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Dec 22 2016

Trump Names Kellyanne Conway Counselor To The President


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by Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge Dec 22, 2016 7:16 AM

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday morning that Kellyanne Conway, his former campaign manager who stepped in halfway through the presidential campaign to boost Trump’s victory chances, will serve as counselor to the president when he takes office denying speculation that Conway would have no role in the incoming administration.

According to the statement released by Trump’s transition team, Conway will continue her role as a close adviser to the president-elect, working with senior leadership to “effectively message and execute the Administration’s legislative priorities and actions.”

“Kellyanne Conway has been a trusted advisor and strategist who played a crucial role in my victory. She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message. I am pleased that she will be part of my senior team in the West Wing,” Trump said.

“A Trump presidency will bring real change to Washington and to Americans across this great nation. I am humbled and honored to play a role in helping transform the movement he has led into a real agenda of action and results,” Conway added.

As the Hill adds, Conway previously turned down a position as the president-elect’s press secretary, and was rumored to be taking an external position working for the Trump administration. “My family is going to move to Washington D.C. and I will either stay outside and run the political super structure or I will go into the West Wing and take a position right next to the president where I feel like I can serve him in the way I advise him off-camera, which is most of the advice and counsel I give,” she said on Tuesday, hinting at a her new role as a counselor.

Conway was the first female campaign manager of either major party to win a presidential general election.

Dec 22 2016

College Student Earns 4.0 GPA, Then Drops Out: “You Are Being Scammed!”


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by Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge Dec 22, 2016 5:35 AM

Submitted by Lance Schuttler via TheMindUnleashed.com,

Billy Williams just finished his first college semester and did so with the all-impressive 4.0 GPA. Instead of celebrating his accomplishments with friends and family, he decided to drop out of college entirely.

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Billy made a facebook post that is now going viral in which he explains his reasoning for dropping out:

“Now that I’ve finished my first semester I think it’s safe to say… FUCK COLLEGE. Now before all you of you go batshit crazy… I have a few points to make.

1. Yes I have dropped out after finishing my first semester (with a 4.0 GPA). And it’s one of the best choices I’ve ever made. Not because I am averse to learning, but actually the exact opposite.

2. YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED. You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will see it some day. Heck you may have already seen it if you’ve been through college. You are being put thousands into debt to learn things you will never even use. Wasting 4 years of your life to be stuck at a paycheck that grows slower than the rate of inflation. Paying $200 for a $6 textbook. Being taught by teacher’s who have never done what they’re teaching. Average income has increased 5x over the last 40 years while cost of college has increased 18x. You’re spending thousands of dollars to learn information you won’t ever even use just to get a piece of paper. I once even had an engineer tell me “I learned more in my first 30 days working than in my 5 years of college.” What does that tell you about this system? There are about a million more ways you’re being scammed into this.. just watch the video i’m gonna comment if you want to see more.

3. Colleges are REQUIRING people to spend money taking gen. ed. courses to learn about the quadratic formula (and other shit they will never use) when they could be giving classes on MARRIAGE and HOW TO DO YOUR TAXES.

4. Gosh there are so many more reasons I could add, but just comment if you disagree or have reasons to add. I’d love to add to the discussion. TAG a friend in college, Tag your parents, share this if you agree, disagree. Let’s just talk about it. Heck post a picture of yourself flipping off something you think is unjust in our society.”

Billy is right too that the price of college continues to soar.

 Ray Franke, a professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston said:

“If you look at the long-term trend of college tuition, it has been rising almost six percent above the rate of inflation. That’s brought immense pressure from the media and general public, asking whether college is still worth it.”

In 2015, Harvard’s annual tuition and fees (not including room and board) would cost a person $45,278, which is more than 17 times the 1971-72 cost. If annual increases of tuition had simply tracked the inflation rate since 1971, 2016’s tuition would be just $15,189.

According to CNBC, college enrollment peaked in 2011, and has been decreasing ever since. This is no doubt in part to a family’s ability to pay the tuition, room and board and other related expenses. For example, in order to pay for a year of college at Harvard today would take the median household income nearly one year of paychecks. Back in 1971, it would have taken about 13 weeks of paychecks per the household median income.

Today the student debt is over $1.26 trillion dollars with over 44 million Americans in debt from student loans. 2016’s graduates on average are over $36,000 dollars in debt, which is up 6% from just one year ago.  

What can be done to alleviate this situation? Why do banks get bailed out (2008 Lehman crisis) for cheating the world, while students must continue to pay a debt? Why is a private institution (The Federal Reserve) in charge of this nation’s money and finances? How will students continue to be able to go to college when the price continues to skyrocket as the federal minimum wage stays stuck at $7.25 an hour? At some point soon, the masses won’t take it anymore from the banking cartel. The education system is in for some major changes very soon.

Dec 22 2016

REPORT: OBAMA THREATENED PUTIN WITH WAR OVER ELECTION HACKING CONSPIRACY THEORY


Obama is either insane or a delusional power hungry mad man!

Dec 22 2016

Hiding Behind the Curtain – Best of Both Worlds


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Re-Posted Dec 22, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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QUESTION: Marty; I was watching Fox News and on the same show they had Steve Forbes and Steven Moore. I remembered you were friends with Steve Moore when he was at the Cato Institute. There was talk the two of you were going to do something together. Both are in with Trump along with Nigel Farage. My Question is, obviously you also know all the people advising Trump. Are you going to be an adviser as well?

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skeletons_in-closetANSWER: Yes, I know Steve Moore. Yes, we used to communicate regularly. No, I will not be an adviser to Trump. I would be glad to answer questions behind the curtain and offer access to our computer system forecast if they are serious. But I would never take a position in front of the curtain. I have advised far too many governments around the world and major multinational companies. They would turn that into some sort of treason in a Senate confirmation hearing or say that I advised Japanese and German auto manufacturers and turn that into treason.

Just not interested. Behind the curtain works better. I do what I do because trying to move even a pebble inside government takes on a huge effort. It is far easier to move mountains from the outside than from the inside.

Dec 22 2016

Media and Professional Left Begin Rewriting Obama’s Mid-East History…


There’s a visible twisting of history taking place that’s increasingly obvious within the last few days.  Against all intellectual honesty, an entirely different version of historical r…

Source: Media and Professional Left Begin Rewriting Obama’s Mid-East History…

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Dec 22 2016

Cultural Marxism Has Consequences – Empty Christmas Markets…


A picture tells a thousand words. Facing the new normal.  There are over 2,500 Christmas Markets throughout Germany, including 60 in Berlin.  […] “We cannot go on denying there is a lin…

Source: Cultural Marxism Has Consequences – Empty Christmas Markets…

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Dec 21 2016

KOMMONSENTSJANE – SOBERING STATISTICS – EDUCATIONAL MONEY BEING TOTALLY WASTED


Its all over the country like that like that they are all so certain and yet know nothing. If they create a civil up rising they will all be slaughters — such a waste.

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December 21, 2016

This from an Oregon Resident…Sobering

This is so sobering and a classic example of just how our hard earned money being used to hopefully educate our children is being totally wasted. Our High schools have failed to teach our children civics and history and when they reach college they are being influenced by equally uneducated minds, products of the 60’s & 70’s who have never really experienced any true hardships and have the mind-set that the government or society “owes” them just because they exist. This MUST change or this country is in DEEP TROUBLE!

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The following was received from an Oregon Resident who has concerns for our country.

While I was getting a coffee, I overheard 7 young people (22-26 years
old, 5 males, 2 female) who have been protesting in downtown Portland
the last two nights.

I told them I was doing research and…

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Dec 21 2016

MONTAGE: THE MEDIA’S 10 MOST MORTIFYING MOMENTS OF 2016


Just poetic justice I guess … lol

Dec 21 2016

The Real Story at New Hampshire College


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Re-Posted Dec 21, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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Chicago is where they dragged a man out of his car and beat him because he voted for Trump. Well, what’s going on in New Hampshire certainly also gives us some pause. According to reliable sources there are some really serious issues brewing at this college. A group of Hampshire students took down the American flag on campus the day after the election and burned it. To cover-up that act, the college allegedly raised a new flag at half-mast to reflect their dissatisfaction with the election. The college said this was in response to the escalating number of news reports from across the country over recent months and years of hate speech, harassment, and violence against people of color, immigrants, international citizens, and Muslims. The college then said they lowered the flag in respect of veterans, who have since protested that cover-up. One former student who supported Trump was banned from the school’s alumni board. The school then tried to claim he was not on their list of alumni. When others chimed in and said he was, they restored his access to the blog. However, current students showed real hate speech by calling him a Nazi. He was then blocked again and thrown off the blog.

The college allowed the flag to remain at half-staff to honor the students’ expression and to facilitate a campus dialogue. They should be stripped of ALL federal aid. The college did nothing to support unity and allowed the pro-Hillary activists to bully and dominate the agenda by threatening anyone who disagreed. They hurled hate-speech in protest of what they claimed was hate-speech. The definition of hate-speech seems to be anything they disagree with.

“Sometime overnight the campus flag was burned. The College does not know who burned the flag, whether it was burned by one or more students or others. The incident is still under investigation by campus police,” the college admitted.

The college was forced to claim the flag burning is under investigation. Meanwhile, the current students are clearly predominantly socialists who claim to despise Trump so they engage in hate-speech and bully any student who disagrees with their agenda. Parents are paying over $60,000 a year to brainwash their kids into intolerant Socialists.

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The students who burned the flag in support of Hillary are obviously wasting the national resources since they are too stupid to research who made their student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy — Oops! The Clintons!

Clearly, the students who protested and burned the flag are probably on financial aid and a large portion of the college is funded by the federal grants system that they protested against. Since the college and the current student class refuse to respect our country, they should be disqualified for financial aid as of the spring term 2017. Let the students who do want to really learn go to another college that is less political. If I had kids there, they would be out.

This, unfortunately, is setting the stage for the breakup of the United States going into 2036. This divide between left and right is becoming huge — bigger than the Grand Canyo

Dec 19 2016

Obama Admits Hillary “Lost Badly” By Failing To “Make An Argument” That Inspired People To “Show Up”


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by Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge Dec 19, 2016 8:47 AM

After weeks of pushing the “Russian hacking” narrative, mostly through White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, Obama is finally admitting that Hillary “lost badly” in her presidential bid by failing to make an argument to people in the Midwest that inspired them to “show up.”  In an “exit interview” with NPR, Obama said that Democrats face “structural problems” with their base clustered in urban areas on the coasts which requires presidential candidates to make their case to swing voters in the Midwest, something he says Hillary failed to do.  Per The Hill:

“There are some things that we know are a challenge for Democrats — structural problems,” he said.

Obama noted that Democratic voters are often clustered in urban areas and on the coasts.

“So as a consequence, you’ve got a situation where there’re not only entire states but also big chunks of states where, if we’re not showing up, if we’re not in there making an argument, then we’re going to lose,” he said.

“And we can lose badly, and that’s what happened in this election.”

Perhaps the President is admitting that a little less golf in his second term might have been beneficial to his party?

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Of course, when pressed on whether the electorate understood the democratic argument and simply chose to reject it, Obama assured NPR that that simply couldn’t be the case.  As Obama has told us many times, if anyone disagrees with his position on a certain policy then it is simply because they must not fully understand it. 

 Obama said he doesn’t think the Democratic Party’s problem is its core argument. The values presented by the Democratic Party have strong support, he said, citing the minimum wage.

“There are clearly, though, failures on our part to give people in rural areas or in exurban areas, a sense day-to-day that we’re fighting for them or connected to them,” he said.

A lot of people, he added, don’t know about the Obama administration’s push for collective bargaining or overtime rules and are not aware of all the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.

Finally, proving that he still has no idea what happened last month, Obama once again blamed Fox News and Hillary’s failure to adequately pander to the right people…Obama’s words are much more subtle than ours, of course.

 “Some of it is the prism through which they’re seeing the political debate take place.”

“So part of the reason it’s important to show up, and when I say show up, I don’t just mean during election time, but to be in there engaging and listening and being with people,” he said, “is because it then builds trust and it gives you a better sense of how should you talk about issues in a way that feel salient and feel meaningful to people.”

To quote Judge Jeanine Pirro from this weekend, the American people “rejected you and everything you stand for,” Mr. President.  The American people rejected the idea of catering a message “in a way that feels salient and feels meaningful” to each individual group while doing absolutely nothing after election day.  The American people chose action over meaningless political narratives.