Friday, September 30, 2016

Ann Coulter: How to Avoid Immigration, Terrorism and Health Care for 90 Minutes


The Best Ann Coulter Insults at the Rob Lowe Roast

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At least we know Trump wasnt lying when he said he didnt practice for the debate.

Based on the behavior of trained, professional journalists, I gather Im not supposed to say what I really thought of the debate, but to cheer like a pom-pom girl for my candidate.

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But the truth is, I along with my Trump-supporting friends thought it was a draw: Trump won the first half, and Hillary won the second half. Since most people stopped paying attention after the first 30 minutes, thats a win for Trump.

Hillary supporters, or the media, had reason to be happy: She looked healthy! She probably could have kept reciting her snarky little talking points for another hour.

In fact, it was the best Ive ever seen Hillary. She avoided that honking thing she does, smiled a lot a little too much, actually (maybe ease up on the pep pills next time) and, as the entire media has gleefully reported, she managed to bait Trump.

Note to the Trump campaign: While it may seem studly that Hillarys best performance versus Trumps worst ends in a draw, on Nov. 9, no one wants to say:We almost won and our guy didnt prepare!

The medias excitement over Hillary successfully baiting Trump is revealing of the media, of what this election is really about, and of what Trump needs to do now.

The definition of Trump taking the bait was getting him to talk about himself, not about issues. This from a media that claim to be aching for policy specifics.

Hillary with assists from the moderator baited Trump on how rich he is, the loan from his father, a lawsuit in 1972, the birther claims, who he said what to about the Iraq War from 2001 to 2003, and so on.

For the media, their gal was winning whenever precious minutes of a 90-minute debate were spent rehashing allegations about Trump.Ha ha! We prevented Trump from talking about issues that matter to the American people!That was scored as a win.

Nothing illustrates more clearly that this election is about the people versus the elites than the fact that the media run from Trumps issues like Dracula from the sun.

Trump wins whenever he talks about issues; he loses whenever he talks about himself.

Trump was winning when he talked about the heinous trade deals that have shipped jobs abroad and immiserated millions of Americans which Hillary supports. He was winning when he talked about bringing order and safety to black neighborhoods overrun with crime; Hillarys with the criminals. He was winning when he talked about rebuilding our inner cities, instead of saying, Vote for me! then, See you in four years! as Hillary does.

Unlike the media, ordinary people dont care about Trumps taxes or net worth or the things he said as an entertainer. Trump will be dead and gone in 30 years. But whether America continues to exist or becomes some dystopian blend of Guatemala and Afghanistan will be determined by this election.

Its almost impossible not to correct a lie, especially about yourself, which is why Hillary and Lester Holts baiting strategy was to make outrageous claims about Trump.

Hillary, for example, criticized Trump for not releasing his tax returns, saying, maybe hes paid nothing in federal taxes.

This is exactly what Sen. Harry Reid stated as hard fact about Romney in 2012 on the Senate floor, so he couldnt be sued. After the election was over, Reid was asked about this obvious falsehood. He laughed it off and said, Romney didnt win, did he?

This is the game they play.

Trump has got to learn to ignore it. The voters have. They dont care about his taxes. They want jobs, they want a wall and theyd like fewer Muslims showing up, collecting welfare, then killing Americans.

Trump doesnt have to do formal debate practice, standing at a podium, facing off against a shorty in pantsuit. But he does need Pavlovian training to stop responding to irrelevancies.

This isnt about him! Its about a movement of the people to take back their government from an arrogant plutocracy.

From now until the next debate, every single person who works for Trump should personally insult him several times a day.

Good morning, sir your business is a total fraud.

Here are those trade stats you wanted oh and you lied about opposing the war in Iraq.

The Cincinnati airport needs a tail number why did you fat-shame that poor girl?

If he starts to respond, they should say, No one cares, sir. Tell me how youre going to stop Mexican drugs from pouring across our border.

The proof that voters dont care about the personal attacks on Trump is that, even after his lazy and self-indulgent debate performance, he won nearly every online poll.

Evidently, the American people have sized up the candidates and decided they want Trump. But theres just one last formality: He needs to pass some minimum threshold, a basic job requirement like proving he has a drivers license.

Everybody agrees hes got the job. Its too late for Hillary to be sucking up to the hiring committee, reminding them,but I took drivers ed seven times yes, there were mistakes, but I was grilled for 11 hours about that vehicular homicide. Also, the Russians hacked my GPS.

Trump showed up at the debate with his drivers license. Thats all anyone needed to see.

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/28/ann-coulter-avoid-immigration-terrorism-health-care-90-minutes/

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Marco Rubio "Deeply Concerned" About Possible Donald Trump Cuba Business


Trump renews Clinton attacks amid Cuba business questions

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Donald Trump will have to answer some questions about a Newsweek story reporting that a Trump-owned company allegedly violated the United States" trade embargo with Cuba in the late 1990s.

This is something theyre going to have to give a response to. I mean, it was a violation of American law, if thats how it happened, Rubio said on the ESPN/ABC Capital Games podcast.

The report says the Trump-owned company secretly conducted business on the island under Fidel Castros communist regime.

According to Newsweek, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts paid a consulting firm to help the company in the event the U.S. loosened trade restrictions. The consulting firm and the Trump company later attempted to cover up the transaction by making it look like legal spending for a charity.

Rubio, a former presidential candidate, insisted he would reserve judgment until he had learned all the facts.

I hope the Trump campaign is going to come forward and answer some questions about this, because if what the article says is true and Im not saying that it is, we dont know with a hundred percent certainty Id be deeply concerned about it. I would, he said.

Rubio has long been a strong supporter of the embargo of Cuba. He endorsed Trump in late May, after a competitive primary season that saw Trump win by a landslide in Rubios home state.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marco-rubio-deeply-concerned-donald-trump-cuba-business/story?id%3D42447807

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Indian film producers ban Pakistani actors "for ever" over Kashmir crisis


Pakistan rubbishes India"s claim of surgical strikes across LoC

The Indian Motion Picture Producers Association has banned Pakistani actors, singers and technicians from working on Indian films.

The organisations president, TP Aggarwal, said: No Pakistani will be hired by their producer members for ever. However, as a crisis between Indian and Pakistan over attacks in the disputed territory of Kashmir escalates, other reports stated that the ban would last only until normal relations resume between the two countries.

The IMPPAs decision, carried at the organisations annual general meeting on Friday, comes in the wake of the deaths on 18 September of 19 Indian soldiers in the Uri region, part of the disputed territory of Kashmir. India blamed the assault on Pakistan-sponsored militants and this week launched strikes across the 1972 ceasefire line that divides the Himalayan region.

Ashoke Pandit, a producer and IMPPA member, said: IMPPA paid homage to the martyrs who were killed in Uri. It therefore felt its responsibility towards the nation and passed a resolution banning Pakistani actors and technicians in India till normalcy returns. For IMPPA, nation comes first.

Separately, far-right political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has led a call for all film industry workers of Pakistani origin to leave India, as well as for their films to be banned. The party, led by Raj Thackeray, issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Pakistani movie workers to leave India by 25 September or risk being pushed out.

Reports allege that Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has been dropped from forthcoming film Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laddoo Deewana. A number of films scheduled for release during the Diwali holiday in October may also be affected, including Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, which co-stars Pakistani pin-up Fawad Khan alongside Indian stars Aishwarya Rai and Ranbir Kapoor.

Dear Zindagi, due to hit cinemas in November, may also be affected. The film co-stars Pakistans Ali Zafar and Indias Shah Rukh Khan.

Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNGanfScNo2yxLhVTwYNTJ5WhR-yGg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779227613017&ei=Ko_uV4j_NszM3gHdor-YDA&url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/30/indian-film-producers-motion-pictures-association-imppa-ban-pakistani-actors-crew-kashmir-crisis-escalates

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Marco Rubio "Deeply Concerned" About Possible Donald Trump Cuba Business


Donald Trump"s Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway Talks Sniffles, Cuba, More | The View

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Donald Trump will have to answer some questions about a Newsweek story reporting that a Trump-owned company allegedly violated the United States" trade embargo with Cuba in the late 1990s.

This is something theyre going to have to give a response to. I mean, it was a violation of American law, if thats how it happened, Rubio said on the ESPN/ABC Capital Games podcast.

The report says the Trump-owned company secretly conducted business on the island under Fidel Castros communist regime.

According to Newsweek, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts paid a consulting firm to help the company in the event the U.S. loosened trade restrictions. The consulting firm and the Trump company later attempted to cover up the transaction by making it look like legal spending for a charity.

Rubio, a former presidential candidate, insisted he would reserve judgment until he had learned all the facts.

I hope the Trump campaign is going to come forward and answer some questions about this, because if what the article says is true and Im not saying that it is, we dont know with a hundred percent certainty Id be deeply concerned about it. I would, he said.

Rubio has long been a strong supporter of the embargo of Cuba. He endorsed Trump in late May, after a competitive primary season that saw Trump win by a landslide in Rubios home state.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marco-rubio-deeply-concerned-donald-trump-cuba-business/story?id%3D42447807

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Luke Cage"s Not-so-Secret Weapon? Misty Knight | E! News


Luke Cage | Featurette: Who Is Luke Cage? | Netflix

Your new favorite Marvel TV hero has a badge. Yes, the show is called Luke Cage, but come tomorrow you"re also going to be talking about Misty Knight.

Simone Missick plays the detective in Marvel"s Luke Cage and she"s more than ready for a close-up.

"It"s really exciting" Missick told E! News at the premiere of Luke Cage. "I haven"t seen any episodesbut it feels like I am watching this woman who people have loved for years finally get a voice."

Created by Tony Isabella and Arvell Jones in 1975, Misty Knight has deep ties to several different comic book camps, including Luke Cage, Iron Fist and X-Men. In the comics, the former cop is a skilled martial artist and gets a bionic arm by none other than Iron Man. The arm gives her super strength, but does that famous enhancement make it to the show?

"I can neither confirm nor deny whether or not I already have a bionic arm," Missick said.

At the end of the day, Missick said her favorite part about Misty Knight is simple.

"Her sense of humor. She is snarky and sarcastic and witty and still sexy and I love it," she said.

Jones, Misty Knight"s co-creator, was on-hand for the premiere and said he got into comics because he wanted to be a director and producer, but didn"t see people like him on screen in the 1960s. Now? "It"s good to see all of that," he said. "So I"m excited." Regarding Missick, Jones said he"s excited to see her take on the character, especially because she"s from Detroit as well and she has a "Midwestern attitude" that"s "not necessarily exaggerated."

Marvel"s Luke Cage is being heralded as incredibly timely with its bullet-proof black superhero, but it"s not just your typical superhero show.

"It"s not only that the show is timely socially, culturally, but it"s also just great television. I mean, it"s not just your typical superhero show. It is a great drama, it"s got amazing music, it"s got well-rounded characters where people really thought about the details, culturally and for women," Missick said. "It"s just an amazing show to be part of. I think people are ready for it."

Marvel"s Luke Cage, starring Missick, Mike Colter, Theo Rossi, Alfre Woodard, Mahershala Ali and Rosario Dawson, drops its 13-episode season one on Friday, Sept. 30 on Netflix.

Source: http://www.eonline.com/news/798650/luke-cage-s-not-so-secret-weapon-misty-knight

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Syrian army, rebels wage fierce battles north of Aleppo city


Gary Johnson Makes Another "Aleppo" Gaffe | The View

BEIRUT Syrian government forces and rebels waged fierce battles north of Aleppo on Friday, a week into a Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian army to take the entire city.

Syrian government forces made a significant advance on Thursday north of Aleppo, capturing the Handarat refugee camp, a few kilometers (miles) from the city. There were conflicting accounts on the outcome of the fighting.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said government forces had built on the Handarat advance and captured the adjacent Kindi Hospital area on Friday morning, edging closer to the city.

A television station operated by Lebanon"s Hezbollah, which is fighting in support of the government, also said the Kindi Hospital area had been captured.

But rebel sources denied that the government had captured the Kindi Hospital area, saying fighting was still going on.

A senior rebel official also said that government forces were shelling the rebel-held districts with artillery from a hilltop to the east of the city.

(Reporting by Ellen Francis and Tom Perry; Editing by Tom Perry and Richard Balmforth)

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-aleppo-idUSKCN1200Q9

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

The rise of Pepe the Frog is another sign of white nationalism building online


"Pepe the Frog" designated hate symbol by ADL

The ubiquitous green internet amphibian known as Pepe the Frog has been added to the Anti-Defamation League"s database of hate symbols. It"s yet another sign that neo-n**i and white nationalist propaganda is proliferating online.

The Anti-Defamation League"s hate symbols database is crowded with acronyms and photos of tattooed hate symbols, but the group has recently decided to look to the internet to more accurately track the spread of hate messages.

"Our hate symbol database has sort of traditionally dealt with hate symbols that people might come in contact with in the street or on the ground," Oren Segal, director of Anti-Defamation League"s Center on Extremism, told Mashable. "We realize this year that more people are likely to come across hate symbols every day on their phones or online than necessarily in their neighborhood."

The addition of Pepe the Frog to the hate database is somewhat new for the Anti-Defamation League, but not without precedent.

Earlier this year, the group added the (((echo))) symbol, which is used by anti-Semites to identify others as Jewish.

The echo"s origins come from a podcast aired in 2014 in which the hosts dub Jewish names with an echo-effect. The translation of this echo to text took off earlier this year, so much that many Twitter users who are not anti-Semites began to use parentheses as a way to counter the anti-Semitic message.

The proliferation of Pepe and the echo symbol in many ways mirrors the recent proliferation of white nationalist and neo-n**i activity on social media.

Pepe the Frog didn"t start out as an anti-Semitic meme, but internet users in certain corners of sites such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit warped the frog into a symbol that promotes "anti-Jewish, bigoted and offensive ideas," according to the Anti-Defamation League"s news release. Those ideas took off on Twitter as well as other social networks.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the growth of the modern American white nationalist movement often referred to as the loosely-defined and Pepe-loving "alt-right" in much the same way.

"The general population of the alt-right is composed, by and large, of anonymous youths who were exposed to the movements ideas through online message boards like 4chan and 8chans /pol/ and Internet platforms like Reddit and Twitter," the The Southern Poverty Law Center says.

In this April 23 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in a "white pride" rally in Rome, Georgia.

Image: AP Photo/John Bazemore

And, like the emergence of Pepe as racist/anti-Semitic meme, the online emergence of the alt-right is also recent. Since 2012, "major American white nationalist movements on Twitter" have gained 22,000 followers, "an increase of about 600 percent," according to a recent study of white nationalism online.

That boost in numbers comes partially due to "organized social media activism" and "organic growth in the adoption of social media by people interested in white nationalism," according to the study.

In addition to Pepe the Frog, one of the alt-right"s favorite topics of conversation is Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. In alt-right circles of the internet, talk of Trump has become as ubiquitous as their favorite amphibian.

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Source: http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/pepe-the-frog-hate-symbol-online/

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