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Korea win-win: Emotional reactions after historic Moon-Kim meeting

Claire Lee
The Korea Herald
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:42 UTC
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© YonhapStudents at an elementary school in Gwangju, Jeolla Province, cheer in joy as they watch North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shake hands wiht his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in in the first summit for the two Koreas in over a decade.
Han Na-eun, a 30-year-old professional in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, normally spends her morning attending meetings, or preparing her next project at work.

On Friday, however, things were different. All of her coworkers stopped what they were doing, eyes fixed on TV for the historic moment President Moon Jae-in shook hands with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un.

The two leaders met at the heavily fortified demilitarized zone in the first summit for the two Koreas in over a decade.

"I have to say I was touched," Han told The Korea Herald. "Everything about it was surreal. Throughout my 20s, I experienced two conservative governments led by Park Geun-hye, and Lee Myung-bak. I never imagined that I would watch any South Korean president and Kim Jong-un in the same TV shot. Everyone in my office was emotional."

Indeed, for many South Koreans, the summit also gave them their first chance to hear Kim Jong-un's voice on live TV.

"It was very, very weird to hear Kim Jong-un's voice on TV," said Kim Kyung-ah, a 32-year-old mother in Seoul.

"I mean, I always knew that he existed. But today was the first time where I felt, 'Oh my god, Kim Jong-un is a real person!' Up until today, it always felt like Kim was some sort of a cartoon character. It was refreshing to see him talking about normal things like cold noodles, not nuclear weapons or wars."

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Poll shows Americans on Trump's side over Russia probe - losing patience with Mueller

Michael Patrick Leahy
Breitbart News
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:45 UTC
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A national poll conducted of 1,000 likely voters by McLaughlin & Associates and former Clinton pollster Dick Morris provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows support for President Trump and suspicion of the investigation of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.

By a margin of 51 percent to 33 percent, voters do not believe Mueller has found "real evidence of corruption by the president."

More specifically, by a margin of 10 points, 43 percent to 33 percent, voters feel that Mueller has not uncovered any evidence that "President Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election."

A plurality of voters, 43 percent to 35 percent, said that Mueller's investigation has "overstepped its designated purpose to investigate links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Trump by investigating individuals who had nothing to do with Russia."

The poll also shows that voters are losing patience with Mueller's probe.
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Mass exodus? Economists warn over 800K will leave high tax states New York and California in next three years

Robert Frank
CNBC
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:25 UTC
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Conservative economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore are predicting a new mass exodus of wealth from New York and California because of the new tax law. But academics who have studied taxes and migration call the forecast "pure nonsense."

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined "So Long, California. Sayonara, New York," Laffer and Moore (who have both advised President Donald Trump) say the new tax bill will cause a net 800,000 people to move out of California and New York over the next three years.

The tax changes limit the deduction of state and local taxes to $10,000, so many high-earning taxpayers in high-tax states will actually face a tax increase under the new tax code.

Comment: People have already been fleeing both California and New York primarily due to the high cost of living, among other reasons:

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Tucker Carlson demolishes ludicrous hacking fantasy by 'progressive' hypocrite Joy Reid

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:03 UTC
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MSNBC's Joy Reid is a "progressive" left darling, but back in 2006, her blog posts showed she was anti-gay to the extreme.

Reid claims she never wrote the blog posts and was hacked by Russian agents.

Only a moron believes Joy Reid's ridiculous excuse, trying to cover up her homophobe racist rants.

Joy Reid was in the tank for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential elections, who also explained away her lazy, loser campaign on, you guessed it...Russian hackers.

In December Joy Reid apologized for a series of homophobic blog posts from 2007-2009.


Comment: Just when you think the 'Russian hacking' farce cannot possibly get any more ridiculous...

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New paradigm? 'Black People Don't Have to Be Democrats' - Chance the Rapper

Ben Kew
Breitbart News
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:30 UTC
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© Marcelo Hernandez/Getty ImagesChance the Rapper
Chicago-based crooner Chance the Rapper seemed to show his support for fellow Chi-Town artist Kanye West's beliefs about free thinking by pointing out that black people should not feel obliged to support the Democratic Party.

"Black people don't have to be democrats," Chance the Rapper wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, amid liberal uproar over Kanye West's vocal admiration for President Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton won some 88 percent of the black vote, compared to trump's eight percent. The failed presidential candidate also won the support of Chance the Rapper, who endorsed Clinton in the 2016 presidential and has also questioned whether to unarm law enforcement to prevent allegedly racist police brutality.
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Kanye West has been watching Jordan Peterson

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:28 UTC
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A new tweet containing a video posted by Kanye West shows the rapper had his browser opened to a video by massively-influential conservative professor and speaker Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Here's the tweet:


At the top left, a tab reads, "Why You Need Art in Your Life," which is the title of a video of a Dr. Peterson lecture.

Comment: Kanye knows what he's doing. That's some master-level persuasion, as Scott Adams would put it.

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Tucker Carlson back after curiously timed "vacation"

Jay Lorenz
Fash the Nation
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:23 UTC
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Following a three day absence conspicuously taking place after his critical coverage of the Syria strikes, Tucker Carlson returned to television on Monday. Carlson has been critical of US involvement in Syria consistently for the past year. However his questioning of the legitimacy of the alleged gas attack by Bashar al-Assad left many wondering if he had crossed the line with Fox and received a suspension.

The absence began the day after Carlson had a very interesting interview with the former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford. Ford questioned if there really was a chemical attack in Douma earlier this month. He discussed journalists who talked with doctors at the hospital who claimed there was no chemical attack. Ford also called out the supposed humanitarian group, the "White Helmets" for being a jihadist group. Ford claimed that the White Helmets came in with video cameras, screaming about gas, and began to hose people while recording, without any evidence of such an attack.

Ford broke two unspoken rules here. First, he pointed out that the supposed humanitarian group behind all of the HD videos that have led to scrutiny on Assad is actually an Islamist opposition group with no credibility. Second, he questioned the extremely shaky official narrative of a gas attack on women and children. The latter was the element that made me wonder if Carlson was being punished. By voicing agreement with Ford, Tucker joined a group that consists mostly of the Alt-Right - a dangerous place to be.

Comment: Tucker Carlson is perhaps the only mainstream media talking-head with an actual head on his shoulders. He's been on fire recently:

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'Not even close to justice': Israeli soldier sentenced to fine and nine months for murder of unarmed Palestinian teen

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Unarmed Nadim Nuwara killed by Israeli soldier
© FacebookNadim Nuwara
The Israeli border police officer responsible for shooting and killing Palestinian teenager Nadim Nuwara in 2014 was sentenced on Wednesday by an Israeli court to nine months in prison and a $13,940 (50,000 shekels) fine for negligent homicide.

The Jerusalem district court judge sentenced Israeli officer Ben Deri, saying the "degree of negligence was significant and calls for prison time."

Despite being convicted in the killing of an unarmed minor, Deri was described by the judge during sentencing as "an excellent police officer who was conscientious about orders," according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Deri shot and killed 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara in May 2014, during a demonstration marking the 66th anniversary of the Nakba outside of the Ofer detention center near Ramallah. Mohammad Salameh, 15, was killed alongside Nuwara during the protests, though no one was arrested in connection with his death.

Siam Nuwara, Nadim's father, told Mondoweiss that the nine-month sentence handed down to Deri "does not even come close to justice," adding that the minimum sentence for negligent homicide should carry seven years in prison.

Comment: Such a light sentence is to be expected where the 'most moral' army in the world is allowed and likely encouraged to harass, abuse and kill Palestinians as they wish:

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Judge rules UC Berkeley must face lawsuit alleging bias against conservative speakers

Jonathan Stempel
Yahoo News
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:15 UTC
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© FacebookTroy Worden poses with a College Republican chapter sign at Berkeley
A federal judge rejected the University of California at Berkeley's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter by imposing unreasonable restrictions and fees on their appearances.

In a decision late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco said two conservative groups could pursue claims that the school applied its policy for handling "major events" and an earlier policy for "high-profile speakers" in a manner that unfairly suppressed conservative speech.

But the judge also said she was "unpersuaded" by claims by the plaintiffs that the school engaged in intentional viewpoint discrimination, and that the major events policy was too vague. She said the plaintiffs could not seek punitive damages.

The Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America's Foundation, a Tennessee group, had sued after the university canceled Coulter's scheduled speech last April 27, citing security concerns.

Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, was also named as a defendant.
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Fake art: French art museum discovers most of its paintings are forgeries


RT
Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
Artwork by Terrus
© Étienne Terrus / WikipediaA piece by Terrus. The Elne museum dedicated to the artist has yet to list which of its exhibits were forgeries.
A French museum dedicated to the painter Etienne Terrus made a shocking announcement Friday: the majority of works on display for the past two decades were, in fact, fakes.

The announcement was made the day the museum in Elne, southern France reopened following a months-long renovation and inventory project that began in October 2017.

So far, 82 of the 140 works in the collection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors, with an estimated value of €160,000 ($194,076), originally attributed to Terrus, were found to be fake.

Three pieces have yet to be examined fully to determine their authenticity using ultraviolet scans.
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