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| Arnold On The Future Of America • November/December 2023 |
| 2023-12-02 |
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| Pictured: Jewish Paul Kessler, 69, minutes before he was attacked with a megaphone and killed in 'hate crime' on California's streets during clash between protesters at Israel-Palestine rally |
| 2023-11-07 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Rabbi Barclay said police had identified a suspected who was involved in an altercation with Kessler before he fell, but there were conflicting witness reports as to whether Kessler was pushed or tripped. The Jewish Federation said in a statement: 'While we wait for more information from our law enforcement partners, we remind you that this is the fourth major anti-Semitic crime committed in Los Angeles this year alone. |
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| FTX sues former Hillary Clinton aide over $700 million in 'misappropriated funds' |
| 2023-06-24 |
[NYPOST] FTX is seeking to claw back some $700 million from a former aide to Crooked HillaryClinton  ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... -turned Hollywood super agent who was allegedly showered with cash by disgraced fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried. The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange took legal action on Thursday against Michael Kives, who was an assistant to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and his company, K5 Global, and firm co-founder Bryan Baum. According to court papers filed in bankruptcy court in Delaware, Bankman-Fried authorized the transfer of $700 million to K5 entities in 2022, and he leaned on K5’s celebrity and business connections in his effort to obtain rescue financing in the days before FTX went bankrupt in November 2022. As The Post reported in December, Kives — whose celebrity connections include Warren Buffett, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katy Perry, and Kendall Jenner — stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of K5 Global’s business relationship with FTX’s now-defunct investment arm, Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried, who has been indicted on fraud and money laundering charges by the feds, described Kives as "probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met," and "a one-stop shop" for political relationships and celebrity partnerships, according to the complaint. Related: Sam Bankman-Fried: 2023-04-30 Biden blasts 'MAGA Republicans' as 'the real problem' at DNC reception Sam Bankman-Fried: 2023-03-29 Sam Bankman-Fried paid $40M bribe to Chinese officials to unfreeze accounts: feds Sam Bankman-Fried: 2023-03-15 Madagascar migrants death toll hits 34 after boat sank |
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| Laura Ingraham Issues On-Air Correction For Hoax She Covered: ‘Turns Out the Group Behind the Claim Made it Up' |
| 2023-05-21 |
| [MEDIAite] Fox News host Laura Ingraham issued a correction on The Ingraham Angle, Friday after a story she covered about homeless veterans being kicked out of hotels to make way for migrants turned out to be false. Toward the end of her Friday show, Ingraham announced, "Alright, before we go, a little update on a story we brought you this week about homeless vets being displaced from hotels so that illegals could move in." "Turns out the group behind the claim made it up," she said. "We have no clue as to why anyone would do such a thing, but we’ll bring you any updates should they come." The false story, which was initially reported by the New York Post, received air time on The Ingraham Angle and other Fox News shows before it was ultimately debunked. Fox News issued an update earlier on Friday during the 2 p.m. time slot. Correspondent Nate Foy revealed at the time that the network was "now looking into new reports that a veterans advocate misled lawmakers and media outlets about the story and that some homeless men may have been hired to pose as veterans." Watch above via Fox News. Related: Laura Ingraham: 2022-07-24 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls out the Chinese Communist Party for buying giant chunks of farmland and property in his state, saying it's a 'huge problem' Laura Ingraham: 2022-03-20 Boo Hoo: Leftists complain about Republicans' anti-grooming bill Laura Ingraham: 2021-08-16 The Lies Behind the ‘Pandemic of Unvaxxed' [Uncanceled News] Related: Homeless veterans: 2022-05-29 Democratic socialist congressional candidate defends calls for homeless people to occupy vacant homes Homeless veterans: 2021-12-26 'It's always great to give something back!' Arnold Schwarzenegger spends $250,000 of his own cash to build 25 new tiny homes for homeless veterans Homeless veterans: 2019-10-04 Former Army officer slams de Blasio over veterans services remark |
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| Iraq Veteran Thread Explains Why Nobody Is Joining The Military – Social Media Giants Censored The War Veteran |
| 2022-10-08 |
| borrowed from Lucianne [USASUPREME] I came of age in Ronald Reagan’s neon-tinted 1980s, complete with big hair and big action heroes. My role models were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando, Sylvester Stallone in Rambo, and Carl Weathers in Predator. Even James Cameron’s Colonial Marines from 1986’s Aliens made militarism cool well before the word "tacticool" (a portmanteau of tactical and cool) was invented in 2004. |
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| The political instructor is lying: Methods of Goebbels are still in demand by the West |
| 2022-04-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Kornilov [RIA] Recently, a fashion has appeared in the West for direct appeals to the Russian people, sometimes using clumsy Russian-language phrases. This tradition was founded a couple of weeks ago by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in recent days has been creatively developed by the British media and Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally. The Daily Mirror newspaper even came out with the Russian-language headline "You Need to Know" on the front page. This is not counting the regular inclusions of such appeals to the Russians in the daily televised addresses of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.  All authors of fiery speeches constantly proceed from one postulate: the inhabitants of Russia are deprived of the opportunity to receive "the truth about the events in Ukraine." Compare here: —Arnold Schwarzenegger : "I am writing to you today because events are taking place in the world that are being hidden from you." —Daily Mirror: "Dear Russian friend. We are writing to you because we want you to know the truth about the war in Ukraine ... But we also know that there is no free press in Russia and you are being fed lies about the war in Ukraine every day." —Boris Johnson : "Russians deserve the truth . You deserve to know the facts." That is, they seriously decided there that the citizens of Russia are cut off from world news and, as in the good old days, they still listen to foreign "voices" through tube radios, trying to catch the sound that sometimes breaks through the "jammers". How badly they know our people and understand the situation in Russia! This was clearly confirmed by Johnson, who imagines himself to be Prometheus, carrying secret knowledge about "fire" to the Russian people - in this case, about the mysterious abbreviation VPN. And how, one wonders, before Boris, we could guess about such a miracle of modern technology? If necessary, our people are ready to share this knowledge with the British, we do not mind. I would like to remind Western critics who have suddenly "beloved the Russian people" that it is not Russia that has begun to turn on the "jammers", as it was during the Cold War. It is in the West, contrary to all their fairy tales about "freedom of speech" and their own laws, that they mercilessly began to clean up the information space from the Russian media and even from social media users who sympathize with Russia, who were branded with a single label "Kremlin propaganda". And our measures were just responsive and symmetrical. Schwarzenegger and Co. really think that we have not seen footage of the destruction in Mariupol or other cities. Confessing his "love for the Russian people", Arnold refers to his childhood memories of a meeting with our great weightlifter Yuri Vlasov. Ask Schwarzenegger now if he has heard anything about what has been going on for eight years and is still going on in Makeevka , the city where his childhood idol was born, the ex-governor of California will certainly be surprised. Show him the footage of how the Ukrainian troops ironed this city in 2014-15, and ask why he didn’t remember the name of the great Vlasov then, he will shrug his shoulders, and nothing more. Kindergartens, schools, and hospitals in Makiivka were all subjected to shelling. But there were no such appeals to the Ukrainian people and to the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Western actors, politicians, writers. They were not interested in it. Boris Johnson believes that the Russian viewer or reader has not heard anything about the events in Bucha at all. And as soon as we turn on the VPN and read the British press, the veil will immediately fall from our eyes. Come on, he doesn’t even suspect that somewhere, but in our media the events in the town near Kiev are analyzed frame by frame, minute by minute, with reference to primary sources, including, first of all, Ukrainian ones. I have not seen in any Western publication such a detailed analysis of these horrific shots as we have. Perhaps that is why I did not see that a thorough analysis of the chronology of events in Bucha refutes the myths about "cruel Russians who executed defenseless people." ZAKHAROVA ACCUSED WESTERN JOURNALISTS OF COMPLICITY IN CRIMES IN BUCHA For example, it is shown everywhere here by the mayor of Bucha, who solemnly declared on March 31 the city "liberated from Russian orcs." This is what we have shown footage in which this mayor (note, together with Ukrainian police detachments) is already on April 1 in the center of the town. We are wondering where the heap of dead bodies is on the streets of a small settlement, which received the status of a city quite recently. It is in our media that the video of the National Police of Ukraine about the cleansing of Bucha, filmed on April 2, is being played. And at the same time, they quote a Ukrainian militant who asked for permission to shoot at people "without blue bandages." For some reason, they are actively trying to clean up this video from the networks, but it is our media that bring it. Schwarzenegger and Johnson do not want to ask. Or does someone in the West think that our public is not shown the "sensational" satellite images from Bucha that The New York Times shared and which allegedly prove that the bodies on the streets have been lying untouched since at least March 19? It was the Western media that obediently, without any critical analysis, repeated this thesis after the "enemy of the American people" (as Donald Trump lovingly called this newspaper). Our journalists, however, analyzed these pictures in detail, posing questions that you just will not find on the pages of either this newspaper or any other Western one. MOSKALKOVA COMMENTED ON THE FAKES ABOUT THE PROVOCATION IN BUCHA For example, none of the numerous analysts in the West raised the question of how the bodies could have been so preserved and not decomposed for more than two weeks of warm weather. It was we who carefully analyzed the daily temperature in Kyiv and its environs starting from March 19 and found out that sometimes these days it reached 20 degrees Celsius there. But the hordes of Western journalists who have flooded Bucha in recent days are calmly filming these bodies and do not even wonder why they do not need respirators to be near a place where the putrid smell should simply knock you down. There were no questions anywhere about why in more than two weeks none of the townspeople, neighbors, relatives, acquaintances of the dead missed them, found them on the streets, did not call for help, did not call the same police, who worked in the city even while the Russian units were there. It is we who want to know the whole truth about the tragedy of the inhabitants of Bucha, not they. And now let's ask Johnson: why does a Russian user need a VPN? What additional information can he learn about the events in Bucha that they don't say and don't analyze in detail on Russian TV? Here, the British viewer would discover a lot of new things if for a moment he renounced the Russophobic propaganda and fakes of his media and got acquainted with Russian materials. Both in London and Washington understand this very well, and therefore they are actively cleaning up any information from Russia. KYIV WANTS TO ACHIEVE A COMPLETE BAN ON RUSSIAN TV CHANNELS IN EUROPE Although it doesn't always work. The Dutch press, for example, laments the fact that the Forum for Democracy party, which recently boycotted Zelensky's virtual speech in their parliament, continues to accuse the West of unleashing the conflict in Ukraine even after the events in Bucha. And the Financial Times pointed to the most serious problem in Asia and Africa : they say, like Twitternor bans accounts for the hashtag @IStandWithPutin ("I'm with Putin"), where the audience still believes "Russian propaganda" and again blames the West for everything. It would seem to be asking why people, who have more access to information than the British or Americans with their carefully censored social networks, tend to trust the Russian media? Maybe because they immediately understand who the truth is behind? But the conclusion is unequivocal: so much the worse for the truth - we need to further strengthen censorship for our media and spread more lies about Russia. The example of the Russian-language appeal of the British Daily Mirror is the most indicative, since it was drawn up in the worst traditions of Goebbels' propaganda. Eighty years ago, the trenches of the Red Army were constantly bombarded with leaflets: "The political instructor is lying to you. In German captivity, you are not tortured or killed, but treated well!" So the Mirror writes without a twinge of conscience : "Your president is lying when he says that Ukraine poses a threat to Russia and is full of Nazis." And the same newspaper cites the most monstrous fake under the heading "A woman raped and killed by Russian soldiers who marked her body with a swastika." The lie is terribly cynical, since the article cites a photo of the body of a woman found in the basement of Mariupol School No. 18, which was turned into a base for Azov militants. The picture has long bypassed all the Russian media, caused a wide resonance, about the fact of the atrocity, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a case on March 28, and the Mirror writes a week later that it was unable to determine "where the photo was taken". But the newspaper already knows, you see, that the girl was allegedly raped and killed by the Russian military. Since, you understand, admit that this is the victim of the Nazis of "Azov", the leaflet "The political instructor is lying to you that Ukraine is full of Nazis" immediately loses all meaning. And how, tell me, are the methods of Mirror in this case different from the methods of Goebbels?! And now let Johnson answer the question for himself: how would accessing British sites via a VPN change the mind of an informed reader who knows (thanks to the Russian media, he knows!), Where and when the terrible photo of a tortured woman was taken? For some reason, this photo was hidden from the British audience for a week, and not from the Russian one. If a resident of London or Edinburgh had access to our TV channels blocked by the Johnson government, he would be able to receive truthful information about events in Ukraine and Donbass , and not these primitive fakes of his yellow newspapers. But that's why "Prometheus" Johnson explains to us, not to them, what a VPN is. |
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| 'It's always great to give something back!' Arnold Schwarzenegger spends $250,000 of his own cash to build 25 new tiny homes for homeless veterans |
| 2021-12-26 |
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| Hollywood Apocalypse: The rich and famous are fleeing in droves as liberal politics and coronavirus have turned the City of Dreams into a cesspit plagued by junkies and violent criminals |
| 2020-08-16 |
| [MAIL] Gold's Gym has become synonymous with the Hollywood Dream. Set just a few hundred yards from the ocean in sun-kissed Venice Beach, Los Angeles, Gold's was the backdrop for Pumping Iron, the 1977 documentary which followed a young, unknown Austrian bodybuilder called Arnold Schwarzenegger as he prepared for the Mr Universe contest. The film turned him into an overnight sensation. He would go on to become a global superstar, marry a member of the Kennedy clan, and become Governor of California. Yet today Gold's sits amid post-apocalyptic scenes which have consumed much of LA, turning the City of Dreams into an urban nightmare from which people are fleeing in droves. |
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| We need legislation against ‘killer robots,’ Human Rights Watch says | |
| 2020-08-12 | |
 [NYPOST] It’s a Hollywood blockbuster premise rooted in our not-so-distant future.For decades, robot thrillers such as "The Terminator," "Blade Runner" and "Westworld" have warned viewers that our reliance on artificial intelligence is a real threat to civilization. Now, real-life researchers with the Human Rights Watch are sounding the alarm on potentially world-ending "killer robots," according to a new report.The message comes as part of their Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, which calls for a global ban on "fully autonomous weapons." In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby. "Removing human control from the use of force is now widely regarded as a grave threat to humanity that, like climate change, deserves urgent multilateral action," said Mary Wareham, advocacy director of the arms division at Human Rights Watch, in a blurb on HRW.org, whose campaign is pushing for "an international ban treaty" on AI-operated weapons. | |
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| John Kerry Recruits Bill Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio for New Climate Coalition |
| 2019-12-01 |
The forthcoming organization’s website states their chief objective is to mobilize resources to tackle global warming in a way akin to the Western allies in World War II. The New York Times reports that John Kerry, who served as a senator in Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, has recruited former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and former Republican governors John Kasich and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A-listers such as actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher, and rocker Sting are also on board. Over 60 figures are said to have signed up for the coalition. "We’re going to try to reach millions of people, Americans and people in other parts of the world, in order to mobilize an army of people who are going to demand action now on climate change sufficient to meet the challenge," Kerry said in an interview with the Times. Kerry has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s environmental policies, calling them "profoundly dangerous" for the planet, and has repeatedly criticized the president’s removal of the U.S. from the 2016 Paris Agreement. Future generations will measure us by whether we acted on facts, not just debated or denied them. The verdict will hang on whether we put in place policies that will drive the development and deployment of clean technologies, re-energize our economies, and tackle global climate change," the Obama-era official wrote in an opinion-editorial for the Times last year. "Every day that goes by that we’re paralyzed by the Luddite in the White House is a day in the future that our grandchildren will suffer." |
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| California Dems Show Us the Future. Run For Your Lives. |
| 2019-11-07 |
| [Townhall] In this column, I will prove that Democrats: 1) Don't care about "Russians," (Ukrainians?) or anyone else interfering with our democracy; and 2) they also don't give a crap about guns. Let's begin by looking at the Democrats' Platonic ideal of a democracy: California! California is wholly controlled by the Democratic Party. The governor is a Democrat. The lieutenant governor is a Democrat. The attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer are Democrats. All these positions have been held by Democrats since the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was a Democrat). The state Senate is just under two-thirds Democratic, while the assembly is more than two-thirds Democratic. Both U.S. senators are Democrats, as are 46 of 53 members of Congress. And what a paradise they've created! For the last several years, with a direct pipeline to the fifth-largest treasury on the planet, California has been waging war on decent people in favor of drug addicts, the mentally ill, criminals, the homeless and transgenders. In the last century, every great thing started in California: surfing, jeans, Disneyland, tax revolts, McDonald's, movies, car culture, the Grateful Dead, right on red turns, Merle Haggard, skateboarding, Apple computer and the last two elected Republican presidents not named "Bush." Big political movements used to begin in California. Proposition 13's cap on property taxes led to President Ronald Reagan and a nationwide tax revolt. Proposition 209's ban on affirmative action was followed by Supreme Court rulings restricting the government's ability to discriminate on the basis of race. California's anti-crime rebellion, including a massive prison expansion and the voters' removal of liberal lunatic Rose Bird from the state's highest court, foreshadowed an anti-crime pushback across the country. |
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| Calif will abandon LA to SF HSR but complete Bakersfield to Merced |
| 2019-02-13 |
| SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) ‐ Governor Gavin Newsom dropped a bombshell early in his State of the State address Tuesday, announcing that California would abandon the state's plan for a high-speed rail connection between San Francisco and Los Angeles. During the address, he said that while he respects the vision of his predecessors Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, "…there simply isn't a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were." Newsom also said the project "…as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long. There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency." Newsom did say that the state would continue work to finish the high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield, dismissing critics who would call it a "train to nowhere" and citing the need to reduce air pollution in the Central Valley and tap into the region's economic potential. |
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