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Amtrak train carrying Republican Congressmen derails after colliding with garbage truck

Christian Datoc
The Daily Caller
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:52 UTC

An Amtrak train carrying several members of Congress was involved in an accident with a large truck Wednesday afternoon.

According to The Atlantic's Elaine Plott, the train was carrying the congressmen to a Republican retreat in Greenbrier, West Virginia.

Multiple injuries have already been reported. It is not yet clear what caused the accident, but photos from the scene show that the truck has sustained extreme damage.

It appears that the injuries are minor and all members, their families and staff appear to be unharmed.

The driver of the truck has reportedly died on the scene.

CBS News poll: Three quarters approve of Trump's State of the Union address

Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna and Anthony Salvanto
CBS News
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:14 UTC

Views of the speech

Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave. Just a quarter disapproved.

How did the speech make you feel?

Eight in 10 Americans who watched tonight felt that the president was trying to unite the country, rather than divide it. Two-thirds said the speech made them feel proud, though just a third said it made them feel safer. Fewer said the speech made them feel angry or scared.

Comment: For the full results of the survey, see the embedded document at the bottom of the source link.

A snap CNN/SSRS poll: Almost half of viewers responded positively to Trump's SOTU speech

More male BBC presenters will get a pay raise; new report finds no bias against female staff

RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:20 UTC

The BBC has opened itself to further backlash over its gender pay gap as more men than women will receive a pay rise after auditors found there is "no bias" against female presenters.

Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that of the nearly 200 on-air staff needing a pay rise under a new "transparent" structure announced by the BBC in a bid to tackle widespread complaints of pay inequality, there were 98 male presenters and 90 female presenters.

It comes after BBC managers ordered a review of presenters' pay in a bid to tackle widespread allegations of discrimination against women.

Comment: BBC slashes male presenters' salaries by 30% to address the 'gender pay gap'

PwC subsequently found no "bias" against women, though the gender pay gap stands at 6.8 percent.

News of the pay boost scheme being more in favor of men than women caused an outcry on social media, given recent reports that put the overall pay gap at the BBC at 9.3 percent.

Oxford University Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan arrested in Paris on rape charges

RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:41 UTC

An Oxford professor accused of rape has been arrested in Paris. Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has had multiple rape allegations made against him since November, and was suspended by the world's top university as a result.

The senior research fellow of St. Antony's College was accused in November of rape by French author Henda Ayari. She alleges that Ramadan violently assaulted her in a Paris hotel room in 2012 following one of his lectures.

"He literally threw himself on me like a wild beast," Ayari said. He "strangled me... I really thought I was dying, I was certain tonight that if I kept pushing him he would kill me."

Show this short video to anyone who still thinks White Helmets are 'heroes'

Off Guardian
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:05 UTC

Vanessa Beeley presents a condensed overview of the evidence for the White Helmets being a creation of Western governments embedded with terrorist factions inside Syria. Show this to anyone who still can't believe our leaders would be cynical and psychopathic enough to nominate mercenaries, fakers and mass-murderers for a Nobel prize, or that our media would be craven enough to let this grotesque lie go unquestioned.

Comment: More on the PR operation known as the White Helmets:

Almost half of viewers responded positively to Trump's SOTU speech

Max Greenwood
The Hill
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:39 UTC

Nearly half of those who watched President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday reacted "very" positively to the speech, according to a snap CNN/SSRS poll.

According to that survey, the results of which were announced on-air on CNN, 48 percent of respondents said they had a "very positive" reaction to the speech - Trump's first since taking office. Only 22 percent said they had a "somewhat positive" reaction to the speech, while 29 percent reacted negatively.

The results of that poll came less than two hours after Trump finished delivering his speech, in which he touted the tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks of his first year in office and outlined his ambitions to revitalize the nation's infrastructure and take on immigration reform.

Sweden at epicenter of illegal adoptions scandal

Sputnik
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:33 UTC

A former head of the Chilean Child Care Agency has claimed that an unknown number of children were victims of the "child trade" to Sweden, which is otherwise known for having the highest per capita proportion of international adoptees in the world.

Many of the children adopted from Chile by Swedes during the 70's and 80's were taken from their mothers without their consent, an investigation by Chilean journalists in collaboration with Swedish national broadcaster SVT has shown.

Between 1971 and 1992, largely during the Pinochet era, over than 2,000 Chilean children were adopted by Swedish couples from Chile. Over the years, these adoptions have been questioned due to allegations of coercion and kidnapping.

'There are no safe spaces in real life' says Allie Stuckey, the Conservative Millennial, to students

Fox News
Wed, 31 May 2017 20:18 UTC

Conservative millennial blogger Allie Beth Stuckey has been causing shock waves on social media with her tough talk on liberals, feminists and college campus "safe spaces."

In a recent Facebook video, Stuckey absolutely ripped the state of higher education in America.

"Since when did college become a place for parents to ship their kids off to become indoctrinated and brainwashed?" Stuckey said. "Since when did professors stop teaching critical thinking and mental fortitude? Since when did it become more important to protect people from getting their feelings hurt than preparing for real life?"

"Because here's the deal, college students: there are no 'safe spaces' in real life."

Comment: The idea behind "safe spaces" is delusional in the extreme, with snowflakes demanding a protective bubble where the right to not be challenged on anything reins supreme. It's a regressive tendency that shows, above all, who is and isn't actually fit for life in the real world.

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Top-secret Australian govt files sold at 'second-hand furniture shop'

RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:16 UTC

Canberra has launched an investigation into how hundreds of top-secret documents spanning five governments and dubbed The Cabinet Files ended up being sold at a second-hand furniture shop in the Australian capital.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) obtained the treasure trove of files and published a series of exclusive reports earlier this week.

Most of the documents were classified, some "top secret" and others marked "AUSTEO" (to be seen by Australian eyes only), and were meant by law to remain secret for at least two decades.

Among other things, the ABC's revelations reportedly feature allegations that the "Australian Federal Police (AFP) lost nearly 400 national security files in five years" and that former Prime Minister John Howard's National Security Committee (NSC) gave "serious consideration to removing an individual's unfettered right to remain silent when questioned by police."

'I'm going to ruin his life lol': Teen the latest victim of false rape accusation and police disclosure failings

RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:20 UTC

A teen accused of rape spent three months in custody because police did not disclose texts that proved his innocence. His alleged victim wrote in one message: "I'm not just going to mess his life up, I'm going to ruin it lol."

Connor Fitzgerald, 19, had the rape charge against him thrown out when prosecutors discovered the texts. Fitzgerald, of South Norwood in south London, lost his job as a BT engineer because of the claim.

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Society's Child

Amtrak train carrying Republican Congressmen derails after colliding with garbage truck

CBS News poll: Three quarters approve of Trump's State of the Union address

More male BBC presenters will get a pay raise; new report finds no bias against female staff

Oxford University Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan arrested in Paris on rape charges

Show this short video to anyone who still thinks White Helmets are 'heroes'

Almost half of viewers responded positively to Trump's SOTU speech

Sweden at epicenter of illegal adoptions scandal

'There are no safe spaces in real life' says Allie Stuckey, the Conservative Millennial, to students

Top-secret Australian govt files sold at 'second-hand furniture shop'

'I'm going to ruin his life lol': Teen the latest victim of false rape accusation and police disclosure failings

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