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Jedediah Bila asks Hillary Clinton a tough question on The View - "resigns" just days later

Mara Siegler
Page Six
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:12 UTC
Hillary Clinton and Jedediah Bila
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Jedediah Bila shocked audiences when she departed The View on Monday - and according to a source, this sudden departure may have something to do with Hillary Clinton.

Clinton was on the show last Wednesday promoting her book What Happened, with conservative Bila calling her "tone deaf" and asking the former presidential candidate a tough question.

"To be fair, it hasn't just been Republicans who have taken issue with the writing of this book. Some Democrats have come out as well," Bila said to Clinton. "Former campaign surrogates of yours, former fundraisers and said, 'This book puts us in the past and we wanna move forward, we wanna figure out where to take this party, how to succeed in the future. And this places us in the past.' How do you respond to Democrats also coming out in criticism of you writing this?"

"I think they first should read the book," Clinton answered.
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What happened? Conservative co-host Jedediah Bila exits 'The View'

Jerome Hudson
Breitbart
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:49 UTC
Jedediah Bila
© Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesJedediah Bila
Jedediah Bila announced Monday morning that it would be her last day as co-host of The View.

"So this is my last day at The View," said Bila of her sudden departure from the ABC show. "This has just been an amazing journey and I appreciate all of you. I want to thank the viewers, even the ones that write me hate tweets."

Bila noted that she is writing a new book for publisher HarperCollins and working on other unspecified projects, however, she didn't specify exactly why she is leaving the show. "This has been a really great experience and mostly I just want to speak to the viewers and say we are nothing without you."

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Dozens of kayaking activists protest 'petroleum wars' outside the Pentagon


RT
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:42 UTC
Kayaking activists
© Alex Rubinstein / RT
Several dozen activists paddled their kayaks outside the Pentagon to protest the US military's pollution of water and use of fossil fuels, which they claim is destroying the planet.

Gathering in the Boundary Channel of the Potomac River, just east of the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia on Sunday, the kayakers held aloft signs that spelled out "Stop War on Planet" against the backdrop of a giant globe balloon.

Another group spelled out "No Oil for Wars! No Wars for Oil!"

"This criminal enterprise is the number-one direct destroyer of the environment. The Pentagon and all of its branches are the top consumer of petroleum around, more so than most entire countries," author and activist David Swanson, who helped organize the protest, told RT. "The petroleum is burned in the preparation for and conduction of wars that are largely focused around controlling supplies of petroleum."
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'Dreamers' shout down Pelosi at San Francisco press event


RT
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:08 UTC
Pelosi
© Joshua Roberts / ReutersHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
Immigration activists interrupted a press event in San Francisco, California and shouted down House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and two other Congressional Democrats from the state.

Representatives Barbara Lee and Jared Huffman joined Pelosi on Monday at College Track San Francisco to promote the revived DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, aimed at almost 700,000 immigrants brought into the US illegally as children.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced it would scrap the executive decision protecting these immigrants from deportation, known as DACA, and give Congress a six-month deadline to come up with a law.

Comment: See also: Democratic-led states threaten lawsuits after Trump gives Congress six months to legalize DACA, or he will "revisit this issue!"

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Washington Post writer says he's suffering from "Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder"

Henry Rodgers
The Daily Caller
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 05:52 UTC
Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank, a writer for The Washington Post, believes President Donald Trump is literally killing him.

Milbank said he discovered Trump's presidency is affecting his health after visiting the doctor for his first physical in 49 years, in an opinion piece published Friday. Milbank said he had to report that he had not been feeling well recently.

"President Trump is killing me. No, really. He's killing me," Milbank wrote.
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Irma aftermath: St. Martin residents are now struggling just to survive

Jim Wyss
Miami Herald
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:56 UTC
French side of St. Martin
© Jim WyssAn apartment complex lies in ruin on the French side of St. Martin. The Caribbean island relies on places like this to support its critical tourism industry.
Ten days after Hurricane Irma turned St. Martin into a jigsaw of ripped metal and shattered wood, residents were still struggling with an existential question: Should they cling to an island that can barely support life or start over elsewhere?

Irma hit the shared Dutch and French Caribbean island as a Category 5 hurricane with winds in excess of 200 miles an hour, turning the picturesque tourist haven into a sweltering trash heap without power, water or communications. What the hurricane didn't steal, looters often did.

On Friday night, Yvanna and Theodore DeWeever - a young married couple - had collapsed onto the deck chairs of Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas that has been running missions of mercy, helping evacuate people from hard-hit Caribbean islands to Puerto Rico.

Comment: St. Martin wasn't the only island devastated by Irma, see also:

'Barbuda is literally rubble': Shocked PM says Hurricane Irma destroyed 90% of homes on tiny Caribbean island

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Georgia Tech: Pride Alliance student president shot and killed by campus police

Remy Smidt
BuzzFeed News
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 16:07 UTC
Scout Shultz
Scout Shultz
A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student, who was the president of the campus Pride Alliance, was shot and killed by a Georgia Tech police officer, according to a statement released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

The university, in a statement to BuzzFeed News, identified the victim as a fourth-year student named Scout Schultz:
The Georgia Tech community was notified Sunday morning of the tragic death of Scout Schultz, fourth year computer engineering student from Lilburn, Georgia. Schultz died on Sunday, Sept. 17 as a result of an incident in the West Campus residential community. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident and reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death.
At 11:17 p.m. on Saturday night, the Georgia Tech Police Department received a call "of a person with a knife and a gun," the GBI said. What followed took place outside of a Georgia Tech dormitory, the GBI said, when the student, allegedly carrying a knife, "would not comply with the officers' commands."
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Bureaucratic backlog: Americans wait an average of two years for a hearing on disability benefits - longer than some will live

Stephen Ohlemacher
Associated Press
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:27 UTC
social security admin washington dc
More than 1 million Americans are awaiting a hearing to see whether they qualify for disability benefits from Social Security, with the average wait of nearly two years - longer than some of them will live.

All have been denied benefits at least once, as most applications are initially rejected. But in a system where the outcome of a case often depends on who decides it, most people who complete the appeals process will eventually win benefits. The numbers come from data compiled by the Social Security Administration.

About 10.5 million people get disability benefits from Social Security. An additional 8 million get disability benefits from Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for poor people who don't qualify for Social Security. The disability programs are much smaller than Social Security's giant retirement program. Still, the agency paid out $197 billion in disability payments last year.

Recipients won't get rich as the average benefit is $1,037 a month - too small to lift a family of two out of poverty.

For some, the benefits come too late.
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Repugnant New York Times exploits child rape case in attempt to smear RT and Sputnik

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:59 UTC
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This is unethical beyond being poor journalism.

The New York Times recently released a heavily promoted (by the New York Times itself) piece which amounts to an emotional attack on the news outlets RT and Sputnik.

Russia Feed recently explained that on pure journalistic terms, the New York Times (NYT) piece amount to little more than a very long winded way of the the NYT saying 'RT and Sputnik have a different editorial line to us and a more successful, more modern business model and therefore, they are wicked, rather than just a different kind of news source with a different editorial line'.

But what is even more sinister, is that the NYT exploited the actual rape of a child in order to promote a vendetta against RT and Sputnik. Again, one does not have to like RT or Sputnik to understand that exploiting the rape of a 13 year old girl is totally unethical, but this is what the NYT has done.

Comment: Is it even possible for the New York Times to sink any lower than this?

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More than 80 arrests as riots grip St. Louis for 3rd day after ex-cop's acquittal in fatal shooting


RT
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:40 UTC
St Louis riots
© Lawrence Bryant / Reuters
Riot police in St. Louis have made more than 80 arrests after a third consecutive day of protests that started peacefully but erupted into riots, clashes, and vandalism. It comes after an ex-cop was acquitted in the fatal shooting of a black man.

St. Louis police were forced to deploy reinforcements after initial reports of "significant property damage" and "agitators breaking multiple windows" surfaced in downtown St. Louis at around 8pm.

Protesters also attempted to block a ramp onto an interstate highway, according to police and witnesses cited by Reuters.

Comment: See also: St. Louis: Protests erupt following not-guilty verdict in police murder case

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