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There were reports of stone-throwing by protesters, with some seen bearing metal bars, when fresh skirmishes broke out on Tuesday between people supporting the legislation and those against it.
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There were reports of stone-throwing by protesters, with some seen bearing metal bars, when fresh skirmishes broke out on Tuesday between people supporting the legislation and those against it.
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FILE: Peter Nygard attends the 24th Night of 100 Stars Oscars Viewing Gala at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
FILE: Peter Nygard attends the 24th Night of 100 Stars Oscars Viewing Gala at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US Attorney's Office in Manhattan, confirmed to The Post that the raid was carried out but would not elaborate or provide details.
Photos from the scene show federal agents and city cops swarming throughout the company's Broadway headquarters, and hauling away at least a half-dozen cardboard boxes from the building.
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Naomi Seibt has been attacked as a "climate change denier" for working with the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think-tank funded by oil and gas companies and conservative groups. But the young German insists she's not denying climate change, just trying to inject some reason into the debate - a demand which has only caused her detractors to shriek louder.
"I don't want to get people to stop believing in man-made climate change, not at all," she told the Washington Post on Monday, while acknowledging she found the idea that human activity alone was responsible for the warming planet "ridiculous." The outlet's profile of the young activist, whom it not-so-subtly dubs "the anti-Greta," proceeds to paint her as a puppet of the Heartland Institute, which is "paying [Seibt] to question established climate science" - as if she would never have done so on her own.
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Hrafnsson with Shipton outside Assange's extradition hearing
Hrafnsson with Shipton outside Assange's extradition hearing
Hrafnsson was pulled out of the crowd as he attempted to enter the public gallery of Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday morning, he told RT, after someone shouted "Where is the WikiLeaks editor?"
Explaining that he was given "no grounds" for the order and was unable to locate the head of the court to get an answer, he recorded and released a statement denouncing his exclusion from the supposedly-public proceedings as "outrageous" and calling on the public to "demand some answers — because I'm not getting any."
Officials reported 322 confirmed cases of the virus, 100 more than a day earlier. In a worrying development, they said some of the new cases showed up in parts of Italy well outside the country's two hard-hit northern regions.
Tuscany reported its first two cases, including one in the tourist destination of Florence, while Sicily recorded three: all of them tourists from the worst-hit Lombardy region, where more than 200 people have tested positive.
The Liguria region, known as the Italian Riviera, also reported its first case, but cautioned that the definitive result for the 70-year old still needed to come from Italy's infectious diseases institute.
Officials also reported three new fatalities in Lombardy, bringing the total to 10. All three were elderly patients.
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Supporters for Julian Assange demonstrate outside the court for a second day.
Supporters for Julian Assange demonstrate outside the court for a second day.
Mr Assange is fighting extradition to the US to face trial over the leaking of classified US military documents.
His lawyer dismissed claims he "knowingly" put lives at risk by publishing the names of informants.
He told Woolwich Crown Court that a book by the Guardian newspaper was to blame for the names being published.
Comment: See also:
- Day 1 of Assange's US extradition hearing: Key facts to know
- We're asking one question in Assange's case: Should journalists be punished for exposing war crimes?
- The UK, the US, and Assange: A tale of three extraditions
- We're asking one question in Assange's case: Should journalists be punished for exposing war crimes?
- Over 1,000 journalists from across the world unite in defence of Julian Assange
- 'Every journalist should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine': Assange's extradition case examined in new RT doc
- Palestinian flag, Yellow Vests, Anonymous masks: Wide range of protester groups join demonstration in support of Assange
In fact, as Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, the U.S. public's confidence in elections is one of the worst of any wealthy democracy, according to a recently published Gallup poll. It found that a mere 40 percent of Americans have confidence in the honesty of their elections. As low as that figure is, distrust of elections is nothing new for the U.S. public.
The research found that a majority of Americans have had no confidence in the honesty of elections every year since 2012 with the share trusting the process at the ballot box sinking as low as 30 percent during the 2016 presidential campaign. Gallup stated that its 2019 data came at a time when eight U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election and identified attempts to engage in similar activities during the midterms in 2018.
Comment: See also:
- Majority of Americans would vote against socialist candidate for president, poll finds
- 92% of Americans feel their freedom is threatened
- Programming is complete: More than half of Americans want government-imposed press restrictions & curbs on free speech
- Most Americans think social media has too much control over news, according to poll mainstream media quietly ignored
- US politics: A nation divided takes physical and emotional toll on Americans
- Gallup poll: Just 13% of Americans trust the media 'a great deal'
- Only 38% of Americans believe in man-made climate change, 48% of Norwegians believe there are other factors
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The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy
The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy
Knowledge of Homer is no longer expected in our technocratic and multicultural society. Although I believe everyone would benefit from reading the works that form the basis of our inherited tradition, the absence of Homer in particular from school curricula does not bother me all that much. My passion is ancient philosophy, and if it were up to me, I would make everyone read Plato. But knowledge of Homer is still expected in Classics departments — or at least it should be. Homer was the beacon of a common culture across the ancient Greek world. Even as different city-states, speaking different dialects of Greek, waged war against one another, they were united by Homer, whose stylized language and mythic tales transcended their differences. Ancient poets, tragedians, comedians, historians, philosophers, painters, sculptors — all nod to Homer, implicitly or explicitly, in their works, hoping to build on a shared tradition and knowing that just about any audience would detect and understand the references.
Inconvenient rebound in polar bear numbers.
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Actress Amber Heard attends the 2016 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards in Hollywood, California.
Actress Amber Heard attends the 2016 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards in Hollywood, California.
All the social media noise against Heard is not enough to persuade Warner Bros. and L'Oreal to fire the actress. According to a source, her admission from the leaked audiotapes that she was physically aggressive towards ex-husband, Johnny Depp, does not affect her job. Even the petitions against her are unlikely going to get any resolution.
"Warner Bros. doesn't care about the allegations made about Amber Heard nor do they have interest in social media. As such, there's nothing going on with her role on Aquaman 2 and they wouldn't consider firing her," a source with knowledge about the situation told Screen Geek.
Comment: The double standard is jaw dropping. Johnny Depp lost his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise over hearsay that he had been abusive to Heard. Now that the truth comes out and the roles are reversed, Heard loses nothing.
See also:
- Amber Heard admits to 'hitting' ex-husband Johnny Depp and pelting him with pots, pans and vases in explosive audio confession
- Over 700,000 UK men were victims of domestic abuse in the past year; about a third of reported total
- Dispelling the myths about sexual abuse: Men are victims too, and women are often aggressors - but rates of violence are still lower than ever
- FBI's Expanded Definition of Rape Will Recognize Men as Victims
Comment:
Update on 2/26/2020: Delhi is slowly returning to normalcy following 72 hrs of communal riots that killed 27 people and injured more than 200. Police arrested 106 and registered 16 FIRS (First Information Reports), they also used drones to scan roof tops to monitor the troubled area. Delhi High Court expressed anguish over the police's failure to file the FIR's against the BJP leaders who made inflammatory speeches at the Pro-CAA rally. These protests are against the ongoing occupation and blockade of a road at Shaheen Bagh for over 2 months now.
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