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viviangist:
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According to a new poll by Quinnipiac University, idiot, incompetent, leader, and liar are some of the first words that come to many people's minds when thinking about President Donald Trump.

The new survey of 1,078 voters across the nation found that words like incompetent; liar; leader; unqualified; president; strong; businessman; ignorant; egotistical; and asshole are commonly associated with Trump now.

The top three words (idiot, incompetent, and liar) were given as response 39, 31, and 30 times, respectively.

SOURCE - http://www.viviangist.net/new-poll-shows-that-idiot-incompetent-liar-are-the-words-used-to-describe-president-trump-now

Reporter arrested after questioning Sec. Price
Here's footage of Public News Service reporter Dan Heyman being taken away in handcuffs after repeatedly asking HHS Secretary Tom Price about pre-existing conditions.Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2017/05/10/reporter-arrested-tom-price.cnn

NORTH KOREA
North Korea insults: Pyongyang's putdowns target Obama, Clinton, Kerry
Cody Derespina By Cody Derespina Published May 09, 2017 Fox News [/b]


In another life, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s propaganda chief could have had a heck of a career as an insult comic.

The latest screed from Pyongyang’s unnamed prince of prose (or princes -- it's unclear how many write these gems) was delivered Monday in response to Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., asserting Kim Jong Un was a “whack job.”

Like previous statements, it bucked all norms for engaging in international repartee:

“It is a serious provocation that Gardner, like a psychopath, dare to bear the evil that dares our highest dignity,” the statement said, according to a translation. “It is America’s misfortune that a man mixed in with human dirt like Gardner, who has lost basic judgment and body hair, could only spell misfortune for the United States.”

The real-world reference point behind some of the putdowns, most of which are disseminated by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, is unclear. Gardner, for instance, has a full head of hair.

But KCNA has been dealing out hits against U.S. and international politicians for years, perfecting a style that’s veered from jaw-dropping to shockingly racist.

Among the worst insults directed at former President Barack Obama, North Korea in 2014 branded him a “juvenile delinquent,” “clown” and a “dirty fellow.” Obama, the KCNA statement said, was somebody who “does not even have the basic appearances of a human being.”

Earlier that year, an unidentified North Korean spokesperson called ex-Secretary of State John Kerry a “wolf donning the mask of sheep” who had a “hideous lantern jaw.”

Kerry’s predecessor, Hillary Clinton, was described in 2009 as “by no means intelligent” and a “funny lady.”

“Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,” an unnamed North Korean source said.

The reclusive regime has also made former South Korean President Park Geun-hye a popular target, alternately naming her as a “senile granny,” a “tailless, old, insane b----,” and “a traitor for all times.”

On the last description, North Korea may have scored a late victory. Geun-hye was forced out of office amid an influence-peddling scandal.

Kim Jong Un’s staff was no easier on former President George W. Bush’s administration: Bush was called a “hooligan” who looked like “a chicken soaked in the rain,” Vice President Dick Cheney was “mentally deranged” and a “most cruel monster and bloody-thirsty beast” and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was termed a “political dwarf, human scum or hysteric.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/09/north-korea-insults-pyongyangs-putdowns-target-obama-clinton-kerry.html

marsoden:
I understand, brother. I know about the Korean conflict. I still doesn't remove the fact that he confidently and willingly walked into trouble.

82 Chibok schoolgirls released in Nigeria

By Stephanie Busari and Kelly McCleary, CNN
Updated 5:29 PM ET, Sat May 6, 2017

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls have been released after successful negotiations between the terrorist group Boko Haram and the Nigerian government, according to a government official close to the negotiations.
The source, who is not authorized to speak on the record about the release, told CNN the freed girls are in military custody in Banki, a town in northeast Nigeria.
They will be transferred to the capital, Abuja, where they will have medical checks and be reunited with their families.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/06/africa/chibok-girls-released/index.html

HsLBroker:
Don't understand

May 5, 2017
A police officer has been charged with murder after shooting a teenager who was a passenger in a car as it drove away from a house party in Dallas.

Roy Oliver opened fire on the vehicle, killing Jordan Edwards, 15, with a single bullet in the head on Saturday.

Police initially said the car reversed "aggressively" towards the officer, but then admitted that was not the case.

The police use of lethal force against African Americans has been a subject of fierce protest and debate for years.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39826431

See also http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jordan-edwards-shooting-roy-oliver-charged-with-murder/

BBC May 5, 2017
North Korea claims CIA plotted to kill Kim Jong-un
1 hour ago

The plot involved targeting Kim Jong-un at a public event, officials said

North Korea has accused US and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un.

A North Korean referred to only as "Kim" was paid to carry out an attack with biochemical substances, the ministry of state security said.

The plot was foiled, it said, but gave no details on the fate of "Kim". The CIA declined to comment and South Korea has issued no statement so far.

The North's claim comes amid continued high tension on the Korean peninsula.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39815561

I went to the counter-demonstration as someone who was determined to change things. To me it makes sense to try and change the world around me," she went on.

"I think young people should get involved in such things. They should be aware of what's going on.

"You ask me if standing up to skinheads should be left to older people - well us, younger people, are going to be living here a lot longer than the older generation."

Lucie explained the argument with the unnamed man had been over refugees and migrants. She said she had told him that countries had a duty to help those fleeing war and conflict, and that in such cases borders did not exist.

He told her she would be raped by the very people she was trying to save.

"The main thing that's struck me is that some people are now calling me an 'extremist', that being anti-fascist is somehow 'extremist'," she told the BBC.

"That seems to be me the height of absurdity."
See all pictures @
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39804471

Source: CNN

Rogue FBI employee married ISIS terrorist
07:24
The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist
By Scott Glover, CNN Investigates
Updated 11:40 PM ET, Mon May 1, 2017

An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate, CNN has learned.
The rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she was going and warned her new husband he was under investigation, according to federal court records.
Greene's saga, which has never been publicized, exposes an embarrassing breach of national security at the FBI—an agency that has made its mission rooting out ISIS sympathizers across the country

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/investigates-fbi-syria-greene/index.html

Ashley Parker
Washington Post
May 1, 2017

President Donald Trump opened the door Monday to a future meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, offering unusual praise for the globally ostracized leader at a time of surging nuclear tensions.

Although the White House played down near-term prospects for such a meeting, Trump's conciliatory comments marked a departure from his more unforgiving tone toward the North in recent days. It marked the latest fluctuation as Trump's administration struggles to articulate its policy for addressing the growing threat from North Korea's nuclear program.

"If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it," Trump told Bloomberg News.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-20170501-story.html

Aaronsrod:
How can God be rascist?.

Aaronsrod:
IS your god the God of Israel, the Lord of Hosts? Are you even a Christian with this questions??

Aaronsrod:
Our God is a consuming fire. He will not be mocked!