Nolte: Disgraced Media Already Hit with Massive Layoffs in 2018

By the time President Trump’s presidency is over, one of the biggest pieces of fake news we will look back on is when we were told by the media that Trump was good for the media business. According to what is happening in a place called the real world, the truth is that business for the media is horrible.

We will start with the Denver Post, which announced Thursday that, between April 9 and July 1, 30 jobs will be cut from its newsroom. That is a massive 30 percent cut of its current staff of 100 journalists.  Just 10 years ago according to the far-left Washington Post, the Denver Post employed 600 journalists. That is close to a 90 percent reduction in only a decade.

Just a few hours later we learned that another wave of surprise layoffs hit the Chicago Tribune. Fourteen newsroom staffers were let go in that publication’s second round of layoffs in less than six months. Back in October more than a dozen were let go. Roger Federer reports that “Further cuts are expected as the newspaper prepares to leave Tribune Tower for smaller space at Prudential Plaza.”

Last month, the San Jose Mercury News was hit with another round of terminations, as many as 27 staffers were either laid off or bought out.

In late January, the East Bay Times wiped out a quarter of its editorial staff through layoffs and buy outs — a total of 28 staffers.

We also learned in January that a total of five publications owned by Southern California News Group will face “significant layoffs,” including the OC Register and Los Angeles Daily News.

On our cable dials, while Fox News and MSNBC are open about their respective biases and thrive, the far-left CNN is not only collapsing in the ratings but dealing with some massive layoffs of its own. Over the past few years, CNN, which continues its ludicrous pose as an objective news organization,  has been in a credibility death spiral, and that is finally starting to take a real tool on the anti-Trump cable channel.

None of this should be surprising.  Americans are losing faith in the media, and for good reason. The belligerent biases, the unrelenting fake news. As an example, just look at the past 18 hours. Both ProPublica and the New York Times have been caught spreading fake news about Gina Haspel, Trump’s pick to run the CIA, and the Washington media falsely reported that Trump had fired his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster.

Alternately, this same media missed completely the biggest political story of the last 60 days — Trump replacing his secretary of state with his CIA director and choosing a woman to lead the spy agency, a historic first.

Our media is shockingly useless, constantly playing catch up with actual news while obsessing over rumor and innuendo.

Consider the fact that the media that protected Bill Clinton — a man who as president committed perjury to cover up his sexual affair with a young intern, an affair conducted just a few rooms away from his wife and daughter in the  Oval Office — is now obsessed over a porn star’s story that she might have had a consensual affair with Trump more than a decade ago.

When women credibly accused Clinton of rape, groping, and harassment, our media joined the White House in destroying them as liars. But this same media hoping to turn a 12-year-old consensual relationship into a national scandal.

Americans are tired of the media lying to them, misleading them, lecturing them… Today, there are plenty of alternative sources of news. No one needs to put up with what is called the MSM anymore.

Which reminds me…

To protect Barack Obama’s anemic economic “recovery,” our media tried to convince us that unemployment  in the Obama era, was really “funemployment.” When the working class, those our elitist media despise, lose their jobs to illegal immigrants, unfair trade deals, and oppressive and unnecessary environmental regulations, the media have dismissively suggested that they all catch up with the times and learn computer code.

So let me be the first to wish all of these “journalists” a Happy Funemployment and wish them luck all the luck in the world with their new careers as computer coders.

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Female Trump Official Assaulted By Democrat Operative Speaks Out

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A female staffer serving in the Trump administration was allegedly assaulted on Capitol Hill Thursday by a Democratic operative.

And she’s now sharing her story with The Daily Caller.

Heather Swift, press secretary Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, was leaving a meeting with the House Committee on Natural Resources when she was allegedly assaulted by an American Bridge staffer, who pushed Swift violently while lunging after her boss.

Swift engaged the liberal operative verbally, attempting to protect her boss, but the American Bridge staffer pushed back harder, according to the official.

U.S. Capitol Police quickly arrested the man, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Interior officials have also filed a police report, which will be made public once processed.

Swift told The Daily Caller in an exclusive statement that the American Bridge staffer was much bigger than her and acted like a “lunatic.” She calls the actions of the liberal activist a “violent action” and “very physical.” Swift believes she was “targeted” by the liberal activist and that Democrats need to “denounce” this violent behavior. “Democrats claim to support women but they allow their operatives to assault women,” Swift told TheDC.

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Laura Ingraham isn’t too happy at comments from Shepard Smith – here’s what he said

Shepard Smith criticized some of the shows on the Fox News network, and Laura Ingraham, who hosts one of those shows, let him know publicly she wasn’t happy about it.

Here’s what Shepard Smith said

In an interview with Time magazine, Smith remarked on the differences between the opinion side of the news channel and the hard news side.

“We serve different masters,” he explained. “We work for different reporting chains, we have different rules.”

“They don’t really have rules on the opinion side,” he added. “They can say whatever they want. If it’s their opinion. I don’t really watch a lot of opinion programming. I’m busy.”

“I get it,” Smith continued, “that some of our opinion programming is there strictly to be entertaining. I get that. I don’t work there. I wouldn’t work there. I don’t want to sit around and yell at each other and talk about your philosophy and my philosophy. That sounds horrible to me.”

Smith has often been at odds with the narratives from other shows on Fox News – in November he took on the Uranium One scandal and argued that much of it was exaggerated or misreported.

Here’s how Ingraham responded:

“Always liked Shep, but his comments were inconsiderate & inaccurate,” she tweeted Friday.

“The hard working team at the Ingraham Angle does real reporting, develops [important] sources and scores big interviews. Very proud of them.”

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Nancy Pelosi’s New Argument Against Border Wall Couldn’t Be More Pathetic

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was asked on Thursday during her weekly news conference about President Donald Trump’s recent trip to California to examine border wall prototypes, and her criticism of the eventual border wall reached an absolutely pathetic level.

According to the Washington Examiner, the House minority leader was asked if her party was prepared to grant approval for border wall funding, given that the deadline to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — to which Democrats had attempted to tie border wall funding — had come and gone.

“What do you think?” Pelosi replied with a snarky smile. “I mean, should we give a border wall for nothing? I don’t think so.”

“First of all … Did you see it? How high it is? I mean, really? In a civilized society, we do something like that?” she asked rhetorically. “As obnoxious as it is, you know that’s a community there with a border running through it.”

“A wall that big separating people? I mean, really? This is like, a big wall,” she continued, prior to a failed attempt at making a joke about the Trump administration seeing and being inspired by the tall tin wall that used to separate Northern Ireland from Great Britain.

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She then hearkened back to the recent failed efforts at bipartisan legislation put forward which would have saved DACA and allegedly made “serious concessions” on border wall funding, but stated, “For nothing would we give the wall? No. I mean, what would be our motivation?”

“Let me be clear,” she continued. “If the dreamers never existed — and thank God they do, our inspiration, our pride, thank God that they do — if they never existed, we still have a problem with what the president wants to do.”

You can watch Pelosi stutter her way through this ridiculous criticism of the border wall as “obnoxious” right here:

Do you think Democrats will come up with any excuse to not fund a border wall?

So there you have it: Nancy Pelosi thinks the border wall will be “obnoxious,” too high and unnecessary in our “civilized society.”

She also expressed her thanks that such a class of people as “dreamers” existed — bear in mind these are people who are in the country illegally — and made it clear that Democrats had no motivation to secure the border with a wall without a deal for dreamers — just before seemingly scuttling that argument by stating Democrats would still oppose the wall even without the dreamers in the mix.

Louder With Crowder suggested that Pelosi could very well have been projecting the public’s view of herself onto the wall — “Obnoxious, unsightly, and unnecessary in a civilized society” — and revealed how little interest her party has in securing the border no matter what.

Indeed, Democrat elitists would likely prefer the wall, if it even ever existed, consist of little more than welcome signs greeting those migrating across the border in an illegal fashion.

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Pelosi has proven herself to be nothing more than a hypocritical joke on countless occasions, and one who objects to an important national security measure on the basis of how aesthetically pleasing it will appear once complete.

That is just absurd, but is exactly what we have come to expect from Pelosi and her fellow Democrats over the past year. Absolute absurdity and opposition to the president for the sake of opposition.

It has grown tiresome and beyond ridiculous — not to mention obnoxious.

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Disgusting: Worldwide Cult Granted Their Own TV Show… What Is Wrong With the World?

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Disgusting: Worldwide Cult Granted Their Own TV Show… What Is Wrong With the World?

The Church of Scientology, a cult Hollywood celebrities frequent and former members criticize for allegedly abusive practices, announced its new television network airing Monday.

The Church of Scientology made the announcement Sunday via a new Twitter account made to promote the network, “Scientology Network,” as well as through the launching of a new website.

The new television channel was also advertised with the release of a television app for those with streaming services like Roku and programming offered by Apple, Google and Amazon, according to The Associated Press.

The church’s new television network website advertises it will air Monday at 8 p.m. EST, and while it does not explicitly state what kind of programming it will feature, the tagline “Curious?” and prominently featured sections like “What is Scientology” imply the network will likely be a platform for the cult’s proselytizing.

“It’s actually making a difference in the world. That’s what it’s all about,” the network’s Twitter account advertisement voice said.

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Many former members dispute the religious group’s self-proclaimed benevolence.

The cult most recently came under fire for allegedly protecting actor Danny Masterson from sexual assault allegations.

Actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini also documented the church’s abusive practices in her Emmy Award-winning documentary series, “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” which stirred more public outcry against the religious organization.

Do you think this organization should have its own network?

Church members’ antagonistic behavior toward former members, the church’s indoctrination techniques, and the level of secrecy the leadership tries to maintain was also recently captured on film in the documentary, “My Scientology Movie.”

Chris Shelton, another former member of the Church of Scientology who held high ranking, affirmed allegations of abuse and cover-ups within the cult.

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“The church works to protect the church first,” Shelton told Fox.

“(The Church of Scientology) considers anyone outside the church to be a ‘wog,’ which is a defamatory word describing non-members … It creates an ‘us versus them’ mentality (and tells) members that ‘wogs’ at law enforcement won’t protect them.”

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U.S. Army Looking Toward Land Combat Robots in 2019

U.S. Army Looking Toward Land Combat Robots in 2019



The United States Army is developing compact weapons platforms “optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain.”

Despite a long history of resistance to the idea, it appears that our military is finally considering the seeming inevitability of mechanized warfare. As they prepare to hand over many human tasks to their automated counterparts, it has become apparent that the age of putting (human) boots on the ground may be coming to an end.

By 2020, they want prototypes of both robotic and “optionally manned” units available for field testing. That means having something solid to work with by 2019. Brigadier General David A. Lesperance told reporter Sydney Freedberg of Breakingdefense.com that they expect heavy modeling, simulation, and experimentation in the next “six to 12 months.”

Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley created the “Cross Functional Teams” working on what he termed the “Big Six” military modernization priorities, to carry the American armed forces into the future. The “Next-Generation Combat Vehicle,” or NGCV, is near the top of that list.

Unfortunately, our national military is not known for their armored warfare designs. Our premier advances have been little more than a modification of the same M1 Abrams and M2 Bradley tanks that we have been using since the Cold War. Every major attempt at advancement beyond those designs has failed.

General Lesperance was unable to confirm a fielding date but is determined to see “experimental prototypes” in “shakedown testing” in 2019, followed by an operational model in 2020. That would put development of next-generation combat vehicles two years ahead of the previous timeline, in addition to adding robotics not part of the original plan.

General Lesperance further specified that the “optionally manned” and fully robotic units were not one and the same and that either one could be advanced or altogether scrapped in the process. The one thing that is certain is that the U.S. Army is finally taking a real shot at adapting to 21st-century warfare — all they need to do now is make sure Russia does not get there first.

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Jesus Banned from Christian Easter Advertisement – Too Offensive

A church has been forced to remove the word ‘Jesus’ from its signs ahead of Easter because it has been causing offence.

Elim Church on the Central Coast in New South Wales paid for digital signs to be displayed at Erina Fair shopping centre reading ‘the greatness of His Power’.

Pastor Martin Duffy told 2GB radio that shopping centre manager Lendlease objected to the signs and forced them to be changed to read ‘Risen Christ’ instead of ‘Jesus’.

‘The phrase ‘Jesus is alive’… is the core message of the Christian faith and what Easter’s really all about,’ he said.

‘It’s a good message. I think there’s a minority group out there that are constantly distorting the message of Jesus Christ. It’s just going on and on.’

Elim Church is a West Gosford evangelical church located north of Sydney.

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DEVELOPING: Facebook Suspending Trump-Affiliated Research Firm Cambridge Analytica

Social media giant Facebook is suspending the Trump-affiliated political research firm Cambridge Analytica. 

Is this a way to stick it to Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale who previously ran Donald Trump’s digital media?

Facebook has launched at all out assault on conservatives with their algorithm changes.

Conservative voices are being snuffed out on Facebook while liberal sites such as CNN are being boosted.

The Gateway Pundit has written extensively about this assault on conservative voices.
The latest algorithm changes by Facebook suppressed conservative publishers and boosted liberal propaganda.

Washington Post Silicon Valley correspondent, Elizabeth Dwoskin tweeted out the news.

Cambridge Analytica is a the Mercer-affiliated firm that helped Donald Trump win in 2016. The company is a privately held company that combines data mining and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process.

DEVELOPING: Facebook is suspending Trump-affiliated political research firm Cambridge Analytica. Story to come.

Facebook released a statement on their decision to suspend Cambridge Analytica:

By Paul Grewal, VP & Deputy General Counsel

We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook. Given the public prominence of this organization, we want to take a moment to explain how we came to this decision and why.

We Maintain Strict Standards and Policies

Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do, and we require the same from people who operate apps on Facebook. In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.

Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app. His app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.” Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it.

Although Kogan gained access to this information in a legitimate way and through the proper channels that governed all developers on Facebook at that time, he did not subsequently abide by our rules. By passing information on to a third party, including SCL/Cambridge Analytica and Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, he violated our platform policies. When we learned of this violation in 2015, we removed his app from Facebook and demanded certifications from Kogan and all parties he had given data to that the information had been destroyed. Cambridge Analytica, Kogan and Wylie all certified to us that they destroyed the data.

Breaking the Rules Leads to Suspension

Several days ago, we received reports that, contrary to the certifications we were given, not all data was deleted. We are moving aggressively to determine the accuracy of these claims. If true, this is another unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments they made. We are suspending SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Wylie and Kogan from Facebook, pending further information.

We are committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people’s information. We will take whatever steps are required to see that this happens. We will take legal action if necessary to hold them responsible and accountable for any unlawful behavior.

How Things Have Changed

We are constantly working to improve the safety and experience of everyone on Facebook. In the past five years, we have made significant improvements in our ability to detect and prevent violations by app developers. Now all apps requesting detailed user information go through our App Review process, which requires developers to justify the data they’re looking to collect and how they’re going to use it – before they’re allowed to even ask people for it.

In 2014, after hearing feedback from the Facebook community, we made an update to ensure that each person decides what information they want to share about themselves, including their friend list. This is just one of the many ways we give people the tools to control their experience. Before you decide to use an app, you can review the permissions the developer is requesting and choose which information to share. You can manage or revoke those permissions at any time.

On an ongoing basis, we also do a variety of manual and automated checks to ensure compliance with our policies and a positive experience for users. These include steps such as random audits of existing apps along with the regular and proactive monitoring of the fastest growing apps.

We enforce our policies in a variety of ways — from working with developers to fix the problem, to suspending developers from our platform, to pursuing litigation.

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Student Suspended For Refusing To Leave Classroom During Gun Control Walkout

An Ohio high school student says he was suspended for refusing to leave his classroom on the day of the gun control walkout, dubbed the National School Walkout.

Hilliard Davidson High School senior Jacob Shoemaker says he didn’t want to choose sides on the day of the highly political walkout, so he stayed in the classroom instead of participating in the walkout or heading to a study hall in the commons.

“If he went outside for the walkout, he said, he would be supporting gun control. If he stayed in the common area of the school, he said, he would be seen as supporting gun violence and disrespecting the 17 lives lost in the Parkland, Fla. High school shooting the month before,” reports Fox News.

Shoemaker did his homework for about 20 minutes in the classroom locked by his teacher.

For rejecting the hyper-political binary option placed before him, Shoemaker was slapped with a two-day out-of-school suspension by the school. The suspension slip indicates that the teen was disciplined for refusing to “follow instructions.”

The photo of the boy’s detention slip went viral after one of his friends posted it online.

Scott Shoemaker, the boy’s father, was upset by the ordeal, explaining that his son was just trying to stay neutral and did nothing wrong.

“Politics [doesn’t] belong in the school,” said Mr. Shoemaker. “Students shouldn’t be pressured into taking a side.”

“He didn’t do anything to deserve this,” he added. “He didn’t ask for this.”

Both the teen and the school have reportedly received death threats over the matter.

“The district says it’s responsible for students’ safety and they can’t be unsupervised,” notes Fox.

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Jeff Sessions Gives Andy McCabe the Boot, May Deny Him FBI Pension

Jeff Sessions Gives Andy McCabe the Boot, May Deny Him FBI Pension



Attorney General Jeff Sessions, acting on the recommendation of the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), fired former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe Friday.

By dismissing McCabe – who was set to retire at the end of the month – before Sunday, Sessions may have jeopardized McCabe’s ability to draw a pension. Speculation Sessions might make this move has stirred since the IG’s review, which is yet to be publically disclosed, was reported to have recommend McCabe be fired over his handling of press disclosures during his investigation of the Clinton Foundation.

McCabe reportedly already had stepped down from his number two spot at the FBI following the House Intelligence Committee’s review of a memo dealing with, among other things, McCabe’s handling of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant application.

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