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'Hit me then, you f***head!' Two Woolworths shoppers trade blows and vile insults after one stood too close to the other while looking at a Christmas ham

Men filmed getting into a foul-mouthed argument in Woolworth's in Logan
Row seems to start after one stood too close to the other while shopping
Pair hurl insults as stunned shoppers look on, but no punches are thrown

Shopping trips can be stressful at the best of times - so spare a thought for the poor customers that got stuck in a supermarket with these brawling men.

Shocking footage, filmed inside Woolworth's in Logan, Queensland, shows two men squaring up to one-another after launching into expletive-laden tirades.

Two women try to separate them, but they continue hurling insults regardless.

Donald Trump is doubling down on China

US president-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on China.

He tweeted today: "Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into.. their country (the U.S. doesn't tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don't think so!"

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This comes after Trump spoke with the president of Taiwan by phone on Friday, the first call between the leaders of both countries since 1979.

The 10-minute call has infuriated Beijing, with its foreign ministry lodging a diplomatic complaint against Trump, urging the US "to cautiously" and "properly" handle Taiwan issues to avoid "unnecessary disturbance" China-US relationship.

The US broke formal ties with Taiwan in 1979, taking on a One-China position — switching diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China — as it looked to establish diplomatic channels with Beijing. Tsai is openly against the One-China principle.

While many expected the threats Trump made against China during the election campaign - including starting a trade war with the world's second largest economy, imposing a 45% tariff on Chinese imports, and calling them a currency manipulator on his first day in office - would soften after his victory, his tweets suggest he's still planning a confrontational course, which has sent jitters through global markets.

Although Italy is being cited as the main factor behind market declines, the Trump comments China are no doubt contributing to investor caution in Asia.

Comment: Trump’s Taiwan call wasn’t a blunder. It was brilliant.
The Washington Post

Relax.
Breathe.

Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan wasn’t a blunder by an inexperienced president-elect unschooled in the niceties of cross-straits diplomacy.

It was a deliberate move — and a brilliant one at that.

The phone call with President Tsai Ing-wen was reportedly carefully planned, and Trump was fully briefed before the call, according to The Post. It’s not that Trump was unfamiliar with the “Three Communiques” or unaware of the fiction that there is “One China.” Trump knew precisely what he was doing in taking the call. He was serving notice on Beijing that it is dealing with a different kind of president — an outsider who will not be encumbered by the same Lilliputian diplomatic threads that tied down previous administrations. The message, as John Bolton correctly put it, was that “the president of the United States [will] talk to whomever he wants if he thinks it’s in the interest of the United States, and nobody in Beijing gets to dictate who we talk to.”

Amen to that.

And if that message was lost on Beijing, Trump underscored it on Sunday, tweeting: “Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the U.S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!” He does not need Beijing’s permission to speak to anyone. No more kowtowing in a Trump administration.

Trump promised during the campaign that he would take a tougher stand with China, and supporting Taiwan has always been part of his get-tough approach to Beijing. As far back as 2011, Trump tweeted: “Why is @BarackObama delaying the sale of F-16 aircraft to Taiwan? Wrong message to send to China. #TimeToGetTough.” Indeed, the very idea that Trump could not speak to Taiwan’s president because it would anger Beijing is precisely the kind of weak-kneed subservience that Trump promised to eliminate as president.

Trump’s call with the Taiwanese president sent a message not only to Beijing, but also to the striped-pants foreign-policy establishment in Washington. It is telling how so many in that establishment immediately assumed Trump had committed an unintended gaffe. “Bottomless pig-ignorance” is how one liberal foreign-policy commentator described Trump’s decision to speak with Tsai. Trump just shocked the world by winning the presidential election, yet they still underestimate him. The irony is that the hyperventilation in Washington has far outpaced the measured response from Beijing. When American foreign-policy elites are more upset than China, perhaps it’s time for some introspection.

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The hypocrisy is rank. When President Obama broke with decades of U.S. policy and extended diplomatic recognition to a murderous dictatorship in Cuba, the foreign-policy establishment swooned. Democrats on Capitol Hill praised Obama for taking action that was “long overdue.” Former President Jimmy Carter raved about how Obama had “shown such wisdom,” while the New York Times gushed that Obama was acting “courageously” and “ushering in a transformational era for millions of Cubans who have suffered as a result of more than 50 years of hostility between the two nations.”

But when Trump broke with decades of U.S. diplomatic practice and had a phone call with the democratically elected leader of Taiwan, he was declared a buffoon. Well, if they didn’t like that phone call, his critics may hate what could come next even more. Trump now has an opportunity to do with Taiwan what Obama did with Cuba — normalize relations.

There are a number of steps the Trump administration can take to strengthen our military, economic and diplomatic ties with Taiwan. My American Enterprise Institute colleague Derek Scissors has suggested that Trump could negotiate a new free-trade agreement with Taiwan. “Taiwan’s tiny population means there is no jobs threat,” Scissors says, but Taiwan is also the United States’ ninth-largest trading partner. A free-trade agreement would be economically beneficial to both sides and would send a message to friend and foe alike in Asia that, despite Trump’s planned withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the United States is not withdrawing from the region.

On the military front, Trump could begin sending general officers to Taipei once again to coordinate with their Taiwanese counterparts and hold joint military exercises. On the diplomatic front, Bolton says the new administration could start “receiving Taiwanese diplomats officially at the State Department; upgrading the status of U.S. representation in Taipei from a private ‘institute’ to an official diplomatic mission; inviting Taiwan’s president to travel officially to America; allowing the most senior U.S. officials to visit Taiwan to transact government business; and ultimately restoring full diplomatic recognition.”

Beijing would be wise not to overreact to any overtures Trump makes to Taiwan. When China tested President George W. Bush in his first months in office by scrambling fighters and forcing a U.S. EP-3 aircraft to land on the Chinese island of Hainan, its actions backfired. After the incident, Bush approved a $30 billion arms package for Taiwan, announced that Taiwan would be treated as a major non-NATO ally and declared that the United States would do “whatever it took” to defend Taiwan. His actions not only strengthened U.S. ties with Taiwan but also set the stage for good relations with Beijing throughout his presidency.

China does not want to make the same mistake and overplay its hand with Trump. Trump’s call with Taiwan’s president was a smart, calculated move designed to send a clear message: The days of pushing the United States around are over.

That may horrify official Washington, but it’s the right message to send.

Orange County Choppers Bringing Back Their Show
By Boris November 29, 2016 9:40 AM

Fans of “American Choppers” got the news they were waiting for on Tuesday: The show is coming back!

In an email sent to their fans, Orange County Choppers announced that they are working on a new version of their reality series that ran for 10 seasons.

The announcement explains that fans have been clamoring for the Teutul family to return to television, so Paul Sr. and company have decided to launch a new show.

The email goes on to explain how the new show will be a little bit different than the old “American Choppers:”

The bikes we used to build on the show were BIG projects, but we never really covered all the little projects we do. The $8,000 to $30,000 bikes and cars etc that we work on… So, with this new show, we are going to show you who we REALLY are.

The email doesn’t share many more details, but does say that OCC is going to need their fans’ help to make this show “they way they want.” Whether that means asking for creative input from viewers or producing the show with some sort of crowdfunding is unclear.

In February Paul Sr. told us that he was working on a new show for A&E. That program was never picked up and it’s unknown if this new show will be an evolution of that or something completely new.

We have reached out to the Teutuls for more details on the new program and will share those with you soon. In the meantime you can keep up to date one the latest developments by visiting a website dedicated to the new show that just went live today.

This Behind the Scenes Featurette for THE MUMMY Reboot Is More Awesome Than the Trailer!

Yesterday the first trailer was released for Universal Pictures' reboot of The Mummy. It actually looked like it could be a really fun movie to watch. I described as being Mission: Impossible but with an evil supernatural Mummy. Today we have a cool behind the scenes featurette for the movie that I actually thought was more entertaining than the actual trailer. It's kind of done in the same style as those cool behind the scenes videos that Lucasfilm has released for their last couple of Star Wars films.

The featurette not only features interviews with the cast and crew talking about the production of the film and the story, but it also shows us some awesome behind the scenes footage giving us a glimpse at some other stuff that we will see in the movie including a lot of action sequences and a fight scene between Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe.

It also shows us that they actually shot that crazy airplane crashing sequence in the trailer in Zero G by using the Vomit Comet! Of course, it was Cruise that convinced director Alex Kurtzman to shoot the sequence that way.

Thought safely entombed in a tomb deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella of Star Trek Beyond) whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.
The movie also stars Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders), Jake Johnson (Jurassic World), Courtney B. Vance (American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson), and Russell Crowe (Gladiator).

The Mummy opens up in theaters June 9th, 2017.

Van Williams, TV's Green Hornet, Dies at 82

Van Williams (left) as The Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato on the ABC series
He also played the bachelor private eye Kenny Madison on 'Bourbon Street Beat' and 'Surfside 6' before quitting the business.
Van Williams, who portrayed the masked crime-fighter The Green Hornet in a memorable but short-lived companion TV series to Batman in the 1960s, has died. He was 82.

The actor, who earlier played bachelor private eye Kenny Madison on two Warner Bros. Television detective series, Bourbon Street Beat and Surfside 6, died Nov. 29 of kidney failure at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz., his wife of 57 years, Vicki, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had just one kidney since he was 25, she said.

In The Green Hornet, an adaptation of the radio serial that debuted in the 1930s, Williams starred as playboy editor/publisher Britt Reid, who inherited The Daily Sentinel newspaper from his father, who died in jail after being framed for a crime he did not commit. Reid donned a mask, fedora and long coat to battle the bad guys as the Hornet.

Famed martial-arts expert Bruce Lee, then unknown in the U.S., played Kato, Reid's manservant. He drove his boss around town in their ominous, gadget-packed Black Beauty car.

With Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, enjoying huge popularity in its first season, that show's 20th Century Fox-based executive producer, William Dozier, brought The Green Hornet to ABC, and it debuted on a Friday night in September 1966.

"When I was a kid I had actually been a fan of The Green Hornet when it was on the radio and in those serials at the theater, but I didn’t know if I wanted to star in a TV series like that," Williams told interviewer Michael Barnum. "It was very similar to Adam West’s show … and seemed like something that would probably be the kiss of death to my career. You do that type of show and become so identified with it, like Superman’s George Reeves was, and you can never get away from it. But, my agency, William Morris, really wanted me to do The Green Hornet, so that is what I did."

Williams and Lee also appeared on Batman in a "window" cameo and in a much-hyped two-part crossover episode during that show's second season. However, viewers' once-ravenous appetite for such comic-book fare faded quickly: The Green Hornet lasted just 26 episodes, leaving the air in March 1967, while Batman was done in March 1968 after its third season.

Williams pretty much retired from acting in 1982. He spent years as a reserve deputy with the Malibu station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and worked for its search and rescue team.

'Appalling' amateur porn video filmed at a suburban train station featuring female graffiti artist performing sex acts in public

Amateur porn film recorded at North Shore Railway Station, Norlane, in April
Railway bosses say they are 'appalled' after the footage emerged online
They are now trying to identify graffiti artist Staytrue, who features in the film
By Chris Pleasance For Daily Mail Australia

Authorities say they are 'appalled' and 'disgusted' after a train station in Victoria was used as the set for an amateur porn film.

The eight-minute film, called Trainline Tramp, was recorded at North Shore Railway Station, in Norlane, back in April but has just come to the attention of train bosses.

It features Melbourne graffiti artist Staytrue, known for creating murals while dressed in little more than a short skirt or lingerie.

V/Line spokesman Rob Curtain confirmed that authorities are aware of the video, but would not offer further comment.

He said bosses were 'appalled and disgusted' by the behaviour depicted.

Police and railway bosses say they are working together to try and identify those involved in making the film so they can be prosecuted.k

TIME Person of the Year for 2016 is President-elect Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump, the real estate businessman and political novice whose election campaign made the entire world take notice, has been selected as TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year.

The magazine revealed its choice Wednesday on TODAY.

"To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor," Trump told Matt Lauer in an interview after the reveal.

The President-elect did however take issue with the magazine's choice to refer to him as "President of the Divided States of America."

"I think putting 'divided' is snarky," Trump said. "I didn’t do anything to divide."

Every year, TIME editors select the person — or idea — who has most influenced the news and the world in the past year, for good or ill.

"So which is it this year: Better or worse? The challenge for Donald Trump is how profoundly the country disagrees about the answer," TIME managing editor Nancy Gibbs wrote in a magazine essay.

Trump beat out 10 other finalists, including his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. TIME declared Clinton their runner-up, and she was also the top pick among TODAY viewers.

BREAKING NEWS: Greg Lake of 1970s prog rock icons Emerson, Lake & Palmer dies from cancer aged 69
Lake passed away yesterday after a long 'stubborn' battle with cancer
News comes nine months after his bandmate Keith Emerson died
Lake was known as one of the founding fathers of progressive rock

Greg Lake of progressive rock icons Emerson, Lake and Palmer has died aged 69.

Lake passed away yesterday after a 'long and stubborn battle with cancer', announced his manager Stewart Young.

His death comes just nine months after the death of his bandmate, Keith Emerson.

Apparently the sunroof leaked on the X3. I sold it to a friend (for a steal) and in the big rains the rear of the car flooded and cooked the rear suspension control modules.

Now I feel bad...