Prominent radical left-wing Democrat lawmakers are refusing to condemn an Antifa terrorist’s attempted firebombing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, over the weekend.
Many Democrats have been demanding the abolition of ICE for the past year and in recent months they have begun comparing ICE agents to Nazis.
The Daily Beast published an article Sunday accusing Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Mariano Rivera of “secret far-right politics,” solely on the basis of the fact that he is a Christian who supports the State of Israel.
The story, by Robert Silverman, is titled, “Inside Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera’s Secret Far-Right Politics.”
But there is no evidence of “secret far-right politics” in the article.
Instead, there is just an extensive recounting of Rivera’s support for Israel.
Silverman says that despite the admiration the legendary New York Yankees closer has received from fans, he has “served at the pleasure of a racist president, taken part in thinly veiled propaganda on behalf of an apartheid government in Israel, and gotten chummy with outright bigots and apocalyptic loons.”
The accusation of “serving” President Donald Trump appears to refer to Rivera’s support for the administration’s programs to fight opioid abuse and promote physical fitness, and for appearing in photographs with the president.
Silverman also asserts that Israel has an “apartheid” government — a claim he never backs up, because he cannot. (Jews and Arabs enjoy equal rights in Israel, and Arabs have the vote and serve at the highest levels of government.)
He asserts that “the vast majority of Evangelical Christians also believe in a particular messianic biblical prophecy: Jews must rule the Holy Land before Christ can return.” Silverman admits that he does not know if Rivera shares that belief, “but his support for Israel and the Israel Defense Forces is a matter of public record,” which apparently is enough to make him “far-right.”
The “outright bigots and apocalyptic loons” to whom Silverman refers appear to be one person in particular: Pastor John Hagee, a widely respected Christian leader whom Silverman attacks as “Islamophobic,” using outdated left-wing talking points dating back more than a decade ago.
Unlike left-wing athletes, who are praised for taking anti-American stances, Rivera focused on the game rather than politics. Silverman describes that as a cover-up, accusing the pitcher of undertaking “conscious efforts to keep this information about his private life under wraps.”
The article is accompanied by an illustration (above) of Rivera standing on the Israeli flag. He is perched on a white baseball mound ringed with a blue circle, which makes it appear to be a yarmulke, a traditional head covering worn by Jewish males.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
After belittling the Holocaust by comparing holding facilities for illegal aliens to Nazi concentration camps in World War II now Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to create a 9-11 style commission to investigate the Department of Homeland Security.
AOC is open borders.
She believes women and children entering the US should not be held in detention… at all.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubles down on calling for the elimination of the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says that eliminating the security apparatus that has protected the U.S. since 9/11 is not “radical” pic.twitter.com/1WBEgCVmsu
Her handlers don’t realize the 9-11 commission CREATED the Department of Homeland Security.
First AOC belittled the Holocaust, calling border detention facilities “concentration camps.” Now she’s comparing them to the murders of 9/11 victims, just to sell her open-borders political scheme. #AliensOverCitizenshttps://t.co/wELH8ZISWD
AOC’s call for ‘9/11-style commission’ and abolishment of DHS over Trump border policy. Her handlers don’t realize the 9/11 commission CREATED the DHS. https://t.co/oexlZfwHBn
Conservatives have repeatedly protested how The New York Times "Bestseller List" doesn’t live up to its name. The newest example came from Sean Davis of The Federalist, and the book in question is Justice On Trial by Mollie Hemingway (of The Federalist) and Carrie Severino. The book about the Kavanaugh confirmation shot to #1 on Amazon, but the Times was playing games….again.
An study of Ilhan Omar through facial, speech and virtual polygraph analysis shows Ilhan Omar is a pathological liar or just not being honest about her stories related to her immigration to the US!!!
Despite numerous interviews, media write-ups, and multiple biographical sources, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar AKA “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi” remains an enigma. As strange as it sounds, there is almost no verifiable information about her nor her family in the public domain. This is bordering on the fantastic considering the fact that she is a 34 year old sitting congresswoman. In an era where comprehensive digital background searches can be executed with a single mouse click, Omar’s fluid and ever shifting identify and invisible past are true anomalies.
The majority of the biographical information that she disclosed has multiple non-reconcilable versions. This includes significant inconsistencies about basic facts such as her family’s actual names, their birth dates, details about her brother/husband’s identity, her father’s political role in the dictatorship of Said Berra, her residence in Mogadishu, and the real reason for their escape from Somalia.
The fluidity of the Oma’rs background suggests that most of the details that we know about her have been engineered. It is also clear that over the past 8 years, core components of the Omar family dossier have gone through multiple revisions at the hands of someone who has a decent grasp of covert intelligence operations.
The study begins with the following two versions of this story as told by Omar in 2016. The first version is from her interview with Cory Zurowski from CityPages News. The second version—which she told a month later—is from an Omar propaganda featurette that was produced by Daniel Cummings. Note the differences between publications on the same story –
In part because of these differences, the study was created using a software based polygraph analysis –
In assembling the virtual polygraph system, I used several Artificial Intelligence platforms to perform the speech and facial expression evaluation. For the facial and speech analytics I used:
For the speech analysis I used several algorithms to identify conversational dynamics and the detection of deceit through functions and patterns such as:
Usage of filler words like “Umm”, “and”, “Like”
Cut out contractions such as using “did not” rather than “didn’t“
Increase/decrease in speech speed, pitch, and tone
Pausing frequently
Prolonging word vocalization to buy time
Repeating or rephrasing questions
Stuttering
Voice pitch changes
I calibrated the facial expression engine and established a baseline using several hours of Omar’s speeches on a variety of ‘neutral’ subjects. I then established her ‘truth’ baseline using over 1200 factual statements (i.e. statement known to be true). I also supplemented her baseline facial expressions with catalogue of over 230 combinations of her customized Microexpression.
Following the creation of a unique database of her facial expressions, I proceeded with the ML training using her unique data sets. The whole training process took about 32 hours.
Here is an example of some of the facial expressions investigated –
The analysis shows the following –
The speech and facial sentiment analysis strongly suggests that Omar was deceitful when discussing her family Mogadishu history. She exhibited all of the typical facial and body mechanics indicators for dishonesty including:
Stresses
Evasiveness
Contempt
Nervousness
Suspicion
Fear
Disgust
Omar’s analytic ‘lie’ score consistently exceeds her ‘truth’ baseline by 30%-80%. Her patterns also exhibit many indications of a compulsive fibber. She is a a great storyteller; her tales tend to be very detailed and colorful and she seems very convincing. She is a natural performer, she is eloquent, and she knows how to successfully engage her audience. When providing historical information about her family, she never does so matter-of-factly (the way most people retell their family histories). Rather, Omar’s narrative is always geared at acquiring the listener’s admiration and sympathy.
The following are a few examples that suggest that she could be either a pathological liar or is working with a well written obfuscation script:
She often talks about experiences and accomplishments in which she and her family play heroic parts
She is always a victim in her stories and is habitually looking for sympathy
Her stories tend to be very detailed but lack any verifiable data
She responds elaborately and quickly to questions but her responses are always vague and almost never answer the question
She has different versions of the same story and uses all of these versions at times
The study ends with the following observation –
Anyone working for any three letter agency must go through a background screening and a detailed character evaluation. Some even are mandated to take periodic polygraph tests. There is no reason why a top lawmaker like Ilhan should be exempt.
Despite endless gun violence reports put forward by the establishment media, the dirty little secret is firearm homicides have plummeted over the past 25 years.
Yet most Americans, particularly Democrats, believe firearm murders have risen period.
Washington Post analysis shows Democrats, followed closely by independents, are more apt to believe firearm murders have increased. And this feeds the Democrat psyche which is already more prone to support an expansion of gun control laws.
But the reality is that the high water mark for firearm murders was 1994 while 2017, the most recent year with complete data on incidents, shows a sharp drop. There were “16,136 [firearm murders] in 1994” but only “10,982” in 2017.
And if looked at in terms of the murder rate, instead of simply the raw murder numbers, the drop in firearm homicides is even more evident.
For example, the FBI calculated “6.2 firearm murders per 100,000 people” in 1994, while the murder rate in 2017 was 3.38. And the murder rate was even lower than 3.38 in 2014.
An interesting correlation with the drop in firearm murders is the incredible expansion of private firearm ownership. In other words, the number of privately-owned firearms was increasing at the same time that the number of firearm murders was plummeting.
On December 4, 2013, Breitbart News reported a Congressional Research Service study showing “gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009.” At the same time, the “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” rate was cut in half over a roughly 17-year time period.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Talk about unhinged… Whenever Rashida Tlaib calls Republicans crazy, remember to watch this video pic.twitter.com/LxBOAnKgLb — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 20, 2019
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia accidentally broadcast cat ears and whiskers onto one of their officers as she announced updates about a double homicide.
The press conference regarding the killing of an American woman and her Australian boyfriend was being streamed to Facebook Live when police claim that the filter turned on automatically.
The B.C. RCMP are giving a press conference on the two people murdered on the Alaska Highway, and they have the cat ear filter on. pic.twitter.com/j8GvkvKA4u
“[W]e are aware and addressing it as it’s an automatic setting. Thank you, we will rectify and issue a video shortly,” the RCMP tweeted as the press conference was taking place.
Sgt. Janelle Shoihet, the officer who was speaking, ultimately ended up apologizing for the technical difficulties and re-recorded the entire press conference.
Sgt. Shoihet was discussing the case of Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, and Lucas Robertson Fowler, 23, who were both found dead on a remote patch of Highway 97 earlier this week.
The Braintree Police Department is pleading with criminals to “hold off until Monday” before committing crimes due to the extreme heat in Massachusetts over the weekend.
The department explained that “conducting criminal activity in this extreme heat is next level henchmen status.”
While the hilarious post was obviously in jest, it is expected to reach 111 degrees in Braintree this weekend.
“Folks. Due to the extreme heat, we are asking anyone thinking of doing criminal activity to hold off until Monday. It is straight up hot as soccer balls out there. Conducting criminal activity, in this extreme heat is next level henchmen status, and also very dangerous,” the post began. “Stay home, blast the AC, binge Stranger Things season 3, play with the face app, practice karate in your basement We will all meet again on Monday when it’s cooler.”
The post was signed “the PoPo” and asked readers to refrain from posting Stranger Things season three spoilers.
Within two days the post had already been shared over 127,000 times.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has been living off its reputation, hard-won in World War II, for the better part of a century. While the government corporation is still able to produce compelling costume dramas and other fiction with good results, its news operations consistently are hostile to Israel, and soft on Muslims.
The latest example is startling, and cimes from – of all places — the Huffington Post and progressive Muslim writer Yashar Ali:
The BBC has agreed to conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran to not share reporting materials it gathers in Iran with its Persian-language channel, BBC Persian, an internal email obtained by HuffPost reveals. The agreement represents a capitulation to a government that has been hostile to press freedom. The Iranian government routinely shuts down media organizations critical of the regime and imprisons, tortures and executes journalists.
The agreement was made with the Iranian government in exchange for Iran allowing a BBC correspondent into the country, and, according to emails that HuffPost obtained, it’s not the first time the British broadcaster has agreed to such terms.
The email, sent Saturday to all BBC Persian staff by a BBC Persian digital editor, said that BBC foreign correspondent Martin Patience and his team were in Iran “and due to leave on Sunday.”
The email goes on to say, “It is absolutely imperative that none of their material is run on BBC Persian TV, Radio or Online now or in the future. That includes any official BBC Persian social feed retweeting or forwarding the coverage. Please do not use the material and stories produced in Iran on any platform or in any format.”
It’s unclear who at the BBC agreed to the exclusivity terms.
AT readers may be reminded of CNN’s agreements with Cuba and Saddam-era Iraq to keep their correspondents in those regimes safe in return to capitulation on their journalistic integrity. Now, the BBC has lowered itself to the level of a third rank cable news outfit.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has been living off its reputation, hard-won in World War II, for the better part of a century. While the government corporation is still able to produce compelling costume dramas and other fiction with good results, its news operations consistently are hostile to Israel, and soft on Muslims.
The latest example is startling, and cimes from – of all places — the Huffington Post and progressive Muslim writer Yashar Ali:
The BBC has agreed to conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran to not share reporting materials it gathers in Iran with its Persian-language channel, BBC Persian, an internal email obtained by HuffPost reveals. The agreement represents a capitulation to a government that has been hostile to press freedom. The Iranian government routinely shuts down media organizations critical of the regime and imprisons, tortures and executes journalists.
The agreement was made with the Iranian government in exchange for Iran allowing a BBC correspondent into the country, and, according to emails that HuffPost obtained, it’s not the first time the British broadcaster has agreed to such terms.
The email, sent Saturday to all BBC Persian staff by a BBC Persian digital editor, said that BBC foreign correspondent Martin Patience and his team were in Iran “and due to leave on Sunday.”
The email goes on to say, “It is absolutely imperative that none of their material is run on BBC Persian TV, Radio or Online now or in the future. That includes any official BBC Persian social feed retweeting or forwarding the coverage. Please do not use the material and stories produced in Iran on any platform or in any format.”
It’s unclear who at the BBC agreed to the exclusivity terms.
AT readers may be reminded of CNN’s agreements with Cuba and Saddam-era Iraq to keep their correspondents in those regimes safe in return to capitulation on their journalistic integrity. Now, the BBC has lowered itself to the level of a third rank cable news outfit.