[Daily Caller] Former MSNBC host Ed Schultz put the mainstream media on blast in a podcast on Monday, saying that "the fix was in" for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Schultz, who supported Bernie Sanders in 2016, told National Review podcast host Jamie Weinstein he thinks "the Clintons were connected to Andy Lack, connected at the hip.
"I think that they didn’t want anybody in their prime time or anywhere in their lineup supporting Bernie Sanders," he continued. "I think that they were in the tank for Hillary Clinton and I think it was managed and 45 days later I was out at MSNBC. And I thought it stunk."
Schultz also tore into how many in the establishment media shielded Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Democratic primary.
"And when you see how the campaign unfolded," he added, "Donna Brazile feeding Hillary Clinton questions at the campaign, the DNC undercutting Bernie Sanders, the super-delegates that were organized by Hillary Clinton, I mean, in my state of Minnesota where I’m a resident and pay taxes, Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar were super-delegates and despite the fact that Bernie Sanders won Minnesota they supported Clinton. The fix was in. The fix was in with the mainstream media. The fix was in with managing the news and shutting down Bernie Sanders."
The former MSNBC host now works at Russia Today (RT).
[Forbes] When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, he tried to describe the difference between "surveillance and what we do." "The difference is extremely clear," a nervous-looking Zuckerberg said. "On Facebook, you have control over your information... the information we collect you can choose to have us not collect."
But not a single member of the committee pushed the billionaire CEO about surveillance companies who exploit the data on Facebook for profit. Forbes has uncovered one case that might shock them: over the last five years a secretive surveillance company founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer has been quietly building a massive facial recognition database consisting of faces acquired from the giant social network, YouTube and countless other websites. Privacy activists are suitably alarmed.
That database forms the core of a facial recognition service called Face-Int, now owned by Israeli vendor Verint after it snapped up the product's creator, little-known surveillance company Terrogence, in 2017. Both Verint and Terrogence have long been vendors for the U.S. government, providing bleeding-edge spy tech to the NSA, the U.S. Navy and countless other intelligence and security agencies.
As described on the Terrogence website, the database consists of facial profiles of thousands of suspects "harvested from such online sources as YouTube, Facebook and open and closed forums all over the globe." Those faces were extracted from as many as 35,000 videos and photos of terrorist training camps, motivational clips and terror attacks. That same marketing page was online in 2013, according to internet archive the Wayback Machine, indicating the product is at least five years old. The age of the product also suggests far more than 35,000 videos and photos have been raided by the Face-Int technology by now, though Terrogence co-founder and research lead Shai Arbel declined to comment for this article.
Raising the stakes of facial recognition
Though Terrogence is primarily focused on helping intelligence agencies and law enforcement fight terrorism online, LinkedIn profiles of current and former employees indicate it's also involved in other, more political endeavours. One ex-staffer, in describing her role as a Terrogence analyst, said she'd "conducted public perception management operations on behalf of foreign and domestic governmental clients," and used "open source intelligence practices and social media engineering methods to investigate political and social groups." She was not reachable at the time of publication.
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Both Verint and Terrogence have long been vendors for the U.S. government, providing bleeding-edge spy tech to the NSA, the U.S. Navy and countless other intelligence and security agencies.
I'm just certain Zuck wasn't getting a piece of that action. His congressional testimony would have surely revealed such arrangements.
[Zachs] Johnson & Johnson (JNJ - Free Report) , the bellwether of healthcare companies, has a strong presence in the pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer care markets across the world. This New Jersey-based company is well known for its baby-care products and brands like Tylenol in addition to drugs like Remicade and Concerta.
However, like many of its peers, JNJ is facing generic competition and pricing pressure for some of the products in its pharmaceutical segment.
In this scenario, investor focus remains on late-stage pipeline candidates and their commercial potential as well as the performance of new products apart from the usual top-and bottom-line numbers.
JNJ has a pretty good earnings track record with the company delivering positive earnings surprises in each of the last four quarters, with an average positive surprise of 3.09%. Estimate movement has been stable over the past 7 days.
[Mark Steyn Club] Mark did double-duty on Monday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight". First up for discussion was the former FBI director James Comey's self-serving interview on ABC. Click below to watch:
[Breitbart] During an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, former FBI Director James Comey’s wife, Patrice, confessed that she supported Hillary Clinton and was "devastated" when Donald Trump won.
"I wanted a woman president really badly, and I supported Hillary Clinton," Patrice Failor Comey told Stephanopoulos. "A lot of my friends worked for her. And I was devastated when she lost."
James Comey admitted that his wife and girls all took part in the Women’s March in response to Donald Trump’s election.
"My wife and girls marched in the Women’s March, the day after President Trump’s inauguration," he said. "At least my four daughters ‐ probably all five of my kids, wanted Hillary Clinton to be the first woman president. I know my amazing spouse did."
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We had our first real black President - didn't work out too well for us, did it? Given who it would have been, the 'first woman president' our situation would have been even worse than with the first black President. I'm happy getting a guy with a 'fuck you' attitude and 30+ years experience as a CEO (no experience, Chuck Todd?).
Donald Trump vs. 2.4 million Federal employees (excluding military) - it will continue to be an interesting battle.
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Thanks to Trump we're experiencing Conan's best things in life -- crushing our enemies, seeing them driven before us and now, the delicious lamentations of the wimmen.
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I thought it was sexist to choose someone based on their sex...
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Comey Wife: ‘I Wanted a Woman President Really Badly, and I Supported Hillary Clinton'
The definition of sexism. But it's good sexism. Because women can't be sexist if they vote for women because . . . they're not "in power". Or some such $hit.
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g(r)omgoru, he should have done it on April Fools day. Everyone with a sense of humor would know he was joking which means the left's heads would still pop.
Not that I’m putting Stranger in a Strange Land down. on a scale of Heinlein books, we’ll say it was my favorite at 14, not so much at 55, but still, you know, yeah "Thou art God" and all that might have been the zeitgeist of the time (or to quote Heinlein at a later date "what some writers will do for money!’) but Heinlein still missed the most outrageous implications of the idea.
...Humans weren’t designed that way. We’re creatures of the band. Our remote almost-human ancestors would have been born into a rigid hierarchy, because ape bands have a rigid hierarchy. It can change, but it can’t go away. We were designed to obey rules and boundaries, learned and instinctive. And the very keeping of body and spirit together, in more primitive times, imposed an order on a primate’s life, whether pre-human or human. There was food to forage for, and things to hunt, and young ones to look after, and someone had to look out for the lions.
...This opening of our minds till our brain fell off left those people not fortunate enough to be raised by people of strong principles floating in a sea of tedium and lack of purpose. Since the only firm principle they have is that there was never anyone as enlightened or perceptive as themselves, they can’t examine their own beliefs and actions for errors. They also can’t find reality with two hands and a seeing eye dog, which is why they think reality changes with what you believe, and therefore think that your refusing to engage in their preferred speech, or saying things they don’t like is a literal aggression. Because they believe words an stories can tear the world apart and put it together in another shape.
It’s not that they’re gods ‐ though they might think they are ‐ but that they’ve reverted to the mind of the primitive savage, unable to connect cause and effect outside themselves, and therefore living in a world they think thoughts or intentions can alter for good and ill: buffeted by the thoughts and intentions of others, looking in vain for the safe room that will allow them to remake the world anew with their thoughts.
That is what is behind their attacks on those who don’t think the same way they do. That is what is behind their bizarre displays like trying to levitate the Denver Mint. It is definitely what is behind their belief that if they erase history and remake it in their image, and install a regime that has brought death wherever it was tried, this time there will be utopia.
They’re savages, in a haunted world, blindly offering sacrifice to forces they can’t understand and trying to think the world in their image and semblance, then finding scape goats when it doesn’t work. Which is always, because that’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
[The Federalist] It’s a terribly stubborn demographic truism: Somewhere close to 100 percent of babies never born will never become customers of your business. This is true of the more than 55 million American babies who never made it past the womb since abortion was legalized in 1973. It’s true of the untold millions who were never conceived because a potential mom and dad thought they had better things to do.
Of course, there is an inestimable, inherent worth and dignity to every human life, but we cannot ignore the social significance at play here as well. These invaluable lives-never-realized are a whole lot of missing customers. Not good for business. Not good. Nor will they be paying into social security or pensions to provide your part when that time comes either.
What if you’re in the toy business? Well then, this truism is super unfortunate seeing as your whole business model depends upon people called grandparents, aunts, uncles, and parents. Others outside of these four types of folks are just not likely to pass through your doors. So you want the population of these four categories not only stable, but growing. The common denominator between all these folks is babies.
New, fresh-smelling little humans are what create grandparents, aunts, uncles and mothers and fathers. This is not a theoretical theorem. No one knows this better than the international toy giant Toys ’R’ Us and baby supplier Babies R Us. They recently got majorly T-boned at the intersection of "Need for Growing Customer Base Avenue" and "Declining Birth Rate Boulevard." Thus they are shuttering all of their U.S. stores. Putting it another way, Geoffrey the Giraffe had to be put down.
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Maybe if using the public schools wasn't equivalent to having your kids raised by the malevolent practicioners of a different religion, people would have more kids.
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It doesn't help that our society teaches the young ones we have that not being productive (except for having fatherless kids), and living off of others' industry, is acceptable.
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It's a two part problem. (1) Not enough babys were born to enter the workforce and pay those taxes (2) Too many Boomers retiring.
I think we should hunt down the Population Bomb author and string him up for convincing a generation to not procreate.
BLUF:
[American Thinker] Yet this is an area where we actually should listen to the left and be mindful of their warnings about minorities' historical plight. If whites were more concerned about being reduced to minority status, their nations ‐ gradually losing their Western character due to multiculturalism and the influx of unassimilable, non-Western foreigners ‐ wouldn't be so imperiled (though our growing immorality would still plague us).
The reality expressed in this article eludes most because of conditioning: the double standard, the prejudice, is ingrained. Whites are simultaneously portrayed as uniquely inhuman and something more than human, in that they're supposed to be above normal human concerns (desire to retain one's own culture, etc.). They're cast as singularly oppressive for exhibiting the same moral failings as every other group, such as having practiced slavery, but as strikingly unexceptional despite taking unprecedented steps to mitigate those moral failings. They're condemned as "cultural appropriators" merely for using foreigners' food recipes but given no credit for birthing a recipe for civilizational success copied the world over (which is why Western technology and economic practices are ubiquitous).
Lamentably, though, whites are uniquely successful in another way as well. Those most effectively peddling the anti-white propaganda ‐ and most efficiently destroying the West ‐ are white themselves.
Whoever guessed that modern Westerners' perhaps final triumph would be reaching the very heights of self-flagellation?
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Daily Caller] Former MSNBC host Ed Schultz put the mainstream media on blast in a podcast on Monday, saying that "the fix was in" for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
[Forbes] When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, he tried to describe the difference between "surveillance and what we do." "The difference is extremely clear," a nervous-looking Zuckerberg said. "On Facebook, you have control over your information... the information we collect you can choose to have us not collect."
