Florida Judge Drops Charges Against Man Who Threatened to 'Exterminate' Gays (Video)
The FBI said Craig Jungwirth posted threats on Facebook in August 2016, including one to launch a Labor Day attack bigger than the Pulse massacre. But prosecutors said the evidence was weak.
Pharrell perfectly shuts down Gospel singer Kim Burrell’s antigay rant
There’s no space, there’s no room for any kind of prejudice in 2017 and moving on…. We all have to get used to everyone’s differences and understand that this is a big, gigantic, beautiful, colorful world, and it only works with inclusion and empathy. It only works that way.”
“Whenever you hear some sort of hate speech and you feel like it doesn’t pertain to you because you may not have anything to do with that, all you got to do is put the word black in that sentence, or put gay in that sentence, or put transgender in that sentence, or put white in that sentence, and all of the sudden it starts to make sense to you. I’m telling you, the world is a beautiful place but it does not work without empathy and inclusion. God is love. This Universe is love and that’s the only way it will function. And I get it that sometimes some of the divisive stuff works. We learned that lesson last year that divisiveness works. But you have to choose what side you’re on. I’m choosing empathy; I’m choosing inclusion; I’m choosing love for everybody just trying to lift everyone. Even when I disagree with someone, I’m wishing them the best and hoping for the best because we can’t win the other way.”— Pharrell to Ellen DeGeneres, speaking his mind about Kim Burrell’s homophobic remarks, which he’d previously addressed in an Instagram post
Trump’s Public Disagreement with Intelligence Community Unprecedented and ‘Adversarial’
Let’s start this story with a tweet, since that’s the way President-elect Donald Trump seems to prefer communicating.
The “Intelligence” briefing on so-called “Russian hacking” was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2017
Trump is referring to the assessment of the CIA and FBI that Russia used cybertools to try to gain information and use it to influence the US election. It was an assessment presented with “a high level of confidence,” but has not been accepted by Trump.
The Obama administration has responded by letting it be known that the intelligence briefing had always been scheduled for Friday. Unnamed officials, quoted in different news media, said the intelligence community sees Trump’s tweet as “adversarial.”
“This kind of thing is simply unprecedented,” says David Priess, who spent his career in the CIA. He published a book last year on the Presidential Daily Briefing called, “The President’s Book of Secrets.” He was himself a daily intelligence briefer for Cabinet-level officials under President George W. Bush.
“We don’t have any record of a president-elect going public with disagreements on intelligence assessments and waging this out in the public sphere. On Twitter is one thing but just in public in general. This kind of thing has not done before,” he says.
Priess declined to comment on morale inside the intelligence community, or whether they see this tweet as adversarial. But he says “it certainly doesn’t build a good relationship. And that’s been the goal of all presidential transitions, on both sides. It’s for the president to get to know the intelligence community, and for the intelligence community to get to understand the preferences and style and policy direction of the incoming president. And we’re not seeing that at the same level in this transition.”
Priess points out it’s not clear what Trump has been briefed on yet. He’s confident that assessments on Russia would have figured in any briefing he’s received, “and he may simply disagree with them.”
“On the other hand, he made some judgments and conclusions of his own about the likelihood of Russian interference before seeing that intelligence.”
Priess says the intelligence community will continue to try to adapt to the new president, and suggests “at one extreme that could mean producing the President’s Daily Brief in the form of tweet-length analysis. If the president prefers to have judgments expressed in easy-to-digest short form, that’s doable, and there is precedent for that.”
This article first appeared on PRI The World.
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Pharrell and Ellen Blast Kim Burrell’s Homophobia: ‘There’s No Room’ for It – WATCH
Pharrell was scheduled to sing a track from the new film Hidden Figures with gospel singer Kim Burrell on Ellen this week, but as you probably know, a sermon in which Burrell called gay people “perverted sinners” went viral over the weekend.
“I came to tell you about sin… That sin nature, that perverted homosexual spirit is the spirit of delusion and confusion, it has deceived many men and women and it has cast a stain on the body of Christ. You as a man, you open your mouth and take a man’s penis in your face, you are perverted. You are a woman and will shake your face in another woman’s breast, you are perverted. It has come to our church and it has embarrassed the Kingdom of God.”
Ellen said she needed to address the controversy and why Burrell was axed from the show:
“She said some very not nice things about homosexuals, so I didn’t feel that was good of me to have her on the show to give her a platform after she was saying things about me.”
Added Pharrell:
“There’s no space, there’s no room for any kind of prejudice in 2017 or moving on. There’s no room. She’s a fantastic singer and I love her just like I love everybody else. We all have to get used to everyone’s differences and understand that this is a big, gigantic, beautiful, colorful world and it only works with inclusion and empathy. It only works that way. Live and let live. Love and let love.”
Replied Ellen:
“Agreed. I think I say it all the time. To me, when I say, ‘Be kind to one another,’ I feel that. Because, as someone who has received a lot of hate and prejudice and discrimination because of who I choose to love, I just don’t understand anyone who has experienced that kind of oppression or anything like that, now…it only gives me more compassion. It gives me more empathy. I don’t ever want anyone to feel hurt because they are different.”
Added Pharrell:
“Whenever you see something. Whenever you hear some sort of hate speech and you feel like it doesn’t pertain to you because you may not have anything to do with that, all you got to do is put the word ‘black’ in that sentence or put ‘gay’ in that sentence or put ‘transgender’ in that sentence or put, uh, ‘white’ in that sentence and all of a sudden it starts to make sense to you…The world is a beautiful place but it does not work without empathy and inclusion. God is love. This universe is love. And that’s the only way it will function.”
Watch:
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25 LGBT Video Game Characters
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/1/05/25-lgbt-video-game-characters
Thanks, Obama! Looking Back at the President's LGBT Legacy (Video)
Long before the White House was basked in rainbow colors in 2015 to celebrate the Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriage, the President called himself a “fierce advocate” for our rights.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/1/05/thanks-obama-looking-back-presidents-lgbt-legacy-video
杉本穂高: 時代の矛盾に苦しんだヒーローを描く「アイヒマンを追え！ ナチスがもっとも畏れた男」ラース・クラウメ監督インタビュー
本作(アイヒマンを追え！ ナチスがもっとも畏れた男)の監督、ラース・クラウメ氏に本作について話を聞いた。
もっと見る: エンタメ, ホロコースト, ＬＧＢＴ, ナチス, ドイツ, Japan News
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Julie Bracken posted a photo:
Baby, the way that I’m working my body
Can tell that you already like it
I make you lose your cabeza, coloca
Baby we don’t even need any music
‘Cause we make the beat when we moving
You know that it’s making me hot, hot, hot
We belong to the night, we belong to the music
So let’s live in the moment of freedom that will get you wild
Let’s ignite this fire up, across the world we take it up
Let me hear you screaming out loud
~Jennifer Lopez video link
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