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Have a wonderful Summer!!!
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Have a wonderful Summer!!!
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Thank you for taking part in our link-up party! I love the hot air balloon! Did you get to ride in one?ReplyDelete
Look forward to seeing what you share for the future challenges =)
Love these! The balloon sort of matches the linky button! ;)ReplyDelete
The sandcastle is amazing!
Can't wait to see what you link up next week!
Love these photos! The balloon was is great. Found you on the Perspective link up.ReplyDelete
Wow all of these photos are great! Looks like you have had an amazing summer so far!ReplyDelete
Oh man and that "sand castle" is stunning.
Thank you so much for linking up and helping make our first linky a success! Looking forward to your next weeks photos!! ♥
BEAUTIFUL photos! Love the hot air balloon picture the most!ReplyDelete
I'm now following you from the "under 300 followers" blog hop! I hope you'll get the chance to come check out my blog HERE! and follow me back :-)
I appreciate the support! Have a great week! :-)
Sarah B Texas @ City Girl Gone Country
These are great photos! That sand castle is awesome!!!ReplyDelete
Glad I found you through the link-up!!
I was happy to feature you and I am glad you were excited :) Hope you got some new visitors!!ReplyDelete
LOVE YOUR PICS! I am visiting from thee blog hop. I know I am way late but I wanted to stop by. I am a new follower! I blog over at http://garagesalesrus.blogspot.com/ I hope you will stop by and do the same. I also have an awesome giveaway with a Cricut Machine going on right now! I would love it if you would enter!ReplyDelete


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The Thensa was a sacred vehicle which was elaborately decorated with ivory and silver. It had two or four wheels and was pulled by four horses, or as in this illustration by elephants. This car was used during Circensian games, to carry the statues of gods.
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My lovely husband hauled home our new chest freezer late last month. It makes a wonderful addition to our downstairs bathroom, which had an awkward blank spot that is exactly freezer-shaped.
Having a freezer means I don't have to worry so much about what will fit in the freezing compartment. It means I can buy fresh, local/in-season produce and save it up for when it's no longer in-season.
I'm new to freezing, mostly, and my vegetable repertoire still isn't fantastic, so what I've been up to probably doesn't hold a candle to many people's stocks. Freezing is kind of taking a back seat to making baby food, too, though it also goes hand-in-hand at times.
So far, in the freezer:
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Blueberries
- Cherries
- A few peaches
- Corn off the cob
Baby food:
- Peaches
- Green beans
- Squash
- Carrots and sweet potatoes are next
The freezer fruit will probably end up mostly as smoothies. Maybe it's not saving me all that much money in the end, but it makes me feel really accomplished to have it done.
I haven't tried my hand at any canning. The only thing I think I might use is tomatoes.
What do you freeze or can?


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The SaTG Free Shakespeare Festival less than 2 weeks away
And to help promote it, a few of us donned costumes and looked suitably Elizabethan for a photoshoot destined (we hope) for the Hunts Post. Thanks to Maggie, Roy, Richard, Steph, Perry, Mike and Antonia. For more information and to book your free tickets click here.


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Winter Warmth 2016
It's that time of the year again when Gift of the Givers and The Star Operation Snowball partner to bring warmth to the poorer members of our nation. Launching tomorrow at 5.30 pm outside The Star offices in Pritchard Street 2000 recipients will be given blankets, other warm clothing items, and a hot meal. You are most welcome to participate in the event. Bring your contributiontomorrow or make your contribution to Gift of the Givers, Standard Bank, Pietermaritzburg, Account Number 052137228, Branch Code 057525. Send proof of deposit firstname.lastname@example.com The Star will acknowledge donors in their coverage of this campaign. Encourage your friends, organisation, company to participate in the interest of the poor members of our society. Blankets cost R70 each and are of an excellent quality. Details Badr Kazi0832281298 or Emily Thomas 0836520315.


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Manage the system not the people
Author: Brad Halcrow
Story: Andrew & Prue Aranovitch
This Journey is somewhat special for us here at simPRO. Andrew and Prue of Mr A Electrics joined us wayyy back in 2002. In fact, they were the fourth company to begin using Enterprise (back before it was even known by that name). So while we were busy building software to systemise business processes, they were busy systemising.
With some forward thinking and determination they've achieved the kind of freedom many dream of. Nowadays, Andrew spends about 3 hours each week on Mr A Electrics. Mind you, both Andrew and Prue still keep busy - more on that later, but their electrical business has become one fraction of the story.
They had so much to share with us we've divided the video into three parts. From handling a paper diary up a ladder, to Prue's tactics getting Andrew off the tools, hear their approach to freeing up time to pursue hobbies and business ventures, giving them the lifestyle required to achieve their dreams.
In the beginning
These savvy operators are big fans of process and procedures. In fact they attribute their success to systemising the business from the outset, it's why they were among the early adopters of field service management software.
By implementing stringent procedures configured in simPRO Enterprise, Andrew and Prue could then hand over the reins to local Mums from the school to run the business, one of which is now the General Manager. Pre-Builds are one example Andrew uses to explain how simPRO has enabled people with no electrical experience to provide accurate quotes for electrical jobs. Pretty fantastic right?
"It meant office staff didn't have to have the industry knowledge we have, it meant Mums from school were able to come and do our quoting."
The days of paper
The paper diary became impossible to keep up to date. It's difficult to take bookings when you're up a ladder. And when the diary is onsite, trying to take a booking back at the office without knowing a tech's availability has it's share of challenges.
Obviously once Enterprise was in place - no more paper diary.
Getting off the tools and building systems
With Enterprise integrated Prue began prying Andrew off the tools. First she took away the work boots so he couldn't set foot on-site, then his work shirt, his tools disappeared and eventually the van was replaced with a cute little hatchback. (It became too embarrassing to arrive on site in the hatchback). They knew he needed to work on the business rather than in it.
Realising the dream
Prue notes that nowadays, the younger field techs are already familiar with technology which makes rolling out Connect a breeze.
The ground work was laid to make sure the technology and the systems were embedded into the daily workflow, the rest began taking care of itself. It wasn't long before they began reaping the benefits. World travel and home renovations were underway. During the home renovations Andrew could log in from home and check everything was on schedule.
"Without simPRO, we wouldn't have a business. We would have done something else."
Local Mum, come general manager is now responsible for 99.9% of the business. While we're talking about hiring locals, around a dozen apprentices have springboarded their career with Mr A.
Freedom, and lessons learned
We mentioned Andrew and Prue were keeping busy. Their community work includes: president of the school P & F, soccer coach, taking care of elderly parents and project managing friends renovations. They have time to spend with the family: three world trips, self-managed renovations and an aquaculture garden. Then there's the web design skills to develop some online business ventures such as: Sparky Direct, Sparky Workwear and even Kids Guitar Zone.
"The great thing about simPRO is it follows a system, so you just follow the system."
Prue can't express enough how you can't leave it up to the software to achieve success, it's boils down to the attitude, the mind shift. You need to allow someone else to take on your role and leave it up to the system to take care of things. If something fails, then revise the system, not the people.
"simPRO has given us the ability to have choices."
We'd like to give a huge thanks to Andrew and Prue and the team at Mr A Electrics for sharing their story with us. We look forward to seeing what they're up to next in the near future.


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GeneaPress Celebrates Its 1st Anniversary
That's right, it has been one year already for the GeneaPress site! Conceived during RootsTech 2011 by a group of genealogy bloggers who felt that too many press releases were being posted and reposted in the genealogy blogosphere, GeneaPress went live on February 8, 2011.
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Jeff Weiner: LinkedIn's Expansion Into China Is Key – Bloomberg Business.
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner speaks with Bloomberg in 2014 abut how important China is to the company and why. It was an honor to work with Jeff and his CMO Shannon Stubo and their team as they thought through how they could bring LinkedIn to China and avoid the mistakes made by others.
There is nothing more gratifying than to watch a client listen to your advice, act upon it, and do well. Whether I contributed anything at all to LinkedIn's success in China is debatable: there were a lot of cooks in that kitchen. I am, however, delighted for them, and hope their success continued.


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Today's tip is super simple! So simple I won't even really have to explain! Unlike last weeks, which hopefully most of you were able to understand!
Tip #4: Hire a videographer!
I know there are so many expenses on wedding day and you can't possibly afford everything. But this is one I would definitely put towards the top of the list. I think it's equally as important as a photographer. Don't get me wrong, it's great to have beautiful images to show friends and family and display on your walls, but it is just as nice to have recorded moments that you can watch over and over to help you relive the day!
Cam and I did fake flowers at our wedding and chose a cheaper dinner option so we could make room in the budget for a videographer. I would rather have the moments that I missed or so easily might forget captured to relive forever than have decorations that die and end up in the trash or a five course meal that people will poop out the next day. Just saying. There are plenty of options for videographers, so you don't have to break the bank to get a good one! We absolutely loved Zach from Red Five Recordings. I hope this post helps you at least consider if a videographer can be included in your wedding day!
Happy Wednesday!
If you missed tip 1, 2 or 3, just click on each one!
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Caller: 42-year old wife calling on behalf of her husband
Problem: Alcohol addiction
Seeking: Treatment options for alcoholism with possible intervention
Reason(s): The woman is worried that her husband's alcohol use is becoming increasingly worse and may end up having a serious effect on his health and their relationship. She admits that her husband has always been one to drink more alcohol than she does, but she is concerned that her husband is becoming increasingly dependent on alcohol in order to deal with the stress of his job. She said, "I know that my husband and several other employees of the company have been working on a merger for months now. Crunching numbers, I just know that it is a big deal. However, it has gotten to the point that he just can't seem to let go of the stress of work through any other means than by using alcohol to numb his thoughts. What was once a second or third glass of wine with dinner, now has turned into him drinking so much, that he goes to bed at nine and wakes up an hour before work". She is concerned that she and her husband rarely communicate anymore and that these issues border on serious dependence. She has tried to talk to her husband about his drinking before but found that he only became angry at the insinuation that he might have a problem. She wants to know what treatment methods are available and how she might confront her husband with his alcohol abuse.


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America's Apathy Toward Hong Kong Is A Crisis Of ConfidencePosted: August 15, 2019 Filed under: Asia, China, Foreign Policy, History, Hong Kong, Law & Justice | Tags: Apathy, Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, Liberty, propaganda, The Federalist Leave a comment
America's relative silence over the Hong Kong protests and the impending Chinese crackdown is deafening, and telling. It's also dangerous.
John Daniel Davidson writes: The protests in Hong Kong that began two months ago have now shut down the city's airport—one of the busiest in the world—amid violent clashes with riot police in recent days. Chinese troops, we're told, are amassing along the border even as Chinese propaganda outlets warned Tuesday that protesters were "asking for self-destruction" and Chinese officials decried the demonstrations as "deranged acts" that marked "the first signs of terrorism."
In other words, it appears the situation is about to get much worse. Why has the American response to all this been so muted? Hong Kong is the most important city in the world right now, and the cause of the pro-democracy protesters is one that all Americans should rally behind.
Yet, rhetorically, it's not even clear what side the United States is on. President Trump has been content to offer platitudes and unhelpful observations like, "We'll see what happens. But I'm sure it'll work out. I hope it works out for everybody, including China, by the way." On Tuesday, he tweeted, "Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe!"
Okay, thanks for that, president of United States and leader of the free world.
This is the future liberals want… https://t.co/Rq83wuNPTU— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 15, 2019
News and social media have largely focused on other stories, like Chris Cuomo flying off the handle at some random guy in New York calling him "Fredo," or whether the Clintons had Jeffrey Epstein assassinated, or how stupid the 2020 Democratic candidates look eating corn dogs and pandering at the Iowa Sate Fair.
[Read the full story here, at thefederalist.com]
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, protesters are waving the American flag and singing the "Star-Spangled Banner." They do this because they know that America is an idea and that the principles of our Founding are universal. Read the rest of this entry »
China Paying Vox to Publish Communist PropagandaPosted: October 13, 2018 Filed under: China, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere | Tags: Explanatory media, propaganda, Vox, Washington Post Leave a comment
Adam Kredo reports: Explanatory media website Vox has been receiving money from a Chinese communist government-backed front organization.
A recent Vox blog post by foreign editor Yochi Dreazen titled, "The big winner of the Trump-Kim summit? China" discloses at the bottom of the piece that the reporting was subsidized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation.
"This reporting was supported by the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a privately funded nonprofit organization based in Hong Kong that is dedicated to 'facilitating open and constructive exchange among policy-makers, business leaders, academics, think-tanks, cultural figures, and educators from the United States and China,'" the post states in a note at the bottom.
CUSEF, as first noted by Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, is a front organization backed by the Chinese government and established to spread the party's propaganda.
"You know CUSEF is chaired by a top official in the Chinese Communist Party's influence operations network, right?" Rogin queried Vox on Twitter.
"Tung Chee-hwa, CUSEF's chair, is vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which is connected to the United Front Work Department, the Communist Party agency designed to advance party objectives with outside actors," Rogin went on to note.
Vox's ties to CUSEF are receiving increased scrutiny in light of efforts to lawmakers to counter China's promotion of propaganda in the U.S. media. Read the rest of this entry »
Camille Paglia's Defense of Jordan Peterson, Excerpted from a Longer Statement Sent in Response to Queries from a Brazilian JournalistPosted: March 29, 2018 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Activism, Advocacy journalism, Anthropology, Biology, Brazil, Camile Paglia, Epoca, Jordan Peterson, journalism, Media bias, Nature, New York Review of Books, propaganda Leave a comment
From Camille Paglia: excerpted from a longer statement sent in response to queries from a Brazilian journalist writing a profile of me for a major Brazilian magazine, Epoca.
BANNONOCALPYSE: Bannon Booted from BreitbartPosted: January 10, 2018 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: breitbart, media, news, propaganda, Steve Bannon Leave a comment
A good day for you, my friend pic.twitter.com/wWQQjvqIyY
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 9, 2018
"Fox News will not be hiring Steve Bannon" — Fox News Spokesperson https://t.co/o8pG02w7qc
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 9, 2018
REWIND: NYT's Nicholas Kristof in North Korea Shares Photos of 'Fun' and PizzaPosted: January 3, 2018 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Instagram, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, North Korea, propaganda, Pyongyang 1 Comment
Eddie Scarry reports: Liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is reporting from North Korea and sharing photos on social media of school children, food and the "fun" he is witnessing in the rogue country.
"North Koreans like to have fun, too."
— Nicholas Kristof
Kristof began tweeting and posting photos to Instagram on Tuesday and he said he has interviewed government officials and toured "a side of the country that doesn't always come through."
One photo showed what appeared to be an amusement park. "North Koreans like to have fun, too," Kristof wrote in the caption of one photo that showed a park ride. "People were shouting happily on this ride on an amusement park."
In another photo from North Korea, a country that has long faced food shortages resulting in a largely starved population, Kristof showed a meal he was having.
"Lunch in Pyongyang, North Korea, at a pizza restaurant with live music," the caption said. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Heather Mac Donald: How Much More Delusional Can University Students Get?Posted: January 2, 2018 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Think Tank | Tags: 1st Ammendment, Anti-Enlightenment, college, Freedom of speech, HEATHER MAC DONALD, Identity Politics, Manhattan Institute, propaganda, University, Victimhood, video 2 Comments
Heather Lynn Mac Donald (born 1956) is an American political commentator, essayist, attorney and journalist. She is described as a secular conservative. She has advocated positions on numerous subjects including victimization, philanthropy, immigration reform and crime prevention. She is a Thomas W. Smith Fellow of the Manhattan Institute.
In this clip, she talks about delusional university students who see a threat in anything even though they are the most privileged people. Until this victimhood complex stops, there can be no win for free speech.
Lee Smith: Why Can't the American Media Cover the Protests in Iran?Posted: December 31, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Terrorism, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: CNN, Iran protests, journalism, media, MSNBC, New York Time, propaganda, Washington Post 1 Comment
Because they have lost the ability to cover real news when it happens.
Lee Smith writes: As widespread anti-regime protests in Iran continue on into their third day, American news audiences are starting to wonder why the US media has devoted so little coverage to such dramatic—and possibly history-making—events. Ordinary people are taking their lives in their hands to voice their outrage at the crimes of an obscurantist regime that has repressed them since 1979, and which attacks and shoots dead them in the streets. So why aren't the protests in Iran making headlines?
"The problem, of course, is that the places that have obsessively run those stories for the past year aren't really news outfits—not anymore. They are in the aromatherapy business."
The short answer is that the American media is incapable of covering the story, because its resources and available story-lines for Iran reporting and expertise were shaped by two powerful official forces—the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Obama White House. Without government minders providing them with story-lines and experts, American reporters are simply lost—and it shows.
It nearly goes without saying that only regime-friendly Western journalists are allowed to report from Iran, which is an authoritarian police state that routinely tortures and murders its political foes. The arrest and nearly two-year detention of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian drove this point home to American newsrooms and editors who might not have been paying attention. The fact that Rezaian was not an entirely hostile voice who showed "the human side" of the country only made the regime's message more terrifying and effective: We can find you guilty of anything at any time, so watch your step.
The Post has understandably been reluctant to send someone back to Iran. But that's hardly an excuse for virtually ignoring a story that threatens to turn the past eight years of conventional wisdom about Iran on its head. If the people who donned pink pussy hats to resist Donald Trump are one of the year's big stories, surely people who are shot dead in the streets in Iran for resisting an actual murderous theocracy might also be deserving of a shout-out for their bravery.
[Read the full story here, at Tablet Magazine]
Yet the Post's virtual news blackout on Iran was still more honorable than The New York Times, whose man in Tehran Thomas Erdbrink is a veteran regime mouthpiecewhose official government tour guide-style dispatches recall the shameful low-point of Western media truckling to dictators: The systematic white-washing of Joseph Stalin's monstrous crimes by Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty.
Here's the opening of Erdbrink's latest dispatch regarding the protests:
Protests over the Iranian government's handling of the economy spread to several cities on Friday, including Tehran, in what appeared to be a sign of unrest.
"Appeared"? Protests are by definition signs of unrest. The fact that Erdbrink appears to have ripped off the Iran's government news agency Fars official coverage of the protests is depressing enough—but the function that these dispatches serve is even worse. What Iranians are really upset about, the messaging goes, isn't the daily grind of living in a repressive theocratic police state run by a criminal elite that robs them blind, but a normal human desire for better living standards. Hey, let's encourage European industry to invest more money in Iran! Didn't the US overthrow the elected leader of Iran 70 years ago? Hands off—and let's put more money in the regime's pocket, so they can send the protesters home in time for a hearty dinner, and build more ballistic missiles, of course. Erdbrink is pimping for the regime, and requesting the West to wire more money, fast.
Selling the protesters short is a mistake. For 38 years Iranian crowds have been gathered by regime minders to chant "Death to America, Death to Israel." When their chant spontaneously changes to "Down with Hezbollah" and "Death to the Dictator" as it has now, something big is happening. The protests are fundamentally political in nature, even when the slogans are about bread. But Erdbrink can hardly bring himself to report the regime's history of depredations since his job is to obscure them. He may have been a journalist at one point in time, but now he manages the Times portfolio in Tehran. Read the rest of this entry »
Sohrab Ahmari: Iranians Shatter a New York Times MythPosted: December 31, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Terrorism, Think Tank | Tags: "The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes?, Echo Chamber, Iran, Javad Zarif, journalism, media, Middle East, propaganda, Tehran, Thomas Erdbrink Leave a comment
The people haven't closed ranks behind the regime.
"After years of cynicism, sneering or simply tuning out all things political," wrote Erdbrink, "Iran's urban middle classes have been swept up in a wave of nationalist fervor." He went on: "Mr. Trump and the Saudis have helped the government achieve what years of repression could never accomplish: widespread public support for the hard-line view that the United States and Riyadh cannot be trusted."
Erdbrink's argument echoed rhetoric from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Responding to October's announcement of new U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Zarif tweeted: "Today, Iranians–boys, girls, men, women–are ALL IRGC."
Or not.
Josh Meyer Gets an Echo Chamber Beat-DownPosted: December 28, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Terrorism, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Cassandra, Democrats, DOJ, Drug Trafficking, Echo Chamber, Iran, Iran Deal, Josh Meyer, Politico, propaganda, The Secret Backstory Of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook, Twitter Leave a comment
Politico reporter is punished for raising the curtain on Obama's Hezbollah policy.
Lee Smith reports: A week after Josh Meyer's Politico expose, "The Secret Backstory Of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook," former Obama officials are still berating Meyer for his 13,000-word article detailing how the Obama administration killed a nearly decade-long DEA effort to stem a global Hezbollah cocaine-smuggling-and-organized-crime ring to help secure its nuclear deal with Iran. "This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision," former Defense Department analyst David Asher explained in the article. "They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down."
Asher helped establish and oversee the project, codenamed Cassandra, that looked into Hezbollah's wide-range of illicit activities across the globe, including weapons procurement, drug trafficking, and money laundering. Senior Obama officials, according to Asher, ignored the legal and financial instruments that he and others had provided to target a terrorist organization with American blood on its hands and was still plotting against the United States.
In response, a Twitter mob of mid-level bureaucrats and former intelligence officersorchestrated in the usual fashion attacked Asher in tandem with the media echo chamber used to sell the Iran Deal, with former political operatives from the Obama White House supplying the usual talking points to their hatchet-men. Meyer's "on the record sources have undisclosed anti-Iran deal bias," tweeted former Obama speechwriter Tommy Vietor, who has remade himself as a podcast host. Meyer's "entire piece," tweeted Obama lieutenant and former CIA officer Ned Price, "is based on pure speculation by these '1 or 2 sources' w undisclosed anti-Iran deal bias."
The catchphrase, "undisclosed anti-Iran deal bias," is an extended replay version of the catchy slogans Team Obama used to market the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Opponents and critics of the nuclear deal were "warmongers" beholden to "donors" with "agendas" whose concerns were shaped by their loyalties not to America but rather to the Jewish state. Now, the echo chamber insisted, Meyer's sources aren't to be trusted because they were against the Iran deal, or have associated with think tanks that opposed the Iran Deal—which means that they are secret neocon slaves of Israel, of course. Read the rest of this entry »
BUSTED! YourNewsWire.com Propaganda: Did George Soros Suffer a 'Massive Heart Attack' on Christmas Eve?Posted: December 27, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: fake news, propaganda, YourNewsWire.com Leave a comment
Reports that the Hungarian-American billionaire experienced a life-threatening cardiac condition just before Christmas 2017 are fake news.
George Soros experienced a life-threatening cardiac condition just before Christmas 2017.
On 25 December 2017, frequent offender YourNewsWire.com reported that Hungarian-American business magnate George Soros had suffered a heart attack in Hungary on Christmas Eve and underwent triple coronary artery bypass surgery soon afterward:
George Soros suffered a "massive heart attack" while inspecting a new faculty building at his private university in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday morning, according to Hungarian reports.
Soros had been complaining of "severe indigestion" and "foggy thinking" in the early hours of the day, according to reports, and began to feel unwell while meeting staff in the new faculty building, announcing that "the hand of God has seized me by the neck."
Dismissing suggestions he was reacting badly to his traditional Christmas Eve lunchtime meal, Soros staggered outside in search of fresh air, before collapsing just outside the gymnasium of the Central European University.
The globalist billionaire, who recently donated $18 billion to international liberal causes, collapsed against a wall, before slumping to the ground where he was found "lying on his side, whimpering softly."
"Quick-thinking actions" by "trained gymnasium staff" saved Soros's life and "expert CPR" helped the 87-year-old billionaire survive and avoid brain damage, according to reports in Hungary's liberal media.
After 15 minutes of CPR the paramedics arrived and took over. Soros was given the defibrillator three times and they managed to restart his heart and take him to a private residence where he where he underwent triple coronary artery bypass surgery.
This report is false. Read the rest of this entry »
A Deafening Media Silence on the Obama-Hezbollah ScandalPosted: December 22, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Terrorism, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, CBS, Drug Trafficking, Hezblollah, Iran, media, NPR, Politico, propaganda 2 Comments
Now swap out "Trump" for "Obama" and "Russia" for "Iran" and imagine the eruption these revelations would generate. Because, by any conceivable journalistic standard, this scandal should've triggered widespread coverage and been plastered on front pages across the country. By any historic standard, the scandal should elicit outrage regarding the corrosion of governing norms from pundits and editorial boards.
Yet, as it turns out, there's an exceptionally good chance most of your neighbors and colleagues haven't heard anything about it.
Days after the news broke, in fact, neither NBC News, ABC News nor CBS News — whose shows can boast a collective 20 million viewers — had been able to find the time to relay the story to its sizeable audiences. Other than Fox News, cable news largely ignored the revelations, as well.
Most major newspapers, which have been sanctimoniously patting themselves on the back for the past year, couldn't shoehorn into their pages a story about potential collusion between the former president and a terror-supporting state. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] #NetNeutrality Sign Falls Down and Knocks Democratic Congressman Off StagePosted: December 15, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: #NetNeutrality, Congress, Democratic Congressman, Democrats, FCC, Global Panic, Net neutrality, propaganda, South Bronx, video 1 Comment
Disinformation vs. Democracy: Authoritarians Outspending U.S.Posted: November 28, 2017 Filed under: China, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Global, Russia, Self Defense, Think Tank | Tags: Data for Democracy, Disinformation, media, propaganda, Psychology Leave a comment
Authoritarian regimes like Russia and China are outspending the United States in the realm of soft power, Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told the National Democratic Institute's annual Democracy Dinner at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C. last night.
"Our budget is $650 million—a fraction of what our adversaries spend," he said "Today, Russia is spending over a billion dollars on covert propaganda operations," he added. "Russian TV, radio, and internet bots continue to push misinformation without almost no pushback from the US."
The authoritarian threat required greater investment in non-kinetic resources for exerting influence abroad, Murphy added.
"We have more people working at military grocery stores than diplomats deployed abroad," he said.
Facebook estimates that 10 million people saw the [Kremlin's] paid ads and up to 150 million people saw other content from the fake accounts, which Facebook has traced to the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-backed troll farm, WIRED reports:
Psychologists and students of advertising say the ads were cleverly designed to look like other internet memes, and to appeal to readers' emotions. Jay Van Bavel, an associate professor of psychology at NYU, says he was surprised at the sophistication of the campaign. "It wasn't transparent lies. It was just pushing our buttons," says Van Bavel. "To me, this is more pernicious. It's not a matter of fiction that we can root out with fact-checking. It's more about turning Americans against each other."
"The IRA are not amateurs, they're clearly familiarizing themselves with the kind of content that resonates with the target audiences," says Renee DiResta, researcher with Data for Democracy, a nonprofit group that has been digging into the data on Russian-linked accounts.
The threat of disinformation and other active measures employed by the Kremlin requires adaptation and innovation from the advanced democracies, according to NATO's Secretary General.
"Defense is no longer about just looking at a map and deciding where to place armies," Jens Stoltenberg said this week. "It's also about countering misinformation. Protecting infrastructure. Making our societies resilient to attack."
"The geography of danger has shifted," he added.
The NDI dinner honored three civil society groups on the front lines of confronting disinformation and false news – . Rappler from the Philippines, the Ukraine-based StopFake and the Oxford Internet Institute.
"When a lie is repeated 1 million times it becomes truth, especially when it's state-sponsored hate," said Rapplerdotcom's Maria Ressa. "A sock puppet network of 26 fake accounts can reach 3 million."
Disinformation "exploits the fracture lines of society," she said, adding that she received an average of 90 hate messages per hour." Read the rest of this entry »
New York Times Reporter: Obama Administration Misled on al QaedaPosted: November 18, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Foreign Policy, History, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: al Qaeda, Barack Obama, CBS, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, journalism, Kim Dozier, media, Narrative, Osama bin Laden, Presidential Election 2012, propaganda, Rukmini Callimachi, U.S. Intelligence, Weekly Standard 1 Comment
The new bin Laden documents make clear that there was intelligence politicization during the 2012 campaign.
Jenna Lifhits reports: A top foreign correspondent at the New York Times said Friday that the Obama administration deliberately downplayed al Qaeda's strength in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election.
"The overall narrative that I think was being pushed to the press, and if you look back at the editorials that were done when that trove came out, was an image of bin Laden isolated, he had lost control of this group," Rukmini Callimachi said during an event at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, referring to the 17 hand-picked documents released by the Obama administration in May of 2012.
"The narrative I would get is that . . . it had opportunistically taken the al Qaeda name in order to have prestige and scare people, and that in fact those people were just criminals."
— Rukmini Callimachi
Her remarks triggered the following question from Kim Dozier, a former top correspondent for the Associated Press and CBS, and current executive editor of the Cipher Brief: "Do you think that was something that was kept from the public's view because it revealed that there had to be reams of communication going back and forth, which means U.S. intelligence, Western intelligence, was missing this?"
"Suddenly, my worldview, which had been informed by officials . . . started to fall apart. Suddenly, I was seeing that this group that I was told really had no ties, with no connection . . . was in fact being micromanaged by al Qaeda central."
— Rukmini Callimachi
"Think back to when bin Laden was killed. It was 2011, it was right before a major campaign season. I don't want to underplay the role that the killing of Osama bin Laden had," said Callimachi. "But I think that that was theorized into something much bigger."
[Read the full story here, at The Weekly Standard]
"The head of the organization has been killed, and now—these are literally quotes that I would get: the organization has been 'decimated,' the organization is in 'disarray,' the organization is 'on the run,'" she continued. "At the same time that we were preparing to pull out troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, I think that it was important to portray this as a problem that no longer existed."
* * *The Trump administration released roughly 470,000 files in November that were captured in the Abbottabad raid. Only a few hundred were released under the Obama administration, despite one official's description of the haul as enough to fill a "small college library."
When Callimachi was covering West Africa in 2011, Obama administration officials and others told her that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which had just taken over the northern half of Mali, "was actually not really connected to al Qaeda." Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Sharyl Attkisson: Why No One Trusts the Mainstream MediaPosted: November 7, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, History, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: corruption, journalism, media, New York Times, news, PragerU, propaganda, Sharyl Attkisson, Trust, video Leave a comment
Trust in the media is at an all-time low. But should it be? Why do fewer and fewer Americans trust the mainstream media. Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, author of The Smear, explains.
James Piereson: The Making of a MartyrPosted: November 6, 2017 Filed under: Education, History, Think Tank, White House | Tags: 1960s, Castro, Dallas, Democratic Party, JFK, John Kennedy, Martyr, Marxism, Mythology, propaganda, The Kennedy Assasination 1 Comment
These were the myths in which the Kennedy assassination came to be embalmed. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they are still widely believed, and not only by members of a credulous public. The claim that JFK was a victim of hatred and bigotry or a martyr in the crusade for civil rights is now a basic element in the liberal interpretation of the post-war era.
James Piereson writes: It has now been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was cut down on the streets of Dallas by rifle shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, a self-described Marxist, recent defector to the Soviet Union, and ardent admirer of Fidel Castro. The evidence condemning Oswald was overwhelming: the bullets that killed President Kennedy were fired from his rifle, the rifle was found on the sixth floor of the warehouse where he worked and where he was seen moments before the shooting, witnesses on the street saw a man firing shots from a sixth floor window in that building and immediately summoned police to provide a description of the assassin. Forty-five minutes later a policeman stopped Oswald on foot in another section of the city to question him about the shooting. As the policeman stepped from his squad car, Oswald pulled out a pistol and pumped four shots into him before fleeing to a nearby movie theater where he was captured (still carrying the pistol with which he had killed the policeman). Two days later Oswald was himself assassinated while in police custody by a nightclub owner distraught over Kennedy's death.
Despite the evidence, few Americans today believe that Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy or that, if he did, he acted alone. A recent poll found that 75% of American adults believe that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy of some kind, usually of a right-wing variety. This is not surprising because most of the popular books published on the assassination since the mid-1960s have elaborated one or another conspiracy theory. Right-wing businessmen, disgruntled generals, CIA operatives, and Mafia bosses are the typical villains in these scenarios. Before long the Kennedy assassination came to be encrusted in layers of myth, illusion, and disinformation strong enough to deflect every attempt to understand it from a rational point of view. And this enduring national illusion and confusion has had unfortunate consequences.
Creating the Myth
In the days and weeks following the assassination the idea took hold that a climate of hate in Dallas and across the nation established the conditions for President Kennedy's murder. Racial bigots, the Ku Klux Klan, followers of the John Birch Society, fundamentalist ministers, anti-Communist zealots, and conservatives of all kinds had sowed hatred and division in national life. These battalions of the American Right had been responsible for manifold acts of violence across the South against Negroes and civil rights workers in the years leading up to the assassination, and they must have been behind the attack on President Kennedy. It followed that President Kennedy was a martyr, like Abraham Lincoln, to the great causes of civil rights and racial justice. Liberal writers had warned throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s about the undercurrent of bigotry and intolerance that ran through American culture and the political dangers arising from the "radical Right." Now it appeared that their warnings had come to fruition in the murder of a president.
[Read the full story here, at claremont.org]
This explanation for the assassination did not drop out of thin air but was circulated immediately after the event by influential leaders, journalists, and journalistic outlets, including Mrs. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Democratic leaders in Congress, James Reston and the editorial page of the New York Times, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., columnist Drew Pearson, and any number of other liberal spokesmen. The New York Times through its editorial page and columnists insisted that a climate of hate brought down President Kennedy, even as the paper's news reporters documented the evidence against Oswald and his Communist connections. Reston, the paper's chief political correspondent, published a front-page column on November 23 under the title, "Why America Weeps: Kennedy Victim of Violent Streak He Sought to Curb in the Nation." In the course of the column he observed that, "from the beginning to the end of his Administration, he [JFK] was trying to damp down the violence of the extremists on the Right." Reston returned to this theme in subsequent columns, pointing the finger at hatred and a spirit of lawlessness in the land as the ultimate causes of the presidential assassination.
Following this line of thought, Chief Justice Warren, soon to head the official commission that investigated the assassination, declared: "A great and good President has suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Pat Brown, governor of California, and Charles Taft, mayor of Cincinnati, organized a series of candlelight vigils across the nation "to pledge the end of intolerance and to affirm that such a tragedy shall not happen in America again." The Reverend Adam Clayton Powell (also a congressman) issued a statement shortly after the assassination: "President Kennedy is a martyr of freedom and human rights and a victim of injustice as promulgated by Barnett and Wallace," here referring to the segregationist governors of Mississippi and Alabama. Less than a week after the assassination, Pearson published one of his syndicated columns under the title, "Kennedy Victim of Hate Drive." Many took this a step further to declare that all Americans were complicit in Kennedy's death because they had tolerated hatred and bigotry in their midst. As a popular song, "Sympathy for the Devil," by the Rolling Stones put it a few years later: "I shouted out: who killed the Kennedys? When after all it was you and me." This became the near universal response to the assassination: a strain of bigotry and hatred in American culture was responsible for Kennedy's murder.
For his part, President Johnson saw that his job as national leader in that time of crisis was to supply some meaning to his predecessor's sudden death. "John Kennedy had died," he said later, "[b]ut his cause was not really clear…. I had to take the dead man's program and turn it into a martyr's cause." In his first speech before the Congress on November 27, Johnson proclaimed that "no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." The civil rights bill, which Kennedy belatedly proposed in mid-1963, was approved in 1964 with bipartisan majorities in the Congress. On the international front, Johnson feared a dangerous escalation of tensions with the Soviet Union and another McCarthy-style "witch-hunt" against radicals should the American public conclude that a Communist was responsible for the assassination. From his point of view, it was better to circumvent that danger by deflecting blame for the assassination from Communism to some other unpopular target. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Senior Homepage Editor Reveals Biased Political Agenda at New York TimesPosted: October 18, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Anti-Christian sentiment, Bias, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., journalism, Malpractice, Mike Pence, President of the United States, propaganda, The New York Times, The Washington Post Leave a comment
Being a Journalist is Hard!
- New York Times Senior Home Page Editor, Des Shoe, Admits Company Culture of Blatant Bias at NYT is "widely understood to be liberal-leaning…"
- NYT Journalists: "if we write about him [Trump], and how insanely crazy he is…maybe people will read it and be like…we shouldn't vote for him."
- Calls Trump an "oblivious idiot" and Pence "f***ing horrible" Because of Religious Views
- Admits New York Times Report on "what the readers want"
- "They call it the Trump bump" Says Shoe, Regarding the Influx of Subscribers Since Trump's Presidency Began
- Des Shoe: "The main objective is to grab subscribers. You do that any way that you can."
(NEW YORK) – Project Veritas has released a video of the New York Times Homepage Editor Des Shoe, who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that the Times has a liberal bias and attacking President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. This is part three of their American Pravda NYT investigation.
When confronted with the notion that during the election, The Times' front page, for which she is responsible, was completely focused around Trump. She tells the undercover journalist that NYT reporters tried to influence the election with their reporting:
"I think one of the things that maybe journalists were thinking about is like…Oh, if we write about him, about how insanely crazy he is and how ludicrous his policies are, then maybe people will read it and be like, oh wow, we shouldn't vote for him."
She admits that the New York Times has a clearly defined liberal-leaning bias: "The New York Times is not…I mean, it's widely understood to be liberal-leaning. But, American newspapers are not supposed to claim a bias, they're supposed to be objective."
"So the…ahh, but the New York Times is not left?" the Project Veritas journalist asked. Shoe clarified, "I'm not saying that they're not. I'm saying it's widely, widely understood to be left-leaning."
She also tells the undercover journalist that reporting objectively is simply too difficult for the Times: "Our main stories are supposed to be objective. It's very difficult in this day and age to do that."
Shoe blames the business model for the New York Times' lack of fact-based reporting:
"This is what I was trying to say is like the last couple years it's changed for the bad…
"I think the business model itself is just… there's so much panic about what to do that, you know, what else is a company supposed to do?
"That's the conundrum…is that a business model, in this time is built on what the readers want."
The New York Times senior homepage editor goes on to explain the positive effect of Trump's victory: "Since the election, like you know…Speaking on, you know, for The New York Times, our subscriptions have sky-rocketed since…I mean, they call it the Trump bump."
This sentiment was echoed by Nick Dudich, who was featured in American Pravda Part 1 and Part 2. He explains, "I mean honestly, Trump has driven us more business than anybody else. Anytime he says failing, we add a boost of subscribers."
The New York Times responded to Part I in a statement, calling Dudich "a recent hire in a junior position." Later, Executive Editor of the NYT Dean Baquet described Dudich as "a kid…who just started his career in journalism." The same cannot be said for Ms. Shoe, a senior-level employee who has been with The Times since January of 2009.
Des Shoe claims that the New York Times has to chase clicks in the current media environment, "The Washington Post, people who have paywalls up…The main objective is to grab subscribers. You do that any way that you can."
When told the New York Times seems more like a 'click-paper', Shoe replies:
"I mean, you're not wrong. Like, I would love to be able to speak my mind completely about…If I ever leave the Times I'll go back to you guys and tell you exactly what I think. But, I mean, there's stuff like…And this is what I was trying to say is like the last couple years it's changed for the bad."
Shoe finally goes on to explain her personal biases against President Trump, "I feel like Trump is…is just a…is sort of an idiot in a lot of ways. Just an oblivious idiot." Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] 'Don't Be a Sucker': Post-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film, 1947Posted: July 2, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education, History, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: 1940s, American exceptionalism, Anti-fascism, Bill of Rights, Don't Be a Sucker, Educational Film, Fascism, Freedom, Liberty, propaganda, Subversive, video Leave a comment
CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia CoveragePosted: June 25, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Russia, White House | Tags: CNN, Donald Trump, media, news, propaganda, Television 2 Comments
The decision came after the network deleted and retracted a post on Friday.
Jon Passantino reports: CNN is imposing strict new publishing restrictions for online articles involving Russia after the network deleted a story and then issued a retraction late Friday, according to an internal email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The email went out at 11:21 a.m. on Saturday from Rich Barbieri, the CNNMoney executive editor, saying "No one should publish any content involving Russia without coming to me and Jason," a CNN vice president.
"This applied to social, video, editorial, and MoneyStream. No exceptions," the email added. "I will lay out a workflow Monday."
The new restrictions also apply to other areas of the network — not just CNNMoney, which wasn't involved with the article that was deleted and retracted. Read the rest of this entry »
The Authoritarian MediaPosted: June 14, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, History, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Al Jazeera, Columbine massacre, Donald Trump, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Israel, journalism, Marx, media, Media malpractice, Middle East, news, President of the United States, Progressive, propaganda, Saudi Arabia, Smear, The New York Times, Trump, Tucson Safeway massacre, WSJ 1 Comment
The New York Times has crossed a moral line, writes James Taranto.
Jan. 11, 2011, James Taranto wrote: After the horrific shooting spree, the editorial board of New York Times offered a voice of reasoned circumspection: "In the aftermath of this unforgivable attack, it will be important to avoid drawing prejudicial conclusions . . .," the paper counseled.
Here's how the sentence continued: ". . . from the fact that Major Hasan is an American Muslim whose parents came from the Middle East."
The Tucson Safeway massacre prompted exactly the opposite reaction. What was once known as the paper of record egged on its readers to draw invidious conclusions that are not only prejudicial but contrary to fact. In doing so, the Times has crossed a moral line.
Here is an excerpt from yesterday's editorial:
It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman's act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats, setting the nation on edge. Many on the right have exploited the arguments of division, reaping political power by demonizing immigrants, or welfare recipients, or bureaucrats. They seem to have persuaded many Americans that the government is not just misguided, but the enemy of the people.
That whirlwind has touched down most forcefully in Arizona, which Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described after the shooting as the capital of "the anger, the hatred and the bigotry that goes on in this country." Anti-immigrant sentiment in the state, firmly opposed by Ms. Giffords, has reached the point where Latino studies programs that advocate ethnic solidarity have actually been made illegal. . . .
Now, having seen first hand the horror of political violence, Arizona should lead the nation in quieting the voices of intolerance, demanding an end to the temptations of bloodshed, and imposing sensible controls on its instruments.
To describe the Tucson massacre as an act of "political violence" is, quite simply, a lie. Read the rest of this entry »
Media Matters Founder David Brock Suffers Heart AttackPosted: March 22, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: David Brock, Heart Disease, Media Matters, propaganda, Propagandist Leave a comment
David Brock, founder of the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America and longtime ally of the Clintons, suffered a heart attack while working in his Washington, DC office on Tuesday.
"David Brock suffered a heart attack while working in the Washington DC office early Tuesday afternoon. He was quickly transported to a local hospital, received prompt medical treatment, and we are looking forward to a swift recovery," said Brock's chief of staff, Bradley Beychok. … (read more)
Source: Fox News
NRA to NYT: 'You Can't Handle The Truth'Posted: March 2, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: A Few Good Men, Ethics, journalism, Journalist, news, Newspapers, NRA, propaganda, The New York Times, The Times, The Washington Post, Twitter, video 1 Comment
Two videos: 1, the New York Time's "Truth" ad, which itself stands as mockery against the Times, then 2, the NRA's rebuttal to the NYT ad.
'The Same NYT that Just Ran a Self-Congratulatory Ad About How Devoted to 'Truth' They Are Stealth-Deletes an Inconvenient Lie from an Article, Then Refuses to Explain Themselves'
Obama-linked Activists Have a 'Training Manual' for Protesting TrumpPosted: February 19, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, White House | Tags: Activism, Barack Obama, Community Organizer, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Jason Chaffetz, Left Wing Paranoia, Marxist tactics, OFA, Organizing for America, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President of the United States, propaganda, protests, Radical Left, Republican Party (United States), Subversives Leave a comment
Organizing for Action, a group founded by Obama and featured prominently on his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations, and building a border wall.
Paul Sperry reports: An Obama-tied activist group training tens of thousands of agitators to protest President Trump's policies plans to hit Republican lawmakers supporting those policies even harder this week, when they return home for the congressional recess and hold town hall meetings and other functions.
"A script advises callers to complain: 'I'm honestly scared that a known racist and anti-Semite will be working just feet from the Oval Office … It is everyone's business if a man who promoted white supremacy is serving as an adviser to the president.'"
Organizing for Action, a group founded by Obama and featured prominently on his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations, and building a border wall.
"The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts, second-guess their support for the Trump agenda."
In a new Facebook post, OFA calls on activists to mobilize against Republicans from now until Feb. 26, when "representatives are going to be in their home districts."
The protesters disrupted town halls earlier this month, including one held in Utah by House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who was confronted by hundreds of angry demonstrators claiming to be his constituents.
The manual, published with OFA partner "Indivisible," advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and "grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together." Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host's positions. "This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus." It also urges them to ask "hostile" questions — while keeping "a firm hold on the mic" — and loudly boo the the GOP politician if he isn't "giving you real answers."
[Read the full story here, at New York Post]
"Express your concern [to the event's hosts] they are giving a platform to pro-Trump authoritarianism, racism, and corruption," it says.
"The manual, published with OFA partner 'Indivisible,' advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and "grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together.' Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host's positions. 'This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus.'"
The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts, second-guess their support for the Trump agenda, and to prime "the ground for the 2018 midterms when Democrats retake power."
"It also urges them to ask 'hostile' questions — while keeping 'a firm hold on the mic' — and loudly boo the the GOP politician if he isn't 'giving you real answers.'"
"Even the safest [Republican] will be deeply alarmed by signs of organized opposition," the document states, "because these actions create the impression that they're not connected to their district and not listening to their constituents."
After the event, protesters are advised to feed video footage to local and national media. Read the rest of this entry »
Our Cult-Like Education System: Stella Morabito on the Ideological Cold WarPosted: February 13, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Activism, Alternative school, American Humanist Association, Americans, college campus, Donald Trump, Left Wing, Marxism, propaganda, Radical Left, Riots, Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, United States, University, Violence 1 Comment
Riot-Prone Mobs Are A Product Of America's Cult-Like Education System
'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.'
— Thomas Jefferson
Stella Morabito writes
…Those who are pushing for sustained street resistance seem to be banking on two things. First they are betting that mainstream Americans won't realize until it's too late that we are in the midst of a virtual civil war that could turn violent. Dennis Prager recently wrote of this Second Civil War, warning Americans to wake up to it. Second, agitators are also wagering that Americans will not have the stomach for the prolonged fight they intend to bring to the streets, a point noted by psychologist Tim Daughtry in his book "Waking the Sleeping Giant."
"What brought us to this place where the losing side has so utterly and violently rejected the peaceful transfer of power from one president to another, and previously agreed-upon electoral process and rules?"
So is this some kind of a joke? Revolution in the streets of America that overturns the election results? So far it all sounds so goofy, at least where it doesn't get violent. We can watch in wonder as a shrieking NYU professor verbally assaults numerous police officers with the sort of impunity only afforded to the far-left. We can assure ourselves that there aren't that many irrational people. Even if true, however, that's beside the point. Too many citizens are at sea in understanding what freedom even means.
"Let's face it. Today's street theater is the culmination of decades of radical education revision. The radical Left's systematic attack on the study of Western Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies. It is an attack on the features that make a society civil and free."
We need to ask ourselves: What brought us to this place where the losing side has so utterly and violently rejected the peaceful transfer of power from one president to another, and previously agreed-upon electoral process and rules? It's past time to ponder the quote from Thomas Jefferson: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Destroying Our Education System Got Us Here
Let's face it. Today's street theater is the culmination of decades of radical education revision. The radical Left's systematic attack on the study of Western Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies. It is an attack on the features that make a society civil and free. Those features include freedom of expression, civil discourse, the Socratic method of figuring out truth, value of the individual, and a common knowledge of the classics of history and literature that help us understand what's universal in the human experience. All of that had to go.
[Read the full story here, at thefederalist.com]
Now, as we see students marching to demonize as "fascists" proponents of free speech, their ignorance is in full view. This is really a full frontal attack on the rule of law, the Constitution, and a system of checks and balances that guards against the consolidation of centralized power.
"The last 50 years have produced a huge wave of kids who are functionally uneducated." https://t.co/4r0v3Lv6tm
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 13, 2017
That's the whole point of the education these students have been fed. In fact, a lot of 1960s agitators, including domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, decided to place their bets on radical education revision. For at least 40 years, Ayers has been devoted to transforming schools from places of actual education to places of coercive thought reform. As Andrew McCarthy recently pointed out in National Review: "It was a comfy fit for him and many of his confederates, once it dawned on them that indoctrination inside the schoolhouse was more effective than blowing up the schoolhouse."
If you review the history of radical education reform, it's clear these agitators have been committing mind arson on the children, undermining their ability to think independently and clearly. (For more on this, read Robin Eubanks' book "Credentialed to Destroy.")
How to Short-Circuit a Child's Thinking
Radical education reformers have made a point of removing context from children's education, and to squash their natural curiosity, undermining their capacity to think. Read the rest of this entry »


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About the AOJ
Edited by
Ms Linda Santamaria DipAppSc(Orth) MAppSc
Dr Meri Vukicevic BOrth PhD
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Aims & Scope
The Australian Orthoptic Journal publishes articles on all areas of the field within which orthoptists work. This includes areas of orthoptic clinical practice such as strabismus, amblyopia, ocular motility and binocular vision anomalies; low vision and rehabilitation; paediatric ophthalmology; neuro-ophthalmology; general ophthalmology, ophthalmic technology; and public health agenda.
Journal History
In the early 1940s Miss Diana Mann and Miss Emmie Russell planned the formation of the Orthoptic Association of Australia, which was inaugurated in 1943. So began the organised effort to develop and promote the profession and the formal exchange of ideas and scientific endeavour the Annual Scientific Meeting, which was first held in Melbourne from 11-12 October 1944. This was held at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, but the first session was held at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital where "members undertook to test and initiate treatment on certain cases of squint presented to them".
What was considered the first volume of the journal and referred to as 'Journal No.1' of the 'Transactions of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Orthoptic Association of Australia' was first published in 1959. However, the Transactions of each Annual Scientific Meeting, which were simply duplicated typed manuscripts were available to participants since the very first meeting in 1944. It was in 1958 that the Editor Miss Diana Mann "initiated a new policy" to "quickly circulate" the Transactions "among those members, and others interested, who were unable to attend". It would appear that Miss Diana Mann was the first to fully embrace the role of Editor for the 1958 Transactions, which was the immediate precursor to the aforementioned first volume of 1959, and indeed that 1958 issue resembled a journal format with a table of contents included. The publication of the journal-style Transactions continued until 1966 when the 8th volume and the first entitled the "Australian Orthoptic Journal" was published. Miss Barbara Lewin and Miss Ann Metcalfe were listed as the Honorary Co-Editors of that issue. To preserve history, Miss Jane Russell collected, indexed and photocopied the earlier transactions into two volumes. Three sets were bound and given to the Association's NSW Branch, the library of the Paramedical College and to Miss Patricia Lance's father, Dr Arnold Lance.
In "Volume 10" of the Australian Orthoptic Journal (1969-70), the first editorial committee was put together as "Sub-Editors" to assist the Editor, Miss Neryla Heard. One of this editorial committee's first tasks was to develop guidelines for authors wishing to publish in the Journal. This was the consequence of discussions with Dr G. Serpell at a meeting in 1969, who "spoke on the art of editing" and clearly inspired the Association to move the Journal to a new phase. The longevity and growth of the Australian Orthoptic Journal is a testament to the Editors of the past for their commitment and dedication to disseminating the science of our discipline and maintaining a record of our history.
Journal history adapted from: Koklanis K, Georgievski, G. Life Begins in the 40's: A Ruby Tribute to this Australian Orthoptic Icon. Australian Orthoptic Journal. 2008; 40(1): 6-7.


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Welcome to this week's edition of, "Features of the week". We have many interesting items in store for you today, so sit back, take a few moments, and browse away. Enjoy!
1. Doubts intensify on central bank plan to save markets.
2. Central bank plan delays day of reckoning, say fund managers.
3. Central banks keep fueling inflation, says Jim Grant (Hat tip to Controlled Greed).
4. Ron Paul is interviewed by Doug Casey's International Speculator newsletter.
5. Lebron Inc. Basketball star Lebron James has charted his own course towards building a personal business empire.
6. Nouriel Roubini feels we are experiencing the first real crisis of financial globalization and securitization.
7. Niall Ferguson: Memo to Market Dinosaurs.
8. Investor James Passin goes boldly where others have yet to tread.
9. Stratfor: China and the Arabian Penninsula as market stabilizers.
10. John Hussman on "an irrelevant Fed" (Hat tip to Dow Theory Letters).
11. Bermuda battles Caymans for offshore funds, woos hedgies.
12. Dollar rebounds against Euro. Why? Inflation expectations. I am not making this up.
13. Wall St. Journal says mortgage crisis rivals S&L meltdown.
You may recall our post on this topic from last summer, "Asset backs, subprime: shades of 1990?".
14. What do Britain's billionaires know about subprime that you don't?
15. High prices at Art Basel Miami leave even billionaires amazed.
Which reminds me of a past visit to a Beverly Hills art gallery, circa 1984.
Thanks for reading Finance Trends Matter. Enjoy your weekend, everyone.
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Living in a cold or temperate zone does not preclude having a tropical garden. There are a number of hardy plants that will provide an exotic look and techniques for each of them that will increase winter cold tolerance. A tropical garden will require some specialized skills and a bit of work, but the appearance of a lush jungle during the summer months makes it well worth it.
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) has very large, often colorful leaves up to 4 feet long. Despite its origins as a jungle plant, taro will even survive in cold climates. The bulb can be left in the ground over the winter with a heavy covering of mulch in zones 7 through 10, but in colder areas the dormant plants should be dug up and stored over the winter. Taros love nitrogen-rich soil and ample water in the summertime, but winter wetness can kill them. Taro will develop noticeably larger leaves if grown in partial shade, with morning sun being preferable. Growing taro in a pot that can be moved indoors with the onset of cold weather is another option in frigid climates.
Japanese Fiber Banana
Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo) will reliably survive very low temperatures with some protection. This plant will eventually grow quite large, producing offsets from the roots to form a sizable clump. A rich mulch of composted steer or chicken manure will accelerate growth. Even in very cold areas, musa will reach a height of 10 feet or more. In growing zones 5 and 6, winter protection is necessary. A framework of chicken wire should be placed around the plant after the foliage has died back in fall. This framework can be filled with mulch such as straw or leaves, covered with plastic and then canvas or burlap and tied securely. Remove the covering in spring after frost danger is over. New growth may be pale and spindly from growing in darkness but will rapidly green up with sunshine and warm temperatures. In zones 7 through 11, no protection is needed unless winter weather brings prolonged below-zero temperatures.
Yunan Banana
Yunan banana (Musella lasiocarpa) is a slightly less hardy banana than Musa basjoo, growing best in zones 8 through 10. Zone 7 gardeners can overwinter this plant by protecting it as with the Japanese fiber banana. Musella has longer, narrower foliage than most other banana species and grows 5 to 8 feet tall. The flowers are spectacular and rather strange looking; they have the appearance of very large yellow artichokes. Planting young specimens in early spring will give them enough time to grow and become acclimated for maximum winter hardiness.
Windmill Palm
Windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) is proof that palm trees can be grown just about anywhere. Hardy to 0 F, colder temperatures may cause some death of foliage, which will regrow in spring. Older, longer-established plants display better cold tolerance. This palm is slow-growing, to 10 or 15 feet in most areas. Windmill palm needs rich soil and should have a light surface dressing of agricultural lime every spring. Young plants and those grown in marginal areas benefit from some winter protection. This can take the form of a vented miniature greenhouse or a simple frost blanket applied during cold snaps. After a particularly bad winter, check the topmost fans of the palm. Even if they appear dead, a light tug will ascertain if they are rotted at the crown. If that is the case, a spray of copper fungicide will often stop further rot and save the plant. New growth should emerge in late spring from the central rosette.
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A routine mammogram surely saved my life!
Neither my doctor, the surgeon I consulted when calcifications showed up on my yearly mammogram, nor myself, could ever feel a lump in my breast. I was reassured, by both the doctors and the reading that I did, that these very small points on my x-ray were not likely to be cancer. A biopsy proved otherwise and subsequent surgery in July 1996 found an area of multiple tumors with some node involvement already taking place. Even though the outcome was not as we had hoped, I cannot help being grateful for finding the cancer when I did. It is hard to imagine how much more advanced my disease might have been by the time a lump could be felt.
|Each of the people in this picture, my daughter — JoJean, my granddaughter — Amanda, and myself now share a greater risk for breast cancer. This fact is one of the hardest things I have had to face since my diagnosis. I find it hard dealing with the thought that something I have may also cause problems for these people I love. My hope lies in the fact that there have been great strides in the awareness of this disease in the last 10 years. The increased monies for research and studies are helping to improve treatment and giving us more weapons every year.
The pathology report showed I had a stage II cancer, it also determined the cancer was estrogen/progesterone receptive and that there were 'clean margins' on the tumor specimens. These facts helped us decide on the course of adjuvant therapy to follow after the surgery. I began a series of chemotherapy treatments which were part of a clinical trial being conducted by the Mayo Clinic. I was placed in the second arm of the trial, which means I received a standard dose of Cytoxan but a higher dose of Adriamycin than the usual treatment. I was given a new anti-nausea medication before each session and am happy to say I made it through the treatments without any of the nausea and vomiting I had read about. I did not need radiation therapy because the tissue surrounding the tumor was free of cancer. Then in January of 1997 I started a five year regimen of taking an oral drug called Tamoxifen, this is referred to as hormonal therapy. Tamoxifen is thought of as an 'estrogen blocker' — however, it not only blocks estrogen from feeding cancer cells, it kills some of those cells as well.
The biggest side effect from the chemotherapy, other than the expected hair loss, was fatigue. That effect seemed to be cumulative and I still need more sleep than I used too, but my eyelashes were back and long enough for mascara by Christmas, my hair was back by Spring — short but very curly — and I was back to working eight hours a day before May. At my four year post chemo check-up last October I was told I was very healthy and I am happy to say that I do feel great. My surgeon told me I was surgically cured the day of my mastectomy. After I finished the series of chemotherapy treatments, my oncologist wrote me a letter and told me he considered me cured. I admit to saving that letter and rereading it every now and then — it seems like proof that I am an official survivor!
I have become active in starting a Breast Cancer Support Group in our area. I feel this is important because it has been shown in specific breast cancer related research that the immune system's weapons are higher in patients who were part of a support group. Our meetings have been encouraging and we have a wide age range of women attending. One of our main goals is to provide timely information to newly diagnosed patients — something that is not always easy to do in our relatively remote location.The support group is active in promoting 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month' each October — speaking at club meetings, handing out information and we were the subject of a well received newspaper article. In October, 1998 we sponsored a women's wellness workshop at our local community college called Take Charge – It's Your Life! The workshop was so successful that we have made it an annual event. Last year I received training from the American Cancer Society on how to be a 'Reach to Recovery' volunteer so I now make visits to newly diagnosed patients to offer help, support and encouragement. I also had fun using my desktop publishing program to produce both the brochure about the support group that is distributed at various sites around our town and the brochures, flyers, banners and posters related to the workshop.


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In La Pira's perspective, the construction of peace (which for a man of faith meant proportioning the walls of terrestrial cities with those of the celestial Jerusalem), cannot but have its fulcrum in peace in the Holy Land.
This concept emerges very clearly in La Pira's speeches and actions since the first Conferences and from his letters to Pope Pius XII.
In addition it was probably the reason behind the Mediterranean Meetings ( and all the speeches La Pira repeatedly made in successive years ) and up to his death. One of his last works was the message to the Euro-Arab Conference in February 1977 that he so warmly supported .
The peoples of the three great monotheistic religions (the three-fold family of the Patriarch Abraham) are destined to meet on this Mediterranean sea which has become the modern-day's Tiberias lake. For La Pira, this was part of a unification plan that everyone was called upon to make a contribution to.


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Carson deputies to start carrying M-16s in cars
The Carson City Sheriff's Office just got some more firepower.
The office recently received 30 military-grade M-16 rifles to include in its patrol cars – which already include shotguns and a beanbag gun – so that deputies can be better prepared if any IHOP-type events occur in Carson City again.
"It's one of those things of 'what has changed since IHOP,'" Sheriff Ken Furlong said, referring to the Sept. 6 incident where Eduardo Sencion opened fire with an automatic assault rifle, killing four people in the restaurant and wounding seven, before fatally shooting himself.
"We realized how inadequately equipped we were."
He said Undersheriff Steve Albertsen worked to get the free rifles through military surplus. The guns were modified from fully-automatic to semi-automatic. The office received the rifles through military surplus free of charge.
While they are all military grade, making civilian cost comparisons moot, the closest thing to it would cost about $800.
"It's a very big move," Furlong said. "But we are here to fight back and IHOP opened our eyes to what we (have to be) prepared for."
Some deputies are still going through training to qualify for the weapons, which Furlong expects to have in all the patrol cars in July. Furlong said any deputies who aren't qualified by the time the weapons are installed won't be given ammunition until they do qualify.
When Furlong saw the three-month trend for total reported crime in the recently released May numbers, he said he had one message for his deputies.
"Go out and get them," he said, noting arrests were up 8 or 9 percent.
The reports have total crime reported inching upward, but Furlong noted that the three-year trend is still down overall.
"It looks good for 36 months, it looks good for 12 months, but this three-month trend is really what's got me concerned," Furlong said.
Some of the notables were assault-type crimes and vandalism. Simple assault and aggravated assault reports are up 11 percent and 49 percent, respectively, year-to-date over 2011. However, aggravated assault reports are down from year-to-date 2010 by 24 percent, according to the report.
"These two seem to be our issue here: People cannot seem to keep their hands off each other," Furlong said.
Vandalism reports also are creeping up, with a 33 percent increase in May over April, for a total of 53 reports. For vandalism that is a 50 percent jump year-to-day over 2011, with 246 incidents.
Furlong noted that that doesn't include all the graffiti that the inmate crews and others clean up without reporting first.
"Much of the graffiti is removed before it was reported," he said.
The report also notes that the numbers are down year-to-date over 2010.
On a brighter side, theft from vehicles also was lower than normal, with the month-to-month down 57 percent, with only nine reported offenses in May. Year-to-date, theft is down by 30 percent from 2011.
"This is one is completely preventable – lock your car doors," Furlong said.


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Daandelion is a friendly place to find the world of creativity, makeup, ecology and the desire of experiencing something different.
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Why choosing us?
Because our activities take place surrounded by nature, we are traveling, we change, we adapt our workshops, we come to you in a different way from the typical urban context. We look forward to unleash the creativity of magic wrapped by natural landscapes, avoiding the pollution.
Because we know how to make this a good time to start a new way of understanding makeup and its origins.
Because like many people, we have a dream. We want to let the society know the danger of conventional cosmetics. Demystify that sometimes we think that makeup is rocket science. That through us is born in you a new awareness towards the environment and your own health.
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Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, show you techniques that are not rocket science. Makeup is having fun, laughing, dreaming, and playing with colors that you thought you don´t dare to wear.
I have always considered myself a person who sees the world with an unusual perspective, perhaps sometimes too dreamy, but never too much when it is a matter of imagination and creativity.
I have lived in the United States, Burgos, Barcelona and now I reside in Bilbao.
I finished my degree in graphic design at Llotja school in Barcelona, and a makeup course years later. I have always questioned myself if having a degree or not makes you a worse or a better person. I am not here to tell you about my accomplishments, or garnish them for you to come to my workshops, you can see a selection of my work here on my web site if you want to.
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Top Five Hat-Tippable Comics
There was some chatter in the Twitterverse today about Top Ten Comics, and it gave me the idea to come up with my own list to show you what titles I've been reading and enjoying the most lately. Except I'm only doing five, because I'm a rebel (read: lazy, and it's Friday, damnit, "I'll do […]
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The Luna Brothers are two of my favorite comic book creators. Both are talented writers and artists, and currently they dish out this great Image comic called The Sword. You may have heard of it. It's pretty amazing. Awhile back I talked with the Brothers about The Sword for a Girls Entertainment Network interview, and […]
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Hell yeah, we did
Haha, I spotted this feed on the Image Comics website and thought it was cool. 😀 It's referring to this little review of mine that I did, like, a week ago.
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GEN week-in-review: 10-27-08
See what articles I wrote for the Girls Entertainment Network this week, and check back at the end of each week for GEN updates. Posts of interest: W00t The Sword! 😀 And the most hilarious Batman/Superman video spoof I've ever seen.
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GEN week-in-review: 9-8-08
See what articles I wrote for the Girls Entertainment Network this week, and check back at the end of each week for GEN updates. Posts of interest: An exclusive interview with the Luna Brothers on The Sword comic! Plus, a new layout and graphics for Comic Junkie (Virtualgirl did a beautiful job with those headers)! […]
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Because The Sword is AWESOME. One of the interviews I've been cooking up—in which I talk with Joshua and Jonathan Luna about their comic for Image called The Sword—is now online for your reading pleasure (just click the banner below). If you haven't checked this comic out, please do. It's fantastic. Big thanks to Image […]
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It was my lucky day when I met Cathy and Elisa! They have been wonderful with my clients, connecting and being thoughtful about their feelings. Transforming homes from " blah to wow" is a gift, which few stagers have – but they have it in spades! My clients are always overjoyed with their work, and I am ecstatic! This is the Dream Team!