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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-08-26 06:01 1 Trump: 'Totally Predictable' Hillary Calls Republicans 'Racist' (2.23/3) Donald Trump responded on Thursday to Hillary Clinton's campaign attempting to link him to the KKK arguing, "It's the last refugee of the discredited Democrat politician" to call a Republican "racis 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB dailycaller.com 2 'Alt-right' effectively merged with Trump's campaign, Clinton says – video (2.08/3) Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of embracing a brand of political conservatism associated with white nationalism during a Nevada campaign stop 2016-08-25 23:04 1KB www.theguardian.com 3 Trump Responds To Clinton Speech Republican nominee Donald Trump reacted to Hillary Clinton’s (2.05/3) speech attempting to tie him to racists and fringe figures by saying: “She is the only one fear-mongering!” In a series of tweets, 2016-08-26 01:11 2KB dailycaller.com 4 In pictures: Aerial shots of earthquake-hit Italy (1.00/3) Aerial shots reveal the devastation in Amatrice following Wednesday's earthquake which killed at least 247 people in central Italy. 2016-08-26 00:06 965Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 5 Trump immigration wobble angers GOP base Contact WND

(0.02/3) (WASHINGTON TIMES) Donald Trump was supposed to deliver a major address on immigration Thursday, laying out a plan that would win over swing voters while reassuring his base that he is serious about enforcing the law. Instead, he has postponed the speech, sent staggeringly... 2016-08-25 21:30 1KB www.wnd.com 6 Hillary Clinton Withheld Benghazi Documents (0.01/3) Among the 14,900 federal documents Hillary Clinton is said to have failed to turn over to the State Department in 2014 are some related to the Benghazi attacks, according to Judicial Watch. The con 2016-08-26 01:11 2KB dailycaller.com 7 Chelsea Clinton Goes By Diane Reynolds Emailing Hillary Clinton Chelsea Clinton goes by the name Diane Reynolds when she (0.01/3) emails her mother. [caption id="attachment_5196301" align="alignnone" width="640"] (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] The 36-y 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB dailycaller.com

8 Doctors ask feds to probe live-animal experiments Contact WND (0.01/3) (THE STATE) COLUMBIA – An animal-rights group on Thursday called for a federal investigation into the University of South Carolina’s use of live pigs in emergency medicine training. The Washington, D. C.-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says the emergency medicine residency... 2016-08-25 21:31 1KB www.wnd.com 9 Lifesaving EpiPen a ‘bargain’ even after 500% price hike ‒ Martin Shkreli — RT America The “most hated man in America” has defended a 500 percent price hike of the lifesaving device EpiPen. Martin Shkreli said the emergency allergy treatment was a “bargain” after the price increase, describing it as a commodity akin to an iPhone. 2016-08-26 06:00 2KB www.rt.com 10 Taguig bars warned: Do part in drug war One strike and you’re out of business. “Any establishment used as a venue for illegal drug activities will be automatically shut down,” Taguig Mayor Lani Cayetano warned on Wednesday in a 2016-08-26 02:20 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 11 Antidrug cops meet Valle Verde residents: Like courting a woman Residents of an upscale subdivision in Pasig City sat down in a dialogue on Thursday with the police who plan to take the antidrug campaign into their gated community. In a meeting with Eastern 2016-08-26 02:18 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 12 Partner of slain drug suspect files complaint at NBI vs Pasay cops The live-in partner of pedicab driver Eric Sison asked the National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday to investigate the Pasay policemen who shot and killed him even though he had already 2016-08-26 02:15 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 13 Rody offers land to Reds DAVAO CITY—President Duterte on Wednesday offered to release funds and provide land to members of the communist New People’s Army if peace talks succeed. “There is so much land in 2016-08-26 02:12 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net

14 Bato says criminals, not cops, should be dead LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—As policemen seek out suspects in the government’s war on drugs, they should be mindful of their security and make sure they come out alive of every operation for their 2016-08-26 02:10 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 15 Rody: Poll numbers justify Marcos burial DAVAO CITY—President Duterte pointed to the number of votes that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s son, Bongbong, got in the vice presidential race to justify his decision to bury the late 2016-08-26 02:08 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 16 Farmers plead for enforcement of conversion order in Hacienda Luisita A group of farmers and agrarian reform beneficiaries from Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac are pleading for the government to heed a 1996 conversion order that allows 500 hectares of the sugar 2016-08-26 01:44 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 17 Mayor on drug list gives up 12 of 14 guns CEBU CITY — Daanbantayan Mayor Vicente Loot on Wednesday turned over to the local police 12 of his 14 firearms after their licenses were revoked by the Department of the Interior and Local 2016-08-26 01:39 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 18 Rody dares UN: Solve PH drug woes Calling UN human rights officials “sons of whores,” President Duterte challenged the United Nations to take a stab at solving the country’s narcotics problem that has produced more than 3 2016-08-26 01:35 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 19 Hillary Dodges On Foundation, Bribes Reporters With Chocolates Hillary Clinton used chocolates to avoid answering questions from reporters about alleged scandals involving the Clinton Foundation on Thursday. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2K9n- GJ 2016-08-26 01:11 1KB dailycaller.com 20 Video Hillary Clinton Reads Breitbart News Headlines During her Thursday speech on the "alt-right," Hillary Clinton read several headlines from Breitbart News to illustrate how former chairman Steve Bannon -- and new CEO of Donald Trump's presidential 2016-08-26 01:11 972Bytes dailycaller.com 21 Beverage Banned In U. S. Released In China As 'Lose Virginity Liquor' Four Loko, a brand of caffeinated alcohol banned in many U. S. states for hospitalizing consumers, is debuting in China, Quartz reports. The beverage has appeared in online shopping networks in Chi 2016-08-26 01:11 3KB dailycaller.com

22 The Sheriff's Take: Extra Ammo By Sheriff Jim Wilson, Shooting Illustrated Recently, I saw a comment on social media from a holster maker who said that people who ordered a new holster rarely ordered a pouch to carry an extra ma 2016-08-26 01:11 4KB dailycaller.com 23 Breitbart News Hosts Book Party For Ann Coulter And Features An Alt-Right Toilet The Breitbart News "Embassy" on Capitol Hill was pretty packed Wednesday night as conservative journalists, possible Donald Trump aides and other reporters congregated to celebrate Ann Coulter's new b 2016-08-26 01:11 5KB dailycaller.com 24 Dollar Stores Profits Dropping, Fewer People On Food Stamps The decline in people on food stamps is affecting profits at dollar stores, according to earnings reports from Dollar General. Sales at Dollar General and Dollar Tree grew this year, but not as muc 2016-08-26 01:11 2KB dailycaller.com 25 Israeli fans in France greeted with Palestinian flags, Israeli flags banned Security measures had been stepped up ahead of the Europa League soccer match between St. Etienne and Beitar Jerusalem in France on Thursday. 2016-08-26 00:48 2KB www.jpost.com 26 Gwinnett's newest 'dine-in' movie theater hopes to open this fall Gwinnett’s newest dine-and-watch movie theater hopes to open soon. 2016-08-26 00:05 1KB www.myajc.com 27 Oliver! Opens Friday KMorgan 1392 posts 2016-08-25 12:02 1KB www.thetribunepapers.com

28 Donald Trump’s Immigration Flippity Flop: Rush Finds It Funny Flop flop flippy on Immigration: Donald Trump seems to now support some form of legalization for illegal immigrants. That’s definitely new... 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB spectator.org

29 Camber Sands deaths: Family anger over safety measures The family of one of the men who died at Camber Sands speak of their anger that the beach was not shut after a death last month. 2016-08-26 00:06 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 30 G4S 'rejects Labour conference security offer' Security company G4S says it has rejected a last-minute approach by Labour to cover its annual conference. 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 31 Guess Who EpiPen CEO Donates To? Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan, which makes EpiPen, appears to be on her way to becoming Public Enemy No. 1... 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB spectator.org 32 Rebooting Britain — and Missouri In “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” country music’s George Jones sings of a man who “can’t” — until the day he dies — “stop... 2016-08-25 12:03 5KB spectator.org 33 Jew-Hatred at the World Social Forum The 2016 annual meeting of the World Social Forum took place in Montreal this month to strategize and coordinate campaigns in support of anti-globalization... 2016-08-25 12:03 4KB spectator.org 34 Will Appeals Ruling Sober Up State’s Pension Abusers? California’s hardy band of pension reformers show many of the symptoms of “battered spouse syndrome.” No matter how often they are beaten and ridiculed... 2016-08-25 12:03 8KB spectator.org 35 ISIS Is Islamic, But Most of Islam Is Not ISIS President Obama and Hillary Clinton are wrong when they say ISIS is not Islamic. Let me be perfectly clear... 2016-08-25 12:03 5KB spectator.org 36 Extreme Anxiety — Or How to Negotiate With Hostage-Holding Terrorists An excerpt from Daniel Wattenberg’s new nonfiction novella, Decatur’s Wake: The Fateful Rivalry Behind the Lightning Defeat of Barbary Terror, available as a... 2016-08-25 12:03 7KB spectator.org 37 Allenmore offices evacuated because of odor A noxious odor of unknown origin forced the evacuated of hundreds from Building B of Allenmore Medical Center Thursday morning. 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB www.thenewstribune.com

38 MLB Baseball Box Scores ST. LOUIS -- Stephen Piscotty stood in front of his locker and explained the Wednesday night game simply... 2016-08-25 12:04 4KB scoresandstats.newyork.cbslocal.com 39 Storm threats to Florida and Gulf Coast A tropical system brewing in the Caribbean could strengthen into a hurricane before hitting Florida and the Gulf Coast in the coming days. 2016-08-26 00:04 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 40 Chipper: Braves need moves but he likes future (and being back home) When the Braves hired Chipper Jones as a special assistant before this season, they brought back one of the franchise's all- time greats. He should be a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2018 and knows more about hitting and competing than almost... 2016-08-26 00:04 1KB jeffschultz.blog.myajc.com 41 Syria Daraya: Deal reached to evacuate besieged town A deal is reached to evacuate civilians and rebel fighters from the Syrian town of Daraya, near the capital Damascus, following a long government siege. 2016-08-26 00:04 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 42 Kitten-sized extinct 'lion' named after David Attenborough A tiny marsupial lion, extinct for at least 18 million years, is named after Sir David Attenborough after fossilised remains are found in remote Australia. 2016-08-26 00:04 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 43 the new sign for gender-neutral toilets Canada's largest annual fair installs gender-neutral toilets with new signs that read "we don't care". 2016-08-26 00:04 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

44 Crossbow used in triple Canada murder Three people have been killed in Toronto, with one of the fatalities believed to be caused by a crossbow, say police. 2016-08-26 00:04 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 45 Legal Remedy expands, holds 'Beerthday' celebration in Rock Hill Rock Hill's Legal Remedy Brewing Co. is celebrating its second "Beerthday" on Saturday. The brewery's brewmaster showed The Herald around some of its operations, including a walk-in cooler that houses around 60 barrels and about 500 kegs. 2016-08-26 00:04 3KB www.heraldonline.com

46 The 'foreign minister' for Israel's settlers seeks to change the narrative As mayor of Efrat in Gush Etzion, Revivi is used to getting phone calls from his residents. This one though came from a Palestinian. 2016-08-26 00:34 8KB www.jpost.com 47 Finland to test out basic income scheme Switzerland may have voted against the controversial idea of paying all its citizens a guaranteed income, but Finland indicated Thursday it plans to try... 2016-08-26 00:05 1KB www.digitaljournal.com 48 Rock Hill kidnapping, rape suspect in court A Rock Hill, South Carolina foster child claims she was jogging, then kidnapped and raped. Taiwan Carter is one of the men accused. He says the story happened differently and wants out of jail. Here are excerpts from his bond hearing. WARNING: Graphic details. 2016-08-26 00:04 3KB www.heraldonline.com 49 Baby safe following SWAT standoff A baby was safe following a SWAT situation in west Charlotte. 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB www.charlotteobserver.com 50 Labour leadership: Smith claims Corbyn 'happy' about Brexit vote Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith claims during a hustings in Glasgow that Jeremy Corbyn was "happy" about the UK voting to leave the EU. 2016-08-26 00:06 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 51 Dwayne Johnson Is World's Highest Paid Actor In 2016 Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the world's highest paid actor in 2016. The 44-year old brought in $64.5 million, more than doubling what he took home last year, knocking Robert Downey Jr. out of fir 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB dailycaller.com 52 Membership For Muslim Polygamy Websites Hits New High Membership for SecondWife.com and its sister website Polygamy.com has surpassed 100,000 active users. "In the last two months, the number of people visiting the Muslim polygamy website SecondWife. 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB dailycaller.com

53 Update For Three Marijuana Votes On November Ballots Residents of three states were waiting to find out if they would be voting on some form of marijuana legalization or repeal of existing law this November -- Michigan, Oklahoma and Montana. The M 2016-08-26 00:06 3KB dailycaller.com 54 US Launching Minesweeper Satellites Into Orbit The U. S. Air Force will launch a pair of "minesweeping" satellites into orbit Friday. Both satellites will watch for attacks on the U. S. fleet of military reconnaissance and intelligence satellite 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB dailycaller.com 55 Who Started The Birther Movement? Hillary Clinton Supporters Hillary Clinton blamed Donald Trump for the birther movement on Thursday when in fact it was actually her supporters in 2008 who started the movement. [feature] During her campaign event in Ren 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB dailycaller.com 56 Kim Kardashian In A Wet T-Shirt And Black Underwear What Kim Kardashian considers a swimsuit is very different than what most of America does. While on vacation in Mexico last week, the 34-year-old reality star donned a ripped white t-shirt and bla 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB dailycaller.com 57 A Diverse America Needs A Reality Show President Snooty types roundly mock Donald Trump’s suitability for the Oval Office. Exhibit A in the elitists’ prosecution of Trump’s candidacy is his lengthy run as a hugely popular reality show star. Th 2016-08-26 00:06 4KB dailycaller.com 58 This Might Be The Most Absurd Chyron In MSNBC History Major cable news network MSNBC added a parenthetical defense of Hillary Clinton during a Donald Trump speech Thursday in a bizarre attempt to undermine the message of its own chyron. "TRUMP: CLINT 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB dailycaller.com 59 John McCain Warns Obamacare May Leave Thousands Without Any Insurance Options Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain warned Thursday that Pinal County could soon be the first to have zero Obamacare marketplace options in the wake of Aetna pulling out of the exchange – leaving ro 2016-08-26 00:06 3KB dailycaller.com

60 ANOTHER Group Of Grad Students Plan To Unionize Graduate students at the University of Rochester held a press conference Wednesday announcing their intention to unionize. Their announcement comes days after a National Labor Relations Board dec 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB dailycaller.com 61 Oakland Raiders Making Moves Toward Las Vegas Relocation It seems that the Raiders potential move from Oakland to Las Vegas is gaining some serious momentum. The Raiders organization filed trademark applications on August 20, 2016 with the U. S. Patent and T 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB dailycaller.com 62 Susan Sarandon: Hillary Clinton Is A War Monger Actress Susan Sarandon thinks Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is “very dangerous” on foreign policy and would almost certainly start World War III. Sarandon told The Daily Calle 2016-08-26 00:06 3KB dailycaller.com 63 Arabic-language campaign aims to make youth safer drivers According to the Education Ministry, only 50 of the 290 Arab high schools in Israel host a traffic safety program. 2016-08-26 00:16 2KB www.jpost.com 64 Pastor Burns: Hillary Race-Baits To 'Divide And Conquer' Pastor Mark Burns, a Donald Trump supporter, argued on Thursday that "Hillary Clinton is continuously using the race-baiting objective to divide and conquer" in order to "put blacks in one place, pu 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB dailycaller.com 65 Virginia Tech Event Includes Baffling Safe Space Rules An "intercultural" event held Thursday at Virginia Tech University (VT) asked participants to follow a blistering array of rules and expectations to make sure nobody has their feelings hurt. The V 2016-08-26 00:06 3KB dailycaller.com 66 Celebrities Outraged After Hackers Release Leslie Jones Info Celebrities expressed outraged after hackers released Leslie Jones nude photos and personal information online. On Wednesday, Sarah Bareilles, Alyssa Milano, Lena Dunham and other celebrities took 2016-08-26 00:06 3KB dailycaller.com

67 Arianny Celeste In Black Lingerie On Instagram UFC star Arianny Celeste dropped a bomb on her Instagram followers with her latest post. The brunette bombshell posted a picture of herself wearing nearly as little as Instagram would allowed and s 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB dailycaller.com 68 Apple tackles iPhone one-tap spyware flaws Three flaws in Apple's iOS operating system are found that meant spyware could be installed with a single tap. 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 69 'Unsafe' Stafford hospital A&E closed to children Children's accident and emergency services at a troubled hospital are suspended after senior staff said it was "not clinically safe". 2016-08-26 00:06 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 70 Bad weather takes toll on French wine production French wine production is likely to be 10% lower this year than in 2015 because of a spring frost and a heatwave now. 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 71 Italy earthquake: Before and after images show destruction Images from before and after an earthquake struck central Italy show the huge scale of the disaster. 2016-08-26 00:06 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 72 Whitewater rafting among the most popular Asheville-area activities as summer comes to a close With dozens of outdoor activities on offer for visitors to North Carolina's Asheville area, whitewater rafting remains one of the most popular options. Tourists, coming in the tens of thousands from around the country and the world, flock to purveyors such as French Broad Adventures... 2016-08-26 00:06 2KB www.charlotteobserver.com 73 Druse and Circassian municipalities threaten to close schools over funding This strike comes as Bennett’s Bayit Yehudi party is attempting to sign up thousands of new members from the Druse community in a membership drive that began on Monday. 2016-08-25 23:49 3KB www.jpost.com 74 Individualize quake alert apps, says Israeli researcher Looking at Israel’s earthquake preparedness in the wake of the tragedy in Italy, Lederman praised the country’s efforts to strengthen buildings, train people in evacuation methods and educate. 2016-08-25 23:36 4KB www.jpost.com 75 Spanish court overturns regional Israel boycott Ignacio Wenley Palacios, the ACOM lawyer leading the anti- boycott effort in Spain, said the BDS movement is “thinly disguised under a veil of a deceiving human rights narrative.” 2016-08-25 23:28 3KB www.jpost.com 76 Champions League draw 2016: Arsenal to face PSG; Man City's Pep Guardiola handed Barca reunion The UEFA Champions League group stage draw is out and there are some interesting face-offs that are sure to whet the appetite of all football lovers, including the return of Manchester City's new coach Pep Guardiola to Nou Camp to take on former club Barcelona 2016-08-25 23:19 3KB www.mid-day.com 77 Modi pips Big B to become most followed Indian on Twitter Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pipped Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan to become the most followed Indian on social media site Twitter 2016-08-25 22:57 1KB www.mid-day.com 78 Surrey police appeal for witnesses after boy 'forced into van' The child, about six or seven, is thought to have been taken away in a VW Transporter in Redstone Hill on Thursday afternoon 2016-08-25 22:47 2KB www.theguardian.com 79 Nun who became face of Italy's earthquake texted friends 'adieu' and asked they pray for her soul She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania. 2016-08-25 22:24 3KB www.independent.ie 80 ISIS leader secretly held in notorious US torture prison For the first time, the US Army acknowledges that the Islamic State’s caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, spent most of his time under US detention in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, according to a new report. 2016-08-25 22:10 2KB www.rt.com 81 'Narcos' blasts into second season more addictive than ever 'Narcos' season two review Netflix 2016-08-25 21:57 3KB rss.cnn.com 82 Zionism is not a dirty word Zionism must be the driving and central force for all communal organizations. 2016-08-25 21:51 4KB www.jpost.com 83 Britain's Polish wanted to stay here for ever, until the EU referendum Polish migrants ‘built their Poland’ in the UK since second world war and are now the largest foreign-born group in the country 2016-08-25 21:43 6KB www.theguardian.com 84 Exclusive footage shows retaken IS stronghold Jarablus Exclusive footage shows the offensive in which Syrian rebels, backed by Turkey, retook the border town of Jarablus from so- called Islamic State. 2016-08-25 21:42 727Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 85 Glenn Beck producer defies judge's order to name sources Contact WND (POLITICO) A producer for conservative media host Glenn Beck is declining to comply with a judge’s order to identify the sources for reports accusing a Saudi Arabian student of involvement in the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013. U. S. District... 2016-08-25 21:31 1KB www.wnd.com 86 Justice issues transgender training for cops Contact WND (THE HILL) The Department of Justice (DOJ) is training police officers on how to treat transgender people with respect. Police officers will learn techniques for interacting with transgender people during routine encounters in a training video, the agency said Thursday. They will also... 2016-08-25 21:31 1KB www.wnd.com 87 Claudio Ranieri targets qualification from Champions League group stage Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri has targeted qualification from the Champions League group stage. The Foxes have been drawn in Group G and will face Porto, Cl... 2016-08-25 21:31 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

88 Vladimir Putin hits out at Russia's ban from Paralympics Vladimir Putin has branded Russia's ban from the Paralympics as immoral and inhumane. The International Paralympic Committee has barred Russian athletes from... 2016-08-25 21:29 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 89 Nasdaq posts 1st 2-day slide in 2 months Contact WND (CNBC) U. S. equities closed lower Thursday, with health care falling approximately 1 percent, a day ahead of a key speech from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. The Dow Jones industrial average closed about 30 points lower, with UnitedHealth Group contributing the... 2016-08-25 21:28 1KB www.wnd.com 90 Danon denies UN prisoner release demands, stating 'Immunity is not given to terrorists' Danon: "Immunity is not given to terrorists working to harm Israeli citizens. " 2016-08-25 21:26 4KB www.jpost.com 91 US varsity responds to criticism over #StopWhitePeople2K16 A public university in New York says the #StopWhitePeople2K16 used as the title of a recent training session had been chosen for its irony and the session - about diversity - isn't anti-white. 2016-08-25 21:24 1KB www.news24.com 92 Clinton tops 50% support from US voters in latest poll More than half of respondents in a new poll have said they plan to vote for Hillary Clinton - the first time the Democratic presidential candidate has breached that all-important 50% threshold. 2016-08-25 21:24 2KB www.news24.com 93 Cyclist channels inner Superman to destroy rivals (VIDEO) — RT Viral While cycling upright has been the norm for us mere mortals, it seems you need to be more like Superman to achieve that aerodynamic ideal. 2016-08-25 21:22 1KB www.rt.com 94 0-Soccer-UEFA Europa League play-off round results Aug 25 (Gracenote) - Results from the UEFA Europa League play- offs second leg matches on Thursday Play-off round Thursday, August 25, second leg Rapid Vienna... 2016-08-25 21:21 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 95 Trump rebukes racism claims as Clinton warns of radicalism MANCHESTER, N. H. (AP) — Donald Trump confronted head-on allegations that he is racist on Thursday, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while tryi... 2016-08-25 21:21 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk 96 Britons 'affected' by Italy earthquake, Foreign Office confirms Unconfirmed reports that three Britons are among hundreds of people killed by earthquake in Amatrice 2016-08-25 21:20 2KB www.theguardian.com 97 Man gets 8 years for killing wife in chicken liver rage An Eastern Cape man was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing his wife in a rage over uncooked chicken livers, police said on Thursday. 2016-08-25 21:18 1KB www.news24.com 98 Be humble, go to the Hawks, ANCYL tells Gordhan Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan should show leadership by meeting the Hawks and avoid causing âunnecessaryâ drama and putting strain on the currency, the ANCYL said on Thursday. 2016-08-25 21:18 2KB www.news24.com 99 22 foreign nationals rescued from possible human trafficking Gauteng police have found 22 undocumented Zimbabwean and Mozambican nationals,15 of them children, in a bakkie near Pretoria. 2016-08-25 21:18 1KB www.news24.com 100 Conjoined Twins in Syria Die While Awaiting Evacuation Charity says it's all because of politics 2016-08-25 21:10 2KB rssfeeds.usatoday.com Articles

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1 Trump: 'Totally Predictable' Hillary Calls Republicans 'Racist' (2.23/3) Donald Trump responded on Thursday to Hillary Clinton’s campaign attempting to link him to the KKK arguing, “It’s the last refugee of the discredited Democrat politician” to call a Republican “racist.” During a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump said, “News reports are that Hillary Clinton is going to try and accuse this campaign and all of you and the millions of decent Americans… who support this campaign, your campaign of being racists, which we’re not.” (RELATED: Clinton Turns To KKK To Attack Trump [VIDEO]) “It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook. When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one tired argument: ‘You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist.’ They keep saying it. ‘You’re racist.’ It’s a tired, disgusting argument,” Trump said. “And it’s so totally predictable. They’re failing so badly. It’s the last refugee of the discredited Democrat politician. They keep going back to the same well, but you know what? The people are becoming very smart. They have heard it too many times before. The well is dry. The well is dry.” Earlier in the day, the Clinton campaign released an ad which featured KKK members claiming, “These people support Trump.” Follow Steve on Twitter and Facebook US election: Trump calls Hillary Clinton a 'bigot' bbc.co.uk

Clinton pitched as bigot in Trump rally says Trump made hate movement mainstream bignewsnetwork.com 2016-08-26 00:06 Media Reporter dailycaller.com

2 'Alt-right' effectively merged with Trump's campaign, Clinton says – video (2.08/3) Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of embracing a brand of US political conservatism associated with white nationalism and nativism during a Nevada campaign stop on Thursday. She cited Trump’s decision to bring on Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon as his new campaign chief as a sign Trump is strengthening his ties to the ‘alt- right’ movement Trump stokes 'anti-Semitic and racist' prejudice, Clinton says jpost.com

'We're not racists,' Trump says of supporters – video theguardian.com

Clinton is attacking the 'Alt-Right' -- What is it? rss.cnn.com 2016-08-25 23:04 Source: Reuters www.theguardian.com

3 Trump Responds To Clinton Speech (2.05/3) Republican nominee Donald Trump reacted to Hillary Clinton’s speech attempting to tie him to racists and fringe figures by saying: “She is the only one fear-mongering!” In a series of tweets, Trump said Clinton, the Democratic nominee, is spreading “lies” and “is pandering to the worst instincts in our society.” “She should be ashamed of herself!” Trump wrote. “Hillary Clinton is using race-baiting to try to get African-American voters- but they know she is all talk and NO ACTION!” Trump said. Just watched recap of #CrookedHillary ‘s speech. Very short and lies. She is the only one fear-mongering! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2016 Hillary Clinton’s short speech is pandering to the worst instincts in our society. She should be ashamed of herself! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2016 Hillary Clinton is using race-baiting to try to get African-American voters- but they know she is all talk and NO ACTION! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2016 Earlier Thursday, Clinton released a video trying to portray Trump as a racist. In the video, a Klu Klux Klan leader is quoted saying: “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes in we believe in.” Clinton gave a Thursday afternoon speech attacking Trump for his association with people of the so-called “alt-right.” “A man who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far dark reaches of the internet should never run our government or command our military,” Clinton said. Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, released a statement after the speech saying: “Donald Trump is talking about issues; Hillary Clinton is talking about Donald Trump. Today, as she took a break from her Hillary-in- Hiding Tour, she missed another opportunity to talk about education, infrastructure, terrorism, healthcare, the economy and energy. We’re living in her head rent-free, and that must terrify the political insiders who want to keep things exactly the way they are.” Follow Alex on Twitter

Hillary Blames Trump For School Bullying dailycaller.com

Clinton accuses Trump of making 'hate movement mainstream' – campaign live theguardian.com

Clinton: Trump 'Offering A Dog Whistle' dailycaller.com 2016-08-26 01:11 Political Reporter dailycaller.com

4 In pictures: Aerial shots of earthquake-hit Italy (1.00/3) Ruined Amatrice from the air: Rescuers are searching heaps of rubble in the historic old town Aftershocks continued to rattle Amatrice, the town with the highest casualties Drone footage showed the devastation in Pescara del Tronto The historic centre of Amatrice, bottom right, was worst hit The historic old town of Amatrice (L) is devastated while much of the new town (R) appears undamaged A belltower withstood the quake in Amatrice but it is now surrounded by ruins Dozens remain missing after Wednesday's quake

Italy earthquake: Aftershocks hamper rescue efforts bbc.co.uk 2016-08-26 00:06 www.bbc.co.uk

5 Trump immigration wobble angers GOP base Contact WND (0.02/3) (WASHINGTON TIMES) Donald Trump was supposed to deliver a major address on immigration Thursday, laying out a plan that would win over swing voters while reassuring his base that he is serious about enforcing the law. Instead, he has postponed the speech, sent staggeringly conflicting messages about his plans and managed to anger Hispanic activists, who say there is little he can do to appease them at this point, and die-hard supporters, who say any backsliding on his strict deportation message will expose him as a pandering politician. The wounds are self-inflicted. Mr. Trump has talked tough yet promised the possibility of leniency for illegal immigrants — often in the span of a couple of hours.

Coulter scorches media: I'm not 'abandoning' Trump Contact WND wnd.com

Hillary ad ties Trump to KKK, white supremacists Contact WND wnd.com 2016-08-25 21:30 www.wnd.com

6 Hillary Clinton Withheld Benghazi Documents (0.01/3) Among the 14,900 federal documents Hillary Clinton is said to have failed to turn over to the State Department in 2014 are some related to the Benghazi attacks, according to Judicial Watch. The conservative watchdog group says that government lawyers admitted in court papers filed on Tuesday that the nearly 15,000 pages of Clinton records recovered by the FBI included some which “satisfied the [Benghazi- related] search terms.” That suggests that Clinton withheld or deleted records which referred to the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks which left four Americans dead. Clinton has claimed that a team of her aides searched through her email account using search terms for a variety of issues, including Benghazi. And though Clinton has claimed that she turned over all of her work-related records, the FBI says that a forensic sweep of Clinton’s server led to the recovery of nearly 15,000 more documents. It is unclear if all of the documents were emails maintained on Clinton’s server or if they resided somewhere else. The bureau transferred the recovered documents to the State Department on Aug. 5. Amit P. Mehta, the federal judge overseeing the Judicial Watch lawsuit, ordered the State Department to begin releasing Benghazi-related records to the watchdog group by Sept. 30. All of the documents must be produced by Oct. 31, several days before the general election. A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 30 to ascertain how many documents will be provided. In a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit, a federal judge ruled that the State Department must start releasing deleted Clinton emails on Sept. 13. Follow Chuck on Twitter

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7 Chelsea Clinton Goes By Diane Reynolds Emailing Hillary Clinton (0.01/3) Chelsea Clinton goes by the name Diane Reynolds when she emails her mother. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) The 36-year-old daughter of the Democratic nominee has used the fake nickname on several occasions before — including when she checks into hotels — but it resurfaced this week after Judicial Watch released a fresh batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails. (RELATED: Chelsea Clinton To Stay On At Clinton Foundation If Hillary Wins) In one email, Chelsea criticized the look of the new State Department website. “Seriously you need someone else editing the pictures they put of you on the homepage scroll — some are fantastic, and some are weird!” Chelsea, under the name Diane, wrote. Chelsea Clinton aka Diane Reynolds emails Hillary feedback on StateDept's website. "I love your feedback. " pic.twitter.com/dWO37p4F3c — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 23, 2016 (Photo: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) Despite the code name, Hillary responded by calling her “Chels.” “Chels,” Hillary writes, “These are all good ideas and I asked Huma to pass them on.” (RELATED: Employees Are Fleeing The Clinton Foundation Because Chelsea Is So Awful, Report Says) (Photo: Reuters) Perhaps the most notorious exchange between the two is from the night of the September 2012 attack on the U. S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that left Chris Stevens and Sean Smith dead. “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Queda-like group: The Ambassador, whom I handpicked and a young communications officer on temporary duty w a wife and two young children,” Hillary wrote to “Diane.” “Very hard day and I fear more of the same tomorrow.” “Let’s try again later.” (RELATED: The Republican National Convention Did Amazing Things For The Benghazi Film)

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9 Lifesaving EpiPen a ‘bargain’ even after 500% price hike ‒ Martin Shkreli — RT America The former Turing CEO defended Mylan Pharmaceuticals, the company that owns EpiPen, in an interview with CBS News. Shkreli claimed Mylan made a measly 8 cents for every dollar they sold and were entitled to reap the benefits when they had a hit product. “We all want to jump on them. They’ve been waiting for one hit product to make some money,” Shkreli said, before adding a comment that he said would be controversial: “Everyone’s thinking about the patient’s families, but no one's thinking about Mylan’s.” READ MORE: Senators have allergic reaction to EpiPen price hike “Ultimately EpiPen is actually a bargain. It saves you all the cost of going to the emergency room. Just the ambulance ride can be $1,000.” Shkreli said. “Like I said, it’s $300 a pack. $300. My iPhone is $700.” He offered a solution, however: The government should start its own drug companies for off-patent medicine, pleasing those who believe medicine should be exempt from the laws of capitalism. EpiPen administers a quick dose of epinephrine to counter a severe, life- threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis. Last year, US doctors issued 3.6 million prescriptions for the injector. Mylan’s stock fell 5 percent yesterday. Shkreli, who is no stranger to price hikes ‒ he was responsible for a 5,000 percent hike in Daraprim, a medicine used in HIV and malaria treatment ‒ dismissed any concerns over an upcoming lawsuit against him. Shkreli is accused of security fraud by “engaging in multiple schemes to ensnare investors through a web of lies and deceit,” according to the Department of Justice. He defended himself against the charges, telling CBS News that pe ople are determined to attack him because he is “very handsome, very wealthy and very funny.” When asked about his public outrage to the killing of Harambe the gorilla, Shkreli said he was very fond of the primates, but admitted that, in his pharmaceutical role, he has “overseen the death of thousands of animals.”

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10 Taguig bars warned: Do part in drug war One strike and you’re out of business. “Any establishment used as a venue for illegal drug activities will be automatically shut down,” Taguig Mayor Lani Cayetano warned on Wednesday in a meeting between bar owners operating in the city and the Philippine National Police chief, Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa. Owners of bars in the cities of Taguig and Makati signed an affidavit of understanding allowing antidrug operatives in plainclothes within their establishments to conduct surveillance operations on their customers. While Cayetano acknowledged the substantial revenue high-end bars contribute to the city, “[they] must not introduce, encourage or tolerate drug use.” She said Taguig would also study the proposal to include mandatory drug testing as an additional requirement for business registration. “We will refer it to the City Legal Office for review and make sure everything is in order,” Cayetano told bar owners. The meeting was attended by at least 38 representatives of high-end bars in the two cities who asked for help from the PNP and local officials in making their establishments drug-free. Affecting business Southern Police District acting director Senior Supt. Tomas Apolinario Jr. said the meeting was requested by bar owners who complained that reports of drug use and sale within their establishments were affecting business. He cited the recent arrests made at bars in the Burgos Street-Makati Avenue-Kalayaan Avenue triangle in Makati and Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. “The suspects arrested were not ordinary people. Some were foreigners and some were even connected to the [entertainment] industry,” Apolinario said. Under the affidavit of understanding, bar owners in Taguig and Makati should provide the name of the individuals or groups found to be using or selling “shabu,” cocaine, marijuana, party drugs (ephedrine) and other prohibited drugs within the premises. They should also give copies of security camera footage as well as photos “of persons of interest,” and allow their employees to serve as witnesses to any drug-related incident or police operation. Asked how long the operatives could stay inside the establishment, Apolinario said they would only make occasional checks on the toilets where drug transactions usually take place. Dela Rosa clarified that the policemen would be armed during surveillance operations. “Why bother entering the establishments if they are not armed and cannot enforce the law? Do you want them to do karate?” he said. TVJ

2016-08-26 02:20 Dexter Cabalza newsinfo.inquirer.net

11 Antidrug cops meet Valle Verde residents: Like courting a woman Residents of an upscale subdivision in Pasig City sat down in a dialogue on Thursday with the police who plan to take the antidrug campaign into their gated community. In a meeting with Eastern Police District (EPD) officials, around 50 members and officers of the Valle Verde homeowners association were presented EPD’s plans regarding “Oplan Tokhang.” The residents, however, said they would first have to study the proposed “partnership” with the police in conducting Tokhang which, when earlier applied mostly to poorer communities, has policemen knocking on the doors of known drug pushers or users to make them “surrender” and be documented. According to Chief Supt. Romulo Sapitula, the EPD director, they will conduct a “modified” campaign wherein they will distribute leaflets instead of knocking on the doors of houses. Sapitula also spoke of a proposed memorandum of agreement (MOA) wherein the homeowners are expected to report illegal drug transactions in the village and work closely with the police to go after the perpetrators. Buenaventura Vergel de Dios, the Valle Verde 1 homeowners association president, said they would conduct a town hall meeting to discuss the contents of the MOA. “Our (Valle Verde’s) only reservation about the conduct of the Oplan Tokhang is if it will be used in the right way,” Teodoro Bonifacio, a lawyer and one of the village councilors, told the Inquirer in an interview. “Based from my experience before, from what I’ve seen and heard and read on the newspaper, the Philippine National Police has a very low credibility. But now they are doing something about it. We want to cooperate. We want to see the contents of the MOA,” Bonifacio said. He cited earlier cases filed against some Valle Verde residents arrested for alleged drug pushing, which were eventually dismissed. “Trust is earned. We know what exactly the play is these days. We’re not new to it. We observe and we watch. The small infractions are still infractions,” Bonifacio said, referring to the abuses and irregularities committed by policemen. “To regain our trust, the police should continue what they’re doing. Show that there is no letup, no favoritism. All we ask the police is to level the playing field. We want to see that. That’s why we are open to talking to them.” The same apprehensions were raised by Dr. Patria Arañas, village administrator of Valle Verde 5, and assistant secretary of the Integrated Homeowners Association of Pasig (IHAP). “We have to admit the image of the police is not even good, and therefore, it’s hard to imagine (Oplan) Tokhang in villages. “In the first place, we really do not allow entry. People get nervous easily when they see the police’s marked vehicles,” Arañas said. Still, Sapitula said he was very happy with the turnout in Thursday’s dialogue. “The fact that we were allowed to enter the premises of Valle Verde is already a breakthrough. This is just the start.” “Our modified Oplan Tokhang program is like courting a young woman. Each community has different culture, rules and regulations. You cannot force entry. We respect and adhere to the rules of the village. And if a house is clean (no irregularities), there is nothing to fear,” said the EPD chief.

2016-08-26 02:18 Jodee A newsinfo.inquirer.net

12 Partner of slain drug suspect files complaint at NBI vs Pasay cops The live-in partner of pedicab driver Eric Sison asked the National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday to investigate the Pasay policemen who shot and killed him even though he had already announced his surrender. Rachelle Bermoy was accompanied by representatives of the Commission on Human Rights when she filed the complaint in the National Bureau of Investigation’s Death Investigation Division (DID). In an earlier interview, Bermoy had insisted that her 22-year-old partner who was shot at least 14 times on F. Muñoz Street in Pasay City on Tuesday was neither a drug user or pusher. NBI-DID agents, together with members of the Southern Police District (SPD) and Pasay City police, went back to the crime site for an ocular inspection on Thursday afternoon. Chief Insp. Joey Goforth, officer in charge for administration of the Pasay police, said they were coordinating with the NBI to show Sison’s relatives that they would not take part in a cover-up. According to him, the three policemen involved in Sison’s death—Police Officers 1 Jan Irwin Isaac, Melford Orosisimo and Benigno Baladjay—have been relieved and restricted to the SPD headquarters pending the results of an investigation into Sison’s death. Their superior, Buendia police precinct commander Senior Insp. Oscar Pagulayan, was also relieved on the principle of command responsibility, Goforth added. According to Goforth, Baladjay said that he shouted out a warning to Sison, asking him to surrender but the victim refused to lay down his gun, prompting Isaac and Orosisimo to shoot him. Bermoy and her neighbors, however, claimed that the footage taken by a resident showed that Sison was still shot even though he had already announced he was giving up. According to the report by the Pasay police, the three policemen were patrolling the drug-prone area when they approached Sison who suddenly took out a gun and fired at them. The police said they fired back, hitting on the foot Sison who ran toward his house. A chase ensued and the victim sought shelter on the roof of a neighbor’s house. He jumped onto another roof, fell and was cornered by the police.

2016-08-26 02:15 Aie Balagtas newsinfo.inquirer.net

13 Rody offers land to Reds DAVAO CITY—President Duterte on Wednesday offered to release funds and provide land to members of the communist New People’s Army if peace talks succeed. “There is so much land in the Philippines, and I could (give you), just tell me and I will give them everything,” Mr. Duterte said in a late night press conference on Wednesday. “It takes so much money to run a war for nothing. You see, after 45 years, we can talk after all,” he said. The President’s offer to guerrillas came minutes after he again declared a ceasefire with the Communist Party of the Philippines. “I am joining the Communist Party of the Philippines in its desire to seek peace for this nation,” the President said at 11:35 p.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Duterte also ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police to heed the ceasefire declaration. “So we avoid hostile actions against each other,” Mr. Duterte said. “We do not go into antagonistic behavior in front of whoever. As a matter of fact, I am encouraging people in government, the military and the police to be friendly with the forces of the revolutionary government of the Communist Party of the Philippines within the time that we have a ceasefire because of the Oslo talks,” the President said. ‘Long, long period’ Government and rebel representatives have resumed formal peace negotiations in Oslo, Norway. Mr. Duterte said he hoped that the ceasefire would “go a long, long period for a peaceful resolution of the communist rebellion against the Republic of the Philippines.” The President said his decision was “mainly based on a consensus and the concurrence of all the commanding generals of the AFP the other day,” as well as of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. On Friday last week, Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza announced the government’s declaration of a ceasefire as prelude to the talks in Oslo. But the day after, Mr. Duterte said he had yet to consult the military. The President also appealed to the police and military not to be hurt with his decision “because as President, my main task is to seek peace for my country.” “I am not a president who would enjoy waging war against the citizens of this republic. It pains me deeply to see people dying for an ideology that we can talk about peacefully, just like now,” said the President. “And I also wonder why we had to kill each other for 45 years only to end up, which is really a significant event for everybody, talking. And to think so many lives lost in government and the other side, when we can talk,” the President added. Mr. Duterte said his only regret for the country was that talks should have been done a long time ago. Nico Alconaba, Inquirer Mindanao

2016-08-26 02:12 Philippine Daily newsinfo.inquirer.net

14 Bato says criminals, not cops, should be dead LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—As policemen seek out suspects in the government’s war on drugs, they should be mindful of their security and make sure they come out alive of every operation for their families’ sake, Philippine National Police Director General Ronald dela Rosa said. Since President Duterte took office, several drug busts had left suspects dead after they resisted arrest and engaged lawmen in gunfights. The government’s war on drugs has alarmed the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) because of the growing number of deaths in police operations or in cases of alleged summary executions. “It should be the criminals who turn up dead, not us. Remember, if you die, no one from CHR will be there to feed your children, no one from CHR will send your children to school,” he said, addressing policemen. “So you better stay alive. Let cases be filed. Face the charges, but it is important that you stay alive,” said Dela Rosa, who attended the 115th police service anniversary at Camp Vicente Lim in Calamba City, Laguna province, on Wednesday. After presiding over a command conference, Dela Rosa proceeded to the inauguration of a drug rehabilitation facility in Sta. Rosa City and attended the wake of Senior Insp. Mark Gil Garcia in Antipolo City. Garcia, a member of the Rizal provincial police intelligence unit, was killed in a buy-bust operation on Aug. 19 that also left two suspects dead. “When you conduct raids, would you give them a chance to put up a fight knowing that they are armed? If they draw their guns, make sure that you kill them. Don’t allow them to kill you. Pity the children you will leave behind,” Dela Rosa said. But the PNP chief clarified that he was not encouraging the police to violate human rights. “We have to do our job based on police procedures, according to the rule of law, because that is what they note. But no matter how much they criticize us, as long as we have evidence, what could they do?” he told policemen. He also warned scalawag policemen, who are involved in the repacking and selling of illegal drugs. During a Senate committee hearing on the government’s antidrug campaign and extrajudicial killings this week, a witness said some policemen would bring “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) to their house in Antipolo City for her parents to repack. “Just imagine (that) revelation by one witness at the Senate hearing. I felt like being slapped,” Dela Rosa said. He said the case involving the Antipolo policemen is being investigated. “Let me emphasize at this point that we are also waging the same war within the PNP to rid our ranks of personnel involved in illegal drugs,” he said. Maricar Cinco, Inquirer Southern Luzon

2016-08-26 02:10 Philippine Daily newsinfo.inquirer.net

15 Rody: Poll numbers justify Marcos burial DAVAO CITY—President Duterte pointed to the number of votes that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s son, Bongbong, got in the vice presidential race to justify his decision to bury the late strongman at Libingan ng mga Bayani, a burial ground for soldiers and war heroes. Mr. Duterte said the number of votes cast for Bongbong, who lost by a narrow margin to Vice President Leni Robredo, only showed that there is “no such thing as Marcos trauma” anymore among Filipinos. Duterte, who is sticking to his decision to bury Marcos at Libingan amid growing opposition from martial law victims, said Marcos lost the vice presidential race by a mere 200,000 votes. This only means that Filipinos have forgotten, or are no longer concerned over what happened during martial law, the President said. “The number was very minimal,” Mr. Duterte said, referring to Robredo’s lead over Bongbong, a former senator. “If that’s an indication, there was no such thing as a Marcos trauma (among the Filipino people),” he said. End debate “Just look at the results of the election. Even Bongbong Marcos, if he wasn’t cheated, he could have won,” Mr. Duterte said. He said the debate on whether to bury Marcos at Libingan is dividing the nation and would continue to do so. That’s why it’s time to proceed with the burial and move on, said the President. “All the Ilocanos, who are also Filipinos, are hurting because of what the Yellows have done, including my mother,” Duterte said, referring to the Yellow Friday Movement, led by his mother, Nanay Soling, in Davao, that helped oust Marcos and put former President Corazon Aquino in power. “My mother is already dead, so, everything is gone, including the politics of martial law,” he said. Some of the survivors of martial law, who are not part of the Yellow Movement in Davao, said the burial of Marcos at Libingan would be tantamount to forgetting the injustices committed by the Marcos dictatorship during which at least 3,257 people were killed, 35,000 tortured, 70,000 jailed and 737 went missing. Fe Salino, secretary general of the political detainees’ group Selda, said victims of martial law have yet to get justice for the abuses committed against them by martial law and allowing Marcos’ burial at Libingan would be another form of injustice. Qualified On the Supreme Court order suspending preparations for the burial of Marcos at Libingan, Mr. Duterte said “we could no longer do anything about it but I will follow the law.” He said under the law, Marcos is qualified to be buried at Libingan. “Whether he is a hero or not, I don’t care. I merely follow the law,” said the President. “Human rights (advocates), I cannot argue with you because I’m limited to the law. Whether I favor the opposition or side with their family, I’m forced to follow the law,” Duterte said. “If we are to play with the numbers game, yes, 14.15 million voted for Marcos Jr. but more did not vote for him,” said Mags Maglana, spokesperson of Konsensya Dabaw: Hugpong Dabawenyo para LNMBatac. “Of the 26.91 million Filipinos who voted for the vice president position, 14.41 million Pinoys supported the winner who ran on an antidictatorship platform,” Maglana said. Germelina Lacorte, Inquirer Mindanao

2016-08-26 02:08 Philippine Daily newsinfo.inquirer.net

16 Farmers plead for enforcement of conversion order in Hacienda Luisita A group of farmers and agrarian reform beneficiaries from Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac are pleading for the government to heed a 1996 conversion order that allows 500 hectares of the sugar estate owned by the family of former President Benigno Aquino III to be used for industrial purpose. The appeal was triggered by fears expressed by the farmers that an order would be issued by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to stop the conversion. If such an order is issued by the DAR, the farmers said it would disrupt the sale of the land for industrial purpose and the implementation of a Supreme Court decision in 2012 that seeks to distribute the P1.3 billion expected from the sale to more than 6,000 farmers in the estate. One of the leaders of the farmers, Noel Mallari, told the Inquirer the payout has yet to be made to farmers. “We are afraid that another group in Hacienda Luisita” would lay claim to the money, Mallari said. He said if the conversion order is revoked, “the P1.3 billion that farmers await would disappear.” “Why should the order be revoked when there’s already a decision?” Mallari said. “Only the implementation and audit are lacking,” he said. In 2012, Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) filed with the DAR a petition to revoke the 1996 order, alleging that Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI), the Cojuangco-owned company that supervises the estate, and the new managers of Luisita “failed to comply” with conditions set by the order. According to the Ambala petition, HLI failed to pursue a development plan provided for in its application for conversion “and instead disposed of the 500 hectares” to other companies owned by the Cojuangco family and to Rizal Commercial and Banking Corp. “It also failed to implement the development plan,” the petition read. But, according to Edwin Cabilangan, one of the leaders of the farmers, “if the conversion is revoked, there won’t be P1.3 billion.” “This is the payment for the 500 hectares. If the conversion is revoked, it will be classified as agricultural with lower value,” Cabilangan said. “We plead that they don’t touch the 500 hectares anymore,” Mallari said. He said the conversion would create “opportunities” for succeeding generations of farmers in Luisita. “The land is not getting bigger but the population inside Hacienda Luisita is,” Mallari said. Mallari said at least 1,000 farmer-beneficiaries share his group’s stand.

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17 Mayor on drug list gives up 12 of 14 guns CEBU CITY — Daanbantayan Mayor Vicente Loot on Wednesday turned over to the local police 12 of his 14 firearms after their licenses were revoked by the Department of the Interior and Local Government. Two other guns could not be located by the mayor, a retired police general who had been accused of being a drug protector. Chief Insp. Petronilo Gracia, Daanbantayan police chief, went to Loot’s house in the town to claim the firearms. Among the firearms Loot surrendered were six pistols, five rifles and a shotgun. Gracia, accompanied by some policemen from Daanbantayan, transported the firearms to the regional police’s Firearms Explosives Security Service Agency and Guards Supervisory Section (Fessags) in Cebu City, about 127 kilometers away. They arrived at the Fessags office past 5 p.m. and immediately conducted an inventory of the firearms in the presence of Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, police director for Central Visayas. Taliño said Loot must look for the two missing firearms and turn them over. Taliño said if the mayor could not locate the missing guns, “he might as well submit a report why these guns are missing.” Loot’s lawyer, Russel Pernites, said his client would do his best to locate the firearms. 2016-08-26 01:39 Ador Vincent newsinfo.inquirer.net

18 Rody dares UN: Solve PH drug woes Calling UN human rights officials “sons of whores,” President Duterte challenged the United Nations to take a stab at solving the country’s narcotics problem that has produced more than 3 million drug users and affected 27 percent of the nation’s 42,000 barangays, mostly in urban centers. In a late-night press conference on Wednesday, Mr. Duterte cited the 600,000 drug users or dealers who have surrendered since he came into office June 30 and launched his war on illegal drugs to fulfill his election campaign promise to eliminate the scourge in three to six months of his presidency. “Do you think it’s a joke? It’s a joke for you to tell me about human rights. Come here and solve the problem yourself. I will fund you …. I will buy even your toilet paper,” he said. The President said he was facing the country’s problem, and lashed back at the world body. “Gago kayo (You are jerks),” he said. “Don’t keep on talking and talking. I am facing a problem here—600,000, and you would talk like that.” Mr. Duterte lashed out at his critics who had described the drug-related killings as “genocide.” ‘So stupid’ “These sons of whores are so stupid,” he said. He then asked if the press conference was being aired live. When told that it was, he repeated the expletives. “I have a serious problem. The enormity of 3.6 million people hooked to drugs is appalling,” he said, adding that the previous administration did nothing to deal with the problem. “We are losing on the average, two policemen a day in this war,” he said. UN special rapporteurs Agnes Callamard and Dainius Puras have expressed alarm at the rising death toll in Mr. Duterte’s drug war, declaring that his promises of immunity and bounty for the execution of drug lords violated international humanitarian law. Smarting at the criticisms, Mr. Duterte in a news conference on Sunday threatened to pull the Philippines out of the United Nations. Aides later sought to downplay the remark and he himself on Tuesday told reporters, “Can’t you take a joke?” Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said the President had given assurances that he would respect human rights and was firmly against illegal or criminal killing of people suspected of drug-related offenses. But Yasay also chastised the rapporteurs, saying they should have followed UN protocols to request an investigation instead of relying on media reports and issuing critical statements without legal basis. Vigilante killings In his news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Duterte lamented that the administration was immediately being blamed for the drug-related deaths by critics. Not all vigilante-style killings of drug suspects should be attributed to the government, he said. The Philippine National Police said its operations in the drug war had resulted in 756 deaths and that another 1,160 killings were blamed on vigilante groups and rubout cases. The police could not have been behind the killing of drug suspects who were wrapped in sacks or plastic, as they would not waste their time doing that, Mr. Duterte said. “So if you include [in the count] even those killings that I have nothing to do with, why not include the dead in the funeral parlors, even those who died from cancer or diabetes? All the dead that you are seeing are being blamed on me,” he said. Drama strategy He also disclosed that he earlier suggested a strategy of creating drama by having suspects go after each other and letting them kill each other. The government could come in later. With regard to legitimate encounters between the police and the drug suspects, he said it had been his experience as Davao City mayor that the suspects fight back and carry guns. He said he would assume full responsibility for these, but he also said he was looking into alleged “salvage” incidents, and would study affidavits.

2016-08-26 01:35 Leila B newsinfo.inquirer.net

19 Hillary Dodges On Foundation, Bribes Reporters With Chocolates Hillary Clinton used chocolates to avoid answering questions from reporters about alleged scandals involving the Clinton Foundation on Thursday. WATCH: Clinton herself tried some of the chocolates, noting in particular that she loved the “salt.” “So good!” the former secretary of state exclaimed. “Oh my gosh! This is really good!” As Clinton nibbled, a male voice can be heard saying that now “would be a good time for questions,” yet Clinton ignored him. WATCH: Looks like the @HillaryClinton no questions from the media streak will continue. But she did eat chocolate. pic.twitter.com/Rr89bHe3kp — Seth A. Richardson (@SethARichardson) August 25, 2016 “I want you to offer these to all the press,” Clinton then tells the confectioners. “So cooperative, so hard-working. They all deserve a piece of chocolate.” One reporter beings to ask Clinton about her husband, former President Bill Clinton’s departure from the family’s foundation, but Clinton only responded “everybody try one” before exiting the scene. Follow Datoc on Twitter and Facebook 2016-08-26 01:11 dailycaller.com

20 Video Hillary Clinton Reads Breitbart News Headlines During her Thursday speech on the “alt-right,” Hillary Clinton read several headlines from Breitbart News to illustrate how former chairman Steve Bannon — and new CEO of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — “inflames” partisan divides. Here are the headlines Hillary chose. Follow Datoc on Twitter and Facebook

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21 Beverage Banned In U. S. Released In China As 'Lose Virginity Liquor' Four Loko, a brand of caffeinated alcohol banned in many U. S. states for hospitalizing consumers, is debuting in China, Quartz reports . The beverage has appeared in online shopping networks in China, where it is being sold as “blackout in a can” (yi guan duan pian). Chinese consumers call Four Loko the “lose virginity liquor” (shi shen jiu). The primary ingredients in Four Loko are alcohol and stimulants caffeine, guarana, and taurine. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeled this product “hazardous” in 2010, clearly stressing that caffeine is an “unsafe food additive” when introduced into a malt liquor product. Quartz reports that a single standard 695 ml can of Four Loko is equivalent to six beers. China’s Xinhua News Agency reported that one can has as much alcohol as 4.7 shots of 80 proof vodka. China sells this product as beer, but Chinese beer only contains around 4 percent to 8 percent alcohol. A number of brands contain as little as 2 to 3.5 percent alcohol. One month prior to the reprimand by the FDA, nine freshmen at Central Washington University found themselves in the hospital after drinking Four Loko. Police initially suspected that the students had been drugged. Four Loko was also linked to a car crash that killed a Texas teen back in 2010. The store clerk who sold the controversial beverage to the underage teens was arrested. Although the risks drinking of Four Loko are well known in China, many Chinese youth have started trying it in Four Loko challenges just to see if it does, in fact, cause blackouts. Over 10,000 people have purchased Four Loko on Taobao, China’s version of Ebay. On Aug. 20, four young Chinese girls downed six cans of Four Loko at a karaoke bar in Nanjing. The girls blacked out, and two guys came in and robbed them, reports China.com.cn. “I will never forgive myself,” said one girl. An industry insider explained the dangers of Four Loko to Hainan.net. While alcohol is a depressant which slows the reflexes, causes vomiting, and induces sleep, the caffeine in Four Loko prevents the brain from responding appropriately to the alcohol. Consuming too much of this product can easily cause a blackout, which may then be followed by highly irrational behavior. That same undisclosed source told Hainan.net that Four Loko, “may cause irreversible brain damage.” Follow Ryan on Twitter Send tips to ryan@ dailycallernewsfoundation.org . Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

2016-08-26 01:11 dailycaller.com

22 The Sheriff's Take: Extra Ammo By Sheriff Jim Wilson, Shooting Illustrated Recently, I saw a comment on social media from a holster maker who said that people who ordered a new holster rarely ordered a pouch to carry an extra magazine or revolver ammunition. This caused me to wonder just how many armed citizens actually carry extra ammunition. In a very informal survey that I’ve been conducting among my gun friends, I find that only about half of them carry even one extra reload for their defensive handgun. Actually, there are a number of reasons that the armed citizen should carry extra ammunition. The most obvious reason for carrying extra ammo is if you shoot your gun dry during a criminal attack. Now, a study of citizen-involved shootings shows that this rarely happens. Most attacks on citizens are resolved with just a few shots. The problem occurs, quite obviously, when you happen to be the exception to the rule. We can think of a number of scenarios where the defensive shooter is pinned down, can’t retreat, and has to fight until help arrives, however long that might be. Obviously, another example might be when the citizen has to deal with multiple attackers. A malfunction common to many semi-auto pistols is the double feed. And the quickest way to clear this malfunction is to drop the magazine that is in the pistol. The slide is racked several times to clear the jam and a new magazine is loaded. Only, what do you do if you don’t have a fresh magazine and you can’t seem to find the one that you just dropped? Some folks who carry autos say that they carry a high-capacity pistol that holds enough ammunition to reasonably get them through a fight. But what happens when their only magazine goes bad? Or their ammo goes bad? And it is not just a problem for those who carry autos. It is very rare, but you may find that you have dud ammo in your revolver. Back in the 1970’s a particular brand of penetrating oil became very popular with gun users. Several policemen that I worked with would spray their duty revolver with this oil and then wipe their gun down with a rag. They did this until they found out that the penetrating oil was killing the primers in their ammunition. Fortunately, my co-workers discovered this at the range and not in the middle of a gunfight. And, as rare as it is to find bad ammo today, it does happen. The revolver shooter–or semi-auto shooter, for that matter–needs to be able to quickly recharge his pistol and get back in the fight. Most defensive shooting instructors recommend that the shooter carry at least one reload at all times. And that is the minimum. In warm weather, I almost always carry a revolver. And, where I live, warm weather also means rattlesnakes. For that reason, I carry two reloads in the form of handy speed strips. One speed strip is loaded with defensive ammunition and the other one holds shot cartridges. Once you’ve decided that carrying at least one extra reload is a good idea, you have to decide where to carry it. One might use one of the various kind of belt-mounted carriers, or a convenient pants pocket. If you use the pants pocket, you should be sure that nothing else is in that pocket. You don’t want to be digging around through your pocket treasures, trying to find your ammo, when you really ought to be shooting. For off-body carry, the same concerns exist with regard to dumping your reload into your pack along with all the other stuff that you carry. Regardless of what type of defensive handgun that you carry, having at least one extra reload is really a very good idea. And, remember, that is just the suggested minimum. If you can find ways to carry more, that might be a good idea, too. There is no need to get carried away and look like a walking ammo locker. But extra ammunition just makes sense for the defensive shooter. We would be interested in knowing if you carry extra ammunition and, if so, how much. Also let us know how you carry it and why you have chosen that method. Thanks! Thanks to Shooting Illustrated for this post. Click here to visit ShootingIllustrated.com . Better yet – Click here to get SI’s free newsletter delivered to your inbox .

2016-08-26 01:11 dailycaller.com

23 Breitbart News Hosts Book Party For Ann Coulter And Features An Alt-Right Toilet The Breitbart News “Embassy” on Capitol Hill was pretty packed Wednesday night as conservative journalists, possible Donald Trump aides and other reporters congregated to celebrate Ann Coulter ‘s new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! The AC wasn’t working so well. Suffice it to say there was lots of sweating. “It’s a locker room in here,” one guest remarked. A man in stripes sweated clear through his dark button-down shirt. Did they forget to pay the bill? At the door greeting partygoers at the gorgeous rowhouse was Breitbart ‘s Washington Politics Editor Matthew Boyle who was gabbing with Bloomberg Businessweek’ Joshua Green , the reporter who wrote a favorable profile of Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon, who now runs Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The story was a coming of age piece about Bannon and foreshadowed his power. Boyle, who appeared to be in a jolly mood, was overheard telling Green, “It appears that Hillary Clinton is walking into the honey badger’s den.” For sustenance there was an open bar and a waitstaff who doled out finger foods that included miniature hamburgers, crab cakes, shrimp, egg rolls, meat on sticks and cut up oranges. In the kitchen, there was more food and a man who completely owned a large plate of elaborate and beautiful sashimi. He could barely speak he was downing so much of it. It’s safe to say if anyone else ate sushi, they encountered his DNA. Smack in the main party room was a bearded reporter wearing a bright red “Make America Rage Again” hat. For much of the party, Coulter, dressed casually in jeans and a stomach baring sleeveless dark gray top, happily signed her book and hugged and greeted fans. There was a reporter who, every time he saw me, felt the need to shout, “GET OUT OF HERE.” He’s one of my coworkers and his name rhymes with beer. Rosie Gray was the lone BuzzFeed representative. She acted unfazed when I wondered how a BuzzFeed reporter got into a Breitbart News party. “I just asked Matt Boyle,” she replied. Indeed, she was spotted engaged in what my tipster said was a “serious” conversation with Boyle later in the evening. Spotted in the crowd: Breitbart ‘s Charlie Spiering , The Daily Beast ‘s Betsy Woodruff , The Hill ‘s Jonathan Swan , Politico ‘s Ken Vogel , National Review ‘s chief political reporter Tim Alberta , Mickey Kaus (sans beard), Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes , The Washington Examiner ‘s Byron York , Eddie Scarry and Rudy Takala (who gave me a painful, bone crushing handshake), CNN contributor Alice Stewart , Ryan Hughes , The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Christopher Bedford, Juliegrace Brufke and The Daily Caller ‘s Scott Greer and Steve Guest , ex-NBC News reporter Michael Isikoff , American One News host Emily Miller , radio host and Daily Caller ‘s Derek Hunter and his wife, WMAL’s Heather Hunter , LifeZette ‘s Garrett Murch , Politico Playbook’s third stringer Daniel Lippman and Breitbart ‘s Patrick Howley . Breitbart’s always charming Neil Munro was spotted chatting up a storm in the corner of the room in a brand new blazer that he purchased in LA for an undisclosed amount of money. When asked about the current events at Breitbart News , he kept saying, “I have nothing to say.” When pressed every few minutes, he repeated the same phrase: “I have nothing to say.” Amazingly, Bannon chatter was scant. But a reporter from another publication dissed Breitbart , saying, “If I worked at Breitbart I’d be shocked and upset, but I don’t.” Breitbart podcaster Sonnie Johnson was outside on the patio decked out in a spirited “Make America Great Again” style American flag dress. “I’m tipsy,” she declared fairly loudly. Not present at the party: HuffPost ‘s Michelle Fields , CNN’s Corey Lewandowski , BuzzFeed ‘s McKay Coppins and ex- Breitbart Newsers Ben Shapiro and publicist Kurt Bardella , who have been badmouthing Bannon. Blazerman samples the cuisine with Australian-bred Jonathan Swan peeking over his shoulder in the lefthand corner of the picture. Former NBC News investigative journalist Michael Isikoff. The Embassy’s Alt-Right toilet. Breitbart’s Neil Munro chats away in his fancy new LA blazer. A tipsy Sonnie Johnson catchs up with Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes. The kitchen cuisine…

2016-08-26 01:11 dailycaller.com

24 Dollar Stores Profits Dropping, Fewer People On Food Stamps The decline in people on food stamps is affecting profits at dollar stores, according to earnings reports from Dollar General. Sales at Dollar General and Dollar Tree grew this year, but not as much as expected, due to warm temperatures, competition and drop in the number of people on food stamps, CEO Todd Vasos said in the company’s earnings report. “Retail food deflation and a reduction in both [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] participation rates and benefit levels, coupled with unseasonably mild spring weather, proved to be stronger than expected headwinds to our business,” Vasos said in a statement. “The competitive environment also intensified in select regions of the country. Importantly, even amidst a challenging sales environment, we effectively managed our gross profit margin and leveraged our selling, general and administrative expense as a percent of sales,” Vasos said. Dollar General expected to make $5.5 billion in sales in the second quarter, but instead made $5.39 billion. More than 43 million Americans currently receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, or food stamps, and the government will pay about $45 billion in benefits this year, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture data. Food stamps enrollment spiked in 2012 with nearly 48 million people enrolled in the program, but enrollment has slowly declined since. After the 2008 recession, President Barack Obama issued waivers to the work requirement, which allowed able-bodied adults without children to receive benefits without proving they were looking for a job. Many states are dropping the waivers as the economy improves. (RELATED: 7 States Are Ready To Cut Special Post-Recession Food Stamp Program) Dollar General Corp. did not immediately return The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Follow Thomas Phippen on Twitter Send tips to [email protected] . Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

2016-08-26 01:11 dailycaller.com

25 Israeli fans in France greeted with Palestinian flags, Israeli flags banned After much talk over the high security risks at Thursday nights Europa League soccer match between St. Etienne and Beitar Jerusalem in France Beitar supporters arrived to the stadium to find they were not allowed to enter with Israeli flags, Israeli sports news website One reported. They fans were then greeted with not only French flags but Palestinian flags as well, marking the second time in as many weeks that an Israeli soccer team was greeted abroad with Palestinian flags . Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. Ahead of the game authorities were preparing for a high risk of violence, according to French media. There was a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol within a safety zone around the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium as well as a ban of pyrotechnics around the venue. Security measures had been stepped up ahead of the Europa League soccer match between St. Etienne and Beitar Jerusalem in France on Thursday. Pro-Palestinian activists have called for a rally outside of St. Etienne's City Hall, using the Israeli team's presence as an opportunity to protest Israeli policies. There was a known a possibility that St. Etienne's "Green Angels," the French club's fan group, will make their presence felt with around 200 to 300 people at the rally. "La Familia," Beitar Jerusalem's group of staunch supporters, has drawn condemnation over the years for its extremist outlook. The group is known to foster anti-Arab sentiments. In July, over 400 police officers performed an operation arresting 47 members of the group on suspicion of intent to bring pyrotechnics to matches and illegal weapons trafficking. Thursday's measures came after Scotland's Celtic team supporters greeted the Hapoel Beersheba team with Palestinian flags during a match earlier this month, for which the Union of European Football Associations took disciplinary action against the team from Glasgow. Yonah Jeremy Bob and Eliyahu Kamisher contributed to this report. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

2016-08-26 00:48 Jpost Com www.jpost.com

26 Gwinnett's newest 'dine-in' movie theater hopes to open this fall Gwinnett's newest dine-and- watch movie theater hopes to open soon. Ish. Officials broke ground just over a year ago on the Carmike Ovation 11, which will bring movies, extensive food menus and a full- service bar to the Snellville Exchange retail center on Scenic Highway, just north of the Shoppes at Webb Gin. The plan all along has been for the theater to open sometime this year, but a public relations liaison for Carmike provided a more specific timeframe this week. She said officials "anticipate" opening sometime in November. The 55,000-square-foot theater is one of several projects under construction (or recently completed) in and around Snellville. Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q recently opened a new restaurant in the same shopping center. Just down Scenic Highway near Essex Drive, a Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers opened late last month. A new Zaxby's is expected to open sometime in September. That same development, dubbed Park Place, is expected to include a Cracker Barrel as well. Gwinnett's first-ever Cook Out location is destined for Snellville, too. »MORE: A list of cool things they're building around Gwinnett's cities

2016-08-26 00:05 By Tyler www.myajc.com

27 Oliver! Opens Friday Brent Schlueter plays Fagin and Cyrus Hardin is one of two boys playing Oliver Twist. Richard Armstrong, HCT photographer The award winning musical “Oliver! comes to Hendersonville for the first time on Friday when the Hendersonville Community Theatre opens their summer production. Based on Charles Dicken’s “Oliver Twist” the award winning stage musical features a book and score by Lionel Bart that includes “Consider Yourself” “Where is Love” and “As Long As He Needs Me.” The Hendersonville Community Theatre production features a cast of 19 children and teens and 19 adults under the direction of Allen Wilson with musical Direction by Katie Cilluffo and Choreography by Linda Runion will run August 19 – September 4 with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 P. M. and Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 P. M. Tickets are selling fast and some performances are already sold out. To make sure you and your family don’t miss out call today to purchase your tickets at 828-692-1082 or go on line at hendersonvilletheatre.org. Hendersonville Community Theatre is located at 229 So. Washington St., Hendersonville, 28792

2016-08-25 12:02 www.thetribunepapers.com

28 28 Donald Trump’s Immigration Flippity Flop: Rush Finds It Funny Flop flop flippy on Immigration: Donald Trump seems to now support some form of legalization for illegal immigrants. That’s definitely new. Now, as Rush notes, who knows what Trump supporters will do. Immigration was never my top priority personally. I live in Texas and know that many decent people are trying to work, have a better life, etc. No one blames them for wanting more for themselves and finding it here in America. The “illegal” part of this situation has to stop. Too many people are used and abused both in Mexico and America through human and drug trafficking. It’s obscene. In addition, it is insecure. We have to know who is coming and going in our country, but that’s true of overstays on visas as well as border insecurity. Anyone who goes through a TSA line at the airport knows how uninspiring our security agents tend to be. Anyway, illegal immigration is not a simple issue and here’s where Donald Trump is absolutely right: American interests economically and security- wise need to be foremost in any policy we craft. Americans of every stripe have real and valid concerns about who and how many and why we let in the people we let into our country. That’s not xenophobia, that’s common sense. Let’s hope that Trump refines his message more to be both appealing to more voters while finding ways to have commonsense border security and immigration reform.

2016-08-26 00:06 Melissa Clouthier spectator.org

29 Camber Sands deaths: Family anger over safety measures The family of one of the five men who died at Camber Sands have spoken of their anger that the beach was not shut after another death there last month. Relatives of Nitharsan Ravi, 22, have also criticised the lack of lifeguards on the stretch of Sussex coastline. Last month, 19-year-old Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz died while swimming in the sea there. Rother council has said beach patrols are available to advise beachgoers of potential dangers. Mr Ravi's sister Mayura, 17, said the family felt anger that the stretch of beach where they died had not been blocked off following Mr Da Cruz's death last month. She said: "Why didn't they do it before? They could have saved five other lives. " Another of Mr Ravi's relatives, Mira Lawrence, from Plumstead, south east London, said: "We don't want to lose more people. It shouldn't happen to anyone. What if it's little kids, families? It's just more devastation. " His brother Ajirthan, 19, said: "There wasn't any lifeguards cruising around. "Because they would have quickly noticed these boys drowning, and could have at least save their lives. " The other men who died have been named as Inthushan Sri, brothers Kobi and Ken Nathan, from Erith in south-east London, and another named only as Kurushanth. At the scene, BBC reporter Frankie McCamley A vast beach stretching seven miles (11km) long, Camber Sands attracts about 25,000 people on a busy day and reaction there has been mixed. Although people have been out enjoying the sunshine, building sandcastles and playing in the sea, it's not difficult to find a family whose mood has been altered by the five deaths. A cloud of caution overhangs. Some tell me they simply have not let their children in the water because they are worried about the sea itself - and they don't feel safe without lifeguards. Others are in shock and want to keep their children close. But some beachgoers are not letting events cloud over their day at the beach. Families who have been coming here for years have said the sea is completely safe and will continue to holiday here. But all agree - they are grateful to see beach patrols in the area. Ajirthan said his brother died after trying to rescue two of his friends who became trapped underneath the water. "Ken and Inthushan got stuck in water. So what they do is, the three boys try to save them," he said. How to stay safe at the beach and in the sea But he said their efforts failed and Kurushanth was brought out first and declared dead. Two others, his brother and Kobi Nathan, showed signs of life but died within 15 minutes after being brought out of the water. "My bro and Kobi had heartbeats and managed to survive for a few minutes but after first aid they couldn't recover," he said. He said the bodies of Ken Nathan and Mr Sri were discovered later. An online petition calling for lifeguards at Camber Sands has been signed by more than 4,000 people. Local resident Emily Van Eyssen, 44, said the need for lifeguards was long overdue. Other family and friends of the victims have been paying tribute to them. A friend of Mr Ravi's, Charles Bosco, 27, from west London, described him as a "fun, bubbly guy" and added: "No-one could say a bad word about him. " And paying tribute to Mr Sri, Ranu Kumar wrote on Facebook: "Was one of the best genuine, one of my closest cousins in UK. " The men were on a day trip from London to the Sussex resort on Wednesday. Police said the group were in their late teens and early 20s. Rother District Council said while it was upsetting to see two similar, tragic incidents this summer, over the years these kinds of incidents were "extremely rare". A spokesman said: "On a fine day around 25,000 people use the beach safely. "Our beach patrols are on site throughout the summer and are able to advise people of potential dangers, reunite lost children and deal with any incidents on the beach. " The council also said it was too early to draw conclusions about the incident but it would continue to work with the emergency services and other colleagues to do more in educating people about the dangers of the sea. Those who tried to help to save the men have described the efforts. Hannah Chatfield, who was with her family, helped drag one from the water. She said: "The first man was pulled out of the sea unconscious, maybe 20 minutes later a woman came over shouting, and saying there's more in there. "Me and my boyfriend went to get him because the lifeguards were with the first guy. We were on the beach for about 45 minutes trying to resuscitate him but it didn't work. " Rescuer Deven Small said: "I walked over to the scene and I could see a few people holding someone but his head kept on going in and out of the water. "I ran in and helped to carry him in. Adrenaline kicks in. I didn't want to, you're talking about someone's life on the line. "It's not the nicest thing to see in the world, to see someone die in front of you. " Earlier, the RNLI said the men could have got into trouble after failing to realise how quickly the tide would come in. Urging people to follow RNLI safety advice , it said it believed all five men fell into deep channels of water between sand-bars - mounds of sand created by wave and tide activity - which had been made deeper with the weekend storms. A sand-bar is a submerged or partly exposed ridge of sand or other sediment built up by currents in coastal waters that occur where waves break. They are usually made up of sand but can also involve other granular materials, such as shingle or even boulders. They are most pronounced in the heavy surf caused by storms. Sand-bars are the most common cause of rip currents, which are generated by waves breaking over them. The RNLI said that the sand-bars at Camber Sands were three feet deep and had been made deeper by the weekend storms. Satellite images of the area give an idea of how the sandbars create an uneven sea floor.

2016-08-26 00:06 www.bbc.co.uk

30 G4S 'rejects Labour conference security offer' Security giant G4S says it has rejected a last-minute approach by Labour to cover its annual conference. G4S - which Labour previously voted to boycott - said it was contacted this week but could not take on the "large, complex" job at short notice. It comes amid a standoff between the GMB and another security firm, Showsec, over union recognition. Labour refused to comment on commercial arrangements but sources said the conference would go ahead as planned. The GMB has claimed the conference could be "scuppered" by its row with Showsec, which centres on the company's refusal to sign a union recognition agreement before the conference, which begins in Liverpool on 25 September. Security at recent conferences has been provided by G4S, which Labour's executive committee voted to boycott, over claims the company has links to Israeli prisons. The company said it had been approached earlier this week by Labour for this year's event. G4S managing director Eric Alexander said his company had been disappointed not to continue its "successful working relationship" with Labour. Planning for such an event would normally take up to a year, involving clearance for security officers, detailed risk assessments and planning with local police forces, he said. "Safety for delegates and our staff is our priority and at this late stage and with our teams committed elsewhere, we are not in a position to step in and provide security for the conference. " The GMB has claimed Showsec's "disregard for unions" means it is "totally unsuited to the task of providing security for this event". Showsec has said it is "not anti-unions in any way" and had not been told that signing a union agreement was a prerequisite to tendering for the conference contract. In a leaked letter to the GMB, the general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, said responsibility for solving the "impasse" lay with Labour's general secretary Iain McNicol. "I am astonished that we are only four to five weeks to Conference and that he has not done so," he added.

2016-08-26 00:06 www.bbc.co.uk

31 Guess Who EpiPen CEO Donates To? Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan, which makes EpiPen, appears to be on her way to becoming Public Enemy No. 1. Mylan recently hiked the price of an EpiPen to about $600, from about $55 jut a few years ago. As Kevin Williamson points out, that $600 is “about half of what the typical American family spends on cable TV in a year. Yeah, sure, little Bobby’s face is swelling up like a North Korean dictator’s and his kidneys are about to fail — but there’s two episodes left on Game of Thrones this season! And Daenerys is naked in both of them!” But, never mind. The price hike has given members of Congress, “consumer advocates” and all of the other altruistic scum of the earth the vapors and so we must have hearings! What’s interesting, though, is that the Obama Administration won’t attack Bresch. According to Josh Earnest, President Obama’s press secretary, “As it relates to this specific issue, you know, obviously I’m not going to make specific comment or specifically second-guess the pricing strategy or the business practices of one private enterprise.” And if you believe that, go ask the executives at STAPLES how they liked being “not being second- guessed” by Obama. One wonders if other Democrats will soon follow the White House’s lead since an FEC search reveals that Bresch contributes pretty heavily to Democrats. Indeed, 51 percent of her $63,800 in donations since 2003 went to Democrats including President Obama ($1,000), Senator Pat Leahy ($2,400), Representative Henry Waxman ($1,000), the West Virginia State Democratic Executive Committee ($10,000), and her dad, Senator Joe Manchin ($9,800). Her most recent donation, in June of this year, was to Senator Chuck Schumer. In fact, it was two donations worth $5,000. About three percent of her donations have gone to Republican politicians, with the remainder going to various pharmaceutical PACs. (The full list is below. For more legible results, search here.) Did she pay enough protection money? We’ll find out.

2016-08-26 00:06 David Hogberg spectator.org

32 Rebooting Britain — and Missouri In “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” country music’s George Jones sings of a man who “can’t” — until the day he dies — “stop loving” an ex from long ago. The song (and its story of a long-broken relationship) came back to me in thinking of “Brexit” — the historic decision that British voters made on June 23 to exit the European Union. More than a change in the relationship between Britain and the rest of the Europe, Brexit signified a breakdown in the relationship between the British people and Britain’s political and managerial class, encompassing: the leaders of both main parties… most sitting members of Parliament… captains of industry and trade union bosses… the financial wizards in the Bank of England and the UK Treasury, plus the mandarins in the Foreign Office. Most of those in leadership positions were strongly opposed to Brexit. In a year of anti-establishment surprises, here again the people stopped listening to their leaders. Now a new leadership team under Theresa May, who has replaced David Cameron as prime minister and leader of the Tory Party, is scrambling to catch up with the people. The good news, post-Brexit, is that Britain will be more — not less — open to business with the rest of the world. Britain won’t have to comply with innumerable EU regulations. Among other things, the EU tells member states how much fat can be put in a sausage and it requires that labels on tins of smoked salmon tell customers they contain fish. Having appointed free traders to several key cabinet positions, it appears that the new PM will use freedom from EU rules to reduce or abolish high tariffs on agricultural goods and many consumer goods. Call that a win-win for British consumers and non-EU producers, including the U. S. With her brisk, no-nonsense style of leadership, Ms. May draws comparisons to Margaret Thatcher. “She’s not as ideological as Thatcher, but she is equally hands-on,” says Eamonn Butler, director of the influential Adam Smith Institute, a short walk from the British Parliament. Butler sees the post-Brexit environment as a once-in-a-generation chance for fresh thinking and bold action across every area of public policy. Thatcher cut taxes, attacked abuses of trade union power, and undid many of the shackles placed upon private industry and commerce during three and half of decades of socialism. Butler dares to think that it is possible today’s Britain could go far beyond that and recapture the true commanding heights of socialism that remain to this day — namely, state controlled monopolies that suppress competition and free choice in the provision of education and health care. In a 30-page report released in July, the Adam Smith Institute set forth its recommendations for radical change in those areas. The report also calls for the staged elimination of Britain’s tax on corporate income — from 20 percent to 12.5 percent (as in Ireland), then to 6.25 percent, and then to zero. As I told Butler, we at the Show-Me Institute advocate market-oriented reforms for Missouri similar to many of those contained in Adam Smith’s “Rebooting Britain” playbook (which may be downloaded at no charge at adamsmith.org). No serious observer can doubt the failure of Missouri’s business-as-usual policy-making. Over the past decade and a half, Missouri ranks near the bottom of all states in economic growth. With just middling growth, household income in Missouri today would be 10 percent higher. There is, however, one area in which Missouri has (quite shamefully) outperformed other states. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has identified Missouri as one of the “corporate welfare kings of America” — ranking among the top ten states in state and local subsidies to private businesses. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has publicly stated that tax cuts should be provided on a “specific project-by-project basis.” “We need to come at this in an overall thoughtful way, not just throw darts,” he has said. According to this logic, it is “throwing darts” to lower taxes for all businesses, but it is a “thoughtful” use of government power to single out a small number of politically connected businesses for major subsidies and tax breaks. Needless to say, the biggest breaks go to the companies with the biggest and best lobbying organization. What will it take to reignite growth in Missouri? To name three things, we need to lower income taxes for all businesses, end corporate welfare (which just now seems to be spiraling out of control), and fight back against public sector monopolies in education and healthcare. But can we summon up the will to “reboot” the Show-Me State? It’s time for us to stop listening to leaders who peddle tried-and-failed solutions.

2016-08-25 12:03 Andrew B spectator.org

33 Jew-Hatred at the World Social Forum The 2016 annual meeting of the World Social Forum took place in Montreal this month to strategize and coordinate campaigns in support of anti- globalization, anti-capitalism, and now anti-Semitism. Viewed as a progressive alternative to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, it began with an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a stereotypical hook-nosed Orthodox Jew controlling the United States government as well as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by proxy. The cartoon, part of a now- canceled talk by Seyed Ali Mousavi, titled “Terrorizm [sic], Wahhabism [sic], Zionism,” was criticized by two Canadian members of Parliament, leading to removal of the Canadian government logo from the forum’s list of partners. Although Mousavi’s talk was canceled, the WSF website lists at least a dozen other events intended to promote the wholesale boycott of Israel. They include a workshop comparing the calling-out of anti-Semitism to McCarthyism, headlined by Diane Ralph, a notorious conspiracy theorist who has blamed Israel and the U. S. for staging the September 11 terrorist attacks. WSF attendees also heard from Sabine Friesinger, a former student union president involved in the violent riot preventing current-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking at Concordia University in 2002. Elderly Holocaust survivor Thomas Hecht was physically assaulted during that riot. Another speaker at the conference was Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. In a 2014 speech at UCLA, Barghouti denied the existence of the Jewish people, claiming that Jews are not indigenous to Israel and have no right to self- determination or collective rights. Nonetheless, Barghouti rejected the notion that BDS is anti-Semitic. The anti-Jewish bigotry at the conference was not only shameless, but also deceitful. While Bargouti’s presentation promoted academic BDS against Israel, he himself is a student at Tel Aviv University, currently pursuing his Ph. D. after having completed his MA in philosophy at the Israeli institution. When asked about this blatant contradiction, Bargouti replied that his studies were a “personal matter.” Bargouti also claimed that BDS was opposed to violence, yet just a day earlier he spoke alongside Friesinger at a militant roundtable presented by the WSF that focused on international BDS coordination against Israel. Bargouti has previously voiced approval of Palestinian violence against Israel. Jamal Jomaa, of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, echoed Bargouti’s insistence that BDS is non-violent, and then went on to support the Palestinian right to commit violence against Israel. One of the most flagrantly hypocritical aspects of the WSF was the workshop that encouraged BDS by Christian churches against Israel. In the Middle East, Christianity has plunged from 14 percent of the population in 1910, to 4 percent today. In the Palestinian territories, Christians have dropped from 15 percent of the population to 2 percent today. Bethlehem, once home to a strong Christian majority and the birthplace of Jesus, is now almost completely devoid of Christians. No credit was given to the fact that Israel stands as the only country in the region where the Christian community is not only allowed to survive, but prospers at a rate unheard of elsewhere in the Middle East. In Israel, the Christian population has grown five-fold to about 158,000 Israeli citizens since 1948. In terms of education, Christian Arabs in Israel fare statistically better than any other religious group. The reality is that Arab Christians occupy influential roles throughout Israeli society. Among them is Salim Joubran, an Israeli Arab Supreme Court judge who served as the Chairman of the Central Election Committee during the last Israeli election. Joubran was in charge of registering lists of those running for Israel’s parliament, campaign financing, election logistics, tallying results, and dealing with challenges to the results. This is a lot of power for someone who is supposedly a victim of Israeli apartheid and genocide. The WSF was a disgraceful platform for anti-Jewish bigotry and nothing more than a hate-fest against the State of Israel. With all of the rhetoric it spews about seeking to build a better world, it instead highlights a serious problem with anti-Semitism on the Left.

2016-08-25 12:03 Bradley Martin spectator.org

34 Will Appeals Ruling Sober Up State’s Pension Abusers? California’s hardy band of pension reformers show many of the symptoms of “battered spouse syndrome.” No matter how often they are beaten and ridiculed, they cling to hope. Maybe this time, the state will get its act together and reform a system of profiteering that’s threatening our fiscal future. I’ve heard them say as much after any tiny new shred of encouraging news. Reformers are getting their hopes up again following a favorable state appeals court decision last week in a Marin County pension-spiking case. It’s a great ruling. Several reform-minded commentators have referred to it as a “game changer.” But I wouldn’t expect fundamental change any more than I’d expect your drunken husband Bob to come to his senses after his last violent bout. Here’s the sober reality: Public employees control the Capitol, run the major pension funds, are the main forces electing the governor and most statewide officials, and are treated deferentially in the legal system. Every effort to roll back future pension benefits, or at least put them on a sustainable course, has been beaten back. Even voter-approved initiatives ultimately are gutted by government agencies or the courts. Unfunded pension liabilities — the future debt to pay all the current promises made to government employees — are the perfect “kick the can down the road” scam. The dreadful debt numbers are obvious. But they don’t cause enough current problems to warrant taking on powerful union lobbies. It’s easier for legislators to let future officials deal with the mess. The core reform obstacle is the “California Rule.” It doesn’t refer to a law or even truly a “rule,” but to a series of court rulings since the 1950s. In the private sector, the courts allow those few employers who still offer defined- benefit pensions to reduce benefit levels going forward. Everything earned until today is protected, but starting tomorrow, the employee receives a lower benefit. Nothing’s been taken away. If you don’t like it, you’re free to take a job somewhere else. Under the California Rule, however, once an agency grants a government employee a pension benefit, it can never be reduced unless employees are given another benefit of equal or greater value. Pension debt for all California governments has soared to, by some estimates, $1 trillion. The modest reforms the state has passed apply mostly to new hires. There aren’t enough new employees to make a huge dent in the problem. That leaves debt, tax hikes, and service cutbacks as the only options. But Judge James Richman of the 1st District Court of Appeal not only rejected efforts by the Marin County Employees’ Retirement Association to stop a state law that reined in some pension-spiking efforts, but took direct aim at the California Rule. “(W)hile a public employee does have a ‘vested right’ to a pension, that right is only to a ‘reasonable’ pension — not an immutable entitlement to the most optimal formula of calculating that pension.” Pension promises, it seems, can be tempered by the health of the state budget and the pension system. The judge pointed to a 2011 report from the state’s watchdog agency, the Little Hoover Commission: “California’s pension plans are dangerously underfunded, the result of overly generous benefit promises, wishful thinking and an unwillingness to plan prudently.… To provide immediate savings of the scope needed, state and local governments must have the flexibility to alter future, unaccrued retirement benefits for current workers.” This is sensible stuff. The case itself is a poster child for the entire public- employee mess. The Marin union essentially argues that its members have a constitutional right to spike their already generous pensions at the end of a career. The judge described “pension spiking” as a system “by which public employees use various stratagems and ploys to inflate their income and retirement benefits.” Gov. Jerry Brown in 2012 signed into law a modest reform measure designed more for public relations (We’re fixing the pension mess, so you can agree to a massive tax increase on the ballot!) than fiscal prudence. Its most significant reform was a limitation on spiking, yet the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) later came up with a list of 99 approved spiking gimmicks. Brown complained a little, but didn’t do much about it. For example, a firefighter in a management role could get extra pensionable pay for having management responsibilities. Groundskeepers would get a special pension bump for repairing sprinkler heads, according to news reports. Clerical workers qualified for a pension increase for taking dictation and typing, just as maintenance workers got extra pension dollars for trimming trees. In ruling that a legislative limit on pension spiking was legal, the judge gave pension reformers the best news they’ve had in a while. “We’ve been beaten down so much in the courts, where the presumption is to always side with the employees,” said Dan Pellissier, president of California Pension Reform in Sacramento. Despite being disappointed after initial enthusiasm in other cases, Pellissier has “tempered enthusiasm” about this ruling. “It seems to be a rational, well-reasoned view of the California Rule.… A torturous (legal) argument finally cut in our direction.” He’s not the only one expressing optimism. “A Marin County lawsuit may be a game-changer for pension reform,” wrote a Santa Rosa Press-Democrat editorial this week. “The big question for pension reformers is whether or not the California Supreme Court will agree,” said former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, who authored a pension-reform initiative in his city in 2012. “If it does, the legal door will be open for Californians to begin to take reasonable actions to save pension systems and local governments from fiscal disaster.” It’s almost enough to make me excited, just as I was when a federal judge ruled that pensions can be abrogated in the Stockton bankruptcy case. But then Stockton officials came up with an exit plan that protected the pensions of wealthy employees while cutting services and raising taxes on residents of that poor city. I was excited, too, when 69 percent of San Jose voters approved Reed’s reform. But the courts ruled that it violated the California Rule, and then they gutted the main reforms. And then there was that excitement when reformers were going to qualify statewide reform initiatives, only to be undermined by unfair title summaries (“The Kill the Cute Puppies Act,” or something like that) by a union-friendly attorney general. The state’s compensation system for its public employees is unbelievably generous. Firefighters receive average compensation packages in the $175,000 range. Some Newport Beach lifeguards receive pay packages topping $200,000. Four Los Angeles police and firefighters retired with checks above $1 million last year, according to a recent analysis. “In an effort to convince a top employee to delay retirement,” a Newport-Mesa deputy school superintendent was paid “at least an extra $274,000 into a tax-sheltered retirement account,” according to an Orange County Register report. Hundred-thousand dollar guaranteed lifelong pensions are common (for those retiring in recent years) and $200,000-plus ones are not unusual. The state’s pension-hiking spree was triggered by a 1998 law rammed through the Legislature with promises from the state’s union-run pension fund that it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime, thanks to a booming economy. But since then, unfunded pension liabilities been mounting, some municipalities went belly up and myriad responsible voices began pointing to resulting service cutbacks, tax hikes and debt. As one city manager told a newspaper, cities have become pension providers that offer a few services on the side. It’s an abusive situation, at least for the taxpayer. The whole system is designed to enable the most parasitic union workers whose unions have a grip on the levers of state power. The latest ruling is nice, but the beneficiaries of this bad relationship are going to fight even the most reasonable change in the nastiest manner possible.

2016-08-25 12:03 Steven Greenhut spectator.org

35 ISIS Is Islamic, But Most of Islam Is Not ISIS President Obama and Hillary Clinton are wrong when they say ISIS is not Islamic. Let me be perfectly clear. The majority of Muslims are not terrorists, but al-Qaeda and ISIS are part of an Islamic fundamentalist tradition. The idea of narrowly interpreted the Koran to justify terrorism can be traced to numerous Islamic scholars over the centuries. Out of the four major schools jurisprudence (madhhabs) within Sunni Islam (Hanbali, Hanafi, Shafi’i and Maliki), the most rigid in interpreting the Koran is the Hanbali. The Hanbali School was founded by Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855) in Baghdad. He believed that the caliphs, and the Hanafi judges in the Abbasid Caliphate, were ruling in favor of the government irrespective of the Koran. Around 833 to 848, there was a period called the Mihna (“the trial”) where the political rulers pushed a doctrine claiming that the Koran was created. Anyone who questioned the Abbasids would be persecuted. Hanbal fought and challenged their assertions. He was so respected in Baghdad that people threatened to riot if he was not released from prison. Hanbal believed that Islamic judges should not interpret Islamic law to suit the Caliph of the moment. Therefore, he proposed a literal interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith. He believed that Islamic law could be interpreted through Muhammad and his early companions (Sahaba). In some ways, Hanbal was to Sunni Islam what Martin Luther was to the Protestant Reformation. Both of them argued against the corruption of religious authorities in their time period. Historian Norman Davies wrote in his book Europe, that several years prior to Martin Luther writing his Ninety-Five Theses, “Europe was full of tales about simoniac bishops, nepotistic popes, idle monks, and, above all, the sheer worldly wealth of the church.” Much like anything else in life, timing was important to Luther’s success. Davies believed that Luther’s arguments, in 1517, were aided by reigns of two incredibly corrupt popes. The pontificates of Pope Alexander VI (1492- 1503) and Julius II (1503-1513) brought the Catholic Church’s reputation to its nadir. Hanbal didn’t want to separate from Islam. He believed that the only way to combat corruption was for people to support a literal interpretation of the Koran. After his death, one of his disciples, Al-Hasan ibn al-Barbahari, promoted violence in Baghdad during the 10th century. His followers vandalized homes and physically attacked people who didn’t subscribe to their religious beliefs. By 935 AD, the Abbasid rulers cracked down on these fanatics. The foundations of modern Islamic terrorism can be traced to the intellectual history of the Hanbali school in Baghdad. To use an analogy with Marxism, if Hanbal was Marx, the Lenin of Hanbalism was a man named Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328). Writing at the time of the Mongol invasions of Syria, he wrote about jihad and how it was the duty of Muslims to fight back. The Mongols already sacked Baghdad in 1258 and killed thousands of Muslims. At the time, Muslims believed that they had to defend themselves against further Mongol attacks on the Muslim world. Taymiyyah also propagated the belief that people needed to return to the ways of the prophet. It was through his teachings that the Salafi movement emerged. It stressed that Islam was best understood through Muhammad, his companions, and the first three generations of Muslims. His prolific writings informed people that anyone who did not agree with the Salafis was not a real Muslim. His writings would influence several important Islamists including Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792), Hassan al-Banna (1906-1949), the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966), a leading intellectual inside the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Sayyid Qutb’s writings influenced Osama bin Laden. Sayyid became a martyr when he was hanged by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood after they tried to assassinate him. Osama bin Laden was also acquainted with Sayyid Qutb’s brother Muhammad. Muhammad moved to Saudi Arabia after his brother was killed. He got a job lecturing at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. Osama bin Laden attended his lectures on Sayyid Qutb’s ideas. Qutb also influenced current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and Anwar al-Awlaki. Within Sunni Islam, the followers of ISIS are part of that Hanbali tradition within Sunni Islam. That doesn’t mean that Hanbali School is the only part of Sunni Islam or that all Hanbalis are terrorists. Since 9/11, we have killed thousands of Islamic terrorists. We will achieve victory when we kill more terrorists than are being created. This will not happen until this war within Islam is won by Reform Muslims.

2016-08-25 12:03 Robert Zapesochny spectator.org

36 Extreme Anxiety — Or How to Negotiate With Hostage-Holding Terrorists An excerpt from Daniel Wattenberg’s new nonfiction novella, Decatur’s Wake: The Fateful Rivalry Behind the Lightning Defeat of Barbary Terror, available as a Kindle Single from Amazon. Within five days of his arrival in the Mediterranean in June 1815 in command of a squadron of ten ships, Commodore Stephen Decatur had captured two Algerine warships, including her flagship Meshuda, and killed the commander of the enemy fleet. With word of the American squadron rippling through the region, Decatur sensed that his chances of catching more enemy vessels out at sea were dwindling. Perhaps they would be withdrawing to the safety of their home port. “I shall proceed to the Port of Algiers, in the hope of impeding their return,” he reported. After more than a month at sea and with scurvy spreading among his own men, his squadron was in need of fresh supplies of water, fruit, and vegetables. The time had come, he decided, to open talks. Decatur’s squadron arrived off Algiers on June 28. The city was protected from naval attack by more than 400 cannon. On June 29 Decatur’s flagship Guerriere raised two flags, a white flag of truce and the flag of Sweden to summon the Swedish consul to serve as an intermediary between the Americans and the ruling dey of Algiers. The Swedish consul, Johan Norderling, and the captain of the port of Algiers were ferried to the Guerriere. Decatur was resplendent in navy blue coat with gold trim and white trousers, the pale blue and white ribbon and gold leaf bald eagle of the Order of Cincinnati pinned to his lapel. Radiating a proconsular authority, Decatur led his guests to his great cabin, where William Shaler, the former merchant seaman and diplomat appointed to assist in peace negotiations, awaited. The Algerine fleet, it turned out, had not returned home. Where were the Algerine ships? Decatur affected to wonder. Hearing of the American squadron, they had all found refuge in neutral ports, the port captain bluffed in reply. Not all of them, Decatur retorted — his squadron had captured two of them. Reading the port captain’s disbelief, Decatur had a subordinate bring in the ranking surviving officer of the Meshuda. Immediately recognizing the officer, the port captain lunged for the prisoner’s throat, latching onto a handful of beard. Decatur stepped in to pry them apart. The port captain was visibly shaken by the confirmation of the Algerine losses. He turned to Decatur: What were the American terms? Decatur presented him with two letters for the dey, one from President Madison, the other from Shaler and himself. No, Decatur answered, all negotiations would take place on his ship. The Americans would suspend military operations during the talks, the port captain tried. Would they not? No — and if it had been up to him, Decatur confided, there would be no peace talks. “My officers have come out to fight and put themselves in practice,” he said. Alas, he had his orders. The Algerines had much to ponder. The port captain, accompanied by the Swede, returned to shore to report, deliver the letters to the dey, and await new instructions. “Your Highness having declared war against the United States of America, and made captives of some of their citizens,” President James Madison had written, the Congress of the United States had authorized “hostilities against your government and people. A squadron of our ships of war is sent into the Mediterranean sea, to give effect to the declaration. It will carry with it the alternative of peace or war. It rests with your government to choose between them.” The Algerine port captain and the Swede returned to the Guerriere the following day. “Their anxiety appeared extreme to conclude the peace immediately,” Decatur and Shaler recorded in their report to Secretary of State James Monroe. In Decatur’s great cabin, the Americans presented the port captain a proposed treaty with 22 articles that Shaler had drafted on the voyage over. Its main demands: release of all the American prisoners without ransom; $10,000 in compensation for the captured American commercial brig Edwin and her cargo; favorable treatment for American vessels; the right to sell prize ships and cargo at Algiers during wartime; an end to all tribute (the polite term for the maritime protection money extorted by the Barbary powers) — forever. The Algerine gagged on one of the demands. Financial restitution for the seized ship and plunder would be a concession unprecedented for one of the Barbary states. Impossible. The confiscated property had already been distributed. “As it was unjustly taken, it must be restored or paid for,” Decatur insisted. But the dey had to come away with something, the Algerine pleaded, or face the wrath of his political enemies. Anything would suffice, even token tribute. Perhaps a small yearly present of gunpowder? “If you insist upon receiving powder as a tribute,” Decatur replied, “you must expect to receive balls with it.” The port captain was desperate to salvage something from the parley. It was not the current dey, Omar, who had declared war on the United States in 1812, he explained; it had been a predecessor. Omar needed a face- saving concession from the Americans. The captured Algerine ships — Meshuda and Estedio. Would the Americans consent to return them? It was that or the dey’s life. (Omar had reason to fear internal threats. His two immediate predecessors were both assassinated by their own palace guards.) Decatur and Shaler withdrew to confer privately. Decatur stood to lose a small fortune by relinquishing his two prize ships to Algiers. On the other hand, it was safer to nail down an agreement immediately with a chastened Omar than to take his chances later with a less tractable successor. So Decatur made an oral, off-the-books commitment to return the ships as a favor, on the condition the dey signed the treaty as presented without alteration. The port captain requested a cease-fire — even if only for a few hours — while his side deliberated ashore. “Not a minute,” Decatur replied. “If your squadron appears in sight before the treaty is signed by the Dey and the prisoners sent off, ours will capture them.” Hostilities would not be suspended until the negotiators’ returning boat, flying a white flag of truce, was in sight. The port captain and the Swede made it to shore and back to the Guerriere with the signed treaty and the freed prisoners — a round trip of five miles — in a brisk three hours. The treaty appeared “to secure every interest within the contemplation of the government,” Decatur and Shaler wrote in a July 4 letter to Monroe transmitting the document. With the expedition’s original objectives accomplished, Decatur had already, within six weeks of his departure from New York, whipped the cream off the enterprise — and he wasn’t finished yet.

2016-08-25 12:03 Daniel Wattenberg spectator.org

37 Allenmore offices evacuated because of odor Firefighters douse flames at the Puyallup School District bus barn on Wednesday afternoon. Volunteers in Tenino recently painted over racist graffiti on Marvin Phillips' house and truck. Mayor Wayne Fournier announced Aug. 23 that Sunset Chevrolet in Sumner has pledged to repair, restore or replace the Phillips family truck, as volunteers were unable to erase the spray paint inside of and on the vehicle. After 36 years at its Hilltop location, the Tacoma Boxing Club needs to find a new home. The Boys Hollywood producer Mark Myers, a Tacoma native and Wilson High alum, shares insight about returning to his hometown to shoot the teen romantic thriller "Heartthrob. " Sample some of the lovely drawings of downtown Tacoma created by expert and beginning artists participating in the West Coast Sketch Crawl over the weekend. Organized by Tacoma's Urban sketchers, the event welcomed sketchers up and down the coast to explore our city with an artist's eye. Thousands filled McKinley Avenue for with food, arts, activities, booth and music. Bill Habermann, funeral director at Piper-Morley with Oakwood Hill, talks about the history of the pauper’s cemetery in Tacoma and how things were done back in the Victorian age. FBI Special Agent Terry Postma and supervisor Kelly Smith talk about the apprehension of Gabriel Indelicio Nevarez in Mexico, and his extradition back to the United States. Nevarez was charged in the 2007 fatal Tacoma shooting of Kyle Grinnell. He appeared in court Friday. Crew of the Lady Washington sing a classic sea shanty as fellow tall ship Hawaiian Chieftain arrives at Foss Waterway Seaport in Tacoma. Both will offer dockside tours and sailing expeditions from Aug. 19-23. Carlos Eduardo Perez Calderon received a high-end sentence of 30 years for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend while her children were home. Video shot at Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma on Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.

2016-08-26 00:06 www.thenewstribune.com

38 MLB Baseball Box Scores ST. LOUIS -- Stephen Piscotty stood in front of his locker and explained the Wednesday night game simply. "He might have left a few more pitches in the middle of the plate than usual," the St. Louis Cardinals right fielder said of New York Mets starter Jacob deGrom, "and we took advantage. "Especially Piscotty, who went 3-for-5 with three RBIs as St. Louis tied a season high with 19 hits in an 8-1 rout at Busch Stadium. Every Cardinal collected a hit before the fifth inning was over as deGrom (7-7) absorbed his second straight pounding in what was supposed to be a classic pitchers' duel against Carlos Martinez. In 4 2/3 innings, deGrom was touched for 12 hits and five runs. He walked two and fanned three. That came on the heels of allowing a career-worst 13 hits and eight runs on Aug. 18 in a 10-7 loss at San Francisco. "It's hard to get results when you throw everything right down the middle," deGrom said. "I'm missing down the middle, and these are big league hitters, and that's what they do. "While deGrom didn't miss many bats, Martinez (12-7) didn't allow much in the way of hard contact. He gave up only four hits and a run in eight innings, walking three and fanning five while inducing two more double-play balls to up his National League-leading total to 27. As he has done more frequently this year, Martinez sacrificed velocity for command and movement, saving his 98 mph fastballs for key pitches and fetching 13 outs via grounders. "It's not less is better," St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said of Martinez's increasingly refined approach. "He understands it's about location and movement. He's more able to throw anything at any time. "Working quickly in the 90-degree heat, Martinez finished every inning but the fifth in 13 pitches or fewer, getting his teammates off the field and to the bat rack. "We're not getting worn out on the field with him out there," Piscotty said. "I guess you have to thank him for our outburst. "Matt Carpenter, the only Cardinal without multiple hits, made his one hit count, belting his 16th homer of the year to start the bottom of the first. It was the 12th leadoff homer in Carpenter's career. New York (63-63) tied it in the second on an RBI double by Asdrubal Cabrera, but Piscotty's two-out infield single in the third plated Jedd Gyorko to give St. Louis the lead for good. Then the Cardinals started playing long ball again. The NL home run leaders got a 424-foot, opposite- field blast from Randal Grichuk in the fourth, his fifth in 40 at-bats since being recalled Aug. 11 from Triple-A Memphis, and a two-run shot from Piscotty in the fifth for a 5-1 lead. Since returning from his second stint in the minors this year, Grichuk has 13 hits, 12 for extra bases. "There's been a lot of lessons he's had to learn this year," Matheny said of Grichuk. "He's always had it; it's just trying to figure out how to reach some guys. He's worked hard, and he has the talent and want-to. "St. Louis kept piling on, scoring twice in the seventh on Jhonny Peralta's triple off the right field wall and a two-out RBI single from Greg Garcia. Yadier Molina capped the onslaught with his third hit, an RBI single in the eighth that gave him six hits in the series' first two games. The result enabled the Cardinals (67-58) to stay 1 1/2 games ahead of the Miami Marlins for the NL's second wild-card spot and move within a game of San Francisco for the first wild-card slot, pending the outcome of the Giants' game at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mets dropped 4 1/2 games behind St. Louis. NOTES: St. Louis RHP Lance Lynn made his third rehab start Wednesday night at Springfield and threw 48 pitches in three scoreless innings, allowing three hits and fanning three. Lynn underwent Tommy John surgery in November. ... New York placed LHP Jonathon Niese (left knee) on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday and recalled RHP Erik Goeddel from Triple-A Las Vegas. Goeddel gave up two runs in 1 2/3 innings Wednesday night, then was optioned back to Las Vegas. The Mets will add LHP Sean Gilmartin from Triple-A on Thursday. ... Cardinals RHP Trevor Rosenthal (right shoulder inflammation) started a throwing program Tuesday and will throw off flat ground for two weeks before further evaluation.

2016-08-25 12:04 The Sports scoresandstats.newyork.cbslocal.com

39 Storm threats to Florida and Gulf Coast A tropical system brewing in the Caribbean could strengthen into a hurricane before hitting Florida and the Gulf Coast in the coming days. Weather forecasters warn that the storm has a 60% chance of turning into a depression or named storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. The tropical disturbance would be known as Hermine if upgraded to a storm. Heavy rain in Florida brings the threat of more mosquitoes as the state grapples with a Zika virus outbreak. Earlier this week, Florida announced five new cases of Zika , which is frequently spread by mosquitoes, bringing the state's total number of infected people to 42. Weather officials estimate the tropical system, currently known as Invest 99- L, will hit the Bahamas by Friday and could arrive in South Florida and the Florida Keys by Sunday or Monday. The tropical disturbance was located southeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands as of Thursday morning, but is still considered a disorganised system with no defined centre of circulation, according to the hurricane centre. Should the system develop into Hermine, it would become the eighth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season. Meteorologist have also expressed uncertainty about the potential storm tracking toward the Gulf Coast and Louisiana, where residents are still reeling from devastating floods that have left 13 people dead. The last hurricane to strike Florida was Wilma in 2005, which made landfall in the US the same year as Katrina. Meanwhile, the central Atlantic saw hurricane Gaston quickly develop late on Wednesday before it was downgraded to a tropical storm. Gaston had winds of up to 75 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane, before it weakened and moved toward the Leeward Islands. Hurricane season ends on 30 November.

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41 Syria Daraya: Deal reached to evacuate besieged town A deal has been reached to allow civilians and rebel fighters to leave the Syrian town of Daraya after a long government siege. Both sides said that the evacuation of the town, near the capital Damascus, will begin on Friday. Government forces have encircled Daraya since 2012 and since then residents have faced near- constant bombardment and shortages of food, water and power. Civilians only received their first supplies in four years in June. Under the terms of the deal, 700 armed men will leave for the rebel- controlled city of Idlib while 4,000 civilians will move to government shelters, Syrian state media reported. Daraya saw some of the first protests against the Syrian government, an uprising that transformed into a full-blown civil conflict. The withdrawal of the rebels only a few miles from Damascus is a boost for President Bashar al-Assad, analysts say. "We are being forced to leave, but our condition has deteriorated to the point of being unbearable," Hussam Ayash, an activist in the town, told the Associated Press news agency. "We withstood for four years but we couldn't any longer. " Meanwhile a monitoring group said 11 children had been killed in a barrel bomb attack by government forces in a rebel-held neighbourhood of Aleppo city. They were among 15 people killed in the incident, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The UN says Russia, who has been supporting the Syrian government in its offensives, has agreed to a 48-hour pause in Aleppo to allow in much- needed aid. But the organisation added it was still waiting for agreement from other parties fighting on the ground. In another development , the US has urged "strong and swift action" after a UN investigation concluded that Syria used chemical weapons against its own people.

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42 Kitten-sized extinct 'lion' named after David Attenborough A miniature marsupial lion, extinct for at least 18 million year, has been named after Sir David Attenborough after its fossilised remains were found in a remote part of Australia. Teeth and bone fragments from the kitten-sized predator, named Microleo attenboroughi, were found in limestone deposits at the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil site in north-western Queensland. The researchers named the new species after the British broadcasting legend because of his work promoting the famous fossil site, which provides a record of nearly 25 million years of Australia's natural history. When Microleo was still prowling around, in the early Miocene era (roughly 19 million years ago), the arid, outback ecosystem was a lush rainforest. "It likely ran through the treetops, gobbling up birds, frogs, lizards and insects," says Dr Anna Gillespie, a palaeontologist at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Ms Gillespie, who has been working at Riversleigh and preparing fossils for 20 years, helped recover fragments of the animal's skull and several teeth. It's far from a complete skeleton, but it's an important part of the puzzle. "Crucially, we have got the third premolar, which is an elongated tooth that looks like a blade," she told the BBC. The razor-sharp tooth, used to tear up prey, is a common feature found in all known members of the family. "It immediately tells us it's a marsupial lion," she says. But the tooth is by far the smallest of its kind ever recovered. It's about one-tenth the size of the 3cm-long "bolt-crunching" teeth belonging to the largest and last surviving marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex, which went extinct about 100,000 years ago. Thylacoleo weighed about 130kg (286lbs) and was Australia's largest carnivorous mammal. It was a fearsome predator about the size of an African lion, with the bite strength to match, and hunted megafauna such as giant kangaroo and diprotodon. In sharp contrast, Ms Gillespie and her team estimate that their "little guy" weighed only 600g, and was about the size of a kitten. "We weren't expecting to find a marsupial lion of this small size," she says. "It might have been a bit too big to fit in your pocket, but it would have fit quite comfortably in a handbag. It would have been very cute. " The team has ruled out the possibility that the fossils belonged to a juvenile, or a malformed member of a related species. This is due to their distinctive shape, the fact that all the molars have erupted and the presence of "very clear wear patterns". "This animal has been running around hunting things for quite a while. So it's definitely an adult," says Dr Gillespie. The team from UNSW has described the new species in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. With this find, the researchers have determined that at least three different marsupial lions were co-existing in the ancient Riversleigh rainforest. "This level of diversity is unmatched for the family at any other time in their evolutionary history," the researchers note. One marsupial lion (Priscileo) weighed about 1.8kg, and was about the size of a cat. Another yet-to-be described species (Wakaleo) weighed around 30kg, about the size of a small Labrador dog, says Ms Gillespie. She says it indicates that they may have been co-operating, dividing up the food resources to reduce competition between themselves. The fossil was found in a location at Riversleigh known as Neville's Garden, which has become renowned for its rich diversity of animals. It's yielded bandicoots, possums, kangaroos, toothed platypuses, small koalas, thousands of bats, fish, turtles, lizards, pythons and a range of rainforest birds. "My colleagues have been working at Riversleigh for 40 years," says Ms Gillespie. "In that time we have processed tonnes of limestone, and got thousands and thousands of fossils back, but this is the only specimen from this animal. "So it's rather enigmatic in this way," she says. "It might have been a rare species in that ecosystem, but we still have to hunt for more. " Stephen Wroe, an associate professor of zoology and palaeontology at the University of New England in NSW, who was not involved in the study, says the discovery raises new questions about the origin of the marsupial lion family. "Until quite recently there were only a few marsupial lion species known. Over the last decade or two evidence from Riversleigh has seen this jump to 11 subspecies," he says. "This most recent find doesn't just increase the known diversity in terms of species numbers - it greatly expands the diversity of known morphologies. " Mr Wroe says the team has done a good job estimating the body size: "No matter how you wash it, this little guy was tiny relative to other members of the family. " He says its diminutive size may explain why only a single specimen has been found. "In general Australia's fossil record is very poor over this time period," he says. "Riversleigh is a freakishly productive area in this respect. "

2016-08-26 00:04 By Myles www.bbc.co.uk

43 the new sign for gender-neutral toilets It's a common sight at public events - a long line for the the ladies' loos and a short one for the men's. In Canada, however, one venue hopes its new all-inclusive gender- neutral toilets will help to alleviate that problem. And, more significantly, it feeds into the debate about transgender rights in the country. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) has indicated that it wants attendees at Canada's largest annual fair to know they can use any of the facilities they have on offer - by putting up new "we don't care" signs on their public toilets to replace existing symbols long used in public washrooms. Photos of the signs by Kansas-based artist Peregrine Honig, who tweeted the design in April, have been widely shared on social media by many who see it as a way of including those who identify as being transgender, or non- binary. The CNE is not the only place to have adopted the signs. In the US, the 21c Museum Hotel in North Carolina adopted the sign to protest against a law that requires people to use bathrooms consistent with the gender they were assigned at birth. The right of transgender people to use toilets of their choice has become highly controversial in the US. In the US and Canada, all-gender bathrooms are being adopted increasingly by businesses and educational institutions, as awareness grows about the transgender community. But there is opposition to the move. Critics say men could enter women's toilets by calling themselves transgender, putting women and children at risk. However, pro-transgender rights activists argue that there are many cases of men assaulting women in which they do not pretend to be women in order to do it. On Monday, a Texas judge blocked an order by the US government that schools permit transgender students to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. It is also an issue in the UK. Morganna Snow, a transgender woman from Gloucester, told the BBC in June that she gets "spat at and shouted at", leaving her feeling violated and stripped of her identity.

2016-08-26 00:04 By Rozina www.bbc.co.uk

44 Crossbow used in triple Canada murder Three people have been killed in Toronto, with one of the fatalities believed to be caused by a crossbow, say police. Attending to a reported stabbing in the Scarborough area, police found two people dead and one person wounded. The injured person later died. One person is in custody and a crossbow was found in the vicinity. One of the victims suffered injuries consistent with a crossbow, a police official told Canadian media. Constable Jennifer Sidhu, a Toronto police spokeswoman, told the BBC that police received reports of a stabbing incident and arrived just before 1300 EST (1800 GMT) to find the three injured in a garage. Ms Sidhu confirmed that a fourth person at the scene had been taken into custody. Police later said two of the victims were male and the third victim was a woman, according to Canada's national broadcaster CBC. A motive for the attack is still unclear, police added. 2016-08-26 00:04 www.bbc.co.uk

45 Legal Remedy expands, holds 'Beerthday' celebration in Rock Hill Redeeming Life Christian Ministries, which occupies the Rock Hill building of the first integrated school in South Carolina, was targeted by burglars and vandals who stole money and left feces on the floor. Billy Lewis is the grandfather of a 4-day-old baby who died after being placed in a refrigerator for three hours. The boy's mother, Angela Blackwell, has been arrested and charged with homicide by child abuse. Winthrop University welcomed students with the traditional Blue Line procession on Monday. The event marks the start of the academic year. With school back in session and buses back on the roadways, local law enforcement and school officials say it's important for motorists to understand when they are supposed to stop for a stopped school bus and when they may pass. Fort Mill's newest Community Cafe opened downtown this week at Sisk Baptist Church. The cafe offers free weekly meals and fellowship. New River Community Church in Lake Wylie, South Carolina, is one of several local faith groups to partner with Habitat for Humanity of York County to make critical home repairs for residents in need in Clover. Carowinds is bringing back its WinterFest holiday celebration for the third time in the park’s history, as well as debuting four new rides to show off in its upcoming “County Fair” section. WinterFest previously featured in the mid-1980s and mid-2000s, according to Carowinds officials. WinterFest will begin in Nov. 2017, and is free for those who have Gold or Platinum season passes. The County Fair portion will open this spring. Activist group Concerned Black Men of the City of Rock Hill met with Mayor Doug Echols and Police Chief Chris Watts over the last month to hash out ten demands the group gave to the Rock Hill Police Department in July. Rock Hill attorney Brad Rawlinson said four of the demands had been met, but the group will take "more aggressive" measures if new tactics addressed at a forum on Tuesday do not lead to change. The group is considering installing cameras in personal vehicles, "flooding" the police department with complaints and possible lawsuits. Kids in the Rock Hill school district headed back to school Tuesday morning, including students at Ebinport Elementary School, where teachers directed pupils to a new school entrance and parents lined kids along a brick wall for back-to-school photos. Roughly 18,000 students in the Rock Hill school district went back to class Tuesday, a day after schools in other York, Chester and Lancaster counties. Kut Kreator barborshop gives free haircuts to students before school begins Tuesday in Rock Hill.

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46 The 'foreign minister' for Israel's settlers seeks to change the narrative A few weeks ago, Oded Revivi received a phone call from a resident of a neighboring city. As mayor of Efrat in Gush Etzion, Revivi is used to getting phone calls from his residents. This one though came from a Palestinian. It was the mayor of a nearby Palestinian village calling Revivi for help with a laundry list of problems he faced – from transportation issues to garbage collection. He even asked Revivi for help in overturning demolition orders the IDF had issued against some homes built illegally in his town. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. Revivi jotted down the list and passed it on to the civil administration, the military unit responsible for coordinating civilian matters between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He urged the officers to do everything they could to help. “Coexistence is not a red or blue dot on a map like the army is used to seeing,” Revivi explained. “It is gray. Really gray.” I met Revivi this week since he was recently appointed as the “chief foreign envoy for the Yesha Council,” or what can more simply be referred to as the settlers’ foreign minister. Revivi replaced Danny Dayan, a veteran leader of the council, who earlier this month took up his new post as Israel’s consul-general in New York. Revivi will serve as the chief envoy alongside his day job as Efrat’s mayor, a position he has held since 2008. Revivi’s task is daunting. On the one hand, diplomatic pressure on Israel is mounting. The French are pushing their new peace initiative, and hovering above is the fear within the right-wing camp that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will freeze settlement construction to stave off a US-led UN Security Council resolution in President Barack Obama’s last days in office. To complicate everything further, next June Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, which also marks the liberation of Jerusalem and the conquering of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. While the Yesha Council will celebrate this milestone, the world will not. It will instead mark 50 years of Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. One of Revivi’s jobs will be to try and shift that narrative. He seems to have been bred for the task. Born in 1969 in Ramat Gan, Revivi got his first taste of the bigger world at the age of 18 months, when his parents left Israel for Englewood, New Jersey, where his father served as a Jewish Agency emissary. After three years the Revivis returned to Israel, this time to Jerusalem. A few years later his parents again decided to move abroad. Now it was London. Revivi, nine-years-old, had difficulty adapting to the strict British attire – the mandatory tie, jacket and school cap were a bit too much for the free-spirited Israeli youth. But while the British stiffness might not have stayed with Revivi, the diplomatic flair, as well as a slight British accent, did remain. A few years after returning to Israel, Revivi was sent by the Foreign Ministry to the US as part of a delegation of high school students. He traveled the country, speaking in public schools in places like Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Cleveland, and Revivi was struck by the students’ ignorance and lack of knowledge about Israel and the challenges it faced. “They asked me how many camels my father had, and if the Levis jeans and Converse shoes I was wearing were bought in Israel or in the US and shipped to Israel before the trip,” he recalled. Revivi, who went on to serve as a battalion commander in the IDF and obtain a law degree in London, believes that the same ignorance exists today when it comes to the settlements, their legality, and the role they play – or don’t – in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While the world largely believes that settlements are a violation of international law, Revivi says they are legally justified; while the world views settlements as the main obstacle to peace, Revivi reminds people that war with Israel started way before the first settlement was ever built; while the world looks at the occupation as the cause for Palestinian terrorism, Revivi says that his constituents are actually catalysts for peace and coexistence; and while BDS might be concerning, Revivi does not believe it is the result of the existence of settlements. Boycotts have been in place against Israel since it was founded in 1948, he says, and will unfortunately continue with or without the West Bank. To get out his message, Revivi meets with dozens of delegations and diplomats visiting Israel. In March, for example, he met 30 groups, including students from Harvard and Georgetown and professors from Cambridge. “My objective is to show them the reality, the way we live, why we are here, and why the situation is so complex,” he told me. “I try to confuse them with the facts.” But do the facts even matter, I asked, when you are going up against the US State Department and the European Union which are consistently critical of the settlements? Can the facts, no matter how right they might be, move the needle even just a bit? Revivi concedes that it will be an uphill battle, but he is willing to invest the time, one group and one fact after another. “It is a myth that settlements are the obstacle and that this is a conflict zone,” he says of the West Bank. “The shopping malls we have here, the roads we all drive on, that is coexistence.” According to Revivi, the status of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank – or Judea and Samaria as he calls it – is incomparable to anywhere else in the world. Egypt, he explained, controlled Gaza before the 1967 war, and then forfeited it after. Jordan did the same with the West Bank. “It all became unwanted land,” he said. “This has no resemblance anywhere else in the world.” So, I asked Revivi, what is your solution? The Efrat mayor laughed. “I always get asked that question,” he said. “Sometimes it gets asked right away and sometimes later on, but it is always asked.” His answer though was like the way he described coexistence – gray. A one-state solution, he explained, would be problematic for Israel since it would put the country in a position of having to give citizenship to West Bank Palestinians. Due to the demographic ramifications, Revivi said he would need to know more before embracing such a plan. The two-state solution, he says, is more problematic. First, there is the lack of viability for a Palestinian state, at least from a financial perspective. Second, there is no assurance that the Arabs in the Galilee won’t then ask for their own state. And third, there are the grave security risks a Palestinian state would pose to Israel. But while the classic solutions might not be viable, Revivi says a lot can be done on the ground to promote peace and coexistence. “We can build bridges today that will make life easier,” he said, pointing to the recent phone call with his Palestinian mayor-neighbor as an example of how “joint interests can build our relationships.” But what about the Jewish community in the US, I asked? BDS is gaining strength, and progressive Jews are moving away from Israel. How can he make the settlement movement appealing to those Jews who should be Israel’s natural allies but aren’t? As an observant Jew and the mayor of a religious settlement, he surprised me with his answer: Israel, he said, is not losing Jews because of the settlements, but rather because of the way the country is treating Jews around the world. “Religion and state issues need to be solved,” said Revivi, referring, for example, to the ongoing controversy surrounding the construction of a pluralistic prayer platform at the Kotel. “The Jewish world is too small to cut out parts of it.” Revivi recalled a recent visit to New York where he attended Friday night services – albeit before Shabbat actually began – at Bnai Jeshurun, a progressive, pluralistic synagogue on the Upper West Side. “Seven- hundred to 1,000 professionals are rushing there to experience Shabbat,” he said. “You can’t stay oblivious.” Being a mayor of a West Bank settlement is a big enough task, but Revivi seems prepared for his new venture as the Yesha Council’s chief foreign envoy. In a few weeks he will make his first visit to Washington in his new role, and begin the campaign to change the narrative. He knows it won’t be easy, and so he will go slowly, one fact at a time. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

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47 Finland to test out basic income scheme Switzerland may have voted against the controversial idea of paying all its citizens a guaranteed income, but Finland indicated Thursday it plans to try out a monthly basic payment of 560 euros ($600). The government said it had chosen the figure for an unconditional basic income in line with a manifesto pledge by centrist Prime Minister Juha Sipila, who took office 15 months ago. Former businessman Sipila wants to see if the measure can boost employment and simplify the welfare benefits system, and plans to test the idea on a 2,000-strong sample of randomly selected working-age residents. "The primary goal of the basic income experiment is related to promoting employment," said the health and social affairs ministry, adding that it also aimed to simplify the complicated benefits system in a sustainable way regarding public finances. Amid a growing debate on the subject, Finland now wants to be the first European country to test the idea nationwide. In June, voters in Switzerland decisively rejected a far more generous proposal to pay a monthly 2,500 Swiss francs (2,300 euros/$2,500) to each adult and 625 francs for each child. The idea has support on the political left and right with the former wanting a guaranteed safety net while some liberal voices feel that money for nothing can dissuade some jobless people from seeking work.

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48 Rock Hill kidnapping, rape suspect in court Known gang member Quinton McClinton pleaded guilty Wednesday to accessory after the fact to murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery in connection with the fatal 2014 shooting of Chester City Councilman Odell Williams. McClinton, who was driving the truck that Williams was pursuing before he was shot, was sentenced to five years in prison on each charge, with the sentences running concurrently. 'True Crime with Aphrodite Jones' will air a special at 9 p.m. Monday on the killing of beloved York, South Carolina, city worker Ernest Tolbert in 2008. Kenneth Andrew Williams, a Northwestern High School assistant principal accused of having sex with a student, appeared at a Wednesday morning hearing where his bond was set at $110,000. A police detective talked about what officers found in their investigation; a victim advocate read a letter from the victim's mother. Excerpts from the closing statements in the trial of Christopher Moore, accused of fatally shooting Chester City Councilman Odell Williams in 2014. Chester County Sheriff Alex Underwood is in court this week facing allegations from former deputy Mary Anne Tolbert that he coerced sex. Underwood calls the claims false. Here are excerpts from opening statements. Father of alleged victim calls suspect "menace to society" and her actions "despicable. " Two are charged with felony resisting arrest in incident after allegedly punching Rock Hill Police Officer Mark Schurig, causing vision damage. York Police Department and York School District One are investigating after a school bus was involved in a hit and run crash involving a pedestrian. Here are excerpts from a press conference Wednesday afternoon. Investigators charged Jacob Smith of Rock Hill with a fourth count of second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor after a second teen victim came forward. Smith appeared in court Wednesday for a bond hearing, which was attended by the second victim's parents who claim Smith is a manipulator who hides behind Christianity. Bond was denied. Terrie Ruff and her son Michael Huskey give details about an alleged abduction attempt as Michael and his cousin were walking to school Monday morning. Michael is a fifth grader at Pleasant Knoll Elementary in Fort Mill. Police responded and were unable to find the suspect.

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49 Baby safe following SWAT standoff A large group of CMPD officers, Charlotte firefighters and MEDIC personnel responded to the 11000 block of Plaza Road Extension on Wednesday afternoon. Several hundred shoppers and workers were evacuated from Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, N. C. Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 after shots were fired. Many of those evacuated gathered near the Marriott across Glenwood Avenue. About 3,000 firefighters of the more than 53,000 from across North Carolina came to the Charlotte Convention Center to attend the South Atlantic Fire Rescue Expo on Friday. The Charlotte Fire Department and a number of others displayed trucks while vendors sold everything from turn out gear, to flashing truck lights to fire hose retrieval systems. The expo continues on Saturday from 9am-2pm. Also on Saturday firefighters will participate in the 6th Annual Charlotte Memorial Stair Climb in the Duke Energy Center in remembrance of all the fire and rescue personnel that perished in the attacks on 9/11. Erick Jamal Hendricks was arrested and accused of trying to recruit domestic terrorists for the Islamic State. Hendricks' mother, Linda Woods, recently read a statement from her son in his defense. Chad Cameron Copley, 39, appeared in a courtroom at the Wake County Judicial Center after being arraigned on murder charges in Raleigh on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. According to police, Copley was inside his garage at 3536 Singleleaf Lane, off Mitchell Mill Road, when he fired a shotgun. The blast struck Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas, 20, who was with a group outside his home. Copley was remanded without bond. 25-year-old Kentucky man gets $20,000 bond set after attacking flight crew Michael Kerr of Lexington, Ky., had three whiskeys during a flight to Charlotte, on July 21st. Footage shows him becoming impatient in wanting to disembark the plane. An FBI affidavit said it took the pilots and multiple police officers to drag Kerr off the plane after he threatened, shoved, kicked and spat at flight attendants. Jim Hamlen, whose kids used to attend SouthLake Christian Academy, talks about Wayne Parker, the former headmaster that embezzled millions from the school. Wayne Parker, the former headmaster of Southlake Christian Academy in Huntersville accused of embezzling $9 million from the school, walks into the Charles R. Jonas Federal Courthouse on Thursday, July 28, 2016. Tanya Stevenson talks about her friend, whose body was found in West Charlotte Park this morning.

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50 Labour leadership: Smith claims Corbyn 'happy' about Brexit vote Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith has claimed Jeremy Corbyn was "happy" about the UK voting to leave the EU. Speaking during a sometimes ill-tempered hustings debate in Glagow, he also warned that the party could split unless Mr Corbyn was replaced. Mr Corbyn again insisted he voted to Remain in June's EU referendum. And he warned against splitting the party, saying it was important that Labour remained "democratic and accountable". The event at the SECC was the latest in a series of debates being held by the two politicians during the Labour leadership contest. Mr Smith is attempting to unseat Mr Corbyn less than a year after he was overwhelmingly elected as leader. The leadership contest was triggered after dozens of Mr Corbyn's frontbench team - including then-Work and Pensions spokesman Mr Smith - quit in the wake of Hilary Benn's sacking on 26 June. But despite having little support among Labour MPs - who accuse him of having a lacklustre EU referendum campaign - Mr Corbyn's backers believe he remains popular among grassroots party members. Mr Smith told an audience of Labour members that he was "gutted" by the Brexit vote, and was prepared to fight Brexit up to opposing a vote to trigger Article 50 in parliament. Repeatedly questioning whether Mr Corbyn voted to Remain, he added: "The reason I think that Jeremy can be so complacent and passive about this is that he's happy about the result. He's not bothered about the result. "If he's so concerned about protecting workers' rights why on earth would we allow the Tories to implement a Brexit deal which is going to see workers' rights in this country sold down the river? "He didn't fight hard last time round. I will. " Mr Corbyn said the referendum had taken place and delivered a result which was not the one he wanted, but had to be respected. He said he would fight to protect workers' rights and consumer rights and to ensure "there is an effective economic relationship with Europe when the Brexit negotiations are completed". He added: "We don't want to become a low-wage tax haven bargain basement economy offshore of Europe. " Speaking earlier in the debate, Mr Smith insisted he would be "Labour till I die" and would not play any part in a split. But he said his "grave fear" was that the party could end up divided unless a new leader is elected. Mr Smith claimed Labour had gone backwards in Scotland under Mr Corbyn, with the party finishing third behind the SNP and Conservatives in May's Holyrood election. He said: "People in Scotland cannot look to Labour in Westminster right now and anticipate us winning a general election, therefore we are ill- serving the Scottish Labour Party and we are ill-serving the people of Scotland. "We need to get back to being a radical and credible government-in- waiting, and we need to be much more powerful in attacking the Tories. " Mr Corbyn pledged greater investment in Scotland if the party was to win the next general election, and said Labour needed to challenge the SNP more on their "underfunding" of Scottish local authorities. Asked about any potential party split, Mr Corbyn said: "It's an enormous honour to be selected and elected as a Labour Member of Parliament. "You have a huge responsibility to the community that has elected you and the party that has selected you and put you there so the idea, as happened with the SDP in the 1980s, that you could walk away into the arms of wealthy donors and set up some other organisation is complete and utter anathema to me. "I want our party to be democratic and accountable. " Both candidates also emphatically rejected any suggestion of forming a "progressive alliance" with the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Greens. Labour Party members have already started voting in the leadership contest, with the outcome due to be announced on 24 September. Scottish Labour Party leader Kezia Dugdale, who is supporting Mr Smith's candidacy , did not attend the debate, which was shown live on the BBC News Channel. There was jeering from some sections of the debate audience when Ms Dugdale's name was mentioned, but Mr Corbyn again insisted he would be able to work with her if he won the leadership contest. Mr Corbyn had earlier secured a seat in a Virgin rail carriage for his trip to Glasgow as he returned to the operator following a row about overcrowded trains. Virgin had disputed his claim he was unable to find a seat on a "ram- packed" service earlier this month. On Thursday morning, Mr Corbyn was photographed in a seat on a Virgin service from London Euston to Glasgow. Twitter user David Rose posted an image of the Labour leader and said: "My kids just got on @VirginTrains from Euston to Glasgow with @jeremycorbyn. He has a seat. Good job @richardbranson. " Virgin Trains responded by wishing Mr Corbyn a "great trip". In a Twitter message the operator said: "Welcome onboard! Hope you all have a great trip to Glasgow this morning. "

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51 Dwayne Johnson Is World's Highest Paid Actor In 2016 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the world’s highest paid actor in 2016. The 44-year old brought in $64.5 million, more than doubling what he took home last year, knocking Robert Downey Jr. out of first place, according to Forbes’ annual ranking . (RELATED: Jennifer Lawrence Is The Highest Paid Actress For Second Year In A Row) (photo: REUTERS/Danny Moloshok) Johnson’s biggest box office hits that contributed to taking the top spot included “Central Intelligence” and his upcoming films “Fast 8” and “Baywatch.” (RELATED: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Considers Running For Office) Coming in second place was 62-year-old actor Jackie Chan, who took home $61 million for movies that were released in China. In third was 45-year-old actor Matt Damon, who brought in $55 million for “The Martian.” Jennifer Lawrence was the top-earning actress, bringing in $46 million in 2016.

2016-08-26 00:06 dailycaller.com

52 Membership For Muslim Polygamy Websites Hits New High Membership for SecondWife.com and its sister website Polygamy.com has surpassed 100,000 active users. “In the last two months, the number of people visiting the Muslim polygamy website SecondWife.com has soared,” founder Azad Chaiwala wrote in a press release . “Meanwhile, its companion site, Polygamy.com, has enjoyed a similar increase in web traffic all thanks to the increasing demand for polygamous relationships.” The page that greets new visitors to SecondWife.com (screenshot) Despite receiving heavy backlash since launching his websites, “Chaiwala claims on both of his websites that he does not condone illegal activities.” “He explains that men choosing to take a second wife can do so through purely religious ceremonies in mosques, churches, synagogues, temples or through any other spiritual institutions,” he wrote Thursday. “In this way, there is no conflict with current UK marriage laws as bigamy has not been committed.” Chaiwala argues that polygamy is nothing more than an “unconventional marital arrangement becoming common” in Canada, American and the UK, just like gay marriage. The screenshot that greets new visitors to Polygamy.com (screenshot) Unlike gay marriage, however, polygamy has long been supported within Islam, and is a fundamental part of the heritage of other religions such as Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, and Mormonism. Though many have turned their backs on the practice. “With the way the wind is blowing, it comes as no surprise that SecondWife.com and Polygamy.com are enjoying such success,” wrote in closing. Follow Datoc on Twitter and Facebook

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53 Update For Three Marijuana Votes On November Ballots Residents of three states were waiting to find out if they would be voting on some form of marijuana legalization or repeal of existing law this November — Michigan, Oklahoma and Montana. The Michigan recreational legalization effort got some bad news Wednesday. A judge on the Michigan Court of Claims ruled that 200,000 of the more than 350,000 signatures occurred outside of a 180 days window of the original petition, putting them outside of the allowable window and making them “stale,” The Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday. “We’re disappointed but we always figured this would go to the state Supreme Court — and that’s where we’re headed,” chairman of MI Legalize , Jeff Hank, told The Detroit Free Press. MI Legalize tried to argue the 180 day law was unconstitutional, but the judge disagreed and now the legalization effort has a very narrow window for appeal, in order for the legalization measure to make it on the November ballot. Hank notes that if the state Supreme Court doesn’t rule in their favor, the group would appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds, but says that would mean stalling the effort until at least 2018. Oklahomans For Health, on the other hand, has exceeded the signature threshold by about 2,000 for a medical marijuana initiative, Marijuana Business Daily also reported on Wednesday. Now the Oklahoma Supreme Court needs to approve the signatures having met the threshold. Then the state attorney general needs to review the ballot title before the public has a chance to challenge either the signatures or the title. If those obstacles are cleared, the measure will then appear on the November ballot. If the vote passes, Oklahoma will join 25 other states and the District of Columbia who have legalized marijuana either recreationally or medicinally. Then there is the case of Montana, which already has legal medical marijuana, but a group was looking to have the law repealed. Safe Montana filed suit in district court over what they said were 3,200 “improperly invalidated” signatures for the repeal effort. But, Flathead County District Court Judge Heidi Ulbricht ruled the signatures were properly removed, The Cannabist reported Wednesday. Car dealer Steve Zabawa initiated the measure but it fell 4,100 signatures short after the signatures were nixed and others were lost. Zabawa now says rather than file an appeal to the state Supreme Court, Safe Montana will refocus efforts onto a bill that seeks to expand the existing law by easing restrictions — I-182. The bill would allow doctors to now prescribe medical marijuana to those with chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder. It also lifts the requirement that any doctor who recommends 25 or more patients a year having to be referred to the board of medical examiners. “We’ll spend all our efforts now making sure people know what I-182 is all about,” Zabawa told The Cannabist. Follow Craig Boudreau on Twitter . Send tips to craig@ dailycallernewsfoundation.org . Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected]. 2016-08-26 00:06 Vice Reporter dailycaller.com

54 US Launching Minesweeper Satellites Into Orbit The U. S. Air Force will launch a pair of “minesweeping” satellites into orbit Friday. Both satellites will watch for attacks on the U. S. fleet of military reconnaissance and intelligence satellites by smaller “space mines” which could sneak up to a national security satellite to disable it. “The space domain has increasingly become congested, contested, and competitive,” Lt. Sarah Burnett, a spokeswoman for Air Force Space Command, told ScienceWorldReport. “Some countries have clearly signaled their intent and ability to conduct hostile operations in space as an extension of the terrestrial battlefield.” Department of Defense officials suspect both Russia and China are developing space weapons capable of knocking out U. S. satellites in any future conflict, giving them a potentially catastrophic edge in war. Both Russia and China, have developed capabilities to attack American space assets. The Chinese successfully targeted and destroyed one of their own satellites in orbit in 2007 and likely tested a ground-based missile launch system to destroy objects in orbit in 2013. “Despite world interest in avoiding militarization of space, potential adversaries have identified the use of space as an advantage for U. S. military forces, and are actively fielding systems to deny our use of space in a conflict,” Gen. John Hyten, commander of Air Force Space Command, wrote in a white paper published in July. “Securing our right to use space is simply an extension of an age old principle to guarantee use of global commons.” The Air Force has already vowed to invest $6.6 billion into efforts to protect American satellites over the next six years, and could spend upwards of $10 billion on space operations from combined public and classified budgets this year, according to The Air Force Times . Follow Andrew on Twitter Send tips to andrew@ dailycallernewsfoundation.org . Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

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55 Who Started The Birther Movement? Hillary Clinton Supporters Hillary Clinton blamed Donald Trump for the birther movement on Thursday when in fact it was actually her supporters in 2008 who started the movement. During her campaign event in Reno, Nevada, Clinton said, “Let’s not forget that Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called ‘birthers.’ He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen, part of a sustained effort to delegitimatize America’s first black president.” In April 2008 during Clinton’s and Obama’s hotly contested Democratic primary, anonymous emails began circulating by Clinton’s supporters that said, “Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth.” Even after Clinton conceded the 2008 race to Obama, according to Poltifact , some Democrats chose not to unite and instead funneled their questions of Obama’s eligibility to pumaparty.com (Party Unity My Ass). (RELATED: FLASHBACK: Hillary Slammed For Saying Obama Is Not A Muslim ‘AS FAR AS I KNOW’) Politifact goes on to cite The Daily Beast that a Clinton volunteer and precinct captain in Texas, Linda Star was a key proponent of the birther movement. Follow Steve on Twitter and Facebook

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56 Kim Kardashian In A Wet T-Shirt And Black Underwear What Kim Kardashian considers a swimsuit is very different than what most of America does. While on vacation in Mexico last week, the 34-year-old reality star donned a ripped white t-shirt and black thong instead of the standard swimsuit. (RELATED: Kim Kardashian Is Completely Naked On The Cover Of This Magazine) A photo posted by Page Six (@pagesix) on Aug 25, 2016 at 12:30pm PDT Kardashian has been flaunting her body quite a bit on Instagram lately, and many speculate it’s because she has lost nearly 70 pounds since she gave birth to her second child in December. (Photo: Splash News) Kardashian said she has stuck to a strict diet in order to lose weight. (Photo: Splashnews) “There was a moment after [Saint was born] when my body was mush,” she told People. “I felt like Gumby. There was definitely a moment when I looked in the mirror and I was like, ‘I am never going to be the same.'” “My butt and my hips are the last to go, but I’m not stopping! After having two kids, and being able to get in shape and still feel good about myself, I’ve never felt better.” (Photo: Splash News) “I worked my ass off, I’ve altered my life and I’m proud of that.”

2016-08-26 00:06 Entertainment Editor dailycaller.com

57 A Diverse America Needs A Reality Show President Snooty types roundly mock Donald Trump’s suitability for the Oval Office. Exhibit A in the elitists’ prosecution of Trump’s candidacy is his lengthy run as a hugely popular reality show star. They ask how a misogynistic, mean-spirited, racist celebrity boss, infamous for uttering the cold-hearted phrase, “You’re fired!”, could possibly lead a nation as demographically diverse as America? That’s because most critics of Trump’s shows, and of his behavior in them, have never seen a single episode. If they had, they would have seen Trump exhibit the leadership skills and management sensibilities required to be a true “diversity president.” He won’t accomplish this task by abandoning his reality show persona. He’ll succeed by being the very same boss in Washington D. C. that he was in his televised New York boardroom. Although heavily lampooned, both The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice provided plentiful evidence that America’s much-heralded social and cultural diversity will be well served by Trump’s election. This assertion is borne out by the many winning and successful contestants whose performances Trump rewarded without regard for their gender, race, age, sexual orientation, political views, or country of origin. African American contestants favored by Trump over their WASP-ish fellow competitors included Randal Pinket, who won Season 4 of The Apprentice , and Kwame Jackson, chosen runner-up on the show’s very first season in 2004. Trump rewarded these impressive individuals for their hard work and entrepreneurial savvy, as he did Holly Robinson Peete, who was runner-up on Season 3 of The Celebrity Apprentice. In The Celebrity Apprentice ’s fifth season, winner Arsenio Hall overcame runner-up Clay Aiken, the gay pop singer and liberal political activist. On both Apprentice shows, Trump displayed personal and political sensitivities. For example, during Hall’s winning season Trump forcefully defended Star Trek actor George Takei, whose male teammates questioned his stamina. Trump educated them about Takei’s innate toughness, the latter having survived a childhood spent in a World War II internment camp and an adulthood battling for gay rights. Thanks to Trump, both the celebrities sitting around their TV boardroom and the national audience sitting around their TV sets saw Takei in a new light. On his shows, Trump enthusiastically advanced the careers of strong, intelligent women regardless of their age, race, disability, or personal history. On The Celebrity Apprentice , Trump’s chosen Season 2 finalists were the then-septuagenarian comedienne Joan Rivers, who was hired over professional poker player, Annie Duke. Season 4 saw hearing impaired actress Marlee Matlin finish a very strong second. In Season 7, Trump hired broadcaster Leeza Gibbons over legendary Hispanic American journalist, Geraldo Rivera. The very first woman Trump ‘hired’ on television was real estate broker Kendra Todd, who won Season 3 of The Apprentice. The show’s sixth season saw Trump hire motivational speaker Stefanie Schaeffer. The writing was on the wall in Season 1 of The Celebrity Apprentice. At that time, Trump set out his tolerance stall, specifically his belief in the humane treatment of immigrants trying to make a better life for themselves in this country. To that end, he chose the foreigner Piers Morgan, saddled not only with being an Englishman but a liberal journalist to boot, as the show’s first winner over country music superstar Trace Adkins. Throughout the many seasons of Trump’s shows, his respectful treatment of an incredibly diverse cast of contestants ran counter to the politically correct story spun by his establishment opponents. The reality is the only thing that influenced Trump’s decision-making was the answer to the bottom-line question, can this candidate do the job? The obvious answer for pro-diversity voters is to hire Donald Trump. Patrick Basham, a British expat, directs the Washington-based Democracy Institute.

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58 This Might Be The Most Absurd Chyron In MSNBC History Major cable news network MSNBC added a parenthetical defense of Hillary Clinton during a Donald Trump speech Thursday in a bizarre attempt to undermine the message of its own chyron. “TRUMP: CLINTON IS IN HIDING (SPEAKING NEXT HOUR)” the chyron running along the bottom of the screen during Trump’s speech read briefly. The Republican presidential candidate was criticizing Clinton for “hiding” in the wake of new revelations about alleged corruption at the Clinton Foundation, as the first part of the chyron neatly summarizes. Unwilling to let Trump’s criticism go unanswered in their own chyron, however, MSNBC tacked on the second part in a transparent effort to explain on Clinton’s behalf that she is not literally hiding and would be speaking herself shortly. “wow, @MSNBC, with the no-chill chyron,” Manny Fidel tweeted. Follow Rachel on Twitter Send tips to rachel@ dailycallernewsfoundation.org . Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

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59 John McCain Warns Obamacare May Leave Thousands Without Any Insurance Options Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain warned Thursday that Pinal County could soon be the first to have zero Obamacare marketplace options in the wake of Aetna pulling out of the exchange – leaving roughly 10,000 residents to fend for themselves in terms of seeking coverage. The former presidential contender slammed the Affordable Care Act’s failures, in an op-ed published on FoxNews.com, noting President Barack Obama’s landmark health-care legislation failed to deliver on the promise of more choices and competition. McCain said the issues the ACA caused will likely lead to more areas of the country without options due to insurers pulling out of Obamacare exchanges and raising premiums to make up for sizable losses since its implementation. “The crumbling of ObamaCare has become commonplace all across the country. Major insurers like UnitedHealth, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Humana have reported stunning financial losses from Obamacare – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars,” he wrote. “In fact, before it announced it would leave Arizona, Aetna had proposed an 18 percent premium rate hike over last year to cover its losses. The average proposed premium rate increase among all insurers for 2017 plans in Arizona tops 65 percent.” The senator said places like Pinal County will feel the most pain, where 18 percent of its residents live below poverty line with 88 percent of ObamaCare enrollees receiving federal subsidies. “Today, 88 percent of ObamaCare enrollees in Pinal County receive a federal subsidy averaging $230 per month,” he continued. “Of that 88 percent, over 50 percent of the population receives additional financial assistance to help pay for copays, prescription medications and other health care needs. Unless another insurer agrees to enter the marketplace, the only options these individuals will have would be to pay potentially thousands of dollars for health insurance in the private marketplace or go without health coverage altogether.” McCain highlighted legislation he introduced in February to repeal and replace Obamacare, designed to eliminate the employer and individual mandates and increase tax credits as an incentive to purchase coverage. “The fact is, ObamaCare has always been the wrong solution to reforming America’s health care system. It shouldn’t have to take the complete collapse of the system for Democrats to finally wake up to this reality,” he concluded. “In the meantime, Republicans will continue fighting to repeal and replace this failed law with health care that empowers Americans to choose the health care that works for them and their families – not the federal government.” Follow Juliegrace Brufke on Twitter Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

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60 ANOTHER Group Of Grad Students Plan To Unionize Graduate students at the University of Rochester held a press conference Wednesday announcing their intention to unionize. Their announcement comes days after a National Labor Relations Board decision granted graduate students at private colleges the right to unionize. Graduate student Andrew Thomas was among the speakers at Wednesdays press conference, and said, “Individual graduate students and adjuncts often suffer in silent isolated silos while the university writes off the suffering as a cost of doing business, completely out of touch with its contingent faculty.” The University of Rochester released a statement that said, “Under the National Labor Relations Board’s decision, graduate students who work for the university now have the right to organize and they may choose to do so. We are carefully reviewing the decision. We intend, as always, to support outstanding academic and employment relations for all at our university.” According to the graduate students, they often work 10 to 12 days without overtime, and face issues like parental leave, child care and healthcare. The students also cited being paid late and being asked to teach new courses at the last minute as reasons to form a union. The students plan to work with the Service Employees International Union Local 200 in order to negotiate better working conditions with the school, according to the Democrat & Chronicle Newspaper. The SEIU already represents around 300 part-time faculty and staff at the University of Rochester. The New York school counts conservative economist and television analyst Larry Kudlow, the founder of Kodak pictures George Eastman and former Xerox CEO David Kearns among its alumni. Follow Ted on Twitter Send Tips to [email protected] . Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

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61 Oakland Raiders Making Moves Toward Las Vegas Relocation It seems that the Raiders potential move from Oakland to Las Vegas is gaining some serious momentum. The Raiders organization filed trademark applications on August 20, 2016 with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for the “Las Vegas Raiders” mark, Forbes reports. The Oakland Raiders may be moving on from the bay area. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images) Although this doesn’t by any means solidify a move, it’s another step in the Las Vegas direction for the Raiders. The San Diego Chargers made a similar move by filing for a “LA Chargers” mark, but the team remains in San Diego. The Raiders trademark filings cover several classes including “education and entertainment services, clothing, mobile applications, football helmets, trading cards, jewelry and play figures,” Forbes reports . Forbes also noted that the timing of the Raiders trademark filing is important. U. S. Senator Harry Reid recently said “it would be great if the Raiders came to Las Vegas.” The Nevada senator also expressed his support for the construction of a stadium to house the city’s potential NFL addition. A plan for construction is currently under review by the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee. Imagine how crazy the fans in Las Vegas would be.(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) The transition from Oakland to Las Vegas is still only a consideration, but it is clear that the Raiders want to be prepared whether they stay put or head to sin city.

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62 62 Susan Sarandon: Hillary Clinton Is A War Monger Actress Susan Sarandon thinks Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is “very dangerous” on foreign policy and would almost certainly start World War III. Sarandon told The Daily Caller News Foundation at an anti-oil pipeline rally that Clinton’s foreign policy record is alarming. Clinton has armed dangerous people in Syria, the actress said. “She’s very dangerous on the issue of intervention,” the longtime activist said as the rally began to peter out. The actress joined members of North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe outside the steps of the Washington, D. C. courthouse to protest the construction of a pipeline they say would wreak havoc on their native lands and cause widespread water contamination. Members of the Native American group protested outside the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia while others clamored inside the court to wage a legal battle over the $3.7 billion project . The nearly 1,200-mile pipeline would be the first to shuttle Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries in the U. S. Gulf Coast. Sarandon stood shoulder-to-shoulder at the rally with anti-fracking activist and documentarian Josh Fox, as well as Keystone XL pipeline opponent Jane Kleeb, the president of Bold Alliance, an anti-oil group based out of Nebraska. The Oscar award-winning actress refused to divulge which candidate she will land on come November, telling reporters at the rally that real estate tycoon turned Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, doesn’t appear to know where he stands on the issues half the time. “Trump claims that he is not interested in intervening in other countries affairs,” Sarandon said, “but I just don’t know because he changes his position from day to day.” The “Thelma & Louise” actress also blasted Clinton for what she says is her wavering – on again, off-again — support for the anti-fracking movement. “It’s disgusting” that Clinton chose a pro-fracking, pro-TPP Tim Kaine as her running mate, Sarandon told TheDCNF. “She’s pulled in all the pro-fracking people.” The actress supported Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ short-lived run for president. The fact that she chose Kaine, and former Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, who once praised natural gas, to lead her transition team only “shows that she negotiated in bad faith with all those people she was trying to get in as a progressive,” Sarandon told TheDCNF. Follow Chris on Facebook and Twitter Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

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63 Arabic-language campaign aims to make youth safer drivers Following a spate of recent deadly car crashes involving Arab drivers, the Israel Police, an NGO, and an Arabic news site have teamed up to produce a series of videos on TV, social media and news websites to address the disproportionate number of traffic accidents in Arab society. The videos were released earlier this month in the Arabic media and last week on Channel 2. It is the first campaign ever in Israel in Arabic on this subject. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. The project is a joint venture led by the The Abraham Fund Initiatives, in partnership with the Traffic Police and the leading Arabic language news site, Bukra. The United States Embassy supported the initiative. Part of the campaign is two 32-second video clips about the cost of dangerous driving: one about texting while driving and the other about speeding. The videos aim to address two findings of a focus group made up of Arab youth and young adults, educators, police, driving instructors, and advertising professionals. First, Arab drivers do not identify or relate emotionally to Hebrew traffic safety public service announcements created for Jewish audiences. Second, dangerous driving needs to be portrayed in a jarring way, consistent with its consequences, in order to have the desired impact on the audience. According to the National Road Safety Authority, in 2015, 30% of fatalities in traffic accidents were Arab citizens. In 2015, 50% of children under age 4 who died in traffic accidents were Arab citizens. In 2015, 61% of fatalities age 5-14 were Arab citizen. In 2014, 62% of youth involved in fatal accidents were Arab citizens. According to the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, one Arab citizen out of seven will be hospitalized as a result of a traffic accident, compared with 1 in 12 among the Jewish public. According to the Education Ministry, only 50 of the 290 Arab high schools in Israel host a traffic safety program. The co-CEOs of the Abraham Fund, Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu and Dr. Thabet Abu Ras, are hopeful that these advertisements will reach Arab youth and save their lives: “The campaign will compensate for the insufficiencies in the education system, lack of police enforcement and infrastructure, and low socioeconomic status, all of which contribute to this epidemic of accidents and subsequent casualties,” they said in a statement. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

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64 Pastor Burns: Hillary Race-Baits To 'Divide And Conquer' Pastor Mark Burns, a Donald Trump supporter, argued on Thursday that “Hillary Clinton is continuously using the race-baiting objective to divide and conquer” in order to “put blacks in one place, put Hispanics in one place.” Appearing on Fox News’s “Your World” with guest host Stuart Varney, Burns said, “I stand for righteousness and unity and right now in this political climate it’s in reference to the Democrats and the liberal Democratic party, it’s almost wrong to be proud to be an American.” (RELATED: Pastor Mark Burns: Dems Elected First Black Pres. — Not The Same As Helping Black People [VIDEO]) Later Burns said, “I wear my Donald Trump shirt everywhere I go and you would be so surprised [about] the supporters who are black and Hispanic and of different nationalities and ethnic groups saying ‘I’m supporting Donald Trump.'” (RELATED: Trump: It’s ‘Totally Predictable’ Hillary Calls Republicans ‘Racist’ [VIDEO]) “They understand that with the Democratic party, they have been getting a bad deal,” Burns said. Adding, “Hillary Clinton is continuously using the race-baiting objective to divide and conquer. Put blacks in one place, put Hispanics in one place. Put other ethnic groups in one place and instead of bringing us together as the United States of America, they’re consistently dividing and conquering us. Getting us to focus on the color of our skins and not the color of the red, white, and blue of America.” Burns later said that it was “preposterous” that Trump was a racist. Follow Steve on Twitter and Facebook

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65 Virginia Tech Event Includes Baffling Safe Space Rules An “intercultural” event held Thursday at Virginia Tech University (VT) asked participants to follow a blistering array of rules and expectations to make sure nobody has their feelings hurt. The Virginia Tech Intercultural Engagement Center is holding a special kick-off event for the new school year. Despite being an “intercultural” center, rather than hosting a single reception, the center is holding 12 different receptions, each targeted at a different identity group. There are receptions targeted not only at black or Hispanic students, but also at the “disabled community,” military veterans, and students from Appalachia. Besides subdividing its intercultural welcome into 12 different groups, the center is also requesting that attendees follow several practices to make sure nobody is triggered or has their feelings hurt. For starters, attendees are asked to include their preferred “gender pronouns” on their name tag, to make sure a person isn’t mistakenly labeled a “her” when she prefers “it,” “hir,” or “zher.” (RELATED: DC Will Fine You For Using The Wrong Pronouns) “Not assuming others’ pronouns in a way to be inclusive of trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people,” the center said in a Facebook post. In addition, though, the center is also asking attendees to color-code themselves based on whether they like talking to other people. The system is described as follows: Add a green, yellow, or red dot to indicate your color communication. GREEN – The person is actively seeking communication; they may have trouble initiating conversations, but want to be approached by people interested in talking. YELLOW – The person only wants to talk to people they recognize, not by strangers or people they only know from the internet. The person might approach strangers to talk, and that is okay; the approached person is welcome to talk back if that is the case. RED – The person does not want to talk to anyone, or only wants to talk to a few people. Please do not approach someone with a red sticker. Feel free to change this as often as you like! Lastly, attendees are also told to add a blue dot to their name tag if they don’t want to be photographed, though they are warned this is an imperfect system and large group shots may still accidentally include them. It’s not the first time VT has taken pains to avoid offending people. In May, the school briefly attempted to disinvite conservative speaker Jason Riley due to fears his presence would cause protests. An event featuring social scientist Charles Murray was allowed to go forward despite protests, but only after VT president Tim Sands published an open letter openly attacking Murray’s ideas. Send tips to [email protected] . Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].

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66 Celebrities Outraged After Hackers Release Leslie Jones Info Celebrities expressed outraged after hackers released Leslie Jones nude photos and personal information online. On Wednesday, Sarah Bareilles, Alyssa Milano, Lena Dunham and other celebrities took to Twitter to show their support for Jones. (RELATED: FBI Hunts Down Hackers Who Leaked Leslie Jones’s Nude Photos) (photo: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files) Why on earth? Such venom. I’m so sorry @Lesdoggg. It’s misplaced sadness and anger and you don’t deserve any of it. https://t.co/YvseMovx3K — Sara Bareilles (@SaraBareilles) August 24, 2016 (RELATED: Hackers Release Leslie Jones’s Nude Photos, Passport, License On Her Personal Website) Let’s turn our anger at trolls into love for Leslie Jones and into strategies to protect all the heroines who don’t deserve this bullshit — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) August 24, 2016 Do not give your eyeballs to this racist, hate-filled, misogynoir crime. I #StandWithLeslie — KATY PERRY (@katyperry) August 24, 2016 . @Lesdoggg you are beautiful & talented & bring laughter into a world that desperately needs it. You are also my friend & I support you. — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) August 25, 2016 I was terrified when I did SNL. Leslie Jones went out of her way to be open, warm, friendly, funny all week. She is a GEM. — Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) August 25, 2016 May many (more) bad things befall the cowards who’ve attacked my friend, @Lesdoggg. They are the worst of humanity, where she is the best. — Taran Killam (@TaranKillam) August 24, 2016 Yo real talk though.. LEAVE LESLIE JONES ALONE!!! She has done nothing to deserve the treatment these BUTT holes are giving her! @Lesdoggg — Jay Pharoah (@JayPharoah) August 24, 2016 We’re with you @Lesdoggg , you are strong, the parents’ basement trolls are not. — Nia Vardalos (@NiaVardalos) August 24, 2016 Do me a favor? Please don’t share or view the Leslie Jones personal info/photos. Support Leslie by not supporting the assholes that did this — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) August 24, 2016 I truly don’t know why people are so hateful towards @Lesdoggg. Why? She’s talented and wonderful. Why are people so pressed to be awful? — Gabby SidiBae (@GabbySidibe) August 24, 2016 FYI sharing stolen intimate photos like @Lesdoggg ‘s is illegal. You are participating in a sex crime. — Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) August 24, 2016

2016-08-26 00:06 dailycaller.com

67 Arianny Celeste In Black Lingerie On Instagram UFC star Arianny Celeste dropped a bomb on her Instagram followers with her latest post. The brunette bombshell posted a picture of herself wearing nearly as little as Instagram would allowed and said, “Good things come in small packages.” (SLIDESHOW: UFC Star Arianny Celeste Is Nearly Nake d For All Her Fans In These Pictures) There’s no doubt her 2.3 million fans were big supporters of her outfit choice. (SLIDESHOW: These Are The Sexiest Photos Of Ronda Rousey On The Internet) A photo posted by Arianny Celeste UFC® (@ariannyceleste) on Aug 24, 2016 at 11:35am PDT The UFC’s lineup of Celeste, Paige VanZant, Brittney Palmer and Ronda Rousey has an absolute death grip on the Instagram power rankings. Follow David on Twitter and Facebook

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68 Apple tackles iPhone one-tap spyware flaws Flaws in Apple's iOS operating system have been discovered that made it possible to install spyware on a target's device merely by getting them to click on a link. The discovery was made after a human rights lawyer alerted security researchers to unsolicited text messages he had received. They discovered three previously unknown flaws within Apple's code. Apple has since released a software update that addresses the problem. The two security firms involved, Citizen Lab and Lookout, said they had held back details of the discovery until the fix had been issued. The lawyer, Ahmed Mansoor, received the text messages on 10 and 11 August. The texts promised to reveal "secrets" about people allegedly being tortured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s jails if he tapped the links. Had he done so, Citizen Lab says, his iPhone 6 would have been "jailbroken", meaning unauthorised software could have been installed. "Once infected, Mansoor's phone would have become a digital spy in his pocket, capable of employing his iPhone's camera and microphone to snoop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording his WhatsApp and Viber calls, logging messages sent in mobile chat apps, and tracking his movements," said Citizen Lab. "We are not aware of any previous instance of an iPhone remote jailbreak used in the wild as part of a targeted attack campaign, making this a rare find. " The researchers say they believe the spyware involved was created by NSO Group, an Israeli "cyber-war" company. "[It is] the most sophisticated spyware package we've seen," said Lookout. "It takes advantage of how integrated mobile devices are in our lives and the combination of features only available on mobile - always connected (wi-fi, 3G/4G), voice communications, camera, email, messaging, GPS, passwords, and contact lists. " NSO has issued a statement acknowledging that it makes technology used to "combat terror and crime" but said it had no knowledge of any particular incidents and made no reference to the specific spyware involved. "These are rather rare zero-day flaws," commented security expert Prof Alan Woodward, referring to the technical name for previously unknown vulnerabilities. "To have several found at once is even rarer. As can be seen from how these have been exploited to date, it represents a serious threat to the security and privacy of iOS users. "Apple has been remarkably responsive in providing fixes for these issues, so I would encourage any iOS users to update to the latest version of the operating system. "

2016-08-26 00:06 www.bbc.co.uk

69 'Unsafe' Stafford hospital A&E closed to children Children's accident and emergency services at a troubled hospital have been suspended after senior staff said it was "not clinically safe". A shortage of staff with the right specialist training at Stafford's County Hospital had forced the closure to patients under 18, the trust said. The hospital, under its former guise of Stafford Hospital, was the subject of a public inquiry after a higher than expected number of deaths between 2005 to 2008. The A&E department is open to adults. More on this and other stories from Stoke and Staffordshire Stafford Hospital timeline Robert Francis QC, who led the public inquiry and which sat for a year between 2010 and 2011, made 290 recommendations calling for "fundamental change". Some patients were left "sobbing and humiliated" due to mistreatment by staff , the inquiry heard. The trust which ran the then Stafford Hospital was dissolved and a new one, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, was created in November 2014. In July 2015, the CQC said the trust 'required improvement' and in March 2016 it was reported it was facing fines of up to £9m for failing to meet government targets. Consultant-led maternity care was also moved from County Hospital in July to the Royal Stoke University Hospital, when the new trust started running. Liz Rix, chief nurse and acting deputy chief executive, said it was "a difficult short-term decision" to suspend the children's A&E service, which deals with about 30 children a day. She said: "I fully appreciate the impact these temporary changes will have on families in Stafford and the surrounding area, and understand that people will be very concerned about this news. "However, we cannot and will not continue to deliver services without the confidence that those services are safe. " Stafford MP Jeremy Lefroy said he was "deeply disappointed" by the closure. Stafford Borough Council leader Patrick Farrington said the situation was "unacceptable" and "devastating" for parents. "This service must be reinstated as soon as it is safe to do so," he said. Cheryl Porter, from Support Stafford Hospital, said the service was "very well run" and should not be moved. "They took our children's services away today," she said. "I've personally used it in the last few weeks. " Concerns have been raised about what impact the closure will have on neighbouring services. Ruth Smeeth, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, said services in North Staffordshire were already running at high capacity. She said: "Our health economy is as stretched as it could possibly be, and this is only going to add to the challenges we currently face. " Ian Syme, from campaign group North Staffordshire Healthwatch, said it was "the right thing to do" to suspend services if there were not enough paediatricians, however, he warned hospitals in nearby areas, such as Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton, could face a "surge" in demand. He said: "I can understand the fears of the people in the Stafford area, but [suspending services] is the safest of the options. " A University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust spokesman said the suspension would not cause problems with capacity at other hospitals in the trust, adding Royal Stoke University Hospital was already the centre for children needing specialist care. I understand having spoken to some staff that they were told by email this morning, and there has been a meeting talking to staff about the reasons for this sudden change. This has happened before in other areas such as Redditch - the worrying thing is why it's happened so suddenly. There is a national shortage of paediatric consultants and doctors. We'll have to wait and see if there's any chance of it reopening again. University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust took over the County Hospital - formerly called Stafford Hospital - in October last year, after the previous trust was declared clinically and financially unviable . The now-defunct Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was fined £500,000 last year after admitting four charges over the deaths of elderly people between 2005 and 2014. The most senior nurse disciplined after the inquiry was also struck off. 2016-08-26 00:06 www.bbc.co.uk

70 Bad weather takes toll on French wine production French wine production is likely to be 10% lower this year than in 2015 because of frosty weather in spring and a heatwave now, officials say. A production of 42.9m hectolitres (hl) (944m gallons) is forecast for 2016, down from last year's 47.8m hl. The harvest is expected to be down by about a third in the Champagne region. Prices will rise, although one French wine trader said the Brexit effect would be a greater inflationary pressure for UK buyers. Jean-Pierre Hourlier, who sells mid-market French wines in the UK, said: "Prices are going up across the board because of the euro and the impact on transport because of Brexit. " After the British vote on 23 June to leave the EU, the pound slumped against the euro, falling from €1.3 in late May to €1.17 now. Imports priced in euros are therefore more expensive. Mr Hourlier's father, Pierre, told the BBC that the heatwave in southern France - hitting the big wine regions of Bordeaux and Languedoc - was a particular problem now. "When the vineyards run out of reserves the supermarkets suffer more than niche wine merchants like us," he said. But he added: "Even if it's a difficult vintage they'll still produce good wines - there will be quality, just a reduced amount. " He said French wine producers had had some "dreadful" times in the 1990s too, with low quantities and poorer quality. "It's too early to dramatise - when the quantities are in, then we'll know," he added. The figures from the agriculture ministry's Agreste data service showed the 2016 harvest 7% down on the 2011-2015 average of 46.1m hl.

2016-08-26 00:06 www.bbc.co.uk

71 Italy earthquake: Before and after images show destruction A strong earthquake has devastated a string of mountain towns and villages in central Italy, killing at least 250 people and leaving many unaccounted for. The 6.2 magnitude quake, which was followed by several aftershocks, struck at 03:36 (01:36 GMT) on Wednesday, 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome. Worst affected were the towns of Accumoli and Amatrice and the villages of Pescara del Tronto and Arquata del Tronto. The first confirmed deaths following the quake came in Amatrice , and by Thursday it was clear that many had been buried when the town collapsed. The town's mayor, Sergio Pirozzi, told the AP news agency: "Half the village has disappeared. " In Accumoli , a small mountain town, the first victims were a family of four who were found under the debris of a collapsed building. Mayor Stefano Petrucci told reporters: "We have a tragedy here. There are people under the ruins. " He said the town of just 700 residents swells to 2,000 in the summer months thanks to tourism, but that he feared for its future after the earthquake. The village of Pescara del Tronto was also badly hit, with the Italian news agency ANSA reporting that at least 10 people had been killed there. The main road into and out of the town was covered in debris, making it difficult for search and rescue teams to gain access to some damaged areas. The neighbouring village of Arquata del Tronto was also devastated by the earthquake. Mayor Aleandro Petrucci told AFP news agency: "If we don't get help, l'Arquata is finished. " .

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72 Whitewater rafting among the most popular Asheville-area activities as summer comes to a close On a recent trip to Rome, my friends and I saw Pope Francis bless the crowd at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. May the Fourth be with you: A former Petaluma, Calif., chicken farm now boasts more than 500,000 items of ‘Star Wars’ memorabilia. From Yoda toilet paper to Darth Vader’s codpiece, it’s there on display. The museum's address is kept secret until people sign up for the tour. These roaring waterfalls at Yosemite National Park were at 91 percent capacity in mid-April thanks to melting snow. National Park Week is April 16 to 24, 2016. It's about making great connections, exploring amazing places, discovering open spaces, enjoying affordable vacations and enhancing America’s best idea - the national parks. Death Valley is bursting with color in February as blooming wildflowers stoked by autumn rains blanket the national park. The wildflower display is the most spectacular the park has seen since 2005, officials say. True Blue Golf Plantation is the first course in the Myrtle Beach area, the golf capital of the world, to offer Golfboards. Like a hybrid electric surfboard/skateboard the stand up scooter has a holder for golf bags, is steered by shifting weight and will roll golfers up to 10 mph along the fairway. Gastonia lawyer Wade Carpenter traveled to Iceland to watch the summer solstice. In this video, he captured sunset at Seljalandsfoss, a waterfall with a 200-foot drop, around midnight. Marriott International is beta-testing new features at its uptown Charlotte hotel to see if they'll work company-wide. A baby was safe following a SWAT situation in west Charlotte. WBTV meteorologist Al Conklin with The Charlotte Observer weather forecast for Aug. 25, 2016.

2016-08-26 00:06 www.charlotteobserver.com

73 Druse and Circassian municipalities threaten to close schools over funding Mayors of Druse and Circassian communities unanimously decided to postpone the opening of the school year if the budget allotted under the government’s five-year development plan is not received. Druse authorities are also threatening to disband their local councils. In a letter sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Druse and Circassian Local Council Heads Forum threatened to keep schools closed this fall if they do not receive the 2015- 2016 budget from the five-year development plan for their communities. The letter was also sent to Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, Interior Minister Arye Deri, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, and Construction Minister Yoav Galant. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. In the letter, Usfiya Mayor Wajeh Kayouf, chairman of the Druse and Circassian Local Council Forum, calls upon all government ministries, especially the Education Ministry, to complete the transfer of money by September 31, before the start of the school year. “We hope we are not forced to avoid the joy of our children and their parents on October 1,” the letter states. For most pupils in the Jewish state sector, school opens on September 1. In June 2015, the cabinet approved the fiveyear Druse and Circassian development plan proposed by Netanyahu and Kahlon. The NIS 2 billion, five-year (2015-2019) plan seeks to strengthen Israel’s Druse and Circassian communities, representing around 140,000 citizens. The largest portion of the budget – NIS 350 million – was allocated to expanding formal and informal education. A spokesman for the Education Ministry told The Jerusalem Post it has not transferred the money to the communities. “The Education Ministry is working on the subject with the Finance Ministry. Unfortunately, the budget has not been transferred for various five-year plans for 2016, including the five-year plan for the Druse,” the spokesman stated. “We hope the Druse and Circassian Local Council Heads Forum will reverse their decision and will remove the threat of a strike.” The forum’s letter went on to state that the communities are striking as a last resort. “These areas are in desperate need of development funds that remain missing,” the letter said. “These are not measures [the strikes] decided on easily,” however, “we are convinced that this is a just struggle which will help ensure the future of our residents, their security, their education and welfare.” Along with payment in full of budget allocations, the Druse and Circassian authorities are demanding a full implementation of the 2017- 2018 development budget, discounts for IDF veterans to purchase land in the communities, and grants for the communities of Kafr Kana, Peki’in and Usfiya. This strike comes as Bennett’s Bayit Yehudi party is attempting to sign up thousands of new members from the Druse community in a membership drive that began on Monday. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

2016-08-25 23:49 Eliyahu Kamisher www.jpost.com

74 Individualize quake alert apps, says Israeli researcher Personalizing disaster alert applications to fit the individual user could dramatically improve civilian preparedness in events like the Wednesday earthquake that devastated central Italy, according to an Israeli research team. “There are many applications that give early warning for terrorist attacks, missile attacks through smartphones,” Eran Lederman, head of the Relevant Design for Disaster Research Group at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. “When you are dealing with earthquakes that might come once in 100 years, it’s a different early warning. You have one shot.” Lederman is the principal investigator of the Personal Essential Package Capsule project, which aims to make alert information for natural disasters more accessible to the civilian population. While a host of smartphone applications exist that alert users to events such as earthquakes, the PEP Capsule project hopes to optimize their effectiveness by personalizing their output based on parameters like user age, geo-location and emergency training background. “The main idea is not to build a new app, but to give all the apps that are trying to [provide] an early warning the right way to do it,” Lederman said. Already nearing the end of the first quarter of their two-year project, funded by the Science and Technology Ministry, Lederman’s group is working with Dr. Hillel Aviezer of the Hebrew University’s psychology department. The optimal alert might use different sounds, texts, images and vibrations tailored to fit the individual user, both before and after the event occurs, Lederman explained. “The warning will be a trigger that activates a PEP Capsule stored in your phone,” he said. For now, that capsule is a theoretical concept being researched by Lederman’s group as to how relevant information stored in a phone’s memory might be optimally employed during a disaster. However, the hope is that the research could influence either commercial or government entities to concretize that capsule. “We try to focus on the few seconds right before the earthquake and more than that, after the earthquake,” Lederman said. “Even if the cellular network fails you still might have information in your cellular phone, as long as you have a battery.” Even a 10-second alert prior to an earthquake can allow a person to wake up from sleeping, pull over to the side of a road or pause a medical procedure, according to Lederman. “You can go outside the building, you can go under the table, you can be two floors down. It means that every second counts,” he continued. “I believe that if the people in Italy would have had 8 or 10 seconds, most of them would have been awake. And if you can be awake you can act very efficiently.” Instead, he explained, people woke up and were uncertain what to do – they had no idea where there might be emergency services, water or other necessities. With the help of a PEP capsule, alert applications tailored to their personal needs could provide those affected with crucial information in the aftermath of the event, Lederman said. “All this data and experience changes the situation from trauma to post- trauma, and it makes a difference,” he added. Lederman has 50 different earthquake warning apps downloaded on his phone, from all over the world. By studying how different cultures receive and use their warnings, he said that he and his group members are hoping to understand “the best way to send the information to you – not to me and not to my grandmother.” Looking at Israel’s earthquake preparedness in the wake of the tragedy in Italy, Lederman praised the country’s efforts to strengthen buildings, train people in evacuation methods and educate children about how to respond. “Israel is a very small country and the community is very strong here,” he said. “The neighbors will help you more than the authorities in the case of an emergency.” That being said, Lederman stressed that there is much more work to be done. “As we speak, we know that we have to get even better,” he added. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

2016-08-25 23:36 SHARON UDASIN www.jpost.com

75 75 Spanish court overturns regional Israel boycott ACOM, an Israel lobby group working to combat BDS in Spain, successfully overturned a boycott decision passed by the city council of Vélez-Málaga in the Costa del Sol region this week. The Málaga court issued a preliminary restraining order on the boycott decision. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. Vélez-Málaga is a city of some 77,800 people in the Málaga province along the southern Mediterranean coast. The province is home to one the largest Jewish communities in Spain, with congregations in Málaga, Marbella and Torremolinos. Following the court’s decision on the claim submitted by ACOM, the city council announced its intention to annul the boycott against Israel and companies doing business with the country. ACOM’s president Angel Mas, who has filed court proceedings against the most prominent boycotts in Spain, said that “even as discriminatory motions are halted every month, the aggressive boycott campaign continues, with new anti-Semitic declarations being approved almost every week.” “In view of the success of our legal actions against them, the BDS campaign has started concealing to the public opinion these city council approvals in order to avoid prompt court initiatives,” he explained. Since last week, seven new cities with a combined population of some 406,000 people have joined the BDS movement, according to Mas. “We call on every friend of Israel to join us in this effort to avoid impunity and create effective deterrence,” he said. To date, Spanish courts have declared six city council boycott decisions null and void, and seven more have been effectively halted by preliminary restraining orders, all as a result of court proceedings brought by ACOM. Ignacio Wenley Palacios, the ACOM lawyer leading the anti-boycott effort in Spain, said the BDS movement is “thinly disguised under a veil of a deceiving human rights narrative.” “The boycott campaign is nothing but plain discrimination on basis of national origin, affinities, and personal beliefs,” he said. “This anti-Semitic initiative is an attack to our constitutional rights and freedoms.” Earlier this month, Mas told The Jerusalem Post that the BDS movement was targeting coastal municipalities as part of its “summer campaign.” Mas explained that an endorsement of BDS by the city council essentially commits the city to support the boycott against Israeli and pro-Israel institutions, companies and organizations, as well as Spanish nationals associated or sympathetic to the Jewish state. The council agreement declares the area a “space free of Israeli apartheid” and calls on the municipal government to execute the boycott agreement, he said. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

2016-08-25 23:28 LIDAR GRAVÉ www.jpost.com

76 Champions League draw 2016: Arsenal to face PSG; Man City's Pep Guardiola handed Barca reunion The UEFA Champions League group stage draw is out and there are some interesting face-offs that are sure to whet the appetite of all football lovers. Manchester City's new coach Pep Guardiola will return to Nou Camp to take on former club Barcelona in the Champions League as the two sides have been thrown together in Thursday's group stage draw in Monaco. Guardiola, a European Cup winner with Barca as a player in 1992 before twice guiding the Catalan giants to the Champions League title in 2009 and 2011, will also have Borussia Moenchengladbach and Celtic for company in Group C. Manchester City's new coach Pep Guardiola It will be two Argentine forwrds facing off -- Sergio Aguero vs Lionel Messi. Defending champions Real Madrid, who won a record 11th European Cup last season after beating Atletico Madrid in a dramatic penalty shootout in Milan , were paired with Borussia Dortmund in Group F alongside Portugal's Sporting and Legia Warsaw of Poland. Arsenal, meanwhile, will have to French giants Paris Saint-Germain, FC Basel and PFC Ludogorets Razgrad in Group A. Leicester City, who had a fairytale season last year to win the Premier League title, are competing in Europe's top club tournament for the first time. And the Foxes will be come up against FC Porto, Club Brugge and FC Copenhagen in Group G. Here's the line-up for the group stage of this season's UEFA Champions League: Group A: Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), Arsenal (ENG), Basel (SUI), Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL) Group B: Benfica (POR), Napoli (ITA), Dynamo Kiev (UKR), Besiktas (TUR) Group C: Barcelona (ESP), Manchester City (ENG), Borussia Moenchengladbach (GER), Celtic (SCO) Group D: Bayern Munich (GER), Atletico Madrid (ESP), PSV Eindhoven (NED), Rostov (RUS) Group E: CSKA Moscow (RUS), Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER), Tottenham Hotspur (ENG), Monaco (FRA) Group F: Real Madrid (ESP), Borussia Dortmund (GER), Sporting (POR), Legia Warsaw (POL) Group G: Leicester City (ENG), FC Porto (POR), Club Brugge (BEL), FC Copenhagen (DEN) Group H: Juventus (ITA), Sevilla (ESP), Lyon (FRA), Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) Matchday 1: September 13/14 Matchday 2: September 27/28 Matchday 3: October 18/19 Matchday 4: November 1/2 Matchday 5: November 22/23 Matchday 6: December 6/7

2016-08-25 23:19 By mid www.mid-day.com

77 77 Modi pips Big B to become most followed Indian on Twitter New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pipped Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan to become the most followed Indian on social media site Twitter. As on August 25, Modi had over 22.1 million followers on the social networking platform, while Bachchan marginally trailed with 22 million at the last count. In January, Modi's Twitter followers surpassed that of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Modi, then, became the second most followed Indian on Twitter with over 17,371,600 followers, compared to Khan's 17,351,100. Now, Khan is the third most followed Indian on Twitter with 20.9 million users of the social media site following him. The number of followers of Modi's account (@narendramodi) consistently increased by about a million every two months in 2015. It crossed the 15 million mark on September 22 last year, and touched 16 million on November 20. In 2016, the growth rate of Modi's Twitter followers slowed down, with about 5 million users being added in around eight months. Active on Twitter since 2009, Modi is also the second most followed politician in the world, right after US President Barack Obama (@barackobama), as per Twitter. Modi has used Twitter for campaigns like #MakeInIndia, #SwachBharat, #MannKiBaat and #SelfieWithDaughter to reach and connect with citizens. Government is encouraging people and officials to use Twitter to communicate with each other.

2016-08-25 22:57 By PTI www.mid-day.com

78 78 Surrey police appeal for witnesses after boy 'forced into van' Surrey police have appealed for witnesses after a boy was thought to have been forced into a van in Redhill on Thursday afternoon. A member of the public reported seeing the child being taken into a black Volkswagen Transporter at 4.43pm in Redstone Hill. The modified van had an 02 registration plate and three BBS alloy wheels, with one missing at the front driver’s side. The vehicle also had no rear windows, as well as a sliding side door and chrome sidesteps. The boy is described as white, about 4ft tall and six or seven years of age. He was wearing a red T-shirt and navy blue jeans. A small mountain bike, believed to belong to the child, was left at the scene. It is a Frantic Giant make and has a silver frame with black and yellow detail. Police are trying to establish the circumstances of the incident and remain present in the area. Supt Bex Smith of Surrey police said: “This is an incident we are taking extremely seriously and are asking for anyone with any information regarding the child, the van or what happened to come forward. “If you were in the area, perhaps commuting to or from Redhill train station at the time please get in touch with us if you saw anything suspicious. “At this stage we are not ruling out a number of options, including whether the child and the person in the van know each other.” Anyone with any information should contact Surrey police by calling 999 in an emergency or 101. The independent charity Crimestoppers can also be called anonymously on 0800 555 111.

2016-08-25 22:47 Chris Johnston www.theguardian.com

79 79 Nun who became face of Italy's earthquake texted friends 'adieu' and asked they pray for her soul She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania. In an interview on Thursday at the mother house of her religious order, the 35-year- old nun recounted how she thought she would die when her convent walls collapsed. She texted her friends asking that they pray for her soul, only to be rescued by a man she has called her "angel". Now safe, Lleshi says she wants nothing more than to go to next week's Rome canonisation of Mother Teresa, the ethnic Albanian nun "who gave hope to those who did not have any". Lleshi was sleeping in the Don Minozzi convent beside the Church of the Most Holy Crucifix in Amatrice when the quake struck on Wednesday. She had been there, with six other sisters, caring for five elderly women. Her order, the Sisters of the Handmaidens of the Lord, runs nurseries and homes for the elderly. She woke up covered in dust and bleeding. Realising what had happened, she immediately tried to summon help outside her room. No one responded. And she could not get out. "When I started losing all hope of being saved, I resigned myself to it and started sending messages to friends saying to pray for me and to pray for my soul and I said goodbye to them forever," she said, outside the order's headquarters in Ascoli Piceno. "I couldn't send a message like this to my family because I was afraid that my father would have an emotional collapse and die hearing something like that. " She said she eventually was rescued by a young man who cared for one of the elderly women at the home. "In that moment, I heard a voice who called me, 'Sister Marjana, Sister Marjana'. " He pulled her out. With the ground still shaking, she sat down on the side of the road and began texting her friends and sisters that she had survived. That moment was captured in an image taken by a photographer for the ANSA news agency and published worldwide. Lleshi spent much of Thursday getting medical checks for dust inhalation and her head wound, which required stitches. Once back home, she wept as she thought of her family. She still hopes to travel to Rome for the September 4 canonisation of Mother Teresa, the Macedonian-born ethnic Albanian nun who ministered to the poor of India. But the chaos and horror of the moment may be too much. Her order lost three sisters and four of the elderly women they cared for, alongside incalculable losses in the wider community. "For me she's the symbol of Albania, of a strong woman," she said of Teresa. "I would have liked to go, but after this I don't think I can. " She can relish the simple fact of still being alive. "I had said 'adieu'," she said, "and in the end it wasn't an adieu. "

2016-08-25 22:24 Trisha Thomas www.independent.ie

80 ISIS leader secretly held in notorious US torture prison Through a Freedom of Information Act records request, the Intercept was able to confirm with the US Army that Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), had been imprisoned in a special high- profile section at the Abu Ghraib prison in the Iraqi city of the same name, from February to October 2004. Al-Baghdadi, who has also gone by the name Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali Badri, was simply referred to by his assigned serial number, US9IZ- 157911CI, in detention records. While Abu Ghraib is not mentioned by name, that code reveals that’s exactly where Al-Baghdadi was held. “Former detainee al-Baghdadi’s internment serial number sequence number begins with ‘157,’” US Army spokesperson Troy A. Rolan, Sr. told the Intercept. “This number range was assigned at the Abu Ghraib theater internment facility.” During Spring of 2004, just weeks after al-Baghdadi had been booked at Abu Ghraib, graphic photos leaked of torture sessions and abusive humiliation tactics utilized at the secretive prison. On October 13 of that year, al-Baghdadi was transferred to Camp Bucca, as were many other Abu Ghraib inmates. Bucca had previously been reported as the sole facility where the IS caliph was held, but according to this new report, al-Baghdadi actually was there for less than two months. He was given an “unconditional release” on December 9. READ MORE: The elusive Baghdadi? ISIS leader rumored dead in airstrike Al-Baghdadi’s prisoner status had been “civilian internee,” for those with ties to terrorism but hadn’t been captured while carrying out such activities, according to Reuters. Just 13 months after al-Baghdadi’s release, in January 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s group al-Qaeda in Iraq aligned with other Sunni radicals to establish the Mujahideen Shura Council, and after Zarqawi’s death in a US bombing raid in June 2006, that new coalition renamed itself the Islamic State of Iraq. That group would go on to elect Islamic scholar al-Baghdadi its leader, who remains one of the most wanted terrorist suspects in the world.

2016-08-25 22:10 www.rt.com

81 'Narcos' blasts into second season more addictive than ever Indeed, despite its early '90s setting, this fact-based drama about the battle against narco-trafficker Escobar is a virtual primer on U. S. political adventures abroad, in which neutralizing the bad guy has often involved terrible collateral damage and getting into bed with people who might be even worse. Netflix has offered higher-profile series, but none better or more addictive. And while the franchise's future is hazy beyond season two, this might be one of those instances when the end of a sensational two-year run is just the right time to declare victory and move on. Escobar (Wagner Moura, again delivering one of the best TV performances of this or any other year) spent season one amassing power over the Medellín cartel ; the latest installment chronicles his fall, as forces array against him on all sides. That includes not only the U. S. government and two intrepid FBI agents (Boyd Holbrook and "Game of Thrones'" Pedro Pascal) but the Cali cartel and a ruthless paramilitary force, backed by the CIA. Having escaped from prison, Escobar remains a folk hero and near-mythic figure. Authorities seeking to capture him also discover that expecting the people of Medellín to cooperate is, as it's wryly observed, "like asking Chicago to rat out Michael Jordan. " Even so, the drug lord must also face certain indignities being on the run. "Pablo Escobar is to be respected," he says ominously, but he still has to ride around in the trunk of a taxi to avoid the police. It's not just Moura who deserves praise. The cast is uniformly superb. That includes Paulina Gaitán, who gets more screen time this season as Escobar's wife Tata, who can see the noose tightening and kingdom unraveling before he does. Perhaps foremost, "Narcos" pounds home the point that there are tradeoffs to be made in these kind of wars, drug or otherwise. The series depicts a world in which the innocent are seldom spared, and the frequent solution to perceived problems -- like a potential mole -- is simply to kill everyone. If Escobar is utterly ruthless, so are those opposing him, presenting ethical dilemmas for those officially charged with stopping him. The casualties, notably, include children -- a fact of what happened in Colombia that nevertheless makes "Narcos" unsettling at times, even rated against other gritty dramas. (The producers also continue to drop in actual photos and video from the period, which only adds to the sense of authenticity.) Asked about the show's future at a press conference in July, "Narcos" producer Eric Newman said, "We plan on stopping when cocaine stops. " Frankly, where "Narcos'" second season leaves off would be elegant enough. But the issues it explores -- and the drug war -- go on. "Narcos" premieres Sept. 2 on Netflix.

2016-08-25 21:57 Brian Lowry rss.cnn.com

82 Zionism is not a dirty word ‘Zionism’ is not a dirty word in Australia. While research has found that using the word “Zionism” is damaging to the pro-Israel cause – especially in America – the Australian Jewish community brandishes that word with pride, and with much success. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. I flew to Melbourne on my first visit to the beautiful land down under to give the keynote address at the 10th biennial Jewish Educator’s Conference, organized by the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA). Some 500 Jewish teachers and principals from Australia and around the world were in attendance, and they saw something unique: while there are numerous educators’ conferences in many countries, what set this one apart is that it was sponsored by the local Zionist federation. It’s clear that the local leadership, led by Dr. Ron Weiser and Dr. Danny Lamm, gets it: In order to inspire our youth to be Zionists and filled with Zionist pride, they must be surrounded with Zionism at every stage of their development. Sessions at this conference tackled classic educational topics, such as: how to teach prayer, how to make Jewish studies engaging and meaningful, how to teach Talmud most effectively, and how to bring spirituality into our classrooms. It also addressed 21st-century themes, like how to use modern technology to teach Hebrew language and Biblical texts. But because it was created and sponsored by the Zionist Federation, the conference was filled with an Israel-oriented spirit. Thus other sessions included understanding the BDS movement and how we should react to it; religion and state in Israel; and teaching Israel through art and poetry. The all-inclusive philosophy of the ZFA has led to their bringing young Israelis to lead months of extra-curricular Zionist activities; and to the founding and operating of “Habayit” – the Home of Hebrew Culture, which offers Hebrew-language programs, Israeli cultural activities, and much more. Most important, the ZFA supports the Australian Zionist Youth Council, the umbrella organization for seven Zionist youth movements: Betar, Bnei Akiva, Habonim Dror, Hashomer Hatzair, Hineni, Netzer and Tzofim. The result is that the youth of the community who are affiliated with any of these wide-ranging movements are passionate about Israel, and proud Zionists. As one experiences the Australian Jewish community, one sees and feels how a Zionist spirit and the word “Zionism” permeates the atmosphere. This is best captured in a stunning site in the Mizrachi synagogue in Melbourne, which has two adornments on the walls on either side of the Holy Ark. On one side is the prayer for the welfare of the State of Israel, on the other, a prayer for the safety of IDF soldiers. Such a prominent display has a major impact on the community’s Jews, and I saw an unashamed connection to Israel expressed amongst the Australian youth that was stronger than I have seen in any other country. But the most significant result of Australia’s Zionist-focused education is the high percentage of aliya. As Ginnete Searle, executive director of ZFA, explained, “Aliya is a key priority of the ZFA, the pinnacle of Zionist expression. Aliya is celebrated in our community – prior to their departure, at our ‘mezuza ceremonies,’ we send off olim with blessings for their new homes.” ZFA President Lamm points to the high integration rate among Australian immigrants as a result of the ideology infused in the community, and by the work ZFA does to help prepare the new immigrants for a successful transition. I write these words only half way through my visit to Australia, which also includes visits to Canberra and Sydney. But from what I have experienced so far, the studies that show that the term “Zionism” pushes away the unaffiliated does not reflect how an openly expressed proud Zionism can influence those already inside the community, or touch those who are yet within reach. Given the sad reality of a Jewish world at risk of losing even those who are already affiliated, the success of the Zionist Federation of Australia model has me convinced that all Jewish communities must re-embrace very open and unapologetic Zionism. No, it’s not a dirty word: Zionism must be the driving and central force for all communal organizations. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

2016-08-25 21:51 DOV LIPMAN www.jpost.com

83 Britain's Polish wanted to stay here for ever, until the EU referendum I n 2004, when Poland joined the European Union and Britain became one of the few countries to open its borders to Polish migrants, our presence in the country was much needed. At the time, Britain required more labour to boost the economy, and Poles – numerous, determined, hard-working, and (let’s be honest) cheap – provided this. Most stories of post-accession migrants from Poland start in the same place: with an under-paid position well below their qualifications, working as a porter, cleaner, waiter or bartender in a crowded bar, restaurant or hotel. For years, the exchange rate between sterling and Polish złoty was enough to compensate for swallowed pride, as highly-educated young Poles temporarily abandoned their plans to work in an industry they loved for the sake of earning more money. Contrary to the rhetoric of some British red-top papers, these migrants were also never keen on leaving their friends and home just for the sake of £200 in benefits. Poles who decided to leave their country and try their luck in Britain wanted a better life, but also a clear chance to develop themselves. Home Office figures released today show that Polish people have now become the biggest foreign-born population in Britain, with 831,000 living in the UK in 2015. The second largest group were people born in India, at 795,000. And while one wave of immigration began after 2004, to understand the community’s history you have to look back further, to the second world war. If you ever meet a Polish war-time immigrant to Britain, ask them about their luggage. There is a fair chance they still keep a hastily-packed bag of personal belongings that they managed to grab while fleeing war-torn Poland. When this wave of Poles arrived in Britain – mostly as members of the Polish army in the west – they saw themselves as temporary exiles and refugees, not emigrants. Britain was a country they did not expect, or frankly want, to be their home. Having finally regained independence and control over Poland after 123 years of military occupation, Poles had no intention whatsoever of fleeing the land their ancestors had fought so hard for. Having fought in the Atlantic and the Battle of Britain, they settled across the UK; their tightly-packed bags remaining the only symbol of their homeland and their hope of return to Poland. Althought they admired their new country, they wanted one thing above everything else: to go home. The packed bag was always ready, as if they were just waiting for a connecting flight; waiting for the opportunity to return. But as a Moscow-imposed government took power in Poland, it was clear they would need to wait longer. Britain felt exotic to them, and so, in a post- war phrase they coined, concluded: “We have landed on Mars and to stay alive we have to build our Poland”. They did in both literal ways – the Polish government-in-exile chose London for its headquarters – and more general ones, establishing organisations that revived the pre-war spirit of Poland: social clubs, theatres, restaurants, associations. To fulfil their dreams of seeing a free, independent Poland, the migrants had to wait over 40 years, much longer than any of them expected. By the time Poland started its democratic transition in 1989, their still-packed bags were covered with dust, their distance from Poland having grown as they aged, made new friends and started relationships, had kids, bought houses; their love for their second home growing all the time. They were accidental Polish Brits, but Polish Brits all the same. This historical context is important because it meant that in 2004 the migrants who arrived did not have to build their own world. Their bags – carried by numerous low-fare airlines – no longer carried existential worries, but appetites for a better living awakened by Poland’s much-delayed economic transition. Make no mistake, Poland has changed enormously since 2004 – becoming one of the most successful economies in Europe – and so have the Polish migrants living in the UK. In the intervening years they’ve gained confidence in their value, built their social skills, and developed fluency in English, while becoming aware of all the opportunities out there. The myth of the Polish builder is fading away as a new, more complex profile emerges. According to the latest statistics, as many as 92% of Polish migrants are in employment or education, the highest level among all nationalities, including the British. Slowly but surely they are climbing up the social ladder, taking more complicated and fitting positions across a number of industries. In fact, with networks of Polish companies – more than 30,000 individual businesses – becoming well-established, Polish migrants are increasingly creating new jobs for other people, instead of taking someone else’s. For many modern migrants, Britain has genuinely become their second home and this time a voluntary one, as they see this country as a place worthy of investing their talents, skills and future. As they made progress in their careers, settled down, bought homes, started (often multi-cultural) families, they were ready to unpack the historical luggage once and for all and stay in Britain for ever. Or so they thought – until the morning after the EU referendum.

2016-08-25 21:43 Jakub Krupa www.theguardian.com

84 Exclusive footage shows retaken IS stronghold Jarablus Turkish forces have helped Syrian rebels retake the border town of Jarablus from so-called Islamic State. It is Turkey's biggest intervention in Syria's five- year war. The BBC has obtained dramatic pictures of the assault to free the town, as Mark Lowen reports.

2016-08-25 21:42 www.bbc.co.uk

85 85 Glenn Beck producer defies judge's order to name sources Contact WND (POLITICO) A producer for conservative media host Glenn Beck is declining to comply with a judge’s order to identify the sources for reports accusing a Saudi Arabian student of involvement in the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013. U. S. District Court Judge Patti Saris, acting on a defamation suit brought by Saudi Abdulrahman Alharbi, instructed Beck, two of his producers and related companies to come forward by Wednesday with the names of the sources for the accusations Beck persisted in leveling even after senior U. S. officials publicly cleared the student. However, a lawyer for Beck’s operation and producer Joe Weasel said Wednesday that he will not name the sources, previously identified as veteran officials of the Department of Homeland Security.

2016-08-25 21:31 www.wnd.com

86 Justice issues transgender training for cops Contact WND (THE HILL) The Department of Justice (DOJ) is training police officers on how to treat transgender people with respect. Police officers will learn techniques for interacting with transgender people during routine encounters in a training video, the agency said Thursday. They will also be discouraged from stereotyping and advised to “keep their questions relevant.” “In one of the examples, the video demonstrates an officer laughing [at] a transgender individual who appears to be the victim of a crime, and the officer’s partner pulls him aside to correct his behavior,” according to the DOJ. 2016-08-25 21:31 www.wnd.com

87 Claudio Ranieri targets qualification from Champions League group stage Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri has targeted qualification from the Champions League group stage. The Foxes have been drawn in Group G and will face Porto, Club Brugge and FC Copenhagen in their first- ever campaign among Europe's elite. Leicester were one of the top seeds having won the league by 10 points in May and Ranieri, who spoke to the media on Thursday afternoon, is eyeing reaching the knock-out stages. He said: "It's good for our fans to come here and for you (the media) - a lot of you are in the Champions League for the first time. It's a very good experience and gift for everyone here. It's a good experience to go around Europe. I hope it's not just three away games - I hope for a little more. "I don't know how many (Leicester need to qualify). Sometimes eight or 10 can be good, sometimes not. Slowly, slowly. " The Foxes will start their campaign next month and have not played in Europe since 2000, when they lost a UEFA Cup first-round tie to Red Star Belgrade. Ranieri added: "I'm very proud and pleased a lot of fans will come with us around Europe. " Meanwhile, Nampalys Mendy is out of Saturday's game against Swansea at the King Power Stadium after suffering an ankle injury in last weekend's 0-0 draw with Arsenal. Leicester are hunting their first win after picking up only one point from their opening two Premier League games and Ranieri remains focused on his survival target and on the visit of the Swans. "I am very focused to achieve 40 points, this is our target. It's the same target of last season, we don't change our minds and it's important to be focused on our job," he added. "It's not so stressful. It's good to get points - we're at home, we want to win. It will be a different game from last season. "

2016-08-25 21:31 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

88 Vladimir Putin hits out at Russia's ban from Paralympics Vladimir Putin has branded Russia's ban from the Paralympics as immoral and inhumane. The International Paralympic Committee has barred Russian athletes from competing in September's Games in Rio over state- sponsored doping, with the Russian Paralympic Committee failing in a bid to get the decision overturned at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Russian President Putin said the IPC's ruling was borne out of "revenge and frustration". Speaking at an award's ceremony at the Kremlin for those athletes who won gold medals at the Rio Olympics, he said: "The decision to disqualify our Paralympic athletes goes beyond law, morality and humanity. "It is quite simply cynical to take out one's revenge and frustration on people for whom sport has become their life purpose and whose example gives hope and self-confidence to millions of people with disabilities. "I even feel pity for those who take decisions of this kind because they do not understand just how degrading this is for them. "I would like to tell our Paralympic athletes that we will support them of course, and we will organise competitions where they can demonstrate their skills, and the rewards for the winners will be the same as what they would have received for their results in the Paralympics. " Putin also attacked what he claimed was the political decision to stop many Russian athletes from competing at the Olympics. The county had only one track and field competitor in Rio - long jumper Darya Klishina - and its weightlifting team was banned in its entirety. "We greatly value those who uphold the Olympic movement's principles and strive to preserve the unity of the big Olympic family," he said. "To our great regret, however, we have witnessed how the humanitarian foundations of sport and the Olympic spirit have been insolently trampled underfoot by politics. "We have seen how issues are decided based on considerations of the moment, and how selfish interest and perhaps even cowardice have triumphed over the Olympic principles. " Russia won 56 medals at the Rio Olympics, 19 gold, 18 silver and 19 bronze.

2016-08-25 21:29 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

89 Nasdaq posts 1st 2-day slide in 2 months Contact WND (CNBC) U. S. equities closed lower Thursday, with health care falling approximately 1 percent, a day ahead of a key speech from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. The Dow Jones industrial average closed about 30 points lower, with UnitedHealth Group contributing the most losses. The S&P 500 fell about 0.1 percent, with health care lagging. The sector had posted its worst day since June 24 on Wednesday. “If we look back to last year, it looks like history is repeating itself,” said Mike Bailey, director of research at FBB Capital Partners. “I think investors need to be cautious on health care.”

2016-08-25 21:28 www.wnd.com

90 Danon denies UN prisoner release demands, stating 'Immunity is not given to terrorists' Israel will not give immunity to those suspected of aiding and abetting terrorists, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday night in a sharply worded response to a UN demand that it release a UN Development Agency (UNDP) employee arrested last month. “Israel rejects the claim that a person assisting a terrorist organization recognized by the international community, such as Hamas, could enjoy immunity,” the statement read. “Whoever assists a terrorist organization cannot hide behind a claim of immunity.” Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. Wahid Abdullah al-Bursh was indicted earlier this month in Beersheba District Court for abusing his position as a UN worker to aid Hamas, including the construction of a port for use by its naval commandos. The UN’s legal office sent Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon a letter on Wednesday demanding the release of Bursh, claiming he should be granted diplomatic immunity. The ministry’s reply came following a legal investigation of the matter inside the Foreign Ministry at the direction of director-general Dore Gold. The statement said the UN, which until Wednesday said Bursh was a subcontractor, and that they trusted Israel to properly investigate the case, suddenly changed its mind and has determined he should receive immunity. The statement said the claim was examined by jurists, and found to be “unsubstantiated.” “In any case it is important to clarify that the immunity from which certain UN agencies employees benefit is related to the performance of their duties,” the statement said. “It is clear that immunity is not a license to commit acts of terrorism. It is outrageous that a man assisting a terrorist organization could benefit from UN immunity.” According to the UN’s claims, each employee in its organization should enjoy diplomatic immunity, and Bursh should therefore be released. It also demanded that a representative of the UN secretary-general be allowed to visit him in jail. The UNDP in Gaza deals with the rehabilitation of homes damaged during fighting. According to the Shin Bet, Bursh, a UNDP employee since 2003, was approached shortly after the 2014 Gaza war by Husseini Suleiman, a messenger for senior Hamas commander Abu Anas al-Andor, who asked him to use his position as an engineer to help the terrorist organization. In April and May 2015, he allegedly helped build a Hamas naval commando port in the northern Gaza Strip. Bursh is also alleged to have used his authority to transfer to the site 300 tons of construction materials. He also convinced his manager at UNDP to give preference to rehabilitation projects in areas where Hamas agents were operating. When weapons or tunnel openings were discovered in homes being worked on as part of UNDP projects, UN procedures for reporting such findings were not followed, a Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) investigation found. Bursh’s interrogation uncovered Hamas operatives embedded in other aid organizations, the Shin Bet added. He also provided information on Hamas tunnels and weapons warehouses he encountered during his work. Danon, in recent weeks, has been working with international aid organizations operating in the Gaza Strip to establish monitoring mechanisms for workers recruited to the organizations, and to prevent the streaming of funds to Hamas. “We demand the UN and other organizations carry out a comprehensive reform of the mechanisms of humanitarian aid to Gaza,” Danon said . “Every dollar and every local employee of an international organization that enters the Gaza Strip must be supervised by independent bodies.” Yonah Jeremy Bob, Danielle Ziri and Adam Ragson contributed to this report. Think others should know about this? Please share | |

2016-08-25 21:26 ARIANE MANDELL www.jpost.com

91 US varsity responds to criticism over #StopWhitePeople2K16 New York - A public university in New York says the #StopWhitePeople2K16 used as the title of a recent training session was chosen for its irony and the session — about diversity — wasn't anti-white. A Binghamton University administrator issued an explanation on Wednesday, and the title and criticism of it are making the rounds on social media. The optional, one- time session this month was organised by three student resident advisors as part of a training programme for other RAs. Student Affairs Vice President Brian Rose says its purpose was to facilitate a discussion around issues of diversity, an effort he supports, and that the organisers borrowed the session's title from a familiar Twitter hashtag. Much of the criticism implied that the university was teaching a racist course.

2016-08-25 21:24 www.news24.com

92 92 Clinton tops 50% support from US voters in latest poll Washington - More than half of respondents in a new poll said they plan to vote for Hillary Clinton - the first time the Democratic presidential candidate has breached that all-important 50% threshold. The poll released on Thursday by Quinnipiac University found the former secretary of state leading Trump 51 to 41% in a head to head race. "We are starting to hear the faint rumblings of a Hillary Clinton landslide as her 10-point lead is further proof that Donald Trump is in a downward spiral as the clock ticks," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. Support for Clinton falls below 50% if third-party candidates are thrown into the equation. The former first lady gets 45%, with Trump polling 38%, when Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party contender Jill Stein are added to the mix. Johnson gets 10% and Stein is at 4% in the Quinnipiac poll. Trump's campaign has stumbled in recent weeks after a series of perceived gaffes. Commentators say it has struggled to make the transition from the scrappy party nomination fight to the battle to become US commander in chief. "Trump's missteps, stumbles and gaffes seem to outweigh Clinton's shaky trust status and perceived shady dealings. Wow, is there any light at the end of this dark and depressing chapter in American politics? " Malloy said. Meanwhile, Clinton, who is looking to make history as America's first female commander in chief, has hit choppy waters as well amid the continuing fallout over her misbegotten decision to use a private email server for State Department correspondence. She also has come under scrutiny for allegedly breaching a firewall between her family charity and her role as secretary of state, sparking Republican complaints of special favours granted to donors to the Clinton Foundation. But despite her self-inflicted wounds, many voters perceive fewer potential drawbacks to a Clinton presidency, and she continues to poll well ahead of her Republican rival. Quinnipiac's nationwide telephone survey of about 1 500 likely voters, taken from August 18 to 24, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

2016-08-25 21:24 www.news24.com

93 Cyclist channels inner Superman to destroy rivals (VIDEO) — RT Viral Many diehard cyclists will find such moves risky but for Michael Guerra, sitting on a saddle is overrated. As he approaches his fellow cyclists, he ditches his upright positioning for a horizontal, plank-like one. Once in his superhero position, firmly gripping the handlebars, Guerra flies past his competitors before then passing a woman on a moped whose open-mouthed expression says it all. The video has racked up more than 4.2 million views since it was uploaded on Wednesday and has been shared more than 68,000 times on Facebook. We should probably advise you not to try this at home as we’re pretty confident it will end up a little like this:

2016-08-25 21:22 www.rt.com

94 0-Soccer-UEFA Europa League play-off round results Aug 25 (Gracenote) - Results from the UEFA Europa League play-offs second leg matches on Thursday Play-off round Thursday, August 25, second leg Rapid Vienna (Austria) - AS Trencin (Slovakia) 0-2 (halftime: 0- 2) First leg: AS Trencin - Rapid Vienna 0-4. Rapid Vienna win 4-2 on aggregate. Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) - Istanbul Basaksehir (Turkey) 2-0 (halftime: 1-0) First leg: Istanbul Basaksehir - Shakhtar Donetsk 1-2. Shakhtar Donetsk win 4-1 on aggregate. St Etienne (France) - Beitar Jerusalem (Israel) 0-0 (halftime: 0-0) First leg: Beitar Jerusalem - St Etienne 1-2. St Etienne win 2-1 on aggregate. Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece) - FC Arouca (Portugal) 2-1 (halftime: 0-0, 90 mins: 0-1) AET First leg: FC Arouca - Olympiakos Piraeus 0-1. Olympiakos Piraeus win 3-1 on aggregate. West Ham United (England) - FC Astra (Romania) 0-1 (halftime: 0-1) First leg: FC Astra - West Ham United 1-1. FC Astra win 2-1 on aggregate. Red Star Belgrade (Serbia) - Sassuolo (Italy) 1-1 (halftime: 0-1) First leg: Sassuolo - Red Star Belgrade 3-0. Sassuolo win 4-1 on aggregate. Hajduk Split (Croatia) - Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) 2-1 (halftime: 1-0, 90 mins: 2-1, penalty shootout: 3-4) First leg: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hajduk Split 2-1. Maccabi Tel Aviv win 4-3 on penalties after 3-3 on aggregate. Maribor (Slovenia) - FK Qabala (Azerbaijan) 1-0 (halftime: 0-0) First leg: FK Qabala - Maribor 3-1. FK Qabala win 3-2 on aggregate. Anderlecht (Belgium) - Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) 3-0 (halftime: 2-0) First leg: Slavia Prague - Anderlecht 0-3. Anderlecht win 6-0 on aggregate. AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands) - Vojvodina Novi Sad (Serbia) 0-0 (halftime: 0-0) First leg: Vojvodina Novi Sad - AZ Alkmaar 0-3. AZ Alkmaar win 3-0 on aggregate. BATE Borisov (Belarus) - FC Astana (Kazakhstan) 2-2 (halftime: 1-0) First leg: FC Astana - BATE Borisov 2-0. FC Astana win 4-2 on aggregate. KF Shkendija (FYR Macedonia) - Gent (Belgium) 0-4 (halftime: 0-0) First leg: Gent - KF Shkendija 2-1. Gent win 6-1 on aggregate. Osmanlispor (Turkey) - Midtjylland (Denmark) 2-0 (halftime: 1-0) First leg: Midtjylland - Osmanlispor 0-1. Osmanlispor win 3-0 on aggregate. PAOK Salonika (Greece) - Dynamo Tbilisi (Georgia) 2-0 (halftime: 2-0) First leg: Dynamo Tbilisi - PAOK Salonika 0-3. PAOK Salonika win 5-0 on aggregate. Racing Genk (Belgium) - Lokomotiva Zagreb (Croatia) 2-0 (halftime: 1-0) First leg: Lokomotiva Zagreb - Racing Genk 2-2. Racing Genk win 4-2 on aggregate. Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) - SonderjyskE (Denmark) 3-2 (halftime: 1- 2) First leg: SonderjyskE - Sparta Prague 0-0. Sparta Prague win 3-2 on aggregate. Partizani (Albania) - FC Krasnodar (Russia) 0-0 (halftime: 0-0) First leg: FC Krasnodar - Partizani 4-0. FC Krasnodar win 4-0 on aggregate. Brondby (Denmark) - Panathinaikos (Greece) 1-1 (halftime: 1-0) First leg: Panathinaikos - Brondby 3-0. Panathinaikos win 4-1 on aggregate. Grasshoppers Zurich (Switzerland) - Fenerbahce (Turkey) 0-2 (halftime: 0-0) First leg: Fenerbahce - Grasshoppers Zurich 3-0. Fenerbahce win 5-0 on aggregate. Rosenborg Trondheim (Norway) - Austria Vienna (Austria) 1-2 (halftime: 0-0) First leg: Austria Vienna - Rosenborg Trondheim 2-1. Austria Vienna win 4-2 on aggregate. Slovan Liberec (Czech Republic) - AEK Larnaca (Cyprus) 3-0 (halftime: 3-0) First leg: AEK Larnaca - Slovan Liberec 0-1. Slovan Liberec win 4-0 on aggregate. Qarabag Agdam (Azerbaijan) - IFK Gothenburg (Sweden) 3-0 (halftime: 2-0) First leg: IFK Gothenburg - Qarabag Agdam 1-0. Qarabag Agdam win 3-1 on aggregate.

2016-08-25 21:21 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

95 Trump rebukes racism claims as Clinton warns of radicalism MANCHESTER, N. H. (AP) — Donald Trump confronted head-on allegations that he is racist on Thursday, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats have abandoned them. His general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, meanwhile hammered the point that Trump unleashed the "radical fringe" within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists, dubbing the billionaire businessman's campaign as one that will "make America hate again. " The ping-pong accusations come as the two candidates vie for minorities and any undecided voters with less than three months until Election Day. Weeks before the first early voting, Trump faces the urgent task of revamping his image to win over those skeptical of his candidacy. In a tweet shortly after Clinton wrapped up her speech in the swing state of Nevada, Trump said she "is pandering to the worst instincts in our society. She should be ashamed of herself! " Clinton is eager to capitalize on Trump's slipping poll numbers, particularly among moderate Republican women turned off by his controversial campaign. "Don't be fooled" by Trumps efforts to rebrand, she told voters at a speech in Reno, saying the country faced a "moment of reckoning. " "He's taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America's two major political parties," she said. Trump tried to get ahead of the Democratic nominee, addressing a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire just minutes before Clinton. "Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists," Trump predicted. "To Hillary Clinton, and to her donors and advisers, pushing her to spread her smears and her lies about decent people, I have three words," he said. "I want you to hear these words, and remember these words: Shame on you. " Trump tried to turn the tables on Clinton, suggesting she was trying to distract from questions swirling around donations to The Clinton Foundation and her use of her private email servers. "She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists," said Trump, who then defended some of the core — and to some people, divisive — ideas of his candidacy. Clinton did not address any of the accusations about her family foundation in her remarks. Instead, she offered a strident denouncement of Trump's campaign, charging him with fostering hate and pushing discriminatory policies, like his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Her speech focused on the so-called alt-right movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve "white identity," oppose multiculturalism and defend "Western values. " Discussions about the alt-right movement became the subject of a Twitter war Thursday, with people on both sides of the debate tweeting under the hashtag #altrightmeans. "#altrightmeans we don't want to kill you we just want you to go away," tweeted one person. "#altrightmeans white supremacy. That's all Alt Right is. Another code word for white supremacy. Nothing more nothing less," another tweet said. Clinton's campaign also released an online video that compiles footage of prominent white supremacist leaders praising Trump, who has been criticized for failing to immediately denounce the support he's garnered from white nationalists and supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Trump, who also met Thursday in New York with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young — and largely minority — volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has been claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters' support for granted. At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color, and in Mississippi on Wednesday he went so far as to label Clinton "a bigot. " "They've been very disrespectful, as far as I'm concerned, to the African-American population in this country," Trump said. Many black leaders and voters have dismissed Trump's message — delivered to predominantly white rally audiences — as condescending and intended more to reassure undecided white voters that he's not racist, than to actually help minority communities. Cornell William Brooks, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told C- SPAN's "Newsmakers" Thursday that Trump has not reached out to the organization for any reason. He added that Trump refused the group's invitation to speak at its convention. "We're going to make it clear: You don't get to the White House unless you travel through the doors of the NAACP," Brooks said. "More importantly, you don't get to the White House without addressing the nation's civil rights agenda. " Before the meeting in New York, several protesters unfurled a banner over a railing in the lobby of Trump Tower that read, "Trump = Always Racist. " They were quickly escorted out by security as they railed against Trump for "trying to pander to black and Latino leaders. " "Nothing will change," they yelled. ___ Lerer reported from Reno, Nevada. Jill Colvin contributed reporting from Washington. ___ Reach Lemire on Twitter at http://twitter.com/@JonLemire and Lerer at http://twitter.com/@llerer

2016-08-25 21:21 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

96 Britons 'affected' by Italy earthquake, Foreign Office confirms A number of Britons have been affected by the devastating earthquake in Italy, the Foreign Office said, as the death toll continued to rise on Thursday. The BBC reported that at least three British citizens were among those killed in Amatrice, according to an official from the town. The Foreign Office was unable to confirm that report. A police official in the Amatrice area told the Press Association that “a number of Britons” had been killed in the earthquake. The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said extra staff had been sent to the region to help provide support to Britons affected by the “ terrible ” quake. The UK government has offered “any assistance that we can” to the Italian authorities, Johnson said. He said: “My deepest sympathies are with the Italian people and everyone affected by the terrible earthquake that struck central Italy . “The British government has offered any assistance that we can to help with the recovery effort and I have spoken with Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni to express my condolences personally. “As the scale of the disaster has become clearer we now know that a number of British nationals have been affected. “British embassy staff are in the region providing consular support, and we have deployed additional staff to support this effort.” Aftershocks have been felt in central Italy as rescue workers continued efforts to find survivors. At least 365 people were injured in the initial earthquake and the aftermath. A day after the shallow quake levelled three small towns, a 4.3 magnitude aftershock hit the already-devastated settlement of Amatrice. Firefighters and rescue crews using sniffer dogs have been working in teams around the hardest-hit areas of the country. “We will work relentlessly until the last person is found, and make sure no one is trapped,” said Lorenzo Botti, a rescue team spokesman.

2016-08-25 21:20 Press Association www.theguardian.com

97 Man gets 8 years for killing wife in chicken liver rage Cape Town - An Eastern Cape man was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing his wife in a rage over uncooked chicken livers, police said on Thursday. Captain Jackson Manatha said the trouble started on March 8, after the two had collected their old age pension. When they arrived home in Mente village, Willowvale, 69-year-old Mabefu Mbundwana demanded that his 66-year- old wife Nofinish cook him chicken livers. He went for a lie down and when he woke up and saw they were not done, he flew into a rage and beat her so severely with a stick that she died. Mabunda was found guilty of murder and sentenced by the Willowvale Regional Court on Tuesday.

2016-08-25 21:18 www.news24.com

98 Be humble, go to the Hawks, ANCYL tells Gordhan Johannesburg - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan should show leadership by meeting the Hawks and avoid causing “unnecessary” drama and putting strain on the currency, the ANCYL said on Thursday. The world was taking note of developments in the country and confidence in its economy would be compromised if “no one is level headed”, spokesperson Mondli Mkhize said. The youth league wanted Gordhan to reassure investors that Treasury was being run by a law-abiding citizen who was “humble and patriotic”. “The rand on Wednesday dropped by more than 3% against the dollar as the world heard of the fracas between the Hawks and Minister of Finance,” Mkhize said. If the public spats continued, and the rand continued to fall, the ANCYL would ask the ANC to provide "political guidance" for the sake of stabilizing the economy. “As the ANC Youth League, we call on all those who are involved in this investigation to reduce public spats and engage in a manner that any other citizen would have been treated and responded,” Mkhize said. The Hawks instructed Gordhan, and two former Sars employees - Ivan Pillay and Johann van Loggerenberg - to present themselves to their office in Pretoria on Thursday, so they could make warning statements. The unit wanted to question Gordhan about his alleged contraventions of the National Strategic Intelligence Act and Public Finance Management Act. These related to his approval of Sars commissioner Pillay's early retirement in 2010, and to the alleged creation of an intelligence unit within Sars. In a statement on Wednesday, Gordhan said he had taken legal advice and had no obligation to present himself to the Hawks. He said he should be left to do his job in a difficult economic environment. Gordhan was Sars commissioner between 1999 and 2009. During this period, a so-called "rogue unit" was allegedly established, which was allegedly involved in illegal intelligence gathering.

2016-08-25 21:18 www.news24.com

99 99 22 foreign nationals rescued from possible human trafficking Pretoria - Gauteng police have opened a human trafficking docket after they found 22 undocumented Zimbabwean and Mozambican nationals in a bakkie in Pretoria on Thursday. The bakkie was pulled over during a roadblock near the R21 Irene off-ramp around 11:00, spokesperson Colonel Noxolo Kweza said. Gauteng traffic police found 15 children and seven adults inside. The children were aged between two months and 18 years, and the adults between 20 and 44 years. None of the occupants had any documentation, including the 38-year-old driver. He had a forged passport, Kweza said. He allegedly told police he was taking the group to Tembisa, on the East Rand. A case of human trafficking had been opened. “The possibility of an involvement of a syndicate will also be investigated as similar cases were picked up in various areas recently,” Kweza said. Additional charges could be added to the docket.

2016-08-25 21:18 www.news24.com

100 Conjoined Twins in Syria Die While Awaiting Evacuation (Newser) – More heartbreaking news from Syria: conjoined twins born a month ago in a beseiged hospital in rebel-held territory have died. The baby boys succumbed to heart failure on Wednesday before they could be moved abroad for life-saving treatment, the Wall Street Journal reports. Joined at the abdomen, with their hearts sharing the same sac, Moaz and Nawras al- Hishoysh weighed less than 12 pounds when they were born on July 23 in the Ghouta region outside Damascus. After repeated appeals and a social media campaign hashtagged #EvacuateTheTwins, the government allowed them to be moved to the capital on Aug. 12. But Damascus also lacks the medical facilities the babies needed, and with time running out, relief officials scrambled to get the boys out of Syria. The Syrian American Medical Society accuses the government of failing to grant the twins permission to leave the country in time because of political reasons, reports the BBC. The charity says it obtained commitments from hospitals in the US and Saudi Arabia (both oppose President Bashar al-Assad) to treat the babies, but the government stalled in granting them passports, the baby’s father, Muneer al-Hishoysh, tells the Journal. But a spokeswoman for the government-sanctioned Syrian Arab Red Crescent denies that Syrian officials were uncooperative and says her agency had gotten the thumbs up to transfer the babies to an Italian hospital on Monday. But by that time, she said, the twins were too sick to travel. (Last week, the fate of two young Syrian brothers made headlines.)

2016-08-25 21:10 Linda Hervieux rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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