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Kevin Jackson has been terminated as a Fox News contributor following a series of tweets in which he referred to Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers as “lying skanks” as the Kavanaugh hearing played out Thursday.

“Kevin Jackson has been terminated as a contributor. His comments on today’s hearings were reprehensible and do not reflect the values of FOX News,” said a Fox News spokesperson.

Jackson has been a contributor on Fox for several years, as well as a radio host on KJRadio and the author of the best-selling book “Race Pimping: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Business of Liberalism.”

“Feminists are their own worst enemies, and enemy of women,” Jackson wrote on Twitter Thursday morning. “TO HELL with the notion that women must be believed no matter what. Lying skanks is what these 2 women are, and we ALL know more,” he wrote.

Following a thread criticizing his rhetoric, Jackson elaborated on the remark: “It wasn’t challenged, because Leftist women are skanky for the most part. More will be sued and made to pay for their lies,” he wrote.

In a since deleted tweet from 11:02 Thursday morning during Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony, Jackson continued to criticize Ford, writing, “#ChristineBlaseyFord academic problems came from her PROMISCUITY! Dang girl, stop opening your legs and OPEN A BOOK!”

Here are some of Jackson’s other tweets written during the Kavanaugh hearing:

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Fresh off a best engineered album Grammy nomination for Head Over Heels, Chromeo delivered an opulent new video for their funky tune "Don't Sleep," featuring French Montana and Stefflon Don.

In the clip, a successful woman glides through her extravagant home with servants handing her fruit and fanning her face, while she ignores calls from the boys of Chromeo. "But you've been sleepin' on me/ Don't sleep, don't sleep on me," the chorus rings as the lady of the house slams the door on the duo's face.

"It’s lonely at the top," director Allie Avital explained. "‘Don’t Sleep’ is a 2018 satire for the age of dissatisfaction; the age of overstimulation and Tinder. Robin Givens plays a version of the ‘sad king,’ where the more pampered and entertained she is, the more disaffected she becomes. All the bulging biceps, sponge baths, and lap dances can’t cure her existential void.”

Watch below.

We’ve been writing about the emergence of Nattravnen since the first demo track surfaced in 2016, initially drawn to the music by nothing more than the names of the two participants in the project — Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath, Heads For the Dead, Ursinne, etc.), who performs all the instruments, and vocalist Kam Lee (ex-Massacre, ex-Bone Gnawer, ex-Death, The Grotesquery, etc.) — and then overpowered by the music itself.

We’re now little more than a week away from the release of Nattravnen’s debut album, Kult of the Raven, and this time the occasion for our feature is the premiere of the album’s penultimate track, “Kingdom Of The Nattravnen“.

Like all of the music from the album that has surfaced so far, this newest song is tremendously atmospheric but also explosively powerful. It changes constantly, but all the interlocking parts (which manifest elements of death metal, black metal, and doom) combine to create an increasingly chilling and disorienting experience, and one that will regularly send your pulse rate into overdrive.

The enormous, cruel, buzzing riffs and long funereal tones, combined with Kam Lee‘s abyssal growls and roars, give the music a tremendously dark and brooding mood, while bursts of sweeping, cinematic ambience, tendrils of eerie guitar melody, and ominous chanted vocals add a dimension that’s unearthly — a feeling of mystical grandeur that’s haunting and also blood-freezing.

And, as suggested earlier, the song is also stunningly explosive. The sheer fury of the drum blasting and the torrential chaos unleashed by all the other instruments and effects that Jonny Pettersson throws into these assaults (along with livid, shrieking vocals) are enough to take your breath away.

This is pitch-black music which manages to be nightmarish, vast, and cataclysmic at the same time. The other tracks are equally powerful, and we’ve included streams of others that have surfaced so far, along with our own premiere.

Kult of the Raven will be released on December 7th by Transcending Obscurity Records on all formats. The album features cover art by the great Juanjo Castellano, and the band logo was created by label owner Kunal Choksi.

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https://nattravnen.bandcamp.com

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Every healthy relationship is built on a foundation of trust, so if your partner isn’t really as regular as he claims to be, it’s best that you find out now and move on. If any of these signs sound familiar, there’s a good chance your boyfriend is guilty of being constipated behind your back.

1. He’d rather stay in and eat prunes than go out to eat

It’s easy to talk your way around this one and come up with excuses for why this is no big deal, but there’s no denying the obvious. If your boyfriend would rather stay in on the weekend eating bowls full of prunes than take you out somewhere special, it’s very likely because eating anything substantial makes him nauseous and he’s hoping prunes will get his system moving. This is textbook behavior for someone who’s hiding the fact that he’s constipated, and you should be wary.

2. He’s started following a lot of gastroenterologists on social media

Check his Instagram, Facebook, Twitter—check it all. If your boyfriend has been liking and commenting on dozens of intestinal doctors’ social media posts, then he’s almost certainly being constipated on the sly, and he’s practically begging to get caught. Ask yourself this: Would your boyfriend be so interested in gastroenterology if he were having regular bowel movements? Probably not. Time to dump his clogged-up ass.

3. He’s no longer interested in sex because he’s “exhausted from shitting throughout the day”

This is an all too common excuse from lying boyfriends who are constipated behind their partner’s back. By making it seem like he’s shitting with such regularity and vigor that he has no physical energy for anything else, he’s cleverly distracting you from the real cause of his lack of bedroom passion, which is that his struggles with stool production frequently leave him too uneasy and bloated for lovemaking. Don’t put up with his lies. Key the asshole’s car and move on with your life.

4. He has a lot of constipated friends

Birds of a feather... well, you know the saying. If your boyfriend is always hanging around with guys who hardly ever take a dump, odds are he’s constipated, too. If your guy’s friends are always going on about how rarely they have satisfying bowel movements while he sits there biting his lip nervously, there’s your sign. Guys who take big healthy dumps throughout the day don’t hang out with backed-up dudes, and don’t let your man convince you otherwise.

5. You’ve caught him asleep on the toilet

If you catch your boyfriend sleeping on the toilet, don’t listen to any of his bullshit excuses, because there is only one possible explanation: He was sitting on the toilet trying to void his bowels for so long that he eventually just dozed off. He is constipated, and you’ve caught him red-handed. So don’t lie to yourself, and whatever you do, don’t give him the benefit of doubt. It’s hard, but you need to accept that he’s a constipated son of a bitch, and you need to leave his sorry ass before he wastes any more of your time. You deserve someone who respects you and is willing to communicate openly and honestly with you about their shitting habits, and you shouldn’t settle for anything less. Find yourself someone who shits like a real man and don’t look back. You won’t regret it.

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There’s been no more fiery a topic in the global music business this month than Article 13.

This is the provision within the new European Copyright Directive which seeks to make user-upload services like YouTube legally liable for all copyright-infringing content on their platforms.

YouTube is claiming that Article 13 will essentially break its service. It says that, due to the liability caused by Article 13’s wording, it may have to blacklist videos like Latin smash hit Despacito in the future.

Music business lobbyists strongly disagree, suggesting that such cautions by YouTube are nothing more than additions to a “carpet-bombing propaganda” campaign designed to whip up unfounded worry about the legislation.

Who to believe? One simple way of deciding is to actually read Article 13. It runs to just 240 words in length and it’s not weighed down by particularly dense legalise. It will take you about 30 seconds to read it in full – and you can do so below.

Does it, as YouTube claims, open up the service to “unmitigated liability and such a large financial risk that we would be forced to block huge amounts of video”?

Or does it, as a group of music trade bodies countered yesterday, prove that “YouTube’s eleventh-hour campaign of fact-free fear-mongering should be seen for what it is: an attempt to derail the EU democratic legislative process”?

Make your own mind up.

The European Copyright Directive is likely to be passed into law before the close of 2018.

Article 13

Use of protected content by information society service providers storing and giving access to large amounts of works and other subject-matter uploaded by their users:

1. Information society service providers that store and provide to the public access to large amounts of works or other subject-matter uploaded by their users shall, in cooperation with rightholders, take measures to ensure the functioning of agreements concluded with rightholders for the use of their works or other subject-matter or to prevent the availability on their services of works or other subject-matter identified by rightholders through the cooperation with the service providers. Those measures, such as the use of effective content recognition technologies, shall be appropriate and proportionate. The service providers shall provide rightholders with adequate information on the functioning and the deployment of the measures, as well as, when relevant, adequate reporting on the recognition and use of the works and other subject-matter.
2. Member States shall ensure that the service providers referred to in paragraph 1 put in place complaints and redress mechanisms that are available to users in case of disputes over the application of the measures referred to in paragraph 1.
3. Member States shall facilitate, where appropriate, the cooperation between the information society service providers and rightholders through stakeholder dialogues to define best practices, such as appropriate and proportionate content recognition technologies, taking into account, among others, the nature of the services, the availability of the technologies and their effectiveness in light of technological developments.

That’s literally it. It’s taken from the European Copyright Directive which is available in full here.

YouTuber Christopher Bingham takes an interesting perspective on all of this: despite uploading content to YouTube for more than 12 years, he believes Article 13 isn’t a problem.

You can check out his thoughts on the topic, and YouTube’s reaction to Article 13, through here.Music Business Worldwide

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A white Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi said during a debate with her African-American Democratic opponent Tuesday night that she apologizes to people who were offended when she complimented a supporter by saying she would attend a “public hanging” if the supporter invited her.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s remark was caught on video that was released last week. It has brought widespread criticism both inside and outside Mississippi, a state with a history of racially motivated lynchings.

“For anyone that was offended by my comments, I certainly apologize. There was no ill will, no intent whatsoever in my statement,” Hyde-Smith said Tuesday during a televised debate with Democrat Mike Espy.

The apology was a new approach for Hyde-Smith, who repeatedly refused to answer questions about the hanging comment at a news conference Nov. 12, the day after the publisher of a liberal-leaning news site posted the video on Facebook and Twitter.

The clip shows Hyde-Smith praising a cattle rancher at a Nov. 2 campaign event in Tupelo by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” Shortly after the video’s release, she said in a statement that the expression was an “exaggerated expression of regard” and said it is “ridiculous” to read any negative connotation into it.

“There has never been anything, not one thing, in my background to ever indicate I had ill will toward anyone,” Hyde-Smith, a former state agriculture commissioner, said Tuesday night. “I’ve never been hurtful to anyone. I’ve always tried to help everyone. I also recognize that this comment was twisted and it was turned into a weapon to be used against me, a political weapon used for nothing but personal and political gain by my opponent. That’s the type of politics Mississippians are sick and tired of.”

Espy responded during the debate: “No one’s twisted your comments because your comments were live, you know, it came out of your mouth. I don’t know what’s in your heart but I know what came out of your mouth. It went viral in the first three minutes around the world. And so it’s caused our state harm. It’s given our state another black eye that we don’t need. It’s just rejuvenated those stereotypes that we don’t need anymore.”

Hyde-Smith is the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress. Espy is a former congressman and U.S. agriculture secretary, is seeking to become the state’s first African-American senator since Reconstruction.

During the debate, Hyde-Smith questioned a $750,000 lobbying contract Espy had in 2011 with the Cocoa and Coffee Board of the Ivory Coast. She noted that the country’s ex-president, Laurent Gbagbo, is being tried in the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, including, Hyde-Smith said, “murder, rape and unspeakable things against young girls.”

“I don’t know how many Mississippians can really relate to an income that can command a $750,000 check from one person for a lobbying job,” said Hyde-Smith, who is a cattle rancher.

Espy, who is an attorney, said: “I found out later that this guy, the president, was a really bad guy. I resigned the contract.”

Federal registration papers show Espy terminated the contract two weeks before its scheduled end.

Hours before Tuesday’s debate, President Donald Trump defended Hyde-Smith’s “public hanging” remark, saying at the White House that she loves the people of Mississippi and the U.S.

“It was just sort of said in jest,” Trump said. “She’s a tremendous woman and it’s a shame that she has to go through this.”

Walmart asked Hyde-Smith to return a $2,000 campaign contribution because of the hanging remark. Walmart spokeswoman LeMia Jenkins said Tuesday that the company donated to Hyde-Smith Nov. 8, three days before the release of the video with the “public hanging” remark.

“Sen. Hyde-Smith’s recent comments clearly do not reflect the values of our company and associates,” Jenkins said in a statement. “As a result, we are withdrawing our support and requesting a refund of all campaign donations.”

Hyde-Smith’s campaign did not respond to questions from The Associated Press about whether it would refund Walmart’s contribution.

Senate races rarely gain national attention in Mississippi, a deeply conservative state. But this matchup — the last major race of the 2018 midterms — has drawn scrutiny after Hyde-Smith’s remarks.

Trump is traveling to Mississippi for two Hyde-Smith rallies Monday on the eve of the election. Former Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed Espy.

Hyde-Smith was appointed to the Senate to temporarily succeed longtime Sen. Thad Cochran, who retired in April amid health concerns. She is the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress.

Hyde-Smith and Espy each received about 41 percent of the vote when four candidates were on the ballot Nov. 6. If she wins the Nov. 27 runoff, Hyde-Smith would give Republicans a 53-47 majority in the Senate.

Published 21 November 2018