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Rapper threatens to pimp out First Lady in response to Trump-Snoop Dogg feud

Kate Feldman
New York Daily News
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:42 UTC
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Bow Wow went After Donald Trump by threatening to pimp out Melania
The battle between President Trump and Snoop Dogg has expanded to include the First Lady and Bow Wow.

Snoop Dogg's most recent music video, a remix of BadBadNotGood and Kaytranada's song "Lavender," shows the rapper pointing a gun at a clown dressed up like the President, an image that has caused outrage from many.

Early Wednesday, Trump shot back on Twitter: "Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!"

Hours later, Bow Wow waded into the feud and threatened Melania Trump.
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Number of Swedish children wanting to become opposite sex doubles each year


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:11 UTC
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© uwe umstätter / Global Look Press
The number of children feeling the anxiety of being trapped in the wrong body is doubling each year in Sweden, with children as young as six wanting to become the opposite sex, doctors have said, according to local media.

Last year, a Swedish gender investigation team saw some 197 children and young people keen to undergo analysis to determine their gender identity and become the opposite sex, Louise Frisen, child psychiatrist at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Stockholm, told Swedish daily Aftonbladet.

"There's a 100 percent increase in numbers each year," Frisen said.

"There [are] more and more young people, and more children coming at very young ages. The increase is identical on the adult side too," she added.

Comment: Statistics indicate approximately .02-.03% of the population identify themselves as transgender. While this is an extremely small portion of the population, all the media coverage over transgender issues may give the impression that the percentage would be much higher. Children are impressionable, much more so than adults. While some may credit a change in attitudes as making children more comfortable in 'changing gender', another strong possibility is that a genderless education, which is given significant attention in Sweden, is directing certain anxieties about gender onto children before they even have had time develop. Given the ramifications, that indeed is child abuse.

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People

Beyond anyone's worst nightmares: RT's Lizzie Phelan shares 5 years of Syrian war


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:19 UTC
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A flak jacket and a helmet have long become a staple in RT's Lizzie Phelan's wardrobe. She's been covering the Syrian war for five years. Reporting from Aleppo and Palmyra, she filmed kids injured in daily shelling and civilians forced to flee their homes.

"I first began covering the Syrian conflict in January 2012. Within a few days of landing I learned that not all was as it seemed," Phelan recalls.

"While mainstream media gave endless airtime to the anti-government uprising, on the streets of Damascus I found people furious with the coverage."
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Eye 1

Data breach: Over 30 million US employees & military personnel had their data hacked


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:40 UTC
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A database containing more than 33 million records of corporate and government employees has been leaked online, including records from the Department of Defense, US Postal Service, Wal-Mart, and Ohio State University.

The database belongs to Dun & Bradstreet which licenses information on businesses and corporations for use in credit decisions, business-to-business marketing, and supply chain management. In 2013, they held over 225 million business records from companies around the globe.

The leak of the 52.2 Gigabyte corporate database from the business services firm contains millions of people's names, work email addresses, phone numbers, and the companies they work for, along with their job titles, ZDNet reports.
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Sheriff

What's up with Chicago police academy's 'suspiciously high' graduation rate?


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:37 UTC
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Chicago's police academy graduated more than 97 percent of its recruits over a four-year period, prompting questions about the effectiveness of training. At 600 police academics across the US, the graduating rate is 10 percent less.

Between 2013 and mid-2016, about 60 of some 2,000 prospective officers who entered the academy failed to graduate, a 97 percent success rate, according to city numbers.

An analysis by the Chicago Tribune found that "all but a handful of trainees graduate from the academy and become cops, raising concerns about how rigorous and selective the department is in inducting new officers."

Comment: A 2000 court hearing found it was perfectly fine for police departments to only hire stupid cops. As Melissa Melton noted,
Considering all the police brutality and officer-involved shootings in the news these days, here's a rhetorical question for you: how well does this hiring practice bode for cops actually being able to follow the Constitution or use proper discretion while "protecting and serving" America?

Does this snapshot from the past at least partially help explain how we got to where we are as a nation today - a total police state? Wow, and thePentagon has been giving these guys tanks straight off the battlefields in the Middle East to drive down American streets, too.


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People

UK-wide study finds Brits as afraid of losing smartphone as they are terrorist attack


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:40 UTC
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© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
Losing a smartphone could be almost as stressful as a terrorist attack, a new study by British scientists reveals. Also surprising (or perhaps not): Brits are scared of moving to a bigger house, going on holiday, and planning a wedding.

The nationwide survey was carried out by The Physiological Society, in partnership with the polling firm YouGov, and 2,000 British adults were surveyed.

Researchers asked the participants how stressed they would feel about a range of events, with the death of a loved one and serious illness, quite expectedly, receiving the highest marks for stress levels.
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Report: Sexual assault on the rise at U.S. military academies


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:10 UTC
West Point recruits
© Tim Shaffer/Reuters
Official reports of sexual assault rose at two of the three US military academies, while an anonymous survey of students suggested that unwanted sexual contact is also on the rise, according to new Pentagon data.

During the last academic year, which ran from June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2016, there were 26 reported sexual assaults at the US Military Academy at West Point in New York, 28 at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and 32 at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Sexual assault reports
© USDOD: Sexual Assault Prevention and ResponseReported sexual assaults at military academies
This represents an increase of nine more incidents than the previous year for West Point and three more at the Naval Academy, while the Air Force Academy saw a decrease of 17 complaints, according to an annual report on sexual harassment and violence at the service academies published Wednesday by the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO).

Overall, the last academic year represented a drop in five cases from the previous year's record high of 91.

A study published in September 2015, found that nearly one in four female undergraduates had experienced some type of sexual assault — meaning they were penetrated or touched in a sexual way without their consent — since enrolling in college. Overall, the number of reported sexual assaults on college campuses has risen
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Cards

'Pizzagate' gunman facing 35 years gets plea deal


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:13 UTC
Comet Ping Pong
© Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
A North Carolina man charged with firing an assault rifle inside Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington, DC — targeted by so-called Pizzagate conspiracy theorists — is expected to plead guilty after reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

At a status hearing in a District of Columbia court on Wednesday, lawyers for Edgar Maddison Welch said they reached a plea deal in principle, but the terms of the offer were not disclosed.

Prosecutors allege that Welch, 28, drove from Salisbury, North Carolina, to DC's Comet Ping Pong restaurant on December 4, in an attempt to investigate rumors that linked former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to a pedophile ring run out of the basement of the restaurant occasionally visited by John Podesta, her presidential campaign chairman.

The conspiracy has been dubbed "Pizzagate."

Court documents allege that Welch walked into the restaurant with an AR-15 and a .38 revolver in a holster on his hip, and fired multiple shots, but no one was injured.
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Chess

Poll shows more than 60% of Germans want to halt Turkey-EU accession talks


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:37 UTC
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© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Almost two-thirds of German citizens want to halt negotiations on Turkey joining the European Union, as Berlin-Ankara relations hit a new low over the banning of Turkish rallies in Germany. Turkey compared the move with Nazi actions in the past, infuriating Berlin.

The poll, conducted by the INSA research institute for the Bild newspaper, revealed that 64.2 percent of respondents wants the accession talks to be suspended, while 11.9 percent favors keeping them alive.

The remainder of those who were interviewed abstained from voting. There's also a clear majority among immigrant responders (59 percent), who voted for halting the talks.

Comment: Further reading: The Bigger Picture: What's Behind the Souring Relationship Between Turkey and The Netherlands

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Eye 1

Fmr LA County sheriff guilty of corruption, faces 2 decades behind bars


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:32 UTC
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© Lucy Nicholson / ReutersFormer Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca
A federal jury has found former Los Angeles County sheriff Lee Baca guilty of corruption charges. He previously avoided conviction when a mistrial was declared. Now the prominent law enforcement leader could be behind bars for two decades.

After two full days of jury deliberations, a unanimous verdict was handed down against Baca on Wednesday, finding him guilty of assisting in the obstruction of a 2011 FBI investigation into LA County jail guards brutally beating inmates, taking bribes and lying to federal agents about it.

Baca, 74, himself was also determined to have been lying about his role in the obstruction, which prosecutors said was ordered from the top in the nation's largest sheriff's department.

During the trial, Assistant US Attorney Lizabeth Rhodes said, "when defendant Baca learned the FBI and a federal grand jury was investigating, he obstructed and when he learned the FBI has turned its focus on him, he lied," KABC reported.

Comment: See also: Sheriff Tries to Expose List of 300 Corrupt Cops, Courts & Union Promptly Block Him

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