Author: Ezra Grant

I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!

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China Technology

China says Alibaba’s Merchants Sell Fake Merchandise

According to the Chinese government, Alibaba has a major credibility problem.  The government issued a report station that the tech giant knowingly allows fake and counterfeit items to be sold on its platform.

The scathing report by the State Administration for Industry & Commerce accused Alibaba of allowing merchants to operate without required business licenses, to run unauthorized stores that co-opt famous brands and sell fake wine and handbags. Alibaba employees took bribes, and the e-commerce giant didn’t fix flaws in customer feedback or internal credit-scoring systems, the report said.

“For a long time, Alibaba hasn’t paid enough attention to the illegal operations on its platforms, and hasn’t effectively addressed the issues,” the report said. “Alibaba not only faces the biggest credibility crisis since its establishment, it also casts a bad influence for other Internet operators trying to operate legally.”

Bob Christie, a spokesman for Alibaba, said the Hangzhou-based company couldn’t immediately comment.

A statement posted on the official Weibo account of Alibaba’s Taobao Marketplace Wednesday afternoon said the company was improving technology to fight against fakes and was willing to work with regulators on its procedures. The site also said it would file a complaint against the SAIC’s Internet regulation director, Liu Hongliang, who presided over a meeting with Alibaba representatives in July to discuss the claims.

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Celebrities Politics

Dropkick Murphys to Scott Walker – “Please stop using our music…we literally hate you !!!”

 

The tweet from Dropkick Murphys was directed to Republican governor,  Scott Walker – “Please stop using our music in any way…we literally hate you !!! Love, Dropkick Murphys.”

When the Celtic punk rock band tweeted those words at Wisconsin governor Scott Walker over the weekend, it wasn’t the first time they’d expressed their displeasure with the Republican governor’s policies. The band (whose left-leaning members have a tight relationship with workers’ rights activists) has previously slammed the governor as ”anti-union.”

This time, they were pissed that Walker had used their song “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” as entrance music at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday.

“I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” which uses lyrics originally penned by Woody Guthrie, is Dropkick Murphys’ biggest hit, and was prominently featured in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning drama The Departed.

Dropkick Murphys’ tweet is one of many examples of liberal recording artists telling conservative politicians to quit using their music. John Mellencamp knocked Gov. Walker for playing his song “Small Town” out on the campaign trail. Tom Petty sent a cease-and-desist to George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign, asking the then-Texas governor to quit playing “I Won’t Back Down” at rallies. And Newt Gingrich was accused of violating copyright laws for blasting the Heavy’s “How Do You Like Me Now?” at an event in Tampa, Florida.

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Benjamin Netanyahu Politics

Fox News Slam Republicans Over Netanyahu’s Planned Speech – Video

The people at Fox News are not fans of the president and have displayed their hate for the man from the time he announced his intentions to run for presidency. But there is an issue that’s causing a shockwave at Fox, and that issue is the disrespect John Boehner and the Republicans leveled against the president by inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to a congressional speaking engagement without telling the president.

The White House has already said that with this proposed speech, Netanyahu and the Republicans have “spat” in the president’s face and apparently, Fox News agrees.

“And to make you get a sense of really how, forgive me, wicked, this whole thing is, the Secretary of State John Kerry met with the Israeli Ambassador to the United States for two hours on Tuesday, Ron Dermer. The ambassador, never mentioned the fact that Netanyahu was in negotiations and finally agreed to come to Washington, not to see the president, but to go to Capitol Hill, speak to a joint session of congress and criticize the president’s policy. I have to say I’m shocked.”

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Politics

Poll: Hillary Clinton Still Leading the Pack for 2016

And in most cases, the former First Lady and Secretary of State is leading Republicans by double digits.

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that Hillary Clinton continues to maintain strong leads over any of her potential Republican challengers:

Hillary Rodham Clinton holds double-digit leads over potential Republican challengers Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney as the likely Democratic presidential candidate moves closer to entering the 2016 race, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.

Although Clinton, Bush and Romney are all longtime politicians and members of political dynasties, registered voters are less likely to count that familiarity against Clinton. That is a good sign for Clinton, a failed 2008 presidential candidate and the focus of Republican criticism that her time has come and gone.

Clinton’s potential to make history as the first female U.S. president makes little difference to most voters and is a net positive for others.

The former first lady, U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state has said she is considering a second run for the White House. She joked about the anticipation surrounding her decision during remarks in Canada on Wednesday but did not offer hints about her thinking or the timing of a possible announcement. Democratic strategists say she is likely to enter the race in late March or April – some 10 months before the Iowa caucuses open the 2016 primary contests.

Clinton approaches the nominating season in a dominant position, leading Bush by 54 percent to 41 percent among registered voters and Romney by 55 percent to 40 percent.

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ISIS murder

ISIS Reportedly Beheads Japanese Man… For Islam?

I mean this is getting old. What other reason could there be for a group that calls itself, The Islamic State, to kill people? Is this a requirement of Islam, that you capture innocent people then murder them if you cannot receive a ransom? And if it is a requirement, is it in the Quran?

The father of the Japanese hostage purportedly killed by Islamic State (IS) militants is hoping his son could still be alive.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the video apparently showing the killing of 42-year-old adventurer Haruna Yukawa was likely authentic and demanded the militants release the other hostage, reporter Kenji Goto, 47.

But Mr Yukawa’s father Shoichi Yukawa said he was “hoping deep in my heart” his son was still alive.

“My mind went totally blank,” he told reporters on Sunday, a day after news broke of the video footage. “I am hoping deep in my heart that it is not true.”

IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL, had threatened to behead Mr Yukawa and Mr Goto unless it received a $200 million ransom.

“If I am ever reunited with him, I just want to give him a big hug,” Mr Yukawa told Japanese TV.

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Politics Sarah Palin

The Quitter From Alaska Wants To Be President… Like “Seriously!”

While dishing out soup the other day, Sarah Palin told a reporter that she is considering a run for the White House in 2016. On Friday, the Washington Post got Palin to say again that she really wants to be president…. like “seriously!”

“You can absolutely say that I am seriously interested,” Palin said, when asked to clarify her thinking about a possible presidential bid.

Palin, the GOP’s 2008 vice-presidential nominee, said she stood by comments she made Thursday in Las Vegas to ABC News, where she first expressed enthusiasm about potentially competing for the Republican presidential nomination.

“I am. As I said yesterday, I’m really interested in the opportunity to serve at some point,” Palin said Friday, as former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, a potential 2016 rival, looked on.

The Republican clown car is gassed up. The engine is revving as the last few clowns jump on board. Sarah don’t know where the White House is, but she wants to be president. Sarah’s next stop? ‘1400′ Pennsylvania Ave or somewhere in Philadelphia.

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Barack Obama Politics State of the Union address YouTube

YouTube Star Offers Obama Green Lipstick For his “first wife” – Video

She meant to say, take these green lipstick for the “First Lady,” but instead, the YouTube star known as, Glozell Green, told the president to take the lipstick for his “first wife,” causing the President to ask, “do you know something I don’t know?”

In all, the three YouTube stars selected to interview President Obama did a pretty decent job. The complete interview is shown below.

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Politics

Take a Look at Brook Shields’ Scary Selfie – PIC

The actress shared her selfie on Instagram on Friday, apparently sitting in a dentist chair with a dental apparatus spreading her lips to unnatural dimensions. Brook added to the scary scene by opening her eyes as wide as possible.

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Entertainment

Another Walking Dead Trailer – “Another Day”

New episodes start February 8th.

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Featured Mike Brown Mike Brown Shooting

Darren Wilson Supporter – “Sharpton ought to go back into the gutter”

Since it was revealed that the Justice Department will not to bring any civil rights violation charge against Darren Wilson in the killing of Mike Brown, Wilson’s supporters are tripping over themselves trying to get in front of the cameras to sing his praises.

One of these people is Milwaukee County Sheriff and conservative commentator David Clarke. In Thursday’s episode of Fox & Friends, Clarke enthusiastically defended Wilson’s innocence while calling Eric Holder and Al Sharpton “race hustlers.”

“The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri got it right,” Clarke concluded. “Officer Wilson has been exonerated. The thing I want to know is how does he get his reputation back?”

Clarke reserved much of his ire for Sharpton.

“I don’t expect anything intelligent to come out of the mouth of Al Sharpton,” Clarke said. “We know he is a charlatan. Al Sharpton ought to go back into the gutter he came from. The police officer is owed a lot from him, Eric Holder and the President of the United States.”

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Barack Obama Benjamin Netanyahu Politics

White House – Netanyahu “Spat in our face” and “There will be a price”

Republicans in charge of Congress have managed to further divide the country and its allies by planning a Congressional meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without following protocol and coordinating the event with the White House. The meeting, set for March, has outraged the White House, causing one official saying the Israeli leader had “spat” in the face of Barack Obama.

“We thought we’ve seen everything,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us.

“There are things you simply don’t do. He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price,” he said.

Officials in Washington said that the “chickenshit” epithet — with which an anonymous administration official branded Netanyahu several months ago — was mild compared to the language used in the White House when news of Netanyahu’s planned speech came in.

In his address the Israeli leader is expected to speak about stalled US-led nuclear negotiations with Iran, and to urge lawmakers to slap Tehran with a new round of tougher sanctions in order to force it to comply with international demands. The Mossad intelligence service on Thursday went to the rare length of issuing a press statement to deny claims, cited by Kerry, that its chief Tamir Pardo had told visiting US politicians that he opposed further sanctions.

Haaretz reported that Obama had personally demanded that Netanyahu tone down his pro-sanctions rhetoric in a phone call between the two last week. The president has said a sanctions bill would cripple negotiations with Iranian leaders at a critical stage, and has threatened to veto such a bill should it come through.

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Entertainment Mike Huckabee Politics

Mike Huckabee Still Pimping Beyonce for Popularity – Beyonce’s Friend Speaks Out – Video

Mike Huckabee went on The View and continued milking his exposure from his Beyoncé attacks. But this time, someone with personal knowledge of Beyoncé was there to defend her and call out the Republican.

Over the last few weeks, Huckabee has pimped Beyoncé’s popularity to further advance his own 2016 presidential ambition. He knew that any attack on the most popular entertainer in music would bring him much needed popularity, so Huckabee has homed in on Beyoncé as his only hope to the White House.

He has stated that Jay Z is “pimping” his wife and has gone “from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object.” And suggested that letting children listen to Beyoncé is the same thing as buying a 12-year-old girl a “stripper pole.”

But on The View yesterday, Beyoncé had a small voice and defender, as her friend Michelle Williams and former Destiny’s Child singer weighed in on Huckabee.

“I’m not the Carter spokesperson,” she said, “but to hear some of those comments that you said I thought were very, very, very low.”

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