The Fall of Fake News: Quiet Shake-Up at MSNBC After Station Hemorrhages Viewers Following Mueller Debacle

Reports are surfacing about a quiet shake-up of personnel at MSNBC after the cable news station lost more than 30% of their audience after the Mueller debacle.

One source familiar told Mediaite the changes came amidst mounting complaints from NBC News chief Andy Lack about a dip in MSNBC’s ratings following the end of the Mueller investigation. In May, ratings for the network in the advertiser coveted 25-54 demo were down 32% year over year.

Apparently MNSBC doesn’t think their financial woes are newsworthy given that they didn’t run any breathless stories about their own failings.

News of MSNBC’s collapse can’t come as a surprise to insiders who undoubtedly are fully aware that their audience no longer trusts them.

MSNBC viewers were asked: How much do you agree that MSNBC regularly reports made up or fake news about Donald Trump and his administration?

The responses were devastating! While 35% or respondents agree that MSNBC pushes Fake News, only 24% disagreed. That’s a ratings death sentence!

What do you expect from a channel that boasts disgraced liar, Brian Williams, and race pimp, Al Sharpton?

MAJOR SHAKEUP AT MSNBC – Ratings crater after Mueller Report Debacle! https://t.co/NvpHPImGhf

— Bright Start News (@BRIGHTstrt) June 13, 2019

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/the-fall-of-fake-news-quiet-shake-up-at-msnbc-after-station-hemorrhages-viewers-following-mueller-debacle/

Surprise! Biggest investor in the Russian economy is… the United States

US investment in Russia was 13 times bigger than official numbers show, statistics released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have revealed.

The data shows that the US was the largest investor in Russia, accounting for 8.9 percent or $39.1 billion of the $441.1 billion total accumulated investments at the end of 2017, Russian business outlet RBC stated, citing Wednesday’s UNCTAD report.

This is 13 times more than Russia’s official estimates. The Central Bank of Russia had earlier said that US investment in the Russian economy amounted to $3.05 billion in 2017 and $500,000 more a year later. The US Department of Commerce figures on investment to Russia are also almost three times lower than the UNCTAD statistics, amounting to nearly $13.9 billion.

The unexpected differentiation between the figures can be easily explained, however. Apart from official direct investments, the UN body’s report covered so-called ultimate investors, meaning that a country and its businesses may direct funds through one or several conduits. Therefore, real cross-border financial flows from the US to Russia, as well as between other countries, could be far more significant than direct investment data suggests.

For example, some foreign investments, including American ones, are made through affiliated companies in Europe. However, in the official Russian statistics, they will be counted as investments from the country where such a firm is located.

https://www.rt.com/business/461859-us-biggest-investor-russia/

Iran says US, Mossad possibly behind oil tanker attack in Gulf of Oman

US security services and Israeli intelligence agency Mossad may be behind the recent destabilization in the Persian and Oman gulfs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy adviser to the Iranian parliament speaker, said amid the oil tanker incident in these waters.

“US security services&Mossad main suspects for insecuring #PersianGulf/#OmanSea oil export. KSA,UAE,Bahrain stupidity fan the flame of violence in region. #Iran powerfully protects national interests&regional stability, disappoint regional security’s enemies & retreat #WhiteHouse,” Amir-Abdollahian tweeted late Thursday.

Earlier on Friday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the United States was taking steps to undermine stability in the Middle East and the whole world.

​Tensions between the United States and Iran reached new levels after two oil tankers exploded on Thursday near the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, located between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

While the circumstances around the incident remain unclear, Washington has already pinned the blame on Iran, claiming it has intelligence data to back the assertion. The United States has even announced that its USS Mason destroyer was on its way to the Gulf of Oman. Tehran has, meanwhile, rebuffed all accusations.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iran-says-us-mossad-possibly-behind-oil-tanker-attack-in-gulf-of-oman/

>>6748556

>US investment? dig deeper

Read a history book

Ford Motor Company signs agreement with Soviet Union

1929

After two years of exploratory visits and friendly negotiations, Ford Motor Company signs a landmark agreement to produce cars in the Soviet Union on this day in 1929.

The Soviet Union, which in 1928 had only 20,000 cars and a single truck factory, was eager to join the ranks of automotive production, and Ford, with its focus on engineering and manufacturing methods, was a natural choice to help. The always independent-minded Henry Ford was strongly in favor of his free-market company doing business with Communist countries. An article published in May 1929 in The New York Times quoted Ford as saying that “No matter where industry prospers, whether in India or China, or Russia, all the world is bound to catch some good from it.”

Signed in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 31, 1929, the contract stipulated that Ford would oversee construction of a production plant at Nizhny Novgorod, located on the banks of the Volga River, to manufacture Model A cars. An assembly plant would also start operating immediately within Moscow city limits. In return, the USSR agreed to buy 72,000 unassembled Ford cars and trucks and all spare parts to be required over the following nine years, a total of some $30 million worth of Ford products. Valery Meshlauk, vice chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy, signed the Dearborn agreement on behalf of the Soviets. To comply with its side of the deal, Ford sent engineers and executives to the Soviet Union.

At the time the U.S. government did not formally recognize the USSR in diplomatic negotiations, so the Ford agreement was groundbreaking. (A week after the deal was announced the Soviet Union would announce deals with 15 other foreign companies, including E.I. du Pont de Nemours and RCA.) As Douglas Brinkley writes in “Wheels for the World,” his book on Henry Ford and Ford Motor, the automaker was firm in his belief that introducing capitalism was the best way to undermine communism. In any case, Ford’s assistance in establishing motor vehicle production facilities in the USSR would greatly impact the course of world events, as the ability to produce these vehicles helped the Soviets defeat Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II. In 1944, according to Brinkley, Stalin wrote to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, calling Henry Ford “one of the world’s greatest industrialists” and expressing the hope that “may God preserve him.”

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Revealed: Facebook Has a Process to Label You a “Hate Agent” for Behavior Online AND Offline — Just Like the Chinese Social Credit Scoring System

In 2018 Google helped the Chinese Communists develop a social credit scoring system. The scoring system, first announced in 2014, rates China’s one billion citizens based on their behavior and associations. Already, nine million people with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic flights and trains.

As horrible as this sounds the Silicon Valley tech giants are already using a similar system here in the United States.

And Facebook is using offline behavior to factor into their scoring system.

On Thursday Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari revealed that Facebook is using a similar social credit scoring system on Americans.

This is no surprise to those who have noticed the growing intolerance by big tech to conservative thought leaders and publishers.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/revealed-facebook-has-a-two-year-process-to-label-you-a-hate-agent-just-like-the-chinese-social-credit-scoring-system/

Sheriff: Florida man tried to ram stolen dump truck through naval station gate

The driver of a dump truck stolen from a Palm Coast landscaping company tried to smash through the main gate at Mayport Naval Station Tuesday morning but was stopped cold by a steel barrier activated by U.S. Navy sentries, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

Rodney Simeon, a former Alabama State University basketball player from Miami, is under arrest on a Flagler County warrant for auto theft and burglary as the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigate the incident. His bail was set at $25,000, according to his Jacksonville arrest report.

Although no possible motive was provided, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said a ski mask and a gun were found inside the stolen truck, believed to belong to Simeon. The 24-year-old also was arrested June 3 on charges of destruction of evidence, suspended license, possession of marijuana and no car registration in Orange County, according to court records.

Mayport spokesman Bill Austin said the forced entry attempt occurred about 9:30 a.m. at the main gate on Mayport Road, the driver reportedly ignoring repeated commands to stop at the gate and prompting security personnel to deploy a barrier.

“A civilian male showed up at the main gate with no credentials and accelerated past the sentry,” Austin said. “They deployed the barrier. … He was in a stolen truck.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/06/sheriff-florida-man-tried-to-ram-stolen-dump-truck-through-naval-station-gate/

>>6748627

Watch out where the Huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow

FRANK ZAPPA – DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW AND NANOOK RUBS IT

US says Iran took mine off tanker; Iran denies involvement

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military on Friday released a video it said shows Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting the Islamic Republic sought to remove evidence of its involvement from the scene. Iran denies being involved, accusing the U.S. instead of waging an “Iranophobic campaign” against it.

The U.S. Navy rushed to assist the stricken vessels in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of Iran, including one that was set ablaze Thursday by an explosion.

The ships' operators offered no immediate explanation on who or what caused the damage against the Norwegian-owned MT Front Altair and the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous. Each was loaded with petroleum products, and the Front Altair burned for hours, sending up a column of thick, black smoke.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/06/14/us-says-iran-removed-unexploded-mine-from-oil-tanker/

Trump returning power back to the people… and pissing off the DS lackeys

Employees Turn Their Backs On AG Secretary In Silent Protest As He Announces Decision To Move Two Agencies

Government employees turned their backs on Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue during a meeting Thursday as a silent protest over the decision to relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

The ERS and NIFA are currently located in Washington, D.C., and are research agencies within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA plans to move the agencies, including their 550 research jobs, to Kansas City, in a move to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to CNN.

Many of the employees, however, feel that the change is due to politics and only serves as a platform to interrupt climate research. Perdue announced the decision Thursday morning after both agencies previously voted to unionize in order to stop the move.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/14/sonny-perdue-silent-protest-kansas-city/

BillyBoy Gates is doing the snoopy dance and Stalin is laughing at us in his grave

Cuomo Signs Bill Ending Religious Exemptions For Vaccinations

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a piece of legislation Thursday removing religious exceptions from vaccination requirements for children.

The legislation, which passed the Assembly 77 to 53, ends all exemptions from vaccinations due to religious belief and amends related portions of the state’s public health law.

Recent reports show an increased number of measles cases as vaccination rates have decreased.

“This is a great step forward in protecting the public health here in New York,” Rockland County Executive Ed Day told reporters. “This law should lead to a substantial increase in vaccination rates and to improved protection of our most vulnerable residents; infants, the immunocompromised and those who have legitimate medical issues.”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/14/vaccinations-new-york-cuomo/

Fort Sill to house detained migrant children

With space running out at government shelters, the federal government said it will house detained migrant children on the Fort Sill Army installation in Lawton.

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, said he’d received an assurance from the Trump administration that the placement of minors at Fort Sill will be temporary. Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services Department agreed state officials, stakeholders and the news media will be able to tour the facilities at Fort Sill, Inhofe said.

The federal agency has not yet said when children will begin to arrive at Fort Sill or how many may be placed there. A spokesman for the agency did not return a call Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, said he planned to closely monitor the situation at Fort Sill. But the placement of children at atypical locations highlights the need for immigration reform, he said. Cole’s district includes Fort Sill.

“This surge of migrants is overwhelming our usual facilities and resources, including the capacity for housing and caring for thousands of vulnerable unaccompanied children arriving each month,” Cole said. “While the announced use of Fort Sill as a shelter for these children is only temporary, it certainly highlights the dire need for a permanent solution to manage the border crisis.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/06/fort-sill-to-house-detained-migrant-children/

University of Washington-Tacoma Professors Developing a Social Media Tool to Detect Anti-Immigrant Tweets

s this a good use of funds and time?

Two professors at the University of Washington-Tacoma are developing a social media tool on Twitter to detect anti-immigrant or misogynistic tweets. The professors, Martine De Cock and Anderson Nascimento, will be heading the development and will involve computer science students in this project.

https://www.academia.org/university-of-washington-tacoma-professors-developing-a-social-media-tool-to-detect-anti-immigrant-tweets/

‘None of this happened the way you think it did’

For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called.

The ashes hadn’t met their intended fate. On June 13, 2017, Johnson passed away from bladder cancer at Schum’s home in Hotchkiss, a small community surrounded by orchards and farms in western Colorado. In her will, Johnson, an artist and proud Aquarius, asked Schum to mix the cremated remains with glitter and ground herbs. She wanted them scattered at Orvis Hot Springs in the town of Ridgway, where she and Schum had spent many hours soaking.

The day after her death, Johnson’s body arrived at Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors in Montrose, Colorado, a big-box town of 19,000. A 42-year-old woman named Megan Hess owned Sunset Mesa, and Hess’ mother helped her with the business. After Johnson’s body went to the funeral home, Schum said it took seven weeks for the ashes to return in the gift bag. By that time, the memorial Johnson’s friends wanted had been repeatedly delayed. Schum cared about the remains, but they felt incomplete as they were. Then, a year later, the FBI called.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.10/communities-none-of-this-happened-the-way-you-think-it-did-cremated-remains

Chicago - I'm a Man - 7/21/1970 - Tanglewood (Official)

RAMBleed Attack – Flip Bits to Steal Sensitive Data from Computer Memory

A team of cybersecurity researchers yesterday revealed details of a new side-channel attack on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) that could allow malicious programs installed on a modern system to read sensitive memory data from other processes running on the same hardware.

Dubbed RAMBleed and identified as CVE-2019-0174, the new attack is based on a well-known class of DRAM side channel attack called Rowhammer, various variants [GLitch, RAMpage, Throwhammer, Nethammer, Drammer] of which have been demonstrated by researchers in recent years.

Known since 2012, Rowhammer bug is a hardware reliability issue that was found in the new generation of DRAM chips.

It turned out that repeatedly and rapidly accessing (hammering) a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows, i.e., changing their bit values from 0 to 1 or vice-versa.

In the following years, researchers also demonstrated successful exploits to achieve privilege escalation on the vulnerable computers by flipping (writing) bits in the victim's memory.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/06/rambleed-dram-attack.html

>>6748846

Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Baby Please Don't Go (Live At Checkerboard Lounge)

Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets

LONDON (AP) — Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into Washington’s political scene. The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top think tank and a who’s-who network of pundits and experts, from the centrist Brookings Institution to the right-wing Heritage Foundation. She was connected to a deputy assistant secretary of state, a senior aide to a senator and the economist Paul Winfree, who is being considered for a seat on the Federal Reserve.

But Katie Jones doesn’t exist, The Associated Press has determined. Instead, the persona was part of a vast army of phantom profiles lurking on the professional networking site LinkedIn. And several experts contacted by the AP said Jones’ profile picture appeared to have been created by a computer program.

“I’m convinced that it’s a fake face,” said Mario Klingemann, a German artist who has been experimenting for years with artificially generated portraits and says he has reviewed tens of thousands of such images. “It has all the hallmarks.”

https://www.apnews.com/bc2f19097a4c4fffaa00de6770b8a60d?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

Great danger that China will read the further abandonment of Hong Kong's people as yet another signal that the Free World will not defend its own

The Sky-High Stakes in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong’s huge protest over a proposed law that would allow extradition from the territory to mainland China, there is far more at stake than “confidence” in the integrity of Hong Kong’s legal system, or the health of Hong Kong’s economy—important though those both are. The real showdown going on in Hong Kong has long been between despotism and democracy, between tyranny and the Free World. And whether we, the free people of America, and our allies, choose to think of it this way or not, the reality is that the showdown now taking place in Hong Kong will shape our future as well.

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Ruinous extradition law

For two reasons, the people of Hong Kong—in their efforts to stop this ruinous extradition law—deserve the strongest support we can muster. One reason is quite simply that it is the right thing to do, though in international politics that is often a backseat priority. The other reason—perhaps more compelling to those inclined to think of Hong Kong as a faraway foreign place and none of our business—is that it is a high-risk precedent for the Free World to abandon its own. It invites aggression by the likes of China (and Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.) against us and our allies. Which is what it will boil down to, if the U.S., the U.K. and other democratic powers do not find some way to buttress the demands of Hong Kong’s demonstrators. It is vital that Washington persuade Beijing and its satrap in Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, that it would be wise to scrap this proposed law, and moronic—or at least astoundingly expensive—to push it through.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-sky-high-stakes-in-hong-kong

Three explosions in migrant-rich Malmö in 24 hours

This week, Malmö, a city in southern Sweden known by many for its large migrant population and no-go zones, saw three explosions in a 24-hour span with multiple locations targeted including a nightclub and residential area.

According to the Swedish online newspaper, Nyheter Idag, the first explosion occurred on Tuesday, around 2 o’clock in the morning in the suburb of Rosengård – an area that has been described as a no-go zone – which caused a number of windows in a multi-family building to shatter.

Just an hour later, a subsequent explosion occurred close to a local nightclub near the city center. Witnesses and bystanders claim to have heard a loud bang which caused several shops in the vicinity to be damaged.

The third explosion occurred the next day – again in the migrant dense and crime-ridden suburb of Rosengård during the early hours of Wednesday morning. This time a different residential area was affected by the blast.

A witness of the explosion had this to say: “The entire gate is destroyed right up to the lift. There are glass pieces and metal pieces that made holes in the lift five meters away.”

Although the three explosions caused a significant amount of property damage, Swedish police have reported that no injuries have occurred as a result of the incidents.

Thus far this year, multicultural Malmö has seen several bombings and explosions – most of which have gone unreported by the mainstream media as it goes against their ‘diversity is a strength’ narrative.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/06/three-explosions-in-migrant-rich-malmo-in-24-hours/

Deep Purple performing LAZY in Scandanavia 1972, featuring the classic Mk2 line up of Ian Gillan,Roger Glover, Ian Paice,Jon Lord & Ritchie Blackmore

Deep Purple - Lazy

>>6748557

We won't be fooled again….. my ass

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 50 Years Ago

One real and one phantom firefight embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War.

https://www.history.com/news/the-gulf-of-tonkin-incident-50-years-ago

WeChat Is Watching

Living in China with the app that knows everything about me.

t’s 9 a.m. on a typical morning in Chengdu and I’m awakened by the sound of my phone alarm. The phone is in my study, connected to my bedroom by sliding doors. I turn off the alarm, pick up my phone, and, like millions of people in China, the first thing I do is check my WeChat. At 9:07, I send my first message of the day.

WeChat, the brainchild of Tencent—one of China’s big three tech giants—is often referred to in the West as a social media app, something equivalent to Facebook or WhatsApp, but that’s to undersell it. WeChat has over 1 billion active users. In China, people don’t refer to it as a social media platform but rather as a social ecosystem. The features are seemingly endless. Beyond the typical social media functions of messaging and a Twitter-style feed called “friend circle,” it can be used to make payments for almost anything. Because developers can slot their apps directly into WeChat and tie them into the social and payment functions, it acts like a very sleek and efficient operating system. If it wasn’t for the fact that I grew up in London and use a VPN to jump the great firewall to keep in touch with my friends at home and use Google, I could go entire days without leaving WeChat.

http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/wechat-is-watching