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Alex Jones joins Owen Shroyer live via Skype to lay out how President
Trump's White House has fired the first shots across the bows of the
tech giants: Facebook, Twitter, and especially Google.
Trump Administration First Shot Across Big Tech Giants’ Bow: Warns Them of Censorship
Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale warns them to stop censorship
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Brad Parscale, who was recently appointed as
campaign manager for Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid, has warned
Google, Facebook, and Twitter to maintain a “level playing field,”
following a month of high-profile revelations of bias at big tech.
Hey @facebook@Twitter@Google we are watching. 👀 This is your opportunity to make sure the playing field is level. #MAGA
Brad Parscale’s comment came on the same day as the results of
primaries for the Texas senatorial race in November were released.
Google and Facebook both have the ability to significantly influence
elections. Facebook has previously boosted voter registration and turnout by significant margins, while research on
search engine manipulation shows that services like Google Search have
the potential to change the preferences of undecided voters by 20
percent or more.
Brad Parscale, current campaign manager for the president’s 2020
re-election bid, previously managed Trump’s digital campaign in 2016. In
public interviews, Parscale has argued that
social media, not traditional media, was the key to Trump’s victory in
2016, and identified Facebook as particularly critical to the
president’s success. His selection suggests that the digital campaigning
will be given even greater emphasis in 2020.
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Editor’s note: Parscale’s notice comes as tech companies have come under fire for wide-scale censorship of conservative opinions.
Twitter, for example, was recently accused of decreasing
the number of followers subscribed to conservative authors. The social
network has in the past also purged users who are reported to have
overstepped speech boundaries, under the guise of enforcing bullying and
harassment guidelines.
At a House Intelligence Committee hearing last November, a Twitter exec admitted the company downgraded an Infowars article which had beat the algorithm and made it to the top of its trending section.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Facebook also shut down users
who expressed support for Donald Trump, the military, the Second
Amendment, strong borders and Christianity. Recently Facebook has taken
their battle against conservative voices mainstream by targeting and
flagging what “independent fact-checkers” deem “fake news.”
Google, likely the worst censorship offender, has in the
past launched efforts to bury search results and block access to
certain websites. Google News long ago censored Infowars from appearing
in its feed, despite our website espousing libertarian, anti-war and
pro-American political views.
Google subsidiary Youtube has also been heavily
criticized for purging “right-wing” channels which they claim violate
terms of service agreements. Even accounts with billions of views and
millions of subscribers, which have been active for over a decade, such
as The Alex Jones Channel, are not safe from overzealous censors.
Youtube workers admitted to censoring Infowars’ main
Youtube channel last October during an undercover sting by Project
Veritas, in which Brand and Diversity Curation Lead Earnest Pettie
asserted Youtube regularly buries Alex Jones videos.
In recent weeks Youtube has undertaken an effort to ban
Infowars’ main channel at the behest of cable network CNN, which flagged
several videos for the company to review.
While President Trump has weighed in on breaking up
monopolies like the one currently being built by tech giant Amazon,
Parscale’s tweet is one of the administration’s first indications that
social media networks are also being monitored.
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The Vatican has decried the “obsession with borders and national security to detriment of rights and dignity of refugees.” Such has been the stance of the Vatican of late. The Vatican “makes millions of dollars annually on refugee resettlement,”
so it now asserts that “those who oppose the Muslim migrant influx are
morally deficient. If you don’t want your land invaded by tens or
hundreds of thousands of people with vastly different values, which they
consider superior to yours, you are simply not a good Christian.” The Vatican has abandoned the persecuted Church and the Christian
value of justice. It is surrendering Christianity for the benefits
associated with global Islamization. The Vatican has “now signaled its concern over the results of Italy’s
national election, which saw sharp gains for populist and
anti-immigrant parties.”
The pope, who was born in Argentina of Italian immigrant
stock, has championed the cause of migrants since taking office in 2013.
So-called “anti-immigrant parties” care more about the Christian roots of Europe than the Vatican has been demonstrating.
No one has advocated closing the door on genuinely suffering
refugees, but Islamic supremacists and jihadists have fully infiltrated
the refugee streams, which fact highlights the urgent need to
investigate who comes into Western countries.
“Vatican signals its concern over populist rise in Italy elections,” by Philip Pullella, Reuters, March 6, 2018:
The biggest winners were the League — the largest party
in a center-right grouping that employed the most fiery anti-migrant
rhetoric during the campaign — and the anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, was asked
on the sidelines of a conference on immigration if the Holy See was
worried about the results.
“The Holy See has to work in whatever conditions arise. We can’t
(always) have the society that we would like to have, or the conditions
that we would like to have,” he told the Catholic news agency SIR.
It was the Vatican’s first public reaction to the results and its
most authoritative because Parolin, its top diplomat, ranks second only
to Pope Francis in the Holy See’s hierarchy.
During the campaign, League leader Matteo Salvini clashed with the pope several times over immigration.
When Francis backed a proposed law that would have granted Italian
citizenship to children born in Italy of immigrant parents — something
the League vehemently opposed — Salvini said Francis could house the
children in the Vatican if he wanted to.
Political squabbling blocked discussion of the law before parliament was dissolved ahead of the elections.
Salvini also criticized the pope for promoting dialogue with Islam.
Many of the Africans who made the dangerous crossing of the
Mediterranean to reach Italy are Muslim.
Parolin said at the conference that the Vatican realized that the
election results meant it would have to continue “a work of education”
about the dignity and rights of immigrants.
Surveys show Italians are increasingly uneasy after more than 600,000
migrants reached Italy by boat in four years. Last month, a neo-Nazi
wounded six migrants in a shooting spree in central Italy.
“Citizens must feel safe and protected but at the same time we can’t
slam doors in the faces of people who are fleeing violence and threats,”
Parolin said.
The pope, who was born in Argentina of Italian immigrant stock, has
championed the cause of migrants since taking office in 2013.
Last year he called for a radical change of attitude towards
immigrants, saying they should be welcomed with dignity and denouncing
the “populist rhetoric” he said was fuelling fear and selfishness in
rich countries…
Owen Shroyer presents video footage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling out California, and other sanctuary cities, for warning illegal
immigrant criminals of incoming authorities.
2018 Theme: Ethics and Respect For Human Dignity EXCERPT:
"This year’s NCLS speakers’ stories will focus on the value and importance of ethics and respect for human dignity across personal and professional cultures. The challenges of a multi-cultural world require individuals to cast aside their own overt or covert biases towards gender, racial, religious, or sexual identities in order to create an environment that facilitates ethical leadership and decision-making as well as personal and professional respect for their fellow human beings."
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY SYMPOSIUM PRESENTS TRANSGENDER COUPLE, MARXIST & SEX GURU
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At a U.S. military academy conference on “character and leadership,” one might expect to hear from individuals imparting wisdom and inspiration from their heroic military actions in the face of battle or its aftermath: Medal of Honor recipients, POW survivors, amputees who continue to serve with dignity and valor. Nah, that’s so “old school.” Heroism now, according to the canons of political correctness, is defined by Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner, Ellen DeGeneres, and homosexual activist/figure skater Adam Rippon. They have the “courage” to “be themselves” and defiantly proclaim their valorous individuality. Despite the fact that the American people spoke in November 2016 and elected Donald Trump, much of the federal bureaucracy still acts as though Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton sits in the Oval Office. Thus, the United States Air Force Academy is continuing the Obama transgender transformation agenda. The headliners at the Academy’s recent 25th National Character and Leadership Symposium were: Air Force Staff Sgt. Logan Ireland and his “wife,” Laila, who had served as a male soldier in the U.S. Army before his/her transgender transition; Cornel West, a celebrity Marxist philosopher, LGBT activist, propagandist for Communist China’s genocidal dictator Mao Zedong, and Harvard professor of African-American Studies; and Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the aging sexologist and media darling who endorses virtually every form of sexual deviancy, as long as it’s done “lovingly.”
“Designed to ‘Stretch Thinking’”
The USAFA’s two-day symposium (February 22-23), according to an article by the Academy’s public affairs office, was “designed to ‘stretch thinking’” of the Air Force cadets. In his opening address to the symposium audience, Academy Superintendent Lt. General Jay Silveria said the event would feature “an impressive array of speakers from an amazingly diverse array of backgrounds.”
“The Air Force Academy’s appreciation for diversity and its willingness to respectfully address controversy make the school stronger,” according to Silveria. “Some of their stories will inspire and encourage you, others will shock or sadden you, some might anger you and some will make you uncomfortable,” he said. “Each of these reactions are important to our experience here and to our development as leaders.”
The theme of the symposium was “Ethics and Respect for Human Dignity,” a topic Silveria called “timely and pertinent.” “It’s one that allows for some healthy introspection as individuals and as organizations, no matter where you’re coming from,” he said. The annual event, noted the USAFA public affairs office, gives Academy cadets, staff, and visiting students and faculty from universities across the United States, a chance to attend presentations and participate in group discussions.
“We’re having conversations here and now that weren’t being had, or some even considered here or anywhere else, back when I was a cadet,” Siveria said. “I think that’s truly amazing and something that needs to happen more across our country.” “It’s a unique group of leaders who truly challenge the norm,” said Cadet 1st Class Ethan Young, cadet in charge of NCLS. “We encourage you to stretch your thinking.”
General Silveria demonstrated the results of his “stretched” thinking last year when a video of his angry rant to the entire Academy regarding a supposed “hate crime” went viral on the Internet. As it turned out, the general had irresponsibly jumped the gun, refusing to wait until the official investigation had been completed. The investigation found, contrary to the media hype and the general's rant, that the racist graffiti scrawled outside the dorm rooms of some black cadets had been written by one of the black “victims.” The unnamed cadet who perpetrated the hoax admitted to committing the misdeed and left the Academy.
General Silveria might have demonstrated true character and leadership to the cadets by acknowledging his error and apologizing for besmirching the entire body of cadets by falsely imputing racism when there was no evidence to support the charge. The general became an instant media celebrity, heralded as a courageous and noble adversary to the reputed intolerance and bigotry of President Trump. Thanks to the general’s rant, the Fake News media ran with the Fake News story day after day, exploiting it as proof of their claim that “Trumpism” is synonymous with racism. To make matters worse, Silveria (and other Air Force officials, presumably) delayed informing the public and the media about the cadet’s admission for two weeks, allowing the injustice of the accusation, and the racial tensions it was fanning, to continue and build. Going still further, Silveria and the Air Force have refused to release the official investigation report. As we reported on March 2, the 174-page investigation report was only released recently, and only as the result of a months-long Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Deep State: U.S. Military Channels Subversive Agenda of New York Times and Harvard
Please pardon our digression above; let’s return to National Character and Leadership Symposium. “The Logans,” as they were described in a USAFA press release, are “a military husband and wife” who “shared their experiences as a transgender couple with cadets and faculty.” “The Logans” are also the stars of a 2015 New York Times documentary, “Transgender, at War and in Love.” The Times, of course, has been a leading force in spreading the gospel of pansexuality, and particularly advancing the “rights” of LGBTQIASS “victims” (etc., etc. — yes, there are now dozens of sexual identity categories) who, we are told repeatedly, must receive special protective status to address perceived societal wrongs and prejudices.
On February 23, as the USAFA symposium was underway, the Times editorial board issued an editorial entitled, “Trump’s Chance to do Right by Transgender Troops.” The Times’ editorial collective castigated President Trump because his attempt to ban transgender individuals from the military “has added immeasurably to the suffering of transgender people just yearning to be treated as human beings.” An official USAFA video of the symposium’s “Understanding Transgender Service Members-NCLS 2018” session reveals the alarming extent to which the Obama administration’s transgender legacy remains deeply imbedded in the Department of Defense (DOD). Beginning with the introductions, which pay homage to the transgender activist professors at the Academy, the program is a stunning eye-opener regarding the level of subversive LGBTQ political correctness that has achieved the status of official dogma at the Academy. (The article continues below the video.)
The unidentified officer making the introductions, for instance, introduces a front-row attendee as “Colonel retired Meyers,” whom he describes as a “45-year transgender veteran of the United States Government” who now serves as an instructor in the Academy’s physics department. “Most of us know Col. Meyers, in our day-to-day life as Mark, but ‘Marcy’ came to visit us today,” the introducer announced. Colonel “Mark/Marcy” Meyers, wearing a bright floral blouse and large, dangle earrings, stood and waved to the audience. Then there was Professor Cornel West, who seems to lead an especially charmed existence. He is one of the most radical peripatetic communist propagandists in the nation. If there is a violent protest by Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, or the Revolutionary Communist Party, there’s a good chance that Prof. West is there pouring gasoline (figuratively) on the fires. All the while, he is proclaiming that he is a “Jesus-loving black man” committed to “non-violence” and “peaceful dialog.” This cheap rhetoric is allowed to stand as proof of his peaceful intent, regardless of his actions that show otherwise.
We reported last year, in Liberal Media: Cheerleaders for “Antifa” Communist Thugs:
Cornel West, the perpetual protester, is regularly given generous free national publicity on radio, TV, and in print. As we have reported many times in the past, Professor West, who has enjoyed honored posts at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Paris, and other left-leaning universities, is the most famous “public intellectual” fronting for the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the hardcore Maoists that have been fomenting riots and violent confrontations for decades. RCP founder Robert Avakian, a former comrade of Bill Ayers in the violent Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), is an ardent disciple of Mao Tse-tung, and his RCP glorifies Communist China’s Cultural Revolution and Mao’s mass-murdering thugs, the Red Guards. Many of the most violent Antifa incidents have featured masked Antifa demonstrators and their supporters (such as Professor West) marching behind banners and holding signs printed by the RCP and emblazoned with the RCP website, www.revcom.us.
Unfortunately, the media and academia have conferred a sort of immunity from criticism on Prof. West. He is provided generous media coverage without ever having to explain his longstanding endorsements of, and support for, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the most fervent apologists for Maoist genocide in China and the imitators of Mao’s murderous Red Guards here in America.
He is also a frequent speaker at both tax-supported and private colleges and universities, despite the fact that the Maosist Reds he champions are the most notorious advocates of thought control and the most tyrannical repressors of free speech in world history. In addition to his promotion of Maoist-Marxist revolution, Prof. West is lionized for helping sway black Christian pastors into acceptance of “LGBT rights” as a crucial part of the civil rights movement. West added the LGBT cause to his revolutionary Cultural Marxism oeuvre more than two decades ago. In a 1996 interview with the Harvard Educational Review, West placed “heterosexism within the context of capitalism, establishing connections to other forms of oppression.” He has been developing these anti-heterosexism/anti-capitalist theses ever since. This obviously qualified him as an “expert” to speak to the Air Force cadets, right?
Tragically, besides receiving the imprimatur of the Air Force Academy, Prof. West’s appearance was given added dignity by the presence of Dr. Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Prof. George, a distinguished jurist and noted conservative, sat on stage with “Brother Cornel” and lent his prestige to the false image of West as a reasonable and honorable fellow academic with whom he may have significant differences of opinion, but who is, nevertheless, committed to freedom of thought and discussion. Sadly, Prof. George must be willfully blind to be so completely unaware of Prof. West’s long and emphatic record to the contrary. Dr. Ruth Westheimer was a logical featured speaker to a program aimed at normalizing psychological confusion and sexual perversion. The 90-year-old sexologist rose to global fame in the 1980s as the advocate of all things sexual. With her radio and television shows, frequent appearances on popular television programs, and dozens of media-promoted best-selling books, the blunt-talking “Gradma of Sex” has been a major force in the pornification of America and the world.
In his important article Deep State Bureaucracy vs. Trump, America, Constitution, The New American’s Alex Newman detailed the formidable task ahead facing not only President Donald Trump, but all freedom-loving Americans, concerning the herculean effort to “drain the swamp.” As the USAFA symposium plainly shows, there are still many swamp creatures carrying out revolutionary schemes to corrupt, undermine, and subvert our society at every level. Unless rooted out, they will succeed. Candidate Trump promised to drain the swamp, and he has already succeeded in evicting some of the most notorious swamp dwellers. Every American should be righteously angered at these continuous attacks on Christian morality and decency by officials of our government. And we should be doing all within our power to encourage President Trump to stay on task in this effort until the swamp is truly drained.
