Big Tech Is Big Brother
George Orwell's fictionalized world where Big Brother reigns supreme is no longer a figment of the imagination, but a prophetic vision of present-day threats. Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, explains how and why Big Tech is making Orwell’s 1984 a 21st-century reality.
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Trump, unlike most presidents, has chosen to try and implement campaign commitments and, in the process, chose to renegotiate various trade agreements he believes have rendered America less competitive and cost American workers jobs.
Trump, unlike most presidents, has chosen to try and implement campaign commitments and, in the process, chose to renegotiate various trade agreements he believes have rendered America less competitive and cost American workers jobs.
To date, his accomplishments have not been as he wished or expected and American farmers and consumers are bearing the the brunt of our trading partner's reaction. Consequently, the question is whether Americans will endure in order to inevitably allow Trump's policies to work because we ultimately do have significant leverage?
Far too many of today's Americans, because of increased social media technology, lack of cohesive will, and hatred of Trump,are not the same ones who fought WW 2. I dare say, after The Battle of The Bulge, today's America might be ready to concede. After all, we no longer seem to care about our borders, are too dumb to care about deficit spending. and a large number of misguided poorly educated and nihilistic citizens say they prefer socialism over capitalism
I believe Trump is taking the right approach, miscalculated the backlash response but, in the long run, if we persevere, the results will prove enormous and economically beneficial.
We are in a tug of war we must win and the question is whether we have the brains and gumption. or become weak kneed at the point of victory.
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Fitton reveals Hillary was warned on several occasions but chose to march to her own drum beat, (See 1 below.)
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Hanson - send Hollywooders to border. (See 2 below.)
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Peace loving Somali's destroying Minneapolis? Those who are unhappy have Obama and liberal Bleeding Democrats to thank. I keep telling you Sharia Law is coming to America and is around the corner.See 3 below.)
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Is Comey attacking Barr because he fears him? Is he attacking Barr because he believes he needs to get out in front and try and lay the foundation for discrediting whatever Barr's various investigations prove? (See 4 below.)
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1) Ex-State Department head of diplomatic security 'surprised' by Hillary Clinton's private email use
The official in charge of protecting State Department staff said he was "surprised" to learn that Hillary Clinton used a personal email address to conduct government business.
Eric Boswell, the former head of diplomatic security, acknowledged in a deposition this month that he warned Clinton and other State Department staff against the use of personal emails.
"We also urge Department users to minimize the use of personal web email for business, as some compromised home systems have been reconfigured by these actors to automatically forward copies of all composed emails to an undisclosed recipient," read a 2011 memo that bore his signature.
Clinton was a recipient of the memo, but Boswell could not confirm whether the secretary of state actually read it.
Boswell, who stepped down from his position in 2012, said he and other former State Department officials had spoken about Clinton's use of the private email address clintonemail.com as a "general issue."
Boswell participated in a deposition this month as part of a court-ordered discovery related to Clinton’s use of an unauthorized email server during her time as secretary of state. A federal judge ruled that several Obama administration officials would have to answer conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch's questions about whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act by using a nongovernment email system.Boswell also warned Clinton against her use of Blackberry devices in the executive offices of the State Department. In a previously declassified memo to Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff, Boswell said the secretary of state should discontinue her use of the device due to "vulnerabilities and risks." Although Clinton assured Boswell she read the internal memo and "gets it," an email obtained by Judicial Watch indicates she still carried the device "[a]gainst the advice of the security hawks."
The debate over whether Clinton's home-based email server, which she claims was set up for convenience, remains alive today. During a hearing with Attorney General William Barr this month, Rep. Louie Gohmert accused FBI Director Christopher Wray of a pro-Clinton cover-up by not pressing the intelligence community for proof that it was not hacked by China.
Also this month, partially redacted documents were released by the FBI that were part of the bureau's "Midyear Exam" investigation, which looked into Clinton's mishandling of classified information on her unauthorized private email servers while serving as secretary of state. The documents put on display a sense of alarm among Clinton's staff following what they feared to be a hack of the server and glaring security oversights.
The FBI investigation into Clinton's emails came to a conclusion during the 2016 presidential election. Former FBI Director James Comey publicly recommended in 2016 that no charges be brought against Clinton, who was then a candidate for president, but admonished Clinton and her colleagues for being "extremely careless" in handling classified information.
One of the main controversies stemming from Clinton's emails was how a technician managing the server deleted 33,000 emails. The FBI was only able to recover about 5,000 of the emails, which were released in tranches up until earlier this year as part of a Judicial Watch lawsuit. Clinton has said she "never received nor sent any material that was marked classified," but the FBI found 110 emails did contain classified information.
Clinton has long blamed the FBI's handling of the investigation as a reason for her 2016 loss to President Trump.
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2)Tired, Boring—and Dangerous—Celebrity Death Wishing
Recently, New York writer Fran Lebowitz told Bill Maher on his HBO program that the U.S. government should turn President Donald Trump “over to the Saudis, his buddies—the same Saudis who got rid of that reporter.”
Lebowitz thought it was cool to imagine on live television that the president might be chopped up in the manner of the recent murder of Saudi journalist and activist Jamal Khashoggi.
A veritable mini-industry of celebrity calls for Trump’s violent death or assassination is now old and boring—and getting dangerous.
As if on cue, actors, singers, comedians, and banal entertainers compete with each other to hope for the most gruesome manner of killing the president—and thereby insidiously lowering the bar for unhinged minds of what could be conceivable or even acceptable to big screen icons and popular culture’s cool crowd.
The late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain mused about poisoning Trump.
Musician David Crosby thought of incineration.
Actor Johnny Depp and rapper Snoop Dogg preferred shooting.
Former CNN host Kathy Griffin, comedian George Lopez, and singer Marilyn Manson all imagined decapitation.
The rock group Pearl Jam offered up the image of Trump rotting.
The singer Madonna and musician Moby chose explosives.
The New York City public theater fancied stabbing.
Actor Robert De Niro seems pathetically fixated on repeated blows to the head.
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell dreamed of Trump’s death by falling off a cliff.
Actor Mickey Rourke threatened clubbing, while Charlie Sheen seemed to pray for some sort of divine intervention to eliminate Trump.
Comedian Larry Wilmore says he would settle for old-fashioned suffocation.
Hollywood, of course, had been fixated on hating Trump since he first announced his candidacy—an obsession shared by the Obama-era CIA, FBI, and Justice Department.
Yet the idea that liberal celebrities, authors, and entertainers would publicly dream of various ways of killing a conservative president is not exactly new.
Former President George W. Bush was a favorite target of such entertainer death wishing. Remember the 2012 episode of “Game of Thrones” in which Bush’s decapitated head was displayed on a pike? Guardian newspaper guest columnist Charles Brooker invoked past shooters of presidents to kill then-President Bush: “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr.—where are you now that we need you?”
Alfred A. Knopf published Nicholson Baker’s novel Checkpoint. The book was nothing more than a monotonous dialogue of trite characters offering up ways to assassinate Bush. Filmmaker Gabriel Range gave us the 2006 “docudrama,” “Death of a President.” The slick production enacted a successful killing of George W. Bush.
Our elite entertainers do not just limit themselves to imagining the violent demise of conservative presidents like George W. Bush and Donald Trump. Any conservative elected official or their family will do.
Most recently, actor and comedian Jim Carrey tweeted out his dream that current Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey should have been aborted: “I think if you’re going to terminate a pregnancy, it should be done sometime before the fetus becomes Governor of Alabama.” In Carrey’s mind, that way Ivey would not have been able to pass a new restrictive abortion bill.
For greater effect Carrey included in his tweet one of his macabre illustrations showing an abortion tool sucking out Ivey’s head that is attached to the body of a fetus in a womb.
Last summer, iconic 1960s actor Peter Fonda envisioned a particularly sick form of violence against Trump’s young son, Barron: “We should rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles. And see if mother will stand up against the giant a–hole she is married to.”
Try substituting the name of Obama for Trump, and such vile vituperation might earn the hater permanent ostracism, career destruction, or even legal consequences.
Do we remember the obscure rodeo clown who was banned for life in 2013 from the Missouri State Fair, because one of his assistants bought a stock mask of Barack Obama at a store and then wore it while working in the arena? The ensuing universal outrage at the local rodeo clown was based on the liberal insistence that even mocking the then president of the United States was not only racist but dangerous and would bring presidential haters out of the woodwork to conceive of violence toward then President Obama.
So why do left-wing celebrities express such political hatred?
First, they assume their supposed goals of equality and fairness justify any means necessary to advancing them, including obscenity and calls for violence. Even sick smears are seen as virtue signaling from edgy social justice warriors. It is not unimaginable to assume that if some unhinged nut takes seriously celebrity talk of killing or injuring Trump and acts out one of their quite numerous fantasies, the celebrity death-threateners won’t be all that remorseful—given their boutique hatred of conservatism in general and the Trump family in particular.
Second, celebrities (many of whom are high-school dropouts) are by nature a bit arrogant and sometimes plain dumb. They wrongly confuse their ability to act or sing with some sort of intelligence and erudition. But since Plato, the philosophers have warned us that performance is more a natural than acquired gift, and may have nothing to with intelligence, wisdom, or learning.
Third, celebrities do not fear a backlash. The bosses of the entertainment industry are also left-wing for the most part. Even vile attacks against conservatives may be considered career enhancements. As wealthy elites, they believe they are privileged and influential, and so should be exempt from the legal consequences of publicly hoping or advocating for the death of a sitting president.
Fourth, entertainers love public attention, the more, the better—especially as they age or see their careers diminish. For the fading and the vain, even bad publicity is good publicity. A Madonna, Moby, Robert De Niro, or Rosie O’Donnell is not now enjoying an ascending career.
Fifth, many who express such obscenity and hatred are either direct or indirect products of the 1960s and 1970s, which destroyed cultural norms and sanctioned obscenity. For such celebrities boasting about the death of the president is part of their lifelong culture, the sort of vulgar talk they take for granted in music, film, and stand-up comedy.
As a general rule, crude youthful actors age badly. The “Easy Rider” free-spirit Peter Fonda of 1969 mouthing off on his chopper now sounds cranky and befuddled when he continues his rebel crude shtick well into his creaky late 70s.
Finally, Hollywood and entertainers especially are divorced from much of America. The wealth, segregation, walls, nannies, servants, gardeners, climate, and privilege of Malibu, Beverly Hills, Montecito, or Santa Monica are not American normal. Almost no Americans live in the royal manner of a Jim Carrey or Johnny Depp. The New York City public theater would not ritually kill Trump every night on stage if they were performing “Julius Caesar” in rural Alabama or central Oklahoma.
If one believes the beachfront of Malibu reflects the norms of American behavior or thought, then he is seriously delusional.
So expect celebrity-driven assassination chic to continue until either the country collectively says “enough”—or such sick rhetorical murder leads to the real thing.
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3) Somalis have Changed Minneapolis By Sunny Lohman
Posted By Ruth King
Everyone not lying to themselves predicted when the federal government under Bill Clinton – aided and abetted by Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities and World Relief Minnesota — plopped 30,000 Somalis down into the midst of the kind, virtue-signaling, eager-to-help Midwesterners of Minneapolis (of which I am one) that it would lead to some grave consequences for our community.
Now, due to continuing refugee placements as well as chain migration there are an estimated 80,000 Somalis living in the Twin Cities metro area, or more like 79,000 if you subtract those who’ve left the country to join terrorist organizations like ISIS.
Anyhoo, here’s a week Minneapolitans had with their Somali neighbors last month:
On Wednesday, May 15th a couple of University students were attacked on campus at the East Bank Train station by two Somali thugs. It was an attempted robbery that the guys rebuffed sustaining injuries that required a hospital visit.
On Thursday, May 16th two Somalis burned down the pavilion at Lake Calhoun [or Lake Bde Maka Ska if you’re a virtue signaler) an eating and hanging out meeting place in the heart of the city enjoyed by generations of Americans around the prettiest city lake you’ve ever seen. This is in the most expensive neighborhood in Minneapolis.
Photo credit: August Schwerdfeger (croppped)
KMSP-TV screen grab
On Friday, May 17th a gang of 10-12 Somali youths attacked all the white people at a that same East Bank Train station with hammers and pipes.Snopes says this is “Mostly False” because after the attack they fled, and out of the 7 who were eventually apprehended only two were still in possession of weapons, in this case pipes. So therefore, it never happened.
And now Tuesday, May 20th a woman walking her dog in a gorgeous, huge, wooded off leash dog park, complete with sandy beach on the Mississippi River, found spikes just off the path. Sharp metal objects taped to a wooden spike, presumably designed to hurt dogs running happily through the underbrush. Now, we don’t know that a Somali did that, it could be some crazed psycho Swede, but Islam abhors dogs as unclean because the prophet did.
Will this cause anything to change in Minnesota? Will the city’s leaders stop wearing the hijab in solidarity with the worst of Islam, incredibly, after they attack us!? Will Minneapolitans elect secular, assimilated Somalis rather than proudly Sharia- supporting, anti-Semitic, enshrouded Somali Muslims like Ilhan Omar? (80% of Democrats picked her in the primary.) I doubt it. They did all that after the following events:
· In 2018 it was uncovered that Somalis had perpetrated a massive, community wide scam against the welfare state of Minnesota, stealing an incredible $100 million from a childcare handout program by fraud and shipping that money to Somalia to fund God knows what. (Incidentally, though finally proven in 2018, this was an open secret for years. I knew about this scam when I left the state in 2014.)
· Dozens of Somalis, men and women, over the years arrested or tracked as they attempted to join terrorists overseas including ISIS. The feds are concerned it is still a rich breeding ground for Islamic supremacy and terrorist organizations.
· In 2016 the first Somali police officer murdered a woman in her pajamas who had called in a disturbance. I guess it’s not safe to call the cops when you see something and say something. He has been found guilty of that murder.
· In 2018 a Somali student at St Catherine University attempted to burn down the school and “hurt people,” saying, ““You guys are lucky that I don’t know how to build a bomb because I would have done that.”
· In 2017 a Somali man stabbed a young woman 14 times for no apparent reason — he didn’t go after her purse — while she was walking home from her job at an Apple Store. He’s still at large. Curiously no composite sketch was ever released to the media.
· In 2016 during Ramadan a gang of religious robed Somali men terrorized the city’s affluent Linden Hills community “for three straight days, threatening to rape a woman, beating one resident’s dog, and shouting “jihad!” as they drove vehicles over residents’ lawns and pretended to shoot people through their duffel bags. No arrests were made.” (Seriously read this account. You will find it absolutely horrifying and it’s shocking that no arrests were made with all these people trying to get license plate numbers, all the likely surveillance cameras etc. It makes one wonder if the city is protecting Somalis from being held accountable to our laws.)
· In 2012 90% of Somalis worldwide said they think agree with Sharia Law and think it should be implemented.
But Ilhan Omar wears such pretty head scarves when she’s raising money for the Muslim Brotherhood.
I’m not sure what it would take for Minneapolitans to wake up and stop being so suicidal with their multiculturalism. Terrorism, arson, violent crime, murder, corruption, fraud, female oppression is apparently not enough.
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4) Nervous Comey Begins ATTACK On
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He’s terrified that Barr will soon have him behind bars…
Fired FBI Director James Comey claims Attorney General William Barr is guilty of “echoing conspiracy theories” during a recent CBS interview, in what is the longtime law enforcement officer’s latest attack on the Trump administration.
"Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts and show them. That is what Justice is about,” Comey wrote in a tweet on Saturday afternoon, failing to elaborate on what Barr purportedly amplifiedthat was conspiratorial.
In an interview with CBS This Morning, Barr discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into now-debunked collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. The attorney general disagreed with Mueller’s Wednesday statement, in which he said he was bound by Justice Department policy not to determine whether President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice.
Barr told CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford:
Further, Barr stated the Justice Department found “many of the instances” that the special counsel found “would not amount to obstruction” as a matter of law.
“[W]e didn’t agree with… a lot of the legal analysis in the report. It did not reflect the views of the Department. It was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers, and so we applied what we thought was the right law,” the nation’s chief legal officer explained.
“The bottom line was that Bob Mueller identified some episodes,” added Barr. “He did not reach a conclusion. He provided both sides of the issue, and his conclusion was he wasn’t exonerating the president, but he wasn’t finding a crime either.”
Of course, this is not the first time Comey has harshly criticized Barr. The fired FBI director accused him of “sliming his own department” after Barr said that the government engaged in spying on U.S. citizens.
“The AG should stop sliming his own Department,” Comey tweeted on May 19th. “If there are bad facts, show us, or search for them professionally and then tell us what you found.”
“An AG must act like the leader of the Department of Justice, an organization based on truth,” he added “Donald Trump has enough spokespeople.”
Earlier this month, Barr tapped John Durham, U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to examine the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential election. President Trump has long accused Comey and other top FBI officials of abuses of power during the bureau’s counter counterintelligence operation against his presidential campaign.
Addresing the media at a White House event, President Trump was asked which officials he views are guilty of treason and Comey was atop the list.
“I think a number of people. They have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person,” said the president. “If you look at Comey, if you look at McCabe, if you look at probably people higher than that, if you look at Strzok, if you look at his lover, Lisa Page, his wonderful lover.”
Days later, Comey responded to President Trump’s comments, denying in a Washington Post opinion-editorial titled, No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies — and dumb lies at that — that FBI ever spied on the Trump campaign, claiming it was merely “good people trying to figure out what was true, under unprecedented circumstances.”
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