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Newspapers Hide Behind The First Amendment They Trash

I laughed out loud when I read my local paper today. Last August, when newspapers ran editorials protesting Donald Trump’s “attacks” on the media and the freedom of the press, my local paper participated and subsequently published the First Amendment on the editorial page each day for weeks to drive home the point.

Today, my paper, the Florida Times-Union, published a heart-clutching editorial warning of the perils of fake news. They asked: who should be responsible for “sorting” “fake” from “real” news? Then they listed the leftist, partisan Snopes as a reliable source. They earnestly pointed out that France is fighting the scourge by proposing a law that would prohibit “disinformation” in election campaigns. Why not? Most of the countries in the EU are already arresting people for anti-Muslim migrant thought crimes.

The fact that the T-U made such a mockery of the First Amendment, our most cherished right, so soon after plastering it across its editorial pages in defiance of the president’s (accurate) attacks on these partisan hacks who pose as journalists, made me cringe in horror and disbelief.

First Amendment Fake News — Garbage in…garbage out. Fake News and the First Amendment.

They didn’t even realize that they were undermining the intelligence of their readers. They wrongly assumed that we needed (or wanted) to be told what to believe and they were happy to provide a list of biased resources to help us out.

CNN and MSNBC are famous for this paternalistic approach to disseminating information. When Wikileaks released the damaging Clinton emails, CNN’s Chris Cuomo told their viewers, “Remember, it is illegal to possess these stolen documents. It is different from the media. So everything you learn about this, you are learning from us.” No wonder the leftist mobs look like saliva-bubbling zombies. They’re being programmed by half-wits like Cuomo to become shrieking, raging Manchurian Muppets.

These people are desperate to control the narrative. Too bad. It’s not their job. The observant among us know that we should weigh any corroborating evidence presented in all news items. And we’ve found that a large percentage of the stories corporate media deems to be “fake” are in fact true; they just happen to put one or more powerful people or interests in a bad light.

The vulture elite prefer to control the narrative, so they can be free to continue to work against the interests of the people of this nation without scrutiny. They’ve bought up the media companies, Hollywood and politicians (in both parties) to do just that.

Still, as long as the T-U pretends to be a “news” paper, I’m happy to remind them that their job is not to “curate” the news or reprint propaganda. Journalist should be unbiased, committed to following a story wherever it leads and then reporting the truth no matter who it embarrasses or heralds.

Unfortunately, journalism is dead. In the mainstream, anyway. There are only a handful of true journalists left and they are in the process of being silenced and demonetized. In a post-truth world, exposing the truth is a dangerous vocation.

Populist and conservative media outlets that question the official narrative are being attacked and/or ridiculed. They’re also having their social media accounts shut off without warning (and years of content is being flushed down the memory hole) and globalist banking and financial institutions are preventing these companies from monetizing their operations. PayPal accounts are being canceled, banks are refusing to do business with these journalists and other lawful companies that espouse or represent “beliefs” that they don’t agree with.

Funny; I don’t recall these banksters qualifying the multi-billion dollar bailouts they were given by Obama. A lot of that money came from taxes paid by the businesses they are now strangling to death. Hitler did this to the Jews before sending them to the camps. He shut down their ability to make money. Is this what America is about now? This is biased, authoritarian racketeering. It’s crossing some seriously dangerous lines. And it all started with censorship, mislabeled as “hate speech” or “fake news.”

Meanwhile, corporate media presstitutes are celebrating the persecution of independent and citizen journalists. They turn a blind eye and continue to publish the propaganda pushed by elite media owners under the misguided belief that they are beyond reproach. I hate to break it to them, but if they continue to support and endorse this tyranny, the boot will be on their necks, too. Sooner than they think.

Sadly, as I leaf through my paper daily, I find that its pages are littered almost exclusively with AP and Washington Post stories. Most stories put quotation marks around anything the president says (to ridicule and/or undermine him). Few, if any, stories even cover his significant accomplishments, and when they do they always find a way to put a negative spin on his achievements. In fact, 92% of all news stories are critical of President Trump.

When they’re not bashing Trump, they’re running stories or investigative reports designed to inflame racial, gender or sexuality relations. This is partisan hackery. Last week, they actually reprinted a Washington Post “news article” about what Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah thought of one of President Trump’s policies.

Meanwhile, two weeks ago, AT&T announced that they were adding Jacksonville, the market the T-U serves, to the list of cities that will be irradiated with 5G next spring. All I saw was one item in the Jacksonville Business Journal. The Times-Union is interested in more hard-hitting stories. Who cares about the well-documented health hazards we’re going to be subjected to? To say nothing of the creepy surveillance capabilies 5G promises, much to the glee of the anti-human technocrats behind this abomination. The T-U editors think that a Trevor Noah brain fart is more newsworthy. Fake news? Meet dumb news. Different approach; same outcome: The deliberate dumbing down of our citizens.

The elite-sponsored push for banning so-called “hate speech,” is tearing at the very fabric of this country. It’s Orwellian. I may not agree with what some people say, but I’ll fight to the death for their right to speak their truth, whatever it is.

People are motivated to come to our country first and foremost for FREEDOM. It’s no accident that the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights is Freedom of Speech. Most people see the Bill of Rights as rights granted to us by the government; not so. The rights are there to remind our government to not trample on the unalienable, God-given rights of all people. If, in our ignorance or apathy, we let them take our rights, we won’t get them back. I hope the Times-Union and all media outlets realize that someday before it’s too late.

Carly Fiorina’s hapless bid for the presidency should serve as a warning to all self-important corporate executives: Your hubris may not play in Peoria…or Des Moines, Iowa. The exception, of course, is Donald Trump…but then again, Trump didn’t need to slide on his belly, kneecapping smarter coworkers out of his way on his climb to the top; his daddy handed him a successful real estate empire.

After making her mark at AT&T by plowing through a (probably small) crowd of female wannabe executives (from secretary to CEO!!!), Carly Fiorina was tapped to lead Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 1999. Her bipolar self-importance, coupled with her intense, ferret-like gaze, allowed her to become an extremely well-compensated poster girl for diversity in the tech industry. How cool was she to head a company in an industry dominated by men?

Six short years and many bad (often heartless) decisions later (the Compaq acquisition and her penchant for outsourcing everyone and everything top the list), she flushed away 50 percent of the company’s value and 30,000 jobs. In the end, Carly’s greatest achievement at HP was her resignation; the stock shot up 7 percent when she announced she was leaving the company.

This former tech “mogul” didn’t even have the common sense to purchase her own domain name. Instead, one of the many former HP workers that she displaced snatched up carlyfiorina.org and used the site to mock Carly and expose the extent of her relentless need to destroy jobs…in her own words. For example, after being asked how she would handle the layoffs at HP if she had to do it again, she replied: “I would have done them all faster.” O-kay.

Carly has been running for office (and losing) ever since, trying to regain a large canvas on which to paint her human carnage. Such pluck is admired by corporate board members who love putting tenacious, self-centered people in charge of companies…people who don’t mind getting a little (or a lot of) blood on their hands to achieve “economies of scale,” but in the real world, people like Carly are rightly shunned for being the psychopaths that they are.

After a career of failure, scandal, and a complete lack of empathy for the people whose lives she carelessly destroyed as HP’s CEO, politics beckoned. As a former corporate CEO, she didn’t feel the need to start at the bottom, so she ran for senator of California against the Yoda of female politicians, Barbara Boxer (who quickly schooled the “secretary-to-CEO” upstart). And now she wants to fail up to president and become the Republican Party’s Hillary Clinton. Such hubris. The Onion humorously captured her delusional aspirations, as only they can.

I suppose it’s easy to think you’re the cat’s pajamas when you spend years addressing a captive audience of employees who applaud and laugh at your bad jokes at town hall meetings. Still, there’s a big difference between addressing an audience of employees who depend on your approval to keep their jobs and addressing American voters, such as those at the Iowa caucuses this week, who you have to depend on to get the job.

Like all bipolar CEOs, when she does face rejection, she folds like a cheap suit. After a poor showing at the Iowa caucuses, she skipped town and her own party. No need to thank the few people who worked on her behalf; it was time to move on and be a world leader pretend at the next stop on the campaign trail…the New Hampshire primary.

Carly, like Hillary Clinton, are examples of what is wrong with too many women who achieve power. As a woman myself, I have to admit that I preferred working for men. Many of the women I worked for who had high aspirations viewed me as a threat (even though I never shared their C-suite aspirations) and felt it necessary to neutralize my contributions or even to take credit for my occasional good ideas. I can honestly say that I have inadvertently helped a lot of these women move up that coveted ladder without so much as a thank you from them.

I wish I could say that all women leaders are wise, gentle souls who have an innate desire to better the world and nurture the growth and development of other women, but that hasn’t been my experience. I can’t imagine what Carly did to her female coworkers during her meteoric rise up the corporate ladder at AT&T.

On some level, you have to blame the environment…with so few opportunities for women to break through the glass ceiling, I can see how an ambitious woman can turn into a psychopath trying to squeeze through the eye of the needle of achievement. Still, until we can level the corporate and political playing fields and the Lady Macbeth syndrome becomes the exception and not the rule, voters (and employees) need to proceed with caution.

This is the problem I have with identity politics. I’d love to see a woman become president (I wish Elizabeth Warren had decided to run), but I don’t support voting for a powerful woman just because she’s a woman. Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina are flawed, power-hungry, mentally ill women. And the reality is that after a life time of stepping on other women to get ahead, well…they don’t like other women, so why give them your vote, ladies? Neither would make a suitable first female president and it troubles me that so many women are blinded by ovaries wrapped in a power suit.

While it’s easy to single out Fiorina as a narcissistic, psychotic product of corporate dysfunction, the reality is that C-suites at companies nationwide are filled with Carly Fiorinas and even more bipolar or psychologically damaged men.

I wonder how different the corporate landscape would be if leaders were selected by employees, instead of by corporate board members who see personnel as “human resources.” A little more humility and a lot less hubris in leadership would be appreciated.

This Thanksgiving, Obama and the mainstream media outlets that promote his agenda, were working overtime to convince Americans that we should accept thousands, and eventually hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, because it is “who we are” as a nation.

I have to ask: who are we as a nation? And does it even matter, now that Obama and Congress are working to dissolve the U.S. into a North American Union through the Trans-Pacific “Partnership” (TPP)?

Forgive me; I know this post is a little long, but I feel compelled to make a few points in support of the working stiffed in this country. And it seems that whenever I express the opinions that follow on Huffington Post or Facebook, they get scrubbed, even though I don’t use profane language or indulge in troll-like behavior. Censorship. Is that “who we are” as a nation? It would seem so.

There’s no question that the refugee crisis is a terrible human tragedy. And there’s also no question that the crisis was created by the criminal neocons in our government who insist on invading and overthrowing governments in the Middle East and Africa on behalf of their transnational bankster benefactors and Saudi Arabia.

But bring these people here? I don’t think so. I think it makes more sense to have the wealthy Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia (the true architects of chaos in the region) resettle these poor people, as Ben Carson says. I don’t care for Carson, but his recommendation in this case makes the most sense.

Even if we can all agree that the majority of those seeking asylum are not ISIS terrorists, allowing hundreds of thousands of them to come here would be an act of economic terrorism against the millions of U.S. laborers and citizens who are struggling to survive in 21st century America.

Let me explain:

There are more than 94 million U.S. citizens out of the workforce; most don’t work because they can’t get jobs (people over 50 have it particularly rough)

A shocking number of our veterans (a number of whom were forced to do close to a dozen tours of duty), are homeless and/or have no access to health care

Our college students are saddled with an astounding amount of college loan debt that they can’t get rid of through bankruptcy—and to make matters worse, they have little hope of finding work to pay off their loans if or when they graduate

We are told that we “don’t have the money” to give Social Security recipients a cost of living increase next year (while commodity and food prices continue to soar)

We are facing the inevitability of more of our jobs being shipped overseas once our corrupt Congress passes the treasonous, sovereignty-destroying TPP

Obamacare penalizes poor people who can’t afford the program’s “affordable” health insurance by levying an unconstitutional tax/fine (taxation by citation)

No money is allocated to fix our crumbling infrastructure or to insulate our unprotected power grid (which means we will be knocked back into the Stone Age when, not if, we are hit by an EMP or solar flare)

I can go on. All things considered, should the refugees be our top priority? I don’t think so. Where is the public outrage over the issues I just outlined?

John Oliver recently went on a clever rant on his show about our “irrational fear” of allowing Syrian migrants into our country; he pointed out that they are thoroughly vetted. All I could think of while listening to him go on about the six or seven layers of scrutiny these people face is, why are we spending our money on this? When I think of the needs I list above, it’s downright criminal.

Not too long ago, Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the (globalist-sponsored) Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, published a piece in the Washington Post that argued for allowing the migration; he said it would even help our country.

He sought to ease the concerns of U.S. taxpayers who don’t support bankrolling the welfare and government programs these migrants will undoubtedly require if they are allowed to come. Nowrasteh proposes that Americans and charities (like the Cato Institute?) sponsor them, and in return, the U.S. government should lift all quotas and restrictions on work permits “without complicating regulations.” Really? Can you guess whose jobs they’ll need to take once their sponsors get them situated?

Even our most socialist-leaning president to date, Franklyn Roosevelt, closed our country’s borders during the Depression. He was focused on restoring the economic health of the country and helping to create jobs for U.S. citizens. It would be nice if Obama dedicated his rhetoric and actions in support of the Americans he was elected to represent, like Roosevelt did. Instead, he lobbies for job-destroying initiatives like the TPP and cheap labor through migration.

We are also repeatedly told the lie that migrants only take manual labor jobs that Americans don’t want. When I was growing up, I could easily get one of “those jobs that Americans don’t want.” They helped me save money for college and taught me how to be a responsible young adult; the crappy work and low pay of these jobs also served as an incentive for me to pursue higher education, so I could get “better” jobs.

These days, kids can’t get so-called “crappy jobs” easily, so they continue to depend on their already financially stressed parents for spending money, or they turn to crime. And now that our government has privatized prisons, kids who get caught committing crimes often find that their lives are essentially over before they’ve even begun.

The lie about the “jobs that Americans don’t want” has a counterpart in “the jobs that Americans can’t do.” Silicon Valley ushered in the era of the H-1B visa under the pretense that there aren’t enough trained U.S. workers to handle the volume of tech jobs they create. This has become an egregious tool of domestic economic cannibalism.

Fortune 500 companies like Disney and AT&T took that loophole and drove a truck through it, by importing low wage foreign workers by the thousands to replace qualified U.S. workers. As I write this, 1,200 displaced U.S. Disney workers are in New York training their foreign replacements.

A bipartisan Senate bill banning the replacement of U.S. workers with H-1B visa holders was just introduced. Hopefully, it will pass.

Lastly, there is the “we are all children of immigrants” argument. While that’s true, let’s take a closer look at that. When my grandparents legally migrated to this country after World War II, it was long before the banksters took over our republic and made it a plutocracy; the U.S. was truly a land of growth and opportunity. They wanted to come here sooner, but Roosevelt had closed the doors during the Depression, as I mentioned earlier; too many Americans were out of work….like now.

My grandparents came here to assimilate: they learned English, they pledged allegiance to the American flag and they built their businesses without imposing on American taxpayers. Now, in these times of PC psychosis, we must accommodate every culture to the point that we have become the national equivalent of the tower of babble.

As for those who support leaving our borders wide open by using the example of the Pilgrims coming to America, has anyone asked the Native Americans how that migration worked out for them? I didn’t think so.

Opposition to Syrian refugee migration is not about racism or hatred; it’s about economic feasibility. And, yes, there is some fear involved. After all, we just witnessed a handful of ISIS terrorists kill or injure close to 500 Parisians in less than an hour. It doesn’t take an army of people to take a country hostage.

Our focus needs to be on fixing our country and restoring our middle class. We can no longer afford to turn our backs on struggling U.S. citizens or to overlook the fact that we no longer manufacture anything. We also can’t continue to allow transnational companies incorporated here to ship U.S. jobs overseas at will or to import “migrants” who will work for much less.

Trying to distract us from our very real problems by promoting cost-prohibitive, altruistic global outreach doesn’t help anyone. We are not the prosperous country we were 50 years ago; we are a nation in rapid decline. That, Mr. Obama, is unfortunately “who we are” now as a nation. Charity begins at home, Chief, so do us all a favor and re-prioritize and get busy before it’s too late.

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