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White Helmets superfan George Clooney to move family back to US from UK over terrorism fears caused by refugee policies he supported

ALEX CHRISTOFOROU
The Duran
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:11 UTC
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In January The Duran reported on George Clooney's bizarre support for the ISIS-Al-Qaeda terrorist organization The White Helmets, where the actor went so far as to call the ISIS group "heroes".

Variety reported that George was in the early stages of developing a feature film of Netflix's "The White Helmets" documentary, about "first responders" in Syria's war.
Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov are seeking a writer through their Smokehouse Pictures production company. CAA is representing the rights to the documentary.

"The White Helmets," directed by Orlando von Einsiedel and produced by Joanna Natasegara, is on the documentary shorts Oscar shortlist.

The Syrian Civil Defense, better known as the White Helmets, consists of about 3,000 volunteers. The organization has has been credited with saving more than 60,000 people from the bombed buildings in war-torn Syria. The group has lost about 150 members during the war.

"In the White Helmets, we have a motto: to save one life is to save humanity," one volunteer says in the documentary.
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Iraqi police interview ISIS wives from liberated Mosul


Sputnik
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:06 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Amel Emric
Wives of Daesh terrorists agreed to take part in a video interview conducted by Iraqi law-enforcement services. Sputnik received the exclusive footage from the Iraqi federal police.

The video depicts three women responding to police questions after their evacuation from Mosul.

The first woman said that she was forced to marry a terrorist by her uncle, who is also a member of Daesh. In this way, he hoped to get a promotion within the group, but later was killed. The woman now has a one-year-old child; the fate of her husband remains unknown.

Replying to the police's questions, the woman said that she could not escape from her husband, because he kept her captive in the cellar for more than a year. After he found out that she tried to contact her relatives who serve in the army, he threatened to kill her.

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Attention

European court upholds Belgium's ban on Islamic full-face veils


RT
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:13 UTC
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© Mohammed Salem / Reuters
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld Belgium's ban on wearing Islamic full-face veils or niqab in public places, which was introduced in June 2011. The ban was challenged by two Muslim women.

The Belgian ban "doesn't violate European human rights law," the Strasbourg-based court said in a ruling on Tuesday.

Despite calling restrictions controversial, the judges argued they were "necessary in a democratic society."

The ban, which prohibits appearing in public with a face masked or hidden in whole or partially in such a way as to be unidentifiable, was aimed at ensuring social order and the "protection of the rights and freedoms of others," the ECHR explained.
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Twitter users file frivolous lawsuit arguing violation of free speech after Trump blocked them from his Twitter account


RT
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:50 UTC
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A group of Twitter users, whom Donald Trump blocked from his account, have filed a lawsuit against the US president arguing that he violated their First Amendment rights. They claim that, with a click, Trump barred them from engaging in public debate.

Plaintiffs include seven people from across the US who have been blocked from the @realDonaldTrump account as they criticized the president in their replies to his tweets.

One of them is Rebecca Buckwalter, a political consultant from Washington, DC. Last month, she replied to a tweet in which Trump said he would not have won the election had he relied on the "fake news" media.
"To be fair you didn't win the WH: Russia won it for you," Buckwalter wrote ‒ and was promptly blocked by Trump's account.
"The viewpoint-based exclusion of the individual Plaintiffs violates the First Amendment," reads the lawsuit.
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Nearly half of Americans surveyed report having participated in First Amendment actions in 2017


RT
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:46 UTC
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© Joe Penney / Reuters
A survey of Americans' attitude about their First Amendment rights found nearly half participated in at least one political action already in 2017. The most common action was signing petitions, followed by protesting.

The survey found more than a third (35 percent) of Americans have signed petitions so far this year, while more than 16 percent took part in political demonstrations, and nearly 12 percent participated in boycotts.

Strikes were the least common form of protest, with only 3.8 percent of respondents saying they participated this year.

Along with their political activities, respondents were asked about the state of the First Amendment, which protects the right to exercise religion, freedom of speech and the press, the right of peaceful assembly and the right to petition government over grievances. Survey respondents were asked if the First Amendment went too far in the rights it guarantees.

More than two-thirds (68.6 percent) disagreed with that statement, while 22.5 percent thought it did go too far.
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The Rock might be cooking up a presidential run - Registration with election board leads to rumors of running in 2020


RT
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:41 UTC
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© Mario Anzuoni / ReutersDwayne Johnson
A mysterious filing with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) has prompted the bizarre question: Could former professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson trump a reality TV star for the US presidency?

Johnson, better known as "The Rock," has been registered with the US Federal Election Commission.

His name appeared in a FEC Form 1 document on the FEC website Tuesday, alongside the title of a new political entity called "Run The Rock 2020."

The form is required in order to set up an election campaign for a political party and was filed by a West Virginia resident called Kenton Tilford.
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Attention

Deportation of Europeans illegally residing in US surges, on track to surpass 2016 numbers


RT
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:11 UTC
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Not immune to President Donald Trump's deportation policy, Europeans illegally in the US are being sent back overseas at an increasing rate. So far this year, around 1,300 have been deported.

The number of Europeans in the US illegally is currently on track to surpass last year's deportation numbers. From January 1 to June 24 this year, some 1,300 Europeans were deported, nearly as many as the 2016 total of 1,450 deportations, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Associated Press reported.

Magdalena Dolas, executive director of the Polish American Association in Chicago, has said that the organization she belongs to has been asked to give talks about what people should do if immigration officials come to get them at their residence.
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Bicyclist gets sideswiped by college dean of students, who just keeps going


The Blaze
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:54 UTC
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The exact moment a driver clipped a bicyclist along a Tennessee highway over the weekend was caught on camera — but the most stunning part of the incident was what happened after the collision.

Tyler Noe, 23, was bicycling Saturday with his friend Greg Goodman on Natchez Trace Parkway near Nashville. That's when police say the passenger side of 58-year-old Marshall Grant Neely III's vehicle clipped Noe's bike — and then just kept going as if nothing had ever happened.

According to WSMV-TV, Natchez Trace Parkway is a designated bicycle route, and cyclists are allowed to use full traffic lanes.

"I've never experienced my life flashing before my eyes like that," Noe told WSMV.
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European Identitarian movement launches mission to expose illegal migrant trafficking, stop illegal immigration from Libya


RT
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:43 UTC
migrants
© AFP
Far-right activists from the Identitarian movement have charted a ship to fight illegal migration off the Libyan coast and to expose what they describe as alleged collaboration between European NGOs operating in the area and human traffickers.

A 40-meter-long ship called the C-Star, which was charted by the group, set sail from the African port of Djibouti on July 6 and is expected to take the far-right activists via the Sicilian port of Catania next week before reaching the relief zone of the Libyan coast.

The operation, called "Defend Europe," is run by the pan-European Identitarian Movement - a vast network of nationalist, far-right, nativist and populist movements across several European countries, including France, Germany, Austria and Italy.

In this particular case, the French, German and Italian branches of the movement participated in the initiative that was launched as the activists managed to raise more than $ 91,000 in an online fundraiser campaign they launched in mid-May.
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Study: 41% of US adults are burdened by online harassment


RT
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:32 UTC
on line harassment
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Online harassment is all too common in the US, according to a new poll that finds over 40 percent of adults claim to have been targeted. Even more people confirm having witnessed others being harassed.

Forty-one percent of US adults concede that they have experienced harassment online, while 66 percent claim that they have seen others being badgered. Offensive name-calling is cited as the most common way people experience these hurtful situations, according to a study released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.

Men are more likely than women to be harassed while online. The final tally for the comparison is 44 percent to 37 percent, in favor of men. However, women are more likely to get unwanted sexual advances on the internet. Fifty-three percent of women say they have received an explicit photo on the internet that they did not request, the study showed.

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