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Donald Trump has been branded a “threat to our world order” and unworthy of a state visit, after he moved to pull the United States from the international Arms Trade Treaty. Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said the US president’s plan to quit the agreement regulating arms sales between countries showed he was “nothing but a disgrace to his office”. In a furious intervention, the shadow cabinet member said Mr Trump’s move was ”the final confirmation that he is not the leader of the free world”. Her comments came as Jeremy Corbyn vowed to boycott a lavish banquet for Mr...

A Slidell-based Carnival krewe has uninvited a pair of New Orleans Saints players to serve as grand marshals for the krewe's 2018 parade after the players participated in a protest during the national anthem prior to Sunday's (Sept. 24) game, WVUE-Fox 8 reports. The Krewe of Poseidon took back invites to players Kenny Vaccaro and Alex Okafor, who had already agreed to serve as grand marshals, after they sat during the anthem in Charlotte, according to the news station. Vaccaro and Okafor were among 10 Saints and 150 professional football players around the National Football League who refused to stand...

R.C. Maxwell of American Voice at Trump National Golf Course in L.A. [For those who had not heard the right wing journalist Baked Alaska was attacked at unite the right and had acid sprayed in his face permanently damaging his eyes]

So for awhile I was thinking of uploading videos on the video sharing site Vimeo which is the first video sharing website to go in High definition. I had thought of it for sometime but I thought not after learning the truth about Vimeo. Now you think Youtube is something to beholden my goodness lord have mercy! Vimeo I discovered not only bans conservatism, bans Christianity, bans, patriotism, bans family values, they also allow in place they allow pornographic movies, copyright infringement is allowed, they allow terrorist movies, they allow videos by leftists full of profanity and filth advocating the...

Hey Hillary, here’s what normally happens to corrupt pols that divert charitable foundation donations to personal and political use. Why, I remember former Representative Chaka Fattah before he was consigned to the memory hole. He used to be a powerful Democrat in Congress, but now he’s a convict headed for ten-year sentence to the federal pen. His crimes sound familiar to those of us who have been focused on the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation’s hiring of political aides to Hillary in off years since her previous run for the presidency. CBS News reports: A federal judge has sentenced...

It’s the story of an unbreakable bond between two unlikely best friends whose equally unlikely reunion has gone viral. Mr. G the Goat and his female friend Jellybean the Burro are truly inseparable. Where one goes, the other is sure to follow. “He does not let her more than 10 feet,” said Jan Galeazzi at Animal Place. “His eyes are glued on her at all times.” The unlikely pair spent a decade in a 12-by-12 dirt plot with little food and water with no shade, shed or barn. They were rescued from a life of neglect in Southern California, but...

The moment was captured at the Odessa Zoo, Ukraine, and stopped visitors in their tracks as they passed by the enclosure. As the baby deer rested in the shade during a warm summers day the domestic zoo cat approached. After a quick hello both decided a bit of sleep was in order and the ginger moggy nestled peacefully into the side of the deer. Photographer Vitaly Ktach snapped the special moments and said everyone was watching on in amazement. 'The affectionate behaviour of the cat towards the young deer had myself and other visitors watching in disbelief,' explained Ktach. 'The...

September 1, 2006—Looks like someone's been makin' Wookiee. Resembling nothing so much as Chewbacca's children, two of the world's tiniest monkeys debuted recently at the Frösö Zoo in Ostersund, Sweden. Shown here shortly after their birth, these pygmy marmosets are exceedingly rare. It's not because they're twins though—pygmy marmosets are typically born in pairs—but because they're albinos, deficient in pigment. The world's smallest species of monkey, this tree-dwelling marmoset makes big noise, contributing clicks, whistles, and squeals to the cacophony of their home habitat, the western Amazon rain forest of South America. Adults grow to about 5 inches (13 centimeters)...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A giant panda in China has given birth to the heaviest cub born in captivity after the longest period in labor and elsewhere twin pandas each gave birth to twins, Xinhua news agency reported. Six-year-old Zhang Ka delivered the baby on Monday at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in the mountainous southwest, Xinhua said. The cub weighed just 218 grams (half a pound), but was still the heaviest panda ever born in captivity, where most cubs are born at between 83 and 190 grams, Xinhua said. "It is very rare for them to be even near...

A Neapolitan mastiff in Manea, United Kingdom, has broken a world record by giving birth to a litter of 24 mastiff puppies, according to a report. Breeders Damian Ward and his girlfriend, Anne Kellegher, had only been expecting their two-year-old mastiff, Tia, to give birth to a maximum of 10 puppies after a scan from a local veterinarian. When Tia grew so large she could barely move, the couple took the dog to the vets, who decided that an immediate caesarean was vital. Two hours later, Tia had given birth to the record 24 puppies. Four of the puppies were...

TOKYO (AFP) - Fuji, a mother dolphin that lost 75 percent of her tail due to a mysterious disease, is jumping once again with the help of what is believed to be the world's first artificial fin. The 34-year-old dolphin held at Japan's largest aquarium in the southern island of Okinawa wears the rubber fin for about 20 minutes a day allowing her to jump and to swim at the same speed of other dolphins. "We are very grateful. Although she can swim without the artificial fin, the speed is very slow and she certainly cannot jump without it," said...

An Oslo resident witnessed a rare sight in her own garden this week. When she glanced out her kitchen window while making a cup of tea on Wednesday, she spotted a deer near her family's outdoor trampoline. That's a sight in itself, but something unusual was going on...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Newspapers could face extinction if executives do not stop focusing on profits at the expense of journalism's core public service mission, a top newspaper editor said Wednesday. "The obsession with short-term profits is causing newspaper companies to lose sight of their long-term obligations and opportunities," said Tim J. McGuire, outgoing president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, made up of more than 800 directing editors from daily newspapers. "We are at a crucial juncture in our profession and in our industry. We must choose today whether we're going to take newspapers forward with a genuine sense...