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New paradigm? 'Black People Don't Have to Be Democrats' - Chance the Rapper

Ben Kew
Breitbart News
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:30 UTC
Chance the Rapper
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Chance the Rapper
Chicago-based crooner Chance the Rapper seemed to show his support for fellow Chi-Town artist Kanye West's beliefs about free thinking by pointing out that black people should not feel obliged to support the Democratic Party.

"Black people don't have to be democrats," Chance the Rapper wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, amid liberal uproar over Kanye West's vocal admiration for President Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton won some 88 percent of the black vote, compared to trump's eight percent. The failed presidential candidate also won the support of Chance the Rapper, who endorsed Clinton in the 2016 presidential and has also questioned whether to unarm law enforcement to prevent allegedly racist police brutality.
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Kanye West has been watching Jordan Peterson

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:28 UTC
Kanye West
A new tweet containing a video posted by Kanye West shows the rapper had his browser opened to a video by massively-influential conservative professor and speaker Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Here's the tweet:


At the top left, a tab reads, "Why You Need Art in Your Life," which is the title of a video of a Dr. Peterson lecture.

Comment: Kanye knows what he's doing. That's some master-level persuasion, as Scott Adams would put it.

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Tucker Carlson back after curiously timed "vacation"

Jay Lorenz
Fash the Nation
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:23 UTC
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Following a three day absence conspicuously taking place after his critical coverage of the Syria strikes, Tucker Carlson returned to television on Monday. Carlson has been critical of US involvement in Syria consistently for the past year. However his questioning of the legitimacy of the alleged gas attack by Bashar al-Assad left many wondering if he had crossed the line with Fox and received a suspension.

The absence began the day after Carlson had a very interesting interview with the former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford. Ford questioned if there really was a chemical attack in Douma earlier this month. He discussed journalists who talked with doctors at the hospital who claimed there was no chemical attack. Ford also called out the supposed humanitarian group, the "White Helmets" for being a jihadist group. Ford claimed that the White Helmets came in with video cameras, screaming about gas, and began to hose people while recording, without any evidence of such an attack.

Ford broke two unspoken rules here. First, he pointed out that the supposed humanitarian group behind all of the HD videos that have led to scrutiny on Assad is actually an Islamist opposition group with no credibility. Second, he questioned the extremely shaky official narrative of a gas attack on women and children. The latter was the element that made me wonder if Carlson was being punished. By voicing agreement with Ford, Tucker joined a group that consists mostly of the Alt-Right - a dangerous place to be.

Comment: Tucker Carlson is perhaps the only mainstream media talking-head with an actual head on his shoulders. He's been on fire recently:

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'Not even close to justice': Israeli soldier sentenced to fine and nine months for murder of unarmed Palestinian teen

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Unarmed Nadim Nuwara killed by Israeli soldier
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Nadim Nuwara
The Israeli border police officer responsible for shooting and killing Palestinian teenager Nadim Nuwara in 2014 was sentenced on Wednesday by an Israeli court to nine months in prison and a $13,940 (50,000 shekels) fine for negligent homicide.

The Jerusalem district court judge sentenced Israeli officer Ben Deri, saying the "degree of negligence was significant and calls for prison time."

Despite being convicted in the killing of an unarmed minor, Deri was described by the judge during sentencing as "an excellent police officer who was conscientious about orders," according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Deri shot and killed 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara in May 2014, during a demonstration marking the 66th anniversary of the Nakba outside of the Ofer detention center near Ramallah. Mohammad Salameh, 15, was killed alongside Nuwara during the protests, though no one was arrested in connection with his death.

Siam Nuwara, Nadim's father, told Mondoweiss that the nine-month sentence handed down to Deri "does not even come close to justice," adding that the minimum sentence for negligent homicide should carry seven years in prison.

Comment: Such a light sentence is to be expected where the 'most moral' army in the world is allowed and likely encouraged to harass, abuse and kill Palestinians as they wish:

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Judge rules UC Berkeley must face lawsuit alleging bias against conservative speakers

Jonathan Stempel
Yahoo News
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:15 UTC
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Troy Worden poses with a College Republican chapter sign at Berkeley
A federal judge rejected the University of California at Berkeley's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter by imposing unreasonable restrictions and fees on their appearances.

In a decision late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco said two conservative groups could pursue claims that the school applied its policy for handling "major events" and an earlier policy for "high-profile speakers" in a manner that unfairly suppressed conservative speech.

But the judge also said she was "unpersuaded" by claims by the plaintiffs that the school engaged in intentional viewpoint discrimination, and that the major events policy was too vague. She said the plaintiffs could not seek punitive damages.

The Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America's Foundation, a Tennessee group, had sued after the university canceled Coulter's scheduled speech last April 27, citing security concerns.

Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, was also named as a defendant.
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Fake art: French art museum discovers most of its paintings are forgeries


RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
Artwork by Terrus
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A piece by Terrus. The Elne museum dedicated to the artist has yet to list which of its exhibits were forgeries.
A French museum dedicated to the painter Etienne Terrus made a shocking announcement Friday: the majority of works on display for the past two decades were, in fact, fakes.

The announcement was made the day the museum in Elne, southern France reopened following a months-long renovation and inventory project that began in October 2017.

So far, 82 of the 140 works in the collection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors, with an estimated value of €160,000 ($194,076), originally attributed to Terrus, were found to be fake.

Three pieces have yet to be examined fully to determine their authenticity using ultraviolet scans.
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Tesla shareholder urges to oust Elon Musk as board chairman


RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:40 UTC
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Elon Musk, the head of US electric vehicle producer Tesla, may lose his position as the board's chairman as one of the firm's stakeholders submitted a proposal urging the board to hire an independent director.

"Although the current leadership structure, in which the positions of Chairman and CEO are held by one person, could provide an effective leadership for Tesla at the early stage, now in this much more highly competitive and rapidly changing technology industry, it is more and more difficult to oversee Tesla's business and senior management (especially to minimize any potential conflicts) that may result from combining the positions of CEO and Chairman," Zhao wrote in his proposal.

Zhao, who is beneficial owner of 12 shares of the Tesla's common stock, pointed out that Musk's positions at SolarCity and SpaceX as well as degree of his involvement could trigger conflicts down the road.
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My tree is bigger than yours: Korean leaders 'out-trees' Trump


RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:15 UTC
Kim and Moon
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Days after the US and French presidents did some viral tree-planting, the two Korean did their bit to turn gardening into a new global trend. Awkwardly enough, Trump and Macron were seemingly outdone or rather, out-treed.

In a historic moment on Friday, North Korea's Kim Jong-un and South Korea's Moon Jae-in were spotted shoveling soil on the roots of a pine tree. The pine tree was beloved by ancient Koreans, and the leaders' gesture was meant to represent the peace and prosperity that both countries envisage for their future. Kim and Moon proceeded to figuratively plant a tree of peace, signing a declaration that proclaimed a "new era" in relations.

Everything about the ceremony was symbolic, including the soil and water taken from both Koreas, and the fact that the pine tree was sown in 1953, the year the divided peninsula signed the armistice which ended the Korean War.
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Diamond and Silk on fire during hearing on censorship with Rep. Hank Johnson

Lauretta Brown
Townhall
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:16 UTC
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Pro-Trump conservative media personalities Diamond and Silk, sisters whose real names are Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, testified before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday on the topic of bias against conservatives by companies like Facebook, in a hearing that frequently went off the rails. The sisters defended their claims that they were censored by the tech giant, often in very strong terms.

They said that if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was censoring liberals, "Democrats would be in the streets right now marching and calling him all types of racist."

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) implied the sisters were making a lot of money off of Facebook, a characterization they strongly denied.

"You ladies are very impressive to me," Rep. Johnson said, "you have taken something and moved forward with it, exercising your First Amendment rights, and you've made a ton of money off Facebook, is that correct?

"Absolutely not," Hardaway replied angrily, "Facebook censored us for six months."


Comment: Diamond and Silk got the Alice in Wonderland treatment from Facebook: The U.S. may no longer be the land of the free, but it's still the home of the brave. Diamond and Silk are a testament to that.

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Kremlin hopes American people will study US House report on Russia, promises surprises


RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:01 UTC
Moscow Kremlin
© Sputnik
The latest US House Intelligence Committee report on Russia should make people wonder about the real reasons for the continuing Russian collusion hysteria, Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters.

"We would like to hope that some people in America actually read this report, because sometimes there is an impression that these reports are not released for people to read them. And if there are such curious investigators who would study the actual text, they would be surprised and start asking questions on where all this hysteria comes from and what are the reasons behind it," Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, was quoted as saying by TASS during the Saturday press briefing.
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