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JULIAN ASSANGE
The WikiLeaks founder has been a long term guest, three-and-a-half-years, at the Ecuadorian embassay in London and tomorrow a UN panel will publish their ruling whether his stay there is unlawful detention. If he loses the appeal, which isn’t legally binding, he will leave the embassy and accept arrest by British police. Assange is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape in 2010. WikiLeaks released “hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic and military cables in 2010” so he may be extradited to the US if he loses this appeal as well.
SNIPPETS
• Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University student and Italian national who went missing in Cairo on Jan. 25 has been found dead with torture marks and an investigation has begun. The Italian Foreign Ministry’s director general, Michele Valensise “urgently” summoned Egyptian Ambassador Amr Mostafa Kamal Helmy after Regeni’s body was found ….
• You down with TPP? Apparently all the homies including the United States, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, Brunei, Mexico, Chile and Peru, are. TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, is the worlds largest multinational trade pact and it was just signed in New Zealand…
• Have you heard about the ‘neo-masculinists’ legal/pro-rape group that had planned meetings all over the world including one by Loyola University here in Chicago?! After global backlash, the founder Daryush Valizadeh or “Roosh V,” is cancelling the “tribal meetings” but it might just be that they are being moved to secret locations…
• Yesterday many news outlets picked up commenst from Chicago based GGP’s CEO Sandeep Mathrani on his company’s earnings call with analysts saying that Amazon plans to open 300-400 physical bookstores but now he’s backtracking without specifically denying them, oops. Though Amazon is opening up bookstores maybe not just 300..
•Yesterday was college signing day where top high school prospects commit to top athletic programs
ENTERTAINMENT
Sumner Redstone is one of tinsel towns top dogs but lately his health has been failing and he’s embroiled in legal battle with his ex but yesterday he stepped down as chairman of CBS corp and Viacom Inc. and instead of daughter Shari taking the post at CBS, the board unanimously elected CBS Chief Executive Leslie “Les” Moonves and the board of Viacom will meet today to discuss sucession plans…Bill Cosby who is currently fighting multiple alleged sexual assault cases may have had a secret deal with a former Pennsylvania prosecutor Bruce Castor in 2005 in the sexual assault case of Andrea Constand…Matt LeBlanc has been tapped as the new co-host of BBC show Top Gear…A year after buying a stake in Starz, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. is now planning to acquire the pay-TV network company. Billionaire John Malone, who controls Starz’s voting shares, is interested in merging with Canadian-domiciled Lions Gate to lower the company’s taxes.
FASHION
Gucci will become the first fashion house to present a runway show, cruise 2017 collection, at Westminter Abbey the London church that has been the site of many royal occasions… Ermenegildo Zegna creative director Stefano Pilati is stepping down effective immediately. He was formerly creative director of Saint Laurent when it was known as Yves Saint Laurent. Where will he go next?
“There is no color line in death.” ― Langston Hughes
LOOK OF THE DAY
Hilary Duff
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