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Manafort/Assange Drama Proves Media Will Buy
Any Russia Conspiracy Story, No Matter Its Flaws
by Mollie Hemingway
{thefederalist.com} ~ Many media figures have swallowed whole, without evidence, a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump became president by treasonously colluding with Russia... to steal the 2016 election from its rightful owner, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. The information operation that pushed this story turned out to have been secretly developed and funded by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, a fact uncovered only through the tenacious digging of Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the face of major opposition from the media and Democrats on the committee. The information operation has been fed to an increasingly compliant and credulous media with nearly no resistance. Fusion GPS is the scumbag/liar-Clinton- and Democrat-funded group that initiated the Russia collusion story, although it is now, according to congressional testimony, being spearheaded by the Democracy Integrity Project and funded to the tune of $50 million. The Washington Post quietly admitted, buried the news, really, that the operation was funded by scumbag-George Soros. The latest questionably sourced information in support of this dramatic tale that opponents of Trump cling to in order to delegitimize the results of the 2016 election is that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and, ominously, in spring of 2016, just as the Trump campaign was heating up. Assange is holed up in London at the Ecuadorian embassy there and published the hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and scumbag/liar-Clinton aide John Podesta. Even on first read the story seemed difficult to believe. It was based on anonymous sources so non-descript that they could be any of literally millions of people. A document from Ecuador’s Senain intelligence agency allegedly claimed a “Manaford” had visited Assange along with “Russians.” The story mentioned the discredited dossier that journalists wrote about and intelligence agencies used to secure wiretaps on Trump associates despite the failure to verify its claims....
Migrant Caravan Lies Exposed
By A Border Patrol Agent
by Stephanie Hamill
{dailycaller.com} ~ The president of the National Border Patrol Council sat down with the Daily Caller to talk about migrant caravan... that has reached the border town Tijuana. Brandon Judd, who has served as a border patrol agent for over 20 years, separates fact from fiction on the caravan. He tells The Daily Caller things the liberal media won’t..
Antifa Thugs Rob and Assault
Marines while Calling them ‘Nazis’
by Ben Sellers
{libertyheadlines.com} ~ A group of Marine Corps. reservists may have gone to a Philadelphia “We the People” rally on Nov. 17 seeking solidarity with “all Patriots... Militia, 3%, Constitution-loving Americans, pro good cop, pro ICE, pro law and order, pro life, pro American value, pro gun and anti illegal immigration” demonstrators. Instead, they were assaulted near the birthplace of American independence by a gang of criminal, domestic-terrorist thugs associated with Antifa, who called the servicemen “Nazis” and “white supremacists,” according to Philadelphia magazine. The magazine said it was unclear from available information whether the victims were, in fact, participants in the rally prior to the assault. One of the ringleaders of the city’s Antifa movement, 33-year-old Tom Keenan, has now turned himself in for the crime and is being charged with two counts each of criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, simple assault and reckless endangerment. According to police, the suspects—described as “numerous males and females” sprayed Mace at the Marines and then punched and kicked them, as well as stealing a cell phone. Although the perpetrators fled the scene, police released a video showing some of them earlier in the day, which may have helped identify Keenan... https://www.libertyheadlines.com/philly-antifa-assault-marines/.
61 Media Mistakes in the
Trump Era: The Definitive List
by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~ We the media have “fact-checked” President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet—and he’s certainly given us plenty to write about... That’s probably why it’s so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and “lies.” But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, we’ve largely excused our own unprecedented string of fact-challenged reporting. The truth is, formerly well-respected, top news organizations are making repeat, unforced errors in numbers that were unheard of just a couple of years ago. Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they’re established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories—without labeling them as opinions. What’s worse, we defend ourselves by trying to convince the public that our mistakes are actually a virtue because we sometimes correct them. Or we blame Trump for why we’re getting so much wrong. It’s a little bit like a police officer taking someone to jail for DUI, then driving home drunk himself: he may be correct to arrest the suspect, but he should certainly know better than to commit the same violation... https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/11/27/50-media-mistakes-in-the-trump-era-the-definitive-list/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29.
Manafort Slams Report About Meeting with
Assange, Says it’s “False” and “Libelous”
by Sara Carter.
Social Media-itisby Lewis Morris: Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania may have finally proven what people have suspected for years: Social media is bad for your mental health. Okay, maybe that’s a little exaggerated, but professors Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson, and Jordyn Young at UPenn’s psychology department found that decreasing social media usage can reduce feelings of depression and loneliness. It may also reduce a person’s narcissistic and other self-centered behavior.
The study, published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, delved into the social-media habits of 143 University of Pennsylvania students over a period of several weeks. Half the students used Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat like they normally would, while the other half restricted their usage to 10 minutes a day. Both groups where evaluated throughout the course of the study on seven different scales measuring moods and psychological well-being.
The group that significantly restricted their social-media usage demonstrated improved mental health, while the other group showed signs of increased depression and loneliness.
Participants in the study noted feeling happier when they used social media less. “Not comparing my life to the lives of others had a much stronger impact than I expected,” said one student. “I felt a lot more positive about myself during those weeks.”
This report breaks new ground in the study of social media and its effects on human behavior because prior studies only found a correlation between social media and depression, whereas the work at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates that social media may be the cause of depression.
More work needs to be done to determine the cause and effect of such behaviors, but we already have the evidence we need to prove that over-reliance on social media is harming our society. Many people in today’s youngest generation, who never knew a world without social media, have become so entranced by the power of social-media platforms that they make most decisions based on gleanings from the online world.
Depression, loneliness, and attempted suicides among adolescents have risen sharply since 2010. There is also a steep rise in the number of people suffering from narcissism. These are not just people who are stuck on themselves in the classic sense; these are people so self-absorbed that it negatively impacts their lives and their ability to have functional relationships with other people.
Social media does have value. It can help spread information, it keeps us connected with people, and it can bring together people of common interest who might not otherwise connect. However, the creators of these platforms have designed it in such a way as to make it addictive.
Facebook’s “like” button, which has since been copied by many other social media platforms, is a perfect example. What started out as a simple feature to show approval for someone’s post became a craving for affirmation. Very quickly, people drew a direct connection between how many “likes” they received with their sense of self-worth. Instead of sharing information on social media for the sake of sharing it, people began crafting posts specifically to draw positive responses from others. The number of likes or followers a person collected on social media inflated or deflated their self-worth, skewing their sense of self-importance, and hampering their ability to negotiate social interactions.
As we have said many times, on platforms like Facebook and Twitter you are the product. The goal of these companies is to rope you in, collect as much data on you as possible, and use that data to make money, either by selling your data outright to third parties or by selling you products or services. The platforms will tell you whatever you want to hear and show you whatever you want to see to keep you coming back.
One way to combat the problem is to exercise personal responsibility and treat social media more like a disease. Throughout history, one of the best ways to combat disease was nutrition. The same can be done for social media.
Proper nutrition creates a healthier body and a stronger immune system, making it harder for disease to take hold. The same can be done for the mind, making people more resilient to the ill effects of social-media addiction. Examples of this include engaging in critical thinking, healthy skepticism to group ideas, and using common sense can protect yourself from the mass hysteria, fake news, and narcissistic impulses that social media so easily breeds. ~The Patriot Post
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