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Indian billionaire builds 90 homes for homeless to celebrate daughter's wedding

Indian Tycoon
© ANI News Official / YouTube
A wealthy businessman in India's Aurangabad in Maharashtra chose to celebrate his daughter's wedding by using the money for her wedding to build 90 homes for the homeless instead.

Ajay Munot had Rs 70-80 lakh set aside for his daughter Shreya's wedding, but decided to put the money to better use and help those who truly needed it.

Munot, a cloth and wheat wholesaler, built the 90 houses on 2 acres of land which cost him 1.5 crore, or 150 lakhs ($22,0920).

Both the bride and groom were supportive of Munot's decision, and handed the keys to the new owners after the wedding.

"I am very happy with the decision and will consider it as my marriage gift," Sheyra said.

Comment: Kudos to Mr. Ajay Muno!


TV

'Are you practicing journalism?' Fox News host sends anti-Trump journalist into meltdown

Fox News host Tucker Carlson (L) interviews Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald (R)
© Fox News / YouTube
Fox News host Tucker Carlson (L) interviews Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald (R)
An outspoken Newsweek reporter went on Fox News to discuss his coverage of President-elect Donald Trump. The nine minutes of personal attacks and avoiding answers quickly went viral as the face of 2016 political coverage in America.

Kurt Eichenwald, a senior writer with Newsweek and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, has attracted a lot of attention this election season, from arguing that a Russian news outlet's accidental misattribution of one of his articles to Sidney Blumenthal "proved" collusion between Moscow and WikiLeaks to an equally outlandish claim that Trump had been admitted to a mental hospital in 1990.

On Thursday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson grilled Eichenwald on that claim and others, with the Newsweek writer giving him the runaround.

"Do you believe that you are practicing journalism?" Carlson asked at the outset, quoting some of Eichenwald's tweets. The Newsweek writer claimed they were "out of context," then brandished a binder titled, "Tucker Carlson's Falsehoods."

Carlson then asked about the Trump mental hospital claim, and things went downhill from there.

Comment: More on Tucker's interviews: Fox News' Tucker Carlson demolishes US Congressman Schiff, who claims Tucker is now under the control of Putin

No wonder FOX News won this award: Fox News Channel crowned 2016's most watched basic cable network by covering Trump positively


TV

Fox News Channel crowned 2016's most watched basic cable network - for covering Trump positively?

Trump on FOX News
© FNC
For the first time in its 20-year history, Fox News Channel will finish 2016 as the most-watched basic cable network in primetime and total day.

Fueled by mostly nonstop coverage of Donald Trump's nose-thumbing race to the White House, FNC locked up the wins both in primetime and in total day, and every hour on the network's lineup logged double-digit jumps compared to 2015. Fox News bagged its biggest audiences ever both in primetime and in total day with 2.4 million and 1.4 million viewers, respectively.

USA Network tried to get out ahead of FNC's celebration with its own announcement, boasting it would end 2016 as the No. 1 entertainment cable network in total viewers for an 11th straight year. But mostly, entertainment cable networks just could not come up with scripted storylines as as gob-smacking and ratings-getting as the endless material churned out daily for the cable news networks - and, mostly particularly for FNC viewers - as did real estate developer turned reality star turned GOP hijacker Donald Trump.

Comment: This goes to show the popularity of Donald Trump despite what other mainstream news tries to portray.


Handcuffs

Dylann Roof found guilty of all charges in North Carolina church shooting

Dylann Roof
© Charleston County Sheriff's Office / Reuters
Dylann Roof is seen in this June 18, 2015 handout booking photo provided by Charleston County Sheriff's Office
The jury in the Dylann Roof trial has found him guilty of killing nine black worshippers at Charleston, North Carolina church.

There were nine white and three black jurors who deliberated for less than two hours and requested to listen to the tape in which Roof confessed.

Roof killed nine people and injured three at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church in June 2015.

During the trial which started just over a week on ago on December 7, jurors heard from the prosecutor that the 22-year- old was full of hate and "immense racial prejudice" when he slaughtered the black worshippers.

Dollars

Clinton donors want a campaign post-mortem

hillary shrugging
When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York's Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, many of them will have one question in mind: Where's the autopsy?

The call for a deep and detailed accounting of how Clinton lost a race that she and her donors were absolutely certain she'd win didn't begin immediately after the election — there was too much shock over her defeat by Donald Trump, and overwhelming grief. Her initial conference call with top backers, which came just days after the outcome, focused primarily on FBI Director Jim Comey's late campaign-season intervention.

But in the weeks since, the wealthy Democrats who helped pump over $1 billion into Clinton's losing effort have been urging their local finance staffers, state party officials, and campaign aides to provide a more thorough explanation of what went wrong. With no dispassionate, centralized analysis of how Clinton failed so spectacularly, they insist, how can they be expected to keep contributing to the party?

Comment: Sorry. All sales final. If DNC donors weren't so enamored with their own ideology they would have seen that the American people had no interest in having a war-mongering, mendacious fem-bot in the White House.


Info

Trump source confirms The Atlantic to be barred from access due to disgusting Julia Ioffe tweet

The Atlantic hire Julia Ioffe posing with white nationalist Richard B. Spencer
© Twitter
The Atlantic hire Julia Ioffe posing with white nationalist Richard B. Spencer on November 8.
President-elect Donald J. Trump's inner circle will be cutting off access to David Bradley's The Atlantic magazine after a disgusting tweet by one of its new hires, Julia Ioffe, a highly-placed source has confirmed to GotNews.

Ioffe was fired from Politico ahead of schedule after posting the following obscene tweet, which has since been deleted but was archived here:
Julia Ioffe twitter

Comment: More on Ioffe:


Bullseye

Warped society: How the transgender movement is targeting autistic children

boy in grass
© shutterstock
Last May, Dr. Kathleen Levinstein, a professor of social work at the University of Michigan, wrote a heartbreaking piece about her autistic daughter, a teenaged girl who became convinced that she was really a man trapped inside a woman's body. With encouragement from transgender activists at the local organization of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), the vulnerable young woman took sex-altering hormones and cut off her breasts. Dr. Levinstein now grieves the mutilation of her daughter's body and the increased psychological confusion her daughter is experiencing as a result of the hormones.

She states, "She has been taken advantage of. Healthy organs were amputated.... It is a crime not just against women, but particularly against disabled women. So many of these young women who are 'transitioning' are also autistic."

Some contemporary studies have made a connection between gender "dysphoria" and autism. A recent article in The Atlantic uses these studies to push the idea that "transitioning" is a healthy, even necessary, option for those on the spectrum who want it. The author asserts that any effort to discourage such "medical care" to those with special needs is callous. In this way, The Atlantic interweaves natural sympathy for the growing autism awareness movement with transgender ideology.

Comment:


Pills

20 states sue 6 drugmakers for alleged price-fixing scheme that led to astronomical drug prices

Drugs
© Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters
Six generic drug companies, including Heritage Pharmaceuticals and EpiPen-maker Mylan NV, conspired to manipulate prices of two common drugs, 20 US states allege in a new lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in US District Court for the District of Connecticut, says that the six companies — which also include Mayne Pharma, Aurobindo Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Citron Pharma LLC — participated in price manipulation of doxycycline hyclate, an antibiotic, and glyburide, a treatment drug for diabetics, Reuters reported.

Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc. is named as the "ring leader" of the alleged scheme. A company spokesman said any price-fixing it conducted was the responsibility of executives that no longer work for Heritage.

Comment: See also:


Christmas Tree

12-year-old attempted to bomb Christmas market in south Germany, according to prosecutors

Ludwigshafen Christmas market
© DPA
The Ludwigshafen Christmas market.
A young boy tried to set off a nail bomb at a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, but the device failed to detonate, prosecutors have confirmed.

The boy, a German citizen of Iraqi heritage, attempted to blow up the device at the Ludwigshafen Christmas market on November 26th. When the device failed to detonate he gave up, before trying again on December 5th, prosecutors said on Friday.

This time he took the explosive device, hidden in a rucksack filled with nails, and placed it in a bush near the town hall.

Fortunately a pedestrian spotted the bag and alerted police, who then had specialists carry out a controlled explosion, Focus magazine reported on Thursday, citing security sources.

The 12-year-old, born in the town in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2004, had been radicalized and was encouraged to carry out the attack by an as-yet unknown member of the ISIS terror group, according to Focus.

According to an earlier report by police investigators, the powder in the homemade bomb had been created out of the ingredients of fireworks and sparklers and was flammable but not explosive.

Dollar Gold

Enclaves of the elites: Four wealthiest U.S. counties are all suburbs of Washington, DC

washington DC
The four richest counties in the United States, when measured by median household income, are all suburbs of Washington, D.C., according to newly released data from the Census Bureau.

They are Loudoun County, Va., where the median household income was $125,900 in 2015; Falls Church City, Va., where it was $122,092; Fairfax County, Va., where it was $112,844; and Howard County, Md., where it was $110,224.

The Census Bureau treats independent cities such as Falls Church, Va., as the equivalent of a county when calculating its median household income statistics

Nationwide, the median household income in 2015 was $55,755, according to the Census Bureau. That means the local median household income in each of the nation's three richest counties—all of which are Washington suburbs in Northern Virginia—are more than twice the national median household income.

Of the Top 20 richest counties in the nation, nine are suburbs of the city that serves as the seat of a federal government that in fiscal 2016 taxed away $3,266,774,000,000 from the American people, spent $3,854,100,000,000, and ran a $587,326,000,000 deficit.

Comment: Washington's elites are completely insulated from the harsh economic reality faced by most Americans, which partially explains why they were caught off-guard when these 'deplorables' finally voiced their discontent with the status-quo by electing Trump.

Stark contrast: Washington elites vs. normal Americans