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Oscar

69th annual Emmy Awards match all time low of 2016 with 11.4M viewers

Dominic Pattern
Deadline
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:51 UTC
Sean Spicer at the Emmy Awards
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The Handmaid's Tale, Veep, Big Little Lies, This Is Us' Sterling K Brown, Atlanta's Donald Glover and The Night Of's Riz Ahmed were bathed in Emmy glory last night but the final numbers find the show itself matching its worst audience numbers ever. In the key demo, the Stephen Colbert hosted ceremony had it worst result ever.

With 11.38 million viewers tuning into the 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards is even with last year's show on ABC, which was the all-time low. The 2016 show was down 5% from the 2015 show, which was the previous low. Among adults 18-49, last night's Emmys snagged a 2.5 rating. That's down 10% from the Jimmy Kimmel hosted show of last year, the previous demo low.

Full of repeated swipes at Donald Trump from Colbert and almost everyone else on-stage last night, the 2017 Emmys also faced the well-followed Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers over on Sunday Night Football. Kicked off with a dubious Sean Spicer cameo, the awards show also was up against around 30 minutes of the Denver Broncos' ratings strong pounding of the Dallas Cowboy that spilled over in to FOX's primetime. While unlikely to have had a big impact on the Emmys numbers, Sunday was the debut of Ken Burns' new The Vietnam War documentary series on PBS too.

Comment: But for a handful, celebrities are gormless shills for deep state propaganda. No wonder people are turning their backs on them.

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People

Seeking a 'simpler' time: New Jersey's doo-wop motels see huge surge in visitors

Abigail Miller & Valerie Edwards
The Daily Mail
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:36 UTC
Wildwood Motels Caribbean
© Mark HavensThe landmark Caribbean was built in 1958 and is one of only two Wildwood Motels on the National Register
Retro motels that arose in the 1950s and 1960s are seeing a resurgence in American tourists longing for a simpler vacation.

Doo Wop motels born in the era have come back into style in the past few years.

Through a rare combination of economics, geography and chance, the island of Wildwood in New Jersey contains a national treasure: the highest combination of mid-century modern hospitality architecture.

These hotels embrace a retro style of looping neon signs, plastic palm trees, cheap mini-golf courses and simple living spaces.
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Family

Study: Reliance on 'gut feelings' linked to belief in fake news and other falsehoods

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:12 UTC
Fake News
© Ohio State News
From the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Study finds political bias isn't all that shapes how we perceive truth.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs, a new study suggests.

And those who rely on concrete evidence to form their beliefs are less likely to have misperceptions about high-profile scientific and political issues, said Kelly Garrett, the lead researcher and a professor of communication at The Ohio State University.
Scientific and political misperceptions are dangerously common in the U.S. today. The willingness of large minorities of Americans to embrace falsehoods and conspiracy theories poses a threat to society's ability to make well-informed decisions about pressing matters," Garrett said.

"A lot of attention is paid to our political motivations, and while political bias is a reality, we shouldn't lose track of the fact that people have other kinds of biases too.
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Sun

In Florida, it's illegal to use your own solar panels during a crisis

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:54 UTC
Rooftop solar panels
Rooftop solar panels
When it comes to the U.S. economy, the "con" part offers the best description of the current relationship between business, government and the preyed upon consumer. The way things work in early 21st century America is large businesses bribe politicians in a variety of ways at both the local and federal level, and the end result is laws that are designed to increase corporate profits at the expense of the wellbeing and freedom of the American public. Politicians end up with financial war chests to run their next campaign, while bureaucrats see a lucrative opportunity to swing through the ever spinning revolving door should they play ball with lobbyists and their patrons. Yes, there's always some degree of corruption within any society of humans, but there are peaks and valleys in such cycles. I'd argue we are somewhere in the peak corruption phase.

Today's article focuses on one of the most highly regulated industries in the country, electric utilities. It's one of the most boring businesses in America. I know this because it fell under the umbrella of my responsibilities during my last Wall Street job, and I could barely read a utilities research report without immediately falling asleep. Nevertheless, as you'll see in today's piece, the industry still finds a way to generate large profits while simultaneously harming the people it's supposed to service.

When I think about solar panels, it's not just the use of a renewable resource I find appealing, but also the potential to take energy generation into your own hands; something that can prove quite useful in a major global crisis, or even something more minor like Hurricane Irma's impact on Florida. The latter could've been a lifesaver for some Florida residents recently, but a local electric utility has done everything in its power to deny its customers such freedom.
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Sheriff

'F*ggots will burn in hell': Cop investigated for terrorizing gay child on school bus

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:56 UTC
Robert Belt
© Clay County Free PressRobert Belt
The parents of a high school teenager were left horrified last week after finding out that their son had been publicly chastised and humiliated by a Clay County Sheriff's Deputy for being gay. An investigation into the deputy is underway and the ACLU has gotten on board too.

Clay County sheriff's deputy Robert Belt is in a much-deserved spotlight after multiple witnesses came forward describing his alleged hateful words directed at a gay teen on a public school bus.

According to multiple witnesses, when the gay student got on the bus, Belt singled him out and proceded to condemn him.
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Heart - Black

Teenage girl raped by Afghan asylum-seekers in Germany


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:29 UTC
shameful teenager
© Elva Etienne / Getty Images
A 16-year-old girl was raped by two Afghan men near a refugee camp in Bavaria, according to German police. A third one was prevented from sexually abusing the girl by a passerby.

According to a police statement, the teenager had gathered with a large group of people outside a refugee center in the upper Bavaria municipality of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, located south of Munich.
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Light Saber

Pedophile hunters in United Kingdom are doing what police can't, or won't, do


RT
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:07 UTC
pedophile hunters
© Michaela Begsteiger / Reuters
New figures obtained by the BBC show officers are becoming increasingly reliant on evidence provided by pedophile hunters. More than 44 percent (114 out of 259) of cases in which an offender meets a child following sexual grooming used "vigilante" evidence in 2016, compared with 20 out of 176 cases in 2014 (11.3 percent).

That means police have needed pedophile hunters' help in almost half of child sexual grooming cases put forward for prosecution.

Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the national lead for child protection at the National Police Chiefs' Council, told the BBC that although such groups are putting "the lives of children at risk" and "compromising our operations," police would consider working with them.

"I'm not going to condone these groups and I would encourage them all to stop, but I recognize that I am not winning that conversation."

Comment: Given the amount of pedophilia that the political elite is directly responsible for, one has to wonder to what degree police efforts are being stymied - from orders above - and to what degree this is generally an 'across the board' reflection of societal pathology and depravity. In either or both cases, it seems that the UK is not the only Western country to be seeing such a plague:

Swedish police unable to 'cope' with massive numbers of sexual assaults stemming from migrant influx

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Hurricane Harvey and Irma disasters bring potential of $700b unpaid mortgage balances

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:30 UTC
street flooding houston
© KHOU 11There was street flooding in Deer Park during Friday's storms.
Even as the damage from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is still being tallied, a preliminary assessment released last week by Black Knight Financial Services estimated that as many as 300,000 borrowers in the vicinity of Houston could become delinquent on their loans and 160,000 could become seriously delinquent, or more than 90 days past due.

That number is roughly four times the original prediction because new disaster zones were designated and more homes flooded when officials released water from reservoirs to protect dams, according to CNBC's Diana Olick. In total, the number of mortgaged properties in Texas disaster zones is 1.18 million, with Black Knight adding that Houston disaster zones contain twice as many mortgaged properties than Katrina zones, with four times the unpaid principal balance.

Putting the Harvey damange in context, after Hurricane Katrina mortgage delinquencies in Louisiana and Mississippi disaster areas spiked by 25%. The same could happen in Houston, as borrowers without flood insurance weigh their options and decide to walk away from the property. While they will get some federal relief, if rebuilding would cost more than the principal in their homes, they could decide to walk away according to Olick.
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TV

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
© Getty
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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TV

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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