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WaPo oped: Smollett story needs to be true to validate rampant racism

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:26 UTC
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In an extremely dark op-ed for the Washington Post, the executive assistant for the editorial board lamented about how heartbroken she will be if Jussie Smollett wasn't actually targeted in a hate crime.

Instead of feeling relief that maybe there isn't as much hate out there as she thought, Nana Efua Mumford wrote about her heartbreak that maybe he wasn't actually attacked by some evil Trump supporters in an article titled, "I doubted Jussie Smollett. It breaks my heart that I might be right."

"I wanted to believe Smollett. I really did. I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago and, if proved true, this would be just one more point on the list. I wanted to believe him with every fiber of my being, most of all because the consequences if he were lying were almost too awful to contemplate," Mumford wrote about her desire for another hate crime to confirm her world view that racism is rampant in her hometown.
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Mother shocked after her 6th grade son was arrested for refusing to stand during Pledge of Allegiance

Josh Magness
Miami Herald
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:43 UTC
Dhakira Talbot
The boy's mom, Dhakira Talbot
Dhakira Talbot is shocked that her 6th grade son was arrested in school after he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

"I'm upset, I'm angry. I'm hurt," the Florida mother said, according to BayNews9. "More so for my son. My son has never been through anything like this."

The incident happened on Feb. 4, according to The Washington Post, and reports began to surface over the weekend.

Police say the 11-year-old student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland said he wouldn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance because the flag is "racist," according to WTSP.

Ana Alvarez, a substitute teacher in the classroom, said she was offended by this comment and asked the student, who is black, why he didn't leave the country, as reported by The Washington Post.
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Arizona man rescued after spending hours stuck in quicksand at Zion National Park, Utah


AZ Family
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:13 UTC
Zion Park
A man from Arizona was rescued in Zion National Park Sunday after he became stuck in the middle of a creek in quicksand.

A press release stated that on Saturday afternoon, Zion Dispatch officials received a call saying that a 34-year-old man had his leg stuck in quicksand.

The man, who was unable to free himself from the quicksand, was located about three hours up the left fork of the North Creek trail in the park, the release stated.

The man's hiking companion left him with warm gear and clothing and went to call for help, according to the release. It was three hours until the companion was able to get cell phone service to call dispatch.
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Canadian, English-speaking narrator of ISIS propaganda videos captured in Syria - unrepentant


Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:53 UTC
ISIS captives
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The man's perfect English caught the world's attention as early as 2014. Experts speculated at the time that he could have been North American or Canadian and they turned out to be correct.

A Canadian man of Ethiopian descent who immigrated to the North American nation as a child turned out to be the narrator behind numerous Daesh propaganda videos, including those that depict prisoner executions, according to a report by The New York Times.

One of the most notorious Daesh propaganda video shows Syrian prisoners digging their own graves, before allegedly being shot in the back of the head by Daesh.

It is now known that the man with the perfect English-language narration in the horrific videos is Mohammed Khalifa, a 35-year old Canadian citizen who immigrated from Saudi Arabia as a child. During his life in Canada, he learned to speak like a native Canadian, studied technology and worked on modest jobs for various computer companies.

Khalifa was captured by Kurdish SDF forces as they advanced on Daesh's last stronghold east of the Euphrates river. He is now detained in a prison in Northern Syria.

"I don't regret it," Khalifa told reporters. "I was asked the same thing by my interrogators, and I told them the same thing."

Comment: Video footage of Khalifa in SDF custody:



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Magic Wand

Gender politics isn't fact, it's a feeling and quite frankly, barking mad

Janice Atkinson
Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:17 UTC
transgender
© NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP/Getty Images
What a time to be living in the West. We've never been richer, more educated or healthier and our life expectancy is increasing year on year.

Instead of building on these achievements in the West to increase our prosperity and competitiveness, we are embarking on an embarrassing and damaging agenda led by people who are publicly funded to spew the nonsense that is identity politics. Through our schools, universities and workplaces, we have been fed a diatribe of gender politics as fact rather than feeling, when it's quite frankly barking.

Our stretched police force has coppers sitting behind computer screens looking for slights against trannies. People are being arrested for stating the fact that a man who chops off his penis and ingests multiple female hormones is now a woman.

Comment: Ms. Atkinson has finally said what needs to be said. Freedom of expression is already defined as a human right. Demanding unequivocal acceptance of that expression be enshrined and enforced by law is not.

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Police called on young entrepreneur selling hot cocoa


WTAE
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 03:22 UTC
Boy selling hot chocolate
An 11-year-old boy wanted to share some warmth and earn a few bucks, but he ended up getting the cops called on him in Castle Shannon.

Andrew Donaldson, of Castle Shannon, is not new to the drink stand scene.

"A lot of times, I make over $50, and I do pretty good," Andrew said.

This small business owner is normally seen setting up shop outside his Castle Shannon home when the temperature is a little warmer, but like most entrepreneurs, when he sees an opportunity, he takes it.
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Reality ัheck: When life gives you lemons... make up bulls*** about Russia?

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:23 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Creativ Studio Heinemann
Coverage of Russia in US media is frequently lazy, misinformed and inaccurate, but sometimes it dives off the deep end into bat s*** crazy absurdity.

This was a real Forbes headline: "Want To Find A Rich Person In Russia? Look For The Lemons."

Below the line, one Lizzy Saxe wrote "wealthy Russians really like to incorporate lemons into their lifestyle. It communicates to people that they have the means to be able to afford them. They call it the bling of produce."

Yup, lemons. Which, unlike actual 'bling,' literally grow on trees.

You'll notice the use of the past tense. Because this is what Forbes ran on Sunday before they quietly amended their nonsense in the dead of night "to more accurately reflect social status in Russia." Nevertheless, there was no apology, nor did the magazine outline its inaccuracies, so we can assume Saxe is none-the-wiser.
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Nolte: Looks like Jussie Smollett chose wrong surveillance camera to capture 'attack'

John Nolte
Breitbart
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:12 UTC
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© Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly, Inset: ABC News
Jussie Smollett appears to have picked the wrong location for his "hate crime" to be caught on video, if we compare his Good Morning America interview to the latest reports about the two Nigerian men who say the actor-singer paid them to stage an assault.

As of now, it looks as though police believe Empire star Smollett not only lied about a phony hate crime committed against him by supporters of President Trump, he also hoped to arrange for the hoax to be recorded by a surveillance camera.

According to CBS Chicago, Smollett, who is black and gay, paid $3500 to two brothers (who are also black) to stage a racist and homophobic attack on him.

If the reports are accurate, Smollett's planning was meticulous, including rehearsals and the purchase of the items used in the attack.
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Texas couple arrested after body of daughter, 3, stashed in acid-filled container

Katherine Lam
Fox News
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:00 UTC
Monica Dominguez and Gerardo Zavala-Loredo
© Webb County Sheriff's OfficeMonica Dominguez, 37, and Gerardo Zavala-Loredo, 32, were arrested in the death of 3-year-old Rebecca Zavala.
A Texas couple was arrested and charged after their 3-year-old daughter's body was found in a container of acid stashed inside a bedroom closet, police said.

Monica Dominguez, 37, and Gerardo Zavala Loredo, 32, were arrested in connection with the death of their daughter Rebecca Zavala, whose body parts were found decomposing in a five-gallon container that appeared to be filled with acid.

The couple faces charges of evidence tampering, endangering a child and abuse of a corpse, police said in a news conference.

Police began investigating the couple's home in Laredo on Thursday after receiving a tip from a neighbor, KGNS reported. Authorities obtained a warrant and began searching the home about 5 p.m. and discovered the container in a bedroom closet.
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Michigan powerlifter heroically lifts 2-ton SUV off of man pinned under wreckage

Ryan Gaydos
Fox News
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51 UTC
Man saves man
A Michigan powerlifter was hailed as a hero last week after he helped a man who was pinned underneath a 2-ton SUV.

Ryan Belcher, 29, was at the end of his workday Thursday when he heard a loud crash outside. He explained to "Fox & Friends" on Monday he noticed a Jeep Cherokee flipped upside down, and he rushed outside toward the wreckage. When he got there, he found a man trapped underneath the vehicle calling out for help.

"When I first approached the vehicle, there was a good four men there, and they were all trying to move this vehicle and I seen it wasn't happening and I figured what a better time now to use what I know I can actually do," Belcher said
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