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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/25/parrot-reveals-husbands-affair-with-housemaid-6214961/

A man almost ended up going to jail after a family pet exposed his affair with the housemaid.

The alleged affair came to light after the parrot started to repeat flirty phrases in front of his wife, who hadn’t heard anything like this for some time.

She had wondered for a while about her husband’s relationship with their maid at their home in Kuwait, according to Al Shahed Daily.

So when the bird started to parrot what it had overheard, she seized on it as evidence and went to police.
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Adultery catching bird? That parrot deserves a medal!
 
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Homeless woman protecting vandalized Trump star circled by vicious mob that proceeds to destroy what little property she owns, berates her and laughs as she lays prone on the ground.
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I did a little research on this: this video is the last of three of this incident. Since Koali Fikator (the person behind the camera) is going into damage control mode I'll link to some mirrors of all three.
The original description for the first video...
Koali Fikator said:
As you know by now, Donald Trump's Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood was vandalized, so this crazy black lady decided to (poorly) exercise her freedom of speech by going to the heart of Hollywood (Hollywood & Highland), right next to Donald's smashed star, with signs calling Mexicans and blacks motherfuc*ers and saying her candidate was the best, Trump style, as most Trump voters do. She forgot the small detail that Los Angeles is 90℅ latino and after spewing all that hate, someone would get tired of her ass, and exercise their freedom as well... Even the news and TMZ were there, which are the ones we have to thank for crazy people like her, as they're the reason these nutjobs are coming out of the woods, because they're given a voice on the nightly news... Smh
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...the second...
Koali Fikator said:
She is still talking crap about Mexicans, immigrants, blacks, and Hillary Clinton. Mind you, she's in the heart of immigrant town, Hollywood, surrounded by immigrants. People warned her: "someone will get mad at you for offending them, and no one will help you when that happens..." But, when you are brain washed by Donald Trump, you hear no reason
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...and the third.
Koali Fikator said:
After Bullying Everyone, Trump Supporter gets what she's been asking for... A Beatdown from a Latina
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Fikator was apparently surprised when most responses were calling him and the crowd scumbags for bullying a poor person instead of praising their putting that Trump supporter in her place.
He tried a few times to defend himself and the others in the crowd, but the commenters were not buying his nonsense:
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Seeing his narrative crumble before his eyes was too much for Fikator, so he disable comments on the videos and replaced the descriptions with this...
Koali Fikator said:
UPDATE: I'm getting many questions about the video, concerns about this lady's health and well being, lots of confusion from people thinking I'm beating someone up, and hateful comments. First of all, let me thank everyone for watching the video. Here are the FACTS:

I HEARD SOMEONE HAS MADE A GOFUNDME FOR HER, SO IF YOU ARE TRULY WORRIED ABOUT HER, DONATE!

* If you are truly concerned about this lady, she was fine. After this altercation, we called emergency services (even though people said "let her be" on the video and that "she deserved it for spewing hate"), SHE REFUSED TO BE HELPED, got up, and kept on with her hateful rhetoric, writing a new sign saying: "fuck Mexicans, vote for Trump"

* She was there for at least 3 hours, and most all of the time, it was peaceful, people tried asking her reason for voting for Trump and protecting his star, but it is obvious she wasn't in "all her senses" , and never really had substance on her thoughts and opinions.

*I got many messages saying: "liberal left is repulsive, scumbags. First of all, I'm not political or Left or Right. I WILL NOT VOTE on this elections, as I don't believe on any of the candidates. However, these "scumbags" not only tried to help her, bought her food and drink, and some people were actually going to give her money, which we told them not to, as she could spend somewhere else. So food and cards were bought for her.

* I thought it was clear in the video, but if not, here it goes: I DID NOT BEAT THIS HOMELESS WOMAN DOWN. I am behind the camera filming when all of this happened, I am not the person ripping off her signs, nor do I know who that is. That's not a man, it was a girl, or as far as I could see, if you know what I mean. I understand you might be angry at this, but gear your anger towards the right person. I'm a peaceful person, has always been, and will always be. Once the police arrived, the video was showed and they realized she threw herself on the ground, and did not press charges against that person for ripping her signs up.

* I DO NOT CONDONE violence of any kind, physical or verbal. This lady has all her rights to go out and speak what's on her mind, being hateful or not. But when you do that, you have to understand that others have the right to respond to you as well.

*I, as a citizen, stand by my video and my right to film this. It happened on a public place, and I have the right to video it. It is not my job to apologize, as I did nothing wrong. I will not pull this video down or be afraid of your threats and of you sharing my personal information online, because I have done nothing wrong, my life is an open book, I posted this under MY FULL FIRST AND LAST NAME!!! and because I believe in this country and the rights I have to report on something I saw happening. If YouTube and Google believes there is something wrong with it, they can take appropriate action and delete the video, if it goes against their rules, they are welcome to pull it out.

*Why did I record this? First of all, I DID NOT RECORD TO MAKE FUN OR RIDICULE TRUMP VOTERS, although she is not helping you guys by representing your candidate. I recorded to show the world what happens when a country does not take care of their mentally ill (insane, psycho, high, loony, crazy) people.

*I’ve lived for over one year in downtown LA, and I got to cohabit with people exactly like this lady. Some are born with mental issues, some get there after abusing drugs. The point is, we used to have asylums (psychiatric wards) where they could go get treated. All countries around the world have some similar help. US does not!!! We have private mental hospitals for rich people, but poor are shit out of luck. They commit a crime and end up in jail, or in the mean time, they're out and about, as this woman in this video. The majority of mental ill patients end up falling on drugs as well, and that with their mental state, only complicates things. DO NOT REPLY saying "this is Obama Care fault". This has been going on way before Obama. I'm not going to allow this video to be pulled into the political arena. This is a SOCIETY PROBLEM, not a political one!

UPDATE #2: I can see the right wing has already taken my video out of context and using for their political agenda. As stated above, I refuse to let this video be political, so I will be cancelling the comments section of the video, as people are just spewing hate, and that's not this video's purpose

ALSO: If you all really care about this lady, I'm hoping you do, instead of wasting time spreading hate, go to https://www.gofundme.com/ GoFundMe and create a page for this lady, that's the right thing to do! Put your money where your mouth is and do something after watching the video!
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TL;DR some punk thinks he'll be praised for showing a Trump supporter 'getting what she deserves,' instead gets torn a new one by his viewers.

There may be hope for this world, after all. :optimistic:
 
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Bitching and moaning about how much words hurt and going on about their lack of privilege while preying on the weakest and most vulnerable members of society. Charming. I'm assuming that this woman, like many homeless, had severe mental health issues and was completely at the mercy of this mob.

How many of these people went back to their homes, parked their overfed asses on a sofa, turned on their tablets and started whining on tumblr about how cis white men oppress them by not acknowledging their made up gender while this woman limped back to whatever makeshift shelter she lives in?

This is what happens when you build Trump up to be the second coming of Hitler. Every hostile action against him and his supporters becomes not only just, but necessary.
 
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GREEDY FIREMAN said:
I did a little research on this: this video is the last of three of this incident. Since Koali Fikator (the person behind the camera) is going into damage control mode I'll link to some mirrors of all three.
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Does anyone know who this fucking guy is? Is that really his name? He really seems like someone who deserves a thread.
 
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Does anyone know who this fucking guy is? Is that really his name? He really seems like someone who deserves a thread.
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Twitter (archive)
/r/The_Donald thread.
Looks like he's already going into full social media lockdown, but a cursory search doesn't bring up much other than your typical "Progressive." If it weren't for this video he probably would remained an unremarkable part of whiny, annoying crowd.

One thing that does catch my eye is that he is a graduate of a program meant to help the homeless reintegrate into society. I'll look into it a little more.

A bit of good news: at least one homeless person is going to be helped by this mess of an election season:
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This is what happens when you build Trump up to be the second coming of Hitler. Every hostile action against him and his supporters becomes not only just, but necessary.
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why do you think people like this say everyone they don't like is "worse than ISIS" "literally hitler"
or say things like "literally kills"
if they said it was just hurt feelings people would instantly tell them too fuck off
but by making hurt feelings and disagreement into LITERAL SLAVERY AND MURDER they can just use that card when they beat up a homeless woman
 
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UNITED NATIONS — Russia narrowly lost its seat on the main United Nations body devoted to human rights on Friday, signaling international dismay over the military power’s conduct in Syria.
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In Friday’s vote, both China and Saudi Arabia were re-elected, essentially unopposed for seats representing Asian countries.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/world/russia-loses-seat-on-un-human-rights-council.html?_r=0

Not included in the article but
Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, China, Brazil, Rwanda, Hungary, Cuba, South Africa, Japan, Tunisia, the U.S. and U.K. all won seats on the council.
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GREEDY FIREMAN said:
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/r/The_Donald thread.
Looks like he's already going into full social media lockdown, but a cursory search doesn't bring up much other than your typical "Progressive." If it weren't for this video he probably would remained an unremarkable part of whiny, annoying crowd.

One thing that does catch my eye is that he is a graduate of a program meant to help the homeless reintegrate into society. I'll look into it a little more.

A bit of good news: at least one homeless person is going to be helped by this mess of an election season:
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Just a little update: Mr. Eilert has now deleted all his known social media accounts and his YouTube channel. According to /r/The_Donald the police are investigating the incident, so maybe something will come of this.
I looked a little more into the work program, but they seem to be doing good work so I didn't want to drag them into this.
I'm not that good of an internet detective so there may be more to be found if anyone else wants to take a look.
 
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