to note a correction (not gonna redo that whole thing just to fix it), the 'see also (linked in):' intro to the listing of other posts in the last portion of the post to which this is a reply should read:
in addition to (linked in) the post to which this is a reply and preceding and (other) following, see also (linked in):
the (other) following currently being/see also (linked in):
U.S. President Obama called on supporters at a rally to respect a protester who disrupted the rally saying, "We live in a country that respects free speech."
President Barack Obama was heckled for his comments directed at a Trump voter. Photo: AP
2. Damned activist judges: Ohio judge orders Trump campaign not to attempt to intimidate voters .. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-intimidation-idUSKBN12Z2OM .. with its "watch" and "monitor" efforts, which it says are intended to thwart voter fraud, which does not exist in the US. But courts elsewhere are addressing official electoral fraud head on: in Arizona, a state law outlawing the collection of absentee ballots is suspended; in Kansas, 20,000 voters allowed to register, despite state claim they can't prove citizenship; in North Carolina; thousands of minority voters are back on the rolls after questionable Republican-driven purge of individual voters.
3. Fox News Kool-Aid laced: News anchor Bret Baier had a great story on Thursday – Hillary Clinton was likely to be indicted by the FBI over alleged pay-to-play scams by the Clinton Foundation. Baier had a great apology on Friday .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/04/fox-news-report-of-likely-indictment-in-clinton-case-just-wont-die/ – the story was wrong, which didn't stop Trump from weaving the original erroneous report into his "Crooked Hillary" shtick. Now believing everything written about her, Fox's Megyn Kelly, claims that Clinton is "too chicken" to be interviewed by "one of the top female journalists in the country."
4. Dearth of sex stories – campaign gets boring: Former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal hits pay dirt .. http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/11/report-national-enquirer-bought-rights-to-trump-affair-story-but-never-published-004848 .. when tabloid rag The National Inquirer coughs up $US150,000 for exclusive rights for the story of her alleged affair with Trump – but the Inquirer is owned by a Trump buddy and the plan was always to suppress the yarn. None of which is to say that the Inquirer is without political judgment – during the GOP primaries, is claimed in one story that Trump's brain surgeon challenger Ben Carson had left a sponge in a patient's head after operation; and that Texas challenger Ted Cruz's father had a hand in the JFK assassination. Also, the woman who this week cancelled a press conference at which she was to tell-all of Trump allegedly raping her at age 13, has dropped her law suit against Trump.
The National Inquirer paid big bucks for the exclusive rights to a story about former Playmate Karen McDougal's alleged affair with Donald Trump Photo: AP
5. FBI is a Trump front: The Comey letter; reports of an internal struggle, with a faction pushing for a criminal investigation into the Clinton family foundation and wild accusations by former FBI agents make sense when you look at the agency's demographics – 67 per cent white; less than 20 per cent women; about 4.5 per cent African American; and about 6.5 per cent Latino. As Politico magazine observes: .. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/fbi-donald-trump-base-230755 .. "If Trump were running for president with an electorate that looked like that, he'd win in a landslide."
6. Christie MIA: The New Jersey governor and key Trump surrogate fell off the campaign radar within minutes of a court decision on Friday that two of his closest advisers were guilty in the infamous Bridgegate scandal .. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/nyregion/bridgegate-conviction.html?_r=0 , when massive traffic jams were caused by the deliberate closure of access lanes to one of New York City's busiest traffic points, to punish a local mayor who had refused to endorse Christie. The governor was to appear with Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday, but was a no-show.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been MIA. Photo: AP
7. First hacked, then bugged: The DNC has told the FBI .. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/dnc-told-fbi-it-may-have-been-bugged .. that an October sweep of its offices, in the aftermath of reports that it's computers had been accessed by Russian hackers who had delivered bundles of embarrassing emails to WikiLeaks, had detected a radio signal that might have belonged to a listening device monitoring the chairman's office – but apparently no device was found.
Melania Trump reportedly worked as a model in the US before she was legally allowed to. Photo: AP
9. Clinton sorrow: Many have said how sorry they feel for Hillary being married to Bill. But on Friday Bill was all sorrow for Melania .. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-bill-clinton-says-he-feels-sorry-for-1478291638-htmlstory.html – for being married to Donald. After a speech on Thursday, when Melania said that as first lady she would campaign against cyber-bullying, Bill had this to say: "I never felt so bad for anybody in my life as I did for his wife going out, giving a speech saying 'Oh, cyber bullying was a terrible thing." I thought 'yeah, especially if its done at three o'clock in the morning against a former Miss Universe by a guy running for president.'"
10. She should have known: It seems that in 2009, Hillary Clinton sent her daughter Chelsea information that now is deemed classified. Can't tell you anything more about this because the Politico magazine report on it .. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-emails-released-election-230750 .. is utterly impenetrable. But she shouldn't have done it.
11. Monkey business: There's no need for an election because the winner has been revealed. A monkey at a tourism park in China's Hunan province .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/05/this-mystical-chinese-monkey-has-figured-out-who-will-win-the-u-s-election/ , who is described as the "king of prophets," registered his vote for Trump by selecting bananas from next to a cardboard cutout of the GOP candidate, rather that those next to a cardboard Clinton. Apparently, the monkey has a good record in predicting the outcome of soccer matches, but politics is a new line of forecasting for him.
Mystical Chinese monkey Geda smooches a cutout of Donald Trump, predicting he will win election http://wapo.st/2fbxWX6 #whoneedspolls 1:34 AM - 6 Nov 2016
On this Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 broadcast of the Alex Jones Show, Dr. Steve Pieczenik joins to discuss his recent announcement of a "counter-coup" currently taking place and the beginning of the second American Revolution. Former federal prosecutor Doug Hagmann chimes in on WikiLeaks, Project Veritas and the upcoming election. We cover a breaking video from Project Veritas exposing a top Democrat making extremely racist comments. Also, WND's Joseph Farah talks Danney Williams, Huma Abedin and more[, and Roger Stone makes an appearance].
Watch former Republican representative David Duke at the U.S. Senate debate at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Following the debate, Duke comments.
Prof. Kevin McDonald comments after the debate starting at 1:02:33 Dr. David Duke comments after the debate starting at 1:26:24
Rachel Maddow reports on the history of the Yahweh Ben Yahweh cult and why Donald Trump doesn't want to ask too many questions about the guys behind him at Florida rallies holding the "Blacks for Trump" signs.
Full Show - TRUMP TO BE ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 3 DAYS - 11/03/2016
Published on Nov 3, 2016 by The Alex Jones Channel
On this Thursday, November 3rd 2016 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, we look at new headaches for Hillary as an FBI indictment seems increasingly likely in the last stretch of the presidential election. And media organizations are caught preparing graphics showing a Hillary victory. On today's show, The New American Senior Editor William F. Jasper joins the show to look deeper into the various Clinton scandals. Also, CIA trained former senior intelligence officer Col. Tony Shaffer gives his take on why Hillary should be fully prosecuted. Meanwhile, Trump takes the lead in a new Rasmussen poll and The Cubs won the World Series for the first time in over a century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjx_ysYHJNo [Melania's dazzlingly disingenuous (she can't actually be that utterly oblivious, can she?) remarks (and as for her attire, she should have just had a life-sized photo of her hooters plastered to her chest) begin at c. the 6:10 mark; with comments] [also at e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqCtbrHAAfY (additional text adapted from; with comments)]
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Possibility Of FBI Leaks To Trump Campaign Raises Alarm | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Published on Nov 3, 2016 by MSNBC
Spencer Ackerman, national security editor for The Guardian, talks with Rachel Maddow about concerns about connections between the Donald Trump campaign and the FBI, particularly the New York field office, and the apparent willingness of some in the FBI to politicize the bureau to help Trump.
Rachel Maddow alerts viewers to an insidious new disinformation campaign telling people they can avoid lines at polling places by voting by text or online. There is no state that allows voting by phone or e-mail or text or hashtag or Facebook post. Duration: 1:24
GOP Threatens to Paralyze a Hillary Clinton Presidency: A Closer Look
Published on Nov 3, 2016 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at Republicans already promising to block Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's Supreme Court nominees for years or impeach her if she is elected.
Full Show - Democratic Party Pedophile/Satanic Network Blown Wide Open By Wikileaks - 11/04/2016
Published on Nov 4, 2016 by The Alex Jones Channel
On this LIVE Friday, Nov. 4th 2016 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we look into Hillary Clinton’s ties to occult rituals, including “spirit cooking.” Investigative journalist Jon Rappoport reveals what this all means. Also NSA whistleblower Bill Binney explains what’s going on deep inside intelligence communities. And Dr. Steve Pieczenik [doesn't appear; delayed/rescheduled] explains the internal coup inside the federal government trying to take Hillary Clinton down[, and Roger Stone makes an appearance].
Beyond Lying: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality
Damon Winter/The New York Times
By Jason Stanley NOV. 4, 2016
As the Republican candidate for president in 2016, Donald J. Trump has accomplished many things. He engaged in rhetorical tactics unprecedented in recent American electoral history. He was straightforwardly misogynistic. He repeatedly endorsed obviously false claims. There were frequent open discussions of the intentions behind his many odd comments, retractions, semi-retractions and outright false statements.
On a certain level, the media lacked the vocabulary to describe what was happening. Trump was denounced repeatedly for “lying” and at times the apparently more egregious “bald faced lying.” But that is not a sufficient description. Neither was the charge by the philosopher Harry Frankfurt [ http://time.com/4321036/donald-trump-bs/ ] that Trump was in fact a master of “bullshit,” which is distinct from lying in that the speaker is not just communicating information he knows to be false, but is unconstrained by any consideration of what may or may not be true. While this description is technically true, it is at best terribly misleading. This presidential campaign has revealed that our academic and media class has insufficiently grappled with the problem of mass communication.
Liberal democratic societies by definition have a pluralism of value systems. This poses a problem for the politician seeking to gain office, just as it does for the advertiser seeking to gain customers. The total audience consists of sub-audiences with conflicting value systems. The problem of mass communication in a liberal democracy is that of creating and conveying a maximally appealing message to an audience made up of groups with conflicting value systems.
There is a familiar way to respond to the problem in United States presidential politics. It is to convey shared acceptance of a value system to one specific group of voters, while concealing one’s commitment to it to other groups in the audience. In the 2012 campaign, the Republican candidate Mitt Romney repeatedly said that President Obama was weakening the work requirements on welfare. The claim was immediately debunked. In an essay for The Stone [ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/speech-lies-and-apathy/ ], I used Romney’s strategy to explain this familiar response to the problem of mass communication. The goal was to communicate to a certain group of white Southern voters that Romney shared their racial attitudes. But the strategy of communication was sophisticated enough that it provided plausible deniability to the many Republican and independent voters who do not share racist ideology.
Trump has taken an entirely distinct approach to the problem of mass communication.
Like the earlier mob leaders, the spokesmen for totalitarian movements possessed an unerring instinct for anything that ordinary party propaganda or public opinion did not care to touch. Everything hidden, everything passed over in silence, became of major significance, regardless of its own intrinsic importance. The mob really believed that truth was whatever respectable society had hypocritically passed over, or covered with corruption … The modern masses do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience … What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.
According to Arendt, the “chief disability” of authoritarian propaganda is that “it cannot fulfill this longing of the masses for a completely consistent, comprehensible, and predictable world without seriously conflicting with common sense.”
The goal of totalitarian propaganda is to sketch out a consistent system that is simple to grasp, one that both constructs and simultaneously provides an explanation for grievances against various out-groups. It is openly intended to distort reality, partly as an expression of the leader’s power. Its open distortion of reality is both its greatest strength and greatest weakness.
Donald Trump is trying to define a simple reality as a means to express his power. The goal is to define a reality that justifies his value system, thereby changing the value systems of his audience. Two questions remain: What is the simple reality that Trump is trying to convey? And what is the value system to which this simple story is intended to shift voters to adopt?
Trump regularly says that America’s “inner cities” are filled with Americans who are impoverished, and of African-American descent. According to Trump, these are places of unprecedented horror. In a tweet on Aug. 29, 2016, Trump wrote: “Inner-city crime is reaching record levels. African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on!”
This has continued as one of the central themes in his campaign; there is supposedly an unprecedented wave of violent slaughter. In November 2015, Trump tweeted an image of the following statistics about race and murder from 2015, supposedly from a source called the “Crime Statistics Bureau of San Francisco,” which does not appear to exist. It included wildly inaccurate figures that indicated that a large majority of white people killed were being killed by black people.
The simple picture Trump is trying to convey is that there is wild disorder, because of American citizens of African-American descent, and immigrants. He is doing it as a display of strength, showing he is able to define reality and lead others to accept his authoritarian value system.
The chief authoritarian values are law and order. In Trump’s value system, nonwhites and non-Christians are the chief threats to law and order. Trump knows that reality does not call for a value-system like his; violent crime is at almost historic lows in the United States. Trump is thundering about a crime wave of historic proportions, because he is an authoritarian using his speech to define a simple reality that legitimates his value system, leading voters to adopt it. Its strength is that it conveys his power to define reality. Its weakness is that it obviously contradicts it.
Trump is, as Frankfurt asserts, certainly openly insensitive to reality. But he is not carelessly insensitive. To lump Trump’s rhetoric into a category that includes advertising is strange. It is prima facie bizarre to be satisfied with a description of the rhetoric of a dictator like Idi Amin’s as “insensitive to truth and falsity.” Why have we been satisfied with such descriptions of Trump? Perhaps our media, as well as our academic class, assumes that we are healthy liberal democracy, and not susceptible to authoritarian rhetoric. We now know this assumption is false.
Denouncing Trump as a liar, or describing him as merely entertaining, misses the point of authoritarian propaganda altogether. Authoritarian propagandists are attempting to convey power by defining reality. The reality they offer is very simple. It is offered with the goal of switching voters’ value systems to the authoritarian value system of the leader.
This campaign season has been an indictment of our understanding of mass communication. Either we lacked the ability or concepts to describe authoritarian propaganda, or we lacked the will. Either way, we must do better.
Describing what Trump has done requires us to talk not just about the importance of honesty and accuracy, but also about power, value systems and in-groups vs. out-groups. It also requires us to confront the failures of elite policy that have led to an erosion of democratic norms, primarily public trust, that make anti-democratic alternatives suddenly acceptable.
On this unprecedented LIVE Saturday, Nov. 5 broadcast of the Alex Jones Show, we go over the code words in leaked Podesta emails which may link Hillary Clinton to child rape trafficking. Large pedophile rings run the major governments, at least large sections of it, and the crimes are so huge that major British newspapers even admitted they could bring down the entire government. Is this finally the downfall of the Clintons? Tune in to find out!
With 72 hours remaining until Election Day, Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) and Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) appear on Erin Burnett (Cecily Strong) OutFront.
my notes/tally of sources from which most of the foregoing (and a couple of other posts) are drawn; much more good/significant/relevant beyond the foregoing included/linked:
Attention: You cannot vote by text! The Rachel Maddow Show 11/3/16 Rachel Maddow alerts viewers to an insidious new disinformation campaign telling people they can avoid lines at polling places by voting by text or online. There is no state that allows voting by phone or e-mail or text or hashtag or Facebook post. Duration: 1:24 http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/attention-you-cannot-vote-by-text-800705091783
Melania Trump: Our culture is too 'mean' The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 11/3/16 Melania Trump’s first public speech since the RNC was about… bullying people online. Lawrence and Ana Marie Cox discuss the irony of that, and Lawrence explains why the most outrageous line of the Melania Trump event is the one left unsaid. Duration: 11:27 http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/melania-trump-our-culture-is-too-mean-800701507833
Unwitting Trump embraces black supremacist cultist support The Rachel Maddow Show 11/2/16 Rachel Maddow reports on the history of the Yahweh Ben Yahweh cult and why Donald Trump doesn't want to ask too many questions about the guys behind him at Florida rallies holding the "Blacks for Trump" signs. Duration: 17:03 http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unwitting-trump-embraces-support-of-cultists-799672387550
U.S. officials warn of Russian mischief in election and beyond U.S. intelligence agencies do not see Russia as capable of using cyberespionage to alter the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election, but they have warned that Moscow may continue meddling after the voting has ended to sow doubts about the legitimacy of the result, U.S. officials said. The assessment reflects widespread concern among U.S. spy agencies that a months-long campaign by Russia to rattle the mechanisms of American democracy will probably continue after polls close on one of the most polarizing races in recent history, extending and amplifying the political turbulence. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-seen-as-unable-to-alter-election-but-may-still-seek-to-undermine-it/2016/11/03/b7387160-a1cd-11e6-8832-23a007c77bb4_story.html
The Voter Fraud Lie We Can’t Shake Early voting is underway, and according to Donald J. Trump, so is voter fraud. Almost daily, he proclaims that “large-scale voter fraud” is happening and that the election is “rigged.” Politicians across the spectrum have criticized this nonsense as divorced from reality, deleterious to our democracy and unprecedented in our elections. It’s good to see such a strong, bipartisan pushback, but the critics are wrong on that last point. Thinly supported allegations of electoral malfeasance have been deployed throughout American history, often by those who want to restrict the vote. [...] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/the-strange-career-of-the-voter-fraud-myth.html
Secret Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton Probe http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-QP383_FBI110_M_20161102213805.jpg Details of an FBI battle over whether to pursue a Clinton Foundation probe are emerging amid the continuing furor after FBI Director James Comey, shown testifying before the House Oversight Committee in July, disclosed to Congress that new emails had emerged that could be relevant to a separate FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email. Agents thought they had enough material to merit aggressively pursuing investigation into Clinton Foundation Updated Nov. 2, 2016 Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption prosecutors who viewed the statements as worthless hearsay, people familiar with the matter said. Agents, using informants and recordings from unrelated corruption investigations, thought they had found enough material to merit aggressively pursuing the investigation into the foundation that started in summer 2015 based on claims made in a book by a conservative author called “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” these people said. [...] http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518 [with comments]
Donald Trump embraces his status as an outsider to the world of politics and policy. He says that once in office, he would attract “all the best people.” He could make the great deals, and then they could work out all the little details.
This week he announced a group of these best people, including a former lieutenant governor of New York named Elizabeth “Betsy” McCaughey.
For those who have followed national policy debates over the past generation, this is not an encouraging sign. McCaughey has been a central, causal factor in two of the major failures of public information and decision-making since the early 1990s. Thus selecting her sends a signal roughly comparable to announcing a famous anti-climate-science figure as an environmental advisor or an anti-vaccine activist for counsel on public health.
-- * Nearly 25 years ago, when Bill and Hillary Clinton were trying to pass their health care reform plan. Betsy McCaughey made her name with a completely inaccurate, but politically damaging, misrepresentation of the plan. You can go back to an Atlantic article I wrote about this in 1995 .. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/01/a-triumph-of-misinformation/306231/ .. for the details. In essence: in her “No Exit” essay for The New Republic, McCaughey invented and propagated the myth that the health care bill would criminalize buying any health care outside the government program. That was flat-out false, but proving that it was false took time—and by then the damage had been done. (More after the jump.)
* During the Obamacare debates seven years ago, McCaughey more or less single-handedly created the myth that the bill would set up “death panels” to determine whether ailing patients were worth keeping alive. Also false. Also damaging. --