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Bill USA's JournalA record number of Americans now dislike Hillary Clinton - WaPo
... here's the Washington Post making it's weekly post on Hillary's favorability ratings.
I commented on this article and encourage anybody who feels 'up-to' it to do the same. In my comment, in addition to mentioning the eight Benghazi Show Trials (Kevin McCarthy said the purpose of which was to drive down Clinton's poll numbers), I took the opportunity to criticize WaPo and the rest to M$M for not reporting on the fact that Comey had to admit, when questioned by Rep. Cartwright, that NONE of Clinton's emails puported to have Classified Info in them, - NOT ONE had a Classified Header on it. And he also had to admit it was a reasonable inference for Sec Clinton that these emails were not classified.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/31/a-record-number-of-americans-now-dislike-hillary-clinton?tid=a_inl#comments
Hillary Clinton hit her stride after the Democratic National Convention, riding to a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in some national and swing-state polls her highest of the year.
As of today, though, Americans' views of her just hit a record low.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows 41 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Clinton, while 56 percent have an unfavorable one.
That's the worst image Clinton has had in her quarter-century in national public life. Her previous low favorable rating this year was in July, when it was 42 percent, lower than any mark in historical Post-ABC polls except a few points in the 1990s when a large share of the public had no opinion of her. Her previous high for unfavorable views was in June, when 55 percent disliked Clinton.
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Comey tanks key GOP talking point, admits classified materials were not 'properly marked'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/7/1546038/-Comey-tanks-key-GOP-talking-point-admits-classified-materials-were-not-properly-marked
MATT CARTWRIGHT: You were asked about markings on a few documents, I have the manual here, marking national classified security information. And I don't think you were given a full chance to talk about those three documents with the little c's on them. Were they properly documented? Were they properly marked according to the manual?
JAMES COMEY: No. [...]
MATT CARTWRIGHT: According to the manual, if you're going to classify something, there has to be a header on the document? Right?
JAMES COMEY: Correct.
MATT CARTWRIGHT: Was there a header on the three documents that we've discussed today that had the little c in the text someplace?
JAMES COMEY: No. There were three e-mails, the c was in the body, in the text, but there was no header on the email or in the text.
... MATT CARTWRIGHT: So if Secretary Clinton really were an expert about what's classified and what's not classified and we're following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?
JAMES COMEY: That would be a reasonable inference.
video of Cartwright questioning Comey on lack of Classified Headers
CNN's Calamity Worsens: Lewandowski Reportedly Prepping Trump For Debates - MMFA
http://mediamatters.org/blog
CNN contributor and former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is helping the Republican presidential nominee prepare for the upcoming debates, according to a new report. Its the latest devastating evidence that the networks ethical nightmare has become untenable.
Conservative media website Heat Street is reporting that according to sources close to the campaign, Lewandowski is part of the team of conservative media stalwarts involved with preparing Donald Trump for the debates. Will CNN allow its political commentator to discuss debates for which he has prepared one of the candidates?
The conservative news site further states, If things get more dire for the struggling Presidential candidate, Corey may be at the top of the list of official re-hires, meaning there may be even more issues with his CNN employment in the future.
Lewandowski is still on the Trump campaign payroll, and CNN anchors frequently introduce him by noting that he continues to receive severance from his former employer. He reportedly speaks to Trump almost every day and has even traveled with the campaign.
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OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA: In the Name of Decency, Stop Tipping the Scale for Trump
http://bluenationreview.com/in-the-name-of-decency-stop-tipping-the-scale-for-trump/Several independent studies have confirmed what is intuitively obvious, and frankly, staggering: Donald Trump receives more favorable national media coverage than Hillary Clinton. Just ask Mark Halperin, the quintessential media insider, who recently conceded: Theres a deep well of anti-Clinton sentiment in the press. The national media are stumped by Trump, seeking false balance (and clicks) out of deference to his voters. Yet somehow, that deference is absent in Hillarys case; she and her voters are maligned and marginalized at every turn. This open letter proposes a solution to the imbalanced coverage.
To the National Media:
I write this letter as a concerned American, a father who fears for his children in the event of a Trump presidency. And I write it as the CEO of a political media company with a community of over one million people whose engagement rates rival the largest media platforms in the U.S.
On the one hand, I know most of you understand that Donald is a menace to America and that Hillary is the only plausible president in the race. On the other hand, I recognize these facts:
a) Youre chasing clicks and you want a contest.
b) You face relentless (and ridiculous) accusations from the right that you have a liberal bias.
c) You feel compelled to appear even-handed in a misguided quest for balanced reporting.
d) The price of entry into the elite media club is open disdain for Hillary Clinton.
And so you twist yourselves into rhetorical pretzels trying to legitimize Trumps unhinged behavior.
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Colin Powell’s foundation and Hillary Clinton’s are treated very differently by the media
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/8/30/12690444/alma-powell-clinton-foundation~~
Needless to say, however, Powell continued to be involved in American political life. His sky-high poll numbers ensured hed be buzzed about as a possible presidential or vice presidential nominee, either as a moderate Republican or as an independent. Realistically, that wasnt in the cards, and Powell was smart enough to know it. But his support for George W. Bush during the 2000 campaign lent him valuable credibility, and his recruitment to serve as Bushs first secretary of state was considered an important political and substantive coup by Bush.
So what about the charity? Well, Powells wife, Alma Powell, took it over. And it kept raking in donations from corporate America. Ken Lay, the chair of Enron, was a big donor. He also backed a literacy-related charity that was founded by the then-presidents mother. The US Department of State, at the time Powell was secretary, went to bat for Enron in a dispute the company was having with the Indian government.
Did Lay or any other Enron official attempt to use their connections with Alma Powell (or Barbara Bush, for that matter) to help secure access to State Department personnel in order to voice these concerns? Did any other donors to Americas Promise? I have no idea, because to the best of my knowledge nobody in the media ever launched an extensive investigation into these matters. Thats the value of the presumption of innocence, something Hillary Clinton has never been able to enjoy during her time in the national spotlight.
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Its natural to assume that where theres smoke, theres fire. But the smoke emanating from the Clinton Foundation is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. It is the result of a reasonably well-funded dedicated partisan opposition research campaign, and of editorial decisions by the managers of major news organizations to dedicate resources to running down every possible Clinton email lead in the universe.
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A FFV not for the faint of heart: 309 cu in, 1341 hp, on E85; 0-60: 2.5 sec, top speed: 273 mph
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Car and Driver checks out the world's fastest production car
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2015-koenigsegg-one1-first-drive-review
Everything is going fine until we reach 150 mph. And then, very suddenly, its not.
Just sitting in the passenger seat of the Koenigsegg One:1 (we explain the silly name later) as it attacks a wet runway is, in terms of spiked adrenaline, somewhere between a solo sky dive and being chased by a bull while running in red pants. But as the man from the factory demonstrates, even in the sodden conditions weve found waiting for us in Sweden, the worlds fastest car can still be easily controlled. Or so it seemed.
Its been raining all day, and the One:1 is struggling to put its monstrous power onto the slick surface of the former airbase that serves as Koenigseggs test track. The engine is bellowing and the car squirming and sliding as the twin-turbocharged V-8 comes on boost. Even with the stability control switched on and working overtime, its struggling to find grip. Running on regular pump gasoline means around 1161 horsepower; 1341 horses and 1011 pound-feet come when its fueled with E85. But either way, thats vastly more twist than the rear Michelins can deliver to the soaked tarmac. Glancing across at the instrument display, I can see that the wheels only stop trying to spin as we pass 125 mph, when serious aerodynamic downforce starts to push the car into the track.
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... not practical for going to the store to get milk, but shows what can be done with ethanol fuel.
What Is The “Alt-Right”? A Guide To The White Nationalist Movement Now Leading Conservative Media
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/25/what-alt-right-guide-white-nationalist-movement-now-leading-conservative-media/212643
Over the last few months, the so-called alt-right has become one of the most prominent factions of the conservative media. The movements leading outlet is Breitbart News, whose chairman, Stephen Bannon, has just become the CEO of Donald Trumps presidential campaign.
In many ways the alt-right is a rebranding of classic white nationalism for the 21st century. As BuzzFeed described the movement: In short, its white supremacy perfectly tailored for our times: 4chan-esque racist rhetoric combined with a tinge of Silicon Valleyflavored philosophizing, all riding on the coattails of the Trump boom.
The alt-right opposes diversity and immigration, arguing that those policies are a form of white genocide. It embraces racism, sexism, anti-Muslim bigotry, and anti-Semitism and sees its goal as usurping the traditional conservative movement, which it views as feckless and weak, in favor of a brand of nationalism.
With the ascension of Trump, the alt-rights chosen candidate, as the nominee of the Republican Party, its mission is all but accomplished.
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Repugnants already making plans to obstruct Clinton if she is elected in November
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-presidency-gop-plan-227427Hillary Clinton has managed to win support from Republicans without conceding any part of the progressive economic agenda she outlined during the Democratic primary.
But with fall approaching and momentum on Clintons side, Democrats and Republicans alike are looking over the horizon to a thornier reality: If elected, Clinton would likely become the first Democrat since Grover Cleveland to enter office without control of both houses of Congress.
That means the bipartisan show of support she has now thanks to Donald Trump and the alt-right, conspiracy-driven campaign Clinton attacked Thursday in Reno, Nevada is likely to evaporate as soon as the race is called. If she wins the presidency, Clinton would likely enjoy the shortest honeymoon period of any incoming commander in chief in recent history, according to Washington strategists, confronting major roadblocks to enacting her ambitious agenda, as well as Republican attacks that have been muted courtesy of the GOP nominee.
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From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earthThe images were captured by NASAs Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. From its position between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR conducts its primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Credits: NASA/NOAA
A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated dark side of the moon that is never visible from Earth.
The images were captured by NASAs Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. From its position between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR conducts its primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Whoopsie: Russian hackers post same document twice, but with glaring differences
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/News/12147705/story.html(emphases my own)
... two supposedly independent hacking groups, believed by security experts to have ties to the Kremlin, posted the same documents stolen from a philanthropy run by George Soros. But the hack included a twist: [font size="+1"]Some of the documents taken by one group were altered in a bid to try and link Soros to Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, revealing how hackers likely working for Moscow are editing documents to smear their victims.[/font]
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Navalny denies receiving funding from Soros and says he has had no support from Yandex. Laura Silber, a spokesperson for Open Society, said the foundation has never supported Navalny and that the edited documents posted by Cyber Berkut amounted to a libelous claim.
[font size="+1"]The Kremlin, Navalny wrote in an email to Foreign Policy, really likes that type of tactics: posting fake documents among real hacked documents. The goal, he wrote, is to create a mess for the opposition.[/font]
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This is of course, of no concern to Julian Assange. He doesn't care if Russia supplies him with fake emails supposedly hacked form the DNC or the Clinton Foundation are genuine or not. He knows any released "hacked" emails have some chance of hurting Clinton who he deems not worthy of becoming President of the U.S. Assange is not bothered by the ethical questions around meddling in an election in a country of which he isn't even a citizen. Assange is convinced he is a special person who isn't hindered by ethical considerations less lofty beings feel obliged to respect. Such is life for the Übermensch (cf: Also Sprache Zarathustra).
M$M is a party to spreading Big Lies & disinformation. Big Lies r facilitated by apathy & people
feeling that it doesn't matter if they speak up about these lies on discussion forums or by posting on M$M sites. This only helps Big Lies and disinformation succeed.
But IF you feel "up to" debunking the Big Lie that M$M is not exposing by refusing to report on FBI director Comey's admission that none of Hillary's emails purported to contain Classified Info, had a Classified Header on it, you can comment on Washington Post's article asking people to vote on Editorial subjects. For those willing to make the effort check out the info provided here.
this is ONLY for those who are interested in making the effort to shoot down the Big Lie that so many people believe that Hillary lied about not sending or receiving classified info.
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