What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread
1. As is usually the case in these episodes, once again the truth is the first casualty.
The second casualty is anyone who doesn’t play along with the charade or stick with the meme.
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2. Yet another reason this fraud has to remove herself from the proceedings.
From TheBaltimoreSun “About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore police officers — the start of a fatal encounter — the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with “enhanced” drug enforcement efforts, court documents show.
“State’s Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St,” Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby’s Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to a Western District police commander.
The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray’s arrest and death. The attorneys said Mosby’s involvement in the police initiative means that she should be removed from the case.
“Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness,” the defense attorneys argued. “This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same.”
Mosby, through spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie, said, “Consistent with our prosecutorial obligations, we will litigate this case in the courtroom and not in the media.” Mosby’s office received the motion Tuesday afternoon, Ritchie said.”
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3. Did Hillary refuse to name Boko Haram as a terrorist group just to get money for the Clinton Foundation?
From TheWashingtonExaminer “A conservative group is suing the State Department in an effort to find out whether the agency’s refusal to place Boko Haram on the terrorist watch list while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state had anything to do with the fact that a high-level Nigerian official was a major Clinton Foundation donor and close friend of the former president.
Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit, brought the case to court after the State Department ignored its request for records about the Chagoury Group, a sprawling Nigerian company headed by a Clinton friend and financial supporter of Clinton causes, Gilbert Chagoury.
Chagoury donated between $1 million and 5 million to the Clinton Foundation, donor records show. More than 30 days have passed since Citizens United first filed the lawsuit without a response of any kind from the State Department.
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, said it was the first time he’d seen the State Department completely ignore a case against it in federal court.”
“In January 2010, Chagoury was removed from a private jet and questioned by federal agents for hours because his name had been added to the no-fly list, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
Although he was removed from the list before the U.S. government issued a formal, written apology, it is still unclear why he received that designation in the first place and how he was able to get his name off the no-fly list.”
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4. And you just know that liberals and gay activists will give her a pass on this one.
From TheDailyMail “Hillary Clinton’s charity accepted a substantial donation from an anti-gay African church which has likened homosexuals to the Devil, Daily Mail Online can reveal.
The 2016 Presidential candidate took money for her sprawling health nonprofit from the Cameroon Baptist Convention whose official policy is that being gay ‘contradicts God’s purpose for human sexuality’.
The devout Christian organization has in the past compared being gay to committing incest and human trafficking. Its leaders have also railed against US attempts to promote gay rights in Cameroon.
Despite this, the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board gave between $1million and $10million between 2010 and this year, according to the latest list of donors from the Clinton Health Access Initiative.
The disclosure will be awkward for Mrs Clinton who has publicly stated that she supports gay marriage.
Some of her wealthy and influential celebrity supporters are gay including Ellen DeGeneres and Elton John, while many others Democrats are strong advocates for gay rights. And during her election campaign Mrs Clinton will be heavily relying on them to raise her estimated $1 billion war chest.”
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5. How to escape the age of mass delusion.
From TheFederalist “Nearly 100 years ago, Walter Lippmann wrote about “the manufacture of consent” in his classic work, “Public Opinion.” On the heels of that book, Edward Bernays penned a little volume called “Propaganda,” in which he stated that an elite would always be responsible for making the public aware of “new ideas” which the public would then act upon as the elite nudged them into it. Related, but more in-depth is Jacques Ellul’s 1962 book, “Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes.”
Political propaganda aims to mobilize the masses to move an agenda forward. That’s most effectively done when the masses are unaware of the process. It’s what “community organizers” work towards, whether they know it or not. Once the masses are mobilized to push for a cause, the propagandists’ goals can be put into law.
In fact, many newly propagandized ideas seem to have taken America by storm just in the past decade or so. Same-sex marriage is only one of those ideas. Transgenderism is now eclipsing that notion, and its propaganda techniques—wrapped in the language of civil rights—are getting Americans on board with the idea of erasing all sex distinctions in law, including theirown. It’s as though Americans are buying into a fast-talking sales pitch without being allowed to read the print, whether it’s large print or small.
There’s more on the horizon: a singles’ rights movement that promises to end legal recognition of all marriage. Then there is transhumanism, which includes a push to end “fleshism” by enacting laws that protect non-biological entities from discrimination.
American conservatives are by and large clueless about propaganda methods and tactics. And it shows. There are virtually no conservative social psychologists around. You’d think once a liberal social psychologist hits the public over the head with this factsome on the Right would take notice and at least try to get clued in.
Meanwhile, the Left has been employing social psychology and depth psychology on the masses for decades. President Obama’s campaign staff was filled with social psychologists. In this context, those who believe conservatives can subsist on reason and logic alone are kidding themselves. It’s no wonder GOP leaders are caving on so many principles, and being absorbed so easily into the Left’s machine.”
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Wandering Views 
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I wonder where Cameroon Baptists got one to ten million dollars and what they expect to achieve by giving it to the Clintons. Something is wrong there. They need the money more than the Clintons.
Something wrong!
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Re: #1 – It may not have been about racism, but another matter that has people upset is how that officer treated that young lady. She was already kneeling on the ground when he swung her around, pulling her braids & twist
ing her arm behind her back, & then kneeling on her back. I think that was excessive. Even his fellow officers intervened to calm him down when he pulled his gun on the other teen, so they must have thought he was overreacting.
That officer has resigned, I read last night.
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And none of it would have happened if she had done as instructed.
She trespassed on private property.
She was told to leave, she didn’t.
She was told to back away 3 times, she didn’t.
She refused to follow the officers commands and didn’t do what she was told.
THEN, she got put on her face.
So what have we learned kids?
Nothing, other than it’s OK to ignore the police and do as they please. That’s the message being sent here, which will lead to more of the same.
This is the same as the nonsense occurring in schools, do what you want, because consequences are for other people. Well, this is what you get.
Did the cop overreact? Probably, but let’s say you’re a cop, let me get a group of people to surround you while screaming and carrying on while ignoring your lawful orders, and I bet most would do something similar. I would.
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The way to get a cop fired is to disobey him, get him agitated and act injured in some way.
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And Karen,
The video clearly shows the other officers taking off after the 2 he pulled the gun on. (one of which has been charged, but now that the cop resigned, he’ll get off on being prosecuted) They didn’t spend much time calming him down.
And again, all this speculation when only 7 minutes of a 30 minute episode are available. That video was edited to make people think what they wanted them to think. And most fell for it.
Where’s the unedited video?
And the police chief and mayor threw the officer under the bus, no wonder he resigned. Every cop in the US knows how this plays out.
But hey, better he take the fall then more riots start huh Mayor?
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AJ – You are right, the girl should have been detained in some way. But I still think that kneeling on the back of a 15-year old girl, even if she was being bratty, was excessive, & could have injured her. In the end, she wasn’t charged with anything, just released to her parents. (And yes, I realize that could have been a political move.)
BTW, I’m not what my dad would have called a “bleeding heart liberal”. I know cops have to be tough, but I also know they often cross the line. And sometimes, it is probably hard to even see where the line should be.
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Here’s where perception plays a huge part in these things: One person sees those kids, whom the officer drew his gun on, as coming up behind him, to attack him, & another sees two males instinctually coming to the defense of a young lady.
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EVERYO, not just police, need to know that he’s on TV Always.
Everyone has a smart phone.
Every smart phone has video options You can get a 30 second clip of everything.
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Funny how you hear people saying they have had to talk to their minority sons on how to be very respectful and careful to do exactly as they are told when dealing with the police but in almost all of these cases the “victims” were resisting or disobeying the officer.
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First they told teachers they could not discipline these kids and to call the parents. Then they told the parents they could not discipline these kids and to call the police. Now they are telling the police that they can not discipline these kids. Who are they going to call?
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Ghostbusters?!
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Kbells, you call a psychologist who explains to the child that that’s not the was it’s done in the 21st century.
It worked with Putin didn’t it?
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