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A one-stop site for all things skeptic: The good, the bad, and the ugly.
This week marks the beginning of Media Literacy Week which is directed at students and educators, but Fake News and Media Literacy are everybody’s problem.
Today alone, a screenshot of Sutherland Springs shooter’s now deleted Facebook page has been shared, altered and then reshared.
Original screenshot:
Altered screenshot implying he is a member of Antifa:L
Likely, there will be more to follow. The following meme has been produced in honor of Media Literacy Week:
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) announced U.S. Media Literacy Week (#MediaLitWk) will be held November 5 –9, 2018. The mission of Media Literacy Week is to raise awareness about the need for media literacy education and its essential role in education today.
Organizations, schools, educators and Media Literacy Week partners from all over the country will work with NAMLE to participate in events including #MediaLitWk classroom lessons, virtual events, online chats, screenings, PSA’s, panel discussions and more.
Sponsors includeTrend Micro, Nickelodeon, Twitter, and Facebook.
The conference brings together journalists, pre-K to grade 12 educators, higher education professors and researchers to create dialogue around teaching media literacy and providing the tools students need to develop critical thinking skills around news and the media.
Media literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, analyze, act, communicate and create using all forms of media.
Media Literacy is a crucial life skill in the 21st century. Virtually all careers today require some level of critical thinking about media and media messages, as well as the ability to produce and work with a variety of media and information.
Media Literacy should be an essential part of education today. Low-income schools and communities in particular often lack the resources needed to adequately prepare them to create and criticize media and technology.
Media Literacy empowers people to be both critical thinkers and creative producers.
Media Literacy Week USA is a celebration of the efforts by educators and organizers nationwide to prepare youth to live, learn and thrive with media.
Tools:
Use #medialitwk on Twitter.
Additional memes: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mrzygbx7ttz8jkc/AAAyA2Vemy6i6xKkn6oViwfaa?dl=0
Teacher’s Resources and a toolkit for educators are available free online at https://medialiteracyweek.us/
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Many twitter followers claim this is their number one favorite parody account, while one follower claims she laughs so hard she often spits out her coffee. Rogue Melania politely apologizes for the mess.
Check out a her tweets just from the last few days:
The Donald extra cranky in Hawaii. First, someone hold sign that say “Welcome to Kenya.” Then, him spanx too tight and it hot.
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) November 4, 2017
We on Air Force One now, fly west. The Donald ask pilot if we can “dump the shitter” over the California.
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) November 3, 2017
The Donald just scream and throw hot dog at TV #CarterPage
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) November 2, 2017
I hope #RussianCollusion investigation not come to The Donald and him kids/in-laws pit against each other. Would not be pretty.
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) November 2, 2017
This also causing much projectile diarrhea in Oval Office: https://t.co/Ondu4dSZQ6
— Rogue Melania (@RogueFirstLady) November 1, 2017
PHOTO CREDIT: First Lady Melania Trump visits Hawaii | November 3, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
By ALEC BALDWIN and KURT ANDERSEN
Release date November 7, 2017
Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump’s presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally
“I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences and, what do you call them, paragraphs. My previous books were great and sold extremely, unbelievably well–even the ones by dishonest, disgusting so-called journalists. But those writers didn’t understand Trump, because quite frankly they were major losers. People say if you want it done right you have to do it yourself, even when ‘it’ is a ‘memoir.’ So every word of this book was written by me, using a special advanced word processing system during the many, many nights I’ve been forced to stay alone in the White House–only me, just me, trust me, nobody helped. And it’s all 100% true, so true–people are already saying it may be the truest book ever published. Enjoy.”
Until Donald Trump publishes the ultimate account of his entire four or eight or one-and-a-half years in the White House, the definitive chronicle will be You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year As President. Trump was elected because he was the most frank presidential candidate in history, a man eager to tell the unvarnished truth about others’ flaws and tout his own amazing excellence. Now he levels his refreshingly compulsive, un-PC candor at his landslide election victory as well as his role as commander-in-chief and leader of the free world.
There are intimate, powerful, mind-boggling revelations on every page. You are there with him during his private encounters with world leaders, a few of whom he does not insult. You are there at the genius Oval Office strategy sessions with his advisers. You are there in his White House bedroom as he crafts the pre-dawn Twitter pronouncements that rock the world. And, of course, you are there on the golf course as Trump attempts to manage the burdens of his office.
President Trump explains each of the historic decisions that have already made America great again, and how he always triumphs over the fake news media. You’ll learn what he really thinks of his cabinet members and top aides not related to him, of the First Lady and the First Daughter and the additional three or four Trump children. Included at no extra charge is a lavish and exclusive portfolio of spectacular, historic and intimate color photographs of President Trump in private – inside the White House, inside Mar-a-Lago, at Trump Tower, and more.
You Can’t Spell America Without Me is presented by America’s foremost Trump scholar Kurt Andersen as well as America’s foremost mediocre Trump impersonator, Alec Baldwin.
Kurt Andersen is author of Heyday and Turn of the Century and frequently writes for New York and Vanity Fair. He is host and cocreator of the Peabody Award–winning public radio program Studio 360. In 2006, he founded Very Short List, an email service for connoisseurs of culture who would never call themselves “connoisseurs.” He was cofounder of Spy magazine, and has been a columnist and critic for the New Yorker and Time. Andersen lives with his wife and daughters in Brooklyn.
Twitter Government explains how Donald Trump’s Twitter account disappeared:
My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
President Trump will travel to Danang, Vietnam, on November 10. There, he will participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting and deliver a speech at the APEC CEO Summit. In the speech, the President will present the United States’ vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region and underscore the important role the region plays in advancing America’s economic prosperity. On November 11, the President will travel to Hanoi, Vietnam for an official visit and bilateral engagements with President Tran Dai Quang and other senior Vietnamese leaders.
The InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort will host the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) Economic Leaders’ Meeting of the 25th APEC Summit, on 11 November 2017. The 2017 APEC Summit comes to Vietnam’s third largest city for an event that marks a milestone in the city’s socio-economic development.
Opened since 2012, the resort has undergone some infrastructural investments, including widening internal roads and upgrading technical facilities, including a major face-lift for its ‘Summit’ conference centre. A new 500sqm reception hall has been built alongside new meeting rooms and a VIP lounge with a unique design by architect Bill Bensley.
The Summit Conference Centre will welcome heads of government from all 21 member economies, along with thousands of delegates, entrepreneurs and international media.
Scheduled attendees at the 2017 APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting
Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Chile President Michelle Bachelet
China President Xi Jinping
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam
Indonesia President Joko Widodo
Japan Prime Minister Shinzō Abe
South Korea President Moon Jae-in
Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak
Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill
Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte
Russia President Vladimir Putin
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Taiwan Special Representative of President James Soong
Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha
United States President Donald Trump
Vietnam President Trần Đại Quang (host)
According to Korea Joongang Daily (JoongAng Ilbo), China has arrested would-be assassins of Kim Han Sol, the 22 year old son of recently assassinated Kim Jong Nam. Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated on February 13, 2017 in the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airport through the use of a VX nerve agent, considered to be a weapon of mass destruction. Kim Han Sol is the nephew of Kim Jong Un.
For current updates on the assassination trial of Kim Jong Nam, see
According to the the South Korean daily, seven North Korean spies were secretly dispatched to China on a mission to kill Kim Han Sol. Chinese authorities have two of these spies in custody and is questioning them in Beijing. The anonymous source said that North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau recently sent the team to Beijing — apparently without China’s knowledge — to search for the 22-year-old nephew of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and kill him. Officials from China’s Ministry of State Security apprehended two of the spies, but the whereabouts of the other five suspects are not currently known.
Kim Han Sol is the son of Ri Hye Kyong and the now deceased Kim Jong Nam. They also have a younger daughter. The family had been living in Macau until the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, when the family went into hiding.
Kim Han Sol made a statement in March 2017 in a YouTube Video uploaded by a group named Cheollima Civil Defense.
In a statement on the Cheollima Civil Defense website the organization said the following:
“Cheollima Civil Defense responded last month to an emergency request by survivors of the family of Kim Jong Nam for extraction and protection. The three family members were met quickly and relocated to safety. We have in the past addressed other urgent needs for protection. This will be the first and last statement on this particular matter, and the present whereabouts of this family will not be addressed.
We publicly express our gratitude for the emergency humanitarian assistance afforded to us in protecting this family by the governments of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the People’s Republic of China, the United States of America, and a fourth government to remain unnamed. We also recognize our colleagues who remain in the North or within its system who provide critical assistance in extracting such individuals.
In particular, we recognize Ambassador A.J.A. Embrechts, representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, for his timely and strong response to our sudden request for assistance. Ambassador Embrechts is a credit to the people of the Netherlands and their long and principled stance for human rights and humanitarian norms.
We regret that several nations refused assistance to this family in this particular apolitical, humanitarian emergency. We, and those we aid, recognize with gratitude all who stand with us on the right side of history.”
천리마민방위 | Cheollima Civil Defense