evidence. Well, when she went to tell authorities, fast forward to 2017, Jane Doe took a job with Congresswoman Jackson Lee out of Texas, who became chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

Jane Doe found out that Damion Jones was also going to be working with her again and she reported to authorities that she had a prior situation with him. Now, Jane doe says that she repeatedly reached out to Congresswoman Jackson Lee who would not meet her.

 

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Spunt told viewers that Fox News had reached out to Jones for comment but had not received a reply.

“The woman claims he got her blackout drunk and invited her to his apartment, where he and possibly his roommate sexually assaulted her,” reported The Huffington Post in more detail. “She reported the alleged assault to D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and had a rape kit exam performed…”

And according to a FoxNews.com report, the Jane Doe alleges that she was lied to about the motivation for her firing. While she was told she was being fired “because of budgetary issues” and she was the latest hire, “Doe claimed Jackson Lee had hired at least two new employees who made ‘at least the same salary’ as her since her arrival in November 2017. She also claimed two more employees were hired shortly after she was fired while another staffer received a raise.”

In a statement to Fox News, as reported by Spunt, Jackson Lee’s office insisted:

The office adamantly denies the allegations that it retaliated against, or otherwise improperly treated the plaintiff. It is against office policy to discuss specific details about internal personnel matters. Congresswoman Jackson Lee has an outstanding record of supporting civil rights and non-discrimination both in legislation and in her own office.

Former Porn Star Turned Christian Counselor Shares How God Changed Her Life

Former Porn Star Turned Christian Counselor Shares How God Changed Her Life

Crystal DiGregorio is sharing a message of grace and forgiveness by telling her story of how she went from a porn star to a Christian counselor.

DiGregorio spent many years as a famed porn star, but one Easter Sunday at a church service she encountered God and it changed her life. DiGregorio knelt down at the altar before God and asked him to save her from an abusive relationship and asked God into her heart.

She told CBN News, “That Moment was a moment of giving hurt and fear to God. I was bawling my eyes out crying and praying for God to release me from the abusive relationship I was in and all the bad things in my life.” She continued, “It was a full surrender.”

DiGregorio said as soon as she got up, she never looked back. In an interview with CBN News the 34-year-old mother of three told the outlet that she walked away from the toxic relationship and God began to change her “from the inside out.”

In an interview with Fox News she revealed that after she surrendered her life to God, He began to stir on her heart and open her eyes to the world and industry around her.  She told Fox, “I noticed how much people were being hurt by the porn industry and I never really thought of it before that.”

So, the young porn star left the industry, giving up her almost $400,000 yearly salary, her $10 million home, and a handful of luxury cars.

After leaving the industry, DiGregorio found it difficult to find work and eventually filed for bankruptcy. CBN reports that DiGregorio was fired several times after her employers found out about her previous career.

But, DiGregorio put her faith in God and eventually she became a Christian counselor. The former porn star uses her testimony to encourage others working in the sex industry to give their lives to Jesus.

According to CBN, she said, “My story has given people hope that God can forgive and change us, no matter what your past is. I hope people learn more about the Lord and want to get to know him.”

Photo courtesy: Ben White/Unsplash

Top FBI Lawyer Under Criminal Investigation for Leaking to Mainstream Media

Top FBI lawyer under criminal investigation for leaking to liberal media

A former top FBI lawyer who worked with James Comey is under a criminal investigation for leaking to the mainstream media. 

According to a letter from GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows, former General Counsel James Baker was involved in a plot to help undermine the Trump administration.

Foxnews.com reports: “You may or may not know, [Baker has] been the subject of a leak investigation … a criminal leak investigation that’s still active at the Justice Department,” lawyer Daniel Levin told lawmakers, as he pushed back on questions about his client’s conversations with reporters.

Jordan and Meadows’ letter was sent to Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, and requested additional information about the probe later this month.

“As we continue our oversight and investigative work, we felt it prudent to write to you seeking an update. Without being apprised of the contours of your leak investigation and Baker’s role, we run the risk of inadvertently interfering with your prosecutorial plans,” they wrote.

A source familiar with the U.S. Attorney investigation told Fox News they believe the investigation of Baker remains opens, adding they understand it began during the Obama administration and not in the course of the Russia investigation.

The transcript of the closed-door interview and the letter do not include details explaining why the investigation is being led out of the Connecticut office. The status of the investigation is not publicly known.

But the disclosure marks the latest confirmation of a leak investigation involving FBI figures who have since left the bureau.

Last year, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe saw his leak case referred to the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. McCabe was fired for lying to federal investigators about his role in a media leak regarding the Clinton Foundation on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.

The letter from the GOP lawmakers cited other concerns that arose as part of their own investigation when Republicans controlled the House:

“The Committees learned that in some instances, high-ranking DOJ and FBI officials, including the FBI General Counsel James Baker and DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, took the self-described ‘unusual’ step of inserting themselves into the evidentiary chain of custody.”

Documents reviewed by Fox News indicate that Ohr became the back-channel between Christopher Steele, author of the controversial and unverified anti-Trump “dossier,” and the FBI after he was fired by the bureau for lying about his contact with the media. According to a January 2018 memo by House Intelligence Committee Republicans on government surveillance practices, “Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations — an authorized disclosure of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, Mother Jones article.”

According to the DOJ website, Durham is a seasoned prosecutor who has been tapped by Republicans and Democrats to handle high-profile, national controversies.

Durham has held various positions in the District of Connecticut for 35 years, prosecuting organized and violent crime, as well as public corruption. From 2008 to 2012, he also served as the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he investigated the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes of senior Al Qaeda operatives and, prior to that, he reviewed alleged criminal wrongdoing by FBI personnel in Boston connected to the Whitey Bulger case.

The FBI did not comment. Fox News also reached out to Baker, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s office in Connecticut, for comment on the new letter.

Trump Tells Pelosi Her Trips Are Postponed Due To Shutdown Unless She Flies Commercial

Just one day after Speaker Pelosi chose to exercise her right to not invite the President to give his “State of the Union” address, Trump has responded.

In a letter to Nancy Pelosi, President Trump explains that he will be postponing her trip to various foreign countries due to the shutdown.

Dear Madame Speaker:

Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over.

In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate. I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown.

Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.

I look forward to seeing you soon and even more forward to watching our open and dangerous Southern Border finally receive the attention, funding, and security it so desperately deserves!

Amusingly, Fox News reports that Speaker Pelosi was due to leave for her trip at 3pm.

Meanwhile, according to Fox News reporter, Chad Pergram, “furious calls” are going “back and forth” from The Hill to the State to the Pentagon and White House.

The Daily Caller’s Benny Johnson reports that the bus of congressional Democrats had already left the Capitol on it’s way to a military jet to fly to Europe, and were en route when they heard that Trump had canceled their trip, forcing the bus to turn around, and “members were “furious”.”

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Judging by the level of rhetoric – we are absolutely nowhere near escaping the shutdown. Some overnight tweets from Trump say it all.

‘Tit’… meet ‘tat’

“It demeans the office is the presidency because it is so petty,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says of Trump’s decision to deny Nancy Pelosi use of a military plane for a planned overseas trip (which we presume means he did not think Pelosi’s decision to rescind Trump’s SOTU speech invitation “demeaned the office of the Speaker”?)

 

How gun control became an instrument of tyranny in Venezuela

(Natural News) Is Venezuela paying the price for adopting gun control? (Article by José Niño republished from Mises.Org) The shocking nature of Venezuela’s economic collapse has been covered ad nauseam. However, one aspect of the Venezuelan crisis that does not receive much coverage is the country’s gun control regime. Fox News recently published an excellent article highlighting Venezuelan citizens’…

Commie NYC Mayor Announces Plans To Steal Private Property

The communist mayor of New York City has announced plans to literally steal the property of landlords he doesn’t like in the big apple. The city government would be allowed to steal the buildings of landlords who force tenants out. De Blasio’s opponents say this plan amounts to “straight communism,” and that’s a fact. 

Bill De Blasio in his State of the City address on Thursday, announced he wants to take action against landlords who try to force tenants out by making the property unliveable, according to a report by Fox News. He then pulled out an executive order to create a Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. He said that in the event the government intervenes, the buildings would then be controlled by a “community nonprofit.”  But theft is still theft.  There’s no morality behind De Blasio’s plan.

“When a landlord tries to push out a tenant by making their home unlivable, a team of inspectors and law enforcement agents will be on the ground to stop it in time,” he said, according to the New York Daily News. “If the fines and the penalties don’t cut it, we will seize their buildings and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve.”

“My first reaction was: Is this communist Cuba?” state Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, who ran against De Blasio in the 2017 mayoral race, told Fox News. “ I can say that as a daughter of Cuban refugees who fled Castro’s Cuba in 1959, this is what happened to her family, she had her home taken, my grandfather had his gas station taken.” Malliotakis added, “This is extreme even for Mayor de Blasio because we know that he has socialist leanings, but this is straight communism and I think it’s very scary to America-loving, democracy-loving people.”

This should be condemned by literally every human on earth, whether they vote republican or democrat.  No human ever has the right to steal the property of another human. And that extends to the humans who think they are gods in government.



Malliotakis also said that the proposal was highly hypocritical of the mayor, as she says the city runs some of the worst housing in the country via the NYC Housing Authority. She also expressed some doubt as to how his plan to seize property would fare. “Any attempt to seize property will face a court challenge and the mayor himself comes up with these ideas, throws stuff out there and doesn’t know how he intends to make it happen,” she said. “It’s all rhetoric.”

But De Blasio’s plans are more of a “communism for everyone” and until good people stand up and refuse to be controlled by the government, dictators like De Blasio will continue to use force and violence against them.

Race-Baiting CNN Analyst Slams Host For “White Privilege”, Then Discovers He’s Black

CNN legal analyst Areva Martin had a race-baiting fail after accusing SiriusXM radio host and Fox News contributor David Webb of “white privilege” during a debate on his Monday morning radio show 

David Webb

While discussing a recent controversy stoked by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over CBS failing to hire any black journalists to cover the 2020 election, Webb asked Martin what she thought. 

Martin said she agreed with Ocasio-Cortez that it was unacceptable for media outlets to claim that there aren’t enough journalists of color available, to which Webb responded that he had “31 years” of experience in the media, adding “I’ve seen the coverage, and I’ve also seen it change, generationally … I have not seen the lack of [diversity], I’ve seen, actually growth in it“

Areva Martin

Webb then asked Martin if Black Entertainment Television (BET) should be forced to hire a white or Hispanic reporter, which Martin said would be up to BET. 

Arguing that that qualifications should be the deciding factor over race, Webb said “I never considered my color the issue. I considered my qualifications the issue,” to which Martin replied: 

“Well, David, that’s a whole ‘other long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don’t have the privilege of…”

Webb cut in: “How do I have the privilege of white privilege?”

To which Martin shot back: “David, by virtue of being a white male, you have white privilege.”

Webb then replied: “Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should have been better prepped. I’m black … See, you went to white privilege. This is the falsehood in this. You went immediately with an assumption … You’re talking to a black man who started out in rock radio in Boston, who crossed the paths into hip-hop, rebuilding one of the greatest black stations in America, and went on to work for Fox News, where I’m told apparently blacks aren’t supposed to work, but yet you come with this assumption and you go to white privilege. That’s actually insulting!”

Martin apologized, claiming “My people gave me wrong information.” 

 

Key Republican to ask FBI about report of Trump counterintelligence probe

January 13, 2019

By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican head of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Sunday he plans to ask the FBI about a report it launched a probe into whether President Donald Trump had been working on Russia’s behalf, suggesting the agency may have gone too far.

“I am going to ask the FBI director – was there a counterintelligence investigation opened up regarding the president as being a potential agent of the Russians? I find it astonishing,” Senator Lindsey Graham said on the “Fox News Sunday” program.

“If this really did happen, Congress needs to know about it,” he added. “How could the FBI do that? What kinds of checks and balances are there?”

The New York Times reported on Friday that the FBI opened the counterintelligence investigation in 2017 after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, out of concern the president’s actions may have presented a threat to national security.

Comey at the time was leading an investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. U.S. intelligence agencies have said Moscow tried to tip the election to Trump. Russia has denied interfering, and Trump has said repeatedly there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow.

The Times reported the counterintelligence probe was sparked in part by growing alarm about Trump’s behavior, including comments he made suggesting he fired Comey over the Russia investigation, which is now being led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Trump rejected the Times story on Saturday, telling Fox News it was “the most insulting article I’ve ever had written.”

The FBI declined a request for comment. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who previously served as Trump’s CIA director, blasted the Times story, when asked about it on the CBS “Face the Nation” show.

“The notion that President Trump is a threat to American national security is absolutely ludicrous.”

Democratic lawmakers said on Sunday the report underscored the need for legislation to protect the Mueller probe.

“I do think it’s curious that throughout that whole summer when these investigations started, you had (Russian President) Vladimir Putin’s policies almost being parroted by Donald Trump,” Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.

‘SERIOUS QUESTIONS’

Democrats also expressed concern about a report in the Washington Post on Saturday on alleged efforts by Trump to conceal details about his conversations with Putin. The paper reported that Trump took notes from his interpreter and instructed the person not to discuss the details of his conversations with others.

Reuters could not independently verify details of the Post report.

“When he takes the interpreter’s notes and wants to destroy them so no one can see what was said … it raises serious questions about the relationship between this president and Putin,” the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

In his appearance on Fox News on Saturday, Trump denied that he was keeping anything under wraps on his meetings with Putin.

Senator Chris Coons, a Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee, said he planned to press Trump’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, for a pledge to let Mueller complete his work.

Barr is scheduled to testify before the committee on Tuesday and Wednesday. If he is confirmed as attorney general, he would oversee the Russia probe.

“I would need a firm commitment that he will not allow any interference in the Mueller investigation,” Coons said on “Fox News Sunday.” He also said Barr must allow Mueller to release a copy of his final report to the public.

Barr, who served as attorney general under former President George H.W. Bush, sent an unsolicited memo to the Justice Department in June raising concerns about Mueller’s investigation, and arguing that it was inappropriate for Mueller to look into whether Trump may have sought to undermine the probe.

(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu and Tim Ahmann; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Peter Cooney)

A New Neocon-Backed Narrative Control Firm Works To Destroy Alternative Media

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,

The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being promoted day in and day out by western mass media has had two of its major stories ripped to shreds in the last three days…

A report seeded throughout the mainstream media by anonymous intelligence officials back in September claimed that US government workers in Cuba had suffered concussion-like brain damage after hearing strange noises in homes and hotels with the most likely culprit being “sophisticated microwaves or another type of electromagnetic weapon” from Russia. A recording of one such highly sophisticated attack was analyzed by scientists and turned out to be the mating call of the male indies short-tailed cricket. Neurologists and other brain specialists have challenged the claim that any US government workers suffered any neurological damage of any kind, saying test results on the alleged victims were misinterpreted. The actual story, when stripped of hyperventilating Russia panic, is that some government workers heard some crickets in Cuba.

Another report which dominated news headlines all of yesterday claimed that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort (the same Paul Manafort who the Guardian falsely claimed met with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy) had shared polling data with a Russian associate and asked him to pass it along to Oleg Deripaska, who is often labeled a “Russian oligarch” by western media. The polling data was mostly public already, and the rest was just more polling information shared in the spring of 2016, but Deripaska’s involvement had Russiagaters burning the midnight oil with breathless excitement. Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall went so far as to publish an article titled “The ‘Collusion’ Debate Ended Last Night”, substantiating his click-generating headline with the claim that “What’s crystal clear is that the transfer to Kilimnik came with explicit instructions to give the information to Deripaska. And that’s enough.”

Except Manafort didn’t give any explicit instructions to share the polling data with Deripaska, but with two Ukrainian oligarchs (who are denying it).

The New York Times was forced to print this embarrassing correction to the story it broke, adding in the process that Manafort’s motivation was likely not collusion, but money.

These are just the latest in a long, ongoing pattern of terrible mass media debacles as reporters eager to demonstrate their unquestioning fealty to the US-centralized empire fall all over themselves to report any story that makes Russia look bad without practicing due diligence. The only voices who have been questioning the establishment Russia narrative that is being fed to mass media outlets by secretive government agencies have been those which the mass media refuses to platform. Alternative media outlets are the only major platforms for dissent from the authorized narratives of the plutocrat-owned political/media class.

Imagine, then, how disastrous it would be if these last strongholds of skepticism and holding power to account were removed from the media landscape. Well, that’s exactly what a shady organization called NewsGuard is trying to do, with some success already.

A new report by journalist Whitney Webb for MintPress News details how NewsGuard is working to hide and demonetize alternative media outlets like MintPress, marketing itself directly to tech companies, social media platforms, libraries and schools. NewsGuard is led by some of the most virulently pro-imperialist individuals in America, and its agenda to shore up narrative control for the ruling power establishment is clear.

The product which NewsGuard markets to the general public is a browser plugin which advises online media consumers whether a news media outlet is trustworthy or untrustworthy based on a formula with a very pro-establishment bias which sees outlets like Fox News and the US propaganda outlet Voice of America getting trustworthy ratings while outlets like RT get very low ratings for trustworthiness. This plugin dominates the bulk of what comes up when you start researching NewsGuard, but circulating a plugin which individual internet users can voluntarily download to help their rulers control their minds is not one of the more nefarious agendas being pursued by this company. The full MintPress article gives a thorough breakdown of the yucky things NewsGuard has its fingers in, but here’s a summary of five of its more disturbing revelations:

1. The company has created a service called BrandGuard, billed as a “brand safety tool aimed at helping advertisers keep their brands off of unreliable news and information sites while giving them the assurance they need to support thousands of Green-rated [i.e., Newsguard-approved] news and information sites, big and small.” Popularizing the use of this service will attack the advertising revenue of unapproved alternative media outlets which run ads. NewsGuard is aggressively marketing this service to “ad tech firms, leading agencies, and major advertisers”.

2. NewsGuard’s advisory board reads like the fellowships list of a neocon think tank, and indeed one of its CEOs, Louis Gordon Crovitz, is a Council on Foreign Relations member who has worked with the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation. Members of the advisory board include George W Bush’s Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, deep intelligence community insider Michael Hayden, and the Obama administration’s Richard Stengel, who once publicly supported the need for domestic propaganda in the US. All of these men have appeared in influential think tanks geared toward putting a public smiley face on sociopathic warmongering agendas.

3. Despite one of its criteria for trustworthy sources being whether or not they are transparent about their funding, the specifics of NewsGuard’s financing is kept secret.

4. NewsGuard is also planning to get its news-ranking system integrated into social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, pursuing a partnership which will make pro-establishment media consumption a part of your experience at those sites regardless of whether or not you download a NewsGuard app or plugin.

5. NewsGuard markets itself to state governments in order to get its plugin installed in all of that state’s public schools and libraries to keep internet users from consuming unauthorized narratives. It has already succeeded in accomplishing this in the state of Hawaii, with all of its library branches now running the NewsGuard plugin.

We may be absolutely certain that NewsGuard will continue giving a positive, trustworthy ranking to the New York Times no matter how many spectacular flubs it makes in its coverage of the establishment Russia narrative, because the agenda to popularize anti-Russia narratives lines up perfectly with the neoconservative, government agency-serving agendas of the powers behind NewsGuard. Any attempt to advance the hegemony of the US-centralized power establishment will be rewarded by its lackeys, and any skepticism of it will be punished.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Ruling power’s desire to regulate people’s access to information is so desperate that it has become as clumsy and ham-fisted as a teenager pawing at his date in the back seat of a car, and it feels about as enjoyable. They’re barely even concealing their desire to control our minds anymore, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to wake everyone up to their manipulations. We need to use every inch of our ability to communicate with each other before it gets shut down for good.

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