Category: BERNIE SANDERS

Kamala Harris: $75 Billion for Black Entrepreneurs, Colleges

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks to reporters after announcing her candidacy for President of the United States, at Howard University, her alma mater, on January 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. Harris is the first African-American woman to announce a run for the White House …

By Joel B. Pollak

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released a $75 billion plan Friday aimed specifically at helping African-Americans overcome the wealth gap. The plan includes $60 billion to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and $12 billion to support black entrepreneurs.

The Root notes the details of the plan:

Harris’ latest plan to address the wealth gap calls for pumping $60 billion into HBCUs, like her alma mater Howard, and other “minority-serving institutions” or MSIs, to increase the number of black graduates in STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math] programs.

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Under her plan, $10 billion would be allocated to a fund to help HBCUs build out their STEM facilities, while another $50 billion would be provided in a competitive fund to help HBCUs and MSIs do such things as provide students with scholarships, support post-doctoral fellows, build curriculum, and gird cutting-edge research programs.

Harris also said she will provide another $2.5 billion toward HBCU programs that train black teachers.

Harris’ plan also calls for helping African Americans start small businesses by creating a $12 billion “capital grant and technical support” program, with the funds distributed by the Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency.

(Read the full article at The Root here.)

Harris is on record supporting a form of reparations for slavery. She told NPR earlier this year that the reparations could involve spending on mental health for African-Americans, adding: “What I mean by [reparations] is that we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.”

President Donald Trump has also made support for HBCUs a central focus of his education policy, and a core part of his outreach to the black community.

 

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Twitter Suspends @NewsChute In Latest Round of Orwellian Censorship

Twitter suspended the account, which was linked to YouTube alternative BitChute.

By Richard Moorhead

In the latest round of Orwellian censorship, Twitter has suspended an account linked to alternative tech platform BitChute, in what many are calling a shamelessly anti-competitive move to damage a social media platform that declines to censor right-of-center content.

NewsChute, a news service associated with YouTube competitor BitChute, was banned from the platform on Thursday night.

Twitter appears to be excusing the suspension under a ‘repeat offender’ rule, which mandates that site users previously suspended from Twitter receive new suspensions on any and all accounts they try to start. BitChute had hired journalist Nick Monroe to head the project, a conservative journalist known for in-depth research into leftist conspiracies and mainstream media bias.

Monroe had been suspended from Twitter on his personal account two months ago, allegedly for already evading blanket bans for his Twitter presence. The redundancy of the charges against Monroe raise serious questions, making many question whether he’s being banned for creating new accounts or simply because he’s an inconvenient figure in the eyes of Jack Dorsey and the other milquetoast Silicon Valley neoliberals running Twitter as their personal kingdom.

The action is even more shameless in light of BitChute’s status as a free speech competitor to YouTube, offering a video streaming service open to diverse forms of political speech. YouTube has sought to suppress shoestring content creators for months now, preferring a stale and controlled political media environment in which legacy dinosaur media companies such as MSNBC and CNN are given a generous handicap to peddle their stale content to the public.

It’s possible the ban could be reversed, but Dorsey’s apparent personal grudge against Monroe make it seem less than likely.

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‘Clinton Body Count’ trends on Twitter, establishment blames Russia

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Americans waking up to check Twitter were greeted with the trending hashtag “#ClintonBodyCount.” Referencing a long-running conservative conspiracy theory, its re-emergence has of course been blamed on ‘Russian bots.’

The hashtag is familiar to anyone immersed in the murkier ends of American right-wing culture: think late night talk radio and dog-eared copies of ‘None Dare Call it Conspiracy’ passed around backwoods militia meetings.

Coined by writer and conspiracy theorist Danny Casolaro in the late 1980s, the phrase has since been used by conservatives to link the mysterious deaths of people in some way connected to Bill and Hillary Clinton, like the 1993 suicide of White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster, and the fatal armed robbery of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich in 2016.

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Jeffrey Epstein found ‘injured & semiconscious’ with suspicious marks on neck in jail cell

Adding to the mystery, Casolaro himself committed suicide in 1991, while working on a story supposedly involving an international cabal.

The hashtag broke into the mainstream on Thursday, trending at number three in the US. Its emergence came after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was found“injured and in a fetal position” on the floor of his New York jail cell just hours before. An associate of Bill Clinton, Epstein is currently facing up to 45 years in prison on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking, with some of his alleged victims as young as 14.

Twitter sleuths joined the dots:

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To some, the hashtag had nothing to do with a decades-old right-wing horror story. To an army of establishment bugmen, its sudden reappearance was the work of, surprise, surprise – “Russian bots.” The Democrat version of the conspiracy theory goes that Russian President Vladimir Putin was so incensed by the knockout testimony given by former special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday that he cranked up the output of his “troll farms” and swamped Twitter with the hashtag as a distraction.

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Except the hole in that theory is that no amount of sneaky Russian meddling is needed to distract from Mueller’s testimony. Stammering through answers, seemingly forgetting key details from his report, and declining to answer any questions outside its scope, Mueller did a pretty good job deflating the expectations of Democrats hoping for some new ‘Russiagate’ revelations.

With the left and the right fighting an infowar forcontrol of the hashtag, one commenter summed up the state of the debate. “#ClintonBodyCount is trending… Watch for people trying extra hard to convince you they know things they don’t today.”

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HUGE LOSS: 70 House Democrats Refuse Media Appearance Following Mueller Debacle

The Democrats are hiding in shame after Mueller’s testimony before Congress.

By Shane Trejo

The Democratic Party took a huge loss yesterdayafter staging a hearing with FBI special investigator Robert Mueller before two Congressional committees. Unable to face the music following Mueller’s poor performance, 70 different House Democrats denied a media request.

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream issued a Tweet explaining how the Democrats were too scared to face the scrutiny after their spectacle backfired on them:

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Mueller appeared confused and disheveled while giving his testimony, was unfamiliar with basic facts contained in his own report, and refused to answer simple questions regarding his investigation. Democrat dreams of impeaching Trump based on the contents of the Mueller report may have went up in smoke for good yesterday.

Republicans, including President Trump himself, are celebrating this political victory. They are making the rounds and pointing to Mueller’s testimony as more evidence that the Russian collusion investigation was a witch hunt from the start.

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“It was a terrible day if you were a Democrat,” Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said while appearing on Fox News yesterday. “I do want to give them credit for this. They managed to have a hearing without calling a convicted felon as a witness. I don’t want us to overlook that.”

The fake news couldn’t even spin this one on behalf of the Democrats:

The Democrats can run from media appearances, but they cannot hide from the upcoming fallout with the voters in 2020. After Mueller was exposed in the public eye, the Democrats’ Russia canard will never carry the same weight with the American people.

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RESURFACED INTERVIEW FEATURES ILHAN OMAR URGING AMERICANS TO BE “FEARFUL OF WHITE MEN”

Resurfaced Interview Features Ilhan Omar Urging Americans to be "Fearful of White Men"

“We should be profiling…white men.”

July 25, 2019

A 2018 interview Rep. Ilhan Omar gave to Al-Jazeera has resurfaced in which Omar says Americans should be “more fearful of white men” than potential Islamic terrorists.

Omar was asked if she thought conservatives were right to have a legitimate fear of Islam given the spate of Islamic terror attacks in America, including the 2017 truck attack in New York.

“I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country, and so if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men,” Omar said in response.

The comments are receiving fresh attention due to Omar’s recent spat with President Trump and her repeated refusal to denounce Al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorism.

As we highlighted earlier this week, the Minnesota Congresswoman told an audience she is “disgusted” to be asked to condemn Al-Qaeda and female genital mutilation, arguing that merely posing the question alone is Islamophobic and a “waste of time.”

As Raheem Kassam pointed out, the fact that Mehdi Hasan is hosting in this clip is also of note given that Hasan has previously called non-Muslims “cattle” and “people of no intelligence.”

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Viral Video Shows Crazed Rashida Tlaib Being Dragged Out of Trump Campaign Event in 2016

 

-By Rusty Weiss

Apparently, Rep. Rashida Tlaib was a crazed lunatic long before her famous profanity-laced tirade vowing to pursue impeachment of President Trump on her first day in office.

A video has surfaced of the Michigan Democrat being forcibly dragged out of a Trump campaign event in 2016 by Secret Service agents. The video is every bit as unhinged as you might expect and then some.

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In the video, Tlaib can be seen repeatedly trying to break free of the grip of security members escorting her from the facility. She screams, “You guys are crazy!” at supporters of the soon-to-be President, seemingly unaware that she’s the one being hauled off due to her crazed behavior.

The congresswoman was joined by about a dozen women who tried to create a commotion during Trump’s speech at the Detroit Economic Club in August 2016.

Tlaib wrote about the incident in a column for the Detroit Free Press:

I told Trump that “our children deserve better” and I asked him to provide a better example to our kids. I implored him to read the U.S. Constitution. And then I was grabbed by several security personnel who physically moved me to the exit while I continued to express my concerns.

Of course, none of this bears out based on the video clip. Her essay insinuates she calmly ‘expressed my concerns’ about the Constitution and being a better example to kids. Not sure how ‘You guys are crazy!’ even comes close to that.

Tlaib lied. Huh. Who could have possibly guessed?

Impeach the MFer

It’s important to realize Tlaib was actually a state legislator at the time of this incident. The people of her district in Michigan thought her worthy of holding public office.

So much so that they sent her on to Congress in 2018.

And she didn’t let them down, demonstrating she was still that unhinged nut case she was in the 2016 video on her very first day as a Representative.

“When your son looks at you and says: ‘Momma, look, you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’” Tlaib told a crowd of adoring fans. “Because we’re going to go in there, and we’re going to impeach the motherf***er.”

What an absolute embarrassment for the state of Michigan.

Trump’s Response Was Epic

Another video surfacing during the speech in which Tlaib had a meltdown involves Trump’s response as she’s being carted off.

In that clip, the future President mocks the terrorist-sympathizing Tlaib as being a bit low-energy.

“I will say the Bernie Sanders people had far more energy and spirit,” he joked. “I will say that.”

Tlaib said last month that she gave every freshman in Congress a book on impeachingPresident Trump when she arrived in Washington, D.C., showing just how deep her derangement runs.

It also shows that on her one major platform as a congresswoman she has failed miserably. Watching his re-election in 2020 should be a lot of fun.

Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.

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