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German sports journalist Hajo Seppelt refused entry to Russia for World Cup

A German investigative sports journalist has been denied entry to Russia for the upcoming World Cup. Hajo Seppelt has reported extensively on doping at the highest level of Russian sports.

Nicolás Maduro and the banality of evil

It was Hannah Arendt who noted how banal evil can be. After attending Adolf Eichmann’s trial in 1961, Arendt wrote that the thing that surprised her the most was just how dim-witted and anodyne this monstrous human being really was. The SS officer was one of the key organizers of the machinery that murdered more than six million men, women and children. Arendt says that Eichmann was not very intelligent. He was unable to finish high school or vocational school and only found employment as a traveling salesman thanks to family connections. For Arendt, Eichmann took refuge in “stock phrases and self-invented clichés” and “officialese.” One of the psychologists who examined him reported that his only unusual characteristic was that he seemed more normal in his habits and language than the average person.

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GOP candidate boasts he would ’round up criminal illegals’ himself in new ad

Georgia – better than this.

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Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, who is running for the governor’s office calls himself a ‘politically incorrect conservative’

A Georgia Republican running for the governor’s office boasts of owning a pickup truck “in case I need to round up criminal illegals” in a new campaign ad.

It is the latest advert from Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, who calls himself a “politically incorrect conservative”, and who caused a stir recently by featuring a shotgun in another commercial.

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Payments to Michael Cohen show how ‘shadow lobbying’ eludes US law

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Cohen has said he provided consultancy services rather than lobbying, and is not required by law to register as a lobbyist and disclose payments

The disclosure that Donald Trump’s legal fixer Michael Cohen was quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advise corporations highlights the inability of US laws to prevent secretive “shadow lobbying”, analysts said.

Companies such as the telecoms giant AT&T and Novartis, a major pharmaceuticals firm, confirmed they paid Cohen, the president’s personal attorney, large sums last year in return for what they describe as guidance on navigating the new administration.

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Forcibly outing LGBT children to their parents is monstrous

horrid pseudo-Christian politicos what to kill people.

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A proposal in Alberta, which would require schools to inform parents if their teenagers join gay-friendly groups, shows how fragile social progress is – even in Canada

How much control does a parent have over the inner life of their adolescent child?

This thorny philosophical issue has come to a head in Canada, where the conservative party in Alberta has endorsed a policy that would require schools to inform parents if their children enroll in “extracurricular activities of a religious or sexual nature”.

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New NRA president says gun control activists are ‘civil terrorists’

He wants war against Americans

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As students and victims of shooting violence push for stronger laws, Oliver North compares NRA’s struggles to the civil rights movement

Activists pushing for stronger gun laws are engaged in “civil terrorism”, Oliver North, the former Fox News commentator appointed as the next president of the National Rifle Association, has claimed.

The former Reagan-era security adviser, who was once convicted on charges related to the Iran-Contra affair, also claimed the NRA was the target of a “cyberwar”.

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