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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
George Clooney offers Angela Merkel support for handling Syrian refugee crisis
Sure... Clooney knows all about Muslim incursion. He's just as stupid as Merkle if not more so. Taking advice from him would be tantamount to having Kanye West as your personal financial consultant.
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George Clooney took a break from promoting his new film "Hail, Caesar!" in Berlin to talk about the Syrian refugee crisis with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Clooney supports Germany's open-door policy, led by Merkel, towards refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict, the Guardian reported. He told reporters at the Berlin film festival, "I absolutely agree with her."
Clooney and his human-rights lawyer wife, Amal, enjoyed a one-hour meeting with Merkel on Friday. They discussed the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and the political reaction to it in Europe and elsewhere, the Guardian said.
US actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Alamuddin speak with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin.
More than 4.5 million men, women and children have taken refuge outside Syria since the conflict broke out in 2011, according to Amnesty International. Most of those people are in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. In a move that has become increasingly controversial in Germany, Europe's most populous country took in 1.1 million refugees in 2015, many of from Syria.
Clooney didn't release any details about what he discussed with Merkel. David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary who is now head of the New York-based International Rescue Committee, accompanied the Clooneys to meet Merkel and told the BBC that the conversation covered possible solutions to the "global problem." Clooney also praised Merkel for "showing very strong leadership."
Really...ask the German people what they think of her "very strong leadership."
Clooney, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, has said he wants to do more to help the people of Syria though he doesn't want to get directly involved in politics. He has urged the United States to take in more refugees.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Disgraced Missouri professor seen yelling profanity at police in new video
A since-suspended University of Missouri professor is seen yelling profanities at police officers trying to clear activists blocking traffic in a video that surfaced late Sunday night of an October protest.
Assistant Professor of Communication Melissa Click was suspended from her position in late January after she was charged with misdemeanor assault following a different videotaped skirmish with a student journalist in November. The prosecutor has said he’ll drop the charge in a year if Click completes community service though her position at Missouri is still being reviewed.
The new video of Click tangling with police officers during an Oct. 10 Homecoming Parade could complicate the matter. The Missourian obtained the police body camera footage through an open records request.
“Her conduct and behavior are appalling, and I am not only disappointed, I am angry that a member of our faculty acted this way,” Interim Chancellor Hank Foley said in a statement emailed to The Missourian. “Her actions caught on camera last October are just another example of a pattern of misconduct by Dr. Click – most notably her assault on one of our students while seeking ‘muscle’ during a highly volatile situation on Carnahan Quadrangle in November.”
In the new video, Click can be seen in the same group as several student protesters who were blocking the Homecoming Parade route. As officers attempt to direct the group back onto the sidewalk, Click forces herself between a police officer and graduate student Jonathan Butler, who is also a prominent campus activist. Click tells the officers to “get your hands off the children” and then uses a profanity against an officer who grabs her shoulder as he tries to direct her back onto the sidewalk.
“We must have high expectations of members of our community, and I will address these new revelations with the Board of Curators as they work to complete their own review of the matter,” Foley said in the statement.
Click first gained notoriety after a video surfaced of her during a Nov. 9 demonstration by student activists who took issue with perceived racial bias at the university. A YouTube video shows Click confronting videographer Mark Schierbecker, apparently trying to block him from shooting video on the public quad. When Schierbecker asks to speak to Click, she tells him to leave.
“No, you need to get out,” she says, pointing away and then apparently grabbing Schierbecker’s camera. “You need to get out. You need to get out.”
When Schierbecker refuses to leave, Click yells to a nearby group: “Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.”
In an interview with The Missourian on Friday – before the new video became public – Click admitted the November incident was a “mistake” but hoped to still keep her job.
“My mistake is just one part of who I am,” she said. “I want to stay at MU. I deserve to be heard and I deserve to be treated fairly, and I’m going to fight to be treated fairly. I think it’s everybody’s right to be treated fairly.”
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How would you like to be a parent paying thousands in tuition so your kid can be"educated" by this bitch? What does she have to do to get fired?
Monday, February 15, 2016
Michael Moore documentary bombs at the box office
Michael Moore's latest documentary, Where to Invade Next, has failed to live up to its bombastic title, pulling in the worst per-cinema opening weekend takings of the filmmaker's career.
On average the documentary made $3,030 in each of its 308 cinemas after opening on Friday - even less than the $3,810 per-cinema average of his sole panned feature film, Canadian Bacon, which has an average score of 14% on review site Rotten Tomatoes.
This may be a blow for Moore, whose films tend to open in a small number of cinemas before expanding to many more, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Career low: Where to Invade Next, the latest documentary by Michael Moore (pictured), has made less per cinema in its opening weekend than any of his other films, pulling in $3,030 per cinema
Invasion: In the documentary, Moore travels to Europe to find out how other countries deal with some of the problems that affect the USA
Moore's last film, 2009's Capitalism: A Love Story, made $231,964 when it opened in just four theaters - an average of $57,991 per cinema. It then expanded to 962 theaters and pulled in a total of $4.4million, with an average of $4,263 per location.
In some ways, the results may seem positive: Where to Invade Next gave the filmmaker his second-biggest opener since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, with a total opening weekend gross of $933,240. Fahrenheit 9/11 made $23.9million.
However, the fact that Where to Invade Next was shown in 308 theaters gave The Hollywood Reporter pause for thought.
'It's the per-theater average, and not the opening gross, that is the true gauge of success for Moore,' wrote Hollywood Reporter senior writer Pamela McClintock, 'since all of his films, save for Fahrenheit 9/11, have opened in a limited number of locations before expanding.'
Those limited opening weekends include 33 cinemas for 1998's The Big One (with an average of $4,452 per cinema), eight for 2002's Bowling for Columbine ($26,143 per cinema), and just one for 2007's Sicko ($68,969).
Sicko: Moore had to cancel a promotional tour around all 50 states when he was hospitalized with pneumonia. This may have contributed to the film's relatively poor performance.
Thought Sicko was an autobiography.
Where to Invade Next sees Moore traveling to Europe to find out how European countries deal with issues that affect the US and has been largely positively received by critics, being 'Certified Fresh' with a score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
However, it has suffered pre-release difficulties. Its initial release date of December 23 was pushed back to January 15 and then February 12.
And Moore's plan to promote the film in all 50 states of the USA, as well as on TV shows Conan and Real Time With Bill Maher, were canceled when he was hospitalized with pneumonia.
It is projected to make a total of $1 million for the opening weekend, giving an average of $3,256 per location.
To put things in perspective. Star Wars: The Force Awakens did $248 million in its opening weekend.
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