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13 people shot at Chicago house party, four critical

RT
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:16 UTC

Thirteen people have been shot at a possible house party on Chicago's south side. All have been brought to hospital, with four in critical condition.

Police responded to the gunfire at around 12.35am on Sunday morning. According to police, the victims were attending a house party held in honor of a 22-year-old man fatally shot during an attempted carjacking in April, when a fight broke out.

The victims range from 16 to 48 years old. After the suspect opened fire, panicked attendees spilled out onto the street, where a police camera detected the flash of gunfire. Shots were fired at a police vehicle responding, and two people have been taken into custody.

Youth protests in India take a violent turn as suspension of internet, traffic jams and cancelled flights hit Mumbai

Vineeta Pandey
Deccan Chronicle
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:14 UTC

Rage and anger against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) poured out on streets across the nation on Thursday as ordinary citizens, students, writers, activists, artists, Opposition parties and film stars came out in large numbers to register their protest against the law they view as an attempt to divide India on communal lines.

Though most protests were peaceful, in some places, including Lucknow, Mangaluru, Ahmedabad and Patna, crowds turned violent. Public property was vandalised and police was pelted with stones. To disperse the crowds, police resorted to lathicharge, firing teargas shells and even firing in the air.

In Lucknow, where Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath said the police has been asked to deal with protesters strictly, incidents of arson were also reported, with media OB vans and police vehicles being set on fire. There were also reports of a death and injuries to cops.

In Lucknow, a man died of a firearm injury he allegedly suffered while passing by a violent protest. Uttar Pradesh police chief O.P. Singh said the death was not linked to the agitation or any police action.

Vile comedian jokes that her abortion made her "feel like God"

Gabriel Hays
News Busters
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:50 UTC

Michelle Wolf has been trying to claw her way back to notoriety since attacking former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner. Now she's got a new weapons grade joke designed to trigger conservatives, and well, we'll give her credit. Combining blasphemy and abortion, Wolf joked that her own procedure made her feel so "powerful" that she felt like "God."

Filled with the spirit of the new brand of abortion-worshipping feminism, Wolf used her recent Netflix comedy special Joke Show to essentially shout her abortion and explain how empowering it really is. Even in a stand up setting, it's quite vile.

Wolf segued into her abortion riff after talking about period equality, or how funny it would be if men felt the period pain of women. Yeah, funny joke, too bad there are some "men" who believe that's possible, but we digress. Wolf started from a place of pure apathy and ramped up from there. She mentioned how talking about abortion should be as normal as hearing "about your gluten allergy."

Comment: When the casual snuffing out of a life is treated as a punch line we know society is on the verge of collapse.

'We're next': Hong Kongers rally for China's Uighurs

Yahoo News
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 18:12 UTC

China runs Hong Kong on a 'one country, two systems' model which allows the financial hub key freedoms that are denied people on the authoritarian mainland

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters rallied in solidarity with China's Uighurs on Sunday in a move likely to infuriate Beijing as they likened their plight to that of the oppressed Muslim minority.

The rally was broken up when riot police swooped in after some protesters removed a Chinese flag from a nearby government building.

China has faced international condemnation for rounding up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

The emergence of a huge surveillance and prison system that now blankets much of Xinjiang has been watched closely in Hong Kong which has been convulsed by six months of huge and sometimes violent protests against Beijing's rule.

Pro-Uighur chants and flags have become commonplace in Hong Kong's marches but Sunday's rally was the first to be specifically dedicated to Uighurs.

Around 1,000 people gathered in a square close to the city's harbourfront listening to speeches warning that the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown in Xinjiang could one day be replicated in Hong Kong.

"We shall not forget those who share a common goal with us, our struggle for freedom and democracy and the rage against the Chinese Communist Party," one speaker shouted through the loudspeaker to cheers from the crowd.

Eddie Murphy returns with 80s-style un-PC jokes, saves SNL from Trump flop

Graham Dockery
RT
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:03 UTC

Amid faltering ratings and an overreliance on 'orange man bad' Trump jokes, Saturday Night Live turned the clock back to the 1980s, welcoming Eddie Murphy's menagerie of non-PC characters for its best show in a decade.

American politics has been Saturday Night Live's bread and butter ever since the election of Donald Trump, but even Alec Baldwin himself has grown tired of portraying the president.

Three years of political commentary disguised as humor has taken its toll not just on its stars but also on the show's ratings; pastiches of Robert Mueller, Rudy Giuliani and Jeff Sessions fell flat last year, and Season 45's opener in September gave SNL its lowest-rated start to a season in five years.

Things started no differently on Saturday night, with another nine-minute cold open that attempted the blood-from-a-turnip task of wringing humor out of the most recent Democratic debate.

Italian economic development minister: Huawei should not be banned from 5G deployment in Italy

RT
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 18:17 UTC

Huawei should be allowed to participate in the rollout of 5G in Italy, Stefano Patuanelli said after a parliamentary committee urged that Chinese companies be banned from the development of the super-fast network.

"We have passed legislation that guarantees national security. With the right defenses, the possibility of [Chinese companies'] access is not up for debate," the recently appointed minister of economic development, Stefano Patuanelli, said in an interview with La Stampa.

While the US has been pressing its allies to take a tougher stance on Huawei, earlier this month, the Italian Parliamentary Committee for the Intelligence and Security Services and for State Secret Control (COPASIR) submitted a non-binding document sounding the alarm about the involvement of Chinese tech firms in the development of super-fast networks in the country. The committee said concerns about them were "largely grounded" due to the alleged threat to national security.

Ex-cop indicted for murder in shooting of Texas woman inside her home

Adam Schrader
NY Post
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:14 UTC

A former Fort Worth, Texas, cop who was accused of gunning down a black woman inside her own home was indicted for her murder on Friday.

Aaron Dean, 35, allegedly shot Atatiana Jefferson, 28, through a window while responding to an "open structure" call with his partner around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 12.

Comment: Previously: Texas cop who killed woman through window of her own home has resigned & may face criminal charges

Jefferson's family were relieved to hear of the indictment, but said they "have a long way to go" at a press conference on Friday, NBCDFW reported.

"When I heard it, it was definitely surreal because it was kind of facing the fact that this is the reality we are having to face at this moment," said Jefferson's sister Ashley Carr, the outlet reported.

Moscow anti-doping lab's data accessed from outside Russia, former director gave files of unknown origin to WADA - probe

RT
Sat, 21 Dec 2019 18:06 UTC

Moscow anti-doping lab's files were remotely altered by its former director, Grigory Rodchenkov, and his unidentified associates from US and German IP addresses, Russian investigators confirmed.

Ex-boss of Moscow lab fled to US in November 2015 becoming a star witness and main source of information for World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in its case against Moscow.

Earlier in December, WADA introduced harsh sanctions against Russia over the alleged manipulations with the data handed over to it by Russian doping watchdog, RUSADA, as part of its reinstatement process.

But the laboratory information management system (LIMS) was accessed between 2015 and 2016 "from the IP-addresses registered and located in the USA and Germany," Russia's Investigative Committee said revealing their findings in the probe into the fugitive doctor.

Why can't we stop feeding the trolls? Latest frenzy over 'it's OK to be white' proves society desperately wants to be offended

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:11 UTC

A plague of "it's OK to be white" stickers has struck Perth, Scotland, "sickening" local authorities. The slogan's origins in an internet prank are known, yet it's still taken seriously - nor is it the sole case of self-trolling.

The stickers' arrival in Perth catapulted the town into a state of shock, to hear the BBC tell it on Tuesday. "It's sickening and disgusting to know that people think like this," an anonymous resident told the outlet, while local group Perth Against Racism claimed to have been contacted by multiple people who "felt unsafe" upon seeing the stickers.

Such a reaction - starkly out of proportion to the rather meek message presented by the stickers, and coming off somewhat racist in its own right for implying it is not, in fact, OK to be white, was exactly what the campaign's creators were aiming for when they put out a call two years ago on the anonymous imageboard 4chan's notorious /pol/ section to post signs featuring the slogan on college campuses and watch "the media and leftists frothing at the mouth."

Historian and Assange activist says judge's acceptance of 'complexity' of Assange's case is 'an important win'

The Interregnum
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

In a surprise development District Judge Venessa Baraitser seems to have accepted that Julian Assange's main extradition hearing will take weeks rather than days, though she still refuses to assist with his prison conditions.

John Rees, of the Don't Extradite Assange Campaign, says he has seen a positive shift in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Rees, a historian and activist, attended Assange's latest case management hearing held on the morning of 19 December at Westminster Magistrate's Court He explained that District Judge Venessa Baraitser appears to have now accepted that the case "is very complex" and "involves fundamental questions of law and justice":

Comment: Only Cowards, Sadists And Sellouts Support The Persecution of Assange

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Society's Child

13 people shot at Chicago house party, four critical

Youth protests in India take a violent turn as suspension of internet, traffic jams and cancelled flights hit Mumbai

Vile comedian jokes that her abortion made her "feel like God"

'We're next': Hong Kongers rally for China's Uighurs

Eddie Murphy returns with 80s-style un-PC jokes, saves SNL from Trump flop

Italian economic development minister: Huawei should not be banned from 5G deployment in Italy

Ex-cop indicted for murder in shooting of Texas woman inside her home

Moscow anti-doping lab's data accessed from outside Russia, former director gave files of unknown origin to WADA - probe

Why can't we stop feeding the trolls? Latest frenzy over 'it's OK to be white' proves society desperately wants to be offended

Historian and Assange activist says judge's acceptance of 'complexity' of Assange's case is 'an important win'

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