By Chris Menahan
As PJ Media’s Megan Fox noted, our media has been selling shipping container houses and tiny homes as the hot new thing for impoverished young people.
Andrew Yang even said earlier this month the thought of living in a shipping container apartment “was downright appealing.”
By Kit Daniels
The president was referring to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksenâs statement that the idea of Denmark selling Greenland to the US was âan absurd discussion.â
âI looked forward to going, but I thought that the prime ministerâs statement that it was âabsurd,â that it was an âabsurdâ idea was nasty,â he said. âI thought it was an inappropriate statement.â
âAll she had to do is say we wouldnât be interested.â
He said he wonât allow the US to be treated âthe way they treated us under Obama.â
âI thought it was a very not nice way of saying something,â he continued. âSheâs not talking to me, sheâs talking to the United States of America.â
âYou donât talk to the United States that way, at least under me.â
Previously it was reported that Denmark subsidies Greenland with over a half-billion dollars every year.
âDanish subsidies keep its economy afloat,â reported The Economist. âLast year the annual block grant from Denmark was 3.8bn kroner ($610m), more than a third of Greenlandâs budget.â
âMany Greenlandic politicians reckon that new revenue streams from mining and tourism can help to wean the territory off Danish handouts.â
The ânew revenue streamsâ the article is referring to is actually from Chinese investment â and China has a strategic geopolitical interest in the Arctic, which explains why President Trump is interested in buying Greenland.
China claimed itâs an ânear-Arctic stateâ in its official Arctic Policy released last year and aims to create a âPolar Silk Roadâ in a partnership with Russia that would grant China an economic boost in the region.
âChina aims to participate âin the exploration for and exploitation of oil, gas, mineral and other non-living resourcesâ in the Arctic,â reported The Diplomat. âHowever, the white paper also places a particular emphasis on nontraditional energy sources: âThe Arctic region boasts an abundance of geothermal, wind, and other clean energy resources,â the paper said, âChina will work with the Arctic States to strengthen clean energy cooperation.ââ
US lawmakers have also declared that the Arctic âis a region of strategic importance to the national security interests of the United States.â
ââŚThe Department of Defense must better align its presence, force posture, and capabilities to meet the growing array of challenges in the region,â reads Section 1099T of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. ââŚAlthough much progress has been made to increase awareness of Arctic issues and to promote increased presence in the region, additional measures, including the designation of one or more strategic Arctic ports, are needed to show the commitment of the United States to this emerging strategic choke point of future great power competition.â
What could go awry with human editors in charge? Facebook should know, since the company was forced to fire its last team of human content-pickers over revelations of bias against conservative viewpoints.
The platform said Tuesday that the new team â which will likely be fewer than 10 employees at the beginning â will choose the content for the âTop Newsâ section of the News Tab. Stories found in the other sections will be chosen by algorithms and determined by specific user interests, the New York Times reported.
âTrendingâ no more: Facebook removing controversial news feature
Facebook said it made the decision to go after human curators after discussions with publishers convinced them that algorithms would not be capable of ânews judgementâ the way real journalists would and that it would take too long to train an algorithm to that level.
But there are pitfalls to consider with human editors, too. Facebook ditched its âTrending Topicsâ section last year after being plagued by accusations that it was politically biased and amplified âfake news.âÂ
An explosive Gizmodo story put the spotlight on Trending Topics in 2016, revealing that human editors, independently contracted by Facebook, were asked to suppress conservative news and even stories about Facebook itself.
The contractors were also told to artificially âinjectâ preferred stories into the trending module, even if they were not trending organically. Rather than relying on algorithms (as it claimed), Facebook was acting like a traditional news organization and reflecting the personal biases of its employees.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Facebook is planning to pay publishers âmillions of dollarsâ to include their content in its News Tab.
A source told Digiday that the new batch of curators will be given the option to include that content in the Top News section, but they will not be obliged to. The new hires will be full-time employees, unlike the contractors used for the doomed Trending Topics section.
As Facebook rolls out the News Tab, users will no doubt be waiting to see if it has learned its lesson after the last debacle.
READ MORE: Google is censoring political content? *Gasp!* Who knew?
AUGUST 21, 2019
The movie, scheduled to be released this week, titled American Factory, focuses on the economy in the heartland of the US.
The review states:
The documentary, which debuts on Netflix on August 21, never mentions President Donald Trump by nameâbut its message is clear: Trumpâs promise to reinvigorate the industrial heartland is going to take a lot more than a campaign slogan. There are no easy solutions. And if some manufacturing jobs do come back, theyâre going to look nothing like they used to. Americans will have to accept a new reality to stay competitive in the global marketplaceâone that they might not like, and one that Trump doesnât acknowledge.
itâs a message that echoes Obamaâs declaration in 2016 that some jobs in the manufacturing sector are âjust not going to come back.â
The movie argues that Trumpâs efforts to reinvigorate manufacturing have not been successful, despite there being more employed in factory jobs now than before Trump was elected.
The message is clear. The Obamas are trying to hit Trump where it matters ahead of the election, in an effort to prevent history repeating.
Last year, when the Obamas inked the deal with the streaming service, the former president declared that the projects would focus on âtraining the next generation of leaders.â
âI continue to believe that if we are hearing each otherâs stories and recognizing ourselves in each other, then our democracy works,â Obama said at the time.
AUGUST 21, 2019
GOP campaign strategist Patrick Griffin argued that the so called âSquadâ of Democrats, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has âhijackedâ the Democratic Party.
âItâs so interesting that you use the term â the only two Muslim women in Congress, the term you chose to use, sir, is âhijacking,ââ Rye, the former Congressional Black Caucus executive director, ridiculously responded.
âIt has nothing to do with whether theyâre Muslim or not,â Griffin hit back, âNothing to do with that⌠Theyâve hijacked from their own principles.â
âThatâs a real interesting word choice, and you understand why,â Rye continued, insisting that Griffin used the term to connect the Democrats to terrorists.
âYou can talk over me all you want to but the bottom line is the greatest terrorist threat in this country is white men, white men who think like you. That is the greatest terrorist threat in this country.â Rye blurted.
Griffin described Ryeâs remarks as âsilly rhetoric.â
âNo, itâs not!â Rye responded.
âYou know whatâs silly? The fact that youâre on here knowing how dangerous times are right now defending this nonsense.â she added.
CNN, bringing the nuanced debate as usual.
Published on Aug 21, 2019
By Virginia Kruta
When news broke that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not allow freshman Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, pundits and political figures alike were quick to voice their criticisms.
But The Daily Wireâs editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro reminded former Vice President Joe Biden of the Obama administrationâs move to ban Israeli Knesset member Michael Ben Ari in 2012.
Ben Ari, who belonged to Israelâs National Union coalition of right-wing parties, requested a visa in order to attend two conferences â a request which was denied by the Obama administration in February of 2012. The American consulate denied the visa on the grounds that Ben Ari âbelonged to a terrorist organization.â
The American consulate never publicly released the name of the terrorist organization to which they believed Ben Ari belonged, but he told Israeli outlet Haaretz that he suspected it was his association with Kach â a far-right political movement that was considered a terrorist organization and had been banned in Israel 18 years prior in 1994.
Ben Ari responded to the move saying, âThe U.S. government, who receives with open arms [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, who calls for the destruction of Israel, [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas, who planned the murder of children in Jerusalem, and [Israeli Arab MK] Ahmed Tibi, who enthusiastically encourages shahids, chose to bar me from meeting with Jewish communities in the U.S. and to encourage aliyah to Israel, with claims that I am a terrorist.â
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin called the move âunacceptable,â saying in a letter to then U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, âNational Union is a completely legitimate faction of the Israeli parliament, and Ben Ari an elected representative of the State of Israel, a close American ally. To impugn him as belonging to a terrorist organization and bar him from visiting the country is unacceptable.â
Ben Ari, now a part of the far-right Otzma-Yehudit party, was banned from running for office in March of 2019. The High Court of Justice voted 8-1 to ban him, citing his âanti-Arab ideology,â marking the first time an individual candidate has been banned from elections. The court approved a far-left Jewish candidate and an Arab party slate.
By Shane Trejo
The event took place at the NJ Parent Summit in the Heldrich Hotel on Aug. 3 where CNNâs White House correspondent April Ryan was addressing the audience. Charlie Kratovil of New Brunswick Today alleges he was violently accosted by 30-year-old Joel Morris, who was working as Ryanâs security detail, for trying to record the event.
The video footage can be seen here:
Kratovil filed a criminal complaint accusing Morris of harassment, assault and theft. He alleges that Morris injured his arm and shoulder while grabbing him and forcibly removing him from the facility before taking the camera. Kratovil was later able to retrieve the camera.
Kratovil claims he was invited to the event by a public relations firm, and recorded other speakers for two hours without any problems until Ryan took the stage. She was apparently the only speaker who didnât want her words to be heard by the public, and she seemingly sent a thug to do her dirty work and hurt a real journalist for putting her on the record.
âWhat I will say, when I speak, I donât have news covering my speeches,â Ryan declared to the crowd, asserting that she is above scrutiny.
The Society of Professional Journalists released a statement in favor of Kratovil and against the CNN fake news hack Ryan.
âWhile journalists may have no special rights superior to members of the public, they do not have fewer rights than others,â they said in a statement.
âA no-photography policy should apply to everyone. Nor should the perceived viewpoint of a news organization be regarded as grounds to deny admittance to a member of the media; people who make news do not have a license to dictate how and by whom they are covered,â they added.
Ryan has refused to comment about why she was so desperate to deny Kratovil the ability to cover her speech.
âHer silence is deafening at this point. Itâs been more than two weeks,â Kratovil said. âAnybody whoâs a journalist should be condemning this.â
Ryan has frequently cried and complained about President Donald Trumpâs treatment of the media, claiming she has been the victim of death threats. She released a book, âUnder Fire,â last year whining about how tough she has it as a corporate news reader in the age of Trump.
âThere are people out here who really are concerned with my safety, and there are people out here [who] really could care less about my safety. I donât like talking about it anymore, but itâs real, and itâs a turning point,â Ryan said while promoting her book in an NPR interview last year.
As usual, the CNN hack was projecting completely. If anyone is a threat to real news reporting, it is Ryan and the rest of the professional deceivers who she works with at the fledgling cable news station.
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