THE 19 YEAR OLD SYRIAN REFUGEE OF GERMANY LIVING HIS YOUTH WITH HIS FACEBOOK ACCOUNT HAS BECOME A WORLDWIDE IMAGE OF THOSE OF HATE AS ANAS MODAMANI SELFIE WITH THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL HAS LANDED FACEBOOK ON A LAWSUIT OF TERROR PROPORTION

Life might have turned out differently for Anas Modamani had it not been for the selfie he took. Then he wouldn't have had to hide out in the apartment of a friend in the town of Bitterfeld, Germany, after suddenly falling under suspicion of being a terrorist. But he also wouldn't have been put on the cover of Stern magazine's "Year in Review" issue or appeared on the popular talk show "Maybrit Illner."

But he did take the photo. A selfie with a woman he didn't immediately recognize at the time, but who he quickly realized was Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor and, back then, still a leader advocating on behalf of refugees.
Modamani, a 19-year-old Syrian, has been haunted by this photo, which he took during his first month in Germany as a refugee. Now he is even going to court to force Facebook, the world's most powerful social network, to stop circulating manipulated photos of the event. He claims his selfie, as well as a picture of the moment taken by a news-agency photographer, have been repeatedly abused for the purposes of incitement and defamation, especially on Facebook. "People need to stop," says Modamani.
Headlines Around the World
News of the lawsuit has made headlines around the world because the story combines a number of factors: a photo that gathered attention globally at the time it was taken; Merkel and the refugee crisis; Facebook and the issue of online hate; and the powerlessness of those who are defamed online. Reporters from Britain, Canada and Brazil are all currently trying to land interviews with Modamani, the Syrian in the Merkel selfie.

I met Modamani at his host family's apartment in eastern Berlin. Sitting at the kitchen table, he spent 90 minutes telling his story, in German. He stumbles here and there, but his German is perfectly understandable. Suddenly he pauses, pulls out his iPhone and says: "Should we take a selfie?"
Modamani likes taking photos and posting them on his Facebook page, where the 19-year-old doesn't worry too much about his privacy and where, at the time our interview took place, he had 2,789 friends. Far less normal is the fact that the photo of his Merkel selfie has been systematically and repeatedly used to defame him -- at times as a "terrorist" and at others as a "violent criminal."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/selfie-with-merkel-haunts-young-syrian-refugee-a-1130768.html

NORTH KOREA ICBM THREAT GROWS WITH ITS NEW SPECIFICATIONS OF THE SHORT RANGE 5000KM ICBM TO SUPPLEMENT ITS KN-08 12,000KM AND THE KN-14 9000KM

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MEANWHILE THE LEFT HOLLYWOOD ASHLEY JUDD COMES OUT IN PROTEST ON THE FIRST WEEK OF THE POTUS TRUMP PRESIDENCY WITH A VICIOUS POEM

As hundreds of thousands of Americans filled the streets of the nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington, actress Ashley Judd read a poem that compared Donald Trump to Hitler.

Judd was reciting a poem written by a 19-year-old from Tennessee when she read the line: 'I feel Hitler in these streets, a mustache traded for a toupee.'

The poem was a celebration of 'nasty women', as Trump so famously called Hillary Clinton during a debate before the presidential election.

'I am a nasty women,' Judd began as she read the poem. 'I'm not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto dust.' 

'I'm not as nasty as your own daughter being your favorite sex symbol, your wet dreams infused with your own genes,' she read later, clearly referencing Ivanka.  

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4142950/Thousands-women-head-Washington-protest-Trump.html#ixzz4WQ8h9A00

IVANKA TRUMP THE DEFACTO FIRST LADY OF THE POTUS TRUMP 45TH PRESIDENCY AS IT WOULD SEEM DUE TO HER RELENTLESS CAMPAIGN ROLL AND CLOSE TIES TO MOVE TO WASHINGTON

Thanks to the highly strategic role she played in her father's campaign, all eyes are on Ivanka Trump as Donald moves into the White House. Questions are even being asked about whether the First Daughter will become the de facto First lady - especially given Melania Trump plans to remain based in New York for the time being.
One indicator of how Ivanka's role might play out now that she and husband Jared Kushner are moving to Washington (he has an official advisor role in Trump's administration) is via the style choices she has made for the Inauguration ceremony and other celebrations over the past couple of days.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/does-ivanka-trump-oscar-de-la-renta-inauguration-wardrobe-tell/

INDIA'S NEW FOUND AIR TRAVEL AS THE PURCHASE OF 205 737 MAX FROM BOEING WORTH $22 BILLION IS ON TRACK FOR DELIVERY

Indian budget airline SpiceJet will buy up to 205 Boeing planes worth $22 billion -- one of the biggest deals in India's booming airline industry, the two companies announced Friday.

Boeing had reported an order for one hundred 737 MAX jets in 2016 from an unnamed buyer, confirmed Friday to be India's SpiceJet. The budget airline said the deal was for "up to" 205 planes, but 50 of those are from an earlier deal and 50 more are an add-on option to the initial 100.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2017/01/14/2017011400366.html