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THE INTERVIEW: Milo Yiannopoulos and Alan Jones

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The New York Times bestseller has had his show cancelled by the owners of the Australian Technology Park over his controversial views on banning Muslim immigration and putting an end to feminism. Yiannopoulos joined 4BC’s Alan Jones in studio explaining why the Left fear him so much. “What frightens people the most is ideas that come from unexpected places. “With me it doesn’t work, I’m a gay jew with a black husband. There’s really nothing they can get me on. Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos is the self-proclaimed bastion of western civilization and he’s been banned from speaking in Sydney tonight. “They have to come armed with their best arguments, their ideas, reasoned fact and logic. “They’re struggling to do so, they’re struggling to beat me, they’re struggling to win which is why I now have such enormous audiences but why I do suffer from underhanded tactics like cancelling venues.” Yiannopoulos has been embraced by some with his old high scho...

Bali volcano: Jetstar and Qantas cancel flights as Mt Agung erupts again

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Trend News To Day in Google - International airlines including Jetstar and Qantas have cancelled flights to and from Bali after the second eruption of Mt Agung in a week, even though Indonesia's disaster management authorities say it's safe to fly to the island. The latest eruption is significantly stronger than last Tuesday's eruption, with a cloud of steam and pulverised rock driven at least 1,500 metres above the volcano's 3,000-metre peak. There have been no new evacuations in Bali and a 6 kilometre exclusion zone around the volcano has not been extended. PHOTO: Mount Agung has erupted for the second time this week. (Reuters: Johannes P Christo) Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar remained open on Saturday night but within two hours of the eruption, Jetstar cancelled or diverted four flights heading to Bali as well as five flights due to depart from the island. Qantas, Virgin and Dutch airline KLM soon followed Jetstar's lead in cancelling fli...

Holocaust survivor: I'm giving $1 million to help wounded American veterans, to express my thanks

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Trend News To Day in Google - At 83 years old, I am one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors – thanks to the American troops who rescued me in what seems like a lifetime ago. Since World War II, I’ve felt a deep connection to American troops for saving my life – a feeling that resurfaces every year on Veterans Day and throughout the holiday giving season. And so this year I’m saying “thank you” to the American soldiers of the 1940s by donating $1 million to organizations serving wounded American veterans today. My donation to the Wounded Warrior Project and the Services for Armed Forces program of the American Red Cross is my way of giving back, thanking previous generations of warriors for helping me. I hope this inspires others to give back as well. Even though more than 70 years have passed since my rescue, it’s not too late to give back. That’s a lesson I hope the next generation recognizes, because it’s all too easy to let procrastination give way to in...

Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves

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Trend News To Day in Google - WASHINGTON — Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely to be a target was the chief of security, Bill A. Miller. Republicans pilloried Hillary Clinton for what they claimed was her inadequate attention to security as secretary of state in the months before the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Congress even passed legislation mandating that the department’s top security official have unrestricted access to the secretary of state. But in his first nine months in office, Mr. Tillerson turned down repeated and sometimes urgent requests from the department’s security staff to brief him, according to several former top officials in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Finally, Mr. Miller, the acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security, was forced to cite the law’s re...

Conservative dilemma in Bennelong

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Trend News To Day in Google - IN socially conservative Bennelong, where the No vote in the same-sex marriage survey was 25 percent higher than the Australian average, it is a Generation Y unknown who could determine the fate of the Turnbull government. With Labor’s Kristina Keneally and former sitting Liberal John Alexander both enthusiastic Yes voters, that left an opening for Senator Cory Bernardi to test his fledgling Australian Conservatives party, whose branch meetings in Putney have been stuffed with disaffected Liberals. Joram Richa, a charming 25-year-old Maronite Catholic from Hunters Hill, who just finished his final law exams last Saturday, will be Bernardi’s first candidate to face the public, in the Bennelong by-election on December 19. An athlete and academic whiz kid, Joram is part of a new breed of motivated young conservatives who have been galvanised by the bullying and intimidation they experienced during the same sex marriage campaign. “It was a ch...

No, Cards Against Humanity can't delay Trump's border wall

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Trend News To Day in Google - By now you've played a rousing game of Cards Against Humanity after Thanksgiving dinner or at least heard that the game makers want to buy land to block the construction of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. More: USA Today's investigation into "The Wall" The raunchy game, where people fill in the blank or complete sentences with terrible — but funny — things, pulls a holiday marketing stunt every year. Last year, Cards Against Humanity raised money to dig a hole. Before that, they mailed people boxes filled with actual bullshit. This year, they asked for $15 from customers to buy a large plot of land along the U.S./Mexico border for their "Cards Against Humanity Saves America" campaign. The promotion already sold out. “Cards Against Humanity” just became a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump with its latest Christmas promotion. (Photo: Deseret News) A m...

Museum Store Sunday fills shopping gap no one knew they had

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The Penn Museum in Philadelphia has options for everyone on your gift list. (Photo: Penn Museum) Trend News To Day in Google - As shoppers dash through this holiday season and the rush of "days" — Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday — another day has cropped up to tap consumers' wallets. Museums and other cultural institutions are stepping up to offer shoppers unique options this week with Museum Store Sunday. The day was created in conjunction with the Museum Store Association to educate the public about the role museum stores play in funding these cultural institutions and to offer a new option for gift giving. The day’s motto is “Be a Patron,” which urges museum-goers to shop in support of museums and their missions.  So far, more than 600 museums from three continents, 10 countries, and all 50 states and D.C. are slated to be part of Museum Store Sunday. They will offer special events, promotions and other experie...