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Statues apparently do not move, CNN reported on Tuesday. Not even female ones. Not even in the snow.

In a story headlined “Why a defiant girl is staring down the Wall Street bull,” CNN reported last week on a bronze statue called “Fearless Girl” installed in front of the famed “Charging Bull” statue on Wall Street. The bull statue is symbolic of a prosperous “bull market.”

CNN re-promoted the days-old piece with a tweet that apparently tried granting the girl statue's immobility some sort of feminist significance.

However, rather than admiration and pride for the statue's ability to hold still, ridicule and amusement reigned on social media.

The girl statue was installed by State Street Global Advisers a day before International Women's Day to bring attention to an initiative to get more women on their clients' corporate boards. It is unclear how long it will remain there, although the March 7 piece did say it should stay for “at least a week.”

http://freebeacon.com/culture/cnn-impressed-statue-that-move/

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White liberal sen. mccain just made current news when he defamed Senator Rand Paul by saying he works for Vladimir Putin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpzfGr_Dzqg

White liberal mccain is another defaming white liberal riding the conspiracy theory of Evil Russians Everywhere to race to the moral high ground.

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Girl Guides of Canada has announced it will not be taking any trips to the United States in the near future, citing concerns about inclusivity.

"While the United States is a frequent destination for Guiding trips, the ability of all our members to equally enter this country is currently uncertain," international commissioner Sharron Callahan and director of provincial operations Holly Thompson wrote in a joint advisory issued Monday afternoon.

"This includes both trips that are over or under 72 hours and any travel that includes a connecting flight through an American airport," the advisory says.

The statement does not directly mention — but appears to be a reaction to — the executive orders U. S. President Donald Trump has signed restricting travel to the United States.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/girl-guides-of-canada-cancelling-trips-to-the-u-s-citing-travel-concerns-1.4022985

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KENT, Wash. -- A Kent, Washington man was shot in his driveway Friday night by a man who allegedly told him to “Go back to your own country,” the town’s police said Saturday morning.

The victim, a 39-year-old follower of the Sikh religion, was in his driveway working on his vehicle when he was approached by a man he did not know, CBS affiliate-KIRO reports. Male observant Sikhs often cover their heads with turbans, which are considered sacred, and refrain from shaving their beards.

Some sort of altercation followed, during which the victim reported that the suspect made the “Go back” statement.

The victim was then shot in the arm.

The suspect is described as a 6-foot-tall white man with a mask covering the lower half of his face, with a stocky build and wore dark clothing.

Kent police tell the Seattle Times that the agency has contacted the FBI and other law enforcement agencies about the incident.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sikh-man-shot-after-being-told-go-back-to-your-own-country/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/during-his-political-rise-stephen-k-bannon-was-a-man-with-no-fixed-address/2017/03/11/89866f4c-0285-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.f0f1ff8b23ef

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/steve-bannon-voter-fraud-criminal-investigation-donald-trump-adviser-white-house-a7626721.html

>President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon is reportedly under "an active criminal" investigation for voter registration fraud.
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>Mr Bannon is being investigated after he registered to vote in Florida while he owned a house in Southern California and regularly stayed in New York and Washington, DC, The Washington Post reports.

>He is registered to vote in at a vacant house in Miami, which is due to be demolished.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LPJrzZaoZg

IN BRIEF

Scientists have discovered a way to grow human tissues on apples and other plant products.
This fruity technique may be useful in the field of regenerative medicine, particularly as a method for producing scaffolds to graft skin and bone.
WHAT’S IN AN APPLE?

Apples are a staple in most people’s homes and, it seems, in science. There was Newton’s apple, and the proverbial daily apple to keep your doctor away. Now, biophysicist Andrew Pelling of University of Ottawa wants to add an apple of his own into the mix — and this one might bring with it the future of biomaterials and human tissue repair.

Many scientists thought the idea of this apple itself was a little fruity. Pelling said that his team did not have many cheerleaders when they started to look for ways to grow human cells by biohacking fruits.

“Nobody else is doing this. In fact, in the early days people thought I’d lost my mind,” Pelling said during a TED Talk earlier in 2016. “What I’m really curious about is if one day it will be possible to repair, rebuild, and augment our own bodies with stuff we make in the kitchen.”


How Pelling’s team achieved this was rather simple, he said. To remove the apple’s cellular material, they bathed it in boiled water and liquid dish soap. As a result, the apple’s cells popped open. After the apple was washed clean of all its disgorged cellular material, what was left of it was a rigid cellulose scaffolding — like an apple’s skeletal structure, so to speak. The spaces that once contained apple cells were then filled with mammalian cells.

Pelling demonstrated the success of the technique on several occasions, and in some playful ways. For instance, his team carved apples into the shape of human ears and then infused them with skin cells. The apple-ears were remarkably life-like.

https://futurism.com/meet-the-revolutionary-apple-that-grows-human-skin/

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http://www.ocala.com/news/20170314/search-for-missing-cobra-continues-in-ne-ocala

Not really a big deal. The memorable thing is that Ocala cops called out their fucking SWAT team and have had two helicopters hovering over the area for about four hours now. Meanwhile, there have been a dozen Dollar General robberies in the area in the past few months. They did send a squad car to take a report.
Someone (whoever authorized the helicopters) deserves for this to be a meme they have to live with for the rest of their lives.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/09/sport/chris-bertish-sup-atlantic-crossing/

>South African watersport pro Chris Bertish has just nailed a world first: he's crossed the Atlantic solo, unassisted and unsupported, on a stand-up paddle board.

>Yes, that's one of those surfboard-like contraptions you've probably fallen off on vacation. And yes, we mean the real, genuinely-ferocious ocean that's claimed sailors' lives since man first decided to strap wooden planks together and take to the seas.

>The big-wave surfer and Guinness World Record holder crossed 4,500 nautical miles, setting off from Agadir, Morocco, on December 6 and arriving at English Harbour, Antigua, on the morning of March 9, local time.

>Bertish's stand-up paddleboard (SUP) may not be an off-the shelf job -- it's a custom-made,1,360-pound, 20-foot-long vessel fitted with a tiny cabin and solar panels -- but that doesn't mean the journey was any less daunting.

>For 93 days Bertish has paddled the equivalent of a marathon a day, skirting the Canary Islands before heading into the open ocean and aiming for the Caribbean. Along the way he also set the record for the furthest distance traveled solo, unsupported and unassisted over open ocean in a day (71.96 miles).
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http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindia/not-afraid-of-threat-16-year-old-singer-nahid-afrin-after-46-assam-clerics-issue-fatwa-against-her/ar-AAomHXq?li=AAaeRVN&ocid=spartanntp
Nahid Afrin, the 16-year-old singer against whom a fatwa was issued by as many as 46 Muslim clerics in Assam, has decided to fight it out. Afrin, who was seen in the famous reality TV show Indian Idol, said she is not afraid of the threat and will continue to pursue her dream of making it big in the music industry.
"Was shocked and broken from inside at first, but many Muslim singers gave me inspiration to not quit music, will never do so," Afrin said.
"My singing is gift of God. I believe it must be properly utilised, not doing so is ignoring God," she said when asked about the fatwa issued against her.
FATWA AGAINST YOUNG SINGER
As many as 46 Islamic organisations of Assam issued a fatwa against Afrin banning her from singing on stage citing Sharia laws. Pamphlets bearing the names of the 46 organisations/individuals were found in different parts of Assam such as Lanka, Hojai areas where Nahid is supposed to take part in a musical show on March 25.
"Magic, Dance, Drama, Theatre etc. are against Sharia laws. Events like musical shows are against the Sharia law and future generations will be corrupted," the pamphlet read.
ASSAM CM SONOWAL ASSURES NAHID OF ALL HELP
Following reports of threat against the young singer, Assam Chief Sarbananda Sonowal called up Nahid assuring her of all help. Sonowal told Nahid that she will be provided proper security cover.
Other prominent persons of the state too have come out in support of Nahid.
Meanwhile, Assam Police said they were investigating whether the fatwa was a reaction to Nahid recently performing songs against terrorism, including the banned terror group Islamic State.

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http://wtnh.com/2017/03/06/former-principal-arrested-again-for-voyeurism-of-children-in-stores/

>MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) – An East Hartford man, who was arrested last fall by Hartford Police for recording female children in a Walmart, has now been arrested by State Police after up-skirt videos of young girls were found on his cell phone.

>State Police have charged 47-year-old John Bean with four counts of voyeurism and four count of risk of injury to a minor.

>According to police, the new charges stem from four videos found on his phone that were taken up the skirts of young girls who were shopping at stores, including Walmart and Five Below.

>Bean is the former principal at Highcrest Elementary School in Wethersfield. He was arraigned at Hartford Superior Court Monday, where his bond was set at $175,000. He is due back in court on March 21st.
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There are lots of losers under the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, but perhaps nobody would suffer as badly as older Americans who live just above or around the poverty line. According to the new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, that group could see its insurance premiums rise by 750 percent within a decade under the House GOP's American Health Care Act, compared with what they'd pay under current law for more comprehensive coverage.

>Yes, 750 percent. That's not a typo. That devastating increase is spelled out in the table below, in which the CBO models how premiums might change for Americans of different ages and incomes under the legislation Republicans have proposed. With Obamacare, a 64-year-old earning $26,500 per year in 2026—175 percent of the poverty line—would have to pay $1,700 for insurance, after tax credits. That plan would cover 87 percent of their medical costs, on average. Under the AHCA, or Trumpcare, that same person would owe a full $14,600 after tax credits for a plan that only covers 65 percent of their medical costs.

>Suffice to say, an almost-senior citizen cannot afford to pay 55 percent of their income for health insurance.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/03/13/trumpcare_would_leave_24_million_without_insurance_by_2026_says_cbo.html

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David Mullings was always a self-starter. Born in Jamaica, he moved to Florida to go to university, and founded his first company – a digital media firm that helped Caribbean content find a wider audience – before finishing business school at the University of Miami. In 2011 he opened a private-equity firm with his brother. In 2013 the two made their first big deal, acquiring an 80% stake in a Tampa-based producer of mobile apps. A year later it blew up in their faces, sinking their firm and their hopes.

Mullings struggled to recover from the blow. The odd consulting gig provided a distraction and some income. Yet depression set in as he found himself asking whether he had anything useful to contribute to the wider world.

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Mullings’s friends invited him to join them in playing Destiny, a “massively multiplayer online game” (meaning that lots of different people around the world simultaneously play within the Destiny universe) and a “first-person shooter” (meaning that most of the gameplay involves the player looking out through a character’s eyes and shooting stuff). The world surrounding the players is vast, filled with great, sweeping vistas rendered in extraordinary and realistic detail. It is a world of its own. Within that world, players, often in teams, take on quests and square off repeatedly in matches against opponents.

Before long Mullings was hooked, playing up to eight hours of Destiny each day. To all appearances, he had fallen into a familiar trap – increasingly common and difficult to escape in the eyes of some scholars studying the phenomenon – in which work gives way to, and is ultimately replaced by, the entrancing power of video games.


https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-world

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On January 15th around 4:30 AM in PARKVILLE, MO was last time Toni was seen alive. She had left the adult entertainment club she worked at was pulled over by an officer and was allegedly never heard from again. That story here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/few-answers-disappearance-pf-toni-anderson-after-strange-text-message-n717286
Now over 2 months later her car was found in the MO river by a third party couple who do work on cold cases, they were able to immediately locate her car in area KCPD already deemed clear more on that here:
http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/man-who-found-toni-andersons-car-explains-how-it-could-have-been-missed
Now as of about 24 hours ago KCPD has claimed no foul play in Toni's death;
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article138088153.html
revealing that a bruise on her knee was caused by her allegedly knocking out her cars GPS "on accident" Her body will soon be creamted and forgotten but I for one am sick of watching Cops get away with murder.
A third party has tied some of the evidence together here:https://richardboydenreport.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/toni-anderson-murdered-by-corrupt-lying-and-complicit-kansas-city-police-department/
I don't know what I expect to come of this post but if anyone out there has whistleblowing capabilities now is a time to use them.

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A 40 year old Styrian man Killed a 42 year old hooker and concreted her in a wall behind the
Cellar stairs.


http://www.krone.at/oesterreich/steirer-40-betonierte-frauenleiche-im-keller-ein-mordverdacht-story-558992

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaP9eiWuX3s

http://fox4kc.com/2017/03/12/mccain-calls-on-trump-to-retract-wiretapping-claim-or-prove-it/

Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump should either retract or substantiate his claim that President Barack Obama wire-tapped him in the final weeks of the presidential campaign and added he expects more to come on Russia’s meddling in the US election.

“President Trump has to provide the American people — not just the intelligence committee, but the American people — with evidence that this predecessor, former President of the United States, is guilty of breaking the law because our Director of National Intelligence, General Clapper, testified that there was ‘absolutely’ no truth to that allegation. So I think the President has one of two choices: either retract or to provide the information that the American people deserve because if his predecessor violated the law — President Obama violated the law — we’ve got a serious issue here, not to say the least.”