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Self-draining swamp? ABC News' Brian Ross resigns after false report on Mike Flynn

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart News
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:57 UTC
Brian Ross ABC News
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Brian Ross
Brian Ross, ABC's longtime investigative correspondent, is leaving the broadcaster after his erroneous report on former national security advisor Michael Flynn.

Ross was suspended for four weeks without pay in December 2017 after falsely reporting Donald Trump directed Flynn to make contact with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. The truth was that Trump made that order as President-elect, thus establishing international relations during his transition into the White House. Ross's executive producer Rhonda Schwartz is also leaving the network.

Comment: One presstitute down, so many to go.

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Red Flag

Greeks protest after a group of migrants sexually assault six young boys


Voice of Europe
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:54 UTC
Migrants in Greece
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Migrants in Greece
On June 20th, a group of children was playing football in a field next to the refugee camp of Chalkios when suddenly a group of migrants appeared and stopped the game.

Some of the migrants started touching the boys who resisted and screamed for help. Their screams were heard by residents living in nearby homes.

Neighbours rushed out to protect the boys. The appearance of the residents and the children's' strong resistance made the migrants escape through the nearby fields to the camp. Residents themselves are prohibited to approach this camp.

The locals called the police and some of the migrants were brought to the Chios police headquarters a few hours later. The children recognised them as the perpetrators and the prosecutor ordered an investigation into the case.
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Pocket Knife

German state of North-Rhine Westphalia wants to ban knives as stabbings rocket


Voice of Europe
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:53 UTC
knife
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North Rhine-Westphalia's (NRW) Minister of the Interior wants to ban knives 'as far as possible'. Herbert Reul, the state's Minister announced the measures after numerous stabbing incidents, Tag 24 reports.

"Wherever you can, you should ban the use of knives," Reul tells the Rheinische Post. "We already have more than ten incidents with knives every day in NRW."

A knife attack in Lünen, a bloody murder in Viersen, there are stabbing incidents throughout the state. They are also becoming a dangerous problem for the police in NRW.
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Passport

What country? Tucker Carlson says the Left knows if we abolish ICE, 'borders become irrelevant'

Jeff Poor
Breitbart News
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:43 UTC
Tucker Carlson
© Associated Press
Tucker Carlson
Friday on Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight, host Tucker Carlson offered his theory as to why the "abolish ICE" movement was picking up steam on the left.

According to Carlson, for some Democrats, it is seen as a political winner.

"Well, with shocking speed, it has become normal on the left to demand the abolition of ICE and the 20,000 agents that work there and enforce the immigration laws," he said.

"Just a few weeks ago it was only a few activists on the far left calling for this. And then this week on Tuesday, congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a Democratic primary against Joe Crowley in New York. She ran on abolishing ICE, and now in a flash, ambitious Democrats are scrambling aboard the bandwagon."
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Footprints

Veterans march in New Orleans to bring attention to high rates of suicide

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:33 UTC
vet protest
Veterans from all over the United States gathered in front of the New Orleans VA hospital Sunday morning for a march to raise awareness for the epidemic of veteran suicides currently gripping the nation.

It is no secret that the leading cause of death among active duty troops deployed to the Middle East is not combat or accidents, or IEDs - it's themselves. The Pentagon's own statistics show that this is a crisis but it is being ignored.

In 2016, the Pentagon examined the numbers, noting that a total of 55 US troops, in both hostile and non-hostile situations, lost their lives in foreign occupations. The number of soldiers who killed themselves was nearly 5 times that amount.

Not only are active duty soldiers tragically ending their own lives at an increasing rate, but once they finish their service, these numbers skyrocket. While the suicide rate for active duty members is certainly shocking, veterans kill themselves at a rate nearly 200 percent more.

The most recent data shows that a veteran kills himself or herself in the United States about every 65 minutes. That is 8,000 veterans a year.
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Heart - Black

Judge rules school can continue the use of electric shock to punish disabled students

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:16 UTC
shock treatment
Family Court Judge Katherine Field denied a motion to stop the use of electric shock on disabled students, a form of punishment that has been controversial for years after news of the practice first reached the public in 2013 when video surfaced of an 18-year-old student receiving dozens of shocks for refusing to take off his jacket.

"(The state) failed to demonstrate that there is now a professional consensus that the Level III aversive treatment used at JRC does not conform to the accepted standard of care for treating individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities," Judge Field wrote in her decision.

The facility in question is the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC), a special needs day and residential school in Canton, and it is the only school in the country that still uses electric shocks on its students. Records show that at least 58 students at the school have received shocks as of August 2017.

Despite the obvious ethical concerns with this practice, there is a cult-like support among the staff and even some parents for what they call "aversive treatment."

Comment: To normal people this is considered torture and abuse.

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People

Why Seattle admires Bill Gates and loathes Jeff Bezos

Sally Ho
Yahoo! News
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:59 UTC
Bill Gates
© Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates
The Seattle region is home to America's two richest men, but their local legacies to date represent two very different eras for the city.

While Amazon's Jeff Bezos is blamed by some for rising rents and clogged city streets, Bill Gates is largely admired for helping lead the computing revolution and donating billions through his philanthropy.

The Microsoft co-founder's legacy here includes opening the world's largest private charity across the street from the Space Needle, creating housing for homeless families and supporting charter schools.
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Passport

Insanity! African migrant will not be deported for serial rapes because he has a Swedish passport


Voice of Europe
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:04 UTC
migrant rapist

The perpetrator – Private picture
The 28-year-old African, repeat sex offender will not face deportation for a spate of sex crimes in Sweden. As the man received a Swedish passport, according to current law, cannot be sent back, Fria Tider reports.

The man, who moved from Kenya to Sweden in 1998 is a serial sex offender. In June 2014 he was sentenced to six years in prison by the court of appeal for two rapes.

One of the victims was a 92-year-old woman in Töreboda in Västergötland. The elderly woman was vaginally and anally raped by the migrant on Christmas Eve.
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Attention

Portland reporter assaulted by Abolish ICE protester for filming protest

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:52 UTC
portland protest
An Oregon-based reporter for KGU was physically assaulted by a Portland open-borders activist who was attempting to force her to stop covering the event.

The mob of protesters were upset that KGU reporter Maggie Vespa was filming a family that was going into an appointment at the ICE office. As Vespa noted on social media, faces can be blurred and not all footage is always used.

One protester, who was also caught on camera attacking another reporter for her appearance, screamed into a megaphone in the reporters face while attempting to block her from filming. As the verbal assault took place, another protester shoved her from behind.
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Books

Trump administration will reverse Obama's race-based college admission and student debt policies


RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:38 UTC
Betsy DeVos
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks with school children.
The White House is expected to reverse Obama-era policies that encouraged race considerations in college admissions, after Harvard was accused of discriminating against people of Asian decent.


Comment: Affirmative action is racist: DOJ investigating Harvard for discriminating against Asian-Americans


At the same time it emerged that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing roll back a number of Obama-era education regulations, including protections for students in debt to for-profit schools, and rules that required for-profit schools to equip students with minimal employment skills to qualify for federal aid. The Trump administration says it seeks to "level the playing field" in education by rescinding the guidelines.

The White House reportedly plans on arguing that the Obama-era guidlines on admissions, from 2011 and 2016, provide a deeply flawed interpretation of affirmative action which actually has created, not curbed, discrimination. The Department of Justice is currently probing how these policies have factored into admissions on college campuses, and administration lawyers are investigating a 2015 complaint alleging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian-Americans in its admissions practices. While the administration says that these measures are being taken in order to make college admissions more fair, few seem convinced.
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