Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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Breitbart’s Greatest Hit (Pieces): Some Of The Website’s Most Disgusting Headlines
A taste of what we’re in for under a Trump Presidency
Stephen Kevin "Steve" Bannon of Breitbart News
Stephen Kevin "Steve" Bannon of Breitbart News
Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com) is a politically conservative[4][5][6] American news, opinion and commentary[7][8] website founded in 2007 by conservative commentator and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart. It also has a daily radio program on the Sirius XM Patriot channel called Breitbart News Daily.
Breitbart is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with bureaus in Texas, London, and Jerusalem. Co-founder Larry Solov is the owner and CEO. Stephen Bannon serves as the publication's executive chairman. Joel Pollak, is the senior editor-at-large and Alexander Marlow is managing-editor.
Conceived by Andrew Breitbart during a visit to Israel in summer 2007, with the aim of founding a site "that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel", Breitbart is aligned with the alt-right, and Bannon declared the site "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016. The Breitbart site receives higher traffic and page-views than websites such as the New York Post, CBS, NBC and ABC.
Notable events in Breitbart's history have included the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy, the National Endowment for the Arts "propaganda" story, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, the Anthony Weiner sexting scandals, the "Friends of Hamas" story, the Nancy Pelosi/Miley Cyrus ad campaign, the misidentification of Loretta Lynch, and Michelle Fields' allegations against Corey Lewandowski.
The Huffington Post
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Ultra-conservative website Breitbart’s stock just went up ― its executive chairman, Steve Bannon, is about to influence our next president on major policy decisions.
Bannon, 62, will be chief strategist and senior counselor to Donald Trump, the president-elect announced Sunday. He served previously as the CEO of the Trump campaign.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Four days of Anti-Trump Protest: Over Rally5,000 to Denounce Donald Trump
Protesters demonstrating against the election of Donald Trump made their voices heard again Saturday — taking to the streets of New York for the fourth straight day.
A crowd of roughly 5,000 people gathered in Union Square around noon, their ranks rapidly growing and spilling out of the park.
Hand-drawn signs floated above the crowd, carrying messages like “Love Trumps Hate,” “Unacceptable,” and “Dump Trump.”
Chants of “black lives matter,” “popular vote,” and “America was never great” rang from the sea of dissenters.
Some protesters beat a rhythm on drums as police and news helicopters buzzed overhead.
Susan Simon, 61, of the Upper West Side, said she was dismayed at the election results.
“Donald Trump is so ill equipped,” she said. “He’s a serial liar, a sexist, he wants to hit the environment.
“It’s a dark day for America.”
Protesters march from Union Square to Trump Tower in Manhattan Saturday. (KEVIN C DOWNS/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
The mass of Trump opponents march through the streets of Manhattan toward the President-elect’s Fifth Ave. skyscraper, snarling traffic and confusing camera-wielding tourists.
Cops directed the group into a series of barricaded pens set up across the street from the high-rise as horns blared in the background.
Kristin Robie, 68, a doctor from the Upper East Side, said she will fight the Trump presidency every step of the way.
“We’ve got to fight whatever policies he puts into practice,” she said. “He’s despicable, but he was elected so I’m more concerned by the people who actually voted for him.”
The midday mayhem follows four evenings of similar outcry across the country.
On Wednesday night, the day after the election, police arrested 65 people after a massive crowd of 8,000 gathered outside Trump Tower to denounce the Donald.
Throughout the week, thousands also took to the streets of Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., to share their anger at Trump’s inflammatory and often deeply controversial campaign rhetoric about immigrants, Muslims and women.
The NYPD erected defensive measures surrounding Trump Tower.
“People have a right to protest as long as those rights don’t interfere with the right of other New Yorkers,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said Friday. “As long as they stay within the law, we anticipate no major problems.”
Gail Gershon, 70, of Buffalo, said she came into the city Saturday to go to the Union Square market, but felt compelled to join the protest.
“Trump is the worst thing to ever happen to our country,” she said. “It’s good for people to get these feelings out.”
Cody-Ann Palmer, 27, of the East Village, held a sign reading "I won't pay my taxes either." Trump's victory, said Palmer, is a racist backlash against Obama's two-term presidency.
“This is a direct retaliation against Barack Obama. Racist people hated that he was the president for two terms,” she said. “They came out and made their voices heard. This is a backlash.”
During the demonstration, documentary-film maker Michael Moore made an unannounced visit to Trump Tower with a film crew in tow — hoping for a sit down with Trump. “We need to fight and do whatever we can to see that he does not take office on Jan. 20,” Moore said. “He is an illegitimate president. He does not have the vote of the people.”
Protests have been ongoing since the reality of a Trump victory set in early Wednesday. (SUSAN WATTS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Nigel Farage, the head of the Brexit movement in England was seen being ushered up to meet with Trump.
In Los Angeles, several thousand people marched through downtown streets Saturday to condemn what they saw as Trump’s hate speech about Muslims, pledge to deport people in the country illegally and crude comments about women.
Jennifer Cruz, 18, said her parents have been in the United States illegally for 30 years, although her mother has spent years seeking citizenship.
She called the possibility of their deportation terrifying. “We talk about it almost every day,” she said. “My Mom wants to leave it in the hands of God but I’m not just going to sit back and not do anything. I’m going to fight for my parents, even if it kills me.” “He doesn’t realize all the families he’s hurting,” she said of Trump.
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN Saturday that the “overwhelming majority” of protestors were students or citizens protesting for the first time. “This is really the voice of a new generation of Americans, saying that we want to do something about climate change, we want to unite this country, we stand for love and not division,” Garcetti said.
Racist Hate attacks have increased: Donald Trump’s victory has emboldened the hate mongers in the U.S.
As expected, Donald Trump’s victory has emboldened the hate mongers in the United States, and the last several days have witnessed a huge increase in the number of racially-motivated assaults on US citizens in the name of Trump.
Anonymous Message - to US President - Donald Trump
Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19
On December 19, the Electors of the Electoral College will cast their ballots. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. Even in states where that is not allowed, their vote would still be counted, they would simply pay a small fine - which we can be sure Clinton supporters will be glad to pay!
We are calling on the Electors to ignore their states' votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton. Why?
Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic.
Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.
Hillary won the popular vote. The only reason Trump "won" is because of the Electoral College.
But the Electoral College can actually give the White House to either candidate. So why not use this most undemocratic of our institutions to ensure a democratic result?
SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE.
There is no reason Trump should be President.
"It's the 'People's Will'"
No. She won the popular vote.
"Our system of government under our Constitution says he wins"
No. Our Constitution says the Electors choose.
"Too many states prohibit 'Faithless Electors'"
24 states bind electors. If electors vote against their party, they usually pay a fine. And people get mad. But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Donald Trump Is Accused Of Raping A 13-Year-Old. Why Haven’t The Media Covered It? There are two big reasons.
On Wednesday, the woman, who remains anonymous, will appear at a press conference with her new attorney, Lisa Bloom, the daughter of Gloria Allred. Bloom wrote a column about the case in The Huffington Post last summer.
For months, people have wondered why this case isn’t getting more ― or, really, any ― attention in the press, even now that Trump faces an actual court date: a Dec. 16 status conference with the judge.
The allegations aren’t entirely implausible on their face. The accuser says Trump raped her repeatedly at parties thrown by since-convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was widely known to throw wild parties with young women and girls. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and served a small portion of an 18-year sentence.
In a New York magazine profile of Epstein before he went to prison, and long before Trump ran for president, Trump acknowledged that he knows Epstein. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,’’ Trump says in the story. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it ― Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
The lawsuit against Trump includes affidavits from two anonymous women who say they were witnesses. Yet there’s been little coverage of the case. As one of the media outlets that has not published much about it, I can say there are two main reasons we shied away.
The accuser is anonymous.
The accuser in this case is anonymous, and the suit is filed under a pseudonym in New York. A previous case filed in California used the name “Katie Johnson.” To accuse someone in print of forcibly raping a child is about as serious a charge as can be made. To do that with an anonymous accuser would be an extraordinary step, putting the journalist’s reputation on the line.
One senior national reporter who has covered both campaigns said that the anonymity was the main stumbling block. “If it’s something that’s this damaging to a candidate, you better be sure, and she’s anonymous,” the reporter said, asking for anonymity to talk openly about the decision-making process. “Look, if she came out and she would do an interview, that would be different, but she’s an anonymous plaintiff.”
To go forward with an anonymous source shifts responsibility for the veracity of the claims from the accuser to the reporter. If the person is named and on record, the reporter can argue that he or she is merely reporting what the person is saying, and people are free to believe her or not. But giving anonymity says something different to an audience. It suggests, I, as a journalist, have investigated this person and these charges, and find them sufficiently credible to bring them forward without a name attached. Especially in the wake of the Rolling Stone fiasco, that requires an extreme amount of confidence in the source.
And the way the case rolled out did not inspire that confidence.
The accuser’s public backers have been savaged in the press.
One of the leading organizers of the effort to get the press to pay attention to this case is Steve Baer, an outspoken Republican donor. Baer last made news when his effort to out an alleged affair between Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) contributed to McCarthy dropping his bid to become House speaker. Baer’s style is to liberally cc and bcc an endless stream of powerful people, and it usually has the effect of getting none of them to listen.When I wrote to him Monday night, for instance, to say I was going to write a story on why the media were avoiding the child rape story, he replied and cc’ed Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron, along with a host of other media figures.
And Baer, in fact, is among the more credible advocates the accuser has going for her.
The accuser initially filed the case on her own behalf in California, but it was tossed for not stating an articulable violation of her civil rights. The case has since been refiled in New York, under the representation of a patent lawyer named Thomas Meagher. A patent lawyer handling the case hasn’t inspired the most confidence. (He didn’t respond to a request for comment.)
The least credible backer has to be a man who may or may not be named Al Taylor, but is more likely named Norm Lubow, and was apparently a former producer for “The Jerry Springer Show.”
Media outlets that have tried to get in touch with Johnson have had extreme difficulty doing so. The Daily Beast did a deep dive into the case and the people supporting the accuser in July, and came to a devastating conclusion: “Far from derailing the Trump train, Katie Johnson and her supporters seem to be in an out-of-control clown car whose wheels just came off,” wrote Brandy Zadrozny.
The Guardian and Jezebel also looked into the situation and came up with equally unfavorable takes. A writer who actually talked to Johnson came away confused about what to make of the allegations. It’s unclear if anybody has managed to speak to Tiffany Doe or Joan Doe, the two witnesses cited in the case. “Jezebel, The Guardian and The Daily Beast effectively poisoned the well on Katie’s credibility,” Baer lamented to HuffPost, accurately.
If you’re still struggling to understand why the story didn’t get more coverage, imagine for a moment that you’re a reporter thinking about spending weeks looking into it. Then go read the Daily Beast article. Still ready to go down that rabbit hole?
But as the reality of the court date increasingly dawns on the press, coupled with Trump’s own admission that he sexually assaults women, the case is getting harder to ignore. Baer said that two media outlets have recently done interviews with Johnson, and stories could pop at any minute.
Erik Wemple, a media reporter at The Washington Post, said he hasn’t talked to many journalists about their decision to shy away from the story. “I can’t cover everything,” he said. “Around the spring, the Washington Post was getting hammered for assigning two dozen reporters to investigate Trump. I wrote a piece wondering whether that was anywhere near enough. It wasn’t, as it turns out.”
In some ways, given the role of Facebook in disseminating news, it matters less this cycle than any other previous one that the media have largely ignored the case. Open platforms, too, have helped the story circulate. The story that Bloom published on HuffPost’s contributor platform has been shared on Facebook 140,000 times. The piece has been viewed 5,221,475 times since June.
But with Bloom’s press conference Wednesday, everything could change.
UPDATE: 6:06 p.m. ― Bloom announced the press conference was canceled because Jane Doe had received threats and was afraid of appearing in public.
White Nationalists (Racist) Say They've Won Even If Trump Loses
“Trump has unleashed forces ― forces much bigger than he is ― that simply can’t be put back into the bottle.”
Official speakers at the event ― sponsored by an association of nationalistic parties in the European Union ― included Kevin MacDonald, a retired professor at California State University, Long Beach, who defends anti-Semitism, and Tom Sunic, who has spoken at meetings sponsored by Klansmen, Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis, and who was “serving as interpreter ... for a very classy private German audience,” he told The Huffington Post. William Johnson, a white nationalist who was briefly a Trump delegate, made an unscheduled address at the event. Non-U.S. speakers included Frank Rennicke, a German singer-songwriter who is also a far-right extremist and Nick Griffin, a British politician who was once convicted of incitement to racial hatred. (Griffin “chewed all white activists out for not getting married and not having children,” Johnson said.)
The event focused on “the migrant crisis, the threat placed by Islamic terrorism and the negative developments in the European Union,” according to a brochure HuffPost translated from the original German. But the European nationalists were also interested in Trump, including what will happen if he is not elected. At the conference, Johnson said that Trump will only make white nationalists’ efforts “easier” and met “with more acceptance in the future,” he recalled. Sunic, who addressed audience questions about Trump, told HuffPost that as a “political phenomenon,” he “can no longer be stopped.”
There’s no doubt that Trump’s run for the nation’s highest office has energized white nationalists. In recent weeks, the KKK’s official newspaper has endorsed Trump, white supremacists have announced plans to monitor polling places, and Johnson launched a robo-call claiming that Evan McMullin, an independent presidential candidate who is competitive with Trump in Utah, is gay. (On Wednesday, he stopped the campaign and apologized.)
The Trump campaign called the KKK newspaper “repulsive” and said “their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign.” Regarding the robo-call, the campaign said: “We have no knowledge of these activities and strongly condemn any message of hate and any individuals associated with such.”
But white nationalists aren’t just gearing up for Election Day. As the German conference shows, they’re also eagerly planning their next moves.
“Trump has unleashed forces ― forces much bigger than he is ― that simply can’t be put back into the bottle,” said Richard Spencer, head of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank. Those who wish for a “reset” and for the national political discourse to return to normal after Trump are “going to be severely disappointed,” he added.
If Trump loses, Johnson wants to purchase the campaign’s email list ― he is not sure he will be permitted to do so ― and market white nationalism to them. The marketing will include “key nationalist principles” like “opposing diversity and multiculturalism,” he said. He also hopes to see “some of our people become go-to pundits in the media” ― he cited Jared Taylor, editor of the white nationalist publication American Renaissance, as an example ― and claims that white nationalists have “a number of energized candidates” who intend to run for office.
“No major Republican” shares Trump’s views on immigration and other issues, Spencer said. But he believes “there are signs that a new breed of politician is coming on the scene,” he added. Matthew Heimbach, considered by some to be “the face of a new generation of white nationalists,” and who made headlines earlier this year for shoving a black woman who was protesting at a Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, has said he hopes this election severely damages the Republican Party so that white working class voters abandon it altogether. He would like to see them support white nationalists, whom he hopes start running in local elections. To some extent, this has already started: Former KKK grand wizard David Duke, a vocal Trump supporter, announced his run for Senate in Louisiana earlier this year.
White nationalists ― who in 2016 are more likely to be wearing suits at academic conferences than running around in hoods ― want to make it seem like Trump is saying what many Americans were thinking. But his support rests with a shrinking group of white voters who are anxious about immigration and economic shifts. Trump is likely to lose. Duke is extremely likely to lose. The real danger, some experts say, is not that white nationalism will become a dominant political ideology in the U.S., but that a Trump loss will drive frustrated voters to rash action.
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Although white nationalist leaders may call for channeling anger into running for political office or supporting white supremacist candidates, some of the consumers of extremist rhetoric instead may be moved to act with violence, warns Ryan Lenz, senior writer for Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project and editor of their Hatewatch blog.
The vast majority of domestic terrorism in recent years has come from the so-called “lone wolf” or “leaderless resistance” groups comprised of just two people, a 2015 SPLC study found. “People are calling for a race war,” Lenz said. “And there’s this crazy sense of hope in the white nationalist and white supremacist world that their dreams will be answered [by a Trump win]. What happens when that hope turns to desperation? Or a sense of defeat? We don’t know, but we do know in times of defeat ... people are most likely to act in rash and violent fashion. That’s the reason for concern in this moment.”
David Pilgrim, founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University, also fears an uptick in physical confrontations and hate crimes. “I worry that the racial, class and gender divides have been worsened by this election,” he said. “I worry about the morning after.”
It’s unclear whether Trump’s supporters will accept the results of the election, given the extent to which he’s claimed it’s rigged against him. On Stormfront, a white supremacist internet forum, users answering an informal poll question have widely said that they will not accept a Clinton win. “I [hope for] violent uprisings and a big revolution agains[t] her. Get ready for the worst,” one user wrote. Another wants to “resurrect Robespierre and his guillotines,” referring to an 18th century politician who was an influential figure during the French Revolution and a leader during the “reign of terror” period ordering tens of thousands of people to be executed, many by guillotine.
“We are taking back this country. If we do so through the democratic process, fine,” another wrote. “But if we can’t do it democratically, then we will do so by other means! Yea, I said it. Want my address State Department? **** off and die!”
Even if post-Trump violence doesn’t materialize, the GOP nominee has helped normalize racism in political discourse. Pilgrim said while he does not believe “card-carrying white supremacists” will be elected in significant numbers, he is concerned that “increasingly people will be elected who hold racial views that are shared by the Klan and other white supremacists.”
From the beginning of his campaign, Trump promised to ban Muslims from traveling to the United States and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. These radical positions alone would have attracted white nationalists, but Trump went further. When Duke endorsed Trump, the real estate mogul initially refused to denounce him. What might have been written off as a fluke soon became an active strategy to court disgruntled whites.
“Trump is bringing something that was always there,” said Noam Chomsky, the renowned scholar and MIT professor emeritus. Racism is so “deeply rooted in American history and culture” that it will take “lots of work to overcome,” he added.
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The Trump camp repeatedly winked to white nationalists on social media, denigrated people of color and immigrants in public statements, then feigned ignorance when confronted. To white nationalists, this strategy made perfect sense. Racists who haunted dark corners of the internet started promoting themselves as the “alt-Right”—a term Spencer coined in 2008. The movement soon became so prominent that Hillary Clinton felt compelled to publicly denounce it.
And although the numbers of Americans who “directly support” hardened hate groups or visit their websites is still far lower than earlier decades, it is growing, said Brian Levin, director for the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. “Even if Mr. Trump loses, white nationalism has been dramatically strengthened, unified and broadly transmitted in a manner not seen since George Wallace’s insurgent campaign of 1968,” Levin said, referring to the former governor of Alabama.
In addition to being the Republican nominee, in California Trump is also the nominee of the American Independent Party, a group that grew out of the Wallace’s 1968 presidential run. The analogy between the two candidates is imperfect. Pilgrim pointed out, “I don’t think that [Wallace’s] followers, even the hardcore followers ... I don’t think they thought he would win.” But Wallace nonetheless had a lasting impact on the political landscape.
Richard Nixon, who won the presidency that year, ultimately adopted many of Wallace’s positions on race, even as he “managed to remove the raw edges of the Alabama governor’s angry rhetoric,” said Dan Carter, an emeritus history professor at the University of South Carolina.
White nationalists are still gunning for a Trump presidency. But at the conference in Germany, attendees were, nonetheless, impressed by what his campaign run has accomplished. “Everyone that I spoke to only had good things to say about Donald Trump,” Johnson said.
Jared Taylor, editor of the white nationalist publication American Renaissance, said his movement will continue to grow with or without the real estate mogul. “We are smarter and more determined than Donald Trump,” he said. “We have thought through the question of race in a much more systematic way than he has or probably ever will.”
If Trump loses, Taylor said, there will be “tremendous frustration” among his supporters. “I do not want to get into details, about the kind of approach we plan,” he said, “but we have already reaped a rich harvest of new supporters.”
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar,rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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