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Seeing Red: Ex-NYPD cop punched at his Nashville birthday party after red cap mistaken for MAGA hat

Larry Celona and Tina Moore
New York Post
Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:37 UTC
Daniel Sprague
© FacebookDaniel Sprague
A retired NYPD detective says a woman punched him in the face in Nashville over the weekend because his hat looked like a MAGA cap.

Staten Island resident Daniel Sprague told the Post he was celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife and friends at The Stage on Broadway on Friday when he was assaulted by a woman he didn't know.

"I was outside with my friends when some grabbed me from behind, spun me around and punched me in the face," said Sprague, who retired from the NYPD in 2009.

"At first I thought it was a friend until I got hit. I couldn't believe someone could get that upset."

In reality, his cap was emblazoned with the words "Make Fifty Great Again" — while his shirt was decorated with an American flag that read "Making America Great Since 1970."

The bar's bouncers booted them both from the property before he had a chance to call cops, but he filed a report the following day, he said.

"All night people were giving me thumbs up, smiles or some showing rage, until they walked up close and saw what hat said," he recalled. "Then they would wish me a happy birthday."

Comment: If you wear a red hat, you are 'literally Hitler' as far as the left are concerned. See also:

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Propaganda

Takedown notices and internet filters coming to New Zealand

Marc Daalder
MSN News
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:01 UTC
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
The Government is planning legislation that will give it increased powers to tackle the spread of terrorist content online, proactively released documents from the Department of Internal Affairs show

A new suite of reforms will make it illegal to livestream objectionable content and give the Government the ability to issue takedown notices to online content hosts, among other powers.

The proposed legislation was authorised by Cabinet in December and will be introduced by March, according to a proactively released Cabinet paper from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA).
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'Dangerous' PragerU conservatives clap back at Samantha Bee

Anthony Leonardi
Washington Examiner
Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:01 UTC
samantha bee full frontal
Conservatives are firing back after Full Frontal comedian Samantha Bee said their ideas were "dangerous."

The liberal TBS show host sparked controversy when she took aim at Prager University on Wednesday, a nonprofit organization that creates online conservative content.

"Prager U's website says 'Prager University is not an accredited academic institution...but it is a place where you are free to learn.' That describes every single place! The last place Sam learned something for free was in a bra store. She learned she's been wrong for 35 years," Bee tweeted.

Comment: It just goes to show how out-of-touch the leftist media is. They simply don't 'get' conservative thought, branding anything outside of their accepted norms as 'dangerous'. And while PragerU is ideologically conservative, and inevitably gets some things wrong, at least it offers a counter-narrative to the NPC indoctrination facing everyone who turns on a TV.

See also:

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Gem

Best of the Web: Hey, China-bashers! Maybe China deserves PRAISE for the way it's handling the Coronavirus outbreak?

Polly Boiko
RT
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:42 UTC

Comment: What a wild idea.

But if we entertain it, does this mean we'll have to find a new source of schadenfreude?...


polly boiko china coronavirus
© RT UK
Beijing is getting major stick for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak - for example, ungrateful US officials are "disappointed" at China's alleged secrecy.

Meanwhile the mainstream media focuses on press censorship, forced quarantines and an alleged lack of transparency from the Chinese authorities.

Hold on a second! Surely some of the measures that China's put in place are worth a bit of praise?! This week, Polly makes the case for cutting China some slack!


Comment: Not only 'how about cutting them some slack'... how about considering - as Boiko herself suggests - that China's massive response to the outbreak - at huge cost to its economy - is her 'taking one for the team'?

We realize this is somewhere most Westerners can't go because they have no living experience of decent, ethics-based governance, but it is theoretically possible!

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Bulb

Tennessee lawmakers introduce joint resolution to recognize CNN and Washington Post as "fake news"


WKRN
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:19 UTC
Tennessee capitol
Tennessee capitol
An amendment to a house joint resolution was announced Tuesday at the Tennessee State Capitol, announcing that the state of Tennessee recognizes CNN and The Washington Post "as fake news and part of the media wing of the Democratic party."

According to the resolution, lawmakers say that an editor of The Washington Post wrote on October 3, 2019 that President Trump "cast a spell on the Republican Party and suggested that Trumpism is cult-like." The resolution also says that a CNN host suggested that Trump supporters "belong to a cult and that our president is using mind control" on November 24, 2019.

"We recognize that fake news outlets suggest ideas without directly making accusations so that they can claim innocence from their ivory towers," the resolution reads.

The joint resolution introduced in the state House with the Senate reportedly concurring says that CNN and The Washington Post are condemned "for denigrating our citizens and implying that they are weak-minded followers instead of people exercising their rights that our veterans paid for with their blood."
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Sherlock

Russian authorities investigate after photos emerge of Boris Nemtsov murderer allegedly enjoying prison 'feast'


RT
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:08 UTC
zaur dadaev
© vk.comZaur Dadaev and a group of other men in prison
The 2015 killing of Boris Nemtsov shocked Russians, and now photographs posted online of the man who assassinated him apparently posing in front of a slap-up meal are generating considerable anger.

The images, taken in an Irkutsk penal colony, show Zaur Dadaev and a group of other men surrounded by kebabs, soups, fruits, and juices. In response, Russian prison authorities have launched an investigation to determine the conditions in which he is being held.

They will also look into whether Dadaev, a former security official, used a mobile phone at the facility, where he was kept before being transferred to prison. The last sign-in to his account on social network Odnoklassniki was on July 8, 2018.
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Bad Guys

Michael Avenatti, aka 'creepy porn lawyer', found guilty on all counts in Nike extortion trial

Andrew Kerr
Daily Caller
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:48 UTC
Avantti
© Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was found guilty on all three charges he faced in relation to his scheme to extort over $20 million from sportswear and apparel giant Nike.

Avenatti was charged with threatening the sportswear giant that he would stage a news conference exposing its efforts to corrupt college basketball unless it paid him between $15 and $25 million to conduct an internal investigation into his claims.

Avenatti, who gained considerable fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her efforts to revoke a non-disclosure agreement against President Donald Trump, showed no reaction as the jury read his verdict Friday.

"I'm not fucking around with this, and I'm not continuing to play games. And I don't — you know, this isn't complicated," Avenatti told Nike representatives just prior to his arrest in March 2019. "You guys know enough now to know you've got a serious problem."

Comment: See also: The new Wild West: Avenatti, Wohl and the Krassensteins prove political media is a hucksters' paradise

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Russia seeks Canada's aid in probing 95-yo Nazi death squad member over mass murder of vulnerable children


RT
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:55 UTC
barbed wire
© Global Look Press / dpa / Britta Pedersen
A nonagenarian former Canadian citizen, whose appeal against deportation was turned down by the Supreme Court in December, is suspected of involvement in the cruel mass murder of vulnerable children by a Nazi death squad.

Russia's Investigative Committee has asked Canadian law enforcement to provide legal papers related to Helmut Oberlander, who may have been involved in the mass murder of 214 residents of a shelter for disabled children in the Nazi-occupied Krasnodar region in 1942. The dreaded Sonderkommando SS-10a, a death squad tasked with culling racially impure or weak people under Hitler's sick vision of German empowerment, herded kids into a mobile gas chamber and buried their bodies.

"In the 1940s and the 1960s several translators and other members of the Sonderkommando SS-10a were arrested and convicted," the committee said. "But Oberlander fled justice right after the German capitulation and escaped criminal punishment."
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Russia rapidly recovered from sanctions & drop in oil prices - British investment trust


RT
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:14 UTC
Gorky park in Moscow
© Sputnik / Maksim BlinovGorky park in Moscow
The Russian economy has proven that it can withstand Western sanctions and falling oil prices, Matthias Siller, co-manager of the Barings Emerging Europe Fund, has said.

Despite the difficulties Moscow faced between 2010 and 2015, "things have picked up rapidly in the past five years," Siller said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on Friday.

"The region has performed incredibly well, so our Russian investments have grown and become a larger part of the portfolio," he noted.
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Burka

Islamic faith marriages are now invalid under UK law leaving Muslim womens' rights at risk


RT
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:43 UTC
muslim women
© Reuters / Luke MacGregor
Islamic faith marriages are not valid under English law, the country's Court of Appeal has ruled, in a move that could see many Muslim women denied rights when it comes to divorce.

The judgment delivered at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Friday overturned an earlier High Court ruling that Islamic marriage - known as a 'nikah' - adhered to the core tenets of English matrimonial law. These are now legally "non-marriages," the appeal court's decision confirmed.

The landmark ruling could have widespread consequences for Muslim couples and in particular for women, as it now means women who married under Islamic law have no redress in the English courts over division of matrimonial assets such as the family home when divorcing.

A survey carried out in 2017 for Channel 4 documentary 'The Truth About Muslim Marriage', found that almost all married Muslim women in the UK had an Islamic marriage - with nearly two-thirds not having a separate civil ceremony.

Comment: See also: Home Office rejects recommendation to compel Muslim couples to register their Sharia marriages under UK civil law

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