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Twitter Removes Thousands of Accounts Linked to Saudi Government Influence Operation By Mairead McArdle

Posted By on December 21st, 2019

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-removes-thousands-of-accounts-linked-to-saudi-government-influence-operation/

Twitter announced Friday that it has pemanently removed over 88,000 accounts associated with Saudia Arabia, many of which were linked to state actors.

The mammoth social media platform said in a blog post that it has released data about 5,929 now removed accounts linked to a “significant state-backed information operation” originating in Saudi Arabia for violating Twitter’s platform manipulation policies.

That group of accounts was part of a larger network of more than 88,000 accounts engaging in “spammy behavior,” Twitter’s investigative team found. The platform has permanently suspended all of the network’s accounts and shared details about the network with peer companies, according to the blog post.

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CAIR Pennsylvania Poster Girl Resigns in Shame By Leonard Getz

Posted By on December 21st, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/cair_pennsylvania_poster_girl_resigns_in_shame.html

Movita Johnson-Harrell seemed to take pride in her position as the first Muslim woman elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature. Now that record will forever have an asterisk next to it as Johnson-Harrell has turned herself in to Pennsylvania  Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s Office, pleading guilty on charges of perjury, record tampering, and embezzling over $500,000 in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security disability funds, as well as donations to Motivations Education and Consultation Associates (MECA), a charity she established to  allegedly serve the mentally ill and drug addicted poor in her predominately African-American neighborhood.

In a press conference, Attorney General Shapiro described Johnson-Harrell’s actions as “brazen corruption… her theft knew no bounds.”  Johnson-Harrell stole funds that personally belonged to the residents of her facilities and used it to purchase fox furs, trips to Mexico, to make payments on a Porsche, pay delinquent utility bills, cover her granddaughter’s private school tuition and even fund her political campaign.

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VICTORY: Mizzou Pays Hillsdale $4.7M to Teach Free-Market Economics By Tyler O’Neil

Posted By on December 21st, 2019

https://pjmedia.com/trending/victory-mizzou-pays-hillsdale-4-7m-to-teach-free-market-economics/

This week, the University of Missouri agreed to pay $4.7 million to support the teaching of free-market Austrian economics at Hillsdale College, in order to honor the donor intent of the late Sherlock Hibbs. A Mizzou grad, Hibbs gave $5 million to his alma mater specifically to establish professorships on Austrian economics.

“The Hibbs case will have a resounding impact on higher education and giving,” Peter Herzog, lead trial counsel for Hillsdale College and partner at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell, said in a statement. “Donors might reconsider or reevaluate institutions that are not like-minded in their missions and commitments. Colleges and universities will do what they want with your money unless you make sure they can’t.”

Hibbs, a 1926 University of Missouri graduate, made the bequest in his will before he died in 2002. He gave the money in order to establish three chairs, funded at $1.1 million each, and another three distinguished professorships, with two funded at $567,000 and another at $566,000. In each case, the professor must be a “dedicated and articulate disciple” of Austrian economics. Mizzou accepted the gift, yet more than a decade after his death, the express wishes of the bequest were not carried out, former Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Mo.) told PJ Media in July.

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Feminism: A Self-Canceling Project By David Solway

Posted By on December 21st, 2019

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/feminism-a-self-canceling-project/

One hears a lot of talk about cancel culture these days, but little discussion of how a cultural movement goes about canceling itself. This is especially the case with feminism. The entire program is ruptured by flagrant violations of common sense and manifold contradictions it cannot resolve. One scarcely knows where to start in disentangling the skein of incongruities, mystifications, fallacies, and inconsistencies which comprise its dogma and determine its destructive course in the public domain.

Many of the movement’s disabling contradictions have been abundantly documented in various books, some of the most decisive including Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young’s misandry volumes Spreading Misandry and Legalizing Misandry; William Collins’ The Empathy Gap; Patricia Pearson’s When She Was Bad; Christina Hoff Sommers’ Who Stole Feminism?; Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly’s The Flipside of Feminism; Janice Fiamengo’s Sons of Feminism; Bettina Arndt’s #MenToo, Stephen Baskerville’s The New Politics of Sex; Esther Vilar’s The Manipulated Man; and Megan Fox’s Believe Evidence: The Death of Due Process from Salome to #MeToo to mention only a few. Some of these self-canceling anomalies are worth reviewing to demonstrate the magnitude of feminism’s ideological incoherence.

As I wrote in an earlier article, “The most flagrant contradiction in the feminist psyche is modeled on the entitlement behavior of feminists who morbidly inveigh against the ‘patriarchy’ while enjoying the benefits of a world the much-maligned patriarchy built—a world of comfort, ease, leisure, advantage, convenience, security and plenty which they have no intention of rejecting or abandoning.” Attacking the “patriarchy” as the most oppressive institution on the face of the planet and vilifying men as rapists, conquistadors, exploiters, and irremediably toxic abusers of women, they issue their writs of attainder from a cozy, safe and privileged environment that men created for them. Every amenity they enjoy, every labor-saving appliance, utensil, mechanism, and implement they take for granted, every technological innovation, scientific discovery, and medical advancement from which they benefit is almost entirely the gift of men that they refuse even to acknowledge.

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VICTOR SHARPE:The other inconvenient truth: The Arab slave trade

Posted By on December 21st, 2019

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sharpe/191219

Those of us who know history are familiar with accounts of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. Indeed over the last 2,000 years each century has been more murderous than the previous one.

We understand that Communism is a ruthless killing machine and ideology that must be resisted at all costs, even as so many of our youth foolishly embrace it under the mistaken guise of “social justice.”

There are historical and modern events that cast Islam equally as ruthless and deadly: A pitiless, “ideology wrapped in a religion,” to quote Winston Churchill.

Traveling back in time, we must acknowledge the abiding horror of the slavery practiced by Muslims upon hapless black Africans – a searing crime which has existed since Islam’s founding in the 7th century.

While the anti-slavery abolitionist movements in Europe and North America began their epic movement to end slavery during the 19th century. there was barely any opposition to slavery as practiced within the Muslim world.

Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, while continuing to spew his vile racist and bigoted words against Christians and Jews, refuses to admit to what Islam has perpetrated down the dark centuries of mans’ inhumanity to his fellow man. As an African American, as an avowed Muslim and as a defender of Arab terrorism, his silence is hideously revealing.

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KATIE HOPKINS TO NANCY PELOSI VIDEO

Posted By on December 21st, 2019

https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1207428571947503616/video/1

Keep the faith America. They tried to stop the British people getting Brexit. Now they are trying to stop your President. The people will prevail. Nancy Pelosi is leading her party to their own funeral. I – for one – do not plan to attend. #ImpeachmentDay #MAGA2020

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MY SAY :A HOLIDAY GREETING FROM RUTHFULLY YOURS

Posted By on December 20th, 2019

T’WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE.

NOT A DEMOCRAT WAS STIRRING NOT EVEN A LOUSE.

I LIT HANUKA CANDLES WHEN THERE AROSE SUCH A CLATTER

I RUSHED TO THE WINDOW TO SEE WHAT WAS THE MATTER

I PEERED THROUGH THE WINDOW AND PUT ON MY GLASSES

TWAS A BRIGHT RED SLEIGH PULLED BY EIGHT GLOOMY JACKASSES

WITH AN ORANGE HAIRED DRIVER SHOUTING WITH VERVE

“GIDDYAP YOU ALL YOU FORGOT WHOM YOU SERVE!”

“MAXINE, SCHUMER AND CIAMARELLI WHO BLOWS AND WHISTLES!”

“YOUR SLANDER AND BIAS WILL GET BLUNT DISMISSALS!”

“YON NANCY AND NADLER AND SCHIFF THE LIAR!”

“BRENNAN AND COMEY WITH OPINIONS FOR HIRE!”

“TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY IS WHAT YOU CHOSE!

SO YOU’LL FIND COAL IN YOUR FIREPLACE HOSE!”

“I’VE GOT TO RUN NOW BEFORE I SLEEP

WITH RALLIES AND BILLS AND PROMISES TO KEEP”

IN A GRACIOUS SPIRIT TO DEFUSE THEIR SPAT,

HE GAVE THEM EACH A GIFT WRAPPED MAGA HAT.

HE LEFT THEM TO PONDER THEIR FAILURE TO ADDRESS

PERTINENT ISSUES WHERE THE PRESIDENT HAD SUCCESS.

WITH THE COUNTDOWN LOOMING FOR NOVEMBER THIRD,

THEIR BOGUS TRIALS WILL LEAVE HIM UNDETERRED.

THEY VOWED TO CONTINUE WITH NASTY ALLEGATIONS,

BUT AMERICA’S BODY POLITIC IS WEARY OF ALL INVESTIGATIONS.

AS THE POLLING NOW INCREASINGLY AVERS

IT’S THE ECONOMY THAT MATTERS TO THE HIMS AND HERS.

SO WITH A HANUKA PRAYER FOR PRESIDENT DONALD THE MACCABEE

WHO JOUSTS WITH FALSE PROPHETS, FAKE NEWS AND THE CULTS OF P.C.

I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY HANUKA, A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A JOYOUS NEW YEAR!

Ruth S. King

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Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed 2019 Ambassador (Ret.) Yoram Ettinger

Posted By on December 20th, 2019

1. Chanukah’s historical context is narrated in the four Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus and The Wars of the Jews. The Greek Empire was split following the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE), who held Judaism in high esteem. In 175 BCE, the Syrian/Seleucid Emperor Antiochus (IV) Epiphanies – who claimed the Land of Israel – suspected that Jews were allies of his Egyptian enemy.  Therefore, he aimed to exterminate Judaism and convert Jews to Hellenism. In 169 BCE he devastated Jerusalem, massacred Jews and prohibited the practice of Judaism. The 166/7 BCE rebellion was led by the Hasmonean (Maccabee) family – Mattityahu, the priest, and his five sons, Yochanan, Judah, Shimon, Yonatan and Elazar – whose dynasty lasted until 37 BCE.

2. The first day of Chanukah – the holiday of light – is celebrated when daylight hours are equal to darkness, ushering in longer daylight hours – rising optimism.

3. The impact on the formation of the US spirit:

Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, December 1915: “Chanukah, the Feast of Maccabees…celebrates a victory of the spirit over things material… a victory also over [external, but also] more dangerous internal enemies, the Sadducees (the upper social and economic echelon); a victory over the ease-loving, safety-playing, privileged, powerful few, who in their pliancy would have betrayed the best interests of the people; a victory of democracy over aristocracy…. The struggle of the Maccabees is of eternal worldwide interest…. It is a struggle in which all Americans, non-Jews as well as Jews… are vitally affected…”

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The Free Beacon Did Not ‘Correct’ My Record Carter Page, not the Beacon, is the victim. To portray it any other way only adds to the outrage. Julie Kelly

Posted By on December 20th, 2019

https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/19/the-free-beacon-did-not-correct-my-record/

On Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh shared with his listeners a portion of my article detailing the way the Washington Free Beacon helped launch the character assassination of Carter Page. Citing information originating with the Free Beacon itself and new revelations contained in the book authored by the owners of Fusion GPS, here’s the gist: Glenn Simpson contacted a “longtime Republican politico” in August 2015 to pitch his anti-Trump project. According to Simpson’s book (p. 15), the next month, that politico informed Simpson that the Washington Free Beacon would hire Fusion for $50,000 per month to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. (Simpson also confirmed in his congressional testimony that Fusion’s “flat fee” for that type of work.)

That relationship lasted until January 2017—a fact that the Free Beacon originally attempted to conceal—and the Beacon posted the first known hit piece on Carter Page on March 23, 2016. The Free Beacon, according to widespread reporting, is backed by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who opposed Trump’s candidacy in 2016.

Let me back up here: My readers know that I have been a big defender of Carter Page. I have interviewed him several times and wrote a piece in June 2018 referring to Page as the biggest victim of the collusion hoax. Now that Page has been cleared and the American public knows how Barack Obama’s FBI spied on him for a year, anyone who participated in the character assassination of Page should apologize. Further, as I argue in my article, any “conservative” outlet that published hit pieces on Page should retract their attacks and apologize to him. We now know that the lies told about Page originated with Fusion GPS and were part of an anti-Trump propaganda campaign.

But the Free Beacon, instead of doing the right thing, is continuing to defend themselves. In an email to Rush, Michael Goldfarb, the Free Beacon’s founding chairman, attempted to refute my article. Rush read Goldfarb’s full response on-air Wednesday; it is posted on Rush’s website.

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Friendship in the Aftermath of Reality A report from the UK. Christopher Gage

Posted By on December 20th, 2019

https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/19/friendship-in-the-aftermath-of-reality/

I’ve worn my thumbs down to spiky bone. To be a good sport, over the last week I have given traumatized progressives exactly what they want. I’ve dutifully succumbed to the commands of the mad, the demands of the jilted.

“If you voted for Boris Johnson, delete me as a friend!” Because of X and Y and perhaps Z.

The social impeachment charge sheet extends from the fantastical to the absurd. Those selfish so-and-sos scotched Jeremy Corbyn’s Winter Wonderland, and ushered in fascism.

So, in true Christmas spirit, I have obliged heartily the shouty demands of authoritarian narcissists, and self-deported from their digital encampments so disfigured a reality to the one they deplore.

A queasy insight into the minds of some. Sharpened by the interrobang, such gentle requests litter my social media feeds.

Of course, it is the usual suspects. “Hang your heads in shame!” cried the green of bangs, and steel of nose. Which is ever so charming, not to mention convincing.

Democracy, of course, counts only when they win.

Given last week’s drubbing (which I have taken the liberty to christen “LOL Thursday”) it’ll be a while before they taste anything so syrupy sweet as the first seven seconds when I awake and it breaks across my head that they don’t matter anymore.

Nope. They do not. And It’s not you. It really is them.