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Mainstream media on Gaza: Israelis get killed, but Palestinians merely 'die'

Darius Shahtahmasebi
RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:40 UTC

After a Twitter backlash, the Guardian was forced to amend a brazenly propagandized headline which sought to undermine the basic rights of Palestinians and elevate Israeli soldiers to levels previously thought unimaginable.

"We remain editorially independent, our journalism free from commercial bias and our reporting open and accessible to all," reads an advertisement on the Guardian UK's online newspaper when you click on a recent story.

"Imagine what we could continue to achieve with the support of many more of you. Together we can be a force for change."

The article in question that I clicked on is a recent story entitled "Eight dead in undercover Israeli operation in Gaza." According to the opening paragraph of the report, Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in an "apparently botched undercover raid and ensuring firefight."

Tucker Carlson: CNN defends free speech, only when it's their speech

RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:35 UTC

Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted CNN, saying that while it is suing the White House over free speech, it doesn't have any problem silencing voices it doesn't like and even threatening its critics.

"CNN is claiming to defend free speech, only when it is their speech," the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight said on Wednesday night, commenting on the recent lawsuit filed by the network to challenge the ban of its chief correspondent, Jim Acosta, from accessing the White House.

Acosta is known for highly-publicized altercations with President Donald Trump and his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, during various media events. Last week, the White House officially revoked his press pass, following an argument the journalist had with Trump during his first post-midterm press conference. Sanders also accused Acosta of "placing his hands" on a White House intern who tried to take away his microphone.

CNN responded by filing a lawsuit, claiming a violation of freedom of speech. And naming Trump and several of his staffers as defendants. A number of other news outlets, including the rival Fox News channel, supported the lawsuit.

'Breakaway group' of several hundred caravan migrants arrives at US border

Travis Fedschun
Fox News
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:08 UTC

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A Catholic nun gives travel advice to Central American migrants riding in the bed of a semi-trailer, as they move toward the U.S. border.

The vanguard of the huge Central American migrant caravan pushing its way to the border arrived in Tijuana on Wednesday -- at least a week ahead of schedule -- as troops continue to mass on the U.S. side of the border amid President Trump's vow to repel the group.

A "breakway group" of several hundred migrants from the main caravan has already arrived at the border city of Tijuana, aided in part by buses, officials from the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.

"As we have said repeatedly, being a member of a caravan doesn't give you any special rights to enter the country," DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman told Fox News.

"If they arrive at a Port of Entry, they will have to wait in line in keeping with the lawful processes at our ports of entry. If they attempt to enter illegally, they will have violated U.S. criminal law and in accordance with the President's proclamation and the Interim Final Rule they would be ineligible for asylum."

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'Forget real estate. You can't afford it anyway': Monopoly brilliantly trolls millennials in new game, triggering outrage

RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:03 UTC

Millennials, generation snowflake, or the 'no house, no money, just avocado' young people who brought you hipsters, are now being derided by toy giant Hasbro with its new edition of every capitalist's favorite board game Monopoly.

Hasbro took the potentially risky tongue-in-cheek cheap shot at the 22-35-year-old demographic via a medium that most of them would probably only enjoy ironically over an overpriced craft beer at their local dive bar.

Rich Uncle Pennybags (the Monopoly man, to the uninitiated) appears wearing earphones, sunglasses and proudly showing off his participation medal, hammering almost every clichéd trope imaginable in one obnoxious caricature.

In Monopoly for Millennials, instead of money (don't be silly), players collect 'experience points' in a parody of the modern workplace that might hit just a little too close to home for recent graduates.

Creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested on domestic violence charges

RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:48 UTC

Controversial attorney Michael Avenatti, who represented adult film actress Stormy Daniels and claimed Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a gang rapist, was arrested on allegations of felony domestic violence in Los Angeles.

Avenatti was arrested at an apartment complex in Century City, celebrity gossip outlet TMZ reported on Wednesday afternoon, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. A woman filed a police report saying that Avenatti hit her, and TMZ's sources described her face as "swollen and bruised" with "red marks" on both cheeks.

"A report for domestic violence was taken yesterday and an individual has been arrested for that report today and he is in the process of being booked," a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson told The Hill. Multiple other news outlets have confirmed that Avenatti was the one arrested.

While other outlets offered little in the way of details, TMZ reported that the alleged domestic violence incident happened on Tuesday, when Avenatti kicked the woman out of the apartment. Police showed up at her request on Wednesday, when she came to retrieve her possessions.

New study makes it official: Women find men with beards more attractive

Jessica Brown
Indy 100
Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:32 UTC

It's officially time to stop mocking the hipsters populating East London - men with beards are more attractive than those without.

That's according to a study in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, which asked 8,500 women to rate men with and without beards for their boyfriend potential.

The men were photographed clean-shaven, five days after shaving, 10 days after shaving, and then four weeks after shaving. The results were astonishing: every single woman preferred their men with facial hair.

South Korea bans smoking within 10 meters of daycare centers, kindergartens

Choi Ji-won
The Korea Herald
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:07 UTC

Smoking will be banned within 10 meters of child care facilities starting from the end of December.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that the latest amendment to the National Health Promotion Act banning smoking within 10 meters of kindergartens and day care centers will go into effect Dec. 31.

The act aims to protect children from secondhand smoke, the ministry said.

Cities and districts are required to place signs notifying the public of the smoking ban, and those caught violating the ban will be slapped with a fine of 100,000 won ($88).

Trump effect? Number of US citizens seeking asylum in Canada soars by 500%

RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:21 UTC

Trump seems to have accomplished what political Hollywood never has - convincing thousands of Americans to flee the country. Driven by his policies, more US citizens sought asylum in Canada last year than have in decades.

Americans were the third-largest group to seek asylum in Canada in 2017, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, their numbers only surpassed by Nigerians and Haitians. A total of 2,550 US citizens applied for Canadian asylum in 2017 - an eye-popping sixfold increase from the previous year, and more than at any other time in the last quarter-century.

Immigration experts claim most of the new arrivals are US-born children of Haitian parents hoping to avoid being separated from their families by Trump's repeal of the Temporary Protected Status that was granted to 59,000 Haitians after 2010's catastrophic earthquake. Haitians remaining in the US after July 2019 face deportation.

New study finds hundreds of indigenous women have been murdered or disappeared in recent years

RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:02 UTC

Hundreds of Native American women have been murdered or have gone missing over the years, and their fate remains a mystery as authorities are appallingly lax in keeping track of such crime victims, according to a new study.

Of the 5,712 American Indian and Alaska Native girls and women reported missing in 2016, only 116 of those were logged in the Department of Justice's federal missing persons database, NamUs, and the real number of missing women is likely to be even higher due to underreporting, racial misclassification and a lack of coordination between tribal and state authorities.

Murder is the third-leading cause of death among indigenous women, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which also found violence on reservations occurs at ten times the national average. While this figure understandably gets a lot of attention, authorities lack similar numbers for American Indians and Alaskan Natives living in cities - which is almost three quarters of them. Seattle's Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI)'s report is an attempt to fill that knowledge gap, and their findings suggest urban violence against indigenous women is massively underreported.

Growing migrant crowd tests US-Mexico border fortifications

RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:23 UTC

A metal fence separating US-Mexico border between Imperial Beach and Tijuana proved to be no challenge for hundreds of Central American migrants who scaled the wall with ease, taunting the American border agents on the other side.

Not all the migrants who broke away from the main caravan of asylum seekers found shelters once they arrived in Tijuana, Mexico. Many of those eagerly pursuing their dreams of a promised land continued west before they arrived at Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach, California.

The large fence which crosses the beach at US-Mexico Pacific border was not much of an obstacle, as dozens of people were seen scaling the wall. While some migrants did not go beyond perching on top of the fence, a few just couldn't wait to step on US soil.

However, no arrests were made as US border guards who patrolled the beach ordered the illegals back to Mexico.

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Society's Child

Mainstream media on Gaza: Israelis get killed, but Palestinians merely 'die'

Tucker Carlson: CNN defends free speech, only when it's their speech

'Breakaway group' of several hundred caravan migrants arrives at US border

'Forget real estate. You can't afford it anyway': Monopoly brilliantly trolls millennials in new game, triggering outrage

Creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested on domestic violence charges

New study makes it official: Women find men with beards more attractive

South Korea bans smoking within 10 meters of daycare centers, kindergartens

Trump effect? Number of US citizens seeking asylum in Canada soars by 500%

New study finds hundreds of indigenous women have been murdered or disappeared in recent years

Growing migrant crowd tests US-Mexico border fortifications

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