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Protests as Brazilian court doubles ex-president Lula's jail term

RT
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:25 UTC

Brazilian prosecutors have doubled former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's jail sentence following his second corruption and money laundering case. His supporters took to the streets in protest across Brazil Thursday.

Lula, 73, who led Brazil between 2003 and 2010, was convicted on corruption charges in 2017 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He later had the conviction upheld in January 2018 for which he is currently serving a punitively extended 12-year sentence. Now, an additional 12 years and 11 months have been added to his sentence following this latest conviction.

There have been protests in support of and against Lula across Brazil since the corruption scandal broke. Supporters took to the streets again after his jail sentence was doubled on Wednesday.

Since the beginning of the initial case against him, Lula and his legal team have claimed it was an opposition tactic to prevent him from running against the now-President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro tweeted news of the second conviction without comment.

Pennsylvania college paper op-ed says white boys shouldn't be allowed to speak in class

Cassandra Fairbanks
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:14 UTC

The Dickinson College student newspaper has published an op-ed saying that white boys should not be allowed to share their opinions during class.

The incredibly racist article says "should white boys still be allowed to share their 'opinions'? Should we be forced to listen? In honor of Black History Month, I'm gonna go with a hell no."

Titled "Should White Boys Still Be Allowed to Talk?" by a student named Leda Fisher, who happens to be a "Goodwill Ambassador" at the school. The article claims that "American society tells men, but especially white men, that their opinions have merit and that their voice is valuable, but after four years of listening to white boys in college, I am not so convinced."

"In my time at Dickinson I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys talk. It feels incessant. From classes and lectures, to the news and politics, there is an endless line of white boys waiting to share their opinions on the state of feminism in America, whether the LGBTQ+ population finally has enough rights, the merits of capitalism, etc. The list of what white boys think they are qualified to talk about is endless," the article continues.

Comment: Nouveau racism strikes again. Fisher seems unable to distinguish between skin color and what's otherwise known as just being human, i.e., having opinions about anything.

Comment: See also: Nouveau racism: Righteous retribution or just plain insanity?

Nouveau racism: Righteous retribution or just plain insanity?

Deraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:04 UTC

We know that nouveau racism has been on the rise in America, even though no one calls it by this name.

What is it? Nouveau racism is racism. However, it is that racism which is embraced by "minority" groups, like African-Americans, Latin-Americans, feminists, and any group that is not the target group of their invective: the European-originated, white, Christian male.

Tucker Carlson gives a solid introduction to this topic in his own words in his reflection about one of America's leaders in the crusade of identity politics, Stacey Y. Abrams.

Amazon founder Bezos: National Enquirer publisher tried to extort him

David Goldman
CNN
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:54 UTC

In an explosive tell-all blog post published Thursday, Jeff Bezos accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of trying to extort him.

The post by Bezos on the blogging platform Medium revealed what he said were the full text of emails his representatives got from executives at AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer.

Bezos, the billionaire founder and CEO of Amazon, alleged that AMI threatened to release compromising photos of him. His post included what he said were emails from AMI detailing what he described as "extortion and blackmail." Bezos, the world's richest person, is the single largest shareholder in Amazon, with 16% of the company's stock.

SOTU 'women in white': Representatives of the culture of death

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC

Donald Trump’s history of empowering women for success, both in his own employ and nationally, shows they only had one thing to protest.

The peanut gallery of the House Chamber was in disarray during President Trump's State of the Union address. The crowd of senators, representatives and their guests featured a bloc of Democrat women senators and congressional members dressed in white, with "ERA" (Equal Rights Amendment) buttons on many of their blouses. The Women in White were widely reported on in the mainstream press, such as Time Magazine, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Fortune, The Washington Post, and for the rest of the mainstream media the narrative was much the same.

That narrative was that the wearing of white was in commemoration of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to US citizens based on their sex.

As an anniversary celebration, this does make sense since the Amendment was added 100 years ago. But what does not make sense then, is why only Democrat women seem to have done this. The New York Times gushed in its puff piece about how so many women in white gave the women's message "critical mass", but became vague when not noting clearly if any of the 13 Republican women in the House wore white, and no reference to any lady Senators and what they wore.

Veterinarian who smuggled heroin in puppies sentenced to only 6 years in prison

David K. Li
NBC News
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:44 UTC

© Drug Enforcement Administration via AP
Puppies rescued from a farm in Colombia destined for use as drug mules to the United States by Andres Lopez Elorza in 2005.U.S.

A drug-running veterinarian, who used live puppies to smuggle heroin into the United States from Colombia, was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday.

Andres Lopez Elorez, 39, pled guilty in September 2018 to a single charge of conspiracy to import a controlled substance into the U.S.

"Every dog has its day and with today's sentence, Elorez has been held responsible for this reprehensible use of his veterinary skills to conceal heroin inside puppies as part of a scheme to import dangerous drugs into the United States," said Richard Donoghue, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Elorez was arrested by U.S. marshals in Spain in March 2015, and accused of stuffing pouches of liquid heroin into the bellies of puppies to smuggle drugs through the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

Analyzing Trump's claim that Americans are 'free from government coercion'

James Bovard
Mises Institute
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:00 UTC

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump received rapturous applause from Republicans for his declaration: "America was founded on liberty and independence - not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free." But this uplifting sentiment cannot survive even a brief glance at the federal statute book or the heavy-handed enforcement tactics by federal, state, and local bureaucracies across the nation.

In reality, the threat of government punishment permeates Americans' daily lives more than ever before:

The number of federal crimes has increased from 3 in 1789 to more than 4000 today. Congress has criminalized "transporting alligator grass across a state line; unauthorized use of the slogan 'Give a hoot, don't pollute'; and pretending to be a 4-H club member with intent to defraud," as the Buffalo Criminal Law Review noted.

Jewish settlers set up new 'mobile caravans' under heavy protection of IDF

Palestine Chronicle
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:00 UTC

Jewish settlers set up new mobile caravans, on Wednesday, on Palestinian-owned agricultural lands between the Yaabad town and Zabda village, south of the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin.

The mayor of Yaabad, Samer Abu Bakr, said in a statement that Jewish settlers set up caravans under the heavy protection of Israeli forces on agricultural lands, of which hundreds of dunams have been seized by Israeli authorities.

Comment: Also see: In the 'largest land grab since 1948' Israel will expel 36,000 Palestinians from Negev

No free lunch: Panera's socialist 'pay-what-you-want' restaurant fails as students & homeless mob the place

Daily Wire
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:00 UTC

According to Eater, after nine years of being in business, Panera Bread's socialist pay-what-you-want restaurant, Panera Cares, will officially be closing shop on February 15 due to the business model's unsustainability.

While Panera Cares billed itself as a "non-profit" restaurant designed to feed low-income people, the business model was anything but. Rather than create a charitable organization that distributes food to needy families or a discount outlet or even a $1 menu (like every other fast-food restaurant), Panera tried to create a socialist system in which meals were offered at a suggested donation price. That means some people would pay more while others would pay less based on what they felt like or could afford. By not simply offering food at a low price (hat-tip, Dollar Tree), Panera completely removed any incentive for patrons to meet even the lowest standards of consumer/retailer exchange. The result: some people paid their fair share while others enjoyed a "free lunch."

French border officials caught forging applications to send migrants back to Italy

Free West Media
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:03 UTC

Have some French border police officers (PAF) decided to assume the right to decide the fate of migrants wishing to apply for asylum in France? To shed light on the responsibilities of each one involved, a preliminary investigation was opened on Monday, February 4 by investigators in Nice.

France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur reported that the offenses were allegedly committed at the Franco-Italian border at Menton.

Jean-Michel Prêtre, prosecutor of Nice, announced the news during his monthly meeting with the press.

Last November Prêtre was approached by the League of Human Rights, the syndicate of French lawyers and three elected officials, including two ecologists. The matter was a document of twenty pages compiled by the group, which revealed three cases of forgery in writing by the police, done on purpose so as to return minors to Italy.

Comment: It seems France's border guards aren't inline with Macron's vision for relentless mass migration either:

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Society's Child

Protests as Brazilian court doubles ex-president Lula's jail term

Pennsylvania college paper op-ed says white boys shouldn't be allowed to speak in class

Nouveau racism: Righteous retribution or just plain insanity?

Amazon founder Bezos: National Enquirer publisher tried to extort him

SOTU 'women in white': Representatives of the culture of death

Veterinarian who smuggled heroin in puppies sentenced to only 6 years in prison

Analyzing Trump's claim that Americans are 'free from government coercion'

Jewish settlers set up new 'mobile caravans' under heavy protection of IDF

No free lunch: Panera's socialist 'pay-what-you-want' restaurant fails as students & homeless mob the place

French border officials caught forging applications to send migrants back to Italy

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