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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Apple, Facebook ban content of US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
[Al Jazeera] Programmes and pages removed from online platforms for hate speech and violation of policies, tech companies say.
First they came for Alex Jones...

Posted by: Fred || 08/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But Sarah Jeong still works for NYT?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/07/2018 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  I read a lot of conservative news. First I heard about Alex Jones was when a liberal friend was bashing Jones and Infowars. I think Alex Jones was a lot like a living breathing Trump Tweet that the right mostly ignored and the left hated with a deep, dark, firey passion. Of course I could be wrong.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/07/2018 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Apple, U-tube, Google, And FB, the Antifa of the cyber world.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/07/2018 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Please be careful! Watch for the slippery slope ahead!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/07/2018 21:40 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
ANTIFA, an all-white fascist organization, just grew violent and attacked an all-black and Hispanic police force
[Twitter]


Candace Owen’s Wikipedia page

Posted by: 3dc || 08/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Because I, a BLACK woman, was eating breakfast.


Maybe she should be less black and more American, and hang with a guy that isn't so 'accepting'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/07/2018 13:29 Comments || Top||

#2  She is very much American. She's hated by "ANTIFA" because she's not consumed with hatred.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/07/2018 17:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
670 ballots in a precinct with 276 voters, and other tales from Georgia's primary
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/07/2018 14:46 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whitey's fault no doubt...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/07/2018 15:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it a Democrat district?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/07/2018 16:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like a solid conservative turnout.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/07/2018 16:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Dead people gotta vote, man!
Posted by: Raj || 08/07/2018 16:24 Comments || Top||

#5  But I thought the voter fraud investigation showed there was hardly any voter fraud!
Posted by: gorb || 08/07/2018 20:20 Comments || Top||

#6  But I thought the voter fraud investigation showed there was hardly any voter fraud!

No, it's the *lack* of voter fraud investigation that hasn't turned up any voter fraud that shows there is hardly any voter fraud.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/07/2018 21:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Why am I not shocked.
Posted by: gorb || 08/07/2018 22:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Surprised they pulled the cheat card so early.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/07/2018 22:31 Comments || Top||


Fake Russian social media accounts sought to influence US-Israel ties — report
It seems a wasted effort, like so much of the Russian effort previously described — plenty of conservative Republicans were already strongly pro-Israel and pro-Bibi, and so would not be influenced by this. And those who were not would not be influenced by anything positive said about the juices.
[IsraelTimes] Researchers find tens of thousands of posts from accounts tied to suspected Russian trolls were aimed at bolstering Trump-Netanyahu relationship

Fake Russian social media accounts have sought to influence relations between the United States and Israel, Israeli television reported on Monday.

Researchers from Clemson University found that of nearly three million posts flagged as being from fake accounts out of so-called Russian troll farms, tens of thousands of them had to do with Israel and the broader region.

Sixty percent of the posts on Israel worked to bolster the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, oftentimes while criticizing former American president Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
, the researchers found.

For example, some of the posts read that Trump and Netanyahu were jointly exposing "Obama’s failures," the report said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling......
a quarter of the posts highlighted corruption investigations into Netanyahu’s conduct or attacked him from the left, while the remaining 15% were related to news reports, according to the researchers.

The Russian accounts were not trying to influence the Israeli conversation, but rather the American one, where the Jewish state has become a more polarizing issue, the researchers determined.

"Trolls tried to encourage the right in the political division of the US, also the far-right, in order that it will have a positive opinion of Netanyahu," Patrick Warren, who analyzed the tweets along with fellow Clemson researcher Darren Linvill, told Israel’s Channel 10 news.

Other posts however attacked Israel, labelling it an apartheid state and criticizing Netanyahu, the report said.

The tweets concerning Israel were part of a set of 2,973,371 Twitter posts from fake accounts compiled by the Clemson researchers and uploaded to the internet in concert with the FiveThirtyEight website.

The posts came from some 2,848 accounts tied to the Internet Research Agency, a so-called troll farm based in St. Petersburg, Russia. In February, US special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 people associated with the IRA for plotting to disrupt the 2016 election.

US intelligence agencies have concluded that fake Russian accounts aimed to influence the 2016 American presidential elections, and Facebook and Twitter have been working to identify and boot accounts found to have been started as part of influence campaigns, usually out of Russia.

According to the US intelligence community, Russian hackers targeted at least 21 states ahead of the 2016 elections at Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
’s behest.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/07/2018 01:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As long as they haven't figured out that Putin is Mossad agent...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/07/2018 4:02 Comments || Top||

#2  For example, some of the posts read that Trump and Netanyahu were jointly exposing "Obama’s failures," the report said.

Truth is a defense
Posted by: Frank G || 08/07/2018 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not a wasted effort if the goal is not to elect specific candidates but to destroy faith in the legitimacy of the process.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/07/2018 9:36 Comments || Top||


Corporate America hikes contributions to key Democrats
h/t Instapundit
Corporate PACs are increasing their contributions to several Democrats who are in line to lead powerful committees if their party retakes the House in November, another sign of the burgeoning expectations for Democrats’ showing in the midterms.

The uptick comes as tensions grow in the party between lawmakers who rake in money from corporate PACs and the activists who decry such contributions as a corrupting influence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/07/2018 01:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It doesn't matter much to big corporations which party is in control - Dems or Rinos - but they need to be on record in support of the winner. They have problems with Trump Republicans because they don't 'play by the rules.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/07/2018 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  What else is new. They will just lose more money. The voter will decide. Just more effort to promote the blue wave drama. Those countries who wish to disrupt our elections have always done this. The democrat's have always had their hands out. This also could be the life blood of the swamp.
Posted by: Dale || 08/07/2018 19:39 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2018-08-07
  11 Children Rescued From New Mexico Compound Run by Army Muslim Extremists
Mon 2018-08-06
  Saudi Arabia declares Canadian ambassador persona non grata, orders him to leave in 24 hours
Sun 2018-08-05
  Iran protesters attack religious school in province near Tehran
Sat 2018-08-04
  Death Toll Rises To 30 In Bombings On Paktia Mosque
Fri 2018-08-03
  Jordan army clashes with Islamic State militants fleeing Syrian forces
Thu 2018-08-02
  Egypt police kill five members of terrorist group Hasm in Nile Delta shootout
Wed 2018-08-01
  Man arrested after suspected homemade explosive device found at Vereeniging, South Africa mosque
Tue 2018-07-31
  It was terrorism: Iran denies any role in deadly Tajikistan attack
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  2 killed in Gaza blast during attempted launch of projectile toward Israel
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  Duterte invites the Abu Sayyaf to peace talks
Sat 2018-07-28
  Police enter Al-Aqsa Mosque, clash with worshipers in Temple Mount riots
Fri 2018-07-27
  Imran to be next PM
Thu 2018-07-26
  Houthis send missiles at tankers transiting from the Red Sea
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  Russian Air Force launches more than 40 airstrikes over southwest Syria
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