[POLITICO] Fox News host Eric Bolling has initiated a lawsuit against the news hound behind the report that led to his suspension.
Yashar Ali, a contributing writer for HuffPost, reported on Friday that several years ago Bolling sent lewd text messages that included photographs of male genitalia to two female colleagues at Fox. The next day Bolling was suspended and Fox launched an investigation by the same law firm that handled probes into the conduct of former host Bill O'Reilly and former Fox chairman Roger Ailes.
After the initial report, Bolling said, via his lawyer, that he "recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made."
On Wednesday, Bolling filed a "summons with notice" in New York State Supreme Court against Ali, seeking $50 million in damages for defamation. Ali must respond within 20 days, demanding that Bolling file a complaint, after which Bolling will have 20 days to file his response before the suit goes forward.
"The nature of this action is for damages and injunctive relief based on defamation arising from the defendant’s efforts to injure the plaintiff’s reputation through the intentional and/or highly reckless publication of actionable false and misleading statements about the plaintiff’s conduct and character. As a result of the defendant’s actions, the plaintiff has been substantially harmed," the summons states.
Bolling is represented by Michael Bowe from the same law firm as Marc Kasowitz, who was President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's personal attorney until last month.
"This anonymously sourced and uncorroborated story is false, defamatory, and obviously intended to destroy this good man's career and family. We will defend Eric aggressively in court, where actual facts, based on evidence, testimony, and cross-examination, will belie these anonymous accusations," Bowe said.
Ali told POLITICO he plans to fight the case.
"I stand by my reporting and will protect my sources, especially the victims, at all costs," Ali said in a statement.
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Doesn't matter - his career at Fox is over. One more scalp for the Left.
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Bill O'Reilly, Charles Payne, now Bolling. All guilty based on accusation. I doubt any of them will return to Fox. The purge will continue until none of the men remain.
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Eric Bolling has been suspended. An investigation will be conducted by law firm Paul Weiss. Washington Free Beacon reports:
The firm, Paul, Weiss, has long been tied to the Clinton family, with its employees donating hundreds of thousands to its political campaigns and later cashing in on political appointments in the government......A partner in the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department, Jeh Johnson is the former Secretary of Homeland Security. Secretary Johnson advises clients, including management teams and boards of directors, on crisis management, government and internal investigations, high-stakes litigation and regulatory matters, and legal aspects of cybersecurity and other security matters. His legal career has encompassed both private law practice and public service, including three Senate-confirmed presidential appointments.
So another set-up but if Bolling calls their bluff and takes this court, he can win if he has the finances to fight his accusers. Most settle before it gets very far. The female accusers identities are going to be demanded in court - and their entire sex life is going to be meticulously searched. Every email they've ever sent or received, every text message, every phone call will be subpoenaed. The reporter and/or the "sources" obviously did this for POLITICAL reasons and Fox News has been effectively dismantled since the Juniors took over.
Both sides of the civil war in southeast Ukraine reported five dead, seven wounded in ongoing fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk, according to Russian language news accounts.
Last Monday, Ukrainian military authorities reported one soldier dead from mortar fire in Marinka, which is south of Donetsk city. It turned out, according to data supplied from Ukrainian military prosecutors, that two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another three were wounded when a soldier double loaded a 120mm mortar.
On Tuesday, according to korrespondent.net, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another was wounded from Russian backed rebel mortar fire, launched grenade and small arms fire near Shirokino at around 1800 hrs.
In a later report, which included a video shot in the area, Ukrainians said that rebels on Wednesday fired 122mm rocket artillery into the area for a total of 27 projectiles.
Elsewhere in the south, Ukrainian media said that a nighttime rebel probe supported by mortar fire was driven back near Talakovka and Krasnogorovka. Ukrainian reports also stated that rebels used BMP-2 30mm autocannon fire at Chermalyk on the coast of the Sea of Azov.
Reports also said that rebel forces used artillery and small arms fire at Avdievka near Donetsk city.
Rebel media said that on Wednesday tanks from the Ukrainian 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade shelled Spartak and parts of western Donetsk city occupied by rebel forces, including at Petrovsky. One residential building was damaged. In Alexandrovka, another apartment building was damaged by Ukrainian artillery fire.
Rebel media said Ukrainian units fired a total of 192 shells and mines on and around Donetsk city.
Wednesday evening, rebel media said close to 300 shells were fired at rebel positions in Donetsk.
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Secretary of Defense James Mattis made his first on-camera remarks Thursday about North Korea's threats to attack Guam with ICBMs, saying that a potential nuclear incident "would be catastrophic."
While speaking to reporters at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental(DIUx) event in Mountain View, California, he was asked by a reporter, "Can you talk about the human toll we might see in the event of a nuclear confrontation?"
"My portfolio, my mission, my responsibility is to have military options if you need it," Mattis responded. "However, right now, Secretary Tillerson, Ambassador Haley, you can see the American effort is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction, it is gaining diplomatic results. And I want to stay right there right now. The tragedy of war is well enough known. It does not need another characterization beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic."
Deviating from the tone of President Trump, who said the U.S. would unleash "fire and fury" upon North Korea, Mattis stressed that the route forward would be diplomatic, and he repeated the importance of the unanimous 15-1 United Nations Security Council vote to impose economic sanctions on North Korea. There's no warmer pleasure than being able to tell a smart aleck, 'I told you so, but you wouldn't listen' -Hazel Stone
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BTW, this is another gift of the SWAMP that thought integrating China into the global market would erase their thousands of years of territorial chauvinism.
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Any fight between the two would by (1) Cyber (2) missile exchange (3) or fighting on some of the most hostile ground in the world. I'm betting on (1).
[Aljazeera] A prominent member of Hong Kong's Democratic Party said he was beaten and "stapled" by Chinese agents in Hong Kong before being dumped on a remote beach.
Howard Lam, a key pro-democracy activist in the former British colony, told reporters on Friday he was confronted by men speaking Mandarin - spoken in Beijing but not widely in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong - outside a sports store.
Lam said the men took him away, interrogating him and stapling his skin 21 times for being "unpatriotic" in a nine-hour ordeal.
He was knocked out and eventually found himself dumped on a beach in Hong Kong's remote Sai Kung district.
Hong Kong's police commissioner, Lau Wai-chung, told media he was taking Lam's accusations seriously and they were attaching great importance to investigating the case. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of China's State Council were not immediately available for comment.
The alleged attack comes as hostility to Beijing has spiralled in Hong Kong and the battle for full democracy has become a defining issue for the city of 7.3 million people.
[REUTERS] Japan could legally intercept a North Korean missile headed towards Guam, Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said on Thursday in remarks reported by Kyodo news service.
Onodera told a lower house of parliament committee that Japan would be allowed to hit a missile headed towards the U.S. Pacific territory if it was judged to be an existential threat to Japan, Kyodo said. This is a reiteration of the Japanese government's position.
Experts say Japan does not currently have the capability to shoot down a missile flying over its territory headed for Guam.
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They're worried about legal repercussions? Seriously?
[DAWN] It’s been more than a year since young law student Khadija Siddiqui was stabbed mercilessly by her class fellow Shah Husain. The incident took place on May 3rd, 2016 in broad daylight on Davis Road, Lahore where Khadija had gone to pick up her younger sister from school. Despite 23 gashes to her body, including the neck, she miraculously survived. Khadija courageously fought for justice and late last month, a court in Lahore sentenced her attacker, who happens to be son of an advocate, to seven years in prison. She sees her survival and legal victory as a chance to live a more meaningful life.
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[DAWN] SHANGLA: A girl and a boy were rubbed out for honour in Dunai Karora area here on Wednesday, police said.
SHO Bakht Zahir told news hounds that the girl and boy were allegedly killed by the former’s brother and father in the name of honour.
The two were rubbed out when they were sitting in corn fields. Later, the police took the bodies to the area rural health centre, and also lodged FIR in the case.
Police said the girl’s family claimed she had illicit relations with the boy for which they killed both of them. The girl was aged 19, and the boy, 22.
Police said they had started search to arrest the alleged killers.
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Sig Sauer P320 is a striker-fired, semi-automatic pistol. I wonder how many pistols with a hammer and safety discharged when dropped? I recommend they go with the Sig P225-A1.
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Contest is over. recommendations are irrelevant. I personally hope Glock-tards all get Chron's from fretting about it.
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Well, the first line of the PM article is absolutely wrong. The P320 potentially has this issue. The "handgun chosen to be the U.S. Army's next generation handgun" is the M17—it is based on the P320 but has a different fire control unit and SIG's own press release basically says the voluntary upgrade for P320 owners is going to be some sort of retrofit of the M17 trigger unit into the P320. Hell, PM's headline blurb even says "the military version appears unaffected", so how did they allow that first sentence to make it into publication?
[IsraelTimes] Iran drops midfield duo Haji Safi and Masoud Shojaei from the national team after they play in a soccer match against Maccabi Tel Aviv for their Greek club Panionios last week, the Iranian sports ministry says.
Deputy Sports Minister Mohammad Reza Davarzani says they could no longer wear the national shirt after they played against the Israeli club in the Europa League third qualifying round second leg in Greece.
"Shojaei and Haji Safi have no place in Iran’s national football team any more because they crossed the country’s red line," Davarzani tells state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
. "They have a financial contract with a club to be paid and play for that team, but to play with the representative of a loathsome regime... this is not acceptable for Iranian people."
The two players had refused to play in the away leg in Israel despite facing "pressure" and "financial fines" from their club, the sports ministry says. But they played in the second leg in Greece on August 4. Panionios lost 0-1 and 0-2 on aggregate.
Thousands of Persian speakers take to social media to urge football umbrella FIFA to censure Iran’s own national team over the spat.
On Twitter, under the hashtag #NoBan4OurPlayers, a user under the handle of Ajib Zade wrote that "players should be free to choose who to play against."
But Vali Nasr, a well-known Iran-born Middle East analyst and scholar, argued the Iranian players were actually bound contractually to play against the Israeli athletes as part of their engagement for the Greek team, and therefore should not be punished by Iran. "Professional soccer players are not sovereign actors but employees of their clubs," he wrote on Twitter.
Mahbod Ba, a Twitter user described as a Tehran-based art scholar, was among thousands that tagged FIFA on the social network requesting it "ban the Iranian national team" in response to the ban imposed on the two soccer stars.
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[ABC] Current and former U.S. diplomats reacted to President Trump's comments thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. embassy workers with dismay.
"As far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll," Trump said at a briefing at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday.
"We'll save a lot of money," he added.
It's unclear if the U.S. would save any money because of the expulsion. Any diplomats removed from Russia would be sent to posts elsewhere around the world.
The Russian order to expel 755 U.S. diplomats last month came in response to new sanctions imposed by the U.S. A diplomatic row over Russian interference in the 2016 election began last year after President Obama ordered the seizure of two diplomatic facilities used by Russia in the U.S. and the expulsion of 35 diplomats and their families.
One of those compounds, in rural Maryland outside of Washington, was said to be used for espionage, according to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
A State Dept. official who is a foreign service officer told ABC News the message from Trump thanking Putin is "really quite sad."
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It's unclear if the U.S. would save any money because of the expulsion. Any diplomats removed from Russia would be sent to posts elsewhere around the world.
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Since the secretary of state has frozen hiring until his goal of cutting staff by a certain percent (I think 7%, but I'm not sure) through attrition is achieved, the number of local staff let go will offset the same number of Americans who would otherwise be encouraged to leave. I think we're seeing posturing for effect.
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That's should help pay for the secret services daily $13,000 golf cart budget, trump tower rent, and expenses he's wasting getting sun in Florida. No one expects anything less from the elite class. Good job, Mr President. Now let's hear that apologists.
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Gee, g(r)om what do you against Ulan Bator? BTW, those are the people who knew how to deal with both the Russians and Chinese.
I don't agree to your point*. But if we accept it for the sake of the argument - who's better to deal with USDS staffers?
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(i) These are the people who stayed behind.
(ii) One can argue that Mongols shaped Russian national character.
(iii) Chinese absorbed Mongols in 2 generations.
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Gee, whatever happened to that poll of Federal hacks, 25% of whom said they'd quit if Trump became president? It didn't quite work out that way, did it?
If the requirement to return home to select a new Khan wasn't followed, most of Central Europe would have ended up like Russia. Instead, Subutai and the horde about faced near Vienna to return to Karakorum.
re: assimilation
2003 found eight percent of men in 16 different Asian populations (0.5 percent of the global male population) shared nearly identical Y-chromosome sequences. Further DNA evidence traced their lineage to Mongolia about 1,000 years ago, which corresponds pretty closely with Genghis's reign.
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[ABC] Current and former U.S. diplomats reacted to President Trump's comments thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. embassy workers with dismay.
