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Poll: Huge Majority Of Americans Believe “Political Correctness Is A Problem”…


80% of Americans are not woke.

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…Most members of the “exhausted majority,” and then some, dislike political correctness. Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24. On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages.

Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness—and it turns out race isn’t, either.

Whites are ever so slightly less likely than average to believe that political correctness is a problem in the country: 79 percent of them share this sentiment. Instead, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to oppose political correctness. As one 40-year-old American Indian in Oklahoma said in his focus group, according to the report:

It seems like everyday you wake up something has changed … Do you say Jew? Or Jewish? Is it a black guy? African-American? … You are on your toes because you never know what to say. So political correctness in that sense is scary.

The one part of the standard narrative that the data partially affirm is that African Americans are most likely to support political correctness. But the difference between them and other groups is much smaller than generally supposed: Three quarters of African Americans oppose political correctness. This means that they are only four percentage points less likely than whites, and only five percentage points less likely than the average, to believe that political correctness is a problem.

If age and race do not predict support for political correctness, what does? Income and education.

While 83 percent of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness, just 70 percent of those who make more than $100,000 are skeptical about it. And while 87 percent who have never attended college think that political correctness has grown to be a problem, only 66 percent of those with a postgraduate degree share that sentiment.

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LEAKED: Here Are the Demands Ecuador Has Given Julian Assange in Order to End His Isolation

Despite numerous reports claiming that the communications of Julian Assange have been restored, they are not yet — and there will be a severe regime of penalties and sanctions on his speech and writing when they are.

The team at WikiLeaks was informed on Friday that his communications would be restored on Monday, October 15, but so far there has not been any change. In a grave violation of free speech, Assange was also presented with a nine page document that includes outlining limitations and restrictions on what he will be able to do and say online.

The new rules also promise to potentially use the UK police against visitors or to sieze communications equipment.

The protocols Assange will be forced to agree to in order to end his isolation have been leaked online in Spanish.

The draconian document demands that he avoids any activities that could be political or would interfere in interior matters of other states — essentially squashing his freedom of speech and his ability to publish.

It also provides new rules for visitors.

VISITORS

The document begins by outlining the new rules for visitors. It says that any person outside the Embassy or the ecuadorian Government, without exception, that wishes to visit Assange will need to request prior authorization in writing addressed to the Chief of the Embassy of Ecuador. They will need to include their full names, nationality, copies of identification, reason for the visit, their profession and workplace, email accounts and links to their social media, and serial numbers for any phones or tablets they wish to keep with them during the visit.

Additionally, the IMEI of visitor’s cellphone chips is also required for their intelligence collection operation. This must be sent through email, a return email obtained, and that must be printed and brought to the appointment.

For frequent visitors, Ecuador is willing to make exceptions and give them a letter of identification which they will only have to renew every three months.

Should the embassy refuse to allow someone access, they will not be providing a reason why. It says that they reserve the right to decline or cancel any authorization at any time, even for those who have been previously authorized as a frequent visitor.

When this reporter visited Assange in the days prior to his isolation, all details were worked out with staff working for Assange. The embassy simply checked my passport and held my phone at the front desk.

The new protocol also asserts that the embassy will be keeping a record of all visits made to Assange and the data that they provide. This information will be sent to the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other unnamed agencies.

Assange will also only be allowed to have up to three visitors at once, unless cleared by the head of the embassy.

Ecuador also wrote that people who violate the rules of their visits or display a lack of “appropriate behavior” during the visit will be reported to British authorities.

COMMUNICATIONS

The section regarding Assange’s communications begins by saying that when his internet is restored he will be liable for any costs for WiFi. It says that he may only use his own tablets, phones or computers except in exceptional cases and only with written permission from Ecuador.

Assange must also provide the brand name, model number, and serial number for any devices he has in the embassy.

While the document asserts that Ecuador shall not be liable for the contents of his communications, statements, documents or messages on social media — it goes on to place severe limits on his freedom of speech.

It says that Assange, while “exercising his right of communication and of freedom of expression,” is prohibited from activities that could be considered political or interfering in the affairs of other nations or that may damage the relationship between Ecuador and other states.

Ecuador says that disobeying this rule can lead to termination of asylum or placing him back into isolation.

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has previously stated that speech restrictions include opinions critical of US or Spanish policies — such as criticism of Spanish police brutalizing peaceful voters.

MEDICAL

The document says that Assange must submit to the quarterly evaluations with medical specialists at his own expense.

The results of any examinations will be kept private.

“In case of a medical emergency or at the express request of mr. Assange, the Head of the Mission will authorize your transfer, as soon as possible, to receive care from physicians outside the Embassy,” the document says.

The UK has repeatedly denied Assange safe passage to a hospital after doctors who examined him called for him to be allowed to go and be treated for his deteriorating health. If he was to be transported to a hospital, it is extremely likely he would be arrested.

Additionally, Ecuador is threatening to kidnap Assange’s embassy cat and bring him to an animal shelter if they deem it is not being properly cleaned up after.

On March 28, Ecuador caved to pressure from the United States and Spanish governments to isolate Assange by revoking his right to have visitors, make phone calls or use the internet.

The WikiLeaks founder entered the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 19, 2012. He was soon granted political aslyum.

The UK has long refused to acknowledge the findings of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD), which found that Assange is being arbitrarily and unlawfully detained and must be immediately released and compensated.

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Google Competitor Reaches 29 Million Searches a Day, Won’t Store Private Info or Bombard You With Ads


As the world increasingly becomes a smaller place through the internet and social media, so too do the dangers of the internet and social media increase exponentially.

After all, the more strangers that are crammed together in cyberspace, the more likely you are to be crammed together with malicious agents.

Not helping matters at all is the manner in which tech titans like Google and Facebook commercially weaponize your personal information.

Even ignoring the blatantly partisan politics companies like Google engage in, these Silicon Valley behemoths deserve to be excoriated for their practices.

According to the U.K. Guardian, Google has troves of data on you.

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Google knows everything you’ve ever searched or deleted from your search history. Google also has an advertisement profile on you, which includes everything from location, gender, age, hobbies, career, interests, relationship status and income. Google might even know your weight to advertise those miracle weight-loss pills.

Much of that obviously holds true for Facebook as well.

In fact, according to the Guardian’s Dylan Curran, when he requested all of the information Google had on him, he received a whopping 5.5GB worth of data. That is the equivalent of literally millions of Word documents.

It’s a legitimate dystopian nightmare thinking about how much Google can track you.

But as capitalism continually teaches, one company’s foibles are another company’s huge opportunity.

One such company taking advantage of growing consumer distrust in Google and Facebook? DuckDuckGo.

DuckDuckGo is a new search engine that was launched in 2008 but just recently got a “quiet” $10 million boost from a Canadian pension fund called OMERS, according to TechCrunch. According to the company, it’s now drawing an average of about 29 million searches a day.

According to DuckDuckGo’s About Us page, the company’s statements fly directly in the face of what we’ve come to expect from tech companies.

“We’re setting the new standard of trust online, empowering people to take control of their information,” the top of the page reads.

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“You deserve privacy. Companies are making money off of your private information online without your consent,” DuckDuckGo continues. “At DuckDuckGo, we don’t think the internet should feel so creepy and getting the privacy your deserve online should be as simple as closing the blinds.”

DuckDuckGo stressed its business practices on Twitter as well.

“Too many people believe that you simply can’t expect privacy on the Internet. We disagree and have made it our mission to set a new standard of trust online,” DuckDuckGo’s actual mission statement reads.

As divisive and dangerous as the internet can be, the tools it makes possible are all but necessary in 2018.

If there’s a tech company that can protect my private information in the age of the internet, they will certainly have my support.

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Mob Mentality: Alec Baldwin Calls for ‘Lawful’ Overthrow of Donald Trump

Nearly two years after he was first elected to the White House, there are plenty of Americans on the ideological left who simply cannot or will not accept the fact that Donald Trump is president and failed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is not. Over those two years, we have seen the laughable assertions from anti-Trump…

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EPIC! Kayne West Exposes Mind-Control Tactics of the Democrat Party’s Corrupt Media and Entertainment Mob


EPIC! Kayne West Exposes Mind-Control Tactics of the Democrat Party’s Corrupt Media and Entertainment Mob


by Assistant Editor
October 15, 2018

In an Epic Twitter Soliloquy, Kayne West Exposes the Mind-Control Tactics of the Democrat Party’s Corrupt Media and Entertainment Mob

Americans have frequently witnessed different versions of the Democrat Party ‘s political mobs, which take different forms and utilize different means to intimidate their targets, from the overtly violent paid protesters known as Antifa, who are currently threatening ICE Agents along innocent bystanders in Portland, OR, to the paid professional agitators that make up much of the Women’s March and Code Pink, who recently besieged Senators during Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation process.

Recent polls show that the majority of Americans do not condone the Democrat Party’s use of political mobs, whose sole purpose is to intimidate their political targets. The implication of this sentiment demonstrates that a growing number of Americans can see right through theses deceptive and manipulative political tactics. It would seem that the Democrats are in desperate need of a new playbook.

In the case of Kanye West, the Democrat’s activated their go-to favorite– the media and entertainment mob– composed of their corrupt allies within the legacy news, entertainment, and technology-based media infrastructure. The media mob wasted no time bringing the full weight of their attacks against West in any effort to subvert his freedom of speech and general self-expression. It’s abundantly clear that Kanye’s poignant demonstration of love for the black community, for President Trump, and for America has this Democrat Party, their leftist financiers, and the political media mob in a state of severe panic.

During his landmark meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office last week, Kanye literally mesmerized the West Wing and by extension the American Public, when he expounded upon the importance of free thought and expression without fear of reprisal and recrimination.

West’s exchanges with President Trump are undeniably of high cultural import. His historic treatise explored principles that are fundamental to freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of belief — all profound inter-related American ideals, all of which are liberties set forth in America’s Bill of Rights as inherent God given individual civil rights.

In response to the latest wave of media mob attacks, West posted a video to Twitter Saturday Night in which he brilliantly deconstructs the media mob’s psychological warfare tactics. West begins his prescient soliloquy stating,

“I just want to talk about mind control, you know when people try to influence you through social media, and try to tell you what to do. If you post something that is like positive on Instagram and it gets taken down, if it’s not part of a bigger agenda, you know that’s mind control, that’s the echo chamber that’s trying to control you.”

West then added,

” You’ve got to just question when people who get on tv shows, who all are they doing business with? What are they connected to? What’s their agenda? We’ve got people holding other people down– it’s a modern day psychological, like Ayn Rand, control thing.”

He continued,

“I am not worried about any type of blog or social media. You all already saw that it was a lie! Social media told you that Hillary was going to win, and she didn’t win. Social media told you that people don’t like me, but everyone loves me. Everybody loves Ye, but if you read social media it makes you think something different. Un-program your minds and open up your heart, let the Spirit guide you.“

As Kanye West demonstrates as a real-time living example, the Democrat Party, along with their Anti-American financiers and corrupt media co-conspirators, will unleash their relentless political mob attacks on any individual, who dares to question their dogmatic and dictatorial narratives.

With the midterm elections only 3 weeks away, Americans from across the political and cultural spectrum should seriously ask themselves– can I in good conscience endorse a party that regularly uses mob intimidation tactics to undermine America’s most fundamental individual freedoms?

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Cherokee Nation SAVAGES Elizabeth Warren in Statement After Her Latest Stunt to ‘Prove’ Native American Heritage


Cherokee Nation SAVAGES Elizabeth Warren in Statement After Her Latest Stunt to ‘Prove’ Native American Heritage

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by Cristina Laila
October 15, 2018

Cherokee Nation responded to Elizabeth Warren’s latest stunt attempting to prove she is of Native American descent.

This didn’t go well…

“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America,” Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskins Jr. Said.

The end of the statement torched Elizabeth Warren.

“Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.” OUCH!

Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren released a DNA study Monday that claims she is 1/1,024 Native America. That’s 0.0009765625.

The average white person in America has nearly double the amount of American Indian DNA (0.18%) as Elizabeth Warren (0.098%), who claims to be Cherokee.

Elizabeth Warren made up all kinds of elaborate stories in an effort to bolster her claims she is Native American.

Warren claimed her parents had to elope because her father’s parents were racist and didn’t approve of their son’s Cherokee girlfriend.

Senator Warren previous claimed her Pawpaw’s high cheekbones were proof she is of Native American descent.

None of these outrageous claims and stunts pass muster with the Cherokee Nation–Elizabeth Warren is a fraud.

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LOL: Elizabeth Warren Releases DNA Test Showing She’s 1/1,024th Native American (Maybe)…


Well done, Fauxcahontas! And as the report notes, this is supplementing the lack of Native American DNA to test against with DNA from people from Mexico, Peru or Colombia.

WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that provides “strong evidence’’ she had a Native American in her family tree dating back 6 to 10 generations, an unprecedented move by one of the top possible contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.

Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump and other Republicans, provided the test results to the Globe on Sunday in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years. She planned an elaborate rollout Monday of the results as she aimed for widespread attention. […]

The inherent imprecision of the six-page DNA analysis could provide fodder for Warren’s critics. If O.C. Sarah Smith were fully Native American, that would make Warren up to 1/32nd native. But the generational range based on the ancestor that the report identified suggests she’s between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American.

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Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test Is ‘Useless,’ ‘Inappropriate And Wrong’ Cherokee Nation Official Says


The tribe has spoken.

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After Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test to determine if she had Native American ancestry, a Cherokee Nation official responded, calling such a test “useless.” In a statement, Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said the test was “not evidence for tribal affiliation.”

“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship,” Hoskin Jr. said. “Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation.”

Hoskin Jr. went on to say that the use of a DNA test was “inappropriate and wrong.”

“Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong,” he said. “It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”

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Media, Democrats Question Warren’s Native American Announcement: ‘Really Poor Timing’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) release of a DNA test showing "strong evidence" she had Native American ancestry was met with skepticism and criticism from some Democrats and members of the media on Monday, due to its timing just weeks ahead of the November midterms.

Warren, who looks like an assured 2020 White House candidate, fired back at President Donald Trump’s "Pocahontas" attacks over hte years with a DNA test’s analysis showing she could be between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American. Those scant numbers were met with derision by conservatives, with a Republican Party spokesman noting that could make her less Native American than the average European-American.

President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina tweeted frustration with Warren over the timing, wondering why Democrats can’t "ever stay focused."

"Argue the substance all you want, but why 22 days before a crucial election where we MUST win house and senate to save America, why did @SenWarren have to do her announcement now? Why can’t Dems ever stay focused???" he wrote.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) said she wasn’t sure why she picked Monday to do this.

"I don’t know why she picked today," Durbin said on CNN. "Elizabeth’s a busy woman. I work with her every week, almost every day of every week, and I’m sure this wasn’t the highest priority for her, but after all the ridicule she’s taken from this president … to establish she does have Native American heritage, I think it’s an important issue in her life.

Jen Psaki, who was a spokesman on the 2012 Obama campaign before joining the State Department in his second term, called the timing "weird" on CNN.

"It’s sort of a weird time to do it, but maybe not," she said on "The Lead," "because she is trying to do it at a busy time where there a lot of other news, a lot of other politics in the news."

CNN political commentator Joe Trippi said he would have released such a test "a year or two" ago. CNN reporter Manu Raju told Jake Tapper on Monday that Warren released the test on Monday because her office got the results on Friday.

Others had similar reactions to Messina about Warren’s timing.

"I sure hope Elizabeth Warren can flip that critical MA Senate seat! #timing," liberal journalist Tom Watson sarcastically tweeted. Warren is expected to easily win re-election in Massachusetts, a deep blue state Hillary Clinton carried handily in 2016.

"Why didn’t Elizabeth Warren hold on to the results of her study until Trump raised the issue again? Raising it herself just before the midterms seems like the most disadvantageous timing," software developer Dave Winer wrote.

CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin asked Idaho gubernatorial candidate Paulette Jordan (D.) a member of the Coeur d’Alene Native American tribe, on Monday about what she thought of the timing of Warren’s move.

"Why do you think she did this, though? And why do you think she did this now?" Baldwin asked.

"I think it’s important for people to realize that there are a lot of people around the country who are identifying with their heritage more and more," Jordan said. "In fact, the Kellogg Foundation recently released a study to show that 36 percent of Americans are identifying with their Native ancestry, and like everybody else, they’re looking for their way, like Senator Warren, she’s searching for her own heritage, and we should be respectful of that."

"So I’m wondering, do you have any problem with her, you know, getting this DNA test in the first place, just based upon the president’s taunting her?" Baldwin asked.

Jordan ignored the question and said Trump’s conduct was "unfortunate," although she added again people should be "respectful" of Warren "searching" for her heritage.

CNN "New Day" anchor Alisyn Camerota asked her panel Monday morning why Warren’s rebuttal came out Monday.

"Why release it today?" she asked. "Why go to the length of interviewing all of her former colleagues and her family to try to rebut something about her ancestry?"

New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin said it showed two things: Warren is running for president in 2020, and she will run in a confrontational manner against Trump. He said she could fear suffering the fate of another Massachusetts Senator, John Kerry, who lost to George W. Bush in 2004 and was viewed as not responding forcefully enough to "Swift Boat" attacks against his Vietnam War record.

RealClearPolitics columnist A.B. Stoddard reported on MSNBC’s "Deadline White House" that Democrats are "not really happy" about Warren’s maneuver.

"There are a lot of Democrats who had to wake up this morning and answer questions about Hillary Clinton’s bone-headed comments [about Monica Lewinsky] yesterday, and they’re not really happy with the fact Elizabeth Warren did this 22 days before the midterms and give Republicans a shiny object to keep talking about and fundraising over," she said.

"It was really poor timing on her part," she added. "She should have waited to launch her campaign until after the morning of November 7 … It wasn’t well-received by people who are really worried about whether or not the party has lost ground in the polls in the last couple weeks, and they really want to take the House back, and they don’t want to focus on this woman in her 70s running for president."

Warren claimed she was Native American while teaching law school at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard in the 1980s and 1990s, and Harvard even boasted of her being its first "woman of color" it had hired. She said her background had no effect on her being hired, and she released a campaign-style video about her family lore and the DNA test on Monday.

For his part, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) said he was glad Warren would not be "bullied" by Trump, although he also said it was "unfortunate" she had to take the test.

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