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NBC admits it withheld discrediting information on Kavanaugh accuser Swetnick


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 10:21 UTC
Avenatti and swetnick
As the US Justice Department prepares to investigate media-hound attorney Michael Avenatti and Kavanaugh "victim" Julie Swetnick for making false accusations, NBC admitted they knew Swetnick's story was falling apart weeks ago.

More than three weeks after an NBC interview where Kavanaugh accuser #3 Julie Swetnick contradicted the sworn affidavit she gave Avenatti, the network is publishing text and phone exchanges with a supporting "witness." Recorded around the time of Swetnick's interview, the second woman appears to tell two different stories when Avenatti is around and when he isn't.

The supposed witness signed an affidavit, made public by Avenatti on October 3, describing in no uncertain terms how she saw a young Brett Kavanaugh (now a US Supreme Court justice) spike the drinks of girls at student parties so that they could then be gang-raped. When questioned by NBC, however, she said she hadn't actually witnessed it, and Avenatti had grossly misrepresented her words in the document she had only "skimmed" before signing.

Comment: Looks like the investigation into shady porn lawyer Avenatti and his equally deceptive client is well deserved. Avenatti's presidential aspirations need to be nipped in the bud.

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Child's Hitler Halloween costume unleashes storm of controversy on social media


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:53 UTC
Gestapo
© Facebook / Bryant Goldbach
A Kentucky father has been barracked into an apology after his Nazi themed halloween family photo unleashed a barrage of criticism on social media.

After initially taking a belligerent stance Kentucky man Brant Goldbach now says that he regrets dressing his five-year-old son as Adolf Hitler for the family photo, in which he was dressed as a Nazi soldier.

Goldbach posted photos of the Halloween costumes during a local trick or treat event on Thursday. He initially attempted to justify the costumes by saying that he and his son love dressing as "historical figures" and he condemned those who approached and threatened him and his son during the party.

"Anyone who knows us knows that we love history, and often dress the part of historical figures," he wrote in the now deleted post.
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Tom Slater: BBC is wrong - university censorship is very real

Tom Slater
The Spectator
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:12 UTC
feminist censorship
Campus censorship is a myth. That's the new line being spun by student union officials and university leaders in response to the campaigners, commentators and politicians raising concerns about the increasingly censorious culture on British campuses. The extent of No Platforming, Safe Space censorship and newspaper bans, they say, is being exaggerated by right-wing hacks desperate for something to fulminate about.

Up to now, it's an argument that's been easy enough to dismiss given the very people making it are usually the ones responsible for the campus censorship we read about. But a BBC 'Fact Check', purporting to back-up their claims, has, irritatingly, given them a bit of a boost.

The BBC sent freedom of information requests to universities across Britain to ask if they had made any changes to courses, removed any books from libraries or cancelled any speakers as a result of complaints from offended students. Of 120 responses, they found that, since 2010, there have only been four instances of course content being removed, six occasions of universities cancelling speakers and zero instances of books being removed or banned. 'The number of incidents uncovered are small', it concludes - to much applause from the higher-ed Twittersphere.

But there are gaping holes in this supposed takedown of campus censorship hysteria.
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Local teenager gang-raped by 7 Syrian migrants in Freiburg, Germany


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:13 UTC
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Freiburg, Germany
German police have arrested eight people, including seven Syrian refugees and a German citizen, over their suspected involvement in a group sexual assault on a 18-year-old woman in the city of Freiburg.

The incident took place on the night of October 14 but the police only issued a detailed report on the matter after all major suspects were detained. The victim, whose identity has not been revealed, attended a disco party at one of the local clubs, where she became acquainted with a Syrian asylum seeker, the police said in a statement.

He bought her a drink and the pair then left the club together, the statement adds. The man is alleged to have then dragged the woman into nearby bushes and raped her. The perpetrator then left his victim in the bushes and returned to the club to "call his friends," the German Bild daily reports.

Comment: AfD's popularity likely just went up several percentage points overnight.

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Wall or fence? First completed section of Trump's border wall unveiled in Calexico, California


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 10:23 UTC
Fence
© Reuters / Earnie Grafton
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speaks during a visit to President Trump's border wall in the El Centro Sector in Calexico, California.
After a series of political battles, the first completed section of President Donald Trump's border wall has been unveiled. But people are still arguing over whether it's a wall or a fence.

The two-and-a-half-mile-long, 30-foot-tall barrier was built over eight months and unveiled by US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen at a ceremony in Calexico, California on Friday. Nielsen pleaded for further government funding to complete the mammoth project, saying that "walls work." She also refuted the oft-repeated claim that the barrier of steel bollards was actually just a fence.

Earlier this year, Trump unveiled eight border wall prototypes in California, some concrete and some metal structures like this one. "It's different than a fence in that it also has technology. It's a full wall system," she said. "It's a wall, this is what the president has asked us to do. It's part of a system."

The ceremony celebrated the replacement of shorter, older fencing that was installed in the 1990s. On Friday, a plaque was installed on the 'wall' to "commemorate the completion of the first section of President Trump's border wall," it read.
"Walls work, it's not my opinion," Nielsen said. "It's not a tagline. It's not a political statement. It's a fact."
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#MeToo accommodation: HBO hires 'intimacy coordinator' to navigate sex scenes


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:58 UTC
The Deuce
© HBO
HBO's The Duece
As the repercussions from #MeToo continue to shake Hollywood, cable station HBO is hiring an "intimacy coordinator" to monitor the filming of its (plentiful) sex scenes.

The station is opting to bring the coordinator on board to monitor sex scenes in every production that has them, after an actress playing a porn star and prostitute asked for a little more protection on set than her character had in the series.

When Emily Meade, who stars in the TV drama 'The Deuce,' approached production staff in the immediate aftermath of the #MeToo revelations last year to request an "advocate purely for sexual scenes," HBO hired Alicia Rodis, whose practices have since so endeared her to 'The Deuce' showrunner David Simon that he told Rolling Stone he'd never work without an intimacy coordinator again.

HBO shows are somewhat notorious for their copious sex scenes, and 'The Deuce' is no exception. An hour-long drama about prostitution and the porn industry set in 1970s New York, the show is chock-full of nudity and sexual encounters.
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Feel the hate: NYC poster series depict Trump supporters as 'trash'


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:28 UTC
Trump trash
© Christine Champagne Instagram
Fake Sanitation Department posters depicting Trump-supporting middle-Americans as "trash," have appeared across New York City, true to the stereotype of coastals' liberal attitudes.

One of the posters in the series depicts an overweight 'redneck' type, arm tattooed with a Confederate flag, wearing a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and slurping from a Chick-fil-A cup.

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Americans have rapidly become government dependents - what will they do when the economy tanks?

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
socialists
As the middle class disintegrates and poverty grows, more Americans than ever are becoming dependent on the government just to survive. Today, we live in a country where most workers do not earn enough to support a middle class family, and we are seeing the homelessness crisis spiral out of control in major cities on both coasts. During this election cycle, many conservatives have been freaking out that an increasing number of Democrats are openly embracing socialism, but the truth is that we are already most of the way to becoming a socialist country. In fact, as you will see below, more than half of all Americans currently receive more money from the government than they pay in taxes. We have become absolutely addicted to government money, and this is one of the major trends that is eating away at our nation like cancer.

The government is not supposed to take care of us from the cradle to the grave.

Rather, our founders understood that the proper role of government is to create and protect an environment of liberty and freedom where we would be empowered to take care of ourselves.

Today, most Americans cannot independently take care of themselves, and that makes them dependents. And when you are a dependent, you aren't really free.
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Uproar over double standards after NBC fires Megyn Kelly for 'blackface comments'


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:58 UTC
Megyn Kelly
© Reuters / Mike Segar
NBC's Megyn Kelly
NBC's 'Today' show with Megyn Kelly is on the way out, making her departure from the network official. But the reason for her exit - comments she made about 'blackface' costumes - has come under scrutiny.

NBC has said it is canceling 'Megyn Kelly Today' and will replace her show with 'Today' anchors.

The 'Today' show - which Kelly co-hosts - disclosed on Friday that their soon-to-be ex-colleague "is in talks with the network about her imminent departure."
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Pro-Israel superstar Hen Mazzig may have violated US anti-espionage laws

Alison Weir
If Americans Knew
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:43 UTC
Hen Mazzig

By 2014 Mazzig had already spoken to over 40,000 students from high school through college, and helped defeat a boycott resolution at the University of Washington.
The Forward reports that a hugely popular pro-Israel speaker and writer, Hen Mazzig, has been secretly working directly for the Israeli government. It appears that his actions may have violated U.S. espionage laws.

The Jewish Forward reports that a hugely popular pro-Israel speaker and writer, Hen Mazzig, has been secretly working directly for the Israeli government. It appears that his actions may have violated U.S. espionage laws.

A pro-Israel organization lists Mazzig among "The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2018."

According to the Forward, Mazzig's op-eds "have been published in nearly every Israeli and American Jewish publication (including the Forward), and his speeches to students across North America and Europe, have garnered him legions of fans, including more than 18,000 Twitter followers."
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