Published on Jun 5, 2019
NYC School Job Posting Sought âTeachers of Colorâ
NYC Dept. of Education also embroiled in $90 million lawsuit alleging anti-white bias
Tuesday, June 04, 2019
A job opening advertised by a Manhattan school district targeted âteachers of color,â the New York Post reports just days after the filing of a $90 million discrimination lawsuit by three NYC Department of Education officials alleging anti-white bias.
The ad, which was reportedly posted on Indeed.com in April, invited applicants to attend a May 14th job fair.
A teacher took a screenshot of the posting before it was deleted and provided it to the Post.
âDistrict 1 in NYC is looking to hire teachers of color for the 2019-2020 school year,â the ad read.
A description of the job fair posted to Eventbrite reportedly stated, âWe are committed to diversifying our teaching staff to better serve the diverse populations we serve.â
A DOE spokesman says the posting was ânot authorizedâ and the matter is being investigated.
âThis was a mistake by one school and it shouldnât have happened,â he said.
Lawyers consulted by the Post offered their opinions that the advert violated employment discrimination laws and could potentially lead to a lawsuit.
âSo, playing this out, if a qualified applicant who is not a person of color is denied the job, that person could bring a claim for discrimination and that job posting would be strong evidence that race/color played a factor in the decision,â said employment attorney David Gottlieb.
The NYC DOE is currently embroiled in a budding scandal stemming from the recent filing of a bombshell lawsuit alleging Chancellor Richard Carranza and other officials have engaged in a âcrusade against toxic whitenessâ in the department.
The three plaintiffs, all white women and former DOE executives, allege they were systematically purged from their positions and replaced with less qualified persons of color, and shamed and demeaned in the process.
âUnder Carranzaâs leadership, DOE has swiftly and irrevocably silenced, sidelined and punished plaintiffs and other Caucasian female DOE employees on the basis of their race, gender and unwillingness to accept their other colleaguesâ hateful stereotypes about them,â the plaintiffsâ attorney, Davida S. Perry, wrote in the filing.
Carranza, who was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2018, recently denied any wrongdoing or discriminatory policies.
Pelosi: Public Not Smart Enough to Understand Impeachment
By Hannah Bleau
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently expressed concerns that the American public is not smart enough to truly understand the impeachment process.
The California lawmaker has been hesitant to jump aboard the impeachment train alongside the more âenergizedâ members of her party. Prior to the tumultuous 2018 midterm elections and Mueller report results, Pelosi promised impeachment was âoff the table.â
âGoing into the [2006] election, I said itâs off the table. I didnât mean itâs off the table if you had some goods. If somebody has information, then we can act upon it,â Pelosi toldRolling Stone. âBut from what we know now, itâs off the table.â
âEven with Trump. If you got something, show it,â Pelosi continued. âBut Iâm not going after it. What weâre going after is the economic security of Americaâs working families.â
Pelosi seemed to have a change of heart last month and accused Trump of being involved in a âcover-up.â
âWe do believe that itâs important to follow the facts. We believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States. And we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up,â she said after emerging from a meeting with House Democrats.
Fellow Democrat members are desperately trying to build a pro-impeachment coalitionâ one Pelosi would be unable to withstand. A number of House Democrats have been settingup a series of meetings in an effort to recruit and beef up their pro-impeachment movement, according to a report from the Daily Beast.
Despite Pelosiâs subtle shift in tone, thereâs still an element of hesitancy for pursuing impeachment. Itâs seemingly rooted in her concern for the American peopleâs mental capacity, or lack thereof.
Pelosi reportedly made the remarks during a closed-door membersâ meeting following Memorial Day weekend, according to the Daily Beast, who reported:
The Speaker, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting, expressed concerns that the public still doesnât understand how the process of impeachment would play out. She noted that in her time over the recess in California well educated voters didnât seem to understand that impeachment proceedings would not necessarily result in Trumpâs immediate ouster from office.
An internal struggle continues to exist between House members who want to impeach Trump and those who fear ruffling the House Speakerâs feathers.
THE TRUTH BEHIND OLIVER DARCY
The CNN reporterâs past is quite revealing
MARCH 8, 2019
The banishment of grassroots conservatives from social media platforms has caused many to ask, why?
At the center of the controversy is CNNâs Oliver Darcy who has spearheaded efforts to have Infowars and Alex Jones banned.
But who is Oliver Darcy?
A deeper look into his past reveals how the establishment is using both sides to purge the right of blue-collar conservatives.
COHEN MET WITH SCHIFF STAFF FOR OVER 10 HOURS BEFORE HEARING â REPORT
Schiff team traveled to NY at least 4 times for Cohen meetings
By Gregg Re, Catherine Herridge
President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen told House investigators this week that staff for Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., traveled to New York at least four times to meet with him for over 10 hours immediately before last monthâs high-profile public testimony, according to two sources familiar with the matter — as Republicans question whether the meetings amounted to coaching a witness.
The sources said the sessions covered a slew of topics addressed during the public hearing before the oversight committee — including the National Enquirerâs âCatch and Killâ policy, American Media CEO David Pecker and the alleged undervaluing of President Trump’s assets.
COHEN DOCS UNDERCUT CLAIMS TRUMP LAWYERS MADE EDITS TO ALTER CRUCIAL TIMELINEÂ
But, Republicans have raised concerns with the sessions, with Ohio Rep. Mike Turner sending a letter to Cohen’s team on Wednesday demanding answers.
Nunes reacts to reports of Cohen’s private meetings with Schiff before his House testimony
‘No matter how much witness tampering you do, you’re not going to find collusion,’ the Republican tells ‘Fox & Friends’ after sources say President Trump’s former personal attorney met with the Intelligence Committee chairman for hours before testifying.
Turner specifically asked for confirmation of Cohenâs contacts, if any, “with Democratic Members or Democratic staff of SSCI [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence], COR [House Committee on Oversight and Reform], or HPSCI [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] prior to his appearances before House and Senate committees last week” — as well as the lengths of such contacts, their locations and who exactly was involved.
“These questions are important for the public to understand whether or not they were watching witness testimony, a public hearing, or well-rehearsed theater,” he wrote.
During last monthâs seven-hour public hearing before the House Oversight Committee, Cohen hesitantly acknowledged, under questioning from Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, that he had spoken with Schiff “about topics that were going to be raised at the upcoming hearing.”
But, he did not elaborate on the discussions, which Fox News is told extended significantly longer than the seven hours that the public hearing itself lasted.
One by one, during the dramatic hearing, Cohen fielded questions on precisely the same topics that the sources told Fox News he discussed with Schiffâs staff during the sit-downs in New York.
For example, in response to questioning from Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., Cohen discussed the purported practice of paying for the rights to news stories harmful to Trump, only to bury them.
“I was involved in several of these catch-and-kill episodes,” Cohen told Maloney, “but these catch-and-kill scenarios existed between David Pecker and Mr. Trump long before I started working in 2007.”
Cohen docs undercut claims Trump lawyers altered timeline of Moscow tower talks
Records provided by President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen on his false 2017 congressional testimony undercut allegations that Trump attorneys made critical edits to alter the timeline of the Trump Tower negotiations in Moscow; Catherine Herridge reports.
Cohen went on to testify that Pecker, whose company publishes the National Enquirer, had paid $30,000 to a former Trump World Tower doorman who alleged he had information about a supposed love child fathered by Trump. The former Trump fixer asserted that Trump was concerned also about the “treasure trove of documents” Pecker had that could implicate him.
Further, Cohen was asked by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., “To your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?”
Cohen replied: “Yes.”
COHEN SUES TRUMP ORGANIZATION FOR MILLIONS IN LEGAL FEES
“Who else knows that the president did this?” Ocasio-Cortez pressed.
“Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman and Matthew Calamari,” Cohen said, referring to the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer and other key Trump associates. “You deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction.”
Cohen also brought documents that he claimed proved Trump “inflated” his assets in order to obtain loans from Deutsche Bank.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, testified last month before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Asked about the revelations by email, a House Intelligence Committee spokesman defended the Schiff staff’s pre-hearing discussions with Cohen.
“We are running a professional investigation in search of the facts, and we welcome the opportunity to meet with potential witnesses in advance of any testimony to determine relevant topics to cover in order to make productive use of their time before the Committee,” spokesman Patrick Boland told Fox News.
“Despite this professed outrage by Republicans, itâs completely appropriate to conduct proffer sessions and allow witnesses to review their prior testimony before the Committee interviews them â such sessions are a routine part of every serious investigation around the country, including congressional investigations.”
Schiff was asked about the frequency of his contacts with Cohen on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” this weekend, and gave the number “seven” — but Schiff did not distinguish between the number of his own contacts with Cohen and the committee staff’s interactions with him.
Schiff asserted, “The extent of my contact was just inviting him to testify and also trying to allay his concerns about the president’s threats against him and his family …Â but our staff certainly sat down to interview him, and that’s what you do in any credible investigation.”
A source close to Schiff claimed some details about the staff meetings were ânot accurateâ but did not point to specifics.
On Cohen, a source familiar with his closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee would not comment directly on the number and substance of the meetings between Cohen and the Schiff staff, but said more broadly that Schiff “pledged to release the full transcript of Mr. Cohenâs eight hour testimony, at which point Mr. Cohen will be vindicated and others will be implicated.”
Gutfeld on radical Democrats dividing their party
Published on Mar 7, 2019
Android Apps Still Sending Data to FACEBOOK — Even if You Don’t Have an Account…
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Even when youâre not logged in or donât have a Facebook account
By Nick Statt
Major Android mobile apps from companies including Yelp and Duolingo send data that could be used to personally identify you for ad tracking straight to Facebook immediately upon logging in, according to a new report from the London-based UK charity and watchdog group Privacy International (PI). This data transfer happens even if a user isnât logged into Facebook on that device and even in the event the user doesnât have an active Facebook account at all.
In addition to Yelp and Duolingo, PI found that two Muslim prayer apps, as well as a bible app and a job search app called Indeed, also sent similar data to Facebook that could be used to help identify users for ad targeting purposes when they browse the social network. Itâs not clear exactly what type of data is being sent in this case, other than that a user opened the app at a given time, but PIâs report says this transmission may also reveal custom identifiers that help Facebook track that user across its network of services and when that person opens Facebook on a mobile device.
The report builds on a similar investigation from PI last December that first revealed that big-name Android apps were sending data to Facebook without a userâs consent and without proper disclosure. It also highlights that this problem is universal across both iOS and Android; last month, The Wall Street Journal revealed that these same set of developer tools that scrape data when you use a mobile app and send it to Facebook are employed on iPhone apps, despite Appleâs much more stringent privacy rules and protections.
âThis is hugely problematic, not just for privacy, but also for competition. The data that apps send to Facebook typically includes information such as the fact that a specific app, such as a Muslim prayer app, was opened or closed,â reads PIâs report, published earlier today. âThis sounds fairly basic, but it really isnât. Since the data is sent with a unique identifier, a userâs Google advertising ID, it would be easy to link this data into a profile and paint a fine-grained picture of someoneâs interests, identities and daily routines.â
As Facebookâs privacy practices come under even greater scrutiny in the aftermath of last yearâs Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, a spotlight is being shone on the lesser-known arrangements between large advertising companies and the smaller app makers that use those platforms to reach new users and target existing ones with ads. As revealed by the WSJ last month, a number of prominent iOS app makers use a Facebook analytics tool known as âcustom app eventsâ that, in this case, was sharing sensitive health, fitness, and financial data with the social network for ad targeting purposes.
On Android, Facebook has long collected sensitive user data such as contact logs, call histories, SMS data, and real-time location data, for the purpose of informing its ad targeting and improving features like friend suggestions. Yet the practices have caused vocal outcry from privacy advocates and users concerned Facebook is amassing far too much data about their personal lives and online and offline behaviors. Following reports about Facebook using its location-tracking capabilities to catch company interns skipping work, it said it would allow Android users the ability to explicitly disable the feature.
In this case, PI is underscoring one of Facebookâs longstanding indirect data collection policies, one that relies on third-party apps to autonomously collect and send information about app usage to the social network without telling users about the arrangement.
âFacebook routinely tracks users, non-users, and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system,â PIÂ explained in the initial December 2018 report. The report found that nearly two thirds of the 34 Android apps PI tested â including big names like Spotify and Kayak and all of which had between 10 and 500 million installs â sent information to Facebook without informing users or gaining express consent.
PI says that a number of apps stopped the practice following its December report. Similarly, most of the operators of the iOS apps highlighted in the WSJ report also ceased using Facebookâs analytics and developer tools to collect sensitive user data. However, it appears some apps, like Yelpâs and Duolingoâs, continue to do so. PI says itâs in contact with Duolingo, and the company has agreed to suspend the practice, but itâs not clear how many other apps in the Android or iOS ecosystem may be skirting Apple and Googleâs data-collection and user privacy policies to improve Facebookâs ad targeting tools.
In these situations, Facebook puts the onus on app makers not to break platform rules or misuse its developer tools by collecting sensitive information. The company has also claimed not to use a majority of this sensitive data and, in some extreme cases like credit card numbers and Social Security numbers, automatically deletes it. But itâs not clear why the data is being collected in the first place and what ways itâs been put to use in the past, either by the apps collecting it or by Facebook.
âApps relay on the Facebook SDK to integrate their product with Facebook services, like Facebookâs login and ad tracking tools. However, Facebook places all responsibility on apps to ensure that the data they send to Facebook has been collected lawfully,â reads PIâs report. Facebook not immediately available for comment.
FORMER KKK GRAND WIZARD DAVID DUKE ENDORSES ILHAN OMAR: SHEâS âNOW THE MOST IMPORTANT MEMBER OF THE US CONGRESS!â
When will Rep. Omar disavow?
MARCH 7, 2019
In a recent radio broadcast, former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke praised Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar for her recent statements against Israel.
In a description of Dukeâs podcast Thursday, Omar was credited for defying what he referred to as âZ.O.G.â
âBy Defiance to Z.O.G. Ilhan Omar is NOW the most important Member of the US Congress!â screamed a headline at Dukeâs website.
A Thursday show description reads:
âToday Dr. Duke and Eric Striker of the Public Space had the kind of fun and informative show we have come to expect from our Thunder and Lightning Thorâs Day broadcasts. In particular, they heaped praise on Ilhan Omar (D-New Somalia) for being the one person in Congress willing to notice AIPAC and the âdualâ loyalty of many (((members of Congresss))).â
The headline was accompanied by an image featuring a heart eyes emoji and Rep. Omar (D-Minn.), which was also shared on Twitter.
Dukeâs endorsement comes as Dems, including fellow freshmen congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), have come to Omarâs defense after recent comments criticizing Israel were largely deemed anti-Semitic.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday also dismissed the controversy over Omarâs comments, saying âI do not believe that she understood the full weight of the words.â
NPRÂ lays out Omarâs troubles which stem from a tweet made last month.
In February, Omar responded to a tweet from journalist Glenn Greenwald, who posted about House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy threatening to punish Omar and another congresswoman for being critical of Israel.
Omar wrote back, âItâs all about the Benjamins baby,â a line about $100 bills from a Puff Daddy song. Critics jumped on the tweet and said Omar was calling up a negative and harmful stereotype of Jewish Americans.
In another tweet soon after, Omar named the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, saying it was funding Republican support for Israel.
President Donald Trump on Monday added to the pressure on Dems to address Omarâs remarks in a tweet calling their inaction a âdark day for Israel.â
During the 2016 presidential campaign, mainstream media outlets incessantly demonized then candidate Trump for his loose affiliation with Duke during his flirt with a presidential bid in 2000 when he was part of the Reform party.
It is doubtful Omar will receive the same treatment.
H/t:Â TheGatewayPundit.com
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