"We have yet to decide if we will use these photos or not," he said. He also denied that the leak of the photos was a "PR ploy" by VietJet Air. It would appear the decision has already been made.
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Unprofessional? Maybe. Ballsy and best? Yep. They were reporting on the medical marijuana coop, and she outed herself as the founder, and knew with that the media tut=tut crowd would get here fired, so she grabbed it and did an awesome Take This Job And Shove it move "F**k it, I quit" - pretty much: drop the mic and walk off the stage. Kudos to her for having the guts to do what so many others have wanted to do in a bad situation.
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Unprofessional media resignation. We're talking about a profession typified by narcissism, double dealing, backstabbing, betrayals both personal and wholesale, and lying elevated to art form. (Kinda explains why they're attracted to politicos.)
Unprofessional is good under these circumstances.
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As the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, she had no business being the reporter on this story.
The reporter was the owner of a "Pot" club and also was the reporter on a story about pot. No bias there (sarc).
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Who says journalists and tv talking heads are professionals?
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Now if we could just get the Champ to do the same.
That would require the use of the teleprompter and the story would be leaked and then discredited as 'Bush's fault.'
[Ynet] Sierra Leone recorded 130 new cases of the Ebola virus during a three-day lockdown and it is waiting for test results on a further 39 suspected cases, Stephen Gaojia, head of the Ebola emergency operations centre, said on Monday.
The country ordered its 6 million citizens to stay indoors for three days until Sunday night in the most extreme strategy employed by a nation since the start of an epidemic that has infected at least 5,357 people in West Africa since March.
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As in 130 cases that already existed but they didn't know about.
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Actually, this is pretty good. Now these 130 can be buried and their care-givers can be supported. This three day suspension of activity has probably avoided 250 cases in the next month and thousands more during this year.
[Dhaka Tribune] The government should not consider any peaceful assembly as a threat to the state, UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai said yesterday.
He said protests should be staged peacefully. Any unexpected incident during an agitation should not be categorically considered as violent and threat.
The remarks came at a discussion on freedom of assembly and association jointly organised by Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) and FORUM-ASIA in the city's Chhayanaut auditorium.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A minor girl was rubbed out and her grandmother was maimed by a gang of robbers during robbery at a residence in the Charandwip area of Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong early yesterday.
The dear departed, Shamima Aktar, 5, received bullet wounds to her head and hands while her grandmother, Fatema Begum, 55, was also shot while she had her granddaughter on her lap, said police sources.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Tariqul Islam of Patiya circle in Chittagong told the Dhaka Tribune that a group of bandidos numbering seven to eight had swooped in the house of Haji Ismail Khan in the Pathanpara area under Charandwip union around 2:30am and held the family hostage at gunpoint.
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[DAWN] Pakistain-administered Kashmire's parliament on Monday called upon India to open the de facto border separating the two sides of the disputed territory to allow rescue officials to reach residents hit by devastating floods.
Monsoon-induced flooding has wreaked havoc on both sides of the Himalayan region.
Its effects have been particularly devastating in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmire where thousands of people lost their homes and were stranded for weeks without aid.
The floods, which hit on September 7, also caused devastating economic losses running into billions of dollars to the area's famed carpet exporters, with separatists heavily criticising New Delhi's response.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Lake view Park on Sunday witnessed an unprecedented mess after about 100 personnel of the Punjab police entered the facility without paying tickets and beat up the staff.
After arriving in the park, the coppers moved towards the aviary. When the staff deputed at the entrance of the aviary asked them to purchase tickets, the coppers refused. This led to a scuffle during which the coppers thrashed the employees of the aviary with kicks and fists.
"Around 100 Jawans of the Punjab police entered the park without paying entry ticket of Rs10 each. They later went into the aviary, being run by a private party, and refused the pay the entry ticket of Rs50 each," said Abdul Hafeez, the security in-charge of the park.
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[IsraelTimes] A masked man dressed in black barged into the office of Amal High School principal Youssef Hajj Yahya in Taibe last month and fired a number of rounds. Hajj Yahyah, who was in the midst of meeting with five teachers in his school, was critically injured and died on his way to the hospital.
The brazen August 25 execution of a prominent educator briefly made headlines in Israel's mainstream media but only highlighted its general disinterest in intra-Arab violence, which has reached terrifying levels, community leaders charged on Sunday. In September alone, 11 murders have occurred in Arab communities across Israel.
A few dozen Arab politicians and civil society representatives demonstrated across from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Sunday, demanding that Israeli authorities treat the problem of armed violence in the Arab sector more seriously.
A few dozen Arab politicians and civil society representatives demonstrated across from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Sunday, demanding that Israeli authorities treat the problem of armed violence in the Arab sector more seriously.
"I don't think murders in Jewish cities are treated so matter-of-factly," said 28-year-old Amid Hajj Yahya, Youssef's son, who was among the demonstrators in Jerusalem.
"In Tel Aviv or Herzliya, the killer would have been caught within a day or two, but here we are a month after the murder [and the killer is still on the lam]. The police deal with us as though we are third-class citizens."
Statistics regarding aggravated crime in Israeli-Arab society, published by the Knesset's research department on July 29, show a worrying picture. A survey of police indictments for violent crimes between 2006 and 2013 revealed that non-Jewish Israelis (mostly Arabs) -- despite constituting just 20% of society -- committed murder nearly six times more than Jews; committed robbery 3.5 times more; committed assault three times more; and assaulted coppers nearly five times more than Jews.
The prevalence of illegal weapons in Arab society was repeatedly mentioned by the demonstrators as one of the main problems to be tackled by Israeli police. According to the Knesset statistics, Arabs are 10 times more likely than Jews to be indicted for possession of an illegal firearm.
"There's a plague of illegal weapons across all Arab communities," MK Masoud Ganaeim (Ra'am-Ta'al) told The Times of Israel. "It is the responsibility of the police to collect these weapons... they sometimes ignore the problem and sometimes don't take it seriously."
Ganaeim, who noted that 60% of crime in Israel takes place within the Arab sector, said that most of the illegal weapons are stolen from army and police armories and traded on the black market.
"If police believed that these weapons are being used against Jews for nationalistic reasons, they would have collected them all. But they don't," he added.
High unemployment levels among Arab youth are a central factor in engendering violence, opined Muhammad Zeidan, head of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, an umbrella organization representing Arab civil society groups.
"Violence is the result of unemployment and unlicensed weapons, which reach the hands of our youth with remarkable ease," Zeidan said. "These weapons are pointed at Arab citizens today, but I don't know where they'll be pointed tomorrow. We don't want them directed at either Arabs or Jews."
Zeidan noted that just yesterday a loaded LAW anti-tank launcher was found in the Arab city of Baqa al-Gharbiya in central Israel and defused by police. He said that owners of illegal weapons much be punished much more severely than they are at present.
"It is illogical for someone caught with a LAW missile to be tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! for a month and then released home," he said.
Mahmoud Aasi, mayor of the 3,000-resident town of Kafr Bara in central Israel, agreed that light sentencing reduced the motivation of police to arrest Arab citizens in possession of illegal weapons. But he preferred to direct his criticism inward rather than at Israeli authorities.
"At the end of the day, it's a matter of culture. We are too trigger-happy," Aasi said, noting that two homicides took place over the past year in his town, one of the richest Arab communities in Israel.
"We have lost our ability to conduct cultural dialogue and have begun using the language of violence, shooting and crime. I'm worried that these weapons will eventually be directed at Jewish society, not even for nationalistic reasons [but for criminal ones]."
Aasi added that he, like all other Arab mayors in Israel, faces regular threats from organized crime within his own community. Two years ago, he refused to allocate land designated for the homeless to a local resident who wanted to sell the plots to criminals. As a result, Aasi's home was fired upon. When he filed a complaint with the police, he was warned not to testify lest "field soldiers" on the ground harm him. The mayor was forced to employ bodyguards for six months.
"What kind of life do you think that is?" he asked.
[ABNA.IR] The Dalai Lama on Saturday condemned mindless violence in the name of religion, saying the concept of jihad was being misused and misinterpreted by forces of Evil in the Middle East.
The Nobel Peace prize winner and Buddhist spiritual leader was referring to bloodshed unleashed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group in Syria and Iraq where it has overrun swathes of territory.
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saying the concept of jihad was being misused and misinterpreted
Damn, now the Buddhists are more expert in the Holy Crayon than the Imams, Emirs and Mullahs.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The government should not consider any peaceful assembly as a threat to the state, UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai said yesterday.
[ABNA.IR] The Dalai Lama on Saturday condemned mindless violence in the name of religion, saying the concept of jihad was being misused and misinterpreted by 
