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"Horrifying!": 2 million hypocritical Hillary fanatics sign petition to overturn election results

Joseph Jankowski
Planet Free Will
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:29 UTC
not my president anti-trump protest
"Fight racism! (But mass murder is okay)" --typical Hillary supporter
During the third presidential debate back on October 19, then GOP candidate Donald Trump refused to say that he would honor the results of the Nov. 8 election if he were to be unsuccessful in gaining 270 electoral votes. "I will look at it at the time.... I'll keep you in suspense," Trump told moderator Chris Wallace. His rival at the time, Hillary Clinton, called the now president-elect's response "horrifying," and throughout the accusation of "talking down our democracy."

Clinton would run as long as she could with accusing Trump of undermining the democratic process by refusing to accept the election results, making it a solid part of her attack platform from the third debate forward. During rallies, her supporters would boo Trump whenever Clinton mentioned the fact he refused to say he'd accept.

Well, now it turns out that Clinton's supporters are the ones who are refusing to accept the election results as they were announced in the early morning of Nov. 9.

Comment: Is it the year 2000 all over again? You'd think that after that expose of the electoral college, Americans would've made sure it never happened again. But no, they've been fine with it for the past 3 elections. They were fine with it going in to this election. The only reason Hillary supporters are upset with the system today is because they lost. By all means, reform the system. But don't think that a minuscule few million sore losers can justify retroactively changing a process they willingly participated in.

Sidebar: A question for the Killary supporters. Do you really think Clinton only managed to steal a puny 300,000 votes? It's unlikely she even legitimately won the popular vote...

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Father of slain Dallas cop sues George Soros and Black Lives Matter

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:25 UTC
Patrick Zamarripa
Patrick Zamarripa
In July of this year, a cowardly murderer opened fire on police during a peaceful protest over the recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Twelve Dallas law enforcement officers were shot in the vicious downtown Dallas ambush, with five being fatally wounded. One of those killed was Patrick Zamarripa, whose father is now suing Black Lives Matter, George Soros, and other groups for allegedly "inciting a war on police" that led to the death of his son.

According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Enrique Zamarripa filed a 43-page lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court seeking a whopping $550 million in damages. According to the lawsuit:
"While Defendant Black Lives Matter claims to combat anti-black racism, the movement has in fact incited and committed further violence, severe bodily injury and death against police officers of all races and ethnicities, Jews, and Caucasians. Defendant Black Lives Matter is in fact a violent and revolutionary criminal gang."
Named in the lawsuit is Minister Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Al Sharpton, Deray McKesson, Johnetta Elzie, Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panther Party, and George Soros who financially supports Black Lives Matter.

Comment: More on the incident in question: 11 Dallas officers shot, 4 dead in shooting as protest ended

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Amnesty International: Iraqi forces near Mosul tortured & killed civilians


RFE/RL
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:27 UTC
woman fleeing fighting between Islamic State militants and Iraqi forces
A woman fleeing fighting between Islamic State militants and Iraqi forces in eastern Mosul reacts as she heads to safer territory on November 8.
Amnesty International says it has gathered evidence suggesting that Iraqi government forces tortured and killed villagers near the northern city of Mosul.

The London-based human rights group said up to six people were killed execution-style in late October in several villages south of Mosul due to suspected links with the Islamic State (IS) extremist group.

Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. air strikes and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, have been battling to retake Mosul from the militants.
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Philip Freeman: Rome Had Caesar, America Has Trump

Philip Freeman
Huffington Post
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:58 UTC
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I teach ancient history at a small liberal arts college in the Midwest. One question I'm often asked when I tell people what I do is whether or not America is falling apart like Rome did long ago. They want to know what Donald Trump's victory means for our country and if the Romans can teach us anything about why Trump was able to pull off one of the most stunning political triumphs in American history.

Professors hate to give short answers, but there are some disturbing parallels between Rome and modern America, especially in the presidential election of 2016.

Rome was a civilization of haves and have-nots. It was a republic in which every male citizen could vote, but the elections were dominated by an aristocracy that routinely manipulated the process so that they kept power for themselves. The masses were bought off with promises of bread and circuses, while the wealthy dined at lavish banquets and ran the affairs of state.
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Snowden's lawyer: Upon close review, Trump's team will understand whistleblower 'acted in interests of US citizens'


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:59 UTC
Edward Snowden
© Sputnik
Edward Snowden's lawyer said US President-elect Donald Trump would closely review the whistleblower's case

US whistleblower Edward Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena expressed hope on Friday that US President-elect Donald Trump would closely consider the situation with information disclosure by Snowden, stressing that there were no reasons to extradite the whistleblower.

"I think that the new US President-elect Donald Trump will definitely put on agenda the issue of citizens' rights and freedoms. Since this is an inevitable process, he will also pay attention to the role played by Edward Snowden's disclosure of information on the total invasion into private life of the US citizens," Kucherena said.

He added that after regarding the situation closely, Trump's assistants would "inevitably come to the conclusion that Edward Snowden acted in the interests of the US citizens." Kucherena stressed that in case Trump justified Snowden's actions, the majority of the US citizens would "strongly support him in all decisions and planned reforms."
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If you're shocked that Trump won, you need a head check

Jonathan Rochford
Market Watch
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:37 UTC
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© Getty Images
In the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump's victory is continuously being called "shocking."

The reality is that the result wasn't a shock at all. The graphic from Real Clear Politics below is its final prediction of where the states would land, published on the day before the election. All Trump needed to do to overcome Hillary Clinton's slender lead was win a few thousand more votes in New Hampshire. Anyone who looked at this graphic alone would have said that the only certainty was a close race.

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© Real Clear Politics
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Symbolic? Bald eagle rescued from Florida storm drain (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:22 UTC
Bald eagle rescue in Florida
© sbullet187 / Instagram

Two bald eagles were found stuck in a Florida storm drain in what may be the most apt metaphor for the 2016 election. While one was able to fly away, another was caught in the storm drain and retreated further into it.

The pair managed to shut down a busy street during peak rush hours in Orange County, Florida. Although one was able to fly away, it stuck around in solidarity.

A reporter for WFTV claimed that 250 people came to watch the rescue efforts after the trapped eagle fell deeper into the storm drain.The bird was rescued by a wildlife expert and taken to receive veterinary care.

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Antagonize, antagonize, antagonize: Israel's ban on the Muslim call to prayer in Jerusalem - just the tip of the iceberg

Professor Kamel Hawwash
Middle East Monitor
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 04:52 UTC
Call to prayer
Something is in the air in Jerusalem and if Israel has its way it soon won't be; the Muslim call to prayer - the adhaan - is under threat. The state which is built upon the ethnic cleansing of the majority of the indigenous Palestinian people is inching its way towards banning the call for prayer, which was probably first heard in Jerusalem in 637 AD. That was the year in which Caliph Umar Ibn Al-Khattab travelled to Palestine to accept its surrender from Patriach Sophronius, bringing a six-month siege of the Holy City to a peaceful end.

The required respect for people of other faiths was exemplified by one of Caliph Umar's first acts upon entering Jerusalem. He understood the sensitivity surrounding religious sites and the potential danger of changing the status quo. He thus declined an invitation from Sophronius to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre lest Muslims turn it into a mosque. Instead, he stepped outside the Church to perform the midday prayer; a mosque named after him was later built on the site and exists to this day. This is in sharp contrast to the establishment of Israel in 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homeland at gunpoint. Villages and towns were ethnically cleansed and wiped from the face of the earth, and their mosques were also destroyed or turned into synagogues or museums; at least two became cafes and one became a cowshed.
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Amnesty: Pentagon killed 10-20x more civilians than it's letting on


RT
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:43 UTC
ramadi
© AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo
The Pentagon's conclusion that 119 deaths have resulted from US-led coalition strikes in Syria and Iraq represents only 5 or 10 percent of the actual civilian death toll in those countries, Neil Sammonds, an Amnesty International researcher focusing on Syria, told RT.

In the latest incident not included in the official tally, at least 23 people, including seven children and nine women, were killed after the US-led anti-terrorist coalition bombed the village of Heisha in rural Raqqa on Tuesday, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces said in a statement.

While condemning the "horrific incident" the rebel group, supported by the West, called on the US coalition to stop "these repeated incidents" in which civilian areas were bombed.

"The Coalition reiterates calls for a thorough investigation into such incidents and for reviewing the rules procedure of operations against ISIS and holding accountable those responsible," the statement said.

Comment: The Red Cross (ICRC) concurs, saying:
"We do not have detailed information about how many people fell victim to US airstrikes in Syria for the said period. However, even according to the most rough estimates, the real number may be much higher than this figure," the ICRC source said.

Asked to specify by how much, the source said "by several times."
How many? According to a source in Russian Defense Ministry (who obviously has a motive to present the U.S. in a negative light, but just as obviously has the means to determine a more accurate figure):
"Listening to such statements from the US Central Command spokesman, we have an impression that the Pentagon does not consider the remaining thousands of Syrian and Iraqi civilians killed in US Air Force strikes to be humans. But even such an advanced stage of dishonesty and cynicism of US colleagues should have its limits," the Russian source said.

The statement noted that US Air Force has been conducting up to 20 strikes per day in Syria and Iraq, or about 7300 strikes in the past year.

"Moreover, a significant part of this 'work' has been assigned to the B-1B to the B-52H bombers, while the 'humanity' and 'accuracy' of their carpet bombings are well known since the days of the Vietnam War," the statement added.
Ouch.

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Cop sucker-punches handcuffed woman in the face; gets 2 years paid vacation

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:00 UTC
Adley Shepherd
© seattlepi.comOfficer Adley Shepherd on patrol duty in South Seattle in 2009.
You've heard the old adage, "Justice is swift," but when it comes to justice in cases where police are the perpetrators, often times, it's "justice delayed." Oregon's KATU 4 reported Wednesday the Seattle Police Department has fired Officer Adley Shepherd over his involvement in an incident which took place in 2014. He's been on paid vacation ever since.

On June 22nd, 2014, Officer Shepherd responded to a domestic disturbance involving Miyekko Durden-Bosley, then 23, and another man. The decision was made by Shepherd to arrest Durden-Bosley, whom he placed in handcuffs, and walked to his cruiser. As Shepherd was attempting to seat Durden-Bosley into the back of his patrol car, she resisted arrest, and kicked the officer. Shepherd exclaimed, "You kicked me!" then, in what appeared to be a full-force right hook blow, the officer punched the defenseless woman in the face.

Durden-Bosley and her lawyers sued the police department for the officer's violent actions against a handcuffed subject while in police custody. Three separate investigations took place into the incident, and all the while, Shepherd was placed on paid leave from his duties on the force.
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