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ABC News president rips staff over Brian Ross' Michael Flynn flub

Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter
CNN
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:40 UTC
Brian Ross ABC
ABC News president James Goldston excoriated staff Monday over Brian Ross' major error on a report about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and announced that Ross, the network's chief investigative reporter, will no longer cover stories related to President Trump.

Goldston also told staffers that the network was conducting a "full review" of the error and its aftermath.

Ross had initially reported Friday morning that Flynn was prepared to testify that Donald Trump as a candidate had instructed him to reach out to the Russians. Ross said more than seven hours later on "World News Tonight" that his information was actually that Flynn was prepared to testify Trump made the request as president-elect. On Saturday evening, ABC News said Ross had been suspended for four weeks without pay for what it termed the "serious error."

Comment: Is Goldston upset that ABC reported Fake News or that they got caught? See also:

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Bizarro Earth

Swedish men grow weary of #Metoo sex scandals


Sputnik
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:34 UTC
woman at metoo rally
© AFP 2017/Mark Ralston
In the past weeks, Swedish media flow has been dominated by the #metoo anti-harassment campaign, with accusations reaching as far up as the Swedish Academy and associates of the Royal Family. Now, almost half of Swedish men believe they have had enough.

Sweden became arguably the nation most swept by the #metoo campaign against harassment, with dozens of trade organizations reaching out to thousands of allegedly affected women over the past weeks and dictating the narrative.

Comment: Perhaps the Swedes have been infected by American feminist programming?

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2 + 2 = 4

Doublespeak: When racism is disguised as anti-racism

Andy Ngo
Quillette
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:34 UTC
Racism
When I started my graduate education at Portland State in 2015 after a long hiatus from academe, I attended an event titled, "Students of Color Speak Out." The university president encouraged all students, staff and faculty to attend the event, organized in reaction to alleged racial tensions on campus. As a student of color and the gay son of refugee immigrants, the event's premise interested me.

As I sat in the front, I listened to students detail their daily trauma of existing on a campus that was majority white. Students representing many ethnicities repeatedly shared feeling unsafe. I was confounded because their anecdotes spoke of an experience that sounded similar to those who lived in apartheid-era South Africa or Jim Crow Mississippi - not something I remotely recognized in ultra-progressive Portland. Still, I was sympathetic and recognized that my personal experiences may not be shared by others.

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Camcorder

Air BnB: Are you being filmed by hidden cameras during your stay?

Chris Perez
New York Post
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:12 UTC
Air BnB spying
© Via Twitter/Textfiles
Another host was busted last month trying to film guests without their knowledge - marking the second time since October that the company has had to publicly deal with this sort of incident.

An unidentified American archivist became the most recent victim - with his co-worker, Jason Scott, tweeting out a picture on Nov. 27 of a hidden device that he found while staying in an undisclosed Airbnb.


"In 'oh, that's a thing now' news, a colleague of mine thought it odd that there was a single 'motion detector' in his AirBNB in the bedroom and voila, it's an IP camera connected to the web," Scott tweeted. "(He left at 3am, reported, host is suspended, colleague got refund.)"
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Alarm Clock

A young boy with down syndrome is accused of terrorism in Texas

Anna Slater
Mirror
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:03 UTC
Down Syndrome
The phone call placed by the teacher prompted both the police and Child Protective Services to launch investigations into the Suleiman family
A teacher called the police on a Muslim child who has Down's Syndrome fearing he could be a " terrorist " - even though he cannot speak.

Mohammed Suleiman, six, allegedly kept repeating the words "Allah" and "boom" in class, prompting investigations from the police and Child Protective Services.

But his parents, from Pearland, Texas, say this cannot be true because he has the mental capacity of a one-year-old and is unable to talk.

Comment: We're living in an age of hysteria where a child with down syndrome who happens to be Muslim can be accused of terrorism.

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Cow Skull

Israel's laws against Palestinian goats are another shot in the foot for Zionism

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
black goat
© Béria L. Rodríguez @ Wikimedia Commons
A ban by Israel on herding black goats - on the pretext they cause environmental damage - is to be repealed after nearly seven decades of enforcement that has decimated the pastoral traditions of Palestinian communities.

The Israeli government appears to have finally conceded that, in an age of climate change, the threat of forest fires to Israeli communities is rapidly growing in the goats' absence.

The goats traditionally cleared undergrowth, which has become a tinderbox as Israel experiences ever longer and hotter summer droughts. Exactly a year ago, Israel was hit by more than 1,500 fires that caused widespread damage.

The story of the lowly black goat, which has been almost eliminated from Israel, is not simply one of unintended consequences. It serves as a parable for the delusions and self-destructiveness of a Zionism bent on erasing Palestinians and creating a slice of Europe in the Middle East.
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Megaphone

Clueless Tom Hanks is concerned over Trump's attacks on Fake News mainstream media

Trent Baker
Breitbart
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:37 UTC
Tom Hanks
In an interview with David Axelrod for CNN's "The Axe Files," actor Tom Hanks said it "concerns" him how much President Donald Trump takes on the press.

According to Hanks, the Trump administration's "insidious" behavior to "denigrate" outlets like CNN and The Washington Post helps out "agenda-filled" institutions.


Comment: Mainstream presstitutes have done a fine job of tearing their own institutions apart to the point where it's fairly obvious to anyone with a few neurons firing that much of what is published is pure rubbish. Trump has rightfully called them out on their game.

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X

Yankee go home! Okinawa governor demands Japan make 'urgent' changes to pact with US military


RT
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:43 UTC
okinawa US military base
© Issei Kato / Reuters
The governor of Okinawa is urging Tokyo to amend the pact on the status of the US troops in Japan to combat the "significant anxiety" the locals are enduring because of the rowdy Americans' presence.

The governor of the southern prefecture, Takeshi Onaga, demanded that the central government makes "drastic" and"fundamental" changes in the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) during his meeting with Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Saturday, according to Japanese media.

"People in Okinawa have been shocked and are enduring significant anxiety," Kyodo News quoted Onaga as saying. The meeting followed a decision by the Naha District Court in the prefecture's main city to sentence a former US marine to life imprisonment for raping and killing a Japanese woman. The case provoked public outrage and triggered one of the massive anti-US protests on the island, with at least 50,000 people gathering to decry heavy US military presence.
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Fire

Violent clashes erupt in Melbourne outside right-wing 'troll' Milo Yiannopoulos' event


RT
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:14 UTC
Milo Yiannopoulos
© 7 NewsThe arrival of controversial right wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in Melbourne was met with protest.
Rival protesters in a Melbourne suburb have engaged in violent brawls ahead of a speech by controversial right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who is in Australia for his "Troll Academy" tour. The venues are being kept secret until the last minute.

Fights erupted after scores of protesters from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism and dozens of far-right supporters gathered outside the Melbourne Pavilion on Monday, which was announced as hosting one of the British commentator's events.

The crowd of demonstrators engaged in an altercation, and the scene descended into violence with fists flying, as seen on the pictures and footage shared by Australian media. At least one of the demonstrators could be seen wielding a wooden stick.

Comment: Yiannopoulos is a professional provocateur who happens to be on the right. His presence draws out and exposes the idiocy of libtards and their violent wing Antifa. He also has tarnished his own reputation by expressing some personal sentiments.

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Family

The nuclear family is a modern invention, is it partly to blame for making us miserable?

Nicole Sallak Anderson
Medium
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:39 UTC
nuclear stereotypical american family
I'll never forget the day I first fell apart. It was just after I left my job as a software engineer to stay home and raise my children. Those first months are a blur, but one day still lives in my mind as if it happened yesterday.

I'd taken the boys out for a walk in a double stroller. The toddler was strangely silent as we walked and eventually the baby fell asleep. I walked the neighborhood as I had many times before, but this time I noticed it...the silence. I lived in one of those cookie cutter suburbs of Chicago, row upon row upon row upon row of houses, all the same but with different siding. Everywhere I turned there were homes, but not a single person could be seen.

I walked down every street that day, continuing as the silence began to grow larger within me, becoming a discomfort without a name. The streets were empty. No old folks. No cars driving by. No children playing in yards. No other parents walking their children. I strolled past not one, but two empty parks. I began to panic. Where were the people? Was I the only one alive?
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