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Twitter users slam Chelsea Clinton for Trump attack: 'Haiti helped pay for your wedding'


WND
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:10 UTC
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Chelsea Clinton weds Jewish investment banker Marc Mezvinky in a $3 million wedding in July 2010
Former first daughter gets walloped after she rips on president over 's--hole' countries

Chelsea Clinton really stepped in it Thursday when she tore into President Trump after news organizations said the president asked senators why the U.S. keeps bringing in migrants from "sh-hole" countries like Haiti, El Salvador and African nations.

President Trump has denied using the term, though he did admit he used "tough" language in the meeting.

In her response to a Bloomberg headline, Chelsea tweeted to Trump Thursday: "Mr. President, immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and 54 countries in Africa likely helped build your buildings. They've certainly helped build our country. cc @POTUS."

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Iran's judiciary: Over 400 protesters still detained, 25 people killed


RadioFreeEurope
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:06 UTC
iran Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohsen

Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni-Ejei said the latest figures on detained protesters came after "some were released" on January 13-14. (file fphoto)
Iran's judiciary says that about 465 people are still being detained across the country for taking part in a wave of antigovernment protests that began nearly three weeks earlier.

Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni-Ejei also acknowledged that 25 people were killed in violence surrounding the protests that began on December 28.

Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said 440 "arrested rioters" had been released from detention facilities in Tehran alone in recent days.

Mohseni-Ejei said there were still 55 people being held in the Iranian capital.

Comment: For more information, see: Iran Protests Through the Prism of Geopolitics

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Despite Bundy trial's celebrated dismissal, fate of remaining defendants & land rights issues still in question

Mark Anderson
21st Century Wire
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Rancher Cliven Bundy
© Reuters/Jim Urquhart

Rancher Cliven Bundy

"I went into that place a free man and I intended to leave it as a free man."

That's what lifelong Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy stated to this writer upon being released from imprisonment along with his sons Ryan and Ammon, and co-defendant Ryan Payne-due to the dismissal of the charges against them in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.

The elder Bundy, jubilant over the fact that his ordeal and that of his family and supporters is essentially over, added with a hearty laugh that he was a bit jaded from giving nonstop press interviews in the wake of federal Judge Gloria Navarro's Jan. 8 ruling to approve Ryan Payne's motion to dismiss the case.

Cliven, a constitutionalist whose family is well-versed in the nation's charter, added that, under Article III, judges can hold office only during periods of good behavior. "Good behavior is when our judges are in tune with the Constitution. When you've got judges like I had in my case-abridging the Constitution-nobody holds them accountable," he also told this writer, for an earlier American Free Press story.

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Prankster projects 'S***hole' onto Trump International Hotel


RT
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:00 UTC
Trump hotel shithole
© Sorane Yamahira / Bellvisuals.com
The dust has yet to settle from Donald Trump's alleged 's***hole' gaffe which swept the headlines across the world this week, but one prankster took it upon himself to emblazon the offending phrase directly onto a Trump hotel.

Guests and passersby alike were stunned to see the word 's***hole' projected in huge letters onto the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC Saturday night.

"Not a DC resident? Need a place to stay? Try our s***hole? This place is a s***hole," the projection read, before a torrent of poop emojis appear to explode out of the main entrance.
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Eager supporters: Arrival of renowned Turkish star soccer player leads to scuffles at Istanbul Airport


RT
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:16 UTC
Soccer star
© Ruptly
The arrival of renowned Turkish soccer player Arda Turan in Istanbul was marked with scuffles between police and fans, who were a bit too eager to greet the star.

Emotions soared in Istanbul Ataturk Airport on Saturday, when around 200 fans of İstanbul Başakşehir FC gathered to greet their team's new player. Renowned midfielder Arda Turan has returned to the Turkish Super League after seven years playing in European clubs. The player was loaned by FC Barcelona to the Turkish club for the remainder of the 2017-18 season plus two more.
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More reports of food riots gripping Venezuela: How true are they?

Anggy Polanco and Francisco Aguilar
Reuters
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:59 UTC
empty store shelf
© REUTERS/Marco Bello
A man looks at an empty refrigerator in a supermarket in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2018.
Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection center, and a supermarket in Venezuela's western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country.

An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, said four people had died and 10 were injured in the chaos over the last two days, but he did not specify the circumstances.

Four years of recession and the world's highest inflation have plunged millions of Venezuelans into poverty, and President Nicolas Maduro's authoritarian socialist regime faces mounting unrest.

Venezuela's Information Ministry did not respond to a request for information about the latest disturbances to rock the nation of 30 million people.

Looters plundered a truck carrying corn, a food collection center, and a state-run supermarket, according to Paparoni, and a vet who witnessed the mayhem.

A video on social media also showed around a dozen men running into a lush pasture, chasing a cow, and then apparently beating it to death.
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More msm organizations intentionally exclude male victims from their sexual harassment research


Recalculating the Gender War
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:58 UTC
#MeToo
Last time, I wrote about how ABC and the Washington Post conducted a survey on sexual harassment that (aside from being deeply flawed) blatantly excluded male victims and female perpetrators. It was obvious that ABC and the Post weren't interested in seriously researching sexual harassment, but just wanted to recklessly feed the #MeToo narrative of female oppression at the hands of the sinister male gender. Unfortunately, they weren't the only major media organization to do this. NBC and the Wall Street Journal also produced a similar survey on sexual harassment that basically did the same thing.

Like the ABC-Post survey, NBC and the Wall Street Journal shared a single survey commissioned from Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies. The survey in question was conducted from October 23rd - 26th, but appears to be part of an on-going series of surveys on a variety topics. Questions 21, 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d on pages 13-15 are related to sexual harassment and sex discrimination in the workplace. The survey interviewed 900 adults. However, the questions about sexual harassment in the workplace were only asked to the 265 working women and 286 employed men who took the survey according to the Wall Street Journal. That isn't a very impressive sample size.
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The Truth Perspective: Left by the Wayside on a Right-hand Turn: What Happened to SOTT.net?


Sott.net
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:00 UTC
trump maga
The polarizing effect Trump has had on people - both in the US and globally - is a phenomenon to behold. On what seems to be a weekly basis, Trump does or says something that triggers twitter-storms and media hysteria, prompting another round of indignant outrage and renewing each time calls for his impeachment on the grounds that he is "unfit to be president of the USA."

But we're not going to talk about that orange "stable genius" today, at least not principally.

Whether or not one supports Trump is largely irrelevant. His main function seems to be as a catalyst for the revealing of a whole host of hot-topic and divisive issues in American and Western society that have been festering in the background for many years. Poverty, class, gender, identity, immigration, democracy, human rights, the wage gap, racism, sexism, the patriarchy, evil corporations... our language is steeped in abstract terms that are open to interpretation and, most importantly, form the basis of overlapping ideologies rallying around injustice.

And nobody likes injustice, right?

Join us on The Truth Perspective this Sunday, 14 January 2018, from 12 - 1:30pm EST / 5 - 6:30pm UTC / 6 - 7:30pm CET for a reality-check on where 'the war against injustice' has taken society, and where it could yet go.

Running Time: 01:51:36

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Suspect wanted for randomly punching 70-year-old on Queens subway

Stephanie Pagones
New York Post
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:34 UTC
suspect accused of punching 70 year old
Police are seeking a creep who sucker-punched a septuagenarian in the face on a Queens subway last month.

The 70-year-old man was struck in a Manhattan-bound E train as it was stopped at the Sutphin Boulevard station in Jamaica about 7 a.m. Dec. 16. The attacker then rushed off without saying a word, cops said.
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Unimpressive attempt: Russian police throw snowballs at runaway vehicle during high-speed chase (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:16 UTC
Snowball
© Philartphace / Getty Images
When there isn't time to unroll a spike strip, there is always snow - or so thought a Sakhalin police patrol engaged in one of the most unimpressive attempts to stop an escaping driver in recent memory.

An amateur video of the incident on a street in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the biggest city on the Pacific island, has been uploaded to social media by local news outlet ASTV.

The undated footage shows two cops walking out into the middle of a road, evidently having been warned of the rogue white Toyota Cami 4x4 speeding towards them. As the vehicle appears and closes in, the two simultaneously throw snowballs at the windshield.
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