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This is a big crock of ****.

going against his party and doing the right thing is among the greatest reason.

I don't know why Iran shot those missiles.

I'm sure a majority of people tuned in to hear some salacious content and nothing more, people love to hear other people's dirty laundry, our modern news cycle is proof enough. Stormy Daniels is selling a story to make money and nothing more, what she is saying I'm sure is the truth,

And during all of this mess the conservatives are saying, "Move along folks, nothin' to see here". LOL, like hell there isn't.

And during all of this mess the conservatives are saying, "Move along folks, nothin' to see here". LOL, like hell there isn't.

Blickers wrote:

And during all of this mess the conservatives are saying, "Move along folks, nothin' to see here". LOL, like hell there isn't.

Other than a trashy slut who wants the world to know who she had sex with, what else is there to see?

I'm not asking folks to move along. As far as I'm concerned, people can stay and gawk at the slut if they want.

I do question the point of such gawking. But I'm skeptical of reality TV in general, so maybe it's just not my thing.

So the women Trump salivates over are sluts??

How to you feel about women who pose nude in a less than chaste fashion and also pose with other nude women as if they are lovers?

Careful now, you don't want to reveal yourself as a hypocrite.

Other than a trashy slut who wants the world to know who she had sex with, what else is there to see?

It seems the story has been told a hundred times before.

A white person sees a person of colour doing something they disagree with. They call the police. The videos of the police encounter show up on social media and soon it appears on news outlets across the world.

Lolade Siyonbola is a black postgraduate student at Yale University. She shares a common room with other students that live in the same hall of residence.

On 8 May, a white student living in the Ivy League university's hall of graduate studies saw Lolade napping on a sofa in the shared room.

She called the police.

"I had a paper I was working on in the common room," Lolade told the BBC. "I was working on it for much of the day, and I was exhausted so I thought I'd have a nap.

"This is normal, you know? People sleep there all the time.

"At 01:45 [local time], I hear someone come into the room. Then the lights come on. I hear someone say 'you're not supposed to be here'.

"The force with which she was saying it was very loud. She was yelling.

"She said she could see me clearly from the doorway. I'm just waking up, thinking 'what is happening'?

"She said 'I'm a resident here, you're not supposed to be sleeping here, you're not supposed to be here, I'm calling the police'."

Lolade had seen this happen before, so she instinctively knew what to do. She downloaded Facebook onto her phone.

"I installed it to record what I knew was going to happen," she said. "I always said to myself if I had a police encounter I'd record it on Facebook Live.

"For my safety, I thought that might be the wisest thing - to keep a record of it.

"I wanted to take any precaution I could."

As of Thursday, the video of the police encounter has been viewed more than a million times, with many comments on the video criticising the police response.

"I was just frustrated," Lolade said as she recalled the police reaction. "I thought, 'why am I being detained? Why am I being harassed?'

"I thought it was absolutely preposterous I was having this conversation with the police when all I was doing was sleeping.

"From my perspective and from the perspective of many others who watched the video, they didn't do the right thing.

"They were not sure that I should be there, because I'm a black woman at Yale.

"Even though I'm there with my laptop open writing a paper. Their bias is what determined how they proceeded.

"This is what happens in America. White people think they have licence to use the police as a weapon against people of colour. Police think they need to monitor people of colour.

"It's very common."

When Yale officials were contacted for comment, they provided a statement which was sent to all postgraduate students at the university.

"Incidents like that of last night remind us of the continued work needed to make Yale a truly inclusive place," read a statement from Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

"I am committed to redoubling our efforts to build a supportive community... an essential part of that effort must be a commitment to mutual respect and an open dialogue."

But Lolade was not convinced by the response, calling it "very unfortunate".

"I thought it was very vague," she said. "It lacked compassion and lacked a full awareness of what was happening.

"There was another message I've seen. It was very specific about what was happening about racial bias, it was much better."

She was referring to a statement from Kimberley M Goff-Crews, Yale University's Vice President for Student Life.

"We still have so much more to do," said Ms Goff-Crews. "Dean Cooley and I will hold listening sessions with students in the coming days and months.

"We remain committed to quickly and appropriately addressing issues of racism and bias on campus."

Despite the international press attention that her Facebook videos have received, Lolade says she has avoided reading what has been written about her.

"It's been very overwhelming," she said. "I'm very grateful for the attention it's been getting.

"But I really shot the video for my own protection and my safety. This is just what happens to black people in America every day.

"If Yale wants to be a truly inclusive place, the very fibre of these institutions needs to change.

"I just think this is just a part of a much bigger problem that speaks to who America is as a country."

You get to see a porn star who, by merely telling the truth, turns the entire White House operation into The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight, complete with almost daily changing of stories, new lawyers hired, new lawyers fired, still newer lawyers coming out with completely different stories that then get shot down by new findings by Stormy Daniels' lawyer who appears to be the single most competent individual in Washington DC at the moment.

We get to see Donald Trump's bully "Mr Fixer" Michael Cohen blunder his way through the entire affair, threatening the porn star with a $20 Million lawsuit that backfires so completely he gets his house and office raided while the president screams like a stuck pig about it on TV and Twitter.

Mostly, we get to sit and speculate just how and when Trump finally bolts for Russia to avoid Federal and State prosecutions in this country. Because increasingly, it looks like the only way out for him.

In other words, we get to see a trashy slut brag about who she had sex with.

US officials have apologised after a member of Justin Trudeau's cabinet was asked to remove his turban during an airport security search.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, who is Sikh, says airport security behaved inappropriately when he travelled to Detroit last year.

They let him board his flight only after he revealed his diplomatic passport, he says.

Israel and Iran, Newly Emboldened, Exchange Blows in Syria Face-Off

May 10, 2018
JERUSALEM — The tense shadow war between Iran and Israel burst into the open early Thursday as Israeli warplanes struck dozens of Iranian military targets inside Syria. It was a furious response to what Israel called an Iranian rocket attack launched from Syrian territory just hours earlier.

The cross-border exchanges — the most serious assaults from each side in their face-off over Iran’s presence in Syria — took place a little more than a day after the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement.

Israel’s defense minister said that Israeli warplanes had destroyed “nearly all” of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria after Iran launched 20 rockets at Israeli-held territory, none reaching their targets.

Iran struck shortly after President Trump pulled out of the nuclear agreement, raising speculation that it no longer felt constrained by the possibility that the Americans might scrap the deal if Iran attacked Israel.

Israel appeared newly emboldened as well, partly because of what seemed like extraordinary latitude from Russia, Syria’s most important ally, allowing the Israelis to act against Iran’s military assets in Syria.

“Pro-Beyoncé” vs. “Anti-Beyoncé”: 3,500 Facebook ads show the scale of Russian manipulation

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released about 3,500 Facebook ads purchased by Russian agents around the 2016 presidential election on issues from immigration to gun control, a reminder of the complexity of the manipulation that Facebook is trying to contain ahead of the midterm elections.

The ads, from mid-2015 to mid-2017, illustrate the extent to which Kremlin-aligned forces sought to stoke social, cultural and political unrest on one of the Web’s most powerful platforms. With the help of Facebook's targeting tools, they delivered their disinformation to narrow categories of users – from black or gay users to fans of Fox News.

In doing so, Russia’s online army reached at least 146 million people on Facebook and Instagram, its photo-sharing service, with ads and other posts. Sometimes, Russian trolls also tried to fuel rallies and protests, endeavoring at one point in 2016 to pit Beyoncé fans and critics against each other in New York City.

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.