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The reason for her anger was that the saleswoman served her in Russian. The children writer Larisa Nizoy said that she asked several times cashier to move to Ukrainian, but her request was not fulfilled. Then Nitsoy threw into the face of the employee store the money change into the face of the clerk.

(random note to our ukrainian scumbags: russian language is used to 90% by Ukrainians and the number are rising because the maidaneks have forbidden to teach it in the school and universities. people use now out of protest to the unpopular maidaneks and their with american help installed fascist regime.)

https://life.ru/t/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/954688/na_ukrainie_pisatielnitsa_ghrozit_sudom_maghazinam_iz-za_obsluzhivaniia_na_russkom

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Last week, the University of Oregon made clear to its faculty: If you say things about race, sexual orientation, sex, religion and so on that enough people find offensive, you could get suspended (and, following the logic of the analysis) even fired.

>This time it involved someone making herself up as a black man at a costume party (as it happens, doing so in order to try to send an antiracist message). But according to the university’s logic, a faculty member could be disciplined for displaying the Mohammed cartoons, if it caused enough of a furor. Or a faculty member could be disciplined for suggesting that homosexuality may be immoral or dangerous. Or for stating that biological males who view themselves as female should be viewed as men, not as women. Or for suggesting that there are, on average, biological differences in temperament or talents between men and women.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/12/26/at-the-university-of-oregon-no-more-free-speech-for-professors-on-subjects-such-as-race-religion-sexual-orientation/?postshare=4561482987363093&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.bd6af7e1806a

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/greek-ambassador-killed-wife-s-lover-brazilian-police-say-n701836

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/30/world/greek-ambassador-brazil-killed-widow/index.html

>RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Brazil believe that Greece's ambassador to the country was killed by his wife's lover under her orders in a house in the Rio area and have detained three suspects, authorities said Friday.

>Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis went missing on Monday in Nova Iguacu, a city just north of Rio de Janeiro, where the ambassador had been vacationing. The couple lived most of the time in the capital of Brasilia.

>On Friday, police investigator Evaristo Pontes Magalhaes said that 29-year-old police officer Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho had confessed to killing Amiridis, alleging self-defense.

>Investigators said Filho knew Amiridis, who wasn't aware of the affair he was having with the ambassador's 40-year-old wife, Francoise Amiridis.

>Magalhaes said Filho's cousin, Eduardo de Melo, acknowledged taking part in the killing as a lookout. The cousin accused Francoise of offering him the equivalent of $25,000 to participate.

>Francoise has denied that she was involved in the plot. According to Magalhaes, Francoise said she couldn't stop Filho from killing her husband and insisted she was not at home at the time of the crime.

>But the police investigator said in a press conference late Friday that the "evidence clearly puts the ambassador's wife as a co-author of the crime."

>He said Francoise started plotting with Filho to kill the ambassador after the couple had a serious fight three days before Christmas.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mariah-carey-suffers-epic-lip-sync-snafu-new-years-rockin-eve-960191

>The singer was visibly frustrated when a vocal track malfunction set off her performance.

>Mariah Carey's performance during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve went haywire when a vocal track malfunctioned and threw off the singer's lip syncing onstage.

>The technical issue occurred while Carey was preparing to sing her hit "Emotions."

>“I’m trying to be a good sport here,” a visibly frustrated Carey said as she stopped singing and tried to find her place, explaining to the crowd that her vocal track was missing and she couldn't hear through her ear piece. She opted to "let the audience sing."

>Her followup performance of "We Belong Together" similarly ended with the singer pacing the stage and refusing to continue lip syncing, as certain pre-recorded bits of her signature high notes rang out. "It just doesn't get any better," she said as she closed her set.

>Carey had suffered from a tight and difficult rehearsal schedule earlier in the night and was unable to hear through her in-ear monitor for most of her set, according to a source.

>The source told Billboard, "She didn't have the kind of time that she usually gets for her “Mariah-ness.'”
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http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-turkey-nightclub-shooting-20170101-story.html

>A manhunt is on in Turkey for an assailant who unleashed a salvo of bullets in front of and inside a crowded Istanbul nightclub during New Year's celebrations Sunday, killing at least 39 people before fleeing.

>Foreigners were among the fatalities, including an 18-year-old Israeli woman, three Indian citizens, a 26-year-old man from Lebanon and a Belgian national, according to the countries' respective foreign ministries and a relative.

>Close to 70 others were injured in what authorities described as a terrorist attack. Three of the wounded were in critical condition, Turkey's prime minister said.

>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vehemently condemned “the terror attack in Istanbul's Ortakoy neighborhood in the first hours of 2017” and offered condolences for those who lost their lives, including “foreign guests.”

>The attacker, armed with a long-barreled weapon, killed a policeman and a civilian outside the popular Reina club at about 1:15 a.m. before entering and firing on people partying inside, Gov. Vasip Sahin said.

>“Unfortunately, [he] rained bullets in a very cruel and merciless way on innocent people who were there to celebrate New Year's and have fun,” Sahin told reporters.

>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, and authorities did not name any suspects. The bloodiest attacks that Turkey endured in 2016 were the work of Islamic State or Kurdish militants.
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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/world-condemns-istanbul-attack-voice-solidarity.aspx?PageID=238&NID=107985&NewsCatID=359

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/world/europe/turkey-istanbul-attack.html

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http://www.newsweek.com/fake-news-cries-discovery-russian-malware-vermont-utility-537567

>The response to news that a Vermont electric utility found malware associated with Russian hacking on a utility laptop has been fairly predictable: forceful denunciations from local and federal officials and support for President Obama's sanctions against the Vladimir Putin regime. But reactions also have included the now-familiar cry of "fake news" from many incredulous readers in Donald Trump's post-truth America, perhaps inspired by the president-elect's refusal to see the claims of Russian hacking as anything other than Democratic Party politics.

>Burlington Electric Department officials have confirmed that malware code that federal officials say was used to hack U.S. political parties was detected Friday on a laptop unconnected to the greater electrical grid after federal authorities released the code to executives from the financial, utility and transportation industries. A utility statement read, "We took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alerted federal officials of this finding. Our team is working with federal officials to trace this malware and prevent any other attempts to infiltrate utility systems. We have briefed state officials and will support the investigation fully," according to the Burlington Free Press.

>Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin was distinguished in his outrage at the apparent intrusion: "Vermonters and all Americans should be both alarmed and outraged that one of the world's leading thugs, Vladimir Putin, has been attempting to hack our electric grid, which we rely upon to support our quality-of-life, economy, health and safety." Many instead were alarmed and outraged at the Washington Post, which broke the story and initially went too far in its reporting, suggesting that the malware had infiltrated the Vermont grid despite being isolated to one piece of hardware.

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The Russian response to Barack Obama’s announcement that he was expelling 35 diplomats over the alleged cyber attack on the US election, was fast, and in some cases, rather amusing.

As officials in Moscow said that US diplomats would be ordered to leave in a tit-for-tat response, the Russian Embassy used Twitter to make its point with little panache.

“President Obama expels 35 iplomats in Cold War deja vu. Everybody, including the American people, will be glad to see the last of this hapless administration,” it said.

Mr Obama on Thursday sanctioned Russian intelligence services and their top officials, kicked out 35 Russian officials and closed down two Russian-owned compounds in the U.S. It was the strongest action the Obama administration has taken to date to retaliate for a cyberattack.

http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-embassy-obama-lame-duck-tweet-2016-12
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/814564127230271489/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Gov. John Kasich today jumped into the breach between conservative lawmakers and green industries and their environmental allies with a veto of legislation that would have made state renewable and efficiency standards voluntary for the next two years.

>The veto of House Bill 554 means Ohio's traditional utilities as well as any other power company selling electricity here must supply an annually increasing percentage of power generated by wind, solar and other renewable technologies until that percentage is 12.5 percent in 2027.

>The standard has been frozen at 2.5 percent since 2014 while lawmakers studied the issue. The veto means the standard grows by 1 percent to 3.5 percent in 2017 and then annually by 1 percent for several years until it reaches 12.5 percent in 2027.

>To comply with the standards, power companies can build their own wind and solar installations or contract to buy the green power from independent companies that build them. Most power companies have bought the power.

>Lawmakers in 2008 put the mandates in place -- in a near unanimous vote of approval -- in order to jump-start the renewable energy industry, which then grew as expected until bitter legislative debates in 2013 and the 2014 freeze.

>In his message to lawmakers accompanying the veto, Kasich wrote that HB 554, as it was passed, ran the risk of eliminating the "energy generation options . . . most prized by the companies poised to create many jobs in Ohio in the coming years, such as high technology firms." He was referring to companies such as Amazon and Google.

>Kasich was also critical of the impact the legislation would have had on businesses that work in the broad energy efficiency markets, whose technologies, he said, have helped Ohio businesses and consumers save more than $1 billion.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/12/kasich_vetoes_bill_that_would.html

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Just when you thought that the Hillary Clinton email saga was over, a new development surfaced on Tuesday by way of a federal appellate judge’s ruling. Judge Stephen Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of conservative groups Judicial Watch and Cause of Action in their lawsuits against the State Department over whether or not enough was done to try to restore Clinton’s missing emails. After it looked like the lawsuits had been squashed, the appeals court revived them.

In January, a District Court judge had thrown out the lawsuits with the reasoning that both the State Department and National Archives had put in a “sustained effort” to recover the emails. In his ruling Williams wrote that this wasn’t enough. “The Department has not explained why shaking the tree harder – e.g., by following the statutory mandate to seek action by the Attorney General – might not bear more still,” he said. “Absent a showing that the requested enforcement action could not shake loose a few more emails, the case is not moot.”

As a result, Williams feels that it’s “abundantly clear that, in terms of assuring government recovery of emails, [Judicial Watch has] not ‘been given everything [they] asked for.’”

In addition, because Clinton continued to use her Blackberry email account for the first few weeks of her term as Secretary of State, Williams felt that efforts to restore just the messages from the private ClintonEmail.com server weren’t enough, either. “Because the complaints sought recovery of emails from all of the former Secretary’s accounts, the FBI’s recovery of a server that hosted only one account does not moot the suits,” the judge wrote.

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/clinton-email-case-back-on-court-says-more-could-have-been-done-to-turn-over-messages/

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/armed-men-free-inmates-jaw-prison-manama-170101115425368.html

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/01/world/middleeast/ap-ml-bahrain-.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/01/world/middleeast/ap-ml-bahrain-.html

>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A prison break in Bahrain on Sunday led to the death of a police officer and the escape of inmates convicted on terrorism charges, setting off a manhunt across the tiny island nation, police said.

>Confusion about the escape at Jaw prison persisted for hours afterward, as the Interior Ministry issued a series of tweets in Arabic and English that slightly contradicted each other. It did not say how many prisoners escaped from the facility, which is used for those convicted of terror charges and serious crimes, as well as political prisoners.

>The state-run Bahrain News Agency described the prison break as an "armed terrorist attack on" the facility. It wasn't clear if that meant the assault came from the outside or was carried out by the escapees.

>Bahraini officials did not respond for a request for comment Sunday night. Bahraini residents described stepped-up checkpoints across the country on a day that also saw clashes between police and locals in the community of Sitra.
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http://ukraina.ru/news/20161231/1018114783.html

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http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3795213-poroshenko-pryvez-senatorov-na-donbass

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38438714

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/ten-red-state-democrats-may-hold-the-balance-of-power-1482772184

>After the calendar turns to 2017, Republicans will be in full control of Washington—control of the White House, the Senate and the House. Yet some of the most intriguing and important people in town will be a small group of Democrats.

>They are the 10 Democrats in the Senate who will be up for re-election in 2018 in states Republican Donald Trump carried in November.

>They will be the Democrats most susceptible to pressure to break ranks and support the initiatives of a President Trump, which means that on key issues they figure to hold the balance of power. They could provide the additional votes required to get Senate Republicans from the 52 seats they hold to the 60 votes they will need to break the filibusters that stand as the biggest roadblock to the Republican agenda. Or they could decline to do so, thereby dooming key elements of that agenda.

>They also may be the canaries in the coal mine in judging the political success or failure of the great Trump experiment. As they look forward to their own re-election battles just up the road, they will be highly attuned to the question of whether the new president is pleasing or disappointing the voters who swung behind him in the key states to provide his margin of victory.

>It is impossible to know how this unprecedented drama will unfold for them. As the nonpartisan Cook Political Report put it in a recent analysis: “The reality is that no one has any idea what the political environment is going to look like in the summer and fall of 2018. It could be an absolute train wreck for Republicans, or it might tilt slightly in their favor. There is even the possibility it could be somewhat neutral.”
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http://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/12/george-michael-cause-of-death-wham-how-did-die-age-illness-hiv-family-obituary/

>George Michael, the former Wham! frontman and a successful solo singer by himself, has died at age 53. His publicist confirmed the news to the BBC. Michael “passed away peacefully at home,” his publicist told the BBC.

>Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Michael’s death. Thames Valley Police confirmed an ambulance arrived at his home in Goring, Oxfordshire at 13:42 GMT.

>“It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period,” a statement from Michael’s publicist read. “The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage.”