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Following last November's election, 80 Edina High School teachers - which must represent pretty much the entire faculty - signed an editorial in the school's newspaper that was basically a Democratic Party manifesto. The editorial was authored by Tim Klobuchar (second cousin). It went so far as to oppose calls for unity; unity, it implied, will exist only when all conservatives have been banished from the stage.
Comment: Do we even have an idea how rampant this syndrome is? Those who could or would report are being silenced by stigmatism and persecution for a differing opinion and choice. Sadly, children now are targets as this abomination to democracy and suppression of rights gains momentum.
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On Tuesday, the Fukushima District Court ruled that the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) had to pay damages to Okubo's family, ruling that the nuclear disaster of 2011 was in large part responsible for his death.
"It is significant that the court recognized the eldest man in the village who would have lived out his final days in his homeland was hit by such a terrible tragedy," lawyer Yukio Yasuda said.
Okubo, who used to work as a farmer, had lived his whole life in the village of Iitate, some 40km (25 miles) from the disaster site of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the northeast of Japan. On March 11, 2011 the power plant was hit by a tsunami, sending its reactors into a meltdown.
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A general view taken a drone shows Allepo's historic citadel, controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, as seen from a rebel-held area of Aleppo, Syria, October 12, 2016
A general view taken a drone shows Allepo's historic citadel, controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, as seen from a rebel-held area of Aleppo, Syria, October 12, 2016
The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that tens of Russian and CIS nationals had been killed in recent clashes in Syria, emphasizing that they were not military.
"In the course of the recent military clashes, in which the Russian servicemen did not participate in any way [...], Russian and CIS countries' nationals were killed and several others were wounded."
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Afrin, Syria
Afrin, Syria
"If there will be Turkey involved with Syria and others to find a solution to end the miseries of the people, then it is most welcome. But if there is no mutual understanding between Turkey and Syria, between Russia and Turkey, and Turkey and Iran, and Iran and Syria, with taking into consideration the concerns of the Kurds on the ground, then it's a recipe for further destabilization and confrontation," Hemin Hawrami, who used to be a senior assistant to Iraqi Kurdistan's ex-President Massoud Barzani, said during Valdai Discussion Club's Middle East Conference when asked if such a deal between YPG and Damascus can be a way out.
He stressed that for the Kurds, any solution which would protect the life of the Kurds and other citizens in Syria would be a beginning to bring violence to an end.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel
Billionaire Peter Thiel
Well, if you are a billionaire you jump on your private plane or helicopter, or climb into your armoured car, and head to your bolthole to prepare for a new world order.
And one place in particular, thousands of miles away from North Korea, ISIS and all the social tensions in Europe and the United States, is seen by some as the ideal 'safe' place for billionaires: New Zealand.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire behind PayPal, is among those tech giants who see New Zealand as a good place to go in the event of an apocalypse.
He has bought a $13.5m 193-hectare section on the shores of Lake Wanaka - although the only building there at the moment is a barn.
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Geophysicist Dr Matthew Falder
Geophysicist Dr Matthew Falder
Cambridge University graduate Matthew Falder admitted 137 offenses against 46 people, including blackmail, voyeurism, making indecent images of children and encouraging the rape of a child.
Falder was part of several 'virtual communities' of abusers on the dark web, where platforms and other 'hurtcore' websites share images of rape, torture, pedophilia and degradation, the Guardian reports.
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The pro-government fighters were filmed entering the village of Nubul in some 20 pickup trucks. An RT source on the ground has confirmed the movement of troops to Afrin.
A reporter at the scene for Syrian state agency SANA that the area where the fighters arrived has already been targeted by an attack from the Turkish side.
Turkish media later reported that an artillery attack on the convoy forced it to retreat.
Comment: Here's how Syria's official news network reported on the convoy, before it arrived:
SANA's reporter in Aleppo said on Monday that popular forces are to arrive in Afrin area soon to support locals in facing the aggression launched by the Turkish regime on the area since January 20th.After the Syrian forces entered Afrin, they were reportedly forced to retreat. However, the Syrian Army so far has not confirmed either entering Afrin or the subsequent retreat.
The reporter said that the arrival of popular forces will strengthen the locals' resilience and resistance against the Turkish aggression which targets infrastructure, public and private properties, and economic and services establishments.
The Turkish regime has been waging a barbaric aggression on Afrin area for almost a month, using various types of weapons and shells including the internationally-prohibited chlorine gas, killing and injuring hundreds of civilians and destroying infrastructure, properties, and historical landmarks.
According to the previous reports of the Turkish news agency Anadolu, the Syrian military retreated some 10km (6.2 miles) away from Afrin.What a mess. The Syrian government has a good motivation for assisting the Kurds, both to gain concessions from them not to cause further trouble and also to solidify good will by fighting together as common Syrians. But it can't be seen by the Kurds as mere politicking; there need to be stakes involved. So even then, it makes sense that Turkey would continue its assault on the area. Whether this will work or not is another matter. The Kurds have been hesitant to concede anything in order to receive Syrian protection. And it's unclear what Turkey will accept as reasonable terms for them to cease their Afrin operation.
YPG representative in Afrin Brusk Haseke told Sputnik earlier in the day that the Syrian government forces have entered Afrin besieged by the Turkish military. The Syrian armed forces, however, yet to confirm this information.
"Yes, this is true. Today the Syrian government army entered Afrin in order to defend the city from the Turkish Armed Forces and the Free Syrian Army jointly with the Kurdish forces of the YPG. The government forces have come to help the people of Afrin. We cannot report on the number of soldiers that entered Afrin. This is military information."
At the same time, the Syrian state TV has shown a convoy, what it says are pro-government forces, entering Afrin.
The troops, wearing camouflage fatigues and waving weapons and Syrian flags from their vehicles are seen on the screen, Reuters said.
Meanwhile, the Syrian TV reports of the shelling of the Syrian government forces, which had entered Afrin by the Turkish military.
However, no official confirmation to this has followed from both - the Syrian and the Turkish sides.
Turkey's Warning Against Entering Afrin
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier in the day that Turkish army would encircle Afrin to speed up its operation, adding that possible deployment of Syrian government forces into the city had been "halted through our communications."
The day before, a senior Kurdish official said that Syrian Kurdish forces and the country's government had agreed on the deployment of Syrian army troops along border positions in the Afrin region to curb the Turkish campaign.
Later on, Syrian state television channel Ikhbariya reported that pro-Syrian government forces would enter Syria's Afrin area "within hours."
However, this information has been refuted by Brusk Haseke, who had called them false and fake news in his interview to Sputnik, saying that the Syrian government forces would not enter Afrin.
Commenting on reports, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said that if Syrian armed forces entered Afrin to support Kurdish militants, this would lead to a catastrophe, giving a green light to split the country.
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Justin Goldman filed a lawsuit against Breitbart, Time, Vox and Yahoo for embedding tweets containing a photo Goldman took of New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady.
Goldman did not post the photo to Twitter, but on Snapchat. However, the photo ended up on Twitter's servers and in several tweets.
Twitter was not named in the suit and one has to wonder why not, along with any and everyone who tweeted the picture.
Still, it has become fairly commonplace for news outlets and bloggers to embed tweets. If Goldman didn't want his image to be embedded, perhaps he should see to turn off the embed feature via Twitter. YouTube has that feature on its site.
Comment: The thin edge of the wedge to shut down all internet information sharing?
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Liberal viciousness: Hard-left attacks father of Florida shooting victim for being a Trump supporter
That's right, in the new America it is apparently perfectly acceptable to attack and even blame the parent of a teenager who was murdered, all because his political beliefs do not line up with the leftist orthodoxy.
Both Andrew Pollack and his wife were interviewed outside of Broward Health North hospital, hoping to hear from their daughter hours after the attack that left 17 dead and over a dozen injured. During the interview, Pollack committed the thought crime of wearing a t-shirt for his preferred presidential candidate, a fact that apparently gave leftists on twitter the cover to viciously attack him.
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