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New poll indicates large upswing in public's opinion of Trump

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:25 UTC
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President Donald Trump saw big gains in public approval since December in a new poll from Monmouth University.
A new Monmouth University poll shows that public perception of President Donald Trump and his administration have had a huge upswing to the positive.

Here are the details

Job approval for the president jumped to 42 percent from a low in December of 32 percent, a change of 10 percentage points. In December, 56 percent disapproved of his job performance, and that has dropped to 50 percent.

When asked if the president's first year has focused on issues important to most Americans, the percentage increased from July 2017 when 32 percent agreed, to 37 percent currently.
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#MeToo movement drops office romances to 10-year low - survey


CBS DFW
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
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With the rise of the #MeToo movement and national crackdown on harassment in the workplace, a survey on office romance says love is not in the air when it comes to co-workers dating.

CareerBuilder's annual Valentine's Day poll found that office romances have fallen to a 10-year low with only 36 percent of workers admitting to dating a co-worker. Just last year, the same survey reported that 41 percent of co-workers had dated.

"Office romance is experiencing a dip and whether it's impacted by the current environment around sexual harassment or by workers not wanting to admit the truth, the fact remains that office romance has been around forever and will continue to be," CareerBuilder's Rosemary Haefner said in a press release. While the survey shows a growing stigma around office relationships, 31 percent of workers who dated at work ended up getting married, according to the poll.
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Pedophile hunters are committed to catching online predators

Kit Klarenberg
Sputnik
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:59 UTC
Raz Hunter - a pseudonym - is rapidly making a name for herself as the scourge of online sex predators. She, along with husband Nash, heads National Child Protector, one of many groups in the UK committed to catching pedophiles who groom underage boys and girls via social media.
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Raz's career as pedophile hunter began January 2017. The 39-year-old started off as a "decoy" for an organization similar to the one she runs today, posing as a 13-year-old, interacting with potential predators via social media apps and text messages.

"I was inspired to do it - and keep doing it to this day - because I've got children, and want them to be safe on the internet. The web is a terrible place for young people to be, infested with predators. However, the group wasn't as effective as I would've liked, so I decided to branch out for myself, along with my husband and a friend. We started National Child Protector (NCP), and started taking on decoys," Raz told Sputnik.

Comment: Dark Justice pedophile hunters report epidemic of online grooming
Pedophile hunters in United Kingdom are doing what police can't, or won't, do

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3 year old girl spent days alone with dead mother in Rotterdam home

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:54 UTC
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A three-year-old girl was found in a Rotterdam home with her dead mother last month, alderman Sven de Langen said in a letter to the municipal council. While some media reports suggested the girl may have been home alone with her mother's body for a week, the exact timeline is not yet known. The girl is now with a foster family and is doing well under the circumstances, the alderman wrote. He called the incident "tragic".

The child and the body of her 41-year-old mother were found on January 20th. According to RTV Rijnmond, they were discovered after a downstairs neighbor noticed water leaking through the roof. The water came from a tap in the home above. It is believed that the 3-year-old left the tap open when she was looking for something to drink.
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German town bans Muslim call to prayer

Andrea Shalal
Yahoo News
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:58 UTC
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A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local court upheld a challenge by a couple who live nearly 1 km (1,000 yards) away.

The Gelsenkirchen administrative court found that the town of Oer-Erkenschwick had not assessed the local Muslim community's request properly in 2013, but a court spokesman said on Friday that this did not prevent the mosque making a new application.

The local Christian couple had argued that the call to prayers violated their own religious rights.
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Alt-media honors deceased journalist Robert Parry with outpouring of support

Nat Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:53 UTC
Robert Parry
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A drawing of Robert Parry by Caitlin Johnstone posted at Medium.com
In appreciation for the flood of condolences and tributes to Consortiumnews.com founder Robert Parry, we publish a sampling here.

Robert Parry's family has been deeply touched by the flood of messages mourning his loss. As a father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, brother, husband, and yes, as a journalist, Bob touched so many lives and we will be processing and coming to terms with his loss for a long time to come.

In appreciation for the outpouring of support we have received, we're collecting here some of the many articles, radio segments and YouTube videos that have appeared in recent days. To read the hundreds of reader comments left following his passing, please visit my article, "Robert Parry's Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews."

My apologies to those who have penned tributes that haven't made it into this compilation.
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Hunter knocked unconscious after dead goose falls from sky and hits him


CBS Baltimore
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:46 UTC
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An Eastern Shore waterfowl hunter was flown to Shock Trauma Thursday, according to the Maryland Natural Resources Police.

Investigators say 51-year-old Robert Meilhammer was hunting with others in Easton near the Miles River shortly before 5 p.m. when a dead goose fell from the sky, knocked unconscious and caused him head and facial injuries.

Maryland Natural Resources Police, Talbot County Sheriff's Office deputies and local EMS responded to the scene.

Out of an abundance of caution, it was decided to drive the victim by ambulance to Easton Airport, where he was airlifted to Shock Trauma for treatment.

He has been listed in stable condition, according to officials.

Comment: What could have caused the goose to be killed in apparent mid-flight? One possibility is an exploding bolide could cause the goose to be killed.

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Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter


PhysOrg
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:29 UTC
Punxsutawney Phil

Punxsutawney Phil being held by his handler after the groundhog saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, considered a prediction of six more weeks of winter.
Bundle up America, the world's furriest weather forecaster says six more weeks of winter are in store.

In an annual February 2 tradition, a groundhog named "Punxsutawney Phil" emerged from winter hibernation in his burrow to test the weather.

According to his handlers at the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, established in 1887, the rodent saw his shadow on Friday and scurried back inside, auguring six more weeks of winter.

No shadow and it would have been an early spring.
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PC culture gone mad: Formula 1 'grid girls' hit back against sacking - Dumped for being 'at odds with societal norms'


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:24 UTC
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© Zoltan Okolicsanyi / Global Look Press
Formula 1 has decided to end its tradition of using 'grid girls', saying it was at odds with modern "societal norms." However, some of the women are now protesting on social media, saying their role was grossly misrepresented.

F1 announced the demise of the tradition in a short statement on Wednesday. "While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula 1 Grands Prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms. We don't believe the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world," said Sean Bratches, managing director of commercial operations.

The possibility of an F1 change of policy was announced in December. The move came just days after a similar decision was taken by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) to end its practice of using 'walk-on girls'.

Comment: Another former grid girl, Giorgia Davies, has hit back against the feminist outcry over grid girls and pointed out the real truth why so-called feminists went on the offensive to eliminate her well-paying job. It's worth reposting in full as it reveals a lot of what is so wrong with the feminist ideology at this point in time:
I am proud of my job.. I am respected.. I am paid well.. and I have managed to gain a professional reputation that has enabled me to make a career out of something I love.. and since falling pregnant with my first child the thought of not having such a flexible income to go back to after my maternity leave worries me.

"Feminists".. You're not defending women.. you're actually defending women who are threatened by other women who are in a career that you know absolutely nothing about other than what you see on the exterior.. and a career that we have as a woman by rights chosen to uptake. You're eradicating a career that has taken years to get to the top of believe it or not and leaving women in a position of financial loss.

That is not the true definition of what feminism stands for surely?

If I am happy to put a classy dress on, do my hair and make up, feel confident in myself and work with a team that treat me as a part of the family... why is that such a problem to you all?

You may work in an office.. you wake up and put a dress on for work because it makes you feel good about yourself also correct? And choose to go to work and enjoy your job?

Why is it any different? I'm educated.. I have a degree.. I have represented 2 counties I have lived in successfully and promoted charities and fundraising in my own time all of which a person shouldn't need to justify.. but because I stand and smile for a camera I don't deserve to have my job any more and I shouldn't be a role model to young women? We promote a healthy lifestyle we look after our bodies? Is that something to be ashamed of. Should we wear a scuba suit daily so we don't offend you because of your insecurities?

Why do you deserve to have your job still? That is your industry this is mine.. respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Oh and let's not forget the reason we are here right now.... because of some actions at an event treating women with disrespect. So why are we the ones being persecuted and penalised? Maybe educate men AND women the level of respect that HUMANS should receive and the fact that just because someone is deemed attractive and wearing a dress that doesn't mean they deserve to be treated any differently to another.

What will come next? Will you be telling rape victims it's their fault for the actions they have endured for wearing a provocative dress also.. "they brought it on themselves if you didn't wear that dress and that make up then they wouldn't have touched you." Although they are two extremely different levels.. the analogy is relevant because we would never tell someone in such an awful circumstance it was their fault because of the way they looked at the time of the incident.

So why should the incident at the presidents club be any different. They didn't ask to be touched and groped and have derogatory comments thrown at them because they chose to go to work and wear a tight dress.. the problem is not the women.. it's the individuals who feel it's acceptable to treat women in a certain manner in the first place based upon their exterior.


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WADA hasn't had a good week - Overturned decision on banning Russians and found in violation of 'presumption of innocence'


RT
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:10 UTC
Dick Pound
© Michael Dalder / Reuters
WADA former president, Dick Pound
WADA has seen a series of setbacks lately. Following a fine for violating the presumption of innocence, the CAS cleared 28 Russian athletes of the lifetime bans imposed by the anti-doping agency.

On January 31, the High Court of Paris ruled that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) violated the presumption of innocence of Habib Cisse, former legal adviser to the ex-head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Lamine Diack, who was put under investigation over corruption allegations, as France 24 reported citing AFP.

On January 14, 2016, Richard Pound, who led a WADA-commissioned investigation into alleged money laundering and doping cover-ups in the IAAF, published his report describing Cisse as a "co-conspirator in the extortion of athletes to cover up, delay or eliminate disciplinary sanctions of Russian athletes."

Comment: When an organization becomes enmeshed within Western geopolitical intrigue and a tool of the state, it's practically inevitable that it will turn corrupt and incompetent, just as we have seen with WADA.

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