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Rebutting Republican Propaganda

Why ?

Cos it's rampant -- here's where its coming from.

How?

Post comments on Facebook posts from these Propaganda Mills. Some of these posts will have over 200 comments in one hour so best to see the post immediately and get your comment in . Then it will be close to first in line to show up when others look. After 200 -- maybe it will be buried but you might have a lot of eyes in the first half hour. Ideally we should have a network of people LIKING your comment so its in Facebook's MOST RELEVANT list. (One has to assume that MOST RELEVANT means the comments with the most LIKES - I hope Facebook doesn't think it can determine relevancy !! ) But even after 200, -- you can gain eyeballs when you REPLY to the "most relevant" comment. (Not just comment on the post itself)

Create a 2nd Facebook Account:
1. logout of facebook
2. delete the browser tab it was in
3. Delete the Facebook COOKIE
  1. CHROME:
    - copy/paste" chrome://settings/siteData " into the ADDRESS BOX
    - Type "face" into SEARCH
    - click REMOVE ALL
    - save this page as "Settings" to you FAVORITES ( it shows up at the top of every page in browser. ). So you can do this every time in the future, quickly, without having to type " chrome://settings/siteData " into the ADDRESS BOX
      1. right click on your FAVORITES bar
      2. in the dropdown window click "add page"
  2. FIREFOX
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    - -
4. Open a new tab and go to facebook.com and register a new user. Facebook does some kind of appraisal of the validity of a name but not significantly. Nevertheless chose a normal name. Use an easy to remember password. You'll need a 2nd EMAIL ADDRESS -- to do this go to protonmail.com, or mail.com if you don't have one spare already.
5. I have been reported 3 times and 3 times Facebook had no hesitation in banning me. (Facebook disabled my login when someone complained. I was asked to upload a picture of myself.
6. Make no posts on your first day. Just like most of the organizations listed below. On your second day maybe Facebook will recommend some people to like. Try and get as many likes acknowledged before making any posts. Get a good amount of friends first, which probably legitimises you . Do this by first LIKEing a comment then send them a friend request (if they have it enabled). Or go to your PAGE click on PEOPLE and there FB has a list of possible friends to add. If you click on too many ADD FRIEND buttons, FB will popup "we recommend asking only people that you may know" -- time to stop.
7. When you're done with all the rebutting and you want to return to your regular Facebook ID do the same again ( logout, delete tab, click "settings" on your FAVORITES bar, delete the cookie).

In your new FB logon --- search for and LIKE all the Propaganda Mills ( see some below ) -- their posts will now show up on your News Feed.
~~But you cannot LIKE them all at once or Facebook will lock you out with a page that says:-~~
Facebook eventually may ban you but only when someone "reports" you. Facebook has no hesitation in immediately disabling your account. -- "We noticed suspicious activity on your account. To get back on Facebook, we need you to provide some additional info."
this page was broken ( for me once) -- the "CONTINUE" button comes up with
" Sorry, this feature isn't available right now. An error occurred while processing this request. Please try again later."
so you are stuck in limbo as you cannot appeal either as that too is broken - it erroneously thinks your account is not disabled !
~~I got disabled after LIKEing 16 of them in about 15 minutes - -so safer if you only LIKE maybe 5 per day so it will take u a week to like all of them.~~
Alternatively FB will ask you to upload your photo( again)
----- Photo Uploaded
----- Thanks, Laura. We'll send an update once we've reviewed your photo.
----- We're always looking out for your security, so until then you won't be able to use Facebook.

If your photo is found with a google image search and it is not the same name on it you get banned. And you have to start all over.
I searched google images for "head shot" and photo-shopped the hairline and put glasses on. But that was not enough I had to puppet warp the mouth to make sure that google IMAGE SEARCH did not find me. Email me if you want me to create one for you.
Don't create any PAGES. Make all your posts in your own (fake) name.

Followers
55k	Competitive Enterprise Institute
11k	CFG Action
1.3k	Turning Point USA at UF
1.4m	Turning Point USA
213k	Project Veritas
3.3m	PragerU
	The Discourse & Exchange
2.8m	Being Conservative
525k	RedState
5.7m	Judicial Watch
5.4m	The Daily Caller
32k	FreedomWorks
1.8m	Media Research Center
2.3m	CNSNews.com
244k	Exposing Liberals
2.4m	MRCTV
2.9m	NewsBusters
8.5m	IJR Red
1.3m	Mark Levin
999k	Young Conservatives
848k	WND
1.2m	Newsmax
1m	National Review
2m	The Heritage Foundation
310k	Christian Coalition
1.7m	Heritage Action for America
568k	Carly Fiorina
5.7m	Dr. Ben & Candy Carson
8.5m	Sean Hannity
2.1m	Ted Cruz
2m	Rand Paul
325k	Jeb Bush
24m	Donald J. Trump
1.4m	Marco Rubio
1.2m	Chicks On The Right

~~Create a page with a good name ( mine is "Republican's for Truth" ). This is what you will use from now on to make comments.~~

Some of the Propaganda Mills and what you can post about them

You need to know that the Heritage Foundation is just a propaganda machine funded by the rich: : http://populationalert.org/politics/Heritage_warped.htm

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Media Research Center is a Propaganda Mill from the American Rich. It has received at least $7 million from the Mercer Family Foundation since 2015;
http://populationalert.org/politics/robert_mercer_Trump_Puppeteer.htm

If you go to http://populationalert.org/politics/robert_mercer_Trump_Puppeteer.htm#election you can learn how Mercer uses facebook and twitter to target us based on a stolen Psychological Database.
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PragerU is not a university, nor is it an academic institution. It does not hold classes, and does not grant certifications or diplomas and is not accredited by any recognized body. It creates “a network of extremist thinkers” and gives easy access to white supremacist bigotry.”

Two of PragerU's largest donors are the hydraulic fracturing billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks.
PragerU has been banned and/or restricted on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, and Twitter for providing a platform for hate speech.
In studying Prager University, the sociologist Francesca Tripodi writes that Prager’s project creates “a dense network of extremist thinkers” that “allows for those who identify as mainline conservatives to gain easy access to white supremacist logic.”

http://populationalert.org/politics/facts.htm

ex "The Charlottesville Lie" -- aug 5 2019 The whole piece is designed to distract your attention AWAY from the White Supremacist driving his car thru a crowd, killing someone and Trump not condemning it.

One need not speculate on what synapses in Trump’s brain led him repeatedly to insist on the presence of many very fine people where none existed. It is an insult to our intelligence, though, and to decency, for him two years later (Aug 2019) to still insist on it, and to try to make any excuses whatsoever for the white nationalists who were the only ones who openly and deliberately organized their hateful rally.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/trump-still-lies-about-very-fine-people-in-charlottesville
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FreedomWorks has been supported by the oil industry.and has also received funding from Verizon and AT&T. Other FreedomWorks donors have included Philip Morris -------- I guess we need to include BIG PHARMA now http://populationalert.org/politics/facts.htm
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/?pum_form_popup_id=5929&s=FreedomWorks+

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Tucker Carlson also publishes The Daily Caller, a controversial online media outlet with ties to white nationalists that has infamously peddled everything from climate denial and anti-Islamic tropes to false prostitution charges and violence against protesters.
Carlson's moonlighting as an extremist at The Daily Caller is heavily bankrolled by -- you guessed it -- the Koch brothers. An investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) finds that the Charles Koch Foundation has poured more than $2.7 million into the Daily Caller's non-profit "charity" since 2012, which generates the lion's share of the "news" that the Caller publishes.
Indeed, in 2016, Koch cash accounted for 83 percent of the The Daily Caller News Foundation's $1.1 million in revenues.

As Judicial Watch is funded by Republican Billionaires -- it makes a good case for why women should not vote Republican.
It is an "associate" member of the State Policy Network SPN . One of the biggest players in the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
It has made many claims since its founding which news outlets describe as either false or misleading. It launched campaigns described as "baseless attempts to perpetuate the myth of voter fraud".
http://populationalert.org/politics/facts.htm

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Sample Posts

Republican Propaganda Mills -- the "foundations" ( funded by billionaires) & the Corporations
-- that created them http://populationalert.org/politics/facts.htm
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This supposed "free speech" is Republican Propaganda funded by billionaires http://populationalert.org/politics/facts.htm
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TAX SCAM

You promised to no longer charge income tax to single individuals earning less than $25,000 per year or couples less than $50,000.
Instead you created a Tax Scam where earners below $40,000 pay MORE tax in 2023 ! And Corporations pay 21% instead of 35% !
Increasing the Federal Debt by $1.5 trillion ! Now THAT'S BIG GOVERNMENT !

in 2018, 60 of America’s biggest corporations paid zero federal income taxes on $79 billion in income.
Instead of paying $16.4 billion in taxes at the previous 35% corporate tax rate, these companies enjoyed a tax REBATE of $4.3 billion ( at 21%). https://itep.org/notadime/

The Republican TAX SCAM -- 56.7 million Taxpayers will be paying higher taxes by 2027
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/10/paul-ryans-repeated-claim-that-everyone-will-get-a-tax-cut/

This country is not broke taking care of the poor - it's from Increased Federal Debt of $1.5 trillion with a 2017 Republican Tax Scam Bill where earners below $40,000 pay MORE tax in 2023 ! And Corporations pay 21% instead of 35% ! Now THAT'S BIG GOVERNMENT ! http://populationalert.org/politics/Tax_Cut_Scam.htm
Now THAT'S SOCIALISM, CORPORATE SOCIALISM !

read the SOURCE FACT CHECK here https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/10/paul-ryans-repeated-claim-that-everyone-will-get-a-tax-cut/ ---- their sources are the Joint Committee on Taxation. , Tax Policy Center and Open Source Policy Center tax model that was created by the American Enterprise Institute and a former economist at the Treasury Department

Some 84% of the 100 economists reported that in the year since the 2017 tax cuts passage, it “has not caused their firms to change hiring or investment plans.” So where is all that money going? Where else? Share buybacks, which hit a record $1.1 trillion in 2018. Companies actually spent more on buybacks than on capital investments in 2018’s first half.
It didn’t boost economic growth that much, didn’t start a capital spending boom or U.S. manufacturing renaissance, didn’t bring overseas profits back home, and might have led to modest job growth but little discernible wage increases. And we’ll all be stuck with the bill for a long, long time. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-the-trump-tax-cuts-were-a-bust-2019-01-30
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ELECTIONS

Mitch McConnell could be purposely ignoring Election security.
Hear a security expert accuse McConnell of letting the Russians help Republicans win the election!
Our election technology is woefully inadequate and Republicans are doing nothing about it. But Russians are!
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4811684/mitch-mcconnell-purposely-ignoring-election-security&editTime=1564946137

How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a Kentucky project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-mcconnell-backed-effort-to-lift-russian-sanctions-boosted-a-kentucky-project/2019/08/13/72b26e00-b97c-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

Many Americans do not have one of the forms of identification states accept for voting. These voters are disproportionately low-income, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Such voters more frequently have difficulty obtaining ID, because they cannot afford or cannot obtain the underlying documents that are a prerequisite to obtaining a government-issued photo ID card.
https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-sheet

Pillar of Law was set up to fight restrictions on campaign financing in the name of “free speech.”
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/03/22/donors-trust-doled-out-66-7-million-to-controversial-groups-in-2016/
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/category/spn/
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/spn/

SInce 1982 ( 37 years) Democrats have had a majority in both the House & Senate only 12 years and out of that twelve there was a Republican President for 8. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png
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TRUMP

You said you were going to drain the swamp but all you did was fill your cabinet with big business lobbyists!

Trump laughs after audience member suggests shooting migrants – video
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/may/09/trump-laughs-after-audience-member-suggests-shooting-migrants-video

Under Trump the gap in wages between races has grown.
Trump has sabotaged a law that guaranteed health insurance for many African Americans.
He has undermined protections for voting rights.
His Justice Department has stopped going after police departments that discriminated against African Americans.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/what-did-african-americans-have-lose/594994/

Trump's voters have been unnerved by all of the racial conflict during his presidency, from the white-supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the El Paso, Texas, mass shooting.
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ABORTION

Infants are very rarely born alive after abortion procedures, and if they are, doctors do not kill them. OF COURSE ! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/health/abortion-bill-trump.html All this pales into insignificance compared to the far more deaths of pregnant women when complications arise and they can't get a life-saving abortion.

Can you see how abortion is used to divert our attention away from issues that financially impoverish us - so that the rich can continue to control the country aided and abetted by us voting Republican?

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SOCIALISM -- BIG GOVERNMENT

What are we missing as this propaganda from the rich, blinds us ?
Universal healthcare
Free/affordable public college
Transform our energy system
Overturn Citizens United so that politicians are no longer bought
Raise the minimum wage to $15
End the war on drugs
Rebuild our crumbling infrastructure
Raise taxes on the 1%
Stop endless military spending
Expand Social Security
End police brutality
Demilitarized the police
-- Yep - -That's Bernies Action Plan

--- Every Developed Country in the world can afford Universal healthcare
--- Most Developed Counties in the world offer free College
--- Solar and Wind is now FAR more cost-effective than coal and is AS cost-effective as Natural Gas.
--- Citizens United: Before, After, What’s Next?
https://sunlightfoundation.com/2010/10/19/citizens-united-before-after-what%E2%80%99s-next/
--- Debunking the myth that higher wages lead to major job losses -- The conclusion is that low-wage workers received a 7 percent pay bump after a minimum wage law went into effect, but there was little or no change in employment. The study also showed that it would not cost jobs, even in states with large shares of minimum-wage workers. https://www.vox.com/2019/7/2/20678821/15-federal-minimum-wage-increase-study
--- US infrastructure is falling apart https://www.businessinsider.com/asce-gives-us-infrastructure-a-d-2017-3
--- Are you one of the 1% ? These billionaires are funding this propaganda -- find some of them here http://populationalert.org/politics/facts.htm
--- U.S. military expenditures are roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined.
--- Social Security is looking like a pretty good investment these days. ... A young worker today with average career earnings will receive Social Security retirement benefits equivalent to total employer and employee retirement contributions plus a 5.7 percent annual rate of return

According to the World Bank, 769 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2013; they are the world’s very poorest. Of these, 3.2 million live in the United States https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html

I think the middle-class has already gone -- under 30 years of Republican rule: https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/

You can vote on immigration, abortion and Gays -- but I'll vote on what's directly beneficial to me. Healthcare, Free College, a $15 Minimum Wage, More Social Security and my city's crumbling infrastructure getting fixed.

WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT MEN NOT WORKING?
Government policy can make a difference, Furman argues. Improving education and access to college could help by making workers more attractive to employers. So would spending more on helping people find jobs, as other countries do. Providing child-care subsidies and paid leave could draw more men – and women — into the workforce. Expanding the tax subsidies offered to low-wage workers so jobs are more attractive would be a plus, too.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-at-work-why-so-many-men-ages-of-25-to-54-are-not-working/

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HEALTHCARE

It is paid for in the same way that every other developed country in the world does -- they all have it ! So should we!

Every other developed country in the world has it ! So should we! Don't make me list all the uninsured in Texas that went to Mexico for Healthcare ! PS We already have it (to some extent) -- its called Medicare! Our system has Insurance policies with limited coverage where people still go bankrupt, or huge deductables. The uninsured went from 44 million before Obamacare to 22 million.

The Medicaid Coverage Gap
Thanks to 18 Republican States -- 4.9 Million Poor, Uninsured, Non-elderly Adults -- Go without Health Insurance
Obamacare (Affordable Care Act, ACA) expands Medicaid to all low-income individuals with incomes at or below 138% of Poverty ($27,724 for a family of three )
http://populationalert.org/politics/Medicaid_Gap.htm

Nationalized health is not failing -- Go to page 9 to see how US Life Expectancy is trailing behind 9 countries -- yet spending is triple https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/Universal-Health-Coverage-and-Health-Outcomes-OECD-G7-Health-Ministerial-2016.pdf
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GUNS

Enough Gun Violence ! Is mental illness causing America’s mass shootings? No, --- research shows. And there is no statistical link between playing violent video games and shooting people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/08/05/is-mental-illness-causing-americas-mass-shootings-no-research-shows/

The assault weapons ban from 1994 to 2004 was riddled with loopholes, such as allowing copycat weapons to be sold, and exemptions that limited its effectiveness.
Nevertheless studies show that fewer people in the U.S. were killed as a result of mass shootings during the ban period.
http://populationalert.org/politics/images_politics/Assault_Rifle_Ban_1994-2004.png

That's an old study (2018) that did not use enough detailed data. The Washington Post on the latest study ( you'll like this - Bill Clinton got 2 pinocchios ) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/08/bill-clintons-claim-that-assault-weapons-ban-led-big-drop-mass-shooting-deaths/

Jimmy Kimmel responds to the mass shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=323&v=sB0wWEFIr50
Stephen Colbert on the shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dMgEwQYdog

Do 98 percent of mass public shootings happen in gun-free zones?
Trump lunged for a dramatic statistic without including necessary context. He earns Two Pinocchios.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/10/do-98-percent-of-mass-public-shootings-happen-in-gun-free-zones/

Federal law barred Jody Lee Hunt from ever owning a gun. But when he wanted to buy one, it wasn’t hard: He found a seller online.
He was a felon who had spent time in prison for abducting a girlfriend. But he used the gun to kill his ex-girlfriend, a rival business owner, and two others.
He was supposed to be blocked by a federal instant background check database that licensed firearms dealers are required to query before handing weapons over to a buyer. But federal gun laws contain a major loophole: Transactions between private sellers and buyers do not require a background check.
Background checks are more effective when they work in tandem with additional requirements for fingerprinting and handgun safety training. The combination, experts say, has reduced firearm homicides, suicides and shootings of law enforcement officers, as well as illegal gun trafficking.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/us/guns-background-checks.html

Were these "law-abiding" persons carrying an AK47 high-capacity rifle with 250-round drum magazines ( as did the El Paso shooter) ? Did they need this much fire-power to save somebody? Could they have carried that rifle and magazines around with them all the time?
No, No and No !
From 1994 till 2004 Assault Rifles were Federally banned and gun deaths DID decline.
We need to do it again and include high-capacity magazines.
(Note that it was Republicans in power in 2004 that allowed the ban to expire)

To "protect yourself" by carrying an AK47 high-capacity rifle with 100-round drum magazines ( as did the El Paso shooter) ? Do you need this much fire-power to save somebody? Can you carry that rifle and magazines around with you all the time?
No, No and No !
From 1994 till 2004 Assault Rifles were Federally banned and gun deaths DID decline.
We need to do it again and include high-capacity magazines.
(Note that it was Republicans in power in 2004 that allowed the ban to expire)

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ESTATE TAX

THIS IS A LIE: All property left to a surviving spouse passes free of estate tax.
Only estates worth more $5.49 million, pay EState Tax (at 40 percent). However, family-owned farms and closely-held businesses may be able to pay less or pay in low-interest installments.

The people who pay it are among the country’s richest families. "Over two-thirds of these estates come from the top 10 percent of income earners and close to one-fourth from the top One Percent."

Only about 80 small farms and businesses paid estate tax in 2017, that's 1%.
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MINIMUM WAGE

Debunking the myth that higher wages lead to major job losses -- The conclusion is that low-wage workers received a 7 percent pay bump after a minimum wage law went into effect, but there was little or no change in employment. The study also showed that it would not cost jobs, even in states with large shares of minimum-wage workers. https://www.vox.com/2019/7/2/20678821/15-federal-minimum-wage-increase-study

Not just CNN -- Economists !! What CNN found was that higher minimum wages do not have adverse effects on employment, or the weeks or hours worked among minimum wage workers — even four years after minimum wages are increased. We didn't find adverse employment effects among women and minority groups, either. As a result, we determined that the United States can raise pay to $15 an hour by 2024 without hurting jobs, even in low-wage states. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/perspectives/cbo-15-minimum-wage-jobs/index.html

The $15 pay increase for restaurant workers in New York City represented the largest hike for a big group of low-wage workers since the 1960s, according to a new study.
During the years it raised wages from $7.25 to $15, the restaurant industry out-performed the rest of the country in job growth and expansion.
The study suggests that increasing pay for restaurant workers — who make up the bulk of low-wage earners — might not harm businesses.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/technology/businessinsider/article/NYC-s-15-minimum-wage-hasn-t-brought-the-14292931.php

Milton Friedman (Hoover Institute) admitted that pure Libertarianism is a sham .He at some point was in support of a guaranteed minimum income - to be clear …a guaranteed gov’t paid ANNUAL WAGE independent of employment . He called it The Negative Income Tax .

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MILITARY SPENDING

I guess then we should stop spending so much on the Military .
World military spending totaled more than $1.6 trillion in 2015. The U.S. accounted for 37 percent of the total.
U.S. military expenditures are roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined.
U.S. military spending dwarfs the budget of the #2 country – China.

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ECONOMY

Over the past 50 years, lots of things have changed in the United States. Here are a few examples.
1) A child’s chance of earning more than his or her parents has plummeted from 90 to 50 percent.
2) Earnings by the top 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled, while middle-class wages have been basically frozen for four decades.
3.) 68,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2018. (72k in 2017, 63k in 2016, 52k in 2015)
4) Nearly one in five children in the US are now at risk of going hungry.
5) Among the 35 richest countries in the world, the US now has the highest infant mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17469080/american-dream-steven-brill-inequality-poverty-tailspin

Its a straight line growth in wages from the Obama era. No change from Trump. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/646708799/fact-check-who-gets-credit-for-the-booming-u-s-economy

Most claims about job gains or losses from trade deals aren't credible https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/26/will-revised-nafta-deal-add-jobs-every-year

Trump consistently inflates the U.S. Trade Deficit with China. It was:

$380 billion in 2018,
$337 billion in 2017 and
$309 billion in 2016,

according to the Commerce Department. Notice that it has continued to grow under Trump.
Countries do not make or lose money on trade deficits. A trade deficit simply means that people in one country are buying more goods from another country than people in the second country are buying from the first country. (Not as Trump says "“China has been taking out of this country $500-plus billion a year for many, many years — many, many years.” )

http://populationalert.org/politics/images_politics/Vote_in_Your_Best_Interest.jpg
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IMMIGRATION

This analysis found that crime went down at similar rates regardless of whether the undocumented population rose or fell. Areas with more unauthorized migration appeared to have larger drops in crime.
The data suggests that when it comes to crime, the difference between someone who is called a legal immigrant and an illegal one doesn’t seem to matter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/upshot/illegal-immigration-crime-rates-research.html
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Read the article to find studies by:
Pew Research
Marshall Project
Uniform Crime Reporting program,
Cato Institute,
Governing magazine
University at Buffalo, SUNY,
The Upshot

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Unless of course they GERRYMANDER your State, use DARK MONEY to fund Candidates that are paid for by the rich, -- and cut your voting rights .

the Department of Agriculture estimates that about half (53%) of the nation's farmworkers are unauthorized.
In 2017 research conducted by the Cornell Farmworker Program, 30 New York dairy farmers told us they turned to undocumented workers because they were unable to find and keep reliable U.S. citizens to do the jobs.
A study commissioned by the dairy industry suggested that if federal labor and immigration policies reduced the number of foreign-born workers by 50 percent, more than 3,500 dairy farms would close, leading to a big drop in milk production and a spike in prices of about 30 percent. Total elimination of immigrant labor would increase milk prices by 90 percent.
The U.S. fruit, vegetable and meat industries are similarly at risk, and without the help of unauthorized workers, production would drop and consumers would likely see higher prices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrants-us-jobs-economy-farm-workers-taxes/

These people are so impressive -- thankyou for your bravery in sharing this.
EVERYBODY should listen to this -- so important to understanding why some kids might turn violent
But more than that -- how they may be turned !
https://www.kalw.org/post/conversation-two-former-white-supremacists-and-man-who-almost-shot-his-school

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THE ELDERLY
Senate Republicans Set Sights On Cutting Social Security
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/10/16/senate-republicans-set-sights-on-cutting-social-security/#31db52ee5da1

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ENVIRONMENT

In 2015, reducing environmental risks could have prevented more than a quarter of the 5.9 million deaths of children under 5 years.
https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/children_environmental_health/en/

Scientific consensus: Climate is warming from man-made change.
I wish it weren't true but I'd be very silly not to believe 99% of scientists.
Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seven-answers-to-climate-contrarian-nonsense/
http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

I think I'll go with the 12,000 academic papers https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/24/scientific-consensus-on-humans-causing-global-warming-passes-99

After a study of 12,000 papers from here https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326 “There was 99% scientific consensus in 2011 that humans are causing global warming.”

2019 STUDY: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware could see $4.7 billion in health benefits in 2030 if they stick with current renewable energy standards, according to a new study from MIT. That’s about a 34% return on the $3.5 billion price tag associated with actually building out that infrastructure of renewable energy sources such as wind or solar farms.
THIS RESEARCH SHOWS THAT RENEWABLES PAY FOR THEMSELVES through health benefits alone.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/15/20807800/renewable-energy-health-benefits-research-mit-study-rust-belt

No, 31,000 scientists have not said climate change is a hoax
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/30000-scientists-reject-climate-change/

The cost of doing nothing – or falling short of the ambitious goals – is greater than whatever sticker shock the Green New Deal might cause voters.
“Economists estimate that if we do not take action, we will lose $34.5 trillion in economic activity by the end of the century,” Sanders said.
“And the benefits are enormous: by taking bold and decisive action, we will save:-
--- $2.9 trillion over 10 years,
--- $21 trillion over 30 years, and
--- $70.4 trillion over 80 years.”

The trees and plants of the Amazon forest pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as part of photosynthesis. Destruction of the forest releases carbon stored in the trees and reduces the amount of carbon dioxide used by them.
“The Amazon forest holds something like 90 billion tons of carbon, and if that ends up in the atmosphere it’s not a good thing,”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-amazon-rainforest-fires/2019/08/27/ac82b21e-c815-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

the warmest month overall in the 140-year NOAA global temperature dataset record. The year-to-date temperature for 2019 tied with 2017 as the second warmest January–July on record. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201907

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RELIGION

6 reasons religion may do more harm than good
https://www.salon.com/2014/11/17/6_reasons_why_religion_does_more_harm_than_good_partner/

Through consensus voting, the Jesus Seminar has concluded that only about 18% of the words attributed to Jesus in the Gospels can accurately be assumed to be his own. Other votes rejected:- the virgin birth, biblical statements that have Jesus proclaim himself the Son of God or the Jewish Messiah, and—the cornerstone of the Christian faith—Jesus’ physical resurrection from the dead. The Seminar has also concluded that Jesus apparently had four brothers and may also have had sisters but no father named Joseph.
The story of Jesus’ arrest, trial, and execution as recounted in the New Testament, Funk has said, was suggested by prophecies in the Hebrew Bible "that early Christian storytellers arranged to have fulfilled as they told and retold the story." What the Seminar has shown is a Jesus who was a social critic and sage. He was a rebel who led a revolution against repression but who harbored no divine pretensions.

They arrive at their conclusions by scrutinizing the social, literary, linguistic, political, and religious environment in which Jesus lived, as well as that of the 75 years after his death, before the Gospels were written. Most scholars know that Jesus' disciples did not write the four gospels; much later advocates composed these gospels. They worked from oral traditions and lists of sayings or miracles. They maintain that an early compilation of Jesus’ sayings existed, as well as some of those of John the Baptist, which the writers of Matthew and Luke independently drew upon 75+ years later. They explain the resurrection as "the internal experience of Jesus’ disciples" that was later misunderstood to be historical truth.

http://www.westarinstitute.org/

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I just saw "The Family" on Netflix.
Every February since 1935 there has been a "National Prayer Breakfast". Every President since Eisenhower has attended.
What most folks probably don't know is that it originated in 1935 when 19 businessmen, in Seattle, got together to figure out how to stop workers from Unionising.
They are now a network of prayer cells 20,000-strong, "a veritable underground of Christ's men all through government."
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/secretive-christian-group-heart-d-c-politics-ready-its-close-n1040011
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The springtime strike by timber workers quickly turned violent. In an effort to reopen their mills and logging operations, employers imported scabs who were attacked by strikers. In response, sawmill owners, municipalities, and state governments mobilized security guards, police forces, and the National Guard against the strikers and attacked pickets and marches with barrages of bullets and tear gas. Before it was over, three strikers would be killed and scores more injured and hospitalized.

In July, most employers agreed to modest wage increases and a shorter work week but refused to concede the issue of union recognition. With the escalating violence, most timber workers voted to return to work in July.
Even if strikers were only partially successful in getting their demands met, the strike nevertheless had important and long-term consequences. The strike had catapulted radicals and Communists to the forefront of timber worker union politics, thus ensuring that cultures of radicalism would live on in Northwestern timber unions. More importantly, as the first region-wide action of loggers and sawmill workers in the Depression, the strike created a shared sense of purpose and a regional identity among timber workers that would greatly contribute to the founding of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) in 1937.
In time, the IWA would rise to become the largest and one of the most powerful unions of the West Coast CIO and help shape the political and social landscape of the Pacific Northwest throughout the remainder of the 1930s and through the 1940s.
http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/encyclopedia/timber_strike_intro.shtml

This jew doesn't give a damn about Christianity. Trying to indoctrinate the Religious Right. His sole goal is to stop working Americans from electing a Democratic Representative to Congress.
http://populationalert.org/politics/David_Horowitz.htm

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OPIODS

The root cause of this Opioid Epidemic is the FDA's illegal approval of Opioids , -- bribed by the Drug Cos..
And Republican's Bill to curb the DEA
http://populationalert.org/politics/Opiod_Crisis_History.htm
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Believe it or not the same guy's Computer Analytics that got Trump elected also got the LEAVE vote in BREXIT !
http://populationalert.org/politics/robert_mercer_Trump_Puppeteer.htm#brexit

Talking of 2nd Amendment - checkout how Cambridge Analytica used the FB Personality Test data to Psychologically Target http://populationalert.org/politics/robert_mercer_Trump_Puppeteer.htm#election
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ENDANGERED SPECIES

Unable to kill or neuter the act legislatively because of strong support for the law even in the Republican-held Congress of the first two years of his presidency, Mr. Trump now is eviscerating it by gutting regulations that make it effective. Perhaps most crucially, the rule diminishes “critical habitat” protections, like those for areas formerly occupied by now-endangered species, though such habitat is the only hope many depleted species have for eventual recovery.
The tragedy of this situation is that the Endangered Species Act has been such an enormous success in the United States that it is the model for other countries around the world.
The Endangered Species Act is our legal recognition of the stewardship responsibilities of our dominion. To take it apart is to contribute to the thanklessness — one might say contempt — for what has made our nation great.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/opinion/endangered-species-act-trump.html

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BALTIMORE
In 2014, Maryland elected Larry Hogan, a Republican suburban real estate developer, as governor. Hogan put less pressure on state offices to work closely with the Baltimore’s police.
"The police vented about the impossibility of doing their job in a department in meltdown. They were bitter about being constantly “drafted” into mandatory overtime — departures and anemic recruiting had left the department with only 2,500 sworn officers, down 500 from five years earlier."

The city initiated the process after the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, and it calls for major changes in the way officers interact with citizens. The court has done its job and reviewed the decree and determined that it’s fair, adequate, and in the public interest.

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James Graham, who wrote Brexit: The Uncivil War,
Dominic Cummings meets and hires Canadian Zack Massingham, co-founder of AggregateIQ, who offers to build a database using social media tools of voters who are not on the UK electoral register but are inclined to vote to leave. In a separate sequence, Arron Banks meets Robert Mercer, who discusses the potential of social media database tools.

AggregateIQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AggregateIQ
AIQ created Ripon, Cambridge Analytica's campaign software platform, which was largely funded by the Cruz campaign.[1]

On 6 April 2018, Facebook suspended AggregateIQ from using its platform due to concerns of a possible affiliation with SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. Facebook stated, "In light of recent reports that AggregateIQ may be affiliated with SCL and may, as a result, have improperly received FB user data, we have added them to the list of entities we have suspended from our platform while we investigate."

On 20 September 2018, AggregateIQ became the first firm to be served a formal notice by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office for breaching the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. T
A documentary in 2019 alleged that AIQ's business concept consists of collecting and analysing people's data in order to personalize political fake slogans.....
AggregateIQ was deeply involved in Britain's Brexit vote, thus manipulating the vote and persuading people to vote in favor of Brexit by posting lies to users, according to Nigel Farage's wishes. The company collaborated with Farage and with Steve Bannon.

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"people who get paid to lobby cannot donate to politicians." -- isn't this always going to be unconstitutional and never get past the Supreme Court? for Represent.us

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Propaganda Mills that will get Trump re-elected:
Followers on Facebook
55k Competitive Enterprise Institute
11k CFG Action
1.3k Turning Point USA at UF
1.4m Turning Point USA
213k Project Veritas
3.3m PragerU
2.8m Being Conservative
525k RedState
5.7m Judicial Watch
5.4m The Daily Caller
32k FreedomWorks
1.8m Media Research Center
2.3m CNSNews.com
244k Exposing Liberals
2.4m MRCTV
2.9m NewsBusters
8.5m IJR Red
1.3m Mark Levin
999k Young Conservatives
848k WND
1.2m Newsmax
1m National Review
2m The Heritage Foundation
310k Christian Coalition
1.7m Heritage Action for America
568k Carly Fiorina
5.7m Dr. Ben & Candy Carson
8.5m Sean Hannity
2.1m Ted Cruz
2m Rand Paul
325k Jeb Bush
24m Donald J. Trump
1.4m Marco Rubio
1.2m Chicks On The Right
http://populationalert.org/politics/facts.htm