Fwd: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Wikia cofounder, answered 32 questions

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How is WikiTribune different from other news platforms? Jimmy Wales on May 3, 2017 Jimmy Wales answered 32 questions How is WikiTribune different from other news platforms? Jimmy Wales, worked at Wikimedia Foundation Written Wed I would say that there are two essential differences that WikiTribune has to distinguish it from most other platforms. First, we will have paid professional journalists work...  Read More » What action should media outlets take to combat fake news? Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Wikia cofounder Written Wed There are (at least) two problems that give rise to the "fake news" phenomenon. But let me pause for a minute first to define how I'm using the term for the purposes of thi...  Read More » How does Jimmy Wales get the money from Wikipedia? Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia Written Wed I don't get money from Wikipedia. I generally don't accept expenses, even. There are rare exceptions, such as in some cases where the Foundation has asked me to take a spec...  Read More » How can I work for the WikiTribune? Jimmy Wales, worked at Wikimedia Foundation Written Wed Send your resume to jobs@wikitribune.com. I usually try to answer Quora questions in a "timeless" manner but I'll also give some current information since interest is high r...  Read More » Fake news has been around for some time. What started WikiTribune at this point in time? Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Wikia cofounder Written Wed There were really two key reasons for launching now. I've been thinking about this concept for a long time, and working on what I call "community design" issues in my head ...  Read More » What are the benefits of paid journalists working alongside with the community as equal partners? Jimmy Wales, works at Wikia Written Wed There are a lot of things that paid journalists can do that volunteers doing things from home in their spare time can't do. I think the combination is stronger than either ...  Read More » What are the upcoming major projects you are currently focusing on? Jimmy Wales, I am Jimmy Wales and therefore have a reasonable amount of knowledge about what ... Written Wed The main thing I'm working on right now is WikiTribune.  Read More » How is WikiTribune's approach different from other efforts to combat fake news? Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia Written Wed How is WikiTribune different from other news platforms?  Read More » Why has Jimmy Wales picked only left-leaning figures to head his WikiTribune crowdsourced project? Why are there no Conservative advisors? Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia Updated 5h ago The people listed there now weren't chosen for their political leanings. I'm not even aware, for example, of what Guy Kawasaki's politics are. All were chosen because I have...  Read More » Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia Written Wed I've answered this question here: Why have only left-leaning figures been picked to head the WikiTribune crowdsourced project? Why are there no conservative advisors? I don'...  Read More »   Read More from this Session We sent you this email because you follow Journalism. Unfollow Journalism This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive these emails in the future, please unsubscribe.

Fwd: Matt Taibbi does Trump . . . and Hillary

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Check it out, Taibbi is really good!

John

Fwd: war evermore . . .

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The United States of Terror . . . what more needs be said?

John

Articles

• Terror Is In the Eyes of the Beholder
• Honeymoon with Generals is FINISHED

Fwd: There's no playing nice with Antifa

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From: Tom Woods 

May 3, 2017 View this email in your browser So now St. Joan of Arc is an oppressor of minorities, even though she never met or interacted with any. For today's email, let me share the comments of my friend Larry Beane, pastor of Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gretna, Louisiana. Savages in New Orleans vandalized the St. Joan of Arc statue last night. It is a beautiful guilded equestrian work of public art given to the city by her elder-sister namesake Orleans, France. The current attack on our monuments by communist thugs is being embraced and stoked by the Democrat mayor and the Democrat city council -- and their complicit allies in the local media -- with tacit approval of the Democrat governor who will not support a state monument protection act (as has been enacted or is being enacted in other states). Defenders of our monuments have been threatened, attacked, and physically assaulted by Antifa thugs while the NOPD look on, like a cow observing a new barn door, allegedly under orders to do nothing. The mayor -- who seems to be in a bit of hot water himself -- blames the peaceful multiracial crowd that gathered at the monument in vigil. The narrative is that our historical monuments are racist - in spite of the fact that most of them honor military heroes who defended the city of New Orleans from invasion, and who after the war, were leaders of a society in need of rebuilding, forces for national reconciliation, and advocates for minority civil rights. But St. Joan of Arc had nothing to do with anything racial. She likely never met a single black person in her entire short life. Her 'crime' according to Antifa and the apparatchiks of identity politics is that she was white and Christian. Remember the chant at liberal colleges and universities: "Hey hey! Ho ho! Western Civilization has got to go!" and the rejection of the 'canon' of our western intellectual tradition? That's what this is all about.  These attacks are intended to rewrite our history and tear down Western civilization: its history and heroes and symbols, its liberal intellectual tradition, its Christian ethical backbone, its emphasis on individual rights such as speech and conscience, its contribution of limited government and its libertarian streak, its capitalist economics, etc.  The Communist revolutionary experiment was an unmitigated disaster in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. So now the poison is being spread to our country, to historically illiterate young people largely born after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  This isn't about monuments.  The best construction is that our politicians are magnificently stupid and nearsighted, for the alternative explanation is far more horrifying. I'll bet that makes you feel like getting far, far away. I've got just the thing, and it involves me: http://www.ContraCruise.com   Tom Woods Our mailing address is: Tom Woods PO Box 701447 Saint Cloud, FL 34770

Tuesday's game of water polo at CMU gets a re-do on Thursday

Earlier this week, I took these photos, then was the on-deck referee, for a water polo scrimmage from 9 to 11 pm at CMU. 

Come out tonight for a re-do. Perhaps we'll get some visitors in town to join the Pittsburgh Masters for the Collegiate Club Championships at Pitt that starts on Friday morning.

Fwd: Looking forward

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If you read nothing else this week, read this!

John

Article: 

• Leading Historian Believes 'It's Pretty Much Inevitable' Trump Will Try tonStage a Coup and Overthrow Democracy.

Federal Policy Update for Funding for Summers & Jobs with new administration

FY17 Federal Budget

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POLICY UPDATE  |  FY17 OMNIBUS Dear Mark,  Congress has reportedly reached an agreement on a FY17 spending bill to fund the current fiscal year. If the bill is passed by the House and Senate, and signed into law by the President (scheduled to happen this week), we would see some good opportunities for continued support of summer learning. Some major wins for summer programs in the budget: Most important to our network, funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Center Program was increased by $25 million to $1.19 billion. This increase is a testament to your outreach on the significance of this program to your work and your students, and we thank you for these efforts! Title I was funded at $15.5 billion, a $550 million increase above FY16 (however, this increase absorbed funding from the elimination of the School Improvement Grants program). The Pell summer grants program was restored, allowing students to use these grants year-round and complete their studies more quickly.  Several important programs that support summer opportunities were preserved at their current levels of funding from FY16: AmeriCorps was level-funded at $386 million Full Service Community Schools was level-funded at $10 million Promise Neighborhoods were level-funded at $73.25 million Migrant Education was level-funded at $374.75 million Youth training under the Department of Labor (which include summer youth employment) was level-funded at $873 million Our biggest disappointment was the allocation of just $400 million for the new Title IV Part A (Student Support and Academic Enrichment) grant program within the Every Student Succeeds Act. Additionally, the structure of the program is changed to a competitive grant program at the state level, and without the comprehensive community needs assessment that was originally intended. Our coalition has reluctantly accepted these compromises for the current year only and will continue fighting for the full funding needed for robust, equitable, and community-informed programming as originally intended in ESSA. Don't forget that FY17 is just the beginning! This omnibus bill funds the government through September 2017, and talks over the FY18 budget are already underway. The Trump budget framework calls for the elimination of 21stCCLC and other critical programs, and we must keep up the pressure to continue and fully fund these programs in future years, knowing that there is robust evidence of their effectiveness. One thing you can do to make Congress aware of the importance of these programs is invite your elected officials to visit your programs this summer! Check out 2017 Summer Learning Day resources coming soon for additional ideas on how to make a splash this summer. STAY CONNECTED:

National Summer Learning Association (NSLA), 575 S. Charles Street, Suite 310, Baltimore, MD 21201

Fwd: Universal Empire

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Attached is an interesting partial history of neoconservatism in the U.S.  I refer to it as a partial history as it doesn't delve too much into more recent history nor does it refer at all to the close attachment of most of hardcore neoconservatives to hardline Israeli government policies and interests – particularly in the Middle East where the U.S. has been doing Israel's bidding by destroying several otherwise stable, though brutal and undemocratic governments via direct military action.  In my opinion this cannot be separated from the other political descriptions of this group.  It also fails to recognize that there are two, not one, conspiratorial operation at work, both of which deliberately manufacture lies, deceit and confusion for the purpose of gaining and maintaining power.  The other of note is neoliberalism.  Neoconservatism and neoliberalism are not two-sides of the same coin, even though some of those identified with one group are also identified with the other in those areas where their goals coincide.  Thus, there is great confusion among the populace about which is which and which policies and politics are identified with which group.

I am convinced that no effective strategies can be effected unless people come to understand the motives and modes of operation of these two core conspiratorial players and how they evolve strategies to maintain the populace in and quiescent, confused and distracted state.  And, in particular, how each manages to maintain different groups within the populace, who are nominally allies on many issues, constantly at war with one-another.  So do read this, it is rather long, but informative for what it does say and lacking for what it doesn't.

John

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• Universal Empire, PDF articles, 16-pages