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Thursday, January 12, 2017
ZUCKERBERG'S MINISTRY OF TRUTH: FACEBOOK LAUNCHES "JOURNALISM PROJECT" TO "IMPROVE MEDIA"~TRUTH & REALITY DECIDED THE WAY THEY SEE IT
"DECIDER & ARBITER
OF TRUTH & REALITY"
(THE WAY FACEBOOK SEES IT)
ZUCKERBERG'S MINISTRY OF TRUTH:
FACEBOOK LAUNCHES "JOURNALISM PROJECT"
TO "IMPROVE MEDIA"
Zuckerberg to dictate "reality"
BY JAMIE WHITE
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/ministry-of-truth-facebook-launches-journalism-project-to-improve-media/;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Facebook has launched its so-called ‘Journalism Project’ as a way for the social media giant to further bolster its position as a news media organization and promote what it determines to be real news.
Part of the project would focus on “improving its storytelling formats such as Live, 360, and Instant Articles,” Facebook stated Wednesday.
“We want to work with publishers to build products that enable them to tell better stories, connect with their audiences in richer ways and support emerging business models for publishers,” Facebook VP of global operations and media partnerships Justin Osofsky said.
Facebook also said that it would begin working with third-party organizations like left-leaning Snopes.com to “promote news literacy” and to “flag” what it deems to be fake news to help users discern what’s trustworthy and what’s not, effectively making the decision for its users.
In other words, Facebook said it will be the decider and arbiter of truth and reality.
“To combat fake news, Facebook has partnered with a shortlist of media organizations, including Snopes and ABC News, that are part of an international fact-checking network led by Poynter, a nonprofit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida,” reported Business Insider last month.
In light of Buzzfeed and CNN’s recent epic failure publishing a hoax report from 4chan about President-elect Trump being compromised by Russia, Facebook’s credibility is also on the line because it widely disseminated that fake story in its news feed, prompting the company’s fact-checker Poytner to save face by condemning the “irresponsible” publication.
“Publishing an entirely unvetted document is a significant departure from the way editors of most significant publications would define the role of reporting,” they wrote.
As we’ve reported, mainstream media and Facebook are scrambling to remain relevant after losing all credibility attacking Trump leading up to the election, and are doubling down in their attempts to invert reality to serve their fake narrative.
CHINA TO PRESENT ITSELF AS DEFENDER OF GLOBALISM AT DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
CHINA TO PRESENT ITSELF AS DEFENDER OF GLOBALISM AT DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
European leaders snub forum despite focus on combating rise of populism
BY CLIFFORD CUNNINGHAM
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Chinese President Xi Jingping is expected to aggressively challenge President-elect Donald Trump and the growing number of populist movements across Europe at the upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
While Premiers of China, including the current Premier Li Keqiang, have attended Davos in the past, Jinping’s attendance marks the first time a Chinese president (who also serves as the head of the Chinese Communist Party) will attend the World Economic Forum.
Jinping is expected to address his desire to move “economic globalization towards greater inclusiveness.”
“Clearly it signals that Xi Jinping is now interested in writing both China and himself in a grander way on the global diplomatic horizon,” said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. “He feels it’s time to really come out. Behind that probably is an assumption and wishful thinking that the U.S. is in disarray, Europe is feckless, and so on.”
“He’ll be received almost as the number one citizen at Davos.”
The
organizers of the World Economic Forum, mindful of a rising populist
sentiment across Europe and the United States that resulted in a
successful referendum for the UK to leave the European Union and the
election of President Donald Trump, have cast this year’s theme as
“responsive and responsible leadership.”
“Every
simplified approach to deal with the global complex agenda is condemned
to fail. We cannot just have populist solutions,” said
Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum. “The problems we
face technologically, economically, socially and politically are so
tremendous, such that sustainable solutions requite a systemic, holistic
approach… and particularly the collaboration of all global
stakeholders, united in one mission – improving the state of the world.”
Despite
the inclusion of populism on the agenda, many European leaders have
paradoxically decided to not attend this year’s forum.
The
leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain have all indicated they
will not attend, opting to send their respective finance ministers
instead.
The United States
will be represented by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State
John Kerry; as the forum’s closing ceremony will take place just hours
before Trump is inaugurated, he will be represented by transition team
member Anthony Scaramucci.
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JEFF SESSIONS PLEDGES TO FOLLOW SUPREME COURT RULINGS UPHOLDING ABORTION & "GAY MARRIAGE"
JEFF SESSIONS PLEDGES TO FOLLOW SUPREME COURT RULINGS UPHOLDING ABORTION & "GAY MARRIAGE"
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
WASHINGTON — Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has been nominated to serve as United States attorney general, told a congressional panel on Tuesday during his confirmation hearing that while he disagrees with Supreme Court rulings on abortion and homosexuality, he concedes that the decisions are the “law of the land” and will uphold them accordingly.“You have referred to Roe v. Wade as ‘one of the worst, colossally erroneous Supreme Court decisions of all time,’” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, noted. “Is that still your view?”
“It is,” Sessions replied. “I believe it violated the Constitution, and really attempted to set policy and not follow law.”
But, he added, “It is the law of the land. It has been so established and settled for quite a long time. It deserves respect, and I would respect it and follow it.”
When asked later about the issue of same-sex “marriage,” Sessions said that he likewise disagreed with the Supreme Court on the matter, but will uphold the ruling regardless of his beliefs.
“[T]he president elect said that the issue of same-sex marriage was ‘already settled; it’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. It’s done, and I’m fine with that,'” Feinstein noted, quoting from remarks made by Donald Trump during a November interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
She then asked Sessions, “Do you agree that the issue of same-sex marriage is settled law?”
“The Supreme Court has ruled on that. The dissents dissented vigorously, but it was 5-4, and five justices on the Supreme Court. The majority of the court has established the definition of marriage for the entire United States of America, and I will follow that decision,” he replied.
Feinstein then inquired how Sessions believes that Obergefell v. Hodges is the law, but Roe v. Wade is not.
“I haven’t said that a woman’s right to choose or Roe v. Wade and its progeny is not the law of the land or not clear today, so I would follow that law,” he contended.
Sessions had also been asked if he would ensure that rape exceptions under the Hyde Amendment—which prohibits federal funds from being used for abortion—are upheld, such as in cases when the woman becomes pregnant as a result of sex trafficking. He likewise replied that he would follow the law in such cases.
According to reports, Sessions serves as a Sunday school teacher at Ashland Place United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama.
ASSANGE: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DESTROYING PUBLIC DOCUMENTS IN FINAL DAYS
ASSANGE: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DESTROYING PUBLIC DOCUMENTS IN FINAL DAYS
BY MICHAEL TENNANT
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/25113-assange-obama-administration-destroying-documents-in-final-days;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The Obama administration, in its waning days, is busily destroying public records to protect its image, charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“Past administrations of both Democrat and Republican players have engaged in mass destruction of records as they left office,” Assange said in a live streamed press conference Monday. “We are told that destruction of records is occurring now in different parts of the Obama administration in different departments or agencies.”
“One understands the political motivation for it,” he explained, “but to eliminate small political risks by destroying major elements of history is, frankly, an obscenity.”
One needn’t go far back in history to find examples of administrations that “lost” or destroyed documents or e-mails, often those with political implications.
The most famous recent example, of course, is Hillary Clinton, who maintained a private, unsecured e-mail server while serving as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state and did not turn it over to the government for archiving after leaving office. Obama later lied about his knowledge of this server, the existence of which enabled Clinton to withhold documents related to the Benghazi debacle from congressional investigators.
The Obama administration also destroyed all e-mails related to the operation that culminated in the alleged death of Osama bin Laden.
The George W. Bush administration, which destroyed videos documenting the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) torture of detainees, claimed to have lost some 22 million e-mails over the course of six years, including all e-mails from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney during certain periods. In reality, the administration “had simply shut down the Clinton [administration’s] automatic e-mail archive,” supposedly because of a server switch, wrote Newsweek.
The Clinton administration, Newsweek explained, had set up the archive in the wake of a lawsuit “that prevented 6,000 White House e-mail backup tapes from being erased” near the end of the George H.W. Bush administration. That administration, like the Reagan administration (which installed the first White House e-mail system) before it, did not maintain e-mail archives despite the 1978 Presidential Records Act’s mandate that all presidential and vice presidential records be preserved. A large number of executive branch e-mails — the Bush administration sent about 200 million — were, therefore, lost to posterity, undoubtedly saving certain Reagan and Bush administration figures from embarrassment, and possibly legal action, in their retirement.
This is not to say the Clinton administration was a model of records preservation. Numerous documents related to the Whitewater investigation were later found in the personal residence of the Clinton White House. And unlike Reagan — who also got key documents related to the Iran-Contra affair shredded while he was in office — and the two Presidents Bush, Bill Clinton has managed to get records destroyed or disappeared even after leaving office. In 2003, Clinton’s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, smuggled five terrorism-related classified documents out of the National Archives and destroyed them, for which he was fined $50,000 and sentenced to five years’ probation. Last year, it emerged that documents related to the probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into the death of Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster had vanished from the National Archives, as had a two-terabyte hard drive from the Clinton administration.
Given all this, it would hardly be surprising to discover that Obama, despite his promise of the “most transparent” administration in history, was, as Assange asserts, even now trying to cover his tracks by destroying documents. Contrary to the repeated claims of Obama’s supporters, his administration did have plenty of scandals that he would surely like to forget — and probably some that he hopes never come to light.
“Our philosophy is that such information [presidential records] is a part of history. It belongs, legally and philosophically, to the American people and more broadly, insofar as the United States interacts with the world, it belongs to the people of the world,” Assange said. “It is part of human history, and the destruction of major archives of human history, frankly, should be formally listed as a crime against humanity because those archives belong to humanity.”
WikiLeaks is offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or exposure of any Obama administration figures involved in the destruction of documents. Assange urged “system administrators in the Obama administration” to “take the data now” and then give it to “WikiLeaks or other journalists at your leisure.”
“Get hold of that history and protect it,” Assange said, “because that is something that belongs to humanity and does not belong to a political party.”
UN DEMANDS MORE GLOBALIST PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS
UN DEMANDS MORE GLOBALIST PROPAGANDA
IN SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS
BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/25111-un-demands-more-globalist-propaganda-in-school-textbooks;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Under the direction of a known Communist Party operative from Bulgaria dogged by corruption charges, the scandal-plagued United Nations “education” agency released a new report demanding broad changes to school textbooks around the world. It is the latest shot across the bow aimed at parental rights, local control of education, and national sovereignty.
The goal of the “Global Education Monitoring Report” by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is fairly transparent: accelerate the indoctrination of impressionable children worldwide with textbook propaganda promoting “global citizenship,” the discredited man-made global-warming theory, homosexuality, transgenderism, and outright totalitarianism. And according to the report itself, school textbooks are the best way to do that.
“Few instruments shape children’s and young people’s minds more powerfully than the teaching and learning materials used in schools,” begins the report, hitting on something understood by every mass-murdering tyrant from Chinese Communist Chairman Mao and Soviet Communist Joseph Stalin to National Socialist Adolph Hitler. “Textbooks convey not only knowledge but also social values and political identities.”
The UN report focuses on whether the UN's agenda for global totalitarian rule is being promoted vigorously enough in school books. The report seeks “to measure the extent to which global citizenship education and education for sustainable development, … , are mainstreamed in national education policies, curricula, teacher education and student assessments,” reads the first page of the revealing document. A German library of school textbooks from around the world was used for the study.
The report, published by UNESCO in December, celebrates the fact that, around the world, more and more captive students are being bombarded with globalist propaganda through textbooks. The document is filled with graphs gleefully highlighting the rapid expansion of textbooks that promote the UN's controversial causes across a range of issues: globalism, pseudo-environmentalism, gender confusion, multiculturalism, and more.
However, the report, also dubbed “Policy Paper 28,” laments that students in some countries are still not receiving a satisfactory dose of UN-backed indoctrination. Education authorities in numerous countries, including the United States, came under fire in the UNESCO document for failing to promptly incorporate the UN's latest demands, as outlined in the Agenda 2030 “Sustainable Development Goals.”
Despite the “progress” in hijacking control of textbook content, the UN claims much more must be done. “As this policy paper shows, textbooks in many countries still fail to deal comprehensively, clearly and fairly with concepts that are crucial,” the report claims, citing the UN's bizarre version of “human rights” (the opposite of individual God-given rights as understood and protected in America by the Constitution), so-called “gender equality,” environmental activism, “social cohesion,” and more.
“All governments should urgently review and revise their textbooks to ensure that the content covers these ideas, which are integral to Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals,” the report continues, with the reference to the illegal pseudo-treaty signed by Obama aiming to “transform our world,” as the UN puts it in the agreement. Perhaps not surprisingly, the mass-murdering dictatorship in Communist China boasted openly of its “crucial role” in creating the dictator-backed Agenda 2030.
The relevant UN Agenda 2030 goal touted by UNESCO, which this magazine has cited on numerous occasions, focuses on “education” in particular. It calls on the UN and governments to “ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, ... global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity.”
In other words, it not enough to just learn to love the UN's totalitarian ideology of “sustainable development”; children must be so thoroughly indoctrinated that they actually promote it. UN Agenda 2030 is very clear in its plan to exploit and weaponize young children, too, turning them into what the UN document refers to as “critical agents of change.” The Agenda 2030 also says children “will find in the new Goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into the creation of a better world.”
And throughout the new UNESCO report, the goal of exploiting and indoctrinating children to demand global tyranny is crystal clear. On environmentalism, for example, the UN's agenda for turning kids into globalist activists is transparent. “As well as ensuring that environmental problems are seen as global issues, it is critical for textbooks to develop students’ sense of agency,” the UNESCO report declares.
In other words, impressionable young children must be taught to believe that the UN must solve real and imagined “environmental problems” because they are “global issues.” And the students must be turned into activists demanding UN control over environmental issues, the report argues. Throughout the report, textbooks that teach children how to become pro-UN activists receive favorable coverage while those that do not encourage activism by the children are chastised for not doing enough.
In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, UNESCO complains that “textbooks are primarily a medium for teaching children scientific facts and make little to no effort to contextualize environmental education.” Stated another way, schools books must not simply teach facts, but must be weaponized and politicized to advance the UN's agenda.
Global citizenship education is also a frequent topic in the report and all throughout the UN's global indoctrination efforts masquerading as education. Fortunately for readers, the UNESCO report even describes the real agenda. “Global citizenship education aims to inculcate students with a notion of belonging not just to their own country but to broader trans-national and global entities,” the document explains.
Do you “belong” to “trans-national and global entities”? Your children might think they do — at least if UNESCO gets its way. And indeed, Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan boasted that UNESCO was his “global partner” in creating “green” global citizens thoroughly indoctrinated in the UN's dangerous “sustainable development” ideology. Quoting a proud communist terrorist, Duncan spoke of “education” as a “weapon” to “change the world.”
Also coming under fire are school textbooks that show women and mothers in “traditional roles,” including the performance of “housework.” In some Turkish textbooks, UNESCO complains, “traditional roles among the females in the house (mother, daughter) are portrayed in the context of cooperation.” “Moreover, women are rarely depicted as working women,” the report complains. In other words, in the UN's view, women are for working and paying taxes, not for being mothers, and to suggest otherwise is to run afoul of the UN's anti-family, pro-abortion “gender equality” demands.
The report also complains that many textbooks around the world do not sufficiently promote homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderism, and more. “While textbooks call for tolerance of diversity, sexual diversity is repeatedly excluded,” the report complains. Unsurprisingly, the Swedish government is praised by the radical UN agency for promoting homosexuality and homosexual parenting in school textbooks.
Other UNESCO “education” documents also call for the sexualization of children. The “International Guidelines for Sexuality Education” released in 2009, for instance, call for teaching children starting at age five that masturbation is “pleasurable.” By age nine, children begin lessons on “aphrodisiacs,” “homophobia,” “trans-phobia,” the alleged safety and desirability of legal abortion, and various perversions. By age 15, the children learn how to “promote the right to and access to safe abortion.” Agents of change, indeed.
Some textbooks used in American schools come under fire in the new UNESCO report just for providing factual information — in this case, true facts about alleged man-made climate change that challenges the UN's discredited narrative. “The textbooks not only cast doubt on the causes of climate change but also emphasize its positive effects and describing [sic] its negative effects as uncertain,” fume the UNESCO authors, highlighting a textbook that points out the well-known fact that not all scientists agree with the UN's failed theory.
It also acts as if warming leading to increasing agricultural yields were a taboo subject that cannot be uttered in the presence of children, even while explicit sexual material is supposed to be not only appropriate but mandatory for children under five years old. “None of the textbooks analysed contained a call to action explicitly linking student behavior or need to take mitigating actions,” the report added about some American textbooks that fail to call on students to become climate-justice warriors.
Ironically, despite the lip service given to non-violence, the UN's record in this area is sordid beyond belief. UN “peace” troops, for example, have rightly developed a reputation around the world as vicious predators, with UN forces implicated in systematic rape and sexual exploitation of children in virtually every country ever occupied by the UN. Killings of unarmed protesters and civilians by UN forces also occur regularly, going back generations.
Schools run by the UN, meanwhile, were exposed yet again last year training Arab children to wage constant “holy war” against their Jewish neighbors. By contrast, the UNESCO report criticizes some Western textbooks for highlighting Islamic military history, arguing that the facts might lead people to associate Islam with violence.
As The New American has highlighted on multiple occasions, textbooks are just one facet of the problem. The UN actually has a transparent agenda to re-shape the ethics, values, beliefs, attitudes, and even the spirituality of children — according to the UN's own top leaders. “We have the collective duty to empower every child and youth with the right foundations — knowledge, values and skills — to shape the future as responsible global citizens,” declared UNESCO boss Irina Bokova, a longtime senior operative with the mass-murdering Bulgarian Communist Party.
Just last week, a UN group of self-styled “human rights experts” slammed a local school district in Connecticut and demanded that it choose new textbooks. And this is just the beginning, as the UN becomes increasingly bold and vicious in attacking U.S. independence, liberties, and self-government.
The latest UNESCO report on textbooks concludes with the recommendation that textbooks around the world be revised as soon as national governments' curricula are updated to meet the UN's demands for the UN “sustainable development agenda.” “Guidelines explicitly related to environmental issues, peace and global citizenship, sustainable development, human rights and gender equality need to be integrated within textbook review processes,” the document demands.
The report never does explain why the tiny group of fringe globalists and communists running UNESCO and other radical UN bureaucracies should have any say at all in school standards and textbooks used by American children. Yet, the real agenda is clear: As every dictator of the 20th century has understood, to be sustainable, tyranny must be inculcated in the minds of the youth from an early age.
As of right now, U.S. law prohibits any American taxpayer funding for UNESCO. And the UN more broadly is skating on thin ice amid ongoing attacks on American freedoms and self-government. But that is not nearly enough. The U.S. government should totally withdraw from UNESCO, along with exiting and defunding the entire dictators club that is the UN. The minds of the youth, and therefore the future of freedom and self-government, literally depend on stopping the rogue global organization from achieving its goals.
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