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John Conyers III arrested and accused of stabbing girlfriend during argument earlier this year

Yamiche Alcindor
The New York Times
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:55 UTC
John Conyers III
© Aaron J. Thornton/Getty ImagesJohn Conyers III, son of the retired Representative John Conyers Jr., at a movie premiere in July.
John Conyers III, who was endorsed by his father on Tuesday to succeed him in the House, was arrested in February after his girlfriend suffered knife cuts during an argument.

Mr. Conyers, in an interview Wednesday, tried to head off a possibly disqualifying scandal just a day after his father resigned from Congress amid multiplying allegations of sexual harassment. As issues of sexual harassment and abuse roil Washington, any violent altercation against a woman could doom his effort to take the seat that his father held since 1965.

The younger Mr. Conyers said that the couple began arguing around 3 a.m. the day after Valentine's Day and that after a physical fight, the police arrested him on suspicion of domestic violence.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office later dropped the charges, but the girlfriend got a restraining order against Mr. Conyers, which remains in effect until next March, he said.

"She says I stabbed her, which makes no sense," Mr. Conyers, 27, said. "I didn't do this. She and I had a verbal altercation and that escalated. She pulled the knife on me. She was chasing me. I tried to take it from her. There was a struggle. I pinned her to the wall. She kept swinging and she cut herself."

Comment: See also: Democratic Congressman John Conyers retires amid sexual harassment allegations - and endorses his son to replace him

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Brigitte Bardot pens letter to Putin asking him to pay personal attention to problem of stray dogs in Russia


TASS
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:17 UTC
In Bardot's view, the "wild methods" used by health and sanitation agencies for getting rid of stray cats and dogs should not be applied in Russia

dogs
© ITAR-TASS/Sergey Pavlishak
French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin asking him to take the problem of stray dogs in Russia under his personal control. The copy of the letter was obtained by TASS on Wednesday.

Bardot thinks that the Russian authorities should revise the methods of tackling this issue.

Comment: Actress Brigitte Bardot: Russia is lucky to have a president as remarkable as Putin

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Toys

'Coffin on the wheels': Ukraine boasts military hardware on video, gets trolled


Sputnik
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:01 UTC
Ukraine coffin on wheels military hardware
© Sputnik/ Youtube / Генеральний штаб ЗСУUkraine troops show off their mettle in drills before the US National Guard.
Internet users are having a field day at the Ukrainian army's expense after the latter released video footage of drills meant to show off its prowess before a delegation of visiting US National Guardsmen.

The armed forces' new video shows troops from the California National Guard arriving at a training center in northern Ukraine to watch their Ukrainian counterparts take part in drills and discuss the prospects for further military cooperation.

The video features the Ukrainian military showing off its mostly Soviet-era tanks, artillery and infantry weaponry being used to effect in an effort to wow their American colleagues.

But what really seemed to 'wow' internet users in the video-gone-viral is a new coffin-shaped vehicle filled with anti-aircraft gunners pictured driving back and forth along a railway track. Some quickly christened the cart a 'wagon on a string'; others said it reminded them of a cart from a rollercoaster ride. The more macabre among users simply called the vehicle a 'coffin on wheels', given its distinct shape.

Comment: Lets not be mean to the uki-nazis. Their economy is in a wreck, so all they could afford was a cardboard trolley to go and reconquer the Donbass.

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Eye 1

Hewlett Packard quietly installs havoc-wreaking spyware on its PCs without consent

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
HP spying
On the heels of Lenovo's massive $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on laptops without users' consent, Hewlett-Packard is jumping in with both feet when it comes to installing spyware on its PCs without the consumer's permission.

According to numerous reports gathered by Computer World, the brand is deploying a telemetry client (a system data that is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry component), on customer computers without asking permission.

The software, which was first identified on November 15 of this year, is called "HP Touchpoint Analytics Service" and appears to replace the self-managed HP Touchpoint Manager solution. According to the official productivity description, it features "the tools you need to ensure all your managed devices' security - and brings you greater peace of mind". The problem is, it's installing itself without permission and is wreaking havoc on customers' systems.
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Sheryl Sandberg worried #MeToo will lead to manlash

Melissa Locker
Fast Company
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:29 UTC
Sheryl Sandberg
© WSJ
This is why we can't have nice things. In the wake of the #MeToo campaign, Sheryl Sandberg is worried that there might be a backlash-against women.


Comment: Trying to head it off at the pass? Won't work. Hrmm, Randi Harper said it best...

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Headphones

Busted: Recording that California police said didn't exist, where Feldman named his abusers back in 1993, has been found

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:27 UTC
Corey Feldman
During an interview with the now disgraced host of NBC's Today Show, Matt Lauer grilled Corey Feldman and accused him of never going to police with his story. However, Feldman quickly retorted and explained to Lauer that there is a recording in which he did tell police who abused him-during the statute of limitations-and they did nothing.

"I've told the police," Feldman said. "In fact, if anybody wants to go back to 1993, I sat there with the Santa Barbara police, I gave them the names, they're on record. They have all of this information but they were scanning Michael Jackson. All they cared about was trying to find something on Michael Jackson."


Comment: Very interesting that this was buried by the MJ fiasco at the time. Jackson, of course, probably was innocent.


This statement quickly became the subject of a massive controversy after Feldman went on to appear on Dr. Oz who called the Santa Barbara police to ask for this recording. Replying to Feldman's claims that they had a recording of these names, the Santa Barbara police denied the existence of it. However, as TFTP predicted at the time, this was not true. And, moments ago, the recording of Corey Feldman naming his abusers to the police was found.


Comment: So, the last time Feldman went to the police, in 1993, a fake 'distraction-scandal' (Michael Jackson pedophile claims) blew up in Hollywood.

And now, today, another fake 'distraction-scandal' has blown up ('Weinstein-gate') right as his claims are finally being taken seriously.

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Eye 1

3,000 bodies found at Mexican drug cartel extermination site

Roger Baird
International Business Times
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:34 UTC
mass grave Mexico.
© ReutersA mass grave in Mexico.
A burial ground holding the dumped remains of 3,000 suspected drug cartel murder victims has been unearthed in northern Mexico.

The gruesome find in the country's Coahuila state contained thousands of skeletal remains, teeth, bullet casings and boots that had been "cooked with acid" and broken up with shovels.

The area was uncovered by Victims for their Rights in Action (Vida), a pressure group representing the families of the tens of thousands of people who have gone missing as a result of drug violence in the Central American nation.
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TIME person of the year finalists followed a disturbing trend - most were anti-Trump

Benny Johnson
The Daily Caller
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:50 UTC
time person year
© Screenshot/MSNBC
Time Magazine has released its finalists for person of the year in 2017 Monday morning. It seems the easiest way to make the list is to be apart of the "Resistance."

President Trump was one of the ten finalists on the list. However, the vast majority of the finalists for person of the year have something very interesting common: they are combative opponents to POTUS. At least six of the finalists on the list have gone on the record against the president for a diverse range of issues.

Comment: The winner(s): the women of #MeToo. Which just demonstrates how pervasive social hysteria can be. That's not to say there's nothing to the issue, however. Some of the accusations are pretty serious. For example, the TIME piece on the winners describes Selma Blair's story:
Other women, like the actor Selma Blair, weathered excruciating threats. Blair says she arrived at a hotel restaurant for a meeting with the independent film director James Toback in 1999 only to be told that he would like to see her in his room. There, she says, Toback told her that she had to learn to be more vulnerable in her craft and asked her to strip down. She took her top off. She says he then propositioned her for sex, and when she refused, he blocked the door and forced her to watch him masturbate against her leg. Afterward, she recalls him telling her that if she said anything, he would stab her eyes out with a Bic pen and throw her in the Hudson River.

Blair says Toback lorded the encounter over her for decades. "I had heard from others that he was slandering me, saying these sexual things about me, and it just made me even more afraid of him," Blair says in an interview with TIME. "I genuinely thought for almost 20 years, He's going to kill me." (Toback has denied the allegations, saying he never met his accusers or doesn't remember them.)
But there are problems with the whole movement too. How many of the accusations are false or misleading? What are the consequences of lumping all of the accused together, when guilt has not been established? And is it really helpful to include serious allegations side by side others that amount to littler more than potentially inappropriate behavior or language (like "talking about sex" in front of someone)?

While #MeToo was TIME's choice, their readers picked Mohammed bin Salman, who scored 24% of the vote. (#MeToo came in second, with 6%.)

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Bizarro Earth

Judge protects Jeffrey Epstein, won't allow damning evidence in child rape trial

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:41 UTC
A judge has warned that he will limit the "graphic, sexual questions" in a case against convicted sex offender and child predator Jeffrey Epstein.

Jeffrey Epstein
When a convicted sex offender appears in court over a lawsuit filed on behalf of three of the many women he assaulted when they were young girls, it is assumed that his actions will be examined in detail, and the content will be graphic.

However, in the case of a lawsuit filed against billionaire Wall Street hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, 64, the judge presiding over it has declared that when it comes to "graphic, sexual questions, the likelihood is that I will not allow them into evidence."

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Donald Hafele already ruled in favor of Epstein when he agreed to delay the next hearing in the 8-year-old civil lawsuit until March 2018, according to a report from the Palm Beach Post. Now, the idea that he won't allow "graphic, sexual questions" in a lawsuit over sexual misconduct is ludicrous.

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Cult

Pope Francis calls for status quo to be preserved in Jerusalem


RT
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:32 UTC
pope francis
© Remo Casilli / Reuters
Pope Francis says he cannot remain silent about a White House plan to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The head of the Holy See called for the city's "status quo" to be respected, adding the US move could exacerbate "cruel conflicts."

Weighing in on the controversial decision, the pontiff made a "heartfelt appeal" to all nations to "respect [Jerusalem's] status quo, in conformity with the pertinent United Nations resolutions,"as cited by Vatican Radio.

The leader of the Catholic Church said he "cannot keep silent" about the brewing conflict over Jerusalem's status. Describing the city as "holy for Jews, Christians and Muslims, who venerate the holy sites of their respective religions," the Pope said Jerusalem enjoys a unique status that should be preserved.

"I pray to the Lord that its identity is preserved and strengthened for the benefit of the Holy Land, the Middle East and the whole world and that wisdom and prudence prevail to prevent new elements of tension from being added to a global context already convulsed by so many cruel conflicts."

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