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Former Al-Jazeera anchor
says TV network aids terrorists
by Eli Lake
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Brown, Castile Families Win Race Bait Lotto
In an effort to put the whole debacle in the past, the City of Ferguson, Missouri, settled a civil suit brought over the death of Michael Brown. The $1.5 million settlement will be paid out by the city's insurance company and split between Brown's parents. Recall that the grand jury found no legitimate reason to indict Officer Darren Wilson on any charges, and even Barack liar-nObama's Justice Department found nothing wrong with Wilson's actions. But just like that, Brown's parents won the latest round of the legal lotto. The same thing happened Monday morning in the Minneapolis suburb where Philando Castile was killed by Officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop last summer. Castile's mother was awarded $3 million.
Like the payouts for the deaths of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner, the settlements in these cases of alleged police brutality have never been about justice.
These are now the third and fourth settlements of lawsuits for a death in which a city caved to the mob, even though no injustice was ever proven. (We'll grant that Castile's case is different and easily the most sympathetic, but a jury acquitted Yanez last week.) In each of these incidents law enforcement was found to have acted legally, yet by agreeing to these settlements these cities willingly perpetuate the fabrication that a culture of institutional racism exists within law enforcement. It's important to note that Ferguson birthed the Black Lives Matter movement, which is allegedly in support of blacks. However, it's a movement based on a lie, and its proponents have led destructive protests and riots costing millions in property damage around the country, often to the very communities they claim to represent. Baltimore, New York City and now Ferguson and St. Anthony are helping to set a precedent where if violent, rioting mobs drum up enough frenzy, then money will flow soon after to make the issue go away.
~The Patriot Post
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FSM VIDEO
Jesse vs. Jesse: Things get HEATED when Watters confronts Ventura over Chris Kyle suit
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Army Sergeant Makes Surprise Visit to Fifth-Graders Who Sent Him Cards
VIDEO: http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5482431556001
VIDEO: http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5482431556001
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Former DOJ whistleblower talks case against Loretta Lynch
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5482741882001
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5482741882001
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Kellyanne Conway vs. Stephanopoulos on Medicaid
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgRcqwPpa4
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgRcqwPpa4
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Spicer says President Trump's remarks about possible Comey tapes brought out truth
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5482804134001
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5482804134001
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Jihadi Visa, Travel Ban
Reinstated By Supreme Court
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ For the time being, President Trump is able to act in the manner prescribed under the Constitution, as the Commander-in-Chief, in defense of our nation... The Supreme Court has reinstated most of the executive order banning travel from six terrorist nations and imposing a pause on the “Refugee” importation repopulation scheme. The Supreme Court will take up the matter more fully this fall, but for now, President Trump has the green light. The Supreme Court actions affirms, the liar-nObama operative so-called judges exceeded their authority, ruled upon political bias and speculation, and diminished themselves, their courts and our judiciary. President Trump issued a statement saying, “Today’s unanimous Supreme Court decision is a clear victory for our national security. It allows the travel suspension for the six terror-prone countries and the refugee suspension to become largely effective...http://rickwells.us/trump-wins-jihadi-visa-travel-ban-reinstated-supreme-court/.
Anger Privilege
by Daniel Greenfield
{aim.org} ~ There are people in this country who can safely express their anger. And those who can’t... If you’re angry that Trump won, your anger is socially acceptable. If you were angry that liar-nObama won, it wasn’t. James Hodgkinson’s rage was socially acceptable. It continued to be socially acceptable until he crossed the line into murder. And he’s not alone. There’s Micah Xavier Johnson, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Dallas, and Gavin Long, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Baton Rouge. If you’re black and angry about the police, your anger is celebrated. If you’re white and angry about the Terror travel ban, the Paris Climate treaty, liar-nObamaCare repeal or any leftist cause, you’re on the side of the angry angels. But if you’re white and angry that your job is going to China or that you just missed being killed in a Muslim suicide bombing, your anger is unacceptable....http://www.aim.org/guest-column/anger-privilege/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-27-2017&utm_medium=email.
Trump PAC Targeting GOP Sen Heller,
Not Cruz – Cavuto Asks Why
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Dean Heller, a Republican representing Nevada, is being sent a not too subtle message by the Trump administration through their proxy organization, America First policies... Heller has been forced into a situation in which the popular Republican Governor, whose support is vital to Heller in the battleground state, is opposed to the Republican “Better Care Reconciliation Act.” Heller has likewise come out in opposition and for fundamentally the same reasons, Medicaid, mental health, substance abuse and disability coverage. Neil Cavuto sees what’s going on a fundamentally unfair, the targeting of the most vulnerable Senator to bully him into submission under the threat of facing a primary opponent supported by the Administration. He takes the issue up with Katrina Pierson, a spokeswoman for the PAC that is attacking Heller. He asks, “Is it fair to say, Katrina, that Senator Heller is going to be targeted by Republicans because of his stance?” She replies in general terms about the length of time the American people have been promised a repeal of liar-nObamacare, saying, “The biggest problem that I believe that many of us have with this particular stance is because these guys have been campaigning forever on repealing and replacing liar-nObamacare.”...http://rickwells.us/trump-pac-targeting-gop-sen-heller-not-cruz-cavuto-asks-gets-babble/
VIDEO # 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msv1trCuyeY
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California’s $400-Billion
Single-payer Bill Tabled for the Year
by Michael Tennant
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Californians have been spared the horrors of single-payer healthcare for a little longer, thanks to a Friday decision by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon... to put a universal healthcare bill passed by the state Senate on hold for the remainder of the year. Rendon, a Democrat who supports single-payer, said in a statement that he was keeping the bill in committee “until further notice” rather than bringing it to the floor for a vote. He called the bill, which would replace California’s current public and private health-insurance systems with a single state-run program to cover virtually all healthcare expenses, “woefully incomplete.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/26326-california-s-400-billion-single-payer-bill-tabled-for-the-year
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Former Al-Jazeera anchor
says TV network aids terrorists
by Eli Lake
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Mohamed Fahmy is the last person one would expect to make the case against al-Jazeera.
In 2014, the former Cairo bureau chief for the Qatar-funded television network began a 438-day sentence in an Egyptian prison on terrorism charges and practicing unlicensed journalism. His incarceration made al-Jazeera a powerful symbol of resistance to Egypt's military dictatorship.
Today Fahmy is preparing a lawsuit against his former employers. And while he is still highly critical of the regime that imprisoned him, he also says the Egyptian government is correct in saying al-Jazeera is really a propaganda channel for Islamists and an arm of Qatari foreign policy.
"The more the network coordinates and takes directions from the government, the more it becomes a mouthpiece for Qatari intelligence," he told me in an interview Thursday. "There are many channels who are biased, but this is past bias. Now al-Jazeera is a voice for terrorists."
Fahmy's testimony is particularly important now. Al-Jazeera is at the center of a crisis ripping apart the Arab Gulf states. Earlier this month Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain imposed a political and diplomatic blockade on Qatar. As part of that blockade, al-Jazeera has been kicked out of those countries.
The treatment of al-Jazeera as an arm of the Qatari state as opposed to a news organization does not sit well with many in the West. This week a New York Times editorial accused Qatar's foes of "muzzling" a news outlet "that could lead citizens to question their rulers" in the Arab world.
In some ways it's understandable for English-speaking audiences to take this view. Al-Jazeera's English-language broadcasts certainly veer politically to the left. At times the channel has sucked up to police states. The channel embarrassed itself with such fluff as a recent sycophantic feature on female traffic cops in North Korea.
But al-Jazeera English has also broken some important stories. It worked with Human Rights Watch to uncover documents mapping out the links between Libyan intelligence under Moammar Gadhafi and the British and U.S. governments.
Al-Jazeera's Arabic broadcasts, however, have not met these same standards in recent years. To start, the network still airs a weekly talk show from Muslim Brotherhood theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He has used his platform to argue that Islamic law justifies terrorist attacks against Israelis and U.S. soldiers. U.S. military leaders, such as retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded forces in the initial campaign to stabilize Iraq, have said publicly that al-Jazeera reporters appeared to have advance knowledge of terrorist attacks. Fahmy told me that in his research he has learned that instructions were given to journalists not to refer to al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra, as a terrorist organization.
He said Qatar's neighbors were justified in banning al-Jazeera. "Al-Jazeera has breached the true meaning of press freedom that I advocate and respect by sponsoring these voices of terror like Yusuf al Qaradawi," he said. "If al-Jazeera continues to do that, they are directly responsible for many of these lone wolves, many of these youth that are brain washed."
Fahmy didn't always have this opinion of his former employer. He began to change his views while serving time. It started in the "scorpion block" of Egypt's notorious Tora prison. During his stay, he came to know some of Egypt's most notorious Islamists.
"When I started meeting and interviewing members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their sympathizers, they specifically told me they had been filming protests and selling it to al-Jazeera and dealing fluidly with the network and production companies in Egypt associated with the network," he said. One example of al-Jazeera's coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood revolves around Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in the summer of 2013, following the military coup that unseated Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president. As part of Fahmy's case against al-Jazeera, he took testimony from a former security guard for the network and the head of the board of trustees for Egyptian state television. Both testified that members of the Muslim Brotherhood seized the broadcast truck al-Jazeera used to air the sit-ins that summer. In other words, al-Jazeera allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to broadcast its own protests.
That incident happened in the weeks before Fahmy was hired to be the network's Cairo bureau chief. He says he was unaware of these ties to the Muslim Brotherhood until he began doing his own research and reporting from an Egyptian prison.
When Fahmy learned of these arrangements, he said, he became angry. It undermined his case before the Egyptian courts that he was unaffiliated with any political party or terrorist groups inside Egypt. "To me this is a big deal, this is not acceptable," he said. "It put me in danger because it's up to me to convince the judge that I was just doing journalism."
Fahmy was released from prison in 2015, but not because al-Jazeera's lawyers made a good case for him. Rather, it was the work of human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, who eventually got him safely out of the country to Canada.
Now Fahmy is turning his attention to al-Jazeera. He is pressing a court in British Columbia to hear his case in January against the network, from whom he is seeking $100 million in damages for breach of contract, misrepresentation and negligence.
Fahmy's case is one more piece of evidence that the al-Jazeera seen by English-speaking audiences is not the al-Jazeera seen throughout the Muslim world. It's one more piece of evidence that Qatar's foreign policy is a double game: It hosts a military base the U.S. uses to fight terror, while funding a media platform for extremists.
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Mohamed Fahmy is the last person one would expect to make the case against al-Jazeera.
In 2014, the former Cairo bureau chief for the Qatar-funded television network began a 438-day sentence in an Egyptian prison on terrorism charges and practicing unlicensed journalism. His incarceration made al-Jazeera a powerful symbol of resistance to Egypt's military dictatorship.
Today Fahmy is preparing a lawsuit against his former employers. And while he is still highly critical of the regime that imprisoned him, he also says the Egyptian government is correct in saying al-Jazeera is really a propaganda channel for Islamists and an arm of Qatari foreign policy.
"The more the network coordinates and takes directions from the government, the more it becomes a mouthpiece for Qatari intelligence," he told me in an interview Thursday. "There are many channels who are biased, but this is past bias. Now al-Jazeera is a voice for terrorists."
Fahmy's testimony is particularly important now. Al-Jazeera is at the center of a crisis ripping apart the Arab Gulf states. Earlier this month Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain imposed a political and diplomatic blockade on Qatar. As part of that blockade, al-Jazeera has been kicked out of those countries.
The treatment of al-Jazeera as an arm of the Qatari state as opposed to a news organization does not sit well with many in the West. This week a New York Times editorial accused Qatar's foes of "muzzling" a news outlet "that could lead citizens to question their rulers" in the Arab world.
In some ways it's understandable for English-speaking audiences to take this view. Al-Jazeera's English-language broadcasts certainly veer politically to the left. At times the channel has sucked up to police states. The channel embarrassed itself with such fluff as a recent sycophantic feature on female traffic cops in North Korea.
But al-Jazeera English has also broken some important stories. It worked with Human Rights Watch to uncover documents mapping out the links between Libyan intelligence under Moammar Gadhafi and the British and U.S. governments.
Al-Jazeera's Arabic broadcasts, however, have not met these same standards in recent years. To start, the network still airs a weekly talk show from Muslim Brotherhood theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He has used his platform to argue that Islamic law justifies terrorist attacks against Israelis and U.S. soldiers. U.S. military leaders, such as retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded forces in the initial campaign to stabilize Iraq, have said publicly that al-Jazeera reporters appeared to have advance knowledge of terrorist attacks. Fahmy told me that in his research he has learned that instructions were given to journalists not to refer to al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra, as a terrorist organization.
He said Qatar's neighbors were justified in banning al-Jazeera. "Al-Jazeera has breached the true meaning of press freedom that I advocate and respect by sponsoring these voices of terror like Yusuf al Qaradawi," he said. "If al-Jazeera continues to do that, they are directly responsible for many of these lone wolves, many of these youth that are brain washed."
Fahmy didn't always have this opinion of his former employer. He began to change his views while serving time. It started in the "scorpion block" of Egypt's notorious Tora prison. During his stay, he came to know some of Egypt's most notorious Islamists.
"When I started meeting and interviewing members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their sympathizers, they specifically told me they had been filming protests and selling it to al-Jazeera and dealing fluidly with the network and production companies in Egypt associated with the network," he said. One example of al-Jazeera's coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood revolves around Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in the summer of 2013, following the military coup that unseated Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president. As part of Fahmy's case against al-Jazeera, he took testimony from a former security guard for the network and the head of the board of trustees for Egyptian state television. Both testified that members of the Muslim Brotherhood seized the broadcast truck al-Jazeera used to air the sit-ins that summer. In other words, al-Jazeera allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to broadcast its own protests.
That incident happened in the weeks before Fahmy was hired to be the network's Cairo bureau chief. He says he was unaware of these ties to the Muslim Brotherhood until he began doing his own research and reporting from an Egyptian prison.
When Fahmy learned of these arrangements, he said, he became angry. It undermined his case before the Egyptian courts that he was unaffiliated with any political party or terrorist groups inside Egypt. "To me this is a big deal, this is not acceptable," he said. "It put me in danger because it's up to me to convince the judge that I was just doing journalism."
Fahmy was released from prison in 2015, but not because al-Jazeera's lawyers made a good case for him. Rather, it was the work of human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, who eventually got him safely out of the country to Canada.
Now Fahmy is turning his attention to al-Jazeera. He is pressing a court in British Columbia to hear his case in January against the network, from whom he is seeking $100 million in damages for breach of contract, misrepresentation and negligence.
Fahmy's case is one more piece of evidence that the al-Jazeera seen by English-speaking audiences is not the al-Jazeera seen throughout the Muslim world. It's one more piece of evidence that Qatar's foreign policy is a double game: It hosts a military base the U.S. uses to fight terror, while funding a media platform for extremists.
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