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Constituents literally turn their backs on GOP Senator

Laura Bassett
Huffington Post
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:38 UTC

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) was forced to abandon his PowerPoint presentation on the GOP's Obamacare replacement plan at his town hall in Metairie, Louisiana, on Wednesday, after a packed room of angry voters drowned him out and literally turned their backs on him.

From beginning to end, the event was a disaster for Cassidy. By the time the senator arrived 30 minutes late, voters had already co-opted the town hall and turned it into a rally for the Affordable Care Act. Protesters outside the building held signs demanding that Republicans "Support the ACA" and "Dump Trump," while the crowd of 180 people inside the room chanted "Shame!" as Cassidy entered.

Cassidy then tried to present a slideshow on his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, but voters drowned him out with boos and demanded that he take questions from the audience instead of giving them information they could read on the GOP's website. One woman sat in the front row knitting a pink "pussyhat," a symbol of the women-led resistance against Trump, and several voters stood up and faced the back of the room to protest the senator's scripted presentation.

Comment: Obama's Affordable Care Act is far from perfect, the whole health care system needs a major overhaul. Can Trump come up with a better health care plan? Time will tell.

Millions across UK are just one unpaid bill away from the abyss

Frances Ryan
The Guardian
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:34 UTC

© Andy Hall for the Observer
‘While the wealthiest have the comfort of a bigger safety net than ever, others get payday loans, credit cards and rent arrears.’

Across the UK, families are being forced into the red by one small, unexpected cost that triggers a downward spiral into precarious poverty.

As the cocktail of long-term austerity, rising living costs and a slumping post-Brexit economy hits, what's really frightening is the crisis that is brewing but is barely being noticed.

Look at this week's finding that one in four families now have less than £95 in savings. That's staggering, not simply because it gives an insight into how large swaths of families in Britain are clinging on financially in a climate of low wages, cut benefits and high rents, but also because it offers us a warning of how little it will take to push them over the edge.

Kim Dotcom's $2.4bn lawsuit against NZ govt could benefit WikiLeaks

RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:19 UTC

Providing financial support to WikiLeaks is amongst a number of options Kim Dotcom will consider if he wins a $2.4 billion lawsuit against the New Zealand government. He's taking the action after a state case against him was found to be critically flawed.

Taking to Twitter, Dotcom asked the public to vote for the cause to which he should contribute any financial award from his lawsuit. Assisting WikiLeaks is one of the choices.

LA's most "exclusive" hedonistic sex party once again coming to NYC

Heather Hauswirth
New York Post
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:05 UTC

Truth is more disturbing than fiction.

LA's hottest sex party is coming to New York.

Snctm — the members-only club where rich and powerful pleasure-seekers indulge their wildest fantasies — is set to touch down at clandestine penthouses throughout the city for monthly masquerades, starting April 1.

"Very excited to build our membership there, and see what evolves this year!" its 45-year-old founder, Damon Lawner, tells The Post.

Threesomes, erotic fire-eaters, masks and more have dominated the scene at Snctm, now in its fifth year of business. As The Post previously reported, its A-list clientele — who include Bill Maher and Gwyneth Paltrow — on a typical evening may encounter pretty young things wearing metallic pasties and black badges that read "Eat me" or "Touch me" on their décolletage, while holding platters of bite-size brownies.

Comment: "Erotic theater." "Path toward enlightenment." No matter how Lawner may try and dress it up, decadent debauchery is still just debauchery.

'Get out of my country': Kansan man shot and killed a Garmin engineer

Colin Lecher, Ben Popper
The Verge
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC

A Kansas man was charged today after the fatal shooting of a Garmin engineer at a bar Wednesday night, police said.

WITNESS SAID PURINTON YELLED "GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY"

The suspect in the shooting, Adam Purinton, was drinking at the bar in Olathe, Kansas, at about 7:15PM that night, the Kansas City Star reported. A witness said he yelled "get out of my country" to two of the victims, reportedly saying the men, believed to originally be from India, were "Middle Eastern."

At a press conference, a local prosecutor said Purinton has been charged with one count of premeditated first degree murder, and two counts of attempted premeditated first degree murder. He is awaiting extradition to Kansas from Missouri, according to officials. An FBI official said the agency is investigating with local police. It's unclear for now if Purinton will be charged with a federal hate crime. He is under a $2 million bond.

Salafist group member who planned to 'blow up police or soldiers' arrested in Germany

RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:32 UTC

German police have detained a young man after finding chemicals used for making explosives in his apartment. The suspect admitted that he planned a bomb attack on police officers or soldiers, prosecutors and police said in a joint statement.

A German citizen, 26, whose name has not been revealed yet, was detained on Wednesday in the German town of Northeim, in the northwestern state of Lower Saxony. He is suspected of preparing to commit a "grave violent offense against the state" and of attempted murder, the statement issued by the regional police department in Goettingen and the regional Prosecutor General's Office in Celle says.

'Made in Syria': How Syria struggles to save its devastated economy

Arwa Shaheen - translated by Samer Hussein
Teshreen News / Fort Russ News
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:25 UTC

Every month, the authorities organize the event dubbed "Made in Syria". The desired purpose of this occasion is to provide the consumers with local goods, sold at affordable prices. This is a rather important measure as the purchasing power parity has fallen drastically over the past few years due to the ongoing situation in the country. The circumstances have forced the consumers to gradually change their purchasing habits as the war has taken a significant toll on the income of the citizens. As a result most citizens can no longer afford the goods they were able to afford prior to the start of war and can only dream of buying certain "luxuries" that for some may have previously been the daily goods.

Already in October the festivity displayed a rather diverse offering of goods, most of which were clothing and food products, made available by more than 110 companies attending the event. The largest price reduction of the goods was seen between 35-50%, while the smallest ones being between 20-25%. Some of the visitors, however, said that not all products had their prices reduced when compared with the prices on the regular market and the clothing and footwear products did usually not see a price reduction higher than 7%.

Russian hackers propaganda destroyed: Brit arrested for cyberattack on Germany blamed on Moscow

RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:03 UTC

A UK national has been detained in London on suspicion of carrying out a cyber-attack last year that left 1 million Deutsche Telekom customers without service. At the time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hinted that Russia might be behind the attack.

The 29-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday at Luton airport in southern England by officers from the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) at the request of the German police, The Local reported.

"The Briton stands accused of attempted computer sabotage in a particularly serious case," German federal police and prosecutors said in a statement, adding that they will now seek the hacker's extradition.

Anti-Smoking Fascism: Doctors in the US are refusing to operate on smokers - and the trend is growing

Karen Garloch
Sacramento Bee
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:57 UTC

An irate man contacted me recently to complain he'd been turned down for back surgery because he's a smoker.

"It's just not right," said the Charlotte man, who suffers from chronic hip and leg pain. "I need this surgery. It's to the point where I can't walk around the block with my dogs."

He acknowledged smoking is a "bad habit," but after 35 years, he's not sure he can quit. And he doesn't think he should have to.

"It didn't used to be this way," he said. "Everybody's got on their little righteous path.... My grandfathers on both sides smoked their entire lives. They didn't die until one of them was 92, and one of them was 88."

No doubt, genetics play a huge role in how healthy we are and how long we live. But personal behavior is also a big factor.

Jesus Christ statue at Indiana church beheaded for second time in two weeks

RT
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:48 UTC

A Jesus Christ statue was beheaded for the second time in as many weeks outside an Indianapolis church as part of an ongoing wave of religious vandalism, according to local reports.

The statue stands outside the Cottage Avenue Pentecostal Fellowship in Indianapolis and was decapitated for the first time two weeks ago. The head was left behind and the church was able to quickly reattach it. In the second incident, the vandals took the head with them.

"The first time is vandalism, the second time there's got to be a hatred to it," churchgoer Leroy Myers, whose daughter donated the statue five years ago, told RTV6.

Church officials don't know if or when the headless statue, which remains outside the front door, will ever be repaired as the missing part has not been found.

"It's still headless, we haven't gotten it fixed yet," Pastor Brad Flaskamp told CNN. "Don't know if we can."

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Society's Child

Constituents literally turn their backs on GOP Senator

Millions across UK are just one unpaid bill away from the abyss

Kim Dotcom's $2.4bn lawsuit against NZ govt could benefit WikiLeaks

LA's most "exclusive" hedonistic sex party once again coming to NYC

'Get out of my country': Kansan man shot and killed a Garmin engineer

Salafist group member who planned to 'blow up police or soldiers' arrested in Germany

'Made in Syria': How Syria struggles to save its devastated economy

Russian hackers propaganda destroyed: Brit arrested for cyberattack on Germany blamed on Moscow

Anti-Smoking Fascism: Doctors in the US are refusing to operate on smokers - and the trend is growing

Jesus Christ statue at Indiana church beheaded for second time in two weeks

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