[Washington Examiner] One of MSNBC’s most prolific peddlers of conspiracy theories is here to tell you all about the dangers of conspiracy theories. How's that for expertise?
MSNBC contributor and self-declared U.S. intelligence "expert" Malcolm Nance, who has made a comfortable living in the Trump-era writing about Russia’s supposed control of the White House, spoke recently with the New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner.
In the interview, aptly titled "Malcolm Nance on the Danger of Conspiracy Theories," Chotiner pressed the intelligence "expert" about the time he defended MSNBC host Joy Reid’s hilariously absurd assertion that time traveling cyber bandits had hacked her personal blog and retrospectively uploaded homophobic articles bearing her byline.
When Reid alleged in 2018 that she had been the victim of a far-reaching cyber conspiracy, Nance rushed to her assistance, tweeting, "Clearly there is a Discredit & Humiliate campaign afoot. Apparently all progressives are secretly anti-gay bloggers. This has Wikileaks & AltRight written all over it. Expect more."
Chotiner, who has a gift for gutting his subjects with their own words, asked Nance, "Do you stand by this?"
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Wikis: Last Updated on August 30, 2018
Malcolm Nance is a decorated US military officer who served the country for over two decades. He is a retired CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and NSA (National Security Agency). He is one of the key members who helped to diffuse the plans of ISIS serving as an Arabic Cryptologist. Malcolm came into the spotlight when he was accused of being an ISIS member.
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibians voted on Wednesday in what was expected to be the toughest contest yet for the party that has ruled for three decades of independence, an election it was still expected to win despite a brutal economic crisis.
President Hage Geingob, Namibia’s third leader since the sparsely populated and mostly arid country freed itself from the shackles of apartheid South Africa in 1990, is seeking a second and final term from 1.3 million registered voters.
He faces nine challengers including Panduleni Itula, a dentist-turned-politician who is a member of the ruling SWAPO party but is running as an independent. Itula is popular with young people, nearly half of whom are unemployed.
Concurrent legislative polls will elect 96 members of parliament, testing SWAPO’s 77-seat majority. Polls opened at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) and close at 9 p.m. (1900 GMT).
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Ah yes, the removal of racist colonial statuary, the eating of grass and quiver tree bark, drinking of recycled waste water, all in keeping with the time-honoured Cuban socialist model.
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I would dare distinguish between the statues erected by a foreign conqueror who has been ejected one way or another, and removal of a nation's own monuments. Nobody seems to object to the destruction of Soviet monuments in Poland or Bulgaria (well, maybe the Russians do, but nobody else).
h/t Instapundit
[USAToday] If President Donald Trump is re-elected next November, he’ll owe a lot of his victory to the army of activists working tirelessly to put him over the top. No, I’m not talking about the red-hatted MAGA crowd, tireless as they are. I’m talking about the army of leftist activists whose nonstop craziness is moving moderates into the Trump column day by day.
Anti-Trump conservative Rod Dreher shares a letter from a reader who notes the unpersoning of feminist Posie Parker (her crime: not believing that transwomen are women) and the recent attacks on the Salvation Army and writes: "I have never voted for a Republican for president, and I can’t stand Trump. But the 'Tolerant Left' is making me so angry with them that I am thinking of voting for him. Since I live in Massachusetts the Electoral College makes it irrelevant, but it would be a protest vote."
...All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy, and they couldn’t even do that. They started out after the last election demanding that Donald Trump not be "normalized" as president ‐ and then proceeded to act as abnormally as possible. Weirdly, this strategy seems to be backfiring.
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Of course they will have plenty of others to blame. The stupid, selfish, bigoted deplorables, the "ungovernability" of the country, the failure to "get their message out," Russian interference, aliens (ones from outer space, that is)...
/sarc (because nuance and irony are challenging for some)
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What if we could hire that Russian troll farm, the Internet Research Agency, to pin Trump's coming re-election on the Martians. Launching a full-scale retaliatory invasion of Mars would be a yuuuge stimulus to commercial space. Yes, Elon Musk would be in the news on a daily basis, but it would be a small price to pay.
[Red State] This seems like a good use of some leftwinger’s time, right? The Freedom From Religion Foundation is going after a local sheriff and Kanye West for providing a little light in the darkness that is our prison system. Because what prisoners really need is to be deprived of a source of hope and belief in something greater than themselves.
This all happened after West held a completely voluntary church service with his choir at a local jail in Houston.
Despite the unmitigated good this service turned out to be, the FFRF decided to file a formal complaint against the Sheriff for allowing West to come.
In short, this was unconstitutional. You were elected to a secular office and to uphold a secular Constitution. You cannot use that public office to promote your personal religion, even if it happens to be a religion Kanye West shares. This constitutional violation is particularly egregious because it imposed religion on inmates‐literally a captive audience‐who have a deep and immediate interest in being seen favorably by you and your staff. When you signal that you prefer Christianity to inmates, you tell non-Christian inmates that they would be viewed more favorably if they convert to your preferred religion. It is no excuse that Kayne West is famous. If anything, this makes the violation worse because the captive audience may be more receptive to his message. Too often we see religion assisting the vulnerable as a means of converting the susceptible.
While Christians are vastly overrepresented in the prison population, it is still inappropriate to expose any prisoner to proselytizing, be it through music or a worship service. Now, more than one-quarter of Americans, 26%, are religiously unaffiliated and nearly 30% are non-Christians, either practicing a minority religion or no religion at all. Younger Americans are not just religiously 5 unaffiliated, they are largely atheist or agnostic. A recent survey found that 21 percent of Americans born after 1999 are atheist or agnostic.6
This is laughable horse-crap.
The First Amendment does not guarantee that religious activities may never happen within government facilities, much less prisons. Nor does it guarantee that a person never be exposed to religion. It simply guarantees that the government can not make religion compulsory, nor discriminate based on what someone’s religion (or lack of) may be.
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An example of a very small militant minority that has worked tirelessly to strip the vast majority/plurality of its enumerated rights. Aided and abetted by our judiciary aristocracy.
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I donate to Prison Fellowship every year for a while now. Never had any personal acquaintances in prison, but as #1 notes, that's one of the things Jesus wants me to do.
Also, it is a thumb in the eye of the muzz-prison industrial complex, so it gets me into the holiday spirit.
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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.
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibians voted on Wednesday in what was expected to be the toughest contest yet for the party that has ruled for three decades of independence, an election it was still expected to win despite a brutal economic crisis.
