Month: March 2015

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Report – ISIS Has Lost 25 Percent of Territory It Once Held in Iraq

Iraqi and Kurdish forces have reclaimed more than 25 percent of ISIS-held territory inside Iraq, according to a U.S. assessment that also determined that Kurdish fighters are responsible for the majority of the territory retaken from ISIS in northern Iraq, ABC reports.

“We assess ISIL’s front lines have been pushed back in northern and central Iraq,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said at a Pentagon briefing today, referring to the militant group also known as ISIS. “ISIL no longer has complete freedom of movement in roughly 25 percent of populated areas of Iraqi territory where they once operated freely.”

The recaptured areas represent an area between 4,100 and 5,200 square miles or 11,000 and 13,500 square kilometers, Warren said. At its peak, ISIS was in control of 55,000 square kilometers in northern and western Iraq, Pentagon officials said.

“ISIL lost large areas where it was once dominant in the governance of Babil, Diyala, Nineveh, Salahadin and Kirkuk,” Warren said.

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Featured Politics Texas

Texas Republican Wants to Make It a Crime to Film Cops

Here we go again with the FREEDOM loving Republicans. In Texas, this particular FREEDOM loving Republican wants to limit Texans from using their own personal cell phone to videotape a police officer.

So much for freedom.

A bill restricting the rights of citizens to record the police was filed in Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday.

The House Bill 2918 introduced by Texas Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) would make private citizens photographing or recording the police within 25 feet of them a class B misdemeanor, and those who are armed would not be able to stand recording within 100 feet of an officer.

“My bill,” he tweeted on Thursday, “just asks filmers to stand back a little so as not to interfere with law enforcement.” He disagreed with people who said the measure makes filming police illegal.

Villalba introduced his measure to the Texas House this week. His office didn’t immediately respond to msnbc’s request for additional comment.

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Barack Obama Politics

President Obama on The 47 GOP Traitors – “I’m Embarrassed For Them” – Video

In a preview for his Vice News interview, President Obama was asked about the recent backlash to the 47 Republican Senators who took it upon themselves to send a letter to Iran, urging the nation not to negotiate with President Obama because any nuclear agreement between the two parties may not last. Since making that ghastly mistake, Republicans have endured a national and international ridicule for their foolish decision.

The President was asked and weighed in.

“I’m embarrassed for them,” Mr. Obama said. “For them to address a letter to the Ayatollah, who they claim is our mortal enemy, and their basic argument is ‘don’t deal with our president because you can’t trust him to follow through on an agreement. That’s close to unprecedented.”

One by one, the signers to the letter have tried to distance themselves from the letter, but the damage has already been done as the Republican party is not only seen as a disappointment here in America, but a mockery worldwide.

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Video Shows President Obama Reading Mean Tweets About Himself – Video

If you are a mean person and sent an evil and mean tweet to President Obama… in other words, if you are a Republican and tweeted your unfounded frustrations at the president, then chances are you got your tweet read… by the president himself!

In an appearance Comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s NBC show, the president followed in the footsteps of many other Kimmel guests and read mean and nasty tweets about himself.

And you thought your evilness went nowhere.

Watch.

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Politics

This Petition Charges the #47Traitors with Treason

If you haven’t signed the petition yet, well here’s your chance. The petition is here, just click on this link.

The petition is accusing the 47 Republicans who sent a letter to Iran, with treason.

The petition, created on Monday, accuses these Republicans of violating the Logan Act (which, if you’ve been following the news at all this week, you’ve heard about at least once). The Logan Act forbids unauthorized American citizens from “carr[ying] on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof.”

The petition reads, “This is a clear violation of federal law. In attempting to undermine our own nation, these 47 senators have committed treason.”

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Entertainment

Confirmed: “Frozen 2” is Coming!

Imagine my the surprise when it was confirmed today that the rumors about a Frozen 2 coming soom, is indeed true! The official tweet came from Disney.

— Forcast: Winter weather ahead! Disney Animation developing #Frozen2 with Chris Buck and @alittlejelee!

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Giuliani – Darren Wilson “Should Be Commended” For Killing Mike Brown – Video

You just can’t keep this racist out of the lime-light. Just days after attacking President Obama for “not loving America,” the former mayor of New York went home to Fox News and this time, attacked a 17-year-old dead black teenager named, Mike Brown.

Of course Mike is not around to defend himself and we will never get his side of the story, but that is not necessary for the likes of Rudy Giuliani who repeated the talking points of Officer Darren Wilson, the man who killed Mike Brown. And although it is a known fact that Darren Wilson did not have any information about Brown robbing a convenience store, Giuliani used this insignificant detail to justify killing the teenager.

“A man committed a robbery, attempted to assault a police officer, and the police officer, to save his life, shot him,” Giuliani told Fox News on Thursday. “The police officer did his duty. The police officer should be commended for what he did. He did exactly what you should do.”

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Michelle Obama Racism

Univision Host Fired For Saying Michelle Obama Looks Like a Cast of “The Planet Of The Apes”

He is no longer working at Univision, but a spot may have just opened up on Fox News. This is the people Fox adores!

Rodner Figueroa, the host of “El Gordo Y la Flaca,” said in Spanish, “You know Michelle Obama looks like she is of the cast of “The Planet Of The Apes” as he pointed to a photo of Obama. Figueroa made the comment in a segment about makeup artist Paolo Ballesteros.

Figueroa was quickly fired in response, according to NBC News.

El Comentario Racista de Rodner Figueroa hoy en @elgordoylaflaca @univision #racismo #despido #rodnerfigueroa #primeradama #michellobama #tv

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Mike Brown Shooting

Two Police Officers Shot in Ferguson Protests

The injuries are non-life threatening, but serious, according to reports.

Two police officers were shot early Thursday in Ferguson, Mo., authorities said.

The St. Louis County Police Department confirmed that one of its officers, as well as an officer from Webster Groves, sustained serious but non-life threatening injuries in the shooting. The shooting occurred just after midnight.

The St. Louis County officer, 41, was shot in the shoulder, police said. The Webster Groves officer, 32, was shot in the face.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the officers were hit by gunfire outside the Ferguson Police Department, where they were confronting protesters who were blocking roads and sidewalks.

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Georgia Police Kills Naked, Obviously Unarmed Man

He was naked and obviously unarmed. But Anthony Hill, a 27 year old black man in Georgia is dead, killed by a police officer who felt threatened and wanted to go home to his family.

According to reports, DeKalb County police officer and resident white man, Robert Olsen, shot and killed Hill on Monday when he responded to a call of a naked man crawling around and knocking on doors in a residential complex. The scared officer said Hill ran towards him and refused to stop until the bullet was introduced into the equation.

Hill had served more than four years in the U.S. Air Force when he was medically discharged a few years ago, his girlfriend, Bridget Anderson, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday. He was being treated by a VA doctor for bipolar disorder but stopped taking the medication a week or two ago because he didn’t like the side effects, including stiffening in his jaw, she said.

Anderson, 22, said she didn’t notice any changes in Hill after he stopped taking his medication and she’d never known him to behave strangely.

Anderson had been planning to go to Hill’s place Monday evening to cook together and celebrate their three-year anniversary. Instead, she got a call that he had been shot dead by police.

“My heart just tore out of my chest,” she said. “I started screaming his name and saying it couldn’t be true that he was gone.”

Demonstrators remembered Hill as a talented musician who loved the color purple and struggled with mental illness. They marched through the streets for about an hour chanting, singing and occasionally stopping at intersections to sit down and listen to a speaker while police cars blocked traffic.

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Politics rachel maddow Republican

Republicans Getting Hammered for Dumb “Open Letter” to Iran – Video


As if they didn’t know this was a bad idea. Well, we are talking about Republicans here – a group that has been on the wrong side of all popular issues since Obama took office – so maybe they absolutely thought this was the right thing to do. In any case, and rightly so, the rest of the nation is coming down on these 47 Senate Republicans who signed this letter and thus, decided that they should have more say in international policies than the President.

Rachel Maddow highlighted some of the national pushback, including editorials from districts where some of these senators serve. And now, Maddow!

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arrested Celebrities

Angie Stone Arrested on Domestic Abuse Charges

Grammy-nominated R&B artist Angie Stone and her daughter Diamond Stone were arrested in their Atlanta home on domestic abuse charges.

According to police report, Angie’s account of the events claim that after repeatedly getting punched in the face by her daughter, Angie took a metal stand and threw it at her daughter striking her in the face and knocking out two of her teeth. Stone,  according to the report, said she was unaware that the piece of metal actually hit her daughter.

Once she realized this, Stone “quickly put the stand down and attempted to get away from Ms. Diamond Stone. Ms. Angie Stone then stated while she tried to get away, Ms. Diamond Stone continued to come after her as if to strike her again but stated that Ms. Blondy Chisolm came to break up the fight.”

Stone, who was arrested in Lithonia, GA on Monday, was charged with aggravated battery. According to court documents, the fight errupted after an argument over Stone’s grand children. Stone is currently being held in Dekalb County jail. Her daughter was released without any charges.

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