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“I’M CURRENTLY FACING YEARS OF PRISON TIME AS THE RESULT OF ACCUSATIONS MADE IN THE MOST SHOCKINGLY HATEFUL PARTS OF THE INTERNET. ON APRIL 19TH I BEGAN BEING TARGETED BY A DEDICATED SWARM OF INTERNET TROLLS KNOWN FOR SPEWING RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND MISOGYNY ONTO THE WEB,” CLANTON WROTE IN AN ONLINE BLOG POST, APPARENTLY BLAMING 4CHAN USERS FOR HIS ARREST.

Former Professor Charged with Assault for Allegedly Beating Trump Supporter with Bike Lock
A former California-area professor has been charged with assault for allegedly bashing a Trump supporter in the head with a bike lock in April.
Eric Clanton, formerly a professor at Diablo Valley College, has been charged with assault for an April incident in which he allegedly bashed a Trump supporter over the head with a bike lock. The victim’s head was left bloodied and wrapped in bandages.
Although Clanton insists that his charges have been levied unfairly, he has not specifically denied that he is the masked individual behind the bike lock assault. This is “just one example of the police doing everything in their power to facilitate and to legitimize the violence and the rhetoric of the so-called alt-right,” Clanton argued.
“Dealing with an unintelligible internet force smearing and threatening me online was not easy, and created stress to say the least, but I had every expectation that very few people would take them seriously, especially considering the character and credibility of their sources,” he wrote in his blog post.
In May, police searched Clanton’s home in San Leandro, leading to his arrest in Oakland, where he was taken into custody. He has been charged with four counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon, with the special allegation of causing great bodily injury to one of his alleged victims. To the charges, Clanton pled not guilty. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for September 28.

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E get one saying wey people dey talk wey be, "the more wey you dey go higher for life, the less friends you go get."
E be like say United States President, Donald Trump, don begin dey experience this kain thing.
No be everybody dey gree with the way Trump dey do things. E get some people wey don even talk their mind and wetin dem get in return? Sack letter!
Other people dey wey be say na resignation letter dem drop, say dem no wan follow Trump work again.
You dey reason how to chop sack letter from President Trump or you wan waka comot for President Trump job? This na some ways you fit do am sharp, sharp:
Follow Russia Ambassador Gist
Siddon gist with Russia Ambassador, Sergei Kislyak. Tell am say you go commot the sanction wey US put for Russia. If dem ask you, say you no follow anybody talk anything. Na sack letter you go collect sharp, sharp.
Tell reporter say your oga na 'craze person'
Call reporter for phone, tell am say your oga na "craze person." Tell everybody say you go fire them. Begin fight with your fellow White House staff. In fact, you fit no last 10 days before Trump go sack you.
No understand why your oga no understand the mata
Siddon there dey look as your oga dey dodge to talk the mata wey concern black people like you. Siddon there dey wait make your oga condemn people wey dey talk bad about other type of people. You fit resign if you no like wetin you dey siddon look.
You wan 'Repeat after me'
You see say something wey no good dey happen for Charlottesville but your President no talk wetin him suppose talk, just quietly repeat after another person and drop resignation letter for Trump table.
You think say sports beta pass politics
As person wey like sports business well-well, e fit happen say you no like all the plenty problem wey dey follow politics. No wahala, just follow your fellow ogas Brian Krzanich and Kenneth Frazier, tell President Trump say you no follow again for him manufacturing council.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-40942731

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'A Banksy painting that appeared on a public toilet block in east London, only to disappear after it was vandalised, spray-jetted by the local council and then painted over, has been rediscovered over a decade later.

Known as the Snorting Copper and considered an exemplary image by the elusive graffiti artist, it shows a uniformed policeman on his hands and knees snorting a line of cocaine.


Banksy stencil soars past Hay Wain as UK's favourite work of art
Read more
Although the painting has been valued for insurance purposes at £1.25m, Jonathan Ellis and David Kyte, who uncovered the painting after they bought the disused site, say they have no intention of selling it. Instead, they are restoring it and will return it to its original site in Shoreditch, Hackney, so that the general public can see it. The unveiling will take place on 5 October.

“It’s an amazing piece,” Ellis told the Guardian. “We’ve had offers to sell it. But we want to put it back. We think that’s the right thing to do for the public to enjoy it. I’m proud to be able to do something like that.”'
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/18/banksys-snorting-copper-east-london

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>An image that appeared to capture a member of an anti-fascist group beating a U.S. police officer with a club during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is fake.

>The doctored photograph, the Associated Press and Snopes.com found, turned out to be a Getty Image shot in 2009 during clashes between police officers and protesters in Athens, Greece. An “Antifa,” or “antifacist,” logo was digitally superimposed onto the jacket of a protester, who is seen attacking an officer with a blunt object.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/photo-antifa-man-assaulting-officer-doctored-analysis-shows/

Doesn't it concern anyone else that the right constantly claims to have the moral high ground when they've been shown to spread such blatant, easily disproven lies without any conscience?

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The Swedish municipality of Hässleholm has purchased several ‘burkinis’ for young Muslim girls, saying that it allows them to participate in school swimming lessons.
The municipality justified the purchase of the controversial Islamic swimwear by saying it wanted to include as many children as possible in the school’s swimming lessons programme. Municipal Deputy Managing Director Rolf Bengtsson likened the purchase to providing a computer or ice skates for children who couldn’t afford them, Swedish newspaper Norra Skane reports.

“We had problems with water quality, so we asked the school that if students are to be able to swim in our baths, they must wear swimsuit, shorts or burkinis,” said the local swimming pool manager Henrik Samevik.

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Former Obama aides have their sights sets firmly on 2020, with a number of them giving early indications as to who they’ll back for president.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is among the potential candidates to enjoy support from two of the former president’s allies, Valerie Jarrett and Obama Foundation CEO David Simas, with sources telling The Hill the pair would back a Patrick bid.

Indeed, rumors abound that Patrick is a favorite with the Obama camp, despite the former president remaining tight-lipped on who he would like to see taking the party reigns in 2020, likely only throwing his weight behind a candidate close to the election.

http://www.newsweek.com/who-obamas-inner-circle-backing-take-trump-2020-659022

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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/348389-opinion-antifa-threatens-to-turn-america-into-an

>plays ironic by alanis morrisette

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URGENT S. Korea, U.S. defense chiefs agree to consider military response against N. Korea

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/09/03/0200000000AEN20170903004500315.html

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.

Putin, speaking Friday at a meeting with students, said the development of AI raises "colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict now."

He warned that "the one who becomes the leader in this sphere will be the ruler of the world."

Putin warned that "it would be strongly undesirable if someone wins a monopolist position" and promised that Russia would be ready to share its know-how in artificial intelligence with other nations.

The Russian leader predicted that future wars will be fought by drones, and "when one party's drones are destroyed by drones of another, it will have no other choice but to surrender."

https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-putin-leader-in-artificial-intelligence/f-afd8014cbe%2Fapnewsarchive.com

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/something-changing-sex-costa-rican-crocodiles

>If you want to know whether a crocodile is a male or a female, you have to catch it. Don't bring your good shoes.

>With the animal restrained, telling its sex is straightforward, says Murray, who is a physiological ecologist at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. "You have to put a finger in its cloaca," the cavity at the base of the tail. "If there's a structure there, it's a boy. If there isn't a structure, it's a girl." Catching baby crocs is easier, but sexing them is trickier, so the researchers bring the animals back to the park's research station. Both sexes sport a tiny, red nub in the cloaca, but in males it tends to be longer, redder, and more complex, with an extra lobe.

>After probing and peering at the genitalia of nearly 500 crocodiles in Palo Verde, Murray and his colleagues found something odd: The sex ratio was way out of whack, with males outnumbering females four to one among hatchling crocs. What's more, the animals' tissues were tainted with a synthetic steroid, which the researchers suspect was causing them to switch sex.

>The hormone, 17α-methyltestosterone (MT), is sometimes prescribed for men with testosterone deficiencies and older women with breast cancer.Fish farms around the park raise tilapia on food laced with the hormone, which transforms females into faster-growing and more profitable males. Murray and his colleagues are now investigating whether MT from the farms has somehow contaminated the crocs.

>The numbers are even more startling because a warming climate should be pushing croc sex ratios in the other direction. Unlike humans, crocodiles and alligators don't have sex chromosomes. Instead, whether an embryo becomes a male or a female depends on the nest temperature during incubation. Based on nest temperatures, that female hatchlings should outnumber males by nearly two to one.

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/children-legally-protected-immigrants-less-likely-suffer-mental-illness?utm_campaign=news_daily_2017-08-31&et_rid=330717169&et_cid=1522097
>Five years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order that allowed young, unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the country as children to work, go to school, and get a driver’s license without fear of deportation. More than 780,000 people under 31—so-called “dreamers”—signed up for the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Now, a study shows for the first time that even the temporary protection DACA provides to dreamer parents can rapidly boost their children’s mental health, sharply reducing the rate of several mental disorders
>Even “a relatively small change in a parent’s migratory status can significantly improve a child’s well-being,” says Cécile Rousseau, a child psychiatrist at Montreal Children’s Hospital in Canada who was not involved with the work
>The researchers analyzed emergency Medicaid claims data from 5653 unauthorized immigrant mothers from Oregon, all born between 1980 and 1982. DACA’s arbitrary enrollment criteria, which only allow immigrants born after 15 June 1981 to apply, created control and treatment groups similar to those used to test the efficacy of drugs in clinical trials
>Combined, DACA eligible and ineligible mothers gave birth to 8610 children between 2003 and 2015. All are legal U.S. citizens. Jens Hainmueller, lead author of the study and a political scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues looked at the childrens' medical records, focusingon two distinct types of psychiatric diagnosis. The first category, anxiety disorders, has a strong genetic component and these disorders may arise with or without an external cause. The second category, adjustment disorders, are specifically driven by external stressors, such as poverty or the fear of losing a parent

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41123329

>Kenya's Supreme Court has annulled the result of last month's presidential election, citing irregularities, and ordered a new one within 60 days.

>The election commission had declared incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta the winner by a margin of 1.4 million votes.

>Raila Odinga, Mr Kenyatta's opponent, said the commission was "rotten" and demanded resignations and prosecutions.

>President Kenyatta said he disagreed with the court ruling but that he would respect the decision.

>He called on Kenyans to do the same and remain calm.

>Other elections in Africa have been annulled or cancelled but this appears to be the first time on the continent that an opposition court challenge against a presidential poll result has been successful.

>Chief Justice David Maraga said the 8 August election had not been "conducted in accordance with the constitution" and declared it "invalid, null and void".

>He said the verdict was backed by four of the six Supreme Court judges.

>The announcement drew cheers from opposition supporters both inside and outside the courtroom.

>The court ruling did not attribute any blame to President Kenyatta's party or campaign.

What did the judges say was wrong?

>Justice Maraga said the election commission had failed "to conduct the presidential election in a manner consistent with the dictates of the constitution."

>He said the commission had committed irregularities "in the transmission of results", adding that the court would provide details in a full judgment within 21 days.

>Dissenting judges said that the Nasa opposition alliance - which had petitioned the Supreme Court - failed to prove claims that the polls had been rigged.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/7-year-old-girl-survives-kidnapping-thrown-bridge-article-1.3452552

the fuck?

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indias-guru-of-bling-20-year-jail-sentence-for-rape-gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh/

>A high-profile and controversial Indian guru, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who was convicted of rape on Friday, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined 3 million Indian rupees (about $46,000).

>The so-called "godman" was ordered to serve 10 years rigorous imprisonment each for raping two of his female followers in 2002. The court has said the sentences will run consecutively, and not concurrently, which means he will have to spend a total of 20 years behind bars.

>Known as the "Guru of Bling" and "Rockstar Baba" for his flashy clothes and lifestyle, the millionaire reportedly broke down and asked forgiveness when the judge announced the sentence.

>The victims have decided to ask a higher court to demand a tougher punishment. The guru's lawyers, who asked for a lighter sentence in view of his "humanitarian" work, will also challenge the verdict.

>Rape convicts in India face a minimum of seven years jail and a maximum of life term. In rare cases, like the December 2012 gang rape of a medical student that sparked outrage worldwide, death sentences are also handed out.
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One woman for India don get permission from court to divorce her husband because im no gree build toilet for dem house..
The woman wey dey for her 20's don dey married to her husband for five years, but na for inside bush she dey poopoo.
Indian law dey only allow divorce for limited circumstances like beating or wicked behaviour.
The lawyer for di woman tell AFP news agency say the judge say to dey make di woman poopoo for outside na one form of torture.
Times of India talk say di court say: "We dey spend money dey buy tobacco, liquor and mobile phones, but no ready to construct toilet to protect the dignity of our family.
"This no be only physical wickedness but also na shock to the modesty of woman."
Indian media say the woman been don file for divorce since 2015.
To piss and poopoo for open field dey common for villages for India. The government don set target to give every house toilet by 2019, but dat work never really get head.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-40997001