The reaction to Lee’s anti-gay diatribe came fast and furious. Renowned graphic designer Aaron Nieh wrote on his Facebook page, “You may be a very good actor and win awards, but you’re just acting. You don’t have a part in other people’s reality, their nature, their love and their values in life… Homosexuality will not lead to the destruction of mankind, but ignorance will.””I don’t have much to say except good luck to all the people who think like you. I, for my part, think that the destruction of mankind will have to do with man’s pride and greed,” wrote singer Aaron Yan. “It has always been the fate of gay people to be oppressed by a straight majority and to live on the margins of society. You can disagree with homosexuality, but stop oppressing them in the name of religion and on the media!”A similar uproar erupted five years ago when mainland Chinese actress Lü Liping, winner of the Best Actress Award at the 2010 Golden Horse Awards, lamented the legalisation of same-sex marriage in New York on Weibo.Her remarks led the organisers of the Golden Horse Awards (金马奖) to rescind their invitation to her to the 2011 awards, breaking with a 48-year tradition.National broadcaster CCTV later slammed the actress for her homophobic remarks, and assured members of the LGBT community of their place in society.
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Trump says ‘I was wrong and I apologize,’ then calls uproar over lewd comments a distraction – Chicago Tribune “never really apologize and claim that others are worse than you are?”
caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, “I was wrong and I apologize.”Yet he claimed the astonishing revelations amounted to “nothing more than a distraction” and argued his words were not nearly as egregious as former President Bill Clinton’s marital affairs.
Trump Still Thinks The (Exonerated!) Central Park 5 Are Guilty: Gothamist
One of the many wonderful things America’s #1 Ambulatory Shitstain Donald Trump did before he attempted to destroy Planet Earth was get involved in the Central Park 5 case. Back in 1989, Trump took out ads condemning the five teenagers who were (wrongfully) convicted of attacking a jogger in the park, calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty. All five men have since been exonerated by DNA evidence and received a collective $41 million settlement from the city—but Trump has no time for scientific proof, and he still says they’re guilty.In a statement to CNN this week, Trump claimed the DNA evidence didn’t prove anything, and the men are still guilty. “They admitted they were guilty,” he said. “The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same.”Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, and Korey Wise spent years in prison for the rape and near fatal assault of Trisha Melli. But in 2002, convicted rapist and murderer Matias Reyes confessed to the crime, and his DNA matched the DNA found at the crime scene. Then-Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau had the five men’s convictions vacated, and they received their settlement in 2014—a settlement which Trump, then just a bigoted reality-TV idiot instead of a bigoted presidential candidate idiot, called “politics at its lowest and worst form,” in a Daily News op-ed. “These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels,” Trump opined, in his now-familiar racially loaded way.Trump shows a blatant disregard for our country’s legal process, just as he shows a blatant disregard for our political process, tax system, Constitutional rights, and hair sensibilities. These men wasted years behind bars for a crime our courts have since asserted they did not commit.
Source: Trump Still Thinks The (Exonerated!) Central Park 5 Are Guilty: Gothamist
Ken Burns Blasts Donald Trump Over Comments on Central Park Five: “The Height of Vulgarity” | Hollywood Reporter
I suppose you’ve seen the comments made by Donald Trump saying he believes the Central Park Five are still guilty and have gotten away with a heinous crime. After having spent so much time with them making your 2012 documentary, The Central Park Five, how do you respond to that? It’s just so patently untrue — and he knows it’s untrue. This is out and out racism. This is a man who finds it impossible to apologize and so he needs to double-down on what we know is untrue. We know this: They were exonerated by a court of law for the crime they served full sentences for. The reason they served the full sentences is because they refused to take a plea bargain and they refused at parole hearings to admit their guilt because they were innocent. They were proved innocent by DNA evidence and the judge vacated their convictions. Several years after that, the City of New York settled with them for time that no amount of money could possibly repay them for. In In his statement, Trump says the Central Park Five “admitted they were guilty” back in 1989.The original thing that they “admitted it” is so specious that it barely warrants a response. They had coerced confessions. They were subjected to questioning by seasoned detectives. These were two 14-year-olds, two 15-year-olds and one developmentally challenged 16-year-old. They were interrogated for up to 30 hours, without food, water or parents. They were lied to and told that if they implicated someone else they would be able to go home. When they finally did, at their parents’ urging, they not only did not go home, they went to jail for between seven and 13 years. And in fact every single one of their “confessions” has the absence of the sixth person — whose DNA was the only DNA found at the scene. As the eldest, Korey Wise, sat in jail at a maximum security prison, this sociopathic murderer named Matias Reyes, who because of police incompetence went on to murder other people that year — a woman and her unborn child, as well as rape other women — he confessed. His DNA matched the DNA, 13 years old, that they had been sitting on unable to match with anyone else. And none of the boys statements suggested that there was anyone else at the scene of the crime.
′We′re living in an occupied country′ | Americas | DW.COM | 03.10.2016 – Why is it that most of this talk is from Arizona and not California and Texas?
It’s hard to get an overview of things around here; the many canyons offer excellent cover for the smugglers with their heavy rucksacks, weighing up to 30 kilos (66 pounds) and full of marijuana, cocaine or heroin. In addition, Jim explains, the cartel has set up sentries everywhere, and they have top-of-the-range equipment. They guard the area, and warn the smugglers. Once, he says, he came across one of these scouts, who dropped his radio telephone as he ran away. “It was worth more than $2,500. They’re better equipped than our border patrol guards.”The Sinaloa Cartel has assumed complete control of the land. “When I’m out here, I feel as if I’m in an occupied country,” says Jim. He stares down at his feet in their hand-stitched cowboy boots.For decades, he and his wife were staunch Democrats. After university, Jim even worked for Democratic Senator Carl Hayden. This year, Donald Trump will get the Chiltons’ vote. “We don’t agree with everything he says and does. But he’ll take care of us. Hillary Clinton’s Washington gave up on us long ago.”
Source: ′We′re living in an occupied country′ | Americas | DW.COM | 03.10.2016
Trump Criticizes Veterans Suffering From PTSD: IAVA Founder Responds | Hollywood Reporter
One of the most forceful critics of Trump’s comments was Paul Rieckhoff, CEO and founder of Iran and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a group dedicated to supporting the interests of post-9/11 veterans. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Rieckhoff was emphatic that his objectives are not political. “It’s a teachable moment for Mr. Trump and for America,” says Rieckhoff. “When political leaders talk about things like PTSD and suicide, they need to be responsible and precise. And unfortunately Trump is not a precise person.”When asked to explain why Trump’s comments would harm his constituency, IAVA’s founder cited three primary issues. “When people in power use terms like ‘killing yourself’ and ‘mental problems’ it perpetuates the stigma, it compounds the impression that these veterans are broken, and it can discourage them from seeking help,” says Rieckhoff. “And also, he assumed that no one in the audience has PTSD, which is a really unlikely assumption in a room full of war veterans.”Rieckhoff says he doesn’t expect Trump to apologize (“I know better than that”), but hopes that the controversy will sharpen the candidate’s awareness of the issue. “Obama is extremely careful and nuanced with his language about veteran suicide and PTSD, but it didn’t happen overnight,” he says. “There’s a steep learning curve and maybe Trump will master it.”Curiously, the IAVA CEO feels that the entertainment industry can speed up the curve. “The last time there was a conversation like this in the public, it was started by American Sniper and before that, Hurt Locker,” says Rieckhoff. “Hollywood can communicate about these issues in a visceral way that politics can’t. The end product is the public has an elevated conversation about these problems.”What does he hope that Trump and others in need of education will learn? “Getting help for a mental health injury is not a sign of weakness,” says Rieckhoff. “It’s a demonstration of strength.”
Source: Trump Criticizes Veterans Suffering From PTSD: IAVA Founder Responds | Hollywood Reporter
IOF to temporarily close down Ibrahimi mosque for Muslims, open it for settlers – PNN
Israeli Occupation Authorities on Sunday decided to close down the Ibrahimi mosque for six days during the month of October, and open it only for Jewish Israeli settlers.Local sources in Hebron said that the mosque will be closed down for Muslims during the days (3, 4, 6, 12, 18, 19 October) while Israeli settlers will be given full privilige of entering it.In addition, IOF has been intensely preventing the Muslim call for prayers (Adan), and searching Palestinian worshippers upon entrance.
Source: IOF to temporarily close down Ibrahimi mosque for Muslims, open it for settlers – PNN
www.german-foreign-policy.com – Blindfolded group of nations “see” a snake, a horse, a tree in the room filled by Syrian insurgent elephant!
Berlin’s ostensible “peace offensive” comes at a time when, various reports are exposing – independently from one another – that Washington is considering supplying the insurgents with man portable air defense systems (“MANPADS”) – or has already begun to do so. As was made known from US government circles as well as from insurgent militia contact persons, the “MANPADS” are supposed to be delivered to the militias via Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The Saudi government is convinced that the Russian military can be forced to retreat, as the Soviet troops had done in the 1980s in Afghanistan, say US government representatives. At the time, the “stinger” missiles had permitted the mujahidin the capability of shooting down Red Army helicopters, inflicting massive losses, which ultimately led to a Soviet troop withdrawal from the country. The fate of Afghanistan thereafter is well known. It was reported that Washington has enticed the insurgents with prospects of “MANPADS,” merely for shooting down Syrian helicopters, but not those of the Russians.[10] No one should believe that the insurgents will abide by this. Experts also warn that it is not only to be expected that if “MANPADS” are provided to Syrian insurgents, Iran, for example, could deliver “MANPADS” to the Houthi insurgents, its allies in Yemen, fighting Saudi troops. Above all, the Syrian insurgents could also use those “MANPADS,” they are due to be furnished, near airports, to shoot down civilian airliners.[11] It becomes that much more volatile, since from all experience, it can be expected that a large amount of the “MANPADS” will wind up in the hands of al Qaeda’s Fatah al Sham. Experts estimate that about half of the weapons that have been delivered to insurgent militias in Syria, have ended in the hands of jihadis. The same threatens to happen again.
Source: www.german-foreign-policy.com
400-Pound Hacker? Trump Comments Fuel Dialogue on Fat-Shaming – The New York Times
Until the debate, Ms. Kinzel said she had not focused on much of what Mr. Trump has said. But during the debate, it became personal. She said she realized overweight people like her were now “just one in a line of people he wants to dismiss as losers.”
Source: 400-Pound Hacker? Trump Comments Fuel Dialogue on Fat-Shaming – The New York Times
By ‘saying nothing’ on his birther lie, Donald Trump re-embraces the deplorables: Brent Larkin | cleveland.com
And by saying nothing, Donald Trump said everything.By saying nothing, he confirmed what any thoughtful person has known for months — that his campaign for president is really about racism.Unfair trade deals, tax cuts, job creation, phony chants of change? They’re all accessories.The real message of Trump’s campaign — the one that appeals to all the extremists and haters who help fill his gigantic basket of deplorables — is raw racism.There’s nothing the least bit complicated about Trump’s message, an unmentioned promise so powerful it’s capable of moving his supporters to violence. It goes like this: I’ll keep the blacks in their place and kick the Mexicans and Muslims out. Together, we’ll make America white again.But he won’t.Because he can’t.Top elected officials in Ohio, from Sen. Rob Portman on down, should be ashamed of themselves for openly supporting such a repugnant human being.It is profoundly disappointing that Republican members of Congress and four holders of Ohio statewide offices silently condone Trump’s unique brand of hate and racism. History will treat only Gov. John Kasich kindly on this issue.






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