Good afternoon, I’m still reporting on politics. In the Gravis Marketing poll, the largest of the frequent political polls, Donald Trump received 38% of the vote among Alabama Republican Primary voters – nearly as much as all other candidates combined. Ben Carson was the only other candidate to break double digits with 16.7% of the vote. The Gravis poll surveyed 1,616 participants between Aug. 29 and Sept. 1. Interestingly, the group Trump did best with in Alabama were voters aged 18 to 49 where he got 42.1% of the vote. Even among independents, Trump scored 37% of the vote. Carson came in second with 19.4%. No other candidate got more than 4.4% of the independent vote in the Alabama poll. Amazingly, with folks who self-identified as Democrats, Trump still scored 28.1% with Carson second at 6.3% - and 53% of Democrats undecided. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
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This week, Facebook founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg denounced the political positions of Donald Trump without mentioning him by name.
“I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others,’” Zuckerberg said at the company’s annual F8 developer conference.
“I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases, even for cutting access to the internet.”
Zuckerberg’s politically-charged comments were seen as unprecedented for a developer’s conference.
But behind the somewhat fuzzy political criticism was an internal poll by Facebook employees that was quite specific.
Before every Q&A Zuckerberg holds, Facebook employees vote in an internal poll of what questions should be asked of him.
One of the questions posted by Facebook employees the day before the March 4, 2016 Q&A was:
“What responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President Trump in 2017?”
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More that 1 billion people now use Facebook, and this cycle, politicians will be spending record amounts of money on Facebook advertising. Although many of us somehow expect Facebook to be fair, they don’t have to be, and, in fact, they have not in the past.
According to Professo r Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor:
“Facebook can promote or block any material that it wants. Facebook has the same First Amendment right as the New York Times. They can completely block Trump if they want. They block him or promote him.”
Reporter Michael Nunez, writing in Gizmodo added:
“With Facebook, we don’t know what we’re not seeing. We don’t … know how that might be affecting how we see the world.”
In 2010, Facebook ran a secret experiment on 61 million users to see if they could impact their real-world voting behavior. A research paper later claimed that it worked. Facebook increased voter turnout by over 340,000 people.
In 2012, Facebook secretly tampered with the news feeds of 1.9 million users and determined that they can make you feel whatever they want you to feel.
“If Facebook decided to, it could gradually remove any pro-Trump stories or media off its site – devastating for a campaign,” wrote Gizmodo author Nunez.
“Facebook wouldn’t have to disclose it was doing this, and would be protected by the First Amendment.”
The only way Facebook could suffer any legal consequences is if it steps over the line and actually colludes with one particular candidate - to boost Sanders news, for example, and suppress Trump news.
According to Robert Drechsel, a professor of journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison:
“… it would turn an independent expenditure (protected by the First Amendment) into a campaign contribution because it would be coordinated—and that could be restricted.”
“But if they’re just saying, ‘We don’t want Trump material on our site,’ they have every right to do that. It’s protected by the First Amendment.”
However, Facebook yesterday said that it will never use its platform to influence how people vote.
Facebook told the Hill:
“Voting is a core value of democracy and we believe that supporting civic participation is an important contribution we can make to the community. We encourage any and all candidates, groups, and voters to use our platform to share their views on the election and debate the issues.
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Judge Jeanine Pirro gives an excellent, balanced summation of President Trump’s first 100 Days.
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Answering Donald Trump’s 2017 Priorities List
Good evening, I’m still reporting on Trump.
I just got an email from the Trump organization – like, no doubt, many of you – asking me to rate the 30 top priorities he has for his administration.
In my opinion, the survey should have a “medium priority” selection, because I hate to give some of these important priorities a “low priority” rating, but if the goal is to get my opinion on which ones should be on the top of the “to-do” pile, that’s all I can do.
I’m going to discuss many of Trump’s priorities in future reports because I’ve got something to say about many of them.
Priority #1 – Begin constructing the wall along the southern border. I’m going to say that this is probably the top priority. However as we go through these there will probably be others that I consider the top priority as well.
Right now, illegal immigrants are streaming across the southern border in record numbers. Hidden among the mostly harmless Mexican and Central and South Americans, who are primarily looking for a better life in the United States, are terrorists and future terror supporters.
Right now, we are in an undeclared World War – a war unlike any nation has ever faced before. In Pentagon-ese, it’s called a low-intensity conflict – or LIC.
This is an entirely new world in understanding how we protect this nation’s sovereignty.
Although some play down the threat as the ravings of racists, the real brains in the Pentagon know this is an existential threat, the likes of which we have not faced in a thousand years.
You need only to ask a native German how his nation has changed, or ask a native Italian what the economic prospects are for the average child growing up in Italy today to convince yourself that the threat to western civilization and its 2500-year-long march towards democracy and freedom for the common person is real and threatens its very existence – existential.
Trump will face this head on, where his predecessor did everything he could do to assist the enemy. How he will deal with it is anybody’s guess, but one thing is for sure, it will be creative and it will be effective.
So that’s what I think about the importance of sealing this nation’s southern border – fence, wall, or laser beams.
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FBI Director James Comey has been touted for many months by nearly 100% of the mainstream media as a man of impeccable reputation. Someone who will uphold the rule of law. That all came crashing down less than 48 hours ago.
Comey’s roots to President Obama and the Clintons are deep. Comey took his law degree at the Univ. of Chicago – the place where Obama later taught.
From 1987 to 1993, Comey served under Rudy Giuliani in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York where he helped prosecute the Gambino crime family.
In 1996, Comey was selected as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee, where, after months of investigations, both Clintons were found innocent of wrong-doing.
On President Bill Clinton’s last day in office, Jan. 20, 2001, he pardoned 450 people, including criminals who had made payments for him to do so – a sort of lovely parting gift for the outgoing POTUS.
After taking charge of the subsequent investigation of what was then called PardonGate. Again, Comey found no illegality and exonerated the Clintons, despite clear evidence of bribery and despite President Carter calling the pardons, “disgraceful.”
Despite that, in 2003, Comey was then appointed as Deputy Attorney General by President George W. Bush.
The next year he butted heads with the Bush administration when he refused to certify a proposed NSA initiative to secretly wiretap domestic terror suspects.
This led to a head-to-head confrontation with Bush in the White House where Comey threatened to resign unless changes to the program were made.
President Bush gave in and Comey remained for another year before moving on in 2005, to become a Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor.
While still at Lockheed Martin, in May 2007, Comey testified against the Bush administration in Senate Judiciary hearings over the firings of several U.S. Attorneys who had been appointed by President Clinton.
Comey testified that he believed the firings were unwarranted and very troubling:
“The Department of Justice …. [and] U.S. attorneys are political appointees of the President. But once they take those jobs and run this institution, it’s very important that …. They … be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.”
Two years later, on May 13, 2009, Politico reported that Comey had made the short list of new president, Barack Obama, as a Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring justice David Souter.
When Sonia Sotomayor was selected instead, because Comey was viewed as not being liberal enough; he became chief counsel at the Bridgewater Hedge Fund.
However, in 2013, Comey signed an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court supporting same-sex marriage.
Two months later, in May 2013, President Obama announced his appointment as the 7th Director of the FBI.
Last night on Bill O’Reilly’s show, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Comey usually supports left-wing Democrats in his decisions, especially the Clintons.
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Did you ever wonder what happened to the 8th Republican candidate – Carly Fiorina during the last debate?
Where was she? Why wasn’t she allowed to be on stage. She actually had one delegate out of Iowa, more than some other candidates that made it on the debate stage.
Well, Democrat pollster Pat Caddell explained it on Fox News late Sunday evening.
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That’s right, Carly Fiorina was the only candidate who was excluded because she was a woman and since it was an ABC debate, the network made the rules, and, according to Caddell – who is a Democrat – ABC is the most in-the-tank network for the Clintons, and apparently the Clinton campaign wanted to portray the Republicans as sexist, so she had Fiorina excluded.
Of course, another factor is Fiorina had been doing seriously focused damage to Clinton in the other debates.
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Good evening, I’m Still reporting on climate change.
I’m infrequently wrong, but when I am, I admit it. It adds to the illusion of credibility.
So, I know it’s late on a Saturday night, but -- this just in:
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department from the Consulate, at Bergen , Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.
Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic , while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable
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This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the Associated Press and published in The Washington Post - 93 years ago.
This must have been caused by emissions from the Model T Fords
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According to this morning’s Washington Post, Major Jason Brezler, will use the new Clinton Defense in his fight to retain his position in the Marine Corps after being charged with sending a classified message using an unclassified Yahoo email account to warn fellow Marines in Afghanistan about a potentially corrupt Afghan police chief.
Seventeen days later, on Aug. 10, 2012, a servant of that police chief opened fire on Marines, killing 3 and severely wounding a fourth.
Brezler, who is a reservist who works full time for the New York City Fire Department was not charged criminally in the case, but was issued a negative fitness report that could end his military career.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) wrote then-Commandant Gen. James. Amos about the case in August 2013 and asked why such harsh punishment had been given someone who was merely trying to warn fellow soldiers of a potential threat.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service reviewed Major Brezler’s personal unclassified harddrive and a thumb drive and found over 100 classified documents, though only one was exposed via an unsecured email.
Brezler’s attorney, Michael Bowe, said he intends to cite the treatment given to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an example of a similar situation but with far different outcomes.
“Brezler sent one email via an unsecured server to protect the lives of fellow marines. Hillary Clinton sent hundreds, if not thousands of emails via an unsecured server out of convenience.”
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This is not good. Army Lt. General William Jerry Boykin (Retired) claims that folks with at least sympathies towards the Muslim Brotherhood now hold top security clearances.
Boykin says that Republicans should have listened to Rep. Michele Bachmann who correctly claimed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
General Boykin further says that politicians on both sides of the aisle are scared to investigate because they fear being branded as “intolerant. The result, continued infiltration by radical Islam.
General Boykin says that people with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood now hold important positions:
“… in every major federal agency.”
General Boykin was one of the original members of the Army’s Delta Force and later served as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
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I’m Still reporting on Iran.
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Senator Chuck Schumer is about as deep blue a Democrat from New York as you can get. He made headlines last week coming out in opposition to President Obama’s Iran Nuke Deal.
Subsequently, MoveOn.org has mobilized thousands of its members to withdraw financial support for Schumer, who is positioned to become minority leader in the U.S. Senate upon Harry Reid’s retirement.
Schumer pointed out the flaw in Obama’s mantra that the only alternative to approving his deal with Iran is war.
Schumer believes that simply re-imposing American sanctions can cripple Iran’s economy, especially since they are already off on an illegal weapons shopping spree in Russia and China:
“We have [a] powerful tool and if used I think that’s a better … chance in a very difficult world than an agreement that is so totally flawed.”
All sorts of theories have popped up about why Senator Shumer has broken from Obama on this, the most important foreign policy initiative of his presidency.
Is Schumer covering for other Dems who want to vote nay? Or conversely, has Schumer been given permission to vote nay in order to appease the New York Jewish lobby because he knows there are enough Democrat votes to prevent an Obama veto override?
Orrrr, there could be another factor – a much more deadly factor. Weeks ago, I was tipped off by a viewer that Russia has already given Iran nukes, and all this is just a desperate cover operation to hide that fact.
And that, my friends is my next topic.
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