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<\/a><\/p>\nAt the end of each year, many news organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n
WND\u2019s editors, however, long have considered it more newsworthy to publicize the most underreported or unreported news events of the year.<\/p>\n
WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored \u201cOperation Spike\u201d every year since 1988, and since founding WND in May 1997, has continued the annual tradition.<\/p>\n
Here, with the contribution of WND readers, are the 2016 picks:<\/p>\n
1. The contents of the Podesta emails:<\/b><\/p>\n
The hacking of emails belonging to Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman, John Podesta, certainly drew attention, with President Obama punishing Russia for the alleged act this week<\/a>, without any hard evidence. Podesta, himself, declared the hacking of election-related emails the political equivalent of the 9\/11 attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n What was largely missing in establishment media coverage of the approximately 50,000 Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks, however, was the content of the messages<\/a>. The emails shed light, for example, on Clinton campaign collusion with the media, pay-to-play schemes involving the Clinton Foundation when Clinton was secretary of state, Clinton\u2019s profiting from Wall Street bankers and the DNC\u2019s rigging of it primary at the expense of Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n Here are a few of the many revelations:<\/p>\n Sign the petition encouraging Congress and President-election Donald Trump to defund, discount and deport the United Nations.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n 2. The true Obama economy:<\/b><\/p>\n President Obama repeatedly has boasted that he pulled the U.S. economy from the brink of depression and into robust growth, and Politico declared in December<\/a> that Trump will inherit an \u201cObama boom,\u201d handing his successor \u201can economy that\u2019s now the envy of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n But voters apparently thought otherwise, particularly the working class in the rust belt who flipped their Democratic-leaning states to Donald Trump. And there are economists who share their skepticism of the \u201cObama recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara, the author of a report titled \u201cWhy the United States Has Suffered the Worst Economic Recovery Since the Great Depression,\u201d<\/a> noted Obama and his defenders often point out the recovery was especially strong given the depths of the financial crisis. Ferrara said that\u2019s exactly backward.<\/p>\n \u201cThe American historical record is the worse the recession, the stronger the recovery. So there should have been an economic boom coming out of the recession in the summer of 2009. Here we are, eight years later, and that still hasn\u2019t happened,\u201d Ferrara said.<\/p>\n He said it has not happened because Obama pursued a Keynesian economic strategy that is a proven failure.<\/p>\n \u201cKeynesian economics is a doctrine that the road to economic recovery is to increase government spending, deficits and debt. If that sounds crazy, it is crazy. It was introduced in the 1930s. It failed to end the Great Depression, but extended it and made it even worse,\u201d Ferrara explained.<\/p>\n Obama issued labor regulations in the last year of his presidency estimated to cost the economy roughly $80 billion over the next 10 years and eliminate 150,000 jobs<\/a>, according to a report from the National Association of Manufacturers.<\/p>\n Ferrara pointed out there was twice as much economic growth under Jimmy Carter as under Obama in his first term.<\/p>\n Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America\u2019s independent news network.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Under Obama, poverty rates skyrocketed and the middle class suffered a fiscal punch to the stomach, with income falling throughout his entire two terms in office.<\/p>\n But Ferrara has hope that President-elect Donald Trump will pursue a Reagan-like economic agenda.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reason Trump is going to create a boom is because every one of the key policies is doing the opposite of what Obama did,\u201d Ferrara said. \u201cHe has proposed to cut taxes like Reagan did. He has proposed to reduce regulatory burdens like Reagan did. He will appoint good members to the Fed that will restore sound monetary policy that will stabilize the dollar over the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n 3. The doubling of the national debt under Obama<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Perhaps the biggest symbol of Obama\u2019s economic legacy is the national debt.<\/p>\n Currently at $19.9 trillion<\/a>, it is projected to hit $20 trillion by Inauguration Day, up from $10.6 trillion when Obama entered the White House in 2009.<\/p>\n It means Obama will have added to the debt as much as all previous 43 presidents combined.<\/p>\n Two graphs illustrate why many financial analysts are concerned. The first shows the steep climb in debt under Obama.<\/p>\n image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2016\/05\/OBAMA-DEBT-chart-1-TOTAL-US-NATIONAL-DEBT-IN-ABSOLUTE-AMOUNT-May-17-2016.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The second shows the sharp rise in total U.S. credit market debt, including household debt and credit card debt, that has occurred since the 1980s. The total U.S. credit market debt hit a high of approximately 385 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 2009-2010 during the recession brought on by the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market at the end of President George W. Bush\u2019s second term in office.<\/p>\n image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2016\/05\/OBAMA-DEBT-chart-2-TOTAL-US-CREDIT-MARKET-DEBT-AS-OF-GDP-May-17-2016.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n The graph shows the ratio of total U.S. credit market debt to the GDP has fallen off in recent years, down to a current level of about 355 percent of GDP.<\/p>\n The drop-off has occurred only because household debt has been declining since 2010<\/a> while government spending has continued to rise.<\/p>\n Among the many concerns is that the staggering increase in U.S. national debt over the past eight years has limited the ability of the federal economy to stimulate the economy. Typically, monetary policy has employed deficit spending, a tool popular with economists who follow Keynesian principles of economic theory.<\/p>\n Last June, the Congressional Budget Office issued a 2015 budget assessment<\/a> concluding that the long-term outlook for the federal budget has worsened dramatically in the wake of the 2007-2009 recession and the subsequent slow recovery.<\/p>\n As a result, budget deficits rose, totaling $5.6 trillion in the five years between 2008 and 2012. Four of the five years had budget deficits larger in relation to the size of the economy than any budget deficit since 1946, the year immediately after the end of World War II.<\/p>\n The CBO concluded that the federal debt held by the public nearly doubled during this period. In 2015, the federal debt held by the public was equivalent to 74 percent of U.S. GDP, a higher percentage than at any point in U.S. history, except for a seven-year period around World War II.<\/p>\n The CBO further projected that with the continued aging of the population and the rising of health-care costs, the federal deficit will grow from less than 3 percent of GDP in 2015 to 6 percent in 2040, at which point the federal debt held by the public would exceed 100 percent of GDP \u2013 a level considered by many traditional economists to be seriously detrimental to U.S. economic growth.<\/p>\n 4. Illegal aliens\u2019 impact on national presidential popular vote:<\/b><\/p>\n Shortly after the election, as the media was making hay of Hillary Clinton\u2019s margin of more than\u00a02 million in the national popular vote, Donald Trump tweeted that he won the popular vote as well as the Electoral College tally \u201cif you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,\u201d prompting a media uproar.<\/p>\n The Fort Worth Star-Telegram insisted there \u201chas been no evidence of the widespread voter fraud that would have had to taken place to give Clinton millions of illegitimate votes.\u201d<\/p>\n But voter-integrity activists, who point out that 19 states did not require identification to vote Nov. 8<\/a>, believe Trump may be right.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote, who waged a years-long fight against the IRS over its targeting of conservative groups, pointed out that without voter ID, \u201cfraud has been institutionalized,\u201d allowing non-citizens to flood voter rolls.<\/p>\n While there are no reliable figures yet on the number of illegal-alien voters, indications of the impact are there, said the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Hans von Spakovsky, a leading researcher of vote fraud.<\/p>\n He cited a case brought by the Public Interest Legal Foundation that found some 1,000 non-citizens registered to vote in just a eight Virginia counties shortly before the election. Many already had voted in prior elections.<\/p>\n And, he noted, a 2013 national survey by John McLaughlin found 13 percent of non-citizen Hispanics admitted they were registered to vote.<\/p>\n Just months before the 2016 election, von Spakovsky had warned that several organizations,<\/a> such as the League of Women Voters and the NAACP, were fighting efforts to clamp down on non-citizens voting illegally, and they were being aided by the Justice Department.<\/p>\n He said the organizations sued in Washington to reverse a decision by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission that would have allowed Kansas and other states, including Arizona and Georgia, \u201cto enforce state laws ensuring that only citizens register to vote when they use a federally designed registration form.\u201d<\/p>\n William Gheen, president of the non-profit Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, noted Obama admitted to Spanish language TV audiences comprised of illegal immigrants that illegals would face no hindrances to voting.<\/p>\n Even a Pew Trust study, Gheen noted, concluded the nation\u2019s voting systems \u201care plagued with errors and inefficiencies that \u2026 fuel partisan disputes over the integrity of our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n ALIPAC released dozens of pages of documentation<\/a> showing 46 states have prosecuted or convicted cases of voter fraud. It found that more than 24 million voter registrations are invalid, more than 1.8 million dead voters are still on rolls and more than 2.75 million Americans are registered to vote in more than one state.<\/p>\n The Florida New Majority Education Fund, Democratic Party of Florida and the National Council of La Raza currently are under investigation for alleged voter-registration fraud.<\/p>\n Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies<\/a> said that if one looks at the likely 21 million non-citizens in the United States, based on the 2015 American Community Survey, there is the high probability that a substantial number voted.<\/p>\n 5. Obama\u2019s stealth moves to force U.S. communities to receive Muslim immigrants<\/b><\/p>\n Obama\u2019s \u201cfundamental transformation\u201d of America can be seen in the large numbers of Somali and Syrian refugees that have been planted against the will of the people in small-to-mid-sized cities such as Bowling Green, Kentucky; Owensboro, Kentucky; and Erie, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Minnesota and Ohio continue to be sent Somali refugees even though Minneapolis and Columbus have had terror recruitment problems within their Somali communities.<\/p>\n But Obama\u2019s concentration of so many refugees in one place is a clear violation of statutes directing the Office of Refugee Resettlement to \u201cinsure that a refugee is not initially placed or resettled in an area highly impacted by the presence of refugees or comparable populations.\u201d<\/p>\n Ann Corcoran, a leading refugee watchdog who authors the Refugee Resettlement Watch<\/a> blog, believes the Obama administration and the federal resettlement contractors are deliberately trying to turn red states blue by injecting them with refugees who are likely to vote for Democrats.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course it would take a while with refugee numbers, but add in the illegals, et cetera, in those states and, yes, it is about turning the state,\u201d Corcoran said. \u201cConsider it the California model \u2013 it worked there!\u201d<\/p>\n WND\u2019s Leo Hohmann, the author of \u201cStealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and the Resettlement Jihad,\u201d<\/a> said the State Department is bringing the refugees in so fast now that it\u2019s difficult to find places to house them.<\/p>\n Through the first 11 weeks of fiscal year 2017, the United States received 23,428 individuals as \u201crefugees,\u201d according to the Refugee Processing Center<\/a>. At this rate, the U.S. will resettle roughly 110,580 this fiscal year, which would exceed President Obama\u2019s target of 110,000.<\/p>\n Contrast that with last year, when the U.S. received only 13,786 \u201crefugees\u201d through the first 11 weeks of FY 2016. The country would end up receiving 84,995 by fiscal year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n More than 97 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted so far this fiscal year are Muslims, as were more than 99 percent of Syrians admitted last year.<\/p>\n Hohmann said the U.S. has had the opposite of \u201cextreme vetting\u201d of Syrians over the past eight years.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s gone from slack to even slacker,\u201d he observed. \u201cBack in the spring, Obama cut the screening period on Syrian refugees from 18-24 months down to three months by sending more screeners to the United Nations camps in Jordan and setting up a template that basically takes the refugees\u2019 story of who they are and runs a search of social media and government databases to see if they can refute that story.<\/p>\n \u201cSince there is little to no law enforcement data available on people who claim to be Syrians and false passports are easily purchased on the black market, we have no idea who these people are coming to our country as so-called Syrian refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n While many Americans worry about the influx of Syrians, the U.S. has taken in even more refugees from Somalia this year. Through the first 11 weeks of FY 2017, the U.S. resettled 3,269 Somali refugees. At this rate, the country would absorb more than 15,550 by fiscal year\u2019s end. At this point in FY 2016, the U.S. had only admitted 1,721 Somali refugees on its way to taking in 9,020 for the year.<\/p>\n More than 99.9 percent of the Somalis admitted this fiscal year are Muslims, as was the case in FY 2016 as well.<\/p>\n Hohmann noted Somali refugees are probably an even bigger risk than Syrians, as Somalis have committed several terrorist attacks on U.S. soil recently.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s been no debate in Congress or the media asking the obvious questions: Why is America still taking thousands of refugees every year from Somalia more than 25 years after that country\u2019s civil war broke out?\u201d Hohmann asked. \u201cHow many is too many, and why aren\u2019t the Somalis doing a better job of assimilating? Dozens have gone off to fight for overseas terror organizations while even more have been charged, tried and convicted here at home of providing material support to overseas terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n The migrant disaster in Germany should serve as a warning to the United States<\/a>. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, after welcoming more than a million Muslim refugees with open arms in 2015 and into the first half of 2016, did a sudden about-face after the terror attacks started piling up and the campaign season neared.<\/p>\n She said such a mass influx of refugees \u201cshould never be repeated\u201d in Germany and has even talked about the need to \u201cban the burqa.\u201d<\/p>\n Pamela Geller, author of \u201cStop the Islamization of America<\/a>,\u201d sees a troubling aspect of the recent Berlin truck attack that applies to the United States, which has seen eight bloody terror attacks<\/a> on its soil in less than 18 months \u2013 all carried out by Muslim migrants or sons of migrants.<\/p>\n \u201cWill Democrats continue to demand that we also import these invaders?\u201d Geller said in an email to WND. \u201cWe dodged a bullet \u2014 and a truck \u2014 with Hillary Clinton, who pledged to increase Muslim \u2018refugee\u2019 immigration [from Syria] by 550 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n 6. Huma Abedin\u2019s connection to the Muslim Brotherhood:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Huma Abedin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hillary Clinton\u2019s longtime top aide and confidante Huma Abedin was a central figure in the 2016 presidential campaign, particularly as emails she sent and received while serving as Clinton\u2019s deputy chief of staff for operations at the State Department came under the FBI\u2019s scrutiny, culminating in a bombshell announcement by FBI Director James Comey 11 days before the election. Comey announced that the bureau had reopened its investigation of Hillary Clinton\u2019s handling of classified information after discovering 650,000 of Abedin\u2019s State Department emails on a computer owned by her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, who is under investigation for allegedly sexting a minor.<\/p>\n But almost entirely ignored during the campaign by establishment media or dismissed as irrelevant were Abedin\u2019s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Arabia<\/a>, including her position in her family\u2019s institute<\/a>, which was established by the Saudi government and supported by a prominent financial contributor to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.<\/p>\n Abedin served for several years as an assistant editor for the institute\u2019s journal, while her father was editor and her mother a co-editor.<\/p>\n Alongside Abedin on the editorial board also was Abdullah Omar Naseef, the founder of the Rabita Trust<\/a>, a financial institution founded prior to 9\/11 for the explicit purpose of funding Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.<\/p>\n While Abedin was working with Naseef, she was in the White House working as an intern.<\/p>\n Abedin then became an aide to Hillary Clinton, a senior adviser to Clinton\u2019s senatorial campaigns and office, and eventually deputy chief of staff at the State Department.<\/p>\n Former CIA officer and current vice president with the Center for Security Policy in Washington Clare Lopez notes that it was during that period of time when U.S. foreign policy \u201cflipped on its head.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S., she said, went from \u201cgoing after jihad and jihadist like al-Qaida to, in Libya, for example, aiding and abetting known al-Qaida jihadist militias to overthrow a sitting, sovereign government led by Moammar Gadhafi, no choir boy, to be sure, but our ally at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll of this happened during the period of time when Clinton was secretary of state and Huma Abedin was at her side, whispering in her ear,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n The purpose of the Abedin-run institute, as WND has reported<\/a>, is to instruct Muslims in foreign countries how to live according to the dictates of Islamic law, or Shariah, so they can fulfill the ultimate objective of making Shariah and the Quran the ultimate authority in the world, overturning \u201cman-made\u201d institutions such as the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n A Muslim Brotherhood document entered as evidence in the largest terrorism-financing trial in U.S. history shows the Brotherhood\u2019s aim is to carry out \u201ca kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.\u201d<\/p>\n But Philip Haney, a former DHS subject matter expert on Islam, says Hillary Clinton\u2019s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are even \u201cbroader and deeper\u201d than Abedin\u2019s, citing, for example, Clinton\u2019s leadership promoting a U.N. resolution favored by the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Conference, which is run by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n The resolution would effectively criminalize criticism of Islam.<\/p>\n In a Dec. 14, 2011, speech, Clinton said the resolution \u201cmarks a step forward in creating a safe, global environment for practicing and expressing one\u2019s beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBy endorsing U.N. Resolution 1618, by default Hillary Clinton is aiding and abetting the Muslim Brotherhood, on a macro, global level,\u201d Haney says.<\/p>\n The U.S. government\u2019s cooperation with its \u201cenemies within\u201d is graphically recounted through the eyes of a Homeland Security officer in \u201cSee Something Say Nothing.\u201d<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n WikiLeaks founder Assange said<\/a> the thousands of documents released by Wikileaks through its \u201cHillary Clinton Email Archive\u201d contain some 1,700 emails that connect Clinton to al-Qaida and ISIS in both Libya and Syria, demonstrating Clinton supplied weapons to ISIS via Syria.<\/p>\n 7. The threat of ISIS and its Islamic roots<\/b><\/p>\n Two conflicting views of the enemy the United States faces in the so-called \u201cWar on Terror\u201d were on display as Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and President Obama responded to attacks by Muslims<\/a> in Minnesota, New York and New Jersey over one September weekend during the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n Trump, chastising Clinton and Obama for refusing to name the enemy \u201cradical Islam,\u201d called the threat a \u201ccancer from within\u201d while Clinton reiterated the Obama administration\u2019s insistence that calling ISIS, the Islamic State, Islamic would play into the hands of the jihadist group and its allies.<\/p>\n White House spokesman Josh Earnest downplayed the war against ISIS, saying \u201cin some ways, this is actually just a war of narratives\u201d against a \u201cpoisonous, empty bankrupt mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n That attitude was summarized by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in the title of a Senate hearing he held in June<\/a>, \u201cWillful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism,\u201d in which former Department of Homeland Security officer Philip Haney testified that the administration \u201cpurged\u201d more than 800 of his records related to the Muslim Brotherhood network in the U.S. because they somehow were an offense to Muslims.<\/p>\n Two days later, when Cruz confronted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson with Haney\u2019s testimony<\/a>, Johnson insisted he had no knowledge of the incident and had never even heard of Haney. But in January, Johnson was reported saying that he not only knew about Haney\u2019s claim, he had read an article the retired DHS officer wrote in the Hill<\/a>, the influential Capitol Hill newspaper.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no wonder that in an interview with CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria earlier this month, Obama admitted that he was taken by surprise by the rise of ISIS<\/a> as a territorial power in 2014, which he once dismissed as \u201cthe JV team.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FBI Director James Comey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In May, FBI Director James Comey said<\/a> that of the nearly 1,000 FBI cases across the country looking at people who may have been \u201cradicalized online,\u201d about 80 percent are tied to ISIS.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, as many as 1,750 ISIS jihadists have returned to Europe with orders to carry out attacks, a European Union report warned in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n In June, ISIS claimed responsibility for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, as 50 people were killed at a packed gay nightclub by Omar Mateen, who was described by the ISIS Amaq news agency as an \u201cIslamic State fighter.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n In another example, two Wisconsin men were arrested in Texas on charges of providing material support to ISIS<\/a>. They were traveling to Mexico and allegedly had plans to travel on to Iraq or Syria.<\/p>\n In Maryland, a pro-ISIS imam at the center of a terrorism probe celebrated ISIS killings<\/a> and immolations on Facebook and issued a fatwa against feminism through an Islamic law center he started in near the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n 8. The establishment media\u2019s \u2018fake news\u2019:<\/b><\/p>\n So far there\u2019s been no solid evidence that Russian \u201cfake news,\u201d as the establishment media seem to believe, propelled Donald Trump to an astonishing victory over Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Protests in Ferguson, Mo., turned violent after Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted in the shooting death of Michael Brown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But in recent decades, and this year is no exception, the establishment media itself has been shown to be a purveyor of fake news, defined as the dissemination\u00a0of false information from\u00a0the government or a favored group.<\/p>\n Familiar memes are: the Benghazi 9\/11 attack that killed four brave Americans was caused by a YouTube video, Michael Brown had his hands up and shouted \u201cDon\u2019t shoot\u201d before Ferguson cop Darren Wilson shot him and man-caused global warming is settled science.<\/p>\n Some would argue a prime example this year was the assertion, reported as \u201csettled science,\u201d that Donald Trump was a buffoonish clown who had no chance of winning the Republican nomination, let alone the White House.<\/p>\n WND columnist Jack Cashill recalled others<\/a> over the years:<\/p>\n 2013:<\/i> Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes ran the successful, if thoroughly dishonest, \u201cIran-deal messaging campaign.\u201d As the Times conceded three years later, the story the White House told America about Iran \u201cwas largely manufactured for the purpose for selling the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n 2012:<\/i> A week after the Benghazi attack, Obama told David Letterman, \u201cHere\u2019s what happened. You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character.\u201d The media, in the person of CNN debate moderator Candy Crowley, preserved Obama\u2019s presidency by insisting Obama said Benghazi was a terrorist attack from day one.<\/p>\n 2012:<\/i> On Anderson Cooper\u2019s \u201cAC360,\u201d CNN reporter Gary Tuchman, working with an audio design specialist, concluded that George Zimmerman referred to blacks as \u201ccoons.\u201d This was one of a dozen fake news stories created to paint Hispanic civil rights activist and Obama supporter Zimmerman as a brutal racist in the shooting death of his thuggish attacker, the 6-foot-tall \u201clittle boy,\u201d Trayvon Martin.<\/p>\n 2011:<\/i> Obama laid out the case for intervention in Libya, claiming that if he \u201cwaited one more day,\u201d Gadhafi would have unleashed a massacre in Benghazi that would have \u201cstained the conscience of the world.\u201d Democratic Mideast expert Alan Kuperman did the calculations the media refused to do, writing two weeks later, \u201cThe best evidence that Gadhafi did not plan genocide in Benghazi is that he did not perpetrate it in the other cities he had recaptured.\u201d<\/p>\n 2006:<\/i> \u201cUnless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return.\u201d So said Al Gore at the premiere of his movie \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth.\u201d<\/p>\n 2004:<\/i> The story supposedly was that the Bush White House willfully leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame to discredit her allegedly whistleblowing husband, Joseph Wilson. After a year of Watergate-style hysteria, and eventually a movie, it turned out that Bush\u2019s critics in the State Department accidentally leaked this utterly inconsequential bit of information.<\/p>\n 2004:<\/i> Following Barack Obama\u2019s convention speech, the media openly celebrated what biographer David Remnick called Obama\u2019s \u201csignature appeal: the use of the details of his own life as a reflection of a kind of multicultural ideal.\u201d The details, however, were false. Despite his parents\u2019 \u201cimprobable love,\u201d infant Obama never spent a night under the same the roof as the old man and no more than a few weeks, if that, in the same state.<\/p>\n 2004:<\/i> On \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d Dan Rather attempted to derail President George Bush\u2019s re-election campaign by claiming Bush went AWOL from his Air National Guard service. The documents proving this claim turned out to be fake. That did not stop Hollywood from trying to exonerate producer Mary Mapes in the absurdly titled 2015 movie \u201cTruth.\u201d<\/p>\n Back in 1996, Time magazine decried the \u201cnational epidemic of violence against black churches.\u201d In fact, more white churches than black churches burned that summer, fewer than normal in both cases, and at least as many by Satanists as presumed racists.<\/p>\n In 1999, to justify bombing Serbia, President Clinton accused the Serbs of \u201cgenocide.\u201d He claimed they murdered \u201ctens of thousands of people\u201d and compared their actions in Kosovo to the Holocaust. The media played along. In the war\u2019s wake, however, international teams could find no signs of genocide. \u201cWe did not find one \u2013 not one \u2013 mass grave,\u201d said the Spanish surgeon in charge.<\/p>\n 9. Anti-Trump hoax incidents<\/b><\/p>\n To fuel its narrative that the election of Donald Trump had brought about unprecedented expressions of hatred toward minorities, the media breathlessly reported \u201chate crimes\u201d purportedly committed by Trump supporters.<\/p>\n image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2016\/12\/Trump.png<\/a><\/p>\n A whiteboard message \u201cBye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista<\/a> that roiled the campus of Elon University, including condemnation from the president, turned out to have been written by a Latino student who saw it as a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n Bowling Green State University student Eleesha Long falsely claimed to have been attacked on the school\u2019s Ohio campus<\/a> by three white men wearing Trump T-shirts just one day after the election.<\/p>\n In Philadelphia, a rash of \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d graffiti declaring \u201cBlack Bitch\u201d and \u201cTrump Rules\u201d turned out to have been done by a black man<\/a>.<\/p>\n A black man in the Boston area admitted he fabricated his claim that he was forced to run for his life<\/a> after being threatened with lynching and told, \u201cIt\u2019\u0099s Trump country now.\u201d<\/p>\n In another case, a Muslim woman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette claimed two white males tore off her hijab. But the woman later admitted she made up the story.<\/p>\n The controversial Southern Poverty Law Center issued a report in November<\/a> that compiled 867 alleged incidents of \u201charassment and intimidation\u201d in the 10 days that followed the presidential election.<\/p>\n But many turned out to be hoaxes and most of the incidents on SPLC\u2019s list, while deplorable if they actually happened, did not include physical violence, meaning the use of the term \u201cattack\u201d was misleading<\/a>. Most of the incidents were uncorroborated assertions of verbal threats or racist comments that don\u2019t appear to rise to the level of a crime, including chalking the word \u201cTrump\u201d on a university sidewalk and middle school students chanting \u201cBuild the wall!\u201d<\/p>\n Donald Trump was rushed offstage by members of his Secret Service detail during a rally Nov. 5 in Reno, Nevada, after a person in the crowd shouted that someone had a gun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Further, SPLC\u2019s definition of \u201chaters\u201d and \u201cextremists\u201d has been at variance with the mainstream. The organization, for example, labeled former GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson an \u201cextremist.\u201d After a nationwide backlash last year, the organization apologized and removed the post.<\/p>\n But the SPLC website still has a negative \u201cfile\u201d on Carson<\/a> that insists he has said things that \u201cmost people would conclude are extreme,\u201d such as his belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n The Southern Poverty Law Center is expose in the Whistleblower issue \u201cTHE HATE RACKET: How one group fools government into equating Christians and conservatives with Klansmen and Nazis \u2013 and rakes in millions doing it\u201d<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n When SPLC issued a widely cited survey-report<\/a> charging Trump\u2019s election sparked \u201chate crimes\u201d in schools against minorities, it censored its finding that at least 2,000 educators nationwide reported racist slurs and other derogatory language against white students.<\/p>\n 10. Democrats\u2019 rigging of their own primary to make sure Bernie Sanders lost<\/b><\/p>\n As columnist Ron Hart put it<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats and the legacy media got all twitchy after losing the election, saying the Russians rigged it. WikiLeaks released DNC emails showing how the DNC plotted to undermine Bernie Sanders in their primary. So to recap, if I understand what the left is saying here, Putin might have rigged our election by revealing how Democrats rigged their election.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>John Podesta<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>President Obama (White House photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/a>President Obama (White House photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson reacts to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, confronting him at a Senate hearing June 30, 2016, with testimony of former DHS officer Philip Haney that his agency \u201cpurged\u201d records related to terrorism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Many of those reports, however, turned out to be hoaxes, while actual crimes committed by anti-Trump rioters were virtually ignored.NBC News reported an openly bisexual Chicago student claimed she received anti-gay, pro-Trump notes and emails after the election such as \u201cBack to hell.\u201d Taylor Volk of North Park University said she was a victim of \u201ca countrywide epidemic all of a sudden.\u201d But later, a university investigation found Volk had fabricated the messages.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>SPLC Senior Fellow Mark Potok<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/a>Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n