Here’s The Best Summary Of The Washington Post’s Latest ‘Fake News’ Fiasco

By Michael Krieger: It’s quite ironic that the one newspaper most hysterical in warning the American public about the dangers of “fake news,” has become the most prolific publisher of it. The most recent example, of course, relates to the entirely made up story that those dastardly Russians had hacked into the U.S. power grid through a Vermont utility. The paper’s source for the story? Anonymous government officials. Unsurprisingly, the entire thing was a fairytale.
Most of you will already be aware of the story, but this is such a monumental example of journalistic malpractice, it deserve far more attention and scrutiny.
In that regard, Forbes contributor Kalev Leetaru, has done an excellent job of shining further light on how it all went down in his piece, “Fake News” And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid. Here are some key excerpts:
On Friday the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when it ran the breathless headline “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say.” The lead sentence offered “A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials” and continued “While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility,

Murder Is Not Right. It's Left

johntheother: If mainstream journalism champions the murder of diplomats - there is no civilization.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world... 

Additional: So, somebody pointed out, in a rebuttal to me (beginning with "sorry John") that the political right also makes free use of murder as a tool of statecraft. That commenter is correct. However, it is not my claim that government on the left uses murder while government on the right does not - which would be a silly claim to make - especially noting that I began writing about political fuckery during the administration of George W Bush. My point in this video - is that in the mainstream of politically-left thought, murder is accepted and praised.

Ann Coulter TRIGGERS 100 Feminist Single Mothers With STATISTICAL FACTS

Captain Nemo: Declaration of interest - the host used to be a Roman Catholic priest, he left the RC church and became an Episcopalian after he was caught having a relationship with a woman and breaking his vow of celibacy, he went on to marry a single mother.

WikiLeaks Hints At Huge Upcoming Revelations: "2017 Will Blow You Away"

By Tyler Durden: Ahead of Jullian Assange's interview tonight on Fox News with Sean Hannity, in which as we previewed last night the Wikileaks founder will again deny on the record that Russia was the source of hacked Democratic emails, stating that "our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party", Wikileaks decided to engage in some creative marketing and, on Monday afternoon promised that 2017 will be an even bigger year for leaks than 2016, which saw the whistleblowing site publish thousands of documents exposing the dirty laundry of the Clinton campaign, US political secrets, covert trade deals and private communications from global leaders.
“If you thought 2016 was a big WikiLeaks year, 2017 will blow you away,” WikiLeaks tweeted on Monday, giving no hints as to what may be in store. The tweet, featuring a clip from a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western showdown, also included a link to its website’s donation page so people can help the site “prepare for the showdown.

Servants And Eunuchs Destroy Joyful Sexual Fulfillment

By Author Douglas Galbi: The King was away on business, fighting enemies abroad. His eunuch counselors wrote to him:

The lamentations, the suffering, the agony, the bewilderment, the restless petulance, and the terrible anxiety which you saw in our queen and mistress are at an end. They have settled, receded and passed away. Now come days of joy and happiness. Tears have stopped, grief is banished, and in their place come ease and freedom.

What seemed to have cheered Queen Chrysorroi was solitude in a curtained pavilion in the royal garden. In fact, what cured her misery was trysts with a laborer, an assistant gardener:

There she found the laborer and she played with him. He alone had won the queen’s love and they embraced with frequent kisses. The garden became the bridal chamber of Aphrodite, the mirror of the Graces and the dwelling place of Love. They spent the day in much happiness. The night returned with all its sweetness. On its arrival, winged Love again took the laborer and with every joy of desire brought him to the queen.

The laborer, who spent much time “digging in the garden,” was actually Queen Chrysorroi’s former and never-forgotten boyfriend Kallimachos.

Boy Dies After Nine US Police Officers Fail To Prevent Abuse

Gabriel Fernandez (8) RIP

'burned, shot and beaten by his mom over eight months before she finally killed him'

By Toy Soldiers: I continue to marvel at how bizarrely we treat child abuse.
On one hand, any person can report child abuse against someone else and cause the services to step in and remove the child, often without any evidence of abuse or neglect. The services will put both parent and child through a series of exams, court hearings, therapy sessions before allowing the child back with his parents. Throughout the process, evidence that there is little reason for child protective services to be involved will be ignored.
Such cases would imply that child protective services and police are overzealous due to concern over child abuse. On the other hand, something like this happens to remind people that is not always the case:
Gabriel Fernandez was an 8-year-old boy who was tortured to death by his parents. His abuse was reported multiple times by his teacher and others who witnessed his horrifying injuries. However, the system that is ostensibly in place to prevent such abuse ultimately failed. Not one, but nine police officers tasked with investigating Gabriel’s abuse, refused to write so much as a single report that could’ve saved his life.

What Is The Obama Regime Up To?

By Paul Craig Roberts: Obama has announced new sanctions on Russia based on unsubstantiated charges by the CIA that the Russian government influenced the outcome of the US presidential election with “malicious cyber-enabled activities.”
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a report “related to the declaration of 35 Russian officials persona non grata for malicious cyber activity and harassment.”
The report is a description of “tools and infrastructure used by Russian intelligence services to compromise and exploit networks and infrastructure associated with the recent U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. government, political and private sector entities.”
The report does not provide any evidence that the tools and infrastructure were used to influence the outcome of the US presidential election. The report is simply a description of what is said to be Russian capabilities. https://diplopundit.net/2016/12/29/dhsfbi-issues-joint-analysis-report-grizzly-steppe-russian-malicious-cyber-activity-read-report/
Moreover, the report begins with this disclaimer: “DISCLAIMER: This report is provided ‘as is’ for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within.”

Who Benefits From War With Russia?

By Michael Krieger: There is absolutely no upside to any conflict with Russia when it comes to 99.9% of us. The fact so many pundits, anonymous intelligence officials and Hillary Clinton cultists are encouraging such an outcome based on zero publicly available evidence that Russia hacked the DNC/John Podesta and provided it to Wikileaks for the purpose of electing Trump, should be seen as the gigantic red flag that it is. So what’s actually going on? As is so often the case, it is all about money and power.
The best and most concise article I have read thus far explaining the driving influences behind all the anti-Russia/Putin hysteria was written a couple of weeks ago by Robert Parry of Consortium News. The post is titled, Making Russia ‘The Enemy’, and here are some key excerpts:

The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood as fulfilling two needs for Official Washington: the Military Industrial Complex’s transitioning from the “war on terror” to a more lucrative “new cold war” – and blunting the threat that a President Trump poses to the zio-neo-con-artists/liberal-interventionist foreign-policy establishment.

Indeed, this is primarily about a failed establishment trying to maintain power in the face of repeated public catastrophes and pervasive corruption.

Beacuse Vagina: Bikram Choudhury Loses Yoga Business Empire To Minakshi Jafa-Bodden Who 'Alleged' Abuse

By Mike Buchanan, J4MB: An astonishing piece in Murdoch's Times. The headline:

Yoga founder loses empire to
woman who exposed abuse.

The word ‘exposed’ leaves no doubt the man is guilty. This is important for a number of reasons, one being that many people will do no more than glance at a headline. Yet the final sentence in the piece is this:

The 'allegations'
have yet to be investigated
by the police.

Bikram Choudhury made his fortune after starting a business in the early 1970s – 40+ years ago – providing yoga workouts in rooms heated to 40C. Ms Jafa-Bodden joined his legal team (in London) in 2011, and was dismissed for investigating allegations against him of sexual harassment and assault.

New Year Message From Australian Journalist Bettina Arndt

'Let’s make 2017 the year we stopped complaining about anti-male treatment and actually did something about it.'

By Bettina Arndt: I wish I had a dollar for every letter I have received from an Australian man congratulating me for daring to write about what’s happening to men in this country. I’ve written about issue after issue where men are being done over: the denial of women’s role in domestic violence; the beat-up over sexual harassment; the increasingly anti-male rape laws; the scandal over shonky research being used to deny fathers overnight care of young children after marital separation. The list goes on.
My correspondents claim they wouldn’t dare speak out about these issues for fear they will be howled down. That’s the great irony. The men who are claimed to still rule our world are too frightened to stand up for themselves. Well, now there are things you can do to help change the debate in this country.
This year an important international conference on men’s issues will be held in Gold Coast on June 9-11. See more information here. Some of the great international speakers coming to that event are bound to shake things up – I’ll write more about them in the future but they include Erin Pizzey and Karen Straughan. It’s important we get people to sign up soon to ensure the conference is a success. So please spread the word.
But there’s another issue where we need you all to get on board.

Conservative Medieval Women Impeded Progress Toward Gender Equality

Whoever truly desires
Something is supposed to ask for it.
What? Shall I ask him to love me?
Never. And why? No woman
Makes the mistake of asking
A man for his love, unless
She’s totally out of her mind.
The world would know I was mad,
If I ever permitted my mouth
To speak such scandalous words. [1]

By Author Douglas Galbi: In addition to many other historical gender inequalities, men have long been disproportionately burdened with soliciting amorous relationships. Men are thus the gender that predominately experiences interpersonal rejection in love. Men’s disadvantage in love is deeply associated with sexual welfare inequality and men’s subordination to women. Chrétien de Troyes’s twelfth-century French romance Cligès shows the extent to which conservative medieval women resisted progress toward gender equality in love.

Another Confused Feminist Is Wrong About Feminism

Bearing: Is there a feminazi factory mass producing these people? They just keep coming! This feminist (like all the others) tells us that feminism is only about equality between the genders. I tell her she's wrong then challenge her to a debate which I almost guarantee she won't accept. I was in a bit of an impatient mood tonight - I was possibly a bit short with her ... but fuck, every bear has his threshold. Regards, Bearing.