Despite Reports, ‘Caravan’ Tells CNN They’re STILL Heading To U.S.-Mexico Border

The mainstream media are completely bored by a caravan of refugees — 1,500 or more — that have been marching toward the U.S.-Mexico border.

The media have reported that Mexican officials broke up the caravan, and that none of the refugees, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, actually plans to go all the way to the border.

But Leila Santiago, CNN’s reporter in Mexico who is following the caravan, asked the travelers on Monday where they plan go, NTK reported.

Santiago first claimed that many of the migrants would stay in Mexico, and she asked those on the bus where they would go.

“They are fleeing violence from gangs that are controlling the areas in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, where they live,” she said. “Many of them will stay in Mexico.”

They did not back up her claim.

“Who will stay in Mexico?” she asked the bus in Spanish.

None of the migrants raised their hands.

“Who will go to the United States?” Santiago inquired immediately after.

Most of the bus raised their hands, while others did not answer.

President Trump has raged about the caravan, demanding Mexico stop them en route to the U.S. border.

“Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large ‘Caravans’ of people enter their country. They must stop them at their Northern Border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through into our country, which has no effective border laws,” he said on Twitter on April 2. “Mexico is making a fortune on NAFTA…They have very strong border laws – ours are pathetic.”

Last Tuesday, Trump vowed to deploy the military to stop the group from crossing into the U.S.

“We are going to be guarding our border with our military. That’s a big step,” Trump told reporters gathered at the White House. “We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way never showing up for court.”

The president also warned Mexico that the U.S. could kill a trade pact known as NAFTA.

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Brother of Parkland Shooting Victim Destroys “Politically Motivated” FBI after Raid on Trump Attorney’s Office

Brother of Parkland Shooting Victim Destroys “Politically Motivated” FBI after Raid on Trump Attorney’s Office


On February 14, 2018, Meadow Pollack was shot dead by crazed former student Nikolas Cruz in Parkland, Florida.

Meadow Pollack’s family was disinvited from speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, DC. The family does not support gun control, but rather securing our schools and protecting our children.

Meadow’s brother, Hunter Pollack, had prepared a touching and thoughtful speech — which he instead shared in a Facebook Live video online.

On Monday after the FBI raided President Trump’s lawyer’s office Hunter Pollack posted a viral tweet telling the FBI to do their job and quit playing dirty politics.

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Laura Ingraham Blasts ‘Stalinist’ Left In Defiant Return to Fox

As previously announced, the besieged Fox News host Laura Ingraham returned to the airwaves on Monday night and she came back with a vengeance.

The strong conservative woman was the target of a vicious and un-American cyberbullying campaign led by teenage fascist punk David Hogg with plenty of help from far-left groups that have declared total war on free speech and has lost nearly two dozen advertisers.

Hogg’s triumphant moment was stripped of some of its sheen when instead of simply getting rid of her and surrendering to those who hate us for our freedoms, the network chose to stand behind her in the face of a still inchoate internal menace that is only beginning to flex its muscles.

On Monday night, Ingraham was no shrinking violet and ripped the leftists who are hellbent at purging conservative voices from the public square and imposing a cruel and dark vision on America.

She called them out as exactly what they are – Stalinists.

Via The Hill:

Fox News host Laura Ingraham returned from a one-week vacation on Monday night to castigate what she described as left-wing activists’ attempts to “intimidate those who disagree with them.”

She described the efforts as “Stalinist, pure and simple” on her primetime program.

The commentary comes nearly two weeks after Ingraham mocked Parkland shooting survivor and student activist David Hogg in a tweet regarding the 17-year-old’s rejection by several colleges. That tweet in late March prompted Hogg to call for a boycott of Ingraham’s advertisers.

“The left’s propaganda shaped a new generation of young adults, who then parroted all that malarkey about the ‘patriarchy,’ and then they came up with their own new phrases like ‘micro-aggressions’ and ‘safe spaces’ and ‘white privilege,’” Ingraham said. “Today, left-wing activists use these terms as bludgeons to intimidate those who disagree with them from entering the dialogue at all.”

Their efforts are Stalinist, pure and simple,” she continued. “Their objective is a total transformation of American society, not through rational discourse and open debate, but through personal demonization and silencing.”

Ingraham also condemned “retaliatory hit squads” and said “the left” is “silencing conservative voices.”

“Let’s face it: expressing views that just five or ten years ago were considered mainstream can now get you fired,” Ingraham added later. “It can cause you to lose a promotion. Or you can be branded a ‘hater,’ or yes, you can get boycotted.”

“We’re not going to stand for this.”

She cited a 1991 book by Dinesh D’Souza about the growing intolerance on campus entitled “Illiberal Education” as being responsible for the embrace of what I have labeled as neo-Stalinism and the coming left totalitarianism that is currently being imposed on conservatives but will eventually include all Americans.

Ingraham would have found a much more accurate depiction of the modern left in a more recent book by D’Souza entitled “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left” which came out last year.

Via the publisher’s website:

The explosive new book from Dinesh D’Souza, author of the #1 national bestsellers Hillary’s America, America, and Obama’s America.

What is “the big lie” of the Democratic Party? That conservatives—and President Donald Trump in particular—are fascists. Nazis, even. In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is reminiscent of “what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor.”

But in fact, this audacious lie is a complete inversion of the truth. Yes, there is a fascist threat in America—but that threat is from the Left and the Democratic Party. The Democratic left has an ideology virtually identical with fascism and routinely borrows tactics of intimidation and political terror from the Nazi Brownshirts.

To cover up their insidious fascist agenda, Democrats loudly accuse President Trump and other Republicans of being Nazis—an obvious lie, considering the GOP has been fighting the Democrats over slavery, genocide, racism and fascism from the beginning.

Now, finally, Dinesh D’Souza explodes the Left’s big lie. He expertly exonerates President Trump and his supporters, then uncovers the Democratic Left’s long, cozy relationship with Nazism: how the racist and genocidal acts of early Democrats inspired Adolf Hitler’s campaign of death; how fascist philosophers influenced the great 20th century lions of the American Left; and how today’s anti-free speech, anti-capitalist, anti-religious liberty, pro-violence Democratic Party is a frightening simulacrum of the Nazi Party.

Hitler coined the term “the big lie” to describe a lie that “the great masses of the people” will fall for precisely because of how bold and monstrous the lie is. In The Big Lie, D’Souza shows that the Democratic Left’s orchestrated campaign to paint President Trump and conservatives as Nazis to cover up its own fascism is, in fact, the biggest lie of all.

It was a bravado performance and it is time for the real resistance to begin!

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Biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is bogus, run by white man

The largest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook, that features more than 700,000 followers, is actually run by a white man from Australia, a CNN investigation has found.


The page, titled simply “Black Lives Matter,” had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts, CNN has learned.



Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page were suspended by PayPal and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the companies for comment. Donorbox and Classy had already removed the campaigns.


The discovery raises new questions about the integrity of Facebook’s platform and the content hosted there. In the run-up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress this week, Facebook has announced plans to make the people running large pages verify their identity and location. But it’s not clear that the change would affect this page: Facebook has not said what information about page owners it will disclose to the public — and, presented with CNN’s findings, Facebook initially said the page didn’t violate its “Community Standards.”


Only after almost a week of emails and calls between CNN and Facebook about this story did Facebook suspend the page, and then only because it had suspended a user account that administrated the page.


The discovery also raises questions about Facebook’s commitment to change, and to policing its platform, even in the midst of its PR offensive leading up to Zuckerberg’s testimony. Not for the first time, Facebook took action against a major bad actor on its site not on its own but because journalists made inquiries.


Facebook and other social media platforms have a credibility problem that seems to be getting worse. Fake pages, fake accounts, fake followers, fake commenters, fake news – what’s real anymore?


My fear is that people like Zuckerberg – who are closet authoritarians anyway – will establish far more intrusive ways to determine who is genuine and who isn’t. Congress is putting such enormous pressure on social media to get its act together on issues like terrorism, hate, and “fake news,” that the possibility of some kind of government intervention is growing. 


What Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms are finding is that it’s not just fun and games anymore. Cat videos and gramma’s oatmeal cookie recipe are a shrinking part of the online experience for most people. The platforms are becoming an information medium, far more powerful than television, with a far more potential to destroy, mislead, and fool.


That can’t bode well for our future.


 


The largest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook, that features more than 700,000 followers, is actually run by a white man from Australia, a CNN investigation has found.


The page, titled simply “Black Lives Matter,” had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts, CNN has learned.


Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page were suspended by PayPal and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the companies for comment. Donorbox and Classy had already removed the campaigns.


The discovery raises new questions about the integrity of Facebook’s platform and the content hosted there. In the run-up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress this week, Facebook has announced plans to make the people running large pages verify their identity and location. But it’s not clear that the change would affect this page: Facebook has not said what information about page owners it will disclose to the public — and, presented with CNN’s findings, Facebook initially said the page didn’t violate its “Community Standards.”


Only after almost a week of emails and calls between CNN and Facebook about this story did Facebook suspend the page, and then only because it had suspended a user account that administrated the page.


The discovery also raises questions about Facebook’s commitment to change, and to policing its platform, even in the midst of its PR offensive leading up to Zuckerberg’s testimony. Not for the first time, Facebook took action against a major bad actor on its site not on its own but because journalists made inquiries.


Facebook and other social media platforms have a credibility problem that seems to be getting worse. Fake pages, fake accounts, fake followers, fake commenters, fake news – what’s real anymore?


My fear is that people like Zuckerberg – who are closet authoritarians anyway – will establish far more intrusive ways to determine who is genuine and who isn’t. Congress is putting such enormous pressure on social media to get its act together on issues like terrorism, hate, and “fake news,” that the possibility of some kind of government intervention is growing. 


What Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms are finding is that it’s not just fun and games anymore. Cat videos and gramma’s oatmeal cookie recipe are a shrinking part of the online experience for most people. The platforms are becoming an information medium, far more powerful than television, with a far more potential to destroy, mislead, and fool.


That can’t bode well for our future.


 






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Chumps Got Played As Largest Black Lives Matter Facebook Page Was a SCAM

On the day when Facebook kingpin Mark Zuckerberg will give his testimony before Congress, yet another embarrassing report of how easily that the world’s most powerful social media network was manipulated and users were punked has come out.

This time it is not a pro-Trump third party like Cambridge Analytica or even those damned Ruskies but rather a white guy in Australia who attempted to cut himself a nice slab of American’s racial grievance industry pie by setting up a bogus Black Lives Matter page on Facebook and then siphoning off money for himself.

According to reports, the page had over 700,000 followers at its peak but was shut down after domestic representatives of the real BLM began to suspect that something was amiss and reported the page to the anti-conservative corporation which after some investigation, acknowledged that it was a fraud and removed it.

The crackerjack investigative team at CNN were able to take off their tinfoil hats and stop sniffing the nasty-ass panties of blow job queen Stormy Daniels for long enough to break the news that all of those chumps who had been frequenting the page set up by Aussie union official Ian MacKay who also owned over 100 racially-tinged web domain names including blacklivesnews.com, blackkillingsmatter.com and backfists.com.

Via CNN “The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake”:

For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.
The page, titled simply “Black Lives Matter,” had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts, CNN has learned.

Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page were suspended by PayPal and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the companies for comment. Donorbox and Classy had already removed the campaigns.

The discovery raises new questions about the integrity of Facebook’s platform and the content hosted there. In the run-up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress this week, Facebook has announced plans to make the people running large pages verify their identity and location. But it’s not clear that the change would affect this page: Facebook has not said what information about page owners it will disclose to the public — and, presented with CNN’s findings, Facebook initially said the page didn’t violate its “Community Standards.”

Additional details via The Guardian:

A high-ranking Australian union official has been suspended amid reports he ran a fake Black Lives Matter Facebook page that solicited donations from the movement’s supporters.

CNN reports that Ian MacKay – an official with the National Union of Workers – helped set up and run a Facebook page called Black Lives Matter as well as other domain names linked to black rights.

The page, which was removed by Facebook after CNN’s queries, had almost 700,000 followers – more than double the official Black Lives Matter page.

MacKay – who is white – did not respond to calls or emails but denied running the page when contacted by CNN.

A statement given to the Guardian by the NUW’s national secretary, Tim Kennedy, said the union had launched an investigation into the claims made in the CNN report.

He said the union had suspended “the relevant officials pending the outcome of an investigation”.

Two of the frontrunners for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination who have both staked out their claim as social justice warriors and rightful heirs to the legacy of Barack Obama while have their chance to grill Mr. Zuckerberg when he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee today but somehow I am skeptical that Kamala Harris or Cory Booker will even see fit to mention the phony BLM page. Not that Zuck would tell the truth anyway, he won’t be under oath.

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“Wise Latina” MAKES UP FACTS To Defend Knife-Toting Thugstress In “Poorly Reasoned” Dissent

For such a “wise Latina,” Sotomayor seems like sort of a dumbass.

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Last week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an Arizona police officer who non-fatally shot a deranged woman outside her home in 2010. Only two justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, dissented.

After the altercation eight years ago, the injured woman, Amy Hughes, filed a lawsuit against University of Arizona Police Department Corporal Andrew Kisela, accusing him of having used excessive force when he shot her.

Six years later the corrupt U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reversed the trial court’s decision, thus allowing Hughes’ lawsuit to move forward in the justice system.

Fast forward to last Monday, when the Supreme Court ruled to squash Hughes’ lawsuit on the basis “that Kisela was entitled to qualified immunity protecting him from the litigation because he did not violate any clearly established law,” according to Reuters.

Kisela did nothing wrong, and the evidence proves it.

The court’s official ruling states that the altercation began when Kisela and another officer, Alex Garacia, received a “report that a woman was hacking a tree with a kitchen knife.” When they and another officer, Lindsay Kunz, arrived at the scene, this happened:

Garcia spotted a woman, later identified as Sharon Chadwick, standing next to a car in the driveway of a nearby house. A chain-link fence with a locked gate separated Chadwick from the officers. The officers then saw another woman, Hughes, emerge from the house carrying a large knife at her side. Hughes matched the description of the woman who had been seen hacking a tree. Hughes walked toward Chadwick and stopped no more than six feet from her.

All three officers drew their guns. At least twice they told Hughes to drop the knife. Viewing the record in the light most favorable to Hughes, Chadwick said “take it easy” to both Hughes and the officers. Hughes appeared calm, but she did not acknowledge the officers’ presence or drop the knife. The top bar of the chain-link fence blocked Kisela’s line of fire, so he dropped to the ground and shot Hughes four times through the fence. Then the officers jumped the fence, handcuffed Hughes, and called paramedics, who transported her to a hospital. There she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Less than a minute had transpired from the moment the officers saw Chadwick to the moment Kisela fired shots.

Case closed, right? Not exactly.

Attorney Andrew F. Branca of Legal Insurrection noted that, in her “poorly reasoned” dissent, Sotomayor chose “to view the facts as she wishes and with little connection to reality, or the training and experience of the police officers tasked with making use-of-force decisions very quickly, with imperfect information, and with stakes as high as life itself.”

She basically made up facts. I know someone else who often does the same thing …

Examples:

She suggested that Hughes was harmless because the blade of her knife was “facing away from Chadwick.” This proves nothing.

She argued that Hughes “had committed no illegal act.” Disobeying police orders seems pretty illegal to me.

She argued that Kisela never gave Hughes a warning before firing. They drew their weapons and yelled “drop the knife.” What else did she need? A chart!?

She arrogantly criticized Kisela’s tactical decision-making, arguing that he should have used a taser. But nowhere in her biography does it mention any formal police experience, so how would she know what method is best?

Her luridly dumb dissent continues for 15 more pages.

“And more and more and more of the same kinds of nonsense, a full 15 pages of it. As with any Sotomayor dissent, I can recommend that you read it only if you have masochistic tendencies,” Branca opined.

For such a “wise Latina,” Sotomayor seems like sort of a dumbass. I suppose that’s why leftists love her so much.

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Arizona Supreme Court Unanimously Agrees To Prohibit In-State Tuition For ‘Dreamers’

Pack up and move to California.

Via Daily Caller:

Illegal immigrants in Arizona who are covered under the hotly discussed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can no longer receive in-state tuition, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday.

Justices on the court unanimously agreed with the Arizona Court of Appeals’ ruling in June 2017 arguing that existing federal and state laws do not permit the Maricopa Community Colleges to grant in-state tuition rates for so-called DACA recipients.

More than 2,000 DACA recipients, or “dreamers,” who attend Arizona colleges and universities pay in-state rates. The decision could dramatically increase the tuition costs students in the country illegally will have to pay. Out-of-state rates are about triple the cost of in-state tuition.

Rates are substantially less than what non-resident students pay. In-state rates for students attending Arizona State University, for instance, is $10,640 this year while the rate for those from out-of-state is $26,470. There are nearly 28,000 dreamers residing in Arizona.

Arizona’s state appellate court’s 2017 ruling overturned a lower court judge’s 2015 decision that “dreamers” should be legally present in the U.S. The DACA program, which former President Barack Obama signed in 2012, did not confer legal status to young illegal immigrants, presiding Judge Kenton Jones wrote.

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North Carolina Religious Group’s Billboard Takes Aim At Guns: Guns Aren’t ‘The Solution To Our Safety’

It’s not the guns, it’s the operators.

Via WBTV:

A North Carolina-based religious group is taking their message about guns to the streets with a billboard with their “crucial message” about guns and your safety.

The North Carolina Council of Churches has put up a billboard along interstates 85 and 40 in the Burlington area and taking aim at gun violence.

The billboard, which was put up Monday, reads “You shall not make for yourself an idol,” quoting the 2nd Commandment from the Bible. The message sits beside a photo of different types of guns on a bed of bullets.

“For many of us, guns have become the symbol of safety, the idol we turn to because we ‘believe in them’ to keep us safe,” officials with the North Carolina Council of Churches told WBTV. “God commands the people not to have any idols. Idols can assume a lot of guises in our world that we don’t immediately understand as idolatry.”

The council says the billboard is expected to stay up for the next four weeks and is the first in a series of messages planned over the coming months. They plan to erect a new billboard in a different part of the state throughout the summer “reminding people there is a different way of framing the conversation,” officials told WBTV.

“Nearly 70% of the people who carry a gun claim they do so for safety, while the statistics clearly show guns make us less safe. This makes guns a false idol,” council officials said. “To this end, the Council is trying to reframe some of the contentious issues in the public discourse by reminding people of faith of the guiding principles found in our scriptures and our creeds.”

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Mueller Investigating Trump Over $150K Donation From Ukrainian Who Gave Clintons $13 Million

And so how does that or Stormy justify seizing privileged communications of other clients of Michael Cohen? How does that justify seizing privileged communications that may include how Cohen advised Trump to deal with Mueller?

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The special counsel’s office is investigating a $150,000 donation a Ukrainian businessman made to President Donald Trump’s charity in 2015, according to a new report.

The donation, from steel magnate Victor Pinchuk, pales in comparison to contributions he gave to the charity Bill and Hillary Clinton set up. The billionaire has contributed $13 million to the Clinton Foundation since 2006 and had access to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state.

But Special Counsel Robert Mueller is not investigating The Clintons. Instead, he is conducting a broad investigation of Donald Trump, including the flow of foreign money into various Trump-controlled entities.

Mueller began investigating the Pinchuk donation after receiving documents in response to a subpoena issued to the Trump Organization — the real estate company Trump ran before entering politics.

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