Mischa Barton Claims She Was Given Date Rape Drug Which Led To Incoherent Rant And Hospitalization

This is scary if it's true!

Mischa Barton landed in the hospital last Thursday after suffering what many thought was a mental breakdown, but according to the actress, her erratic behavior was caused by a date rape drug that was slipped into her drink as she celebrated her birthday.

“On the evening of the 25th, I went out with a group of friends to celebrate my birthday. While having drinks, I realized that something was not right as my behavior was becoming erratic and continued to intensify over the next several hours,” she told People.

"I voluntarily went to get professional help, and I was informed by their staff that I had been given GHB. After an overnight stay, I am home and doing well. I would like to extend a big thanks of gratitude to the professionals at Cedars-Sinai for their great care and professionalism. This is a lesson to all young women out there, be aware of your surroundings," she added.

Whatever it was, it made her act totally nuts! We're happy she's on the mend.

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Tinubu criticises Buhari’s economic policies, says he won’t ignore ‘the truth’ By Wale Odunsi

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged the Federal Government to get Nigeria out of recession by urgently reviewing its monetary policies.
Tinubu spoke on Wednesday as a guest lecturer at the National Defence College Course 25, titled, “Strategic Leadership: My Political Experiences.”

He argued that Nigeria’s current inflation rate of 18 per cent was unbearable and that Nigerians were suffering for it.
He said, “In the situation we face, deficit spending is essential to bolster aggregate demand and direct funds to projects that build infrastructure and bolster employment. We must better harmonise monetary policy with fiscal policy. It undercuts our goals if monetary policy is unduly tight at a time when fiscal policy begets deficit spending.
“We must also realign trade policy with our need to create a meaningful industrial base and more potent agricultural sector. We can no longer allow cheap imports to preclude the development of industries and sectors strategic to our enduring economic future.
“What am I doing if I have a billion, and you are ready to give me 180 million, that is 18 per cent upfront, do I have to work or do anything again? These are the factors they have to look at quickly to ease the monetary policy.

“You have to stimulate this economy, you have to spend yourself out of this recession and you cannot do that by consistently stifling the banks of liquidity. It is their money; it is their saving. We have to criticise ourselves when it is necessary, speak truth to power.
“We are the power, we speak truth to ourselves. The monetary policy must be consistent with the environmental need of our domestic requirements, you cannot hold on too much or too tight to a policy.”
Tinubu added that the leadership of the APC was right to criticise the Federal Government, because “when it is necessary, speak truth to the power, we are the power, we will talk the truth to ourselves.”
“Our fiscal policy does not mesh with monetary policy. Trade policy undermines industrial policy, thus the ease of doing business is inhibited. Overseas peacekeeping missions do not always harmonise with core foreign policy interests. A nation in progress seeks to minimise, not harvest additional contradictions, otherwise its leadership strategy is doomed to fail.

“Strategic objectives during this period of economic uncertainty must be to re-engineer the economy bottom up, diversify the economic base, strengthen our industrial base, modernise infrastructure, enhance agriculture, and provide employment and of course, ease of doing business,” he added.

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Paris Jackson Tells Rolling Stone Her Father Michael Was Murdered

She had a lot to say in this sit-down!

Paris Jackson covers the newest issue of Rolling Stone, and the teenager didn't hold back on discussing her famous dad Michael, as well as her battles with depression and anxiety. Her biggest revelation? She thinks her pop star father was murdered!

MJ's only daughter believes that both Dr. Conrad Murray and concert promoter AEG Live are responsible for his death. "AEG Live does not treat their performers right. They drain them dry and work them to death," she explained.

Apparently, the legendary icon suspected someone was out to get him. "He would drop hints about people being out to get him. And at some point he was like, ‘They’re gonna kill me one day.' It sounds like a total conspiracy theory and it sounds like bulls---t, but all real fans and everybody in the family knows it. It was a setup. It was bulls---t," she vented.

The 17-year-old also touched on the "Man In The Mirror" crooner's child molestation accusations, and is adamant those couldn't be farther from the truth.

"[Michael] would cry to me at night. He did not bulls---t us. You try to give kids the best childhood possible. But you also have to prepare them for the shitty world. Picture your parent crying to you about the world hating him for something he didn’t do. And for me, he was the only thing that mattered. To see my entire world in pain, I started to hate the world because of what they were doing to him. I’m like, ‘How can people be so mean?’” she said.

Rumors have swirled for years that Paris and her brothers weren't actually Michael's biological children, but she says she doesn't even question her genetics.

"He is my father. He will always be my father. He never wasn’t, and he never will not be. People that knew him really well say they see him in me, that it’s almost scary. I consider myself black. [Dad] would look me in the eyes and he’d point his finger at me and he’d be like, ‘You’re black. Be proud of your roots.’ And I’d be like, ‘Ok, he’s my dad, why would he lie to me?’ So I just believe what he told me. ‘Cause, to my knowledge, he’s never lied to me,” she insisted.

After Jackson's passing, Paris attempted suicide multiple times and ultimately wound up in rehab to deal with her issues.

"I was doing a lot of things that 13-, 14-, 15-year-olds shouldn’t do. I tried to grow up too fast, and I wasn’t really that kind of a person. I’m a completely different person. I was crazy. I was actually crazy. I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help," she confessed, adding that she had been sexually assaulted at age 14. "I don’t wanna give too many details. But it was not a good experience, at all, and it was really hard for me, and, at the time, I didn’t tell anybody," she added.

This is a lot to cope with for someone so young. Poor girl! 

 

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Her Majesty attends tea and a talk by TV historian Lucy Worsley at Sandringham Women's Institute

Queen Elizabeth smiles as she makes her third public appearance of the new year (Photo: PA)

The Queen has spent the afternoon with members of Sandringham Women's Institute for tea and a talk by television presenter and historian Lucy Worsley.
After convalescing over the Christmas period with a heavy cold the Queen's third public appearance of the year was eagerly anticipated.
Each year the Queen visits WI members at West Newton village hall as part of her winter stay on her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
The monarch looked well as she stepped from the chauffeur-driven car and was greeted by Yvonne Browne, vice-president of the Sandringham branch.

The monarch spent the Christmas period convalescing after illness (Photo: PA)

Her Majesty with members of the Women's Institute near her estate at Sandringham (Photo: PA)

Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, had arrived earlier to give a talk to the members.
A few ardent royalists braved the cold to see the Queen arrive wearing a pink coat.

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The Queen's appearance was well received by royal watchers (Photo: PA)

Mary Relph said: "She looked lovely, she really did after her severe cold, I felt she looked lovely."

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Amal Clooney Pregnant With Twins!

She's got not one but two buns in the oven!

Amal Clooney is pregnant and expecting twins with husband George, In Touch reports. The couple reportedly turned to IVF after they had difficulty conceiving last summer.

The 38-year-old human right's lawyer first sparked pregnancy rumors in a floral dress at a screening of The White Helmets in London on January 9, when fans thought they spotted the beginnings of a baby bump. Those whispers only amplified at the Credit Suisse Women Of Impact dinner in Davos Switzerland on Tuesday, where she was photographed looking fuller in the midsection.

"Amal is pregnant with twins: a boy and a girl. When Amal and George found out it was twins, they were surprised, but also a little scared because they both had said that one was enough. But the news that it was both a girl and a boy made them really happy. They feel like they've hit the family jackpot," a source dished to the mag.

The former self-professed bachelor used to shutter at the thought of marriage and babies, but apparently he's totally changed his tune since meeting the British-Lebanese beauty.

"He's gone from never wanting to be a father to being totally excited about Amal's pregnancy and the thought of raising two children who will call him Dad. He's been doting on Amal's every need and doting on her belly. He's also having a blast coming up with baby names. George is going to be an incredible father. He's been a bachelor for so long that most people don't realize how great he is with kids," the source added.

These are going to be some gorgeous, smart children, that's for sure! 

 

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Khloe Kardashian shows off killer figure and curvy rear in tiny white leotard for new campaign-Zoe Shenton

The fitness fanatic is showing off the results of all her hard work in the gym

Khloe flaunts her fab frame (Photo: Splash News/Protein World)

Khloe Kardashian is looking better than ever - and she knows it.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashian reality star is the new face of Protein World and has stripped down to a slinky leotard to show off her impressive figure in a new series of glossy shots.
In one photo, the 32-year-old is flaunting her slim legs in a high rise white leotard which she's wearing underneath a baby blue cropped hooded sweatshirt.
Khloe teams the gym-ready look with white knee-length socks and of course a Protein World shake.
Another sexy shot sees her showing off her curvy thighs and rear as she sits against a mirror in the same skimpy leotard.
The blonde beauty looks a million dollars as she runs a hand through her hair.

Khloe Kardashian has teamed up with supplements brand Protein World (Photo: Splash News)

Khloe says she started going to the gym as a stress reliever following her split from Lamar Odom (Photo: Splash News)

Khloe has made no secret of the fact she's now a fitness fanatic, recently admitting she used the gym as a "stress reliever" when she was going through her divorce from Lamar Odom.
The 32-year-old - who filed for divorce from the retired basketball player in 2013, a process that was eventually completed last month - insists she never set out to lose weight, but was delighted that her transformation was able to inspire other people.

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Speaking about her new reality show Revenge Body - which sees the blonde beauty mentor men and women as they reinvent themselves both inside and out - Khloe said: "Revenge Body is inspired by my own personal journey, I was going through a difficult time going through my divorce and I started going to the gym as a place to clear my head and as a stress reliever, it was really the only place that I knew where to turn where no one would ask me a lot of questions.

"You have to remember to set realistic goals. Things that you will actually hit and start slowly," she says (Photo: Splash News)

Khloe Kardashian has teamed up with supplements brand Protein World (Photo: Splash News)

"As a by product I started losing all this weight, there were so many people via social media saying how I'd inspired them, from taking something negative and turning it into a positive."
And the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star - who is now in a relationship with basketball player Tristan Thompson - said she was "motivated" to keep working toward her weight loss goal after seeing "definition" in her muscles.

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She said: "I didn't seek out to lose 20 pounds in 20 days, that wasn't my goal. I was always, like I wasn't big boned, I just kind of [would say] I'm not meant to be a certain size, but once I started losing weight naturally I was like 'OK I'm going to get a trainer', then six months later I got a nutritionist so once I started taking my health more seriously I started seeing definition in my arms, muscles and that motivates you more to keep working out."

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In stark farewell, Obama warns of threat to U. S. democracy

 

 

 

Obama describes challenges, expresses optimism in farewell

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President Obama delivered his farewell address to the nation at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

By Juliet Eilperin and Greg Jaffe January 10 at 11:44 PM

CHICAGO — President Obama used his farewell speech here on Tuesday to outline the gathering threats to American democracy and press a more optimistic vision for a country that seems more politically divided than ever.

Obama said goodbye to the nation against the backdrop of one of the most corrosive elections in U.S. history and a deep sense that the poisonous political environment has pitted Americans against each other.
“America, we weaken those ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren’t even willing to enter public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are not just misguided, but malevolent,” Obama said. “We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others; when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.”
Obama fretted about anti-immigrant sentiment, racism and economic inequality.
“If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hard-working white middle class and an undeserving minority, then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves,” Obama warned in an not-so-subtle jab at his successor, President-elect Donald Trump.

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President Obama paid homage to the first lady, his daughters and Vice President Joe Biden during his farewell address in Chicago. "You have made the country proud," he said to his wife as he wiped away tears. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

Obama, the first African American president, acknowledged the continuing difficulty of race relations in America.
“After my election, there was talk of a post-racial America. Such a vision, however well-intended, was never realistic,” he said. “For race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society. Now, I’ve lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10, or 20, or 30 years ago — you can see it not just in statistics, but in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we’re not where we need to be.”
He took note of overseas threats including “violent fanatics who claim to speak for Islam” and “autocrats in foreign capitals who see free markets, open democracies, and civil society itself as a threat to their power.”
The president recalled his days as a community organizer in some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods. “This is where I learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved, get engaged, and come together to demand it,” he said of his adopted home town.
While most recent presidential farewell addresses have been delivered from the quiet of the Oval Office, Obama spoke before a crowd of 20,000 at McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America and the site of his 2012 campaign victory address.
In his victory speech, Obama promised a cheering crowd of supporters that “the best is yet to come.” On Tuesday the president, whose approval rating has surged even as his party’s fortunes have suffered, tried to lay out an optimistic vision to a deeply partisan crowd fearful of a Trump presidency.
“Yes, our progress has been uneven. The work of democracy has always been hard, contentious and sometimes bloody,” he said. “For every two steps forward, it often feels we take one step back. But the long sweep of America has been defined by forward motion, a constant widening of our founding creed to embrace all, and not just some.”

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"Each one of us needs to try to heed the advice of a great character in American fiction, Atticus Finch," said President Obama during his farewell speech on Jan. 10. "'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'" (The Washington Post)

But the last months of Obama’s presidency had tested his vision for the country in ways he probably never expected. First there was a violent summer of police shootings and protests that highlighted the country’s racial division.

A president who preached “Yes we can” on the campaign trail was asking a different question this summer after the killing of two men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana and by the murder of five police officers in Dallas. “Can we do this? Can we find the character as Americans to open our hearts to each other?” he asked. “I don’t know.”
Then there was the stunning victory of President-elect Trump, a candidate that Obama derided as unfit for the Oval Office.
The emotional crowd roared and pounded its feet on the bleachers in approval when Obama took the stage, and chanted “four more years” when a heckler threatened to interrupt him. Obama, meanwhile, veered from professions of optimism about the country’s future to stark warnings about the threats to American democracy if citizens did not demand more from their politicians.
He spoke repeatedly of the need for empathy, saying that Americans of color needed to tie “our own struggles for justice to the challenges that a lot of people in this country face,” including “the middle-aged white guy . . . who’s seen his world upended by economic, and cultural and technological change.”
He called on white Americans to acknowledge “that the effects of slavery and Jim Crow didn’t suddenly vanish in the ’60s.”
“We have to pay attention,” Obama implored the crowd, “and listen.”
The president was speaking to multiple audiences in Chicago. He sought to unite a country that has grown more cynical and divided over the course of his presidency by reminding Americans of all that they have in common.

He worked to rally his supporters, who failed to back Hillary Clinton, his chosen successor, in sufficient numbers. And he sought to make a case for historians that the last eight years had produced lasting, positive change that would not be undone by his successor.

To that end, Obama’s speech focused, in part, on recounting and celebrating his accomplishments for a crowd in the auditorium that included many of his most loyal staffers who had journeyed to Chicago.
The pageantry surrounding Tuesday’s speech — which presidential historian Douglas Brinkley described as “the most highly publicized farewell address in American history” — bore all the hallmarks of a White House that has meticulously cultivated the president’s image in the digital age. Hours before he arrived, television screens showed footage of comic outtakes from White House videos as well as stunning images from his visits to Stonehenge, Rome’s Colosseum and other sites. At other points, curated tweets from the event flickered across the screens.
The big crowd, full of White House staffers, celebrities and longtime supporters made the event feel like a cross between a campaign rally and a wake.
In touting his legacy on Tuesday, Obama spoke of bringing home the vast majority of the troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, the diplomatic agreement to shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons agreement and rallying the world around a major climate change agreement.
Domestically he highlighted the more than 20 million people who are now insured because of the Affordable Care Act, an economy that has generated 75 months of consecutive job growth and incomes that are finally rising after years of stagnation. He celebrated social and cultural changes, such as the expansion of same-sex marriage to all 50 states.
Trump’s victory has put some of that legacy — particularly Obama’s signature health care and global climate change pact — in doubt.
Obama’s references to expanded health care coverage, the legalization of same-sex marriage and tolerance for immigrants and minorities drew the loudest applause and cheers. But when he mentioned the prospect of Trump’s inaugural — “In 10 days, the world will witness a hallmark of our democracy” — a murmur of boos rippled through the audience.
Even as he touted his accomplishments and rallied his supporters, Obama pointed to the places where he said our politics was failing.
“But without some common baseline of facts; without a willingness to admit new information . . . then we’re going to keep talking past each other,” he said. “And isn’t that part of what so often makes politics dispiriting?”
He warned that denying climate change not only “betrays future generations, it betrays the essential spirit of this country.”
He called on Americans to be “anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy” and to break out of their ideological bubbles.
“If you’re tired of arguing with strangers on the Internet, try talking with one of them real life,” he said, to cheers, before urging them to run for office. “Show up. Dive in. Stay at it.”

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The unanswerable question was how long Obama’s call to action will last beyond his speech and the coming inauguration.
For Obama the goal was to deliver a speech that was larger than any single policy that could be reversed over repealed, said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as Obama’s first White House chief of staff and was in the audience on Tuesday. This was a speech that was “not about specific policies, but a specific sense of who we are,” Emanuel said.
“Yes We Can,” the president said, invoking the catchphrase of his first presidential bid.
“Yes We Did,” he added, as audience members stamped their feet on the bleachers in time to his words. “Yes We Can.”

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Kim Kardashian's Paris Driver Arrested In Connection With Robbery

Another break in the Kim Kardashian Paris robbery ... a driver for the car company the Kardashian family uses when they're in Paris, is one of the 17 people arrested in connection with the October theft.

According to French newspaper Le Monde, this particular chauffeur was the last person to drive Kim before the October 3rd incident. While Kim was ta the No Address apartment, her sister Kourtney and assistant were out clubbing. The driver knew of Kim's whereabouts and that she was alone, as her bodyguard had escorted Kourt that evening.

Five men entered KK's apartment that evenings and one taped her mouth shut -- it was on that tape that one of the assailant's DNA was recovered, which led to identifying one of the men involved in what was a larger jewelry heist ring. Three in the group are women and one is a 72-year-old man known as "Pierre B." Two of the suspects were taken into custody in Antwerp, Belgium.

Kim's French lawyer, meanwhile, chastises those our doubted his client and suggested the whole event was a PR stunt. Jean Veil said in a statement, his client is "very, very satisfied and to a certain extent reassured by the efficiency of the French police" and went on to say: "These arrests are a nice surprise because on the one hand, it will perhaps make it possible to find the jewelry ... On the other hand, it puts an end to the outrageous speculation by some, who thought it was intelligent to pretend that this robbery was staged, or a publicity stunt organised by Ms Kardashian."

The news comes only three days after we saw Kim say, in a trailer for the upcoming episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, "I thought they were going to shoot me in the back," as she addresses the event on her family's reality show.

Veil said to one news outlet, "The money she lost during this robbery is not the only issue. Even though my client was not injured, this assault was very brutal and traumatic. Imagine yourself alone, at night, in front of armed people."

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Check out Beautiful Photo Actres Ufuoma Ejenobor-Mcdermott With Her Kids & Husband

35yrs old Nollywood actress Ufuoma Ejenobor shared this lovely photo with her European hubby, Steven McDermott and their adorable kids for their new year portrait.

The couple got married in 2010 and their union his blessed with the two kids, Jared and Kes. Cute!