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  • D-Day for ISIS: Assault on Raqqa Begins

    06/06/2017 12:36:44 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 34 replies
    Reuters ^ | June 6, 2017 | Rodi Said and Tom Perry
    The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday it had launched an operation to capture Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital. ..."They have had three years to establish their defences there. We expect a fight very similar to what we've seen in Mosul," he said, while adding that Raqqa is a much smaller city.
  • Donald Trump unveils plan to privatize air traffic control

    06/05/2017 8:55:12 AM PDT · by Rennes Templar · 63 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 5, 2017
    President announces Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative Live video at Fox link
  • CNN Caught Staging Fake News Scene

    06/04/2017 4:48:25 PM PDT · by markomalley · 54 replies
    Medium ^ | 6/4/17 | Mike Cernovich
    CNN was caught staging news in a video captured by citizen journalist, who posted the footage to his Twitter account @markantro. Becky Anderson of CNN is seen in London handing props to a “peace group.”This footage was then passed off as real news by CNN.Cernovich Media has reached out to Brian Stelter for comment.BBC also wanted to use this fake news footage.CNN is fake news, Cernovich Media is real news.
  • Third Incident Reported in Vauxhall Area as Central London is Locked Down

    06/03/2017 4:14:37 PM PDT · by DoughtyOne · 193 replies
    the SUN ^ | 06/03/2017 | Neal Baker
    POLICE are responding to a THIRD suspected attack in the Vauxhall area of south London. It comes just minutes after London Bridge was struck by a van and knife assault. And armed cops stormed nearby Borough Market moments later. A tweet from the Metropolitan Police said: “Officers are now responding to an incident in the Vauxhall area.”
  • Bill Maher Drops the N Bomb

    06/02/2017 8:59:28 PM PDT · by guido911 · 59 replies
    Let him have it folks. You know if this was an R there would be calls for executions
  • Kathy Griffin says she’s been contacted by Secret Service

    06/02/2017 9:34:54 PM PDT · by 867V309 · 120 replies
    Griffin, 56, repeated her claim that the video was a parody, meant as a response to Trump’s remark last summer that former Fox News Channel journalist Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of wherever.” “I’m not good at being appropriate,” Griffin said Friday. “I’m only good at doing comedy one way. It’s in your face.
  • KATHY GRIFFIN GETS THE AX From Last Theater in Comedy Tour

    06/02/2017 6:10:41 PM PDT · by markomalley · 142 replies
    TMZ ^ | 6/2/17
    Kathy Griffin's offensive against Donald Trump Friday apparently fell on deaf ears ... because the only remaining venue that would allow her to perform has just pulled the plug.We've learned Kathy's concert at the Uptown Theatre in Napa scheduled for June 17 has been canceled. This follows 6 other cancelations, including bergenPAC in New Jersey which canceled hours before Kathy's news conference.The Uptown Theatre cancelation is especially significant because the decision was apparently made after she took the mic with her lawyer. The Uptown folks said on Wednesday the show would go on, but they clearly had a change of...
  • Tension mounts over CT budget

    06/02/2017 7:26:56 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 31 replies
    Eyewitness News 3 ^ | June 2, 2017 | Susan Raff and Joseph Wenzel IV
    HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut lawmakers were working at the State Capitol on Friday in the final days of the session. Democrats said they were finding it harder to get bills passed, now that Republicans have more seats and carry more weight. "They said they wanted to lead. They told the voters in the state of Connecticut give us more seats and we will be at the table,” House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz said. “And you know what we have heard, we will offer no votes."
  • Loud explosion, smoke reported at the Vatican

    06/01/2017 9:12:00 AM PDT · by rdl6989 · 156 replies
    Twitter ^ | June 1, 2017
    An explosion has been reported at the Vatican. There is a video of the scene at the link. This must have just happened as Twitter is the only place I'm finding this so far.
  • ADT to Pull Advertising from CNN After Kathy Griffin ‘Beheading’ Photo

    05/31/2017 5:47:34 PM PDT · by markomalley · 53 replies
    Big Hollywood ^ | 5/31/17 | Jerome Hudson
    The ADT Corporation, the largest security company in the United States and Canada, announced Wednesday that it will pull its ads from CNN in the wake of the growing drama surrounding a photograph showing Kathy Griffin lifting up a bloodied decapitated head meant to resemble President Donald Trump. A Twitter user sent ADT a message asking the Florida-based company to “drop CNN.”“We do not support these views,” ADT responded. “We’ve begun the process of pulling our ads from this network.”
  • MRC's Gainor: CNN Must Drop Kathy Griffin As Host ‘If It Wants To Pretend It’s a Real News Network’

    05/31/2017 9:40:04 AM PDT · by drewh · 37 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | 31 May 2017 | by Dan Riehl
    The Media Research Center’s Vice President of Business and Culture, Dan Gainor, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday regarding media coverage of Trump abroad, how the left targets conservative shows’ advertisers, the latest Kathy Griffin fiasco, as well as other topics in the news. Said Gainor on Griffin, given her long-standing connection to CNN, “If CNN wants to pretend it’s a real news network, which is at this point only a pretense, they can’t have somebody like that on. They just can’t.” Gainor continued, “The rest of her career, she’s going to have her career....
  • CNN 'Evaluating' Kathy Griffin's NYE role: 'No Decisions At This Point'

    05/30/2017 8:00:32 PM PDT · by drewh · 143 replies
    The Hil ^ | 05/30/17 10:09 PM EDT | BY MARK HENSCH -
    CNN is evaluating Kathy Griffin’s role in its annual New Year’s Eve coverage following the comic's controversial photo shoot in which she posed with a decapitated, bloody head resembling President Trump. “We found what she did disgusting and offensive,” CNN said in a statement Tuesday. “We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down. We are evaluating our New Year’s Eve coverage and have made no decisions at this point." Griffin earlier Tuesday apologized for the photo, noting that she had crossed a line. “I sincerely apologize,” she said in a 31-second video...
  • Police In Standoff With Gunman at Orlando International Airport

    05/30/2017 5:46:05 PM PDT · by Bratch · 30 replies
    Breaking 911 ^ | May 30, 2017 | Breaking 911
    FLORIDA — Officers rushed to the scene after multiple reports of a gunman at Orlando International Airport Tuesday. Orlando Police and Orange County Deputies have the scene contained at a rental car area. According to News13, the armed suspect ‘has threatened to do harm to himself and to others.’ Passengers were diverted from the area.
  • White House Communications Director Mike Dubke is out

    05/30/2017 6:58:33 AM PDT · by SpeedyInTexas · 33 replies
    See BS News ^ | 5/30/17 | CBS News
    White House Communications Director Mike Dubke is out, CBS News has confirmed. Dubke has no attachment to Mr. Trump and has always been something of an outsider. He's not a Trump loyalist and did not work for the campaign.
  • 8 dead in shooting rampage in Mississippi; suspect arrested

    05/28/2017 9:55:46 AM PDT · by PROCON · 42 replies
    AP ^ | May 28, 2017 | AP
    BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A man who apparently got into a dispute with his wife and in-laws was arrested in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead, including a sheriff’s deputy. “I ain’t fit to live, not after what I done,” a handcuffed Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, told The Clarion-Ledger (http://on.thec-l.com/2rbQIq5 ).
  • Scoop: Trump tells confidants U.S. will quit Paris climate deal

    05/27/2017 5:20:00 PM PDT · by TigerClaws · 109 replies
    <p>President Trump has privately told multiple people, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave the Paris agreement on climate change, according to three sources with direct knowledge.</p> <p>Publicly, Trump's position is that he has not made up his mind and when we asked the White House about these private comments, Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks said, "I think his tweet was clear. He will make a decision this week."</p>
  • Kelly on non-criminal ICE arrestees: 'not the valedictorians'

    05/27/2017 11:00:47 AM PDT · by Tammy8 · 27 replies
    KVIA TV ^ | May 26, 2017 | David Shortell
    WASHINGTON (CNN) - Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly defended the uptick in immigration arrests by his agents with colorful language in an interview with FOX News Friday morning. "Seventy-five percent of the people that the great men and women of ICE have taken into custody, 75% are criminals. The other 25% are not innocent; they are multiple deportees, they are people who have been fleeing from the law, they are fugitives. But they are not necessarily convicted criminals," Kelly said. Seventy-five percent are indeed criminals. The other 25% are not the valedictorians of their high school class." Kelly's phrasing aside,...
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89

    05/26/2017 7:50:23 PM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 171 replies
    NY Times ^ | 5/26/2017 | DANIEL LEWIS
    Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89. His death, at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, was announced on Friday by his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of the MSNBC program “Morning Joe.” Like his predecessor Henry A. Kissinger, Mr. Brzezinski was a foreign-born scholar (he in Poland, Mr. Kissinger in Germany) with considerable influence in global affairs, both before and long...
  • Comey acted on Russian intel known to be fake: report

    05/26/2017 11:08:30 AM PDT · by ColdOne · 66 replies
    thehill.com ^ | 5/26/17 | Julia Manchester
    Former FBI Director James Comey acted on key information created by Russian intelligence in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails that he knew to be fake, CNN reported Friday. Unidentified officials told CNN that Comey feared that if the information became public it would undermine the investigation as well as the Justice Department itself. The false information reportedly spurred the then-FBI chief to publicly declare last summer that the investigation into Clinton’s emails was over. Meanwhile, Comey also said that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information.
  • Coverage of Montana At Large at 10PM ( and other web sites)

    05/25/2017 6:00:42 PM PDT · by SMGFan · 466 replies
    Decision Desk HQ ^ | May 26, 2017
    We're covering #MTAL tonight at 10pm ET. Results & live blog up at http://decisiondeskhq.com ; & live broadcast analyzing #s via @BuzzFeedNews