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Hillary Clinton To Take Larger Role In Biden’s Re-Election Campaign — And Even Democrats Are Laughing

 

 Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is reportedly gearing up to take on a larger role inPresident Joe Biden’s re-election campaign — a decision that is receiving a fair amount of mockery from both sides of the political aisle.

Over the last month, although she is not officially a member of Biden’s campaign team, she has positioned herself as one of his most visible and influential surrogates. Clinton hosted a big-ticket fundraiser in late November, benefitting his re-election war chest — and two weeks earlier, she published an op-ed in The Atlantic defending the Biden administration’s response to the ongoing war between Israel and the terror group Hamas.

As NBC noted in an article published Monday, it is certainly possible that Clinton could help Biden on some issues:

Clinton is popular with women and key parts of the Democratic base and remains a fundraising draw who can help ensure Biden has the money to get his message out. There is still a two-for-the-price-of-one theme when it comes to her family: Husband Bill Clinton made a cameo at the fundraising event at their Washington home.

But not everyone was convinced that Clinton, who lost to former President Donald Trump in 2016, was the best person to help Biden defeat Trump — who still has a formidable lead on the rest of the Republican primary field — in 2024.

“Excellent! Bring in the woman incredibly disliked in swing states to campaign for Biden,” Doug Powers said in a post on X.

“It’s entirely possible that the Democratic Party actively does NOT want to win the presidency in 2024,” Margot Cleveland added.

“She couldn’t even win her own election how is she gonna win his for him?” Hannah Cox asked.

Even some on the hard left were unimpressed with the possibility that they’d be seeing more of Clinton.

Ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan said, “Ah yes, when you’re a Democrat struggling to beat Donald Trump, you call for help from… *checks notes*… the last Democrat to lose to Donald Trump.”

Marianne Williamson, who is running against Biden in the Democratic primary, saw the opportunity to plug her own run: “We can go forward, not backwards.”

Super-rich fear their financial details will be exposed following Bermuda cyber hack

 
“Some of the world’s richest people were braced for their financial details to be exposed on Tuesday night after a major offshore company admitted that its computer records had been hacked,” the UK’s Telegraph reported in a story headlined “Super-rich fear their financial details will be exposed following Bermuda cyber hack.”
And major law firm Appleby has released a statement saying, “Appleby has recently received enquiries from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICIJ] and a number of media organisations who are partners of the ICIJ. These enquiries have arisen from documents that journalists claim to have seen and involve allegations made against our business and the business conducted by some of our clients.
“We take any allegation of wrongdoing, implicit or otherwise, extremely seriously. Appleby operates in highly regulated jurisdictions and like all professional organisations in our regions, we are subject to frequent regulatory checks and we are committed to achieving the high standards set by our regulators.
“Appleby has thoroughly and vigorously investigated the allegations and we are satisfied that there is no evidence of any wrongdoing, either on the part of ourselves or our clients.”
“We are disappointed that the media may choose to use information which could have emanated from material obtained illegally and that this may result in exposing innocent parties to data protection breaches.”

Telegraph Story

The story said, “Appleby, a firm based in Bermuda with offices in many tax havens, said it was in the process of warning clients that they may be implicated in a massive leak of sensitive information.
“It is understood the leak involves some of Britain’s wealthiest people, who were instructing lawyers and public relations companies in an effort to protect their reputations.
“The disclosure of the leak also threatens to call into question the status of several British Overseas Territories which can offer tax benefits to the very wealthy.” 

Appleby Statement

A statement from Appleby said, “Appleby has recently received enquiries from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICIJ] and a number of media organisations who are partners of the ICIJ. These enquiries have arisen from documents that journalists claim to have seen and involve allegations made against our business and the business conducted by some of our clients.
“We take any allegation of wrongdoing, implicit or otherwise, extremely seriously. Appleby operates in highly regulated jurisdictions and like all professional organisations in our regions, we are subject to frequent regulatory checks and we are committed to achieving the high standards set by our regulators. We are also committed to the highest standards of client service and confidentiality. It is what we stand for. This commitment is unequivocal.
“Appleby has thoroughly and vigorously investigated the allegations and we are satisfied that there is no evidence of any wrongdoing, either on the part of ourselves or our clients. We refute any allegations which may suggest otherwise and we would be happy to cooperate fully with any legitimate and authorised investigation of the allegations by the appropriate and relevant authorities.
“We are an offshore law firm who advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business. We do not tolerate illegal behaviour. It is true that we are not infallible. Where we find that mistakes have happened we act quickly to put things right and we make the necessary notifications to the relevant authorities.
“We are committed to protecting our clients’ data and we have reviewed our cyber security and data access arrangements following a data security incident last year which involved some of our data being compromised. These arrangements were reviewed and tested by a leading IT Forensics team and we are confident that our data integrity is secure.
“We are disappointed that the media may choose to use information which could have emanated from material obtained illegally and that this may result in exposing innocent parties to data protection breaches. Having researched the ICIJ’s allegations we believe they are unfounded and based on a lack of understanding of the legitimate and lawful structures used in the offshore sector.
“The ICIJ themselves recognise the legitimacy of the offshore sector with the following statement on their website: “There are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts. We do not intend to suggest or imply that any people, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly.”

9 Weddings That Ended in Tragedy

 
The Brazilian bride who died in a helicopter crash on the way to her wedding
In December 2016, a Brazilian bride's surprise entrance to her wedding went tragically wrong when the helicopter she was in crashed minutes before she was due to tie the knot. Rosemeire Silva Nascimento, who was wearing her wedding dress and veil, died instantly along with three others.

The 32-year-old nurse planned to amaze her fiancé, Udirley Narques Damasceno, 34, and their 300 guests with a stunning entrance by flying into the Recanto Beija-Flor venue in Sao Lourenco da Serra, a wealthy suburb of Sao Paulo, in a chopper. The groom was in a state of shock at the altar as he was told his bride had died.

In addition to Rosemeire, the other victims included her brother, Silvano Nascimento da Silva, who had been “very excited about the plan," the wedding photographer, Nayla Cristina Neves Lousada, who was six months pregnant, and Peterson Pinheiro, the pilot.


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The mother of the bride who was killed when a tree fell on the wedding party
A US wedding turned deadly in December 2016 after a eucalyptus tree in a Southern California park collapsed on the bridal party posing for photos. A woman believed to be the mother of the bride was killed, and five people were injured. Witness Gilbert Duran was attending a girl's 15th birthday party in the park when the tree fell. Moments before the tree toppled, he and some friends had been taking pictures underneath it, but moved for better light.


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The 20 wedding guests who died after the dance floor collapsed
At least 20 people were killed and hundreds injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem in 2001 after the dance floor collapsed. Guests were left clinging to the walls of the Versailles wedding hall when the third floor suddenly gave way and crashed through two stores below.

There were nearly 700 guests in the building, which was in the industrial Talpiot area of Jerusalem. 23 people fell to their deaths through two stories, including the groom's 80-year-old grandfather and his three-year-old second cousin, the youngest victim. Another 380 were injured, including the bride, who suffered severe pelvic injuries.




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The father of the bride who died moments after dancing with his daughter at her wedding
A father dropped dead of a heart attack just moments after finishing the first dance with his daughter at her wedding. Tim Buchanan, 54, was at Michele Howard's nuptials in Costa Rica when the tragedy happened, along with his wife and her mother Jeni.


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The 51 wedding guests who where killed by a suicide bomber
This is the haunting image of a mass grave dug for some of the 51 guests who were killed while dancing at a wedding in Gaziantep, Turkey. The killer, who wore an explosive belt, was between12-14 years old. It was Turkey's deadliest bombing of 2016.

12 people were buried the day after the attack, but other funerals had to wait because many of the victims were blown to pieces and DNA was the only way to identify them.


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The father who died in plane crash while flying over his daughter's wedding reception
Not all surprises go as planned. In July 2015, a day of celebration quickly turned tragic when an Alaskan man, performing a surprise flyover at his daughter's wedding reception, died when his plane crashed.

Michael Zagula, 54, had performed the ceremony earlier at his daughter's wedding to a man he is said to have treated like a son.
About half the town of Trapper Creek, Alaska, some 120 miles north of Anchorage, was at the reception. Zagula posed for photographs with the happy couple at the cake cutting before slipping away.

"About 20 minutes later his plane was flying over, and he loved to fly, so he wanted to do something special for the kids," Klondike Hughes, a friend of Zagula's, said. Zagula flew over the party, but as he was returning, he clipped some trees and lost control of the aircraft. Many of the guests either witnessed or heard the crash.


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The bride who drowned during her wedding photo shoot
In 2012, a woman taking part in a "trash the dress" wedding photo shoot drowned after being pulled underwater by the weight of her wedding gown while snapping pictures in a river near Dorwin Falls in Quebec.

Photographer Louis Pagakis said 30-year-old Maria Pantazopoulos entered the Ouareau River in her wedding dress so she could have her picture taken in the style of wedding photography meant to symbolize that permanence of the marriage. But the dress quickly became saturated, and the weight of it was simply too much for the 100-pound Pantazopoulos, who began to sink to the bottom. The photographer and a witness tried to save her but were unsuccessful. A scuba diver later found Pantzopoulos' body at the bottom of a nearby stagnant pool of water.


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The women who died after the wedding limo caught fire
In 2013, nine women in a limo, including the bride-to-be, were caught in a tragic fire that started burning just as the car was crossing the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge near San Francisco. Five of the women were burnt alive including Felomina Geronga, Jennifer Balon, 39, of Dublin; Michelle Estrera, 35, of Fresno; Anna Alcantara, 46, of San Lorenzo; and bride Neriza Fojas, 31, of Monterey. They were headed to a party in Foster City to celebrate Fojas' nuptials when the blaze started.


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A woman was killed and four people were injured by rogue bullets during a wedding celebration
Celebratory gunfire during a wedding ceremony in India went horribly wrong when one guest was killed, and four others were injured. The dramatic incident took place at Savitiri Marriage Hall, in Karnal district, Haryana, northern India, in November 2016.

Wedding guests started firing shots into the air soon after the ceremony to celebrate, which is a tradition. The party, however, soon turned tragic when guest Sunita, 48, was accidentally shot in the chest and died later in hospital. Four other guests were injured, including an 11-year-old girl, and they were all rushed to a nearby hospital in a critical condition.

Science Confirms Turmeric As Effective As 14 Drugs

 
Turmeric is one the most thoroughly researched plants in existence today. Over 4,000 scientific studies have proven the healing benefits of curcumin.  Did you know that literally thousands of published, peer-reviewed studies conducted and compiled over the years lend credence to the notion that turmeric works the same as, or even better than, at least 14 pharmaceutical drugs currently on the market?
Here are some classes of drugs that research shows can be effectively replaced with turmeric:  
  • Statin drugs for cholesterol. Lipitor/Atorvastatin(cholesterol medication): A 2008 study published in the journal Drugs in R & D found that a standardized preparation of curcuminoids from Turmeric compared favorably to the drug atorvastatin (trade name Lipitor) on endothelial dysfunction, the underlying pathology of the blood vessels that drives atherosclerosis, in association with reductions in inflammation and oxidative stress in type 2 diabetic patients.
  • Corticosteroid drugs. Corticosteroids (steroid medications): A 1999 study published in the journal Phytotherapy Research found that the primary polyphenol in turmeric, the saffron colored pigment known as curcumin,compared favorably to steroids in the management of chronic anterior uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease. A 2008 study published in Critical Care Medicine found that curcumin compared favorably to the corticosteroid drug dexamethasone in the animal model as an alternative therapy for protecting lung transplantation-associated injury by down-regulating inflammatory genes.An earlier 2003 study published in Cancer Letters found the same drug also compared favorably to dexamethasone in a lung ischaemia-repurfusion injury model.
  • Antidepressants. Prozac/Fluoxetine & Imipramine  (antidepressants): A 2011 study published in the journalActa Poloniae Pharmaceutica found that curcumin compared favorably to both drugs in reducing depressive behavior in an animal model.More than just a potential replacement for Prozac because of its efficacy, turmeric does not cause “suicidal ideation or other psychotic disorders” which is a documented frightening side effect from taking Prozac.
  • Aspirin (blood thinner): A 1986 in vitro and ex vivo study published in the journalArzneimittelforschung found that curcumin has anti-platelet and prostacyclin modulating effects compared to aspirin, indicating it may have value in patients prone to vascular thrombosis and requiring anti-arthritis therapy.
  • Anti-inflammatory Drugs: A 2004 study published in the journal Oncogene found that curcumin (as well as resveratrol) were effective alternatives to the drugs aspirin, ibuprofen, sulindac, phenylbutazone, naproxen, indomethacin, diclofenac, dexamethasone, celecoxib, and tamoxifen in exerting anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative activity against tumor cells.
  • Oxaliplatin (chemotherapy drug): A 2007 study published in the International Journal of Cancer found that curcumin compares favorably with oxaliplatin as an antiproliferative agenet in colorectal cell lines.
  • Metformin (diabetes drug): A 2009 study published in the journal Biochemitry and Biophysical Research Community explored how curcumin might be valuable in treating diabetes, finding that it activates AMPK (which increases glucose uptake) and suppresses gluconeogenic gene expression  (which suppresses glucose production in the liver) in hepatoma cells. Interestingly, they found curcumin to be 500 times to 100,000 times (in the form known as tetrahydrocurcuminoids(THC)) more potent than metformin in activating AMPK and its downstream target acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC).

Obama’s New Executive Order Could Affect YOUR Property

 
A new executive order from President Obama could affect property owners. The order institutes new EPA rules, expanding the authority of that agency under the Clean Water Act.
But critics say the new rule violates Supreme Court rulings and will burden property owners.

The proposed rule would allow the federal government to regulate tributaries and ditches that collect water. Many are concerned this could lead to unreasonable regulation of private property and impede farming.
The Supreme Court has ruled against the federal government’s attempts to expand the Clean Water Act twice. In the 2001 case of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. Army Corps of Engineers, and again in the 2006 case of Rapanos v. United States.
“Property owners will not be able to engage in activities they should be able to engage in,” said Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agriculture policy at the Heritage Foundation.
“This will be devastating to private property rights. It’s an attack on private property rights. Most people don’t have the money to pay for all these permits” he added.
The EPA responded with a blog post, which carefully retreats from its earlier position of regulating ditches and parses it language over tributaries.
“We’ve heard feedback that our proposed definition of tributaries was confusing and ambiguous, and could be interpreted to pick up erosion in a farmer’s field, when that’s not our aim. So we looked at ways to refine that definition, be precise about the streams we’re talking about, and make sure there are bright lines around exactly what we mean.”
“We’re limiting protection to ditches that function like tributaries and can carry pollution downstream—like those constructed out of streams. Our proposal talked about upland ditches, and we got feedback that the word “upland” was confusing, so we’ll approach ditches from another angle.”

Regardless of the precise language these new rules contain, something is very troubling with this system.
The federal bureaucracy and the president are able to just institute rules which have not been approved by Congress and that may violate Supreme Court rulings.
These rule changes could affect the way millions of Americans live and work.
Why are un-elected officials and the president, who has no authority to make law, able to make such changes?

Buying American Cars Does NOT Make You a Patriot

 
There’s a double standard when it comes to many conservatives and buying American made cars.

 It is often implied that it is patriotic to buy American and practically a betrayal to buy foreign made vehicles. But is it really our patriotic duty to buy inferior products?

 America’s biggest automakers are nearly all on the government dole.

 In addition to being on welfare, the American automakers are all run by unions.
So purchasing an American made car in fact supports unions who in turn funnel money to the Democratic Party.

 Union leadership has led to a steady decrease in manufacturing quality and an increase in cost.

 One need only look at General Motors and their massive list of dangerous recalls to see what kind of quality their line represents today.

 Furthermore, many of the domestic automakers buy parts that are made overseas, anyways.

 The ‘American made’ label is usually a misnomer, as the parts under the hood are often made in Japan or China.

 Conversely, many foreign automakers have plants in the United States, employ Americans, and manufacture their vehicles right here, free of union interference.

 Subaru, for example, has produced quality, affordable cars, manufactured in America for decades.

 When the British forced an inferior and heavily taxed tea on the American colonists, many turned to Dutch-supplied tea which was smuggled into the country.

 They sought quality and affordability and felt it was unfair to be made to support the East India Tea Company just because it was British.

 The lesson is that the principles of market competition were valued by our founders, and that free and open trade is beneficial to consumers.

 It isn’t patriotic to buy an inferior automobile. Using your money to find the best value offered on the market is both wise and in keeping with American traditions.
If American automakers want our money, they should earn it!

 Let them make a better product and American consumers will once again rejoice in owning American cars. Until then, it is an open market.

Hilarious Story Explains Everything You Need To Know About Lawyers

 


Labor Unions Push For $15 Min. Wage, Then Ask For Exemption

 
Liberals across the country celebrated when Los Angeles adopted a law that would raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour. However, now the very unions who lobbied in support of the law are asking to be exempted.

 The exemption which would allow unionized firms to pay wages under the mandated minimum of $15 an hour is being criticized on the left and the right.

 Of course, with public backlash now pouring in, it is very possible such an exemption will be rejected.
But the fact that these unions pushed for a higher wage which they intended to seek exemption from demonstrates the highest level of hypocrisy.

 Unions know higher wages will freeze out low skilled workers and limit jobs by costing employers more money.

 They have no problem limiting your employment options, but wish to seek special protection for theirs.

 Union leaders say the law should not apply to collective bargaining agreements.

 Rusty Hicks, head of the Federation of Labor, says “With a collective bargaining agreement, a business owner and the employees negotiate an agreement that works for them both.”

 It is laughable that they fail to realize that business owners and employees should always be free to negotiate an agreement that works for both parties.

 But unions want to reserve that right for themselves and allow bureaucrats to decide for you.
If enacted, the exemption will give unions an unbeatable competitive advantage in their industries, as other firms will be forced to pay higher wages.

 Just another classic liberal example of prescribing laws to the public they have no intention of following themselves.

Jeb Bush Says Same-Sex Couples Can't Provide Loving Families, Believes in Legalizing Discrimination

 
When I first came across a New York Times story titled “Jeb Bush Takes Tougher Stance Against Same-Sex Marriage”, I was a bit intrigued. Not that a Republican taking such a stance is exactly breaking news, but Jeb often seems to be a little more hesitant to go full-blown evangelical conservative “gays don’t deserve equal rights” than many of his GOP counterparts. Just a few months back, there was even word that Bush’s stance against same-sex marriage was softening and that he could turn out to eventually be the pro-gay Republican candidate. Not anymore. After reading his newest comments, it’s safe to say that Bush has firmly embedded himself in the tangled web of the Evangelical Christian right, hoping to win over their votes while not giving a damn about equal rights. Not only did Bush say that he doesn’t believe gay Americans should have the right to marry, but he basically said that they can’t be loving parents or provide good families for children. “I don’t, but I’m not a lawyer, and clearly this has been accelerated at a warp pace,” Bush said when asked if he thought marriage was a Constitutional right. “To imagine how we’re going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine,” he continued. “Irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling, because they’re going to decide whatever they decide, and I don’t know what they’re going to do, we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage.” Oh, but it gets even worse. “If we want to create a right-to-rise society, where people, particularly children born in poverty, if we want to have them have a chance we should be—a core American value,” Bush said, “we have to restore committed, loving family life with a mom and a dad loving their children with their heart and soul.” In other words, according to Jeb, gay couples apparently can’t provide loving, stable homes for children. Apparently he believes they also lack the ability to love “their children with their heart and soul.” And going by these comments, he seems to think that marriage equality will eventually lead to the downfall of the United States since he doesn’t understand how “we’re going to succeed in our country unless we have a committed family life” – which he clearly doesn’t believe gay parents can provide. He also went on to say that “absolutely” businesses should have the right to discriminate against homosexuals based on religious beliefs. I’m really surprised his comments haven’t gotten more coverage nationally; he literally said that he feels marriage should only be between a man and a woman because he doesn’t believe gay couples can provide a “loving” family environment for children. That’s just about as hateful, ignorant and bigoted as you can get. Then, of course, he had to top it all off with the go-to “religious freedom” nonsense when it comes to Republicans trying to legalize discrimination against homosexuals. For a brief moment I had hope that Jeb Bush might have been that candidate to stand up to his party and embrace a more moderate stance on some of these issues. But as these ridiculous comments show, he seems to have fully and proudly embraced the bigoted aspects of his party when it comes to equal rights for the LGBT community.

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/jeb-bush-same-sex-couples-cant-provide-loving-families-believes-legalizing-discrimination/

Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet

 
Facebook's Internet.org project, which offers people from developing countries free mobile access to selected websites, has been pitched as a philanthropic initiative to connect two thirds of the world who don’t yet have Internet access. We completely agree that the global digital divide should be closed. However, we question whether this is the right way to do it. As we and others have noted, there's a real risk that the few websites that Facebook and its partners select for Internet.org (including, of course, Facebook itself) could end up becoming a ghetto for poor users instead of a stepping stone to the larger Internet.
Mark Zuckerberg's announcement of the expansion of the Internet.org platform earlier this month was aimed to address some of these criticisms. In a nutshell, the changes would allow any website operator to submit their site for inclusion in Internet.org, provided that it meets the program's guidelines. Those guidelines are neutral as to the subject matter of the site, but do impose certain technical limitations intended to ensure that sites do not overly burden the carrier's network, and that they will work on both inexpensive feature phones and modern smartphones.
Compliance with the guidelines will be reviewed by the Internet.org team, which may then make the site available for Internet.org users to access for free, by routing the communication through the Internet.org proxy server. That proxy server allows the sites to be “zero rated” by participating mobile phone operators; allows the automatic stripping out of content that violates the guidelines—such as images greater than 1Mb in size, videos, VoIP calls, Flash and Java applets and even JavaScript; and inserts an interstitial warning if a user attempts to leave Internet.org's zero-rated portion of the Internet, so as to prevent users from accidentally being billed for data charges they may not be able to afford and didn't mean to incur.
We agree that some Internet access is better than none, and if that is what Internet.org actually provided—for example, through a uniformly rate-limited or data-capped free service—then it would have our full support. But it doesn't. Instead, it continues to impose conditions and restraints that not only make it something less than a true Internet service, but also endanger people's privacy and security.
That's because the technical structure of Internet.org prevents some users from accessing services over encrypted HTTPS connections. As we mentioned above, a critical component of Internet.org is its proxy server, which traffic must pass through for the zero-rating and the interstitial warning to work correctly. Some devices, like Android phones running Internet.org's app, have the technical ability to make encrypted HTTPS connections through the proxy server without becoming vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks or exposing any data (beyond the domain being requested) to Facebook. Internet.org's Android app can also automatically bring up the interstitial warning directly on the phone by using the app to analyze links (as opposed to Facebook serving the warning via its proxy server).
But most inexpensive feature phones that can't run an Android app don't support phone-based warnings or this sort of proxying of HTTPS connections. For these phones, traffic must pass through Internet.org's proxy unencrypted, which means that any information users send or receive from Internet.org's services could be read by local police or national intelligence agencies and expose its users to harm. While Facebook is working to solve this problem, it's extremely difficult from a technical perspective, with no obvious solution.
Even if Facebook were able to figure out a way to support HTTPS proxying on feature phones, its position as Internet gatekeepers remains more broadly troublesome. By setting themselves up as gatekeepers for free access to (portions of) the global Internet, Facebook and its partners have issued an open invitation for governments and special interest groups to lobby, cajole or threaten them to withhold particular content from their service. In other words, Internet.org would be much easier to censor than a true global Internet.

Source:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/internetorg-not-neutral-not-secure-and-not-internet

Bahar Mustafa: Goldsmiths diversity officer at centre of 'racism' row could lose job after tweeting with hashtag 'kill all white men'

 
The Goldsmiths diversity officer embroiled in a racism row could lose her job after allegedly tweeting with the hashtag "kill all white men".

 Bahar Mustafa, the university union's welfare and diversity officer, caught the media's attention after telling white people and men not to come to an event about diversifying the curriculum.

 She then defended her position on camera, saying ethnic minority women cannot be racist as they "do not stand to gain" from inequality.

 Now students have started a petition to have her removed from her job, while a public change.org petition calling for the same thing has racked up 1,500 votes.

 "The current welfare and diversity officer has used hate speech based on race and gender," the union petition, which closes on May 26, reads.

 "For example, the consistent use of hashtags such as #killallwhitemen and #misandry, and publicly calling someone 'white trash' under the official GSU Welfare and Diversity Officer Twitter account."

 The twitter account has since been shut down.  

Ms Mustafa said the use of the term "white trash" - an offensive American term referring to poor white people following the Great Depression - on an official account had been "not professional".

 But she added the uses of hashtags such as "kill all white men" on her personal account were "in-jokes and ways that many people in the queer feminist community express ourselves".

 "It's a way of reclaiming the power from the trauma many of us experience as queers, women, people of colour, who are on the receiving end of racism, misogyny and homophobia daily," she added.

 If three per cent of students' union members sign the petition, a vote of no confidence will be held in Ms Mustafa. If two thirds of voters say she should be removed during that ballot, she will lose her job.

 She is also accused of oppressing the voices of disabled people during a recent occupation - something she, "as a disabled woman", denies.

 Ms Mustafa adds that she has received racist and sexist abuse and death threats since the "media storm".

Source:http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bahar-mustafa-diversity-officer-at-centre-of-racism-row-could-lose-job-after-tweeting-with-hashtag-kill-all-white-men-10259801.html

Obama Says The Rich Aren’t ‘Evil,’ Just Have Too Much Money

 
Once again the Leftist-in-Chief has to demonize the wealthy because he wants to pretend he cares about the poor.
Of course, under the Obama Administration poverty has reached are 50 year record high but that little fact doesn’t matter when you lie for a living.
Obama made several ridiculous remarks during this interview but one of them was against the wealthy.
Obama actually feigned concern about the poor rural and inner city kids who, to him, don’t have access to the books, computers etc. that the wealthy have access to.
Apparently Obama forgets he voted AGAINST school vouchers for poor inner city children to attend private schools in Washington D.C.

Essentially Obama is also saying that our public schools are pathetic. It certainly isn’t due to lack of funding.
In remarks that drew critical broadsides from conservative radio champion Mark Levin and others on the right, Obama, in addition to attacking Fox News, said rich people aren’t “evil” per se they just have too much money.
“I’m not saying this because I dislike hedge fund managers or think they are evil,” Obama said “You pretty much have more than you’ll ever use and your family will ever use.”
Showing that he doesn’t understand most rich people work hard for their money, the president compared them to gamblers hitting a jackpot.
“If we can’t ask for society’s lottery winners for that modest contribution, then really this conversation is all for show,” he told the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit.
He then lamented the wave of class warfare that he himself promoted and rode into two terms in office.
“Part of what happened in our politics and part of what has shifted — elites in a very mobile globalized world are able to live together away from folks who are not as wealthy,” he said. “What used to be racial segregation mirrors itself in class segregation.”
The left know full well this isn’t true but their minions are clueless shills who believe any talking points they are told, especially from the liar-in-chief in the White House.
Over the past 6 years during Obama’s presidency the wealthy have gotten wealthier and the poor have gotten poorer thanks to Obama and Democrat policies.
And Obama thinks rich people not only have too much money but too much ability to create a better life for themselves thanks to it.


Yet Obama will lie to your face and claim the wealthy aren’t paying their fair share, even when they pay the majority of all taxes in this country.

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