[DrCaleb]

I don't give a rats ass about FOX.

I do give a rats ass about the media that has obviously been feeding you misinformation. I have to spend a lot of time trying to present you with reality, only to find out my time is wasted.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I don't give a rats ass about FOX.

I do give a rats ass about the media that has obviously been feeding you misinformation. I have to spend a lot of time trying to present you with reality, only to find out my time is wasted.

The media lies. I get it. And no, I don't think FOX is any different and that's why I rarely post stories sourced from FOX.

As I have said a number of times lately my preferred source of news these days is Euronews.

Even accounting for their spin the fact is that they still tell stories that absolutely no one else is reporting.

FOX and CNN are all-Trump all the time and I can't watch that shit anymore.

[DrCaleb]

[DrCaleb]

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‘These are big red flags’: Halifax anthropology professor condemns hateful comments on Barho tragedy

On Feb. 19, Halifax awoke to the terrible news that an overnight house fire had claimed the lives of seven children, leaving their father critically injured after trying to save them.

Their mother managed to escape uninjured, and neighbours reported seeing people holding her back from the flames as the home was destroyed.

In the days following, there has been an outpouring of support for Kawthar and Ebraheim Barho.

Hundreds took part in a vigil on Wednesday and thousands attended a public funeral for the children on Saturday. As of Monday afternoon, more than $640,000 has been raised on a GoFundMe campaign.

But there has also been a proliferation of hateful and often racist comments on social media. Those comments continue to pile up.

One news channel in Quebec was forced to remove its story on the fire because of hateful comments, some of which said things like “good riddance,” and “we’re tired of paying for them.”

Similar comments have been posted on social media accounts belonging to Global News. Those comments are moderated according to our community standards which prohibits: unlawful, disrespectful, slanderous, racist, defamatory, malicious, threatening, profane, obscene, tasteless or pornographic remarks.

That isn’t surprising to Alex Khasnabish, a Mount Saint Vincent University professor of anthropology who studies the rise of fascism. He says some of the comments he’s seen online about stories related to the fire have been “outright hate speech.”

“I think that that absolutely crosses the line from the kind of commentary we might expect around a tragedy like this, wondering why it happened,” he said.

. . .

“I would just hope that people would look in the mirror, at this moment, and challenge themselves to be better,” Khasnabish said.

“But if they can’t do that then I would say it’s incumbent on the rest of us to actually hold our family, friends, coworkers, and community members to account on issues like this. Fascism is never defeated by ignoring it, it’s only ever defeated by people standing strongly together against it.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/4996925/hate ... o-tragedy/

[BeaverFever]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

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‘These are big red flags’: Halifax anthropology professor condemns hateful comments on Barho tragedy

On Feb. 19, Halifax awoke to the terrible news that an overnight house fire had claimed the lives of seven children, leaving their father critically injured after trying to save them.

Their mother managed to escape uninjured, and neighbours reported seeing people holding her back from the flames as the home was destroyed.

In the days following, there has been an outpouring of support for Kawthar and Ebraheim Barho.

Hundreds took part in a vigil on Wednesday and thousands attended a public funeral for the children on Saturday. As of Monday afternoon, more than $640,000 has been raised on a GoFundMe campaign.

But there has also been a proliferation of hateful and often racist comments on social media. Those comments continue to pile up.

One news channel in Quebec was forced to remove its story on the fire because of hateful comments, some of which said things like “good riddance,” and “we’re tired of paying for them.”

Similar comments have been posted on social media accounts belonging to Global News. Those comments are moderated according to our community standards which prohibits: unlawful, disrespectful, slanderous, racist, defamatory, malicious, threatening, profane, obscene, tasteless or pornographic remarks.

That isn’t surprising to Alex Khasnabish, a Mount Saint Vincent University professor of anthropology who studies the rise of fascism. He says some of the comments he’s seen online about stories related to the fire have been “outright hate speech.”

“I think that that absolutely crosses the line from the kind of commentary we might expect around a tragedy like this, wondering why it happened,” he said.

. . .

“I would just hope that people would look in the mirror, at this moment, and challenge themselves to be better,” Khasnabish said.

“But if they can’t do that then I would say it’s incumbent on the rest of us to actually hold our family, friends, coworkers, and community members to account on issues like this. Fascism is never defeated by ignoring it, it’s only ever defeated by people standing strongly together against it.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/4996925/hate ... o-tragedy/

That’s what bathing in toxic cesspool of the Hateful Right does to you

[BeaverFever]

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Saskatchewan man charged with threatening prime minister in phone call

The Canadian Press

Published Feb. 28, 2019 2:23 p.m. ET

RCMP Saskatchewan genericRCMP Saskatchewan generic
REGINA - Saskatchewan RCMP have charged a man after he allegedly threatened to shoot the prime minister and blow up Parliament buildings.

Mounties say the comments were made in a phone call to a federal government agency on Feb. 12.

The call was then reported to officers in Nipawin, Sask.

A 52-year-old man from Nipawin was arrested this week and charged with the offence of uttering threats against Parliament.

David Petersen is to appear in Nipawin provincial court on March 6.

RCMP say Petersen has had no direct contact with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/canada ... 17021.html

[BartSimpson]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

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Saskatchewan man charged with threatening prime minister in phone call

The Canadian Press

Published Feb. 28, 2019 2:23 p.m. ET

RCMP Saskatchewan genericRCMP Saskatchewan generic
REGINA - Saskatchewan RCMP have charged a man after he allegedly threatened to shoot the prime minister and blow up Parliament buildings.

Mounties say the comments were made in a phone call to a federal government agency on Feb. 12.

The call was then reported to officers in Nipawin, Sask.

A 52-year-old man from Nipawin was arrested this week and charged with the offence of uttering threats against Parliament.

David Petersen is to appear in Nipawin provincial court on March 6.

RCMP say Petersen has had no direct contact with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/canada ... 17021.html

David Petersen is/was a Fire and Building Inspector for the town of Nipawin. He's got a bug up his ass over what seems to be a lot of corruption in the town and there's several mentions of litigation over the years involving his outspoken comments.

He is noted for helping to raise funds for the families of the victims in the Broncos bus tragedy.

He's listed as an investor in several properties in the region.

His Facebook page has been scrubbed clean. His posts on other people's pages have all been censored/removed.

Can't see his Linked-In, either.

Can't determine his political leanings from any of this so maybe you can explain why you're jumping to the conclusion that this man is a right-wing fanatic?

[DrCaleb]

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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar likened to 9/11 terrorist in poster at Republican event

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has condemned a poster, displayed at a Republican Party-sponsored event in the West Virginia legislature, that falsely linked her to the 9/11 attacks and appeared to liken her to a terrorist.

An image of the poster was tweeted out by Democratic State Rep. Mike Pushkin after he spotted it in the state legislature building in Charleston, Va., during the ‘WV GOP Day’ event on Friday.

It shows an image of the burning twin towers with the words “Never forget — you said..” Below it is a picture of the Muslim Congresswoman along with the words “I am the proof — you have forgotten.”

Omar, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women elected to U.S. Congress, said the poster was just the latest example of the Islamophobia she regularly faces.

“No wonder why I am on the ‘Hitlist’ of a domestic terrorist and ‘Assassinate Ilhan Omar’ is written on my local gas stations,” she tweeted. “Look no further, the GOP’s anti-Muslim display likening me to a terrorist rocks in state capitols and no one is condemning them!”

https://globalnews.ca/news/5016993/ilha ... inia-9-11/

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 989404002/

[N_Fiddledog]

She's an idiot. The fact there's a district somewhere that voted her into power by choice makes one wonder how that's possible.



Or if you endorse what she's doing there tell me again what problem you have with the poster above.

[BeaverFever]

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Republicans launch propaganda sites designed to look like local news outlets: report

IGOR DERYSH / SALON
05 MAR 2019 AT 22:51 ET



n investigation by the fact-checking outlet Snopes found that several new local news websites are actually being launched by Republican consultants whose company is funded in part by the candidates the sites cover.

Politico first reported last year that Tea Party-linked conservative activists Michael Patrick Leahy, Steve Gill and Christina Botteri were behind the “Tennessee Star,” a website that purported to be a local news website but mostly posted content licensed from groups linked to big Republican donors.

Snopes discovered that the trio has since launched similar sites in other battleground states ahead of the 2020 elections: the Ohio Star and the Minnesota Sun.

All three claim to be the “most reliable” local newspapers in their states and provide “unbiased updates on Investigative Reports, Thoughtful Opinion, Sports, Lifestyle.”

But the coverage is hardly by “unbiased journalists.”

Gill, who is listed as the Tennessee Star’s political editor, owns a media consulting firm that at least one candidate and one political action committee paid before they received positive coverage on the website.

Snopes reported that several of the site’s writers work or have worked for PACs or political campaigns that they cover without disclosing that information. The Tennessee Star’s “investigative journalist,” Chris Butler previously worked for a PAC affiliated with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican. Two of the site’s other writers have their own PAC devoted to maintaining a Republican majority in the Tennessee state legislature. Roughly 40 percent of the other content on the sites comes from prominent conservative news sites like the Daily Caller and the Daily Signal.

In some cases, the sites are carbon copies of the Tennessee Star despite being in different states. Snopes noted that the Ohio Star recently republished a glowing “letter to the editor” titled “If You Want to Change State Politics Then Support Bill Lee for Governor.” Lee is the governor of Tennessee.

Kathleen Bartzen Culver, who heads the Center of Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told Snopes that political operatives are free to launch their own news platforms, but it’s a problem if they are trying to deceive readers into believing the sites are nonpartisan local news....

https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/republ ... ts-report/

Literally FAKE NEWS. Let’s remember the term originated to describe the lies and propaganda of the Breitbart and the Right

[BeaverFever]

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Fox News reportedly killed its story on Trump's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels weeks before the election

Eliza Relman

A top Fox News editor killed its reporter's scoop that the adult film star Stormy Daniels allegedly had an affair with President Donald Trump and was paid off to stay silent, according to multiple news outlets.

Diana Falzone, a former entertainment industry reporter for the network, "had obtained proof" of the affair and proposed hush payment by October 2016, the New Yorker reported.

"Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go," Ken LaCorte, then a top Fox editor, reportedly told Falzone.

Weeks before the 2016 election, a top Fox News editor killed its reporter's scoop that adult film star Stormy Daniels allegedly had an affair with President Donald Trump, the New Yorker reported Monday.

Diana Falzone, a former entertainment industry reporter for the network, obtained emails between Daniels and her lawyers showing that Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen proposed paying Daniels to stay silent. Falzone also confirmed the affair with Daniels' former husband and her manager at the time, according to the New Yorker.

"Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go," Ken LaCorte, then a top Fox executive, reportedly told Falzone.

Murdoch, the billionaire media mogul, is also the founder and executive chairman of Fox News.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-new ... ort-2019-3

Once again we learned that the only “Fake News “ out there comes from the Right

[DrCaleb]

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Australian PM accuses One Nation party of trying to sell gun laws to 'highest bidders'

Australia's prime minister on Tuesday accused an influential minor political party of trying to "sell Australia's gun laws to the highest bidders" by asking the U.S. gun lobby for donations.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was responding to an Al Jazeera documentary that reported One Nation party officials Steve Dickson and James Ashby flew to the United States for meetings with pro-gun interests including the National Rifle Association and political donors Koch Industries in September last year seeking money to undermine Australian gun laws.

Dickson and Ashby later told reporters that they had not secured any U.S. money. They also said they had been quoted by Al Jazeera out of context and often after drinking.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia ... -1.5071514

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

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Australian PM accuses One Nation party of trying to sell gun laws to 'highest bidders'

Australia's prime minister on Tuesday accused an influential minor political party of trying to "sell Australia's gun laws to the highest bidders" by asking the U.S. gun lobby for donations.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was responding to an Al Jazeera documentary that reported One Nation party officials Steve Dickson and James Ashby flew to the United States for meetings with pro-gun interests including the National Rifle Association and political donors Koch Industries in September last year seeking money to undermine Australian gun laws.

Dickson and Ashby later told reporters that they had not secured any U.S. money. They also said they had been quoted by Al Jazeera out of context and often after drinking.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia ... -1.5071514

American Collusion.

[PluggyRug]

'bout time the Aussy gun laws are dumb.