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Monday, September 2, 2019

Christian TV host: ‘Satanists’ who oppose Trump are planning ‘a wave of bloodshed against Christians’


 And...so it came to pass....and the Christians still live.....?
Churches not burned....?

When did Jesus preach such HATE?
How are these Whack-A-Dings Christians?

"...Wiles went on to say that “this is all going towards a massive purge of the American people.”

“And who they’re really coming after are Christians,” he warned. “I will be laughed at, vilified, smeared for saying this, but that’s what I believe and I’m trying to tell the Body of Christ of America, you’d better prepare for the unthinkable, and the unthinkable is a national purge of Christians in this country.”

Weighing heavily on Wiles’ mind is when he and his family will have to go “underground” to escape the coming purge.

“That’s where I’m at personally right now. … I really believe this ministry will be underground by the time this year’s over. … I can see the wave of bloodshed that’s coming in America.”

Wiles has made similar warnings in the past, all centered around the eventual roundup and extermination of Christians. In October of last year, he predicted that if Democrats win the midterms, they’ll “immediately kill Christians” and “immediately burn the churches.” He even once claimed that the characters from the game “Pokémon Go” are in on the plot. “What if this technology is transferred to Islamic jihadists and Islamic jihadists have an app that shows them where Christians are located geographically?” he asked....."


Delusional mindset of so-called Christians who would betray Jesus for Trump:
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Conservatives are a bit miffed after the appearance of Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin on MSNBC this Sunday, where she said that it isn’t just President Trump who has to lose in 2020, but “all his enablers” have to lose as well. “We have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Re...




Conservatives are a bit miffed after the appearance of Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin on MSNBC this Sunday, where she said that it isn’t just President Trump who has to lose in 2020, but “all his enablers” have to lose as well. “We have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Republican Party,” she said, adding that “we have to level them because if there are survivors — if there are people who weather this storm, they will do it again.”
While Rubin may have been metaphorical in her comments, Rick Wiles doesn’t see it that way. According to him, Rubin’s words are confirmation of the coming “purge” of Christians carried out by “Satanists” who oppose Trump. On his TruNews broadcast this Tuesday, Wiles played a clip of Rubin’s comments and said she is a sign of the “most foul-smelling belch that could come from the bowels of hell,” adding that she’s a symptom of a bigger problem, namely “Satanists desiring to destroy Christians.”
“She’s talking about burning down the Republican Party,” Wiles continued. “I mean, that’s the talk of a revolutionary — of a Jacobin.”
Rick Wiles predicts that he'll soon have to go underground to escape the wholesale murder of Christians that is about to take place in America.
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Wiles went on to say that “this is all going towards a massive purge of the American people.”
“And who they’re really coming after are Christians,” he warned. “I will be laughed at, vilified, smeared for saying this, but that’s what I believe and I’m trying to tell the Body of Christ of America, you’d better prepare for the unthinkable, and the unthinkable is a national purge of Christians in this country.”
Weighing heavily on Wiles’ mind is when he and his family will have to go “underground” to escape the coming purge.
“That’s where I’m at personally right now. … I really believe this ministry will be underground by the time this year’s over. … I can see the wave of bloodshed that’s coming in America.”
Wiles has made similar warnings in the past, all centered around the eventual roundup and extermination of Christians. In October of last year, he predicted that if Democrats win the midterms, they’ll “immediately kill Christians” and “immediately burn the churches.” He even once claimed that the characters from the game “Pokémon Go” are in on the plot. “What if this technology is transferred to Islamic jihadists and Islamic jihadists have an app that shows them where Christians are located geographically?” he asked. 


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Saturday, June 8, 2019

Decades After False Convictions, ‘When They See Us’ Highlights Media Failure




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Decades After False Convictions, ‘When They See Us’ Highlights Media Failure

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by Xavier Best
Ava DuVernay on Democracy Now!
Ava DuVernay on Democracy Now! (6/7/19): “They are not the Central Park Five. I came to feel that that was a political moniker. It was something that was given to them by the press. It was something that was given to them by the prosecution. It was something that allowed them to be seen as a gang, as a wolf pack, and not as Yusef, Korey, Kevin, Antron and Raymond, you know, real people, real boys, with real families, memories, hopes, dreams, that were dashed the day that they were captured at a park.”
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s harrowing retelling for Netflix of the false conviction of the five New York youths who became nationally known as the Central Park Five, has reignited discussions about race, stereotypes and how America’s penal system has historically brutalized black people under the banner of “criminal justice.”
Yet this conversation would be incomplete without a serious reckoning with corporate media’s role in fanning the flames of racist hysteria and misinformation, which condemned these innocent youth—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise—as guilty in the court of public opinion long before the official verdict was handed down. “The press response to this, and the press failure around this case, is something really important to interrogate,” DuVernay told The Root (5/28/19).
While the highly publicized antics of Donald Trump and the coldhearted manipulation of lead investigator Linda Fairstein have received a great deal of condemnation, less attention has been paid to how prominent media outlets, like the New York Times and the New York Daily News, fell in lockstep with the myth of five deranged black youths randomly attacking white cyclists and joggers in Central Park.
Take, for example, a Times article written by David E. Pitt (4/25/89). Under the headline “Gang Attack: Unusual for Its Viciousness,” Pitt indulged all of the now disproven cliches that accompanied the public vilification of the five young men, including the media buzzword of “wilding” and the reference to the brutal rape of Trisha Meilia—in a phrase borrowed from New York prosecutor Peter Reinharz—as a “wolf-pack attack.”
Aside from disregarding the elementary fact that it had yet to be established that the rape was carried out by more than one person (DNA testing later found evidence of only one rapist), the use of the “wolf pack” label to describe a rape allegedly carried out by black youth was disturbingly consistent with the general trend of dehumanization that prevailed in mainstream discussion of the five defendants.
Daily News: Wolf Pack's Prey
From the beginning, coverage emphasized the non-human nature of the accused (Daily News, 4/21/89).
Some of the most flagrant examples of this brand of dehumanization occurred in the pages of the Daily News, which ran fear-mongering headlines like “Marauding Packs Have Run of the City” (4/25/89). News writers Adam Nagourney (who now writes for the Times) and David J. Krajicek exemplified this mood, writing:
Bands of marauding teenagers similar to the one that ran wild in Central Park last week are creating pockets of anarchy in the city by taking over subway trains …. Cops call them wolf packs; merchants call them rat packs. A social worker says they rampage because “there are no more rules.”
These alarmist portrayals of young people of color, often accompanied by highly dubious psychiatric diagnoses of the teens as uniquely remorseless and cruel, helped to create a climate of mass panic that ensured once the suspects were punished, there would be no serious reflection on the ethical, moral or legal reasoning that informed judicial decision-making.
Tragically, this absence of reflection is more the rule than the exception in current media treatment of the case. Although these outlets ran numerous propagandistic and highly misleading stories—neglecting even to use the word “alleged” to describe the accused in 95 percent of news articles—barely any instances of contrition can be found today.
One exception is an article by New York Times journalist Jim Dwyer (5/30/19), who accepts personal accountability, wishing he “had been more skeptical,” and “had shouted, rather than mumbled, the doubts [he] did express.” Interestingly, he notes in the next sentence:
The enormity of what went wrong was first revealed to a broad audience in a 2012 documentary, Central Park Five, by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns.
This was a full ten years after the sentences against the five exonerees were vacated in 2002, thanks to DNA evidence revealing the crime to have been committed by serial rapist Matias Reyes, but the “enormity of what went wrong”—namely, the public persecution and false imprisonment of five teens for 6 to 13 years—didn’t dawn on him until a filmmaker made a documentary about it? Go figure.
Daily News: Ava DuVernay’s ‘When They See Us’ creates a black-and-white version of the Central Park Five case
The Daily News TV critic (5/31/19) complains that Ava DuVernay presents false convictions as an entirely bad thing.
And where the New York Times is halfhearted in regret, the New York Daily News is wholly unapologetic in its disregard for basic journalistic integrity. Reviewing When They See Us, Daily Newswriter Kate Feldman (5/31/19) criticizes the “black-and-white version of the Central Park Five case,” and calls attention to “details DuVernay glosses over,” specifically the fact that some believe “the teens should have been exonerated for the rape, but not other beatings and muggings that occurred that night.”
DuVernay’s refusal to engage with this idea that the five teens may have been violent muggers despite not being rapists prompts Feldman to conclude, “More important than the facts is the idea that the facts no longer matter.” It is the height of irony that a writer for a publication that regularly trafficked in the worst forms of counterfactual, anti-black racism during this period has more to say about the artistic choices of a filmmaker than the real-life decisions of her editors, or the systems of authority to which these editors often subordinate themselves.
While individual gestures of accountability are certainly welcome, no meaningful reconciliation for the trauma inflicted on these youths and their communities at the hands of the most respected media outlets can be achieved until there is a recognition of the systemic character of the misrepresentations that paved the way for many other young black people like them to enter the penitentiary. This would mean official statements from the New York Times board of editors pointing out the errors in judgement they participated in, and, more importantly, steps being taken today to ensure those moral failures are not repeated. Anything less would be a disservice to McCray, Richardson, Salaam, Santana and Wise, their families, and the countless others who strive every day for a more just and equitable culture of justice.

Featured image: Jharrel Jerome as Korey Wise in When They See Us.


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Sunday, August 2, 2015

This, that and Trump's Racism, Species Extinction, the GOP's Trojan Horse in their War Against Women



Eye-opening images show just how bad the California drought really is.

“I’m not going to be engaging in personal attacks against [Hillary Clinton],”Bernie Sanders said. “The American people want a serious debate about serious issues, not personal attacks.”
"I have a lot of respect for Hillary Clinton," Sanders said.
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Why can't the right wing leave women alone?
While conservatives rave disingenuously about abortion, we're ignoring these life-and-death issues.
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Donald Trump fell apart when questioned about his racism towards African-Americans on ABC's This Week.
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Flawed video? Check Shut down the government? Check No wrongoing? Oops.
A Republican-led Planned Parenthood investigation finds nothing wrong. Can we put away the torches and pitchforks, PLEASE???
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Well done, Racing Extinction.
A filmmaker and collaborator will project images of endangered species on a huge New York — and global — canvas on Saturday night.
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For fifty years, legislators have attempted to undo the VRA.
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Friday, September 21, 2012

Emotions over facts

Out to get you? They're after us?
Paranoia?

Our failure to teach history destines us to repeat it.

First, the take over the media. And we allowed it.




The Republican Noise Machine

Then believing the lies.

Nazi Propaganda

Mein Kampf contains the blueprint of later Nazi propaganda efforts. Assessing his audience, Hitler writes in chapter VI:
"Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (...) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood."[5]

Nazi Germany


Why ‘Red’ Outsells ‘Blue’ In The Book Market








Americans are reading far more right-leaning or “red” books than left-leaning “blue” books, according to a survey by Amazon.


NY Times best selling author Glenn Beck autographs books in 2008. (AP)

The New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list also reflects the trend: books by Edward Klein and Dinesh D’Sousa that are highly critical of President Obama are near the top of this week’s list.

It’s a phenomenon that both blogger Ezra Klein and Here and Now literary critic Steve Almond have noticed over the past few years. Almond is a self-proclaimed liberal. But several years back he became fascinated by the frequent appearance of books written by conservative authors like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter on the non-fiction bestseller lists and on his relatives’ bookshelves.

So he set out reading and found that many of the “red” books had compelling narratives.
“These are books that, putting aside whether thy are factual or not, are deeply emotionally and psychologically involving,” he told Here & Now‘s Robin Young.


http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/09/17/red-book-amazon

Drudge Report

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... the Drudge Report, the Internet gossip site maintained by Matt Drudge, an uneducated and professionally untrained former sales clerk at a CBS Entertainment gift shop. In the mid-1990s, Drudge started a Web site on which he posted Hollywood gossip that he said he gleaned at the gift shop. In other interviews, he has intimated that he snooped through executive offices. It didn't take long for the right wing to find Drudge and use his site as a dumping ground for "news" driven by a political agenda. Much of the "news" was false, such as his 1996 report of an imminent indictment of First Lady Hillary Clinton. Drudge has said his postings are 80 percent accurate. An investigation of his claim by the magazine Brill's Content found that ten of thirty-one Drudge "stories" were true. "Screw journalism," Drudge has said. "The whole thing's a fraud anyway."'

From: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Propaganda/Republican_Noise_Machine.html

Interview: The Republican Noise Machine

David Brock, the reformed conservative noise-maker, on how the Right has sabotaged journalism, democracy, and truth.