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Ukraine rings in New Year by marking birthday of Nazi hero Stepan Bandera with torch-lit parades


RT
Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:31 UTC
Activists Kiev
© ReutersActivists of Ukrainian nationalist parties hold torches as they take part in a rally to mark the anniversary of the birth of Bandera in Kiev.
While the world celebrates the new year, Ukraine has marked the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a nationalist leader and Nazi ally, regarded as a hero by many in the country. From 2019, the day is an official holiday.

Thousands of people carrying Ukrainian flags, torches and chanting pro-Bandera slogans marched in the center of Kiev on Tuesday. A similar event - on a smaller scale - was held in city of Lvov in the west of the country.
Crowd Kiev
© Reuters
While Ukrainian nationalists have been gathering annually for the birthday anniversary of Bandera, this year January 1 became an official national holiday. The legislation was approved this December by the Ukrainian Parliament.

Comment: Here's Graham Phillip's report from Europe's only openly fascist country:


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Target

Overreaction? US border agents tear gas 'rock-throwing' migrants on Mexican border


RT
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 02:29 UTC
Teargas migrant
© Reuters/Mohammed Salem
US border patrol have deployed tear gas against migrants in Tijuana, just across from San Diego. The authorities say they repelled an attack by "violent" rock-throwers. Media reports suggest the action was uncalled for, however.

Videos and photos circulated by various media outlets show plumes of yellowish smoke billowing up from the fence separating the US from Mexico. In footage provided by Reuters, a man is seen picking up and throwing a tear gas canister back over the barrier while a group of Spanish-speaking migrants cheers and whoops loudly. As the cloud drifts closer to those gathered, migrants can be seen covering their faces and fleeing, with some choking on the fumes.

The incident took place on New Year's Eve, with migrants telling Reuters that they expected security to be lax during the first night of 2019 due to celebrations. However, it turned out not to be the case: as the migrants prepared to climb the fence, US Customs and Border Protection agents retaliated with tear gas and arrested 25 people, including two teenagers.
migrants teargassed
© REUTERS/Mohammed SalemMigrants are seen injured after US border agents pelt them with tear gas.

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NPC

Campaign contributors for Bernie Sanders seek to address 'sexual violence, harassment and toxic masculinity' on 2016 campaign

Alex Thompson
Politico
Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:51 UTC
bernie sanders
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More than two dozen women and men who worked on Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign are seeking a meeting with the senator and his top political advisers to "discuss the issue of sexual violence and harassment on the 2016 campaign, for the purpose of planning to mitigate the issue in the upcoming presidential cycle," according to a copy of letter obtained by POLITICO.

"In recent weeks there has been an ongoing conversation on social media, in texts, and in person, about the untenable and dangerous dynamic that developed during our campaign," they wrote.

Organizers of the effort said they did not intend for the letter to become public, but they confirmed that they sent it to senior Sanders officials on Sunday afternoon.

Comment: Bernie Sanders was a catalyzing force in 2016 for the radical leftists in the US who desired a socialist shift in American domestic policy. Now it appears they have set their targets on Sanders himself, proving that no one is immune to attacks from the Left, no matter your allegiance to the Party. The snake begins to eat its own tail it seems.

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Best of the Web: Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin announce plans to leave Patreon in protest of censorship of political commentators

Charlie Nash
Breitbart
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:39 UTC
dave rubin and jordan peterson
Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin are set to leave crowdfunding platform Patreon on January 15 in protest over the company's censorship of political commentators, including Carl Benjamin, known online as Sargon of Akkad.

In a video published on January 1, Peterson and Rubin set the date for their departure from Patreon, with Peterson claiming it was "unethical" to continue working with the platform.

"It's not something I'm thrilled about by any stretch of the imagination so you and I have been talking for a couple of weeks now ever since this scandal around Carl Benjamin, or Sargon of Akkad, broke we decided a while back that we were going to do, well, a variety of things," declared Peterson. "We're going to announce our departure from Patreon, which is what we're doing in this video. I'm going to leave Patreon January 15th."

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'Taxpayer's money shouldn't be spent on political stunts': London mayor Khan blasted for spending £2.3M on pro-EU New Year extravaganza

Matt Dathan
The Sun
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:34 UTC
London 2019 New Year fireworks
The display featured songs from European musicians and The London Eye was even lit up to resemble an EU flag
London mayor Sadiq Khan has been blasted for spending £2.3million on his pro-EU New Year extravaganza.

The London Eye was turned into the EU flag by blue and yellow fireworks.

The slogan "London is Open" was repeated over loudspeakers in seven languages, with Remainer Mr Khan saying he wanted to highlight our ties with Europe.

Songs such as We Are Your Friends, Stay and Don't Leave Me Alone accompanied the fireworks.

Critics last night said the money should have been spent tackling violent crime in the capital, which has soared under Mr Khan's watch.

Tory Charlie Elphicke warned: "Sadiq Khan needs to respect the referendum and move on to focus on London's spiralling crimewave.

Comment: Well Khan has certainly made it even more obvious that Brexit is a farce intended to pacify the masses whose opinions and needs are clearly unimportant:

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Pistol

New mayor of small Mexican town assassinated shortly after swearing in ceremony

Niv Ellis
The Hill
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:31 UTC
Mayor Alejandro Aparicio Santiago
Aparicio became mayor at midnight and took the oath of office at a public event at 10 a.m. He was interviewed by reporters and spoke with citizens before the shooting, which happened at 12 p.m.
The new mayor of a city in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca was killed shortly after being sworn in Tuesday, the state's governor confirmed.

Alejandro Aparicio Santiago, the new mayor of the small city Tlaxiaco, had just been sworn in and was on his way to a meeting at city hall when gunmen opened fire, fatally injuring him and wounding four others, the Associated Press reported.

Santiago died after being taken to a hospital,

Oaxaca Gov. Alejandro Murat condemned the killing in a tweet, and said a suspect was already in custody.

Comment: Running for office in Mexico is a risky venture, but even ordinary citizens are threatened where organized crime and drug cartels take control:

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USA

Kanye West jumps back on the Trump train in his first 2019 tweets


RT
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:43 UTC
Kanye West
© Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
Kanye West's on-again, off-again love affair with US President Donald Trump seems to be on again for 2019, as the controversial rapper redeclared his support for the president in a New Year's Day tweetstorm.

"Trump all day," West wrote in the first post, adding a series of green dragon emojis and following it up with a tweet that read: "Just so in 2019 you know where I stand."


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Attention

Police use tear gas to quell protests against women entering Hindu temple


RT
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:16 UTC
tear gas cops
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Police deployed tear gas at protesters in the Indian state of Kerala. Outrage grew after two women - backed by a landmark court ruling - entered a shrine which has historically been forbidden to females of menstruating age.

Clashes between police and demonstrators broke out simultaneously in several towns throughout the state, including a large-scale conflict in front of the state parliament in Thiruvananthapuram. The traditionalist Hindu protesters gathered in anger after it became public that the women had entered the Sabarimala temple dedicated to the celibate God Ayyappa.

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Pistol

Injuries follow New Year's celebratory gunfire across the US


RT
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:05 UTC
New Year's celebration
© Reuters / Amr Alfiky
The time-honored, if illegal, tradition of firing guns into the air to celebrate the New Year led to a rash of injuries on the first day of 2019 as stray bullets lodged in innocent bystanders - and even the shooters themselves.

A Cleveland, OH man shot himself in the leg trying to return his 9mm to its holster after firing it off in celebration in the middle of a field. After he was taken to the hospital, police added insult to injury by charging him with illegally discharging a firearm... and causing injury to a person. Ouch, indeed.

A Kansas City, KS man shot himself in the stomach after setting his .22 down on his couch. He hadn't even fired off the celebratory gunshot yet. No word on if he's been spared the indignity of criminal charges.

It's easy to laugh at these types, because they're only hurting themselves, but a 6-year-old girl in Oakland, CA hit in the head with a stray bullet from "celebratory gunfire" while playing in her backyard serves as a sober reminder that what goes up must come down. She is in stable condition, as is the 9-year-old Atlanta, GA boy who caught a bullet in the stomach while setting off fireworks in his front yard with his family.
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Whistle

Actress Jane Curtin wants the Republican party to die in 2019


RT
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:51 UTC
Jane Curtin
© Reuters / Fred ProuserJane Curtin
Actress and comedian Jane Curtin has sparked some fresh 2019 Twitter drama by announcing that her resolution for the year ahead is to "make sure that the Republican party dies."

Curtin revealed the somewhat unorthodox resolution during a New Year's Eve broadcast on CNN, prompting both praise and indignation from viewers, who eagerly shared their thoughts on social media.

One viewer loved it so much he inquired as to how he could turn the sound bite into his ringtone, while one blue-ticked journalist felt the moment was so impressive that he hailed Curtin the "first hero" of 2019.
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