Joining today's show are Mark Halperin, Howard Dean, Harold Ford Jr., Charles C.W. Cooke, Bill Kristol, Thomas Sanderson, David Remnick, Craig Melvin, Andrew Wylie, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Lesley Jane Seymour, Sen. Bob Corker, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor Mick Cornett, James Taylor and more.
That is funny because I kept saying that this U.S. Open felt like I was watching a tourney in Britain or in England somewhere. I could not tell if it was fun for these guys playing at it or if it was a nightmare. Regardless of what i and harold Ford Jr. thought about the course itself, Jordan Spieth wins historic title for second major in a rather bitter sweet way.
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-5 J Spieth (US); -4 L Oosthuizen (SA), D Johnson (US); -3 A Scott (Aus), C Smith (Aus) B Grace (SA); -2 C Schwartzel (SA); -1 B Snedeker (US);Level R McIlroy (NI), S Lowry (Ire), J Day (Aus)
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Selected others: +3 S Garcia (Spa); +5 T Fleetwood (Eng), J Gunn (Sco), J Rose (Eng), M Warren (Sco); +6 P Casey (Eng); +9 L Westwood (Eng); +11I Poulter (Eng); +12 L Donald (Eng)
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USA's Jordan Spieth added the US Open title to his Masters victory after a thrilling climax at the much-criticised Chambers Bay. The 21-year-old carded a one-under 69 to win his second major of 2015 by one shot on five under after Dustin Johnson three-putted the last from 12 feet. South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen sank six birdies in his last seven holes in a 67 to tie with Johnson for second. World number one Rory McIlroy (66) briefly threatened but ended level par.
Spieth, who remains on course to become the first player to win all four majors in a calendar year, is the youngest player to win the US Open since Bobby Jones in 1923. He is the fourth-youngest player to win two majors and the sixth to win the Masters and US Open in the same year. "I'm in shock but I feel for Dustin," said Spieth. "It's cool to be able to have two legs of the grand slam now, and to conquer golf's hardest test - the US Open is conquering the hardest layout in all of golf. "I didn't have my best ball-striking at all and really grinded over those four or five-footers - that was the difference."
Johnson said: "I did everything I was supposed to do. I hit the ball really well. I just really struggled getting it in the hole. I didn't think I was hitting bad putts, they just weren't going in."
An astonishing finish
Spieth, the world number two, started the final round in a four-way tie for the lead with Johnson, Branden Grace and Jason Day of Australia on four under.
He bogeyed his opening hole to drop back to three under but 12 pars and two birdies followed to keep the Texan in touch before a three-shot swing on the 16th put him three clear with two to play.
Spieth and playing partner Grace were both five under but the South African, who had played solidly for 15 holes with two birdies and a bogey, hit his tee shot 50 yards right and out of bounds.
That led to a double-bogey six and he dropped to three under, while Spieth drained a 28-foot birdie putt to move to six under.
Johnson, playing in the final group with Day, led by two at one stage after a couple of birdies in a bogey-free opening nine holes.
He looked to have cracked on the back nine, though, with three bogeys in four holes dropping him back to three under after 13.
However, Spieth and Johnson were level after the par-three 17th. Spieth found trouble with his tee shot and double-bogeyed while Johnson hit the green and holed his birdie putt.
Both players missed eagle putts on the last but after Spieth kept his nerve to hole his fourth shot, Johnson pushed his attempt wide.
A Day too farAustralian Day, who shared the overnight lead, never looked comfortable on Sunday as he continued to battle the effects of the vertigo that had troubled him since the end of Friday's round.
He countered three bogeys with two birdies on his front nine but a double-bogey six on the par-four 13th effectively ended his challenge and he finished with a four-over 74 and level-par total.
The tone for an extraordinary final day of an extraordinary tournament was set when Northern Ireland's McIlroy holed six birdies in his opening 13 holes, including an incredible 72-foot putt.
That lifted the 2011 US Open champion from four over to two under but his momentum was halted when he missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 14th and a six-foot par putt on the 15th.
A further bogey followed on the 17th and he finished with a par five at the last.
"It just wasn't meant to be, I didn't play the last few holes well all week," he told BBC Sport.
"It's going to take a few days to get over it but when I look back on it I'll be happy about it - a few missed putts will have made the difference."
With McIlroy ripping up the course, Australian Scott, who started the day on three over, crept almost unnoticed into contention with four birdies in his opening 11 holes.
The 2013 Masters champion, who finished tied ninth at the US Open last year, birdied the 16th and 18th to set the clubhouse lead at three under.
Scott's fellow Australian Cameron Smith, 21, shot up to a tie for fourth with an eagle-three on the 18th after his fairway-wood approach rolled to within a couple of feet of the hole.
Wonderful OosthuizenThe South African, who won the 2010 Open, was nine over par early in Friday's second round but two four-under-par 66s saw him start the final round at one under.
Three consecutive bogeys on the front nine looked to have put him out of contention. However he played the back nine in just 29 shots, with six birdies in his last seven holes to take the clubhouse lead off Scott.
And it took a birdie-four at the last from Spieth to deny him a play-off. The good, the bad, the ugly
For all the criticism of the greens this week, Cheng-Tsung Pan of Chinese Taipei, had just one three-putt and that came in Sunday's final round at the 13th hole. Cheng-Tsung may have been helped by being a student of the local University of Washington.
England's John Parry started Sunday on six over par. He opened his final round with five straight bogeys as he carded the worst round of the day - a nine-over 79 to drop to 15 over.
America's Chris Kirk took a sextuple 10 on the par-four first. There were no lost balls, hacks out of the rough or penalty shots, just an inability to chip a ball up a slope. He watched as his first five attempts rolled back to his feet and even when he did get the ball on he green, he three-putted. He only dropped two more shots in his eight-over 78 but finished last on 21 over.
Quotes of the dayJordan Spieth on the potential for winning the Grand Slam of all four majors in 2015, as he now prepares for next month's Open at St Andrews: "You can't win them all if you don't win the first two. We'll go to the home of golf prepared to try and win the Claret Jug."
Rory McIlroy on his level-par week: "I'm not sure if I've ever hit the ball that well in a major championship."
England's Ian Poulter was among numerous players who waited until the final round to really let rip on the state of the course: "This was the surface we had to putt on. It is disgraceful that the USGA hasn't apologised about the greens. They were simply the worst, most disgraceful surfaces I have ever seen on any tour in all the years I have played."
Chris Kirk, after finishing last on 21 over: "The US Open is a great tournament with incredible history. The USGA should be ashamed of what they did to it this week. My score has nothing to do with why I feel that way, I played poorly. The course wasn't overly difficult, just tricked up."
Lee Westwood on his Chambers Bay experience: "It's the kind of course I'd like to come and play with my mates, with a cart and some beers." In a 15-minute rant, Billy Horschel, who carded a three-under 67, said: "We're not looking for perfect greens. We're looking for something that's very consistent and this week they're not. Four is God awful. Ten is not much better where it was. That hole is in dirt. It's literally dirt. There's no grass around that hole.
Referring to the limited or no access to some holes for fans, Horschel added: "It blows my mind that they would build a golf course and not think about the fans. The fans got robbed this week." And Horschel said that a caddie was asked if there was any grass on the fourth green and replied: "Yeah, two blades, and they're not even close to each other."
Taliban Suicide Bomber, Gunmen Attack Afghan Parliament.
The Taliban launched a complex attack on the Afghan parliament Monday, with a suicide car bomber striking at the entrance and gunmen battling police as lawmakers were meeting inside to try to confirm the appointment of a defense minister, police and witnesses said. Afghan security forces managed to repel the attack, killing all seven gunmen and ensuring that no members of parliament were harmed. But the audacious assault on one of the most heavily guarded compounds in the capital came as the Taliban captured two northern districts in as many days, displaying their ability to operate on multiple fronts.
Health Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ismail Kahousi said 31 civilians were wounded in the parliament attack, including two women and two children. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the attack began with a car bomb explosion near the entrance to parliament. Gunmen then attempted to storm the compound but were pushed back by security forces and eventually corralled into a nearby building that was under construction.
Sediqqi later said all seven attackers were killed by police and that no members of parliament were harmed. "It is over now," he said. Sidiqa Mubarez, a member of parliament, said the building was rocked by the large explosion and that some people were wounded by flying glass. She said the explosion happened shortly after Masoom Stanekzai had arrived to be confirmed as defense minister, a post that has been vacant for nine months. The vote was delayed by the attack.
The Taliban claimed the attack in a statement to media.
An Associated Press reporter who witnessed part of the assault heard heavy gunfire outside parliament and saw black smoke billowing from the entrance as ambulances raced to the scene. The reporter later heard sporadic shooting from the building where the militants were said to be holed up. Just down the street, hundreds of children were evacuated from a school. Parents could be seen racing toward the building, shouting out the names of their children.
The attack on parliament came hours after the Taliban seized a second district in the northern Kunduz province, which has borne the brunt of their annual warm-weather offensive.
Mohammad Yusuf Ayubi, head of the provincial council, said the insurgents attacked the district of Dashti Archi from four sides and took full control of the area early Monday. He said local forces suffered casualties but did not have a precise count. He said around 150,000 residents of the district were trapped by the fighting. The Taliban confirmed that they had captured the district, as well as ammunition and four tanks, in an emailed statement.
The Taliban seized control of the Chardara district in Kunduz on Sunday. The insurgents attacked the provincial capital, also called Kunduz, in a surprise attack in April and nearly captured it before Afghan forces pushed them back. Afghan forces have struggled to fend off Taliban advances since the U.S. and NATO combat mission officially concluded at the end of last year. More than 2,300 Afghan soldiers, police and pro-government fighters have been killed since the start of the year -- more than the total number of U.S. troops killed since the 2001 invasion that ended Taliban rule.
The war on the Taliban has also been hampered by months of bickering between President Ashraf Ghani and his election rival turned Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, which has repeatedly delayed the appointment of a defense minister.
The parliament's mandate expired on Monday, with no date yet for new elections. Ghani's office said in a statement Friday that he would announce a date for new elections within a month and that the assembly could continue meeting until they are held.
It was not immediately clear if the Taliban attack was timed to coincide with the confirmation vote or the expiration of the assembly's mandate.
Charleston minister: 'No evildoer, no demon' can close church.
Expressions of grief, faith and gratitude on Sunday filled the space of a horrific mass killing at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, as the venerable structure was again a house of worship. Hundreds filled the pews of the historic church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"The doors of the church are open," declared the Rev. Norvel Goff during prayers. "No evildoer, no demon in hell or on Earth can close the doors of God's church," he proclaimed. They sang hymns, prayed and remembered the nine church members shot to death Wednesday night during Bible study.
One of the victims was the church's pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney. His seat behind the podium was shrouded in black cloth and uniformed police officers were present in the side aisles. Overcoming evil with faith in God was a theme throughout the service.
"It's by faith that we are standing here and sitting here," Goff said. "It has been tough. It has been rough. Some of us have been downright angry. But through it all God has sustained us." There was weeping throughout the service. People hugged each other as they looked for comfort and meaning in their grief.
"Lots of folks expected us to do something strange and break out in a riot. Well, they just don't know us," Goff said as the congregation stood and cheered.
'We're going to pursue justice'
Goff thanked the people of Charleston and South Carolina.
"We have shown the world how we as a group of people can come together and pray and work out things that need to be worked out."
Right now, he said, the focus needs to be on the grieving families of the nine victims. "There is a time and place for everything," he said.
But Goff did call for action "Let's not get it twisted. We're going to pursue justice, we're going to be vigilant and we're going to hold our elected officials accountable to do the right thing," he said. "The blood of the Mother Emanuel Nine requires us to work until not only justice is served in this case, but for those who are still living on the margin of life."
Goff thanked Gov. Nikki Haley, who was present at the service, and everyone who sent condolences, brought flowers and made donations. He also thanked the FBI and local police.
"And finally I want to say thank you to law enforcement. I have no problem in doing that. I want to thank them," he said as a huge roar of applause erupted.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and the mayors of Charleston and North Charleston were also among the worshippers.
Outside the church, crowds gathered in the street and listened to the service through loudspeakers.
When 3-year-old Cady Berardo saw the balloons at the makeshift memorial that covered the entire sidewalk, she thought it was someone's birthday. Her father, Alan Berardo, who was holding her in his arms, shook his head.
"This is a special church service," he told her, "because four days ago a lot of people died here." "So we're here today in church with God and everybody. Because we all have the same God," he told his daughter.
It was a coincidence the Berardos were in Charleston this weekend; they live about three hours away in Edgefield, South Carolina, and had planned the trip to Charleston in advance to celebrate Father's Day. "We came here because we got a chance to be here. ... We're privileged that we could actually have the opportunity to come and be here in person," Berardo said.
"Everybody's heartbroken. There's nothing we can do except show up." At 10 a.m., churches around Charleston -- nicknamed the Holy City because it has so many houses of worship -- rang their bells in solidarity with Emanuel AME.
The bell at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church rang 81 times -- nine times for each victim.
'Hate's not in me'
Law enforcement officials have said Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, admitted to shooting and killing the people he'd sat with for Bible study. He told investigators he did it to start a race war, according to one of the officials.
On Friday, Roof appeared at a bond hearing. Families of the victims addressed him and said they forgave him.
"I'm reminded of some news media persons that wondered why the nine families all spoke of forgiveness and didn't have malice in their heart," Goff said during the Sunday service. "It's that the nine families got it," he said, reminding worshippers that members' unwavering faith in God shows how to "love our neighbors as we love ourselves." On Sunday night, a unity chain will be held on the 13,200-foot Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. Organizers hope to attract enough people to hold hands and stretch from Charleston to the town of Mount Pleasant on the other side of the Cooper River.
"When something this horrendous happens this close to home, you are compelled to do something," event coordinator Dorsey Fairbairn said on Facebook.
On Saturday, hundreds joined the March for Black Lives in Charleston.
The group walked in silence to Emanuel AME Church from a nearby park, and stopped outside the church to lay flowers at the makeshift memorial.
The march ended with a rally outside the historic Daughters of the Confederacy building.
'Take it down'
In Columbia, South Carolina's capital, a large crowd filled the front grounds of the state Capitol on Saturday calling for the Confederate flag to be removed.
"Take it down, take it down," chanted the crowd, filled with people of all races and ages.
The problem of what to do with the Confederate battle flag -- a symbol of racism to many and of Southern heritage for others -- has flustered lawmakers for years.
As part of a compromise in 2000, lawmakers agreed to remove the Confederate flag from the top of the Capitol dome and place it across the street while also adding a monument to African-Americans. But the legislation mandated that only a supermajority of the legislature could change that set-up going forward.
Republican state Rep. Doug Brannon has already committed to introducing a bill to remove the flag when the legislature convenes in January.
"Personally, I have believed for years it needed to be in a museum," Brannon told CNN's Poppy Harlow on Sunday. "I apologize to the people of South Carolina. I've been in the House for five years. I should have introduced this bill five years ago." Asked why he didn't file a bill before, Brannon answered in a very straight-forward way.
"I didn't do my job." CNN's Martin Savidge and Catherine Shoichet reported from Charleston; Susanna Capelouto wrote in Atlanta.
Racist Manifesto, White Supremacist Site Appears to Belong to Charleston Church Shooter Dylan Roof.
The 21-year-old shot and killed nine people during a Bible study earlier this week. A website spouting thousands of hateful words and dozens of stone-faced Dylann Roof photos has been discovered, and it appears to belong to the Charleston Church shooter.
Roof, 21, who confessed to shooting nine people dead at a Bible study group this week, apparently purchased the domain name in February, according to media outlets that conducted a reverse domain lookup search. His mother’s home address is the registered physical one.
Currently, the website is down but its full, racist manifesto was salvaged by multiple online news organizations. The entirety of its written content is posted at the bottom of this story. Multiple media reports described the site as one littered with photos of the young man holding weapons, visiting a cemetery for Confederate soldiers, and burning and spitting on an American flag. Other pictures include a Confederate museum, and a beach photo with “1488” carved in the sand, a white supremacy encryption that stands for: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” per NBC News.
In a 2,000-word-plus rant, the site’s scribe said he became “racially aware” and “awakened” by the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager shot to death in Florida by George Zimmerman. The writer then goes on to break down other races and religions individually, calling black people “stupid and violent,” Jewish people an “enigma,” Hispanic people a “huge problem,” and East Asian people “very racist.” The website owner states that he chose Charleston because it “at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country.”
“We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet,” the writer continued. “Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.” Roof is accused of killing the nine victims at the historic black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Wednesday night.
Here is the full manifesto, as posted by multiple news outlets:
I was not raised in a racist home or environment. Living in the South, almost every White person has a small amount of racial awareness, simply because of the numbers of negroes in this part of the country. But it is a superficial awareness. Growing up, in school, the White and black kids would make racial jokes toward each other, but all they were were jokes. Me and White friends would sometimes would watch things that would make us think that “blacks were the real racists” and other elementary thoughts like this, but there was no real understanding behind it.The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?From this point I researched deeper and found out what was happening in Europe. I saw that the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries. Again I found myself in disbelief. As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there. From here I found out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.BlacksI think it is is fitting to start off with the group I have the most real life experience with, and the group that is the biggest problem for Americans.Niggers are stupid and violent. At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick. Black people view everything through a racial lense. Thats what racial awareness is, its viewing everything that happens through a racial lense. They are always thinking about the fact that they are black. This is part of the reason they get offended so easily, and think that some thing are intended to be racist towards them, even when a White person wouldnt be thinking about race. The other reason is the Jewish agitation of the black race.Black people are racially aware almost from birth, but White people on average dont think about race in their daily lives. And this is our problem. We need to and have to.Say you were to witness a dog being beat by a man. You are almost surely going to feel very sorry for that dog. But then say you were to witness a dog biting a man. You will most likely not feel the same pity you felt for the dog for the man. Why? Because dogs are lower than men.This same analogy applies to black and White relations. Even today, blacks are subconsciously viewed by White people are lower beings. They are held to a lower standard in general. This is why they are able to get away with things like obnoxious behavior in public. Because it is expected of them.Modern history classes instill a subconscious White superiority complex in Whites and an inferiority complex in blacks. This White superiority complex that comes from learning of how we dominated other peoples is also part of the problem I have just mentioned. But of course I dont deny that we are in fact superior.I wish with a passion that niggers were treated terribly throughout history by Whites, that every White person had an ancestor who owned slaves, that segregation was an evil an oppressive institution, and so on. Because if it was all it true, it would make it so much easier for me to accept our current situation. But it isnt true. None of it is. We are told to accept what is happening to us because of ancestors wrong doing, but it is all based on historical lies, exaggerations and myths. I have tried endlessly to think of reasons we deserve this, and I have only came back more irritated because there are no reasons.Only a fourth to a third of people in the South owned even one slave. Yet every White person is treated as if they had a slave owning ancestor. This applies to in the states where slavery never existed, as well as people whose families immigrated after slavery was abolished. I have read hundreds of slaves narratives from my state. And almost all of them were positive. One sticks out in my mind where an old ex-slave recounted how the day his mistress died was one of the saddest days of his life. And in many of these narratives the slaves told of how their masters didnt even allowing whipping on his plantation.Segregation was not a bad thing. It was a defensive measure. Segregation did not exist to hold back negroes. It existed to protect us from them. And I mean that in multiple ways. Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them, but it protected us from being brought down to their level. Integration has done nothing but bring Whites down to level of brute animals. The best example of this is obviously our school system.Now White parents are forced to move to the suburbs to send their children to “good schools”. But what constitutes a “good school”? The fact is that how good a school is considered directly corresponds to how White it is. I hate with a passion the whole idea of the suburbs. To me it represents nothing but scared White people running. Running because they are too weak, scared, and brainwashed to fight. Why should we have to flee the cities we created for the security of the suburbs? Why are the suburbs secure in the first place? Because they are White. The pathetic part is that these White people dont even admit to themselves why they are moving. They tell themselves it is for better schools or simply to live in a nicer neighborhood. But it is honestly just a way to escape niggers and other minorities.But what about the White people that are left behind? What about the White children who, because of school zoning laws, are forced to go to a school that is 90 percent black? Do we really think that that White kid will be able to go one day without being picked on for being White, or called a “white boy”? And who is fighting for him? Who is fighting for these White people forced by economic circumstances to live among negroes? No one, but someone has to.Here I would also like to touch on the idea of a Norhtwest Front. I think this idea is beyond stupid. Why should I for example, give up the beauty and history of my state to go to the Norhthwest? To me the whole idea just parralells the concept of White people running to the suburbs. The whole idea is pathetic and just another way to run from the problem without facing it.Some people feel as though the South is beyond saving, that we have too many blacks here. To this I say look at history. The South had a higher ratio of blacks when we were holding them as slaves. Look at South Africa, and how such a small minority held the black in apartheid for years and years. Speaking of South Africa, if anyone thinks that think will eventually just change for the better, consider how in South Africa they have affirmative action for the black population that makes up 80 percent of the population.It is far from being too late for America or Europe. I believe that even if we made up only 30 percent of the population we could take it back completely. But by no means should we wait any longer to take drastic action.Anyone who thinks that White and black people look as different as we do on the outside, but are somehow magically the same on the inside, is delusional. How could our faces, skin, hair, and body structure all be different, but our brains be exactly the same? This is the nonsense we are led to believe.Negroes have lower Iqs, lower impulse control, and higher testosterone levels in generals. These three things alone are a recipe for violent behavior. If a scientist publishes a paper on the differences between the races in Western Europe or Americans, he can expect to lose his job. There are personality traits within human families, and within different breeds of cats or dogs, so why not within the races?A horse and a donkey can breed and make a mule, but they are still two completely different animals. Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same.In a modern history class it is always emphasized that, when talking about “bad” things Whites have done in history, they were White. But when we lern about the numerous, almost countless wonderful things Whites have done, it is never pointed out that these people were White. Yet when we learn about anything important done by a black person in history, it is always pointed out repeatedly that they were black. For example when we learn about how George Washington carver was the first nigger smart enough to open a peanut.On another subject I want to say this. Many White people feel as though they dont have a unique culture. The reason for this is that White culture is world culture. I dont mean that our culture is made up of other cultures, I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as though our culture isnt special or unique. Say for example that every business man in the world wore a kimono, that every skyscraper was in the shape of a pagoda, that every door was a sliding one, and that everyone ate every meal with chopsticks. This would probably make a Japanese man feel as though he had no unique traditional culture.I have noticed a great disdain for race mixing White women within the White nationalists community, bordering on insanity it. These women are victims, and they can be saved. Stop.JewsUnlike many White naitonalists, I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European jews are White. In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem. The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities. Just like niggers, most jews are always thinking about the fact that they are jewish. The other issue is that they network. If we could somehow turn every jew blue for 24 hours, I think there would be a mass awakening, because people would be able to see plainly what is going on.I dont pretend to understand why jews do what they do. They are enigma.HispanicsHispanics are obviously a huge problem for Americans. But there are good hispanics and bad hispanics. I remember while watching hispanic television stations, the shows and even the commercials were more White than our own. They have respect for White beauty, and a good portion of hispanics are White. It is a well known fact that White hispanics make up the elite of most hispanics countries. There is good White blood worht saving in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and even Brasil.But they are still our enemies.East AsiansI have great respent for the East Asian races. Even if we were to go extinct they could carry something on. They are by nature very racist and could be great allies of the White race. I am not opposed at all to allies with the Northeast Asian races.PatriotismI hate the sight of the American flag. Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke. People pretending like they have something to be proud while White people are being murdered daily in the streets. Many veterans believe we owe them something for “protecting our way of life” or “protecting our freedom”. But im not sure what way of life they are talking about. How about we protect the White race and stop fighting for the jews. I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940’s American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion. So I dont blame the veterans of any wars up until after Vietnam, because at least they had an American to be proud of and fight for.An ExplanationTo take a saying from a film, “I see all this stuff going on, and I dont see anyone doing anything about it. And it pisses me off.”. To take a saying from my favorite film, “Even if my life is worth less than a speck of dirt, I want to use it for the good of society.”.I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.Unfortunately at the time of writing I am in a great hurry and some of my best thoughts, actually many of them have been to be left out and lost forever. But I believe enough great White minds are out there already.Please forgive any typos, I didnt have time to check it.
Obama Uses N-Word To Discuss Racism On Marc Maron Podcast. President Barack Obama said the United States has not overcome its history of racism and is using the N-word to make his case. In an interview, Obama weighed in on the debate over race and guns that has erupted after the arrest of a white man for the racially motivated shooting deaths of nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina. “Racism, we are not cured of it,” Obama said. “And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.”
Obama’s remarks came during an interview out Monday with comedian Marc Maron for his popular podcast, where crude language is often part of the discussion. The president said while attitudes about race have improved significantly since he was born to a white mother and black father, the legacy of slavery “casts a long shadow and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on.” Obama also expressed frustration that “the grip of the NRA on Congress is extremely strong” and prevented gun control from advancing in Congress after 20 children and six educators were massacred in a Connecticut elementary school in 2012.
“I will tell you, right after Sandy Hook, Newtown, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down, and Congress literally does nothing — yes, that’s the closest I came to feeling disgusted,” he said. “I was pretty disgusted.” He said it’s important to respect that hunting and sportsmanship are important to a lot of gun-owning Americans. “The question is just is there a way of accommodating that legitimate set of traditions with some common-sense stuff that prevents a 21-year-old who is angry about something or confused about something, or is racist, or is deranged from going into a gun store and suddenly is packing, and can do enormous harm,”Obama said in a reference to suspect Dylann Storm Roof, whose purported 2,500-word hate-filled manifesto talked about white supremacy. Roof faces nine counts of murder in connection with Wednesday’s shooting.
Obama sat for the interview Friday in Maron’s Los Angeles garage studio — close to where the president attended Occidental College — and seemed to marvel at the absurdity of it. “If I thought to myself that when I was in college that I’d be in a garage a couple miles away from where I was living, doing an interview as president, with a comedian … it’s not possible to imagine,” he said. But he said he did the interview because he wants to reach a nontraditional audience and “break out of these old patterns that our politics has fallen into” where “it’s not this battle in a steel cage between one side and another.” With the campaign to replace him heating up, Obama said he thinks he would be a better candidate if he were running again, because although he’s slowed down a little bit, “I know what I’m doing and I’m fearless.” “I’ve screwed up. I’ve been in the barrel tumbling down Niagara Falls. And I emerged and I lived. And that’s always such a liberating feeling,” he said.
It actually just hiot me that the POTUS wasw not in South Carolina on Sunday and honestly, (I feel) he should have been in attendance at that church. That was a bad move. It was indeed strange to hear the POTUS 'bleeped' out in an interview.
And, BTW, it is indeed time to take down the Confederate Flag from any structured and Government establishment. Calling it a State issue any more, is not correct and politically speaking, its a bad stance to take to today and/or this day and age.
Bernie Sanders delivers blistering condemnation of business, billionaires. University of Denver stump speech by Democrat candidate for president hinges on income equality, government infrastructure spending.
Breathing a progressive political fire, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ignited Colorado supporters with a blistering condemnation of billionaires and corporations, drawing a crowd of nearly 5,000 to Denver — the largest of his Democratic presidential campaign since the May kickoff. The 73-year-old Independent spoke for an hour and hit a nerve on economic issues as he advocated for an end to income inequality as well as a higher minimum wage, pay equity for women and more government spending on infrastructure.
"What we are doing tonight is we are sending a message to the billionaire class and that is: You can't have it all!" Sanders said, shouting to a crowd that filled a University of Denver gymnasium and spilled onto a nearby lacrosse field. "The unquenchable greed of the billionaire class is destroying this nation and it has got to end."
The size and energy of the crowd — which gave Sanders numerous standing ovations and repeatedly chanted his name — reflected a craving among some in the Democratic Party for an alternative to 2016 front-runner Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and first lady.
"I'm glad Bernie's running," said Diane Ford, a 73-year-old retiree from Arvada. "I like Hillary and I think she'd be a good president. But she has too much baggage. I just don't think she has what it takes."
In an interview with The Denver Post before the event, Sanders said his economic message is resonating. "I think there is a hunger on the part of Americans for some straight talk and some honesty," he said. The campaign received more than 7,000 RSVPs for the event but university officials counted between 4,800 and 5,000. The event followed standing-room only crowds in Iowa and Nevada, as well as 3,000 at a Minneapolis rally.
"This is probably the first time since 2008 I've been excited," said Eric Lecuyer, a 34-year-old who twice voted for President Barack Obama and now rattles off polling figures showing Sanders gaining ground in key states.
"I think people are excited to be excited about someone," the Denver resident explained. "Does he stand a chance against Hillary? Maybe not when he started, but now he's within in striking distance. ... And if nothing else it makes Hillary have to talk about (his issues) and move her a little bit to the left, which would be nice."
Sanders said he is "creating a political movement of millions of people who stand up and loudly and proudly proclaim that this nation and our government belongs to of all of us and not just a handful of billionaires."
But his stance on particular issues is likely to alienate some Democrats. Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, vowed to break up large banks, offer government-paid health care and overturn the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United campaign finance case, replacing it with public funding of elections.
Appealing to the crowd at the expensive private university, Sanders also said he would push to make public college tuition-free, a $70 billion plan he would fund with a "tax on Wall Street speculation."
Sanders is the latest presidential candidate to rally Colorado supporters with a visit to the state. His Democratic rivals, Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, campaigned for Colorado Democrats in the 2014 campaign. O'Malley attended a political event in May in Denver and Clinton's campaign is planning one in Colorado in coming weeks.
Mired in their own messy primary contest, Republicans are enjoying seeing a Democratic challenger undercut Clinton's campaign.
In a statement, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House "it's amusing to watch the self proclaimed socialist try to beat Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's heir apparent. The fact is that Coloradans are sick and tired of Sen. Sanders and President Obama's agenda that has hurt Colorado's working families."
Clinton v Bush: America is getting the dynastic matchup it said it didn't want. Despite rivals’ protestations, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush enjoy the support of their own party’s voters. But the other party’s dynasty candidate? Not a chance.
The first salvos in the war for the White House were fired in Miami on Monday with the two families most heavily backed by pollsters, bookies and donors officially beginning a dynastic battle unprecedented in American history. Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton have been their parties’ putative frontrunners for the 2016 presidential election since December 2014, when the former Florida governor surprised many Republicans by announcing his interest in possibly following his brother and father’s footsteps into the Oval Office.
Former secretary of state Clinton confirmed her more widely anticipated second run for the Democratic nomination in April, but it has taken another two months for both candidates to begin competing for votes – and money – in earnest and in the open. Clinton’s first big speech in New York on Saturday was matched on Monday by a similar launch event in Bush’s adopted hometown of Miami during which he mapped out a conservative approach far removed from her increasingly populist progressive agenda.
Bush told supporters - who chanted “let’s go Jeb” - that the country was on a “very bad” course but pledged: “We will take Washington – the static capital of this dynamic country – out of the business of causing problems. We will get back on the side of free enterprise and free people.”
While his campaign logo just has his first name “Jeb” rather than “Jeb Bush” he certainly mentioned his family in his speech. He said “great things” and the most “improbable things can happen” in the US, adding: “Take that from a guy who met his first president on the day he was born, and his second on the day he was brought home from the hospital.” Bush also asked the crowd to “say hello to my mom, Barbara Bush” who gave them a wave.
Clinton, in her New York rally two days earlier, was watched by her former president husband, and said she knew exactly what the job required. She portrayed herself as a champion of progressive causes saying she would make the economy work for “every American – for the successful and the struggling”, and attacked the “trickle-down economics” that she said a Republican president would bring.
Despite the early attacks, the two candidates share much else in common. Though Bush faces a much tougher field of Republican rivals and is a far less predictable choice than Clinton, both are favourites of their party establishments and traditional donors.
Both currently lead their primary races, according to national opinion surveys. An average of recent polls calculated by Real Clear Politics shows Bush half a percentage point ahead of his closest rival, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, and Clinton some 40 points up on Vermont leftwinger Bernie Sanders.
The same polling averages place Clinton 5.2 points ahead of Bush if they were to run against each – a scenario that bookmaker William Hill also consider the most likely, with odds of 10-3.
Neither family would be a stranger to the upper echelons of US government. Clinton’s eight years as first lady to husband Bill and four years as President Obama’s secretary of state is matched not only by eight years as president by Jeb’s brother, George W Bush, but four years as president by their father George HW Bush and another eight years as vice-president under Ronald Reagan.
Should either of the present 2016 frontrunners secure a second term in office and serve through 2024, Obama’s current second term with vice-president Joe Biden and secretary of state John Kerry may mark the only time in 44 years – nearly a fifth of US history – that neither a Bush nor a Clinton occupied one of these top three positions in the US executive branch.
The dynastic consequences of such a pairing in November 2016 have not gone unnoticed among many voters and rivals, of course. Bush’s familiar pedigree is already an unspoken part of the message from the more than a dozen serious rivals trying to stop it happening. Clinton has been attacked in similar – but so far polite – terms by less competitive Democratic hopefuls such as Martin O’Malley.
Yet the dislike of another Bush in the West Wing is restricted mostly to Democrats, just as it is Republicans who are most against the idea of Hillary and Bill returning to the White House. Republican consultants such as former George W Bush adviser Chris Henick point to polling suggesting particularly fond memories for the family among those who Jeb most needs to vote for him in the primary.
A recent poll carried out for CNN at the end of May showed that 78% of Democrats say the fact that Jeb Bush is the son and brother of former presidents makes them less likely to vote for him, and only 14% more likely.
However, among Republicans, there is almost a complete reversal: 48% more likely, and 32% less likely.
Privately, many Clinton supporters would also prefer her to run against Bush than a younger so-called change candidate such as Rand Paul or Marco Rubio, not least because her historic role as the first female president would compare favourably with the prospect of a third man from the same family. A number of Republican rivals such as Paul and Walker poll better against Clinton, though it hasn’t stopped much of the money flowing to the two frontrunners.
Both have also been accused of hiding the extent of their prodigious fundraising from the public: Bush by delaying the start of his legal reporting requirements by holding back his formal declaration, and Clinton by refusing to allow reporters into her many fundraising dinners, as some other candidates and President Obama do.
The lack of transparency has led some commentators to doubt whether Bush’s political action committees will hit their initial aggressive fund raising targets – up to $100m in the first quarter, according to estimates – but those close to him have little doubt the money is flowing.
“He is raising a lot of money,” says Florida lobbyist and fundraiser Van Poole, a former chair of the state’s Republican party. “I am not concerned about that at all. I think he will outraise everybody. He’s got a great base, particularly the business community in this state.”
Henick also agrees that recent legal changes in the way candidates can raise almost unlimited sums from donors to supportive committees makes it inevitable that the money trail is following a different path this cycle.
“With Citizens United [the supreme court ruling that changed the face of campaign donation] and how the landscape has changed financially, what you do now is so different from what you used to do in the past,” he says. “A lot of people have criticised him but I think he’s played it like a Stradivarius.”
Roof family releases statement following bond hearing.
Dylann Roof, who made his first court appearance Friday, has been charged with nine counts of murder in connection with an attack inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston, police said Friday.
Roof's family released the following statement late-Friday afternoon:
The Roof Family would like to extend their deepest sympathies and condolences to families of the victims in Wednesday night's shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Words cannot express our shock, grief and disbelief as to what happened that night. We are devastated and saddened by what occurred. We offer our prayers and sympathy for all those impacted by these events.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those killed this week. We have all been touched by the moving words from the victims' families offering God's forgiveness and love in the face of such horrible suffering.
Our hope and prayer is for peace and healing for the families of the victims, the Charleston community, and those touched by these events throughout the state of South Carolina and our nation.
As you can imagine, words are hard to find and we ask that the media respect our family's privacy at this time.
He was also charged with one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. Roof did not appear in person in court, as most initial hearings there are conducted over a video link with the county jail.
The magistrate presiding over Friday's hearing did not have the authority to set bond on murder charges, as the bond hearing on those charges will be heard in a Solicitor's Court.
Friday, the magistrate set bond on the weapons charge at $1,000,000, after allowing relatives of the victims to make a statement.
Overwhelmingly, the victims' relatives offered their forgiveness to Roof, one even asking Roof to take this opportunity to repent.
Daughter of victim Ethel Lance says she forgives Roof. "You took something very precious to me... but I forgive you." #CharlestonShooting
Relative of Daniel Simmons: My grandfather and others died at the hands of hate. Hate won't win. #CharlestonShooting
On Friday, Roof's first and second court appearances were scheduled. Roof will make his first court appearance on October 23 at 2 p.m., followed by a February 2, 2016.
Roof, 21, was returned to South Carolina after waiving his extradition rights following his arrest Thursday near Shelby, N.C., about 245 miles northwest of Charleston.
Gov. Nikki Haley, speaking on NBC's Today show on Friday, said that "we absolutely will want him to have the death penalty" for the fatal shooting of nine members of a Bible study group at the Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday evening. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., said at a news conference Friday that though he's not a proponent of the death penalty, it's the law in South Carolina and he expects it will be sought in the church shooting. "If you are going to have a death penalty, certainly this case would merit it," Riley said.
Police alleged that Roof opened fire on worshipers after sitting with them for at least an hour. The victims included the pastor, Clementa Pinckney, 41, who was also a state senator.
Roof allegedly told police he "almost didn't go through with (the shooting) because everyone was so nice to him," sources told NBC News' Craig Melvin.
A photo of the gunman was captured on surveillance cameras entering the church before the attack. Police also had an image of his black, four-door sedan.
Within hours, police had identified the suspect as Roof and issued an appeal for information on his whereabouts. He was taken into custody in North Carolina about 14 hours after the shooting when a citizen, who had recognized the suspect and his car from news reports, alerted police.
Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said Roof was "cooperative" when Shelby police took him into custody. Officers found a gun in the car.
The booking photo of Dylann Roof, 21, who is suspected
The booking photo of Dylann Roof, 21, who is suspected of the shooting at a church that killed nine people on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. Roof was arrested during a traffic stop on June 18 in Shelby, N.C. (Photo: EPA)
Police say they thought Roof was the lone gunman within hours of the bloody attack on the church, which was founded in 1816. Asked whether authorities believe Roof had acted alone, Mullen said: "We don't have any reason to believe anyone else was involved."
A federal law enforcement official who is not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that Roof's father had given him a .45-caliber handgun for his 21st birthday in April. Police are analyzing the weapon recovered from Roof's car after his arrest to see whether it matches the firearm used in the attack and whether it is the same gun he received as a birthday gift.
Authorities believe, as indicated by a witness to the attack, that the gunman may have reloaded multiple times during the assault, the official said. When the gunman entered the church, it is believed that he took a seat close to members of the prayer group, suggesting that the shots were fired at close range.
Authorities believe, as indicated by a witness to the attack, that the gunman may have reloaded multiple times during the assault, the official said. When the gunman entered the church, it is believed that he took a seat close to members of the prayer group, suggesting that the shots were fired at close range.
The official said it is not immediately believed the gunman targeted specific individuals, beyond a desire to attack African Americans. While launching the attack, the official said, the gunman uttered that he intended to "kill black people.'' The gunman also is believed to have told a survivor that he was allowing the person to live to report how the attack occurred, the official said.
A one-time acquaintance of Roof's told the Associated Press that he would rant that "blacks were taking over the world" as the pair got drunk on vodka.
Roof railed that "someone needed to do something about it for the white race," said the former friend, Joseph Meek Jr., according to the AP.
Special Report: Massive search for NY prison escapees moves 300 miles back toward prison.
The search for two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison has reportedly moved from a rural area near the Pennsylvania border to more than 300 miles away in Franklin County, near the Vermont border. State police announced Sunday that some 300 law enforcement officers were scouring an area in Allegany County, in New York's Southern Tier, a day after a woman reported seeing two men matching the description of escapees David Sweat and Richard Matt near a railroad line that runs along Route 20 in the town of Friendship.
Law enforcement officers searched the rural area near the Pennsylvania border Sunday, saying an unconfirmed but credible report of a sighting had shifted the search across the state. But late Sunday, news reporters in Burlington, Vt. and Plattsburgh, N.Y. reported a surge of police activity more than 300 miles away, in the Owls Head area in Franklin County, N.Y. Owls Head is roughly 47 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
"Search efforts in Allegany County, New York have ended," WPTZ News reported. At the same time, the Plattsburgh-based television station reported a heavy police presence in the Owls Head area as the search continued for the escaped prisoners. Matt and Sweat have been on the run since June 6 when they used power tools to break out of the maximum-security prison.
CBS News reported that investigators found DNA matching the escaped prisoners on an item in a cabin that had been broken into within the last 24 hours in the Saranac Lake area.
State police announced Sunday night that it will hold a news conference at noon Monday to update the public on the search. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie and Clinton County Sheriff Dave Favro are expected to speak at the news conference, outside the new command center at the old Cadyville Elementary School. The command center in Cadyville is five miles from the prison.
"Report: NYSP have escapees cornered in camp in Franklin County NY. VSP SWAT team asked to help. 12-15 miles from prison," Burlington (Vt.) Free Press writer Mike Donoghue Tweeted Sunday night.
Donoghue also Tweeted that New York State Police allegedly have confirmed Matt and Sweat's presence in a remote camp. Witnesses told WPTZ News that they saw helicopters in the Owls Head area and checkpoints had been set up Sunday night. Multiple news agencies also have reported that Vermont State Police joined in the search Sunday afternoon, at the request of the New York State Police.
First lady Michelle Obama sits in as guest editor for More magazine.
First lady Michelle Obama shares a chill-out playlist, a few family photos and a chat with actress Meryl Streep as guest editor of the July–August issue of More magazine.
“There was a lot of laughter in the room,” said Susan Pocharski, entertainment director of the women’s magazine, who moderated their recent conversation. “They were both incredibly down to earth, real, thoughtful [and] they care about the same issues that every other woman thinks about, which is how to balance work and family and how to make an impact in the world.”
Streep and Obama have forged a strong path for themselves and their children. Both said they hope to have as much effect on their children’s lives as their mothers had on them.
“My mentor was my mother,” Streep said during their conversation. “She was a mentor because she said to me, ‘Meryl, you’re capable. You’re so great.’ She was saying, ‘You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you’re lazy, you’re not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.’ And I believed her. And she said it from the time I was little. And that made me arrogant.”
They also discussed education, how to make change and what they hope their legacy will be.
“If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it’s that I have a whole lot of common sense,” Obama said. “I’ve got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations. A lot of that is because that’s who my mother is.”
On newsstands June 23, the issue also includes Obama’s review of “The Light of the World,” a memoir written by friend and poet Elizabeth Alexander. It will be Obama’s third More cover.
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Law enforcement officers searched the rural area near the Pennsylvania border Sunday, saying an unconfirmed but credible report of a sighting had shifted the search across the state. But late Sunday, news reporters in Burlington, Vt. and Plattsburgh, N.Y. reported a surge of police activity more than 300 miles away, in the Owls Head area in Franklin County, N.Y. Owls Head is roughly 47 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
"Search efforts in Allegany County, New York have ended," WPTZ News reported. At the same time, the Plattsburgh-based television station reported a heavy police presence in the Owls Head area as the search continued for the escaped prisoners. Matt and Sweat have been on the run since June 6 when they used power tools to break out of the maximum-security prison.
CBS News reported that investigators found DNA matching the escaped prisoners on an item in a cabin that had been broken into within the last 24 hours in the Saranac Lake area.
State police announced Sunday night that it will hold a news conference at noon Monday to update the public on the search. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie and Clinton County Sheriff Dave Favro are expected to speak at the news conference, outside the new command center at the old Cadyville Elementary School. The command center in Cadyville is five miles from the prison.
"Report: NYSP have escapees cornered in camp in Franklin County NY. VSP SWAT team asked to help. 12-15 miles from prison," Burlington (Vt.) Free Press writer Mike Donoghue Tweeted Sunday night.
Donoghue also Tweeted that New York State Police allegedly have confirmed Matt and Sweat's presence in a remote camp. Witnesses told WPTZ News that they saw helicopters in the Owls Head area and checkpoints had been set up Sunday night. Multiple news agencies also have reported that Vermont State Police joined in the search Sunday afternoon, at the request of the New York State Police.
First lady Michelle Obama sits in as guest editor for More magazine.
“There was a lot of laughter in the room,” said Susan Pocharski, entertainment director of the women’s magazine, who moderated their recent conversation. “They were both incredibly down to earth, real, thoughtful [and] they care about the same issues that every other woman thinks about, which is how to balance work and family and how to make an impact in the world.”
Streep and Obama have forged a strong path for themselves and their children. Both said they hope to have as much effect on their children’s lives as their mothers had on them.
“My mentor was my mother,” Streep said during their conversation. “She was a mentor because she said to me, ‘Meryl, you’re capable. You’re so great.’ She was saying, ‘You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you’re lazy, you’re not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.’ And I believed her. And she said it from the time I was little. And that made me arrogant.”
They also discussed education, how to make change and what they hope their legacy will be.
“If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it’s that I have a whole lot of common sense,” Obama said. “I’ve got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations. A lot of that is because that’s who my mother is.”
On newsstands June 23, the issue also includes Obama’s review of “The Light of the World,” a memoir written by friend and poet Elizabeth Alexander. It will be Obama’s third More cover.
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