Monthly Archives: December 2016

Trump Lights Into China A Week After Taiwan Call Affront

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 11, 2016

DES MOINES, Iowa – President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States needed to improve its relationship with China, which he criticized for its economic policies and failure to rein in North Korea. “One of the most important relationships we must improve, and we have to improve, is our relationship with China,” Trump told […]


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The Army Halted The Dakota Access Pipeline, But No One Is Sure What That Means

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 11, 2016

FORT YATES, N.D. — Supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux rejoiced when the Army announced it would not allow construction of the final piece of the Dakota Access pipeline. That perhaps sounded like a definitive answer after months of protests, but insiders from the tribe and their allies knew that the fight over the pipeline remains […]


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‘Lost’ Austrian film predicting rise of nazism restored and relaunched

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 11, 2016

City Without Jews premiered in Vienna in 1924. Now the original version, lost for 90 years, has been saved from decay It is the end of the first world war, inflation is soaring and the inhabitants of a German-speaking city are starting to turn on each other. Politicians are quick to find a scapegoat: The […]


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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh rejects election defeat

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 11, 2016

(CNN)Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Friday rejected the results of the December 1 election and called for his country to vote again — a week after initially accepting his defeat. Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia with an iron grip since a 1994 military coup, suffered a shocking loss after running for his fifth term. Barrow, […]


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Could Trump’s chest-thumping over China trigger a trade war?

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 11, 2016

Between the US president-elects campaign promises of tariffs to his phone call with Taiwan, Trump has frequently rattled Beijing. But is it bluster, or a sign of a seismic global economic shake-up? Donald Trump has sent some mixed signals on China. One minute they are raping America, the next they are his best clients. Even […]


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Ecstasy sold in US is less pure and more dangerous than in Europe, experts warn

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 11, 2016

Many US buyers unwittingly ingest a dangerous concoction of substances known as bath salts or other psychoactive substances instead, putting themselves at risk The purity of drugs being sold as molly or ecstasy in the United States is dangerously poor compared to Europe, experts say, with many buyers unwittingly putting themselves at risk by ingesting […]


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AA Gill: Sunday Times critic dies after cancer diagnosis – BBC News

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 11, 2016

‘Dazzling and fearless’ In a statement sent to staff on Saturday, Mr Ivens said: “It is with profound sadness that I must tell you that our much-loved colleague Adrian Gill died this morning. “Adrian was stoical about his illness, but the suddenness of his death has shocked us all.” He added: “He was the heart […]


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France’s state of emergency may be extended to protect 2017 elections

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 10, 2016

(CNN)France’s Parliament is to vote next week on a six-month extension of a state of emergency to ensure the protection of upcoming presidential and general elections, Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday. The extension would be the fifth since the extraordinary provisions came into place in the wake of the Paris attacks in November 2015.


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From Settlers of Brooklyn to SoDoSoPa: the best gentrification parodies

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 10, 2016

Saturday Night Lives take on $8 artisanal mayonnaise in Bushwick and Key & Peeles urban utopia for black people are among the comedy films riffing on the phenomenon everyone loves to loathe From Montreal, gentrification has become a truly Girls star and ultimate young-adult-with-wealthy-parent-character-creator Elite Dailys video tells his sad story about displacement: Ive been […]


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Archie Darby dog attack: Mum praised for bravery – BBC News

Posted by John P. Bradford // December 10, 2016

Recording an accidental death conclusion, coroner Eleanor McGann also praised Miss Rogers for her “bravery” in fighting off the aggressive animal during the attack. Live: Follow updates on this story In a statement to police, Miss Rogers said she had been speaking to her partner on Facetime when the dog, named Bailey, had “growled and […]


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