Surveillance of Carter Page, which has been going on for multiple years prior to the Trump candidacy without any evidence or legal action is not it'self actionable...
Either you are lying and have no idea, or you are publicly releasing classified information. Which is it?
The information is already out there, (released by the Dims, I believe) when they tried to use the fact that he was under surveillance as evidence to justify the FISA on Trump (nice try though).
They have the head of the FBI testifying before congress on the record that without the Steele dossier there would not have been a FISA warrant pursued or approved on the Trump candidacy. Period full stop.
Once again, either you are lying and do not know that, or you are publicly releasing classified information. Which is it?
This was revealed by a Republican on the intelligence committee and is not classified as it reveals no sources or methods, only a point of fact which the Dims were trying to obfuscate to cover their criminal asses.
You might want to try thinking for yourself and listening to multiple sources....
Not sure that's going to help, because look where it got you! You're here ranting about things that you can't possibly know, absolutely certain that you're correct.
Ask yourself this: Why do I believe all these things with no hard evidence of them being true? Then go and read the paper that started this whole discussion.
Give it a week and try to watch Fox (Shep Smith doesn't count) news once in a while (I know it burns, disinfectant is often painful).
The other supporting evidence was a Yahoo news article which was actually leaked to the author by Steele (and thus circular and not an independent second source). Further, we have on record in closed hearing (but which will be used in the criminal trials) that the head of the FBI confirmed to congress that without the Steele dossier, the FISA warrant would not have been pursued or approved. The alt left is further grasping at straws claiming that the unfounded prior surveillance of Carter Page is also somehow supporting evidence for the FISA, which is utter BS and everyone who is paying attention knows it. The bottom line is perjury and abuse of power for sure was committed by top officials at the FBI and DOJ and maybe the Obama administration and Clinton campaign and those people are going to prison and the left is apoplectic that they will be out of power for the next 25 years and at this point are straight up lying (claiming the Nunes Memo contained sources and methods) to try and obstruct the truth from coming out.
FISA warrants are indeed secret, but when they are approved, they must be signed off on under criminal penalty of perjury. This falsely acquired warrant puts every person who signed off on it in jeopardy of perjury as well as the abuse of power act I cited above. There is no hiding from this, the Trump Russian collusion investigation has found no criminal activity, the newly created independent council will be arresting and convicting at least 5 and maybe up to 15 high ranking FBI, DOJ, Clinton campaign and Obama administration officials and employees of perjury, conspiracy and potentially treason (depending if the new reporting that Steele was actually being fed his information by Russian operatives in order to subvert the Trump presidency and foment the current political climate). If I were Trump, as well as a number of other people who have been dragged through the mud, I would bring a multi billion dollar suit against the MSM and the Democrats for slander and libel. The threshold is very high, but from what I have seen, it has clearly been crossed on a myriad of occasions.
Your ability to refute factual evidence and logical prowess are lacking to the point of comedy, and it would remain comedy if you would only keep your opinions to yourself.
But you post here and get up-modded +5 for what is clearly either a fictitious story or an extreme outlier, so I posted to give you some exposure to an actual conservative who has disliked Hildabeast and her rapist husband since 1992. Sorry for your obvious discomfort.
On second thought, maybe your story is 100% true, and your conservative friends were just being polite when they avoided the subject of Hillary Clinton because you are a rabid alt leftie who can't handle a real political discussion without devolving to name calling...
OMG you found the one conservative professor who is 73 who may still be teaching at Oxford! Impressive research skills, but he is still a little outnumbered by the other 12,999 Oxford staff and only slightly diminishes my hyperbolic but no less accurate point.
I concede that there may be dozens of conservative professors at Oxford. Hell, I am a conservative professor, but I also know for a hard fact that we are a rare breed and only survive in the hard sciences where liberal BS is killed by the antiseptic of objective truth.
My point still stands that this study was a liberal hit piece and that virtually every university on the planet is rife with alt left fascists who can't tolerate the thought of anyone thinking differently than they do.
Oh, and the reason that Comey had to re-open the investigation into Hillary Clinton was because Andrew McCabe sat on and concealed the existence of the Wiener laptop for almost a month before he was forced to turn it over for discovery. Had he managed to conceal it for another week, Hillary would probably have been president and swept all of this corruption under the rug never to be heard about... http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
Surveillance of Carter Page, which has been going on for multiple years prior to the Trump candidacy without any evidence or legal action is not it'self actionable, regardless of whatever bullshit they have been spinning on MSNBC. The only thing that that reveals is that the FISA court was broken for a long time under the Obama administration. When they can surveil an American citizen for multiple years on suspicion without producing actual evidence, in clear violation of his constitutional rights it is broken as shit, not evidence to justify additional surveillance... idiot.
They have the head of the FBI testifying before congress on the record that without the Steele dossier there would not have been a FISA warrant pursued or approved on the Trump candidacy. Period full stop.
No one is indicting the entire FBI, they are indicting under 10 high ranking and top level FBI and DOJ officials, politically placed and/or promoted who pulled this shit. James Comey is facing perjury charges at minimum because he testified to Congress that the Steel Dossier was salacious and unproven, but 6 weeks before he signed off on the FISA warrant using that same dossier as key evidence, along with a circular second source that was also actually sourced to Steele as well (the Yahoo news article). He further pursued, leaked and eventually achieved an independent council investigation loaded with Trump haters based on that falsely obtained FISA warrant and subsequent investigation.
You might want to try thinking for yourself and listening to multiple sources rather than regurgitating the MSM alt left talking points, you will be better off in the long run. It is a mater of time before these people are arrested and charged, when they do you will be freaking out, believing whatever BULLSHIT the MSM feeds you straight from the shrills of the Dim party.
The last recourse of those caught red handed manipulating the news for their own agenda. First it was "No we don't have a bias" (the left tried that for 20 years) but it is so blatant that something like 75% of the US population now clearly sees the bias, so now this. Only in the alt left bubble would this be viewed as anything but utter irrational BS.
Those of us who deal with reality have a far better BS filter than the atl left sycophants, among other things.
The root problem is all the alt left progressive bullshit. If the MSM stayed focused on the facts and reported the entire story, they wouldn't have the lowest trust ratings in 40 years. Conservatives get enough truth from talk radio and conservative news outlets like Fox to see a clear and disturbing pattern of lies, half truths, obfuscation and omission to know that the MSM is not playing straight. The alt left slurps it up because they never developed a BS filter or enough real world experience to know better.
Its cute that you think this is a funny problem. Pray to God that the Dim politicians stop straight up lying on prime time national TV and the MSM gets back to chasing actual facts instead of reporting slander and innuendo as gospel, because if they set off a revolution in the US (for instance with this fake Russian collusion investigation predicated on the fake Russian dossier generated by a foreign agent at the direction of Russian operatives), it will not end well, which was, I suspect, Putin's goal all along. But the Dims and the MSM are playing right into his hand with their rabid slander and innuendo campaign.
The true fake news (not that which is cited by this study https://politics.slashdot.org/... ) is a symptom of the alt left in the US media completely abandoning the pursuit of the truth and the story no mater where it leads. They have opted instead to further their agenda by any means necessary. Their goal today is to "change the world" the problem is that is not their job, so the people are searching for a new source for news, and they are not willing to let the technocrat pinheads at Google and Facebook dictate the news to them any more than fake news CNN or MSNBC or the alt left academics at Oxford or any other festering atl left cespool university.
The solution to the fake news media is an independent journalism association that evaluates and rates news and outlets based on the facts as known as well as track records of outlets. The evaluation has to be transparent and accountable and based on the simple question of getting the facts right, complete and with background and context. Not reporting major stories would also get a news outlet down rated, as story suppression is tantamount to lying by omission. Politifact and fact check.org started out with that goal, but they have both been completely infiltrated by the alt left, to the point where they are now actually just as bad if not worse with rabid bias than the MSM...
The MSM has no one to blame but themselves for any infiltration of fake news.
Please feel free to link to this guy and his actual posts. There is a shit ton of innuendo and junk from the left on all the fake right wing news, but I haven't actually seen any concrete examples with numbers of either revenue or shares indicating the reach of these fake news stories.
This study out of Oxford used a bunch of conservative websites, but as was indicated above, the stories they cite as junk (not fake mind you, but junk) turn out to be 100% accurate and legitimate news that apparently the alt left hacks at Oxford don't agree with... https://politics.slashdot.org/...
While it might give the alt left warm fuzzies to think they are smarter than conservatives, the facts, at least in this case, just don't support it. And furthermore, if you believed this Oxford study, you would be the one believing in fake news...
I can't speak to your story specifically, but you must have found the only two conservatives so inebriated that they couldn't stand up, because that's the only way a conservative can't rattle off what was wrong with Hillary. Hillary has been in the national political spotlight for more than 25 years, and conservatives know exactly who and what she is. Off the top of my head:
- Married to and enabler of the serial rapist and female abusing Bill Clinton. Multiple counts of demonizing his victims, even with mountains of evidence. Hillary was Bill Clinton's feminist beard for their entire marriage. - Zero accomplishments as a politician - Managed to spell the Russian reset button wrong, allowed the murder of our Ambassador and others at Benghazi, Libya by refusing to send requested increases in security because of the "optics" and then tried to cover it up. - Violated federal laws on the handling of classified information and records retention laws by running a private, unsecured server in her bathroom to shield her activities as secretary of state from FOIA requests and legal review and discovery. Lied to congress that all business related emails were handed over, destroyed 40,000 plus emails. Received and sent dozens of emails containing classified information including SCI classified information unencrypted and unsecured in direct violation of federal law. - Was the driving force behind the failed Hillary care - Anti 2nd amendment, including lobbying for the AWB and numerous other activities - Has had numerous people murdered, including Vince Foster, Jim McDougal and Ron Brown. The Clintons are clearly mob connected and have had numerous people killed: http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2... The body count of close friends and associates who have died mysteriously at very opportune times for the Clintons is massive beyond all coincidence for any reasonable person. Ask yourself, how many people do you know in any capacity have died under mysterious circumstances? The Clintons have almost 50...
Everyone knew who Hillary Clinton was long before she ran for president. Conservatives have loathed her since 1993.
Well said, and this is exactly why both "academics" and the alt left in the media are no longer trusted by the vast majority of the population. It has become about furthering their agenda, not finding the truth...
Our problem with school performance has nothing to do with spending. I can push US schools to new highs with the following steps, but it would cripple the funding of the Democrat political party:
- Institute a federal school voucher system. Force the states to kick the cash to the federal government for any parent who wants a voucher. Vouchers are valid at any school that is accredited, no other strings attached. Homeschoolers get 100% coverage of all school supplies, books and any related expenses, including field trips, up to the total annual voucher. There would still be shit schools where parents who didn't care would send their kids, but that happens already, at least this way, the parents who did care (which is hardwired biologically) would make a significant positive difference. - Eliminate the NEA and all teachers unions. - Privatize all schools and require them to operate as non-profits with a cap of 3x local average salary for any employee and institute parental oversight on all expenditures each year. Require all finances to be published monthly. - Require all immigrants to speak English fluently or attend a 6 month immersion course before entering regular school. Require all courses to be taught only in English, except when teaching a foreign language specifically.
I guarantee you that the US would rise dramatically in the scholastic rankings because that is what works phenomenally well when tested. Smart kids will excel, and lower IQ kids will attend trade schools so they actually have a marketable skill when they graduate (not everyone is a rocket scientist, and there is no harm in admitting that or benefit to pretending that they are.)
The Trump Russian collusion farce was not facilitated by the entire FBI, it was facilitated by less than 10 top level alt left FBI officials promoted/placed during the Obama administration. A statistical survey of the political leanings of the entire FBI are irrelevant to the facts above.
Your argument is invalid and irrelevant. Nice try though.
There are/were a cabal of 6-10 hard core alt left fascist Democrats at the top of DOJ and the FBI (politically promoted during the Obama administration) that were in on this dumpster fire that is the Trump Russian surveillance farce. They will be ferreted out, arrested and charged with violation of 18USC 242. https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... its just a mater of time.
With any luck they will roll on high ranking officials in the Obama administration and Clinton campaign, who it is clear were also involved in the facilitating and encouraging the illegal surveillance of the Trump candidacy and presidency. https://www.politico.com/story...
The wheels of justice are turning, but slowly. Without Obama's corrupt DOJ to protect them, the corruption of the Obama executive branch is coming to light, and you can bet under Trump it will be prosecuted.
I am willing to bet that you couldn't find a single conservative professor at Oxford in the last 30 years. Even before then, most of the conservatives to come out of any university in the last 60 years did so in spite of the university, not because of it.
University exists in a vacuum of reality, and most people become more conservative as they grow up and mature in the real world. Most college professors never mature unless they also work in the private sector, thus they continue to be flaming liberals and usually don't have enough common sense to get out of the rain.
I actually read the full article since you wrote a halfway reasonable defense, however, there are glaring problems. As I see them, the first and probably key problem with their study is how they defined junk news (not fake news as is asserted in the misleading headline of the article on slashdot).
Professionalism: These outlets do not employ the standards and best practices of professional journalism. They refrain from providing clear information about real authors, editors, publishers and owners. They lack transparency, accountability, and do not publish corrections on debunked information.
Style: These outlets use emotionally driven language with emotive expressions, hyperbole, ad hominem attacks, misleading headlines, excessive capitalization, unsafe generalizations and fallacies, moving images, graphic pictures and mobilizing memes.
Credibility: These outlets rely on false information and conspiracy theories, which they often employ strategically. They report without consulting multiple sources and do not employ fact-checking methods. Their sources are often untrustworthy and their standards of news production lack credibility.
Bias: Reporting in these outlets is highly biased and ideologically skewed, which is otherwise described as hyper-partisan reporting. These outlets frequently present opinion and commentary essays as news.
Counterfeit: These outlets mimic professional news media. They counterfeit fonts, branding and stylistic content strategies. Commentary and junk content is stylistically disguised as news, with references to news agencies, and credible sources, and headlines written in a news tone, with bylines, date, time and location stamps.
The problem here is that these criteria are incredibly subjective, and some of them are just fallacious. All news outlets sensationalize news (I'm looking at you CNN, MSNBC etc.), all news outlets are sometimes wrong (CNN tanking the stock market and sweeping the fake news awards, anyone?), all news outlets use emotional language, and are you telling me that using capitalization and punctuation "excessively" NOW MAKES YOU A FAKE NEWS OUTLET!!! WTF DO CAPS AND PUNCTUATION HAVE TO DO WITH BEING RIGHT!!!
True fake news are news stories that are demonstrably false after the facts come out. True fake news outlets are outlets that are constantly putting out false or misleading stories that use un-named sources, leave out historical facts and context. Everything else on the Oxford study's list is just bullshit so they can try to make themselves look smart and their opposition look dumb. Nice try but I wipe my ass with Oxford's credibility, and this study drives my point home.
To the discerning consumer of news, this is a BS political masturbatory hit job designed to stroke the ego of the alt left who are in the process of going down in flames as their house of cards collapses and the curtain is pulled back to reveal the corruption and criminality of the left in the US.
To coin a phrase: "There are liars, damn liars, and statisticians."
The devil is in the details, and any good liberal can take any study and manipulate it by either prejudicing the questions, futzing with the population sampled, or a dozen other ways to make the study show what they want it to show. Therefore, the informed individual who pays attention learns that the source must be carefully evaluated unless he has 20 hours to piss away digging into the actual methodology and questions asked in the study... and at this point, Oxford is full of alt left fascist progressive nut jobs as far as the US is concerned and has given up all pretense of objective truth or fact. Hell, the UK doesn't even have freedom of speech anymore...
All of Western Europe is a flaming dumpster fire of deranged stupidity that will collapse on it'self in the next 20 years or so and all of Europe will soon be one great Caliphate with the heads of the infidels on steel pikes at every city entrance. And they will have done it to themselves... That or they will all have a mass conversion to hard core conservatism, arm themselves and take back their countries, but I am not holding my breath, too much inbreeding and beta males in Europe. All the alphas moved to he colonies generations ago.
Impeding abuse of power (18USC 242 https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... ) is never a crime. The entire Trump Russia investigation was predicated on the 100% false Steele Dossier, bought by the Clinton campaign and created by Russian agents feeding misinformation to Steele (try to keep up CrankyFool)... Stop slurping up the shit being shoved by the MSM and actually read it: https://www.politico.com/story...
The only collusion in the last election was by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration, DOJ and FBI using an un-verified, demonstrably false report created by a foreign agent (Michael Steele) as an excuse to spy on an opposition candidate and then president elect Donald Trump. It was 100% illegal and I guarantee some people are going to jail, but it will be Democrats who do the frog march, regardless of how much bullshit is shoveled out by the Dims and sprayed around by the MSM. You will never get the truth so long as your lips are glued to the ass of MSNBC.
The American people have no faith in the MSM these days because the MSM don't give a shit about the truth, only furthering their ideology, and they are burying the truth in the hopes that nothing comes of it, but without the Obama DOJ covering their asses, the Democrats illegal abuses of power are going to explode in their collective faces.
So instead of taking actual measurements, that require only maybe 5 minutes of effort, your try to do a shirt off of a photograph only? How is that a good idea, or even reasonably chanced at success? People come in all different shapes and sizes, and I fully expect to have 100% high quality custom tailored clothing within the next 10 years courtesy of robotics and AI, why make it harder and less likely to succeed than it has to be? Nail down quick and efficient custom shirt AI fabrication and have kiosks at the local mall take either automated (or even hand done) measurements like every other tailor since the dawn of civilization... Get a good fit, save their measurements in a database so you can make them more shirts later if they want and then profit...
Some people's lack of basic common sense is astounding.
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Surveillance of Carter Page, which has been going on for multiple years prior to the Trump candidacy without any evidence or legal action is not it'self actionable...
Either you are lying and have no idea, or you are publicly releasing classified information. Which is it?
The information is already out there, (released by the Dims, I believe) when they tried to use the fact that he was under surveillance as evidence to justify the FISA on Trump (nice try though).
They have the head of the FBI testifying before congress on the record that without the Steele dossier there would not have been a FISA warrant pursued or approved on the Trump candidacy. Period full stop.
Once again, either you are lying and do not know that, or you are publicly releasing classified information. Which is it?
This was revealed by a Republican on the intelligence committee and is not classified as it reveals no sources or methods, only a point of fact which the Dims were trying to obfuscate to cover their criminal asses.
You might want to try thinking for yourself and listening to multiple sources....
Not sure that's going to help, because look where it got you! You're here ranting about things that you can't possibly know, absolutely certain that you're correct.
Ask yourself this: Why do I believe all these things with no hard evidence of them being true? Then go and read the paper that started this whole discussion.
Give it a week and try to watch Fox (Shep Smith doesn't count) news once in a while (I know it burns, disinfectant is often painful).
Sorry, that must be a straw man used by the left to demagogue conservatives because I don't even know what you are talking about...
The other supporting evidence was a Yahoo news article which was actually leaked to the author by Steele (and thus circular and not an independent second source). Further, we have on record in closed hearing (but which will be used in the criminal trials) that the head of the FBI confirmed to congress that without the Steele dossier, the FISA warrant would not have been pursued or approved. The alt left is further grasping at straws claiming that the unfounded prior surveillance of Carter Page is also somehow supporting evidence for the FISA, which is utter BS and everyone who is paying attention knows it. The bottom line is perjury and abuse of power for sure was committed by top officials at the FBI and DOJ and maybe the Obama administration and Clinton campaign and those people are going to prison and the left is apoplectic that they will be out of power for the next 25 years and at this point are straight up lying (claiming the Nunes Memo contained sources and methods) to try and obstruct the truth from coming out.
FISA warrants are indeed secret, but when they are approved, they must be signed off on under criminal penalty of perjury. This falsely acquired warrant puts every person who signed off on it in jeopardy of perjury as well as the abuse of power act I cited above. There is no hiding from this, the Trump Russian collusion investigation has found no criminal activity, the newly created independent council will be arresting and convicting at least 5 and maybe up to 15 high ranking FBI, DOJ, Clinton campaign and Obama administration officials and employees of perjury, conspiracy and potentially treason (depending if the new reporting that Steele was actually being fed his information by Russian operatives in order to subvert the Trump presidency and foment the current political climate). If I were Trump, as well as a number of other people who have been dragged through the mud, I would bring a multi billion dollar suit against the MSM and the Democrats for slander and libel. The threshold is very high, but from what I have seen, it has clearly been crossed on a myriad of occasions.
Your ability to refute factual evidence and logical prowess are lacking to the point of comedy, and it would remain comedy if you would only keep your opinions to yourself.
But you post here and get up-modded +5 for what is clearly either a fictitious story or an extreme outlier, so I posted to give you some exposure to an actual conservative who has disliked Hildabeast and her rapist husband since 1992. Sorry for your obvious discomfort.
On second thought, maybe your story is 100% true, and your conservative friends were just being polite when they avoided the subject of Hillary Clinton because you are a rabid alt leftie who can't handle a real political discussion without devolving to name calling...
OMG you found the one conservative professor who is 73 who may still be teaching at Oxford! Impressive research skills, but he is still a little outnumbered by the other 12,999 Oxford staff and only slightly diminishes my hyperbolic but no less accurate point.
I concede that there may be dozens of conservative professors at Oxford. Hell, I am a conservative professor, but I also know for a hard fact that we are a rare breed and only survive in the hard sciences where liberal BS is killed by the antiseptic of objective truth.
My point still stands that this study was a liberal hit piece and that virtually every university on the planet is rife with alt left fascists who can't tolerate the thought of anyone thinking differently than they do.
History will tell the tale, and I'm happy to be wrong, but I doubt it.
Not if you want to spread your lie effectively, as in this case.
Oh, and the reason that Comey had to re-open the investigation into Hillary Clinton was because Andrew McCabe sat on and concealed the existence of the Wiener laptop for almost a month before he was forced to turn it over for discovery. Had he managed to conceal it for another week, Hillary would probably have been president and swept all of this corruption under the rug never to be heard about... http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
Not conspiracy theory, facts my friend.
Surveillance of Carter Page, which has been going on for multiple years prior to the Trump candidacy without any evidence or legal action is not it'self actionable, regardless of whatever bullshit they have been spinning on MSNBC. The only thing that that reveals is that the FISA court was broken for a long time under the Obama administration. When they can surveil an American citizen for multiple years on suspicion without producing actual evidence, in clear violation of his constitutional rights it is broken as shit, not evidence to justify additional surveillance... idiot.
They have the head of the FBI testifying before congress on the record that without the Steele dossier there would not have been a FISA warrant pursued or approved on the Trump candidacy. Period full stop.
No one is indicting the entire FBI, they are indicting under 10 high ranking and top level FBI and DOJ officials, politically placed and/or promoted who pulled this shit. James Comey is facing perjury charges at minimum because he testified to Congress that the Steel Dossier was salacious and unproven, but 6 weeks before he signed off on the FISA warrant using that same dossier as key evidence, along with a circular second source that was also actually sourced to Steele as well (the Yahoo news article). He further pursued, leaked and eventually achieved an independent council investigation loaded with Trump haters based on that falsely obtained FISA warrant and subsequent investigation.
You might want to try thinking for yourself and listening to multiple sources rather than regurgitating the MSM alt left talking points, you will be better off in the long run. It is a mater of time before these people are arrested and charged, when they do you will be freaking out, believing whatever BULLSHIT the MSM feeds you straight from the shrills of the Dim party.
reality has a liberal bias
The last recourse of those caught red handed manipulating the news for their own agenda. First it was "No we don't have a bias" (the left tried that for 20 years) but it is so blatant that something like 75% of the US population now clearly sees the bias, so now this. Only in the alt left bubble would this be viewed as anything but utter irrational BS.
Those of us who deal with reality have a far better BS filter than the atl left sycophants, among other things.
The root problem is all the alt left progressive bullshit. If the MSM stayed focused on the facts and reported the entire story, they wouldn't have the lowest trust ratings in 40 years. Conservatives get enough truth from talk radio and conservative news outlets like Fox to see a clear and disturbing pattern of lies, half truths, obfuscation and omission to know that the MSM is not playing straight. The alt left slurps it up because they never developed a BS filter or enough real world experience to know better.
Its cute that you think this is a funny problem. Pray to God that the Dim politicians stop straight up lying on prime time national TV and the MSM gets back to chasing actual facts instead of reporting slander and innuendo as gospel, because if they set off a revolution in the US (for instance with this fake Russian collusion investigation predicated on the fake Russian dossier generated by a foreign agent at the direction of Russian operatives), it will not end well, which was, I suspect, Putin's goal all along. But the Dims and the MSM are playing right into his hand with their rabid slander and innuendo campaign.
And yet, the Oxford study is demonstrably fake news https://politics.slashdot.org/... , so who again is gullible?
The true fake news (not that which is cited by this study https://politics.slashdot.org/... ) is a symptom of the alt left in the US media completely abandoning the pursuit of the truth and the story no mater where it leads. They have opted instead to further their agenda by any means necessary. Their goal today is to "change the world" the problem is that is not their job, so the people are searching for a new source for news, and they are not willing to let the technocrat pinheads at Google and Facebook dictate the news to them any more than fake news CNN or MSNBC or the alt left academics at Oxford or any other festering atl left cespool university.
The solution to the fake news media is an independent journalism association that evaluates and rates news and outlets based on the facts as known as well as track records of outlets. The evaluation has to be transparent and accountable and based on the simple question of getting the facts right, complete and with background and context. Not reporting major stories would also get a news outlet down rated, as story suppression is tantamount to lying by omission. Politifact and fact check.org started out with that goal, but they have both been completely infiltrated by the alt left, to the point where they are now actually just as bad if not worse with rabid bias than the MSM...
The MSM has no one to blame but themselves for any infiltration of fake news.
Please feel free to link to this guy and his actual posts. There is a shit ton of innuendo and junk from the left on all the fake right wing news, but I haven't actually seen any concrete examples with numbers of either revenue or shares indicating the reach of these fake news stories.
This study out of Oxford used a bunch of conservative websites, but as was indicated above, the stories they cite as junk (not fake mind you, but junk) turn out to be 100% accurate and legitimate news that apparently the alt left hacks at Oxford don't agree with... https://politics.slashdot.org/...
While it might give the alt left warm fuzzies to think they are smarter than conservatives, the facts, at least in this case, just don't support it. And furthermore, if you believed this Oxford study, you would be the one believing in fake news...
I can't speak to your story specifically, but you must have found the only two conservatives so inebriated that they couldn't stand up, because that's the only way a conservative can't rattle off what was wrong with Hillary. Hillary has been in the national political spotlight for more than 25 years, and conservatives know exactly who and what she is. Off the top of my head:
- Married to and enabler of the serial rapist and female abusing Bill Clinton. Multiple counts of demonizing his victims, even with mountains of evidence. Hillary was Bill Clinton's feminist beard for their entire marriage.
- Zero accomplishments as a politician
- Managed to spell the Russian reset button wrong, allowed the murder of our Ambassador and others at Benghazi, Libya by refusing to send requested increases in security because of the "optics" and then tried to cover it up.
- Violated federal laws on the handling of classified information and records retention laws by running a private, unsecured server in her bathroom to shield her activities as secretary of state from FOIA requests and legal review and discovery. Lied to congress that all business related emails were handed over, destroyed 40,000 plus emails. Received and sent dozens of emails containing classified information including SCI classified information unencrypted and unsecured in direct violation of federal law.
- Was the driving force behind the failed Hillary care
- Anti 2nd amendment, including lobbying for the AWB and numerous other activities
- Has had numerous people murdered, including Vince Foster, Jim McDougal and Ron Brown. The Clintons are clearly mob connected and have had numerous people killed: http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2... The body count of close friends and associates who have died mysteriously at very opportune times for the Clintons is massive beyond all coincidence for any reasonable person. Ask yourself, how many people do you know in any capacity have died under mysterious circumstances? The Clintons have almost 50...
Everyone knew who Hillary Clinton was long before she ran for president. Conservatives have loathed her since 1993.
Well said, and this is exactly why both "academics" and the alt left in the media are no longer trusted by the vast majority of the population. It has become about furthering their agenda, not finding the truth...
Our problem with school performance has nothing to do with spending. I can push US schools to new highs with the following steps, but it would cripple the funding of the Democrat political party:
- Institute a federal school voucher system. Force the states to kick the cash to the federal government for any parent who wants a voucher. Vouchers are valid at any school that is accredited, no other strings attached. Homeschoolers get 100% coverage of all school supplies, books and any related expenses, including field trips, up to the total annual voucher. There would still be shit schools where parents who didn't care would send their kids, but that happens already, at least this way, the parents who did care (which is hardwired biologically) would make a significant positive difference.
- Eliminate the NEA and all teachers unions.
- Privatize all schools and require them to operate as non-profits with a cap of 3x local average salary for any employee and institute parental oversight on all expenditures each year. Require all finances to be published monthly.
- Require all immigrants to speak English fluently or attend a 6 month immersion course before entering regular school. Require all courses to be taught only in English, except when teaching a foreign language specifically.
I guarantee you that the US would rise dramatically in the scholastic rankings because that is what works phenomenally well when tested. Smart kids will excel, and lower IQ kids will attend trade schools so they actually have a marketable skill when they graduate (not everyone is a rocket scientist, and there is no harm in admitting that or benefit to pretending that they are.)
The Trump Russian collusion farce was not facilitated by the entire FBI, it was facilitated by less than 10 top level alt left FBI officials promoted/placed during the Obama administration. A statistical survey of the political leanings of the entire FBI are irrelevant to the facts above.
Your argument is invalid and irrelevant. Nice try though.
There are/were a cabal of 6-10 hard core alt left fascist Democrats at the top of DOJ and the FBI (politically promoted during the Obama administration) that were in on this dumpster fire that is the Trump Russian surveillance farce. They will be ferreted out, arrested and charged with violation of 18USC 242. https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... its just a mater of time.
With any luck they will roll on high ranking officials in the Obama administration and Clinton campaign, who it is clear were also involved in the facilitating and encouraging the illegal surveillance of the Trump candidacy and presidency. https://www.politico.com/story...
The wheels of justice are turning, but slowly. Without Obama's corrupt DOJ to protect them, the corruption of the Obama executive branch is coming to light, and you can bet under Trump it will be prosecuted.
I am willing to bet that you couldn't find a single conservative professor at Oxford in the last 30 years. Even before then, most of the conservatives to come out of any university in the last 60 years did so in spite of the university, not because of it.
University exists in a vacuum of reality, and most people become more conservative as they grow up and mature in the real world. Most college professors never mature unless they also work in the private sector, thus they continue to be flaming liberals and usually don't have enough common sense to get out of the rain.
I actually read the full article since you wrote a halfway reasonable defense, however, there are glaring problems. As I see them, the first and probably key problem with their study is how they defined junk news (not fake news as is asserted in the misleading headline of the article on slashdot).
Professionalism: These outlets do not employ the standards and best practices of professional journalism. They refrain from providing clear information about real authors, editors,
publishers and owners. They lack transparency, accountability, and do not publish corrections on
debunked information.
Style: These outlets use emotionally driven language with emotive expressions, hyperbole,
ad hominem attacks, misleading headlines, excessive capitalization, unsafe generalizations
and fallacies, moving images, graphic pictures and mobilizing memes.
Credibility: These outlets rely on false information and conspiracy theories, which they
often employ strategically. They report without consulting multiple sources and do not employ
fact-checking methods. Their sources are often untrustworthy and their standards of news
production lack credibility.
Bias: Reporting in these outlets is highly biased and ideologically skewed, which is otherwise
described as hyper-partisan reporting. These outlets frequently present opinion and
commentary essays as news.
Counterfeit: These outlets mimic professional news media. They counterfeit fonts, branding
and stylistic content strategies. Commentary and junk content is stylistically disguised as news, with references to news agencies, and credible sources, and headlines written in a news tone,
with bylines, date, time and location stamps.
The problem here is that these criteria are incredibly subjective, and some of them are just fallacious. All news outlets sensationalize news (I'm looking at you CNN, MSNBC etc.), all news outlets are sometimes wrong (CNN tanking the stock market and sweeping the fake news awards, anyone?), all news outlets use emotional language, and are you telling me that using capitalization and punctuation "excessively" NOW MAKES YOU A FAKE NEWS OUTLET!!! WTF DO CAPS AND PUNCTUATION HAVE TO DO WITH BEING RIGHT!!!
True fake news are news stories that are demonstrably false after the facts come out. True fake news outlets are outlets that are constantly putting out false or misleading stories that use un-named sources, leave out historical facts and context. Everything else on the Oxford study's list is just bullshit so they can try to make themselves look smart and their opposition look dumb. Nice try but I wipe my ass with Oxford's credibility, and this study drives my point home.
To the discerning consumer of news, this is a BS political masturbatory hit job designed to stroke the ego of the alt left who are in the process of going down in flames as their house of cards collapses and the curtain is pulled back to reveal the corruption and criminality of the left in the US.
To coin a phrase: "There are liars, damn liars, and statisticians."
The devil is in the details, and any good liberal can take any study and manipulate it by either prejudicing the questions, futzing with the population sampled, or a dozen other ways to make the study show what they want it to show. Therefore, the informed individual who pays attention learns that the source must be carefully evaluated unless he has 20 hours to piss away digging into the actual methodology and questions asked in the study... and at this point, Oxford is full of alt left fascist progressive nut jobs as far as the US is concerned and has given up all pretense of objective truth or fact. Hell, the UK doesn't even have freedom of speech anymore...
All of Western Europe is a flaming dumpster fire of deranged stupidity that will collapse on it'self in the next 20 years or so and all of Europe will soon be one great Caliphate with the heads of the infidels on steel pikes at every city entrance. And they will have done it to themselves... That or they will all have a mass conversion to hard core conservatism, arm themselves and take back their countries, but I am not holding my breath, too much inbreeding and beta males in Europe. All the alphas moved to he colonies generations ago.
Well said!
Impeding abuse of power (18USC 242 https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... ) is never a crime. The entire Trump Russia investigation was predicated on the 100% false Steele Dossier, bought by the Clinton campaign and created by Russian agents feeding misinformation to Steele (try to keep up CrankyFool)... Stop slurping up the shit being shoved by the MSM and actually read it: https://www.politico.com/story...
The only collusion in the last election was by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration, DOJ and FBI using an un-verified, demonstrably false report created by a foreign agent (Michael Steele) as an excuse to spy on an opposition candidate and then president elect Donald Trump. It was 100% illegal and I guarantee some people are going to jail, but it will be Democrats who do the frog march, regardless of how much bullshit is shoveled out by the Dims and sprayed around by the MSM. You will never get the truth so long as your lips are glued to the ass of MSNBC.
The American people have no faith in the MSM these days because the MSM don't give a shit about the truth, only furthering their ideology, and they are burying the truth in the hopes that nothing comes of it, but without the Obama DOJ covering their asses, the Democrats illegal abuses of power are going to explode in their collective faces.
The wheels of justice grind slowly forward.
So instead of taking actual measurements, that require only maybe 5 minutes of effort, your try to do a shirt off of a photograph only? How is that a good idea, or even reasonably chanced at success? People come in all different shapes and sizes, and I fully expect to have 100% high quality custom tailored clothing within the next 10 years courtesy of robotics and AI, why make it harder and less likely to succeed than it has to be? Nail down quick and efficient custom shirt AI fabrication and have kiosks at the local mall take either automated (or even hand done) measurements like every other tailor since the dawn of civilization... Get a good fit, save their measurements in a database so you can make them more shirts later if they want and then profit...
Some people's lack of basic common sense is astounding.