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Voters Don't Decide Candidate, Establishment Does and Delegates are Unbound
On Monday Infowars reported on remarks made by Curly Haugland of the Republican National Committee. He said delegates may “vote according to their personal choice in all matters to come before the Republican National Convention, including the vote to nominate the Republican Candidate for President” and disregard voters.
On Wednesday Haugland expanded on his remarks.
He told CNBC’s “Squawk...
‘White Guilt’ Video Shown to High School Students for Black History Month
Parents in Virginia were outraged after a high school aired a controversial racist anti-white video purporting to teach a lesson on “white privilege.”
The Glen Allen High School in Henrico is under fire for playing a video entitled “Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race,” in which a pair of male and female minorities are pitted against two male and female white people in...
Westerners Outraged by Turkey's Shooting Down of Russian Fighter Jet
Readers of the Western press, be it American, British, German or otherwise, have expressed their complete outrage over the gunning down of the Russian bomber by Turkey in Syria, calling it “a grotesque overreaction and a bald faced attempt to give their jihadi buddies some help,” among others. Here are just some of the comments.
“It is a fact it was shot down over Syria. If it was shot down...
Outrage as New York EMT gets suspended for trying to save girl
A private ambulance company in New York City is facing backlash after suspending an emergency medical technician who tried to save a schoolgirl from choking. Qwasie Reed violated Assist Ambulance rules by stopping, but says he would do it again.
Reed was driving a nursing home patient to a doctor’s appointment when he was flagged at a red light outside Public School 250 in Brooklyn last week. Against...
5+5+5=15 is Wrong, According to Common Core
Parents outraged after student penalized for correctly answering math questions.
A Common Core math assignment posted online last week is causing outrage among parents who say their child was penalized for correctly answering a question.
A photo of the math quiz, uploaded to Imgur, shows how an unknown third-grade student received negative marks after allegedly failing to properly articulate how he...
White South Carolina teen gunned down by cop gets no attention
After an independent autopsy showed that Zachary Hammond was shot by police from behind, the family of the unarmed South Carolina teen is wondering at the lack of national outrage in this case. Hammond was white.
According to the police in Seneca, South Carolina, an officer shot Hammond “in self-defense” when the teen allegedly tried to run him over with a car during a drug arrest. An officer...
Education Department’s Support for Gay Marriage Sparks Outrage
The US Department of Education weathered sharp criticism over the weekend for its decision to add a rainbow to its Facebook profile picture.
By noon Friday, the federal education department’s social media team had swapped out their original blue background for the fanatically pro-gay rainbow image, mirroring the Obama administration’s loud support for the recent supreme court decision on gay marriage.
While...
Erdogan's gender inequality comments at women's rights conference spark outrage
Turkey’s president says men and women cannot be equal, and that feminists don’t understand motherhood. Recep Tayyip Erdogan caused widespread offence with his comments at a conference on women’s rights in Ankara.
“You cannot make women and men equal; this is against nature,” Erdogan stated on Monday.
“You cannot subject a pregnant woman to the same working conditions as a man. You cannot...
Outrage as Australian judge says incest, pedophilia ‘may be accepted’ by society
An Australian judge has incurred the wrath of child protection and gay rights advocates after stating that incest and pedophilia may no longer be considered taboo, just as gay relationships are now more accepted than they were in the 1950s and 60s.
District Court Judge Garry Neilson was recorded as saying that sexual contact between adults and children or siblings may no longer be regarded by society...
1 mn more working Brits plunged into poverty, trade unions outraged
A million more working Britons have been pushed into poverty because of soaring housing costs and stagnant wages. That’s according to a new UK government report attacked bitterly by unions and rights groups.
New figures published by the UK government reveal that the number of working Britons below the poverty line has risen by at least 1 million. The government, however, insists the poverty...
French intelligence orders Wikipedia to remove 'classified' info
A general view of the military base of Pierre sur Haute, located in the Monts du Forez.
The company behind the world’s largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, claims a French intelligence agency summoned one of its volunteers, forcing him to delete content after the website turned down their request to remove ‘classified’ information.
French Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (Direction...
Germans outraged at privacy law passed as football kicked off
Germany’s Bundestag passed its new registration law in just 57 seconds – as deputies rushed off to watch the national side play football against Italy. But it could undermine Germans’ right to privacy for years to come.
Now, every single time a German moves to a new home, and gives the local authorities his address (as he is legally obliged to) as long as he does not explicitly forbid them...
Outrage as toddler is given full frisking by TSA agents
Surely not: A baby being searched by TSA Agents at Kansas City airport.
A disturbing photograph which shows a baby being subjected to a full body search by airport security has caused outrage after it was posted online.
The picture, which was uploaded to a social networking site, appears to show two TSA agents at Kansas City International Airport laughing as they pat down the child, who is being held...
Rome court sentences 9 former SS men aged between 84 and 90 to life in prison
Nine former SS men were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Rome military court on Saturday for allegedly massacring more than 350 civilians in Tuscany in 1944, as the Nazis fled from the advancing Allies.
The nine men are all aged between 84 and 90, and they are therefore unlikely to serve their sentences. A tenth defendant was acquitted and another died during the trial.
In cases of...
Parade in SS uniforms under fire in German Saxony-Anhalt
Police are investigating whether marchers in a recent parade in Saxony-Anhalt broke the law by wearing Nazi-era SS and Wehrmacht uniforms. The incident has sparked outrage beyond the borders of the eastern German state.
The state-funded parade last weekend through the town of Thale had over 4,000 participants representing different periods of the state’s history. Over 200,000 people came to watch...