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BBC's 'GENIUS' satire of Piers Morgan's interview with Trump is... a vulgar ass joke (VIDEO)


RT
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 12:25 UTC
The Mash Report BBC Two
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You can pick apart Piers Morgan's recent interview with Donald Trump for factual flaws, or mock Trump's "not a feminist" comment... or you can simply make anal sex jokes, like BBC Two did.

Both Trump and controversial ITV Breakfast presenter Morgan offered plenty of ammunition for critics during their "world exclusive interview" on Sunday, January 28: From Trump's "I'm not a feminist" admission to his ideas of climate change.

Indeed, RT joined in as well, talking about Trump and Morgan's off-screen links among other things.

But most of those bullets have now been used up, and BBC Two has now decided to run this:


Comment: Wow, BBC. Keeping it classy with UK tax payer's money. A sign of desperation perhaps? Hint: Other people managed to mock the Trump interview without making use of vulgarities:

'Breaking (broken) news' about Trump not being a 'feminist' triggers fierce public mockery

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Syrian Kurds outraged over mutilation of female fighter by Turkish backed 'rebels'


Guardian
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:49 UTC
Barin Kobani Kurdish woman
© Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty ImagesA picture of Barin Kobani on the phone of a military commander of the Syrian Kurdish Women’s Protection Units.


Turkish-backed rebels accused of filming mistreatment of Women's Protection Units member

Syrian Kurds have accused Turkish-backed rebels of mutilating then filming the body of one of their female fighters after a video emerged of her corpse.

Turkey and allied Syrian rebels have pressed an offensive since 20 January against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, whose Kurdish fighters Ankara views as terrorists.

A Kurdish official identified the woman as Barin Kobani, who took part in a US-backed campaign to drive the Islamic State jihadist group from the northern town of Kobani.

Comment: One problem with Turkey's operation 'Olive Branch' is that they are fighting YPG/SDF terrorists with Free Syrian Army terrorists:
Units of the Turkish Armed Forces and the forces of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) coordinated tactics to sweep Afrin from battle groups of Kurdish Forces of the Popular Defence Forces (SNA). The military had identified seven major corridors to enter the city from the East. Armoured units of the Turkish Army and fighters of the FSA will move through them. These forces are divided into four major militant groups, took positions near the Turkish border awaiting the order to advance towards Afrin.
See: Expect much more chaos in northern Syria.

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Flashback 'Anti-Propaganda' ban repealed - State Dept. to direct its propaganda arm at American citizens

Tim Cushing
Techdirt
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:51 UTC
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The US government has a bit of a PR problem at the moment, thanks to Ed Snowden's leaks and a decade-plus of general antipathy towards its constituents' rights and liberties growing out of its War on Terror.

Fortunately, the government now has a chance to aim its official version of today's news at US citizens, thanks to the repeal of a so-called "anti-propaganda" law earlier this month.
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts.
The Broadcast Board of Governors, which produces programming like the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, has been prevented from aiming its programming at Americans since the 1970's when the Smith-Mundt Act (which authorized the State Dept. to communicate with foreign audiences via many methods, radio being one of them) was amended to prohibit domestic dissemination of the BBG's broadcasts. This was done to distance the State Department's efforts from the internal propaganda machine operated by the Soviet Union.

Comment: It has been 5 years since then and more recently, the language has been revised in another section of the NDAA to allow the government even greater control over its propaganda tools via its Global Engagement Center. See also:

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21 brand new, state-of-the-art nuclear missiles acquired by Russian forces

Frank
RussiaFeed
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:15 UTC
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With US President Donald Trump promising in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to drastically upgrade America's nuclear capabilities, Moscow is not standing idly by.

Those thinking of threatening Russia with military force, now have more reason to think again. Twenty-one brand spanking new reasons.

Russia's RS-24 MIRV nuclear warheads, in use by the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), just got some new rockets to ride, reports Southfront.

The SMF is to be equipped with about a hundred Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), with the Yars-S being the mobile variation of this system.

Comment: See also: Deranged 'Nuclear Posture Review': US ready to start nuclear war even when not attacked first by nukes

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New poll indicates large upswing in public's opinion of Trump

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:25 UTC
Trump
President Donald Trump saw big gains in public approval since December in a new poll from Monmouth University.
A new Monmouth University poll shows that public perception of President Donald Trump and his administration have had a huge upswing to the positive.

Here are the details

Job approval for the president jumped to 42 percent from a low in December of 32 percent, a change of 10 percentage points. In December, 56 percent disapproved of his job performance, and that has dropped to 50 percent.

When asked if the president's first year has focused on issues important to most Americans, the percentage increased from July 2017 when 32 percent agreed, to 37 percent currently.
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#MeToo movement drops office romances to 10-year low - survey


CBS DFW
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
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With the rise of the #MeToo movement and national crackdown on harassment in the workplace, a survey on office romance says love is not in the air when it comes to co-workers dating.

CareerBuilder's annual Valentine's Day poll found that office romances have fallen to a 10-year low with only 36 percent of workers admitting to dating a co-worker. Just last year, the same survey reported that 41 percent of co-workers had dated.

"Office romance is experiencing a dip and whether it's impacted by the current environment around sexual harassment or by workers not wanting to admit the truth, the fact remains that office romance has been around forever and will continue to be," CareerBuilder's Rosemary Haefner said in a press release. While the survey shows a growing stigma around office relationships, 31 percent of workers who dated at work ended up getting married, according to the poll.
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Pedophile hunters are committed to catching online predators

Kit Klarenberg
Sputnik
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:59 UTC
Raz Hunter - a pseudonym - is rapidly making a name for herself as the scourge of online sex predators. She, along with husband Nash, heads National Child Protector, one of many groups in the UK committed to catching pedophiles who groom underage boys and girls via social media.
pedophile hunters
© NCP's Facebook Banner Sputnik 2018
Raz's career as pedophile hunter began January 2017. The 39-year-old started off as a "decoy" for an organization similar to the one she runs today, posing as a 13-year-old, interacting with potential predators via social media apps and text messages.

"I was inspired to do it - and keep doing it to this day - because I've got children, and want them to be safe on the internet. The web is a terrible place for young people to be, infested with predators. However, the group wasn't as effective as I would've liked, so I decided to branch out for myself, along with my husband and a friend. We started National Child Protector (NCP), and started taking on decoys," Raz told Sputnik.

Comment: Dark Justice pedophile hunters report epidemic of online grooming
Pedophile hunters in United Kingdom are doing what police can't, or won't, do

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3 year old girl spent days alone with dead mother in Rotterdam home

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:54 UTC
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A three-year-old girl was found in a Rotterdam home with her dead mother last month, alderman Sven de Langen said in a letter to the municipal council. While some media reports suggested the girl may have been home alone with her mother's body for a week, the exact timeline is not yet known. The girl is now with a foster family and is doing well under the circumstances, the alderman wrote. He called the incident "tragic".

The child and the body of her 41-year-old mother were found on January 20th. According to RTV Rijnmond, they were discovered after a downstairs neighbor noticed water leaking through the roof. The water came from a tap in the home above. It is believed that the 3-year-old left the tap open when she was looking for something to drink.
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German town bans Muslim call to prayer

Andrea Shalal
Yahoo News
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:58 UTC
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A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local court upheld a challenge by a couple who live nearly 1 km (1,000 yards) away.

The Gelsenkirchen administrative court found that the town of Oer-Erkenschwick had not assessed the local Muslim community's request properly in 2013, but a court spokesman said on Friday that this did not prevent the mosque making a new application.

The local Christian couple had argued that the call to prayers violated their own religious rights.
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Alt-media honors deceased journalist Robert Parry with outpouring of support

Nat Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:53 UTC
Robert Parry
© Caitlin JohnstoneA drawing of Robert Parry by Caitlin Johnstone posted at Medium.com
In appreciation for the flood of condolences and tributes to Consortiumnews.com founder Robert Parry, we publish a sampling here.

Robert Parry's family has been deeply touched by the flood of messages mourning his loss. As a father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, brother, husband, and yes, as a journalist, Bob touched so many lives and we will be processing and coming to terms with his loss for a long time to come.

In appreciation for the outpouring of support we have received, we're collecting here some of the many articles, radio segments and YouTube videos that have appeared in recent days. To read the hundreds of reader comments left following his passing, please visit my article, "Robert Parry's Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews."

My apologies to those who have penned tributes that haven't made it into this compilation.
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