Opinion: Corrupt Bastards at Alaska Dispatch News Continue Jihad Against Christians, Take Tabloid Journalism to New Low

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download (3)The days when Alice Rogoff and her minions at Alaska Dispatch could masquerade as legitimate journalists have long passed, if indeed they ever existed.

Today the gutter suits them just fine. And that quaint notion we used to call the truth? It doesn’t exist in their world.

On an ordinary day they peddle kitsch for the masses, topped off with the warmed-over politically correct flavor of the day.

But when it’s election season, they go full jihad. But it’s a ‘holy war’ of a different variety, a secular war with ‘moral’ invocations, and ironically, religious undertones.

These vile character assassins will stop at nothing in an attempt to destroy any candidate who dares to oppose their ideological agenda – which is clearly far left.

Enter Anchorage mayoral candidate Amy Demboski, a first-term Assembly Member who shocked the powers that be by winning enough votes to come in second in the April 7 Municipal election and force a runoff.

Ms. Demboski is a straight-talking, no-nonsense conservative. She champions limited government, lower taxes, and sound fiscal policy; opposes corruption and cronyism; and identifies as an evangelical Christian who believes in traditional values.

This past week Alaska Dispatch has run with two non-stories aimed solely at smearing this dedicated public servant, who also happens to have served honorably in our nation’s armed forces.

The first was a piece ostensibly written by Devin Kelly with the title “Demboski stuns radio host by implying that opponent might approve of incest.”

The problem is, Demboski never implied anything of the sort. She was asked by a local radio host about comments made by her opponent Ethan Berkowitz, who reportedly suggested that he had no problem with a father marrying his son.

Because Demboski didn’t brush off Berkowitz’ bizarre statement and tell the host what he meant, Reynolds accused her of implying that her opponent actually meant what he said.

Demboski simply referred the host back to the source of the original comment, further explaining to Reynolds that while she heard the conversation, she would like to hear it again before commenting.

Alaska Dispatch, of course, ran with the storyline that Demboski had implied that Berkowitz might approve of incest. Nothing could be further from the truth. Berkowitz himself plainly said that he did, as long as they were consenting adults.

Demboski was smeared simply for acknowledging that she heard the comments, and for refusing to defend the indefensible.

There’s a reason why Berkowitz won’t talk about it. He too knows it’s indefensible. Yet he stands idly by while the media trashes his opponent for refusing to do what he himself won’t do. I’d call that more than a little bit hypocritical.

The Alaska Dispatch is essentially functioning as a mouthpiece of the Berkowitz campaign.

Enter Rich Mauer, longtime “reporter” for the Anchorage Daily News, and current Alaska Dispatch hack.

Mauer teamed up with Devin Kelly to drudge up obscure details of a divorce case almost twenty years ago alleging that inconsistencies in the record of the then-nineteen year-old call into question her integrity. The only problem is, none of the Dispatch claims stand up to scrutiny, not to mention they’re ancient history.

What’s more troubling though, is these unscrupulous people dragging her child into the discussion by questioning paternity.

That is beyond reprehensible!

Mauer and Kelly spend the rest of the article speculating about what the divorce records mean for the current mayoral candidate.

I’ll answer that for them – absolutely nothing! They have no relevance to the Anchorage mayoral race.

For a putative news organization to engage in that kind of rumor-mongering and gossip about things they know little or nothing about should be denounced for what it is: tabloid trash.

It’s time for people of good will to push back. Alaska Dispatch has engaged in the systematic character assassination of Sarah Palin, Joe Miller, and Sean Parnell. Now they’re trying to do the same to Amy Demboski. Let’s not let them succeed again.

Palin, Miller, Parnell, and Demboski, while very different in some ways, all share something in common: their evangelical Christian faith.

It’s time to name the elephant in the room. The leftists at the Alaska Dispatch News continue to wage a secular jihad against people of faith and it’s time to call them out. The truth is, they are intolerant anti-religious bigots who use the platform of media to accomplish their ideological ends.

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Gunmen Shot Dead in Texas After Opening Fire Outside Prophet Muhammad ‘Cartoon’ Show

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download (5)Two gunmen shot a security officer outside a “cartoon contest” depicting the prophet Muhammad near Dallas and were then shot and killed by police, authorities said late Sunday night.

Garland police spokesman Joe Harn told The Washington Post that the shooting occurred about 7 p.m. Sunday night (8 p.m. Eastern Time) outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, some 20 miles northeast of Dallas, when two armed men pulled up in a car in front of the event center and both started shooting at a Garland Independent School District security officer. In response, Garland police opened fire on the two gunmen, he said.

Both gunmen were killed, Harn said. Their names have not yet been released. The security officer who was shot was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The officer has been treated and released, he said.

The incident occurred outside the Curtis Culwell Center during a contest hosted by the New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative, which promised to award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad, according to the Associated Press. Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an outspoken critic against radical Islam, was the keynote speaker at the event. Just before the shooting, he and Pamela Geller presented a check to contest’s winner, Bosch Fawstin, according to the Daily Caller.

The competition had been a point of contention in the community since Garland Independent School District agreed to rent out the event center to the group, which is considered an anti-Muslim “hate group” by the [extremist] Southern Poverty Law Center. (Read more from “Gunmen Shot Dead in Texas After Opening Fire Outside Prophet Muhammad ‘Cartoon’ Show” HERE)

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GoFundMe Bans Cops and Christians, but Fund Raises for Child Molesters and Murderers

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Photo Credit: Front Page Mag

Photo Credit: Front Page Mag

GoFundMe has officially turned into the left-wing fundraising site. After banning Christian flower store and bakery owners protecting their civil rights from making use of it, it has also banned fundraising for the police officers being lynched by the corrupt Baltimore political establishment . . .

As I pointed out last time, GoFundMe has numerous fundraisers for convicted criminals. Including those convicted of murder.

After my last post went viral, GoFundMe was shamed into removing those fundraisers, but there are still plenty of others, making it quite clear that the site does not proactively take down violations of its Terms of Service except when it involves causes it politically opposes.

A minute in Google took me to a fundraiser for a woman convicted of grand theft, two child molesters and a murderer. If I can find them that quickly in Google, GoFundMe employees could find them a lot faster . . .

GoFundMe takes 5 percent of total donations plus 2.9 percent and 30 cents from every donation. It’s cheaper to just set up a site and fundraise directly. (Read more from “GoFundMe Bans Cops, Fundraises for Child Molesters” HERE)

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The Cash Crisis Begins as Chase to Start Charging 1% Fee on Bank Deposits

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Cash-Bundles-Bank-MoneyBy J. D. Heyes. As we predicted, the cash crisis in America is beginning, and the occasion has been marked by a recent announcement from one of the country’s largest banks. Beginning May 1, JPMorgan Chase will begin charging certain (wealthy) depositors for the “right” to keep their money in JPMorgan Chase banks.

As noted by GovtSlaves.info, the bank sent some of its larger depositors a letter that said it would charge them a “balance sheet utilization fee” of 1 percent annually on deposits in excess of the money they require for operations. In other words, that amounts to a negative interest rate on many of those deposits.

“The targeted customers – mostly other financial institutions – are already snatching their money out of the bank,” Bloomberg News reports, adding that this is “exactly what Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon wants. The goal is to shed $100 billion in deposits, and he’s about 20 percent of the way there so far” . . .

Peter Coy, writing for Bloomberg News, urged readers to “pause for a second” to “marvel at how strange this is.” Historically, banks have always paid interest to depositors; it was a reward, of sorts, to depositors by the banks for the use of depositors’ money to make loans and conduct additional financial business that enabled the bank to make money.

Now, however, keeping huge amounts of cash on hand is apparently no longer seen as good business. Large financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase are shunning cash unless customers “are willing to pay for the privilege” of depositing it, Coy wrote. (Read more from “The Cash Crisis Begins as Chase to Start Charging 1% Fee on Bank Deposits” HERE)

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The Death of Cash

By Peter Coy. JPMorgan Chase recently sent a letter to some of its large depositors telling them it didn’t want their stinking money anymore. Well, not in those words. The bank coined a euphemism: Beginning on May 1, it said, it will charge certain customers a “balance sheet utilization fee” of 1 percent a year on deposits in excess of the money they need for their operations. That amounts to a negative interest rate on deposits. The targeted customers—mostly other financial institutions—are already snatching their money out of the bank. Which is exactly what Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon wants. The goal is to shed $100 billion in deposits, and he’s about 20 percent of the way there so far.

Pause for a second and marvel at how strange this is. Banks have always paid interest to depositors. We’ve entered a new era of surplus in which banks—some, anyway—are deigning to accept money only if customers are willing to pay for the privilege. Nick Bunker, a policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, was so dazzled by interest rates’ falling into negative territory that he headlined his analysis after a Doors song, Break on Through (to the Other Side).

In recent months, negative rates have become widespread in Europe’s financial capitals. The European Central Bank, struggling to ignite growth, has a deposit rate of –0.2 percent. The Swiss National Bank, which worries that a rise of the Swiss franc will hurt trade, has a deposit rate of –0.75 percent. On April 21 the cost for banks to borrow from each other in euros (the euro interbank offered rate, or Euribor) tipped negative for the first time. And as of April 17, bonds comprising 31 percent of the value of the Bloomberg Eurozone Sovereign Bond Index—€1.8 trillion ($1.93 trillion) worth—were trading with negative yields. (Read more about the fee on bank deposits HERE)

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Muslim Congressman Doesn’t Let Baltimore Crisis Go to Waste, Uses it to Advance Marxist Agenda

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220px-KeithellisonIn the “after glow” of the riots in Baltimore, Minnesota Democrat and Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison seized on the anarchy to spew his Communist/Socialist rhetoric. Appearing on CNN Thursday, Ellison claimed that the poor are getting poorer because the rich are getting richer. It was the typical “never let a crisis go to waste” appearance.

Ellison issued this response to the CNN anchor’s question, “How do you explain what is going on in Baltimore this week?”

“Well, of course, excessive police officers and staggering unemployment go together, because what we’ve done in the United States, as we’ve said, that the affluent part of our society is going to demand more tax breaks, more wealth, more privilege, leaving less for the less fortunate, and the way we keep the less fortunate in control is through policing and prisons. That’s the unfortunate formula we constructed.”

Ellison needs to take a long hard look at Congress when making these statements. These “affluent” jackboots have been insider trading for years, increasing their own wealth while some have skirted paying “their fair share” of income tax. Congress has tremendous “privilege” that is not afforded the average citizen – impunity for wrong-doing – and has pushed for “zero tolerance” on so many issues that elementary school children are criminalized for eating pop-tarts into the shape of a handgun, leaving a classroom unexcused, and playing pranks on teachers.

Here’s another member of Congress who has no idea about the prison system; but, thinks that only the poor, less fortunate of society are housed behind a razor wire fence. There are plenty of inmates from middle-class backgrounds that have been incarcerated, along with some that have committed white collar crimes; but, Ellison’s comments are more code for “blacks” without saying it. Ellison ignores the militarization of law enforcement agencies across the country which results in all US citizens being treated in an aggressive manner by police, as it does not go along with the lie. (Read more from “Muslim Congressman Doesn’t Let Baltimore Crisis Go to Waste, Advances Marxist Agenda” HERE)

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U.S. Split Along Racial Lines on Backlash Against Police, Poll Finds

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Photo Credit: WSJ

Americans are bracing for a summer of racial disturbances around the country, such as those that have wracked Baltimore, with African Americans and whites deeply divided about why the urban violence has occurred, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.

A resounding 96% of adults surveyed said it was likely there would be additional racial disturbances this summer, a signal that Americans believe Baltimore’s recent problems aren’t a local phenomenon but instead are symptomatic of broader national problems.

When asked to explain recent events in Baltimore and other cities that have seen confrontations between police and members of the African-American community, blacks and whites viewed the situation differently.

Asked to choose between two possible explanations for recent events, 60% of blacks said they reflected “long-standing frustrations about police mistreatment of African Americans.” Some 27% of black respondents said the disturbances were caused by people who used protests over an African American man dying in police custody “as an excused to engage in looting and violence.”

But among whites, the balance of opinion flipped: 58% said people were seizing an excuse to loot, while 32% said the events reflected long-standing frustrations with police. (Read more from “U.S. Split Along Racial Lines on Backlash Against Police, Poll Finds” HERE)

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Wild Science: Virtual Reality Used to Teleport People Into Different Bodies [+video]

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download (4)While Surgery bots like Da Vinci XI are already letting doctors perform surgery through machines, we could see humans teleoperating robots from greater distances in the future. Say, for example, a doctor in London operating on someone in Mumbai, or a human operating a robot on Mars. But what goes on in your brain when you’re under the illusion of embodying a robot?

In a study published today, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinksa Institute set out to answer that question by creating an out-of-body illusion where volunteers were “teleported” into a foreign body with the help of virtual reality headsets. Brain activity was then measured as they experienced this illusion.

“This experiment is a brain imaging experiment. We’re interested in the brain mechanisms that give rise to the feeling that you’re inside your body,” said co-author of the study and cognitive neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson over the phone.

In the experiment, 15 volunteers were asked to lie on the bed inside a MRI scanner. They wore VR headsets through which they saw a stranger’s body—also lying in the same room—being stroked by a paintbrush, while the same actions were performed on their own body. This technique was similarly used in an earlier “phantom limb” experiment, where a participant’s real hand was stroked at the same time as adjacent empty space (an “invisible hand”), leading them to feel that the invisible hand was actually part of their body.

According to lead author of the study, Arvid Guterstam, the brain merges the sensation of touch and visual input from the new perspective in a matter of seconds. This results in the illusion of “owning the stranger’s body and being located in that body’s position in the room, outside the participant’s physical body,” he said in a press statement. (Read more from “Scientists Used Virtual Reality to Teleport People Into Different Bodies” HERE)

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It’s Time to End NSA’s Bulk Collection of Americans’ Metadata [+video]

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NSAThe authors of our Bill of Rights included the Fourth Amendment because they knew that one of the best protections against tyranny is to limit the government’s power to search its citizens.

Specifically, the Framers wanted to ensure that the federal government could not issue broad general warrants that would empower the executive branch to indiscriminately rummage through the private lives of American citizens — in other words, to spy on them. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the National Security Agency is doing today.

No, the NSA is not secretly taping every American’s phone calls. But it is collecting the “metadata” — who called whom and when — for every one of those calls. By themselves, each of these data points may look a lot like a harmless business records. That is why in 1979, before technology made it possible to aggregate those data points, the Supreme Court held in Smith v Maryland that the government could collect them without a warrant.

But when those data points are compiled by the thousands on just one person, or by the trillions on Americans as a whole, it becomes a different question entirely. Last year researchers at Stanford University found that metadata like that collected by the NSA under Section 215 of the Patriot Act could be used to uncover a lot of private information about a person, including his politics, what medications he takes, where he goes to church, and more. In short, this metadata can be used to paint a fairly complete picture of the private lives of every person in this country.

In a perfect world we could trust that the federal government would not abuse this power. But we do not live in that world.

In short, this metadata can be used to paint a fairly complete picture of the private lives of every person in this country.

In 2012, the director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, testified under oath before the United States Senate that the NSA was not collecting data on hundreds of millions of Americans. When it was later revealed that the NSA was doing just that, and had been for over a decade, Clapper admitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee that his earlier testimony was “clearly erroneous.”

If the government’s highest officials are willing to testify falsely under oath about domestic surveillance, we simply cannot trust them with the power to construct a massive database of every American’s telephone and e-mail communications.

That is why I am co-sponsoring the USA Freedom Act with Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) as well as Senators Dean Heller (R., Nevada), Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Al Franken (D., Minn.), Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska), Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), Steve Daines (R., Mont.), and Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.). House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D., Mich.), Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R., Wisc.), and Representative Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) are introducing an identical bill in the House.

Our bill bans the bulk collection of domestic-telephone and e-mail records while still maintaining the government’s ability to collect necessary intelligence in a more targeted and traditional manner. And we need to act fast. (See “It’s Time to End NSA’s Bulk Collection of Americans’ Metadata”, originally posted HERE)

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Common Antibiotic Linked to Serious, Potentially-Deadly Side Effects

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Common_antibiotic_linked_to_serious_potentiallydeadly_side_effects-syndImport-113244One of the most commonly-prescribed drugs in America is causing severe and painful reactions to hundreds of thousands of people taking it, according to research done by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and medical doctors around the country.

The line of antibiotics is called fluoroquinolones. They are more commonly referred to by their product names or sponsors, which are:

Noroxin® (norfloxacin)—Merck and Co.
Cirpo® Cipro XR® (ciprofloxacin)—Bayer HealthCare
Levaquin® (levofloxacin)—Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Avelox® (moxifloxican)—Bayer HealthCare
Factive® (gemifloxican)—Cornerstone Therapeutics
Ofloxacin—generic

Albuquerque resident Joanne Corwin used Cipro® four years ago for an uncomplicated urinary tract infection. By the 12th pill, Joanne told KOB 4 her body was rejecting it in the most painful and agonizing way . . .

Fluoroquinolones are like the bazookas in the arsenal of antibiotics. They are very strong and often doctors will prescribe them to treat minor infections. But it’s like using a cannon to kill a fly. (Read more from “Common Antibiotic Linked to Serious, Potentially-Deadly Side Effects” HERE)

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‘Cop Shooter’ Arraigned on Attempted Murder as Officer Clings to Life

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Photo Credit: NY Post

Photo Credit: NY Post

A Queens ex-con was arraigned on attempted-murder charges Sunday after allegedly shooting a plainclothes NYPD cop in the head, leaving him clinging to life.

Suspect Demetrius Blackwell, who appeared in Queens Criminal Court in a torn prison jumpsuit — his legs shackled and his hands cuffed behind his back — did not enter a plea and was held without bail. His next court date is Friday.

The officer he is accused of shooting, Brian Moore, 25, took a turn for the worse early Sunday after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, and distraught family members were rushing to his side, sources said.

Moore is the fifth NYPD officer to be shot in as many months.

A four-year department veteran from a police family, Moore was driving with his partner by the intersection of 212th Street and 104th Avenue in Queens Village at around 6:15 p.m. Saturday when the incident occurred. (Read more from “‘Cop Shooter’ Arraigned on Attempted Murder as Officer Clings to Life” HERE)

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