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14th December 2018NEWS
George Soros-Funded Group Accused of Infiltrating Local Newspapers By Jay Greenberg

George Soros-Funded Group Accused of Infiltrating Local Newspapers

A group funded by liberal financier George Soros is accused of infiltrating local newspapers in a bid to launch investigations against Republican state officials. On Wednesday, Kentucky’s Republican Governor Matt Bevin has slammed the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper for partnering with the left-wing group ProPublica. The organization claims to be an investigative journalism outlet whose backers include billionaire globalist Soros. During a video uploaded online, Bevin tears into the local paper and accuses the outlet, ProPublica, of left-wing bias.  “This is the same Courier-Journal, mind you, which, while it’s dying, continues to maintain that they are unbiased, that they are good journalists and that they are interested in transparency, and holding government ... accountable,” Bevin says in the video. “Who’s holding the Courier-Journal accountable?” OUTRAGEOUS. ProPublica, a left-wing activist group funded by the likes of George Soros, is now funding . . . "investigative reporting" at the @courierjournal. Is this the future of journalism? Who is holding the Courier-Journal accountable? https://t.co/U3fdQUO6U9 — Governor Matt Bevin (@GovMattBevin) December 13, 2018
14th December 2018NEWS
US House Panel Investigates 'Foreign' Donations To Clinton Foundation By Daniel Boffey

US House Panel Investigates 'Foreign' Donations To Clinton Foundation

Witnesses have been grilled by members of a US House oversight committee over the probability that the Clinton Foundation had received donations from foreign powers who wanted favors in return. The shady donation tactic, otherwise known as "pay-to-play," allows donations as a means for preferential treatment for outside influencers. House committee member Congressman Mark Meadows confirmed the panel had received hundreds of pages of documents which revealed that Clinton Foundation donors were likely to have been 'assured benefits' while Hillary Clinton was serving as US secretary of state from 2009-2013. "When you have these foreign governments making massive donations to the foundation… I think it is a fair question to ask what were they [donors] expecting in return," Tom Fitton; Judicial Watch President informed the House committee on Thursday.
14th December 2018NEWS
Snopes Paid to Push ‘Propaganda’ by Facebook, Former Editor Reveals By Jay Greenberg

Snopes Paid to Push ‘Propaganda’ by Facebook, Former Editor Reveals

Snopes is paid by Facebook to push "propaganda," according to the former managing editor of the "fact-checker," who claims the social media giant "doesn't care" about facts and is using journalists to promote an agenda so it can "pass the buck." According to a bombshell report by the Guardian, several current and former Facebook fact-checkers have stepped forward and spoken out to reveal their distrust in the social network and their fact-checking employers. Facebook has fact-checking partnerships with Snopes, PolitiFact, Factcheck.org, the Weekly Standard, and Associated Press, and uses the information provided by these organizations to reduce the reach of posts that are "debunked" in their News Feed. The partnering with these fact-checkers has come under heavy criticism, mainly due to the almost-monopolized influence news on Facebook has, which is then being filtered out by unregulated individuals who are often financially motivated and express political bias. “They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” declared former Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski during an interview with the Guardian. “They’re not taking anything seriously. "They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck… "They clearly don’t care.” “You’re not doing journalism anymore. You’re doing propaganda,” she continued, adding, “They threw us under the bus at every opportunity.” Another former Snopes employee, Kim LaCapria, recently left the company over its partnership with Facebook, accusing it of focusing only on the “appearance of trying to prevent damage without actually doing anything,” and expressing distaste with the fact that Snopes was being paid by Facebook. LaCapria said she was particularly upset to learn that Facebook was paying Snopes: “That felt really gross … Facebook has one mission and fact-checking websites should have a completely different mission.” Aside from allegedly being paid by Facebook, Snopes also generates revenue by filling its website with advertisements from Google Adsense, asking for donations from readers via PayPal, and has an active GoFundMe campaign to "Save Snopes" which has so far generated over $850,000 of its $2 million goal. Of course, it's understandable that a website has overheads that need to be covered, but when a company is primarily driven by profit, how can they be trusted to remain non-partisan? According to a report by the Daily Mail, Snopes founder David Mikkelson was accused of embezzling thousands from the company. Mikkelson's ex-wife Barbara, claimed in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on "himself and prostitutes."  During the lengthy and bitter legal dispute, CEO David Mikkelson also claimed to be underpaid and was demanding the "industry standard" or at least $360,000 a year. Being motivated by "facts" is apparently very lucrative. And in the case of Snopes, their business model is a simple, yet devastatingly effective one since they partnered with Facebook and Google: They debunk viral news, and posts. Therefore, if a post goes viral on social media, and Snopes says that it's "false," then it will be flagged as so and Facebook will place a link to the "fact-check," thus driving more traffic and revenue to Snopes. Due to this arrangement, it adds a clear incentive to mark a viral news story as false rather than confirming lesser-known facts as true.
14th December 2018NEWS
Maria Butina, Alleged Russian Spy, Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Against the US By Jay Greenberg

Maria Butina, Alleged Russian Spy, Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Against the US

Maria Butina, the woman accused of infiltrating several political groups and American organizations on behalf of the Russian Government, has pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy against the United States. Alleged secret agent Butina, who surreptitiously gathered intelligence on American officials and political organizations, pleaded guilty Thursday to a conspiracy charge. Butina's plea is part of a deal reached with prosecutors after she registered her willingness to co-operate with them. The 30-year-old previously denied infiltrating the National Rifle Association and relaying intelligence on US politicians to a Russian government official.  When US District Judge Tanya Chutkan asked Butina if she was prepared to enter her guilty plea, however, she replied: "Absolutely." Prosecutors say she conspired with the Russian official and two US citizens.
14th December 2018NEWS
Comey Admits He Ordered 'Unusual' Interview of Flynn with FBI Agents By Jay Greenberg

Comey Admits He Ordered 'Unusual' Interview of Flynn with FBI Agents

Former FBI Director James Comey has admitted that he ordered the FBI interview of Michael Flynn that led to his criminal charges and acknowledges that the arrangement was not the standard protocol for dealing with a White House official, according to reports. Comey has confessed during an interview that he personally made the decision to send a pair of federal agents to Question President Trump’s national security adviser in 2017. The then-head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation acknowledges that he broke protocol by not going through the correct channels via the White House counsel. Rather flippantly, Comey claims when making his decision he thought he would "just send a couple of guys over" to interview Flynn. The controversial interrogation has made headlines this week after FBI memos surfaced showing that the agents advised Flynn not to have a lawyer present during the questioning. During the ambush interview, the agents did not warn of the penalties for making false statements under 18 U.S.C. 1001 before, during, or after the interview.
13th December 2018NEWS
CIA Went Into 'Panic Mode' When Trump Chose Putin Over US Intelligence: Insider By Sarah George

CIA Went Into 'Panic Mode' When Trump Chose Putin Over US Intelligence: Insider

After the extraordinary backlash over the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July, President Donald Trump was allegedly forced to backtrack on some of his comments. When Trump suggested that Vladimir Putin’s “strong and powerful” denial of interfering with the 2016 election was accurate the US intelligence assessment, the CIA immediately went into complete "panic mode," The Washington Post reported - citing an unnamed intelligence insider. “There was this gasp” among those in the CIA, the insider alleged, before adding “You literally had people in panic mode watching it at Langley. On all floors. Just shock”. The CIA and the White House are still yet to comment on the report.
9th December 2018FEATURES
Cowardly Macron Hides in His Palace as His Liberal Policies Tear France Apart By Jay Greenberg

Cowardly Macron Hides in His Palace as His Liberal Policies Tear France Apart

As Paris exploded with further protests and riots this weekend over French President Emmanuel Macron's liberal policies, France's so-called leader was hiding behind the majestic walls of his presidential palace as the streets of the capital erupted in fury. Almost 1,400 people were arrested across France on Saturday after angry protests turned to violent riots. In an attempt to avoid a repeat of last weekend's mayhem, 8,000 police were deployed to Paris who repeatedly pushed back protesters using tear gas and water cannons. As angry citizens battled with authorities over policies pushed by the Macron Administration, the president skulked inside the Elysee Palace, guarded by hundreds of riot police and surrounded by armored cars bearing machine guns and grenade launchers. This formidable ring of steel may seem excessive, but given the chance, the mobs would have surely tried to storm inside to demand answers from the man who is tearing their country apart. It appears that this time the revolutionary spirit was catching, as protests also erupted in Marseilles, France’s second-largest city, and in Brussels.
6th December 2018FEATURES
Chinese Disney Workers Earn Just 1 Cent For Each $44 Ariel Doll They Make By Gethin Chamberlain

Chinese Disney Workers Earn Just 1 Cent For Each $44 Ariel Doll They Make

The hugely popular Disney Ariel Doll has very humble beginnings, and we're talking about the Chinese workers illegally long working hours for just 1 cent per $44 doll made. An undercover investigation has exposed the Wah Tung factory in Heyuan, were staff alleged to work 175 hours of overtime in one month. Excited children across the globe will be asking for the pour n Ariel doll – Disney’s answer to the Little Mermaid. The upsetting part is Santa's elves did not make them in the north pole. The dolls were made in the city of Heyuan, by people working to exhaustion and for wages too low to support a family.

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