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Godspeed.
Lara Logan: ‘Too Much Politics’ Infiltrating Journalism — ‘What Happened to Reporting the Facts?’
Former CBS correspondent Lara Logan discussed her remarks on a podcast about the state of journalism in the United States in which she blasted the left-leaning media.
Logan on “Fox & Friends” Thursday explained that politics and political discourse have “infiltrated” and affect how reporters cover certain topics.
“The thing is, it doesn’t mean if you’re a Democrat … or you’re on the left that you can’t be a professional journalist, right?” Logan said. “I’m not saying that there aren’t any good journalists on the left, that everyone is a political operative. I’m saying there’s too much politics, there are too many political operatives and too much political discourse that’s infiltrated what passes for journalism.”
She continued, “Look at the language. It’s so pejorative. I mean, what happened to reporting the facts?”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/28/lara-logan-too-much-politics-infiltrating-journalism-what-happened-to-reporting-the-facts/
Tesla’s $920 Million Debt Payment Is Due Tomorrow
Tesla’s $920 Million Debt Payment Is Due Tomorrow
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Former hedge fund manager Darius Brawn, who worked as a portfolio manager for Citadel, SAC and Sharpe Point, commented on Tesla’s situation, stating that if the company doesn’t sell a huge number of Model 3 vehicles next month they could be facing big problems: “If March doesn’t go gangbusters for Tesla they are in real trouble, especially without raising,” Brawn stated.
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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/28/teslas-920-million-debt-payment-is-due-tomorrow/
Nancy Pelosi Swells Gun Violence Deaths by 66 Percent
In a press conference held the day after Democrats passed legislation to criminalize private gun sales House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) swelled gun violence deaths by 66 percent.
On February 27, 2019, Breitbart News reported that House Democrats easily passed their gun control. Yahoo News reported that the legislation passed by a vote of 240-190, with eight Republican Congressional members voting with the Democrats.
On February 28, 2019, Pelosi praised the passage of the legislation, which expanded background checks to “include online sales and gun show sales as well.” Pelosi claimed that “90 percent of the American people support background checks, even members of the NRA.” But she did not provide any studies or surveys to support that claim.
Ironically, on February 20, 2019, Breitbart News reported that over 92 percent of NRA members opposed criminalize private gun sales via universal background checks.
Yet Pelosi continued, claiming that “43 children or teenagers die from gun violence in our country [each] day.” Again, she provided no substantiation for this claim.
It is common for Democrats to lump children and teenagers together when talking about gun deaths, because that allows them to couple deaths resulting from gun violence and street crime in with the accidental gun deaths of children ten and under. However, even when these numbers are combined they come nowhere close to Pelosi’s claim of 43 deaths from gun violence each day.
For example, on January 31, 2014, Breitbart News reported CDC numbers showing that more children ten and under die from fire and water than from guns. Figures for the year 2010 showed the number of children unintentionally killed in fire-related deaths was over seven times higher than the number of children killed in unintentional gun-related deaths, and the number of children killed in unintentional drowning deaths was sixteen times higher than the number of children killed in unintentional gun-related deaths.
Moreover, the number of gun-related deaths each year are largely suicides, not gun violence deaths. Therefore, if the overall number of firearm-related deaths for the entire population for a given year was 30,000, that would be 10,000 deaths by gun violence and 20,000 in which guns were used for suicide.
Universal background checks will do nothing to keep non-criminals from purchasing guns for suicide.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/28/nancy-pelosi-swells-gun-violence-deaths-66-percent/
Venezuela Removed 8 Tons of Central Bank Gold Last Week
Venezuela’s central bank removed at least 8 tons of gold from their vaults last week, multiple sources told Reuters.
The gold was removed between Feb. 20 and Feb. 22 using government vehicles when no security guards were present, legislator Angel Alvarado and three other government sources said. The removal is the latest attempt by illegitimate leader Nicolás Maduro to raise hard currency amid tightening sanctions and is an indication that the embattled dictator is getting desperate.
“They plan to sell it abroad illegally,” Alvarado said.
Alvarado and the government sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, didn’t say where the central bank was transporting the gold. They said the operation took place while central bank head Calixto Ortega was on a trip abroad.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/venezuela-removed-8-tons-of-central-bank-gold-last-week_2819623.html
No Deal at Trump-Kim Summit is Bad News for China
President Donald Trump decisively ended the talk with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, when Kim could not deliver any verifiable promise for denuclearization in exchange for lifting U.S. sanctions. This was a dispiriting end to such a high-profile summit with global attention, especially with so much show of mutual friendship at the beginning.
But no deal is not a failure, as Trump at least reached one of his objectives—to keep the region stable without nuclear tests. On the other hand, no deal is a success, as it means that the United States did not make any compromise, not casually lift sanctions
and not offer free cashes when dealing with a communist regime.
It is already a big success that Trump was not fooled or tricked by a communist regime. And Trump and Pompeo did not abruptly break the connection with North Korea and still showed the willingness for further negotiation.
No deal means that Kim Jong Un rejected a wonderful opportunity to transform his country into an open society The Trump administration even deliberately arranged the chance for him to see the economic success in Singapore and Vietnam. Kim enjoyed the “glorious” diplomatic show at the summit, for which his own state-run propaganda machine will present endless praise and bring up high hopes. But now he has to face even more pressure from his own party because his trip did not bring any results.
The main pillars that Kim used to support his regime was his nuclear weapons and propaganda against the United States. And now, both pillars are sort of crippled. He cannot further develop his nuclear weapons or resume nuclear tests,
as he promised denuclearization in front of the global media.
And he probably could not vehemently attack the United States in his propaganda machine, as a continual dialogue with Pompeo and Trump will keep North Korea at the bargaining table. What he could do is blame the United States for bullying North Korea. And he needs to worry whether the United States will resume military drills with South Korea.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in probably felt uneasy at this moment. When the Trump-Kim summit did not deliver any further progress on the denuclearization on the peninsula, Moon’s efforts to make peace with North Korea last year appeared to be so pale. President Moon is likely facing more criticism for his version of the “Sunshine” policy with Kim Jong Un.
Another person who cannot rest easy would be China’s Xi Jinping. At the press conference in Hanoi, Trump clearly pointed out that 93 percent of supplies that crossed the North Korean border was from China. This is an indirect criticism towards China for breaching sanctions on North Korea. This would become another bargaining chip for the United States at the negotiation table during U.S.-China trade talks.
The Trump administration is already upset over China’s continual support of Maduro’s government in Venezuela. Both Chavez and Maduro are pupils of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Maduro is learning the tactics that the CCP used to slander the student democracy movement in 1989, when the CCP set military trucks on fire and blamed the students for it. Maduro is now blaming the United States for setting fires on humanitarian aid trucks on Feb. 23.
The no-result from the Trump-Kim summit and China’s support of Maduro’s regime would allow the Trump administration to see clearly that dealing with socialist or communist regimes is never going to be a smooth process, as their leaders just do not care about the lives of their citizens and the futures of their countries.
[Optics needed to end Globalism!!!]
Walking out of Hanoi without a deal is not a satisfactory result for the Trump administration and many critics stated that Trump lost a much-needed triumph. However, whatever Trump missed in Hanoi, he would take it out on China in the U.S.-China trade negotiations.
So, no deal from the Trump-Kim summit is actually bad news for China. Walking out of a bad deal shows Trump’s nature as a keen businessman, and the strong will to stick to principles. Xi Jinping will have to worry: Will Trump walk out on me as well when I meet him again in Mar-a-Lago?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/no-deal-at-trump-kim-summit-is-bad-news-for-china_2819604.html
Baker, post notables, so anons can check.
Baker,
wanna add?
>>5439690 Lara Logan: ‘Too Much Politics’ Infiltrating Journalism — ‘What Happened to Reporting the Facts?’
>>5439910 Tesla’s $920 Million Debt Payment Is Due Tomorrow
>>5440083 Venezuela Removed 8 Tons of Central Bank Gold Last Week
>>5440202 No Deal at Trump-Kim Summit is Bad News for China
Thanks & godspeed.