Month: November 2017

The Thursday evening news broadcasts on the “Big Three” television networks completely ignored allegations made that the Hillary Clinton campaign “rigged” the 2016 presidential primary, according to The Hill.

The network evening news broadcasts, “ABC World News Tonight,” “NBC Nightly News” and “CBS Evening News,” aren’t exactly known for their fair and unbiased reporting.

However, their complete lack of coverage of former Democratic National Committee interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile’s allegations the Clinton campaign “rigged” the 2016 Democratic nomination process made obvious they no longer care to maintain appearances of impartiality.

“I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process,” wrote Brazile, in an except from a book just released to Politico. “By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.”  …… Read more

 

‘Big Three’ Networks Ignore Thursday’s Bombshell DNC Revelation

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This is shocking!  I tend to think that it was the fear of  tyranny like this, that  made the founding fathers think it important that the American people remain armed, and have a militia.  Both of which our criminal government has predictably demonized. ( i.e. the 2 best weapons that we have besides jury nullification to thwart criminal/tyrannical government.)

~MFP

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Parents whose children have been taken from them by Child Protective Services often tell us that the system is backwards. Instead of being presumed innocent until proven guilty, everyone involved with CPS assumes guilt, even in the face of no evidence of guilt. Some jurisdictions are taking this presumption of guilt without evidence a frightening step further: they are using “predictive analytics” to see which parents MIGHT abuse or neglect their children in the future.

In several cases reported to Health Impact News, we have already seen such allegations used against parents. Social workers have literally written in their reports to the courts that a parent has characteristics that might indicate that they may abuse or neglect their child in the future, even though there is no evidence that they have harmed their child in the past.

This is reminiscent of George Orwell’s “thought police” in the dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is inconsistent with one of the foundational principles underlying the U.S. Constitution, that of the presumption of innocence. Some have equated the predictive analysis model with racial profiling, because the algorithms tend to disproportionately target people who are poor or part of a minority group.

The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform recently addressed this alarming trend.  …..  Read more