[Wash Times] Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it is pulling advertisements from Fox News’ "The O'Reilly Factor" following a report that host Bill O'Reilly reached financial settlements with five different women alleging sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. Pictured here, G4 Sport Utility.
A Mercedes-Benz spokeswoman told CNN in a statement that the allegations against Mr. O'Reilly were "disturbing."
"Yes, we had advertising running on ’The O'Reilly Factor’ -- we run on most major cable news shows -- and it has been reassigned in the midst of this controversy," the spokeswoman said. "The allegations are disturbing and, given the importance of women in every aspect of our business, we don’t feel this is a good environment in which to advertise our products right now."
The New York Times reported Saturday that five different women who accused Mr. O'Reilly of a range of inappropriate behavior, including verbal abuse and unwanted advances, had received settlements totaling about $13 million from either Mr. O'Reilly or 21st Century Fox in lawsuits dating back to 2002. The women who made allegations against Mr. O'Reilly either worked for him or appeared on his show, The Times reported.
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So, are you as a company, not going to sell O'Reilly a Mercedes if he wants one? These companies need to let these things play out in the courts rather than act social activists and SJWs.
Multiple reports of Tasmanian Tiger sightings are starting to flow in from everyday citizens in Australia. Several people have recently claimed they’ve spotted the animal, which isn’t a tiger at all — and, despite looking very much like a species of dog, isn’t of canine lineage either — but a carnivorous marsupial. Spotting an interesting creature in Australia isn’t exactly a rare occurrence, but there’s one problem with these reports in particular: the Tasmanian Tiger is supposed to be extinct.
The last known Tasmanian Tiger was captured in its native Australia in 1933 and lived for a few years in a zoo before dying, and its death has long been thought to be the final nail in the species’ coffin. Australians have occasionally claimed to have spotted the dog-like animals over the years, but the sightings were typically rare and attributed to nothing more than misidentification. That’s all changed now, as several “plausible sightings” are beginning to give life to the theory that the animal never actually went extinct at all.
Now, scientists in Queensland, Australia, are taking action in the hopes of actually finding evidence that the Tiger is still around. If confirmed, it would be an absolutely monumental discovery, considering the animal’s history. The team plans to set up cameras in areas where reported sightings have taken place in the hopes of confirming the claims. Tasmanian Tigers look more like dogs than kangaroos. Every time I look at reconstructed dinosaur bones I think of kangaroos -- the layout looks the same to my uneducated eye. I just have visions of allosaurs and Tyrannosaurus rexes hopping across the primoridial plain as they chased stegosaurs for breakfast.
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The problem is there are a lot of feral dogs in Australia from numerous breeds and some may look like Tas tigers.
These reports are from the mainland, not Tasmania, where the Tigers were supposed to have died out after the arrival of the dingo, 40,000 years ago.
There was a recent sighting on the outskirts of Perth. I thought at the time that the widespread poisoning of feral predators (foxes, cats, dogs) would have given them a ready supply of food (marsuptials are immune to the poison used), and allowed a residual population to expand outwards.
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A million poisoned baits a year are dropped by air over the southwest of Western Australia. So my theory that they are creating a food supply for Thylacines is not that implausible.
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No mention of just who the "scientists in Queensland" are, but I'll bet it's Gary Opit, who has seen thylacines behind every bush at least since I met him back in the late 80's.
They're all dead, Jim.
[RT] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... may have to pay Britannia money for Brexit instead of the UK settling its divorce bill of up to £50 billion if a plan by ministers succeeds.
According to the Telegraph, ministers are working on a way to charge the EU for a series of UK assets currently held in Brussels’ coffers.
"This is being presented in a binary way as a divorce bill, in which we owe them," a source told the Euroskeptik newspaper. "It’s not like that. It’s more like leaving a gym or a club. You don’t continue to pay for other people to use the facilities after you leave."
Official estimates suggest British funds currently lying in the European Investment Bank are valued at around £9 billion (US$11.2 billion). Further analysis mentioned by the Telegraph adds an extra £14 billion in property, including embassy buildings, cash, and investments to the refund.
Europe believes, however, that Britannia owes it around £50 billion in outstanding commitments and pension liabilities.
"I think we have illustrious precedent in this matter: I think you can recall the 1984 Fontainebleau summit in which Mrs Thatcher said she wanted her money back and I think that is exactly what we will get," Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said, recalling the former prime minister’s success in getting a rebate from the bloc.
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We're going to exit the EU and make them pay for it. Sounds familiar.
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Europe believes, however, that Britannia owes it around £50 billion in outstanding commitments and pension liabilities.
Outstanding commitments, eh? Just pay and run away as fast as possible before they think of something else ...
[National Post] TORONTO -- University of Toronto psychology professor Dr. Jordan Peterson has had a federal research grant application denied for the first time in his long and distinguished academic career.
And he’s certain that the rejection from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the government agency that supports post-secondary research, is linked to the controversy surrounding his stand on gender-neutral pronouns such as "zie" and "zher," and the modern notion of gender as being fluid.
That his application was also rated so poorly is telling, he said, meaning that if the proposal had just missed the mark, it might have been a credible critique, but the proposal failed abysmally.
Julia Gualtieri, spokeswoman for the council, said in an email Monday that grants are awarded through a merit review process, and that "past funding is not a guarantee of further funding." Names of the peer review committee members will be publicly posted once all applicants have been fully notified, she said.
[DAWN] Police officials in Jhelum Valley district of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) on Monday, while recording the statement of an under-treatment woman who had attempted to commit suicide, found out that she had been raped last week.
The incident happened in the constituency of AJK's Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider.
S*, the 25-year-old pregnant mother of one child, was subjected to the crime reportedly at the hands of an influential person from another tribe.
The suspect apparently took her to a deserted hut on the outskirts of Chikar on Friday afternoon, one of her relatives and police officials told Dawn on Monday.
Chikar is a famous hill resort towards the south-west of Muzaffarabad in the jurisdiction of Jhelum Valley district.
The victim, a resident of Khaitar Muradabad village, had gone to see her elder sister in the nearby Kalri village on Friday morning, leaving her four-year-old son behind.
When she was about to return in the afternoon, a man, who she later identified as Raja Nayyar, reached there along with two colleagues and forced her to sit in his jeep.
When her sister and brother-in-law resisted, they were abused and pushed aside by the accused.
The accused Nayyar dropped his colleagues after some distance and then took the victim to a shelter in a deserted part of the jungle, where he subjected her to rape, the victim told the police.
"I begged him in the name of God, I even put my chador at his feet, but he said he had already spared me once and he will not do so now," the victim told the police in Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan (SKZN) Hospital Muzaffarabad.
The victim, after reaching home, did not share the harrowing incident with her husband, H*, and sobbed throughout the night without taking any meals.
The next morning, she narrated the ordeal to her poverty-stricken spouse, who advised her to banish the incident from her thoughts as they could do nothing to the tormentor due to his financial and tribal clout, she told the police.
The victim subsequently tried to commit suicide by ingesting poison and was rushed to Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital in Hattian Bala.
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[SFgate] STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. Another "cyborg" is created.
What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter.
The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
The injections have become so popular that workers at Epicenter hold parties for those willing to get implanted.
[The College Fix] A pair of high school students who take classes at SUNY Oswego via a specialized program are upset at an assignment their "Principles of Literary Representation" class received: Defend Hitler’s Final Solution.
CiTi/BOCES New Vision program teacher Michael DeNobile handed out a "Top Secret memorandum" to the class "addressed to senior Nazi party members." It asked students "to put themselves in the shoes of Adolf Hitler’s top aides," according to a report at Syracuse.com.
Students Archer Shurtliff and Jordan April, who ended up on opposite sides of the, er, "debate" wondered: Does DeNobile really want students to argue in favor of "the Nazis’ justification for genocide?"
Although the lesson does tell students it is "not for you to be sympathetic to the Nazi point of view," and is just "an exercise on expanding your point of view," Shurtliff and April allege it created a rather intolerant atmosphere.
One student did a Nazi salute in class, they say, and another said he wished he’d been assigned the pro-Holocaust side "because Heil Hitler, duh."
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For debate team at High School (many, many eons ago), we debated Civil War economic issues, including slavery. Wasn't fun for the 'pro' side, but gave us lessons in reasoning and critical thinking. Our African-American senior class treasurer argued on the pro-slavery side (her choice). She did quite well, was very persuasive and was not offended. This was, as she said, 'an exercise'.
But we were 100 years after. This assignment, not so much.
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Taking an arbitrary side in a debate is a good exercise, but if you want to do something *really* edgy, have the kids argue for Trump over Hillary for Prez.
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Depends upon how the teacher grades. Are they an anti-semite looking for automatons to write what they think the teacher wants, or is the teacher looking for conviction and rebellions.
I think John QC's line is almost perfect.
There is no sane argument that justifies the Holocaust.
Then go into the practicalities of diverting resources (trains, building, housing, etc) in the middle of a war to the death when displacing living populations would have put a burden on your enemy who would feel obligated to feed and care for them. Or embracing the Jews and Gypsies and getting them to help in the war effort (6 million more hands in the factories/front lines) by promising them a homeland or something, while vilifying the Russians instead. Might have had an atomic bomb before anyone else if they hadn't scared of or killed some of their brightest minds.
Then end with the same line. There is no sane argument that justifies the Holocaust, it was possibly the stupidest policy decision of an administration filled with stupid policy decisions.
A homework assignment that asked students in an upstate New York school district to argue for or against the Final Solution, from the perspective of a Nazi official, was withdrawn and will not be assigned again.
"This is an exercise on expanding your point of view by going outside your comfort zone and training your brain to find the evidence necessary to prove a point, even if it is existentially and philosophically against what you believe,” the instructions for the assignment said.
Two students who complained about the exercise were given an alternative task.
But the students, Archer Shurtliff and Jordan April, took their complaint further and called for the teacher to apologize and for the school district to permanently ban the assignment, the Syracuse.com website reported. Neither of the students, both 17, is Jewish.
On Monday, New York State Education Department Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said the assignment has been permanently scratched.
“Since first learning of the assignment, I’ve done my homework to determine the facts in this situation,” Elia said in a statement. “I spoke with district officials about this serious matter. We agree the assignment should not have been given. The teacher apologized and the assignment will not be used in the future.”
[Daily Caller] Black Lives Matter Philly banned white people from an upcoming event, claiming it is a "black only space."
The April 15 meeting plans to discuss projects and initiatives for the upcoming year and act as a place for people to "meet, strategize and organize." While children are invited to attend, white people are explicitly banned from the meeting, according to the Facebook event page.
When people began questioning the ban on whites over Twitter, Black Lives Matter Philly stayed by their ban, explaining that their meetings are "black centered."
Anyone who identifies as "African disapora" is allowed to attend, the group explained over Twitter.
"If you identify as a person of the African Diaspora You can attend our meetings and become a member. If not you can support us in other ways," Philly BLM said in a tweet. "African Disapora" usually refers to people who were taken out of Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trades.
[WAPO] The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.
The meeting took place around Jan. 11 -- nine days before Trump’s inauguration -- in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.
Though Prince had no formal role with the Trump campaign or transition team, he presented himself as an unofficial envoy for Trump to high-ranking Emiratis involved in setting up his meeting with the Putin confidant, according to the officials, who did not identify the Russian.
Prince was an avid supporter of Trump. After the Republican convention, he contributed $250,000 to Trump’s campaign, the national party and a pro-Trump super PAC led by GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, records show. He has ties to people in Trump’s circle, including Stephen K. Bannon, now serving as the president’s chief strategist and senior counselor. Prince’s sister Betsy DeVos serves as education secretary in the Trump administration. And Prince was seen in the Trump transition offices in New York in December.
U.S. officials said the FBI has been scrutinizing the Seychelles meeting as part of a broader probe of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and alleged contacts between associates of Putin and Trump. The FBI declined to comment.
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That is correct, Skid. Every Prez sets up separate channels with this formidable competitor. Nothing illegal there.
Democrats are more soviet and communist than the Russians.
Democrats are the biggest threat to the US right now. They are all anti-Americans with alien doctrine and law and are plunging US into 3rd Country Hell every day.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost
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Since we have already established beyond any reasonable doubt that Trump is FSB agent, I fail to see the logic of an additional channel?
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I believe Trump is one of many that use Blackwater as their private security firm. Perhps wise to trust, but verify, when it comes to Secret Service protection of late.
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The meeting took place around Jan. 11 -- nine days before Trump’s inauguration -- in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said.
And there is nothing wrong with an incoming POTUS making overtures to Russian officials during the transition period despite the Donk's diligent and tireless efforts to establish a scandal where there is none. Reminds one of the Yahoos in Gulliver's Travels. (The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud.)
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How did the FBI obtain the intelligence 11 days before the inauguration? If being an avid supporter of Trump is criminal, and abuse of SIGENT has been used against the populace, we have had a coup.
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It is just smart to establish separate contact with a power that has their fingers in every Middle Eastern issue you will have to deal with. Especially since most of the State Department is suspect until you can clean them out.
Unofficial communication allows for plausible deniability and the option for leaders to actually say what is on their minds and not be destroyed in public over it.
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Unofficial communication allows for plausible deniability and the option for leaders to actually say what is on their minds and not be destroyed in public over it.
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Besides, Erik Prince doesn't really give a fok what the media or Washington disestablishment think.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[SFgate] STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. Another "cyborg" is created.
[The College Fix] A pair of high school students who take classes at SUNY Oswego via a specialized program are upset at an assignment their "Principles of Literary Representation" class received: Defend Hitler’s Final Solution.
