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Foreign Affairs / Voting begins for Theresa May Or Jeremy Corbyn On UK General Election 2017 by jokpeme1: 12:01pm On Jun 08, 2017
British voters have started to cast their votes in the 2017 snap general election, following a fierce campaign that saw the ruling Conservative Party lose support to Labour, the main opposition.

Over 40,000 polling stations across the country opened on Thursday morning and voters will have until 10 pm local time to elect the party they deem most competent to form the next government.

More than 46 million people are eligible to vote in what is the fourth major poll in the UK over the past three years, following the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the 2015 general election, and the 2016 Brexit vote.

Some analysts have predicted a turnout of more than 70 percent given the high stakes that are at play.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who made the surprising call for the vote in mid-April, is defending her party’s Parliament majority and has set eyes on more seats.

Labour, on the other hand, has recovered from a major disadvantage against the Tories under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and is now hoping for a hung parliament, a scenario that some polls say is more than possible.
Thousands of heavily armed police officers will be guarding the polling stations as terror alert remains high in the wake of the recent wave of terror attacks across the UK.
Missing voting forms

The Election Day began with a bombshell report by The Independent about hundreds of postal votes that had gone missing.

Apparently, around 400 postal voting forms issued by Plymouth City Council had failed to reach their destination, a matter that was under investigation by Royal Mail.

The council said it had to reissue "around 370 replacement ballot packs" to those who had contacted them about their missing votes. Others with the same problem were urged to contact the officials immediately.

Source : British voters head to polls in high-stakes general election : Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn
Crime / Re: Bad Samaritans Steal Handbag & Used Credit Cards of Dying Nurse by jokpeme1: 7:52am On Sep 16, 2016
so heartless ....
Romance / Re: Love Me, Love My Dog : She Turned Down Marriage Because He Didn't Want Her Dog by jokpeme1: 1:26pm On Sep 14, 2016
eyinjuege:
He will meet someone else that doesn't have a pet, and she'll also meet someone else that likes and can tolerate her dog.
No be by force.
I hope so....
Romance / Re: Love Me, Love My Dog : She Turned Down Marriage Because He Didn't Want Her Dog by jokpeme1: 11:58am On Sep 14, 2016
jashar:
hmmm.....
but there are some pets that are extra special oooo......
hmmm......
maybe she didn't love the man enough to leave her beloved pet behind.
#teammustlovedogs#
I THINK IT IS AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE.
Romance / Re: Love Me, Love My Dog : She Turned Down Marriage Because He Didn't Want Her Dog by jokpeme1: 8:43am On Sep 14, 2016
Her upbringing caused it...
Foreign Affairs / Re: Obama praised Hillary Clinton but mocked Donald Trump As Fraudulent Champion by jokpeme1: 7:17am On Sep 14, 2016
Obama says Hillary Clinton the
best-qualified candidate ever to seek the
presidency. cry
Health / Re: Proud And Happy Fertility Doctor Used Own Sperm' To Impregnate Patients by jokpeme1: 8:11am On Sep 13, 2016
He is unprofessional...Bad image...
Health / Proud And Happy Fertility Doctor Used Own Sperm' To Impregnate Patients by jokpeme1: 5:19am On Sep 13, 2016
A retired Indianapolis fertility doctor said he used his own sperm around 50 times instead of the donated sperm his patients were expecting, impregnating several women decades ago, according to court documents.
Dr Donald Cline, 77, pleaded not guilty today to two criminal obstruction of justice charges for misleading authorities who were investigating complaints from two of the now-adult children against him.
Cline is accused of being the biological father of at least eight people, the youngest of which would be about 30.
The accusations against him were first reported by WXIN-TV in May.
The 77-year-old from the Indianapolis suburb of Zionsville told six adults who believed they were his children that he had donated his own sperm about 50 times starting in the 1970s, a probable cause affidavit said.

One of the adult children took a saliva-based DNA test through a private personal genomics company and found that she was related to at least eight other people in its database, the affidavit said.He had told his patients they were receiving sperm from medical or dental residents or medical students and that no single donor's sperm was used more than three times.
Two others also investigated their ancestry through DNA tests and learned their mothers both were patients of Cline and that they were related to 70 relatives of Cline, it said.
Cline "said he used his own sperm whenever he didn't have a donor sample available," the affidavit said he told them.
But when the state began investigating complaints, Cline denied having done so.
"I can emphatically say that at no time did I ever use my own sample for insemination," he said in a letter to the Indiana Attorney General's Office.
Cline retired from his practice at Reproductive Endocrinology Associates in Indianapolis in 2009.
Cline's lawyer, Tracy Betz, released a statement saying he is not accused of hiding documents, influencing witnesses or otherwise not cooperating with the attorney general's investigation.




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Foreign Affairs / Re: Hillary Clinton Now Feeling Fine After Fainting At 9/11 Memorial In New York by jokpeme1: 5:04am On Sep 13, 2016
Pidggin:
She did not faint, stop spreading lies

So what happened to her... Are you even current with updates on Hillary? Did she collapse or not? What do media say concerning her?
Foreign Affairs / Re: Hillary Clinton Now Feeling Fine After Fainting At 9/11 Memorial In New York by jokpeme1: 4:57am On Sep 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton said she would return to campaigning "in the next couple of days.”
Foreign Affairs / Hillary Clinton Now Feeling Fine After Fainting At 9/11 Memorial In New York by jokpeme1: 4:37am On Sep 13, 2016
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says she is "feeling fine" a day after she was forced to abruptly leave a 9/11 memorial in New York due to an apparent medical episode.
"I'm feeling fine and getting better," Clinton tweeted on Monday, signing her message with the "H" that indicates she personally wrote it.
"Like anyone who's ever been home sick from work, I'm just anxious to get back out there. See you on the trail soon," she said.
The candidate’s physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack said that she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.
A video of the incident emerged on Sunday, showing a seemingly fainting Clinton stumbling on the sidewalk while her security detail took her into a van and drove the former secretary of state to her daughter's house.
Clinton told CNN on Monday that she "felt dizzy” and lost her balance, but added that after getting into the van and drinking some water, she “immediately started feeling better."
Clinton also said she would return to campaigning "in the next couple of days.”
“I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible," she stated.




But she felt immediately better after getting into her air-conditioned vehicle.Clinton told CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 that she felt dizzy and "did lose my balance," while waiting for the motorcade.

She said she didn't immediately disclose that she's been diagnosed with pneumonia because she "just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal'."

Clinton said her doctor told her to rest for five days, but she "didn't follow that very wise advice".

She added that she'll be back on the campaign trail "in the next couple of days".

The health scare revived concerns about a tendency towards secrecy that has dogged the former Secretary of State's run for the White House, and underscored perennial worries about the medical fitness of candidates for one of the world's most demanding jobs.

Both Clinton, 68, and Republican rival Donald Trump, 70, said they intended to release more of their medical details in the coming days, as their campaigns gear up for the November 8 election.

Source : Hillary Clinton: I’m feeling fine after fainting

TV/Movies / Re: Fox News CEO Resigns Over Sexual Harassment Charges by jokpeme1: 6:47am On Jul 23, 2016
omodejk12:
This will have adverse effect on the company...

No doubt..
Foreign Affairs / Re: Donald Trump Aide Apologies Over Melania Trump Plagiarism Incident by jokpeme1: 6:47am On Jul 23, 2016
cherriton12:
Why copy other people's speech recklessly...

They were reckless...
TV/Movies / Fox News CEO Resigns Over Sexual Harassment Charges by jokpeme1: 11:27am On Jul 22, 2016
Roger Ailes, the founder and chairman of the Fox News American news channel, has resigned after a number of female employees accused him of sexual harassment.

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, which owns Fox News, announced his resignation on Thursday.

Less than two weeks ago, former Fox News presenter Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against Ailes, claiming sexual harassment.

Further allegations surfaced recently in US media that Ailes had sexually harassed Megyn Kelly, another Fox News presenter, about 10 years ago.

Ailes, 76, has denied the allegations. He said he was resigning because he had become a "distraction."

"I will not allow my presence to become a distraction from the work that must be done every day," Ailes wrote in a letter to Murdoch.

A report published last week in the New York magazine said lawyers for 21st Century Fox gave Ailes a deadline of August 1 to resign or face termination.

Carlson claims she was fired for refusing to have sex with Ailes. "I had to stand up for myself and speak out for all women and the next generation of women in the workplace," Carlson said.

Ailes had denied Carlson's allegations, saying in a statement, "Gretchen Carlson's allegations are false. This is a retaliatory suit for the network's decision not to renew her contract, which was due to the fact that her disappointingly low ratings were dragging down the afternoon lineup."

Ailes, who launched Fox News in 1996, has long been viewed as one of America's most powerful conservatives.

He was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and for Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign.

Source: Roger Ailes, Fox News CEO resigns over sexual harassment charges

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Foreign Affairs / Donald Trump Aide Apologies Over Melania Trump Plagiarism Incident by jokpeme1: 7:03am On Jul 21, 2016
[url=http://www.jalili48.com/search/label/Donald%20Trump] Donald Trump[/url] campaign staffer has apologized after the US Republican presidential nominee’s wife was accused of using remarks by First Lady Michelle Obama in a speech broadcast live to millions of people.

Melania Trump’s Monday address to the Republican National Convention contained similarities to a 2008 convention speech by US President Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle.

In a written statement on Wednesday evening, Meredith McIver admitted she made a mistake by not checking Michelle Obama’s former speeches.

The statement said McIver offered to resign but the Republican presidential nominee had rejected the offer.

McIver explained that she included the parts from Michelle Obama's speech after listening to Melania read passages from the First Lady’s 2008 speech.

"Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech,” she said.

“I did not check Mrs. Obama's speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant,” she stated.
Donald Trump did not accept McIver’s resignation, calling her error “an innocent mistake.”

"She made a mistake ... we all make mistakes," Trump told ABC News.

In tweets, Trump said he was proud of the fact that his wife’s address “got more attention than any in the history of politics.”

Melania Trump had claimed she wrote her speech “with as little help as possible.”


Source : http://www.jalili48.com/2016/07/donald-trump-aide-apologies-over.html


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Foreign Affairs / Re: US Police Make Arrests As Clash Erupt Outside Republican National Convention by jokpeme1: 6:52am On Jul 21, 2016
Freiden:
Thee is no way Donald will become the president
I don't get... what do you mean by "brb"
Foreign Affairs / US Police Make Arrests As Clash Erupt Outside Republican National Convention by jokpeme1: 6:46am On Jul 21, 2016
US police forces have arrested at least 17 people in a protest that erupted outside the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, Ohio.

The protesters burned the American flag as the convention continued at Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday.

Police used pepper spray to disperse the demonstrators chanting slogans against the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election, [url=http://www.jalili48.com/search/label/Donald%20Trump]Donald Trump[/url].
Those detained were still screaming while being searched and handcuffed by cops.

According to Cleveland Police, two cops were also injured in the course of the skirmishes.

Cops riding horses and bicycles attacked the crowed after they failed to convince them to disperse while firefighters extinguished and confiscated the flag.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said some of the protesters’ pants caught on fire.
"Whatever they tried to do with the flag, as we were trying to extinguish it and they were trying to keep it away, their pants leg caught on fire," said Williams, who was present at the site of the clashes. "The charge was assault on an officer because the officer tried to put it out when he saw it getting burned, and there were also counterdemonstrators who were trying to take it away."

Earlier protests near Quicken Loans Arena were reportedly more peaceful.

"There are people that their only reason for being here is disruption, disorder, chaos, hurting people and damaging property," Williams said. "Those are the only people at this point that are giving us any kind of trouble at all."
On the second day of the convention on Tuesday, the New York billionaire businessman was announced as GOP’s nominee for the 2016 vote.

The real estate tycoon will now have to face his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, to win the white House in a national vote in November.

Being branded as divisive, Trump has on several occasions offended Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans, and women, among whom he is said to be quite unpopular.


Source : http://www.jalili48.com/2016/07/police-make-arrests-as-clashed-erupt.html

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Foreign Affairs / Re: US Not Divided After Dallas Shooting - Barack Obama by jokpeme1: 6:39am On Jul 21, 2016
Horlufemi:
Let America face it's own troubles

we have enough trouble ourselves

The world is having issues with terrorism..
Foreign Affairs / After Failed Coup, Turkey Announces 3-month State Of Emergency by jokpeme1: 6:31am On Jul 21, 2016
Turkish President [url=http://www.jalili48.com/search/label/Recep%20Tayyip%20Erdogan]Recep Tayyip Erdogan[/url] has declared a three-month state of emergency following a failed coup in the country.

During a live speech delivered from Ankara on Wednesday, Erdogan said the state of emergency was required “to remove swiftly all the elements of the terrorist organization involved in the coup attempt.”

He further promised that the special measures, which vastly increase state security powers, would not be a “compromise on democracy".

“The aim is to rapidly and effectively take all steps needed to eliminate the threat against democracy, the rule of law and the people's rights and freedoms," he added.

Erdogan also claimed that US-based Fethullah Gulen was behind the coup.

Gulen has denied any role in the coup attempt, warning the Turks instead that the move could have been orchestrated by the government to purge its opponents.

The Turkish president made the announcement after he chaired a meeting of the National Security Council at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.
Earlier in the day, he noted that the recent coup attempt may not be fully over yet, and that foreign countries may have been involved in the attempt.

Meanwhile, Turkey has arrested two members of the country’s constitutional court along with 111 other judiciary officials. Erdogans’s chief aide-de-camp has also been formerly charged in relation to the coup.

The botched putsch began late on July 15, when a faction of the Turkish military blocked Istanbul’s iconic Bosphorus Bridge and strafed the headquarters of the Turkish intelligence agency and parliament in the capital.

Turkey began to go after those believed to have played a role in the abortive coup after the one-day attempt was declared over on July 16. Official estimates show that over 60,000 people, including senior government and judiciary officials and members of the army, have been sacked or dismissed from their jobs since then.


Source : http://www.jalili48.com/2016/07/turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan.html
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Foreign Affairs / US Not Divided After Dallas Shooting - Barack Obama by jokpeme1: 7:36am On Jul 10, 2016
[url=http://www.jalili48.com/search/label/US%20President%20Barack%20Obama]US President Barack Obama[/url] has urged Americans not to view the US as divided into opposing groups in a bid to pacify intense emotions after recent killing of five Dallas police officers by a gunman in apparent retaliation for persistent police brutality against African Americans across the country.

"First of all, as painful as this week has been, I firmly believe that America is not as divided as some have suggested," Obama said during a press conference at a NATO summit in the Polish capital Warsaw on Saturday.

"When we start suggesting that somehow there's this enormous polarization, and we're back to the situation in the '60s, that's just not true," He noted. "You're not seeing riots, and you're not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully."

The remarks came after five white police officers were gunned down by a black man, identified as former US Army Reserve soldier Micah Johnson, during a protest rally on Thursday.

The march was sparked by the latest shooting deaths of African American men by police in the northern state of Minnesota and the southern state of Louisiana.

Dallas police chief David Brown said Johnson had told a negotiator that he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers, because he was angry about the recent shootings of black men by police.

Obama, the first ever black president in US history, further stated that "Americans of all races and all backgrounds are rightly outraged by the inexcusable attacks on police, whether it's in Dallas or any place else."

The US president, who is cutting short his European trip on Sunday to visit the city of Dallas, also asserted that Americans are rightly troubled and enraged by the latest police killings of two more unarmed black men and about "the larger, persistent problem of African-Americans and Latinos being treated differently in our criminal justice system."


Source : http://www.jalili48.com/2016/07/dallas-terror-us-president-barack-obama.html

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Politics / Mali's President Keita Reshuffles Government by jokpeme1: 7:28pm On Jul 08, 2016
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has reshuffled his government, introducing a former rebel and eight other ministers.

[url=http://www.jalili48.com/search/label/International%20Politics]Politics is changing as [/url]Prime Minister Modibo Keita will continue to lead the new government of 34 ministers, two more than the previous one.

According to a presidential statement issued on Friday, Nina Wallet Intalou will take up the post of minister of tourism and artisanal crafts.

Wallet Intalou is a member of the Coordination of Azawad Movements, a coalition of autonomy-minded groups including ethnic Arabs and Tuaregs known by its French language acronym CMA.

In 2012, Tuareg rebel groups seized control of northern Mali, which they call Azawad. However, al-Qaeda-linked militants took control shortly afterward. Then, France's military intervened in Mali, its former colony. Since the al-Qaeda's move, the impoverished West African country has been in turmoil.

On May 23, 2014, Tuareg rebels agreed to a ceasefire deal with the government.

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali was deployed in July 2013 to bring calm. The mission, however, has become a target for attacks since its deployment.
source : http://www.jalili48.com/2016/07/malis-president-ibrahim-boubacar-keita.html


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Literature / Emily Dickinson Is America’s Best-known Female Poet by jokpeme1: 11:04am On May 23, 2013
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), America’s best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature. Dickinson’s simply constructed yet intensely felt, acutely intellectual writings take as their subject issues vital to humanity: the agonies and ecstasies of love, sexuality, the unfathomable nature of death, the horrors of war, God and religious belief, the importance of humor, and musings on the significance of literature, music, and art.

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