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>Evans said he was leaving the Yes California group and joining the California Freedom Coalition, which he described as a grassroots organizing effort that evolved since last year's election.

>The coalition plans to file its own ballot measure in coming weeks, without the baggage of Marinelli's Russian ties, said Steve Gonzales, the new group's secretary-treasurer and board member.

>"It prevented Yes California from getting any serious money, I can tell you that," Gonzales said, noting that he is a native Californian who has never been to Russia. The group will accept no foreign money, and contributions from other states must be cleared by the coalition's board, he said.

>The coalition would need to collect more than 585,000 signatures to qualify a ballot measure declaring California's independence for the November 2018 ballot. The measure is still being written, Gonzales said.

>Congress and 38 states would have had to agree to change the U.S. Constitution to permit California to actually secede.

>Marinelli said Yes California had fewer than 97,500 registered supporters. About 8,500 signed up as volunteers, but only about 1,200 had contributed money.

>Prior to Trump's election, the group had fewer than 100 volunteers, Marinelli said, and the group received a social media boost with Trump's election.
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> Marinelli and Evans said California's overwhelming support of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and measures legalizing recreational marijuana and reducing crime penalties showed how far California voters were removed from the rest of the nation.

>They also equated the movement to last year's decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, dubbed Brexit. California, with its 39 million residents, is often compared to a nation.

>Their withdrawn ballot measure would have allowed voters to repeal a part of the state Constitution saying that California is an inseparable part of the United States next year, but left the question of whether California should become a separate country to a future ballot.

>Both Marinelli and Evans claimed credit for starting the Calexit campaign.

>Marinelli cited his struggle with U.S. officials since 2012 over his wife's immigration status. He praised California officials for their attempts to shield immigrant residents from deportation and said his wife now has her green card.

>When California one day becomes independent, Marinelli wrote, "I shall look forward with great satisfaction to return to California and to live once again under our bear flag."

>>133262

Fuck russia. They will try to play us against ourselves so that the US is left weakened. They want to be the world's superpower so bad, they're still angry they lost the Cold war. We must not fall for their commie tricks.

>Marvel seemed surprised that references to religious intolerance had appeared in the pages of X-Men Gold, the reboot of one of its biggest properties. In a statement, the company said the artwork “was inserted without knowledge behind its reported meanings.”

>“These implied references do not reflect the views of the writer, editors or anyone else at Marvel and are in direct opposition of the inclusiveness of Marvel Comics and what the X-Men have stood for since their creation,” the statement added. “This artwork will be removed from subsequent printings, digital versions, and trade paperbacks and disciplinary action is being taken.”

>Marvel did not specify what disciplinary action it would take against Mr. Syaf, a freelance artist who has been penciling comics for Marvel and other companies since 2007, according to his personal website.

>A spokesman for Marvel, Jeff Klein, declined to answer questions on Sunday about the company’s relationship with Mr. Syaf. Marvel mentioned him in promotional materials for X-Men Gold before it debuted last week, and in an interview published on Marvel.com last month, Mr. Syaf said the job was “like a dream come true.”

>Mr. Syaf did not respond to an email seeking comment on Sunday, but he did address the controversy in a since-deleted Facebook post, according to ComicBook.com, a website that closely follows the comic book industry. It quoted him as writing “I don’t hate Christian or Jew” on Facebook and also saying that he has spoken with Marvel about the references he sprinkled throughout the issue.
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>Those references were specific to the tension in Indonesia; it seems unlikely that someone who did not follow the country’s complicated politics would have understood them.

>In one panel of the comic, Colossus, an X-Men character, is wearing a shirt with “QS 5:51” on it. Indonesian readers said that was a reference to a verse in the Quran that Mr. Basuki’s opponents have used to argue that Christians and Jews cannot be trusted. Last year, Mr. Basuki was charged with blasphemy for speaking of that verse in a way that some viewed as disrespectful.

>In another panel, the number “212” appears on a store front. Readers in Indonesia said that was a reference to a large anti-Basuki protest held by conservative Islamist groups in Jakarta last December.

>That same image also depicted the X-Men’s leader, a high-profile Jewish superheroine called Kitty Pryde, in a way that some readers found upsetting. It showed her standing in front of a jewelry store sign so that the letters “J-E-W” were displayed next to her head.

>G. Willow Wilson, the writer of the Marvel series Ms. Marvel, which stars a superpowered Muslim-American teenage girl, criticized Mr. Syaf’s actions and apparent political beliefs in a post on her personal website. She also worried that his actions might hurt other Muslims working in the industry

>“This is all to say that Ardian Syaf can keep his garbage philosophy,” she wrote. “He has committed career suicide; he will rapidly become irrelevant. But his nonsense will continue to affect the scant handful of Muslims who have managed to carve out careers in comics.”

>>130957
So now pointing out that Islam is diametrically opposed to other religions is anti other religions... I really hope that Tjahaja wins or else their countries fucked

We don’t have an upper hand in certain places. We are not having any deals with Chechnya.

We have to make peace with that fact. What I always recommend is when you see how these people live, what they do, start appreciating more our society. And protect our society from those barbarians as vigorously as they protect their society, their way of living, their way of thinking. And that is very important for people to understand.

When we try to push on the society to change their ways then we make the problem bigger.

During the radio interview, Lucas was asked to whom he was referring when he used the term “barbarians.”

He replied:

I am referring to the Muslim world. To the world of Islam. We will not be able to change them but we have to protect our world and our way of life as vigorously as they protect their way of life. And yes immigration is a problem. Yes, on the left this is a very unpopular opinion. If we are taking (refugees and immigrants) we should not take from the pool of people that is so hostile to us. You know, people, they’re saying on the left, well, bring them here and they will enjoy our freedom and they will embrace gays. No, stay there, learn how to love gays and then come here.

But with all seriousness, Muslim immigration is a problem. They come here, they lobby, they bring hate. And that is not the right pool of people we should be taking from. That is very unfortunate but it would be terrible for refugees and it would be terrible for us because there will be a lot of hate. People don’t want really refugees from Muslim countries because it is such a different culture that will collide with our culture. They will radicalize much faster here and that is why I am very much against this immigration.

In a follow up text message after the interview, Lucas further clarified that he sees four kinds of Islamic societies:

The first one – Oil rich Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia that can afford to execute homosexuals and all other offenders openly without hiding it. The West lets them get away with it because of our governments’ business dealings

Second – Countries like Egypt that have no capital punishment for homosexuality, but have public trials that throw gays in jail. Those trials are covered in the West and often put authorities in those countries on the defensive following public outrage and then a crackdown on gays temporally stops.

Third are territories that are run by terrorist groups like ISIS that proudly execute homosexuals and film beheadings and stonings.

And then we have places like Chechnya that are not governed by laws and where gays are being persecuted and killed by police. But when confronted about it they deny the existence of homosexuals in their society or any problem.

What unites all of those Islamic societies is that they all are full of hate towards gays and anyone who is different. All of those societies practice honor killings of sexual minorities, woman who commit adultery and those who want to abandon Islam.

During our radio interview, Lucas discussed reports that gay men are being held captive in detention camps in Chechnya and are being beaten, tortured and at times murdered.

The UK Independent reported: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chechnya-gay-men-concentration-camps-torture-detain-nazi-ramzan-kadyrov-chechen-russia-region-a7677901.html

The claims follow reports last week that 100 gay men had been rounded up and imprisoned in Chechnya, with at least three people allegedly murdered. The allegations were made by a Russian newspaper and human rights campaigners. “In Chechnya, the command was given for a ‘prophylactic sweep’ and it went as far as real murders,” independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta claimed.

At the time, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s spokesperson denied the claims on the grounds that no one in Chechnya is homosexual. “You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” spokesman Alvi Karimov told Interfax.

Besides the Chechen denial on the grounds that gay people don’t “exist” in Chechnya, a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman claims the Kremlin doesn’t have any confirmation of gays being targeted. “We do not have any reliable information about any problems in this area,” Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.

Peskov spoke as the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights petitioned Russia to look into the reports of abuse.

Lucas further described the reports of abuse in an oped on the subject published last week in the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gay-crisis-in-chechnya_us_58eba074e4b081da6ad0060e?section=us_queer-voices

Lucas wrote:

Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s only independent newspaper, reported it had confirmed that more than 100 men presumed to be gay had been rounded up. The paper named three men – two television reporters and a waiter – who it said had been killed, but suspected that many others had also been murdered. …

>But for Alex Jones, at the peak of his power and influence, what emerges from the art deco courthouse on Guadalupe Street might shape whether he comes to be seen by his faithful as more prophet or showman.

>Alex Jones is an Austin original who, 21 years after he got his own show on Austin public access television, has become an unlikely popular and political force in the Donald Trump era, an ingenious and indefatigable conjurer of conspiracy theories about sinister global elites seeking to enslave the masses, who found, in Trump, a hero open to his shadowy narratives.

>“Alex Jones and his Infowars’ umbrella of radio shows, YouTube and Facebook broadcasts, Internet website and tweets turned out to be Trump’s secret weapon,” Roger Stone, probably Trump’s oldest and closest political confidant, wrote in his book “The Making of the President 2016.” “His fiery words have struck a chord in the nation and he speaks for millions. In fact, more people follow Alex than watch Fox News or CNN.”

>In addition to broadcasting his radio show on some 150 stations, Infowars.com had 7.6 million global unique visitors between March 16 and April 14 according to Quantcast, which measures web audiences and ranked Infowars.com 387th among all U.S. websites, not far behind Texas.gov, MLB.com and PBS.org.

>The Alex Jones YouTube channel has more than 2 million subscribers and more than 1.2 billion video views.

>But Jones’ most important listener is the president of the United States.

>During the campaign and into his presidency, many of Trump’s most defining themes and questionable assertions either originated with or were popularized by Infowars: Hillary Clinton for prison. Hillary Clinton is gravely ill. Bill Clinton is a rapist. President Barack Obama founded ISIS. The election is rigged. Millions of immigrants voted illegally. The news media covers up terrorist attacks. The “fake news media … is the enemy of the people.” Obama spied on Trump.
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>In December 2015, thanks to Stone, Trump appeared via Skype on Jones’ show.

>“Your reputation is amazing,” Trump told Jones. “I will not let you down.”

>Since Trump became president, Jones has purported on air to be in regular direct telephone contact with the president, apologizing for not always being able to answer the phone when the president calls. Last week, Jones said that the president had invited him to Mar-a-Lago but that he had to beg off because of family obligations.

>Recently, Jones faulted Trump for falling for the “false flag” that it was the Syrian government, and not its enemies, that deployed chemical weapons against civilians, but he says he understands the political expedience involved and remains hopeful that Trump will reclaim the anti-globalist mantle.

>Naranjo, meanwhile, said she had never seen or heard Jones on Infowars until Wednesday’s hearing, when Kelly Jones’ legal team started previewing Infowars videos it would like to play for the jury.

>The first was a clip from a July 2015 broadcast in which Jones had his son, then 12, on to play the latest of some 15 or 20 videos he had made with the help of members of the Infowars team who, Jones said, had “taken him under their wing” during summer days spent at the South Austin studio between stints at tennis and Christian camps.

>“He is undoubtedly cut out for this, and I intend for him to eclipse what I’ve done. He’s a way greater person than I was at 12,” said Jones, turning to his son. “I love you so much, and I didn’t mean to get you up here, sweetheart, and tell people how much I love you, but you’re so handsome, and you’re a good little knight who’s going to grow up, I know, to be a great fighter against the enemy.”

>“So far this looks like good stuff,” Wilhite said. Naranjo OK’d it for viewing by the jury.
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>But Bobby Newman, the attorney for Kelly Jones guiding the court through the Infowars clips, was laying the groundwork for the argument that there is no separation between Alex Jones, father, and Alex Jones, Infowarrior.

>“This is the world he has planned for his kids,” said Newman, quoting Alex Jones at a recent hearing insisting that what he says on the air is what he believes.

>Next up was a video of a recent conversation between Jones and Stone on Infowars that quickly escalated into an expletive-studded, gay-bashing rant by Jones directed at Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee investigation of Trump’s Russia ties, in which, Schiff has suggested, Stone and Jones might be entangled.

>Jones’ rant ends: “You got that, you goddamn son of a bitch? Fill your hand,” echoing John Wayne’s warning in True Grit” to a man he’s about to shoot and kill.

>“This is nothing but a response to a congressman who called him a Russian spy,” said David Minton, another lawyer representing Alex Jones.

>“What possible relevance does that have?” Minton asked. “They want to throw the stench in the jury box and never get the stench out. It has nothing to do with parenting.”

>A few days after his Schiff riff, Jones characterized it on-air as “clearly tongue-in-cheek and basically art performance, as I do in my rants, which I admit I do, as a form of art.”

>“When I say, ‘I’m going to kick your ass,’ it’s the Infowar,” Jones said. “I say every day we’re going to destroy you with the truth.”

>Jones’ rhetoric is perpetually at a pugilistic fever pitch.

>Back in March, after Baldwin, playing Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” said he got his information on aliens from Alex Jones, Jones challenged Baldwin to a million-dollar charity bout — “I’ll get in the ring with you, and I will break your jaw, I will knock your teeth out, I will break your nose, and I will break your neck.”
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Whatever happened to separation of church and state?

>>131155
The USA only had to be separated from the church of England

>>131135
>The Alabama Senate has voted to allow a church to form its own police force.

FUCK YOU!!1! NO MUSLIM SHARIA LAW IN AMERICA!

>Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department.

Oh… well, that’s fine.

hahahah
lol at all the idiots who thought she was the second coming of Thatcher.

Pretty easy to predict this:
>LibDems make "massive" gains
>Labour falls below 200 MPs
>SNP loses a few, probably 2-3 to CONs and 2-3 to LibDems
>UKIP embarrass themselves
>CONs form slightly improved majority
Even with the massive lead in the polls, the vast majority of Labour seats are safe, and unlikely to change to Conservatives. The SNP can only fall from their current heights, and the Liberals can only gain.
Fuck knows what N.Ireland will do, they may see a poor turnout thanks to voter fatigue.

Okay, now, if the labour party's main platform is that if they win, they will oppose the Brexit, what will you think of it?

(Stopping the brexit might be the only way to not lose scottland, if you care about that).

>>132892
>sputniknews
Stop posting this propaganda shit.

>>132894
>https://sputniknews.com/europe/201704171052699801-nato-drills-start-latvia/

Sputnik are no more corrupt and no more different than any other news organisation. Like every other news organisation they have they're loyalties.

The situation in Poland in the grand scheme of things is very worrying and has been a story that other outlets have reported on,
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38592448), the only difference is western outlets natural defend these said NATO drills.

>>132905
>Sputnik are no more corrupt and no more different than any other news organization.
Oh yes they are. They are much more corrupt than 95% of all other news organizations. They are Putin's mouthpiece worse than RT.

Already a thread
>>132791

>>132848
saw this shit on /gif/ earlier

>>132848
Blood goes red like that when its in the sun. I've seen my fair share of favela fun times to know it looks real I guess KEK

This is the fate we deserve.

>Asians get all the weird fast food

Why?

>>131101
It's okay. The Chizza (and everything else on the menu) in the Asian KFCs is heavily spiced with red chilli powder. They also use an Asian variety of pizza sauce that is essentially the American ketchup.

>>126030
>lol let's proclaim to the world that we're going to shelter illegal immigrants and not cooperate with federal immigration agencies!

>they're raiding us anyway without our cooperation how could this happen to us!?

>>126037

Sanctuary cities are not just an act of charity or something. It isn't the job of local authorities to pay attention peoples' immigration status. I pay them to keep me safe, plain and simple.
We have to solve the problem of undocumented folks living in this country and we also have to prioritize the well being of Americans.
Local police very logically tend not to want to be in a position where immigrant communities are uncooperative because they fear immigration raids.

This is how specialization of labor works. Local police are uniquely equipped to build relationships with local communities to prioritize our safety in that way. Whether or not we like immigrants, we coexist with their communities and causing chaos for them does nothing for us.
We do have to address undocumented migrants and we have authorities that specialize in that task, a.k.a., the Feds, who should actually be doing their job.

Trump wants to produce fear among immigrant communities and divert funding from blue states toward red states, even though the former already contributes disproportionately toward the federal govt.. His order does nothing to make Americans collectively safer. I might give him benefit of the doubt if we didn't have a patter where every policy initiative he supported didn't come with an obvious ulterior motive than what he'd stated.

>>126046
> It isn't the job of local authorities to pay attention peoples' immigration status.

It is when said immigrants are gang members

and should i be concerned?

>>132864
If you live in Turkey and aren't an Islamist, probably.

>>132866

Well, I'm not lad my paradise is nice here, sweet sunny day, but tell me
what's the deal with this guy? maybe a quick rundown?

You're such an arse.
It's meant to be a URL for the story.

Luckily local news are on the scene.

https://twitter.com/KristinHaubrich

>"I heard 10 gunshots and we hid under the table" Witness at Firebirds saw suspect shoot & then turn gun on himself

So what happened with this, Anons? Got a local news link?

>>132277
No big deal.
Probably a romantically motivated murder-suicide that happened to occur in a mall restaurant.

Latest news update as of ten minutes ago...
http://m.tucsonnewsnow.com/tusconnewsnow/db_380376/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=8B6AcTxo

>It is understood that GCHQ was at no point carrying out a targeted operation against Trump or his team or proactively seeking information. The alleged conversations were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of Russian intelligence assets. Over several months, different agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern of connections that were flagged to intelligence officials in the US.

>The issue of GCHQ’s role in the FBI’s ongoing investigation into possible cooperation between the Trump campaign and Moscow is highly sensitive. In March Trump tweeted that Barack Obama had illegally “wiretapped” him in Trump Tower.

>The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, claimed the “British spying agency” GCHQ had carried out the bugging. Spicer cited an unsubstantiated report on Fox News. Fox later distanced itself from the report.

>The claims prompted an extremely unusual rebuke from GCHQ, which generally refrains from commenting on all intelligence matters. The agency described the allegations first made by a former judge turned media commentator, Andrew Napolitano, as “nonsense”.

>“They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored,” a spokesperson for GCHQ said.

>Instead both US and UK intelligence sources acknowledge that GCHQ played an early, prominent role in kickstarting the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, which began in late July 2016.
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>One source called the British eavesdropping agency the “principal whistleblower”.

>The Guardian has been told the FBI and the CIA were slow to appreciate the extensive nature of contacts between Trump’s team and Moscow ahead of the US election. This was in part due to US law that prohibits US agencies from examining the private communications of American citizens without warrants. “They are trained not to do this,” the source stressed.

>“It looks like the [US] agencies were asleep,” the source added. “They [the European agencies] were saying: ‘There are contacts going on between people close to Mr Trump and people we believe are Russian intelligence agents. You should be wary of this.’

>“The message was: ‘Watch out. There’s something not right here.’”

>According to one account, GCHQ’s then head, Robert Hannigan, passed material in summer 2016 to the CIA chief, John Brennan. The matter was deemed so sensitive it was handled at “director level”. After an initially slow start, Brennan used GCHQ information and intelligence from other partners to launch a major inter-agency investigation.
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>In late August and September Brennan gave a series of classified briefings to the Gang of Eight, the top-ranking Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. He told them the agency had evidence the Kremlin might be trying to help Trump to win the presidency, the New York Times reported.

>One person familiar with the matter said Brennan did not reveal sources but made reference to the fact that America’s intelligence allies had provided information. Trump subsequently learned of GCHQ’s role, the person said.

>The person described US intelligence as being “very late to the game”. The FBI’s director, James Comey, altered his position after the election and Trump’s victory, becoming “more affirmative” and with a “higher level of concern”.

>Comey’s apparent shift may have followed a mid-October decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) court to approve a secret surveillance order. The order gave permission for the Department of Justice to investigate two banks suspected of being part of the Kremlin’s undercover influence operation.

>According to the BBC, the justice department’s request came after a tipoff from an intelligence agency in one of the Baltic states. This is believed to be Estonia.

>The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the same order covered Carter Page, one of Trump’s associates. It allowed the FBI and the justice department to monitor Page’s communications. Page, a former foreign policy aide, was suspected of being an agent of influence working for Russia, the paper said, citing US officials.

>The application covered contacts Page allegedly had in 2013 with a Russian foreign intelligence agent, and other undisclosed meetings with Russian operatives, the Post said. Page denies wrongdoing and complained of “unjustified, politically motivated government surveillance”.
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>>131717
She lost. Get over it.

>>131718
10/10

>>131718
If this is all the right can bring to the table, lets just say the tears are gonna be delicious during the mid-terms.

Blames wikileaks ? Is this how the play games in us . No shit it had an impact

The mere fact that she blames misogyny should be enough reason to never take this airhead seriously again. What a vapid cunt.

>>130139
>>What a vapid cunt.

you prove her point