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Thursday, February 14, 2019

AMAZON: THE INCREDIBLE HYPOCRISY OF JEFF BEZOS


AMAZON: THE INCREDIBLE HYPOCRISY OF JEFF BEZOS

When the patron of sexual smear artists and hackers got hacked.

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272844/incredible-hypocrisy-jeff-bezos-daniel-greenfieldrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos did not pay $250 million for the Washington Post because it was a good deal. In his own words, “It is the newspaper in the capital city of the most important country in the world. The Washington Post has an incredibly important role to play in this democracy.”
Clear away the PR euphemisms and the world’s richest man was saying that he bought the Post because it sets the agenda in Washington D.C. and helps determine the outcome of elections.
Bezos isn’t the first tycoon to buy influence by buying an influential paper. The power he wields with the Washington Post is a pale shadow of the Hearst empire. Dot com billionaires keep buying up media white elephants. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is buying TimeThe Atlantic is in the hands of Steve Jobs’ widow. The New Republic is being run into the ground by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
But the media also changed. What used to be straightforward bias and agendas has become a shadowy underworld of fixers, brokers, leakers and hackers that has more in common with the spy world.
Bezos paid $250 million for the Post, but it may end up costing him as much as $68 billion.
At least if you listen to Bezos, who claimed, at first in a series of trial balloons through intermediaries, and then more openly in a Medium post, that his affair had been made public in retaliation for his ownership of the Washington Post. Bezos suggested that the Saudis and Trump might be at fault. Others of the billionaire’s intermediaries, including the Post, have blamed his mistress’ pro-Trump brother.
The two conspiracy theories, one involving Saudi hackers and the other his mistress’ brother, leaking intimate texts and photos, are contradictory. But conspiracy theories usually are. The insistence of the Amazon boss that a foreign government and Trump supporters are responsible for his private messages leaking online is really no different than the Clinton conspiracy theory about Russia and Trump.
Hillary Clinton tried to shift the blame to Trump and the Russians after wasting $1.2 billion on her failed campaign. A divorce may cost Bezos as much as $68 billion and undermine confidence in Amazon and his leadership. Blaming Trump, Russia and the Saudis redeems acts of otherwise unforgivable stupidity.  It transforms abusers like Hillary Clinton and Bezos into victims by blaming their folly on a conspiracy.
But if the Saudis did hack Bezos, it would be because his ownership of the Washington Post had put him at the nexus of a shadowy underworld of information operations. The first shot was fired when the Post gave Qatari lobbyist, Jamal Khashoggi, a former terrorist propagandist and old friend of Osama bin Laden, column space. The Qataris, beyond backing Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Iran, also sought regime change in Saudi Arabia by mobilizing an effort to overthrow its current monarch.
While Bezos had paid top dollar for the Post, the Qataris and other interests were also using the Post for their own agenda. And the Amazon CEO either did not understand what was going on or approved of it. The Washington Post is a clearinghouse for special interests looking to set the agenda in Washington D.C. Many of those interests, like the Qataris are foreign, malicious and extremely ruthless.
Bezos and the Washington Post had no objection when Qatari hackers passed on the emails of Elliott Broidy, a deputy finance chairman for the Republican National Committee, to reporters revealing his own private life. Instead, the Post gleefully featured some of these hacked emails. When Bezos demands sympathy as the innocent victim of foreign hackers, he is guilty of the worst sort of entitled hypocrisy.
The Broidy hack was one of a series of Qatari operations targeting Americans seen as being allied with the Saudis and the UAE. The media mandarins cheering Bezos showed no sympathy for those victims.
If the Saudis had struck back at Bezos, it’s hard to see him as anything more than fair game. And the media outlets fulminating at the National Enquirer should be asked how it was any different when Qatari lobbyists were carefully feeding them the private emails of Broidy and their other victims.
The only answer is that it’s okay when Qatar hacks Republicans, but it’s out of line when the Saudis hack Democrats. There’s no comparing the New York Times or the Associated Press gleefully airing the prurient details of Broidy’s sex life with the Enquirer airing the prurient details of Bezos’ sex life.
That’s not journalism. It’s the calculated hypocrisy of political informational warfare.
The Washington Post weaponized allegations of sexual misconduct in political warfare. Bezos whines that his affair, which did happen, was wrongly made public. Meanwhile, the Post falsely accused Justice Kavanaugh (among other Republicans) of sexual misconduct that never happened. And it did cover up rape allegations against Justin Fairfax, the Democrat Lt. Governor, which appear to have happened.
This was the “incredibly important role” that the Washington Post played “in this democracy.” And these were the rules by which it played it. Republicans were accused of sexual assault and child abuse, and Republican officials had their private affairs revealed and private emails published. Meanwhile, Democrats had their rape accusations buried deep down in the Washington Post’s deepest basement.
This was how the Washington Post played its political influence game. And Bezos had no problem with that because it helped him achieve his political goals, defeating Republicans and electing Democrats.
The media is singing the Amazon CEO’s tune and bemoaning his misfortune. But the only reason the Qataris, the Russians, the Saudis and the North Koreans began hacking and leaking emails is because of media collusion. When the son of a Democrat official hacked into Sarah Palin’s email, the media gleefully searched through her inbox for any damaging material without caring about the ethics of it.
When Sony was preparing to release The Interview, a comedy about the assassination of Kim Jong-un, North Korean hackers leaked the emails of Sony employees. Instead of boycotting the hackers, the media republished many of the stolen emails, and destroyed the career of studio head, Amy Pascal.
The media claims that foreign governments hacking into the emails of Americans and then leaking them to the media represents a “democratic emergency”. But there would be no “emergency” if the media just stopped reporting on and publishing stolen emails. Instead, the media calls for all sorts of emergency measures, for a crisis it claims is worse than Pearl Harbor, but won’t stop running the stolen emails.
Bezos may just be collateral damage in the complete lack of ethics shown by his media investment.
The Democrats backed the Qatari Islamic terror state as part of their alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood. The red-green alliance manifested as the Washington Post was allowing Qatar to use its pages to promote the overthrow of the Saudi regime. And the Post’s dirty deal may have backfired on Bezos as the shadowy underworld of internet information operations bit the biggest internet billionaire around.
This doesn’t make Bezos a victim.
Victims don’t own papers that gleefully publish other people’s hacked emails and affairs, but whine when it happens to them. Bezos didn’t just betray his wife, he betrayed every basic principle of ethics. His Medium post and his spin doctors claim the ultimate privilege, that of the abuser from retaliation.
Jeff Bezos thought that the Washington Post’s collusion with Qatar, that the hacks and smears of Republicans, served his economic interests. His greed and megalomania may have cost him $68 billion.

MORE THAN 1000 SCIENTISTS WORLDWIDE SIGN "DISSENT FROM DARWINISM"

MORE THAN 1000 SCIENTISTS WORLDWIDE 
SIGN "DISSENT FROM DARWINISM"
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: https://christiannews.net/2019/02/13/more-than-1000-scientists-worldwide-sign-dissent-from-darwinism/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
While not necessarily expressing an adherence to biblical creation, more than 1,000 scientists worldwide have signed on to a “Dissent From Darwinism” statement that expresses skepticism over the theory of biological evolution and calls for the “careful examination” of Charles Darwin’s teachings.
“We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged,” the statement reads.
The list was first launched in 2001 by the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, and has now grown to 1,000 and counting. The organization has launched a site where other scientists can sign the statement. It includes comments from prominent professors and researchers who explain why they support the dissent from Darwinism.
“Darwinian evolutionary theory was my field of specialization in biology. Among other things, I wrote a textbook on the subject thirty years ago. Meanwhile, however, I have become an apostate from Darwinian theory and have described it as part of modernism’s origination myth,” wrote Dr. Stanley Salthe, professor emeritus at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Dr. Marcos Eberlin, the founder of the Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, said that he became skeptical about evolutionary theory after realizing the wonders of the genetic code and “its many most intelligent strategies to code, decode and protect its information, such as the U x T and ribose x deoxyribose exchanges for the DNA/RNA pair and the translation of its 4-base language to the 20AA language of life.”
He remarked that genetics “absolutely relies on a diversity of exquisite molecular machines made by the products of such translation forming a chicken-and-egg dilemma that evolution has no chance at all to answer.”
“Scientific journals now document many scientific problems and criticisms of evolutionary theory and students need to know about these as well,” also said Philip Skell, an emeritus Evan Pugh professor at Pennsylvania State University. “Many of the scientific criticisms of which I speak are well known by scientists in various disciplines, including the disciplines of chemistry and biochemistry, in which I have done my work.”
Other signers include Alan Linton, the emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom; Michael Kavaya, the senior scientist of the NASA Langley Research Center; William Arion, the emeritus professor of biochemistry at Cornell University; Marvin Fritzler, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Calgary Medical School in Canada; George Wells, a professor of computer science at Rhodes University in South Africa; and Hsin-Yi Lin, an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering and biotechnology at the National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan.
Answers in Genesis, in commenting on the “Dissent from Darwinism” list, noted that a number of signees—while expressing skepticism about Darwin’s writings—haven’t rejected evolution in its totality, and some may simply believe that additional research is needed.
President Ken Ham stated that Christians need to do more than simply discount parts of evolutionary theory, but to stand for Scripture as a whole.
“We need to stand against all beliefs that are contrary to the Word of God, including other evolutionary ideas (evolutionary geology and cosmology, for example) that undermine the authority of the Word of God,” he wrote in a blog post. “So yes, we do applaud what these scientists are doing, but we challenge them to look to God’s Word for the answers to their questions about origins, as many other scientists are already doing.”
As previously reported, not all of those who accompanied Darwin on his journeys supported his theories. During the 1860 Oxford evolution debate, Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who had once served as the captain for Darwin’s voyage to the Galapagos Islands and played a significant role in the development of the Origin of Species, repented of his participation.
Reports state that FitzRoy walked to the front of the room during the debate, “lifting an immense Bible, first with both and afterwards with one hand over his head, [and] solemnly implored the audience to believe God rather than man.”
Colossians 1:15-16 declares, “[Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.”

SOUTH CAROLINA BILLS ENSHRINING PERSONHOOD OF UNBORN WOULD OUTLAW ABORTION IN STATE

SOUTH CAROLINA BILLS ENSHRINING PERSONHOOD OF UNBORN WOULD OUTLAW ABORTION IN STATE
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: https://christiannews.net/2019/02/13/south-carolina-bills-enshrining-personhood-of-unborn-would-outlaw-abortion-in-state/;  republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A pair of bills have been introduced in South Carolina that would declare the right to life from the moment of fertilization, thus outlawing abortion in the state.
State Rep. Josiah Magnuson, R-Spartanburg, and state Sen. Richard Cash, R-Anderson, have presented the “Personhood Act of South Carolina” in both the House and the Senate. It affirms the God-given right to life, which is also cited in the Declaration of Independence.
“The General Assembly acknowledges that personhood is God-given rather than an endowment of the State. All human beings, regardless of race, sex, age, religion, or economic status, are created in the image of God and therefore have an equal right to life,” the bills read.
They note that a “primary responsibility of civil government” is “establish and enforce laws that protect all innocent persons,” and therefore, it is the duty of the State of South Carolina to do so.
The Act further clarifies that protections in the state Constitution surrounding the rights to due process and equal protection of the laws “vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human being.”
The bills make no exceptions to allow abortion, and outline that if a woman’s life is at risk, “the physician shall make reasonable medical efforts under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of the preborn human being in a manner consistent with accepted medical standards.”
“The provisions of this section must not be construed to authorize the intentional killing of a preborn human being,” the legislation notes.
Cash told CBS News last week that he believes that now is the time to act.
“We’re always hopeful in moving the needle and challenging the way people think about the killing of unborn children,” he stated. “There’s a need and urgency to do something at the state level and not just wait for someone else.”
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette appeared at a “Personhood Day” event with Magnuson and Cash on Feb. 6 to express support for the measure, which had also been presented in 2017 by Sen. Kevin Bryant. McMaster noted that backing for the effort has increased since then.
“[T]he good news is that there are a lot more of us, and there is a lot more understanding of what [the pro-life stance] means, and we are getting stronger and stronger,” he told those gathered.
“We must stand tall [and] stand together, and be strong in what we believe is best for the people of our state and the people of our country. We can be leaders,” McMaster declared. “You send me that clear, concise personhood bill and I will sign it into law.”
As previously reported, lawmakers in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and Indiana have also filed legislation for the 2019 session calling for the protection of the unborn from the moment of conception, and the prosecution of abortion as murder.
Psalm 139:13-14 reads, “For thou hast possessed my reins; Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.”

AMERICAN COMBAT VETERAN & POLICE MAN: "I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE TO REP. ILHAN OMAR"~YOUTUBE DEMONITIZES HIS CHANNEL~SHE WON'T APOLOGIZE FOR HER HATE SPEECH

AMERICAN COMBAT VETERAN & POLICE MAN: "I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE TO REP. ILHAN OMAR"~YOUTUBE DEMONITIZES HIS CHANNEL FOR ALLEGED "HATE SPEECH"~SHE WON'T APOLOGIZE FOR HER HATE SPEECH DIRECTED AT TRUMP, MILITARY, PATRIOTS, JEWS


Published on Feb 12, 2019


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Questions have been raised regarding freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's former marriage, which she tried to keep quiet when she ran for office. Classmates and local press are now saying there may have been more to the relationship than matrimony. One America's Jack Posobiec explains.

MUSLIM U.S. AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST TRIED TO PASS CLASSIFIED AMERICAN INFORMATION TO IRAN

monica elfriede witt
monica witt iran
MUSLIM U.S. AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST TRIED TO PASS CLASSIFIED AMERICAN INFORMATION TO IRAN 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/muslim-u-s-air-force-intelligence-specialist-tried-to-pass-classified-american-information-to-iranrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
But if anyone had questioned her loyalty, he or she would have been denounced as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”
“Iran Conducted Cyber Hacks on U.S., Recruited U.S. Air Force Officer to Steal Classified Info,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 13, 2019:
WARSAW, Poland—The Trump administration announced a new package of sanctions on Iranian entities tied to the cyber backing of U.S. individuals, a move that comes on the heels of American authorities indicting a U.S. Air Force officer who allegedly tried to pass classified information to Tehran after defecting to the country.
The Department of Justice announced early Wednesday that it had indicted Monica Elfriede Witt, also known as Fatemah Zahra, a former active duty U.S. Air Force Intelligence Specialist and Special Agent, for attempting to pass classified American information to Iran.
Witt had access to secret and top-secret information, according to the indictment, unsealed early Wednesday.
Witt was deployed to several overseas location to conduct “classified missions collecting signals intelligence,” including those of adversaries.
Witt had access to “classified information, including details of ongoing counterintelligence operations, true names of sources, and the identities of U.S. agents involved in the recruitment of those sources,” according to the indictment.
“In or around January 2012 to in or around May 2015, in Iran, and elsewhere outside the jurisdiction of any particular State or district, defendant [Witt] did knowingly and unlawfully combine, confederate, and agree with other persons, both known and unknown to the grand jury, including officers of the IRGC, to knowingly and unlawfully communicate, deliver, and transmit to a foreign government, specifically Iran, and to that foreign government’s representatives, officers, and agents, directly and indirectly, documents and information relating to the national defense of the United States, with the intent and reason to believe that the same would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of Iran, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 794(a),” the indictment alleges.
The disclosure of this information leak was timed to coincide with an announcement by the Treasury Department that it is sanctioning a handful of Iranian entities for their role in cyber hacks on Americans.
The sanctions hit an Iranian-based entity tied to the country’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC. This includes “efforts to recruit and collect intelligence from foreign attendees [of various conferences], including U.S. persons, and four associated individuals,” according to the Treasury Department.
Sanctions also were leveled on “a separate Iran-based entity and six associated individuals involved in the targeting of current and former U.S. government and military personnel as part of a malicious cyber campaign to gain access to and implant malware on their computer systems.”…
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"Witt, 39, was recruited after attending the Iranian New Horizon Organization’s “Hollywoodism” conference — an event sponsored by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps which prosecutors said was aimed at “condemning American moral standards and promoting anti-U.S. propaganda” and flipping US intelligence officers into turncoat spies."
FROM: https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/272864/ex-air-force-officer-converts-islam-spies-iran-daniel-greenfield
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ELDERLY GERMAN COUPLE FORCED FROM HOME TO ACCOMMODATE MIGRANTS

ELDERLY GERMAN COUPLE FORCED FROM HOME 
TO ACCOMMODATE MIGRANTS
BY DAN LYMAN
SEE: https://europe.infowars.com/elderly-german-couple-forced-from-home-to-accommodate-migrants/;  republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
A German couple has been notified they must vacate their apartment to make room for refugees who will soon be placed there, according to local media.
Klaus Roth, 74, who has lived in his apartment in the town of Neckartailfingen for 24 years, is stunned by the decision, which was reached by the municipal council and mayor, Nürtinger Zeitung reports.
"I put a lot of money and work into the apartment," said Roth, who raised his three children in the home. "I completely renovated it on my own."
"You do not transplant an old tree."
Roth and his partner have been offered a replacement dwelling half the size of their current abode – for the same cost.
Roth has an extensive record of activism and service in the community, including volunteering to aid and welcome 'refugees,' approximately 40 of whom have already been resettled in town.
Now, with migrant housing reportedly filled to the max, officials have decided Roth's six-room, 150 square meter flat would be perfect for a large group of 'asylum seekers.'
"We are under pressure and need to take in more refugees," said Mayor Gerhard Gertitschke. "There is no way to say that we can not accommodate them."
Roth's eviction in favor of migrants is just the latest in a growing list of similar incidents, some of which can be referenced herehere, and here.
In Italy, entire hotels have been seized by the government to house migrants (during the prior administration).
"The fact that cities or towns evict tenants to accommodate refugees does not happen frequently, but is legal," Nürtinger Zeitung explains. "In a comparable case, the District Court of Göttingen had considered the termination of a tenant who lived with another person in a four-room apartment as lawful."
"This was justified by the fact that the public interest of the community in accommodation of the refugees outweighs other interests, especially since it was not clear that the community could have resorted to other types of accommodation."

POLICE STATE N.J. GOES NATIONAL: FEDERAL MAGAZINE BAN INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE BY BOB MENENDEZ OF NEW JERSEY

FRESH WITH DANGEROUS LIBERAL IDEAS AFTER VACATIONING IN PUERTO RICO
FEDERAL MAGAZINE BAN INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE BY BOB MENENDEZ OF NEW JERSEY 
The Democratic legislation, cosponsored by Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida and Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, would ban any magazine that exceeds 10 rounds of ammunition. The legislation, which has been dubbed the "Keep Americans Safe Act," currently has no Republican cosponsors, one of many obstacles that would stand in the way of it advancing. During a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, the Democratic legislators described the bill as one step in a process of passing individual gun control measures instead of a big comprehensive package. READ the bill: https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/m... Contact Senator Menendez: https://www.menendez.senate.gov/ https://www.facebook.com/senatormenendez https://twitter.com/SenatorMenendez https://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorM... http://instagram.com/senatormenendez


SIGN PETITION FOR REMOVAL NOW!-ILHAN OMAR YELLS AT REPORTER WHO ASKED ABOUT HER ANTI-SEMITIC TWEETS: "ARE YOU SERIOUS? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"

Minnesota press raises questions about 

Ilhan Omar's former marriage(s)

Questions have been raised regarding freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's former marriage, which she tried to keep quiet when she ran for office. Classmates and local press are now saying there may have been more to the relationship than matrimony. One America's Jack Posobiec explains.
MUSLIM JIHADIST APPLIES THE STANDARD VICTIMOLOGY & ACCUSATIONS OF DISRESPECT

Rep. Ilhan Omar gets upset with CNN reporter: 

What is wrong with you?

REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND DEFLECTS WITH HER OWN QUESTIONS
"ARE YOU SERIOUS? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?": ILHAN OMAR YELLS AT REPORTER WHO ASKED ABOUT HER ANTI-SEMITIC TWEETS 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The reporter was from CNN, so she was probably astounded that he wasn’t behaving as her adoring sycophant.
“Omar Snaps at CNN Reporter for Asking More Questions About Anti-Semitic Tweet Controversy,” by David Rutz, Washington Free Beacon, February 13, 2019:
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) grew angry with CNN reporter Manu Raju on Wednesday after he repeatedly asked her questions about her latest Twitter controversy.
Omar was forced to apologize Monday by Democratic leadership for using anti-Semitic tropes after tweeting that politicians who support Israel are paid off by AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying firm. Omar’s apology included another knock on AIPAC for having too much influence in politics.
President Donald Trump called her apology “lame” and said she should resign or at least be taken off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
According to Raju, Omar first declined to comment on Trump’s latest rejoinder. When he saw her again, according to Raju and fellow CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, she yelled, “Are you serious? What’s wrong with you? Yes, I tweeted and there’s a response. You can run that. Have a nice day.”…
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