The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The Politics of ‘The Shallows’
by Peggy Noonan
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Diversity =Racism
Yesterday Barack nObama ordered the implementation of diversity measures for national security agencies based on standards recommended by a Justice Department report for "Advancing Diversity in Law Enforcement." The report highlighted the racial disparity within law enforcement when compared to the demographics of the communities which they served. The Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will engage with law enforcement across the country to host "Diversity Dialogues." Clearly, this is part of nObama's narrative about racism.
It was also learned on Wednesday that nObama is proposing a new racial category, that of "Middle Eastern," be added to the official lexicon of races recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau. If the proposal is adopted, this new racial identity will available for the 2020 census. One wonders if this is not a means of codifying Donald Trump as a racist for his desire to limit immigration from the Middle East. It would certainly make such restrictions more difficult to implement, because "race" would be a factor.
The continued push for the politically correct ideal of "diversity" is in reality a form of soft racism. If the means of determining whether or not an individual should be hired for a position within law enforcement is based upon that person's race, then by definition that is racism. What makes America unique is our history of defining ourselves as a nation, however imperfect, not based upon some ethnic group, but upon a Constitution which recognizes all citizens as having equal rights under the law. This constant push by the Left to divide citizens into various racial categories and then pit them against one another by suggesting that if one group is prospering then it must be at the expense of another is absolutely un-American. ~The Patriot Post
It was also learned on Wednesday that nObama is proposing a new racial category, that of "Middle Eastern," be added to the official lexicon of races recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau. If the proposal is adopted, this new racial identity will available for the 2020 census. One wonders if this is not a means of codifying Donald Trump as a racist for his desire to limit immigration from the Middle East. It would certainly make such restrictions more difficult to implement, because "race" would be a factor.
The continued push for the politically correct ideal of "diversity" is in reality a form of soft racism. If the means of determining whether or not an individual should be hired for a position within law enforcement is based upon that person's race, then by definition that is racism. What makes America unique is our history of defining ourselves as a nation, however imperfect, not based upon some ethnic group, but upon a Constitution which recognizes all citizens as having equal rights under the law. This constant push by the Left to divide citizens into various racial categories and then pit them against one another by suggesting that if one group is prospering then it must be at the expense of another is absolutely un-American. ~The Patriot Post
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IMF Downgrades U.S. Economic Outlook
During Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Tim Kaine touted the economic rebound he claimed Americans have enjoyed under Barack nObama — including that 15 million new jobs were created. Two things: That depends on whether you start measuring in 2010, and jobs created are far from the only measure of economic health. The reality is that Americans have endured one of the slowest periods of economic growth in our nation's history.
On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded to 1.6% the economic outlook for the U.S. in 2016. This is a 38% drop from last year's already underwhelming growth rate of 2.6%. This is the largest one-year drop for an advanced economy ever seen, according to the report. The report stated, "The weakness in business fixed investment appears to reflect the continued decline in capital spending in the energy sector, the impact of recent dollar strength on investment in export-oriented industries, and possibly also the financial market volatility and recession fears of late 2015 and early 2016."
The reported noted that the decline in the unemployment rate, which often has been touted by nObama and liar-Clinton as a sign that the economy is healthy and recovering, can be somewhat deceptive because it can act as a false barometer overstating the actual condition of the economy. As Mike Pence said, "The policies of this administration, which liar-Hillary Clinton and Senator Kaine want to continue, have run this economy into a ditch." He's right. ~The Patriot Post.
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6 Major Media Conspiracies Happening
Right in Front of Your Eyes
by Sigmund Fraud
{thedailysheeple.com} ~ Woven into the ever-evolving narrative of the mainstream media are key plot lines, hidden in the sub-text of so-called current events, going for the most part unnoticed by the public... We could say this happens by chance but since we already know the structure and purpose of corporate media, this would be naive and dangerously forgiving of an organization that plays an authoritative role in manufacturing reality. And since political, economic, social and environmental reality is an affront to our greatest human potential, to say the least, it serves us well to acknowledge and expose the directives we are being provoked into accepting and acting on... http://www.thedailysheeple.com/6-major-media-conspiracies-happening-right-in-front-of-your-eyes_102016
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liar-Clintons Accused Of Dodging Federal Taxes, Established 'Shell Companies'
by Hannity.com Staff
{hannity.com} ~ While the hand-wringing over Donald Trump's 1994 tax returns continues, it wasn't long ago that the liar-Clintons themselves were under a microscope for engaging in tax-avoidance... In 2014, Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton were exposed for engaging in creative accounting practices in order to minimize their exposure to the Estate Tax, a tax that liar-Hillary, ironically, hopes to raise to 65% if elected president. The Estate Tax, which is commonly derided as the "death tax", is a tax on assets an estate upon an individual's death. To reduce the tax pinch, the liar-Clintons are using financial planning strategies befitting the top 1 percent of U.S. households in wealth. These moves, common among multimillionaires, will help shield some of their estate from the tax that now tops out at 40 percent of assets upon death... http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/uh-oh-clintons-accused-of-dodging-15164836/
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IL Residents Report Being Offered
Bribes For Voting Democrat
by Brittany M. Hughes
{mrctv.org} ~ There's a mere four weeks left to go before the presidential election, and the allegations of voter fraud just. Keep. Coming... The Kankakee Daily Journal, a local newspaper in a county just south of Chicago, reported last week that several citizens in the small county reported they were offered bribes in return for casting votes for Democrats. Voting officials were also looking into reports that some mail-in voter applications had been filed from outside the county. The Kankakee County State's Attorney's office says it is investigating possible voting fraud after the clerk's office reported three complaints from people who said they were offered bribes for votes... http://www.mrctv.org/blog/
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liar-Hillary In Leaked Email: Saudi Arabia
And Qatar Are Funding ISIS
by Alex Pfeiffer
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton sent an email to her campaign chairman John Podesta in 2014, who was then-counselor to President Barack nObama... that said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both giving financial and logistical support to the Islamic State and other extremist Sunni groups, according to a recent Wikileaks release. liar-Clinton sent the email on August 17, 2014 to Podesta. It was an eight-point plan to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. liar-Clinton’s email said that the United States should support Kurdish forces on the ground with U.S. military advisers and avoid the use of a conventional ground operation. “While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region,” liar-Clinton wrote...Sent on an unsecure device.
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Soros Money, Muslim Advocates Leader,
Helped Weaken Homeland Security Policies
by JOHN ROSSOMANDO
by JOHN ROSSOMANDO
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A Muslim legal group, girded with $1.8 million in grant money from George Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF), has helped influence major policy changes in the war on terror... including the Department of Homeland Security's screening of individuals with suspected terror ties and the FBI's training program for its agents working in counterterrorism. Internal records, made public by the hacking group DC Leaks, show OSF spent $40 million between 2008 and 2010 on programs aimed at weakening U.S. counterterrorism policy. Muslim Advocates' Executive Director Farhana Khera played a key role in shaping the foundations' spending. Khera co-authored a 2007 memo that "informed" the foundations' U.S. Programs Board's decision to create the National Security and Human Rights Campaign (NSHRC), a Sept. 14, 2010 OSF document discussing the program's reauthorization, shows...
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/soros-money-muslim-advocates-leader-helped-weaken-homeland-security-policies?f=must_reads
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ISIS to Enemies: If You Approach
We’ll Kill Yazidi Sex Slaves
This Yazidi woman sought refuge in Germany. She lost her daughter in Iraq
{clarionproject.org} ~ Facing further territorial losses, ISIS says it will kill its Yazidi sex slaves if coalition forces come any closer... Islamic State is holding the women in a series of homes in al-Hakne, a village on the Tigris river in northern Iraq. Coalition forces have already taken the other side of the river and are threatening the ISIS stronghold. In recent weeks at least one of the women committed suicide after facing torture and mistreatment, eyewitnesses told Almada newspaper. The 20 year old was raped, made pregnant and miscarried before seizing a gun from a sleeping guard and turning it on herself... http://www.clarionproject.org/news/isis-enemies-if-you-approach-we%E2%80%99ll-kill-yazidi-sex-slaves
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liar-Clinton Campaign Email & William Safire Agree:
liar-Hillary Clinton is A Congenital Liar
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ I think I have found my favorite Wikileaks email so far. it is from Brent Budowsky who worked for former U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tx) and former Congressman Bill Alexander D-Ark... Brent left government work in 1990 and among other places writes for the Hill and the Huffington post. Budowsky but has at least 17 emails in the WikiLeaks Podesta files. In an email sent March 13th of this year Brent said he is worried about the election because liar-Hillary lies too much. Brent is in good company because 20-years-ago NY Times columnist William Safire called liar-Hillary Clinton a congenital liar... http://lidblog.com/wikileaks-campaign-email-hillary-lies-often/
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Refugees or an Occupation Army?
by Maria Polizoidou
by Maria Polizoidou
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What does an occupation army do when it is installed in a country? It occupies the land, forcing residents to follow its own way of life. It implements measures against the country's inhabitants, it propagandizes its beliefs and uses force to have them imposed... This, sadly, is what has been happening in Greece from the migrants who seem to "forget" that they are hosted in Greece and force the Greeks to feel like guests in their own country. If someone is a war refugee or his life is in danger in his homeland, it would seem appropriate, when he arrives in the country which offers him asylum, to be grateful to this country, respect its history, its people its values and its laws. The same would hold true for an immigrant who wants to go to a country where he hopes he will find a better future...
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Bill Whittle's Firewall: Debating liar-Hillary,
Part 5: Fighting ISIS
{frontpagemag.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton says she has a "plan" to "really squeeze ISIS in Syria."... It seems like Syria might be squeezed enough already. In Part 5 of this 6-part series, Bill Whittle lays out the historical facts that show that liar-Clinton and nObama CREATED ISIS... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264457/bill-whittles-firewall-debating-hillary-part-5-truthrevoltorg
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Bill Whittle's Firewall: Debating liar-Hillary,
Part 6: Provocations
{frontpagemag.com} ~ In the final installment of this six-part series, Bill Whittle challenges liar-Hillary's sneering at Trump about "provocations starting a war." Trump was 100% right, she was 100% wrong, and Bill lines up the history to prove it... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264460/bill-whittles-firewall-debating-hillary-part-6-truthrevoltorg
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The Politics of ‘The Shallows’
by Peggy Noonan
{peggynoonan.com} ~ What impact has the modern media environment had on the 2016 campaign? I know that’s a boring sentence, but journalists and politicians talk about it a lot, journalists uneasily and politicians with frustration. The 24/7 news cycle and the million multiplying platforms with their escalating demands—for pictures, video, sound, the immediate hot take—exhaust politicians and staff, and media people too. Everyone is tired, and chronically tired people live, perilously, on the Edge of Stupid. More important, modern media realities make everything intellectually thinner, shallower. Everything moves fast; we talk not of the scandal of the day but the scandal of the hour, reducing a great event, a presidential campaign, into an endless river of gaffes.
The need to say something becomes the tendency to say anything. It makes everything dumber, grosser, less important.
This year I am seeing something, especially among the young of politics and journalism. They have received most of what they know about political history through screens. They are college graduates, they’re in their 20s or 30s, they’re bright and ambitious, but they have seen the movie and not read the book. They’ve heard the sound bite but not read the speech. Their understanding of history, even recent history, is superficial. They grew up in the internet age and have filled their brainspace with information that came in the form of pictures and sounds. They learned through sensation, not through books, which demand something deeper from your brain. Reading forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect. It provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events.
Watching a movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis shows you a drama. Reading about it shows you a dilemma. The book makes you imagine the color, sound, tone and tension, the logic of events: It makes your brain do work. A movie is received passively: You sit back, see, hear. Books demand and reward. When you read them your knowledge base deepens and expands. In time that depth comes to inform your work, sometimes in ways of which you’re not fully conscious.
In the past 18 months I talked to three young presidential candidates—people running for president, real grown-ups—who, it was clear to me by the end of our conversations, had, in their understanding of modern American political history, seen the movie and not read the book. Two of them, I’ve come to know, can recite whole pages of dialogue from movies. It is interesting to me that the movies our politicians have most memorized are “The Godfather” Parts I and II.
Everyone in politics is getting much of what they know through the internet, through Google searches and Wikipedia. They can give you a certain sense of things but are by nature quick and shallow reads that link to other quick and shallow reads. Sometimes subjects are treated in a tendentious manner, reflecting the biases or limited knowledge of the writer.
If you get your information mostly through the Web, you’ll get stuck in “The Shallows,” which is the name of a book by Nicholas Carr about what the internet is doing to our brains. Media, he reminds us, are not just channels of information: “They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” The internet is chipping away at our “capacity for concentration and contemplation.” “Once I was a scuba driver in the sea of words,” writes Mr. Carr. “Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
If you can’t read deeply you will not be able to think deeply. If you can’t think deeply you will not be able to lead well, or report well.
There is another aspect of this year’s media environment, and it would be wrong not to speak it. It is that the mainstream media appear to have decided Donald Trump is so uniquely a threat to democracy, so appalling as a political figure, such a break with wholesome political tradition, that they are justified in showing, day by day, not only opposition but utter antagonism toward him. That surely has some impact on what Kellyanne Conway calls “undercover Trump voters.” They know what polite people think of them; they know their support carries a social stigma. Last week I saw a CNN daytime anchor fairly levitate with anger as she reported on Mr. Trump; I thought she was going to have an out-of-body experience and start floating over the shiny glass desk. She surely knew she’d pay no price for her shown disdain, and might gain Twitter followers.
Guys, this isn’t helping. Tell the story, ask the questions, trust the people, give it to them straight, report both sides. It’s the most constructive thing you could do right now, when any constructive act comes as a real relief.
In a country whose institutions are in such fragile shape, mainstream media very much among them, it does no good for its members to damage further their own reputations for fairness, probity, judgment. Books will be written about this, though I’m not sure they’ll read them.
As to Monday’s debate, liar-Hillary Clinton won. The story leading up to it was that she was frail, her health bad. Instead she was vibrant, confident, smiling and present. Sometimes when Mrs. liar-Clinton speaks you sense she’s operating at a level of distraction, reviewing her performance in real time or thinking about dinner. Here her mind was on the mission. She did not fall into the hectoring cadence that is a harassment to the ear. She said nothing remotely interesting.
Mr. Trump’s job was to leave you able to imagine him as president. You could have, but it would be a grumpy, grouchy president with thin skin.
Neither quite got across the idea that they were in it for America and not themselves.
When you are a politician leaving the debate stage you always know if you won. You can feel it. You know when it worked and when it didn’t. You ask everyone, “How’d I do?” but you know the answer. And you’re happy. What you get after such a victory is the whoosh. The whoosh is the wind at your back that gives the spring to your step. You get the jolly look and your laugh is a real laugh and not an enactment, and all this makes you better at the next stop, which makes the crowd cheer louder, and then you really know you’ve got the whoosh.
The whoosh can carry you for days or weeks, until there’s a reversal of some kind. Then you lose the sense of magical good fortune and peerless personal performance and the audience senses it, gets quieter, and suddenly the whoosh is gone.
But right now Mrs. liar-Clinton has it.
She’ll probably overplay her hand. That’s what she does. Her sense of her own destiny blinds her to her tendency toward misjudgment. She’ll call Trump supporters a bucket of baneful baddies.
Since the debate Mr. Trump is angry and is going straight into junkyard dog mode, which won’t work well.
This tells me the next week or so she’s on the upalator and he’s on the downalator. After that, we’ll see.
The need to say something becomes the tendency to say anything. It makes everything dumber, grosser, less important.
This year I am seeing something, especially among the young of politics and journalism. They have received most of what they know about political history through screens. They are college graduates, they’re in their 20s or 30s, they’re bright and ambitious, but they have seen the movie and not read the book. They’ve heard the sound bite but not read the speech. Their understanding of history, even recent history, is superficial. They grew up in the internet age and have filled their brainspace with information that came in the form of pictures and sounds. They learned through sensation, not through books, which demand something deeper from your brain. Reading forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect. It provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events.
Watching a movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis shows you a drama. Reading about it shows you a dilemma. The book makes you imagine the color, sound, tone and tension, the logic of events: It makes your brain do work. A movie is received passively: You sit back, see, hear. Books demand and reward. When you read them your knowledge base deepens and expands. In time that depth comes to inform your work, sometimes in ways of which you’re not fully conscious.
In the past 18 months I talked to three young presidential candidates—people running for president, real grown-ups—who, it was clear to me by the end of our conversations, had, in their understanding of modern American political history, seen the movie and not read the book. Two of them, I’ve come to know, can recite whole pages of dialogue from movies. It is interesting to me that the movies our politicians have most memorized are “The Godfather” Parts I and II.
Everyone in politics is getting much of what they know through the internet, through Google searches and Wikipedia. They can give you a certain sense of things but are by nature quick and shallow reads that link to other quick and shallow reads. Sometimes subjects are treated in a tendentious manner, reflecting the biases or limited knowledge of the writer.
If you get your information mostly through the Web, you’ll get stuck in “The Shallows,” which is the name of a book by Nicholas Carr about what the internet is doing to our brains. Media, he reminds us, are not just channels of information: “They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” The internet is chipping away at our “capacity for concentration and contemplation.” “Once I was a scuba driver in the sea of words,” writes Mr. Carr. “Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
If you can’t read deeply you will not be able to think deeply. If you can’t think deeply you will not be able to lead well, or report well.
There is another aspect of this year’s media environment, and it would be wrong not to speak it. It is that the mainstream media appear to have decided Donald Trump is so uniquely a threat to democracy, so appalling as a political figure, such a break with wholesome political tradition, that they are justified in showing, day by day, not only opposition but utter antagonism toward him. That surely has some impact on what Kellyanne Conway calls “undercover Trump voters.” They know what polite people think of them; they know their support carries a social stigma. Last week I saw a CNN daytime anchor fairly levitate with anger as she reported on Mr. Trump; I thought she was going to have an out-of-body experience and start floating over the shiny glass desk. She surely knew she’d pay no price for her shown disdain, and might gain Twitter followers.
Guys, this isn’t helping. Tell the story, ask the questions, trust the people, give it to them straight, report both sides. It’s the most constructive thing you could do right now, when any constructive act comes as a real relief.
In a country whose institutions are in such fragile shape, mainstream media very much among them, it does no good for its members to damage further their own reputations for fairness, probity, judgment. Books will be written about this, though I’m not sure they’ll read them.
As to Monday’s debate, liar-Hillary Clinton won. The story leading up to it was that she was frail, her health bad. Instead she was vibrant, confident, smiling and present. Sometimes when Mrs. liar-Clinton speaks you sense she’s operating at a level of distraction, reviewing her performance in real time or thinking about dinner. Here her mind was on the mission. She did not fall into the hectoring cadence that is a harassment to the ear. She said nothing remotely interesting.
Mr. Trump’s job was to leave you able to imagine him as president. You could have, but it would be a grumpy, grouchy president with thin skin.
Neither quite got across the idea that they were in it for America and not themselves.
When you are a politician leaving the debate stage you always know if you won. You can feel it. You know when it worked and when it didn’t. You ask everyone, “How’d I do?” but you know the answer. And you’re happy. What you get after such a victory is the whoosh. The whoosh is the wind at your back that gives the spring to your step. You get the jolly look and your laugh is a real laugh and not an enactment, and all this makes you better at the next stop, which makes the crowd cheer louder, and then you really know you’ve got the whoosh.
The whoosh can carry you for days or weeks, until there’s a reversal of some kind. Then you lose the sense of magical good fortune and peerless personal performance and the audience senses it, gets quieter, and suddenly the whoosh is gone.
But right now Mrs. liar-Clinton has it.
She’ll probably overplay her hand. That’s what she does. Her sense of her own destiny blinds her to her tendency toward misjudgment. She’ll call Trump supporters a bucket of baneful baddies.
Since the debate Mr. Trump is angry and is going straight into junkyard dog mode, which won’t work well.
This tells me the next week or so she’s on the upalator and he’s on the downalator. After that, we’ll see.
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