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'Yup, we're running': Chelsea Manning releases campaign video confirming US Senate bid

Chelsea E. Manning
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Chelsea E. Manning
Chelsea Manning, one of the most well-known US whistleblowers - jailed for leaking military documents on abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan - confirmed her bid for the US Senate, releasing a campaign video and calling for donations.

The whistleblower has shared her campaign vid on Twitter, captioned "yup, we're running for senate".

Stormtrooper

Police break up 'unauthorized' neo-Nazi protest in Sweden

Nordic Resistance Movement gather during the protest in Gothenburg
© Johan Ahlander / Reuters
Members of the Nordic Resistance Movement gather during the protest in Gothenburg, Sweden September 30, 2017.
At least 15 neo-nationalists were reportedly arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden, after an unauthorized demonstration resulted in clashes with counter-protesters. Two people were injured, according to local media.

The neo-Nazi gathering, organized by the Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen, NMR), took place Saturday afternoon. NMR members carried banners and distributed leaflets during the city center event.

The group, which was registered as a political party in Sweden in 2015, posted several images of Saturday's demonstration on its Twitter account.

Gear

What happened during the false Hawaiian missile threat alert?

Hawaii officials missile
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Faced with a public outcry following a false missile alert, Hawaiian officials apologized, saying an automated method of retracting warnings will be introduced and two employees, instead of one, will handle it in the future.

"We did everything that we can, immediately, to ensure that it will never happen again... so a single person will not be able to make an error that triggers another false alarm," Vern Miyagi, Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) administrator said, as he accepted responsibility for the incident.

"I'm sorry for that pain and confusion that many might have experienced," he added.

Comment: It's easy to suspect that the false alarm was put out purposely as an experiment. It boggles the mind that it took so long for the alert to be corrected. Yet, there's a lot to be said about the nature of human error, which can be just as unsettling to face as more sinister intentions. Given the timeline described above, it sounds fairly plausible that human error could very well have been the culprit in this fiasco. This certainly doesn't lend much credibility to the concept of our so-called 'advanced civilization'.

See the original story: 'This is not a drill': 'Mistake' puts Hawaii on alert over ballistic missile threat


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MLK's Niece Alveda King: "President Trump is not a racist... there are countries in Africa that are indeed hellholes"

Dr. Martin Luther King's niece Alveda King defended President Donald Trump on Saturday.
Alveda King

Alveda King
Democrats and the liberal media were outraged this week after it was reported that President Trump questioned senators on why the United States should continue to bring in migrants from "sh*thole" nations.

Democrats and their media immediately began calling the president a racist over his factual remarks.

On Saturday Dr. Alveda King defended the president.

Newspaper

Kevin Halligen: Private detective accused of misusing Madeleine McCann donations by the press is found dead

Fifty-six-year-old had sunk into alcoholism, says director who made documentary about him

Kevin Halligen

Kevin Halligen
A private detective accused of exploiting the hunt for Madeleine McCann to fund his lavish lifestyle has been found dead. Kevin Halligen, 56, gained notoriety when his firm Oakley International was used by the toddler's parents to help search for their missing daughter.

Airplane

Plane hangs horrifyingly close to Black Sea after runway slip, saved by frozen mud (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Boeing 737 passenger plane
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A Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane is seen struck in mud on an embankment, a day after skidding off the airstrip, after landing at Trabzon's airport on the Black Sea coast on January 14, 2018.
A passenger jet with over 160 on board slid off the runway in the Turkish city of Trabzon Saturday night and was left precariously perched atop a cliff edge, saved only by the freezing mud.

"We're sorry to report that the Boeing 737-800 type TC-CPF registered aircraft of Pegasus Airlines Flight Number PC 8622 Ankara-Trabzon flight scheduled at 18:25 UTC tonight, had a Runway Excursion Incident during landing at Trabzon Airport (13 January 2018)," the airline wrote in an official statement about the incident.

"All 162 passengers, 2 pilots and 4 cabin crew have been disembarked safely from the aircraft. There has been no loss of life or injury to anyone on-board," the company added.

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Barrington chiropractor found dead inside Rumford home

East Providence detectives are investigating a suspicious death that occurred in a home in Rumford. They are investigating it as a murder.

Clive Bridgham
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Clive Bridgham
A Barrington doctor was found dead inside his Rumford home in what police are investigating as a homicide. Police said Clive Bridgham, 67, was found dead inside his Pleasant Street home around 8:40 p.m. Thursday responding to a well-being check. Bridgham is a sports-medicine doctor with a practice in Barrington, WJAR-10 was reporting but updated the story to say he surrendered his license in October, according to the state health department.

According to online records, he was the Chiropractic Physician of the Year in 2015. In 2016, he was chosen to attend the Olympic games in Rio for his sports-medicine expertise. He was director of the Barrington Chiropractic & Sports Medicine Clinic.

Briefcase

'I felt unsafe': NYU professor sues colleagues for defamation

Michael Rectenwald
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Michael Rectenwald
The politically incorrect NYU professor accused of "incivility" by liberal colleagues and put on leave is now suing the college and four fellow profs for calling him everything from a drug addict to Satan.

The "malicious" statements appeared in an e-mail thread that blasted out over five days in May from school accounts to more than 100 university staffers, claims a defamation lawsuit filed Friday by professor Michael Rectenwald.

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Woman loses arm in laundry accident, accuses boss of trying to save machine

Alyona Romanenko
© Andrey Romanenko / YouTube
A Ukrainian woman who lost her arm in a washing machine accident at a Polish laundrette claims the manager cared more about preventing damage to the equipment than his employee's wellbeing when medics arrived to cut her free.

Alyona Romanenko from the town of Lutsk in western Ukraine fell victim to the malfunction while working in a laundrette in Poland's Lubon. The incident, which took place in December, emerged in the media this week after Romanenko shared her shocking experience in a video released by her husband on YouTube. The transcript of her story was initially published by Volyn24 news.

Bullseye

Margaret Atwood: Am I a bad feminist?

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, fiction and essays, including The Handmaid's Tale.

MARGARET ATWOOD
It seems that I am a "Bad Feminist." I can add that to the other things I've been accused of since 1972, such as climbing to fame up a pyramid of decapitated men's heads (a leftie journal), of being a dominatrix bent on the subjugation of men (a rightie one, complete with an illustration of me in leather boots and a whip) and of being an awful person who can annihilate - with her magic White Witch powers - anyone critical of her at Toronto dinner tables. I'm so scary! And now, it seems, I am conducting a War on Women, like the misogynistic, rape-enabling Bad Feminist that I am.

What would a Good Feminist look like, in the eyes of my accusers?

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