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Jim Acosta: Shameless grandstander
Jim Acosta: Shameless grandstander
Society's Child
Israel Shamir and Julian Assange
And for me it was the time to beweep my dear comrades-in-arms who have suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. So many of you, who went fighting the beast, are dead, or exiled, or imprisoned, like my Spanish publisher Don Pedro Varela and the American researcher Barrett Brown. Or fired from a university like Julio Pino, professor of Kent State.
And then Menelaus said: Much as I weep for all my men, for none of all these comrades do I grieve as much as for this one. The one is Ulysses who has been detained for years on the island of Ogygia by Calypso the Nymph.
It brought to my mind the fate of Julian Assange, this modern Odysseus, who has been held in his luxurious Knightsbridge prison for years. Actually, for full six years, as today, as I write it, is the anniversary of his incarceration in the Ecuador Embassy.
So many epithets used by Homer for the King of Ithaca fit Julian to a tee! He is wise and noble, resourceful and cunning, wily and crafty, brilliant and steadfast, but also evil-starred man of woe.
Avital Ronell
In what started off as humdrum 'Me Too' story with a twist - 30-year-old male Ph.D. student accuses 66-year-old female New York University (NYU) professor of sexual harassment - has now reached peak internet gossip level, after 50 academics, including several influential feminists, defended the scholar.
Comment: So when Title IX finally backfires on the libtards who applied it with such abandon, they suddenly now have concerns for a cautious approach, presumption of innocence and due process? Wow.
- The New Inquisition: How Title IX "gender equity" denunciations are ruining American campuses
- The birth of the Title IX epidemic: Why colleges are now on the hook for sexual assault
- Michigan State University alumni director resigns amid investigation by Title IX office
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As reported by Mashable, Facebook could embed high-pitched audio signals in broadcast content that -- while inaudible to humans -- could be deciphered by smartphones, triggering them into recording "ambient audio" and sending it back to Facebook. So you're watching TV, an advert comes on, then Facebook gets a recording of your response to that advert -- assuming you respond at all and aren't just sitting there with the glazed expression prompted by most TV ads.
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Ada County Dispatchers received a call about a man with a knife around 8:45pm in the area of State Street and Wylie Lane.
Investigators say the suspect tried to take off, but officers have taken him into custody by 8:50pm. They say the suspect is a 30 year old man, but have not released his name. Boise Police Detectives are interviewing him.
Boise Police Chief Bill Bones says some of the victims are members of Boise's refugee community. He says the victims "range in age." Some of them were found inside the apartment complex, while others were found in the nearby parking lot.
Comment: Update:
Boise police have identified the man arrested for a stabbing that injured nine people Saturday night, including six children.
Police say Timmy Kinner, 30, of Los Angeles, was arrested and charged with nine counts of felony aggravated battery and six counts of felony injury to a child.
Officers say 4 of the nine people have life-threatening injuries. Some of the victims are members of the refugee community. Police say Kinner is not a refugee.
Investigators say the preliminary evidence is showing that Kinner was a temporary resident at an apartment complex at State Street and Wylie Lane, where the stabbings happened.
Police say he was asked to leave the apartments Friday.
The motive fro the stabbings is still being investigated.
Police say there will be a press conference Sunday afternoon with the latest information.
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Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, in red, at a ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China.
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, in red, at a ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China.
Police intervene to protect flag-raising ceremony attended by territory's leader Carrie Lam
Police in Hong Kong stopped about 20 pro-democracy protesters from getting near a flag-raising ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China.
The protesters on Sunday carried a coffin symbolising a death of democracy and chanted slogans against one-party rule in China, demands for universal suffrage in Hong Kong and mainland China, and freedom for Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
The ceremony, held beside Victoria harbour, continued uninterrupted, with the Beijing-backed Hong Kong chief executive, Carrie Lam, in attendance. At a reception later on Sunday, she expressed confidence in Hong Kong's future without mentioning any politically sensitive topics.
Comment: Twenty protesters? Contrary to what The Guardian seems to suggest, it sounds like people in Hong Kong are quite happy with China!
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Immigration activists rally inside the Hart Senate Office Building after marching to Capitol Hill in Washington, US, June 28, 2018
Immigration activists rally inside the Hart Senate Office Building after marching to Capitol Hill in Washington, US, June 28, 2018
In recent weeks, border separation has been the top story. Media coverage has included horrific pictures and videos of young immigrant children in anguish at being taken from their families. Pundits have repeatedly used the phrase "babies in cages" to describe the situation.
Hollywood celebrities like Oprah, John Legend, Ellen DeGeneres and Evan Rachel Wood are among the many stars moved by the plight of these children, who have gone public with their disdain for President Trump and his immigration policy.
Comment: Some of the celebrities supporting feminism may also want to consider the role feminist ideology plays into keeping families apart. See: Also see:
- The Pentagon & Hollywood's Successful and Deadly Propaganda Alliance
- They got your mind: Pentagon blatantly admits on Twitter it works with Hollywood to sell you war propaganda
- The Pentagon-Hollywood Connection: Propaganda, censorship, and bribery
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The incident took place near the city of Luebeck on Saturday evening. The bus carrying 42 children and five adults was on the way to the summer camp when it collided with an ambulance.
The majority of the injuries the passengers received were light, police later confirmed to local news outlets. Yet, two people - a child and an adult - were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
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Police said the 28-seater bus was carrying about 45 commuters.
Police said the 28-seater bus was carrying about 45 commuters.
The bus fell into a gorge 200 metres deep in the Himalayan foothills, the chief minister of Uttarakhand state, Trivendra Rawat, said. About a dozen others were injured, some of them critically, Rawat said.
Rescue and retrieval work was hampered by bad weather, senior police official Sanjay Gunjiyal said, adding that rescuers had so far pulled out 20 bodies.
Police said the 28-seater bus was carrying about 45 commuters.
We may not be there yet, but 2018 is playing out as the year 'the left' (in the US anyway) became completely unhinged. Join Joe and Niall tomorrow Sunday 1st July for a run-down of This Week in Crazy...
Show starts: 18:00 Central European / 12:00 US Eastern
Running Time: 01:26:29
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Comment: The arbitrary, indefinite detention of Julian Assange