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Breaking: Bannon Set for Massive Move to Replace Fox… Billionaire Backer in Place
BY MARTIN WALSH
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon rejoined Breitbart News as Executive Chairman on Friday, and reports indicate he is preparing for war.
Unnamed sources indicated to Axios’ Jonathan Swan that Bannon told friends that the combative Bannon believes there’s an opportunity to start a cable news network that would lean more politically to the right of Fox News.
Unnamed sources indicated to Axios’ Jonathan Swan that Bannon told friends that the combative Bannon believes there’s an opportunity to start a cable news network that would lean more politically to the right of Fox News.
Prior to his death in May, Fox News founder Roger Ailes told Bannon that he wanted to work with him to create a new cable news network, Swan reported. Swan indicated Bannon loved the idea, given he believes Fox News is heading in a “squishy, globalist direction as the Murdoch sons assume more power.”
Bannon met billionaire Bob Mercer in New York prior to his departure from the White House, where they plan to launch a “well-funded force on the outside,” Swan wrote.
Bannon met billionaire Bob Mercer in New York prior to his departure from the White House, where they plan to launch a “well-funded force on the outside,” Swan wrote.
“They plotted strategy going forward — both political and media strategy. The meeting was at Mercer’s estate on Long Island. Mercer had dinner the next night at Bedminster with President Trump and a small group of donors. The source said Mercer and Bannon ‘remain strong supporters of President Trump and his agenda,'” Swan said a source told him.
“A source familiar with Breitbart’s operations told me they would go ‘thermonuclear’ against ‘globalists’ that Bannon and his friends believe are ruining the Trump administration, and by extension, America,” Swan said. “Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”
Should Bannon want to either dramatically expand Breitbart or launch a conservative cable news show to rival Fox News, it could greatly benefit the president.
Bannon made it very clear following his departure from the Trump administration that he was “going to war for Trump against his opponents — on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America.”
Bannon’s intentions to hold each and every Republican accountable in Congress will also be important for Trump, especially ahead of crucial midterm elections in 2018.
During an interview with the Weekly Standard on Friday, Bannon said: “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over … I feel jacked up … Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. … I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart. And now … we’re about to rev that machine up.”
Conservatives should expect Bannon to pressure Trump and Republicans to stick to the agenda that won the 2016 presidential election over Hillary Clinton.
Americans want a border wall, lower taxes, continued efforts to deport illegal immigration, and jobs. Time will tell what Bannon unveils next, but it will be a major advantage for Trump and a problem for Democrats and Republicans who refuse to help advance the president’s agenda.
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Charles Barkley Stirs Up Left With Thoughts on Removing Confed Monuments
BY BENJAMIN ARIE
Charles Barkley is no stranger to controversy — and he just threw himself into the middle of the Confederate statue debate with a stance that will drive the left insane.
The former NBA star and current sports analyst for the TNT network made it extremely clear that he wasn’t on board with the liberal narrative about tearing monuments down.
“I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues,” Barkley said on Saturday, according to The Daily Caller. “That’s wasted energy.”Barkley, who was raised in the South and gained fame while playing at Auburn University, declared that he had better things to do than lose sleep over stone objects.
“You know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna keep doing great things. I’m gonna keep trying to make a difference number one in the black community — because I’m black — but also gonna try to do good things in the world,” he explained to local sportscaster Rick Karle.
“I’ve always ignored them! Rick, I’m 54 years old,” Barkley continued. “I’ve never thought about those statues a day in my life.”
The one-time NBA Most Valuable Player then implied that the mainstream media was spreading a false narrative about how the black community views Confederate monuments.
“I think if you ask most black people to be honest, they ain’t thought a day in their life about those stupid statues,” Barkley stated.
“What we as black people need to do: We need to worry about getting our education, we need to stop killing each other, we need to try to find a way to have more economic opportunity and things like that. Those things are important and significant,” he clarified.
“You know, I’m wasting time and energy screaming at a neo-Nazi, or (saying), ‘Man, you’ve got to take this statue down.”
As a two-time Olympic gold medalist, famous basketball star, and now sports analyst, Barkley knows a few things about success.
One of the keys to achievement for any person — regardless of skin color — is attitude.
Barkley’s mentality of focusing on truly important goals while tuning out the “noise” of manufactured controversies is incredibly refreshing, and it shows that the smug mainstream media doesn’t speak for all black Americans.
There are major challenges that all Americans need to work on together — but being obsessed with irrelevant distractions only makes it more difficult to move forward as a nation.
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Companies Who Bailed on Trump Councils Have History of Offshoring Jobs
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by JOHN BINDER
The CEOs who fled President Donald Trump following his response to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week have a history of importing foreign labor.
Intel Corporation
The most obvious importer of foreign workers via the H-1B visa and outsourcer of American jobs is Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, who left Trump’s now-defunct American Manufacturing Council, Breitbart Texas reported.
Since 2013, the Intel Corporation attempted to import more than 8,000 H-1B workers. At the same time, as Breitbart News reported, the company under Krzanich’s direction laid off 12,000 Americans last year.
The H-1B visa allows corporations to outsource hundreds of thousands of jobs to foreign workers. Each year, more than 100,000 are able to enter the U.S. to take coveted, white-collar jobs.
In Malaysia, where the median income is about $396 U.S. dollars a month, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia, Intel now employs 9,000 on two locations, making it the corporation’s largest offshore site.
IBM
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty explained in great length why she and other CEOs had decided to disband Trump’s Strategy and Policy Forum, which went hand-in-hand with the manufacturing council.
Rometty said in her statement of leaving the panel, “IBM has long said, and more importantly, demonstrated its commitment to a workplace and a society that is open, inclusive and provides opportunity to all.”
But, IBM remains one of the largest outsourcers in the United States, partnering with other multinational corporations to send American jobs overseas to foreign workers, while also importing foreign guest workers to take the remaining jobs left in the U.S.
In 2013, the number of jobs in India for IBM surpassed the number of IBM jobs in the U.S., with Rometty laying off thousands of U.S. workers to send their jobs overseas, as the New York Post reported at the time.
In India, the average IBM salary is roughly $17,000 a year. In the U.S., the average IBM salary comes in at $100,000 for senior IT specialists.
Aside from outsourcing, Rometty also is one of the top importers of foreign workers in order to replace American workers. Between 2014 and 2016 alone, Rometty attempted to import nearly 25,000 foreign workers.
3M Corporation
3M CEO Inge Thulin followed other CEOs to leave Trump’s manufacturing council, though the company has a long history with outsourcing Americans’ jobs.
As Breitbart Texas reported, corporations like 3M hide their H-1B foreign worker importing schemes through outsourcing firms like Cognizant. Between 2014 and 2016, Cognizant attempted to import more than 11,200 foreign workers to the U.S.
Under Armour
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank was the second CEO to leave Trump’s manufacturing council. Although the corporation has a manufacturing plant in Glen Burnie, Maryland, the vast majority of Under Armour products are made overseas.
“Substantially all of our products are manufactured by unaffiliated manufacturers,” the Under Armour website boasts. “In 2006, our products were primarily manufactured in Asia, Central and South America and Mexico.”
United Technologies
United Technologies CEO Greg Hayes also bailed on the manufacturing council. United Technologies is the parent company of Carrier, which has gradually been laying off American workers and sending their jobs to Mexico.
Despite pushback from Trump, United Technologies will still shutter parts of the Carrier manufacturing plant in Huntington, Indiana, leaving 600 to 700 American workers out of work while their jobs are sent to a new manufacturing plant the company is building in Mexico, as Business Insider reported. For merely keeping roughly 750 jobs in the U.S., Carrier reportedly received $5 million in tax breaks.
An American steelworker who has worked at the manufacturing plant for 15 years told NPR about the difficulty of seeing his job and others’ sent to Mexico.
“I tell you what. If you come in here and ask any person that works here that if they believe they have long-term security at this facility, they will all tell you, no, they don’t,” Bray said. “They told us once they’d leave, and they just built this massive facility in Monterrey, Mexico. We know that they’re not just going to put one department that they’re shipping down there now for that.”
“I think everyone knows the inevitable eventually will come,” Bray continued. “We hope and wish that – for sure that this plant will be here for a long time and, you know, a lot of us can continue our careers here. But unfortunately we just don’t – we don’t have that faith in the company that they’re going to stick to their word and stay here.”
Possible Michigan Senate Candidate Kid Rock Says ‘F**k Colin Kaepernick’
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Rock star and possible Michigan candidate for U.S. Senate, Kid Rock, rocked the Iowa State Fair last weekend with a mostly politics-free performance that wowed his audience. However, as the show neared its end, the singer apparently couldn’t resist telling the crowd what he thought of former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick and his anthem protests.
Rock regaled his audience with a trip through several musical genres including country, southern rock and rap, a music reviewer for The Des Moines Register reported.
Rock also talked abut the solar eclipse, mocked Justin Bieber, and mentioned a host of other topics.
There was a brief image of President Donald Trump that flashed across the giant TV screen at one point during the show. And “Kid Rock for Senate” t-shirts were on sale, too. Though politics did not have much of a presence on stage on Sunday night.
It wasn’t until Rock got to the song “Born Free” that he jumped to a discussion about the national anthem protests spreading once again in the National Football League.
Kid Rock was reportedly the highest paid star at the Iowa State Fair, earning a nice $600,000 paycheck for that single performance.
The Michigan rapper has been toying with the idea of running for Senate from his home state. Though, so far, no final decision has been made on the possible campaign.
Early in July, Rock was said to have confirmed his run for the senate, saying he was “sick and tired” of the “bullsh*t” going on in Washington. He has also launched a website called Kid Rock 18.
However, later in July he was quoted as saying he has not made a final decision about a run for the upper chamber.
With ESPN in the Rear-View, Britt McHenry Eyes Making the Jump From Sports to Politics
by DYLAN GWINN
ESPN’s huge wave of layoffs back in April and May, caused many former employees of the Bristol-based sports giant to scramble for other jobs in the sports industry. However, one former ESPN employee took the layoff as a chance to get away from sports entirely.
Britt McHenry, formerly a reporter with ESPN, has recently sounded a lot more like a future conservative political debate show panelist, than a sports reporter. Unhindered by her liberal overlords at ESPN, McHenry has become far more politically outspoken, both on social media and on her blog.
McHenry told the Washington Post: “What’s attractive to me right now is more than just sports,” she said. “And there aren’t a lot of women who are not afraid to express their opinion, like I have been, on the Right side. And so again, does that limit outlets? Yeah, but I think if you hate me, or if you love what I’m saying, it’s true to what I think. I’m not making it up. … I feel like a weight’s lifted off my shoulders, that I can say what I believe.”
With that weight lifted, McHenry indicated where she wants her career to go, during an interview with The Federalist Radio Hour: “I’d rather do something that I believe and love than just take a job reading copy or doing a sideline report. I feel like I’ve done that already. I want to enter a new arena.”
McHenry also discussed ESPN’s political disconnect with “middle America.” A disconnect she witnessed personally, while reporting from NFL stadiums in cities across the country: “I think there’s a disconnect to the viewers — and I was on the road all the time, I’ve been in these stadiums, I’ve had fans come up to me — I think a lot of middle America isn’t necessarily acknowledged. I think that when you go on too much of a pioneering social justice stand — if that’s what you believe in, that’s great, good for you — but sports fans just want to watch sports. You can’t ignore that intersection of social issues with athletes and games.”
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Ingraham Endorses Kelli Ward in Bid to Unseat Never-Trumper Jeff Flake
LifeZette editor-in-chief hails conservative challenger's 'courage' in taking on Establishment senator
LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham endorsed Dr. Kelli Ward in her bid to oust Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” saying that Ward “is by far the most committed to the conservative-populist cause.”
Ward, who lost a 2016 GOP primary bid against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump — unlike Flake. While Flake has blasted Trump for allegedly destroying the Republican Party and conservatism in a new book, Ward has championed the president as an anti-Establishment figure who fights for the interests of the American people.
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"Kelli Ward, I am going to endorse you in this primary fight against Jeff Flake," Ingraham said. "I think you are by far the most committed to the conservative-populist cause. You want to make America great again. You've been a stalwart supporter of this president — even when so many in the Republican Party have turned tail and run away from him at key junctures. And I want to thank you for what you're doing."
"It takes a lot of courage to go up against the Establishment," she continued. "And [Flake's] going to have a lot of money. He's going to have a lot of Chamber of Commerce people writing a lot of checks for him. But I think you have the heart of the people with you. And I hope to come there and do a big event for you if you'll have me."
Ward thanked Ingraham for her endorsement, telling Ingraham, "We have to unite just to do away with this establishment power, the professional insider political class that has put us where we are today. And I welcome you to Arizona at any time, and I look forward to seeing you in person."
"People are sick and tired of the Establishment, of the people inside of Washington trying to tell us how we should live our lives," Ward said. "I hope that the insider cabal that wants to decide who's going to be the candidate and be the next United States senator will get behind the people of Arizona. Because I can tell you, I have the heart and soul of the voters in Arizona and across the country in many cases."
Pointing to Flake's constant stream of criticism against Trump and his populist agenda, Ward said Flake's anti-Trump comments "sound an awful lot like what the Left says, don't they?"
Flake isn't strong on cracking down on illegal immigration or supporting Trump's signature campaign promise of building a border wall, Ward said, noting that Arizonans value the president's commitment to delivering on those promises.
"I think that everyday Arizonans want a secure border. They want to stop illegal immigration," Ward said. "They want the full spectrum of border security. And they want it first and foremost, before we start talking about any other immigration reform. And Laura, I'll tell you, that includes building the wall."
White House and Conservative Influencers Hit Back at Jeff FlakeMedia, Democrats cheer Never-Trump senator's book excerpts insulting the president"I'm so glad that President Trump is going to be meeting with the Border Patrol today down at our border, because they need the resources and the manpower to be able to stop people from coming into our country illegally," Ward said, noting that Trump is set to speak at a rally in Arizona Tuesday night after visiting the southern border.
Although Trump is pivoting off of a controversial couple of weeks following the deadly Charlottesville rally on Aug. 12, Ward insisted that Trump "did the right thing" in condemning both the Alt-Right and the Alt-Left for engaging in violence and acting upon hatred.
"I think that the press made a big ado about nothing. I think that President Trump did the right thing. He called out hatred, he called out bigotry, he called out violence again and again and again," Ward said. "But no matter what President Trump said, when he said it, how he said it, it was never going to be enough for the Left, for the mainstream media, for the resist movement, and unfortunately, for Establishment GOP insiders — the Flakes, the McCains, the [Mitt] Romneys. They are just trying to gin political points on the back of Donald Trump."
Breaking: Bombshell Doc Clears Trump on Russia… No Wonder Media’s Covering C-ville
BY MARTIN LIOLL
Back when Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer was disclosed earlier this summer, the media figured that it, at long last, had the smoking gun against the Trump administration they were looking for.
Even though a half-dozen or so other smoking guns they’d trotted out had turned out to be broken water pistols at best — remember MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Trump’s “tax return”? — this time they swore up and down on a stack of “The Audacity of Hope” that this was the Jenga block that would topple the Trump White House.
We’re just a few weeks short of autumn now, and the only collapse we’ve seen is of the Russian narrative. The media has, you may have noticed, moved on to Charlottesville. Now, a bombshell report from a left-leaning veterans intelligence group says that the event that started the ball rolling on Russia — the infamous Guccifer 2.0 leak that was linked to the Russians — was fabricated and that a forensic analysis of the documents proves that “Russian fingerprints” were introduced into them to make it look like the handiwork of Vladimir Putin.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity is probably best known as the group that first reported that Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, a feat that got them picked up and lauded by The New York Times back in the days when Howard Dean was considered a viable presidential candidate and “American Idiot” was considered a nuanced political statement.
Now, VIPS isn’t getting picked up much by The New York Times — or many liberal media outlets, save (surprisingly) The Nation. The group’s new report claims it’s much more likely that the DNC leaks came from inside the committee and that it would be almost impossible for the Russians to have pulled it off.
“Forensic studies of ‘Russian hacking’ into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2016, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computer,” states the group’s report, released in July but just getting play now.
“After examining metadata from the ‘Guccifer 2.0’ July 5, 2016 intrusion into the DNC server, independent cyber investigators have concluded that an insider copied DNC data onto an external storage device.”
The report, which was put together with the help of several digital forensics experts, argues that the speeds at which the documents were downloaded were completely incompatible with a hack.
On July 5 of last year, “(i)n the early evening, Eastern Daylight Time, someone working in the EDT time zone with a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 MegaBytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device,” the report reads.
“That speed is much faster than what is physically possible with a hack,” it notes. To obfuscate their identity during a hack, hackers have to use what’s known as a VPN, or Virtual Private Network. That dramatically slows internet speeds — meaning that it would be almost impossible to get the data onto a storage device that quickly.
And that’s not all: The Nation (which is, for those unfamiliar with it, one of the most left-leaning publications in the United States) notes that metadata shows that the emails “were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language” — an indication that someone wanted to make it look like a Russian-speaking individual was behind it.
No wonder that the media has been so eager to discard the Russia narrative and go on to Charlottesville, at least when it comes to the president. Not only have all hopes of impeachment faded, but the inciting incident of the Russian narrative — the DNC hack — may not have been the Russians at all. And, if the report is true, it almost certainly clears the president or any of his associates of collusion. After all, if the emails passed directly from a DNC source to WikiLeaks, there isn’t even any Russian middleman to collude with.
We commend The Nation for having covered this. We only hope that other outlets would have the same courage. We don’t necessarily know that this report is true. However, given its provenance, it’s something that needs to be investigated.
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George Foreman KOs ‘Patriots’ Colin Kaepernick And Kevin Durant
George Foreman still has a knockout punch.
The former world heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist said on the “Offended America” podcast this week that people who refuse to stand for the national anthem, like disgraced former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, are not patriots – they’re just looking for attention:
“I love the United States,” Foreman said. “They [Kevin Durant and Colin Kaepernick] haven’t been brought up with people who were patriotic.”
He added, “A lot of people died so that they can have that privilege.”
He added, “A lot of people died so that they can have that privilege.”
NBA player Kevin Durant recently said he would not go to the White House if the NBA champion Golden State Warriors are invited because he doesn’t “respect who’s in office right now.”
Durant is not the first athlete to decline an invitation to Trump’s White House. A handful of the 2017 Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots also said they would not participate in their championship visit to the White House. Even so, Patriots owner Robert Kraft – a personal friend of Trump’s – gifted the President with a commemorative Super Bowl ring.
As for Foreman, he also said on the podcast that Trump is “a good president.”
It’s unfortunate that athletes like Kaepernick and Durant – who are far more privileged than the vast majority of Americans – completely take their freedoms for granted. Foreman is right: The athletes of his generation had far more respect for their country than those today.
Bill de Blasio Orders Review of All NYC Monuments; Considering Removal of Christopher Columbus
by BEN KEW
New York City’s left-wing mayor Bill de Blasio has confirmed he will consider a proposal to remove a statue of the explorer Christopher Columbus and has ordered a review of all the city’s statues and monuments following violent clashes between white nationalists and Antifa in Charlottesville last weekend.
His consideration follows a rally held by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and other elected Democrats calling for the removal of a statue of 19th Century doctor J. Marion Sims from Central Park. Sims is known to have experimented on African slaves.
Sims, dubbed the “father of modern gynecology,” experimented on unconsenting African slaves as part of his research.
During the rally, Mark-Viverito also suggested that removing the statue of the legendary explorer Columbus needed to be “looked at” due to his being a “controversial figure.”
“I think that that has to be looked at and we have to look at history,” she said during the rally. “We have to look at it thoroughly. He is a controversial figure and I know that some may take offense to that, but for many of us that come from the Caribbean islands, we see him as a controversial figure.”
In the wake of a widespread attempt by left-wing activists to remove statues of historical figures all across America, de Blasio has ordered a 90-day review of all New York’s statues and monuments and their historical links and will analyze each one on a case by case basis.
“The Columbus statue is obviously one that will get very immediate attention because there’s been tremendous concern raised about it,” Ben Sarle, a mayoral spokesman, told the Observer in an emailed statement. “When the guidelines/criteria for review are set by the commission, we will make sure they are available to the public.”
In a letter to de Blasio, Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli (R) urged the mayor to present a “clear and concise document” on what criteria must be fulfilled for statues to be removed.
“Although your intentions may be well placed, I fear that an examination into these particular statues, as well as the many others the city hopes to ‘review,’ will present complex and cloudy historical interpretations that will only serve to deepen gaps between people of New York with different backgrounds and historical worldviews,” he wrote. “I will also bluntly remind you that it will not change the history of those they commemorate, controversial or otherwise.”
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