Michael Grimm caught on camera making threat to political reporter after interview following state of union address. ● New York congressman Michael Grimm has been filmed verbally threatening a news reporter after an interview following US president Barack Obama's state of the union address. After refusing to answer a question about an investigation into his 2010 campaign finances, the 43-year-old Republican is seen walking away, before returning to threaten the NY1 broadcaster's political reporter, Michael Scotto. Congressman Michael Grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his campaign finances," Scotto says to camera as Grimm leaves. Much of the conversation is inaudible in the recording, but according to a transcript from NY1, Grimm said: "Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I'll throw you off this fucking balcony." Scotto replies: "Why? I just wanted to ask you," before Grimm says, "No, no, you're not man enough, you're not man enough. I'll break you in half. Like a boy."

Little Content and a Lot of Recycled Rhetoric - A rambling, 80+ minute State of the Union Address tonight gave President Obama an opportunity to lay out his foreign policy positions, but 60 minutes into the talk he hadn’t touched the matter at all. ● When he finally did, what followed was a confusing muddle of claims of success and vague expressions of hope for things he’d like to accomplish without any specific plans attached. Bragging about ending the Iraq War, President Obama touted his plan to “end” the Afghan War, while openly talking about an open-ended deployment of US troops on the ground there engaged in “counter-terrorism” operations. A war “ended” and simultaneously endless. He then went on to talk about ending the “permanent war footing” the United States has been on since 9/11, but openly talked up increased increased military spending for “future missions” and intervention abroad.

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French police have launched a raid on the home of anti-Zionist comedian, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, as well as his offices, seizing his personal documents and other belongings. ● The French government accuses the controversial comedian of what it describes as promotion of anti-Semitism, and it is mounting pressure against him through judicial measures. The government has already banned M’bala M’bala’s public gatherings and the raids on Tuesday were sanctioned as, what the government claims, part of a broader investigation into suspected fraud by Dieudonné. He has been also convicted for a series of hate speeches, for which authorities are now seeking to compel Dieudonné to pay tens of thousands of euros in outstanding fines. They have accused him of suspected money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets.

InPublishing: Press Freedom Under Threat From “Soft” Censorship: Report ■ “Unlike jailings, closures and other direct attacks on press freedom, soft censorship is far more subtle and rarely generates the same level of international outrage as direct attacks on the press,” Mr Peyrègne explained. “The jailing of a journalist is guaranteed to draw attention. But a tax case? If a government uses tax laws, or withholds advertising, or carries out similar measures in response to criticism, it does not generate the same level of condemnation.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized the West for meddling in Ukraine's internal affairs, saying Moscow will not scrap its aid deal with Kiev even if the opposition comes to power. | “In response to your question whether we would review our loan and energy agreements if opposition comes to power, I say: No, we won’t,” Putin said in a joint press conference with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, following an EU-Russia summit at the EU Headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. [He also] criticized the trips of European and US officials to Ukraine to support anti-government protests.

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The EU needs to start protecting its own citizens from the American global spying initiatives and quit being “hypocritical” when it comes to reforming its own data protection system, said the EU’s Justice Commissioner. Viviane Reding, a vocal critic of American cyber surveillance, lashed out against EU member states’ reaction in wake of Edward Snowden revelations, urging the bloc to protect citizens’ private information and seek more legal assurances from Washington. “There's been a lot of hypocrisy in the debate,” Reding said at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels on Tuesday. “If the EU wants to be credible in its efforts to rebuild trust, if it wants to act as an example for other continents, it also has to get its own house in order.” “The EU itself should also look carefully at some of its [data protection] laws. Neither the Commission, the Council, nor the European Parliament can be proud of the Data Retention Directive.”

The head of GCHQ, the secret eavesdropping agency that has come under scrutiny following leaks by former US analyst Edward Snowden, is to stand down. ● Iain Lobban, 53, will leave the agency later this year after serving nearly six years as director, the Foreign Office said. It denied that his departure was related to revelations contained in Snowden's leaked documents that GCHQ was one of the main players in mass telecommunications surveillance.

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A snakebite victim who was treated at a North Carolina hospital came away with more than just fang marks when he received an $89,227 bill for an 18-hour stay. ● Eric Ferguson, 54, from Mooresville, N.C., got the staggering bill for anti-venom medicine and a short visit at Lake Norman Regional Center, according to the Charlotte Observer, after a snake bit him in the foot while he was taking out the garbage. According to his bill, the hospital charged a whopping $81,000 for a four-vial dose of the medication. For comparison, Ferguson and his wife found the same vials online for retail prices as low as $750.

Awareness of the dangers that Jewish Supremacism pose to the existence and freedom of people of all races and walks of life is slowly spreading—and is nowhere more in evidence than in the growing popularity of the French-Algerian comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, the man behind the ‘quenelle’ salute. A new article in the Independent newspaper about Dieudonné, which carries with it the usual snide attack style of the Jewish-Supremacist influenced media, serves to highlight the point. According to the article, written after a journalist attended a sold-out stand-up show by Dieudonné, “Howls of gleeful fury greet Dieudonné’s every reference to a French politician, or to his alleged ‘persecution’ by the French establishment” and “Louder howls and boos greet every reference to a Jew or to a Jewish organisation.” The article goes on to quote Dieudonné as playfully making his political points: “What the f*** are all you lot doing here?” he asks. “The media and the politicians and the thinkers have ordered you not to come. You must all be crazy anti-semites, assassins and wicked sorcerers. I almost didn’t turn up myself.”

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Stopping overpopulation is one way the dangers of climate change can be mitigated, according to two of the most prominent believers in global warming. Former Vice President Al Gore and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that contraception is a key in controlling the proliferation of unusual weather they say is endangering the world. "Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available … is crucial to the future shape of human civilization," said Gore.

Press freedom is Europe is facing a widespread and growing threat by “soft” censorship that includes governments’ use of financial power to pressure news media, punish critical reporting and reward favourable coverage, says WAN-IFRA. || While Europe’s press is not generally threatened by the jailing of journalists or the closure of media outlets, “soft” censorship is a more subtle but significant new danger, according to new reports released yesterday by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The reports demonstrate how the governments in two European countries – Serbia and Hungary – use their financial power to pressure media outlets, punish critical reporting and reward favourable coverage. Economic pressures are especially devastating in times of economic instability and lead to unbalanced reporting and to self-censorship among media professionals, and thus constitute a real threat to press freedom, the reports found. “Unlike jailings, closures and other direct attacks on press freedom, soft censorship is far more subtle and rarely generates the same level of international outrage as direct attacks on the press,” Mr Peyrègne explained. “The jailing of a journalist is guaranteed to draw attention. But a tax case? If a government uses tax laws, or withholds advertising, or carries out similar measures in response to criticism, it does not generate the same level of condemnation.”