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Three days after Heather Heyer, 32, was murdered when an alleged white-supremacist drove through a crowd of anti-racism protesters.

Fox News once published an article advocating that cars drive into liberal protesters attempting to block traffic.

>And only after a woman was killed Saturday in Charlottesville, Va.—when a car allegedly driven by white-supremacist activist James Alex Fields plowed through a crowd of anti-racism demonstrators—did Fox decided to delete it.

>On January 29, 2017, the cable outlet’s unabashedly conservative opinion site Fox Nation published an article titled, “Here’s A Reel Of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Trying To Block The Road.”

>“Here’s a compilation of liberal protesters getting pushed out of the way by cars and trucks,” wrote the article’s author. “Study the technique; it may prove useful in the next four years.”

Here’s A Reel Of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Trying To Block The Road
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-Fox Nation ((at)foxnation) January 29, 2017

>Fox quietly deleted the article on Tuesday, three days after Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in the violent incident. Instead of an editor’s note or a statement explaining the deletion, the article was simply replaced by an error page.

>The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine indicates that the article was live as late as early Tuesday.

>Reached for comment, the network sent a statement, via Fox News Digital’s new editor-in-chief Noah Kotch: “The item was inappropriate and we’ve taken it down. We regret posting it in January.”

>The now-deleted article was an aggregation of a video-centric post originally written by Mike Raust for The Daily Caller, a right-wing website founded by current Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-quietly-deletes-article-cheering-plowing-through-protesters

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There’s a new iPhone craze on the subway, and it’s not the latest Candy Crush update.

New York women have discovered that creepy men are using the iPhone AirDrop app to send them photos of their privates while on the same train.

Since more straphangers using the MTA are carrying advanced iPhones and awareness of the AirDrop app has increased, local straphangers have started noticing a troubling trend first reported in London in 2015.

Britta Carlson, 28, was riding the uptown 6 train to a concert on July 27 when a mysterious message popped up on her smartphone.

“iPhone 1 would like to share a note with you,” read the note sent at 6:51 p.m. She hit “Accept” and was horrified by what she saw. “It was just a huge close-up picture of a disgusting penis,” said Carlson, of Bushwick, Brooklyn. The message was titled “Straw” and was sent by an anonymous stranger.

“It really felt like someone had actually just flashed me.”

Carlson clutched the phone to her chest and frantically scanned the subway car for the pervert but couldn’t place him.

In order for pervs to send lewd photos, iPhone owners must have their AirDrop setting on “Everyone,” instead of “Contacts Only” or “Receiving Off.”

The app, which was released for iPhones in 2013, uses “Contacts Only” as the default setting and doesn’t work with Androids or Windows phones. The victim must also be within Bluetooth range, which is approximately 328 feet.

People often forget to switch the setting off from “Everyone,” or don’t realize they have turned it on.

Carlson had her AirDrop switched to “Everyone” because she used it to send photos at work.

“It never even crossed my mind that someone may use it to send stuff like that,” she admitted.

Frankie Navisch, 35, had just gotten off a train at Penn Station when an invitation to open “Eduardo’s picture” — with a preview photo of a man’s junk — popped up on his screen.

http://nypost.com/2017/08/12/airdropping-dick-pics-is-the-latest-horrifying-subway-trend/

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Who did they have to kill?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/15/manchester-arena-victims-we-love-families-receive-250000-killed

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>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/15/several-killed-as-tree-falls-on-crowd-at-madeira-religious-festival

>Video captures moment tree topples into crowd at Catholic festival in Portugal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hytqERLdPgs

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Harvard's incoming majority minority freshmen class doesn't really mean anything."
1. http://us.blastingnews.com/opinion/2017/08/harvards-incoming-freshmen-class-doesnt-mean-anything-1-001928307.html
2. http://us.blastingnews.com/opinion/2017/08/harvards-incoming-majority-minority-freshmen-class-doesnt-mean-anything-001931361.html

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http://us.blastingnews.com/opinion/2017/08/a-womans-rant-to-a-former-google-employees-10-page-anti-diversity-manifesto-001928329.htmlq

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/naacp-travel-advisory-missouri_us_597f39e7e4b02a4ebb76e48c
>NAACP delegates have approved a travel advisory warning marginalized groups that “they may not be safe” if they go to Missouri because their civil rights are likely to be violated.

>The delegates voted Wednesday to nationally adopt the advisory, which was put in place statewide in June, according to the Springfield News-Leader. The advisory ― directed at people of color, women, people who identify as LGBTQ and those with disabilities ― cites recent legislation signed by Gov. Eric Greitens (R) that makes it even more difficult to sue for housing or employment discrimination.

>NAACP Springfield chapter President Cheryl Clay and other chapter members emphasized that this is not a boycott, but a warning and a response to the legislation.

>“Our ongoing issues of racial profiling, discrimination, harassment and excess violence towards people of color have been further exacerbated by the passage and signing of [Senate Bill] 43,” Clay said in a statement to the News-Leader.

>“Not all the communities have the desire or the will to do the right thing for people in their community,” Clay added. “Thus, this is why Missouri has earned the travel advisory for the whole state.”

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Why am I not hearing much about this?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/oklahoma-man-charged-in-anti-government-bomb-plot/2017/08/14/97816686-80f9-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html&ved=0ahUKEwjt1-uRkdjVAhWCslQKHSdzDs8QiJQBCCUwAA&usg=AFQjCNF76RjN6g_yzh33RCXCnMJv8oxh3w&ampcf=1

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Ah, soil. So dull. So boring.

Or so it seems. Even madly keen gardeners tend to nod off if you start nattering about soil during a presentation to a hort society. (I speak from experience.) Yet surprisingly perhaps, farming organizations encounter the same level of interest. That is, virtually nil.

“Our national soil conservation week is usually a boring, quiet affair,” Kier Miller, eastern Canada director of the Soil Conservation Council admitted in a CBC interview last spring. “No one pays much attention.”

But that was back in April. Boy, have things changed. This summer lots of Canadian farmers and gardeners suddenly got interested in the state of their soil (the CBC came calling, too) as a result of a clever experiment that the council dreamed up.

It’s called the Soil Your Undies test — and if the topic of soil bored the pants off you until now, there’s still time to dig it.

Just go out and buy some new, undyed white cotton briefs (male or female, doesn’t matter), and bury them somewhere in the garden. Stick in a little flag to mark the spot. Leave them undisturbed for two months. Then dig the underpants up. If the cotton has mostly been eaten away — leaving only the elastic waistband — congratulations. It means your soil is in good shape, with plenty of organic matter.

Why? Earthworms and other, smaller invisible critters inhabiting the soil need organic matter to survive — and when there are plenty of them around, they’ll eat the cotton, which is, of course, also an organic material.

“It’s like a steak to them,” explains Kier Miller.

https://www.thestar.com/life/2017/08/12/soil-your-undies-experiment-a-canadian-hit.html

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MILWAUKEE -- Wisconsin taxpayers won't break even on the proposed Foxconn deal for at least 25 years. Non-partisan budget analysts at the Capitol said Tuesday, August 8th that's only if Foxconn keeps its commitment to build a $10 billion plant and hire 13,000 people. If people from Illinois make up more than 10 percent of Foxconn's workforce, or if the company falls short of 13,000 employees, taxpayers won't be made whole until beyond 2045. The analysis got to lawmakers Tuesday, two days before a planned committee vote. Democrats said the new details made them more likely to vote no.

>"I think we really need to put the brakes on this, really slow down and vet this bill to make sure we get the right deal for Wisconsinites," Rep. David Crowley, D-Milwaukee said.

>Governor Scott Walker responded by comparing the Foxconn deal to the Green Bay Packers signing DE Reggie White -- calling both "transformational." Walker said the deal is about more than the effect on tax revenue.

>Foxconn was the focus of a town hall meeting in Milwaukee Tuesday night -- where some asked whether it's worth it.

>The meeting was hosted by Rep. Jonathan Brostoff, D-Milwaukee, who doesn't like the deal to bring Foxconn to Wisconsin.

>"I just don't know how it can be done right," a speaker said.

>"I want ironclad guarantees. I want a piece of that man's flesh if they back out of here," a speaker said.

>After the announcement Foxconn could create up to 13,000 jobs in SE Wisconsin, some were skeptical Tuesday about the potential deal that lured the electronics manufacturer.

>"It turns out the more details that come out, the worse this deal looks," Brostoff said.

>Brostoff said a tax incentives package that could reach up to $3 billion isn't worth it.

http://fox6now.com/2017/08/08/well-worth-it-gov-walker-defends-foxconn-incentives-package-as-some-speak-out-against-it-in-milwaukee/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/13/syrias-assad-has-become-an-unexpected-icon-of-the-far-right-in-america/?utm_term=.64da1af12ccc

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Israel has once again maintained its reputation as the world’s leading online fraud and subversion center with the arrest of two Jews in that country for running the planet’s biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack system, which crashes websites by overwhelming them with fake “pings.”

http://archive.is/m3is5

The vDos service apparently “attracted tens of thousands of paying customers and facilitated more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the four year period it was in business,” the Krebs blog revealed.
The two Jews, named as Yarden “applej4ck” Bidani and Itay “p1st” Huri were arrested last week Thursday and then released Friday on the equivalent of about USD $10,000 bond each. Israeli authorities also seized their passports, placed them under house arrest for 10 days, and forbade them from using the Internet or telecommunications equipment of any kind for 30 days.
vDOS is a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline.

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Harvard College's admitted freshmen last year became the first class in the school's multi-century history comprised of mostly nonwhite students.
And again, for the second year in a row, the majority of students invited to attend the prestigious college this year identify as ethnic minorities.

Of the 2,056 students accepted for the class of 2021, 50.8% do not identify as white. Of the admitted students, 22.2% are Asian-American, 14.6% are African-American, 11.6 are Latino, 1.9% are Native Americans, and Native Hawaiians are 0.5%. First-generation students make up 15.1% of the admitted class.
Neither this year's class nor last year's made many headlines when the college initially released the data. But with the Department of Justice now investigating a discrimination complaint against the school, Harvard and its diverse array of students have been thrust into the national spotlight.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/03/us/harvard-minority-admissions-trnd/index.html

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Mumbai (AFP) – Four people have been arrested in India for leaking an episode from HBO’s “Game of Thrones” television series before it was aired in the country, police said Monday.

Already the most pirated show in TV history, the popular fantasy drama — which tells the story of noble families vying for the Iron Throne — has been plagued by leaks in recent weeks following the premiere of the seventh season.

After receiving a complaint for a company “we investigated the case and have arrested four individuals for unauthorised publication of the fourth episode from season seven,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Akbar Pathan told AFP.

He said the four — accused of criminal breach of trust and computer-related offences — would be detained until August 21 amid an investigation.

The case was filed by a Mumbai-based company responsible for storing and processing the TV episodes for an app, local media said.

The four arrested were company employees who possessed official credentials giving them access to the episodes, the reports added.

Game of Thrones has more Emmy Awards than any narrative show in history and airs in 170 countries, with viewership figures shattering records across the world.

As well as being a hit globally, it has a massive fan base in South Asia.

Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss last year announced the shortened run of seven and six episodes for the final two seasons and confirmed the summer return for season seven, a departure from the usual April premieres.

The show has been teasing winter’s arrival since its pilot episode in 2011, and in the latest episode preview “Death Is The Enemy” has finally moved closer to showcasing a battle between a horde of undead “White Walkers” from the frozen North and a troop of warriors led by hero Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
http://www.breitbart.com/news/four-arrested-in-india-for-leaking-game-of-thrones-episode/

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Suggesting that someone, somewhere, stumbled mid-bender upon a magic Schlitz can, and decided to waste the one wish it granted them on making reality its dumbest, loudest self, the non-existent senatorial campaign of Robert Ritchie—known to the bleary-eyed masses as sentient haircut mistake Kid Rock—is creeping ever closer to reality. Today, Politico reports that the president of a conservative super PAC that’s been endorsed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has expressed his support for Ritchie’s alleged candidacy.

>“We’d be actually very interested in his candidacy,” Steven Law, the president of the Senate Leadership Fund, and McConnell’s former chief of staff, told C-SPAN today. “I certainly wouldn’t count him out.” Law was responding to a recent RealClearPolitics poll showing that the future senior senator from Bawitdaba was only 8 points behind Sen. Debbie Stabenow, one of Michigan’s current incumbents.

>Ritchie hasn’t made it clear whether he’s actually intending to run, or whether this is all part of an elaborate conspiracy to get us to buy more shitty barbecue grills. He has started selling merch and passing around memes, though, including a picture that reads, “I believe if you work your butt off and pay taxes, you should be able to easily understand and navigate the laws, tax codes, health care and anything else the government puts in place that affects us all,” a stance that would put the political discourse at eye-level with a man who once wrote the lyrics “Fly with new blast, get gas / Kid Rock some folks thought I’d flew right past / Faded fast, ran outta gas / Here I come again, all back in that ass.”

http://www.avclub.com/article/gop-super-pac-expresses-support-future-senator-kid-259382