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The Juice Is Loose! OJ Simpson Released After 9 Years In Prison

OJ Simpson, who beat a murder rap for allegedly slitting the throats of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her lover Ron Goldman – only to earn a 9 year stint in the can for a 2007 armed robbery of his own memorabilia, is now out on parole.

The 70 year old former NFL star turned actor was approved for early release at a board hearing in July after exhibiting good behavior – avoiding 24 years of his 33 year sentence, and will be under parole supervision for up to five years.

The BBC reports:

Bruce Fromong, who was one of Simpson’s victims in the robbery, testified in favour of him being granted freedom.

Simpson was found guilty in 2008 exactly 13 years to the day after he was famously acquitted in the double-murder case.

Despite the 1995 not-guilty verdict, a civil court jury held Simpson liable for the deaths of Brown Simpson and Goldman, awarding $33.5m (£25m) to their families.

A lawyer representing Ron Goldman’s family told Associated Press this amount had nearly doubled with interest under Californian state law, and that the family would continue to seek payment from Simpson after his release.

Simpson has expressed his desire to move to Florida after leaving jail.

His lawyer Malcolm LaVergne said on Wednesday that he was feeling “very upbeat” ahead of the release.

Simpson became a cult figure in the National Football Leaue (NFL) after record-breaking performances for the Buffalo Bills team.

After retiring in 1979 he starred in television shows and movies, including the 1988 film The Naked Gun.

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BUSTED: Librarian Who Rejected Melania’s ‘Blackface’ Dr. Seuss Gift Outed As Total Hypocrite

A snarky elitist librarian from Cambridge, Mass. responded to First Lady Melania Trump’s gift of Dr. Seuss books with a condescending screed about how Dr. Seuss is racist – recommending Mrs. Trump should instead gift the (racist) books to underprivileged children.

Liz Phipps Soeiro turned down the collection of nearly a dozen books, telling the First Lady that her elementary school was ‘award-winning’ and ‘well-funded,’ before adding ‘You may not be aware of this, but Dr Seuss is a bit of a cliché, a tired and worn ambassador for children’s literature. 

‘Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.

‘Open one of his books (If I Ran a Zoo or And to Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street, for example), and you’ll see the racist mockery in his art.’

Oh no you di’int

Within hours of Soeiro’s statements, internet sleuths dug up photos of the rabid liberal educator decked out as the Cat in the Hat in 2015 to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday!

Melania responds

In response to Soeiro’s rejection and letter, Melania Trump said the librarian’s response was ‘unfortunate,’ adding that she wanted to use her platform ‘to help as many children as she can.’

‘To turn the gesture of sending young students some books into something divisive is unfortunate.’ –First lady Melania Trump’s office

Racist Michelle Obama

People were also quick to point out that first lady Michelle Obama has read the ‘racist’ books to children for years.

 

Last but not least – looks like professor hypocrite is also the creator of an anti-Trump t-shirt which says “Read Write Resist,” who says she designed the shirt “in response to our current political climate as a reminder of the power of information and the power of the people.”

Goodnight alt retard.

 

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Puerto Rico Cop Says Mayor Of Capital Sabotaging Hurricane Aid For Political Gain

The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico has been accused of withholding food and supplies from residents of the island’s capital in order to milk maximum publicity and political capital from the disaster, according to a female caller to a New York City Hispanic radio station who identifies herself as a Puerto Rico police officer from the San Juan suburb of Guaynabo. The officer reported that San Juan mayor Caren Yuliz Cruz is guilty of “staggering negligence and dereliction of duty in the wake of Hurricane Maria,” GotNews.com reports.

Via GotNews: 

The police officer begins by pleading with the U.S. Military to go directly to the people of Puerto Rico with its aid, as current efforts to work through Governor Ricardo Rossello and Mayor Cruz are proving futile. “What us Puerto Ricans need is the U.S. Armed Forces to come in and distribute the aid. And that they stop the Governor, Rossello, and the Mayor, Yulin, from continuing on doing what they’re doing. It’s an abuse; it looks like communism, in our own island.

There are dozens and thousands and thousands of food [boxes] and when people ask, we cannot give anything away because Carmen Yulin says that we cannot take anything out, because everything is a soap opera here – everything is a show,” the caller explains. “There have to be cameras here and there because, you know, they are just looking for votes for the upcoming years.”

Carmen Yulin won’t move unless there is a camera behind her,” the caller continues. “I need to speak for the people because the people are suffering. Because I, as a cop – along with other police partners – we are seeing it.

Meanwhile 

Mayor Cruz, who praised FEMA just five days ago before remembering she’s a Democrat – turned around on Friday and told CNN that FEMA and President Trump had offered no help in front of a giant stack of US aid pallets.

“We’re dying here, and I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles long. So I am asking the president of the Untied States to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives.”

If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying. And you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy.”

Fox’s Geraldo Rivera pretty much shut that down:

President Trump, meanwhile, responds: 

Politics as usual in the wake of disaster…

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New Undercover Video Exposes Antifa Distributing Weapons Before Ben Shapiro Speech

Conservative blogger and comedian Steven Crowder published footage secretly recorded after he and his producer infiltrated a Utah Antifa cell, offering a disturbing glimpse into the mindset and tactics of the violent political group.

The leader of said chapter of far-left provocateurs is a pistol-packin’ transgender woman whose name is never revealed, and who appears to be coordinating the preparation for a protest of conservative pundit Ben Shapiro, who spoke on Wednesday evening at the University of Utah to a massive crowd.

The former male – who Crowder said has been under surveillance by local police – can be heard telling Crowder’s producer to buy a small ankle blade at a military surplus store “just in case,” and said that she expected “reinforcements” to arrive later with “two AKs.” 

In another excerpt, the purple-topped provocateur describes a plan to lure right-wing demonstrators to secluded areas where Antifa members would be waiting for them. “Plain clothes, hard tactics, I don’t think they’ll know what hit them. Because they’re not prepared for what we’re planning,” the organizer says at one point.

Crowder filmed another Antifa member who goes by the name “Clark,” explaining that the difference between Antifa and other activist groups is a “willingness to respond with violence.” 

Fox 13 news reports that police reviewed Crowder’s footage before the Ben Shapiro event and concluded that “the individuals did not pose a credible threat that warranted action.” 

And while Shapiro’s event went off without a hitch due to heavy police presence, I’m reminded of Berkeley Antifa Bike Lock professor Eric Clanton – whose pre-trial hearing was last week for smashing a guy in the head with a bike lock (nothing interesting in court – just a preliminary hearing to set the date for Clanton’s actual trial).

I also can’t help but also remember the piss and shit  antifa threw on conservatives back in August. Or last month’s hilarious accidental antifa-on-antifa punching, or antifa-on-BLM punching, or this New England antifa member punching a white guy for not denouncing all white people.

The hits just keep on coming from the left…

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Vietnam Sentences Banker To DEATH For Massive Dong Grab

The BBC is reporting that the former head of a major Vietnamese bank has been sentenced TO DEATH for embezzlement, abuse of power and economic mismanagement that led to losses of 1.5 trillion Dong ($69 million USD).

Nguyen Xuan Son sentenced to death for mishandling Dong.

Nguyen Xuan Son, president of OceanBank received the harshest sentence in a massive case which has led to dozens of employees receiving lengthy prison sentences in the major corruption trial. In all 51 officials and bankers stood trial in the case.

Earlier in the day, Vietnamese tycoon Ha Van Tham – founder of Ocean Group’s banking unit, was sentenced to life in prison for charges ranging from abuse of power to embezzlement.

Via BBC:

OceanBank is partially-state owned, so Son’s crime of mishandling state money was thought to be particularly serious. After leaving the bank, he rose to be head of state oil giant PetroVietnam.

Judge Truong Viet Toan said: “Tham and Son’s behaviour is very serious, infringing on the management of state assets and causing public grievances, which requires strict punishment.”

Can you imagine what would happen if the same thing happened in the US?

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Whole Food Taprooms And Restaurants Hacked, $AMZN Investigating

Seattle Times | 9.29.17

Whole Foods Market says it’s investigating a potential hack or theft of customer payment card information at in-store taprooms and restaurants.

In a news release on Thursday, the Amazon.com-owned grocer said it had recently been informed about unauthorized use of payment cards that had been used at taprooms and table-service restaurants inside some stores. Those venues used a different point of sale system than the company’s primary checkout system, Whole Foods said.

And Amazon, which sealed its $13.5 billion deal to buy the high-end grocer in August, does not link its network to those Whole Foods systems. Transactions on the retailer’s website are not affected, Whole Foods said.

The disclosure follows a series of high-profile breaches in which credit card or other customer data were stolen from corporate hands, often via weaknesses in Internet-linked systems.

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UN Says Blacks In America Deserve Reparations, Ignores Entire History Of Slavery

A recent report published by a U.N. commissioned organization concludes that America’s history of slavery justifies reparations for African Americans. The report notably fails to opine on other nations which have engaged in the practice – considering that less than 10% of African slaves were brought to North America, or the fact that arabs have operated the slave trade for over 1300 years – a practice which continues to this day, primarily in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia.

The U.N.’s Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a body which reports to the U.N.’s High Commissioner on Human Rights, presented its findings on Monday, pointing to the “continuing link between present injustices and the dark chapters of American history.

“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report stated. “Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching.”

The report cites last year’s spate of blacks killed by police officers around the United States, which the panel says has created a “human rights crisis” that “must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

“Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another, continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of African Americans today,” it said in a statement. “The dangerous ideology of white supremacy inhibits social cohesion amongst the US population.”

Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France, chairwoman of a United Nations working group for people of African descent, reads findings about institutionalized racism after an official visit to the U.S. (Youtube/UN Human Rights)

What about the rest of the story?

Conspicuously absent from the U.N. report is the fact that the slavery in the United States was facilitated by 1300 years of Arab slave trade. According to Wikipedia:

Some historians assert that as many as 17 million people were sold into slavery on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa, and approximately 5 million African slaves were bought by Muslim slave traders and taken from Africa across the Red SeaIndian Ocean, and Sahara desert between 1500 and 1900.[5]  

The captives were sold throughout the Middle East. This trade accelerated as superior ships led to more trade and greater demand for labour on plantations in the region. Eventually, tens of thousands of captives were being taken every year.[4][6][7]

Will this report pave the way for universal basic income for blacks in America?

Ignoring modern slave trade

Meanwhile, the U.N. has been quiet on the topic of countries which haven’t cracked down on the slave trade, including UN Human Rights Council member Saudi Arabia. There are an estimated 21 – 46 million slaves around the world today, with India dominating the top of the list.

source: https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/

Perhaps we can look forward to a followup report from the U.N. on reparations owed by the other 90% of the world which participated in the slave trade, as well as their thoughts on what’s owed to the 48 million modern slaves around the world.

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BACKLASH: NFL Loses First Sponsor, Tells Cameramen Not To Shoot Booing Crowds

The backlash against the NFL allowing players to kneel during the National Anthem is now hitting the league in the pocketbook, as payday lender “Check Into Cash” CEO and owner of Hardwick Clothing Allan Jones has decided to yank all advertising from the NFL – tweeting”Our companies will not condone unpatriotic behavior!”

In a followup statement, Jones said “For the 29 states we operate in, this isn’t much to them, but it’s a lot to us. The Tombras Group is our ad agency in Knoxville and our national media buyer for both TV and radio (for Check Into Cash) and don’t look for Hardwick on the NFL either,”

Noting to see here!

In order to shield TV audiences from in-stadium backlash, NFL camera operators have been instructed to avoid crowd shots during last weekend’s games to avoid capturing images of fans counterprotesting the protests – according to Sporting News.

By covering one of the most significant days in NFL history with rose-colored glasses, the networks cheated viewers. We got an incomplete picture of what really happened in stadiums on Sunday and Monday.

Yes, the main television focus should have been on the players, coaches and owners sitting, kneeling or linking arms. But fans hold the ultimate power over the networks and the league, and they were missing in action during coverage.

CBS denied that they instructed the camera operators to look away, however viewers have taken notice of networks using up-close, ground-up shots of players, coaches and owners – conspicuously avoiding images of fans during the national anthem.

Not to worry, I’ve got your booing right here:

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Roku Raises $219 Million, Jumps 68% On Impressive IPO $ROKU

Streaming device manufacturer Roku ($ROKU) sprinted higher in its Thursday IPO. Priced at $14, the company raked in at least $219 million. Shares jumped as much as 68% to close at $23.50, leaving the company with a $2.23 billion valuation.

The company which started out as a secret Netflix hardware project, which they still carry, is now directly integrated into next gen televisions from Sharp, Hitachi, RCA, TCL, and several other brands – one of which I just bought two weeks ago to use with an Amazon Firestick and over-the-air antenna.

After firing up the TV – I no longer need the firestick, as the Roku user interface is app-based and can launch Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Streaming, as well as a ton of other ala carte apps such as HBO-Go.

Enough about hardware…

Roku’s software side of the business is growing at nearly a triple-digit clip.

Their operating makes money in three ways – selling ads, revenue-sharing agreements with content providers, and subscriptions purchased via its operating system. They company also makes 5% licensing the technology to others.

“[Licensing fees are] probably the place that has the most significant revenue recognition around it,” said Roku CFO Steven Louden, adding “Our licensing fees—we have multiyear deals with TV brands as well as service operators through our Roku Power program. We actually have almost $70 million in deferred revenue on the balance sheet, which is a lot of value.”

Roku Chief Executive Anthony Wood said in an interview that the company will keep riding the wave of television content moving online and away from the cable bundle.

When we sign up a customer to a subscription service or Hulu or Netflix, we get a revenue share as well,” Wood said.

Filings with the SEC show sales growth of 91% in the first six months of 2017 vs. last year.

“What’s important in the evolution of the company is the platform business is becoming a greater and greater portion of Roku,” Louden told MarketWatch in a telephone interview Thursday. “It’s now 80% of our gross profit and I think it’s great proof-point for investors about really what the Roku business model is about.”

Industry experts agree – software is where it’s at

With hardware margins shrinking, Roku executives have received praise for recognizing that software and licensing is where it’s at:

What [executives] were able to do was recognize their hardware business model was not a long-term smashing success and manage to change, and not to have a giant dip in the process moving from the hardware to the platform and have some decent margins along the way,” said Barrett Daniels, Chief Executive of Nextstep, a San Francisco company that helps private firms go public. “The good part of the business is really growing.”

Solid Execs? 

Daniels told MarketWatch he was ‘pleasantly surprised’ that according to Roku’s S-1 filing, Roku executives didn’t stuff their pockets with massive stock grants, and the company’s financials appear to be ‘well-managed,’ adding that he thinks the company went public at the right time.

“Unlike Evan Spiegel at Snap—large stock grants are actually pretty common—the executives don’t seem to be robbing the place. I think they’ve done a very responsible job.”

Roku Chief Executive Anthony Wood said in an interview that the company will keep riding the wave of television content moving online and away from the cable bundle.

“When we sign up a customer to a subscription service or Hulu or Netflix, we get a revenue share as well,” Wood said.

Current conditions

In the six months ending June 30, Roku had around 15.1 million active accounts, according to Yahoo Finance, with around 6.74 billion hours of content streamed.

That said, the company has been pumping massive amounts of cash into R&D – posting a net loss of $15.5 million vs. $14.1 million in the same quarter last year.

“I don’t like that they are losing cash, but if you wait for a cash flow positive tech company, you may have to wait for a full solar eclipse to come around again,” said Brian Hamilton, founder of data firm Sageworks.

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United States And Evil Russia To Build NASA-Led Space Station

The liberal science community has a moral dilemma on its hands following today’s announcement that the United States is partnering with Russia on a NASA-led project to build a lunar station.

On one hand, the international base for lunar exploration will serve as a “gateway to deep space and the lunar surface,” according to NASA.

On the other hand, Russia is involved – which means they’ll undoubtedly slit our throats in space, populate the surface of the moon, build a moon cannon – having read Heinlein, and fire silicon, magnesium, and aluminum-rich moon rocks at the United States. Once we are obliterated, Russia will invade the country and enslave all surviving Americans in moon-rock crushing factories.

Pretending not to be evil, Igor Komarov, Roscosmos’s general director, stated that Russia, the United States and other participants agreed it was important to work using unified standards to avoid future problems in space, citing Sandra Bullock’s movie “Gravity” in the process.

“Roscosmos and NASA have already agreed on standards for a docking unit of the future station,” the Russian space agency said.

AFP reports:

“Taking into account the country’s extensive experience in developing docking units, the station’s future elements — as well as standards for life-support systems — will be created using Russian designs.”

NASA said it planned to expand human presence into the solar system using its new deep space exploration transportation systems, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

– ‘Better to fly together’ –

Russia and the United States also discussed using Moscow’s Proton-M and Angara rockets as well as other spacecraft to help create the infrastructure of the lunar spaceport, the Russian statement said, adding that the main works were slated to begin in the mid-2020s.

“The station will be a serious platform for future research,” said Komarov.

Igor Lisov, editor at Space News, told AFP of Russia’s potential contribution: “We are offering carriers for flights to a lunar orbiting station, we are offering our docking units or their components,” he said, adding Russia had vast experience in creating life-support systems.

“That is a rather significant contribution.”

Unfortunately, this will be our doom…

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