George Zimmerman Sues Trayvon Martin's Parents, Others for $100 Million
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-04
George Zimmerman, the former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, is suing the victim's family, prosecutors, and the media for $100 million in damages. Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Martin in 2013. "Imagine killing an unarmed child and then suing his parents," tweeted Center for Policing Equity president Phillip Atiba …
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US envoy on Afghanistan peace talks makes surprise stop in Kabul
rt.com | 2019-12-04
Washington's special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad was in the Afghan capital on Wednesday "to discuss the latest in peace efforts," a former Afghan deputy foreign minister said. | Hekmat Karzai, chairman of the Kabul-based Center for Conflict and Peace Studies, tweeted photographs of his meeting with Khalilzad in Kabul, saying they "spoke about the way forward." | A Taliban official said the group has held informal talks with the Americans, without specifying where or who participated, AP reported. | Khalilzad's visit comes days after President Donald Trump visited US troops in Afghanistan for the Thanksgiving…
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Another 'deplorables' moment? Surging in Democrat polls, Buttigieg calls all Trump supporters racist
rt.com | 2019-12-04
Pete Buttigieg, an Indiana mayor suddenly leading in polls for the DNC presidential nomination in early primary states, has accused supporters of President Donald Trump "at best looking the other way on racism." | Campaigning in South Carolina on Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday's Democrat debate, the South Bend mayor was was filmed accusing "anyone who supported this president" of either being racist or unacceptably tolerant of it. | BUTTIGIEG: "Anyone who supported this President is at best looking the other way on racism, at best." pic.twitter.com/6NbCxBwC4X– Benny (@b…
rt.com/usa/474958-buttigieg-trump-racist-comments/

Pamela Karlan, leave child out of politics — Melania Trump shames impeachment witness over attack on Barron
rt.com | 2019-12-04
First Lady Melania Trump has weighed in on the impeachment hearings in a rare tweet, shaming a legal expert who invoked Barron Trump in her testimony for "pandering" and using a child to score political points. | Asked to compare President Trump's conduct to that of a monarch during Wednesday's impeachment hearing, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan quipped that "the president can name his son Barron but not make him a baron," lighting up some corners of Twitter with both outrage and glee. The comment drew a far less common response, however, from the First Lady. | "A minor child deserves privacy and should…
rt.com/usa/475046-melania-barron-trump-karlan-impeachment/

Princess Anne shrugs as Queen gestures to come greet the Trumps in comical viral video
rt.com | 2019-12-04
Queen Elizabeth II and her daughter Princess Anne have been caught on camera having a brief funny falling out, as the British royals welcomed US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania to a NATO reception at Buckingham Palace. | It's quite common for mothers and daughters to have their disagreements, but seeing the Queen struggle to get Anne to play ball — in public — is a rarity. In a video that has gone viral on social media, the monarch's attempts to coax her daughter over to greet the Trumps ostensibly falls on deaf ears — if only momentarily. | The Queen chastising Princess Anne for not…
rt.com/uk/475031-princess-anne-queen-trump/

YouTube takes down Conservative adverts featuring edited BBC footage
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-04
Google has removed Conservative Party election adverts which used edited BBC clips from its video-sharing platform YouTube.The move follows a similar response by Facebook, after the corporation complained that the adverts infringed its intellectual property rights.Google — which has owned YouTube since 2006 — said it had taken action following a copyright claim by the BBC.One of the adverts the broadcaster was concerned about included an edited clip of its political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, saying "pointless delay to Brexit", followed by newsreader Huw Edwards stating "another Brexit delay".A Conservat…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/12/04/youtube-takes-down-conservative-adverts-featuring-edited-bbc-footage/

Burger King advert mocks Vote Leave's campaign bus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-04
A Burger King advert has gone viral after poking fun at Vote Leave's famous Brexit battle bus.The advert, which appears on the side of a red London bus, says: "Another Whopper on the side of a bus. Must be an election."Pictured next to it is one of Burger King's trademark burgers.The bus has been spotted driving around the Palace of Westminster (Burger King/PA)The advert mocks Vote Leave's claims, which appeared on the side of their battle bus during the EU referendum, that the UK sends £350 million a week to…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/12/04/burger-king-advert-mocks-vote-leaves-campaign-bus/

Morales Accuses Bolivian Gov't of Blocking His Migratory Status
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-03
President Evo Morales accused the de facto government of Bolivia for creating obstacles to his immigration legal procedures and his vice president àÅlvaro García Linera before the Bolivian consulate in Mexico. | RELATED: | Morales Vows To Do What's Best for Bolivia, Not Afraid of Jail | Morales through his account on the social media network of Twitter said that for a week they began with the steps and have requested collections that did not exist. | "Last week we started…
telesurenglish.net/news/Morales-Accuses-Bolivian-Govt-of-Blocking-His-Migratory-Status-20191203-0006.html

Mark Ruffalo Takes to Twitter, Calls for 'Economic Revolution'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-03
United States actor and producer Mark Ruffalo said Sunday on his Twitter account, which has more than 6 million followers, that the U.S. needs an "economic revolution" because capitalism is "killing us." | RELATED: | Capitalism Failed Argentina: Left-Wing Presidential Candidate | "It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, k…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mark-Ruffalo-Takes-to-Twitter-Calls-for-Economic-Revolution-20191203-0013.html

How do you like that, Elon Musk? Defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweet kicks off in Los Angeles
rt.com | 2019-12-03
High-profile defamation cases rarely go before US courts, but count on eccentric billionaire Elon Musk to find himself in just such a predicament. The suit was brought by a British man whom Musk called a "pedo guy" on Twitter. | The defamation trial kicked off on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, with jury selection. Questions that would-be jurors faced to determine their bias or lack thereof proved to be very detailed and quite unusual. | Among other things, they were asked about their attitude towards billionaires — of which Musk is one — and their views about people living…
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'Never going to Riyadh again?' Lil Wayne tweets & deletes mysterious angry rant
rt.com | 2019-12-01
US rapper Lil Wayne has targeted Saudi Arabia in an angry tweet, allegedly after running into drugs-related troubles with the law following a concert there. The tweet then mysteriously disappeared amid a wave of mockery and jokes. | "Never going to Riyadh again!!!" Lil Wayne tweeted shortly after his appearance at a concert at Diriyah Music Festival in Saudi Arabia, where he was one of the headliners on Saturday, along with fellow rappers Tyga and Future. | When you've won the mandate for the international leg of the Saudi Aramco IPO. pic.twitter.com/Mcu1DuBwDK– Davi…
rt.com/usa/474796-lil-wayne-riyadh-rant/

David Duke and His Twitter Nazis Got Mad at Me. Twitter Took Their Side
Jon Schwarz | theintercept.com | 2019-11-30
Twitter doesn't care when its users are abused by Nazi accounts. But what happens when the feelings of the Nazis get hurt? Then Twitter springs into action.
theintercept.com/2019/11/30/david-duke-and-his-twitter-nazis-got-mad-at-me-twitter-took-their-side/

America's presidential candidates hide the knives to deliver Thanksgiving messages
rt.com | 2019-11-28
They say politics is a subject best avoided at the dinner table, and America's presidential hopefuls have taken this advice on board: abandoning the usual attacks to deliver the blandest Thanksgiving messages possible. | First into the dining room was President Trump – America's rowdy, unpredictable uncle. Though Trump seemingly out of nowhere tweeted a meme of his head photoshopped onto Sylvester Stallone's ripped 1980s body on Wednesday, and lit on Democrats during the traditional turkey pardoning, his Than…
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'Is this your first day on the internet?' Mediaite mocked for claiming Trump campaign 'disputing' reports that Rocky image is fake
rt.com | 2019-11-28
When Donald Trump tweeted a clearly altered image of his head on Rocky Balboa's body, the media jumped to action, confirming — not that it was needed — that the picture was fake. But one outlet took things to the next level. | …
rt.com/usa/474597-mediaite-trump-rocky-balboa/

"If I Could Just Look at Her"
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2019-11-27
Watch the journey of two separated parents trying to cross the border and reunite with their children.: | " data-whitelisted="false" data-domain="www.youtube.com"> | In October, the Trump administration admitted that in a 12-month period, beginning in July 2017, it separated 4,370 immigrant children from their parents at the border. Since then, over 1,000 more have been separated under a dubious loophole that all…
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CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/11/17/caps-topher-spiro-is-trying-to-deceive-journalists-by-lying/