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People with tight connections to Facebook are going public with a critique of the company and social media more broadly. They say Facebook and social media systems undermine democracy and exploit the human psychology to get people addicted to their platforms.

Associated Press

POSTBULLETIN

by Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
12/12/2017

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NEW YORK — Some of Facebook’s former friends are starting to express some serious doubts about the social network they helped create.

Facebook exploits a “vulnerability in human psychology” to addict its users, Sean Parker, the company’s first president, said in a public forum last month. Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook vice president who joined the company in 2007, recently told an audience at Stanford that the company is “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.”

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Gateway Pundit

by Joshua Caplan
12/12/2017

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) ordered congressional investigators to physically remove all outstanding documents from the Justice Department on Thursday. 

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Image Source, Regina Cates — http://romancingyoursoul.com/power-tends-to-corrupt-and-absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely/

On the morning of April 27, 2011, Barack Hussein Obama gave a press conference in which he acknowledged the release of his more detailed, or “long-form” birth certificate as opposed to the “Certification of Live Birth” released in 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bnYJI4QTpXs

IS IT ALL BEGINNING TO MAKE SENSE?

The Post & Email

by Sharon Rondeau
12/12/2017

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(Dec. 12, 2017) — Infowars’ Dr. Jerome Corsi reported in an explosive story on Tuesday that Obama birth certificate lead investigator Mike Zullo presented evidence gleaned from a confidential informant that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) participated in the creation of the “long-form” birth certificate image posted at whitehouse.gov on April 27, 2011.

In his article, Corsi explained that the revelation is the “universe-shattering” information Zullo claimed to have in late 2013 after former NSA and CIA contractor Dennis Montgomery approached the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) with information concerning alleged breaches of Arizonans’ bank accounts, specifically in Maricopa County.

On April 27, 2011, an image said to be a scan of a certified copy of Barack Hussein Obama’s long-form birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) was uploaded to the White House website, after which Obama held a brief press conference and stated that the public was now in possession of “additional information about the site of my birth.”

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The Daily Caller

by Chuck Ross
12/8/2017

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CNN misreported key details of an offer made to Donald Trump Jr. last year of a batch of stolen Wikileaks documents.

The story, which CNN published on Friday and covered extensively on TV, was touted as the first evidence that the Trump campaign was given a heads-up about documents stolen from Democrats.

But the story appears to have been riddled with errors, while also lacking key context.

Perhaps the most jarring error in the CNN report is the date on which Trump Jr. was sent the email. The network reported that a person named Mike Erickson emailed Trump Jr. and others on the Trump campaign on Sept. 4, 2016, with a link to Wikileaks documents as well as a decryption key to access them.

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Zero Hedge

by Tyler Durden
12/6/2017

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In a historic moment, ignored by much of Western media, Russian military officials have announced the complete and utter defeat of ISIS in Syria. The Russian General Staff issued a statement Wednesday declaring that all territories previously under terrorist control were liberated in a final push by the Syrian Army this week, and with the support of Russian forces. 

“All terrorist units of ISIS on Syrian soil have been destroyed, and the territory is liberated,” Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Valery Gerasimov said in comments translated and published by RT.  “Therefore, as of today, there’s no territory controlled by ISIS in Syria,” he added. The announcement came during an annual briefing for foreign military attaches, and incidentally on the same day President Trump gave an extremely controversial televised address wherein he gave official US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, thus it could mean that the demise of one problem could give rise to another in an increasingly volatile and explosive Middle East environment. 

The rapid collapse of ISIS – which once controlled an area the size of Britain stretching from the edges of Aleppo to Mosul in Iraq, and down to Ramadi and Fallujah – began in earnest in early September when the Syrian Army breached ISIS lines around Deir Ezzor city, after which the city was fully liberated by early November. As ISIS retreated in the Deir Ezzor countryside, it lost its previous Syrian capital of Raqqa in mid-October to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which also struck a deal to allow the quick exit of ISIS terrorists to other parts of Syria and region, according to a report by the BBC.

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New details about the controversy surrounding Rep. Trent Franks come as sexual harassment allegations have engulfed Capitol Hill. He became the third lawmaker this week alone to announce that he will step down after being accused of sexual misconduct. | John Shinkle/POLITICO

The congressman was seeking a pregnancy surrogate, and aides said he approached them for the assignment.

Politico

by Rachael Bade and Jake Sherman
12/8/2017

Excerpt:

Arizona Rep. Trent Franks allegedly made unwanted advances toward female staffers in his office and retaliated against one who rebuffed him, according to House GOP sources with knowledge of a complaint against him.

The allegations, which reached Speaker Paul Ryan and top GOP leaders in recent days, led to Franks’ sudden resignation this week. Franks originally announced that he would resign on Jan. 31, 2018. But just hours after POLITICO inquired about the allegations, he sped up his resignation and left office Friday.

The sources said Franks approached two female staffers about acting as a potential surrogate for him and his wife, who has struggled with fertility issues for years. But the aides were concerned that Franks was asking to have sexual relations with them. It was not clear to the women whether he was asking about impregnating the women through sexual intercourse or in vitro fertilization. Franks opposes abortion rights as well as procedures that discard embryos.

A former staffer also alleged that Franks tried to persuade a female aide that they were in love by having her read an article that described how a person knows they’re in love with someone, the sources said. One woman believed she was the subject of retribution after rebuffing Franks. While she enjoyed access to the congressman before the incident, that access was revoked afterward, she told Republican leaders.

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Gateway Pundit

by Jim Hoft
12/8/2017

Guest post by Joe Hoft

Excerpt:

While the mainstream media (MSM) focuses on the fake news Trump-Russia collusion farce, the US is engulfed in the most corrupt event in its history and all roads lead back to former President Obama.

As a matter of fact, the fake Trump investigation is a major piece in the attempted coup d’état currently in place and the MSM’s fake news reporting is part of the Coup.

Just this past week former UN Ambassador John Bolten stated that this is the “First Attempted Coup D’état in US History” –

Bolton is right.  This is the biggest challenge to the survival of the country since the Civil War. 

Democrats in the 1860’s would rather break up the Union than accept the election of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln. 

Today’s Democrats would rather remove another Republican President, Donald Trump, from office than accept the results of the 2016 election. 

Democrats in the 1860’s broke up the Union because they didn’t want to give up their power over the executive branch of government and they didn’t want to end slavery, Democrats today are partaking in their Coup D’état because they don’t want to give up their power over the federal government and don’t want to be put in jail for their crimes committed in the years before the election.

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Need to Know

by G. Edward Griffin
12/7/2017

Excerpt:

Tucker Carlson visited Las Vegas discussed the mass shooting event with a lawyer and a casino security expert – more questions were raised than were answered.  Doug Poppa has written 35 articles for the Baltimore Post Examiner, and he says that the police are not cooperative.  The police refused to answer his question about where the 40-member SWAT Team was during the event. It is unknown whether the shooter, Stephen Paddock, was known to law enforcement prior to the event.  The Las Vegas Police Homicide division was pulled off the case. Most of the weapons in Paddock’s room had bipods to stabilize them, and ‘bump stocks’, which are used to make semi-automatic rifles fire faster, cannot be used with bipods. Additionally, it does not make sense to have two shooting positions. The lawyer received the special event permit from the city for the outdoor concert that was filled out by hand by a Mandalay Bay corporate executive, instead of Live Nation Entertainment, the producer of the event that took place across the street from the hotel.

The second video features two employees of Mandalay Bay Hotel who filmed themselves during the shooting, police lockdown inside the hotel, and the evacuation. Their footage proves that police were concerned about multiple shooters and that there was a suspected shooter on the 4th floor of Mandalay Bay, although the media ‘debunked’ this information. This event may have been a drill, or a drill that went live.

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Tucker Carlson unleashed on FBI corruption, reminding Americans ‘this is how secret police start’.

Gateway Pundit
by Cristina Laila
12/5/2017

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Tucker also said on Tuesday, “This is how secret police start, when law enforcement agencies decide to do the bidding of politicians, rather than pursue impartial justice on behalf of the public. Let’s nip this nightmare in the bud right now.” #FBI #Tucker @FoxNews

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