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'I thought she was white': Roseanne apologizes for racially-charged tweet that led to her show being canceled

RT
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:33 UTC

Actress Roseanne Barr has a perfectly reasonable explanation for the recent racist comments she made on Twitter about Valerie Jarrett, an adviser to former President Barack Obama: she didn't know Jarrett was black.

Barr made an emotional apology on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's podcast for a tweet in which she said Jarrett looked like what would happen if the "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby." The tweet resulted in the cancellation of her recently rebooted ABC sitcom. Barr said she was sorry about the tweet but said she believes it was misinterpreted because she didn't mean what people thought she meant.

"That's what's so painful," Barr said. "But I have to face that this hurt people-and when you hurt people, even unwittingly, there's no excuse, so I don't want to blabber off on excuses."

Comment: Previously:

French police detain 10 suspected far-right radicals over plot to attack Muslims

RT
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:30 UTC

French counter-terrorism forces have detained a group of suspected far-right radicals who were plotting an attack on "people of Muslim faith." Firearms as well as homemade explosives were found during the raid.

Ten people suspected of having links to a far-right movement have been detained in a large-scale security operation late on Sunday, June 24, the French media reported on Monday. The arrests were made by the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) as part of a counter-terrorism investigation into a planned attack on Muslims.

The raids were conducted in the Paris region, the western regions of Haute-Vienne and Charente-Maritime as well as on the island of Corsica. The suspects, aged between 32 and 69, had an "ill-defined plan to commit a violent act targeting people of the Muslim faith," a source close to the investigation told AFP.

Disintegrating society: Florida driver kills man in random but 'purposeful' hit-and-run attack

JaJuan M. Morris-Guity
Fox News
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:10 UTC

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Mikese Morse is in custody after striking a family who were riding their bikes in the Tampa area Sunday, police say

A Florida man who fatally struck a father and injured his two sons in what police are calling a "random" but "purposely done" hit-and-run attack is in custody Monday as investigators are trying to piece together a motive for the disturbing incident.

Police announced that Mikese Morse, a 30-year-old from Tampa, is now facing first-degree and attempted murder charges after striking the family - who were riding bicycles along a trail in the northern part of the city - with his car Sunday afternoon.

"This is definitely random and it was purposely done," Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said Monday. "We don't know why. He had no contact with the family."

The 30-year-old is an American track and field athlete who repeatedly qualified for the United States Olympic Trials, according to the Associated Press.

Israeli justice? Court dismisses confession of illegal settler charged with burning Palestinian family to death

Celine Hagbard
International Middle East Media Center
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:53 UTC

Ahmad Dawabsha israel settlers burn family

Ahmad Dawabsha, the only survivor of the attack that burned his family to death

Survivors from the Dawabsha family, who were burned to death in their bed by right-wing Israeli settlers in 2015, have vowed to take a case to the International Court, after an Israeli court decided to throw out the confessions of two of the perpetrators.

On July 31^st, 2015, extremist Israeli settlers infiltrated the village of Douma, south of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank, under cover of darkness, to firebomb the Dawabshas' home, where the family of four were asleep in their beds.

The father Saad, 32, mother Reham, 27, and 18-month-old Ali were burned to death, while 4-year old Ahmad suffered from 3^rd degree burns over most of his body.

Scientist shot and killed in front of his two young daughters while camping - police have no motive or leads

Robert Gearty
Fox News
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:59 UTC

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Tristan Beaudette, 35, was fatally shot in front of his two young daughters while on a camping trip in Southern California

Two young girls, 2 and 4, witnessed in horror as their father was shot and killed while on a camping trip in Southern California, according to reports.

Tristan Beaudette, 35, of Irvine, Calif., was bleeding from a chest wound when deputies found him in a tent early Friday at a Malibu Creek State Park campsite. The girls were unharmed.

"Tristan was out doing something he adored in life being in the outdoors with his two young girls," a GoFundMe page for the Beaudette family says.

Open borders activists and celebrities initiate 24-day hunger strike to protest Trump's 'zero-tolerance' immigration policy

Breitbart
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:18 UTC

Child detention center Rio Grande Valley

Open borders activists and celebrities are going on a 24-day hunger strike to protest the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal immigration at the southern border.

The hunger strike, organized in part by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, kicked off on Saturday blocks away from a federal courthouse in McAllen, Texas, where illegal immigrants detained for unlawfully crossing the U.S. border are sent to be prosecuted.

"Today, we have a president who has a different idea of what it means to be an American," Kerry Kennedy, who runs the RFK center and is one of the strike's organizers, told USA Today after visiting the courthouse Friday.

Comment: It's difficult not to suspect that Trump derangement syndrome is the primary motive for these protests. How many of these bleeding hearts were protesting against the inhumane conditions and untimely deaths bestowed on innocent children and their families throughout the Middle East by previous administrations? Where were they when 'deporter in chief' Obama was 'taking care of' the immigration problem and caging children?

Bin Laden's former bodyguard detained in Germany months after revelation he was living there on social benefits

RT
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:37 UTC

German authorities are working to deport a man who allegedly worked as Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard and then lived in Germany on social benefits - almost two months after reports about the man hit the news.

Identified only as Sami A., the Tunisian man has been living in the western German town of Bochum. Police detained him on Monday, German media reported, citing local officials. The arrest took place after the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) lifted a ban on his deportation, a spokesman for the Bochum city authorities said.

The German authorities are now expected to deport the Tunisian man to his country of origin. The necessary documents are now being prepared by a local visa and registration department, according to the spokesman. The man has been placed under arrest.

The move has been backed by German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, who has recently taken a particularly tough stance on migration and asylum. "The BAMF has now initiated the deportation procedure against the former Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard. I have instructed the BAMF to treat his case as a high priority matter," the minister told the German Bild daily, adding that he would be "closely following" this case.

Entire police force detained in Mexican town where mayor candidate murdered

Yahoo News
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:19 UTC

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Ocampo mayoral candidate Fernando Angeles was shot dead while he was preparing for campaign events

The whole police force in a Mexican town of Ocampo where a mayoral candidate was slain this week has been detained for an internal investigation, authorities said Sunday.

"All of them are being interviewed to proceed as due under law in the event anyone has taken part in acts that violate the town's codes," said the security secretariat in Michoacan state, where the town of about 20,000 people is located.

It did not give the exact number of police detained.

Mayoral candidate Fernando Angeles was shot dead last Thursday when he was preparing for campaign events.

The police have been transferred to the internal affairs unit of the state security secretariat, which did not clarify in its statement if the arrest is related to Angeles' killing.

On Wednesday, Omar Gomez, an independent candidate for mayor of Aguililla, also in Michoacan, was shot to death.

On June 14, a candidate for mayor of Taretan, in the same state, was also killed.

Since the campaign season started in Mexico, which will conclude with elections on July 1, more than a hundred politicians and candidates, mostly local, have been murdered.

Jewish fanatics burn dozens of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank

imemc.org
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:07 UTC

A group of extremist Israeli colonizers burnt, on Friday evening, dozens of Dunams of Palestinian Olive orchards in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activity in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, said dozens of colonists attacked the village, and invaded olive orchards, before setting dozens of trees ablaze.

He added that the attack, committed by fanatics from the illegal Yitzhar colony, is not the first, as they have carried out numerous similar attacks, in addition to dozens of assaults against the residents and their property.

Israel's colonies in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem and around it, are illegal under International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention to which Israel is a signatory, and a constant violator.

Comment: This is a regular occurence. Just the day before, the following was reported:

A group of extremist illegal Israeli colonizers invaded, on Thursday at noon, Palestinian orchards near the junction between Burqa and Sielet ath-Thaher town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, injured one woman and burnt at least 30 olive trees.
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Two days ago, the colonizers fired many live rounds at the Palestinian in the same area, reportedly after a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a one of their cars.

Also Thursday, a Palestinian woman was injured after extremist colonizers attacked her with stones at the entrance to the village of Burqa, to the north of Nablus.

Why are 'settlers' like this? Aside from personality disorders, their religion doesn't help: The Saker interviews Michael A. Hoffman II

Saudi ban on women driving finally overturned

Anuj Chopra
Yahoo News
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:57 UTC

Saudi women celebrated taking the wheel for the first time in decades Sunday as the kingdom overturned the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

The much-trumpeted move is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plan to modernise the conservative petrostate -- but it has been dented by the jailing of female activists who long opposed the driving ban.

Women in Riyadh and other cities began zipping around streets bathed in amber light soon after the ban was lifted at midnight, with some blasting music from behind the wheel.

"I feel free like a bird," said talk show host and writer Samar Almogren as she cruised across the capital.

Television presenter Sabika al-Dosari called it "a historic moment for every Saudi woman" before driving a sedan across the border to the kingdom of Bahrain.

The lifting of the ban, long a glaring symbol of repression, is expected to be transformative for many women, freeing them from dependence on private chauffeurs or male relatives.

"This is a great achievement," billionaire Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said as his daughter Reem drove a family SUV, with his granddaughters applauding from the back seat.

"Now women have their freedom," he added in a video posted on Twitter.

Comment: Almost. Letting women drive is a start, but you've still got a long way to go in the whole 'freedom' department.

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Society's Child

'I thought she was white': Roseanne apologizes for racially-charged tweet that led to her show being canceled

French police detain 10 suspected far-right radicals over plot to attack Muslims

Disintegrating society: Florida driver kills man in random but 'purposeful' hit-and-run attack

Israeli justice? Court dismisses confession of illegal settler charged with burning Palestinian family to death

Scientist shot and killed in front of his two young daughters while camping - police have no motive or leads

Open borders activists and celebrities initiate 24-day hunger strike to protest Trump's 'zero-tolerance' immigration policy

Bin Laden's former bodyguard detained in Germany months after revelation he was living there on social benefits

Entire police force detained in Mexican town where mayor candidate murdered

Jewish fanatics burn dozens of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank

Saudi ban on women driving finally overturned

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