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Does the media lie? 91% of French respondents say yes in a Twitter poll

RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:48 UTC

camera bearing the French television channel

A French journalist created a stir on Twitter after launching an open poll which asks if people think the media lies. At least 91 percent of the respondents said 'yes,' adding that the media hides information, and even comparing journalism to prostitution.

The poll was launched by French journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin, editor-in-chief of RMC radio, earlier in December. He asked one simple question: "Does the media lie to you? Vote."

Almost 8,000 people answered, and on Tuesday, Bourdin unveiled the final results, with 91 percent of the respondents saying, "Yes, the media lies to us."

"Media are partisan and distribute biased information," one person wrote under Bourdin's post.

In shock: Indiana town's entire police force resigns, alleging malfeasance

RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:38 UTC

The marshal and four deputies of a small town in northern Indiana abruptly quit their jobs, claiming the town council had asked the police department to do "illegal, unethical, and immoral things," while leaving officers underfunded.

Michael Thomison, the town marshall of Bunker Hill, Indiana, resigned this week, as did four reserve deputies, leaving the town without its own law enforcement officers, according to the Kokomo Tribune. The town will rely on the Miami County Sheriff's Office for patrol and emergency response until a new marshal is hired.

The local building commissioner also resigned "due to the actions of the current town council."

Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google

Jim Edwards
Business Insider
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:37 UTC

A job at Google.

It's career heaven, right? How could a gig at the biggest, most ambitious tech company on the planet possibly be bad?

Well, take a look at this Quora thread, which is being constantly updated by current and former Google employees to dish the dirt on working for the search giant.

Turns out that working at Google isn't all free food and bike rides around campus.

Take their complaints with a grain of salt. These are the complainers, after all. But we've heard many of these same things from our own sources.

Woman who claimed to be attacked by anti-Muslim Trump supporters has been arrested for filing false police report

RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:52 UTC

New York Police arrested a woman who claimed she was the victim of an anti-Muslim attack by men screaming "Donald Trump" after it emerged she had fabricated the entire story.

Student Yasmin Seweid, 18, claimed she was verbally attacked by "three drunk, white men" shouting "Donald Trump" at her during a subway ride on December 1.

"They kept saying, 'You don't belong here, get out of this country, go back to your country,' and finally they came really close and they were like, 'Take that rag off your head,'" Seweid told CBS at the time, adding that one of the men tried to pull off her hijab before she fled.

It's understood that at one point police had been close to finding one of the fabricated attackers, based on a description provided by Seweid. The teen wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post that she found the incident "dehumanizing" and that she couldn't speak about it "without getting emotional."

Seweid also described how president-elect Donald Trump "just promotes this stuff and is very anti-Muslim, very Islamophobic, and he's just condoning it."

Protests were held at New York's Grand Central station in response to the alleged attack.

Former cop charged with homicide in fatal on-duty shooting of Sylville Smith

Ashley Luthern
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:53 UTC

Former Milwaukee police officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was charged Thursday with first-degree reckless homicide in the fatal on-duty shooting of Sylville Smith, which sparked riots in Sherman Park in August.

The homicide charge against Haeggan-Brown is only the second filed against an on-duty Milwaukee police officer in modern history.

The criminal complaint says Heaggan-Brown's first shot hit Smith in the arm while Smith was throwing a gun over a fence.

The second shot, which hit Smith in the chest, was fired after Smith tossed the gun and fell to the ground with his hands near his head.

Smith's mother, Mildred Haynes, said she is happy with the decision but thinks the charges should have been more severe.

"He shot him in the arm and shot him again in the chest...To me, he shot to kill," she said.

Comment: See also:

LeBron James grandstands against Trump with 'safety pin' pic

Dylan Gwinn
Breitbart
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:28 UTC

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LeBron James' transition from owner of one of the best stories in sports history to becoming one of the most thoroughly unlikeable celebrities in America is nearly complete.

As Sports Illustrated's "Sportsperson of the Year," James capitalized on his cover photo and attached a safety pin to his coat to make a political statement against Donald Trump. The safety pin signifies solidarity and support for women, minorities, and immigrants.

James campaigned with Hillary Clinton, and recently refused to stay at one of Donald Trump's hotels when the Cavaliers came to New York to play the Knicks.

James accepted the award while paying tribute to black athletes of the past, and their stands on racial justice. James said, "This award is for the great Muhammad Ali, for Bill Russell, for Jim Brown, for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. They sacrificed everything that could've happened to them. [They] could have been stripped of everything that they had accomplished to that point. But their calling and their reasoning for doing what they had to do was for a night like tonight.

Comment: In the meantime, Trump mended fences with Paul Ryan and cultivated another black celebrity..

Breitbart

President-elect Donald Trump's crowd in West Allis, Wisconsin on Tuesday night at his "Thank You" rally booed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin native, but cheered for rapper Kanye West.

"Speaker Paul Ryan I've really come...oh no, I've come to appreciate him," Trump said over the crowd booing when he mentioned Ryan, who attended the event."He has been, I'll tell you he has been terrific. Honestly, he's like a fine wine. Every day goes by, I get to appreciate his genius more and more, but now if he ever goes against me, I'm not going to say that."

"We're going to work on taxes, we're going to work on Obamacare...oh, we're going to work on the wall, Paul," Trump added, and the crowd cheered.

Although Ryan was booed in his home state, the crowed cheered for Kanye West, who met with Trump at Trump Tower on Tuesday.

Snowflake Michael Moore makes another uncanny prediction: Trump 'is gonna get us killed'

Caleb Stephen
Intellihub
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:36 UTC

Trumpet-blowing liberal Michael Moore is at it again. The Fahrenheit 9/11 director and political pundit has been making a number of uncanny predictions about the President-elect as of late. This time, Mr. Moore held nothing back Wednesday in a Facebook post warning: "Donald Trump is gonna get us killed."

Mr Trump confirmed reports he has been skipping daily intelligence briefings, telling Fox News he is "smart" and doesn't need to hear "the same thing over and over each day for eight years". Instead, Mr. Trump said he is receiving intelligence "when I need it". That, is what lead Mr. Moore to deliver his blistering attack on the President-elect.

"Most would agree the #1 job of the leader of any country is to keep its people safe. There is no more important meeting every day for the President than the one where he learns what the day's potential threats are to the country," he said.

"That Trump would find it too cumbersome or too annoying to have to sit through 20 minutes of listening to his top intelligence people tell him who's trying to kill us today, simply boggles the mind."

Comment: More on Moore:

Iraqi refugee who raped 10yo boy at Austrian swimming pool claiming a 'sexual emergency' given 7 years

RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:11 UTC

An Iraqi refugee convicted of raping a 10-year-old boy at a Vienna swimming pool has had his sentence increased from six to seven years in prison as the result of a retrial.

A Vienna court slapped 21-year-old Amir A. with the longer prison sentence on Tuesday, after finding him guilty of serious sexual assault and rape of a minor.

The retrial came after a previous sentence of six years was overturned in October after a defense lawyer argued that the lower court had not done enough to determine whether the rapist had realized that the boy was saying no.

However, the court determined on Tuesday that sexual assault did, in fact, meet the conditions defining rape, Kronen Zeitung reported.

In addition to the sentence, the compensation the rapist must pay his victim's family was also increased, from €4,700 (US$4,938) to €5,000 ($5,253).

The assault took place in December of 2015 at Theresienbad pool in Vienna, where the man dragged a young boy, known only as Goran, into the changing rooms before locking the door and violently raping him.

The incident left the boy in need of emergency treatment, which he was given at a local children's hospital. He continues to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), his mother reportedly told the court.

Comment: Austria: Iraqi refugee rapes 10yo boy, conviction overturned

RT reports on the ground in Aleppo: Nusra torture devices, abuse of children, no attacks on evacuee buses - MSM quotes jihadis instead

RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:44 UTC

© ReutersTV / Reuters
A still image from video taken December 13, 2016 of a general view of bomb damaged eastern Aleppo, Syria in the rain. Video released December 13, 2016.

Locals in Aleppo refute reports in the Western media claiming that the buses evacuating the militants had been fired upon by pro-Assad forces, RT's Lizzie Phelan reported from the scene.

"Here [in Aleppo], I've been speaking to a local journalist and locals who have been here since dawn... They say they heard no sound of gunfire," Phelan reported from Aleppo.

Earlier on Thursday, Reuters reported allegations that Syrian forces opened fire on the medical convoy in eastern Aleppo, killing at least one person.

"[Pro-government fighters] fired at us and at ambulance vehicles and those people opening up the road," Reuters reported, citing an unnamed 'spokesman for the civil defense rescue service.'

Reuters also cited an interview posted "via an online messaging service," in which a man who said he was a civil defense worker claimed snipers were targeting people in the convoy.

Comment: Yep, these "civil defense" workers: Aleppo residents on Western-backed White Helmets: 'When camera is gone they leave people under rubble'

Comment: Contrast with John Kirby, who can't bring himself to admit that U.S. policy has failed repeatedly in Syria, and that it supports terrorists:

And here he is talking about how proud he is of his own lies and idiocy:

Militants leaving Aleppo in buses and ambulances are accompanied by Russian servicemen

Sputnik
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:44 UTC

The Russian center for Syrian reconciliation said that the first convoy of buses with militants has already left eastern Aleppo.

The evacuation of 5,000 militants and their families from Aleppo started earlier in the day.

Meanwhile, the operation to evacuate 200 wounded is underway in the eastern part of the Syrian city of Aleppo, the Red Cross Syria said. "In Aleppo, conflicting parties appealed to the the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to help in the evacuation of the wounded," the Red Cross said.

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Society's Child

Does the media lie? 91% of French respondents say yes in a Twitter poll

In shock: Indiana town's entire police force resigns, alleging malfeasance

Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google

Woman who claimed to be attacked by anti-Muslim Trump supporters has been arrested for filing false police report

Former cop charged with homicide in fatal on-duty shooting of Sylville Smith

LeBron James grandstands against Trump with 'safety pin' pic

Snowflake Michael Moore makes another uncanny prediction: Trump 'is gonna get us killed'

Iraqi refugee who raped 10yo boy at Austrian swimming pool claiming a 'sexual emergency' given 7 years

RT reports on the ground in Aleppo: Nusra torture devices, abuse of children, no attacks on evacuee buses - MSM quotes jihadis instead

Militants leaving Aleppo in buses and ambulances are accompanied by Russian servicemen

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