Women’s March and Louis Farrakhan

The Women's March was a worldwide protest that began on January 21, 2017 to advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues, including women's rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, reproductive rights, the natural environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, freedom of religion, and worker’s rights. However, most of the rallies were aimed at Donald Trump immediately following his inauguration as President of the United States, largely due to statements that he had made and positions that he had taken which were regarded by many as anti-women or otherwise offensive. 

According to organizers it was meant to “send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights.” 

On November 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, in reaction to Trump's election campaign and political views and his defeat of female presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a women named Teresa Shook of Hawaii created a Facebook event and invited friends to march on Washington in protest.

The Gathering for Justice Funding

According to the Media Research Center, the Gathering for Justice received $100,000 from George Soros funded groups from 2005-2014. Brietbart has reported that The Gathering for Justice has been the recipient of numerous grants from Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

Its founder, Harry Belafonte, also serves on the board of the Advancement Project, which was one of four primary recipients of money from a group created in 2008 called the Election Administration Fund. 

The Fund reportedly raised between $5.1 million–$1 million from Soros’ Open Society Institute.

Tamika Mallory:

Tamika Mallory posted a photo on Instagram of herself at Farrakhan’s Saviours’ Day speech last week. Called out on her presence at the speech, Mallory tweeted a response “If your leader does not have the same enemies as Jesus, they may not be THE leader!” 

Mallory further pushed back by stating, “I am a strong black woman.” Actually, her putrid equivocation over Farrakhan speaks to the opposite of strength. Tamika D. Mallory is an activist, the founder of Mallory Consulting, and the national co-chair for the Women’s March. She is an advocate of gun control, feminism, the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Her parents were founding members of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN), a leading civil rights organization throughout the United States. Mallory went on to become the youngest Executive Director at NAN. She worked at NAN for 14 years. 

Mallory is a single mother to her son, Tarique. Sixteen years ago, her son’s father, Jason Ryans, was reportedly killedafter stealing two firearms from a friend he sold drugs with. Mallory explains that her experience with NAN taught her to react to this tragedy with activism. Her son is now 18 and an active member of NAN.

She is currently on the board of directors for Gathering for Justice, an organization aimed at ending child incarceration and working to eliminate racist policies that reproduce mass incarceration.

Carmen Perez:

Carmen Perez repostedMallory’s Instagram post from Saviours’ Day—and had previously posted a photo of herself holding hands with Farrakhan, and shared videos of him “dropping knowledge” and “speaking truth to power.” 

Carmen Perez is a social activist, and executive director of The Gathering for Justice.

Linda Sarsour:

Linda Sarsour attended a Nation of Islam event in 2015. She is a self-described “Brooklyn-born Palestinian-American-Muslim racial justice and civil rights activist,” and serves as “the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, co-founder of Muslims for Ferguson, and a member of Justice League NYC.”

Justice League NYC was co-founded by Carmen Perez and Marvin Bing, Jr. in 2013 as a task force of The Gathering for Justice.  

Sarsour's early activism included defending the civil rights of American Muslims following the September 11 attacks of 2001. 

Sarsour became a regular attendee at Black Lives Matter demonstrations as well as a frequent television commentator on feminism. 

She has been active in opposing the Trump Administration's ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, and she was named lead plaintiff in a legal challenge brought by the Council on American–Islamic Relations. 

Sarsour has voiced support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, which has led to criticism by American conservatives and leaders of the Anti-Defamation League, many of whom see the campaign as anti-Semitic. 

Sarsour has stated that Israel has the right to exist, that she wishes to see Israelis and Palestinians coexist as part of a one-state solution, and that she does not support either Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.

Links between Women’s March and #MeToo or Time’s Up?

There is evidence of any structural link between the Women’s March and either the #MeToo movement or the Time’s Up movement. 

Tarana Burke, the creator of the #MeToo movement, has given various speeches at Women’s Marches and received recognition from the organization. 

In February ‘The View’ had #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, Women's March co-chair Tamika Mallory, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors all appear on the show at the same time.

Sessions Visits California After Trump Administration Sues California Over Sanctuary Laws

Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech at the 26th Annual Law Enforcement Legislative Day hosted by the California Peace Officers' Association in Sacramento, California. 

Sessions told Californians, "We have a problem" as it relates to illegal immigration. Sessions told law enforcement officers that the Justice Department sued California because state laws are preventing federal immigration agents from doing their jobs. Sessions said that California's laws are unconstitutional and a "plain violation of common sense." 

Earlier today, Sessions portrayed California as actively obstructing the efforts of ICE agents. He cited a case earlier this month in which Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned of pending ICE raids in the city.

In Sessions’ remarks, he rebuked California officials for their continued efforts to thwart stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants, who make up a significant portion of the workforce there. 

“A refusal to apprehend and deport those, especially the criminal element, effectively rejects all immigration law and creates an open borders system,” Sessions declared. “Open borders is a radical, irrational idea that cannot be accepted.” 

Sessions said laws that limit information sharing essentially force ICE officers into more dangerous operations where they have to confront those they’re seeking in the community where they could have greater access to weapons. “That’s not just unconstitutional, it’s a plain violation of federal statute and common sense,” Sessions said. 

Governor Jerry Brown tweeted today saying, “At a time of unprecedented political turmoil, Jeff Sessions has come to California to further divide and polarize America. Jeff, these political stunts may be the norm in Washington, but they don’t work here. SAD!!!”

Gary Cohn resigns as Trump's top economic advisor

On Tuesday, March 5, White House national economic council director, Gary Cohn announced that he would resign as President Trump’s top economic adviser. The resignation comes after President Trump announced that he would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. However, White House officials insisted that there was no single factor behind the departure of Mr. Cohn  

Over the summer, Cohn reportedly drafted a resignation letter, following the president's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va.   

At a meeting with steel and aluminum executives last Thursday where Trump announced the move, Cohn argued against it, warning about price increases for steel and aluminum products, according to a person in the room. 

Gowdy, Goodlatte Demand Appointment of Special Counsel

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) made a request Tuesday in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that they want a special counsel to investigate potential government surveillance abuse as well as possible bias and conflicts of interest at the U.S. Justice Department and FBI. 

“This is not about either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. This is about how the world’s most important law enforcement organization handled one of the most important investigations that it’s been charged with,” Goodlatte said on Tuesday. 

Sessions has already said that the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, is investigating potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but Goodlatte and Gowdy argue the Justice Department can't review itself and claim a special counsel could conduct a much broader investigation. 

On Tuesday, Gowdy and Goodlatte wrote, “Matters have arisen—both recently and otherwise—which necessitate the appointment of a Special Counsel. We do not make this observation and attendant request lightly.” 

“What changed for me was the knowledge that there are two dozen witnesses that Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General, would not have access to,” Gowdy said. “When I counted up 24 witnesses that he would not be able to access were he to investigate it, yeah only one conclusion, that’s special counsel.” 

Among those names were a trio of senior FBI officials who have since left the bureau: former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and James Rybicki, Comey’s former chief of staff.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, slammed the special counsel request, calling it an attempt to distract from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Judicial Watch Lawsuit

On Monday, March 5, Judicial Watch filed two lawsuits against the Justice Department. Judicial Watch is suing the Justice Department related to Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr and their involvement in the famous anti-Trump dossier.  

The lawsuits follow the Justice Department’s failure to respond to Judicial Watch’s December 2017 Freedom of Information Act requests about the couple and their connection to research firm Fusion GPS. The lawsuits are based on emailed FOIA requests filed December 7, 2017 and December 12, 2017.  

Judicial Watch’s first lawsuit, related to their FOIA request from Dec. 7, 2017, seeks records of contact or communications between Ohr, Steele, and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, along with any other Fusion GPS employees; calendar entries, and travel requests for Ohr. 

The second suit is connected to the group’s Dec. 12, 2017 FOIA request, seeking emails, text messages and chats between Justice Department officials in the Attorney General’s office and Nellie Ohr. It specifically requests information regarding Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, and what role, if any, she played in the construction of the dossier. 

Americans At Risk of Retiring Broke

For the third year in a row, GOBankingRates surveyed adults across the U.S. to find out how much the average American has saved for retirement.  

Each survey targeted a specific age group: millennials, Generation X and baby boomers — and included about 1,000 respondents per group.  

Each age group was asked the same question: “By your best estimate, how much money do you have saved for retirement?” The 2018 Retirement Savings survey found that 42 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved. On average, adults 65 and older spend almost $46,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Mail Time!

• When a country’s news outlets become corrupt and dishonest and the nation is in danger of collapse and the people can no longer trust the media, the result is national confusion. When national confusion results then a nation is ripe for takeover. If the USA is to avoid this the good people will have to initiate legal repercussions for dishonest reporting.
• The government has checks and balances, but who oversees the press? What recourse does anyone have?
• Bill, thanks for the honest reporting. I’m reading Killing England and the book is so factual that it’s a problem to put it down. The fake news is dividing our country and I know they are protected by the first amendment, but isn’t this a threat to National security?

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