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Both Fox and ESPN Chicken Out on Airing National Anthem During NFL Games

More proof that the NFL’s horrific handling of the national anthem protests has succeeded in alienating millions of fans is that two major networks will NOT be airing the Star-Spangled Banner this weekend.

Plunging ratings and the potential for a mass Veterans’ Day weekend boycott have the networks running scared after initially glorifying the multimillionaire malcontents and their stupid snit over Donald Trump being elected as President of the United States. They may claim that it’s about police brutality but it all boils down to the refusal to accept the results of a legitimate election – and animosity toward the nation’s law enforcement professionals for doing their jobs.

The NFL continues to appease the troublemakers though and has reneged on what appeared to be efforts to compel players to stand during the national anthem.

According to the Washington Examiner “Fox and ESPN won’t air national anthem live during this weekend’s NFL games”:

Fox and ESPN do not plan to air the national anthem live during this weekend’s and Monday night’s games.

The networks don’t usually air the pre-game ritual live except during major events, but began showing it after President Trump lashed out against players who took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality, CNN reported.

Networks did not broadcast the anthem last week, but Vice President Mike Pence pushed the controversy back into the forefront when he left the Indianapolis Colts-San Francisco 49ers game Sunday when several 49ers kneeled during the anthem.

Trump has since said he is “proud” of his vice president for leaving.

It’s unclear whether CBS and NBC plan to air the anthem live.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is meeting with the NFL Players Association and team owners next week in New York to discuss the controversial protests.

The league has pushed back on reports that it plans to force players to stand during the anthem.

The two networks may mistakenly believe that not airing the anthems is going to wash the entire ugly spectacle from the short attention spans of most Americans but the players will still be kneeling and thrusting Black Panther fists in the air regardless of whether it is shown on television.

There just isn’t enough deodorizer to cover up the stench of the phony, “oppressed”, racially-obsessed turds that have been stinking up stadiums ever since the league failed to nip the problem in the bud last summer.

There is no word on whether CBS, NBC, and the NFL Network will also forgo the coverage of their aspiring revolutionaries. This one has really backfired spectacularly for Roger Goodell and the owners that continue to support him as commissioner.

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Breaking: Oscar Academy expels Harvey Weinstein — but keeps other predators

The Academy of Motion Pictures has voted to immediately expel Harvey Weinstein over the numerous accusations of sexual assault and harassment, but they were then assailed for their hypocrisy for letting other predators stay.

What did they say about Harvey Weinstein?

The Academy released a statement Saturday about the disgraced movie mogul.

“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors met today to discuss the allegations against Harvey Weinstein,” the statement read, “and has voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority to immediately expel him from the Academy.”

“We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues,” it continued, “but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over. What’s at issue here is a deeply troubling problem that has no place in our society.”

“The Board continues to work to establish ethical standards of conduct that all Academy members will be expected to exemplify,” it concluded.

Who is in the Academy?

There are approximately 6,000 members of the Academy, and they include famous celebrities such as Laura Dern, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, Rory Kennedy, Michael Mann and Steven Spielberg.

What was the reaction?

While some praised the Academy for this action, others noted that they still had other sexual predators in their club, and pointed to the Oscar award that was given to child rapist Roman Polanski.

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Perez Refuses to Say if DNC Will Return All Weinstein Contributions

Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez would not say Friday whether the DNC would return all of its contributions from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as he stands accused of decades of sexual harassment and assault.

Weinstein is a longtime Democratic donor who has given $300,000 to the DNC. However, the DNC announced last week it was only donating $30,000 of that money. Furthermore, the groups getting the cash were openly pro-Democratic organizations Higher Heights, Emily’s List, and Emerge America.

After an event at the University of Wisconsin on Friday, Perez was asked by a tracker whether the DNC would return its contributions from Weinstein.

"You have a nice weekend, sir," Perez said without looking.

DNC vice-chair Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) similarly dodged the question when asked about the subject on Wednesday.

"I don’t have any comments for you right now. I don’t know you, and I don’t take questions like this," Ellison said sharply.

Under Perez, the DNC has struggled in fundraising and was more than $4 million in debt as of an August fundraising report.

Weinstein’s downfall in the aftermath of reports of his behavior has been swift. He has been fired from The Weinstein Company, and on Saturday the Oscar-winning producer was ousted from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Dozens of women have accused Weinstein of harassment and abuse in the wake of bombshell reports from the New York Times and New Yorker.

Weinstein has bundled or donated millions of dollars over the years for top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who have condemned his conduct and announced they are donating his contributions.

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Two ‘Dreamers’ Caught Smuggling Illegal Aliens Into U.S.

Continuing to break the law.

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Two young illegal immigrant “Dreamers” in the U.S. under protection of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty were caught smuggling illegal immigrants in separate incidents in Texas, authorities announced Thursday.

The arrests come at a time when Congress is debating what to do about Dreamers, and the arrests could complicate the picture painted of Dreamers as law-abiding standouts who are victims of circumstance.

Customs and Border Protection said the first smuggling attempt was broken up on Oct. 4, after Border Patrol agents stopped a car at a checkpoint on Interstate 35 and discovered two illegal immigrants from Brazil hiding in the trunk.

The driver of the car was from Guatemala, a juvenile who had been approved by the Obama administration for a DACA permit in 2016.

Three days later the same checkpoint snared another DACA recipient from Mexico smuggling an illegal immigrant from Mexico in his trunk.

Neither of the Dreamers’ names were released.

They and the illegal immigrants they were trying to smuggle are all being processed for deportation, CBP said.

To qualify for the DACA program illegal immigrants must assert they were brought to the U.S. as children and have kept a relatively clean record.

Immigrant-smuggling violates the terms of the agreement, as does gang membership or other serious crimes of violence.

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Robert De Niro Trashes POTUS as a ‘Low-Life’ – Remains Silent on Pal Harvey Weinstein

Robert De Niro Trashes POTUS as a ‘Low-Life’ – Remains Silent on Pal Harvey Weinstein

October 14, 2017
by Cristina Laila

Robert De Niro is good friends with sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and remained silent after a tsunami of women came forward with rape and sexual abuse accusations towards the producer.

De Niro did however, go on a profanity-laced tirade towards President Trump at a charity fundraiser, calling him a low-life.

New York Daily News reported:

“One of my pleasures will be keeping people off my bench who don’t deserve a view of the park like Donald Trump,” he said during a speech.

“F–k you, Donald Trump. It’s a horror with this motherf—er.” The “Good Fellas” actor also described the President as a low life.

De Niro who has often been pictured with old pal Harvey Weinstein admitted that they haven’t spoken since the Weinstein sex scandal imploded.

Robert De Niro is another actor whose movies will be boycotted. We don’t care about actors’ political opinions. Actors are paid to entertain. That’s it.

De Niro is just another Hollywood Communist hack who will protect his producer buddy who is a sexual predator while slamming President Trump.

Weinstein’s sexual deviance was no secret. Certainly De Niro knew about it and said nothing. Hollywood is waging the real war on women.

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Newsweek Has a Disgusting New Name for the Values Voter Summit

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Newsweek Has a Disgusting New Name for the Values Voter Summit

By V Saxena
on October 14, 2017 at 1:37pm

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While Newsweek has been a liberal rag for years, its recent attacks on conservatives — and especially Christian conservatives — make it clear it’s a rag that doesn’t deserve to be on any magazine rack in America.

As an example of Newsweek’s sick hatred for Christian conservatives, consider its decision this week to label the Family Research Council a hate group, despite the FRC being one of the nation’s top Christian non-profits and charities.

“Donald Trump To Speak At Hate Group’s Annual Event, A First For A President,” blared a headline for a Newsweek piece published Thursday.

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The headline was referring to Trump’s decision to attend the council’s Values Voter Summit, an annual political conference for Christian conservatives.

“President Donald Trump will be the first sitting president to address the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described as a ‘rogues’ gallery of the radical right,’” Newsweek’s piece read.

(If you support the Values Voter Summit, here’s another story we think you’ll enjoy. Watch the video below!)

Funny how Newsweek chose to quote the SPLC, which many conservatives have rightly argued is itself a hate group — one that frequently distorts the facts to smear conservatives, and one that many still blame for a shooting that occurred at the FRC’s headquarters five years ago.

“The shooter, Floyd Lee Corkins, admitted that he wanted to ‘kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard’ after he saw the FRC listed on the SPLC’s website as a ‘hate group,’” The Daily Wire reported last month.

But why does the SPLC hate the FRC? Because of its commitment to Christian values and beliefs, including the belief that homosexuality is a sin.

Does this mean Christians have the right to hate or persecute homosexuals? Of course not. But Christians surely do have a right to not tolerate the homosexual lifestyle — and this is a constitutionally guaranteed right the leftists at the SPLC, Newsweek and other liberal rags greatly resent.

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Be that as it may be, this belief doesn’t make Christian conservatives hateful or the FRC a hate group. It just makes them Christians of a certain belief.

And sorry to burst the bubbles of the genuinely hateful airheads at Newsweek magazine, but unlike Islam, Christianity truly is a religion of love and peace.

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As North Koreans Continue to Starve, Here’s What KJU’s Been Building

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As North Koreans Continue to Starve, Here’s What KJU’s Been Building

By John Falkenberg
on October 14, 2017 at 2:15pm

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As North Koreans civilian population continues to struggle for their its existence, their dear leader has made it incredibly clear just where his priorities lie.

Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has spent a lot of the last year trying a little bit too hard to show the world that he’s not afraid of President Donald Trump, and his latest attempt is not too subtle.

He’s building, or is at least trying to build, his very own Mar-a-Lago.

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According to Fox News, the despot has been building his own store-brand version of Trump’s Florida getaway in the North Korean seaside town of Wonsan.

Americans might be surprised, but Fox News reports that this is part of an effort by Kim to stimulate his country’s economy and continue the survival of the rogue state.

(If you think President Donald Trump is making the right move by taking a hard line against North Korea, here’s another story we think you’ll enjoy. Watch him take on the regime in Iran in the video below!)

“We tend to focus exclusively on the first part, and we only consider North Korea’s economy in so far as how to sanction and strangle it further,” said associate professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies John Delury, according to Fox News.

“Kim’s ambition to create economic development is the one promising piece in the North Korea puzzle.”

“Promising” might be a strong term, especially when this work is underscored by heavy military activity in the same area.

The country’s largest artillery drill was carried out at a nearby beach in April, and rocket tests have occurred in the area.

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It seems less than likely that what the North Koreans really need right now is a massive luxury, like a Mar-a-Lago knockoff.

They might just need some food and medical care.

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CalExit Leaders Believe if Catalonia Can Do it, California’s Independence Easier

CalExit Leaders Believe if Catalonia Can Do it, California’s Independence Easier

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by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly14 Oct 2017Sacramento CA0

14 Oct, 2017
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California’s erstwhile secession movement has been inspired by Catalonia’s fight for independence, believing that California’s secession will be even easier.

The movement has splintered in recent months—known as CalExit and Yes, California alternatively—but the lead campaign is now headed up by the California Freedom Coalition, who believe there are lessons to be learned from Catalonia’s experience.

But the big difference, according to the Sacramento Bee;

[t]hey believe California has more legal tools at its disposal, creating an easier path to secession – if that’s what Californians decide they want.

“There are definitely similarities in the fiscal situation – we both give more than we get back,” said Dave Marin, director of research and policy for the California Freedom Coalition. “But there’s more flexibility in the U.S. Constitution for secession than there is in the Spanish one. California has more tools available to it.”

The Catalan Parliament, together with President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont, approved in September a binding referendum to make Catalonia an “independent and sovereign state.” Spain’s constitutional court suspended the process, but Catalan authorities continued with the vote on Oct. 1, prompting violence between voters and Spanish security forces tasked with shutting it down.

After a majority who voted in the referendum cast ballots for independence, Puigdemont issued a symbolic declaration of independence from Spain on Tuesday, but immediately suspended it to ease negotiations with the Madrid government…

Even though Catalonia succeeded in its attempt to vote for secession, it now must decide if it’s willing to risk the wrath of a spurned powerful centralized government crackdown.  Things could get even more violent—and not surprisingly:  all break-ups are painful, but try to “break up” with a huge, all-powerful government that can crush the life out of you by sending in its army.

Actions like what Catalonia did this week are almost always precursors to armed confrontation and civil war.

Commentator John Stossel exposes what’s behind question facing secessionists worldwide in  an opinion piece for Fox News:

Recently, people in Catalonia voted to break away from Spain — not to declare war on Spain or refuse to trade with Spain, just to control their own affairs.

The Spanish government said they must not even vote. They sent police to shut down polling places and beat protestors into staying off the streets.

Governments never want to give up power.

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The powerful prefer one big central government. Some want the whole world to answer to one government.

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But central authorities aren’t the best way to solve our problems. Competition is.

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As California tortures businesses, Californians move to Arizona and Texas.

The more governments from which you can choose, the easier it is to benefit from competition between them.

All Americans, however, must obey rules set by Washington, D.C.

But what if most people in a state reject those rules and demand the right to govern themselves?

There have been several secession movements in California — a plan to break California up into smaller states, a push to make Northern California a breakaway state called Jefferson, and now the “Yes California” movement that wants to make California a separate country.

Calexit’s proponents say Californians shouldn’t have to answer to that evil President Trump.

If Calexit ever happened, I suppose conservative parts of the state would vote to separate from the leftists who dominate Sacramento. Maybe we’d end up with three countries where there used to be one.

Secessionists in California aren’t planning to give up their cause anytime soon, even though polls show their cause is popular with only a third of voters–even after Trump was elected.

“We’re not strictly saying secession right now,” Marin told the Bee. “But if that number gets into the high 40s or 50s, it makes sense to consider. And then we have a few more tools to pursue it than Catalonia.”

Tim Donnelly is a former California State Assemblyman and Author, currently on a book tour for his new book: Patriot Not Politician: Win or Go Homeless.  He also ran for governor in 2014.

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Illegal Alien Preying on Children of Single Moms, Say Feds

Illegal Alien Preying on Children of Single Moms, Say Feds

Tomas Gutierrez wanted for alleged sexual abuse of a child.

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by Bob Price14 Oct 2017San Antonio, TX0

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Federal authorities are searching for an illegal alien they say is preying on the children of single mothers.

U.S. Marshalls and the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force are hunting for 35-year-old Tomas Gutierrez, a.k.a. Tomas Hernandez, who is wanted for allegations of continuous abuse of a child, News4SA reported. He is reported to be living in Central Texas and has worked in the Austin area.

“He’s an opportunist,” Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Hector Gomez told the San Antonio NBC affiliate. “He appears to seek out women who have children — young children.”

He reportedly works slowly to build the mother’s trust and then begins a process of sexually abusing their children. “He would buy her toys and buy her items of value,” Gomez explained.

Court records show that Gutierrez gave one woman a cell phone and “told her to go into the bedroom.” That’s when the abuse would begin, Gomez confirmed.

“When the victim’s mother was away from the home working is when Tomas Gutierrez began his criminal conduct,” Gomez stated.

Gutierrez is difficult to find and has not committed as much as a traffic offense to leave a trail. He reportedly worked in the Austin area doing trade jobs.

“He has been able to live here in virtual anonymity,” Gomez told the News4SA reporter. “He doesn’t have a criminal history. He has lived in this country illegally. We don’t know when he came in. He doesn’t have so much as a traffic ticket.”

The fugitive is reported to have a distinguishing tattoo of his last name on his left arm — “Gutierrez.”

He warned single mothers that “any child that Gutierrez comes into contact with is a potential victim.” Gomez asked that anyone with information about the suspect, Tomas Guitierrez, contact the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force Tip Line by calling 1-512-800-4213.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, GAB, and Facebook.

 

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CNN Wrongly Claims White Police Officer Killed Philando Castile

The narrative that blacks are violently targeted by police officers out of racism is so entrenched in the media that journalists sometimes forget that some police officers involved in widely-reported violence with black suspects are either black or Hispanic, and not white.

On Thursday’s Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN correspondent Drew Griffin mistakenly identified the police officer who tragically killed black motorist Philando Castile as being “white” even though former Officer Jeronimo Yanez is Hispanic.

The CNN correspondent’s mistake came within a piece recounting reports that Russians have tried to use social media to heat up political tensions in the United States. After recalling the case of an apparently Russia-based group called Don’t Shoot Us that paints American police officers as biased against blacks and tries to inspire protests, Griffin recalled:

The Russians not only exploited divisive racial issues in the U.S, CNN has learned Don’t Shoot Us was operating almost a rapid response to those shootings. In Minnesota last July, the day after Philando Castile was killed by a white police officer, Don’t Shoot Us was using social media to organize its own protest.

He added: “The effort failed because local community members determined something was wrong. Turns out they were right, and their suspicions had Russian links.”

NBC’s Pete Williams notably made the same mistake last month.

Of course, prominent left-leaning American news sources like CNN and the broadcast networks also do their part to stoke racial tensions as they selectively spend much more time reporting on blacks who are killed by police officers — even though whites killed by police outnumber blacks by a 2-1 margin — giving the impression that it is nearly always blacks who are targeted.

Former Officer Yanez — who was acquitted of criminal charges — notably resigned his position after making a severance agreement with his police department. And Castile’s mother received a $3 million settlement from the city.

Below is a complete transcript of CNN’s report from the Thursday, October 12, Erin Burnett OutFront:

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ERIN BURNETT: This as an exclusive CNN investigation finds that Russia’s attempts to meddle in the election went well beyond Facebook and Twitter, including an app that nearly 30 million Americans were using daily at the time. Drew Griffin is out front.

DREW GRIFFIN: It was a strange email that came directly to the desk of Baltimore City Paper editor Brandon Weigel. Don’t Shoot Us — a group claiming to be made up of black activists — was promoting a protest outside the upcoming court hearing of a Baltimore police officer involved in the death of Freddie Gray. They wanted Weigel to cover it, but he was immediately suspicious.

BRANDON WEIGEL, BALTIMORE CITY PAPER: It wasn’t a group that I had ever heard of either locally or nationally.

GRIFFIN: CNN has now learned Don’t Shoot Us wasn’t local, nor national — it was Russian. And the black activism Don’t Shoot Us was promoting in Baltimore was part of a much bigger strategy Georgetown Professor Mark Jacobsen says that was aimed at attacking the U.S. democratic system.

MARK JACOBSEN, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: What the Russians are doing by fomenting distrust for the American government and by also trying to organize rallies is what you do when you want to destroy a country from within. These are warlike acts. These are acts designed to destroy the United States.

GRIFFIN: A CNN investigation shows Russia’s propaganda attack on the U.S. went beyond using fake accounts and ads using Facebook and Twitter. CNN tracked multiple accounts from Don’t Shoot Us across the internet — a website that boasted 300,000 followers, a YouTube channel with videos of police brutality, a tumbler account. Most surprising, a post announcing a contest on Pokemon Go when it was at its most popular directing gamers to visit locations where alleged police brutality took place. All part of a Kremlin-connected campaign of misinformation that actively sought to influence opinion and meddle inside the U.S.

The email that arrived on Brandon Weigel’s City Paper computer said: “This is ‘Don’t Shoot.'” “We raise awareness of police violence against people of color.” “The idea is to protest in front of the Baltimore City Courthouse” and “demand justice for Freddie Gray.”

WEIGEL: It makes sense that it would be a hot-button issue, but I didn’t think it was something that the Russians would have exploited.

GRIFFIN: The Russians not only exploited divisive racial issues in the U.S, CNN has learned Don’t Shoot Us was operating almost a rapid response to those shootings.

In Minnesota last July, the day after Philando Castile was killed by a white police officer, Don’t Shoot Us was using social media to organize its own protest. The effort failed because local community members determined something was wrong. Turns out they were right, and their suspicions had Russian links.

Erin, the evidence to the extent the Russians went to divide the American electorate just keeps on growing. Blacktivist is another Russian-operated site that was used to try to sow discord between the police and blacks in this country. It went so far even to sell its own Blacktivist T-shirts. As far as we know, the people who engage with these sites had no idea until now these sites were back and actually created by Russians, Erin.

BURNETT: All right, thank you very much, Drew.

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