Tucker Carlson Accuses Facebook of ‘Ideological Warfare’ – Here’s Why

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson decried the actions of Facebook as “ideological warfare” as many conservatives sites saw their traffic from the social networking site collapse after a change in their algorithm governing news. . .

“Just about everybody in the country has got a smartphone,” said Carlson, “spending a day without going online is unfathomable to almost all of us. Tech rules our lives to an ever greater degree.”

“But the so called digital frontier is getting fenced in,” he continued, “it’s not quite as broad as we were told it would be. A handful of companies now have almost total control over what we can say, do, or see on the internet. Control of almost all human information.”

“Consider Facebook,” he added. “About half the country uses it as a primary news source. Millions and millions of people understand the world through Facebook. But Facebook is not a neutral host – it has a political agenda.”

“Earlier this day Facebook altered its algorithms for what news stories its users see, and the results conclusively have been devastating for conservatives online,” he explained. “Breitbart, the news site, has basically lost about 30 percent of its traffic since that happened. Prager [University] down 32 percent, Daily Caller is down. Rare closed its doors. Some reports say IJR is on the brink of collapse because of it. Fox, by the way, is down too.” (Read more from “Tucker Carlson Accuses Facebook of ‘Ideological Warfare’ – Here’s Why” HERE)

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This Mayor Knew He Was Receiving Illegal Donations, Did Nothing

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“Listen, I don’t know, I don’t want to know. Just do what you’ve got to do.”

Former donor Harendra Singh testified on Thursday that those were the words of Bill de Blasio in response to Singh offering illegal contributions to the New York mayor’s campaign.

As part of the dual corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and former Oyster Bar Town Supervisor John Venditto, Singh is currently serving as the star witness.

Singh has already pleaded guilty to bribing de Blasio, and accepted a plea deal to testify in the trial of Mangano and Venditto. Defense attorneys for the two accused say Singh, a former restauranteur, can’t be trusted.

According to Singh, he raised somewhere between $50,000 and $80,000 for de Blasio, detailing how he’d thrown free fundraisers for the mayor and presented funds via the use of “straw donors” — contributors who give money to campaigns and are reimbursed by the actual donors — an illegal mechanism used to skirt campaign finance laws. (Read more from “This Mayor Knew He Was Receiving Illegal Donations, Did Nothing” HERE)

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SHAMEFUL: Dad Sues Boy Scouts After Son With Down Syndrome Is Rejected, Stripped of Badges

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Logan Blythe, a 15-year-old boy with Down syndrome, has wanted to become an Eagle Scout for years. He’s been working hard to earn the required merit badges and was planning his final project, when his family received an email from the Boy Scout district advancement committee saying that Logan had not followed the exact requirements to earn his badges.

Leaders of the local Boy Scout chapter had made special accommodations for Logan’s disability so that he could earn his badges at the best of his ability. He was only one step away from achieving his goal and becoming an Eagle Scout when officials with the National Boy Scout Organization contacted the Blythe family to say that Logan’s Eagle project had been suspended and his badges voided.

“Logan’s project was suspended and every badge that he had earned since graduating from the Cub Scouts to the Boy Scouts was voided,” Chad Blythe, Logan’s father told The Salt Lake Tribune. Chad filed a suit against the Boy Scouts of America and the Utah National Parks Council on March 13 asking for $1 and for his son to be reinstated in the Boy Scouts. (Read more from “SHAMEFUL: Dad Sues Boy Scouts After Son With Down Syndrome Is Rejected, Stripped of Badges” HERE)

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WATCH: In Profanity-Laced Interview, Parkland Student Says NRA Could Have Children’s Blood on Their Faces and They’d Still Take No Action

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Recently, a left-wing activist at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School accused the NRA of being “pathetic f***ers that want to keep killing our children,” adding that they could have the blood of murdered children on their faces but they wouldn’t do anything because they are somehow greedy.

In an interview with The Outline, David Hogg attacked pro-gun politicians and the NRA, saying, “It just makes me think what sick f***ers out there want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly just get reelected.”

“What type of s***ty person does that?” Hogg continued. “They could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn’t take action, because they all still see these dollar signs.”

Hogg said he is going to make sure that “those f***ers aren’t getting reelected.”

Hogg said he does not want more school security because “We’re going to create a system where we widen the school-to-prison pipeline.” This notion of there being a “school-to-prison pipeline” has been thoroughly debunked. (Read more from “WATCH: In Profanity-Laced Interview, Parkland Student Says NRA Could Have Children’s Blood on Their Faces and They’d Still Take No Action” HERE)

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China Responds to Tariffs by Targeting These 128 U.S. Products

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By The Daily Wire. Early Friday morning, China responded to the Trump administration’s tariffs by revealing that they are proposing tariffs on 128 U.S. products that had an import value of $3 billion in 2017.

The proposed tariffs come in response to Trump signing “an executive memorandum on Thursday that would impose retaliatory tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports,” CNBC reported . . .

In a memo from the White House on Thursday, Trump revealed that he had directed “the United States Trade Representative to determine whether to investigate China’s laws, policies, practices, or actions that may be unreasonable or discriminatory and that may be harming American intellectual property rights, innovation, or technology development.”

According to the statement, the Trade Representative advised Trump that the investigation supports the following findings:

First, China uses foreign ownership restrictions, including joint venture requirements, equity limitations, and other investment restrictions, to require or pressure technology transfer from U.S. companies to Chinese entities. China also uses administrative review and licensing procedures to require or pressure technology transfer, which, inter alia, undermines the value of U.S. investments and technology and weakens the global competitiveness of U.S. firms.

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China Responds to Trump Tariffs With Proposed List of 128 US Products to Target

By CNBC. . . .China’s commerce ministry proposed a list of 128 U.S. products as potential retaliation targets, according to a statement on its website posted Friday morning.

The U.S. goods, which had an import value of $3 billion in 2017, include wine, fresh fruit, dried fruit and nuts, steel pipes, modified ethanol, and ginseng, the ministry said. Those products could see a 15 percent duty, while a 25 percent tariff could be imposed on U.S. pork and recycled aluminium goods, according to the statement.

The statement did not go into greater detail. U.S. agricultural products, particularly soybeans, have been flagged as the biggest area of potential retaliation by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration.

Beijing will take measures against the 128 U.S. goods in two stages if it cannot reach an agreement with Washington, the ministry said, adding that it could take legal action under World Trade Organization rules. (Read more from “China Responds to Trump Tariffs With Proposed List of 128 US Products to Target” HERE)

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WATCH: Man Facing JAIL TIME for ‘Grossly Offensive’ Joke Reacts to Guilty Verdict

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On Wednesday, a British court found vlogger Mark Meechan (AKA Count Dankula) guilty of a hate crime for posting a video of a “grossly offensive” prank on YouTube. He’s now facing jail time for the joke.

The 30-year-old, a self-described “s***poster” and free speech advocate, trained his girlfriend’s pug dog to raise his paw, mimicking a Nazi salute. Meechan filmed the trick and posted the footage to YouTube, where it has racked up over three million views. Meechan was reported to authorities, and in April of 2016, was arrested for his alleged hate crime . . .

Meechan hopes something good can come from his sentencing: U.K. residents will wake up to the tyranny of their own hate crime laws.

Even if it takes me going to jail for a year for me to show everyone how ridiculous and overreaching hate speech laws are, where a YouTube comedian — a s***poster like myself — can go to prison for an entire year for everyone in the country to realize, “holy s***, these laws need to be changed, they’re overreaching, they’re authoritative, they’re clearly being used to control public discourse, people are seeing things that we don’t like them seeing and that’s what these laws are being used for.” If it takes me going to prison for a year to actually get people to see that and campaign for these laws to be changed, I’m happy to do that.

According to a post from Meechan, the court ordered that he “meet with a court social worker for an assessment as to whether or not a Restriction Of Liberty Order will be placed” on him. “This would involve a GPS tracking device being attached to me and me being placed under house arrest,” he added. (Read more from “WATCH: Man Facing JAIL TIME for ‘Grossly Offensive’ Joke Reacts to Guilty Verdict” HERE)

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Leaked Audio Reveals Teacher Coaching Students Before Big Anti-Gun Rally, Shares ‘Top-Secret’ Info

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Leaked audio reveals disturbing details from a Florida meeting preparing students for the upcoming March For Our Lives event in Washington.

Under the guise of briefing students, parents, and staff from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who are planning to attend this weekend’s #MarchForOurLives protest in Washington, D.C., a Broward County public school teacher could be heard coaching students on media talking points and admitting in a “super off-the-record” comment that the proper permits had not been secured for the event.

The meeting, held at the Marriott Hotel – which reportedly donated the space – in Coral Springs, FL. on Tuesday, was captured on hidden audio which was provided to Dangerous, the Milo Yiannopolous website.

The organizer of the meeting, Debby Miller, a Beachside Montessori Village teacher, introduced herself as a representative for the Giffords Foundation.The non-profit group founded by former Arizona Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, is reportedly funding the cost of sending over 200 students, staff, and parents from Parkland, Florida to the march, reporter Laura Loomer shared . . .

Believing she was speaking to supporters in the absence of cameras, Miller shared “top-secret” pieces of information including the fact that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi planned to participate in the event which is simply an anti-Trump and anti-Second Amendment protest. (Read more from “Leaked Audio Reveals Fla. Teacher Coaching Students Before Big Anti-Gun Rally, Shares ‘Top-Secret’ Info” HERE)

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Hungry Teen Goes to Kroger to Ask Strangers for Food, Has No Idea That Move Will Change His Life

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. . .Chauncy Jones was hungry. The 16-year-old straight-A student lived with his mother. He was trying to get a job to help her make rent, pay bills and buy food. He encountered Matt White, a man from Memphis who was shopping at Kroger.

He was at the “rich peoples store” in the hopes he’d get something to eat. The young man approached Matt and asked if he could carry his bags to his car. In return, he asked for a pack of glazed donuts.

Shocked and heartbroken, Matt decided to give Chauncy more than just a small breakfast. He bought toiletry items and cereal and other staples for Chauncy and his mother, Barbara. Matt even delivered the groceries. He wrote about this experience on Facebook . . .

“This kid looked like he had been turned down 100 times. He looked ashamed, hungry and broken. In my heart, I screamed a loud “yes!”, But to him, I just chuckled and said, “yeah dude, we’ll get you some donuts.” I asked him if he was by himself and he said that he had come all the way out here with the hopes of someone buying him something to eat because he and his mother had nothing at home. He had no phone, a bus pass, and he was depending on the graces of a stranger to feed him within the hour before the bus left.”

“So, needless to say, he and I went on a shopping spree. We had so much fun! We got cereal and chips and frozen veggies, pizzas, Cheetos, melons and pasta, peanut butter, milk, soap, toothbrushes, just a little bit of everything. All the while we talked and he told me how he makes straight A’s in school and is trying to get a job to help his mom pay rent. This kid was amazing. (Read more from “Hungry Teen Goes to Kroger to Ask Strangers for Food, Has No Idea That Move Will Change His Life” HERE)

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Fired FBI Official McCabe Authorized Criminal Probe Of AG Sessions

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By The Daily Wire. On Wednesday, a new report claimed that recently-fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe authorized a criminal investigation into Attorney General Jeff Sessions more than a year ago to determine if he “lacked candor ” when testifying before Congress. . .

Sessions was interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller two months ago about his testimony in which he was asked about his contacts with Russian operatives.

Attorney Chuck Cooper told ABC News, “The Special Counsel’s office has informed me that after interviewing the attorney general and conducting additional investigation, the attorney general is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to Congress.” (Read more from “Fired FBI Official McCabe Authorized Criminal Probe of AG Sessions” HERE)

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Fired FBI Official Authorized Criminal Probe of Sessions, sources Say

By ABC News. Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe’s previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.

One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.

Last year, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and McCabe, ABC News was told. (Read more from “Fired FBI Official Authorized Criminal Probe of Sessions, sources Say” HERE)

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This Lawsuit Is a Real Threat to Trump

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By The Blaze. Summer Zervos, a contestant on “The Apprentice” in 2005, is bringing a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump.

Trump’s lawyers tried to get the case thrown out, but on Tuesday, New York State Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter ruled that “no one is above the law” and Zervos can bring her case. Schecter wrote in her decision that the accusations were not related to any of Trump’s presidential duties and cited the precedent set when Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment in the ’90s . . .

Glenn and Stu analyzed this story and the dangers for Trump on today’s show. Trump will obviously be in a lot more trouble if Zervos can provide evidence during her day in court, but one of the biggest risks for anyone in this situation is having to speak under oath, increasing the chances that you will make a mistake . . .

Stu pointed out that you can be pinned for a “wrongly worded phrase” once you’re under oath.

“The goal would be to wreck [Trump],” Stu said. “Just get him on something.” (Read more from “This Lawsuit Is a Real Threat to Trump” HERE)

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‘No One Is Above the Law’: Trump Loses Bid to Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit by ‘Apprentice’ Contestant Who Says He Groped Her

By CNBC. A New York state judge Tuesday said “no one is above the law” as she denied President Donald Trump’s request to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former “Apprentice” contestant who claims he sexually groped her.

Manhattan Court Justice Jennifer Schecter’s decision, which allows the suit by Summer Zervos to proceed, rejected Trump’s argument that a sitting president cannot be subject to a state court’s jurisdiction.

Schecter cited the U.S. Supreme Court case that found a federal sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones, who accused Clinton of exposing himself to her, could proceed when Clinton was in the White House. (Read more from “‘No One Is Above the Law’: Trump Loses Bid to Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit by ‘Apprentice’ Contestant Who Says He Groped Her” HERE)

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