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{"0": "President Donald Trump has created an \u201cOffice of American Innovation\u201d and an \u201cAmerican Technology Council\u201d to promote an America First economic policy. The head of the Council, Jared Kushner, hosted an event at the White House last month to promote technology week. Among the invited companies was one that did not fit in \u2013 the German tech company SAP.\n\nOn the official White House issues page on the website titled \u201cBring Back Jobs and Growth\u201d it states the following: \u201cWe will ensure that trade agreements bring good-paying jobs to our shores and support American manufacturing, the backbone of our economy. The President plans to show America\u2019s trading partners that we mean business by ensuring consequences for countries that engage in illegal or unfair trade practices that hurt American workers.\u201d Keeping jobs in the United States and not outsourcing jobs to foreign companies is part of President Trump\u2019s economic plan. That is why the inclusion of SAP was a head scratcher.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThis White House Innovation Council is pushing for American innovation and technology. Some of the most successful foreign tech companies like Deutsche Telecom, Europe\u2019s largest internet provider, wasn\u2019t invited. Alibaba, China\u2019s most popular e-commerce site, and Amazon and eBay\u2019s largest competitor, was off the invite list too. Yandex, the Google of Russia, is another successful multinational corporation that was not invited. All of these companies are at least as successful, yet it was obvious that they were not proper invitees to a summit sponsored by the American Technology Council. For some unknown reason, the CEO of SAP, was not only in attendance, but he was lecturing White House officials on the need to outsource management software purchases to this German company.\n\nSAP is a company that provides software for business management and customer relations. USA Today reported that the CEO Bill McDermott attended the summit and his company put out a statement that read that the company \u201csupports the stated goals of the American Technology Council and its efforts to transform and modernize the federal government, and innovate how agencies use and deliver information.\u201d Other reports indicated that SAP pitched the summit on the U.S. government using the German produced software for government services.\n\nThe summit served a very important purpose because the U.S. government is living in the dark ages when it comes to use of technology. President Trump spoke of a \u201csweeping transformation\u201d in the federal government\u2019s use of technology. Apple\u2019s CEO Tim Cook argued that \u201cthe U.S. should have the most modern government in the world and today it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s great to see the effort that Jared is putting in in working on things that will pay back in five and 10 and 20 years.\u201d That transformation should be with technology from Google, Microsoft, Apple and Oracle, not outsources to foreign competitors like Germany\u2019s Deutsche Telecom, China\u2019s Alibaba, Russia\u2019s Yandex and SAP.\n\nProtectionism is something that the tech community would like to avoid. It will lead to a trade war and other nations preventing American companies from providing technology and services abroad. A trade war would lead to countries walling off their economies from the world in a way where everybody would lose. That is an extreme way to push an America first economic policy.\n\nYet, another extreme idea is to use taxpayer money to purchase the services of a company wholly owned outside the United States with comparable technology made in America. The idea that the United States government would purchase the services of a foreign company when an American company does the identical function seems absurd.\n\nThe White House probably made a mistake in inviting a German technology provider to come to an \u201cAmerica First\u201d White House technology summit. Hopefully, as the White House offices of American Innovation and American technology don\u2019t outsource invitations to the next summit for other foreign companies."}
{"1": "During Friday\u2019s Weekly Address, President Trump said, \u201cThe era of economic surrender is over \u2013 and a new national pride is sweeping across our land.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nTranscript as Follows:\n\n\u201cMy fellow Americans,\n\nHere at the White House, we are dedicating the month of July to three of our favorite words \u2013 MADE IN AMERICA. For more than two centuries, those three beautiful words have been the world standard for quality, craftsmanship and excellence \u2013 and they still are today.\n\nAs President, one of my highest priorities is to restore American Manufacturing. For decades, American jobs have been ripped out of our communities, industries and towns have been stripped bare, and the entire communities have been uprooted and left. Foreign nations got rich at America\u2019s expense \u2013 and many special interests profited from this great global theft of American wealth.\n\nSince taking the oath of office, our government has adopted a new philosophy: AMERICA FIRST \u2013 and believe me, it\u2019s about time. The era of economic surrender is over \u2013 and a new national pride is sweeping across our land. You see it, I see it, we all see it.\n\nIndustry confidence has soared to the highest level ever recorded.\n\nOne of my first acts was ordering all federal agencies to enforce two simple rules: Buy American, and Hire American. We want to build with American Workers, and with American Iron, Aluminum and Steel.\n\nWe are also tearing down every possible barrier to domestic energy production to unleash the full power of our economy. The American people will finally be allowed to tap into the vast energy wealth sitting right beneath our feet or right below our shores.\n\nWe have also sent a clear message to the world that we will not allow other nations to take advantage of us any longer.\n\nThat\u2019s why I withdrew from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord \u2013 and believe me, it was one-sided. Not a good deal for our country. And the job-killing Trans Pacific Partnership, and that\u2019s why we are pursuing a total renegotiation of NAFTA and if we don\u2019t get it, we will terminate \u2013 that is end NAFTA forever.\n\nEvery other nation on earth protects its own interests. America is finally going to do the same.\n\nAnd as we continue to fight for American workers and industry, it won\u2019t be long before we see the Made in America label proudly displayed on thousands of new products all across this great land and exported all around the world.\n\nThank you, God bless you, God bless America. We are all doing a job, we are working very hard. It will be America First. It will be Make America Great Again. It\u2019s happening.\u201d\n\nFollow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett"}
{"2": "M embers of President Trump\u2019s family reportedly met with a lawyer linked with the Kremlin in June of last year \u2014 although the Trump team believes the meeting may have been sought as part of an effort to create the impression of an improper connection between Trump\u2019s team and Russia.\n\nThe New York Times reported late Saturday that Donald Trump Jr., along with then-campaign chair Paul Manafort and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, met with a Russian lawyer with connections to the Kremlin at Trump Tower.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe Times reported that the meeting occurred on June 9, and it notes that this is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and a member of Trump\u2019s inner circle. Reps for Trump Jr. and Kushner confirmed the meeting to the Times but described it as primarily about an adoption program.\n\nThe lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, has reportedly been fighting the Magnitsky Act \u2014 an American law that blacklists Russian human rights abusers and triggered Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt American adoptions of Russian children.\n\nIn a statement to the Times, Trump Jr. said the \u201cshort\u201d meeting involved discussion of \u201ca program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.\u201d\n\nCirca also reported that the meeting was short, lasting only 20 minutes. The outlet also reported that the president\u2019s legal team believe the meeting may have been part of an election-year opposition effort to create the appearance of \u201cimproper connections\u201d between Trump and Russia.\n\nMark Corallo, a spokesman for President Trump\u2019s legal team, told Circa:\n\nWe have learned from both our own investigation and public reports that the participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for. Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.\n\n\u201cThese developments raise serious issues as to exactly who authorized and participated in any effort by Russian nationals to influence our election in any manner,\u201d he added.\n\nThe Times reports that the meeting was not disclosed until recently, when Kushner filed a revised version of a form to obtain a security clearance. Kushner\u2019s advisers described the omission as an error.\n\nKushner\u2019s lawyer told the Times in a statement.:\n\nHe has since submitted this information, including that during the campaign and transition, he had over 100 calls or meetings with representatives of more than 20 countries, most of which were during transition. Mr. Kushner has submitted additional updates and included, out of an abundance of caution, this meeting with a Russian person, which he briefly attended at the request of his brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr. As Mr. Kushner has consistently stated, he is eager to cooperate and share what he knows.\n\nThe Times notes that Trump Jr. does not have to disclose foreign contacts as he does not serve in the administration, nor does he have a security clearance. The story claims that the lawyer is a \u201cformidable operator with a history of pushing the Kremlin\u2019s agenda.\u201d\n\nAdam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamShawNY"}
{"3": "New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is so fed up with the city\u2019s panhandlers begging for money on the street that he wants to ban the practice.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m saying that not as a matter of policy. I\u2019m saying that as a human being, bluntly,\u201d Mayor de Blasio told WNYC radio Friday.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI just wish it didn\u2019t exist,\u201d he added.\u201d I am just expressing a frustration because I think it hurts the quality of life in many ways.\u201d\n\nDe Blasio tried to backtrack on his statement during the interview, saying that he is aware of Constitutional protections in place that bar him from implementing a panhandling ban.\n\nWhile he expressed sympathy for those who are homeless and panhandle as a last resort, he also said, \u201cThere are also people out there who are just begging for money and it is not out of dire economic need \u2013and that is frustrating to me.\u201d\n\nThe New York City mayor\u2019s position on the subject is somewhat of a departure from his stances on other measures. De Blasio passed measures to decriminalize public urination and drinking in public in 2016.\n\nDe Blasio, who spoke to WYNC from Hamburg, Germany, skipped a police swearing-in ceremony for 524 new NYPD recruits to protest President Trump\u2019s meetings with world leaders at the G20 summit.\n\nThe mayor also left the city after an NYPD officer was murdered Wednesday in what authorities say was \u201can unprovoked attack.\u201d"}
{"4": "Illegal border crossings along the southwest U.S. border with Mexico are at a six-year low but are up some over last month.\n\nThe total apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the southwest border with Mexico increased 10 percent from May to June, according to a new report obtained by Breitbart Texas from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. This follows a 31 percent increase from April to May.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn May 2017, border apprehensions increased from a historic 17-year low of 11,126 in April to 14,535 in May, Breitbart Texas reported. Those numbers went up again in June to 16,089, CBP officials detailed.\n\nDuring the same period in the year before, Border Patrol agents apprehended 38,089 illegal immigrants in April, 40,337 in May, and 34,450 in June.\n\nYear-to-date apprehensions are down substantially when comparing fiscal years 2016 and 2017. During the first three quarters of FY 2016, agents apprehended a total of 366,044 illegal immigrants. In that same period this year, the numbers fell to 240,930, a decrease of 34 percent.\n\nThe FY 2017 numbers are also skewed by record apprehensions in the months of October and November when massive numbers of migrants crossed the border in anticipation of the 2016 presidential election. Since President Trump took office in January, the number of apprehensions fell from 31,584 to 16,089, a decrease of 49 percent.\n\nOf the 16,089 illegal immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents in June, 36 percent (5,817) were arrested in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in South Texas. The Tucson Sector saw the second highest numbers of arrests (2,631) followed by the Laredo (1,839), San Diego (1,656), El Centro (1,280), El Paso (1,181), Del Rio (760), Yuma (548), and Big Bend (377) Sectors.\n\nThe increase in illegal immigrant crossings and apprehensions comes as the summer heat brings grave danger to those making the trip. Breitbart Texas has reported extensively on the numbers of deaths of illegal aliens during the summer heat, especially in South Texas and Arizona. The numbers of rescues of distressed aliens by Border Patrol agents continue as well.\n\nIn one day alone, the bodies of three illegal immigrants were found in Brooks County, Texas, after human smugglers abandoned and left them to die, Breitbart Texas reported.\n\nBob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook."}
{"5": "The head of Germany\u2019s Die Welt newspaper Ulf Poschardt has denounced the violence caused by left-wing extremists calling the rioting, \u201cthe new fascist violence of the left\u201d.\n\nMr. Poschardt, who serves as the editor in chief of Die Welt, slammed the so-called \u201cblack-block\u201d left-extremists in a new column likening them to the Blackshirts who committed acts of political violence under Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cTheir black costume reveals that their aesthetic is inspired by Mussolini\u2019s black shirts. They act like fascists. They stir up fear and uncertainty. The Black Block has been turning Hamburg into a civil war landscape since Thursday evening,\u201d he wrote.\n\n\u201cIn the run-up to the G-20 summit, there are always two kinds of protest: the one idealistic peaceful but over and over again \u2013 the hate-filled dream of a broken dystopia, as in the Batman movie \u2018The Dark Knight Rises\u2019,\u201d he added.\n\nCalling the members of the black-block, many of which are neither from Hamburg nor even Germany, \u201cadventure tourists\u201d Poschardt paints the average left-extremist as young men in \u201clate puberty\u201d who have, \u201cno more to offer politically than an archaic accumulation of rage and a regime of fear\u201d.\n\nThe problem with left-extremists has been building up for years according to Poschardt. He said that in the past police and authorities had made mistakes by \u201cconfusing squatters with homeowners\u201d, and allowing public spaces to be cleared of right-wing opinions by \u201cantifascists with their fascist love of power\u201d.\n\nAfter the left-extremist left 130 police injured and caused massive damage to property Thursday night, Poschardt points out the left wing Green party has placed the blame on the police. \u201cThis is grotesque in the face of the articulated threats of violence and a motto such as \u2018Welcome to Hell\u2019,\u201d he writes.\n\nThe Welt chief also notes the traditional idea of the left representing the working class is also largely a myth. He said that real working people were far more likely to be on the police side during a protest than the protestors who he describes as wearing expensive Northface jackets and \u201csneakers from the hipster shop\u201d.\n\nPoschardt is one of the few German media personalities to call out left wing extremism in such certain and blunt terms, though he has made controversial remarks in the past. No fan of U.S. President Donald Trump, Poschardt claimed that the best way for Germans to combat the ideas of the U.S. president was to bee \u201cmore gay\u201d."}
{"6": "The first vice president of the European Commission has said he expects the UK to take in migrants from North Africa as part of a new European Union (EU) programme.\n\nThe bloc is planning to take genuine refugees directly from nations like Libya, hoping to secure a deal where Libya would, in return, accept the immediate return of all migrants found crossing the Mediterranean.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe scheme would be voluntary, similar to that signed with Turkey, and different from the forced migrant quota scheme currently being resisted by Hungary and Poland.\n\nAccording to the Express, Commission Vice-President Franz Timmerman refused to reveal the number of migrants nations would be expected to take, but said at a press conference:\n\n\u201cI would imagine that the UK would be part of this discussion, especially because resettlement from the very start has been a pivotal element in the British approach to this problem.\n\n\u201cAnd if we talk about a new resettlement pledging exercise notably from Libya, Egypt, Niger, Ethiopia and Sudan which we can do in conjunction with the UNHCR, this would all meet the requirements the British governments in the past have always set for doing resettlement.\n\nThe whole idea of the #EU is that if one member is in trouble, others help out #MigrationEU pic.twitter.com/lqXuNXyBKs \u2014 Frans Timmermans (@TimmermansEU) July 4, 2017\n\n\u201cThat you work closely with the UNHCR, you identify the people who would be eligible et cetera, et cetera, and I think this is an exercise we need to do at the European level and I count on solidarity from all member states including the UK.\u201d\n\nMr. Timmerman also expressed sympathy with Italy, which is taking in thousands of migrants a week arriving on its shores, and admitted the majority of those being rescued at sea are not refugees but economic migrants, saying:\n\n\u201cMany of the people arriving in Italy today, when scrutinised, do not have the right to international protection because they don\u2019t flee from war or persecution.\n\n\u201cThey seek a better life which is a noble exercise in itself but does not grant them the right to stay in the European Union.\u201d"}
{"7": "University of West Georgia adjunct professor Jason W. Swindle Sr. says arguments against campus carry are not \u201cbased on logic, history, or verified facts.\u201d\n\nOn the other hand, he suggests that arguments for campus carry are logical and important to the preservation of life.\n\nadvertisement\n\nWriting in the LaGrange Daily News, Swindle describes his walk from the classroom to the parking lot on dark, cold nights in January and February. He says, \u201cThere have been times I wished I had my .38 revolver inside of my jacket.\u201d\n\nHe then turned to the newly enacted Georgia campus carry law, expressed his happiness over the law, and pointed out that those who opposed it did not not oppose it with logic. Moreover, he suggested that opponents of the law ignored history and regurgitated a list of worst case campus carry scenarios that have never proven true.\n\nFor example, Swindle points out that opponents of campus carry said, \u201cGuns on campus would lead to an increase in violent crime.\u201d He responded, saying, \u201cThere are ten states (including Georgia) that have provisions allowing the carrying of concealed weapons.\n\n\u201cTwenty-three additional states allow each college to make the decision. None of these states have seen a resulting increase in gun violence as a result of legalizing concealed carry.\u201d\n\nHe noted that some opponents of campus carry say, \u201cAdding guns to the \u2018college lifestyle\u2019 of drinking and partying would be a disaster.\u201d He then responded to this claim, saying, \u201cFirst, it is unlawful for a licensed concealed permit holder to carry while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.\n\n\u201cLicensed holders went through the proper steps, underwent a background check, and were licensed by a probate judge. Logic would dictate that these class of gun owners possess the highest level of responsibility and thus would not carry while drinking.\u201d\n\nSwindle then pointed to campus carry opponents\u2019 favorite go-to argument\u2014that \u201cGun free zones (GFZ) are safe because no one can possess guns in those areas.\u201d He drew from his experience in law, his knowledge of criminal cases and repeated exposure to how and why criminals attack, to say:\n\nIn 13 years of criminal defense practice, I have not had to read books, debate ideas, or test classroom theories to confirm that human predators, like our fellow mammals in the animal kingdom, prey on the weak and defenseless. Like the cheetah that picks out the weakest, youngest, or sickest wildebeest, a rapist, child abuser, armed robber, or gunman will choose the weakest victim(s). A gunman knows that people in GFZ\u2019s cannot defend themselves. The gunman has no risk of being shot himself when he opens fire in schools, some campuses, and other GFZ\u2019s. A 2014 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center showed that 92 percent of mass shootings in public places between 2009 and 2014 were in GFZ\u2019s.\n\nSwindle also noted that no matter how nicely he presents his arguments, those fighting for gun control are often quick to frame their case in emotion and enter into name-calling. He said that while he always does his best to \u201cagree to disagree,\u201d his support of Georgia\u2019s campus carry law garnered him some Facebook responses that \u201cwere not exactly a classy expression of disagreement.\u201d\n\nAWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com."}
{"8": "Islamist gangs are using violence and intimidation to enforce Shariah law in parts of Germany, particularly against Chechen and Chechen-origin women in Berlin, according to reports.\n\nDer Taggespiegel reports that a threatening video of an armed man in a hood has been circulating in the Chechen community since March 2017 through the WhatsApp messaging service.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cHere, in Europe, certain Chechen women and men who look like women do unspeakable things. You know it; I know it; everybody knows it,\u201d declares the pistol-waving fanatic.\n\n\u201c[Chechen women] who flirt with men of other ethnic groups and marry them, Chechen women who have chosen the wrong path and those [creatures] who call themselves Chechen men \u2013 given half a chance, we will set all of them straight.\n\n\u201cHaving sworn on the Quran, we go out onto the streets. This is our declaration of intent; do not say that you were not warned; do not say that you did not know.\u201d\n\nThe rough justice meted out by Berlin\u2019s shariah enforcers was described by a female victim in an interview with Meduza, a Latvia-based news organisation.\n\nThe woman described how Islamists recorded her walking down the street with a non-Chechen man and later showed up at her house. She managed to conceal herself but the man was seized and brutally beaten, losing most of his teeth.\n\n\u201cWhy does my private life concern [them] at all?\u201d she asked. \u201cI don\u2019t know them. I don\u2019t want to. I\u2019m not their sister or daughter. My private life is no one else\u2019s business.\u201d\n\n\u2018Transgressions\u2019 can include acts as simple as attending mainstream German schools, where sex education classes are part of the curriculum. Many women and girls who would prefer to adopt a more Western lifestyle say they keep to some of the trappings of Islamic tradition to try and escape the Islamists\u2019 attention, but covering up is not always an adequate precaution.\n\n\u201cEven in a hijab, I was called a prostitute, for instance, for wearing eye make-up. And I thought: \u2018Who am I trying to please?\u2019\u201d said one girl.\n\n\u201cTo gain everyone\u2019s respect, you need to put on a headscarf, lower your eyes, and never leave home. But who would want such a life?\u201d asked another.\n\nBoth agreed they could not \u201cstand the hypocrisy of leading a double life\u201d.\n\nMeduza cites a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung estimate that 36,000 Chechens have entered Germany over the past five years."}
{"9": "NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is urging federal regulators to look into a \u201csnortable chocolate\u201d powder, saying he\u2019s worried that it could prove harmful and is being marketed like a drug.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn a letter Saturday, the New York Democrat asked the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of caffeine in inhalable food products such as so-called Coco Loko. It\u2019s gotten buzz in recent weeks.\n\nSchumer, the Senate minority leader, says there are too many unanswered questions about a product pitched under the innocent-sounding name of chocolate.\n\n\u201cThis suspect product has no clear health value,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI can\u2019t think of a single parent who thinks it is a good idea for their children to be snorting over-the-counter stimulants up their noses.\u201d\n\nMarketed as \u201craw cacao snuff,\u201d Coco Loko includes cacao powder, which comes from beans used in making chocolate; they contain some caffeine. Manufacturer Legal Lean Co. doesn\u2019t detail other ingredients online, but according to news reports, Coco Loko also includes common energy-drink ingredients.\n\nIt promises feelings of well-being, mental focus, ecstasy-like euphoria and a rush of \u201cmotivation that is great for partygoers to dance the night away without a crash,\u201d according to Orlando, Florida-based Legal Lean\u2019s website. It notes that the claims haven\u2019t been vetted by the FDA.\n\nThe agency has said it hasn\u2019t yet determined whether it has authority to regulate snortable chocolate.\n\nLegal Lean Co., which sells Coco Loko online for $19.99 for a 1.25-ounce (3.5-gram) tin, did not return a call seeking comment. Founder Nick Anderson has said he didn\u2019t consult any medical professionals but believes Coco Loko is safe. He said he developed it from snortable chocolate that\u2019s circulated in Europe in recent years.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s really no negative publicity, so I felt we\u2019re good to go,\u201d he told ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d on Thursday.\n\nDoctors have said they\u2019re not certain what the effects of inhaling chocolate might be."}
{"10": "Sunday on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said President Donald Trump was empowering Putin by not imposing tougher sanctions on Russia for cyber attacks on the American election of 2016 which would be \u201cbetraying democracy.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nGraham said, \u201cHe had what I think is a disastrous meeting with President Putin. Two hours and 15 minutes of meetings, Tillerson and Trump are ready to forgive and forget when it comes to cyber attacks on the American election of 2016. Nobody is saying, Mr. President, the Russians changed the outcome. You won fair and square, but they did try to attack our election system. They were successful in many ways. And the more you do this, the more people are suspicious about you and Russia. He\u2019s got a great national security team around him. He\u2019s doing a good job in Afghanistan, North Korea, and ISIL, but when it comes to Russia, he\u2019s got a blind spot, and to forgive and forget when it comes to Putin regarding cyber attacks is to empower Putin, and that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s doing.\u201d\n\nHe continued, \u201cHe seems to be willing to forgive and forget Putin. Even if he brought it up, he\u2019s not willing to do anything about it, so it makes me more committed than ever to get sanctions on President Trump\u2019s desk punishing Putin. There is only one person in Washington that I know of that has any doubt about what Russia did in our election, and that\u2019s President Trump.\u201d\n\nHe added, \u201cWhen it comes to Russia, I am dumbfounded, I am disappointed, and at the end of the day he\u2019s hurting his presidency by not embracing the fact that Putin is a bad guy who tried to undercut our democracy and he\u2019s doing it all over the world.\u201d\n\nDiscussing sanctions on Russia, Graham added, \u201cAt the end of the day, the house needs to pass a bill. If you don\u2019t like our bill word for word, you can change it, but I\u2019m not going to gut the bill. I am intent on punishing the Russians for interfering in our election. They did it in France. They\u2019re going to do it in Germany. They\u2019re doing it all over the world. They\u2019re doing it in the Balkan states, their neighbors. So I want a clear message to Russia that you\u2019ll pay the price for cutting our democracy. If President Trump doesn\u2019t embrace this, I think he\u2019ll be empowering the Russians and betraying democracy.\u201d\n\nFollow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN"}
{"11": "Nearly 30 years after their initial installation, the iconic \u201crunning immigrant\u201d yellow signs that once dotted California\u2019s freeways near the southern border have been disappearing over the past several years. Now there\u2019s just one left.\n\nThe yellow signs featured a silhouette of the figure of a man running hard, with a woman trailing behind, clutching the wrist of a little girl with her pigtails flying, and the word \u201cCAUTION\u201d above the illustration. The signs were meant to alert drivers of illegal immigrants running across the freeway near border checkpoints.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThere were once a dozen or so of these signs, along the Interstate 5 Freeway near the San Ysidro border crossing south of San Diego as well as a stretch of the 5 Freeway along Camp Pendleton just before it reaches the San Clemente Border Patrol checkpoint near the Orange County line. But over the years, accidents and vandalism have wiped out most of the signs, with just one remaining now near San Ysidro.\n\nThe signs were installed after more than 100 people were killed trying to cross the freeway in the 1980s. In 1986, illegal crossings in the San Diego sector reached an all-time high, with 628,000 apprehensions, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics. According to the Los Angeles Times, the area \u2014 geographically the smallest for Border Patrol \u2014 was once the busiest sector for illegal immigration in the U.S., accounting for more than 40 percent of nationwide apprehensions in the early \u201990s.\n\nIn the 1990s, federal officials decided to erect a wall between the U.S. and Mexico in the San Diego area and as a result, illegal crossings migrated east to Arizona and Texas. By 2016 Border Patrol agents apprehended 31,891 people in the San Diego sector suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.\n\nBut in the 1980s the freeway crossings were a real danger to both the drivers and illegals trying to evade Border Patrol. In the Camp Pendleton area of the 5 Freeway, oftentimes human smugglers would order the illegals they were shuttling to cross 8-10 lanes of high-speed freeway traffic to get to the beachside and proceed on foot until they were past the checkpoint. More than a few occasions, the illegals would be run over by speeding and unsuspecting drivers right in front of their family members.\n\nCaltrans then decided to replace the ineffective text signs that read \u201cCaution: Watch for People Crossing Road,\u201d and enlisted its graphic artist John Hood to design a new sign. A Vietnam vet who grew up in a Navajo reservation, Hood drew on his experience from the war as well as stories his parents told him about the Navajo flight and came up a sign that conveyed both urgency and fear.\n\nThe new signs immediately drew lots of attention as well as criticism. Some Latino activists deemed the faceless silhouettes racist. Anti-illegal immigration advocates thought the state should not spend money to protect people who were breaking the law. But entrepreneurs loved it. Since the image remained public property and no one had to pay Caltrans for its use, souvenirs featuring a variation of the \u201crunning immigrants\u201d propped up all over Southern California on T-shirts, stickers, and flags.\n\n\u201cYou create your work, and that\u2019s the extent of it. You never envision something like that to happen,\u201d Hood to the Times about the sign\u2019s evolution. \u201cIt\u2019s become an iconic element. It lives on.\u201d"}
{"12": "Former college football great, failed NFL quarterback, and now struggling minor league baseball player Tim Tebow gave the New York Mets some hope over the last week since they promoted him to their Single-A affiliate St. Lucie.\n\nIn his first ten games playing in Class A Advanced Florida State League, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner hit two home runs, drove in eight runs, and is batting .345 after 10 hits in 29 at-bats. In addition, Tebow drew six walks earning an impressive .472 on-base percentage.\n\nadvertisement\n\nKyle Koster writes at TheBigLead that the Mets admit Tebow remains a \u201cpublicity stunt,\u201d but with his recent stats he\u2019s beginning to look \u201can awful lot like a baseball player.\u201d Koster points out that the 29-year-old\u2019s decreasing strikeout numbers may be his most \u201cimpressive\u201d development.\n\nNevertheless, Tebow needs to continue at this pace if he wants to play in the \u201cBigs,\u201d because prior to his elevation to St. Lucie the fan favorite hit only three home runs in his first 64 games and his batting average was threatening to dip below the Mendoza line. Including his torrid last ten games, Tebow owns a dismal .235 batting average.\n\nRegardless of his statistics, cynics predict that Tebow will one day play in the MLB because he brings people to the ballpark. But that will be a temporary phenomenon. Ultimately, the way to sustain high attendance at games is bringing W\u2019s, not former Heisman Trophy winners batting .200, sticking them in left field, and hoping that no one hits one in his direction.\n\n"}
{"13": "HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 Law enforcement officers used high technology software to identify a runaway underage teen forced into prostitution.\n\nHarris County Precinct Four Constable\u2019s deputies used software to match an advertisement for sex on an online website to a database of runaway teens. The investigators routinely monitor the online advertising in search of underage teens forced into sexual slavery and prostitution. In this case, detectives found an out-of-state female minor being advertised online for sexual services at a motel on Houston\u2019s north side, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Constable Mark Herman\u2019s office.\n\nadvertisement\n\nInvestigators made contact with the teen and set up a \u201cdate\u201d at the North Villa Inn which is located on I-45, just north of Houston.\n\nAfter arriving at the hotel, investigators took the underage girl into custody. During an interview, detectives learned that two individuals forced the juvenile into prostitution after one of them allegedly trafficked her to Houston from another state. She identified her captors as Teresa Henry and Centurrie Garrett (shown in photos above). She told detectives Henry trafficked her from out of state and both suspects had compelled her into prostitution.\n\nThe detectives located and arrested Henry and Garrett and charged them with Compelling Prostitution of a Minor. Henry also faces a First Degree Felony charge of Human Trafficking of a Minor, officials stated.\n\nCourt records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed Henry served a 30-day sentence earlier this year on a conviction for misdemeanor theft. Records also indicate that Garrett received two 30-day jail sentences in 2013. The sentences followed convictions of misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor prostitution where she agreed to oral sex with an undercover officer for a fee, the criminal complaint stated.\n\nConstable Herman\u2019s detectives continuously utilize high technology applications to identify sex trafficking victims, human trafficking, child pornographers, and people using social media to solicit underage minors for sex.\n\nBob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook."}
{"14": "Parliamentarians from Britain\u2019s leading parties have demanded the BBC end its anti-Brexit bias, or face being hauled before media regulators.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs including Philip Davies from the Conservative Party, Kate Hoey from Labour, and Ian Paisley Jr from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) confronted News and Current Affairs Director James Harding over the publicly-funded broadcaster\u2019s tendency to put a negative slant on its Brexit coverage, and to report any good news for the economy as having come about \u201cdespite\u201d Brexit.\n\nadvertisement\n\nMet with BBC & raised some interesting questions \u2026. pic.twitter.com/cnW4lyWCDT \u2014 Ian Paisley MP (@ianpaisleymp) July 4, 2017\n\nConfirmed: BBC Was Biased Against Brexit, Say Researchers https://t.co/3RiwNU0W62 pic.twitter.com/tqhxIQEpGq \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 15, 2016\n\nOne of the group told The Sun newspaper: \u201cThis [meeting] was about how we make sure there is a more positive light put on Brexit over the next two years. The main thing is looking for a code of practice or new guidelines to ensure that the BBC is impartial.\u201d\n\nJacob-Rees Mogg, a long-time Brexit supporter and popular Tory backbencher, commented that, \u201cThe BBC was good prior to the referendum \u2013 but it has been extraordinarily bad afterwards.\u201d\n\nMP Slams \u2018Left-Wing\u2019 BBC, Brexit Reporting \u2018Disgrace\u2019 https://t.co/o7Bz5fvGZW pic.twitter.com/RI9KzblD5v \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 15, 2016\n\nPart of the reason for this discrepancy may be explained by an article penned for the Radio Times by Nick Robinson, a presenter and former political editor for the corporation.\n\n\u201cThe referendum is over,\u201d declared Robinson. \u201cThe duty we broadcasters had to \u2018broadly balance\u2019 the views of the two sides is at an end.\u201d\n\nThe 53-year-old had been responding to another representation to his employer by parliamentarians in March 2017, complaining of the excessively \u201cpessimistic\u201d tone of its coverage, as well as the tendency to portray Brexit Britain as a \u201cxenophobic\u201d country.\n\nBBC Pushes Post-Brexit Division, Urges Remainers To Promote Grievances https://t.co/XaqwIQ8Zbd pic.twitter.com/hFQV4ShQTE \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 11, 2016\n\nAn analysis of post-referendum programming on BBC Radio 4 found that listeners were around 2.5 times more likely to hear from an EU loyalist than a Brexit supporter.\n\nNews Watch highlighted issues with the \u2018Brexit Collection\u2019 series on iPlayer, which contained \u201c5 hours 20 minutes of programming [which] were strongly anti-Brexit, contained unchallenged predictions that civil unrest and rioting were now on the horizon, and cast the \u2018Out\u2019 vote in negative terms, inferring that the result had been a consequence of racism and xenophobia\u201d."}
{"15": "President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit on Saturday in Hamburg, where reports reveal the two leaders spoke about trade and North Korea.\n\nIn a brief encounter with the press during a photo opportunity, President Xi spoke in Chinese without a translator, according to pooled press reports.\n\nadvertisement\n\nTrump said it was an \u201chonor to have gotten to know\u201d Xi and added the two leaders had \u201cdeveloped a wonderful relationship.\u201d\n\nTrump also remarked on North Korea in the wake of that communist regime\u2019s recent launch of a ballistic missile, which showed it could have the capability of reaching Alaska, according to military experts.\n\n\u201cI appreciate the things that you have done relative to the very substantial problem that we all face in North Korea, a problem that something has to be done about,\u201d Trump said.\n\n\u201cIt may take longer than I\u2019d like. It may take longer that you\u2019d like,\u201d Trump said, \u201cbut there will be success in the end one way or the other.\u201d\n\nTrump also highlighted trade in his brief remarks.\n\n\u201cTrade, as you know, is a very, very big issue for the United States,\u201d Trump said.\n\nThe Chinese communist news service, Xinhua News Agency, reported that President Xi called for a \u201cmore inclusive growth and improving global economic governance\u201d at the G20 summit.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnother source of growth derives from making greater efforts to address the issue of development and implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and such efforts will both benefit developing countries and generate business and investment opportunities for developed countries,\u201d Yi said. \u201cIn other words, this will be a win-win game for all.\u201d\n\n\u201cChina proposes establishing a united global front against terrorism to eradicate the roots of terrorism, cut off the channels for terrorists to obtain funds, and stop the use of Internet by terrorists to spread terrorism,\u201d the Chinese news outlet reported.\n\n\u201cChina itself is a victim of terrorism and is on the front line of the international fight against terrorism,\u201d Xi said."}
{"16": "After refusing to rule out a potential 2020 primary challenge to President Donald Trump, \u201cNever Trump\u201d Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) spoke to about 200 Republicans in Story County, Iowa on Friday evening.\n\nSasse\u2019s excuse was that he was in Iowa because he lost a college football bet and his kids were participating in a triathlon this weekend in the state.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn an interview before his Iowa trip, the insufferable and sanctimonious Sasse would not rule out a potential 2020 presidential run. When CNN asked about his potential presidential ambitions on Sunday, Sasse punted in a way that would have made the late Sam Foltz proud.\n\nAccording to a McClatchy report, though, Trump still \u201cremains so strong in conservative corners of Trump-friendly states, including Iowa, that party leaders, operatives and grassroots activists say there is no serious on-the-ground discussion of a 2020 challenge at this point.\u201d Many who attended the dinner expressed similar sentiments to local Iowa reporters.\n\nOn the record, David Kochel, who was Jeb Bush\u2019s top strategist in 2016 and is described as a \u201cveteran Iowa operative,\u201d told McClatchy that there was no \u201cwholesale movement to look for a candidate in 2020\u201d in Iowa. A \u201cveteran Iowa Republican operative\u201d was then quoted later in the piece saying \u201cfor every Iowa Republican that was cheering Jeff Kaufmann\u2019s statements in Cedar Rapids two weeks ago, there\u2019s another Republican who\u2019s very quietly interested in what Ben Sasse has to say.\u201d\n\n\u201cThose Never Trumpers out there, you know what? I\u2019m getting just a little tired of that too. We had Senator Ben Sasse from Nebraska. He crosses the Missouri River and in that sanctimonious tone talked about what he doesn\u2019t like about Donald Trump. You know what Senator Sasse? I really don\u2019t care what you like. We love Donald Trump,\u201d Iowa GOP Chair Jeff Kaufmann said before Trump\u2019s Iowa rally last month. \u201cAnd if you don\u2019t love him I suggest you stay on your side of the Missouri River.\u201d\n\nKaufmann also told Politico that Sasse is an \u201carrogant academic\u201d who is \u201csanctimonious\u201d\n\n\u201cThe most important thing to Ben Sasse is Ben Sasse,\u201d he added.\n\nEstablishment Republican operative Mike Murphy, who ran Jeb Bush\u2019s super PAC in 2016 and is notorious for pocketing and blowing millions of dollars from wealthy candidates while losing races, attacked Kaufmann.\n\nMurphy, who reportedly may have pocketed $14 million and angered donors while running Jeb Bush\u2019s disastrously ineffective super PAC during the 2016 election cycle, referred to Kaufmann as a \u201ctier-B seat warmer.\u201d Kaufmann fired back, saying \u201cthat\u2019s rich, coming from the C list political operative that enriched himself while running Jeb!\u2019s superpac into the ground.\u201d\n\nThat's rich, coming from the C list political operative that enriched himself while running Jeb!'s superpac into the ground. https://t.co/Tgyj39mEEU \u2014 Jeff Kaufmann (@kaufmannGOP) June 22, 2017\n\nI'm pretty sure @BenSasse will be a force in GOP politics for a lot longer than a tier-B seat warmer like Jeff Kaufmann\u2026 https://t.co/rbBmHpGbrw \u2014 Mike Murphy (@murphymike) June 22, 2017\n\nGreat advice for \"Never Trump\" Republicans\u2026you're part of the problem, not the movement\u2026#MAGA https://t.co/q0xSnpRxN0 \u2014 Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) June 23, 2017\n\nSasse is the dream candidate for \u201cNever Trump\u201d professional operatives and tacticians like the ones who dragged Evan McMullin to run for president so they could get on television and get quotes in legacy media publications.\n\nBut should Sasse run for president, even reporters in the establishment press are bearish about his chances. Politico\u2019s Eliana Johnson pointed out last month that Sasse\u2019s anti-Trump stance in 2016 won him \u201crespect and adulation\u201d from \u201celites in New York, Washington\u2026 and San Francisco,\u201d but not \u201camong voters in Nebraska.\u201d\n\nJohnson predicted that if Sasse runs for president, there will not be \u201ca lot of enthusiasm\u201d for him or a \u201cgroundswell among grassroots voters across the country.\u201d She ultimately pictured Sasse as someone who will stay in the Senate or run a think tank because he will have trouble \u201cigniting\u201d the passions of working-class voters."}
{"17": "It took a very long time, too long \u2014 due to obstructionist partisan politics, Democrat resistance, Hillary electoral moaning and groaning, and media conflagration, aka \u201cfake news\u201d \u2014 for the President of the USA, Donald J. Trump to meet with Vladimir V. Putin, President of Russia.\n\nThe scheduled meeting was to be a meaningless icebreaker, get to know you session, lasting some thirty minutes. The media used term \u2018sizing one another up,\u2019 as it they were getting fitted for new suits.\n\nadvertisement\n\nWrong! It turned out to be a real and productive bilateral, lasting instead some two hours and fifteen minutes. Trump had prepared and had an agenda.\n\nFew predicted or expected this or the firm results that flowed, including a ceasefire in Syria (creating safe zones region by region was a Trump campaign promise \u2013 another promise kept), working groups on cyber threats, a robust discussion of meddling in our elections and other important issues. But then all of the over-exposed pundits, same old experts and the lame media always get Trump wrong and underestimate him and his abilities. They loathe him so much they can\u2019t stand his constant winning.\n\nThe signs all over the city where the meeting took place, in the larger context of the G20 Summit, Hamburg, Germany, read: \u201cWelcome to Hell.\u201d\n\nOutside, the radical anti-capitalist protesters, mostly from the German violent Left, battled with the police (over 150 have been injured).\n\nWater cannons kept them at bay while the world leaders convened. Globalization was their stated enemy when it should have been globalism. Who funds all these wackos anyway; as they always show up again and again, accomplish nothing, except attempted disruption and continual news coverage, as if they were the story?\n\nThere were four myths that the media had projected around this first meeting between the Presidents, Trump and Putin, each of which needs to be defused and put to rest. They are all liberal gibberish:\n\n# 1 Myth is that the US and Russia are equals. The facts portray the true reality. The US economy is 20x times larger than that of Russias; and Russia is in decline as a still emerging economy, entirely dependent on the (low and getting lower) price of oil & gas. The US military spends $600 billion a year and the Russians spend only $67 billion. They are no match on the land, in the air, or at sea, except for one category: nuclear weapons. When it comes to cultural influence there simply is NO comparison.\n\n# 2 Myth is that the Americans hate Russians and vice versa. This is simply not true. We have in the past been allies, foes, and frememies and the fact that Russia deals in destabilizing measures is nothing new. As if America doesn\u2019t? This meeting disappointed the CNN crowd, as it was not the movie, Rocky IV, where Rocky Balboa took a wicked beating from Captain Ivan Drago until the last round. Russia and America it appears, surprise, surprise, can get along, can work together, can relate and even agree. Someone needs to tell all the costly and duplicative committees in the US Congress investigating\u2014who knows what?\n\n# 3 Myth international relations is not , regardless what the G20 or the UN, or god forbid, the EU says\u2014all about cooperation and a collaboration of multipolar weak powers to achieve next to nothing. In fact, Thucydides got it right centuries BC, when he stated: \u201cThe strong do what they can do and the weak suffer what they must.\u201d Life may no longer be quite the Hobbesian: short, nasty and brutish but it takes realpolitik and real leadership to get things done\u2014in war and peace. Trump and Putin seem to get that where other so-called \u2018world leaders\u2019 and the weak institutions they create \u2014 don\u2019t.\n\n# 4 Myth is simply that culture matters. Trump and Team America have read Russian culture. In the classic, Icon & The Axe, former Librarian of Congress, James Billington, argued that you can\u2019t understand Russia without knowing its history, literature, and culture, which is rooted in long suffering and the strong division between Europe and Asia. The Russian psyche is one of near constant lament and doom. Trump read this and allowed Putin a way to save face, be on a grand stage and solve world problems (many of which were indeed caused by Russia itself). He respected, perhaps, used Putin\u2014who we were warned beforehand was the dangerous, all too clever spymaster and brilliant chess player \u2014 to his own aims. In the end, it was Putin who got played.\n\nCan we finally get on now with treating Russia as a valuable nation state who has interests, some of which correspond with our own, some not, and start to deal with them as a player?\n\nPutin and Trump don\u2019t have to be best buds and a bromance was never really in the cards \u2014 only in the minds of the sorry, losing party and its media pawns. But as Henry Kissinger reminded us just weeks ago, \u201cDonald Trump is right about Russia\u2026 I hope that an effort will be made for a serious dialogue which tries to avoid the drift towards confrontation.\u201d\n\nYou see, Russia remains and always will be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, as Churchill famously called it in 1939. But as he shrewdly went on to say, \u201cPerhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.\u201d\n\nTrump has put America first but also realized that Russia needs to have air to breathe and scope to maneuver. It has a role in the game even if it is not quite yet welcomed into the Western civilized \u2018community of nations\u2019. That doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t call them out as he clearly did in Poland, or undercut them when it comes to providing alternative energy options to eastern and central Europe. It only means they can be useful when and where our interests intersect. No more, no less. And like the greatest diplomat to deal with the then Russian (Soviet) nemesis, Ronald Reagan insisted: \u2018trust but verify\u2019.\n\nLet\u2019s hope the following rounds in this US-Russia match can build on what was surely a solid start, reestablish a modicum of respect for each other and our duly elected leaders, and continue to debunk all four myths.\n\nTheodore Roosevelt Malloch is a diplomat and scholar whose memoir is entitled, DAVOS, ASPEN & YALE: My Life Behind the Elite Curtain as a Global Sherpa."}
{"18": "The actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf was arrested in Georgia early Saturday after allegedly engaging in drunken acts of public disorder, TMZ reported Saturday.\n\nAs of Saturday morning, the Transformers star and left-wing activist remained in custody, having been booked for alleged public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and obstruction.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIt is not the first time an intoxicated LaBeouf has run into trouble with the law. In October 2015, LaBeouf was detained in Austin, Texas, after jaywalking in front of police:\n\nHey @TMZ just saw Shia Lebouf get arrested in Austin, TX ! pic.twitter.com/N81hMm5BzW \u2014 Down To Friend (@DTFtx) October 10, 2015\n\nThen, in January this year, LaBeouf was arrested in New York after getting into an altercation with another man during his performance art project designed to protest President Donald Trump.\n\nHowever, the project was eventually canceled, having been relocated four times. His initial project, located at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, involved participants standing in front of a camera and repeating the phrase \u201cHe will not divide us\u201d but was removed after gunshots were reported in the area near the exhibit.\n\nThe project was then relocated to a secret occasion but was sabotaged by 4Chan users who twice tracked down its location and replaced it with a pro-Trump T-shirt and MAGA hat. At its final location in Liverpool, England, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology removed the installation as a result of \u201cdangerous, illegal trespassing.\u201d\n\nYou can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew, or email him at bkew@breitbart.com."}
{"19": "A U.S. conservative activist has called a Polish newspaper he is suing for defamation a \u201cfar-left, globalist, progressive outlet\u201d and referred to the reporter who attacked him in an article he wrote for the paper last year as a \u201cfantasist and fairy-tale writer.\u201d\n\nMatthew Tyrmand of the Project Veritas group \u2014 who brought the case against Gazeta Wyborcza\u2019s publisher Agora and Tomasz Piatek, the newspaper\u2019s journalist who wrote an article entitled \u2018Leopold\u2019s son, Trump\u2019s man\u2019 \u2014 spoke to Breitbart London about his courtroom opponents.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cThey hate the right, they hate nationalist populists, even free marketers. They hate anyone who doesn\u2019t share their globalist, leftist, progressive, radical world view,\u201d he said of Gazeta Wyborcza, which he called \u201cvery very corruptible\u201d due to its post-Communist era ties.\n\n\u201cTomasz Piatek has had many run-ins with the courts regarding defamation in the past. He\u2019s more of a fantasist and a fairy-tale writer than a reporter,\u201d he said.\n\nIn an article published in May last year, Piatek made a number of remarks about Tyrmand \u2013 who has previously written for Breitbart News \u2014 which the 36-year-old believes were malicious lies published purposely to defame his character as retaliation for an article he wrote only nine days earlier, exploring potential George Soros links with KOD \u2013 the Committee for Defence of Democracy [Komitet Obrony Demokracji].\n\nTyrmand said: \u201cThis was very much a response to James O\u2019Keefe [founder of Project Veritas] and my investigation into Soros and KOD. There\u2019s no coincidence in terms of timing, and the timing was such that we did this investigation, we put it out there on Breitbart and elsewhere, I did a bunch of Polish media around it and then a Soros-backed outfit was at the same time funding Gazeta Wyborcza.\n\n\u201cAgora [which Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundations recently took a large stake in] went in and bailed them out because the last government was doing so through PZU [a state owned insurance company] but with the electoral shift in power, that was no longer viable.\n\n\u201cSo MDIF [Media Development Investment Fund] comes in as a philanthropic entity that invests where \u2018free press is under assault,\u2019 which is obviously nonsense in Poland.\n\n\u201cHe comes in, and shortly after, Piatek writes a hit-piece filled with lies saying that I was on Trump\u2019s payroll and by extension that I was a [Vladimir] Putin shill. All this happens at the same time. Incidentally, during that time Gazeta Wyborcza is putting in inserts to fund KOD.\u201d\n\nWhen Tyrmand saw Piatek\u2019s article he believed he had a strong case against the newspaper.\n\n\u201cWhen the piece came out I reacted immediately on social media and thought, \u2018this is unconscionable.\u2019 I called my lawyers and said \u2018how far beyond the line is this?\u2019 I thought it was [beyond the line] because not only were these lies, but they were really easily verifiably lies,\u201d he said.\n\nPiatek wrote about Tyrmand again last November, this time responding to being sued by the Polish-Jewish-American writer. He suggested Tyrmand\u2019s lack of Polish language skills meant he probably didn\u2019t read his article and that his lawyers should have explained to him that he was wrong.\n\nTyrmand said: \u201cHe blamed my lawyers, which is amazing. They\u2019re the best lawyers in Poland on IP [intellectual property].\n\n\u201cThese lawyers play at the highest level and yet he makes that smear, saying that I didn\u2019t understand what he was saying. Everybody understood what he was saying and that was a cop out, and it was a weak cop out, to try and remove his own culpability and shift it.\u201d\n\nPiatek also told Associated Press he found it suspicious Tyrmand had waited until July to start proceedings against him, after he had published another article criticising Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz, a claim Tyrmand finds laughable.\n\n\u201cIt took me a few weeks to go through the fact patterns with my lawyers,\u201d he explained.\n\nThe son of the popular late anti-Communist novelist, writer and editor Leopold Tyrmand, has written for Breitbart London on the health of Polish democracy after the election of the Law and Justice Party, and how Poland is one of the best places for Jews to live; neither of which are in tune with Gazeta Wyborcza\u2019s narratives. He has also not been afraid to criticise the paper in previous articles.\n\nTyrmand said: \u201cI am an existential threat to them because I have the ability to go, not just in Poland where they are pretty well-hated and understood, but all over the world to talk about what they do and what they represent.\n\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t surprising that this piece especially, because it hit close to home with the investigation into Soros and KOD, who they are aligned with, meant that they pulled out all the stops in going after me.\u201d\n\nTyrmand\u2019s colleague James O\u2019Keefe, who Piatek referred to in his piece as a \u2018specialist in illegal recordings and eavesdropping,\u2019 was the first to take the witness stand on Wednesday, June 21.\n\n\u201cJames O\u2019Keefe coming to testify was really great, because here\u2019s a really high-profile crusader for journalistic truth and transparency in media,\u201d Tyrmand said.\n\n\u201cHim coming to Poland really helped establish the credibility of the argument as well as give it huge visibility, given his visibility,\u201d he added.\n\nIf he wins, Tyrmand wants an apology and 50,000 Polish zlotys which he intends to donate to five Polish charities. He also wants corrections to be made to the article.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m not looking for them to strike the column. I\u2019d like the column to remain up but with highlights on each of the ten or dozen or so lies that I pinpointed, clarifying that they were not honest and giving the truth,\u201d he said.\n\nThe next court session takes place in November, where Tyrmand said will call more witnesses to the stand to testify on his behalf."}
{"20": "#CNNBlackmail is the best thing to have happened to the world since the election of Donald Trump. Indeed, it may be one of the greatest moments in the history of the internet.\n\nSure, on one level it resulted in weapons-grade trolling and a few deliciously funny memes; but in bigger picture terms it was something much more significant than that \u2013 a pivotal moment in the Culture Wars akin to the Persian defeat at Salamis or the German defeat at Stalingrad or the French defeat at Trafalgar.\n\nadvertisement\n\nOr maybe a better analogy would be the one I used on Sirius XM: the moment during the Second World War when, under the command of the brilliant Bill Slim, the ill-equipped, neglected British Fourteenth Army realized that the only way to beat the Japanese was to fight with the same aggression, cunning, and mobility of the Japanese. In other words, to use the enemy\u2019s tactics against them.\n\nJust like CNN, just like Antifa, just like the left generally, the Japanese were a horrible enemy to fight: utterly without scruples, fanatically convinced of the justice of their wicked cause, terrifying in the swiftness with which they swarmed and overran your position. By the time you knew what had hit you, you\u2019d either be dead \u2014 if you were lucky \u2014 or tied, wounded, to a tree while the enemy got ready to use you for bayonet practice.\n\nIn the early stages of the war, the British and their fellow Allies were invariably on the back foot: how could they possibly defeat an enemy that didn\u2019t play by the rules, that showed no weakness, that seemed more demonic than human?\n\nAnyone who has ever seen action against the SJWs will know the feeling.\n\nThey hunt in packs; they swarm; they move as one as if controlled by some sinister hive mind; they are immune to reason; they are completely without mercy.\n\nI give you, as but one example among many, the case of poor Sir Tim Hunt \u2014 the Nobel-prize-winning scientist whose career was all but destroyed for no better reason than the SJW hive mind demanded fresh blood.\n\nThe truth (that Hunt was the victim of outrageous misreporting by a dodgy hack pursuing a militant feminist agenda) was no defense. Nor were any mitigating circumstances taken into account \u2014 like, say, the fact that this alleged sexist Prof ha, in fact, spent his entire career bending over backward to help and encourage female scientists. Nor was the fact that he apologized for his non-crime.\n\nAll that mattered as far as the SJWs were concerned was that here was another scalp for the taking. So take it they did.\n\nTo experience these terror tactics is a demoralizing and frightening thing.\n\nToo often the response of the right has been to feel a bit sorry for itself because it\u2019s all so unfair. And then persuade itself that if only it keeps on making the same arguments as before then eventually logic and truth will prevail because, after all, the facts of life are conservative.\n\nThere\u2019s at least one major problem with this response: the left isn\u2019t interested in logic and facts \u2014 and hasn\u2019t been for quite some time.\n\nThat was what James O\u2019Keefe recently uncovered \u2014 not that we couldn\u2019t have guessed anyway \u2014 with his recent sting on CNN. Here is an organization which affects the demeanor of a responsible, politically-neutral, internationally-respected news outlet with reporters and newscasters who look exactly like real ones on grown up TV channels. But underneath, its entire raison d\u2019etre and business model is churning out leftist fake news propaganda.\n\nIf conservative media outlets like Breitbart took the same liberties with the truth as leftist media outlets like CNN (and Vox and Slate and Salon and Huffpost and the rest\u2026) they would be crucified. But it\u2019s no use bleating about this: we just have to accept that this is the way the world works and just get on with the business of winning.\n\n#CNNBlackmail, make no mistake, was a pivotal #winning moment.\n\nWhy and how did we win? Partly by using the enemy\u2019s tactics against them; partly by exploiting a few strengths of our own.\n\nHere are some of them:\n\n\u201cSorry. Not interested\u201d\n\nBeing on the left is all about grievance, victimhood and \u2014 usually feigned \u2014 moral outrage. This was the card CNN tried playing in response to the original Trump wrestling gif. They invited us to believe that Trump\u2019s tweet encouraged \u201cviolence against reporters.\u201d We responded in the best way possible: by ignoring it. This may have been what infuriated CNN into making their massive tactical error of hunting down and trying to destroy the alleged creator of the gif. Had CNN shrugged its shoulders and ignored the wrestler gif, it would not be writhing in such abject humiliation now.\n\nJokes\n\nThe left has lots of comedians, but it can\u2019t do jokes: look at John Oliver, who, despite his lucrative gift of being able to persuade liberal studio audiences to make laugh-type noises, has never said anything genuinely funny in his life. This is because progressives are ideologically incapable of humor. We discuss this in more detail on my Delingpole podcast next week on a Special Youth Edition featuring a clever 18-year-old kid who understands the internet and memes and stuff. The reason the right is winning the internet war, he explains, is because our memes are much wittier than their memes. And the reason for that is that the left can\u2019t do humor because they\u2019re afraid it might hurt someone\u2019s feelings.\n\nPoint And Swarm; Isolate And Shriek\n\nAs Vox Day explains in his invaluable SJW Attack Survival Guide, these are classic techniques used by the regressive left. Now the tables have been turned, and we are learning to use their methods against them. CNN got so panicked after the backlash hit, it had to ban all its staff from using Twitter because whatever they did or said only seemed to make things worse. SJWs can dish it, but they really can\u2019t take it.\n\nAdvertisers\n\nAnother of the left\u2019s favorite dirty tricks is to target companies that advertise with conservative media organizations \u2014 and bully them into withdrawing their funding (see Kellogg\u2019s v Breitbart). On the right, we have traditionally been against such tactics because what you\u2019re essentially doing is fighting against two of the things we believe in \u2014 free markets and free speech. The tables were turned when advertisers including Audi (another company, incidentally, which withdrew its advertising from Breitbart) were attacked by outraged punters demanding to know why they fund a company as toxic as CNN.\n\nGive Them Enough Rope\u2026\n\nCNN is ISIS. It\u2019s a joke but it\u2019s also true: CNN is very much part of the axis of evil bent on destroying Western Civilization. We should never forget this \u2014 nor delude ourselves just because this particular battle involves frivolous stuff like memes of old martial arts video game characters with Trump\u2019s head and the CNN logo superimposed on them that somehow it isn\u2019t really important. I\u2019m with Thomas Wictor on this one:\n\n(1) Did I call it or what? #CNNBlackmail The mainstream media now sees itself as internal state security. pic.twitter.com/UnPZww7UwJ \u2014 Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) July 5, 2017\n\n(2) When journalists use their powers to dictate WHAT YOU WILL SAY, that means the press is now a secret police. \u2014 Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) July 5, 2017\n\nThat attack by CNN\u2019s sinister enforcer Andrew Kaczynski on Reddit user HanAssholeSolo was an outrageous act of overreach by the increasingly aggressive and hectoring left. It was the liberal media deciding that among its new roles is to police society\u2019s behavior and mores in the manner of the NKVD.\n\nDefinitely one good thing to have come out of #CNNBlackmail is that the enemy has shown its true colors. But the far, far better news is that the good guys have fought back.\n\nAnd the best news of all is: we\u2019re #winning."}
{"21": "On the anniversary of the assassination of five Dallas-area police officers gunned down in a rifle attack, Texas Governor Greg Abbott utilized a new state law to begin the process of issuing rifle-resistant body armor to officers.\n\nAbbott announced the Office of the Governor\u2019s Criminal Justice Division (CJD) is accepting applications from law enforcement agencies around the state to help in the purchasing of rifle-resistant body armor. The 85th Texas Legislature authorized the program to provide the higher level of protection to officers in the wake of five Dallas-area officers being gunned down at the end of a Black Lives Matter protest on July 7, 2016.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe bill, authored by State Senator Royce West (D-Dallas) and State Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford), restricts the use of the funds to only be \u201cused by eligible law enforcement agencies to equip eligible officers with bullet-resistant personal body armor compliant with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) standard for rifle protection,\u201d according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the governor\u2019s office.\n\n\u201cWe must do all we can to protect those who protect us,\u201d Governor Abbott said in the written statement. \u201cThe men and women who put their lives on the line to protect Texans deserve the greatest protections, and as Governor I am committed to doing all I can to support them. I want to thank Sen. West and Rep. King for their leadership in getting this bill to my desk so we can equip law enforcement agencies across Texas with this life saving armor.\u201d\n\nOn July 7, 2017, a man hiding in a parking garage in downtown Dallas, opened fire on officers working to keep the peace during a Black Lives Matter protest, Breitbart Texas reported. Four Dallas Police Department officers and a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) police officer lost their lives. The gunman also wounded nine other officers and two civilians before being killed by an explosive charge placed by Dallas police.\n\nOfficials remembered the loss of Dallas Police Sergeant Michael Krol, Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens, Officer Michael Smith, Officer Patrick Zamarripa, and DART Officer Brent Thompson.\n\nAbbott\u2019s announcement also fell on the day the San Antonio Police Department buried one of its officers killed in the line of duty. A suspected auto burglar shot and killed San Antonio Police Officer Miguel Moreno on June 30 as he got out of his patrol car to question the suspect.\n\nTexas had the dubious distinction of having the highest number of police officers killed in the line of duty during 2016, Breitbart Texas reported. The Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) stated that the Lone Star State lost 19 officers in the line of duty \u2013 seven from gunfire. This year, three of four Texas peace officers killed in the line of duty were shot.\n\nBob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook."}
{"22": "It may as well have been written before President Trump even uttered a single word in Warsaw earlier this week, the Economist\u2018s panicked, hysterical, and un-bylined reflection on his speech that placed matters of identity, culture, faith and sovereignty over democracy.\n\n\u201cIn Warsaw, America\u2019s president barely mentions democracy,\u201d the article\u2019s sub-headline shrieks. For a magazine so fervently opposed to the results of the Brexit referendum (direct democracy in action), you could easily hurl accusations of hypocrisy at the magazine\u2019s editors.\n\nadvertisement\n\nInstead, we should be more wary of the ongoing fetishisation of the idea of one-man-one-vote as some kind of be all and end all of Western civilization.\n\nFirstly, in the grand scheme of all things European \u2014 and derivative nations such as the United States, Canada, Australia, etc \u2014 democracy is a relatively new concept. The cynic may well drop in this overused Churchill quote. Or this one. Again, too easy.\n\nIt strikes me as more important that we look at what the Economist is trying to achieve by declaring:\n\nWhen George W. Bush visited Poland for his first presidential visit, in 2001, he referred to democracy 13 times. When Barack Obama spoke in Warsaw in 2014, he mentioned democracy nine times. For Mr Trump, once sufficed.\n\nThe tone conveys hostility, not just towards those who do not believe the West is typified by more than the ballot box, but also to those who believe history matters, tradition matters, nation states matter, and identity matters.\n\nA refusal to deify democracy runs deeply contrary to the objectives of globalism, which explains the Economist\u2019s petulance.\n\nFor decades we have watched, almost stunned into inaction, as our children are forced to learn that patriotism is racist, and history is to be altered at the whim of the loudest, shrieking, protesters.\n\nMine isn\u2019t an anti-democracy argument either. Merely I want to reflect upon how the President struck the right balance between democracy and philosophy/history in his Warsaw speech.\n\nBut The Economist wants to give ahistorical progressivism \u2014 a tool often leveraged, even if not adhered to, by globalists \u2014 an intellectual underpinning. But there is no intelligence in this mantra. Quite the opposite.\n\nThe notion of putting democracy on a higher pedestal than tradition is anti-intellectual.\n\nConservatives and reactionaries are, today, less likely to be motivated by fear and emotion and more interested in learning lessons from the past that the left would rather ignore or rewrite.\n\nMany mistake the Economist for a pro-free market capitalist paper. Untrue.\n\nIt favours corporatism and cronyism. It isn\u2019t left or right per se. But it does favour the modern political centre-left, more interested in \u201cinternationalism\u201d, more in favour of the political establishment than the everyman. Hence its risible backing of the pro-European Union Liberal Democrats at the British general election.\n\nCurious, you might think then, that the magazine would side with the demos who elected President Donald J. Trump. Not so, either.\n\nPresident Trump won because of the electoral college, a check on a more direct democracy, and one which the Economist has previously sought to undermine in its U.S.-election coverage. Heaven forfend we suggest a return to the Senate\u2019s original role in not being a directly elected chamber either. That could really set their heads spinning.\n\nIt would be unfair however to state the paper misunderstands the idea of the tyranny of the majority. There have previously been printed warnings over referendums or ballot measures in the United States on their own pages. So what has changed since then, when in 2011, they published the following words:\n\n\u2026it is the \u201ctyranny of the majority\u201d that James Madison, a Founding Father, warned about. His reading of ancient history was that the direct democracy of Athens was erratic and short-lived, whereas republican Rome remained stable for much longer. He even worried about using the word \u201cdemocracy\u201d at all, lest citizens confuse its representative (ie, republican) form with its direct one. \u201cDemocracy never lasts long,\u201d wrote John Adams, another Founding Father. Asked what government the federal constitution of 1787 had established, Benjamin Franklin responded: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it.\u201d\n\nIn a word: Trump.\n\nIn another word: populism.\n\nThough JFK, Obama, and other centre-left politicians were swept into power on a populist wave, they represented the Wilsonian internationalism the Economist prefers. So they were okay. The same internationalism that loves democracy promotion abroad which led to the quagmire of the Iraq War: the reason we weren\u2019t able to stablise Iraq post-invasion. Our newfound obsession with putting a tick in a box.\n\nAgain, no grasp or reflection of this from the Economist as it lambasts the President of the United States for focusing on political philosophy rather than fawning over a system of electing a government.\n\nYou couldn\u2019t imagine editorialising such as: \u201cThe spectators, mainly conservative Catholics bused in from around the country and promised a free picnic at the defence ministry afterwards\u201d under an Obama presidency. In fact, these are the same tactics the left uses at elections as well as for protests and marches all around the Western world.\n\nOnce more, hypocritically, the paper takes a dig at the recently democratically elected Polish government:\n\nBut the greatest reason for Poland\u2019s government to be delighted with Mr Trump was what he did not mention: PiS\u2019s undermining of democratic institutions to entrench its own power. The party has stuffed the civil service and the diplomatic corps with loyalists and has weakened the independence of the judiciary. It has transformed the national broadcaster into a mouthpiece of the state. Independent journalists face new restrictions. The European Commission has warned the government that its reforms pose \u201ca systemic risk to the rule of law.\u201d\n\nOf course the (unelected, by the way) European Commission has said that. PiS has been steadfast in protecting Poland from the EU\u2019s migration madness, as well as taking steps to reassert Polish sovereignty.\n\nNever has the Economist mentioned how during the years the pro-establishment Civic Platform ruled, they too \u201cstuffed the civil service and diplomatic corps with loyalists\u201d. Their looting is one of the major reasons they lost to PiS in 2015.\n\nThe Economist wants to bash PiS and Trump; facts, philosophy, and even their own commitment to democracy be damned. If that means humiliating itself by performing anti-intellectual mid-air back flips in the process, it seems the editors are more than willing to do so.\n\nRaheem Kassam is the Editor in Chief of Breitbart London and tweets at @RaheemKassam"}
{"23": "Saturday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAM Joy\u201d that President Donald Trump was \u201clooking more like a dictator than a president.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nWaters questioned the patriotism of Republican congressmen who refuse to stand up to Trump, saying they are \u201callowing\u201d him to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin when he says he did not interfere with the 2016 Presidential Election.\n\n\u201c[Y]ou know the people sent them to the Congress of the United States to represent them, not to be afraid of a president who is looking more like a dictator than a president,\u201d Waters told host Jonathan Capehart. \u201cSo I\u2019m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin.\u201d\n\nWaters also added that Democrats are the \u201creal patriots\u201d of the country.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"24": "The UN\u2019s refugee agency has warned Spain to prepare for an increase in migrants arriving from North Africa as landings double compared with 2016, with more asylum seekers preferring the \u201csafer\u201d route to Europe from Morocco.\n\nThe Morocco-Spain route is the fastest growing route for illegal immigrant crossings across the Mediterranean Sea, with current arrivals already pushing Spanish migrant reception resources to their limit, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said.\n\nadvertisement\n\nBreitbart London reported last week that 100,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean in the first half of 2017, with Italy remaining the preferred route for economic migrants departing the shores from Libya.\n\nThe UN agency reports that though the Italian route saw a 32 per cent increase on migrant landings from last year, the Spanish route saw 6,800 migrants using it in the same period \u2013 a 75 per cent increase from 2016. The trend was more pronounced last month with 1,900 migrants reached Andalusia in June \u2013 four times more than the number of arrivals in the same month last year.\n\nBetween 2010 and 2016, sea arrivals to Spain averaged just under 5,000 a year, according to government data; it is set to be more than 11,000 this year.\n\nLast month, around 88 migrants from Morocco were picked up off of the Strait of Gibraltar \u2013 the strip of water that separates Morocco from the British Overseas Territory.\n\nMigrants, mostly young men from Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast, are using the Morocco-Spain route as it is considered safer, with one migrant telling Sky News: \u201cPeople are talking about going to Spain. It seems like it is safer to go through Morocco to Spain than through Libya.\u201d\n\nThe UNHCR said Spain was not prepared to handle the increase, with the spokesman for the organisation, Maria Jesus Vega, saying: \u201cWhat is clear is that, they (Spain\u2019s government) have to get ready.\n\n\u201cThey can\u2019t be caught unprepared. What started happening elsewhere in Europe in 2015 can\u2019t be allowed to happen here.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not yet an emergency, but you have to take into account that there are no structures here to deal with more arrivals.\u201d\n\nThe advice to Spain comes as Italy threatened to close her seaports to migrant NGO boats as the country becomes overwhelmed with the mass number of Africans arriving daily, with 13,500 arriving in one 48-hour period.\n\nAn emergency European Union meeting meant to deal with the ongoing migrant crisis, which has seen more than a million asylum seekers and economic migrants arrive from the Middle East and North Africa since 2015, resulted in the European Commission urging members of the bloc to accept migrants directly from Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Niger, and Sudan.\n\nThe EU has highlighted 37,000 \u201cvulnerable\u201d people to be resettled in the EU, on a \u201cvoluntary\u201d basis, with pledges expected from EU members by September 2017.\n\nEuropean Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, has said that Brexit does not exclude the UK from the relocation programme."}
{"25": "During Friday\u2019s Weekly Address, President Trump said, \u201cThe era of economic surrender is over \u2013 and a new national pride is sweeping across our land.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nTranscript as Follows:\n\n\u201cMy fellow Americans,\n\nHere at the White House, we are dedicating the month of July to three of our favorite words \u2013 MADE IN AMERICA. For more than two centuries, those three beautiful words have been the world standard for quality, craftsmanship and excellence \u2013 and they still are today.\n\nAs President, one of my highest priorities is to restore American Manufacturing. For decades, American jobs have been ripped out of our communities, industries and towns have been stripped bare, and the entire communities have been uprooted and left. Foreign nations got rich at America\u2019s expense \u2013 and many special interests profited from this great global theft of American wealth.\n\nSince taking the oath of office, our government has adopted a new philosophy: AMERICA FIRST \u2013 and believe me, it\u2019s about time. The era of economic surrender is over \u2013 and a new national pride is sweeping across our land. You see it, I see it, we all see it.\n\nIndustry confidence has soared to the highest level ever recorded.\n\nOne of my first acts was ordering all federal agencies to enforce two simple rules: Buy American, and Hire American. We want to build with American Workers, and with American Iron, Aluminum and Steel.\n\nWe are also tearing down every possible barrier to domestic energy production to unleash the full power of our economy. The American people will finally be allowed to tap into the vast energy wealth sitting right beneath our feet or right below our shores.\n\nWe have also sent a clear message to the world that we will not allow other nations to take advantage of us any longer.\n\nThat\u2019s why I withdrew from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord \u2013 and believe me, it was one-sided. Not a good deal for our country. And the job-killing Trans Pacific Partnership, and that\u2019s why we are pursuing a total renegotiation of NAFTA and if we don\u2019t get it, we will terminate \u2013 that is end NAFTA forever.\n\nEvery other nation on earth protects its own interests. America is finally going to do the same.\n\nAnd as we continue to fight for American workers and industry, it won\u2019t be long before we see the Made in America label proudly displayed on thousands of new products all across this great land and exported all around the world.\n\nThank you, God bless you, God bless America. We are all doing a job, we are working very hard. It will be America First. It will be Make America Great Again. It\u2019s happening.\u201d\n\nFollow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett"}
{"26": "A U.S. conservative activist has called a Polish newspaper he is suing for defamation a \u201cfar-left, globalist, progressive outlet\u201d and referred to the reporter who attacked him in an article he wrote for the paper last year as a \u201cfantasist and fairy-tale writer.\u201d\n\nMatthew Tyrmand of the Project Veritas group \u2014 who brought the case against Gazeta Wyborcza\u2019s publisher Agora and Tomasz Piatek, the newspaper\u2019s journalist who wrote an article entitled \u2018Leopold\u2019s son, Trump\u2019s man\u2019 \u2014 spoke to Breitbart London about his courtroom opponents.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cThey hate the right, they hate nationalist populists, even free marketers. They hate anyone who doesn\u2019t share their globalist, leftist, progressive, radical world view,\u201d he said of Gazeta Wyborcza, which he called \u201cvery very corruptible\u201d due to its post-Communist era ties.\n\n\u201cTomasz Piatek has had many run-ins with the courts regarding defamation in the past. He\u2019s more of a fantasist and a fairy-tale writer than a reporter,\u201d he said.\n\nIn an article published in May last year, Piatek made a number of remarks about Tyrmand \u2013 who has previously written for Breitbart News \u2014 which the 36-year-old believes were malicious lies published purposely to defame his character as retaliation for an article he wrote only nine days earlier, exploring potential George Soros links with KOD \u2013 the Committee for Defence of Democracy [Komitet Obrony Demokracji].\n\nTyrmand said: \u201cThis was very much a response to James O\u2019Keefe [founder of Project Veritas] and my investigation into Soros and KOD. There\u2019s no coincidence in terms of timing, and the timing was such that we did this investigation, we put it out there on Breitbart and elsewhere, I did a bunch of Polish media around it and then a Soros-backed outfit was at the same time funding Gazeta Wyborcza.\n\n\u201cAgora [which Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundations recently took a large stake in] went in and bailed them out because the last government was doing so through PZU [a state owned insurance company] but with the electoral shift in power, that was no longer viable.\n\n\u201cSo MDIF [Media Development Investment Fund] comes in as a philanthropic entity that invests where \u2018free press is under assault,\u2019 which is obviously nonsense in Poland.\n\n\u201cHe comes in, and shortly after, Piatek writes a hit-piece filled with lies saying that I was on Trump\u2019s payroll and by extension that I was a [Vladimir] Putin shill. All this happens at the same time. Incidentally, during that time Gazeta Wyborcza is putting in inserts to fund KOD.\u201d\n\nWhen Tyrmand saw Piatek\u2019s article he believed he had a strong case against the newspaper.\n\n\u201cWhen the piece came out I reacted immediately on social media and thought, \u2018this is unconscionable.\u2019 I called my lawyers and said \u2018how far beyond the line is this?\u2019 I thought it was [beyond the line] because not only were these lies, but they were really easily verifiably lies,\u201d he said.\n\nPiatek wrote about Tyrmand again last November, this time responding to being sued by the Polish-Jewish-American writer. He suggested Tyrmand\u2019s lack of Polish language skills meant he probably didn\u2019t read his article and that his lawyers should have explained to him that he was wrong.\n\nTyrmand said: \u201cHe blamed my lawyers, which is amazing. They\u2019re the best lawyers in Poland on IP [intellectual property].\n\n\u201cThese lawyers play at the highest level and yet he makes that smear, saying that I didn\u2019t understand what he was saying. Everybody understood what he was saying and that was a cop out, and it was a weak cop out, to try and remove his own culpability and shift it.\u201d\n\nPiatek also told Associated Press he found it suspicious Tyrmand had waited until July to start proceedings against him, after he had published another article criticising Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz, a claim Tyrmand finds laughable.\n\n\u201cIt took me a few weeks to go through the fact patterns with my lawyers,\u201d he explained.\n\nThe son of the popular late anti-Communist novelist, writer and editor Leopold Tyrmand, has written for Breitbart London on the health of Polish democracy after the election of the Law and Justice Party, and how Poland is one of the best places for Jews to live; neither of which are in tune with Gazeta Wyborcza\u2019s narratives. He has also not been afraid to criticise the paper in previous articles.\n\nTyrmand said: \u201cI am an existential threat to them because I have the ability to go, not just in Poland where they are pretty well-hated and understood, but all over the world to talk about what they do and what they represent.\n\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t surprising that this piece especially, because it hit close to home with the investigation into Soros and KOD, who they are aligned with, meant that they pulled out all the stops in going after me.\u201d\n\nTyrmand\u2019s colleague James O\u2019Keefe, who Piatek referred to in his piece as a \u2018specialist in illegal recordings and eavesdropping,\u2019 was the first to take the witness stand on Wednesday, June 21.\n\n\u201cJames O\u2019Keefe coming to testify was really great, because here\u2019s a really high-profile crusader for journalistic truth and transparency in media,\u201d Tyrmand said.\n\n\u201cHim coming to Poland really helped establish the credibility of the argument as well as give it huge visibility, given his visibility,\u201d he added.\n\nIf he wins, Tyrmand wants an apology and 50,000 Polish zlotys which he intends to donate to five Polish charities. He also wants corrections to be made to the article.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m not looking for them to strike the column. I\u2019d like the column to remain up but with highlights on each of the ten or dozen or so lies that I pinpointed, clarifying that they were not honest and giving the truth,\u201d he said.\n\nThe next court session takes place in November, where Tyrmand said will call more witnesses to the stand to testify on his behalf."}
{"27": "TEL AVIV \u2013 U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed Friday\u2019s decision by UNESCO to list the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Old City of Hebron as an \u201cendangered World Heritage site\u201d under the \u201cState of Palestine,\u201d saying it was an \u201caffront to history\u201d that was \u201ctragic on several levels.\u201d\n\nThe Tomb of the Patriarchs is the believed resting place of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah. Rachel is believed to be buried in Bethlehem. The Tomb is considered the second holiest site in Judaism after the Temple Mount.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn a vote that took place in Krakow, Poland, the UN\u2019s cultural agency passed the resolution by 12 votes to three with six abstentions.\n\n\u201cThe UNESCO vote on Hebron is tragic on several levels. It represents an affront to history,\u201d Haley said in a statement. \u201cIt undermines the trust that is needed for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to be successful. And it further discredits an already highly questionable UN agency. Today\u2019s vote does no one any good and causes much harm.\u201d\n\nAt the behest of Poland, Croatia and Jamaica, the voting took place in secret \u2013 a move that was vociferously opposed by other member states.\n\nHaley said that the anti-Israel vote has forced the U.S. to reevaluate \u201cits continued engagement at UNESCO.\u201d\n\nThe vote was the second anti-Israel measure at the UN agency in a week. A few days prior, the World Heritage Committee passed a resolution denying Israeli claims to the Old City of Jerusalem.\n\nIn 2011, the U.S. cut funds to UNESCO after it accepted the \u201cState of Palestine\u201d as a member state. While the U.S. remains on the 58-member UNESCO Executive Board, it no longer has voting rights in its General Conference.\n\nIsraeli leaders slammed the move. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it \u201canother delusional UNESCO decision\u201d and ordered that another $1 million be cut from Israel\u2019s funding to the UN and instead be put towards establishing a museum aimed at showcasing Hebron\u2019s Jewish history.\n\nDanny Danon, Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations, said it was \u201cshameful and offensive \u2026 an ugly display of discrimination, and an act of aggression against the Jewish people.\u201d\n\nPresident Reuven Rivlin accused UNESCO of spreading \u201canti-Jewish lies.\u201d\n\nEducation Minister Naftali Bennett said UNESCO \u201cdenies history and distorts reality, knowingly serving those attempting to erase the Jewish state.\u201d\n\nEmmanuel Nahshon, a spokesman for Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry, called the motion \u201cfake news.\u201d"}
{"28": "Sunday on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d former CIA Director John Brennan said President Donald Trump was \u201cdishonorable\u201d for saying meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin was an \u201chonor.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nBrennan said, \u201cI don\u2019t think he demonstrates good negotiating skills when it comes to Mr. Putin. Two days ago in Warsaw, he gave Mr. Putin the opportunity to point to the failures of U.S. intelligence. To me, I think he ceded that ground. And also right before he met with Mr. Putin and talked with him at some length \u2014 which I\u2019m glad he did, he said it\u2019s an honor to meet President Putin. An honor to meet the individual who carried out the assault against our election? To me, it was a dishonorable thing to say.\u201d\n\nFollow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN"}
{"29": "After refusing to rule out a potential 2020 primary challenge to President Donald Trump, \u201cNever Trump\u201d Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) spoke to about 200 Republicans in Story County, Iowa on Friday evening.\n\nSasse\u2019s excuse was that he was in Iowa because he lost a college football bet and his kids were participating in a triathlon this weekend in the state.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn an interview before his Iowa trip, the insufferable and sanctimonious Sasse would not rule out a potential 2020 presidential run. When CNN asked about his potential presidential ambitions on Sunday, Sasse punted in a way that would have made the late Sam Foltz proud.\n\nAccording to a McClatchy report, though, Trump still \u201cremains so strong in conservative corners of Trump-friendly states, including Iowa, that party leaders, operatives and grassroots activists say there is no serious on-the-ground discussion of a 2020 challenge at this point.\u201d Many who attended the dinner expressed similar sentiments to local Iowa reporters.\n\nOn the record, David Kochel, who was Jeb Bush\u2019s top strategist in 2016 and is described as a \u201cveteran Iowa operative,\u201d told McClatchy that there was no \u201cwholesale movement to look for a candidate in 2020\u201d in Iowa. A \u201cveteran Iowa Republican operative\u201d was then quoted later in the piece saying \u201cfor every Iowa Republican that was cheering Jeff Kaufmann\u2019s statements in Cedar Rapids two weeks ago, there\u2019s another Republican who\u2019s very quietly interested in what Ben Sasse has to say.\u201d\n\n\u201cThose Never Trumpers out there, you know what? I\u2019m getting just a little tired of that too. We had Senator Ben Sasse from Nebraska. He crosses the Missouri River and in that sanctimonious tone talked about what he doesn\u2019t like about Donald Trump. You know what Senator Sasse? I really don\u2019t care what you like. We love Donald Trump,\u201d Iowa GOP Chair Jeff Kaufmann said before Trump\u2019s Iowa rally last month. \u201cAnd if you don\u2019t love him I suggest you stay on your side of the Missouri River.\u201d\n\nKaufmann also told Politico that Sasse is an \u201carrogant academic\u201d who is \u201csanctimonious\u201d\n\n\u201cThe most important thing to Ben Sasse is Ben Sasse,\u201d he added.\n\nEstablishment Republican operative Mike Murphy, who ran Jeb Bush\u2019s super PAC in 2016 and is notorious for pocketing and blowing millions of dollars from wealthy candidates while losing races, attacked Kaufmann.\n\nMurphy, who reportedly may have pocketed $14 million and angered donors while running Jeb Bush\u2019s disastrously ineffective super PAC during the 2016 election cycle, referred to Kaufmann as a \u201ctier-B seat warmer.\u201d Kaufmann fired back, saying \u201cthat\u2019s rich, coming from the C list political operative that enriched himself while running Jeb!\u2019s superpac into the ground.\u201d\n\nThat's rich, coming from the C list political operative that enriched himself while running Jeb!'s superpac into the ground. https://t.co/Tgyj39mEEU \u2014 Jeff Kaufmann (@kaufmannGOP) June 22, 2017\n\nI'm pretty sure @BenSasse will be a force in GOP politics for a lot longer than a tier-B seat warmer like Jeff Kaufmann\u2026 https://t.co/rbBmHpGbrw \u2014 Mike Murphy (@murphymike) June 22, 2017\n\nGreat advice for \"Never Trump\" Republicans\u2026you're part of the problem, not the movement\u2026#MAGA https://t.co/q0xSnpRxN0 \u2014 Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) June 23, 2017\n\nSasse is the dream candidate for \u201cNever Trump\u201d professional operatives and tacticians like the ones who dragged Evan McMullin to run for president so they could get on television and get quotes in legacy media publications.\n\nBut should Sasse run for president, even reporters in the establishment press are bearish about his chances. Politico\u2019s Eliana Johnson pointed out last month that Sasse\u2019s anti-Trump stance in 2016 won him \u201crespect and adulation\u201d from \u201celites in New York, Washington\u2026 and San Francisco,\u201d but not \u201camong voters in Nebraska.\u201d\n\nJohnson predicted that if Sasse runs for president, there will not be \u201ca lot of enthusiasm\u201d for him or a \u201cgroundswell among grassroots voters across the country.\u201d She ultimately pictured Sasse as someone who will stay in the Senate or run a think tank because he will have trouble \u201cigniting\u201d the passions of working-class voters."}
{"30": "In his powerful speech in Warsaw Thursday, President Donald Trump assailed the secular left while praising Saint John Paul II as a \u201cgreat hero\u201d of the Polish nation, whose election as pope helped bring the communist system \u201ccrashing down.\u201d\n\n\u201cTogether, with Pope John Paul II, the Poles reasserted their identity as a nation devoted to God,\u201d Trump said in his address, which was interrupted by frequent applause. Despite \u201cevery effort to transform you, oppress you, or destroy you, you endured and overcame,\u201d he added.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cPoland is a land of great heroes,\u201d Trump said, specifically mentioning Copernicus, Chopin, and Saint John Paul II. \u201cAnd you are a people who know the true value of what you defend.\u201d\n\nRecounting some of Poland\u2019s recent history, Trump recalled June 2, 1979, when \u201cone million Poles gathered around Victory Square for their very first mass with their Polish Pope.\u201d\n\nOn that day, he said, \u201cEvery communist in Warsaw must have known that their oppressive system would soon come crashing down.\u201d\n\n\u201cThey must have known it at the exact moment during Pope John Paul II\u2019s sermon when a million Polish men, women, and children suddenly raised their voices in a single prayer.\u201d\n\nThe president observed that what the Poles were asking for, atheistic communism could never give them, despite its promises.\n\n\u201cA million Polish people did not ask for wealth. They did not ask for privilege. Instead, one million Poles sang three simple words: \u2018We Want God,\u2019\u201d he said.\n\n\u201cIn those words, the Polish people recalled the promise of a better future,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cThey found new courage to face down their oppressors, and they found the words to declare that Poland would be Poland once again.\u201d\n\nThe president held up the Christian faith of the Polish people as their greatest strength and the source of its endurance. He also suggested that it is a strength shared by the United States and Europe as well.\n\n\u201cAs I stand here today before this incredible crowd, this faithful nation, we can still hear those voices that echo through history,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out, \u2018We want God.\u2019\u201d\n\nWith that powerful declaration of who you are, \u201cyou came to understand what to do and how to live,\u201d he said. \u201cYou stood in solidarity against oppression, against a lawless secret police, against a cruel and wicked system that impoverished your cities and your souls.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnd you won. Poland prevailed. Poland will always prevail,\u201d he said.\n\nThe strength of Poland\u2019s Christian identity and undying faith, Trump suggested, provides a needed example for the rest of the world.\n\n\u201cAnd so I am here today not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as an example for others who seek freedom and who wish to summon the courage and the will to defend our civilization,\u201d he said.\n\n\u201cThe story of Poland is the story of a people who have never lost hope, who have never been broken, and who have never, ever forgotten who they are,\u201d he said.\n\nFollow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter Follow @tdwilliamsrome"}
{"31": "The UN\u2019s refugee agency has warned Spain to prepare for an increase in migrants arriving from North Africa as landings double compared with 2016, with more asylum seekers preferring the \u201csafer\u201d route to Europe from Morocco.\n\nThe Morocco-Spain route is the fastest growing route for illegal immigrant crossings across the Mediterranean Sea, with current arrivals already pushing Spanish migrant reception resources to their limit, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said.\n\nadvertisement\n\nBreitbart London reported last week that 100,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean in the first half of 2017, with Italy remaining the preferred route for economic migrants departing the shores from Libya.\n\nThe UN agency reports that though the Italian route saw a 32 per cent increase on migrant landings from last year, the Spanish route saw 6,800 migrants using it in the same period \u2013 a 75 per cent increase from 2016. The trend was more pronounced last month with 1,900 migrants reached Andalusia in June \u2013 four times more than the number of arrivals in the same month last year.\n\nBetween 2010 and 2016, sea arrivals to Spain averaged just under 5,000 a year, according to government data; it is set to be more than 11,000 this year.\n\nLast month, around 88 migrants from Morocco were picked up off of the Strait of Gibraltar \u2013 the strip of water that separates Morocco from the British Overseas Territory.\n\nMigrants, mostly young men from Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast, are using the Morocco-Spain route as it is considered safer, with one migrant telling Sky News: \u201cPeople are talking about going to Spain. It seems like it is safer to go through Morocco to Spain than through Libya.\u201d\n\nThe UNHCR said Spain was not prepared to handle the increase, with the spokesman for the organisation, Maria Jesus Vega, saying: \u201cWhat is clear is that, they (Spain\u2019s government) have to get ready.\n\n\u201cThey can\u2019t be caught unprepared. What started happening elsewhere in Europe in 2015 can\u2019t be allowed to happen here.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not yet an emergency, but you have to take into account that there are no structures here to deal with more arrivals.\u201d\n\nThe advice to Spain comes as Italy threatened to close her seaports to migrant NGO boats as the country becomes overwhelmed with the mass number of Africans arriving daily, with 13,500 arriving in one 48-hour period.\n\nAn emergency European Union meeting meant to deal with the ongoing migrant crisis, which has seen more than a million asylum seekers and economic migrants arrive from the Middle East and North Africa since 2015, resulted in the European Commission urging members of the bloc to accept migrants directly from Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Niger, and Sudan.\n\nThe EU has highlighted 37,000 \u201cvulnerable\u201d people to be resettled in the EU, on a \u201cvoluntary\u201d basis, with pledges expected from EU members by September 2017.\n\nEuropean Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, has said that Brexit does not exclude the UK from the relocation programme."}
{"32": "Rosie O\u2019Donnell defended John Podesta Friday in a vulgar tweet, as the former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman sent a series of tweets aimed at President Donald Trump.\n\n\u201cYes and fuck you donald trump \u2013 fuck u,\u201d O\u2019Donnell tweeted, linking to a tweet from Podesta.\n\nadvertisement\n\nyes and fuck you donald trump \u2013 fuck u https://t.co/Dd5r8PE6nK \u2014 ROSIE (@Rosie) July 7, 2017\n\nThe former View co-host rushed to Podesta\u2019s defense as he was fending off allegations raised by President Trump during his appearance at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.\n\n\u201cEveryone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!\u201d President Trump tweeted, referring to Podesta\u2019s email hack during the 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee\u2019s reported failure to turn over its hacked email server to FBI investigators.\n\nEveryone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful! \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2017\n\nTrump\u2019s tweet comes on the heels of an explosive New York Post report, calling for a Congressional investigation into ties between Podesta and the Russian government.\n\n\u201cDuring a heated Fox Business interview with Maria Bartiromo, Hillary Clinton\u2019s former campaign chief John Podesta made a series of misleading statements when questioned about his involvement in a company that received $35 million from the Russian government while Hillary served as secretary of state,\u201d writes Breitbart News senior editor-at-large and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) president Peter Schweizer.\n\nSchweizer continues:\n\nOn Jan. 18, 2011, a small green-energy company named Joule Unlimited announced Podesta\u2019s appointment to its board. Months later, Rusnano, a Kremlin-backed investment fund founded by Vladimir Putin, pumped $35 million into Joule. Serving alongside Podesta on Joule\u2019s board were senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and oligarch Ruben Vardanyan, who has been appointed by Putin to a Russian economic-modernization council.\n\nBreitbart News reported Podesta\u2019s extensive Russian ties last August, as revealed in a 56-page GAI report titled \u201cFrom Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism.\u201d\n\nIn March, Rep. Louie Gohmert, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, called on Congress to probe Podesta\u2019s role in the Russia-funded firm, saying it \u201ccertainly needs to be reviewed to see if there really is something nefarious going on with these activities.\u201d\n\nAs for O\u2019Donnell, Friday\u2019s foul-mouthed attack against Trump was but the latest in a long-running string of attacks against the president.\n\nHours after President Trump garnered cheers and applause for his public address at the site of the Warsaw Uprising memorial in Poland, O\u2019Donnell took to Twitter to say he must have \u201cdiminished capacity.\u201d\n\ndonald trump is so stupid \u2013 he must have diminished capacity \u2013 he is not able to make sense \u2013 he rambles \u2013 he repeats \u2013 he is confused #sad \u2014 ROSIE (@Rosie) July 7, 2017\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson"}
{"33": "A police officer who was badly wounded in the ambush and execution of three Baton Rouge officers on July 17, 2016, filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter (BLM) and five of its leaders on Friday. The officer urges that BLM and its leaders \u201cnot only, incited the violence against police in retaliation for the death of black men shot by police, but also did nothing to dissuade the ongoing violence and injury to police.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn fact, they justified the violence as necessary to the movement and war,\u201d he pleads.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe plaintiff officer is identified as \u201cOfficer John Doe Smith,\u201d a \u201cduly commissioned officer acting in the line of duty in East Baton Rouge Parrish.\u201d The complaint filed in U.S. district court in the Middle District of Louisiana pleads that on July 17, 2016, he was working as a police officer \u201cwhen he was shot by a person violently protesting against police, and which violence was caused or contributed to by the leaders of and by \u2018BLACK LIVES MATTER\u2019 a militant anti-police organization.\u201d\n\nThe lawsuit was filed just as the nation remembered the five officers killed and wounded in Dallas on July 7 last year and grieved the execution murder of NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia. The 48-year-old mother of three was shot in the face this past week as she sat in her law enforcement vehicle.\n\nThe execution of five officers and the wounding of six others in Texas last July came just as a Black Lives Matter protest concluded. The Dallas shootings came just one day after Philando Castile of St. Paul, Minnesota, was shot by an officer and the aftermath was live streamed and narrated by his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds. The video went viral.\n\nBreitbart News reported on July 17, 2016, about the execution of the three Baton Rouge police officers, and the wounding of three others near the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters on that Sunday morning. Breitbart Texas reported that the killer, Gavin Long of Kansas City, Missouri, was in Houston and Dallas right before his attack. As reported by Jerome Hudson for Breitbart News, \u201cLong left behind a lengthy, twisted history of encouraging violence and anti-American sentiments on social media.\u201d Long was very active on Twitter and Instagram. He also called the Dallas police sniper, Micah X. Johnson \u201cone of us.\u201d\n\nThe federal complaint charges that plaintiff \u201cDERAY MCKESSON was a leader of the national unincorporated organization that is known as \u2018BLACK LIVES MATTER\u2019 and other derivative and/or related organizations.\u201d It continues that in 2016 McKesson and the other defendants, Johnetta \u201cNettie\u201d Elzie, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Network, Inc., and #BlackLivesMatter:\n\nplanned the Summer of Chaos, Weekend of Rage, and used the internet and social media to organize, stage and orchestrate protests and to attend and/or lead multiple protests and violence that accompanied the protests including, among many others, those in Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore, Maryland; McKinney, Texas; Dallas, Texas; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Baton Rouge protests, in large part, took place outside the Baton Rouge Police Department located in front of the former Woman\u2019s Hospital on Airline Highway. This place is the same area where this shooting took place.\n\n\u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d lists its principal place of business in California and has been formed as a partnership, the federal lawsuit states. Black Lives Matter Network, Inc., is a Delaware Corporation. It further pleads that \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d is a national unincorporated association which states on its website donation payment receipt:\n\n#BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. It is an affirmation of Black folks\u2019 contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.\n\n\u201cBlack Lives Matter and its related associations/organizations were created by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, as well as, Deray McKesson and Johnetta Elsie, all of who are leaders.\u201d The complaint says that Netta Elzie and DeRay McKesson were in Baton Rouge during the protests.\n\nThe general allegations in the federal pleading begin with \u201cAt least eleven (11) police have been shot dead and at least nine (9) more wounded by BLM protesters, activists, and/or supporters.\u201d\n\nThe pleading chronicles unrest, rioting, property damage, and/or violence in Baltimore; Ferguson and other places in Missouri; McKinney, Texas; Manhattan and Harlem; Tennessee; Phoenix; Minnesota; Oregon; North Carolina; San Diego; Indiana; and other cities and states.\n\nIt cites as one example, that after Michael Brown was shot by an officer in Ferguson in 2014, \u201cBLM started a mantra of holding their hands in the air and yelling \u2018Hands up, Don\u2019t shoot.\u2019 Riots began the next day.\u201d The U.S. Department of Justice released a report in March 2015 that found that \u201c[Officer] Darren Wilson was not at fault and finding that Michael Brown did not have his hands in the air.\u201d This and other actions detailed in the federal lawsuit, including after Alton Sterling was shot by a Baton Rouge Police Officer on July 5, 2016, was \u201cseized upon to further incite its followers to take action against police.\u201d\n\nMcKesson and Elzie \u201cwere in Baton Rouge for the purpose of demonstrating, protesting and rioting, as well as to incite others to violence against police and other law enforcement officers,\u201d the plaintiff officer urges.\n\nOfficer John Doe Smith is described as \u201c42 years old, with two (2) children\u201d who \u201cworked in law enforcement for over 18 years.\u201d \u201cHe was shot in an ambush of Law Enforcement Officers on July 17, 2016, by an activist whose actions followed and mimicked those of another BLM activist who killed several officers in Dallas just days earlier.\u201d\n\nThe officer has asked for damages, including medical and hospital bills, saying the \u201cshot through his abdomen tore up his intestines.\u201d He has had to endure 16 surgeries to his abdomen and must now wear a colostomy bag. He has a hole in his large intestine that leaks into the exit wound which in part is a cause for continuing infections. He has also undergone three surgeries after he was shot in the head on his left side and he will have to endure more. His left ear had to be sewn back on. The officer is permanently disabled.\n\nOfficer Smith has asked for damages for physical pain and suffering, physical injuries, emotional and mental distress, pain and suffering, humiliation, embarrassment, the loss of employment opportunities and future earning capacity and lost wages, and for all litigation expenses, and other damages.\n\nBreitbart Texas reported in November that the father of one of the officers executed in Dallas in July 2016 at a Black Lives Matter protest filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, George Soros, and others charging that they inflamed and inspired a \u201cWar on Police.\u201d Tometi, Cullors, Garza, McKesson and Elzie are also named in that lawsuit. Breitbart News reported last August that Soros\u2019 Open Society Institute approved $650,000 in 2015 to \u201cinvest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement.\u201d\n\nLana Shadwick is a writer and legal analyst for Breitbart Texas. She has served as a prosecutor and associate judge in Texas. Follow her on Twitter @LanaShadwick2.\n\nOfficer John Doe Smith Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter and BLM Leaders"}
{"34": "#CNNBlackmail is the best thing to have happened to the world since the election of Donald Trump. Indeed, it may be one of the greatest moments in the history of the internet.\n\nSure, on one level it resulted in weapons-grade trolling and a few deliciously funny memes; but in bigger picture terms it was something much more significant than that \u2013 a pivotal moment in the Culture Wars akin to the Persian defeat at Salamis or the German defeat at Stalingrad or the French defeat at Trafalgar.\n\nadvertisement\n\nOr maybe a better analogy would be the one I used on Sirius XM: the moment during the Second World War when, under the command of the brilliant Bill Slim, the ill-equipped, neglected British Fourteenth Army realized that the only way to beat the Japanese was to fight with the same aggression, cunning, and mobility of the Japanese. In other words, to use the enemy\u2019s tactics against them.\n\nJust like CNN, just like Antifa, just like the left generally, the Japanese were a horrible enemy to fight: utterly without scruples, fanatically convinced of the justice of their wicked cause, terrifying in the swiftness with which they swarmed and overran your position. By the time you knew what had hit you, you\u2019d either be dead \u2014 if you were lucky \u2014 or tied, wounded, to a tree while the enemy got ready to use you for bayonet practice.\n\nIn the early stages of the war, the British and their fellow Allies were invariably on the back foot: how could they possibly defeat an enemy that didn\u2019t play by the rules, that showed no weakness, that seemed more demonic than human?\n\nAnyone who has ever seen action against the SJWs will know the feeling.\n\nThey hunt in packs; they swarm; they move as one as if controlled by some sinister hive mind; they are immune to reason; they are completely without mercy.\n\nI give you, as but one example among many, the case of poor Sir Tim Hunt \u2014 the Nobel-prize-winning scientist whose career was all but destroyed for no better reason than the SJW hive mind demanded fresh blood.\n\nThe truth (that Hunt was the victim of outrageous misreporting by a dodgy hack pursuing a militant feminist agenda) was no defense. Nor were any mitigating circumstances taken into account \u2014 like, say, the fact that this alleged sexist Prof ha, in fact, spent his entire career bending over backward to help and encourage female scientists. Nor was the fact that he apologized for his non-crime.\n\nAll that mattered as far as the SJWs were concerned was that here was another scalp for the taking. So take it they did.\n\nTo experience these terror tactics is a demoralizing and frightening thing.\n\nToo often the response of the right has been to feel a bit sorry for itself because it\u2019s all so unfair. And then persuade itself that if only it keeps on making the same arguments as before then eventually logic and truth will prevail because, after all, the facts of life are conservative.\n\nThere\u2019s at least one major problem with this response: the left isn\u2019t interested in logic and facts \u2014 and hasn\u2019t been for quite some time.\n\nThat was what James O\u2019Keefe recently uncovered \u2014 not that we couldn\u2019t have guessed anyway \u2014 with his recent sting on CNN. Here is an organization which affects the demeanor of a responsible, politically-neutral, internationally-respected news outlet with reporters and newscasters who look exactly like real ones on grown up TV channels. But underneath, its entire raison d\u2019etre and business model is churning out leftist fake news propaganda.\n\nIf conservative media outlets like Breitbart took the same liberties with the truth as leftist media outlets like CNN (and Vox and Slate and Salon and Huffpost and the rest\u2026) they would be crucified. But it\u2019s no use bleating about this: we just have to accept that this is the way the world works and just get on with the business of winning.\n\n#CNNBlackmail, make no mistake, was a pivotal #winning moment.\n\nWhy and how did we win? Partly by using the enemy\u2019s tactics against them; partly by exploiting a few strengths of our own.\n\nHere are some of them:\n\n\u201cSorry. Not interested\u201d\n\nBeing on the left is all about grievance, victimhood and \u2014 usually feigned \u2014 moral outrage. This was the card CNN tried playing in response to the original Trump wrestling gif. They invited us to believe that Trump\u2019s tweet encouraged \u201cviolence against reporters.\u201d We responded in the best way possible: by ignoring it. This may have been what infuriated CNN into making their massive tactical error of hunting down and trying to destroy the alleged creator of the gif. Had CNN shrugged its shoulders and ignored the wrestler gif, it would not be writhing in such abject humiliation now.\n\nJokes\n\nThe left has lots of comedians, but it can\u2019t do jokes: look at John Oliver, who, despite his lucrative gift of being able to persuade liberal studio audiences to make laugh-type noises, has never said anything genuinely funny in his life. This is because progressives are ideologically incapable of humor. We discuss this in more detail on my Delingpole podcast next week on a Special Youth Edition featuring a clever 18-year-old kid who understands the internet and memes and stuff. The reason the right is winning the internet war, he explains, is because our memes are much wittier than their memes. And the reason for that is that the left can\u2019t do humor because they\u2019re afraid it might hurt someone\u2019s feelings.\n\nPoint And Swarm; Isolate And Shriek\n\nAs Vox Day explains in his invaluable SJW Attack Survival Guide, these are classic techniques used by the regressive left. Now the tables have been turned, and we are learning to use their methods against them. CNN got so panicked after the backlash hit, it had to ban all its staff from using Twitter because whatever they did or said only seemed to make things worse. SJWs can dish it, but they really can\u2019t take it.\n\nAdvertisers\n\nAnother of the left\u2019s favorite dirty tricks is to target companies that advertise with conservative media organizations \u2014 and bully them into withdrawing their funding (see Kellogg\u2019s v Breitbart). On the right, we have traditionally been against such tactics because what you\u2019re essentially doing is fighting against two of the things we believe in \u2014 free markets and free speech. The tables were turned when advertisers including Audi (another company, incidentally, which withdrew its advertising from Breitbart) were attacked by outraged punters demanding to know why they fund a company as toxic as CNN.\n\nGive Them Enough Rope\u2026\n\nCNN is ISIS. It\u2019s a joke but it\u2019s also true: CNN is very much part of the axis of evil bent on destroying Western Civilization. We should never forget this \u2014 nor delude ourselves just because this particular battle involves frivolous stuff like memes of old martial arts video game characters with Trump\u2019s head and the CNN logo superimposed on them that somehow it isn\u2019t really important. I\u2019m with Thomas Wictor on this one:\n\n(1) Did I call it or what? #CNNBlackmail The mainstream media now sees itself as internal state security. pic.twitter.com/UnPZww7UwJ \u2014 Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) July 5, 2017\n\n(2) When journalists use their powers to dictate WHAT YOU WILL SAY, that means the press is now a secret police. \u2014 Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) July 5, 2017\n\nThat attack by CNN\u2019s sinister enforcer Andrew Kaczynski on Reddit user HanAssholeSolo was an outrageous act of overreach by the increasingly aggressive and hectoring left. It was the liberal media deciding that among its new roles is to police society\u2019s behavior and mores in the manner of the NKVD.\n\nDefinitely one good thing to have come out of #CNNBlackmail is that the enemy has shown its true colors. But the far, far better news is that the good guys have fought back.\n\nAnd the best news of all is: we\u2019re #winning."}
{"35": "President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit on Saturday in Hamburg, where reports reveal the two leaders spoke about trade and North Korea.\n\nIn a brief encounter with the press during a photo opportunity, President Xi spoke in Chinese without a translator, according to pooled press reports.\n\nadvertisement\n\nTrump said it was an \u201chonor to have gotten to know\u201d Xi and added the two leaders had \u201cdeveloped a wonderful relationship.\u201d\n\nTrump also remarked on North Korea in the wake of that communist regime\u2019s recent launch of a ballistic missile, which showed it could have the capability of reaching Alaska, according to military experts.\n\n\u201cI appreciate the things that you have done relative to the very substantial problem that we all face in North Korea, a problem that something has to be done about,\u201d Trump said.\n\n\u201cIt may take longer than I\u2019d like. It may take longer that you\u2019d like,\u201d Trump said, \u201cbut there will be success in the end one way or the other.\u201d\n\nTrump also highlighted trade in his brief remarks.\n\n\u201cTrade, as you know, is a very, very big issue for the United States,\u201d Trump said.\n\nThe Chinese communist news service, Xinhua News Agency, reported that President Xi called for a \u201cmore inclusive growth and improving global economic governance\u201d at the G20 summit.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnother source of growth derives from making greater efforts to address the issue of development and implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and such efforts will both benefit developing countries and generate business and investment opportunities for developed countries,\u201d Yi said. \u201cIn other words, this will be a win-win game for all.\u201d\n\n\u201cChina proposes establishing a united global front against terrorism to eradicate the roots of terrorism, cut off the channels for terrorists to obtain funds, and stop the use of Internet by terrorists to spread terrorism,\u201d the Chinese news outlet reported.\n\n\u201cChina itself is a victim of terrorism and is on the front line of the international fight against terrorism,\u201d Xi said."}
{"36": "Mexican authorities seized multiple packages of dynamite belonging to one faction of the Los Zetas cartel that operates in the border state of Tamaulipas. In addition to the explosives, authorities also seized body armor and more than a ton of marijuana stashed in the city of Mante.\n\nOfficials found the dynamite at a cartel stash house in the southern city of Mante, an area run by the Vieja Escuela Z faction of the Los Zetas Cartel. The region is about 282 miles south of the Texas border in a strategic territory used by organized crime groups.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAccording to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government, the stash house was in the Las Brisas neighborhood. The house belonged to recently slain Vieja Escuela plaza boss Francisco \u201cTom Cabezon\u201d Garcia. As Breitbart Texas reported, Garcia was recently murdered during a prison \u201cfight\u201d in the Nuevo Laredo prison, a state facility near the Texas border where officials only recently transferred him.\n\nAccording to authorities, multiple law enforcement agencies carried out a surveillance operation and observed a man who acted in a \u201csuspicious fashion.\u201d Officials noticed the man carrying weapons and followed him to a house where he went inside.\n\nPolice officers raided the house and found five packages of dynamite sticks, six black bags with 2,204 pounds of marijuana, ten tactical vests with body armor, as well as ammunition for AK-47 type rifles. The suspected gunman managed to escape.\n\nThe large seizure came approximately 96 hours after the prison murder of Francisco \u201cTom Cabezon\u201d Garcia inside the Nuevo Laredo prison. The detention facility is controlled by the Cartel Del Noreste faction of the Los Zetas, a rival faction that has been at war with Vieja Escuela Z.\n\nGarcia inherited command of the Los Zetas in Ciudad Mante in April, shortly after the death of the previous leader Francisco \u201cPancho\u201d Carreon. Carreon controlled the central part of Tamaulipas and numerous communities in the state of San Luis Potosi.\n\nIn blogs that deal with cartel activities in Tamaulipas, alleged members of the Cartel Del Noreste took credit for Garcia\u2019s death. They warned about future violence coming from information that they had extracted through Garcia\u2019s torture. The post made allusions to Garcia\u2019s operations in Ciudad Mante and Ciudad Victoria where more both factions have been waging a fierce war for control.\n\nEditor\u2019s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Le\u00f3n to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Tamaulipas\u2019 \u201cFrancisco Morales.\u201d"}
{"37": "When the president of the United States picks it up, the news media picks it up.\n\n\u201cPresident Trump on Saturday retrieved a Marine\u2019s hat and placed it on the officer\u2019s head after it blew off amid turbulence from the president\u2019s helicopter,\u201d The Hill reported. ABC similarly noted in a headline, \u201cTrump stopping to pick up Marine\u2019s hat blown away by wind is president\u2019s latest viral moment,\u201d while The Daily Caller headline read: \u201cTrump stops to pick up Marine\u2019s hat.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nBut no Marine wears a hat on his head. A Marine wears a cover, which belongs on the head in most outdoor situations and belongs somewhere else in most indoor situations. Do otherwise, or call your cover a \u201chat,\u201d and life becomes unpleasant. Alas, the world of the USMC remains as alien to the Fourth Estate as MAGA country. Surely a Hill reporter calling a lance corporal an \u201cofficer\u201d indicates as much.\n\nThe Marine stood at attention as his dress-blues cover blew off his head not once but twice on Saturday. Trump patted the Marine on the shoulder before the cover, perhaps by the force of the helicopter rotor blades, again flew off his head. Trump retrieved it but wisely allowed an officer from another branch to fix the enlisted man\u2019s cover issue, which became an issue when covered by the press.\n\nPedantic? Sure. A cover is a hat is a lid is a cap. But in the age of petty-fact checkers who yell \u201cgotcha\u201d at Donald Trump for saying Hillary Clinton \u201cacid-washed\u201d her server (\u201cClinton\u2019s team used an app called BleachBit; she did not use a corrosive chemical\u201d) one can\u2019t beat the nitpickers. One can only join them."}
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{"39": "The parents of baby Charlie Gard have delivered a petition with more than 370,000 signatures to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children imploring hospital administrators to allow them to take Charlie to the U.S. for potentially life-saving treatment.\n\nAfter delivering the petition, Charlie\u2019s father Chris Gard told press Sunday afternoon: \u201cWe just want to thank you all for being here\u2026 Our special thanks goes to everyone in America and everyone in Rome who has supported us and who believes that Charlie deserves this treatment as we believe he rightly does.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cWe are trying to take our son from one hospital where they do a lot of specialities there. It\u2019s a fantastic hospital. They do great things there. Unfortunately, they are not specialists in Charlie\u2019s condition. The specialists are in America.\u201d\n\nCharlie\u2019s mother Connie Yates added: \u201cThere are now seven doctors supporting us from Italy, America, and England, as well, that think that this [treatment] has a chance. There is an up to 10 per cent chance [of success] and we feel that is a chance worth taking. We\u2019ve been fighting for this medication since November. We are now in July.\u201d\n\nIterating her fight for parental rights, Ms. Yeats said: \u201cHe\u2019s our son, he\u2019s our flesh and blood. We feel it should be our right as parents to decide to give him a chance at life.\n\n\u201cLet\u2019s get Charlie the treatment he needs. If he\u2019s still fighting, we\u2019re still fighting,\u201d Mr. Gard said.\n\nCharlie\u2019s fight for life received high-profile support from U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis, with U.S. lawmakers planning to introduce legislation next week that would grant lawful permanent resident status in the U.S. to the child so he can receive treatment. The Vatican\u2019s children\u2019s hospital also offered to treat the child, but the move was barred by \u201clegal reasons\u201d.\n\nThe delivery of the petition comes after Great Ormond Street Hospital on Friday applied to the High Court for a new hearing after \u201cclaims of new evidence relating to potential treatment for his condition\u201d.\n\nSky News\u2019s Ashish Joshi spoke to a leading American pro-life lawyer who is close to the family, the chief executive of Americans United for Life, Catherine Glenn-Foster, about the new High Court hearing, who said it was \u201cvery, very, promising\u201d.\n\n\u201cIt gives [Charlie] a few more days and it means that the court can, in fact, rule that the hospital does not have the right, after all, to remove his ventilator and his feeding tube, and in fact should be transferred to another hospital to receive this cutting edge therapy or in fact even provide it right here,\u201d said Ms. Glenn-Foster.\n\nAsked how Charlie\u2019s parents were feeling, the pro-life advocate said: \u201cThey are stressed as anyone would be in this situation, where their own parental rights are being stripped away by an institution that was hired to care for their son and instituted to care for the most vulnerable among us.\n\n\u201cThat very institution hired to care for Charlie is trying to strip him of his rights and his parents of their rights to even just take him to get a second opinion.\u201d\n\nCharlie\u2019s parents want to bring Charlie to the U.S., where a specialist is willing to offer him an experimental treatment for his rare condition called infantile onset encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, or MDDS. They have raised \u00a31.3 million to pay for Charlie\u2019s treatment and transportation themselves through an online appeal. Baby Charlie has his U.S. visa, and is \u201cfit to fly\u201c.\n\nDoctors at the hospital in London, however, are determined to block the trip and ensure that Charlie\u2019s life support should be withdrawn. Hospital administrators had kept him for months whilst fighting Charlie\u2019s parents in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and even the European Court of Human Rights for permission to withdraw his life support without their consent.\n\nCharlie\u2019s case will be heard again by Mr. Justice Francis on Monday at 2 pm.\n\nFollow Victoria Friedman on Twitter Follow @friedmanpress"}
{"40": "CNN host Michael Smerconish is doubling down on the network\u2019s decision to publicly threaten to out an anonymous Reddit user who created a WWE-themed animated image mocking the network, a variant of which was tweeted by President Trump.\n\nSpeaking on his radio show earlier this week, Smerconish said that if he \u201ccontinues to be racist, if he continues to be a bigot, if he continues to be anti-Semitic\u201d that CNN should reveal the Reddit user\u2019s identity.\n\nadvertisement\n\nSmerconish went on to attack internet anonymity, saying \u201canonymity gives people beer muscles for bad behavior.\u201d\n\nHe also linked the newsworthiness of revealing the Reddit user\u2019s personal information to the allegation that his animated image was tweeted by the President.\n\n\u201cWhen you promote hate in the blogosphere \u2026 you attract the president \u2026 you\u2019re now a story, and you sacrifice any right to privacy that you otherwise would have had.\u201d\n\nHe did not acknowledge the fact that the version tweeted by President Trump was significantly different to the one created by the Reddit user.\n\nAnd for all that, it seems like someone actually re-staged the original meme for presidential tweeting https://t.co/ktH9W2R8V0 \u2014 Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) July 5, 2017\n\n\u201cThey need to be reined in\u201d concluded Smerconish. \u201cThe hate speech, the coarse dialogue has had a disastrous impact on our political conversation, and our ability to elect individuals who are willing and able to get along and get things done.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to rein in the bad behavior, and nasty anonymous comments are a big part of the problem \u2014 but they\u2019re one that we can address and one that we can solve. So, in this case, I think this individual sacrificed his right to privacy. That\u2019s my view.\u201d\n\nYou can follow Allum Bokhari on Twitter, Gab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to abokhari@breitbart.com."}
{"41": "University of West Georgia adjunct professor Jason W. Swindle Sr. says arguments against campus carry are not \u201cbased on logic, history, or verified facts.\u201d\n\nOn the other hand, he suggests that arguments for campus carry are logical and important to the preservation of life.\n\nadvertisement\n\nWriting in the LaGrange Daily News, Swindle describes his walk from the classroom to the parking lot on dark, cold nights in January and February. He says, \u201cThere have been times I wished I had my .38 revolver inside of my jacket.\u201d\n\nHe then turned to the newly enacted Georgia campus carry law, expressed his happiness over the law, and pointed out that those who opposed it did not not oppose it with logic. Moreover, he suggested that opponents of the law ignored history and regurgitated a list of worst case campus carry scenarios that have never proven true.\n\nFor example, Swindle points out that opponents of campus carry said, \u201cGuns on campus would lead to an increase in violent crime.\u201d He responded, saying, \u201cThere are ten states (including Georgia) that have provisions allowing the carrying of concealed weapons.\n\n\u201cTwenty-three additional states allow each college to make the decision. None of these states have seen a resulting increase in gun violence as a result of legalizing concealed carry.\u201d\n\nHe noted that some opponents of campus carry say, \u201cAdding guns to the \u2018college lifestyle\u2019 of drinking and partying would be a disaster.\u201d He then responded to this claim, saying, \u201cFirst, it is unlawful for a licensed concealed permit holder to carry while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.\n\n\u201cLicensed holders went through the proper steps, underwent a background check, and were licensed by a probate judge. Logic would dictate that these class of gun owners possess the highest level of responsibility and thus would not carry while drinking.\u201d\n\nSwindle then pointed to campus carry opponents\u2019 favorite go-to argument\u2014that \u201cGun free zones (GFZ) are safe because no one can possess guns in those areas.\u201d He drew from his experience in law, his knowledge of criminal cases and repeated exposure to how and why criminals attack, to say:\n\nIn 13 years of criminal defense practice, I have not had to read books, debate ideas, or test classroom theories to confirm that human predators, like our fellow mammals in the animal kingdom, prey on the weak and defenseless. Like the cheetah that picks out the weakest, youngest, or sickest wildebeest, a rapist, child abuser, armed robber, or gunman will choose the weakest victim(s). A gunman knows that people in GFZ\u2019s cannot defend themselves. The gunman has no risk of being shot himself when he opens fire in schools, some campuses, and other GFZ\u2019s. A 2014 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center showed that 92 percent of mass shootings in public places between 2009 and 2014 were in GFZ\u2019s.\n\nSwindle also noted that no matter how nicely he presents his arguments, those fighting for gun control are often quick to frame their case in emotion and enter into name-calling. He said that while he always does his best to \u201cagree to disagree,\u201d his support of Georgia\u2019s campus carry law garnered him some Facebook responses that \u201cwere not exactly a classy expression of disagreement.\u201d\n\nAWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com."}
{"42": "Sunday on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d former CIA Director John Brennan said President Donald Trump was \u201cdishonorable\u201d for saying meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin was an \u201chonor.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nBrennan said, \u201cI don\u2019t think he demonstrates good negotiating skills when it comes to Mr. Putin. Two days ago in Warsaw, he gave Mr. Putin the opportunity to point to the failures of U.S. intelligence. To me, I think he ceded that ground. And also right before he met with Mr. Putin and talked with him at some length \u2014 which I\u2019m glad he did, he said it\u2019s an honor to meet President Putin. An honor to meet the individual who carried out the assault against our election? To me, it was a dishonorable thing to say.\u201d\n\nFollow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN"}
{"43": "TREBISHT (ALBANIA) (AFP) \u2013 Trebisht in northeastern Albania looks like a ghost village, emptied of its residents by a rush to get Bulgarian passports that open the door to the European Union.\n\nArman Kadriu has an Albanian name, but the 12-year-old boy says he considers himself Bulgarian.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to stay here taking care of cows. I want to be a football player,\u201d he said, covered in sweat, as he juggled a ball with his feet on a dusty road in the village in the Golo Brdo region.\n\n\u201cIn England, with a Bulgarian passport, it\u2019s possible,\u201d he said, switching languages to say \u201cDovizhdane!\u201d \u2014 goodbye in Bulgarian.\n\nBulgaria and Albania do not share a border.\n\nAnd non-EU member Albania, where a law on minorities is under consideration, does not count Bulgarians among its recognised ethnic communities, unlike the Greeks, Macedonians or Serb-Montenegrins.\n\nThe ethnicity of historically Slavic-speaking communities in parts of Albania\u2019s east has long been fluid and disputed \u2014 neighbouring Macedonia claims they are ethnic Macedonians.\n\nBut according to the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, which helps in obtaining a passport, Bulgarian families have been settled in Albania since the 5th century and their descendants are part of its diaspora.\n\nNo statistics are available, but Bulgarian organisations in Albania estimate that there are around 100,000 of these descendants.\n\nThe European Parliament seems to agree: in February, it requested of Tirana \u201cthat the rights of people with Bulgarian ethnicity in the Prespa, Golo Brdo and Gora regions be enshrined in law and ensured in practice\u201d.\n\nThe recommendation \u201chas given renewed hope. Every day at least seven or eight people come to ask about obtaining Bulgarian citizenship,\u201d said Haxhi Pirushi.\n\nHe heads the Prosperity Goloborda association, which provides certificates of Bulgarian origin to Albanians and is recognised by the government in Sofia.\n\n\u2013 Mass emigration \u2013\n\nPerched on a hill, Trebisht is a sleepy place.\n\nA few men spend their day on the terrace of the \u201cDemocracy\u201d bar and others work the land, while young people travel three kilometres (two miles) to cross the Macedonian border for temporary work.\n\nOnce the village counted \u201caround 6,000 inhabitants, but more than 2,500 left four or five years ago when they had the opportunity to benefit from a Bulgarian passport,\u201d explained resident Tahir Mucina.\n\nIn the neighbouring village of Vernice \u201cthere is hardly anyone left\u201d, said the 31-year-old.\n\nSince Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, its citizens have been able to work and reside wherever they want within the bloc, with all the restrictions lifted in 2014.\n\nMucina said he was also \u201con the lookout\u201d for passports for himself, his wife and their three children.\n\nAlbania, as a whole, is a nation of mass emigration, spurred by an average wage of 340 euros ($388) and an unemployment rate affecting nearly one in three young people.\n\nSo it does not matter that Bulgaria is the poorest country in the EU. Seen from Trebisht, it is the gateway to Germany, England or some other promised land.\n\nAnd it suits Bulgaria to claim these people as their own.\n\n\u201cIt has to do with (Bulgaria\u2019s) policy on Macedonia/Macedonians who also have access to Bulgarian citizenship because they are seen as ethnic Bulgarians,\u201d said Southeast Europe expert Dimitar Bechev at the University of North Carolina.\n\n\u201cCommunities who live on the other side of the border\u2026 qualify as well.\u201d\n\nHe said Bulgarian MEPs have successfully lobbied the European Parliament to take a stand on the issue. \u201cIf Macedonia were an EU member, things would have worked another way, of course,\u201d Bechev told AFP.\n\nIn 1939, at the beginning of World War II, Bulgarians from 19 localities in Albania asked Sofia to defend their rights in what was then an Italian protectorate, according to the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad.\n\n\u201cThe toponymy (study of place names), the preservation of an archaic Bulgarian language and the local dialect and traditions are evidence of the Bulgarian character\u201d in the regions concerned, Sofia says.\n\n\u2013 Illegal path \u2013\n\nTrebisht residents who said they consider themselves Bulgarian spoke to AFP in Albanian, but said they spoke Bulgarian at home with their families.\n\n\u201cI live in Albania,\u201d said the 60-year-old Gani Shahini, \u201cbut my origins are Bulgarian\u201d.\n\nBetween 2001 and 2016, a total of 4,470 Albanian nationals applied for a Bulgarian passport and 2,608 of them were successful, according to Sofia.\n\nBut these figures do not reflect the full extent of the phenomenon. Some choose to take an illegal path, providing a market for forged passports.\n\nThree people were arrested in December 2015 and later found guilty of making Bulgarian passports on demand for between 4,000 and 10,000 euros.\n\nSince May 1, Sofia has requested documents proving the Bulgarian origin of a parent or grandparent after Bulgarian prosecutors found abuse of the system.\n\n\u201cThe only interest of these people is to obtain a passport allowing them to move freely in the European area,\u201d said Albanian historian Pellumb Xhufi.\n\nby Briseida Mema with Vessela Sergueva in Sofia"}
{"44": "Sunday on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said President Donald Trump was empowering Putin by not imposing tougher sanctions on Russia for cyber attacks on the American election of 2016 which would be \u201cbetraying democracy.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nGraham said, \u201cHe had what I think is a disastrous meeting with President Putin. Two hours and 15 minutes of meetings, Tillerson and Trump are ready to forgive and forget when it comes to cyber attacks on the American election of 2016. Nobody is saying, Mr. President, the Russians changed the outcome. You won fair and square, but they did try to attack our election system. They were successful in many ways. And the more you do this, the more people are suspicious about you and Russia. He\u2019s got a great national security team around him. He\u2019s doing a good job in Afghanistan, North Korea, and ISIL, but when it comes to Russia, he\u2019s got a blind spot, and to forgive and forget when it comes to Putin regarding cyber attacks is to empower Putin, and that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s doing.\u201d\n\nHe continued, \u201cHe seems to be willing to forgive and forget Putin. Even if he brought it up, he\u2019s not willing to do anything about it, so it makes me more committed than ever to get sanctions on President Trump\u2019s desk punishing Putin. There is only one person in Washington that I know of that has any doubt about what Russia did in our election, and that\u2019s President Trump.\u201d\n\nHe added, \u201cWhen it comes to Russia, I am dumbfounded, I am disappointed, and at the end of the day he\u2019s hurting his presidency by not embracing the fact that Putin is a bad guy who tried to undercut our democracy and he\u2019s doing it all over the world.\u201d\n\nDiscussing sanctions on Russia, Graham added, \u201cAt the end of the day, the house needs to pass a bill. If you don\u2019t like our bill word for word, you can change it, but I\u2019m not going to gut the bill. I am intent on punishing the Russians for interfering in our election. They did it in France. They\u2019re going to do it in Germany. They\u2019re doing it all over the world. They\u2019re doing it in the Balkan states, their neighbors. So I want a clear message to Russia that you\u2019ll pay the price for cutting our democracy. If President Trump doesn\u2019t embrace this, I think he\u2019ll be empowering the Russians and betraying democracy.\u201d\n\nFollow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN"}
{"45": "During a meeting at the G20 in Hamburg, Germany, between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto, Trump told reporters that he \u201cabsolutely\u201d still wants Mexico to pay for a wall along the U.S. border.\n\nMembers of the press were briefly allowed in the meeting where an AP reporter asked Trump, \u201cMr. Trump, do you still want Mexico to pay for the wall?\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nTrump responded, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d\n\nThe comments came after the two presidents had delivered statements. Trump said that, at the time of the Friday meeting, it had been a \u201csuccessful day.\u201d He stated, \u201cWe\u2019re negotiating NAFTA and some other things with Mexico, and we\u2019ll see how it all turns out, but I think we\u2019ve made very good progress.\u201d\n\nNieto, through a translator, spoke of continuing a \u201cvery flowing dialogue that will allow us, of course, for the negotiation of NAFTA.\u201d He then spoke of cooperating for the security of both nations, especially their borders. \u201cAnd, of course, also working on migration issues, which is a task that both of our nations are occupied,\u201d Nieto continued. He added that both nations have a responsibility when it comes to \u201corganized crime issues.\u201d\n\nBuilding a wall along the U.S. southern border and getting Mexico to pay for it was a signature promise of Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nIn April, during a trip to the U.S. border with Mexico, Sessions vowed a \u201cnew era\u201d when it comes to those crossing the border illegally. He laid out a plan to detain all adults caught crossing the border illegally and adding 125 immigration judges to handle the extensive immigration case backlog.\n\nUnder the Trump administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called on prosecutors to work on deporting first-time illegal border crossers. In a reversal of Obama-era policies, prosecutors are using Operation Streamline to file charges against first-time illegal border crossers.\n\nBreitbart Texas recently reported that the current acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan has served as the head of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) under the Obama administration as violent criminal aliens were continuously released back into the U.S.\n\nIn late June, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced plans for taking bids and choosing contractors to build border wall prototypes in Southern California later this summer.\n\nOn June 22, Trump tweeted:\n\nMexico was just ranked the second deadliest country in the world, after only Syria. Drug trade is largely the cause. We will BUILD THE WALL! \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017\n\nBreitbart Texas\u2019s Cartel Chronicles has documented persistent violence in areas along the U.S.-Mexico border. Just days ago, Cartel Chronicles reported that there have been 92 individuals killed in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in under two months. The killings come as \u201ctwo rival factions of the Gulf Cartel have fought for control of Reynosa and its surrounding areas.\u201d\n\nBreitbart Texas also recently reported on a native of Mexico who lied to immigration officials to obtain U.S. citizenship after having pleaded guilty to raping a child in Texas. Government officials relied on his attestation that he had not been \u201carrested, indicted, charged, or detained for breaking any laws while in the country,\u201d and the individual was granted citizenship. Nearly two decades later, his U.S. citizenship was revoked as he sat in a Mexican jail for another rape.\n\nDuring the 2016 elections, President Trump highlighted many families whose loved ones have been killed by illegal aliens in the United States. Since taking office, the Trump administration has launched VOICE (Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement), a division of Department of Homeland Security, dedicated to assisting victims of illegal alien crime.\n\nFollow Michelle Moons on Twitter @MichelleDiana."}
{"46": "Trump-hating punk rock band Greed Day has come under fire for performing at the Mad Cool Festival Friday night in Spain mere moments after an acrobat died after falling over 100 feet during a performance.\n\nThe performer, Pedro Auni\u00f3n Monroy, fell to the ground in front of about 35,000 frightened festivalgoers. Paramedics rushed to the scene and administered first aid but Monroy died on the scene, The Mirror reports. He was 42. Monroy was performing at tribute to Prince\u2019s hit song \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nVideo of the horrific and deadly accident can be seen below.\n\nGreen Day, the event\u2019s headliner, took the stage and performed after a short delay.\n\nSeveral fans took to social media and slammed the band \u2014 who later said they were unaware of Monroy\u2019s death \u2014 for performing.\n\nIm leaving the #madcool after an acrobat died mid show, and noone in the organization said anything.#GreenDay shouldn't be playing right now \u2014 Markinho Curi (@markinhocuri) July 7, 2017\n\n@GreenDay ashamed of you. An artist died just 20 meters from you and you still play. Worst band on the planet. #MadCool \u2014 Javier Erquiaga (@jerquiag) July 7, 2017\n\nI was at #Madcool tonight & saw what happened. The organisers can say it was for security but IMO, they put economics ahead of decency. \u2014 Jackie Willcox (@JackieWillcox1) July 8, 2017\n\nThe band later tweeted their condolences and said that they learned of the performer\u2019s tragic death after their set.\n\nOur thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends \u2014 Green Day (@GreenDay) July 8, 2017\n\nMad Cool festival organizers were also criticized for what some people said was a lack of safety at the show and for allowing the Green Day to perform after the incident.\n\nA guy just died and all you guys care about is getting your money back. But then you criticise the event for wanting money. #MadCool \u2014 Eddy (@hissingmisery) July 8, 2017\n\nIf #GreenDay truly didn't know about the accident shame on #MadCool \u2014 Sophie \ud83c\udf0a (@SophieSparksFly) July 8, 2017\n\nYes it was a tragedy, but i blame the lack of safety at madcool and the fact they didnt even tell green day what had happend \u2014 Sophie \ud83c\udf0a (@SophieSparksFly) July 8, 2017\n\nRock band Slowdive, however, did not perform and said it would not be appropriate to do so after Monroy\u2019s death.\n\nDue to the tragic event at Mad Cool this evening we felt it was not appropriate to play. Our thoughts go out to those affected. \u2014 Slowdive (@slowdiveband) July 8, 2017\n\nMad Cool organizers said in a statement released on Saturday that it \u201cregrets the terrible accident,\u201d adding that Green Day was allowed to perform for \u201csecurity reasons.\u201d\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson"}
{"47": "Muslims in the United States should not assimilate into American society, but should instead act \u201cto please Allah and only Allah,\u201d said Linda Sarsour, a rising star among progressive Democrats, last weekend.\n\nSarsour\u2019s remarks were part of a July 1 speech given at the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA. She said:\n\nadvertisement\n\nOur number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority. Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make sure our women are protected in our community, and our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah and only Allah. We are never to cower to the powers that be, we are never to give up any part of our identity so somebody else can open a door for us. If a door does not open, guess what we do? We build a new door and walk through our own door, because we have that right in this country to also open opportunities for us and other communities.\n\nSarsour\u2019s speech was peppered with refusals to integrate into Americans\u2019 Western-style blends of secular government, religious freedoms, and civic society, or to compromise any aspects of Islamic doctrines, such as support for Muslim Palestinians living alongside Israel:\n\nWhat I believe that people can learn from my experience is that you can be unapologetically Muslim, unapologetically Palestinian-American, hold strong conviction, have strong ideology and politics and still become a mainstream American who can inspire and still resonate with people outside of the Muslim community\u2026 We do not have to give up any part of our identity\u2026 I will not be in a space where any group or any organization or individual tells me that there there is apart of my [Muslim] identity that is not welcome into any space. That, my sisters and brothers, is not going to fly with us in the Muslim community.\n\nShe urged Muslim groups to build alliances \u2013 but to not integrate \u2014 with other groups in America, saying \u201cYou are not [numerous] enough on your own \u2026. we need to build coalitions, we need allies.\u201d\n\n\n\nSarsour\u2019s orthodox Islamic separatism has attracted much criticism from Americans.\n\nLiberals: #IStandWithLinda even tho she\n\n\u2013 viciously attacked a survivor of FGM\n\n\u2013 gave the ISIS one finger salute\n\n\u2013 advocates Sharia Law pic.twitter.com/2vfdjWqV4h \u2014 Adam Blaze (@blaze42001) July 7, 2017\n\nIt is a poor fit with post-1964 U.S. society, and especially with the declared ideals of American progressives.\n\nAmerican progressives swear they oppose theocracies, favor democracies and free speech, favor economic opportunities and legal equality for women, oppose genital mutilation, and favor peace between Israel and nearly Arab Muslims.\n\nYet progressives are unwilling to treat religions as legitimate political factors. That contempt for religion allows progressives to support Sarsour in the hope she rallies immigrant Muslims against President Donald Trump.\n\nFor example, Sarsour was allowed to appear as one of the four media-boosted leaders of the January 21, 2017 \u201cWomen\u2019s March\u201d in D.C. against Trump. Similarly, she was recently invited to give a May keynote speech at the City University of New York while wearing her usual head-covering as a signal of her Islamic orthodoxy.\n\nWhen he was President, Barack Obama boosted Sarsour by naming her as a \u201cChampion of Change,\u201d as part of his campaign to recruit Muslims into the Democratic coalition of diverse minorities. Obama offered public endorsements off Islam, greater immigration of Muslims, and government aid such as welfare and healthcare. \u201cISNA continues to be a voice for cooperation and understanding \u2026 I see Muslim-American communities as our partner, and you\u2019ll always have a partner in me,\u201d Obama said in a videotaped speech to the 2015 ISNA meeting.\n\nSarsour\u2019s importance to progressives also explains why so many progressives rushed to excuse Sarsour\u2019s use of Islam\u2019s \u201cjihad\u201d war doctrine in her ISNA speech. She said:\n\nI hope that we, when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts us from us that as a form of jihad, that we are struggling against tyrants and rulers, not only abroad in the Middle East or on the other side of the world, but here, in these United States of America, where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House.\n\nThat statement is not a direct call for direct open war against the government. But it is a demand that Muslims recognize an obligation under Islam\u2019s jihad doctrine to unite in political opposition to a perceived enemy \u2014 the elected president of the United States.\n\nIn her own defense, Sarsour subsequently retweeted claims that Islam\u2019s jihad doctrine also endorses non-violent actions.\n\nResistance to oppression can be violent and non-violent struggle. Clearly, @lsarsour was talking about the latter. https://t.co/qSFOMVK6iB \u2014 Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) July 7, 2017\n\nSarsour\u2019s ISNA speech include numerous Koranic references that reinforce her demand for Muslim separatism.\n\nFor example, she said, \u201cyou can count on me every single day to use my voice to stand up, not only to people outside our community who are oppressing our communities but those inside our community who aid and abet the oppressors outside of our community.\u201d\n\nSarsour\u2019s repeated use of the term \u201coppressor\u201d evokes many verses in the Koran, which repeatedly urges bloody warfare against people who limit Muslims\u2019 power. For example, verse 2:193 in the Koran declares:\n\nFight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression.\n\nSarsour\u2019s call for Islamic self-segregation instead of integration echoes statements in the Koran, which Muslims believe is the directed and unchangeable transcript of Allah\u2019s commands. For example, the Koran tells Muslims not to depend on non-Muslim authorities, but to unite as one Muslim \u201cummah\u201d against all non-Muslim powers.\n\n\u201cO you who believe ! Do not take Jews and Christians as your patrons. They are patrons of their own people. He among you who will turn to them for patronage is one of them.\n\nThe same verse is also translated as:\n\nO you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you \u2013 then indeed, he is [one] of them.\n\nMuslims must unite \u201cas one umma we are supposed to be,\u201d Sarsour said.\n\nShe also suggested to the Islamic leaders at her speech that opposition to Trump is an individual Islamic religious duty, or a \u201cfard al-ayn,\u201d by saying \u201cwhen the day comes that something horrific happens to us or to another community, you will be responsible for normalizing this administration.\u201d\n\nSarsour\u2019s frank demands for an Islamic political movement and for a self-segregated Islamic society in the United States echoes the broadly accepted strategy of self-segregation among Islamic activists in Europe and the United States. The separatist strategy is intended to grow their populations while shielding them from surrounding secular and Christian cultures, which Islamic believers see as profoundly illegitimate. For example, Sarsour repeatedly referred to \u201cthese United States of America,\u201d not \u201cThe United States of America.\u201d\n\nThe Islamic groups are also testing that strategy in the United States. For example, Islamic activists rejected Obama\u2019s so-called \u201cCountering Violent Extremism\u201d plan, which sought to reduce Islamic attacks in the United States by fostering counterterrorism cooperation with Islamic groups, including ISNA. But Islamic groups demanded more autonomy, including the legal authority to police their own co-religionists, in exchange for a promised reduction in domestic jihad attacks.\n\nBecause of that hostility, President Donald Trump\u2019s deputies have changed the nation\u2019s anti-jihad strategy. The new strategy emphasizes policing without reliance on cooperation from activists, such as Sarsour. The new strategy is based on the likelihood that the activist Islamic groups \u2014 such as ISNA and the Sarsour\u2019s groups \u2014 can be bypassed with effective outreach and cooperation with ordinary people \u2014- parents and employers, for example \u2014 who are part of the various Muslim neighborhoods and groups.\n\nDespite the media-magnified role of ISNA and various other Muslim political groups, it is not clear how much sway they have over Muslim Americans, many of whom rarely attend mosques and frequently drink alcohol. Sarsour\u2019s speech got a tepid response at the ISNA convention, partly because she insisted that the older Muslim leaders donate more funding to political activists, such as herself and like-minded firebrands, and also delegate more political power and visibility to younger, American-born Muslims.\n\nFollow Neil Munro on Twitter @NeilMunroDC"}
{"48": "A Florida man who is deaf and has autism was attacked by another man who wanted to engage \u201cSuperman\u201d in a fight, police said.\n\nVIDEO: Police: Man beats autistic, deaf man known as \u2018Minneola Superhero\u2019\n\nadvertisement\n\nLake County Deputies arrested Tyler McCorvey, 26, for allegedly beating 19-year-old Rae Pitt on a street corner and bashing his head into a car, WESH reported.\n\nWOFL reports that Pitt, who dons a Superman costume each day and is known in the community as \u201cthe Minneola superhero,\u201d waves at cars and pedestrians along US 27 at Washington Street.\n\n\u201cHe\u2019s usually dressed up as Superman. Just doing his thing on the curb-getting everyone\u2019s attention. Not bothering anybody,\u201d said Abdool Shakur, who sees Pitt regularly.\n\nThe victim told police in a written statement that a man walked up to him, socked him in the chest, and bashed his head against a car.\n\nHe added that a witness came by to help after the man fled the scene.\n\nTerra Brady, the witness, told police that McCorvey walked up to Pitt, posed as a deaf person, and pretended to remove Pitt\u2019s cape, WFTV reported.\n\nBrady told WFTV that police arrested McCorvey while he ran down the street with a garbage can covering his head.\n\nDeputies charged McCorvey with battery and aggravated abuse of a disabled adult.\n\nMcCorvey told investigators that he wanted to \u201cfight Superman,\u201d but did not injure the victim.\n\nDespite the ordeal, Pitt returned to his role as the \u201cMinneola superhero,\u201d waving at those who pass by the intersection.\n\nResidents in the community say Pitt is a friendly guy who does not bother anyone.\n\n\u201cHe keeps to himself, he waves and smiles. He does his thing and it makes our community happy,\u201d said Ashley Payne."}
{"49": "Volunteers set up an \u201cempathy\u201d tent at dueling pro- and anti-Trump protests on Saturday in Sacramento as part of an effort to reduce violent clashes between the two sides.\n\nThe Sacramento Bee reported that as police worked to keep about 150 pro-Trump demonstrators and a smaller group of anti-Trump protesters from coming to blows, peace activists used an \u201cempathy tent\u201d to defuse tensions:\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe event also sported an \u201cempathy tent,\u201d where organizers promised \u201c10 minutes of deep listening\u201d without judgment, advice or interruption.\n\n\n\nEdwin Rutsch, head of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy, spent the afternoon sitting face to face in folding chairs with people who stopped by to talk politics, religion or whatever else struck them.\n\n\n\nRutsch said his group has been operating for 10 years and goes to areas of conflict to offer people a safe zone to talk. In recent months, he was at protests in Berkeley and at a pro-impeachment rally in Los Angeles, he said.\n\n\n\n\u201cWe like the conflict zones,\u201d said Rutsch, a 61-year-old El Cerrito resident.\n\n\n\n\u201cWe came here, and people recognized us from Berkeley and welcomed us with hugs.\u201d\n\nThe \u201cempathy tent\u201d has ben deployed elsewhere, most recently at demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles:\n\nThe \u201cempathic listening\u201d session ends with both participants getting a hug from the moderator. pic.twitter.com/E8FP7AMGZq \u2014 Laura J. Nelson (@laura_nelson) July 2, 2017\n\nFor the past several months, the two sides have clashed at various sites across California, most notably at the University of California Berkeley, where efforts to shut down pro-Trump speakers on campus have made the city a flashpoint for protest.\n\nAs Breitbart News reported in April, pro-Trump demonstrators in Berkeley arrived with helmets and protective gear to face off against leftist groups, after injuries at earlier events.\n\nLast June, in San Jose, anti-Trump rioters attacked Trump supporters leaving a rally \u2014 and Mayor Sam Riccardo blamed Trump for the violence.\n\nJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the \u201cmost influential\u201d people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.\n\nPhoto: file"}
{"50": "Parliamentarians from Britain\u2019s leading parties have demanded the BBC end its anti-Brexit bias, or face being hauled before media regulators.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs including Philip Davies from the Conservative Party, Kate Hoey from Labour, and Ian Paisley Jr from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) confronted News and Current Affairs Director James Harding over the publicly-funded broadcaster\u2019s tendency to put a negative slant on its Brexit coverage, and to report any good news for the economy as having come about \u201cdespite\u201d Brexit.\n\nadvertisement\n\nMet with BBC & raised some interesting questions \u2026. pic.twitter.com/cnW4lyWCDT \u2014 Ian Paisley MP (@ianpaisleymp) July 4, 2017\n\nConfirmed: BBC Was Biased Against Brexit, Say Researchers https://t.co/3RiwNU0W62 pic.twitter.com/tqhxIQEpGq \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 15, 2016\n\nOne of the group told The Sun newspaper: \u201cThis [meeting] was about how we make sure there is a more positive light put on Brexit over the next two years. The main thing is looking for a code of practice or new guidelines to ensure that the BBC is impartial.\u201d\n\nJacob-Rees Mogg, a long-time Brexit supporter and popular Tory backbencher, commented that, \u201cThe BBC was good prior to the referendum \u2013 but it has been extraordinarily bad afterwards.\u201d\n\nMP Slams \u2018Left-Wing\u2019 BBC, Brexit Reporting \u2018Disgrace\u2019 https://t.co/o7Bz5fvGZW pic.twitter.com/RI9KzblD5v \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 15, 2016\n\nPart of the reason for this discrepancy may be explained by an article penned for the Radio Times by Nick Robinson, a presenter and former political editor for the corporation.\n\n\u201cThe referendum is over,\u201d declared Robinson. \u201cThe duty we broadcasters had to \u2018broadly balance\u2019 the views of the two sides is at an end.\u201d\n\nThe 53-year-old had been responding to another representation to his employer by parliamentarians in March 2017, complaining of the excessively \u201cpessimistic\u201d tone of its coverage, as well as the tendency to portray Brexit Britain as a \u201cxenophobic\u201d country.\n\nBBC Pushes Post-Brexit Division, Urges Remainers To Promote Grievances https://t.co/XaqwIQ8Zbd pic.twitter.com/hFQV4ShQTE \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 11, 2016\n\nAn analysis of post-referendum programming on BBC Radio 4 found that listeners were around 2.5 times more likely to hear from an EU loyalist than a Brexit supporter.\n\nNews Watch highlighted issues with the \u2018Brexit Collection\u2019 series on iPlayer, which contained \u201c5 hours 20 minutes of programming [which] were strongly anti-Brexit, contained unchallenged predictions that civil unrest and rioting were now on the horizon, and cast the \u2018Out\u2019 vote in negative terms, inferring that the result had been a consequence of racism and xenophobia\u201d."}
{"51": "Saturday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAM Joy\u201d that President Donald Trump was \u201clooking more like a dictator than a president.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nWaters questioned the patriotism of Republican congressmen who refuse to stand up to Trump, saying they are \u201callowing\u201d him to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin when he says he did not interfere with the 2016 Presidential Election.\n\n\u201c[Y]ou know the people sent them to the Congress of the United States to represent them, not to be afraid of a president who is looking more like a dictator than a president,\u201d Waters told host Jonathan Capehart. \u201cSo I\u2019m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin.\u201d\n\nWaters also added that Democrats are the \u201creal patriots\u201d of the country.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"52": "Actress and singer Barbra Streisand rails against President Trump in a HuffPost column published Friday, calling him an \u201cangry, hollow, vindictive man.\u201d\n\nIn the article titled \u201cThe Fake President,\u201d the Academy Award-winner writes, \u201cThere\u2019s a narcissistic fraud in the White House.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe next thousand words sees Streisand questioning President Trump\u2019s mental stability, his willingness to criticize what he calls the \u201cvery fake news\u201d media, and his ability to be U.S. president.\n\n\u201cThe large ego of a small man drives the vindictiveness of his policies,\u201d Streisand writes. Elsewhere, she says, \u201cThis is the Trump presidency. He will not grow in the office.\u201d\n\n\u201cHe watches cable TV and then tweets in a rage,\u201d the singer states. \u201cHe lacks the temperament to fulfill his role. For all his ranting about fake news and fake media \u2026 the truth is, he is the fake president.\u201d\n\nStreisand has long criticized President Trump, starting last August when she became one of many celebrities to say they vow to leave the country if Trump won the election.\n\nThe 74-year-old, who was a vocal supporter of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has also called President Trump \u201cclueless, reckless, graceless and heartless.\u201d\n\nIn March, Streisand revealed that President Trump is making her gain weight.\n\nRead Streisand\u2019s \u201cThe Fake President\u201d article in its entirety here.\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson."}
{"53": "In a new interview, Pope Francis said he fears there are \u201cvery dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world,\u201d including such an alliance between the United States and Russia.\n\nPope Francis told his interviewer, the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, that he was worried about the G20 summit, which brings together leaders from 20 of the largest economies in the world, along with finance ministers and central bank governors.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI\u2019m afraid that there are very dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea, Putin and Assad in the war in Syria,\u201d Francis reportedly said.\n\nThe Pope said that his greatest concern was the \u201cdanger for immigration.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs you know well, the main problem in today\u2019s world\u2014which is unfortunately growing\u2014is that of the poor, the weak, and the excluded,\u201d Francis said, \u201cof which immigrants form part.\u201d\n\n\u201cOn the other hand there are countries where the majority of the poor do not come from migratory flows but from social disasters; others have few local poor but fear the invasion of migrants,\u201d he continued.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s why the G20 worries me: it primarily affects immigrants from countries all over the world and affects them even more as time goes on.\u201d\n\nAsked for his views on underlying causes driving mass migration, Francis said that the primary reason behind contemporary migration is economic.\n\n\u201cMake no mistake, poor nations are drawn to the continents and countries of ancient wealth,\u201d he said, \u201cespecially Europe.\u201d\n\n\u201cColonialism began in Europe. There were positive aspects of colonialism, but also negative. Nonetheless, Europe grew richer, the richest in the world. It will therefore be the main target of migratory peoples,\u201d he said.\n\nIn the interview, Scalfari expressed his own opinion to the Pope regarding the future of Europe, stressing the need for Europe to take on a federal structure, an opinion shared by the pontiff.\n\nEuropean nations will move \u201cif they realize one truth,\u201d Francis said, \u201ceither Europe becomes a federal community or it will no longer count for anything in the world.\u201d\n\nSince his election as Pope, Francis has granted a number of interviews to Scalfari, an atheist and co-founder of the Italian daily, La Repubblica. The journalist allegedly does not record their conversations but publishes the interviews from memory.\n\nNevertheless, to date the Pope has never taken back anything that Scalfari has written, and nor has he stopped granting him interviews, which had led observers to conclude that he is pleased with what Scalfari writes.\n\nFollow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter Follow @tdwilliamsrome"}
{"54": "Former college football great, failed NFL quarterback, and now struggling minor league baseball player Tim Tebow gave the New York Mets some hope over the last week since they promoted him to their Single-A affiliate St. Lucie.\n\nIn his first ten games playing in Class A Advanced Florida State League, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner hit two home runs, drove in eight runs, and is batting .345 after 10 hits in 29 at-bats. In addition, Tebow drew six walks earning an impressive .472 on-base percentage.\n\nadvertisement\n\nKyle Koster writes at TheBigLead that the Mets admit Tebow remains a \u201cpublicity stunt,\u201d but with his recent stats he\u2019s beginning to look \u201can awful lot like a baseball player.\u201d Koster points out that the 29-year-old\u2019s decreasing strikeout numbers may be his most \u201cimpressive\u201d development.\n\nNevertheless, Tebow needs to continue at this pace if he wants to play in the \u201cBigs,\u201d because prior to his elevation to St. Lucie the fan favorite hit only three home runs in his first 64 games and his batting average was threatening to dip below the Mendoza line. Including his torrid last ten games, Tebow owns a dismal .235 batting average.\n\nRegardless of his statistics, cynics predict that Tebow will one day play in the MLB because he brings people to the ballpark. But that will be a temporary phenomenon. Ultimately, the way to sustain high attendance at games is bringing W\u2019s, not former Heisman Trophy winners batting .200, sticking them in left field, and hoping that no one hits one in his direction.\n\n"}
{"55": "On this week\u2019s broadcast of \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said during the G20 meeting President Donald Trump did not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s denials that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPriebus said, \u201cThe president absolutely did not believe the denial of President Putin.\u201d\n\nHe continued, \u201cWhat the president did is he immediately came into the meeting, talked about Russian meddling in the U.S. election, went after that issue at least two separate times \u2026 This was an extensive portion of the meeting.\u201d\n\nFollow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN"}
{"56": "The Chinese state newspaper Global Times is warning authors of danmei, a majority female-written genre of online gay fiction, which communist government officials have banned; they are offering digital currency in exchange for reporting the \u201cvulgar\u201d content.\n\nGlobal Times approaches the topic from an economic standpoint, noting that outlets that have had success publishing danmei fear that they will no longer be able to profit from the content, as foreign distributors interested in buying the fiction now fear running afoul of the Chinese government.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI was in the process of selling the adaptation rights of some of our novels and even considered bringing in investors to expand the platform. The investors initially showed great interest but after the release of the two regulations last week, they got cold feet,\u201d an anonymous owner of a danmei website told the government-controlled outlet.\n\nThe crackdown is part of a larger censorship system debuting last week. According to the Times, \u201cThe State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) made public a guideline that says all online literary platforms will be assessed annually on an 100-point scale, of which 30 points will be dedicated to \u2018value guidance and style of thought.'\u201d\n\nAll works of fiction must now \u201creflect core socialist values and abide by moral norms.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe regulation demands that up to 20 points be attributed to whether the platform has provided enough literary works that reflect core socialist values,\u201d the report added, noting that the grossest violations of \u201cvalue guidance\u201d would be any content that questions or challenges China\u2019s communist system (\u201cserious political error\u201d).\n\nSAPPRFT also unveiled a new initiative in which all movie theaters in China must screen communist propaganda before the beginning of films. Television outlets must now also broadcast at least seventeen \u201cpropagandistic drama series approved by the government\u201d each.\n\nWhile typically reflecting the Chinese government\u2019s party line and regurgitating belligerent state propaganda against the United States, the Global Times has printed comments from individuals referring to homosexuality as \u201cnormal and natural, if only present among \u201ca small group of people.\u201d That remark, from a sexologist, came in response to new online censorship from the China Netcasting Services Association (CNSA), which banned \u201cpornography and vulgar tastes including abnormal sexual relations such as incest, homosexuality, and sexual abuse, as well as unhealthy views on marriage such as sexual freedom and wife swapping.\u201d\n\nCommunist dictatorships have traditionally abused the rights of their LGBT citizens, placing them in labor camps or executing them for their \u201ccounter-revolutionary\u201d behavior. China is no different; while there are no known statistics on the number of LGBT individuals killed or imprisoned under Mao Zedong, there is ample evidence of such abuse. China legalized homosexuality in 1997, but instances of \u201cconversion therapy\u201d abuses persisted.\n\nDanmei, the gay fiction genre in question in the Times article, consists of more than consensual adult gay activity, however. Many of the stories, the New York Times reported in a 2014 story on the genre, involve abuse of men and father-son incest; though a high percentage of danmei authors are women, few of the characters created are. Some fantasies in question, the New York Times cites a scholar explaining, are meant to subconsciously \u201csubvert the state.\u201d The same year this profile surfaced, the Chinese government arrested over twenty women for participating in writing gay fiction online.\n\nThe crackdown on danmei is part of a broader initiative by President Xi Jinping to suppress any organic expressions of Chinese culture that the government cannot control and replace it with \u201csocialist family values.\u201d In December 2016, Xi delivered a speech calling for a \u201cnew trend toward socialist family values,\u201d followed by a crackdown on dating television shows, online video that did not conform to \u201ccorrect political and aesthetic standards,\u201d and any media promoting \u201cWestern lifestyles.\u201d"}
{"57": "President Donald Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s enforcement of United States immigration laws is leaving media funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros in a panic.\n\nProPublica, which is backed by Soros, released a report blasting the Trump Administration and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for enforcing immigration laws for all illegal aliens in the U.S. The media group writes:\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit in charge of deportations has directed his officers to take action against all undocumented immigrants they may cross paths with, regardless of criminal histories. The guidance appears to go beyond the Trump administration\u2019s publicly stated aims, and some advocates say may explain a marked increase in immigration arrests. In a February memo, Matthew Albence, a career official who heads the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of ICE, informed his 5,700 deportation officers that, \u201ceffective immediately, ERO officers will take enforcement action against all removable aliens encountered in the course of their duties.\u201d\n\nThough the Trump Administration has made clear that illegal aliens with criminal records would be prioritized for deportation, federal immigration law allows for all illegal aliens to be potentially subject to deportation.\n\nIn recent months, ProPublica increased its attacks on the Trump Administration\u2019s handling of immigration enforcement and legal immigration measures.\n\nMost recently, the Soros-backed media outlet blasted Trump\u2019s nominee to head the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Lee Francis Cissna, as Breitbart Texas reported.\n\nAmong the multiple attacks on Cissna, the ProPublica piece made a point to blast the USCIS nominee for his work on immigration issues with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA), hitting him for opposing the Obama-era expansion of rights for illegal immigrants.\n\nAt the time, Center for Immigration Studies Director Mark Krikorian told Breitbart Texas that Cissna is the \u201cfirst person ever\u201d to be nominated to head up USCIS who actually has worked in immigration law and policy.\n\nJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder."}
{"58": "CNN\u2019s anonymous source who claimed President Trump would not press Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subject of election interference during their meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, turned out to be wrong.\n\nA #FakeNews play, in three acts \u2014 surprise ending! (h/t @MattWolking) pic.twitter.com/hUcaR4zhll \u2014 Cliff Sims (@CSims45) July 8, 2017\n\nadvertisement\n\nCliff Sims, director of the White House\u2019s message strategy, tweeted several screen shots of CNN broadcasts highlighting \u201canonymous sources from the Trump administration\u201d in their chyrons and then a screen shot of a broadcast stating that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that Trump pushed Putin to talk about alleged election meddling.\n\nSims posted the screen shots with the caption \u201cA #FakeNews play, in three acts \u2014 surprise ending!\u201d\n\nA #FakeNews play, in three acts \u2014 surprise ending! (h/t @MattWolking) pic.twitter.com/hUcaR4zhll \u2014 Cliff Sims (@CSims45) July 8, 2017\n\nThe White House messaging director credited Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s Press Secretary Matt Wolking for originally tweeting out the screen shots.\n\nTillerson, who was present at the meeting, refuted the source\u2019s claims during the two-hour meeting Friday, telling reporters that the president brought up the issue \u201cregarding Russian interference in the 2016 election\u201d and \u201cpressed\u201d Putin on the issue multiple times after the Russian president denied any Russian involvement.\n\n\u201cThe two leaders agreed that this is a substantial hindrance on the ability of us to move Russian-U.S. relationships forward and agreed to exchange further work regarding commitments of noninterference in the affairs of the United States and our democratic process as well as those of other countries,\u201d Tillerson said.\n\n\u201cSo more work to be done in that regard,\u201d he added.\n\nCNN\u2019s use of erroneous anonymous sources is the latest blow to the network after three journalists resigned in June following the publication of a hit piece alleging that there was an investigation into a \u201cRussian investment fund with ties to Trump officials\u201d and cited only a single anonymous source in the report.\n\nA Breitbart News investigation caused CNN to retract the article and accept resignations from three senior network officials."}
{"59": "NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is urging federal regulators to look into a \u201csnortable chocolate\u201d powder, saying he\u2019s worried that it could prove harmful and is being marketed like a drug.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn a letter Saturday, the New York Democrat asked the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of caffeine in inhalable food products such as so-called Coco Loko. It\u2019s gotten buzz in recent weeks.\n\nSchumer, the Senate minority leader, says there are too many unanswered questions about a product pitched under the innocent-sounding name of chocolate.\n\n\u201cThis suspect product has no clear health value,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI can\u2019t think of a single parent who thinks it is a good idea for their children to be snorting over-the-counter stimulants up their noses.\u201d\n\nMarketed as \u201craw cacao snuff,\u201d Coco Loko includes cacao powder, which comes from beans used in making chocolate; they contain some caffeine. Manufacturer Legal Lean Co. doesn\u2019t detail other ingredients online, but according to news reports, Coco Loko also includes common energy-drink ingredients.\n\nIt promises feelings of well-being, mental focus, ecstasy-like euphoria and a rush of \u201cmotivation that is great for partygoers to dance the night away without a crash,\u201d according to Orlando, Florida-based Legal Lean\u2019s website. It notes that the claims haven\u2019t been vetted by the FDA.\n\nThe agency has said it hasn\u2019t yet determined whether it has authority to regulate snortable chocolate.\n\nLegal Lean Co., which sells Coco Loko online for $19.99 for a 1.25-ounce (3.5-gram) tin, did not return a call seeking comment. Founder Nick Anderson has said he didn\u2019t consult any medical professionals but believes Coco Loko is safe. He said he developed it from snortable chocolate that\u2019s circulated in Europe in recent years.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s really no negative publicity, so I felt we\u2019re good to go,\u201d he told ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d on Thursday.\n\nDoctors have said they\u2019re not certain what the effects of inhaling chocolate might be."}
{"60": "Mexican authorities seized multiple packages of dynamite belonging to one faction of the Los Zetas cartel that operates in the border state of Tamaulipas. In addition to the explosives, authorities also seized body armor and more than a ton of marijuana stashed in the city of Mante.\n\nOfficials found the dynamite at a cartel stash house in the southern city of Mante, an area run by the Vieja Escuela Z faction of the Los Zetas Cartel. The region is about 282 miles south of the Texas border in a strategic territory used by organized crime groups.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAccording to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government, the stash house was in the Las Brisas neighborhood. The house belonged to recently slain Vieja Escuela plaza boss Francisco \u201cTom Cabezon\u201d Garcia. As Breitbart Texas reported, Garcia was recently murdered during a prison \u201cfight\u201d in the Nuevo Laredo prison, a state facility near the Texas border where officials only recently transferred him.\n\nAccording to authorities, multiple law enforcement agencies carried out a surveillance operation and observed a man who acted in a \u201csuspicious fashion.\u201d Officials noticed the man carrying weapons and followed him to a house where he went inside.\n\nPolice officers raided the house and found five packages of dynamite sticks, six black bags with 2,204 pounds of marijuana, ten tactical vests with body armor, as well as ammunition for AK-47 type rifles. The suspected gunman managed to escape.\n\nThe large seizure came approximately 96 hours after the prison murder of Francisco \u201cTom Cabezon\u201d Garcia inside the Nuevo Laredo prison. The detention facility is controlled by the Cartel Del Noreste faction of the Los Zetas, a rival faction that has been at war with Vieja Escuela Z.\n\nGarcia inherited command of the Los Zetas in Ciudad Mante in April, shortly after the death of the previous leader Francisco \u201cPancho\u201d Carreon. Carreon controlled the central part of Tamaulipas and numerous communities in the state of San Luis Potosi.\n\nIn blogs that deal with cartel activities in Tamaulipas, alleged members of the Cartel Del Noreste took credit for Garcia\u2019s death. They warned about future violence coming from information that they had extracted through Garcia\u2019s torture. The post made allusions to Garcia\u2019s operations in Ciudad Mante and Ciudad Victoria where more both factions have been waging a fierce war for control.\n\nEditor\u2019s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Le\u00f3n to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Tamaulipas\u2019 \u201cFrancisco Morales.\u201d"}
{"61": "A police officer who was badly wounded in the ambush and execution of three Baton Rouge officers on July 17, 2016, filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter (BLM) and five of its leaders on Friday. The officer urges that BLM and its leaders \u201cnot only, incited the violence against police in retaliation for the death of black men shot by police, but also did nothing to dissuade the ongoing violence and injury to police.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn fact, they justified the violence as necessary to the movement and war,\u201d he pleads.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe plaintiff officer is identified as \u201cOfficer John Doe Smith,\u201d a \u201cduly commissioned officer acting in the line of duty in East Baton Rouge Parrish.\u201d The complaint filed in U.S. district court in the Middle District of Louisiana pleads that on July 17, 2016, he was working as a police officer \u201cwhen he was shot by a person violently protesting against police, and which violence was caused or contributed to by the leaders of and by \u2018BLACK LIVES MATTER\u2019 a militant anti-police organization.\u201d\n\nThe lawsuit was filed just as the nation remembered the five officers killed and wounded in Dallas on July 7 last year and grieved the execution murder of NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia. The 48-year-old mother of three was shot in the face this past week as she sat in her law enforcement vehicle.\n\nThe execution of five officers and the wounding of six others in Texas last July came just as a Black Lives Matter protest concluded. The Dallas shootings came just one day after Philando Castile of St. Paul, Minnesota, was shot by an officer and the aftermath was live streamed and narrated by his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds. The video went viral.\n\nBreitbart News reported on July 17, 2016, about the execution of the three Baton Rouge police officers, and the wounding of three others near the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters on that Sunday morning. Breitbart Texas reported that the killer, Gavin Long of Kansas City, Missouri, was in Houston and Dallas right before his attack. As reported by Jerome Hudson for Breitbart News, \u201cLong left behind a lengthy, twisted history of encouraging violence and anti-American sentiments on social media.\u201d Long was very active on Twitter and Instagram. He also called the Dallas police sniper, Micah X. Johnson \u201cone of us.\u201d\n\nThe federal complaint charges that plaintiff \u201cDERAY MCKESSON was a leader of the national unincorporated organization that is known as \u2018BLACK LIVES MATTER\u2019 and other derivative and/or related organizations.\u201d It continues that in 2016 McKesson and the other defendants, Johnetta \u201cNettie\u201d Elzie, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Network, Inc., and #BlackLivesMatter:\n\nplanned the Summer of Chaos, Weekend of Rage, and used the internet and social media to organize, stage and orchestrate protests and to attend and/or lead multiple protests and violence that accompanied the protests including, among many others, those in Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore, Maryland; McKinney, Texas; Dallas, Texas; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Baton Rouge protests, in large part, took place outside the Baton Rouge Police Department located in front of the former Woman\u2019s Hospital on Airline Highway. This place is the same area where this shooting took place.\n\n\u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d lists its principal place of business in California and has been formed as a partnership, the federal lawsuit states. Black Lives Matter Network, Inc., is a Delaware Corporation. It further pleads that \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d is a national unincorporated association which states on its website donation payment receipt:\n\n#BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. It is an affirmation of Black folks\u2019 contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.\n\n\u201cBlack Lives Matter and its related associations/organizations were created by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, as well as, Deray McKesson and Johnetta Elsie, all of who are leaders.\u201d The complaint says that Netta Elzie and DeRay McKesson were in Baton Rouge during the protests.\n\nThe general allegations in the federal pleading begin with \u201cAt least eleven (11) police have been shot dead and at least nine (9) more wounded by BLM protesters, activists, and/or supporters.\u201d\n\nThe pleading chronicles unrest, rioting, property damage, and/or violence in Baltimore; Ferguson and other places in Missouri; McKinney, Texas; Manhattan and Harlem; Tennessee; Phoenix; Minnesota; Oregon; North Carolina; San Diego; Indiana; and other cities and states.\n\nIt cites as one example, that after Michael Brown was shot by an officer in Ferguson in 2014, \u201cBLM started a mantra of holding their hands in the air and yelling \u2018Hands up, Don\u2019t shoot.\u2019 Riots began the next day.\u201d The U.S. Department of Justice released a report in March 2015 that found that \u201c[Officer] Darren Wilson was not at fault and finding that Michael Brown did not have his hands in the air.\u201d This and other actions detailed in the federal lawsuit, including after Alton Sterling was shot by a Baton Rouge Police Officer on July 5, 2016, was \u201cseized upon to further incite its followers to take action against police.\u201d\n\nMcKesson and Elzie \u201cwere in Baton Rouge for the purpose of demonstrating, protesting and rioting, as well as to incite others to violence against police and other law enforcement officers,\u201d the plaintiff officer urges.\n\nOfficer John Doe Smith is described as \u201c42 years old, with two (2) children\u201d who \u201cworked in law enforcement for over 18 years.\u201d \u201cHe was shot in an ambush of Law Enforcement Officers on July 17, 2016, by an activist whose actions followed and mimicked those of another BLM activist who killed several officers in Dallas just days earlier.\u201d\n\nThe officer has asked for damages, including medical and hospital bills, saying the \u201cshot through his abdomen tore up his intestines.\u201d He has had to endure 16 surgeries to his abdomen and must now wear a colostomy bag. He has a hole in his large intestine that leaks into the exit wound which in part is a cause for continuing infections. He has also undergone three surgeries after he was shot in the head on his left side and he will have to endure more. His left ear had to be sewn back on. The officer is permanently disabled.\n\nOfficer Smith has asked for damages for physical pain and suffering, physical injuries, emotional and mental distress, pain and suffering, humiliation, embarrassment, the loss of employment opportunities and future earning capacity and lost wages, and for all litigation expenses, and other damages.\n\nBreitbart Texas reported in November that the father of one of the officers executed in Dallas in July 2016 at a Black Lives Matter protest filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, George Soros, and others charging that they inflamed and inspired a \u201cWar on Police.\u201d Tometi, Cullors, Garza, McKesson and Elzie are also named in that lawsuit. Breitbart News reported last August that Soros\u2019 Open Society Institute approved $650,000 in 2015 to \u201cinvest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement.\u201d\n\nLana Shadwick is a writer and legal analyst for Breitbart Texas. She has served as a prosecutor and associate judge in Texas. Follow her on Twitter @LanaShadwick2.\n\nOfficer John Doe Smith Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter and BLM Leaders"}
{"62": "A Florida mother accused of leaving her child in a hot car claimed that the police cruiser transporting her to jail was \u201ctoo hot,\u201d police said.\n\nColleen Walker, 30, allegedly left her 5-year-old son in her car for 30 minutes while she went shopping at the Dollar General in South Daytona, WFLA reported.\n\nadvertisement\n\nA bystander alerted authorities to the child crying inside the vehicle with the window in the driver\u2019s seat left slightly ajar.\n\n\u201cHe was hanging onto the steering wheel and just screaming. It broke my heart,\u201d the bystander said.\n\nPolice and firefighters were able to get the boy out of the car and report that he is okay, according to the Palm Beach Post.\n\nFire officials who measured the temperature inside Walker\u2019s car say that it reached 107 degrees inside.\n\nOfficers arrested Walker and put her in a squad car to transport her to the jail.\n\nWalker allegedly told the arresting officer to turn up the air conditioning in the car because she said the temperature was \u201ctoo hot.\u201d\n\n\u201cShe was complaining that the backseat of our patrol car was too hot on her way to the jail, and asked the officer to turn the AC up,\u201d Lt. Dan Dietrich told WFTV.\n\nPolice charged Walker with child neglect and set her bail at $5,000. If convicted, she faces up to five years behind bars."}
{"63": "One day after U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson denied the state of Hawaii\u2019s motion to broaden the definition of \u201cbona fide relationship\u201d for refugees and visa applicants affected by Executive Order 13780, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals followed suit.\n\nIn its June 26 decision, the Supreme Court let stand the temporary travel and refugee ban contained in that executive order but added that the ban would not apply to refugees and visa applicants with a \u201cbona fide relationship\u201d to an American resident.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe Trump administration quickly defined \u201cbona fide relationship\u201d as parent, child, sibling, spouse or fiance. The state of Hawaii wants a broader definition that would include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and possibly more distant relations.\n\nLate Friday, the Ninth Circuit said no to Hawaii\u2019s request for an emergency appeal of Judge Watson\u2019s denial, saying it lacked jurisdiction to hear the appeal.\n\nBut the liberal judges on the panel could not resist giving Hawaii a road map to get what they want.\n\nThe Ninth Circuit ruled that Hawaii should have asked Judge Watson to modify his previous injunction halting the Executive Order on March 15 (partially overturned by the Supreme Court on June 26) instead of asking for him to \u201cclarify\u201d the Supreme Court\u2019s decision.\n\nIn order to obtain a temporary partial victory in the matter, the state of Hawaii could now appeal the current 9th Circuit decision directly to the Supreme Court\u2013which could issue a ruling even though it is not in session if Justice Kennedy, who has that authority, chooses to act alone on behalf of SCOTUS.\n\nEach court of appeals is under the supervision of a justice. Kennedy is the circuit justice for the Ninth Circuit. One of the things a circuit justice can do solo is to stay any appellate decision from his circuit.\n\nAlternatively, it could follow the Ninth Circuit\u2019s advice, file a new motion with Judge Watson, and hope for a favorable ruling, which would likely be appealed by the Department of Justice to the Ninth Circuit, whose ruling would be appealed to the Supreme Court again by the losing party.\n\nMeanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reports: \u201cRefugee resettlement agencies say the State Department has given them updated instructions on President Trump\u2019s travel ban that extends the cutoff date for refugee admissions.\u201d\n\nWhen the ban was put into place last week, the administration said refugees who had booked travel would be admitted through Thursday. After that, immigration officials would block all refugees, except those who could prove they had U.S. connections, such as close relatives. The July 6 date was a government estimate of when the country would reach a 50,000-person cap on refugee admissions this fiscal year. Federal officials now estimate that the cap will be hit a week later, according to refugee groups. State Department figures show that 49,225 refugees had arrived in the U.S. as of June 30. A spokeswoman for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the State Department would not confirm the change and said more information would come out Thursday.\n\nHIAS, one of the largest refugee resettlement agencies in the country and a plaintiff in the related IRAP v. Trump case that was also decided on March 15 and consolidated with the Hawaii v. Trump case that was wrapped into the June 26 Supreme Court decision, is aggressively seeking more refugees despite the Supreme Court ruling.\n\n\u201cThe cap could be hit earlier, so it could be earlier than July 12,\u201d Mark Hetfield, the Chief Executive Officer of HIAS (formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) told The Times.\n\nThe number of refugees arriving in the United States plummeted in the first week following the June 26 Supreme Court decision, though the subsequent four days between July 4 and July 7 saw the number of refugees increase by 578, which is about the daily rate seen in the previous eight weeks.\n\nAs of Saturday morning, July 8, according to the State Department website, 49,803 refugees have been admitted to the United States in FY 2017, which is 197 below the 50,000 ceiling President Trump set in Executive Order 13780.\n\nAt the current rate of refugee arrivals, that 50,000 ceiling will likely be reached on either Monday, July 10 or Tuesday, July 11."}
{"64": "The two largest parties in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), have largely refused to acknowledge migrant issues in their campaign ahead of September\u2019s national election.\n\nThe migrant crisis, which peaked in 2015, is arguably the single largest event to affect Germany in recent years but has been marginalised by both major German political parties. Neither the CDU of German Chancellor Angela Merkel nor the SPD of former European Union Parliament President Martin Schulz have spoken at length about the issue despite the recent rise of arrivals in Italy, Der Spiegel reports.\n\nadvertisement\n\nRecently, Chancellor Merkel met with the leader of the CDU\u2019s sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union\u2019s (CSU) Horst Seehofer, to announce their platform for the September national election. Merkel made no comments at all about the migrant crisis, choosing instead to focus on the economy promising 3 per cent unemployment by 2025.\n\nMr. Seehofer, known to be much more vocal on migrant issues having previously called for a national limit on asylum seekers, said he was \u201cvery satisfied with the number of migrants\u201d coming into Germany in 2017. He claimed that so far around 80,000 people had come to Germany, still below the CSU\u2019s proposed limit of 200,000 per year.\n\nThe marginalising of the migrant issue is a major departure from late last year when some worried that migration issues were creating a rift between Merkel and Seehofer with the latter threatening not to campaign with Merkel if no limit was set.\n\nThe SPD has not mentioned the migrant crisis, either, with leader Martin Schulz campaigning largely on undoing labour reforms and strengthing unions. Schulz has only addressed the migrant issue by threatening Hungary with taking away EU subsidies if the Central European country continues to refuse to accept redistributed migrants from Greece and Italy.\n\nThe two parties see the migrant crisis as a hard issue to gain politically from and so have largely remained quiet on the matter. The anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany is one of the few parties to be very vocal on the subject, but after former leader Frauke Petry stepped down, the party has slumped in polls from a high of 16 per cent last September.\n\nGermany, Civey poll: CDU/CSU-EPP: 37% \u2191\n\nSPD-S&D: 25% \u2191\n\nLINKE-LEFT: 9%\n\nFDP-ALDE: 9%\n\nAfD-ENF: 8% \u2193\n\nGR\u00dcNE-G/EFA: 8%#btw17 \u2014 Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) June 13, 2017\n\nThe migrant crisis is rapidly becoming the central issue across Europe as the number of migrants coming into Italy continues to grow with one 48 hour period seeing 13,500 migrants arrive in Italy from North Africa.\n\nAs a result of the surge of migrants, the Austrian government has threatened to deploy the military on the Italian border to stop migrants from entering the country. Austria also has an election later this year; however, in contrast to Germany, the migrant crisis is a major campaign issue."}
{"65": "Washington (AFP) \u2013 US President Donald Trump said Sunday it was time to work \u201cconstructively\u201d with Russia but ruled out easing sanctions while the countries remained at odds over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn a series of tweets on his return from Europe, Trump said he had confronted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over evidence from the US intelligence agencies that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election when the two leaders met for the first time in Germany on Friday.\n\nAnd while he welcomed an agreement for the start of a ceasefire in Syria, Trump said it was too early to consider any easing of US sanctions on Russia \u201cuntil the Ukrainian & Syrian problems are solved.\u201d\n\n\u201cI strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election,\u201d Trump said of their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. \u201cHe vehemently denied it. I\u2019ve already given my opinion\u2026..\u201d\n\nTrump said he and Putin had talked about the idea of setting up what he called \u201can impenetrable cyber security unit\u201d to prevent hacking in future elections, without giving details.\n\nHe also said the two men had discussed the implementation of a ceasefire in Syria which began on Sunday, saying \u201cit will save lives.\u201d\n\n\u201cNow it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!\u201d\n\nSyria has been a particular source of friction between the two countries, as Russia is a close ally of President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nMoscow has warned that a program of sanctions imposed by the US, which was tightened last month, threatens their whole relationship.\n\nTrump\u2019s predecessor Barack Obama ordered the seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in the United States last December after accusing Russia of trying to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.\n\nAnd last month, the United States added 38 individuals and entities to its sanctions list targeting the Russians and pro-Russian rebels it blames for the fighting in Ukraine.\n\n\u201cSanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin. Nothing will be done until the Ukrainian & Syrian problems are solved,\u201d said Trump.\n\nThe US and Russian sides have issued sharply conflicting accounts of the meeting, with Putin saying on Saturday that Trump had been \u201csatisfied\u201d by his denials of any Russian interference in the polls.\n\nNikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said the Russian denials had been expected but cut no ice.\n\n\u201cThis is Russia trying to save face,\u201d she told CNN. \u201cAnd they can\u2019t. They can\u2019t.\n\n\u201cEverybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections.\u201d"}
{"66": "Henry Olsen\u2019s The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism is an immensely valuable book, not least because its insights are relevant to the current debate over health care policy.\n\nThe primary argument of the book is that Reagan was not the anti-government crusader that he is often remembered to be, but sought to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal while dismantle Lyndon Johnson\u2019 Great Society.\n\nadvertisement\n\nOlsen makes a strong argument that Reagan believed government should support the needy, and that his main objection to the liberal welfare state was that it went much further than that, seizing power to serve the utopian visions of unelected bureaucrats, limiting Americans\u2019 potential for success.\n\nOlsen does not answer \u2014 nor, really, did Reagan \u2014 the question of whether the very existence of those government departments and programs leads to those statist excesses. Olsen\u2019s diagnosis of the causes of present-day Republican divisions is also inaccurate. He seems to blame the Tea Party movement for punishing deviations from conservative orthodoxy, though he does seem to acknowledge that it was the party establishment that launched the first shots after 2012, believing the party base had pushed Gov. Mitt Romney too far to the right on immigration.\n\nHe makes a comment, in passing, accusing Donald Trump of \u201cnot-so-veiled racialism and white nationalism,\u201d a claim he does not prove (and does not repeat). Yet Olsen\u2019s insights help explain why Trump attracted the same working-class voters that lifted Reagan to victory.\n\nOn Obamacare, Olsen says Reagan would have backed repeal:\n\nReagan would definitely have wanted to repeal Obamacare. Its rules and regulations put the government in the driver\u2019s seat in determining what care should be delivered, to whom, and at what price. This is exactly the sort of government-directed society that Reagan believed was opposed to American principles.\n\nHowever, he adds, Reagan also would have wanted to preserve parts of Obamacare:\n\nIt\u2019s less clear what he would have wanted to replace it with. I think, however, it is pretty clear he would have wanted to ensure that people would not lose coverage that they had received as a result of Obamacare\u2019s exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. His consistent belief that it was OK for government to pay for needed medical care for those who could not afford it makes that plain. The details as to who should be covered, how much the government should pay, and what level of care they would be guaranteed would be up for discussion, but I can\u2019t imagine that Reagan would be more concerned about money than about life.\n\nAbove all, Olsen argues, Reagan would have opposed an approach that placed conservative ideological goals ahead of what was best for ordinary people \u2014 for the \u201ctruckers and cashiers\u201d who lay at the heart of his political vision.\n\nJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the \u201cmost influential\u201d people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak."}
{"67": "Without any evidence whatsoever, the Washington Post suggested on Saturday that a local \u201cconservative\u201d radio host incited James Hodgkinson, who supported Bernie Sanders and liked watching Rachel Maddow on television (both of whom are not even mentioned in the article), to shoot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and three others last month.\n\nIn a story titled, \u201cIn Alexandria shooter\u2019s hometown, rage-filled radio host channels middle America\u2019s inner frustration,\u201d the Post\u2019s Peter Holley travels to Hodgkinson\u2019s hometown of Belleville, Illinois, and finds a local \u201cconservative\u201d talk radio host who is easy to demonize.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAccording to Holley, the host uses the \u201cN-word\u201d on the air and even at Applebee\u2019s along with other \u201cracial and homophobic slurs that some have labeled hate speech.\u201d He writes that \u201cdespite being a die-hard supporter of President Trump who has perfected the art of the populist message,\u201d many of the host\u2019s \u201cbiggest fans in Illinois are disgruntled Democrats like Hodkinson.\u201d\n\nThere\u2019s just one problem. Holley has no evidence whatsoever that Hodgkinson listened to the radio host who describes himself as the \u201cGrim Reaper of Radio\u201d and \u201cproudly talks about his Caucasian heritage to anyone who will listen.\u201d\n\nThe publicity-seeking radio host tells the Post that Hodkinson \u201cprobably\u201d listened to him but \u201ccan\u2019t say for sure.\u201d\n\n\u201cI can\u2019t say for sure if this Hodgkinson guy listened to me, but he probably did,\u201d Bob Romanik, the attention-craving host, reportedly said. \u201cIf people would be honest about what drove Hodgkinson to the point of violence, you\u2019d probably see a lot of people right on the same page with him all over the country. But around here, for sure.\u201d\n\nThere is evidence, though, that Hodgkinson supported Sanders, hated Trump and Republicans, and watched Rachel Maddow\u2019s show. Neither Sanders nor Maddow are even mentioned in the piece.\n\nAccording to numerous news reports, Hodgkinson volunteered for Sanders\u2019 presidential campaign in 2016 and belonged to Facebook groups like \u201cTerminate The Republican Party\u201d in addition to others like \u201cExpose Republican Fraud,\u201d \u201cLiberal Democratic Socialist Party,\u201d \u201cBoycott The Republican Party,\u201d \u201cI Hate Donald Trump,\u201d and \u201cHealthcare & Education Berners United to Resist Trump.\u201d\n\nThe shooter also praised Maddow in a letter to a local newspaper that the radio host hates.\n\n\u201cOne of my favorite TV shows is \u2018The Rachel Maddow Show\u2019 on MSNBC,\u201d Hodgkinson wrote in 2012 to the Belleville News-Democrat, which the radio host, according to the Post, refers to as the \u201cBelleville News Slime-o-crat.\u201d Hodgkinson also wrote in that note that on a recent episode of Maddow\u2019s show, \u201cshe stated that 17 very rich men are supplying the Republican Party with more than 60 percent of their campaign contributions.\u201d\n\nAt a local protest, according to the News-Democrat, he was also reportedly \u201cpart of a \u201999%\u2019 team drawing attention to the amount of money and political power the top 1 percent of Americans acquired.\u201d On the stump, Sanders often railed against the \u201c1%\u201d during the 2016 campaign.\n\nBefore he shot Scalise and three others while GOP lawmakers were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game last month in Northern Virginia, Hodgkinson reportedly asked GOP lawmakers who were leaving the practice whether the players on the field were \u201cRepublicans or Democrats.\u201d He also reportedly had a list of Republicans that may have been a \u201chit list\u201d in his pocket.\n\nThe Post\u2019s article was so pointless that even a political editor from left-wing BuzzFeed tweeted, \u201cWhat\u2019s the point of this?\u201d\n\n\u201cThe shooter hated Trump and there\u2019s no indication in the story he listened to this pro-Trump host,\u201d the BuzzFeed editor tweeted.\n\nThis is yet another example of why nearly 70% of Americans, according to the latest Marist/NPR poll, do not trust legacy media outlets like the Post."}
{"68": "An illegal alien has been arrested after being accused of killing four of her five children and her husband in a brutal stabbing.\n\nIsabel Martinez, an illegal alien with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer, is accused of stabbing to death four of her children, including 2-year-old Axel, 4-year-old Dillan, 7-year-old Dacota and 10-year-old Isabela Martinez, and her husband, 33-year-old Martin Romero, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.\n\nadvertisement\n\nMartinez also allegedly stabbed her fifth child, 9-year-old Diana Romero, but after being airlifted to the hospital following the stabbing incident, she is expected to survive, according to authorities.\n\nAccording to police, Martinez went on the stabbing spree against her own family in the middle of the night, around 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.\n\n\u201cWhat prompts a person to take the life of such innocent children and her spouse is something we may never understand,\u201d Gwinnett County police said in a statement. \u201cThis is a horrendous crime not only for the victims but for the extended family, neighborhood and community. We are hoping and praying that the remaining victim survives his/her injuries and makes a full recovery.\u201d\n\nIn a write-up for the New York Times on the brutal crime incident, mainstream media reporters called the accused killer a \u201cGeorgia woman,\u201d glossing over the fact that she had been placed on an immigration hold.\n\nIn accordance with ICE policy, only illegal aliens can be hit with a detainer. But, the Times tried to bury the hold, slipping it into one statement reading \u201cShe was also being held for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said.\u201d\n\nMartinez is being charged with five counts of malice murder, five counts of murder, and six counts of aggravated assault. Martinez remains in local custody, but should she ever be let out, she will be turned over to ICE officials for prosecution and deportation.\n\nJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder."}
{"69": "CNN host Michael Smerconish is doubling down on the network\u2019s decision to publicly threaten to out an anonymous Reddit user who created a WWE-themed animated image mocking the network, a variant of which was tweeted by President Trump.\n\nSpeaking on his radio show earlier this week, Smerconish said that if he \u201ccontinues to be racist, if he continues to be a bigot, if he continues to be anti-Semitic\u201d that CNN should reveal the Reddit user\u2019s identity.\n\nadvertisement\n\nSmerconish went on to attack internet anonymity, saying \u201canonymity gives people beer muscles for bad behavior.\u201d\n\nHe also linked the newsworthiness of revealing the Reddit user\u2019s personal information to the allegation that his animated image was tweeted by the President.\n\n\u201cWhen you promote hate in the blogosphere \u2026 you attract the president \u2026 you\u2019re now a story, and you sacrifice any right to privacy that you otherwise would have had.\u201d\n\nHe did not acknowledge the fact that the version tweeted by President Trump was significantly different to the one created by the Reddit user.\n\nAnd for all that, it seems like someone actually re-staged the original meme for presidential tweeting https://t.co/ktH9W2R8V0 \u2014 Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) July 5, 2017\n\n\u201cThey need to be reined in\u201d concluded Smerconish. \u201cThe hate speech, the coarse dialogue has had a disastrous impact on our political conversation, and our ability to elect individuals who are willing and able to get along and get things done.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to rein in the bad behavior, and nasty anonymous comments are a big part of the problem \u2014 but they\u2019re one that we can address and one that we can solve. So, in this case, I think this individual sacrificed his right to privacy. That\u2019s my view.\u201d\n\nYou can follow Allum Bokhari on Twitter, Gab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to abokhari@breitbart.com."}
{"70": "The elitist legacy media need more socioeconomic diversity, according to a journalist whose husband, who is a garbage man, worries that his blue-collar job will embarrass her when she socializes with other reporters.\n\nJournalist Heather Bryant, a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford, recently described a conversation she had with another journalist at a conference in which she was asked what her husband did for a living:\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cHe\u2019s a truck driver and a mechanic.\u201d\n\n\u201c\u2026Oh.\u201d\n\n\u201cYeah, right now he drives for a trash company.\u201d\n\n\u201cThat must be\u2026an interesting perspective to have around.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhile they didn\u2019t explicitly say it, the person was very much thrown off by the nature of my husband\u2019s work. I was left with a very strong feeling they were expecting a more middle-class answer than a garbage worker,\u201d she wrote. \u201cJournalism has a class problem. We know this. The best internships are for students with the resources to work unpaid or with low pay in some of the most expensive cities in the country.\u201d\n\nBryant wrote that the journalist\u2019s surprised reaction made her wonder \u201chow badly our industry really lacks for people with more diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur journalism would be better if we were a better representation of the backgrounds and experiences our audiences have,\u201d she wrote.\n\nBryant\u2019s husband also seems conscious of the legacy media\u2019s elitism because he worries that he might embarrass her in front of other journalists.\n\n\u201cIf that conference interaction is how a journalist responds to my husband\u2019s job while idly chatting, how do they cover the sanitation worker that ends up in a story they are working on?\u201d Bryant asked. \u201cIf talking about someone to that person\u2019s spouse isn\u2019t enough to cause one to mask aversion, how do they talk about people to whom they feel even more distance from? What does this mean for our audience\u2019s ability to trust us?\u201d\n\nBryant then points out how when her husband goes on his garbage route in the liberal San Francisco Bay Area, he is treated the best in the \u201crougher neighborhoods and the working class areas\u201d while \u201cdisrespected\u201d and looked down upon in the wealthiest enclaves:\n\nThere\u2019s a recurring theme in the work stories he shares with me. His routes take him all over the Bay Area. Through the nice neighborhoods of the upper middle class and the extremely well off gated communities. Through the working class communities, the rougher parts of Oakland and the areas where the businesses are surrounded by the homeless. It\u2019s fascinating how people treat him based on only their knowledge that he is the trash guy. The vast majority of disrespect, rudeness and condescension happens in what many would call the nicer neighborhoods. Kindness and appreciation, people giving him a cold drink on a hot day or just saying thanks happens most in the rougher neighborhoods and the working class areas.\n\nBryan said that though her husband does \u201chave a four year degree,\u201d she would \u201cwager that he has a hell of a lot better understanding of people than some of the journalists that I know.\u201d\n\nBryant\u2019s piece indicates why so many journalists in the legacy media not treat working-class voters\u2014and the issues they care about\u2014with nothing but disdain and completely could not understand what motivated Americans who lived outside of their insular bubbles to vote for Trump in 2016.\n\nAs NBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell recently acknowledged at the LA Press Club while receiving a lifetime achievement award, the legacy media were blindsided by President Donald Trump\u2019s victory.\n\n\u201cWe have to better,\u201d she reportedly said. \u201cWe never saw it coming.\u201d\n\nIt is worth noting that the late Tim Russert\u2019s father was a garbage man. And perhaps that is why, for all of his faults, Russert was better able to earn the trust of average Americans than most of today\u2019s smug and out-of-touch reporters in the legacy media."}
{"71": "Defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is considering her role in the campaign for the 2018 midterm elections, multiple sources told The Hill.\n\nClinton, who has been a prominent figure in the Democratic Party for many years, having served as first lady of the United States, a senator from New York, and Secretary of State under the Obama administration, has already launched a PAC aimed at supporting Democratic candidates in next year\u2019s elections.\n\nadvertisement\n\nHowever, a close and long-term confidante told the publication that Clinton has her eye on districts in which she defeated Donald Trump, as she plots her revenge for her electoral college landslide defeat in the presidential elections.\n\n\u201cShe\u2019s very well aware of how she performed in those districts,\u201d the source said. \u201cShe knows she won Darrell Issa\u2019s district by 8,\u201d a reference to the Californian Republican\u2019s seat seen as a Democratic target. \u201cShe knows she came close in about a handful of others. She has studied this stuff thoroughly.\u201d\n\nRecent reports suggest that Democrats plan to recruit a handful of veterans to run in the midterms, as the party seeks to regain power by appealing to middle America\u2019s patriotic voters.\n\nHowever, Republican leaders claim to be excited by the prospect of Clinton taking a prominent role in campaigning, given her toxic reputation across America. During the election campaign, Clinton also described half of the Americans supporting Donald Trump as a \u201cbasket of deplorables\u201d made up of \u201cracist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic\u201d people. She went on to lose the Electoral College vote by 232 to Donald Trump\u2019s 306.\n\n\u201cFor 30 years, Hillary Clinton has essentially been Old Faithful for Republican candidates,\u201d Republican strategist Doug Heye said. \u201cHer continued prominence only helps GOP candidates with an electorate that historically is more favorable than what they faced in the last presidential election.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe more Clinton weighs in and tries to tell voters \u2018I\u2019m back,\u2019 the more Republicans will tell her to keep on trucking,\u201d he continued.\n\nSince last November\u2019s election, Clinton has provided a myriad of excuses for her defeat, including that of \u201cmisogyny\u201d amongst the electorate. She has also given a series of bitterly divisive speeches, accusing Trump of \u201cunimaginable cruelty\u201d as his policy platform takes shape.\n\nYou can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew, or email him at bkew@breitbart.com"}
{"72": "HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 Law enforcement officers used high technology software to identify a runaway underage teen forced into prostitution.\n\nHarris County Precinct Four Constable\u2019s deputies used software to match an advertisement for sex on an online website to a database of runaway teens. The investigators routinely monitor the online advertising in search of underage teens forced into sexual slavery and prostitution. In this case, detectives found an out-of-state female minor being advertised online for sexual services at a motel on Houston\u2019s north side, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Constable Mark Herman\u2019s office.\n\nadvertisement\n\nInvestigators made contact with the teen and set up a \u201cdate\u201d at the North Villa Inn which is located on I-45, just north of Houston.\n\nAfter arriving at the hotel, investigators took the underage girl into custody. During an interview, detectives learned that two individuals forced the juvenile into prostitution after one of them allegedly trafficked her to Houston from another state. She identified her captors as Teresa Henry and Centurrie Garrett (shown in photos above). She told detectives Henry trafficked her from out of state and both suspects had compelled her into prostitution.\n\nThe detectives located and arrested Henry and Garrett and charged them with Compelling Prostitution of a Minor. Henry also faces a First Degree Felony charge of Human Trafficking of a Minor, officials stated.\n\nCourt records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed Henry served a 30-day sentence earlier this year on a conviction for misdemeanor theft. Records also indicate that Garrett received two 30-day jail sentences in 2013. The sentences followed convictions of misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor prostitution where she agreed to oral sex with an undercover officer for a fee, the criminal complaint stated.\n\nConstable Herman\u2019s detectives continuously utilize high technology applications to identify sex trafficking victims, human trafficking, child pornographers, and people using social media to solicit underage minors for sex.\n\nBob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook."}
{"73": "The Jerusalem Post reports: Damning German intelligence reports emerged in June and July revealing the Iranian regime\u2019s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile technology in defiance of international sanctions and UN resolutions.\n\nA federal intelligence report also said that the Islamic Republic targets Jewish and Israeli institutions with espionage.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAccording to the German state of Hamburg\u2019s intelligence agency: \u201cthere is no evidence of an complete about-face in Iran\u2019s atomic polices in 2016\u201d [after the Islamic Republic signed the JCPOA accord with world powers in 2015, designed to curb Iran\u2019s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief]. Iran sought missile carrier technology necessary for its rocket program.\u201d\n\nRead more here."}
{"74": "If Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) enters the 2020 presidential race, the establishment media will be looking to Breitbart News to see how conservatives will attack her candidacy, according to Politico\u2019s California Playbook.\n\nCalifornia Playbook writers Carla Marinucci, David Siders, and Diamond Naga Siu pointed out on Friday that Harris has been garnering \u201ca flurry of will-she-or-won\u2019t-she, 2020-focused stories detailing her every move on Capitol Hill (and back in California).\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nThey then said Breitbart News is previewing where conservative media will go should Harris enter the 2020 race:\n\nRIGHT WING REVS UP: A preview of where the GOP, and the rightwing media, will go on Harris, should she ever begin serious efforts at a 2020 White House run. That first trip to Iowa hasn\u2019t been scheduled \u2013 but if or when it is, well, brace yourselves, Kamala fans:\n\nCalifornia Playbook then linked to a Breitbart News article about two veteran California journalists who ripped Harris for being a \u201cshallow\u201d and \u201cnarcissistic\u201d lightweight.\n\nIn that article, Breitbart News also pointed out that, \u201cDemocrats, especially operatives who may see her as a vehicle they can use to line their pockets or enhance their profiles en route to television contracts, have been hyping Harris as the party\u2019s next big star. \u201c\n\nThough Joel Pollak and Sam Chi at Breitbart California have kept tabs on Harris, those on the left and in the establishment media have been just as critical. This week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) seemed to tell Harris, in the words of ESPN\u2019s Lee Corso, \u201cnot so fast,\u201d when Feinstein told the New York Times, \u201cshe just got here.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat she should do is concentrate on being a good, and possibly great, United States senator,\u201d Feinstein continued.\n\nTwo veteran journalists in Harris\u2019 home state recently wrote that Harris is a show horse who is taking \u201cbad advice from the craven whisperers around her.\u201d They said there is \u201cnot much there there,\u201d and Harris is just \u201cthe flavor of the week among the big grains in the Beltway.\u201d\n\nHarris Ain\u2019t The Next Barack Obama\n\nShould Harris somehow enter the 2020 race, she would need considerable support from black Democrats, especially in the South, who make up the heart and soul of the party\u2019s primary electorate.\n\nBut here\u2019s the inconvenient truth\u2014Harris has shown no indication that she can galvanize these important voters like Barack Obama did or Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) possibly can. In fact, she has not even shown to date that she could be as effective as John Edwards was.\n\nBefore Obama won his party\u2019s nomination, columnists like Stanley Crouch were questioning whether Obama, having grown up in fairly insulated Hawaii and abroad, understood the experiences of black Americans. In his 2006 column titled, \u201cWhat Obama Isn\u2019t: Black Like Me on Race,\u201d Crouch wrote that if the country ends up with the \u201cthe son of a white woman and an African immigrant\u201d as \u201cour first black President, he will have come into the White House through a side door \u2013 which might, at this point, be the only one that\u2019s open.\u201d\n\nObama, days before the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in March of 2007, went to Selma, Alabama and delivered a rousing speech. Obama, assuaging many establishment black Democrats who were skeptical of his fast rise, said then:\n\nSo don\u2019t tell me I don\u2019t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don\u2019t tell me I\u2019m not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama. I\u2019m here because somebody marched for our freedom. I\u2019m here because y\u2019all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation. But we have got to remember now that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn\u2019t cross over the river to see the promised land. God told him, your job is done, you\u2019ll see it. You\u2019ll be at the mountaintop, and you can see what I\u2019ve promised, what I promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and I promised to you, you can see that I will fulfill that promise.\n\nBooker meanwhile, in addition to effectively using Twitter like Obama\u2019s squad used Facebook, has been giving passionate speeches in which he weaves in James Baldwin, William Lloyd Garrison, and Robert Smalls. He talks about the \u201cimpossible dream,\u201d recounts growing up in black churches, and describes how dogs were unleashed on his father and a volunteer real estate agent who was helping his family integrate a New Jersey neighborhood during his childhood.\n\nEven Edwards, in a seminal \u201csilence is betrayal\u201d address at New York\u2019s famed Riverside Church in which he apologized for supporting the Iraq War during the 2008 election cycle, appealed to the hearts of black voters better than Harris has done to date:\n\nAs he put it then, there comes a time\u2013not just for Dr. King, but for all of us\u2013when silence is betrayal\u2013not just betrayal of your own personal convictions, not just betrayal of your country, but a betrayal of our\u2013all of our joint responsibility to each other, to our brothers and sisters, not just in America, but all across the globe. \u2026 There does come a time when we have to each one of us refuse to wait for others to act\u2013a moment when we realize, as one of Dr. King\u2019s great teachers, Gandhi, said, we have to be the change that we want to see in the world. That time is here again. It\u2019s with us today. Dr. King taught us well. I believe, as I know many of you do, that it is a betrayal, a betrayal to stand silent and watch 37 million of our own brothers and sisters who literally worry about surviving, every single day. It is a betrayal to stand silent while the disparity between he rich and the poor gets worse and worse and worse, every single day in America, in the richest nation on the face of the planet. And I also believe that it is a betrayal not to speak out against an escalation of the War in Iraq.\n\nHarris, in the meantime, talks about \u201cfighting\u201d various policies, grandstands at Senate hearings, opposes Republicans taking away \u201cour stuff,\u201d and hurls F-bombs.\n\nAs Calbuzz\u2019s journalists noted, so far, there really isn\u2019t much there there."}
{"75": "An illegal alien has been arrested after being accused of killing four of her five children and her husband in a brutal stabbing.\n\nIsabel Martinez, an illegal alien with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer, is accused of stabbing to death four of her children, including 2-year-old Axel, 4-year-old Dillan, 7-year-old Dacota and 10-year-old Isabela Martinez, and her husband, 33-year-old Martin Romero, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.\n\nadvertisement\n\nMartinez also allegedly stabbed her fifth child, 9-year-old Diana Romero, but after being airlifted to the hospital following the stabbing incident, she is expected to survive, according to authorities.\n\nAccording to police, Martinez went on the stabbing spree against her own family in the middle of the night, around 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.\n\n\u201cWhat prompts a person to take the life of such innocent children and her spouse is something we may never understand,\u201d Gwinnett County police said in a statement. \u201cThis is a horrendous crime not only for the victims but for the extended family, neighborhood and community. We are hoping and praying that the remaining victim survives his/her injuries and makes a full recovery.\u201d\n\nIn a write-up for the New York Times on the brutal crime incident, mainstream media reporters called the accused killer a \u201cGeorgia woman,\u201d glossing over the fact that she had been placed on an immigration hold.\n\nIn accordance with ICE policy, only illegal aliens can be hit with a detainer. But, the Times tried to bury the hold, slipping it into one statement reading \u201cShe was also being held for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said.\u201d\n\nMartinez is being charged with five counts of malice murder, five counts of murder, and six counts of aggravated assault. Martinez remains in local custody, but should she ever be let out, she will be turned over to ICE officials for prosecution and deportation.\n\nJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder."}
{"76": "HAMBURG, Germany (AP) \u2014 Leaders of the Group of 20 rich and developing countries spent two days trying to come up with common positions on climate change, trade and migration at their summit in Hamburg, Germany.\n\nImplementation depends on the will of national governments to take action, and compliance isn\u2019t perfect. But a common statement of purpose sets the tone for policy and enables peer pressure.\n\nadvertisement\n\nHere\u2019s a look at what the leaders did \u2014 and didn\u2019t \u2014 agree on:\n\n___\n\nAGREED\n\n\u2014 To support free trade and open markets, a key promise from earlier summits aimed at helping the global economy grow in the wake of the Great Recession.\n\n\u2014 To acknowledge that countries can use \u201clegitimate trade defence instruments\u201d to protect their companies if trade partners are taking advantage of them.\n\n\u2014 To fight terrorism by, among other things, pushing internet providers to detect and remove extremist content.\n\n\u2014 To make a renewed push to reduce excess steel production capacity \u2014 primarily in China \u2014 that has led to low prices and pressure on other producers.\n\n___\n\nCOULDN\u2019T AGREE\n\n\u2014 To unanimously support the Paris agreement on climate change; a paragraph was agreed in which the summit participants \u201ctake note\u201d of the U.S. decision to withdraw. It says the other leaders agree the Paris agreement is \u201cirreversible.\u201d\n\n\u2014 To pursue United Nations sanctions such as asset freezes and travel bans against criminals smuggling people from Africa and the Middle East to Europe. A European Union push for such sanctions ran into opposition from several countries."}
{"77": "The two largest parties in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), have largely refused to acknowledge migrant issues in their campaign ahead of September\u2019s national election.\n\nThe migrant crisis, which peaked in 2015, is arguably the single largest event to affect Germany in recent years but has been marginalised by both major German political parties. Neither the CDU of German Chancellor Angela Merkel nor the SPD of former European Union Parliament President Martin Schulz have spoken at length about the issue despite the recent rise of arrivals in Italy, Der Spiegel reports.\n\nadvertisement\n\nRecently, Chancellor Merkel met with the leader of the CDU\u2019s sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union\u2019s (CSU) Horst Seehofer, to announce their platform for the September national election. Merkel made no comments at all about the migrant crisis, choosing instead to focus on the economy promising 3 per cent unemployment by 2025.\n\nMr. Seehofer, known to be much more vocal on migrant issues having previously called for a national limit on asylum seekers, said he was \u201cvery satisfied with the number of migrants\u201d coming into Germany in 2017. He claimed that so far around 80,000 people had come to Germany, still below the CSU\u2019s proposed limit of 200,000 per year.\n\nThe marginalising of the migrant issue is a major departure from late last year when some worried that migration issues were creating a rift between Merkel and Seehofer with the latter threatening not to campaign with Merkel if no limit was set.\n\nThe SPD has not mentioned the migrant crisis, either, with leader Martin Schulz campaigning largely on undoing labour reforms and strengthing unions. Schulz has only addressed the migrant issue by threatening Hungary with taking away EU subsidies if the Central European country continues to refuse to accept redistributed migrants from Greece and Italy.\n\nThe two parties see the migrant crisis as a hard issue to gain politically from and so have largely remained quiet on the matter. The anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany is one of the few parties to be very vocal on the subject, but after former leader Frauke Petry stepped down, the party has slumped in polls from a high of 16 per cent last September.\n\nGermany, Civey poll: CDU/CSU-EPP: 37% \u2191\n\nSPD-S&D: 25% \u2191\n\nLINKE-LEFT: 9%\n\nFDP-ALDE: 9%\n\nAfD-ENF: 8% \u2193\n\nGR\u00dcNE-G/EFA: 8%#btw17 \u2014 Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) June 13, 2017\n\nThe migrant crisis is rapidly becoming the central issue across Europe as the number of migrants coming into Italy continues to grow with one 48 hour period seeing 13,500 migrants arrive in Italy from North Africa.\n\nAs a result of the surge of migrants, the Austrian government has threatened to deploy the military on the Italian border to stop migrants from entering the country. Austria also has an election later this year; however, in contrast to Germany, the migrant crisis is a major campaign issue."}
{"78": "Actor-comedian George Lopez sent a message to President Donald Trump: instead of deporting Latinos to make America\u2019s streets safer, he should \u201cdeport the police.\u201d\n\nIn a post published on his Instagram Friday, Lopez is seen standing next to a caption that reads, \u201cThe Trump administration is deporting Latinos to make the streets safer\u2026 You wanna make the streets safer deport the police.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe former Lopez Tonight host also said, \u201cThis is not an indictment of all Law Enforcement , some still just beat you #gacho #georgelopezonhbo #TheWall ( @momorodriguez #gracias.\u201d\n\nLopez\u2019s Instagram account is now set to private, but an archive of the post can still be found online.\n\nThe Instagram caption caused outrage among many of the comedian\u2019s fans.\n\n\u201cThis is a very irresponsible comment bro. You have really disappointed me bro, I thought you were better than that,\u201d wrote one commenter, who claimed to be a police officer.\n\n\u201cNot cool @georgelopez. I\u2019m Latina and I\u2019ve been pulled over more than enough times for speeding. All but one cop were nice and respectful,\u201d wrote another user. \u201cI realize there are some bad apples in the bunch but your statement puts all cops in the bad bunch category. Please stick to comedy. You\u2019re not that funny when you bring politics into your posts.\u201d\n\nAnother commenter wrote, \u201cKeep calm george\u2026i got two brothers that are police officer ..and we are Mexican/Americans..\u201d\n\n\u201cThat comment is fck up many latinos who fought hard and became cops #alllivematter puto,\u201d wrote another.\n\nLopez has repeatedly attacked President Trump and American voters.\n\nLast July, when asked about Trump\u2019s election odds, Lopez told TMZ that \u201cthere\u2019s enough racists in this country for him to get elected.\u201d\n\nA couple weeks later at a show in Phoenix, Arizona, the comedian led a crowd in a chant of \u201cfuck that puto.\u201d (Puto is Spanish slang for male whore.)\n\nAfter the election, Lopez was even less gracious. When asked if he was willing to give President Trump a chance, Lopez said, \u201cI\u2019ll give him a chance to suck my ass.\u201d\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson."}
{"79": "New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is so fed up with the city\u2019s panhandlers begging for money on the street that he wants to ban the practice.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m saying that not as a matter of policy. I\u2019m saying that as a human being, bluntly,\u201d Mayor de Blasio told WNYC radio Friday.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI just wish it didn\u2019t exist,\u201d he added.\u201d I am just expressing a frustration because I think it hurts the quality of life in many ways.\u201d\n\nDe Blasio tried to backtrack on his statement during the interview, saying that he is aware of Constitutional protections in place that bar him from implementing a panhandling ban.\n\nWhile he expressed sympathy for those who are homeless and panhandle as a last resort, he also said, \u201cThere are also people out there who are just begging for money and it is not out of dire economic need \u2013and that is frustrating to me.\u201d\n\nThe New York City mayor\u2019s position on the subject is somewhat of a departure from his stances on other measures. De Blasio passed measures to decriminalize public urination and drinking in public in 2016.\n\nDe Blasio, who spoke to WYNC from Hamburg, Germany, skipped a police swearing-in ceremony for 524 new NYPD recruits to protest President Trump\u2019s meetings with world leaders at the G20 summit.\n\nThe mayor also left the city after an NYPD officer was murdered Wednesday in what authorities say was \u201can unprovoked attack.\u201d"}
{"80": "President Donald Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s enforcement of United States immigration laws is leaving media funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros in a panic.\n\nProPublica, which is backed by Soros, released a report blasting the Trump Administration and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for enforcing immigration laws for all illegal aliens in the U.S. The media group writes:\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit in charge of deportations has directed his officers to take action against all undocumented immigrants they may cross paths with, regardless of criminal histories. The guidance appears to go beyond the Trump administration\u2019s publicly stated aims, and some advocates say may explain a marked increase in immigration arrests. In a February memo, Matthew Albence, a career official who heads the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of ICE, informed his 5,700 deportation officers that, \u201ceffective immediately, ERO officers will take enforcement action against all removable aliens encountered in the course of their duties.\u201d\n\nThough the Trump Administration has made clear that illegal aliens with criminal records would be prioritized for deportation, federal immigration law allows for all illegal aliens to be potentially subject to deportation.\n\nIn recent months, ProPublica increased its attacks on the Trump Administration\u2019s handling of immigration enforcement and legal immigration measures.\n\nMost recently, the Soros-backed media outlet blasted Trump\u2019s nominee to head the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Lee Francis Cissna, as Breitbart Texas reported.\n\nAmong the multiple attacks on Cissna, the ProPublica piece made a point to blast the USCIS nominee for his work on immigration issues with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA), hitting him for opposing the Obama-era expansion of rights for illegal immigrants.\n\nAt the time, Center for Immigration Studies Director Mark Krikorian told Breitbart Texas that Cissna is the \u201cfirst person ever\u201d to be nominated to head up USCIS who actually has worked in immigration law and policy.\n\nJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder."}
{"81": "M embers of President Trump\u2019s family reportedly met with a lawyer linked with the Kremlin in June of last year \u2014 although the Trump team believes the meeting may have been sought as part of an effort to create the impression of an improper connection between Trump\u2019s team and Russia.\n\nThe New York Times reported late Saturday that Donald Trump Jr., along with then-campaign chair Paul Manafort and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, met with a Russian lawyer with connections to the Kremlin at Trump Tower.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe Times reported that the meeting occurred on June 9, and it notes that this is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and a member of Trump\u2019s inner circle. Reps for Trump Jr. and Kushner confirmed the meeting to the Times but described it as primarily about an adoption program.\n\nThe lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, has reportedly been fighting the Magnitsky Act \u2014 an American law that blacklists Russian human rights abusers and triggered Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt American adoptions of Russian children.\n\nIn a statement to the Times, Trump Jr. said the \u201cshort\u201d meeting involved discussion of \u201ca program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.\u201d\n\nCirca also reported that the meeting was short, lasting only 20 minutes. The outlet also reported that the president\u2019s legal team believe the meeting may have been part of an election-year opposition effort to create the appearance of \u201cimproper connections\u201d between Trump and Russia.\n\nMark Corallo, a spokesman for President Trump\u2019s legal team, told Circa:\n\nWe have learned from both our own investigation and public reports that the participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for. Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.\n\n\u201cThese developments raise serious issues as to exactly who authorized and participated in any effort by Russian nationals to influence our election in any manner,\u201d he added.\n\nThe Times reports that the meeting was not disclosed until recently, when Kushner filed a revised version of a form to obtain a security clearance. Kushner\u2019s advisers described the omission as an error.\n\nKushner\u2019s lawyer told the Times in a statement.:\n\nHe has since submitted this information, including that during the campaign and transition, he had over 100 calls or meetings with representatives of more than 20 countries, most of which were during transition. Mr. Kushner has submitted additional updates and included, out of an abundance of caution, this meeting with a Russian person, which he briefly attended at the request of his brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr. As Mr. Kushner has consistently stated, he is eager to cooperate and share what he knows.\n\nThe Times notes that Trump Jr. does not have to disclose foreign contacts as he does not serve in the administration, nor does he have a security clearance. The story claims that the lawyer is a \u201cformidable operator with a history of pushing the Kremlin\u2019s agenda.\u201d\n\nAdam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamShawNY"}
{"82": "HAMBURG, Germany (AP) \u2014 The United States and Russia struck an agreement Friday on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, crowning President Donald Trump\u2019s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is the first US-Russian effort under Trump\u2019s presidency to stem Syria\u2019s six-year civil war.\n\nThe cease-fire goes into effect Sunday at noon Damascus time, according to US officials and the Jordanian government, which is also involved in the deal.\n\nadvertisement\n\nSecretary of State Rex Tillerson, who accompanied Trump in his meeting with Putin, said the understanding is designed to reduce violence in an area of Syria near Jordan\u2019s border that is critical to the US ally\u2019s security.\n\nIt\u2019s a \u201cvery complicated part of the Syrian battlefield,\u201d Tillerson told reporters after the US and Russian leaders met for more than 2 hours on the sidelines of a global summit in Hamburg, Germany.\n\nOf the agreement, he said, \u201cI think this is our first indication of the US and Russia being able to work together in Syria.\u201d\n\nFor years, the former Cold War foes have been backing opposing sides in Syria\u2019s war. Moscow has staunchly backed Syrian President Bashar Assad, supporting Syrian forces militarily since 2015. Washington has backed rebels fighting Assad. Both the US and Russia oppose Islamic State militants and say they\u2019re focused on rooting out the extremist group.\n\nThe potential pitfalls for the cease-fire are clear \u2014 not least the challenge of enforcing it.\n\nRussia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russian military police would monitor the new truce. But Tillerson said that was still being worked out. A senior US State Department official said the two countries were close to a deal on that issue and hoped to finalize it in the coming days, raising the prospect it could take effect Sunday with no clear sense of who is policing it.\n\nThat the deal was announced before all the details were ironed out was a clear indication of how eager the U.S. and Russia were to cast their leaders\u2019 first meeting as a success. Officials said the deal had been in the works for weeks or months, but came together in time for the meeting.\n\nThe deal marks a new level of involvement for the Trump administration in trying to resolve Syria\u2019s civil war.\n\nTrump ordered some 60 cruise missiles to be fired at a Syrian air base in April after accusing Assad\u2019s forces of a deadly chemical weapons attack. But his top military and national security advisers pointedly said they had no intentions of intervening to oust Assad. And they stopped short of endorsing Russian-led or UN peace mediation efforts between Assad\u2019s government and rebel groups.\n\nIsrael also is part of the agreement, one US official said, who like others wasn\u2019t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity. Like Jordan, Israel shares a border with the southern part of Syria and has been concerned about a spillover of violence as well as an amassing of Iranian-aligned forces in the south of the country.\n\nJordanian government spokesman Mohammed Momani confirmed the accord in a statement that made no reference to Israel\u2019s participation. Syrian government forces and its allies will stay on one side of an agreed demarcation line, and rebel fighters will stick to the other side. The goal is also to enable aid to reach this area of Syria, Momani told state media. US officials said the US, Russia and Jordan had only agreed on that demarcation line last week, clearing the way for a cease-fire to be worked out.\n\nThe deal is separate from an agreement that Russia, Turkey and Iran struck earlier this year to try to establish \u201cde-escalation zones\u201d in Syria with reduced bloodshed. The US, wary of Iran\u2019s involvement, stayed away from that effort. Follow-up talks this week in Kazakhstan were unable to produce agreement on finalizing a cease-fire in those zones.\n\nPrevious cease-fires in Syria have collapsed or failed to reduce violence for long, and it was unclear whether this deal would be any better.\n\nTillerson said the difference this time is Russia\u2019s interest in seeing Syria return to stability. It\u2019s an argument top US officials such as former Secretary of State John Kerry cited regularly amid his failed efforts to end a conflict that has killed as many as a half-million people, contributed to Europe\u2019s worst refugee crisis since World War II and allowed IS to emerge as a global terror threat.\n\nTillerson also repeated the US position that a \u201clong-term role for the Assad family and the Assad regime\u201d is untenable and voiced his belief that Russia might be willing to address the future leadership of Syria, in tones reminiscent of Kerry. Up to now, Assad has rejected any proposals that would see him leave power, contributing to an impasse that has prolonged Syria\u2019s suffering.\n\nEarlier in the week, Syria\u2019s military said it was halting combat operations in the south of Syria for four days, in advance of the new round of Russian-sponsored talks in Kazakhstan. That move covered the southern provinces of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida. Syria\u2019s government briefly extended that unilateral cease-fire, which is now set to expire Saturday \u2014 a day before the U.S. and Russian deal was to take effect.\n\nThe US-Russian cease-fire has no set end date, one US official said, describing it as part of broader discussions with Moscow on lowering violence in Syria.\n\nThe agreement may also reflect Iran\u2019s increasingly prominent role in Syria.\n\nWashington has been resistant to letting Iranian forces and their proxy militias gain strength in Syria\u2019s south, a position shared by Israel and Jordan. Friday\u2019s deal could help the Trump administration retain more of a say over who fills the power vacuum left behind as the Islamic State is routed from additional territory in Syria.\n\nIn recent weeks, US forces have shot down a Syrian aircraft that got too close to American forces, as well as Iranian-made drones. A renewed government offensive against Western-backed rebels and Islamic militants in the contested province of Daraa also is sparking tensions, and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters have shifted south to join the fight.\n\nIsrael has also struck Syrian military installations on several occasions in the past few weeks after shells landed in the Israeli side of the Golan Heights. Ahead of the deal, media reports in Israel have suggested unease at any arrangement that relies on Russia policing areas near its frontier.\n\nImplications for Syria aside, the deal marks the biggest diplomatic achievement for the US and Russia since Trump took office. Trump\u2019s administration has approached the notoriously strained relationship by trying to identify a few limited issues on which the countries could make progress, thereby building trust for a broader repair of ties."}
{"83": "TEL AVIV \u2013 U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed Friday\u2019s decision by UNESCO to list the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Old City of Hebron as an \u201cendangered World Heritage site\u201d under the \u201cState of Palestine,\u201d saying it was an \u201caffront to history\u201d that was \u201ctragic on several levels.\u201d\n\nThe Tomb of the Patriarchs is the believed resting place of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah. Rachel is believed to be buried in Bethlehem. The Tomb is considered the second holiest site in Judaism after the Temple Mount.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn a vote that took place in Krakow, Poland, the UN\u2019s cultural agency passed the resolution by 12 votes to three with six abstentions.\n\n\u201cThe UNESCO vote on Hebron is tragic on several levels. It represents an affront to history,\u201d Haley said in a statement. \u201cIt undermines the trust that is needed for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to be successful. And it further discredits an already highly questionable UN agency. Today\u2019s vote does no one any good and causes much harm.\u201d\n\nAt the behest of Poland, Croatia and Jamaica, the voting took place in secret \u2013 a move that was vociferously opposed by other member states.\n\nHaley said that the anti-Israel vote has forced the U.S. to reevaluate \u201cits continued engagement at UNESCO.\u201d\n\nThe vote was the second anti-Israel measure at the UN agency in a week. A few days prior, the World Heritage Committee passed a resolution denying Israeli claims to the Old City of Jerusalem.\n\nIn 2011, the U.S. cut funds to UNESCO after it accepted the \u201cState of Palestine\u201d as a member state. While the U.S. remains on the 58-member UNESCO Executive Board, it no longer has voting rights in its General Conference.\n\nIsraeli leaders slammed the move. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it \u201canother delusional UNESCO decision\u201d and ordered that another $1 million be cut from Israel\u2019s funding to the UN and instead be put towards establishing a museum aimed at showcasing Hebron\u2019s Jewish history.\n\nDanny Danon, Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations, said it was \u201cshameful and offensive \u2026 an ugly display of discrimination, and an act of aggression against the Jewish people.\u201d\n\nPresident Reuven Rivlin accused UNESCO of spreading \u201canti-Jewish lies.\u201d\n\nEducation Minister Naftali Bennett said UNESCO \u201cdenies history and distorts reality, knowingly serving those attempting to erase the Jewish state.\u201d\n\nEmmanuel Nahshon, a spokesman for Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry, called the motion \u201cfake news.\u201d"}
{"84": "Volunteers set up an \u201cempathy\u201d tent at dueling pro- and anti-Trump protests on Saturday in Sacramento as part of an effort to reduce violent clashes between the two sides.\n\nThe Sacramento Bee reported that as police worked to keep about 150 pro-Trump demonstrators and a smaller group of anti-Trump protesters from coming to blows, peace activists used an \u201cempathy tent\u201d to defuse tensions:\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe event also sported an \u201cempathy tent,\u201d where organizers promised \u201c10 minutes of deep listening\u201d without judgment, advice or interruption.\n\n\n\nEdwin Rutsch, head of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy, spent the afternoon sitting face to face in folding chairs with people who stopped by to talk politics, religion or whatever else struck them.\n\n\n\nRutsch said his group has been operating for 10 years and goes to areas of conflict to offer people a safe zone to talk. In recent months, he was at protests in Berkeley and at a pro-impeachment rally in Los Angeles, he said.\n\n\n\n\u201cWe like the conflict zones,\u201d said Rutsch, a 61-year-old El Cerrito resident.\n\n\n\n\u201cWe came here, and people recognized us from Berkeley and welcomed us with hugs.\u201d\n\nThe \u201cempathy tent\u201d has ben deployed elsewhere, most recently at demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles:\n\nThe \u201cempathic listening\u201d session ends with both participants getting a hug from the moderator. pic.twitter.com/E8FP7AMGZq \u2014 Laura J. Nelson (@laura_nelson) July 2, 2017\n\nFor the past several months, the two sides have clashed at various sites across California, most notably at the University of California Berkeley, where efforts to shut down pro-Trump speakers on campus have made the city a flashpoint for protest.\n\nAs Breitbart News reported in April, pro-Trump demonstrators in Berkeley arrived with helmets and protective gear to face off against leftist groups, after injuries at earlier events.\n\nLast June, in San Jose, anti-Trump rioters attacked Trump supporters leaving a rally \u2014 and Mayor Sam Riccardo blamed Trump for the violence.\n\nJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the \u201cmost influential\u201d people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.\n\nPhoto: file"}
{"85": "Two Republican members of Congress said they plan to introduce legislation next week that would grant lawful permanent resident status in the United States to critically ill baby Charlie Gard and his parents to allow the child to leave the U.K. and receive experimental treatment in America.\n\n\u201cDespite Charlie\u2019s heartbreaking condition, his parents have refused to give up hope,\u201d said Reps. Brad Wenstrup (OH) and Trent Franks (AZ). \u201cThey have advocated for him fiercely. They have raised over \u00a31 million to pay for their son to receive experimental treatment in the United States. They have kept fighting for his life.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nWhen Congress returns to session next week, the two lawmakers say their bill \u201cwill support Charlie\u2019s parents\u2019 right to choose what is best for their son, by making Charlie a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. in order for him to receive treatments that could save his life.\u201d\n\nWenstrup and Franks continued in a statement:\n\nShould this little boy to be ordered to die \u2014 because a third party, overriding the wishes of his parents, believes it can conclusively determine that immediate death is what is best for him? Every human life has dignity, including the lives of those who cannot speak up for themselves. When government is able to overrule a parent or guardian in determining a patient\u2019s best interest, every vulnerable patient is put at risk. We offer Connie Yates and Chris Gard our heartfelt support as they seek to care for their son.\n\nIn a statement to the Washington Post, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center said Thursday it would be willing to admit Charlie and evaluate him \u201cprovided that arrangements are made to safely transfer him to [its] facility, legal hurdles are cleared, and [it receives] emergency approval from the FDA for an experimental treatment as appropriate.\u201d\n\nAlternately, the New York hospital said it could ship an experimental drug to London\u2019s Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie is a patient, along with instructions for its administration, as long as the FDA approves.\n\nCharlie is 11 months old and suffers from infantile-onset encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome \u2013 a very rare and terminal genetic disorder. Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital said they had exhausted all treatment options and told Charlie\u2019s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, their son would be removed from life support.\n\nThe London hospital declined assistance from the Vatican hospital, citing decisions by the U.K. domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights, both of which ruled that removal from life support was in Charlie\u2019s \u201cbest interests.\u201d\n\nCharlie\u2019s parents, however, raised about $1.7 million privately to take their son to the United States for experimental treatment. In the system defined by principles of socialized, government-run health care, the hospital and both the U.K. domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights have ultimate control over Charlie\u2019s healthcare decisions. Consequently, the parents\u2019 pleas to remove Charlie from the hospital, and even their request to allow the baby to return home with them for his final hours, were all rejected.\n\nThe parents\u2019 hope was renewed, however, after U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis tweeted their desire to help Charlie and his parents:\n\nTo defend human life, above all when it is wounded by illness, is a duty of love that God entrusts to all. \u2014 Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 30, 2017\n\nIf we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so. \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017\n\n\u201cThe support from the Pope and the President has given us hope,\u201d said Charlie\u2019s mother, according to the Daily Mail. \u201cThey are traditional men who believe in the family. They believe in our case and understand why we believe it is right to continue fighting so hard to save Charlie.\u201d"}
{"86": "In a new interview, Pope Francis said he fears there are \u201cvery dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world,\u201d including such an alliance between the United States and Russia.\n\nPope Francis told his interviewer, the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, that he was worried about the G20 summit, which brings together leaders from 20 of the largest economies in the world, along with finance ministers and central bank governors.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI\u2019m afraid that there are very dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea, Putin and Assad in the war in Syria,\u201d Francis reportedly said.\n\nThe Pope said that his greatest concern was the \u201cdanger for immigration.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs you know well, the main problem in today\u2019s world\u2014which is unfortunately growing\u2014is that of the poor, the weak, and the excluded,\u201d Francis said, \u201cof which immigrants form part.\u201d\n\n\u201cOn the other hand there are countries where the majority of the poor do not come from migratory flows but from social disasters; others have few local poor but fear the invasion of migrants,\u201d he continued.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s why the G20 worries me: it primarily affects immigrants from countries all over the world and affects them even more as time goes on.\u201d\n\nAsked for his views on underlying causes driving mass migration, Francis said that the primary reason behind contemporary migration is economic.\n\n\u201cMake no mistake, poor nations are drawn to the continents and countries of ancient wealth,\u201d he said, \u201cespecially Europe.\u201d\n\n\u201cColonialism began in Europe. There were positive aspects of colonialism, but also negative. Nonetheless, Europe grew richer, the richest in the world. It will therefore be the main target of migratory peoples,\u201d he said.\n\nIn the interview, Scalfari expressed his own opinion to the Pope regarding the future of Europe, stressing the need for Europe to take on a federal structure, an opinion shared by the pontiff.\n\nEuropean nations will move \u201cif they realize one truth,\u201d Francis said, \u201ceither Europe becomes a federal community or it will no longer count for anything in the world.\u201d\n\nSince his election as Pope, Francis has granted a number of interviews to Scalfari, an atheist and co-founder of the Italian daily, La Repubblica. The journalist allegedly does not record their conversations but publishes the interviews from memory.\n\nNevertheless, to date the Pope has never taken back anything that Scalfari has written, and nor has he stopped granting him interviews, which had led observers to conclude that he is pleased with what Scalfari writes.\n\nFollow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter Follow @tdwilliamsrome"}
{"87": "Actor-comedian George Lopez sent a message to President Donald Trump: instead of deporting Latinos to make America\u2019s streets safer, he should \u201cdeport the police.\u201d\n\nIn a post published on his Instagram Friday, Lopez is seen standing next to a caption that reads, \u201cThe Trump administration is deporting Latinos to make the streets safer\u2026 You wanna make the streets safer deport the police.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe former Lopez Tonight host also said, \u201cThis is not an indictment of all Law Enforcement , some still just beat you #gacho #georgelopezonhbo #TheWall ( @momorodriguez #gracias.\u201d\n\nLopez\u2019s Instagram account is now set to private, but an archive of the post can still be found online.\n\nThe Instagram caption caused outrage among many of the comedian\u2019s fans.\n\n\u201cThis is a very irresponsible comment bro. You have really disappointed me bro, I thought you were better than that,\u201d wrote one commenter, who claimed to be a police officer.\n\n\u201cNot cool @georgelopez. I\u2019m Latina and I\u2019ve been pulled over more than enough times for speeding. All but one cop were nice and respectful,\u201d wrote another user. \u201cI realize there are some bad apples in the bunch but your statement puts all cops in the bad bunch category. Please stick to comedy. You\u2019re not that funny when you bring politics into your posts.\u201d\n\nAnother commenter wrote, \u201cKeep calm george\u2026i got two brothers that are police officer ..and we are Mexican/Americans..\u201d\n\n\u201cThat comment is fck up many latinos who fought hard and became cops #alllivematter puto,\u201d wrote another.\n\nLopez has repeatedly attacked President Trump and American voters.\n\nLast July, when asked about Trump\u2019s election odds, Lopez told TMZ that \u201cthere\u2019s enough racists in this country for him to get elected.\u201d\n\nA couple weeks later at a show in Phoenix, Arizona, the comedian led a crowd in a chant of \u201cfuck that puto.\u201d (Puto is Spanish slang for male whore.)\n\nAfter the election, Lopez was even less gracious. When asked if he was willing to give President Trump a chance, Lopez said, \u201cI\u2019ll give him a chance to suck my ass.\u201d\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson."}
{"88": "Several establishment media outlets have failed to clarify or add a correction to their original reports that Polish first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda snubbed President Donald Trump by refusing to shake his hand during his visit to Poland on Thursday.\n\nA flood of news reports fueled by a deceptively edited three-second video about first lady Kornhauser-Duda\u2019s awkward passing over of President Trump\u2019s extended hand for first lady Melania Trump\u2019s quickly spread across the Internet.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPoland\u2019s President Andrzej Duda slammed the reports in a tweet, calling them \u201cfake news\u201d:\n\nContrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit. Let's FIGHT FAKE NEWS. \u2014 Andrzej Duda (@AndrzejDuda) July 6, 2017\n\nNow, more than 24 hours later, a litany of media outlets have yet to acknowledge that their original reporting was wrong. Below are just five establishment media organizations that have failed to clarify their initial reports.\n\n1. The Washington Post\n\nIn a video article titled \u201cPolish first lady passes over Trump\u2019s handshake,\u201d the Washington Post fails to mention the Polish first lady\u2019s handshake with President Trump.\n\n\u201cDuring a visit to Warsaw on July 6, President Trump was left hanging when Poland\u2019s first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda appeared to pass over his first offer for a handshake and turned to his wife Melania instead,\u201d the Washington Post article reads.\n\n2. The HuffPost\n\nOn Thursday, the HuffPost published a video article titled \u201cPoland\u2019s First Lady Ignored The Hell Out Of Trump\u2019s Handshake.\u201d\n\nIn the piece, the Post says, \u201cPoland\u2019s first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda snubs the U.S. president.\u201d At no point does the article explain that first lady Kornhauser-Duda did actually shake President Trump\u2019s hand.\n\n3. The Daily Express\n\nThe England-based tabloid ran an article titled \u201cWATCH: Polish president\u2019s wife SNUBS Donald Trump handshake \u2013 and darts for Melania.\u201d\n\nIn the piece, Joe Barnes writes:\n\nThe awkward moment was caught on camera as Ms Kornhauser-Duda appeared to snub the US president as she moved towards her US counterpart, Melania. The footage shows Mr Trump offering his hand to Ms Kornhauser-Duda, however, the first lady of Poland misses out the US President in favour for his wife. President Trump appeared to be bemused by the event as he goes from displaying a beaming smile to a frown within seconds.\n\nBarnes, however, never mentions that President Trump and first lady Kornhauser-Duda did eventually shake hands.\n\n4. The Root\n\nIn a particularly vulgar article tilted \u201cWatch: Trump\u2019s Handshake Rejected by Polish President\u2019s Wife,\u201d The Root\u2019s Stephen A. Crockett Jr., referring to President Trump as \u201cAss Face,\u201d writes \u201cThe Polish president\u2019s wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, didn\u2019t want any part of Ass Face\u2019s tiny deplorable fingers as she straight curbed him when he came in for a handshake.\u201d\n\nAt no point does Crockett Jr., a senior editor at The Root, mention that President Trump shook the Polish first lady\u2019s hand.\n\n5. Jezebel\n\nJezebel, the left-wing feminist outlet, published an article titled \u201cThe Small Pleasure of Watching Women Slight Donald Trump.\u201d\n\nStassa Edwards writes, \u201cThe slight was likely accidental,\u201d linking to NBC News\u2019s Bradd Jaffy\u2019s tweet showing the Polish first lady shaking President Trump\u2019s hand \u2014 however, Edwards doesn\u2019t bring this fact to her readers\u2019 attention in the article.\n\nInstead, the author basks in what she calls the \u201cdelicious\u201d sight of \u201cwatching the embodiment of ego and power reduced to standing uncomfortably, emptily staring at cameras recording the moment.\u201d\n\nTo be clear, some news outlets have updated or corrected their original reports and added mention of the Polish first lady and President Trump\u2019s handshake.\n\nPerhaps practicing under the belief that journalistic integrity is more important than embarrassing President Trump, Newsweek added an update to its article titled \u201cWatch Donald Trump handshake rejected by Polish first lady in hilariously awkward exchange.\u201d\n\n\u201cAn extended video of the encounter during which President Donald Trump reaches out his arm to the first lady of Poland shows Agata Kornhauser-Duda eventually shaking the president\u2019s hand, after initially passing him by in favor of greeting first lady Melania Trump,\u201d an update on the Newsweek articles reads. \u201cThe mildly awkward and humorously relatable exchange was just that, and no apparent swipe at the U.S. president.\u201d\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter: @JeromeEHudson."}
{"89": "Maxine Waters to @MSNBC : \"I think we're getting played. We're getting played by our president and certainly we're getting played by Putin.\" pic.twitter.com/arpufgfTNu\n\nFriday on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAll In,\u201d Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) ripped President Donald Trump for the manner in which he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany earlier that day.\n\nadvertisement\n\nWaters, a staunch advocate of Trump\u2019s impeachment, said the country was \u201cgetting played\u201d by Putin and Trump and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s attendance had something to do with the United States lifting sanctions on Russia for the Arctic to opened for drilling.\n\n\u201cI think we\u2019re getting played,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re getting played by our president, and certainly we\u2019re getting played by Putin. I don\u2019t like the idea that our president again would go into a room without any notetakers, without any staff, without others who should be in the room who really understand foreign policy, who really understand Putin and come out of it saying how honored he is to meet with him and how, in fact they\u2019re going to start working together.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis is all about lifting those sanctions,\u201d Waters continued. \u201cAnd of course, Tillerson was in the room because that\u2019s at the top of his agenda \u2014 to lift those sanctions so they can drill into the Arctic. So, you have Trump who is agreeing to lifting the sanctions and Tillerson with the foreign minister of Russia, of course, who is supporting Mr. Putin wants to do and whatever his country wants, and so that\u2019s what this is all about.\u201d\n\nFollow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor"}
{"90": "Maxine Waters to @MSNBC : \"I think we're getting played. We're getting played by our president and certainly we're getting played by Putin.\" pic.twitter.com/arpufgfTNu\n\nFriday on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAll In,\u201d Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) ripped President Donald Trump for the manner in which he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany earlier that day.\n\nadvertisement\n\nWaters, a staunch advocate of Trump\u2019s impeachment, said the country was \u201cgetting played\u201d by Putin and Trump and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s attendance had something to do with the United States lifting sanctions on Russia for the Arctic to opened for drilling.\n\n\u201cI think we\u2019re getting played,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re getting played by our president, and certainly we\u2019re getting played by Putin. I don\u2019t like the idea that our president again would go into a room without any notetakers, without any staff, without others who should be in the room who really understand foreign policy, who really understand Putin and come out of it saying how honored he is to meet with him and how, in fact they\u2019re going to start working together.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis is all about lifting those sanctions,\u201d Waters continued. \u201cAnd of course, Tillerson was in the room because that\u2019s at the top of his agenda \u2014 to lift those sanctions so they can drill into the Arctic. So, you have Trump who is agreeing to lifting the sanctions and Tillerson with the foreign minister of Russia, of course, who is supporting Mr. Putin wants to do and whatever his country wants, and so that\u2019s what this is all about.\u201d\n\nFollow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor"}
{"91": "The Palestinians\u2019 decision to use the United Nations to claim Hebron\u2019s Tomb of the Patriarchs as their own heritage site is a direct slap to President Donald Trump, who is attempting to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.\n\nEarlier this year, Trump decided to delay the long-promised move of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, for fear of upsetting the Palestinians. But that did not stop the Palestinians from making their own move.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe idea that the Tomb of the Patriarchs is \u201cPalestinian\u201d is absurd. For thousands of years \u2014 long before Islam even existed \u2014 it has been among the holiest sites in Judaism, and also the oldest. According to tradition, the Tomb is the grave of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs \u2014 founders of the Jewish faith, and of monotheism itself: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. (The fourth matriarch, Rachel, is buried near Bethlehem.)\n\nThe title deed to the Tomb is provided by the Bible itself, in Genesis 23. Abraham insisted on buying the site, even though the owner was prepared to give it to him as a gift, precisely so that there would never be any confusion in the future about its ownership. Later, King David established his throne in Hebron (II Samuel 5), and Jews lived there for millennia until they were massacred in a 1929 pogrom, returning after Israel\u2019s victory in the 1967 war.\n\nThe Tomb is holy to both Muslims and Jews, and access to it is governed by a 1997 agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Rather than building upon that agreement towards a broader peace, the Palestinians have violated the spirit of the Hebron deal. They are not only claiming the Tomb, and the city, as part of a future Palestinian state. They are also claiming the past as part of a mythical Palestinian heritage, displacing the Jews.\n\nThe Palestinians\u2019 move on Hebron is toxic to the peace process. But it also destroys any complaint the Palestinians might have against the U.S. moving its embassy to Jerusalem. Indeed, moving the embassy is suddenly an urgent priority, because the Palestinians clearly intend to continue advancing their claims in Jerusalem and elsewhere. The same UN body (UNESCO) that acted against Hebron last week has also denied the Jewish connection to Jerusalem.\n\nAs the Jerusalem Post warned Sunday, the resolution on Hebron is only the beginning of a Palestinian diplomatic assault against Israel that uses fabricated history and the UN\u2019s endemic anti-Israel bias to circumvent negotiations.\n\nThe Palestinians\u2019 move in Hebron comes as Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has vowed never to end payments to terrorists and their families using U.S. taxpayer money, despite direct requests by President Trump and his emissaries. Clearly the Palestinians have no interest in compromise, nor do they fear the consequences of their provocative behavior, because thus far the U.S. and the world have been unwilling to punish them for it.\n\nMoving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is a consequence the Palestinians would understand. It need not actually change the status of the city, since the western part of Jerusalem, where Israel\u2019s government is already based, is never going to be under Palestinian control, under any peace agreement contemplated thus far. But it would end, once and for all, the Palestinian and Islamist fantasy that all of Israel will one day fall under Palestinian rule.\n\nMoving the embassy would be a unilateral decision. But as the Palestinians\u2019 own behavior shows, they have no qualms about unilateralism. Ironically, they have given President Trump a perfect opportunity to fulfill his promise.\n\nJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the \u201cmost influential\u201d people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak."}
{"92": "NBC political director Chuck Todd complained this week on MTP Daily that two generations of legacy media journalists are having trouble covering President Donald Trump because they have been trained to cover politics \u201cdispassionately.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re the umpires,\u201d Todd said, emphasizing that he and his colleagues are \u201creferees\u201d who \u201care not to show emotion.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nExasperated, Todd asked, \u201cwhen somebody is insisting on making you the story, what do you do?\u201d\n\n\u201cThis has been a struggle for all of us,\u201d he said. \u201cI struggle with it.\u201d\n\nTodd also said that legacy media journalists have not been trained to cover \u201cmoral failings,\u201d and that is why they are \u201cnot good with having to say what\u2019s right or wrong.\u201d\n\nThose in the legacy media can claim they are \u201cumpires\u201d all they want but their strike zones have always been as wide as the late Eric Gregg\u2019s for Democrats and as narrow as Tim Tschida\u2019s for Republicans, especially those who favor nationalist policies. And since new and social media can now expose their biases like K-zone has done in baseball, the media are becoming apoplectic.\n\nThose like Todd have dispassionately chosen for decades which critical pieces of information to ignore to advance their preferred narratives and, like professional wresting commentators, what leading questions to ask their favored candidates on the left. And if legacy media reporters are referees as Todd claims, they are more like rasslin\u2019 referees who, under the guise of neutrality, are critical players in working with the wrestlers to determine how matches and story lines end.\n\nCase in point\u2014the morning after news broke that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his wife were under FBI investigation for possible bank fraud and hired lawyers, Todd, who worked for Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin\u2019s presidential campaign and whose wife has been a top operative for various Democrats, did not ask Sanders a single question about the scandal."}
{"93": "The actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf was arrested in Georgia early Saturday after allegedly engaging in drunken acts of public disorder, TMZ reported Saturday.\n\nAs of Saturday morning, the Transformers star and left-wing activist remained in custody, having been booked for alleged public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and obstruction.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIt is not the first time an intoxicated LaBeouf has run into trouble with the law. In October 2015, LaBeouf was detained in Austin, Texas, after jaywalking in front of police:\n\nHey @TMZ just saw Shia Lebouf get arrested in Austin, TX ! pic.twitter.com/N81hMm5BzW \u2014 Down To Friend (@DTFtx) October 10, 2015\n\nThen, in January this year, LaBeouf was arrested in New York after getting into an altercation with another man during his performance art project designed to protest President Donald Trump.\n\nHowever, the project was eventually canceled, having been relocated four times. His initial project, located at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, involved participants standing in front of a camera and repeating the phrase \u201cHe will not divide us\u201d but was removed after gunshots were reported in the area near the exhibit.\n\nThe project was then relocated to a secret occasion but was sabotaged by 4Chan users who twice tracked down its location and replaced it with a pro-Trump T-shirt and MAGA hat. At its final location in Liverpool, England, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology removed the installation as a result of \u201cdangerous, illegal trespassing.\u201d\n\nYou can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew, or email him at bkew@breitbart.com."}
{"94": "Nearly 30 years after their initial installation, the iconic \u201crunning immigrant\u201d yellow signs that once dotted California\u2019s freeways near the southern border have been disappearing over the past several years. Now there\u2019s just one left.\n\nThe yellow signs featured a silhouette of the figure of a man running hard, with a woman trailing behind, clutching the wrist of a little girl with her pigtails flying, and the word \u201cCAUTION\u201d above the illustration. The signs were meant to alert drivers of illegal immigrants running across the freeway near border checkpoints.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThere were once a dozen or so of these signs, along the Interstate 5 Freeway near the San Ysidro border crossing south of San Diego as well as a stretch of the 5 Freeway along Camp Pendleton just before it reaches the San Clemente Border Patrol checkpoint near the Orange County line. But over the years, accidents and vandalism have wiped out most of the signs, with just one remaining now near San Ysidro.\n\nThe signs were installed after more than 100 people were killed trying to cross the freeway in the 1980s. In 1986, illegal crossings in the San Diego sector reached an all-time high, with 628,000 apprehensions, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics. According to the Los Angeles Times, the area \u2014 geographically the smallest for Border Patrol \u2014 was once the busiest sector for illegal immigration in the U.S., accounting for more than 40 percent of nationwide apprehensions in the early \u201990s.\n\nIn the 1990s, federal officials decided to erect a wall between the U.S. and Mexico in the San Diego area and as a result, illegal crossings migrated east to Arizona and Texas. By 2016 Border Patrol agents apprehended 31,891 people in the San Diego sector suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.\n\nBut in the 1980s the freeway crossings were a real danger to both the drivers and illegals trying to evade Border Patrol. In the Camp Pendleton area of the 5 Freeway, oftentimes human smugglers would order the illegals they were shuttling to cross 8-10 lanes of high-speed freeway traffic to get to the beachside and proceed on foot until they were past the checkpoint. More than a few occasions, the illegals would be run over by speeding and unsuspecting drivers right in front of their family members.\n\nCaltrans then decided to replace the ineffective text signs that read \u201cCaution: Watch for People Crossing Road,\u201d and enlisted its graphic artist John Hood to design a new sign. A Vietnam vet who grew up in a Navajo reservation, Hood drew on his experience from the war as well as stories his parents told him about the Navajo flight and came up a sign that conveyed both urgency and fear.\n\nThe new signs immediately drew lots of attention as well as criticism. Some Latino activists deemed the faceless silhouettes racist. Anti-illegal immigration advocates thought the state should not spend money to protect people who were breaking the law. But entrepreneurs loved it. Since the image remained public property and no one had to pay Caltrans for its use, souvenirs featuring a variation of the \u201crunning immigrants\u201d propped up all over Southern California on T-shirts, stickers, and flags.\n\n\u201cYou create your work, and that\u2019s the extent of it. You never envision something like that to happen,\u201d Hood to the Times about the sign\u2019s evolution. \u201cIt\u2019s become an iconic element. It lives on.\u201d"}
{"95": "Muslims in the United States should not assimilate into American society, but should instead act \u201cto please Allah and only Allah,\u201d said Linda Sarsour, a rising star among progressive Democrats, last weekend.\n\nSarsour\u2019s remarks were part of a July 1 speech given at the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA. She said:\n\nadvertisement\n\nOur number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority. Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make sure our women are protected in our community, and our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah and only Allah. We are never to cower to the powers that be, we are never to give up any part of our identity so somebody else can open a door for us. If a door does not open, guess what we do? We build a new door and walk through our own door, because we have that right in this country to also open opportunities for us and other communities.\n\nSarsour\u2019s speech was peppered with refusals to integrate into Americans\u2019 Western-style blends of secular government, religious freedoms, and civic society, or to compromise any aspects of Islamic doctrines, such as support for Muslim Palestinians living alongside Israel:\n\nWhat I believe that people can learn from my experience is that you can be unapologetically Muslim, unapologetically Palestinian-American, hold strong conviction, have strong ideology and politics and still become a mainstream American who can inspire and still resonate with people outside of the Muslim community\u2026 We do not have to give up any part of our identity\u2026 I will not be in a space where any group or any organization or individual tells me that there there is apart of my [Muslim] identity that is not welcome into any space. That, my sisters and brothers, is not going to fly with us in the Muslim community.\n\nShe urged Muslim groups to build alliances \u2013 but to not integrate \u2014 with other groups in America, saying \u201cYou are not [numerous] enough on your own \u2026. we need to build coalitions, we need allies.\u201d\n\n\n\nSarsour\u2019s orthodox Islamic separatism has attracted much criticism from Americans.\n\nLiberals: #IStandWithLinda even tho she\n\n\u2013 viciously attacked a survivor of FGM\n\n\u2013 gave the ISIS one finger salute\n\n\u2013 advocates Sharia Law pic.twitter.com/2vfdjWqV4h \u2014 Adam Blaze (@blaze42001) July 7, 2017\n\nIt is a poor fit with post-1964 U.S. society, and especially with the declared ideals of American progressives.\n\nAmerican progressives swear they oppose theocracies, favor democracies and free speech, favor economic opportunities and legal equality for women, oppose genital mutilation, and favor peace between Israel and nearly Arab Muslims.\n\nYet progressives are unwilling to treat religions as legitimate political factors. That contempt for religion allows progressives to support Sarsour in the hope she rallies immigrant Muslims against President Donald Trump.\n\nFor example, Sarsour was allowed to appear as one of the four media-boosted leaders of the January 21, 2017 \u201cWomen\u2019s March\u201d in D.C. against Trump. Similarly, she was recently invited to give a May keynote speech at the City University of New York while wearing her usual head-covering as a signal of her Islamic orthodoxy.\n\nWhen he was President, Barack Obama boosted Sarsour by naming her as a \u201cChampion of Change,\u201d as part of his campaign to recruit Muslims into the Democratic coalition of diverse minorities. Obama offered public endorsements off Islam, greater immigration of Muslims, and government aid such as welfare and healthcare. \u201cISNA continues to be a voice for cooperation and understanding \u2026 I see Muslim-American communities as our partner, and you\u2019ll always have a partner in me,\u201d Obama said in a videotaped speech to the 2015 ISNA meeting.\n\nSarsour\u2019s importance to progressives also explains why so many progressives rushed to excuse Sarsour\u2019s use of Islam\u2019s \u201cjihad\u201d war doctrine in her ISNA speech. She said:\n\nI hope that we, when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts us from us that as a form of jihad, that we are struggling against tyrants and rulers, not only abroad in the Middle East or on the other side of the world, but here, in these United States of America, where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House.\n\nThat statement is not a direct call for direct open war against the government. But it is a demand that Muslims recognize an obligation under Islam\u2019s jihad doctrine to unite in political opposition to a perceived enemy \u2014 the elected president of the United States.\n\nIn her own defense, Sarsour subsequently retweeted claims that Islam\u2019s jihad doctrine also endorses non-violent actions.\n\nResistance to oppression can be violent and non-violent struggle. Clearly, @lsarsour was talking about the latter. https://t.co/qSFOMVK6iB \u2014 Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) July 7, 2017\n\nSarsour\u2019s ISNA speech include numerous Koranic references that reinforce her demand for Muslim separatism.\n\nFor example, she said, \u201cyou can count on me every single day to use my voice to stand up, not only to people outside our community who are oppressing our communities but those inside our community who aid and abet the oppressors outside of our community.\u201d\n\nSarsour\u2019s repeated use of the term \u201coppressor\u201d evokes many verses in the Koran, which repeatedly urges bloody warfare against people who limit Muslims\u2019 power. For example, verse 2:193 in the Koran declares:\n\nFight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression.\n\nSarsour\u2019s call for Islamic self-segregation instead of integration echoes statements in the Koran, which Muslims believe is the directed and unchangeable transcript of Allah\u2019s commands. For example, the Koran tells Muslims not to depend on non-Muslim authorities, but to unite as one Muslim \u201cummah\u201d against all non-Muslim powers.\n\n\u201cO you who believe ! Do not take Jews and Christians as your patrons. They are patrons of their own people. He among you who will turn to them for patronage is one of them.\n\nThe same verse is also translated as:\n\nO you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you \u2013 then indeed, he is [one] of them.\n\nMuslims must unite \u201cas one umma we are supposed to be,\u201d Sarsour said.\n\nShe also suggested to the Islamic leaders at her speech that opposition to Trump is an individual Islamic religious duty, or a \u201cfard al-ayn,\u201d by saying \u201cwhen the day comes that something horrific happens to us or to another community, you will be responsible for normalizing this administration.\u201d\n\nSarsour\u2019s frank demands for an Islamic political movement and for a self-segregated Islamic society in the United States echoes the broadly accepted strategy of self-segregation among Islamic activists in Europe and the United States. The separatist strategy is intended to grow their populations while shielding them from surrounding secular and Christian cultures, which Islamic believers see as profoundly illegitimate. For example, Sarsour repeatedly referred to \u201cthese United States of America,\u201d not \u201cThe United States of America.\u201d\n\nThe Islamic groups are also testing that strategy in the United States. For example, Islamic activists rejected Obama\u2019s so-called \u201cCountering Violent Extremism\u201d plan, which sought to reduce Islamic attacks in the United States by fostering counterterrorism cooperation with Islamic groups, including ISNA. But Islamic groups demanded more autonomy, including the legal authority to police their own co-religionists, in exchange for a promised reduction in domestic jihad attacks.\n\nBecause of that hostility, President Donald Trump\u2019s deputies have changed the nation\u2019s anti-jihad strategy. The new strategy emphasizes policing without reliance on cooperation from activists, such as Sarsour. The new strategy is based on the likelihood that the activist Islamic groups \u2014 such as ISNA and the Sarsour\u2019s groups \u2014 can be bypassed with effective outreach and cooperation with ordinary people \u2014- parents and employers, for example \u2014 who are part of the various Muslim neighborhoods and groups.\n\nDespite the media-magnified role of ISNA and various other Muslim political groups, it is not clear how much sway they have over Muslim Americans, many of whom rarely attend mosques and frequently drink alcohol. Sarsour\u2019s speech got a tepid response at the ISNA convention, partly because she insisted that the older Muslim leaders donate more funding to political activists, such as herself and like-minded firebrands, and also delegate more political power and visibility to younger, American-born Muslims.\n\nFollow Neil Munro on Twitter @NeilMunroDC"}
{"96": "Several establishment media outlets have failed to clarify or add a correction to their original reports that Polish first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda snubbed President Donald Trump by refusing to shake his hand during his visit to Poland on Thursday.\n\nA flood of news reports fueled by a deceptively edited three-second video about first lady Kornhauser-Duda\u2019s awkward passing over of President Trump\u2019s extended hand for first lady Melania Trump\u2019s quickly spread across the Internet.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPoland\u2019s President Andrzej Duda slammed the reports in a tweet, calling them \u201cfake news\u201d:\n\nContrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit. Let's FIGHT FAKE NEWS. \u2014 Andrzej Duda (@AndrzejDuda) July 6, 2017\n\nNow, more than 24 hours later, a litany of media outlets have yet to acknowledge that their original reporting was wrong. Below are just five establishment media organizations that have failed to clarify their initial reports.\n\n1. The Washington Post\n\nIn a video article titled \u201cPolish first lady passes over Trump\u2019s handshake,\u201d the Washington Post fails to mention the Polish first lady\u2019s handshake with President Trump.\n\n\u201cDuring a visit to Warsaw on July 6, President Trump was left hanging when Poland\u2019s first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda appeared to pass over his first offer for a handshake and turned to his wife Melania instead,\u201d the Washington Post article reads.\n\n2. The HuffPost\n\nOn Thursday, the HuffPost published a video article titled \u201cPoland\u2019s First Lady Ignored The Hell Out Of Trump\u2019s Handshake.\u201d\n\nIn the piece, the Post says, \u201cPoland\u2019s first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda snubs the U.S. president.\u201d At no point does the article explain that first lady Kornhauser-Duda did actually shake President Trump\u2019s hand.\n\n3. The Daily Express\n\nThe England-based tabloid ran an article titled \u201cWATCH: Polish president\u2019s wife SNUBS Donald Trump handshake \u2013 and darts for Melania.\u201d\n\nIn the piece, Joe Barnes writes:\n\nThe awkward moment was caught on camera as Ms Kornhauser-Duda appeared to snub the US president as she moved towards her US counterpart, Melania. The footage shows Mr Trump offering his hand to Ms Kornhauser-Duda, however, the first lady of Poland misses out the US President in favour for his wife. President Trump appeared to be bemused by the event as he goes from displaying a beaming smile to a frown within seconds.\n\nBarnes, however, never mentions that President Trump and first lady Kornhauser-Duda did eventually shake hands.\n\n4. The Root\n\nIn a particularly vulgar article tilted \u201cWatch: Trump\u2019s Handshake Rejected by Polish President\u2019s Wife,\u201d The Root\u2019s Stephen A. Crockett Jr., referring to President Trump as \u201cAss Face,\u201d writes \u201cThe Polish president\u2019s wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, didn\u2019t want any part of Ass Face\u2019s tiny deplorable fingers as she straight curbed him when he came in for a handshake.\u201d\n\nAt no point does Crockett Jr., a senior editor at The Root, mention that President Trump shook the Polish first lady\u2019s hand.\n\n5. Jezebel\n\nJezebel, the left-wing feminist outlet, published an article titled \u201cThe Small Pleasure of Watching Women Slight Donald Trump.\u201d\n\nStassa Edwards writes, \u201cThe slight was likely accidental,\u201d linking to NBC News\u2019s Bradd Jaffy\u2019s tweet showing the Polish first lady shaking President Trump\u2019s hand \u2014 however, Edwards doesn\u2019t bring this fact to her readers\u2019 attention in the article.\n\nInstead, the author basks in what she calls the \u201cdelicious\u201d sight of \u201cwatching the embodiment of ego and power reduced to standing uncomfortably, emptily staring at cameras recording the moment.\u201d\n\nTo be clear, some news outlets have updated or corrected their original reports and added mention of the Polish first lady and President Trump\u2019s handshake.\n\nPerhaps practicing under the belief that journalistic integrity is more important than embarrassing President Trump, Newsweek added an update to its article titled \u201cWatch Donald Trump handshake rejected by Polish first lady in hilariously awkward exchange.\u201d\n\n\u201cAn extended video of the encounter during which President Donald Trump reaches out his arm to the first lady of Poland shows Agata Kornhauser-Duda eventually shaking the president\u2019s hand, after initially passing him by in favor of greeting first lady Melania Trump,\u201d an update on the Newsweek articles reads. \u201cThe mildly awkward and humorously relatable exchange was just that, and no apparent swipe at the U.S. president.\u201d\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter: @JeromeEHudson."}
{"97": "A Florida man who is deaf and has autism was attacked by another man who wanted to engage \u201cSuperman\u201d in a fight, police said.\n\nVIDEO: Police: Man beats autistic, deaf man known as \u2018Minneola Superhero\u2019\n\nadvertisement\n\nLake County Deputies arrested Tyler McCorvey, 26, for allegedly beating 19-year-old Rae Pitt on a street corner and bashing his head into a car, WESH reported.\n\nWOFL reports that Pitt, who dons a Superman costume each day and is known in the community as \u201cthe Minneola superhero,\u201d waves at cars and pedestrians along US 27 at Washington Street.\n\n\u201cHe\u2019s usually dressed up as Superman. Just doing his thing on the curb-getting everyone\u2019s attention. Not bothering anybody,\u201d said Abdool Shakur, who sees Pitt regularly.\n\nThe victim told police in a written statement that a man walked up to him, socked him in the chest, and bashed his head against a car.\n\nHe added that a witness came by to help after the man fled the scene.\n\nTerra Brady, the witness, told police that McCorvey walked up to Pitt, posed as a deaf person, and pretended to remove Pitt\u2019s cape, WFTV reported.\n\nBrady told WFTV that police arrested McCorvey while he ran down the street with a garbage can covering his head.\n\nDeputies charged McCorvey with battery and aggravated abuse of a disabled adult.\n\nMcCorvey told investigators that he wanted to \u201cfight Superman,\u201d but did not injure the victim.\n\nDespite the ordeal, Pitt returned to his role as the \u201cMinneola superhero,\u201d waving at those who pass by the intersection.\n\nResidents in the community say Pitt is a friendly guy who does not bother anyone.\n\n\u201cHe keeps to himself, he waves and smiles. He does his thing and it makes our community happy,\u201d said Ashley Payne."}
{"98": "Saturday, MSNBC terrorism analyst and former intel analyst Malcolm Nance reacted to President Donald Trump\u2019s speech in Poland, saying the speech was \u201cthe ultimate fulfillment of Osama Bin Laden\u2019s ideology\u201d of the clash of civilizations.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cThat speech was the ultimate fulfillment Osama Bin Laden\u2019s ideology of the belief that there would be a clash of civilizations between what he views as his crazy version of Islam and the West,\u201d Nance stated.\n\nHe explained, \u201cHis version would eventually go into a war with the West and Trump seemed to embody and enshrine that belief that the West should steal itself for a clash of civilization with other cultures, other beliefs, which pretty much spelled out, you know, the Muslim world,\u201d Nance explained.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"99": "Henry Olsen\u2019s The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism is an immensely valuable book, not least because its insights are relevant to the current debate over health care policy.\n\nThe primary argument of the book is that Reagan was not the anti-government crusader that he is often remembered to be, but sought to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal while dismantle Lyndon Johnson\u2019 Great Society.\n\nadvertisement\n\nOlsen makes a strong argument that Reagan believed government should support the needy, and that his main objection to the liberal welfare state was that it went much further than that, seizing power to serve the utopian visions of unelected bureaucrats, limiting Americans\u2019 potential for success.\n\nOlsen does not answer \u2014 nor, really, did Reagan \u2014 the question of whether the very existence of those government departments and programs leads to those statist excesses. Olsen\u2019s diagnosis of the causes of present-day Republican divisions is also inaccurate. He seems to blame the Tea Party movement for punishing deviations from conservative orthodoxy, though he does seem to acknowledge that it was the party establishment that launched the first shots after 2012, believing the party base had pushed Gov. Mitt Romney too far to the right on immigration.\n\nHe makes a comment, in passing, accusing Donald Trump of \u201cnot-so-veiled racialism and white nationalism,\u201d a claim he does not prove (and does not repeat). Yet Olsen\u2019s insights help explain why Trump attracted the same working-class voters that lifted Reagan to victory.\n\nOn Obamacare, Olsen says Reagan would have backed repeal:\n\nReagan would definitely have wanted to repeal Obamacare. Its rules and regulations put the government in the driver\u2019s seat in determining what care should be delivered, to whom, and at what price. This is exactly the sort of government-directed society that Reagan believed was opposed to American principles.\n\nHowever, he adds, Reagan also would have wanted to preserve parts of Obamacare:\n\nIt\u2019s less clear what he would have wanted to replace it with. I think, however, it is pretty clear he would have wanted to ensure that people would not lose coverage that they had received as a result of Obamacare\u2019s exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. His consistent belief that it was OK for government to pay for needed medical care for those who could not afford it makes that plain. The details as to who should be covered, how much the government should pay, and what level of care they would be guaranteed would be up for discussion, but I can\u2019t imagine that Reagan would be more concerned about money than about life.\n\nAbove all, Olsen argues, Reagan would have opposed an approach that placed conservative ideological goals ahead of what was best for ordinary people \u2014 for the \u201ctruckers and cashiers\u201d who lay at the heart of his political vision.\n\nJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the \u201cmost influential\u201d people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak."}
{"100": "Female Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Iraq are using their children as human shields in a last ditch defense of Mosul as the U.S.-led coalition has all but liberated the city.\n\n\u201cThe women are fighting with their children right beside them,\u201d Lt. Gen. Sami al-Aridi told the Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s making us hesitant to use air strikes, to advance. If it weren\u2019t for this we could be finished in just a few hours.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cFor a child, even if his father is a criminal, what has he done?\u201d Lt Gen al-Aridi said. \u201cAt the same time, my men are still taking casualties. We had 14 wounded today already.\u201d\n\nOn Friday, the Times of London reported that the organization had deployed dozens of jihadi brides to conduct a series of suicide attacks, with at least 20 detonations since Sunday. One of those attacks included an individual dressed as a veiled woman who killed 14 people and wounded 13 others by infiltrating a refugee camp in northern Iraq.\n\nAmerican Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq and Syria, previously attributed the war of attrition in Mosul on ISIS\u2019s willingness to use children as human shields and booby traps.\n\n\u201cWest Mosul is arguably the most complex and dangerous combat urban environment that any force has seen in decades,\u201d declared the American colonel.\n\nThroughout the course of the battle, ISIS has committed a number of atrocities, including the use of chemical weapons, torture, and the gang rape of children as young as ten.\n\nA report by the United Nations in April found that nearly 400,000 civilians had been displaced by the conflict, although 94,500 of them have been able to return to their homes as parts of the city have been liberated.\n\nOn Tuesday, Haider al-Abadi congratulated the coalition on its \u201cbig victory\u201d in Mosul as troops closed in on fully liberating the city.\n\n\u201cPraise be to God, we managed to liberate (Mosul) and proved the others were wrong, the people of Mosul supported and stood with our security forces against terrorism,\u201d al-Abadi said.\n\nHowever, celebrations proved premature on Friday, as ISIS launched a wave of suicide counterattacks in Mosul\u2019s Old City, although Brig. Gen Shakir Rodhan of the army\u2019s 16th Division later dismissed the incident as \u201ca normal thing in any battle.\u201d\n\nYou can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew, or email him at bkew@breitbart.com."}
{"101": "The Palestinians\u2019 decision to use the United Nations to claim Hebron\u2019s Tomb of the Patriarchs as their own heritage site is a direct slap to President Donald Trump, who is attempting to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.\n\nEarlier this year, Trump decided to delay the long-promised move of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, for fear of upsetting the Palestinians. But that did not stop the Palestinians from making their own move.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe idea that the Tomb of the Patriarchs is \u201cPalestinian\u201d is absurd. For thousands of years \u2014 long before Islam even existed \u2014 it has been among the holiest sites in Judaism, and also the oldest. According to tradition, the Tomb is the grave of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs \u2014 founders of the Jewish faith, and of monotheism itself: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. (The fourth matriarch, Rachel, is buried near Bethlehem.)\n\nThe title deed to the Tomb is provided by the Bible itself, in Genesis 23. Abraham insisted on buying the site, even though the owner was prepared to give it to him as a gift, precisely so that there would never be any confusion in the future about its ownership. Later, King David established his throne in Hebron (II Samuel 5), and Jews lived there for millennia until they were massacred in a 1929 pogrom, returning after Israel\u2019s victory in the 1967 war.\n\nThe Tomb is holy to both Muslims and Jews, and access to it is governed by a 1997 agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Rather than building upon that agreement towards a broader peace, the Palestinians have violated the spirit of the Hebron deal. They are not only claiming the Tomb, and the city, as part of a future Palestinian state. They are also claiming the past as part of a mythical Palestinian heritage, displacing the Jews.\n\nThe Palestinians\u2019 move on Hebron is toxic to the peace process. But it also destroys any complaint the Palestinians might have against the U.S. moving its embassy to Jerusalem. Indeed, moving the embassy is suddenly an urgent priority, because the Palestinians clearly intend to continue advancing their claims in Jerusalem and elsewhere. The same UN body (UNESCO) that acted against Hebron last week has also denied the Jewish connection to Jerusalem.\n\nAs the Jerusalem Post warned Sunday, the resolution on Hebron is only the beginning of a Palestinian diplomatic assault against Israel that uses fabricated history and the UN\u2019s endemic anti-Israel bias to circumvent negotiations.\n\nThe Palestinians\u2019 move in Hebron comes as Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has vowed never to end payments to terrorists and their families using U.S. taxpayer money, despite direct requests by President Trump and his emissaries. Clearly the Palestinians have no interest in compromise, nor do they fear the consequences of their provocative behavior, because thus far the U.S. and the world have been unwilling to punish them for it.\n\nMoving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is a consequence the Palestinians would understand. It need not actually change the status of the city, since the western part of Jerusalem, where Israel\u2019s government is already based, is never going to be under Palestinian control, under any peace agreement contemplated thus far. But it would end, once and for all, the Palestinian and Islamist fantasy that all of Israel will one day fall under Palestinian rule.\n\nMoving the embassy would be a unilateral decision. But as the Palestinians\u2019 own behavior shows, they have no qualms about unilateralism. Ironically, they have given President Trump a perfect opportunity to fulfill his promise.\n\nJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the \u201cmost influential\u201d people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak."}
{"102": "The head of Germany\u2019s Die Welt newspaper Ulf Poschardt has denounced the violence caused by left-wing extremists calling the rioting, \u201cthe new fascist violence of the left\u201d.\n\nMr. Poschardt, who serves as the editor in chief of Die Welt, slammed the so-called \u201cblack-block\u201d left-extremists in a new column likening them to the Blackshirts who committed acts of political violence under Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cTheir black costume reveals that their aesthetic is inspired by Mussolini\u2019s black shirts. They act like fascists. They stir up fear and uncertainty. The Black Block has been turning Hamburg into a civil war landscape since Thursday evening,\u201d he wrote.\n\n\u201cIn the run-up to the G-20 summit, there are always two kinds of protest: the one idealistic peaceful but over and over again \u2013 the hate-filled dream of a broken dystopia, as in the Batman movie \u2018The Dark Knight Rises\u2019,\u201d he added.\n\nCalling the members of the black-block, many of which are neither from Hamburg nor even Germany, \u201cadventure tourists\u201d Poschardt paints the average left-extremist as young men in \u201clate puberty\u201d who have, \u201cno more to offer politically than an archaic accumulation of rage and a regime of fear\u201d.\n\nThe problem with left-extremists has been building up for years according to Poschardt. He said that in the past police and authorities had made mistakes by \u201cconfusing squatters with homeowners\u201d, and allowing public spaces to be cleared of right-wing opinions by \u201cantifascists with their fascist love of power\u201d.\n\nAfter the left-extremist left 130 police injured and caused massive damage to property Thursday night, Poschardt points out the left wing Green party has placed the blame on the police. \u201cThis is grotesque in the face of the articulated threats of violence and a motto such as \u2018Welcome to Hell\u2019,\u201d he writes.\n\nThe Welt chief also notes the traditional idea of the left representing the working class is also largely a myth. He said that real working people were far more likely to be on the police side during a protest than the protestors who he describes as wearing expensive Northface jackets and \u201csneakers from the hipster shop\u201d.\n\nPoschardt is one of the few German media personalities to call out left wing extremism in such certain and blunt terms, though he has made controversial remarks in the past. No fan of U.S. President Donald Trump, Poschardt claimed that the best way for Germans to combat the ideas of the U.S. president was to bee \u201cmore gay\u201d."}
{"103": "Extreme-left rioters have caused havoc in a second night or rioting in Hamburg, Germany, as they protest against the G20 meeting of world leaders in a violent demonstration dubbed \u2018Welcome to Hell\u2019.\n\nOver 200 police officers have been injured in the rioting, which have seen officers deploy squadrons of water-cannon trucks, baton charges, and tear gas to disperse rioters.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAs well as looting shops and burning cars, individuals appeared to be deliberately trying to injure \u2014 and even kill police officers. Hamburg police said in a statement Friday night that a 27 year odl German citizen had been arrested after using a laser to temporarily blind two crew members flying a police helicopter over the city. Both men have been unable to return to work due to their injuries.\n\nPolice said riots were extremely aggressive in the early hours of Saturday in the city\u2019s Schanzenviertel neighborhood, which is only a few hundred meters (yards) away from the summit grounds. Hundreds of officers went into buildings to arrest rioters wearing black masks from rooftops while being attacked with iron rods and Molotov cocktails. Thirteen activists were arrested when special units stormed one building.\n\nAbout 500 people looted a supermarket in the neighborhood as well as smaller stores. Cars were torched and street fires lit as activists built barricades with garbage cans and bikes.\n\nOn Saturday morning, city cleaners took to the streets sweeping up rubble and using heavy construction equipment to haul away the leftovers of last night\u2019s barricades and fires, while in other parts of Hamburg, peaceful protesters started new marches holding up red balloons and dancing through the streets to live music.\n\nSo far, 114 have been arrested and 89 protestors have been temporarily detained.\n\nThe Associated Press contributed to this report"}
{"104": "The Jerusalem Post reports: Damning German intelligence reports emerged in June and July revealing the Iranian regime\u2019s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile technology in defiance of international sanctions and UN resolutions.\n\nA federal intelligence report also said that the Islamic Republic targets Jewish and Israeli institutions with espionage.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAccording to the German state of Hamburg\u2019s intelligence agency: \u201cthere is no evidence of an complete about-face in Iran\u2019s atomic polices in 2016\u201d [after the Islamic Republic signed the JCPOA accord with world powers in 2015, designed to curb Iran\u2019s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief]. Iran sought missile carrier technology necessary for its rocket program.\u201d\n\nRead more here."}
{"105": "It may as well have been written before President Trump even uttered a single word in Warsaw earlier this week, the Economist\u2018s panicked, hysterical, and un-bylined reflection on his speech that placed matters of identity, culture, faith and sovereignty over democracy.\n\n\u201cIn Warsaw, America\u2019s president barely mentions democracy,\u201d the article\u2019s sub-headline shrieks. For a magazine so fervently opposed to the results of the Brexit referendum (direct democracy in action), you could easily hurl accusations of hypocrisy at the magazine\u2019s editors.\n\nadvertisement\n\nInstead, we should be more wary of the ongoing fetishisation of the idea of one-man-one-vote as some kind of be all and end all of Western civilization.\n\nFirstly, in the grand scheme of all things European \u2014 and derivative nations such as the United States, Canada, Australia, etc \u2014 democracy is a relatively new concept. The cynic may well drop in this overused Churchill quote. Or this one. Again, too easy.\n\nIt strikes me as more important that we look at what the Economist is trying to achieve by declaring:\n\nWhen George W. Bush visited Poland for his first presidential visit, in 2001, he referred to democracy 13 times. When Barack Obama spoke in Warsaw in 2014, he mentioned democracy nine times. For Mr Trump, once sufficed.\n\nThe tone conveys hostility, not just towards those who do not believe the West is typified by more than the ballot box, but also to those who believe history matters, tradition matters, nation states matter, and identity matters.\n\nA refusal to deify democracy runs deeply contrary to the objectives of globalism, which explains the Economist\u2019s petulance.\n\nFor decades we have watched, almost stunned into inaction, as our children are forced to learn that patriotism is racist, and history is to be altered at the whim of the loudest, shrieking, protesters.\n\nMine isn\u2019t an anti-democracy argument either. Merely I want to reflect upon how the President struck the right balance between democracy and philosophy/history in his Warsaw speech.\n\nBut The Economist wants to give ahistorical progressivism \u2014 a tool often leveraged, even if not adhered to, by globalists \u2014 an intellectual underpinning. But there is no intelligence in this mantra. Quite the opposite.\n\nThe notion of putting democracy on a higher pedestal than tradition is anti-intellectual.\n\nConservatives and reactionaries are, today, less likely to be motivated by fear and emotion and more interested in learning lessons from the past that the left would rather ignore or rewrite.\n\nMany mistake the Economist for a pro-free market capitalist paper. Untrue.\n\nIt favours corporatism and cronyism. It isn\u2019t left or right per se. But it does favour the modern political centre-left, more interested in \u201cinternationalism\u201d, more in favour of the political establishment than the everyman. Hence its risible backing of the pro-European Union Liberal Democrats at the British general election.\n\nCurious, you might think then, that the magazine would side with the demos who elected President Donald J. Trump. Not so, either.\n\nPresident Trump won because of the electoral college, a check on a more direct democracy, and one which the Economist has previously sought to undermine in its U.S.-election coverage. Heaven forfend we suggest a return to the Senate\u2019s original role in not being a directly elected chamber either. That could really set their heads spinning.\n\nIt would be unfair however to state the paper misunderstands the idea of the tyranny of the majority. There have previously been printed warnings over referendums or ballot measures in the United States on their own pages. So what has changed since then, when in 2011, they published the following words:\n\n\u2026it is the \u201ctyranny of the majority\u201d that James Madison, a Founding Father, warned about. His reading of ancient history was that the direct democracy of Athens was erratic and short-lived, whereas republican Rome remained stable for much longer. He even worried about using the word \u201cdemocracy\u201d at all, lest citizens confuse its representative (ie, republican) form with its direct one. \u201cDemocracy never lasts long,\u201d wrote John Adams, another Founding Father. Asked what government the federal constitution of 1787 had established, Benjamin Franklin responded: \u201cA republic, if you can keep it.\u201d\n\nIn a word: Trump.\n\nIn another word: populism.\n\nThough JFK, Obama, and other centre-left politicians were swept into power on a populist wave, they represented the Wilsonian internationalism the Economist prefers. So they were okay. The same internationalism that loves democracy promotion abroad which led to the quagmire of the Iraq War: the reason we weren\u2019t able to stablise Iraq post-invasion. Our newfound obsession with putting a tick in a box.\n\nAgain, no grasp or reflection of this from the Economist as it lambasts the President of the United States for focusing on political philosophy rather than fawning over a system of electing a government.\n\nYou couldn\u2019t imagine editorialising such as: \u201cThe spectators, mainly conservative Catholics bused in from around the country and promised a free picnic at the defence ministry afterwards\u201d under an Obama presidency. In fact, these are the same tactics the left uses at elections as well as for protests and marches all around the Western world.\n\nOnce more, hypocritically, the paper takes a dig at the recently democratically elected Polish government:\n\nBut the greatest reason for Poland\u2019s government to be delighted with Mr Trump was what he did not mention: PiS\u2019s undermining of democratic institutions to entrench its own power. The party has stuffed the civil service and the diplomatic corps with loyalists and has weakened the independence of the judiciary. It has transformed the national broadcaster into a mouthpiece of the state. Independent journalists face new restrictions. The European Commission has warned the government that its reforms pose \u201ca systemic risk to the rule of law.\u201d\n\nOf course the (unelected, by the way) European Commission has said that. PiS has been steadfast in protecting Poland from the EU\u2019s migration madness, as well as taking steps to reassert Polish sovereignty.\n\nNever has the Economist mentioned how during the years the pro-establishment Civic Platform ruled, they too \u201cstuffed the civil service and diplomatic corps with loyalists\u201d. Their looting is one of the major reasons they lost to PiS in 2015.\n\nThe Economist wants to bash PiS and Trump; facts, philosophy, and even their own commitment to democracy be damned. If that means humiliating itself by performing anti-intellectual mid-air back flips in the process, it seems the editors are more than willing to do so.\n\nRaheem Kassam is the Editor in Chief of Breitbart London and tweets at @RaheemKassam"}
{"106": "Former Buccaneers player De\u2019von Hall has been arrested and accused of murdering his mother, but now the family is blaming the NFL for the whole thing.\n\nHall, who played with several teams before washing out after only a single season in 2009, was arrested in July and accused of the murder of his mother, Alecia Benson. He is being held on a $1 million bond in Los Angeles.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPolice say that Hall, 29, stomped his mother to death after an argument turned violent in April at her Los Angeles home. Benson took Hall into her home after he became homeless.\n\nOfficial 911 records reveal a call by Brandeis Eubanks, who told police that Hall had just beaten the elderly woman who he saw lying, bleeding on the ground, the Los Angeles Times reported.\n\n\u201cHe hit her. He stomped her out,\u201d Eubanks told the 911 dispatcher. \u201cThey got in a tussling match and next thing you know she was on the ground, and he was stomping her out.\u201d\n\nHall had apparently been turning more violent since he left the NFL. In fact, his cousin, Angela Benson-Williams, told CBS that his transformation was \u201clike a switch that had gone off.\u201d She added, \u201cI didn\u2019t recognize my cousin anymore.\u201d\n\nIndeed, Hall\u2019s family is now blaming the NFL itself for the situation leading to the murder and Hall\u2019s arrest.\n\nHis family now insists that the NFL ignored Hall\u2019s obvious descent into mental illness and did nothing to help him get treatment.\n\n\u201cHe turned into something that became vicious,\u201d Hall\u2019s uncle, Tony Benson, said, \u201cAnd that was the sport he was in. The more vicious, the more accolades you get.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe NFL, in my opinion, should\u2019ve done a better job in making sure they took care of this kid,\u201d Benson added in a conversation with the Times.\n\nFamily members are also saying they aren\u2019t sure if the ex-player even understands that his mother is now dead.\n\nHall\u2019s public defender also feels that the suspect may not be mentally competent to stand trial.\n\nOthers warn that jail will make his mental illness worse.\n\n\u201cIf he\u2019s in jail with the regular population, he\u2019s going to end up getting killed or killing someone else,\u201d former college classmate Dionte Holloway, said. \u201cDe\u2019von, mentally is gone. That\u2019s not the De\u2019von I know, that\u2019s not the De\u2019von I went to school with, that\u2019s not my friend, that\u2019s somebody who was out of their mind.\u201d\n\nFollow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston or email the author at igcolonel@hotmail.com."}
{"107": "Illegal border crossings along the southwest U.S. border with Mexico are at a six-year low but are up some over last month.\n\nThe total apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the southwest border with Mexico increased 10 percent from May to June, according to a new report obtained by Breitbart Texas from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. This follows a 31 percent increase from April to May.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn May 2017, border apprehensions increased from a historic 17-year low of 11,126 in April to 14,535 in May, Breitbart Texas reported. Those numbers went up again in June to 16,089, CBP officials detailed.\n\nDuring the same period in the year before, Border Patrol agents apprehended 38,089 illegal immigrants in April, 40,337 in May, and 34,450 in June.\n\nYear-to-date apprehensions are down substantially when comparing fiscal years 2016 and 2017. During the first three quarters of FY 2016, agents apprehended a total of 366,044 illegal immigrants. In that same period this year, the numbers fell to 240,930, a decrease of 34 percent.\n\nThe FY 2017 numbers are also skewed by record apprehensions in the months of October and November when massive numbers of migrants crossed the border in anticipation of the 2016 presidential election. Since President Trump took office in January, the number of apprehensions fell from 31,584 to 16,089, a decrease of 49 percent.\n\nOf the 16,089 illegal immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents in June, 36 percent (5,817) were arrested in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in South Texas. The Tucson Sector saw the second highest numbers of arrests (2,631) followed by the Laredo (1,839), San Diego (1,656), El Centro (1,280), El Paso (1,181), Del Rio (760), Yuma (548), and Big Bend (377) Sectors.\n\nThe increase in illegal immigrant crossings and apprehensions comes as the summer heat brings grave danger to those making the trip. Breitbart Texas has reported extensively on the numbers of deaths of illegal aliens during the summer heat, especially in South Texas and Arizona. The numbers of rescues of distressed aliens by Border Patrol agents continue as well.\n\nIn one day alone, the bodies of three illegal immigrants were found in Brooks County, Texas, after human smugglers abandoned and left them to die, Breitbart Texas reported.\n\nBob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook."}
{"108": "HAMBURG, Germany (AP) \u2014 Leaders of the Group of 20 rich and developing countries spent two days trying to come up with common positions on climate change, trade and migration at their summit in Hamburg, Germany.\n\nImplementation depends on the will of national governments to take action, and compliance isn\u2019t perfect. But a common statement of purpose sets the tone for policy and enables peer pressure.\n\nadvertisement\n\nHere\u2019s a look at what the leaders did \u2014 and didn\u2019t \u2014 agree on:\n\n___\n\nAGREED\n\n\u2014 To support free trade and open markets, a key promise from earlier summits aimed at helping the global economy grow in the wake of the Great Recession.\n\n\u2014 To acknowledge that countries can use \u201clegitimate trade defence instruments\u201d to protect their companies if trade partners are taking advantage of them.\n\n\u2014 To fight terrorism by, among other things, pushing internet providers to detect and remove extremist content.\n\n\u2014 To make a renewed push to reduce excess steel production capacity \u2014 primarily in China \u2014 that has led to low prices and pressure on other producers.\n\n___\n\nCOULDN\u2019T AGREE\n\n\u2014 To unanimously support the Paris agreement on climate change; a paragraph was agreed in which the summit participants \u201ctake note\u201d of the U.S. decision to withdraw. It says the other leaders agree the Paris agreement is \u201cirreversible.\u201d\n\n\u2014 To pursue United Nations sanctions such as asset freezes and travel bans against criminals smuggling people from Africa and the Middle East to Europe. A European Union push for such sanctions ran into opposition from several countries."}
{"109": "Saturday, MSNBC terrorism analyst and former intel analyst Malcolm Nance reacted to President Donald Trump\u2019s speech in Poland, saying the speech was \u201cthe ultimate fulfillment of Osama Bin Laden\u2019s ideology\u201d of the clash of civilizations.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cThat speech was the ultimate fulfillment Osama Bin Laden\u2019s ideology of the belief that there would be a clash of civilizations between what he views as his crazy version of Islam and the West,\u201d Nance stated.\n\nHe explained, \u201cHis version would eventually go into a war with the West and Trump seemed to embody and enshrine that belief that the West should steal itself for a clash of civilization with other cultures, other beliefs, which pretty much spelled out, you know, the Muslim world,\u201d Nance explained.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"110": "In his powerful speech in Warsaw Thursday, President Donald Trump assailed the secular left while praising Saint John Paul II as a \u201cgreat hero\u201d of the Polish nation, whose election as pope helped bring the communist system \u201ccrashing down.\u201d\n\n\u201cTogether, with Pope John Paul II, the Poles reasserted their identity as a nation devoted to God,\u201d Trump said in his address, which was interrupted by frequent applause. Despite \u201cevery effort to transform you, oppress you, or destroy you, you endured and overcame,\u201d he added.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cPoland is a land of great heroes,\u201d Trump said, specifically mentioning Copernicus, Chopin, and Saint John Paul II. \u201cAnd you are a people who know the true value of what you defend.\u201d\n\nRecounting some of Poland\u2019s recent history, Trump recalled June 2, 1979, when \u201cone million Poles gathered around Victory Square for their very first mass with their Polish Pope.\u201d\n\nOn that day, he said, \u201cEvery communist in Warsaw must have known that their oppressive system would soon come crashing down.\u201d\n\n\u201cThey must have known it at the exact moment during Pope John Paul II\u2019s sermon when a million Polish men, women, and children suddenly raised their voices in a single prayer.\u201d\n\nThe president observed that what the Poles were asking for, atheistic communism could never give them, despite its promises.\n\n\u201cA million Polish people did not ask for wealth. They did not ask for privilege. Instead, one million Poles sang three simple words: \u2018We Want God,\u2019\u201d he said.\n\n\u201cIn those words, the Polish people recalled the promise of a better future,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cThey found new courage to face down their oppressors, and they found the words to declare that Poland would be Poland once again.\u201d\n\nThe president held up the Christian faith of the Polish people as their greatest strength and the source of its endurance. He also suggested that it is a strength shared by the United States and Europe as well.\n\n\u201cAs I stand here today before this incredible crowd, this faithful nation, we can still hear those voices that echo through history,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out, \u2018We want God.\u2019\u201d\n\nWith that powerful declaration of who you are, \u201cyou came to understand what to do and how to live,\u201d he said. \u201cYou stood in solidarity against oppression, against a lawless secret police, against a cruel and wicked system that impoverished your cities and your souls.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnd you won. Poland prevailed. Poland will always prevail,\u201d he said.\n\nThe strength of Poland\u2019s Christian identity and undying faith, Trump suggested, provides a needed example for the rest of the world.\n\n\u201cAnd so I am here today not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as an example for others who seek freedom and who wish to summon the courage and the will to defend our civilization,\u201d he said.\n\n\u201cThe story of Poland is the story of a people who have never lost hope, who have never been broken, and who have never, ever forgotten who they are,\u201d he said.\n\nFollow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter Follow @tdwilliamsrome"}
{"111": "Without any evidence whatsoever, the Washington Post suggested on Saturday that a local \u201cconservative\u201d radio host incited James Hodgkinson, who supported Bernie Sanders and liked watching Rachel Maddow on television (both of whom are not even mentioned in the article), to shoot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and three others last month.\n\nIn a story titled, \u201cIn Alexandria shooter\u2019s hometown, rage-filled radio host channels middle America\u2019s inner frustration,\u201d the Post\u2019s Peter Holley travels to Hodgkinson\u2019s hometown of Belleville, Illinois, and finds a local \u201cconservative\u201d talk radio host who is easy to demonize.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAccording to Holley, the host uses the \u201cN-word\u201d on the air and even at Applebee\u2019s along with other \u201cracial and homophobic slurs that some have labeled hate speech.\u201d He writes that \u201cdespite being a die-hard supporter of President Trump who has perfected the art of the populist message,\u201d many of the host\u2019s \u201cbiggest fans in Illinois are disgruntled Democrats like Hodkinson.\u201d\n\nThere\u2019s just one problem. Holley has no evidence whatsoever that Hodgkinson listened to the radio host who describes himself as the \u201cGrim Reaper of Radio\u201d and \u201cproudly talks about his Caucasian heritage to anyone who will listen.\u201d\n\nThe publicity-seeking radio host tells the Post that Hodkinson \u201cprobably\u201d listened to him but \u201ccan\u2019t say for sure.\u201d\n\n\u201cI can\u2019t say for sure if this Hodgkinson guy listened to me, but he probably did,\u201d Bob Romanik, the attention-craving host, reportedly said. \u201cIf people would be honest about what drove Hodgkinson to the point of violence, you\u2019d probably see a lot of people right on the same page with him all over the country. But around here, for sure.\u201d\n\nThere is evidence, though, that Hodgkinson supported Sanders, hated Trump and Republicans, and watched Rachel Maddow\u2019s show. Neither Sanders nor Maddow are even mentioned in the piece.\n\nAccording to numerous news reports, Hodgkinson volunteered for Sanders\u2019 presidential campaign in 2016 and belonged to Facebook groups like \u201cTerminate The Republican Party\u201d in addition to others like \u201cExpose Republican Fraud,\u201d \u201cLiberal Democratic Socialist Party,\u201d \u201cBoycott The Republican Party,\u201d \u201cI Hate Donald Trump,\u201d and \u201cHealthcare & Education Berners United to Resist Trump.\u201d\n\nThe shooter also praised Maddow in a letter to a local newspaper that the radio host hates.\n\n\u201cOne of my favorite TV shows is \u2018The Rachel Maddow Show\u2019 on MSNBC,\u201d Hodgkinson wrote in 2012 to the Belleville News-Democrat, which the radio host, according to the Post, refers to as the \u201cBelleville News Slime-o-crat.\u201d Hodgkinson also wrote in that note that on a recent episode of Maddow\u2019s show, \u201cshe stated that 17 very rich men are supplying the Republican Party with more than 60 percent of their campaign contributions.\u201d\n\nAt a local protest, according to the News-Democrat, he was also reportedly \u201cpart of a \u201999%\u2019 team drawing attention to the amount of money and political power the top 1 percent of Americans acquired.\u201d On the stump, Sanders often railed against the \u201c1%\u201d during the 2016 campaign.\n\nBefore he shot Scalise and three others while GOP lawmakers were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game last month in Northern Virginia, Hodgkinson reportedly asked GOP lawmakers who were leaving the practice whether the players on the field were \u201cRepublicans or Democrats.\u201d He also reportedly had a list of Republicans that may have been a \u201chit list\u201d in his pocket.\n\nThe Post\u2019s article was so pointless that even a political editor from left-wing BuzzFeed tweeted, \u201cWhat\u2019s the point of this?\u201d\n\n\u201cThe shooter hated Trump and there\u2019s no indication in the story he listened to this pro-Trump host,\u201d the BuzzFeed editor tweeted.\n\nThis is yet another example of why nearly 70% of Americans, according to the latest Marist/NPR poll, do not trust legacy media outlets like the Post."}
{"112": "Trump-hating punk rock band Greed Day has come under fire for performing at the Mad Cool Festival Friday night in Spain mere moments after an acrobat died after falling over 100 feet during a performance.\n\nThe performer, Pedro Auni\u00f3n Monroy, fell to the ground in front of about 35,000 frightened festivalgoers. Paramedics rushed to the scene and administered first aid but Monroy died on the scene, The Mirror reports. He was 42. Monroy was performing at tribute to Prince\u2019s hit song \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nVideo of the horrific and deadly accident can be seen below.\n\nGreen Day, the event\u2019s headliner, took the stage and performed after a short delay.\n\nSeveral fans took to social media and slammed the band \u2014 who later said they were unaware of Monroy\u2019s death \u2014 for performing.\n\nIm leaving the #madcool after an acrobat died mid show, and noone in the organization said anything.#GreenDay shouldn't be playing right now \u2014 Markinho Curi (@markinhocuri) July 7, 2017\n\n@GreenDay ashamed of you. An artist died just 20 meters from you and you still play. Worst band on the planet. #MadCool \u2014 Javier Erquiaga (@jerquiag) July 7, 2017\n\nI was at #Madcool tonight & saw what happened. The organisers can say it was for security but IMO, they put economics ahead of decency. \u2014 Jackie Willcox (@JackieWillcox1) July 8, 2017\n\nThe band later tweeted their condolences and said that they learned of the performer\u2019s tragic death after their set.\n\nOur thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends \u2014 Green Day (@GreenDay) July 8, 2017\n\nMad Cool festival organizers were also criticized for what some people said was a lack of safety at the show and for allowing the Green Day to perform after the incident.\n\nA guy just died and all you guys care about is getting your money back. But then you criticise the event for wanting money. #MadCool \u2014 Eddy (@hissingmisery) July 8, 2017\n\nIf #GreenDay truly didn't know about the accident shame on #MadCool \u2014 Sophie \ud83c\udf0a (@SophieSparksFly) July 8, 2017\n\nYes it was a tragedy, but i blame the lack of safety at madcool and the fact they didnt even tell green day what had happend \u2014 Sophie \ud83c\udf0a (@SophieSparksFly) July 8, 2017\n\nRock band Slowdive, however, did not perform and said it would not be appropriate to do so after Monroy\u2019s death.\n\nDue to the tragic event at Mad Cool this evening we felt it was not appropriate to play. Our thoughts go out to those affected. \u2014 Slowdive (@slowdiveband) July 8, 2017\n\nMad Cool organizers said in a statement released on Saturday that it \u201cregrets the terrible accident,\u201d adding that Green Day was allowed to perform for \u201csecurity reasons.\u201d\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson"}
{"113": "One day after U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson denied the state of Hawaii\u2019s motion to broaden the definition of \u201cbona fide relationship\u201d for refugees and visa applicants affected by Executive Order 13780, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals followed suit.\n\nIn its June 26 decision, the Supreme Court let stand the temporary travel and refugee ban contained in that executive order but added that the ban would not apply to refugees and visa applicants with a \u201cbona fide relationship\u201d to an American resident.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe Trump administration quickly defined \u201cbona fide relationship\u201d as parent, child, sibling, spouse or fiance. The state of Hawaii wants a broader definition that would include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and possibly more distant relations.\n\nLate Friday, the Ninth Circuit said no to Hawaii\u2019s request for an emergency appeal of Judge Watson\u2019s denial, saying it lacked jurisdiction to hear the appeal.\n\nBut the liberal judges on the panel could not resist giving Hawaii a road map to get what they want.\n\nThe Ninth Circuit ruled that Hawaii should have asked Judge Watson to modify his previous injunction halting the Executive Order on March 15 (partially overturned by the Supreme Court on June 26) instead of asking for him to \u201cclarify\u201d the Supreme Court\u2019s decision.\n\nIn order to obtain a temporary partial victory in the matter, the state of Hawaii could now appeal the current 9th Circuit decision directly to the Supreme Court\u2013which could issue a ruling even though it is not in session if Justice Kennedy, who has that authority, chooses to act alone on behalf of SCOTUS.\n\nEach court of appeals is under the supervision of a justice. Kennedy is the circuit justice for the Ninth Circuit. One of the things a circuit justice can do solo is to stay any appellate decision from his circuit.\n\nAlternatively, it could follow the Ninth Circuit\u2019s advice, file a new motion with Judge Watson, and hope for a favorable ruling, which would likely be appealed by the Department of Justice to the Ninth Circuit, whose ruling would be appealed to the Supreme Court again by the losing party.\n\nMeanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reports: \u201cRefugee resettlement agencies say the State Department has given them updated instructions on President Trump\u2019s travel ban that extends the cutoff date for refugee admissions.\u201d\n\nWhen the ban was put into place last week, the administration said refugees who had booked travel would be admitted through Thursday. After that, immigration officials would block all refugees, except those who could prove they had U.S. connections, such as close relatives. The July 6 date was a government estimate of when the country would reach a 50,000-person cap on refugee admissions this fiscal year. Federal officials now estimate that the cap will be hit a week later, according to refugee groups. State Department figures show that 49,225 refugees had arrived in the U.S. as of June 30. A spokeswoman for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the State Department would not confirm the change and said more information would come out Thursday.\n\nHIAS, one of the largest refugee resettlement agencies in the country and a plaintiff in the related IRAP v. Trump case that was also decided on March 15 and consolidated with the Hawaii v. Trump case that was wrapped into the June 26 Supreme Court decision, is aggressively seeking more refugees despite the Supreme Court ruling.\n\n\u201cThe cap could be hit earlier, so it could be earlier than July 12,\u201d Mark Hetfield, the Chief Executive Officer of HIAS (formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) told The Times.\n\nThe number of refugees arriving in the United States plummeted in the first week following the June 26 Supreme Court decision, though the subsequent four days between July 4 and July 7 saw the number of refugees increase by 578, which is about the daily rate seen in the previous eight weeks.\n\nAs of Saturday morning, July 8, according to the State Department website, 49,803 refugees have been admitted to the United States in FY 2017, which is 197 below the 50,000 ceiling President Trump set in Executive Order 13780.\n\nAt the current rate of refugee arrivals, that 50,000 ceiling will likely be reached on either Monday, July 10 or Tuesday, July 11."}
{"114": "TREBISHT (ALBANIA) (AFP) \u2013 Trebisht in northeastern Albania looks like a ghost village, emptied of its residents by a rush to get Bulgarian passports that open the door to the European Union.\n\nArman Kadriu has an Albanian name, but the 12-year-old boy says he considers himself Bulgarian.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to stay here taking care of cows. I want to be a football player,\u201d he said, covered in sweat, as he juggled a ball with his feet on a dusty road in the village in the Golo Brdo region.\n\n\u201cIn England, with a Bulgarian passport, it\u2019s possible,\u201d he said, switching languages to say \u201cDovizhdane!\u201d \u2014 goodbye in Bulgarian.\n\nBulgaria and Albania do not share a border.\n\nAnd non-EU member Albania, where a law on minorities is under consideration, does not count Bulgarians among its recognised ethnic communities, unlike the Greeks, Macedonians or Serb-Montenegrins.\n\nThe ethnicity of historically Slavic-speaking communities in parts of Albania\u2019s east has long been fluid and disputed \u2014 neighbouring Macedonia claims they are ethnic Macedonians.\n\nBut according to the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, which helps in obtaining a passport, Bulgarian families have been settled in Albania since the 5th century and their descendants are part of its diaspora.\n\nNo statistics are available, but Bulgarian organisations in Albania estimate that there are around 100,000 of these descendants.\n\nThe European Parliament seems to agree: in February, it requested of Tirana \u201cthat the rights of people with Bulgarian ethnicity in the Prespa, Golo Brdo and Gora regions be enshrined in law and ensured in practice\u201d.\n\nThe recommendation \u201chas given renewed hope. Every day at least seven or eight people come to ask about obtaining Bulgarian citizenship,\u201d said Haxhi Pirushi.\n\nHe heads the Prosperity Goloborda association, which provides certificates of Bulgarian origin to Albanians and is recognised by the government in Sofia.\n\n\u2013 Mass emigration \u2013\n\nPerched on a hill, Trebisht is a sleepy place.\n\nA few men spend their day on the terrace of the \u201cDemocracy\u201d bar and others work the land, while young people travel three kilometres (two miles) to cross the Macedonian border for temporary work.\n\nOnce the village counted \u201caround 6,000 inhabitants, but more than 2,500 left four or five years ago when they had the opportunity to benefit from a Bulgarian passport,\u201d explained resident Tahir Mucina.\n\nIn the neighbouring village of Vernice \u201cthere is hardly anyone left\u201d, said the 31-year-old.\n\nSince Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, its citizens have been able to work and reside wherever they want within the bloc, with all the restrictions lifted in 2014.\n\nMucina said he was also \u201con the lookout\u201d for passports for himself, his wife and their three children.\n\nAlbania, as a whole, is a nation of mass emigration, spurred by an average wage of 340 euros ($388) and an unemployment rate affecting nearly one in three young people.\n\nSo it does not matter that Bulgaria is the poorest country in the EU. Seen from Trebisht, it is the gateway to Germany, England or some other promised land.\n\nAnd it suits Bulgaria to claim these people as their own.\n\n\u201cIt has to do with (Bulgaria\u2019s) policy on Macedonia/Macedonians who also have access to Bulgarian citizenship because they are seen as ethnic Bulgarians,\u201d said Southeast Europe expert Dimitar Bechev at the University of North Carolina.\n\n\u201cCommunities who live on the other side of the border\u2026 qualify as well.\u201d\n\nHe said Bulgarian MEPs have successfully lobbied the European Parliament to take a stand on the issue. \u201cIf Macedonia were an EU member, things would have worked another way, of course,\u201d Bechev told AFP.\n\nIn 1939, at the beginning of World War II, Bulgarians from 19 localities in Albania asked Sofia to defend their rights in what was then an Italian protectorate, according to the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad.\n\n\u201cThe toponymy (study of place names), the preservation of an archaic Bulgarian language and the local dialect and traditions are evidence of the Bulgarian character\u201d in the regions concerned, Sofia says.\n\n\u2013 Illegal path \u2013\n\nTrebisht residents who said they consider themselves Bulgarian spoke to AFP in Albanian, but said they spoke Bulgarian at home with their families.\n\n\u201cI live in Albania,\u201d said the 60-year-old Gani Shahini, \u201cbut my origins are Bulgarian\u201d.\n\nBetween 2001 and 2016, a total of 4,470 Albanian nationals applied for a Bulgarian passport and 2,608 of them were successful, according to Sofia.\n\nBut these figures do not reflect the full extent of the phenomenon. Some choose to take an illegal path, providing a market for forged passports.\n\nThree people were arrested in December 2015 and later found guilty of making Bulgarian passports on demand for between 4,000 and 10,000 euros.\n\nSince May 1, Sofia has requested documents proving the Bulgarian origin of a parent or grandparent after Bulgarian prosecutors found abuse of the system.\n\n\u201cThe only interest of these people is to obtain a passport allowing them to move freely in the European area,\u201d said Albanian historian Pellumb Xhufi.\n\nby Briseida Mema with Vessela Sergueva in Sofia"}
{"115": "President Donald Trump has created an \u201cOffice of American Innovation\u201d and an \u201cAmerican Technology Council\u201d to promote an America First economic policy. The head of the Council, Jared Kushner, hosted an event at the White House last month to promote technology week. Among the invited companies was one that did not fit in \u2013 the German tech company SAP.\n\nOn the official White House issues page on the website titled \u201cBring Back Jobs and Growth\u201d it states the following: \u201cWe will ensure that trade agreements bring good-paying jobs to our shores and support American manufacturing, the backbone of our economy. The President plans to show America\u2019s trading partners that we mean business by ensuring consequences for countries that engage in illegal or unfair trade practices that hurt American workers.\u201d Keeping jobs in the United States and not outsourcing jobs to foreign companies is part of President Trump\u2019s economic plan. That is why the inclusion of SAP was a head scratcher.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThis White House Innovation Council is pushing for American innovation and technology. Some of the most successful foreign tech companies like Deutsche Telecom, Europe\u2019s largest internet provider, wasn\u2019t invited. Alibaba, China\u2019s most popular e-commerce site, and Amazon and eBay\u2019s largest competitor, was off the invite list too. Yandex, the Google of Russia, is another successful multinational corporation that was not invited. All of these companies are at least as successful, yet it was obvious that they were not proper invitees to a summit sponsored by the American Technology Council. For some unknown reason, the CEO of SAP, was not only in attendance, but he was lecturing White House officials on the need to outsource management software purchases to this German company.\n\nSAP is a company that provides software for business management and customer relations. USA Today reported that the CEO Bill McDermott attended the summit and his company put out a statement that read that the company \u201csupports the stated goals of the American Technology Council and its efforts to transform and modernize the federal government, and innovate how agencies use and deliver information.\u201d Other reports indicated that SAP pitched the summit on the U.S. government using the German produced software for government services.\n\nThe summit served a very important purpose because the U.S. government is living in the dark ages when it comes to use of technology. President Trump spoke of a \u201csweeping transformation\u201d in the federal government\u2019s use of technology. Apple\u2019s CEO Tim Cook argued that \u201cthe U.S. should have the most modern government in the world and today it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s great to see the effort that Jared is putting in in working on things that will pay back in five and 10 and 20 years.\u201d That transformation should be with technology from Google, Microsoft, Apple and Oracle, not outsources to foreign competitors like Germany\u2019s Deutsche Telecom, China\u2019s Alibaba, Russia\u2019s Yandex and SAP.\n\nProtectionism is something that the tech community would like to avoid. It will lead to a trade war and other nations preventing American companies from providing technology and services abroad. A trade war would lead to countries walling off their economies from the world in a way where everybody would lose. That is an extreme way to push an America first economic policy.\n\nYet, another extreme idea is to use taxpayer money to purchase the services of a company wholly owned outside the United States with comparable technology made in America. The idea that the United States government would purchase the services of a foreign company when an American company does the identical function seems absurd.\n\nThe White House probably made a mistake in inviting a German technology provider to come to an \u201cAmerica First\u201d White House technology summit. Hopefully, as the White House offices of American Innovation and American technology don\u2019t outsource invitations to the next summit for other foreign companies."}
{"116": "Female Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Iraq are using their children as human shields in a last ditch defense of Mosul as the U.S.-led coalition has all but liberated the city.\n\n\u201cThe women are fighting with their children right beside them,\u201d Lt. Gen. Sami al-Aridi told the Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s making us hesitant to use air strikes, to advance. If it weren\u2019t for this we could be finished in just a few hours.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cFor a child, even if his father is a criminal, what has he done?\u201d Lt Gen al-Aridi said. \u201cAt the same time, my men are still taking casualties. We had 14 wounded today already.\u201d\n\nOn Friday, the Times of London reported that the organization had deployed dozens of jihadi brides to conduct a series of suicide attacks, with at least 20 detonations since Sunday. One of those attacks included an individual dressed as a veiled woman who killed 14 people and wounded 13 others by infiltrating a refugee camp in northern Iraq.\n\nAmerican Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq and Syria, previously attributed the war of attrition in Mosul on ISIS\u2019s willingness to use children as human shields and booby traps.\n\n\u201cWest Mosul is arguably the most complex and dangerous combat urban environment that any force has seen in decades,\u201d declared the American colonel.\n\nThroughout the course of the battle, ISIS has committed a number of atrocities, including the use of chemical weapons, torture, and the gang rape of children as young as ten.\n\nA report by the United Nations in April found that nearly 400,000 civilians had been displaced by the conflict, although 94,500 of them have been able to return to their homes as parts of the city have been liberated.\n\nOn Tuesday, Haider al-Abadi congratulated the coalition on its \u201cbig victory\u201d in Mosul as troops closed in on fully liberating the city.\n\n\u201cPraise be to God, we managed to liberate (Mosul) and proved the others were wrong, the people of Mosul supported and stood with our security forces against terrorism,\u201d al-Abadi said.\n\nHowever, celebrations proved premature on Friday, as ISIS launched a wave of suicide counterattacks in Mosul\u2019s Old City, although Brig. Gen Shakir Rodhan of the army\u2019s 16th Division later dismissed the incident as \u201ca normal thing in any battle.\u201d\n\nYou can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew, or email him at bkew@breitbart.com."}
{"117": "NBC political director Chuck Todd complained this week on MTP Daily that two generations of legacy media journalists are having trouble covering President Donald Trump because they have been trained to cover politics \u201cdispassionately.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re the umpires,\u201d Todd said, emphasizing that he and his colleagues are \u201creferees\u201d who \u201care not to show emotion.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nExasperated, Todd asked, \u201cwhen somebody is insisting on making you the story, what do you do?\u201d\n\n\u201cThis has been a struggle for all of us,\u201d he said. \u201cI struggle with it.\u201d\n\nTodd also said that legacy media journalists have not been trained to cover \u201cmoral failings,\u201d and that is why they are \u201cnot good with having to say what\u2019s right or wrong.\u201d\n\nThose in the legacy media can claim they are \u201cumpires\u201d all they want but their strike zones have always been as wide as the late Eric Gregg\u2019s for Democrats and as narrow as Tim Tschida\u2019s for Republicans, especially those who favor nationalist policies. And since new and social media can now expose their biases like K-zone has done in baseball, the media are becoming apoplectic.\n\nThose like Todd have dispassionately chosen for decades which critical pieces of information to ignore to advance their preferred narratives and, like professional wresting commentators, what leading questions to ask their favored candidates on the left. And if legacy media reporters are referees as Todd claims, they are more like rasslin\u2019 referees who, under the guise of neutrality, are critical players in working with the wrestlers to determine how matches and story lines end.\n\nCase in point\u2014the morning after news broke that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his wife were under FBI investigation for possible bank fraud and hired lawyers, Todd, who worked for Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin\u2019s presidential campaign and whose wife has been a top operative for various Democrats, did not ask Sanders a single question about the scandal."}
{"118": "Tesla\u2019s $57-per-share stock crash this week, after the company announced good news for the launch of its Model 3, seems even more justified with the release of Tesla\u2019s poor June U.S. sales figures.\n\nThe figures reveal that flagship Model S luxury sedan deliveries were down 37 percent from June 2016, and down 12.5 percent from June 2015.\n\nadvertisement\n\nBreitbart News reported on July 3 that Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla\u2019s first mass-market-vehicle had completed all National Transportation Safety Board qualifications, and a \u201chandover party\u201d would be held on July 28 to make 30 initial Model 3 customer deliveries. Musk stated that Tesla\u2019s Model 3 weekly production would ramp up to \u201c20,000 Model 3 cars per month in Dec.\u201d Musk also stated that Tesla is on track to meet its projected 80,000 deliveries in 2017 and 500,000 in 2018.\n\nThat should have been great news because Tesla has been losing about $30,000 on every car it produces, has never met a production schedule, and was only profitable in one quarter due to booking larger-than-normal government subsidies.\n\nBut the stock crashed because critics, who are closely watching Model 3 parts deliveries, estimate that Tesla\u2019s weekly production of Model 3\u2019ss would hit 30 in July; 250 in August; 1,000 in September; 1,875 in October; 3,250 in November; and 5,000 in December. That works out to delivering about 45,800 vehicles, or about half Tesla\u2019s 80,000-unit projection.\n\nThe critics had assumed that Tesla\u2019s June deliveries of its $100,000 Model S sedans and $140,000 Model X SUVs would rise by 20 percent over the prior year. But the authoritative Inside EVs blog reported that Tesla\u2019s Model S domestic deliveries for June plunged to 2,300 for 2017 \u2014 down from 3,700 for June 2016 and 2,800 for June 2015. Inside EVs reported that Tesla\u2019s Model X (which did not begin deliveries until late 2015) had June domestic deliveries of 2,200 for 2017, versus 2,145 for 2016.\n\nTesla has been delivering about the same number of foreign units per month as domestic units, so it could make a conceivable recovery of part of the delivery shortfall when the foreign numbers are reported around mid-month.\n\nMusk told shareholders on May 31 that Tesla engineers can increase production by 1,100 percent by employing \u201cphysics-first-principles\u201d to shape a new mode of industrial production that is \u201c10 or even 100 times\u201d more efficient than Detroit.\n\nMusk emphasized that the key advantage to increasing productivity for Tesla is limiting the number of moving parts in an electric motor to 20m versus up to 10,000 parts for an internal combustion engine. But Breitbart News reported 18 months ago that two-thirds of Tesla\u2019s electric motor drivetrains fail, and have to be replaced before vehicles reach 60,000 miles, according to Green Car Reports. Some Tesla owners have reported multiple replacements of drivetrains.\n\nBreitbart also reported in March that Tesla was being slammed by lawsuits from employees that complaining about racial discrimination and sexual harassment.\n\nDewitt Lambert filed suit claiming that he was continuously harassed in 2015 and 2016 by assembly-line supervisors and co-workers with a torrent of racial epithets, talk about the size of his penis, and an employee shoving a drill gun into his rear end. Lambert claims that despite the maltreatment, he was still expected to work 12-hour shifts for six days per week.\n\nAJ Vandermeyden, one of the only female Tesla engineers, filed a lawsuit in February and did interviews with the UK Guardian about alleged pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination. Ms. Vandemeyden attended Tesla\u2019s diversity town hall on March 8, where numerous women complained about being discriminated against and harassed regarding wages, promotions, working conditions and too much overtime. Ms. Vandemeyden told the Guardian that the outpouring confirmed her complaint, and that Tesla then fired her for falsely alleging pervasive harassment against women.\n\nNone of this would seem helpful at increasing productivity by 1,100 percent. Breitbart News reported that the 10,000 employees at Tesla\u2019s Fremont, California, facility are only producing an average of 12 vehicles per employee, per year. That compares to an average of 74 when GM and Toyota managed the same plant two decades earlier."}
{"119": "It took a very long time, too long \u2014 due to obstructionist partisan politics, Democrat resistance, Hillary electoral moaning and groaning, and media conflagration, aka \u201cfake news\u201d \u2014 for the President of the USA, Donald J. Trump to meet with Vladimir V. Putin, President of Russia.\n\nThe scheduled meeting was to be a meaningless icebreaker, get to know you session, lasting some thirty minutes. The media used term \u2018sizing one another up,\u2019 as it they were getting fitted for new suits.\n\nadvertisement\n\nWrong! It turned out to be a real and productive bilateral, lasting instead some two hours and fifteen minutes. Trump had prepared and had an agenda.\n\nFew predicted or expected this or the firm results that flowed, including a ceasefire in Syria (creating safe zones region by region was a Trump campaign promise \u2013 another promise kept), working groups on cyber threats, a robust discussion of meddling in our elections and other important issues. But then all of the over-exposed pundits, same old experts and the lame media always get Trump wrong and underestimate him and his abilities. They loathe him so much they can\u2019t stand his constant winning.\n\nThe signs all over the city where the meeting took place, in the larger context of the G20 Summit, Hamburg, Germany, read: \u201cWelcome to Hell.\u201d\n\nOutside, the radical anti-capitalist protesters, mostly from the German violent Left, battled with the police (over 150 have been injured).\n\nWater cannons kept them at bay while the world leaders convened. Globalization was their stated enemy when it should have been globalism. Who funds all these wackos anyway; as they always show up again and again, accomplish nothing, except attempted disruption and continual news coverage, as if they were the story?\n\nThere were four myths that the media had projected around this first meeting between the Presidents, Trump and Putin, each of which needs to be defused and put to rest. They are all liberal gibberish:\n\n# 1 Myth is that the US and Russia are equals. The facts portray the true reality. The US economy is 20x times larger than that of Russias; and Russia is in decline as a still emerging economy, entirely dependent on the (low and getting lower) price of oil & gas. The US military spends $600 billion a year and the Russians spend only $67 billion. They are no match on the land, in the air, or at sea, except for one category: nuclear weapons. When it comes to cultural influence there simply is NO comparison.\n\n# 2 Myth is that the Americans hate Russians and vice versa. This is simply not true. We have in the past been allies, foes, and frememies and the fact that Russia deals in destabilizing measures is nothing new. As if America doesn\u2019t? This meeting disappointed the CNN crowd, as it was not the movie, Rocky IV, where Rocky Balboa took a wicked beating from Captain Ivan Drago until the last round. Russia and America it appears, surprise, surprise, can get along, can work together, can relate and even agree. Someone needs to tell all the costly and duplicative committees in the US Congress investigating\u2014who knows what?\n\n# 3 Myth international relations is not , regardless what the G20 or the UN, or god forbid, the EU says\u2014all about cooperation and a collaboration of multipolar weak powers to achieve next to nothing. In fact, Thucydides got it right centuries BC, when he stated: \u201cThe strong do what they can do and the weak suffer what they must.\u201d Life may no longer be quite the Hobbesian: short, nasty and brutish but it takes realpolitik and real leadership to get things done\u2014in war and peace. Trump and Putin seem to get that where other so-called \u2018world leaders\u2019 and the weak institutions they create \u2014 don\u2019t.\n\n# 4 Myth is simply that culture matters. Trump and Team America have read Russian culture. In the classic, Icon & The Axe, former Librarian of Congress, James Billington, argued that you can\u2019t understand Russia without knowing its history, literature, and culture, which is rooted in long suffering and the strong division between Europe and Asia. The Russian psyche is one of near constant lament and doom. Trump read this and allowed Putin a way to save face, be on a grand stage and solve world problems (many of which were indeed caused by Russia itself). He respected, perhaps, used Putin\u2014who we were warned beforehand was the dangerous, all too clever spymaster and brilliant chess player \u2014 to his own aims. In the end, it was Putin who got played.\n\nCan we finally get on now with treating Russia as a valuable nation state who has interests, some of which correspond with our own, some not, and start to deal with them as a player?\n\nPutin and Trump don\u2019t have to be best buds and a bromance was never really in the cards \u2014 only in the minds of the sorry, losing party and its media pawns. But as Henry Kissinger reminded us just weeks ago, \u201cDonald Trump is right about Russia\u2026 I hope that an effort will be made for a serious dialogue which tries to avoid the drift towards confrontation.\u201d\n\nYou see, Russia remains and always will be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, as Churchill famously called it in 1939. But as he shrewdly went on to say, \u201cPerhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.\u201d\n\nTrump has put America first but also realized that Russia needs to have air to breathe and scope to maneuver. It has a role in the game even if it is not quite yet welcomed into the Western civilized \u2018community of nations\u2019. That doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t call them out as he clearly did in Poland, or undercut them when it comes to providing alternative energy options to eastern and central Europe. It only means they can be useful when and where our interests intersect. No more, no less. And like the greatest diplomat to deal with the then Russian (Soviet) nemesis, Ronald Reagan insisted: \u2018trust but verify\u2019.\n\nLet\u2019s hope the following rounds in this US-Russia match can build on what was surely a solid start, reestablish a modicum of respect for each other and our duly elected leaders, and continue to debunk all four myths.\n\nTheodore Roosevelt Malloch is a diplomat and scholar whose memoir is entitled, DAVOS, ASPEN & YALE: My Life Behind the Elite Curtain as a Global Sherpa."}
{"120": "The elitist legacy media need more socioeconomic diversity, according to a journalist whose husband, who is a garbage man, worries that his blue-collar job will embarrass her when she socializes with other reporters.\n\nJournalist Heather Bryant, a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford, recently described a conversation she had with another journalist at a conference in which she was asked what her husband did for a living:\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cHe\u2019s a truck driver and a mechanic.\u201d\n\n\u201c\u2026Oh.\u201d\n\n\u201cYeah, right now he drives for a trash company.\u201d\n\n\u201cThat must be\u2026an interesting perspective to have around.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhile they didn\u2019t explicitly say it, the person was very much thrown off by the nature of my husband\u2019s work. I was left with a very strong feeling they were expecting a more middle-class answer than a garbage worker,\u201d she wrote. \u201cJournalism has a class problem. We know this. The best internships are for students with the resources to work unpaid or with low pay in some of the most expensive cities in the country.\u201d\n\nBryant wrote that the journalist\u2019s surprised reaction made her wonder \u201chow badly our industry really lacks for people with more diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur journalism would be better if we were a better representation of the backgrounds and experiences our audiences have,\u201d she wrote.\n\nBryant\u2019s husband also seems conscious of the legacy media\u2019s elitism because he worries that he might embarrass her in front of other journalists.\n\n\u201cIf that conference interaction is how a journalist responds to my husband\u2019s job while idly chatting, how do they cover the sanitation worker that ends up in a story they are working on?\u201d Bryant asked. \u201cIf talking about someone to that person\u2019s spouse isn\u2019t enough to cause one to mask aversion, how do they talk about people to whom they feel even more distance from? What does this mean for our audience\u2019s ability to trust us?\u201d\n\nBryant then points out how when her husband goes on his garbage route in the liberal San Francisco Bay Area, he is treated the best in the \u201crougher neighborhoods and the working class areas\u201d while \u201cdisrespected\u201d and looked down upon in the wealthiest enclaves:\n\nThere\u2019s a recurring theme in the work stories he shares with me. His routes take him all over the Bay Area. Through the nice neighborhoods of the upper middle class and the extremely well off gated communities. Through the working class communities, the rougher parts of Oakland and the areas where the businesses are surrounded by the homeless. It\u2019s fascinating how people treat him based on only their knowledge that he is the trash guy. The vast majority of disrespect, rudeness and condescension happens in what many would call the nicer neighborhoods. Kindness and appreciation, people giving him a cold drink on a hot day or just saying thanks happens most in the rougher neighborhoods and the working class areas.\n\nBryan said that though her husband does \u201chave a four year degree,\u201d she would \u201cwager that he has a hell of a lot better understanding of people than some of the journalists that I know.\u201d\n\nBryant\u2019s piece indicates why so many journalists in the legacy media not treat working-class voters\u2014and the issues they care about\u2014with nothing but disdain and completely could not understand what motivated Americans who lived outside of their insular bubbles to vote for Trump in 2016.\n\nAs NBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell recently acknowledged at the LA Press Club while receiving a lifetime achievement award, the legacy media were blindsided by President Donald Trump\u2019s victory.\n\n\u201cWe have to better,\u201d she reportedly said. \u201cWe never saw it coming.\u201d\n\nIt is worth noting that the late Tim Russert\u2019s father was a garbage man. And perhaps that is why, for all of his faults, Russert was better able to earn the trust of average Americans than most of today\u2019s smug and out-of-touch reporters in the legacy media."}
{"121": "When the president of the United States picks it up, the news media picks it up.\n\n\u201cPresident Trump on Saturday retrieved a Marine\u2019s hat and placed it on the officer\u2019s head after it blew off amid turbulence from the president\u2019s helicopter,\u201d The Hill reported. ABC similarly noted in a headline, \u201cTrump stopping to pick up Marine\u2019s hat blown away by wind is president\u2019s latest viral moment,\u201d while The Daily Caller headline read: \u201cTrump stops to pick up Marine\u2019s hat.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nBut no Marine wears a hat on his head. A Marine wears a cover, which belongs on the head in most outdoor situations and belongs somewhere else in most indoor situations. Do otherwise, or call your cover a \u201chat,\u201d and life becomes unpleasant. Alas, the world of the USMC remains as alien to the Fourth Estate as MAGA country. Surely a Hill reporter calling a lance corporal an \u201cofficer\u201d indicates as much.\n\nThe Marine stood at attention as his dress-blues cover blew off his head not once but twice on Saturday. Trump patted the Marine on the shoulder before the cover, perhaps by the force of the helicopter rotor blades, again flew off his head. Trump retrieved it but wisely allowed an officer from another branch to fix the enlisted man\u2019s cover issue, which became an issue when covered by the press.\n\nPedantic? Sure. A cover is a hat is a lid is a cap. But in the age of petty-fact checkers who yell \u201cgotcha\u201d at Donald Trump for saying Hillary Clinton \u201cacid-washed\u201d her server (\u201cClinton\u2019s team used an app called BleachBit; she did not use a corrosive chemical\u201d) one can\u2019t beat the nitpickers. One can only join them."}
{"122": "TEL AVIV \u2014 Islamic State members vowed to continue their worldwide crusade to impose a caliphate governed by strict Sharia law despite the terrorist group\u2019s military losses in Mosul and expected defeat in Raqqa.\n\nBreitbart Jerusalem obtained access to correspondence posted in a closed chat group that utilizes the encrypted Telegram messaging service. The group serves as an internal Twitter of sorts for IS jihadists and sympathizers, and has been used in the past to issue IS communications.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIS member Almoatassem Billah Almusuley wrote in the encrypted group chat, \u201cThe battle in Mosul is the second largest city battle in history. The near future will show how it turned into the largest battle in the history of Islam. We will go on, with the help of Allah. Today we are in a better situation thanks to Allah. We are in a better situation and much more united \u2013 a much stronger body than in the past.\u201d\n\nAlmusuley added, \u201cClaims of Shi\u2019ites and their supporters that the battle in Mosul is over are ridiculous claims. We continue to lead heroic battles and even if we lose territory, we won\u2019t lose our religion. We are people seeking to impose the divine sharia on earth; we are not seeking control (and) rule. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve learned from our sheikhs and leaders, may Allah protect them.\u201d\n\nIS member Abi Ayoub Alsaberi wrote, \u201cAs usual, tyrants tend to deceive their supporters with victories that have not been achieved. Yesterday they claimed that they had achieved victory. But they don\u2019t understand that this is another imaginary victory, for the soldiers of the Caliphate are still alert and exposing their lies. The soldiers of the Caliphate bear the tidings of the destruction of the Shi\u2019ites and the infidels of the PKK (the Kurdish Workers\u2019 Party), and all those supported by the Americans and infidel countries. Expect more strikes. We have soldiers who will ignite the ground under your feet. These are the religious soldiers who do not fear death, but aspire to die in order to obtain martyrdom and victory with the help of Allah.\u201d\n\nIS member Abu Baker Alqarar wrote, \u201cThe followers of infidel religions and their friends, the Jews, the crusaders full of hate, the secularists, the communists, the atheists, the Shi\u2019ites, those who believe in an additional god, the Muslims who\u2019ve abandoned their faith \u2013 they must know that the Islamic State will continue to exist. It will continue to exist despite your coalition, your unity and joint action. It will continue to exist despite your armies, despite your troops, despite your numbers and despite your weapons. It will continue to exist despite your cleverness and despite your scheming. It will continue to exist despite your resentment and despite your hate.\u201d\n\nIS member Hamza Aldagastani wrote, \u201cThanks to Allah who made us soldiers of the Caliphate. We fight under the flag \u2018No god but Allah\u2019 (the flag of Islam). Russia, America and the infidel countries won\u2019t succeed in defeating our faith and our sharia. Even if they take the land from us, they won\u2019t succeed in tearing the faith from our hearts. We will return \u2026 to this Muslim land to impose Allah\u2019s sharia upon it.\u201d\n\nReuters reported on the latest for the battle of Mosul:\n\nIslamic State militants attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as they were about to lose their last redoubt in the city to an Iraqi military onslaught, security sources said on Friday.\n\n\u2026 In Mosul, IS clung to a slowly shrinking pocket on the Tigris west bank, battling for every meter with snipers, grenades and suicide bombers, which forced Iraqi troops to fight house-to-house in densely-populated blocks.\n\nThe Iraqi military has forecast final victory this week in what used to be the de facto capital of IS\u2019s \u201ccaliphate\u201d in Iraq, after a grinding eight-month, U.S.-backed offensive to wrest back the city, whose pre-war population was 2 million."}
{"123": "The Chinese state newspaper Global Times is warning authors of danmei, a majority female-written genre of online gay fiction, which communist government officials have banned; they are offering digital currency in exchange for reporting the \u201cvulgar\u201d content.\n\nGlobal Times approaches the topic from an economic standpoint, noting that outlets that have had success publishing danmei fear that they will no longer be able to profit from the content, as foreign distributors interested in buying the fiction now fear running afoul of the Chinese government.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cI was in the process of selling the adaptation rights of some of our novels and even considered bringing in investors to expand the platform. The investors initially showed great interest but after the release of the two regulations last week, they got cold feet,\u201d an anonymous owner of a danmei website told the government-controlled outlet.\n\nThe crackdown is part of a larger censorship system debuting last week. According to the Times, \u201cThe State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) made public a guideline that says all online literary platforms will be assessed annually on an 100-point scale, of which 30 points will be dedicated to \u2018value guidance and style of thought.'\u201d\n\nAll works of fiction must now \u201creflect core socialist values and abide by moral norms.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe regulation demands that up to 20 points be attributed to whether the platform has provided enough literary works that reflect core socialist values,\u201d the report added, noting that the grossest violations of \u201cvalue guidance\u201d would be any content that questions or challenges China\u2019s communist system (\u201cserious political error\u201d).\n\nSAPPRFT also unveiled a new initiative in which all movie theaters in China must screen communist propaganda before the beginning of films. Television outlets must now also broadcast at least seventeen \u201cpropagandistic drama series approved by the government\u201d each.\n\nWhile typically reflecting the Chinese government\u2019s party line and regurgitating belligerent state propaganda against the United States, the Global Times has printed comments from individuals referring to homosexuality as \u201cnormal and natural, if only present among \u201ca small group of people.\u201d That remark, from a sexologist, came in response to new online censorship from the China Netcasting Services Association (CNSA), which banned \u201cpornography and vulgar tastes including abnormal sexual relations such as incest, homosexuality, and sexual abuse, as well as unhealthy views on marriage such as sexual freedom and wife swapping.\u201d\n\nCommunist dictatorships have traditionally abused the rights of their LGBT citizens, placing them in labor camps or executing them for their \u201ccounter-revolutionary\u201d behavior. China is no different; while there are no known statistics on the number of LGBT individuals killed or imprisoned under Mao Zedong, there is ample evidence of such abuse. China legalized homosexuality in 1997, but instances of \u201cconversion therapy\u201d abuses persisted.\n\nDanmei, the gay fiction genre in question in the Times article, consists of more than consensual adult gay activity, however. Many of the stories, the New York Times reported in a 2014 story on the genre, involve abuse of men and father-son incest; though a high percentage of danmei authors are women, few of the characters created are. Some fantasies in question, the New York Times cites a scholar explaining, are meant to subconsciously \u201csubvert the state.\u201d The same year this profile surfaced, the Chinese government arrested over twenty women for participating in writing gay fiction online.\n\nThe crackdown on danmei is part of a broader initiative by President Xi Jinping to suppress any organic expressions of Chinese culture that the government cannot control and replace it with \u201csocialist family values.\u201d In December 2016, Xi delivered a speech calling for a \u201cnew trend toward socialist family values,\u201d followed by a crackdown on dating television shows, online video that did not conform to \u201ccorrect political and aesthetic standards,\u201d and any media promoting \u201cWestern lifestyles.\u201d"}
{"124": "Rosie O\u2019Donnell defended John Podesta Friday in a vulgar tweet, as the former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman sent a series of tweets aimed at President Donald Trump.\n\n\u201cYes and fuck you donald trump \u2013 fuck u,\u201d O\u2019Donnell tweeted, linking to a tweet from Podesta.\n\nadvertisement\n\nyes and fuck you donald trump \u2013 fuck u https://t.co/Dd5r8PE6nK \u2014 ROSIE (@Rosie) July 7, 2017\n\nThe former View co-host rushed to Podesta\u2019s defense as he was fending off allegations raised by President Trump during his appearance at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.\n\n\u201cEveryone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!\u201d President Trump tweeted, referring to Podesta\u2019s email hack during the 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee\u2019s reported failure to turn over its hacked email server to FBI investigators.\n\nEveryone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful! \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2017\n\nTrump\u2019s tweet comes on the heels of an explosive New York Post report, calling for a Congressional investigation into ties between Podesta and the Russian government.\n\n\u201cDuring a heated Fox Business interview with Maria Bartiromo, Hillary Clinton\u2019s former campaign chief John Podesta made a series of misleading statements when questioned about his involvement in a company that received $35 million from the Russian government while Hillary served as secretary of state,\u201d writes Breitbart News senior editor-at-large and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) president Peter Schweizer.\n\nSchweizer continues:\n\nOn Jan. 18, 2011, a small green-energy company named Joule Unlimited announced Podesta\u2019s appointment to its board. Months later, Rusnano, a Kremlin-backed investment fund founded by Vladimir Putin, pumped $35 million into Joule. Serving alongside Podesta on Joule\u2019s board were senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and oligarch Ruben Vardanyan, who has been appointed by Putin to a Russian economic-modernization council.\n\nBreitbart News reported Podesta\u2019s extensive Russian ties last August, as revealed in a 56-page GAI report titled \u201cFrom Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism.\u201d\n\nIn March, Rep. Louie Gohmert, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, called on Congress to probe Podesta\u2019s role in the Russia-funded firm, saying it \u201ccertainly needs to be reviewed to see if there really is something nefarious going on with these activities.\u201d\n\nAs for O\u2019Donnell, Friday\u2019s foul-mouthed attack against Trump was but the latest in a long-running string of attacks against the president.\n\nHours after President Trump garnered cheers and applause for his public address at the site of the Warsaw Uprising memorial in Poland, O\u2019Donnell took to Twitter to say he must have \u201cdiminished capacity.\u201d\n\ndonald trump is so stupid \u2013 he must have diminished capacity \u2013 he is not able to make sense \u2013 he rambles \u2013 he repeats \u2013 he is confused #sad \u2014 ROSIE (@Rosie) July 7, 2017\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson"}
{"125": "Wednesday at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said President Donald Trump needed \u201cto be checked out to see if he\u2019s crazy.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nWaters said, \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a president who not only does not deserve to be the president of the United States, but he deserves, in my estimations, to be impeached.\u201d\n\nShe continued, \u201cAre we going to sit here and wait for the next presidential election? I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t think so. He has done enough damage in the time he has been there.\u201d\n\nAfter an \u201cimpeach 45\u201d chant, Waters added, \u201cHe is abnormal. He needs to be checked out to see if he\u2019s crazy. So let us resist, resist, resist.\u201d\n\n(h/t NTK)\n\nFollow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN"}
{"126": "HAMBURG, Germany (AP) \u2014 The United States and Russia struck an agreement Friday on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, crowning President Donald Trump\u2019s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is the first US-Russian effort under Trump\u2019s presidency to stem Syria\u2019s six-year civil war.\n\nThe cease-fire goes into effect Sunday at noon Damascus time, according to US officials and the Jordanian government, which is also involved in the deal.\n\nadvertisement\n\nSecretary of State Rex Tillerson, who accompanied Trump in his meeting with Putin, said the understanding is designed to reduce violence in an area of Syria near Jordan\u2019s border that is critical to the US ally\u2019s security.\n\nIt\u2019s a \u201cvery complicated part of the Syrian battlefield,\u201d Tillerson told reporters after the US and Russian leaders met for more than 2 hours on the sidelines of a global summit in Hamburg, Germany.\n\nOf the agreement, he said, \u201cI think this is our first indication of the US and Russia being able to work together in Syria.\u201d\n\nFor years, the former Cold War foes have been backing opposing sides in Syria\u2019s war. Moscow has staunchly backed Syrian President Bashar Assad, supporting Syrian forces militarily since 2015. Washington has backed rebels fighting Assad. Both the US and Russia oppose Islamic State militants and say they\u2019re focused on rooting out the extremist group.\n\nThe potential pitfalls for the cease-fire are clear \u2014 not least the challenge of enforcing it.\n\nRussia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russian military police would monitor the new truce. But Tillerson said that was still being worked out. A senior US State Department official said the two countries were close to a deal on that issue and hoped to finalize it in the coming days, raising the prospect it could take effect Sunday with no clear sense of who is policing it.\n\nThat the deal was announced before all the details were ironed out was a clear indication of how eager the U.S. and Russia were to cast their leaders\u2019 first meeting as a success. Officials said the deal had been in the works for weeks or months, but came together in time for the meeting.\n\nThe deal marks a new level of involvement for the Trump administration in trying to resolve Syria\u2019s civil war.\n\nTrump ordered some 60 cruise missiles to be fired at a Syrian air base in April after accusing Assad\u2019s forces of a deadly chemical weapons attack. But his top military and national security advisers pointedly said they had no intentions of intervening to oust Assad. And they stopped short of endorsing Russian-led or UN peace mediation efforts between Assad\u2019s government and rebel groups.\n\nIsrael also is part of the agreement, one US official said, who like others wasn\u2019t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity. Like Jordan, Israel shares a border with the southern part of Syria and has been concerned about a spillover of violence as well as an amassing of Iranian-aligned forces in the south of the country.\n\nJordanian government spokesman Mohammed Momani confirmed the accord in a statement that made no reference to Israel\u2019s participation. Syrian government forces and its allies will stay on one side of an agreed demarcation line, and rebel fighters will stick to the other side. The goal is also to enable aid to reach this area of Syria, Momani told state media. US officials said the US, Russia and Jordan had only agreed on that demarcation line last week, clearing the way for a cease-fire to be worked out.\n\nThe deal is separate from an agreement that Russia, Turkey and Iran struck earlier this year to try to establish \u201cde-escalation zones\u201d in Syria with reduced bloodshed. The US, wary of Iran\u2019s involvement, stayed away from that effort. Follow-up talks this week in Kazakhstan were unable to produce agreement on finalizing a cease-fire in those zones.\n\nPrevious cease-fires in Syria have collapsed or failed to reduce violence for long, and it was unclear whether this deal would be any better.\n\nTillerson said the difference this time is Russia\u2019s interest in seeing Syria return to stability. It\u2019s an argument top US officials such as former Secretary of State John Kerry cited regularly amid his failed efforts to end a conflict that has killed as many as a half-million people, contributed to Europe\u2019s worst refugee crisis since World War II and allowed IS to emerge as a global terror threat.\n\nTillerson also repeated the US position that a \u201clong-term role for the Assad family and the Assad regime\u201d is untenable and voiced his belief that Russia might be willing to address the future leadership of Syria, in tones reminiscent of Kerry. Up to now, Assad has rejected any proposals that would see him leave power, contributing to an impasse that has prolonged Syria\u2019s suffering.\n\nEarlier in the week, Syria\u2019s military said it was halting combat operations in the south of Syria for four days, in advance of the new round of Russian-sponsored talks in Kazakhstan. That move covered the southern provinces of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida. Syria\u2019s government briefly extended that unilateral cease-fire, which is now set to expire Saturday \u2014 a day before the U.S. and Russian deal was to take effect.\n\nThe US-Russian cease-fire has no set end date, one US official said, describing it as part of broader discussions with Moscow on lowering violence in Syria.\n\nThe agreement may also reflect Iran\u2019s increasingly prominent role in Syria.\n\nWashington has been resistant to letting Iranian forces and their proxy militias gain strength in Syria\u2019s south, a position shared by Israel and Jordan. Friday\u2019s deal could help the Trump administration retain more of a say over who fills the power vacuum left behind as the Islamic State is routed from additional territory in Syria.\n\nIn recent weeks, US forces have shot down a Syrian aircraft that got too close to American forces, as well as Iranian-made drones. A renewed government offensive against Western-backed rebels and Islamic militants in the contested province of Daraa also is sparking tensions, and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters have shifted south to join the fight.\n\nIsrael has also struck Syrian military installations on several occasions in the past few weeks after shells landed in the Israeli side of the Golan Heights. Ahead of the deal, media reports in Israel have suggested unease at any arrangement that relies on Russia policing areas near its frontier.\n\nImplications for Syria aside, the deal marks the biggest diplomatic achievement for the US and Russia since Trump took office. Trump\u2019s administration has approached the notoriously strained relationship by trying to identify a few limited issues on which the countries could make progress, thereby building trust for a broader repair of ties."}
{"127": "If Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) enters the 2020 presidential race, the establishment media will be looking to Breitbart News to see how conservatives will attack her candidacy, according to Politico\u2019s California Playbook.\n\nCalifornia Playbook writers Carla Marinucci, David Siders, and Diamond Naga Siu pointed out on Friday that Harris has been garnering \u201ca flurry of will-she-or-won\u2019t-she, 2020-focused stories detailing her every move on Capitol Hill (and back in California).\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nThey then said Breitbart News is previewing where conservative media will go should Harris enter the 2020 race:\n\nRIGHT WING REVS UP: A preview of where the GOP, and the rightwing media, will go on Harris, should she ever begin serious efforts at a 2020 White House run. That first trip to Iowa hasn\u2019t been scheduled \u2013 but if or when it is, well, brace yourselves, Kamala fans:\n\nCalifornia Playbook then linked to a Breitbart News article about two veteran California journalists who ripped Harris for being a \u201cshallow\u201d and \u201cnarcissistic\u201d lightweight.\n\nIn that article, Breitbart News also pointed out that, \u201cDemocrats, especially operatives who may see her as a vehicle they can use to line their pockets or enhance their profiles en route to television contracts, have been hyping Harris as the party\u2019s next big star. \u201c\n\nThough Joel Pollak and Sam Chi at Breitbart California have kept tabs on Harris, those on the left and in the establishment media have been just as critical. This week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) seemed to tell Harris, in the words of ESPN\u2019s Lee Corso, \u201cnot so fast,\u201d when Feinstein told the New York Times, \u201cshe just got here.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat she should do is concentrate on being a good, and possibly great, United States senator,\u201d Feinstein continued.\n\nTwo veteran journalists in Harris\u2019 home state recently wrote that Harris is a show horse who is taking \u201cbad advice from the craven whisperers around her.\u201d They said there is \u201cnot much there there,\u201d and Harris is just \u201cthe flavor of the week among the big grains in the Beltway.\u201d\n\nHarris Ain\u2019t The Next Barack Obama\n\nShould Harris somehow enter the 2020 race, she would need considerable support from black Democrats, especially in the South, who make up the heart and soul of the party\u2019s primary electorate.\n\nBut here\u2019s the inconvenient truth\u2014Harris has shown no indication that she can galvanize these important voters like Barack Obama did or Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) possibly can. In fact, she has not even shown to date that she could be as effective as John Edwards was.\n\nBefore Obama won his party\u2019s nomination, columnists like Stanley Crouch were questioning whether Obama, having grown up in fairly insulated Hawaii and abroad, understood the experiences of black Americans. In his 2006 column titled, \u201cWhat Obama Isn\u2019t: Black Like Me on Race,\u201d Crouch wrote that if the country ends up with the \u201cthe son of a white woman and an African immigrant\u201d as \u201cour first black President, he will have come into the White House through a side door \u2013 which might, at this point, be the only one that\u2019s open.\u201d\n\nObama, days before the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in March of 2007, went to Selma, Alabama and delivered a rousing speech. Obama, assuaging many establishment black Democrats who were skeptical of his fast rise, said then:\n\nSo don\u2019t tell me I don\u2019t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don\u2019t tell me I\u2019m not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama. I\u2019m here because somebody marched for our freedom. I\u2019m here because y\u2019all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation. But we have got to remember now that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn\u2019t cross over the river to see the promised land. God told him, your job is done, you\u2019ll see it. You\u2019ll be at the mountaintop, and you can see what I\u2019ve promised, what I promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and I promised to you, you can see that I will fulfill that promise.\n\nBooker meanwhile, in addition to effectively using Twitter like Obama\u2019s squad used Facebook, has been giving passionate speeches in which he weaves in James Baldwin, William Lloyd Garrison, and Robert Smalls. He talks about the \u201cimpossible dream,\u201d recounts growing up in black churches, and describes how dogs were unleashed on his father and a volunteer real estate agent who was helping his family integrate a New Jersey neighborhood during his childhood.\n\nEven Edwards, in a seminal \u201csilence is betrayal\u201d address at New York\u2019s famed Riverside Church in which he apologized for supporting the Iraq War during the 2008 election cycle, appealed to the hearts of black voters better than Harris has done to date:\n\nAs he put it then, there comes a time\u2013not just for Dr. King, but for all of us\u2013when silence is betrayal\u2013not just betrayal of your own personal convictions, not just betrayal of your country, but a betrayal of our\u2013all of our joint responsibility to each other, to our brothers and sisters, not just in America, but all across the globe. \u2026 There does come a time when we have to each one of us refuse to wait for others to act\u2013a moment when we realize, as one of Dr. King\u2019s great teachers, Gandhi, said, we have to be the change that we want to see in the world. That time is here again. It\u2019s with us today. Dr. King taught us well. I believe, as I know many of you do, that it is a betrayal, a betrayal to stand silent and watch 37 million of our own brothers and sisters who literally worry about surviving, every single day. It is a betrayal to stand silent while the disparity between he rich and the poor gets worse and worse and worse, every single day in America, in the richest nation on the face of the planet. And I also believe that it is a betrayal not to speak out against an escalation of the War in Iraq.\n\nHarris, in the meantime, talks about \u201cfighting\u201d various policies, grandstands at Senate hearings, opposes Republicans taking away \u201cour stuff,\u201d and hurls F-bombs.\n\nAs Calbuzz\u2019s journalists noted, so far, there really isn\u2019t much there there."}
{"128": "CNN\u2019s anonymous source who claimed President Trump would not press Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subject of election interference during their meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, turned out to be wrong.\n\nA #FakeNews play, in three acts \u2014 surprise ending! (h/t @MattWolking) pic.twitter.com/hUcaR4zhll \u2014 Cliff Sims (@CSims45) July 8, 2017\n\nadvertisement\n\nCliff Sims, director of the White House\u2019s message strategy, tweeted several screen shots of CNN broadcasts highlighting \u201canonymous sources from the Trump administration\u201d in their chyrons and then a screen shot of a broadcast stating that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that Trump pushed Putin to talk about alleged election meddling.\n\nSims posted the screen shots with the caption \u201cA #FakeNews play, in three acts \u2014 surprise ending!\u201d\n\nA #FakeNews play, in three acts \u2014 surprise ending! (h/t @MattWolking) pic.twitter.com/hUcaR4zhll \u2014 Cliff Sims (@CSims45) July 8, 2017\n\nThe White House messaging director credited Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s Press Secretary Matt Wolking for originally tweeting out the screen shots.\n\nTillerson, who was present at the meeting, refuted the source\u2019s claims during the two-hour meeting Friday, telling reporters that the president brought up the issue \u201cregarding Russian interference in the 2016 election\u201d and \u201cpressed\u201d Putin on the issue multiple times after the Russian president denied any Russian involvement.\n\n\u201cThe two leaders agreed that this is a substantial hindrance on the ability of us to move Russian-U.S. relationships forward and agreed to exchange further work regarding commitments of noninterference in the affairs of the United States and our democratic process as well as those of other countries,\u201d Tillerson said.\n\n\u201cSo more work to be done in that regard,\u201d he added.\n\nCNN\u2019s use of erroneous anonymous sources is the latest blow to the network after three journalists resigned in June following the publication of a hit piece alleging that there was an investigation into a \u201cRussian investment fund with ties to Trump officials\u201d and cited only a single anonymous source in the report.\n\nA Breitbart News investigation caused CNN to retract the article and accept resignations from three senior network officials."}
{"129": "Extreme-left rioters have caused havoc in a second night or rioting in Hamburg, Germany, as they protest against the G20 meeting of world leaders in a violent demonstration dubbed \u2018Welcome to Hell\u2019.\n\nOver 200 police officers have been injured in the rioting, which have seen officers deploy squadrons of water-cannon trucks, baton charges, and tear gas to disperse rioters.\n\nadvertisement\n\nAs well as looting shops and burning cars, individuals appeared to be deliberately trying to injure \u2014 and even kill police officers. Hamburg police said in a statement Friday night that a 27 year odl German citizen had been arrested after using a laser to temporarily blind two crew members flying a police helicopter over the city. Both men have been unable to return to work due to their injuries.\n\nPolice said riots were extremely aggressive in the early hours of Saturday in the city\u2019s Schanzenviertel neighborhood, which is only a few hundred meters (yards) away from the summit grounds. Hundreds of officers went into buildings to arrest rioters wearing black masks from rooftops while being attacked with iron rods and Molotov cocktails. Thirteen activists were arrested when special units stormed one building.\n\nAbout 500 people looted a supermarket in the neighborhood as well as smaller stores. Cars were torched and street fires lit as activists built barricades with garbage cans and bikes.\n\nOn Saturday morning, city cleaners took to the streets sweeping up rubble and using heavy construction equipment to haul away the leftovers of last night\u2019s barricades and fires, while in other parts of Hamburg, peaceful protesters started new marches holding up red balloons and dancing through the streets to live music.\n\nSo far, 114 have been arrested and 89 protestors have been temporarily detained.\n\nThe Associated Press contributed to this report"}
{"130": "TEL AVIV \u2014 Islamic State members vowed to continue their worldwide crusade to impose a caliphate governed by strict Sharia law despite the terrorist group\u2019s military losses in Mosul and expected defeat in Raqqa.\n\nBreitbart Jerusalem obtained access to correspondence posted in a closed chat group that utilizes the encrypted Telegram messaging service. The group serves as an internal Twitter of sorts for IS jihadists and sympathizers, and has been used in the past to issue IS communications.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIS member Almoatassem Billah Almusuley wrote in the encrypted group chat, \u201cThe battle in Mosul is the second largest city battle in history. The near future will show how it turned into the largest battle in the history of Islam. We will go on, with the help of Allah. Today we are in a better situation thanks to Allah. We are in a better situation and much more united \u2013 a much stronger body than in the past.\u201d\n\nAlmusuley added, \u201cClaims of Shi\u2019ites and their supporters that the battle in Mosul is over are ridiculous claims. We continue to lead heroic battles and even if we lose territory, we won\u2019t lose our religion. We are people seeking to impose the divine sharia on earth; we are not seeking control (and) rule. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve learned from our sheikhs and leaders, may Allah protect them.\u201d\n\nIS member Abi Ayoub Alsaberi wrote, \u201cAs usual, tyrants tend to deceive their supporters with victories that have not been achieved. Yesterday they claimed that they had achieved victory. But they don\u2019t understand that this is another imaginary victory, for the soldiers of the Caliphate are still alert and exposing their lies. The soldiers of the Caliphate bear the tidings of the destruction of the Shi\u2019ites and the infidels of the PKK (the Kurdish Workers\u2019 Party), and all those supported by the Americans and infidel countries. Expect more strikes. We have soldiers who will ignite the ground under your feet. These are the religious soldiers who do not fear death, but aspire to die in order to obtain martyrdom and victory with the help of Allah.\u201d\n\nIS member Abu Baker Alqarar wrote, \u201cThe followers of infidel religions and their friends, the Jews, the crusaders full of hate, the secularists, the communists, the atheists, the Shi\u2019ites, those who believe in an additional god, the Muslims who\u2019ve abandoned their faith \u2013 they must know that the Islamic State will continue to exist. It will continue to exist despite your coalition, your unity and joint action. It will continue to exist despite your armies, despite your troops, despite your numbers and despite your weapons. It will continue to exist despite your cleverness and despite your scheming. It will continue to exist despite your resentment and despite your hate.\u201d\n\nIS member Hamza Aldagastani wrote, \u201cThanks to Allah who made us soldiers of the Caliphate. We fight under the flag \u2018No god but Allah\u2019 (the flag of Islam). Russia, America and the infidel countries won\u2019t succeed in defeating our faith and our sharia. Even if they take the land from us, they won\u2019t succeed in tearing the faith from our hearts. We will return \u2026 to this Muslim land to impose Allah\u2019s sharia upon it.\u201d\n\nReuters reported on the latest for the battle of Mosul:\n\nIslamic State militants attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as they were about to lose their last redoubt in the city to an Iraqi military onslaught, security sources said on Friday.\n\n\u2026 In Mosul, IS clung to a slowly shrinking pocket on the Tigris west bank, battling for every meter with snipers, grenades and suicide bombers, which forced Iraqi troops to fight house-to-house in densely-populated blocks.\n\nThe Iraqi military has forecast final victory this week in what used to be the de facto capital of IS\u2019s \u201ccaliphate\u201d in Iraq, after a grinding eight-month, U.S.-backed offensive to wrest back the city, whose pre-war population was 2 million."}
{"131": "While filling in as the host for MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAM Joy\u201d Saturday, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart lamented that the world views North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un as \u201ccrazy,\u201d but does not talk about how \u201cunpredictable and unstable\u201d President Donald Trump is.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201c[T]he world looks at Kim Jong-un and North Korea as like this crazy state and Kim Jong-un is the crazy leader that we all have to just pay attention to because he might do something bananas, but one thing we don\u2019t talk about is the fact that here at home in the United States we have an unpredictable and unstable leader in that we have no idea what the president will do or not do at any given hour,\u201d Capehart argued.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"132": "A Sheffield-based Muslim radio station has had its license suspended after broadcasting 25 hours of sermons \u201cencouraging and condoning\u201d violence against non-Muslims.\n\nOfcom investigated Iman FM after a complaint that the radio station had, during Ramadan, aired lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki, an influential cleric killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe broadcasting watchdog said it had \u201cserious concerns\u201d over Iman FM\u2019s decision to air the series of pre-recorded lectures by a \u201cwidely-known terrorist leader and al-Qaeda recruiter.\u201d\n\nThe material \u201camounted to a direct call to action to members of the Muslim community to prepare for and carry out violent action against non-Muslim people,\u201d according to Ofcom, which suspended the community radio station\u2019s license and gave managers 21 days to explain themselves or have the channel shut down.\n\nOfcom further stated that the cumulative effect of al-Awlaki\u2019s statements in the lectures broadcast would \u201ccondone, promote and encourage violent behaviour towards non-Muslim people,\u201d the Star reported.\n\n\u201cFurther, the lectures appeared to link violent acts of the past with actions that might potentially be taken today,\u201d judged the regulator, taking the view that the content therefore amounted to a call to action which was likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or lead to disorder.\u201d\n\nBosses at Iman FM, the mission statement of which is \u201cequipping the generation towards a cohesive society\u201d, admitted to having downloaded and broadcast Awlaki\u2019s lectures during Ramadan, but claimed to be unaware of the hate preacher\u2019s background.\n\nThe station said it had listened to 12 hours of the audio, which it \u201cjudged to be within the parameters [of the Broadcasting Code]\u201d, but only samples of the remainder were checked because of time constraints.\n\nThe Ofcom ruling described this defence as \u2018not credible\u2019.\n\nIman FM\u2019s chief executive Mohammad Mughal told the Daily Mail: \u201cThis is very, very sad because none of us had any idea this lecture was preaching hatred.\u201d\n\nA petition has been set up \u201cin support of IMAN FM being allowed to carry on with its radio broadcasts and for Ofcom not to revoke its license,\u201d on Change.org in response to the radio station\u2019s suspension from air.\n\n\u201cAs listeners we have never had any cause of complain [sic] against IMAN fm and the content has always been exemplary,\u201d says the plea, which has been signed by nearly 300 people."}
{"133": "Actress and singer Barbra Streisand rails against President Trump in a HuffPost column published Friday, calling him an \u201cangry, hollow, vindictive man.\u201d\n\nIn the article titled \u201cThe Fake President,\u201d the Academy Award-winner writes, \u201cThere\u2019s a narcissistic fraud in the White House.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe next thousand words sees Streisand questioning President Trump\u2019s mental stability, his willingness to criticize what he calls the \u201cvery fake news\u201d media, and his ability to be U.S. president.\n\n\u201cThe large ego of a small man drives the vindictiveness of his policies,\u201d Streisand writes. Elsewhere, she says, \u201cThis is the Trump presidency. He will not grow in the office.\u201d\n\n\u201cHe watches cable TV and then tweets in a rage,\u201d the singer states. \u201cHe lacks the temperament to fulfill his role. For all his ranting about fake news and fake media \u2026 the truth is, he is the fake president.\u201d\n\nStreisand has long criticized President Trump, starting last August when she became one of many celebrities to say they vow to leave the country if Trump won the election.\n\nThe 74-year-old, who was a vocal supporter of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has also called President Trump \u201cclueless, reckless, graceless and heartless.\u201d\n\nIn March, Streisand revealed that President Trump is making her gain weight.\n\nRead Streisand\u2019s \u201cThe Fake President\u201d article in its entirety here.\n\nFollow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson."}
{"134": "Former Buccaneers player De\u2019von Hall has been arrested and accused of murdering his mother, but now the family is blaming the NFL for the whole thing.\n\nHall, who played with several teams before washing out after only a single season in 2009, was arrested in July and accused of the murder of his mother, Alecia Benson. He is being held on a $1 million bond in Los Angeles.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPolice say that Hall, 29, stomped his mother to death after an argument turned violent in April at her Los Angeles home. Benson took Hall into her home after he became homeless.\n\nOfficial 911 records reveal a call by Brandeis Eubanks, who told police that Hall had just beaten the elderly woman who he saw lying, bleeding on the ground, the Los Angeles Times reported.\n\n\u201cHe hit her. He stomped her out,\u201d Eubanks told the 911 dispatcher. \u201cThey got in a tussling match and next thing you know she was on the ground, and he was stomping her out.\u201d\n\nHall had apparently been turning more violent since he left the NFL. In fact, his cousin, Angela Benson-Williams, told CBS that his transformation was \u201clike a switch that had gone off.\u201d She added, \u201cI didn\u2019t recognize my cousin anymore.\u201d\n\nIndeed, Hall\u2019s family is now blaming the NFL itself for the situation leading to the murder and Hall\u2019s arrest.\n\nHis family now insists that the NFL ignored Hall\u2019s obvious descent into mental illness and did nothing to help him get treatment.\n\n\u201cHe turned into something that became vicious,\u201d Hall\u2019s uncle, Tony Benson, said, \u201cAnd that was the sport he was in. The more vicious, the more accolades you get.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe NFL, in my opinion, should\u2019ve done a better job in making sure they took care of this kid,\u201d Benson added in a conversation with the Times.\n\nFamily members are also saying they aren\u2019t sure if the ex-player even understands that his mother is now dead.\n\nHall\u2019s public defender also feels that the suspect may not be mentally competent to stand trial.\n\nOthers warn that jail will make his mental illness worse.\n\n\u201cIf he\u2019s in jail with the regular population, he\u2019s going to end up getting killed or killing someone else,\u201d former college classmate Dionte Holloway, said. \u201cDe\u2019von, mentally is gone. That\u2019s not the De\u2019von I know, that\u2019s not the De\u2019von I went to school with, that\u2019s not my friend, that\u2019s somebody who was out of their mind.\u201d\n\nFollow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston or email the author at igcolonel@hotmail.com."}
{"135": "A week after falling to Jeff Horn in a welterweight title bout with a controversial decision, boxer Manny Pacquiao was home in his native Philippines Friday to give back to the people.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPacquiao, who earned $10 million in his recent bout and an estimated $150 million in his 2015 bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr., was captured on video giving stacks of cash to a long line of children.\n\n\u201cThis is why I still fight,\u201d the boxer said, via TMZ Sports.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"136": "Defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is considering her role in the campaign for the 2018 midterm elections, multiple sources told The Hill.\n\nClinton, who has been a prominent figure in the Democratic Party for many years, having served as first lady of the United States, a senator from New York, and Secretary of State under the Obama administration, has already launched a PAC aimed at supporting Democratic candidates in next year\u2019s elections.\n\nadvertisement\n\nHowever, a close and long-term confidante told the publication that Clinton has her eye on districts in which she defeated Donald Trump, as she plots her revenge for her electoral college landslide defeat in the presidential elections.\n\n\u201cShe\u2019s very well aware of how she performed in those districts,\u201d the source said. \u201cShe knows she won Darrell Issa\u2019s district by 8,\u201d a reference to the Californian Republican\u2019s seat seen as a Democratic target. \u201cShe knows she came close in about a handful of others. She has studied this stuff thoroughly.\u201d\n\nRecent reports suggest that Democrats plan to recruit a handful of veterans to run in the midterms, as the party seeks to regain power by appealing to middle America\u2019s patriotic voters.\n\nHowever, Republican leaders claim to be excited by the prospect of Clinton taking a prominent role in campaigning, given her toxic reputation across America. During the election campaign, Clinton also described half of the Americans supporting Donald Trump as a \u201cbasket of deplorables\u201d made up of \u201cracist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic\u201d people. She went on to lose the Electoral College vote by 232 to Donald Trump\u2019s 306.\n\n\u201cFor 30 years, Hillary Clinton has essentially been Old Faithful for Republican candidates,\u201d Republican strategist Doug Heye said. \u201cHer continued prominence only helps GOP candidates with an electorate that historically is more favorable than what they faced in the last presidential election.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe more Clinton weighs in and tries to tell voters \u2018I\u2019m back,\u2019 the more Republicans will tell her to keep on trucking,\u201d he continued.\n\nSince last November\u2019s election, Clinton has provided a myriad of excuses for her defeat, including that of \u201cmisogyny\u201d amongst the electorate. She has also given a series of bitterly divisive speeches, accusing Trump of \u201cunimaginable cruelty\u201d as his policy platform takes shape.\n\nYou can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew, or email him at bkew@breitbart.com"}
{"137": "During a meeting at the G20 in Hamburg, Germany, between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto, Trump told reporters that he \u201cabsolutely\u201d still wants Mexico to pay for a wall along the U.S. border.\n\nMembers of the press were briefly allowed in the meeting where an AP reporter asked Trump, \u201cMr. Trump, do you still want Mexico to pay for the wall?\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nTrump responded, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d\n\nThe comments came after the two presidents had delivered statements. Trump said that, at the time of the Friday meeting, it had been a \u201csuccessful day.\u201d He stated, \u201cWe\u2019re negotiating NAFTA and some other things with Mexico, and we\u2019ll see how it all turns out, but I think we\u2019ve made very good progress.\u201d\n\nNieto, through a translator, spoke of continuing a \u201cvery flowing dialogue that will allow us, of course, for the negotiation of NAFTA.\u201d He then spoke of cooperating for the security of both nations, especially their borders. \u201cAnd, of course, also working on migration issues, which is a task that both of our nations are occupied,\u201d Nieto continued. He added that both nations have a responsibility when it comes to \u201corganized crime issues.\u201d\n\nBuilding a wall along the U.S. southern border and getting Mexico to pay for it was a signature promise of Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nIn April, during a trip to the U.S. border with Mexico, Sessions vowed a \u201cnew era\u201d when it comes to those crossing the border illegally. He laid out a plan to detain all adults caught crossing the border illegally and adding 125 immigration judges to handle the extensive immigration case backlog.\n\nUnder the Trump administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called on prosecutors to work on deporting first-time illegal border crossers. In a reversal of Obama-era policies, prosecutors are using Operation Streamline to file charges against first-time illegal border crossers.\n\nBreitbart Texas recently reported that the current acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan has served as the head of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) under the Obama administration as violent criminal aliens were continuously released back into the U.S.\n\nIn late June, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced plans for taking bids and choosing contractors to build border wall prototypes in Southern California later this summer.\n\nOn June 22, Trump tweeted:\n\nMexico was just ranked the second deadliest country in the world, after only Syria. Drug trade is largely the cause. We will BUILD THE WALL! \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017\n\nBreitbart Texas\u2019s Cartel Chronicles has documented persistent violence in areas along the U.S.-Mexico border. Just days ago, Cartel Chronicles reported that there have been 92 individuals killed in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in under two months. The killings come as \u201ctwo rival factions of the Gulf Cartel have fought for control of Reynosa and its surrounding areas.\u201d\n\nBreitbart Texas also recently reported on a native of Mexico who lied to immigration officials to obtain U.S. citizenship after having pleaded guilty to raping a child in Texas. Government officials relied on his attestation that he had not been \u201carrested, indicted, charged, or detained for breaking any laws while in the country,\u201d and the individual was granted citizenship. Nearly two decades later, his U.S. citizenship was revoked as he sat in a Mexican jail for another rape.\n\nDuring the 2016 elections, President Trump highlighted many families whose loved ones have been killed by illegal aliens in the United States. Since taking office, the Trump administration has launched VOICE (Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement), a division of Department of Homeland Security, dedicated to assisting victims of illegal alien crime.\n\nFollow Michelle Moons on Twitter @MichelleDiana."}
{"138": "Tesla\u2019s $57-per-share stock crash this week, after the company announced good news for the launch of its Model 3, seems even more justified with the release of Tesla\u2019s poor June U.S. sales figures.\n\nThe figures reveal that flagship Model S luxury sedan deliveries were down 37 percent from June 2016, and down 12.5 percent from June 2015.\n\nadvertisement\n\nBreitbart News reported on July 3 that Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla\u2019s first mass-market-vehicle had completed all National Transportation Safety Board qualifications, and a \u201chandover party\u201d would be held on July 28 to make 30 initial Model 3 customer deliveries. Musk stated that Tesla\u2019s Model 3 weekly production would ramp up to \u201c20,000 Model 3 cars per month in Dec.\u201d Musk also stated that Tesla is on track to meet its projected 80,000 deliveries in 2017 and 500,000 in 2018.\n\nThat should have been great news because Tesla has been losing about $30,000 on every car it produces, has never met a production schedule, and was only profitable in one quarter due to booking larger-than-normal government subsidies.\n\nBut the stock crashed because critics, who are closely watching Model 3 parts deliveries, estimate that Tesla\u2019s weekly production of Model 3\u2019ss would hit 30 in July; 250 in August; 1,000 in September; 1,875 in October; 3,250 in November; and 5,000 in December. That works out to delivering about 45,800 vehicles, or about half Tesla\u2019s 80,000-unit projection.\n\nThe critics had assumed that Tesla\u2019s June deliveries of its $100,000 Model S sedans and $140,000 Model X SUVs would rise by 20 percent over the prior year. But the authoritative Inside EVs blog reported that Tesla\u2019s Model S domestic deliveries for June plunged to 2,300 for 2017 \u2014 down from 3,700 for June 2016 and 2,800 for June 2015. Inside EVs reported that Tesla\u2019s Model X (which did not begin deliveries until late 2015) had June domestic deliveries of 2,200 for 2017, versus 2,145 for 2016.\n\nTesla has been delivering about the same number of foreign units per month as domestic units, so it could make a conceivable recovery of part of the delivery shortfall when the foreign numbers are reported around mid-month.\n\nMusk told shareholders on May 31 that Tesla engineers can increase production by 1,100 percent by employing \u201cphysics-first-principles\u201d to shape a new mode of industrial production that is \u201c10 or even 100 times\u201d more efficient than Detroit.\n\nMusk emphasized that the key advantage to increasing productivity for Tesla is limiting the number of moving parts in an electric motor to 20m versus up to 10,000 parts for an internal combustion engine. But Breitbart News reported 18 months ago that two-thirds of Tesla\u2019s electric motor drivetrains fail, and have to be replaced before vehicles reach 60,000 miles, according to Green Car Reports. Some Tesla owners have reported multiple replacements of drivetrains.\n\nBreitbart also reported in March that Tesla was being slammed by lawsuits from employees that complaining about racial discrimination and sexual harassment.\n\nDewitt Lambert filed suit claiming that he was continuously harassed in 2015 and 2016 by assembly-line supervisors and co-workers with a torrent of racial epithets, talk about the size of his penis, and an employee shoving a drill gun into his rear end. Lambert claims that despite the maltreatment, he was still expected to work 12-hour shifts for six days per week.\n\nAJ Vandermeyden, one of the only female Tesla engineers, filed a lawsuit in February and did interviews with the UK Guardian about alleged pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination. Ms. Vandemeyden attended Tesla\u2019s diversity town hall on March 8, where numerous women complained about being discriminated against and harassed regarding wages, promotions, working conditions and too much overtime. Ms. Vandemeyden told the Guardian that the outpouring confirmed her complaint, and that Tesla then fired her for falsely alleging pervasive harassment against women.\n\nNone of this would seem helpful at increasing productivity by 1,100 percent. Breitbart News reported that the 10,000 employees at Tesla\u2019s Fremont, California, facility are only producing an average of 12 vehicles per employee, per year. That compares to an average of 74 when GM and Toyota managed the same plant two decades earlier."}
{"139": "Islamist gangs are using violence and intimidation to enforce Shariah law in parts of Germany, particularly against Chechen and Chechen-origin women in Berlin, according to reports.\n\nDer Taggespiegel reports that a threatening video of an armed man in a hood has been circulating in the Chechen community since March 2017 through the WhatsApp messaging service.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cHere, in Europe, certain Chechen women and men who look like women do unspeakable things. You know it; I know it; everybody knows it,\u201d declares the pistol-waving fanatic.\n\n\u201c[Chechen women] who flirt with men of other ethnic groups and marry them, Chechen women who have chosen the wrong path and those [creatures] who call themselves Chechen men \u2013 given half a chance, we will set all of them straight.\n\n\u201cHaving sworn on the Quran, we go out onto the streets. This is our declaration of intent; do not say that you were not warned; do not say that you did not know.\u201d\n\nThe rough justice meted out by Berlin\u2019s shariah enforcers was described by a female victim in an interview with Meduza, a Latvia-based news organisation.\n\nThe woman described how Islamists recorded her walking down the street with a non-Chechen man and later showed up at her house. She managed to conceal herself but the man was seized and brutally beaten, losing most of his teeth.\n\n\u201cWhy does my private life concern [them] at all?\u201d she asked. \u201cI don\u2019t know them. I don\u2019t want to. I\u2019m not their sister or daughter. My private life is no one else\u2019s business.\u201d\n\n\u2018Transgressions\u2019 can include acts as simple as attending mainstream German schools, where sex education classes are part of the curriculum. Many women and girls who would prefer to adopt a more Western lifestyle say they keep to some of the trappings of Islamic tradition to try and escape the Islamists\u2019 attention, but covering up is not always an adequate precaution.\n\n\u201cEven in a hijab, I was called a prostitute, for instance, for wearing eye make-up. And I thought: \u2018Who am I trying to please?\u2019\u201d said one girl.\n\n\u201cTo gain everyone\u2019s respect, you need to put on a headscarf, lower your eyes, and never leave home. But who would want such a life?\u201d asked another.\n\nBoth agreed they could not \u201cstand the hypocrisy of leading a double life\u201d.\n\nMeduza cites a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung estimate that 36,000 Chechens have entered Germany over the past five years."}
{"140": "A week after falling to Jeff Horn in a welterweight title bout with a controversial decision, boxer Manny Pacquiao was home in his native Philippines Friday to give back to the people.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPacquiao, who earned $10 million in his recent bout and an estimated $150 million in his 2015 bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr., was captured on video giving stacks of cash to a long line of children.\n\n\u201cThis is why I still fight,\u201d the boxer said, via TMZ Sports.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"141": "On this week\u2019s broadcast of \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said during the G20 meeting President Donald Trump did not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s denials that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPriebus said, \u201cThe president absolutely did not believe the denial of President Putin.\u201d\n\nHe continued, \u201cWhat the president did is he immediately came into the meeting, talked about Russian meddling in the U.S. election, went after that issue at least two separate times \u2026 This was an extensive portion of the meeting.\u201d\n\nFollow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN"}
{"142": "A Sheffield-based Muslim radio station has had its license suspended after broadcasting 25 hours of sermons \u201cencouraging and condoning\u201d violence against non-Muslims.\n\nOfcom investigated Iman FM after a complaint that the radio station had, during Ramadan, aired lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki, an influential cleric killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe broadcasting watchdog said it had \u201cserious concerns\u201d over Iman FM\u2019s decision to air the series of pre-recorded lectures by a \u201cwidely-known terrorist leader and al-Qaeda recruiter.\u201d\n\nThe material \u201camounted to a direct call to action to members of the Muslim community to prepare for and carry out violent action against non-Muslim people,\u201d according to Ofcom, which suspended the community radio station\u2019s license and gave managers 21 days to explain themselves or have the channel shut down.\n\nOfcom further stated that the cumulative effect of al-Awlaki\u2019s statements in the lectures broadcast would \u201ccondone, promote and encourage violent behaviour towards non-Muslim people,\u201d the Star reported.\n\n\u201cFurther, the lectures appeared to link violent acts of the past with actions that might potentially be taken today,\u201d judged the regulator, taking the view that the content therefore amounted to a call to action which was likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or lead to disorder.\u201d\n\nBosses at Iman FM, the mission statement of which is \u201cequipping the generation towards a cohesive society\u201d, admitted to having downloaded and broadcast Awlaki\u2019s lectures during Ramadan, but claimed to be unaware of the hate preacher\u2019s background.\n\nThe station said it had listened to 12 hours of the audio, which it \u201cjudged to be within the parameters [of the Broadcasting Code]\u201d, but only samples of the remainder were checked because of time constraints.\n\nThe Ofcom ruling described this defence as \u2018not credible\u2019.\n\nIman FM\u2019s chief executive Mohammad Mughal told the Daily Mail: \u201cThis is very, very sad because none of us had any idea this lecture was preaching hatred.\u201d\n\nA petition has been set up \u201cin support of IMAN FM being allowed to carry on with its radio broadcasts and for Ofcom not to revoke its license,\u201d on Change.org in response to the radio station\u2019s suspension from air.\n\n\u201cAs listeners we have never had any cause of complain [sic] against IMAN fm and the content has always been exemplary,\u201d says the plea, which has been signed by nearly 300 people."}
{"143": "Washington (AFP) \u2013 US President Donald Trump said Sunday it was time to work \u201cconstructively\u201d with Russia but ruled out easing sanctions while the countries remained at odds over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.\n\nadvertisement\n\nIn a series of tweets on his return from Europe, Trump said he had confronted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over evidence from the US intelligence agencies that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election when the two leaders met for the first time in Germany on Friday.\n\nAnd while he welcomed an agreement for the start of a ceasefire in Syria, Trump said it was too early to consider any easing of US sanctions on Russia \u201cuntil the Ukrainian & Syrian problems are solved.\u201d\n\n\u201cI strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election,\u201d Trump said of their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. \u201cHe vehemently denied it. I\u2019ve already given my opinion\u2026..\u201d\n\nTrump said he and Putin had talked about the idea of setting up what he called \u201can impenetrable cyber security unit\u201d to prevent hacking in future elections, without giving details.\n\nHe also said the two men had discussed the implementation of a ceasefire in Syria which began on Sunday, saying \u201cit will save lives.\u201d\n\n\u201cNow it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!\u201d\n\nSyria has been a particular source of friction between the two countries, as Russia is a close ally of President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nMoscow has warned that a program of sanctions imposed by the US, which was tightened last month, threatens their whole relationship.\n\nTrump\u2019s predecessor Barack Obama ordered the seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in the United States last December after accusing Russia of trying to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.\n\nAnd last month, the United States added 38 individuals and entities to its sanctions list targeting the Russians and pro-Russian rebels it blames for the fighting in Ukraine.\n\n\u201cSanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin. Nothing will be done until the Ukrainian & Syrian problems are solved,\u201d said Trump.\n\nThe US and Russian sides have issued sharply conflicting accounts of the meeting, with Putin saying on Saturday that Trump had been \u201csatisfied\u201d by his denials of any Russian interference in the polls.\n\nNikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said the Russian denials had been expected but cut no ice.\n\n\u201cThis is Russia trying to save face,\u201d she told CNN. \u201cAnd they can\u2019t. They can\u2019t.\n\n\u201cEverybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections.\u201d"}
{"144": "A Florida mother accused of leaving her child in a hot car claimed that the police cruiser transporting her to jail was \u201ctoo hot,\u201d police said.\n\nColleen Walker, 30, allegedly left her 5-year-old son in her car for 30 minutes while she went shopping at the Dollar General in South Daytona, WFLA reported.\n\nadvertisement\n\nA bystander alerted authorities to the child crying inside the vehicle with the window in the driver\u2019s seat left slightly ajar.\n\n\u201cHe was hanging onto the steering wheel and just screaming. It broke my heart,\u201d the bystander said.\n\nPolice and firefighters were able to get the boy out of the car and report that he is okay, according to the Palm Beach Post.\n\nFire officials who measured the temperature inside Walker\u2019s car say that it reached 107 degrees inside.\n\nOfficers arrested Walker and put her in a squad car to transport her to the jail.\n\nWalker allegedly told the arresting officer to turn up the air conditioning in the car because she said the temperature was \u201ctoo hot.\u201d\n\n\u201cShe was complaining that the backseat of our patrol car was too hot on her way to the jail, and asked the officer to turn the AC up,\u201d Lt. Dan Dietrich told WFTV.\n\nPolice charged Walker with child neglect and set her bail at $5,000. If convicted, she faces up to five years behind bars."}
{"145": "Two Republican members of Congress said they plan to introduce legislation next week that would grant lawful permanent resident status in the United States to critically ill baby Charlie Gard and his parents to allow the child to leave the U.K. and receive experimental treatment in America.\n\n\u201cDespite Charlie\u2019s heartbreaking condition, his parents have refused to give up hope,\u201d said Reps. Brad Wenstrup (OH) and Trent Franks (AZ). \u201cThey have advocated for him fiercely. They have raised over \u00a31 million to pay for their son to receive experimental treatment in the United States. They have kept fighting for his life.\u201d\n\nadvertisement\n\nWhen Congress returns to session next week, the two lawmakers say their bill \u201cwill support Charlie\u2019s parents\u2019 right to choose what is best for their son, by making Charlie a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. in order for him to receive treatments that could save his life.\u201d\n\nWenstrup and Franks continued in a statement:\n\nShould this little boy to be ordered to die \u2014 because a third party, overriding the wishes of his parents, believes it can conclusively determine that immediate death is what is best for him? Every human life has dignity, including the lives of those who cannot speak up for themselves. When government is able to overrule a parent or guardian in determining a patient\u2019s best interest, every vulnerable patient is put at risk. We offer Connie Yates and Chris Gard our heartfelt support as they seek to care for their son.\n\nIn a statement to the Washington Post, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center said Thursday it would be willing to admit Charlie and evaluate him \u201cprovided that arrangements are made to safely transfer him to [its] facility, legal hurdles are cleared, and [it receives] emergency approval from the FDA for an experimental treatment as appropriate.\u201d\n\nAlternately, the New York hospital said it could ship an experimental drug to London\u2019s Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie is a patient, along with instructions for its administration, as long as the FDA approves.\n\nCharlie is 11 months old and suffers from infantile-onset encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome \u2013 a very rare and terminal genetic disorder. Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital said they had exhausted all treatment options and told Charlie\u2019s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, their son would be removed from life support.\n\nThe London hospital declined assistance from the Vatican hospital, citing decisions by the U.K. domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights, both of which ruled that removal from life support was in Charlie\u2019s \u201cbest interests.\u201d\n\nCharlie\u2019s parents, however, raised about $1.7 million privately to take their son to the United States for experimental treatment. In the system defined by principles of socialized, government-run health care, the hospital and both the U.K. domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights have ultimate control over Charlie\u2019s healthcare decisions. Consequently, the parents\u2019 pleas to remove Charlie from the hospital, and even their request to allow the baby to return home with them for his final hours, were all rejected.\n\nThe parents\u2019 hope was renewed, however, after U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis tweeted their desire to help Charlie and his parents:\n\nTo defend human life, above all when it is wounded by illness, is a duty of love that God entrusts to all. \u2014 Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 30, 2017\n\nIf we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so. \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017\n\n\u201cThe support from the Pope and the President has given us hope,\u201d said Charlie\u2019s mother, according to the Daily Mail. \u201cThey are traditional men who believe in the family. They believe in our case and understand why we believe it is right to continue fighting so hard to save Charlie.\u201d"}
{"146": "While filling in as the host for MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAM Joy\u201d Saturday, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart lamented that the world views North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un as \u201ccrazy,\u201d but does not talk about how \u201cunpredictable and unstable\u201d President Donald Trump is.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201c[T]he world looks at Kim Jong-un and North Korea as like this crazy state and Kim Jong-un is the crazy leader that we all have to just pay attention to because he might do something bananas, but one thing we don\u2019t talk about is the fact that here at home in the United States we have an unpredictable and unstable leader in that we have no idea what the president will do or not do at any given hour,\u201d Capehart argued.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"147": "Fox News Channel \u201cJustice\u201d host Jeanine Pirro delivered a message Saturday to law enforcement members after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio skipped a police ceremony this week to protest the G20 Summit in Germany that President Donald Trump and other world leaders attended.\n\nadvertisement\n\nPirro ripped de Blasio for going to Germany to partake in the violent protests in the wake of New York City Police officer Miosotis Familia\u2019s assassination.\n\nShe then urged other officers to turn their backs on the \u201canti-Trump, leftist, socialist, cop hating\u201d New York City mayor.\n\n\u201cMy message to you is do unto others as they do unto you. Do exactly what you did after the deaths of [New York City Police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos]. Turn your backs on this anti-Trump, leftist, socialist, cop hating mayor. Do it for me,\u201d Pirro stated.\n\nFollow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent"}
{"148": "The parents of baby Charlie Gard have delivered a petition with more than 370,000 signatures to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children imploring hospital administrators to allow them to take Charlie to the U.S. for potentially life-saving treatment.\n\nAfter delivering the petition, Charlie\u2019s father Chris Gard told press Sunday afternoon: \u201cWe just want to thank you all for being here\u2026 Our special thanks goes to everyone in America and everyone in Rome who has supported us and who believes that Charlie deserves this treatment as we believe he rightly does.\n\nadvertisement\n\n\u201cWe are trying to take our son from one hospital where they do a lot of specialities there. It\u2019s a fantastic hospital. They do great things there. Unfortunately, they are not specialists in Charlie\u2019s condition. The specialists are in America.\u201d\n\nCharlie\u2019s mother Connie Yates added: \u201cThere are now seven doctors supporting us from Italy, America, and England, as well, that think that this [treatment] has a chance. There is an up to 10 per cent chance [of success] and we feel that is a chance worth taking. We\u2019ve been fighting for this medication since November. We are now in July.\u201d\n\nIterating her fight for parental rights, Ms. Yeats said: \u201cHe\u2019s our son, he\u2019s our flesh and blood. We feel it should be our right as parents to decide to give him a chance at life.\n\n\u201cLet\u2019s get Charlie the treatment he needs. If he\u2019s still fighting, we\u2019re still fighting,\u201d Mr. Gard said.\n\nCharlie\u2019s fight for life received high-profile support from U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis, with U.S. lawmakers planning to introduce legislation next week that would grant lawful permanent resident status in the U.S. to the child so he can receive treatment. The Vatican\u2019s children\u2019s hospital also offered to treat the child, but the move was barred by \u201clegal reasons\u201d.\n\nThe delivery of the petition comes after Great Ormond Street Hospital on Friday applied to the High Court for a new hearing after \u201cclaims of new evidence relating to potential treatment for his condition\u201d.\n\nSky News\u2019s Ashish Joshi spoke to a leading American pro-life lawyer who is close to the family, the chief executive of Americans United for Life, Catherine Glenn-Foster, about the new High Court hearing, who said it was \u201cvery, very, promising\u201d.\n\n\u201cIt gives [Charlie] a few more days and it means that the court can, in fact, rule that the hospital does not have the right, after all, to remove his ventilator and his feeding tube, and in fact should be transferred to another hospital to receive this cutting edge therapy or in fact even provide it right here,\u201d said Ms. Glenn-Foster.\n\nAsked how Charlie\u2019s parents were feeling, the pro-life advocate said: \u201cThey are stressed as anyone would be in this situation, where their own parental rights are being stripped away by an institution that was hired to care for their son and instituted to care for the most vulnerable among us.\n\n\u201cThat very institution hired to care for Charlie is trying to strip him of his rights and his parents of their rights to even just take him to get a second opinion.\u201d\n\nCharlie\u2019s parents want to bring Charlie to the U.S., where a specialist is willing to offer him an experimental treatment for his rare condition called infantile onset encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, or MDDS. They have raised \u00a31.3 million to pay for Charlie\u2019s treatment and transportation themselves through an online appeal. Baby Charlie has his U.S. visa, and is \u201cfit to fly\u201c.\n\nDoctors at the hospital in London, however, are determined to block the trip and ensure that Charlie\u2019s life support should be withdrawn. Hospital administrators had kept him for months whilst fighting Charlie\u2019s parents in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and even the European Court of Human Rights for permission to withdraw his life support without their consent.\n\nCharlie\u2019s case will be heard again by Mr. Justice Francis on Monday at 2 pm.\n\nFollow Victoria Friedman on Twitter Follow @friedmanpress"}
{"149": "The first vice president of the European Commission has said he expects the UK to take in migrants from North Africa as part of a new European Union (EU) programme.\n\nThe bloc is planning to take genuine refugees directly from nations like Libya, hoping to secure a deal where Libya would, in return, accept the immediate return of all migrants found crossing the Mediterranean.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe scheme would be voluntary, similar to that signed with Turkey, and different from the forced migrant quota scheme currently being resisted by Hungary and Poland.\n\nAccording to the Express, Commission Vice-President Franz Timmerman refused to reveal the number of migrants nations would be expected to take, but said at a press conference:\n\n\u201cI would imagine that the UK would be part of this discussion, especially because resettlement from the very start has been a pivotal element in the British approach to this problem.\n\n\u201cAnd if we talk about a new resettlement pledging exercise notably from Libya, Egypt, Niger, Ethiopia and Sudan which we can do in conjunction with the UNHCR, this would all meet the requirements the British governments in the past have always set for doing resettlement.\n\nThe whole idea of the #EU is that if one member is in trouble, others help out #MigrationEU pic.twitter.com/lqXuNXyBKs \u2014 Frans Timmermans (@TimmermansEU) July 4, 2017\n\n\u201cThat you work closely with the UNHCR, you identify the people who would be eligible et cetera, et cetera, and I think this is an exercise we need to do at the European level and I count on solidarity from all member states including the UK.\u201d\n\nMr. Timmerman also expressed sympathy with Italy, which is taking in thousands of migrants a week arriving on its shores, and admitted the majority of those being rescued at sea are not refugees but economic migrants, saying:\n\n\u201cMany of the people arriving in Italy today, when scrutinised, do not have the right to international protection because they don\u2019t flee from war or persecution.\n\n\u201cThey seek a better life which is a noble exercise in itself but does not grant them the right to stay in the European Union.\u201d"}
{"150": "On the anniversary of the assassination of five Dallas-area police officers gunned down in a rifle attack, Texas Governor Greg Abbott utilized a new state law to begin the process of issuing rifle-resistant body armor to officers.\n\nAbbott announced the Office of the Governor\u2019s Criminal Justice Division (CJD) is accepting applications from law enforcement agencies around the state to help in the purchasing of rifle-resistant body armor. The 85th Texas Legislature authorized the program to provide the higher level of protection to officers in the wake of five Dallas-area officers being gunned down at the end of a Black Lives Matter protest on July 7, 2016.\n\nadvertisement\n\nThe bill, authored by State Senator Royce West (D-Dallas) and State Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford), restricts the use of the funds to only be \u201cused by eligible law enforcement agencies to equip eligible officers with bullet-resistant personal body armor compliant with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) standard for rifle protection,\u201d according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the governor\u2019s office.\n\n\u201cWe must do all we can to protect those who protect us,\u201d Governor Abbott said in the written statement. \u201cThe men and women who put their lives on the line to protect Texans deserve the greatest protections, and as Governor I am committed to doing all I can to support them. I want to thank Sen. West and Rep. King for their leadership in getting this bill to my desk so we can equip law enforcement agencies across Texas with this life saving armor.\u201d\n\nOn July 7, 2017, a man hiding in a parking garage in downtown Dallas, opened fire on officers working to keep the peace during a Black Lives Matter protest, Breitbart Texas reported. Four Dallas Police Department officers and a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) police officer lost their lives. The gunman also wounded nine other officers and two civilians before being killed by an explosive charge placed by Dallas police.\n\nOfficials remembered the loss of Dallas Police Sergeant Michael Krol, Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens, Officer Michael Smith, Officer Patrick Zamarripa, and DART Officer Brent Thompson.\n\nAbbott\u2019s announcement also fell on the day the San Antonio Police Department buried one of its officers killed in the line of duty. A suspected auto burglar shot and killed San Antonio Police Officer Miguel Moreno on June 30 as he got out of his patrol car to question the suspect.\n\nTexas had the dubious distinction of having the highest number of police officers killed in the line of duty during 2016, Breitbart Texas reported. The Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) stated that the Lone Star State lost 19 officers in the line of duty \u2013 seven from gunfire. This year, three of four Texas peace officers killed in the line of duty were shot.\n\nBob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook."}