[WND] Speaking recently to Fox News’ Arthel Neville, Andrew Napolitano, also of Fox News, repeated old feminist canards about sexual assault against women being an under-reported, ever-present crime in American society.
The violence-against-women industry in North America ‐ you know, the one-in-four-women-are-assaulted rot ‐ is propped up by the sub-science or pseudoscience of violence-against-women statistics.
In particular, violence-against-women surveys are based on inflated numbers nobody questions, numbers the advocates bandy about and the politicians rely on when drafting policy and plumping for resources.
I’m thinking of the original 1993 StatsCan Violence Against Women survey, and its preposterous statistical offshoots, which, in turn, were spinoffs of the American violence-against-women statistical sisterhood. Canada follows America’s lead.
Anyone who’s studied research methodology at a good school (check) knows that research is shaped by the researcher’s hypothesis. Duly, the corpus of violence-against-women statistics reflects an exclusive ideological focus on female victimization. It thus consists of single-sex surveys ‐ never two-sex surveys ‐ with no input from men, to the exclusion of violence females incur from other females, or acts of violence women commit against the man in the relationship.
Developed at the height of the "war against women" moral panic, these foundational questionnaires are the product of a collaboration with advocacy groups and feminist stakeholders, and are thus fraught with problems of unrepresentative samples, lack of corroboration, a reliance on anecdotes, a use of over-inclusive survey questions and, to charitably understate the problem, the broadest definition of assault.
[EPOCH Times] How America’s most powerful agencies were weaponized against President Donald Trump.
Although the details remain complex, the structure underlying Spygate‐the creation of the false narrative that candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russia, and the spying on his presidential campaign‐remains surprisingly simple:
1. CIA Director John Brennan, with some assistance from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, gathered foreign intelligence and fed it throughout our domestic Intelligence Community.
2. The FBI became the handler of Brennan’s intelligence and engaged in the more practical elements of surveillance.
3. The Department of Justice facilitated investigations by the FBI and legal maneuverings, while providing a crucial shield of nondisclosure.
4. The Department of State became a mechanism of information dissemination and leaks.
5. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee provided funding, support, and media collusion.
6. Obama administration officials were complicit, and engaged in unmasking and intelligence gathering and dissemination.
7. The media was the most corrosive element in many respects. None of these events could have transpired without their willing participation. Stories were pushed, facts were ignored, and narratives were promoted.
Let’s start with a simple premise: The candidacy of Trump presented both an opportunity and a threat.
Initially not viewed with any real seriousness, Trump’s campaign was seen as an opportunistic wedge in the election process. At the same time, and particularly as the viability of his candidacy increased, Trump was seen as an existential threat to the established political system.
The sudden legitimacy of Trump’s candidacy was not welcomed by the U.S. political establishment. Here was a true political outsider who held no traditional allegiances. He was brash and boastful, he ignored political correctness, he couldn’t be bought, and he didn’t care what others thought of him‐he trusted himself.
Governing bodies in Britain and the European Union were also worried. Candidate Trump was openly challenging monetary policy, regulations, and the power of special interests. He challenged Congress. He challenged the United Nations and the European Union. He questioned everything. Continues
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Bookmarked. An incredible piece of analysis. Its a shame nobody with a big megaphone like the MSM is even bothered to look at these things. A conspiracy worse than Watergate by our "Intelligence" agencies and law enforcement.
Time for a revolution with each and every one of these people tried and hanged for treason.
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This country has never seen the likes of such treason. These people tried to rig an election, nullify an election and steal a country and they continue to do it.
How about a lottery to choose the winners to participate in the firing squad? It'd be a good way to fund the wall as well. Throw the lottery money in with as El Chapo's confiscated fortune and you can build a great wall.
The graphic is a keeper. Good check off sheet as justice is meted out if it ever happens.
[American Thinker] To hear the left tell it, the coming caravans of migrants are nothing but a spontaneous move by Central Americans fleeing gangs and crime, as if crime had never existed in their countries before, welfare in the U.S. isn't a part of the equation, and the entire situation justifies illegal entry. All the focus is on migrants, with individual sob stories in the press dominating coverage.
The spotlight actually belongs elsewhere. According to a new report from local public broadcaster KPBS, migrants say they're being egged on by sandal- and serape-clad rabid leftists from the States, veterans of the mobbery seen in places such as Seattle, with names like "By Any Means Necessary" (BAMN), who are now using the migrants on a political mission to break down U.S. borders.
Does anyone know this? Do people know that the caravan camp over in Tijuana full of migrants awaiting entry to the States is being descended upon daily by rabid Sandalista leftists, encouraging the migrants to break the border and enter illegally? They're not only egging them on in what other NGOs call "exploitation," but giving them junk information about asylum to encourage the illegal entry and saying it will all be a piece of cake. The migrants don't even want these pests, but these leftists are all over them like lice. Look at these details:
[Market Watch] Much has been made about the performance of stocks so far in 2019.
Small-cap stocks, as gauged by the Russell 2000 index RUT, +1.04% , are off to their best start to any year in the past 32 years, boasting a gain of 8.8% over the past 12 trading sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data. That’s outpacing the large-cap S&P 500 SPX, +1.32% the U.S. stock-market benchmark, which is up 5.2% over the same stretch ‐ a performance, however, that likewise is the strongest 12-day start to a calendar year in 32 years.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.38% is up 4.5% over the same period, while the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.03% has logged a 6.8% advance.
Is it a reason to cheer? Perhaps it would be if not for the fact that the gains are the strongest since 1987, when the Russell popped 11.87% over the first 12 trading days and the S&P rallied 11.22%. 1987 is a year that lives in infamy on Wall Street.
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...pretty much. It's all speculation. The governmental organizations established to overwatch and throttle destructive speculation has largely been compromised and institutionally captured by those gaming the market. If you are a small investor in the market - Welcome to Vegas, baby!
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People who say it is rigged won’t take the time to learn how it is rigged. The market gives everyone who takes the time (years) to learn the ability to AVERAGE 20% per year without breaking a sweat.
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Diversification is the enemy of wealth generation. There are over 150 stocks that returned >20% on average per year over the last ten years. Many are in the SP500. Most people have the intelligence to learn how to find them but not the emotional control to hold and not sell. Go to stockcharts.com and start learning.
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If you want to know when to get in and out...get an account at stockcharts.com..put in the symbol $nyhl..set the time period to daily and and the "type" to cumulative. Put an overlay "exp moving average" use a parameter of 126. This chart tells you when new net 52 week lows start to dominate the NYSE..which is usually a good time to get out.. It gave a sell signal in the autumn of 2007, and one last October 9. When the line goes positive it is time to get back in. If you use this (and some common sense) with Vanguard SP 500 fund and buy a 10 year Treasury fund when out of the market you could have added close to 2% per year since 1982 over a buy and hold strategy.
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In the end, if you work for someone else, you have to save for when you aren't working anymore. If you can save enough to retire you damn well better have somewhere better to put it than a savings account or a CD that earns a fraction of whatever inflation is. If you are smart enough to invest directly in a going concern, God bless you. Otherwise you have to buy equities and business backed debt.
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Time to stop making excuses. The next step is to compare against each other, via stockcharts, the major sectors in the world financial markets. They include, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, technology, 10 year bonds, gold, emerging markets, etc. etc. Once you rank these asset classes against each other you can find which one is outperforming all the others. Example... between 2000- Jan 2013 Gold's total return outperformed the Sp500 600% to 13% or close to 45 to 1. Between 2000-2007 the Fidelity Real Estate fund, FRESX averaged 22% per year, outperformed the SP500 by 450%. The only way to have known to get into Real Estate in 2000 was by comparing asset classes weekly. Once you have your charts set up, it takes 15 minutes to review them every week. Once you start to understand what the information in the charts is telling you, and you maximize it in a way you are comfortable, the returns are very nice.
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Very good stuff at #12 and throughout this string. Rule of thumb for me, if it's not been paying an increasing dividend (even if only a penny) per year, for more than 10-15 even 20 years, leave it alone.
I'm not into price growth alone. No dividend, no buy, no exception. Precipitous drop in dividends go on my 'sell' list. Yes, I have been guilty to being wedded to some of them, but I also have other weaknesses.
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#14, you can easily make it work. In 2012 Health care became the leading sector in the world. AMGN, PFE,MRK, and UNH all met your requirements and averaged a 105% return to the sell point in the summer of 2015. Tech was the leading sector in the world from Spring 2016 to the sell in October 2018. MSFT, CSCO, AGVO, met your req and averaged an 80% return. In Total, All Blue Chips, averaging 22% per year, including dividends from 2/2012 to 10/2018.
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Buy / sell signals based on markets crossing moving averages have been a staple on Wall St. for a very long time now. IIRC the classic text written in the 1950s noted that selling the broad market when it fell below its 200-day moving average *and* when the moving average had negative scope and buying on the opposite signal had returned a percentage in the very high teens over a half century. Modern money managers will tell you those signals still work today. Rolling that strategy to short term T-bills on each sale would probably raise the total return to north of 20% (as would including dividends which the old analyses don't consider).
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2008 taught me: Have a Pie Chart, not a Pie. Diversify. REITS, etc.
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"Is it a reason to cheer? Perhaps it would be if not for the fact that the gains are the strongest since 1987, when the Russell popped 11.87% over the first 12 trading days and the S&P rallied 11.22%."
Apparently when Trump is President even a strong stock market is a bad thing. Can't wait to see how they report the inevitable bear market.
[France 24] Jean-Baptiste Moreau, a farmer who splits his time between parliament and his cow sheds, thought he would be part of the solution to France's political problems when he was elected.
The 41-year-old won a seat in parliament in June 2017 in what some commentators termed a "velvet revolution" led by President Emmanuel Macron, which saw grumpy voters turf out a whole generation of MPs from the country's main political parties.
Macron's victorious centrist movement filled half its parliamentary seats with people who had never held political office before, including Moreau, who posted a picture on Twitter of himself delivering a calf on Christmas Day.
But less than two years after the biggest turnover in political personnel in 60 years, France has faced another anti-elite revolt led by "yellow vest" protesters commanding widespread public support.
"Given the weight of the legislative agenda, we've been very busy in the parliament and in Paris and not on the ground enough explaining how we want to do politics differently," Moreau said in an interview.
"And perhaps we've not been different enough from our predecessors," the MP from the central Creuse region told AFP in what he called a "mea culpa".
The failure of Macron's bid to restore faith in politicians in France could have repercussions in a country where anti-establishment far-right and far-left parties have never been so popular.
Research published last week by the Cevipof political institute at Sciences Po university found more than two thirds of the French people still had overwhelmingly negative views of politicians.
When asked to sum up their feelings towards them, 37 percent said they felt "distrust", 32 percent "disgust", eight percent "boredom" and four percent "fear".
Only France's roughly 35,000 mayors, seen as close to the people they represent, inspired confidence in a majority of people.
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[Task&Purpose] Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan said Wednesday he's won White House and bipartisan support for a bill to pay the nation's Coast Guard personnel during the shutdown.
He called the service members the hardest-hit of federal employees affected by the unprecedented lapse in government funding.
"I just got out of a fairly lengthy meeting with the president in the Oval Office," Sullivan said. "We talked about this, and he said he's supportive of the bill."
"We're making progress," he said.
Sullivan pushed for the bill's passage in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, the same day Coast Guard personnel nationwide missed their first paycheck during the closure.
"As you know, the partial government shutdown is negatively impacting federal workers, but none, none more so than the brave men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard," said Sullivan, chair of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on Security, with jurisdiction over the Coast Guard.
He said the bill would cover more than 41,000 active-duty Coast Guard personnel and retirees. About 1,908 active-duty Coast Guardsmen work in Alaska. The Coast Guard falls under the Department of Homeland Security, one of nine departments whose funding lapsed, but Coast Guard personnel are deemed essential and are working without pay.
[Breitbart] A near majority of Republicans do not have a favorable view of freshman Senator Willard "Mitt" Romney (R-UT), according to a PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll released on Thursday.
The poll, conducted January 10-13, found 48% of "Republicans and conservative-leaning" have an "unfavorable" view Romney. Just 29% view Romney favorably while another 23% are "unsure" or "never heard" of him.
Never Trumpers like Bill Kristol have said Romney is now the "leader of the Republican Resistance to" President Donald Trump, and the PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll again shows how unpopular of a label that is among Republicans.
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I voted for him when he ran. Hey, it was a choice between him and Osama bin Obama. He didn't fight when he ran and in hindsight, IMO he wouldn't fight for righteous American causes. There are reasons Trump got elected. People got fed up with the government corruption and the same old same old screwing.
I wouldn't vote for him again and I certainly would not vote for a Dem.
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Poll: Near Majority of Republicans View Romney Unfavorably
Maybe because he's not a Republican anymore then Bloomberg et al. Just old time liberals who know they stand a snowball's chance in hell trying to get a Donk socialist nomination these days.
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[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐As the government shutdown battle rages on, President Donald Trump is upping the ante by threatening to cancel Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's Netflix subscription.
Trump cited the "Constitution thing" as justification for the power play as he made a move to cut off her access from 24/7 streaming entertainment. "You mess with the bull, well, guess what? You get the horns," Trump said. "No more The Office, no more Parks & Rec for MS-13 Lover Nancy Pelosi. You'll see how quick she comes around on my wall."
Pelosi quickly held a press conference in which she stated the Netflix subscription was "absolutely necessary" for her government work.
"How can I be expected to do my job if I can't binge-watch The Andy Griffith Show?" Pelosi said. "This is a matter of national security."
The President has already cut off her Hulu subscription, but she could never figure out the interface anyway, according to sources.
[WND] In this era when there has been more information available to more people than at any time in the past, it is also true that there has been more misinformation from more different sources than ever. We are not talking about differences of opinion or inadequate verification, but about statements and catchwords in utter defiance of facts.
Among the most popular current catchwords are "climate change deniers." Stop and think. Have you ever ‐ even once in your entire life ‐ seen, heard or read even one human being who denied that climates change?
It is hard even to imagine how any minimally knowledgeable person could deny that climates change, when there are fossils of marine creatures in the Sahara Desert. Obviously there has been quite a climate change there.
The next time someone talks about "climate change deniers," ask them to name one ‐ and tell you just where specifically you can find that person’s words, declaring that climates do not change. You can bet the rent money that they cannot tell you.
Why all this talk about these mythical creatures called "climate change deniers"? Because there are some meteorologists and other scientists who refuse to join the stampede toward drastic economic changes to prevent what others say will be catastrophic levels of "global warming."
There are scientists on both sides of that issue. Presumably the issue could be debated on the basis of evidence and analysis. But this has become a political crusade, and political issues tend to be settled by political means, of which demonizing the opposition with catchwords is one.
[Campus Reform] A University of Georgia (UGA) teaching assistant wrote Wednesday on Facebook that "some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole in this struggle to advance to freedom." He added that to suggest otherwise is "ahistorical and dangerously naive."
UGA philosophy TA Irami Osei-Frimpong made the comment during a conversation on the Overheard at UGA Facebook page. The comment has since been deleted. Osei-Frimpong claimed in May 2017 that Facebook suspended him for quoting from an article which detailed how Texas A&M professor Tommy Curry had said "in order to be equal, in order to be liberated, some white people may have to die."
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"Killing some white people isn’t genocide; it’s killing some white people," the UGA TA explained in a Medium post. "We had to kill some white people to get out of slavery. Maybe if we’d killed more during the 20th century we still wouldn’t talk about racialized voter disenfranchisement and housing, education, and employment discrimination. This should not be controversial."
This guy is a philosophy student. He might couple that with a little history. Check out the Civil War jerk, many, many white people died for the emancipation cause. So FYVM.
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Actually, the kid has it right. It's just that the "white people" are the leaders of the Dims (not that I am advocating their killing), so the people of color can be released from the lib-prog welfare plantation.
It was the right thing to do. The fact that it's not appreciated by a certain segment of the population says more about them.
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Idiots. That's what is wrong with academia - people like this should be shown the door and tossed on their pointy little heads for being incredibly stupid.
First off, I have ancestors that fought on the UNION side to liberate your ancestors, so I've paid the debt through thier blood.
Second, what possible cause is there for violence now about wrongs from 100 years and more ago?
Third, my wife's people came over to escape communists and death camps, so they owe you precisely jack shit.
Fourth: Try to shed the blood of me and mine in the name of your stupidity, you will end up bleeding and/or dead. I am trained, and I am armed.
I can bet this: all these leftists advocating civil war or armed violence have never seen the real thing. All I can say to them is "You obviously have never seen real war, you don't know what you're asking for" And
"Please be at the front of the assault so I can be sure to shoot you first".
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It's too easy for somebody sitting in the ivy covered halls of academia to talk about violence when they know they will never get anywhere near it. I can't help wondering how this guy would react if somebody stuck a fist in his face, let alone a gun.
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Chris - unless you're willing to cover the financial and legal damage? STFU. People that have actual jobs where management might have a bone to pick with evidence provided will thank you and #3
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In a better time he would have been laughed off campus just ahead of the tar and feathers for saying something this stupid. Black communities being made whole, does not depend upon whites or asians or any others. It depends upon the black communities.
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Went to Costco today. A "black man" running a demo was trash-talking President Trump (He's a RACIST!) to a black woman who had some good things to say about PDJT.
Didn't report the a$$hole to store management, but this crap is unquestionably oozing its way into public discourse.
[Right Scoop] Trump gave a surprise message via video to the March for Life crowd today in Washington DC, vowing to veto any legislation that weakens the protection of human life:
THE HILL ‐ President Trump vowed in a video message to the March for Life on Friday to veto any legislation that "weakens the protection of human life."
"If they send any legislation to my desk that weakens the protection of human life, I will issue a veto and we have the support to uphold those vetoes," Trump said in the message displayed to a crowd gathered for the annual anti-abortion march in Washington.
"Every child is a sacred gift from God," Trump said in the message.
Vice President Pence spoke in person at the march, calling Trump a "champion" for abortion opponents.
"President Donald Trump is the most pro-life president in American history," Pence told the crowd.
Here’s the video itself. I’ve got it cued up to where Trump begins speaking at the 9 minute mark:
[National Review] Embattled Women’s March co-chairwoman Tamika Mallory refused to acknowledge the state of Israel’s right to exist during a recent interview on PBS’s The Firing Line and seemed to suggest that, unlike Palestinians, Israelis were not "native" to the region.
Mallory, who has been forced in recent days to confront questions about her association with notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, acknowledged during the interview that "all people have the right to exist" but would not address the legitimacy of the Israeli state.
"I’m not Jewish, so for me to speak to that is not fair . . . because I’m speaking of the people who we know are being brutally oppressed at this moment," Mallory told PBS’s Margaret Hoover. "Everyone has a right to exist. . . . I just don’t feel that everyone has a right to exist at the disposal of another group."
"I believe that all people have the right to exist. And that Palestinians are also suffering with a great crisis. And that there are other Jewish scholars who will sit here and say the same," she added. "I’m done talking about this, you can move on."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] To hear the left tell it, the coming caravans of migrants are nothing but a spontaneous move by Central Americans fleeing gangs and crime, as if crime had never existed in their countries before, welfare in the U.S. isn't a part of the equation, and the entire situation justifies illegal entry. All the focus is on migrants, with individual sob stories in the press dominating coverage.
[Market Watch] Much has been made about the performance of stocks so far in 2019.
[France 24] Jean-Baptiste Moreau, a farmer who splits his time between parliament and his cow sheds, thought he would be part of the solution to France's political problems when he was elected.
[Campus Reform] A University of Georgia (UGA) teaching assistant wrote Wednesday on Facebook that "some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole in this struggle to advance to freedom." He added that to suggest otherwise is "ahistorical and dangerously naive." 
