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— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 31, 2018

VOAT
Submitted by ‘Matt_Helm’
7/31/2018

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Stealing our secrets, conning our institutions, and penetrating our politics.

FrontPage Mag
by Lloyd Billingsley
7/30/2018

Excerpt:

“We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing.” That was candidate Donald Trump back in April of  2016. As he also said, in reference to China, “we’re like the piggy bank that’s being robbed.” If that seems a stretch, consider the case of Ruopeng Liu.

The Chinese student enrolled at Duke University in 2006 and in 2007 he became a protégé of Dr. David Smith, developer of “metamaterials.” These function as an “invisibility cloak” that can make objects invisible to microwave signals.

Liu brought in two researchers from China, and during their stay at Duke they took photographs of the lab and its contents, as NBC noted “focusing on the apparatus that allows scientists to measure the cloak.” They took everything back to China, where they built an exact replica in Liu’s previous lab.

Smith said it sounded like theft and the FBI agreed, though no charges were filed. Some observers wondered if the Chinese government had tasked Liu to grab Smith’s intellectual property but in an interview Liu laughed and called the charge “ridiculous.”  Liu is now worth a reported $2.7 billion and touted as the Elon Musk of China.

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Stilton’s Place
by Stilton Jarlsberg
7/30/2018

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We don’t pretend to have great theological expertise, but Maxine Waters’ recent declaration that she’s on a “mission from God” seems to put her squarely in the same category of previous divine tools as plagues of locusts, frogs, flies, lice, and eruptions of large, painful boils which would even make Dr. Pimple Popper lose her lunch.

If we take Maxine at her word about God’s purpose for her, it suggests that her entire life until now has been utterly pointless, an idea with which we can’t really take issue. Seriously, what has this bitter woman actually accomplished over her long, angry life other than giving blobfish a reason to feel slightly better about their looks?

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The Hill
by Liz Peek, Opinion Oontributor
7/17/2018

Excerpt:

Don’t look now, but there are numerous signs that President Trump is winning the trade war with China. While the battle over tariffs and protecting intellectual property may eventually damage the United States’ economy, there are signs that China is already paying a price for its refusal to bend to Trump’s demands.

One indicator of that price is the sharp plunge in China’s stock exchanges. Since the White House announced the first tariffs — on washing machines and solar cells on Jan. 22 — the Shanghai Index of Chinese stocks is down nearly 20 percent, while the S&P 500 is off less than 1 percent.

That decline of share values is occurring in spite of the first-time inclusion in the MSCI, an important international index, of many Chinese stocks on June 1. That initial index listing attracted billions of dollars toward Chinese stocks, in expectation it would boost prices, but it did not. 

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FrontPage Mag
by Bruce Thornton
7/27/2018

Excerpt:

Time to take off the gloves.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley recently told a high school audience that conservatives shouldn’t delight in “owning the libs” ––  i.e. triggering a progressive into a hysterical response that you proceed to make fun of. Instead, we should be “persuading” progs with reasoned argument and “bringing people around to your point of view,” as Haley said.

In that way, we make a convert rather than energize partisans into clinging more tightly to their beliefs and voting to empower them.

Having spent more than 40 years in the incubators of today’s leftist nonsense, universities, I am skeptical about the power of reasoned argument among today’s ill-educated students. Most of their teachers, like most progressives, are pretty much immune to reason, evidence, and coherent argument, little of which makes it into their courses. As the old gag goes, arguing with a leftist is like playing chess with a pigeon: It knocks over the pieces, craps on the board, then struts around like it won the game. Reasoned argument cuts no ice when confronted with the irrational caprices and gratifying passions of human beings.

In fact, the assumption behind Haley’s plea is the old Socratic one that virtue is knowledge, that if one knows the good, one will do the good––one of the foundational bad ideas of modernity. When people believe wrong or dangerous ideas, the paradigm goes, that’s because they’re deficient in knowledge. They just need to be better informed of the facts, and better trained to spot incoherent and fallacious arguments. 

The rebuttal of this claim was made by Socrates’ contemporary Euripides, whose sex-maddened character Phaedra says in a moment of lucidity, “We know the good and recognize it, but we cannot do it.” Two thousand years later, Dostoyevsky’s spiteful character Underground explains why: “One’s own free and unfettered volition, one’s own caprice, however wild, one’s own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness –– that is the one best and greatest good.” We are free to choose our actions and beliefs even if they’re destructive, dangerous, or irrational. The fact that we want them, and they gratify us, and we can choose them is all that counts.

This faith in reason to sort out the true and the good from mere opinions drives much of our culture. Fooled by the success of science and technology in understanding and manipulating the natural world, we naively think that we can do the same for the human and social world, that we can manufacture Stalin’s “engineers of the soul” and create utopia. Yet for two hundred years the power of irrational, destructive passions and impulses has spattered the pages of history with blood. Materialist science still has no answers to our most profound questions––what should we be and what should we do. And the decline of faith left us vulnerable to political religions, which promised to answer those questions, and create a utopia of social justice and happiness, only now to be enjoyed here on earth. 

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Breitbart / Tech
John Nolte
7/27/2018

Excerpt:

Twitter denied engaging in any kind of shadow banning Thursday in a written statement where Twitter went on to admit it actually does hide users’ content without their knowledge, and to an extreme degree.

The third paragraph of the statement reads:

We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology

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— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) March 9, 2017

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SHARYL ATTKISSON
by sattkisson
7/26/2018

Excerpt:

The following is a news analysis

Eighteen tumultuous months into the Trump presidency, there’s one thing we’ve learned about the media.

For all our hand wringing over how badly we missed the forecast on Donald Trump’s electability; for all the self-flagellation over obvious signs conveniently ignored; for all of our admissions that we’d gotten so stuck in our own echo chamber, we couldn’t see what was before our eyes; for all of our pledges to re-examine the way we report, seeking to peer outside the DC-New York City bubble; for our promises to listen rather than preach and to report rather than tell people what to think— we didn’t mean it.

A major event last week removed any doubt— the news coverage after President Trump’s meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin. One universal world view dominated. At best, the meeting and press conference were disasters or treacherous. At worst, Trump proved to be a downright traitor.

To be clear, there’s certainly nothing wrong with reporting those views. The problem is they were reported to the near-exclusion of opposing viewpoints. They were elevated beyond the realm of “opinion” and given the status of indisputable fact.

After a tsunami of media and establishment members of both political parties parroted the same prevailing view, often laced with venom and disgust, there didn’t seem to be many willing to publicly step forward and argue the point. But it was an incomplete portrait of reality.

For example, a longtime Democrat who is African-American and was an upper-tier government official in the Obama administration, who supported and donated to President Obama, contacted me after the Trump-Putin meeting. He told me he gets ridiculed by colleagues every time he “acknowledges Trump’s diplomatic talents.”

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CNN ‘journalists’ and Fox News’ talking heads Cavuto and Baier should be instructed that “News” is what happens, not what creative liars in the MSM and social media spend so much of their time making up

Canada Free Press
by Judi McLeod
7/26/2018

Excerpt:

CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, denied access to cover a later open press event, did not go to the Oval Office to cover yesterday’s first press event. She was there to get ‘legs’ for what CNN had already determined to be “the story of the day”.

To be clear:

CNN’s official statement, about their reporter being banned from the Rose Garden presser on June 25, 2018:

“Just because the White House is uncomfortable with a question regarding the news of the day doesn’t mean the question isn’t relevant and shouldn’t be asked,” the network said in a statement, following the Collins kick-out kerfuffle.

Just because the White House is uncomfortable with a question regarding the news of the day is the key here.

Who is CNN to decide what is the “news of the day”?

Who are Fox News President Jay Wallace and Fox talking head Brett Baier to run resistance for Fake News CNN?

“As a member of the White House press pool, Fox stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access,” Baier said on air.” (Fox News, July 25, 2018)

“His comments came shortly after Fox News President Jay Wallace said his network stands in “strong solidarity” with CNN.

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