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Documents Detailing Google’s ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation Of Special Search Results

Via The Daily Caller

“The deceptive_news domain blacklist is going to be used by many search features to filter problematic sites that violate the good neighbor and misrepresentation policies,” the policy document says.

That document reads that it was, “approved by gomes@, nayak@, haahr@ as of 8/13/2018.” Ben Gomes is Google’s head of search, who reports directly to CEO Sundar Pichai. Pandu Nayak is a Google Fellow, and Paul Haahr is a software engineer, whose bio on Google’s internal network Moma indicates that he is also involved in, “fringe ranking: not showing fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, or science/medical/history denial unless we’re sure that’s what the user wants.”

“The purpose of the blacklist will be to bar the sites from surfacing in any Search feature or news product. It will not cause a demotion in the organic search results or de-index them altogether,” reads the policy document obtained by the Caller. What that means is that targeted sites will not be removed from the “ten blue links” portion of search results, but the blacklist applies to most of the other search features, like “top news,” “videos” or the various sidebars that are returned as search results.

Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.

Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by Google’s Trust & Safety team. “T&S will be in charge of updating the blacklist as when there is a demand,” reads one of the documents shared with The Daily Caller.

Read the entire article HERE.

Top FBI Lawyer Testified Rosenstein Discussed Removing Trump From Office

Via The Federalist

James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, testified to members of Congress last fall that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other FBI officials discussed wearing a wire in meetings with President Trump and removing him from office, according to a transcript of Baker’s testimony released on Tuesday.

In a joint committee on October 3, 2018, Baker was questioned in a closed-door interview on his knowledge of the Christopher Steele dossier, classified information leaked to the media, and invoking the 25th Amendment against President Trump.

Baker’s testimony confirmed what former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe previously said about national security officials strategizing to remove President Trump from office. Baker said Rosenstein made a serious suggestion to wear a wire when near the president in order to collect evidence that the president obstructed the investigation on Russian collusion. Baker also said he suspected Rosenstein was acting in response to the firing of James Comey, and that he felt he had been “used” by the president in his justification for firing Comey.

Read the entire article HERE.

Nunes Files $150 Million Lawsuit Against McClatchy for ‘Yacht, Cocaine, Prostitutes’ Smear

Via American Greatness

Like the lawyers who are suing multiple media outlets for smearing the Covington Catholic boys, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes is on a mission to hold the media accountable for its malicious lies. Last Month, the congressman filed a lawsuit in Virginia state court against Twitter and a handful of its users–including Republican consultant Liz Mair– seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.

On Monday, Fox News reported that Rep. Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit against the McClatchy Company and others, alleging that one of the news agency’s reporters conspired with Mair to smear Nunes and derail his committee’s Russia investigation. The California congressman is also determined to hold former Obama officials and others for perpetrating the Russia collusion hoax.

The filing, obtained by Fox News, came a day after Nunes, R-Calif., revealed he would send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week concerning purported surveillance abuses by federal authorities during the Russia probe, false statements to Congress and other matters.

In Monday’s complaint, Nunes alleged that Mair conspired with McClatchy reporter MacKenzie Mays to spread a variety of dishonest smears online and in print– including the outrageous allegation that Nunes “was involved with cocaine and underage prostitutes.”

On Fox News’ Hannity Monday night, Nunes said that a couple of reporters at McClatchy were “the biggest perpetrators of the Russia hoax,” pointing out that left-wing operatives also targeted the National Rifle Association with the media’s help.

Read the entire article HERE.

Already Deep In The Politics Of Hate

By Patrick J. Buchanan

During an Iowa town hall last week, “Beto” O’Rourke, who had pledged to raise the level of national discourse, depicted President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as right out of Nazi Germany.

Trump “describes immigrants as ‘rapists’ and ‘criminals’” and as “‘animals’ and ‘an infestation,’” said Beto.

“Now, I might expect someone to describe another human being as ‘an infestation’ in the Third Reich. I would not expect it in the United States of America.” The crowd lustily cheered the analogy.

By week’s end, Beto’s Third Reich comparison had been matched in nastiness by Bernie Sanders’ description of the president to the cheering activists of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network:

“It gives me no pleasure to say this but today we have a president who is a racist, sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot.”

Sanders managed to appeal to almost all elements of the Democrats’ coalition by accusing Trump of hating blacks, women, gays, foreigners and Muslims.

Read the entire article HERE.

How Testosterone-Fueled Trans Athletes Are Erasing Women in Sports

Via PJ Media

My daughter is a runner at a small NCAA Division I school on the East Coast. She runs cross country in the fall, indoor track during the winter, and outdoor track during the spring, so she’s in training or competing during all but the last week or two of every school year.

She trains hard when she’s not in school too. She religiously follows a detailed plan when she’s off during the summer and for winter break. Her winter break, by the way, is a half of what the non-athlete students at her school get because she’s already into winter track season.

She rarely gets any time off at all for spring break because she usually has races. This year, she got three days off, so we met at my sister’s house in Michigan for a couple of them. Each day, she worked out for two hours.

That was her “vacation.”

She doesn’t do all of this just to stay in school. Her scholarship is non-athletic. She does it to stay in shape and gain a competitive advantage. This is what competition is all about.

A transgender female competing against women who are born female brings an unearned, and unfair, competitive advantage to the competition that shouldn’t be allowed.

No matter how long a transgender female has been receiving hormone therapy, the inherent advantages never disappear.

Read the entire article HERE.

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