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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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Heart

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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Lemon

Reality ัheck: When life gives you lemons... make up bulls*** about Russia?

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:23 UTC
lemons
© 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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Oscar

Nolte: Looks like Jussie Smollett chose wrong surveillance camera to capture 'attack'

John Nolte
Breitbart
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:12 UTC
smollett
© 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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Arrow Up

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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Tehran TV cancels broadcast because female referee was wearing shorts


Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:56 UTC
female referee
© AP Photo/ Martin Meissner
On Friday, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB refused to broadcast a Bundesliga - professional association football league in Germany - game between German soccer teams Bayern Munich and Augsburg because a female referee, Bibiana Steinhaus, was officiating the match.

The current ruling administration in Tehran does not allow images of women showing appreciable amounts of naked skin to be broadcast on state-owned networks.

โ€‹The thirty-nine year old Steinhaus is the first woman to officiate in men's professional football matches in Germany. In 2018, she was named one of the nation's top referees.

Comment: The year is 2019, where in some countries women in shorts at sporting events is deemed unacceptable and, in other countries, men dressed as women competing as women against women is acceptable:

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Coulter lashes out at Trump after he said she's 'off the reservation'


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Trump Ann Coulter
© Global Look Press / Catherine Bauknight / Chris Kleponis
Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter has put a final nail into the coffin of her long-since-cooled political romance with Donald Trump, calling him an "idiot" and an "emergency" after he said that he "hardly" knows her.

Coulter, an early and once-fervent supporter of Donald Trump's presidency, has ramped up her criticism of the commander-in-chief in the weeks following the shutdown as it became clear that Trump would be unable to negotiate a border wall deal with House Democrats.

Coulter, along with another conservative host, Rush Limbaugh, was blamed by some in the liberal media for goading Trump into the shutdown in the first place. She has accused Trump of chickening out of the fight for his key campaign promise by agreeing to sign a spending bill that provided only $1.3 billion for a barrier along the US-Mexico border instead of the requested $5.7 billion, calling it a "Yellow New Deal."
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Moscow court orders US investor detained over $37mn fraud allegations


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Michael Calvey
© Sputnik / Ramil SitdikovMichael Calvey seen at court on February 15, 2019.
The founder and senior partner of Baring Vostok private equity fund, Michael Calvey, will be detained in Moscow for two months after his bail got rejected. The US citizen is accused of a large-scale fraud involving a Russian bank.

The investor was put in pre-trial custody by a Moscow court on Saturday. The court rejected the request of Calvey's defense to release him on 5 million rubles ($75.5 thousand) bail. The prosecution, on its part, insisted that the detention was an absolute necessity, as the US citizen might try and flee the country.

Calvey's defense has already vowed to challenge the detention order.
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