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Fed up San Franciscan resident takes out full-page anonymous ad over homelessness crisis

Katie Canales
Business Insider
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:50 UTC
san francisco chronicle ad homeless
An anonymous resident of San Francisco placed a full-page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle Friday to draw attention to the city's homelessness crisis after an alleged experience with a scissors-wielding homeless man in a downtown cafe left her feeling "horrified."

The woman detailed her account in the ad, titled "Watch your backs - nobody else is." You can read the entire ad above.

"The San Francisco city fathers and those who should be held accountable for our public safety have for years let us down by catering to the lowest common denominator," the ad says. "We, the tax paying, responsible contributing members of society have had our quality of life as San Franciscans seriously compromised, dangerously so."

Comment: Things are getting pretty bad in San Francisco. Here's coverage of their new mayor giving an interview over their 'poo problem':
San Francisco's new mayor London Breed has lived in the city by the Bay for most of her life - and in all that time, she told a local NBC affiliate that she's never seen as much human feces piled on the sidewalks as she did during a recent stroll through the city.

"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I've ever seen growing up here," Breed told NBC in a recent interview. "That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs - we're talking about from humans."

Breed's findings are a part of a broader issue affecting San Francisco in which 7,499 homeless individuals live on the city's streets without access to public restrooms and other necessary resources. Due to a variety of factors, including a lack of affordable housing and shortcomings in the mental healthcare system, the homelessness crisis in the city has resulted in drug needles, human feces and garbage riddling the streets to a degree comparable to that in some of the world's dirtiest slums.

Just last week during Breed's tour of the city, a video captured by NBC Bay Area shows a man appearing to prepare a needle as the mayor walks past him.


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Bad Guys

Vietnam has fined and withdrawn licence of news site


AFP
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:30 UTC
Charred buses at Vietnamese police station
© AFP Photo/STR
Charred buses at a Vietnamese police station following violent protests in June: a report at the time has led to the temporary shutdown of a popular news website
A popular Vietnamese news website has been suspended and fined about $10,000 after it was accused of publishing false information, as the communist government quashes any perceived criticism.

The one-party state controls most media and has jailed activists and bloggers critical of the government, but revoking licences is rare.

The Ministry of Information and Communication said in an announcement Monday that the state-owned Tuoi Tre Online misquoted President Tran Dai Quang in an article in June that had him endorsing the idea of a law on demonstrations.

In a separate report last year on highway development, comments posted on the site had also contributed to undermining "national unity", the announcement said.
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Attention

What The Left's New Poster Child For Victimhood Is Really About - And It's Not Immigration

Daniel Solomon and D. Rodriguez
Sott.net
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:24 UTC
manufactured outrage
Ever since pictures surfaced of children being held at immigration detention centers, the mainstream media, social media, celebrities and world leaders have had harsh words and condemnation. To say Trump and his administration have experienced a firestorm of criticism may be an understatement. Actor Peter Fonda recently deleted his tweet where he said he wanted to 'rip Barron Trump from his mother' and put him in a 'cage with pedophiles'. Meanwhile, north of the border, a member of the Liberal party called Trump supporter's subhuman and said they should be rounded up and have their children taken away from them. British PM Theresa May said:
"On the very important issue that he's raised, of what we have seen in the United States, the pictures of children being held in what appear to be cages are deeply disturbing. This is wrong. This is not something we agree with. This is not the United Kingdom's approach."
Meanwhile, the UK has its fair share of deplorable conditions and treatments of immigrants and asylum seekers which sees people held for indefinite periods of time in what essentially amounts to prisons, before anything is done about it. And let's not forget that the UK also separates children. As for the rest of the world? Well, Canada is not exactly the most liberal when it comes to detaining families and/or separating children. Same goes for Australia and Germany. The blatant hypocrisy is even more apparent seeing as Western countries in particular are often the cause of refugee crises to begin with, fomenting destabilization and regime change across the Middle East and around the world.
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Four years after the death of Eric Garner and the only person in prison is the man who filmed it

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:04 UTC
eric garner death
Four years have now elapsed since New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo choked Eric Garner to death for the apparently egregious crime of selling loose cigarettes - but the only one related to the case who faced any punishment so far for what many believe to be a cold-blooded murder is the man who filmed it.

In October of 2016, Ramsey Orta - the man who filmed Pantaleo choke the life from Garner - was sentenced to four years in prison for drugs and gun charges that were conveniently brought against him after he became famous for taking the video that fateful day.

While Orta rots in prison, the officers responsible for the death of Garner remain free.

Finally, however, this all may be about to change. On Monday, the New York Police Department announced that they've become impatient with the Justice Department's slow pace at its investigation into the death of the father of six. The NYPD announced that it would soon start disciplinary proceedings against the officers involved in the killing of Eric Garner as federal action is absent.

As the NY Times reports, the Police Department, acting one day before the fourth anniversary of Mr. Garner's death on Staten Island, said it would no longer hold off on disciplinary proceedings if the Justice Department had not announced by Aug. 31 whether it will file criminal charges.
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Gun rights Republican candidate says he's a 'good guy with a gun', claims he shot his mother in self-defense

John Bowden
The Hill
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:40 UTC
Bobby Wilson candidate
© Facebook: Bobby Wilson
A Republican candidate running for Arizona's state Senate, who supports gun rights, has drawn renewed scrutiny over his story of how he killed his mother in self-defense decades ago.

Bobby Wilson, who is running to represent a southern district in the state, appeared before a crowd at a gun control forum earlier this month to speak about gun rights, according to the Arizona Republic. He told the crowd about his own experience of shooting and killing an attacker in self-defense, and how that reaffirmed his belief in the importance of a "good guy with a gun."

"You can pass all the laws you want to in this world, and when you've got somebody out there that wants to harm somebody, they're going to do it if you don't stop them," Wilson told the crowd, according to the Republic. The Tucson event was put on by Moms Demand Action, a movement against gun violence in the U.S.

Comment: What kind of person describes himself in platitudes such as a 'good guy with a gun' when talking the time he shot and killed his mother?! A US politician, that's who.

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Whistle

North Carolina groups create a spotter system to alert illegal aliens if ICE agents are nearby

Joshua Paladino
Liberty Headlines
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:53 UTC
ICE officer
Groups in Alamance County, North Carolina have begun to host training programs to help illegal immigrants avoid being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, WFMY-TV in Greensboro reported.

"These are our neighbors, and we should do everything we can to support our neighbors, and love our neighbors, and show them that we care them and want them to stay here in this community," said Amy Belfer, who attended the meetings of the unspecified groups.

The groups have organized a spotter system to warn illegal immigrants about ICE agents.

Members argue the presence of ICE agents prevents illegal immigrants from living normal lives.

"We want people to go out, work, go to school, and perform their daily activities without fear," said Laura Garduño Garcia, who organized the meeting.

The groups created a hotline for illegal and legal resident spotters to call when they believe an ICE agent is around.
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Bullseye

University of Texas student forced to reflect on 'masculinity' as punishment for 'harassment'

Toni Airaksinen
Campus Reform
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:32 UTC
campus reform
A University of Texas-Austin student was forced to reflect on a film about toxic masculinity after a Title IX investigation found him guilty of harassment based on a non-criminal standard of evidence.

According to an internal letter obtained by Campus Reform, following an appeal of his sanctions, the student received a note from UT president Gregory Fenves stating that "nothing you allege, even if true, would change the ultimate outcome of this matter."

The student-who requested anonymity-graduated in Spring with a JD. During his time in law school, a female student filed six Title IX complaints against him over two years: three for harassment, two for stalking, and one for violation of a no-contact order.

Upon investigation, the student was found guilty of of violating the school's harassment policy. The student, however, claims that the determination was made "on very questionable grounds" using the Obama-era "preponderance of the evidence standard," rather than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" threshold used in criminal cases.

Comment: See also: War against men: University of Texas rolls out 'MasculinUT' program branding all men as potential violent rapists

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US' largest voting machine vendor reveals its software vulnerable to hacking

Breck Dumas
The Blaze
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:55 UTC
voterlist and Box
© Michael Williams/Getty Images
Vulnerable voter machine software?
The largest voting machine vendor in the nation has acknowledged using remote-access software on its election management systems in the past, calling into question the integrity of the elections for which the vulnerable systems were utilized.

What's that now?

Responding to a request from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Election Systems and Software admitted that the company "provided PCAnywhere remote connection software ... to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006."

Wyden told Motherboard - which first reported on and obtained the letter - that using remote-access software on election equipment "is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner."

Comment: Changing the vote is 'remotely' possible. Certainly US intel agencies and hacks-for-hire would have the means to utilize and manipulate this vulnerability. Trump said there was voter fraud. Let us count the ways.

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Briefcase

4 blue states sued Washington over GOP tax overhaul

David Klepper
WSAZ.com
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:00 UTC
Capitol/Money
© Pixabay/MGN
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland sued the federal government over the Republican-led tax overhaul Tuesday, alleging the new law championed by President Donald Trump unfairly singles out high-tax blue states.

The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, was dismissed as a long-shot political stunt by supporters of the new tax code, but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it is a practical act of self-defense against an adversarial federal government. The challenge alleges that lawmakers crafted the new tax code to target left-leaning states and interferes with their constitutionally granted taxing authority.

"This is their political attempt to hurt Democratic states," said Cuomo, a Democrat who is considered a possible White House contender in 2020. "It's totally repugnant."

The tax law passed by Congressional Republicans and signed into law last year by Trump caps a deduction for state and local taxes at $10,000. The deduction was especially popular in high-tax, Democratic states, where many homeowners will see big increases in their federal tax bill. New York estimates that taxpayers will pay $14 billion more in 2018.

Comment: The people will pay taxes no matter what. A lawsuit against the government will also be paid for by the people. It is unlikely Trump targeted blue states as such. He is looking at the numbers.

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Rainbow

Transgender activists and feminists clash over changes to the UK's Gender Recognition Act


RT
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:13 UTC
gender parade
© Neil Hall / Reuters
Proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) which would make transitioning from one gender to another easier have put feminist groups at odds with transgender rights organizations across Britain.

Current law requires a doctor's diagnosis of gender dysphoria and that the person has lived as their preferred gender for two years and has been assessed by a panel of medical experts. A person also has to pay around £140 before they can obtain a gender recognition certificate.

Trans rights campaigners want to make that process less difficult by introducing the concept of 'self-identification' which would essentially allow them to obtain the certificate just by self-identifying as one gender or another - without all the medical assessments and bureaucracy.


Comment: No diagnosis necessary: Theresa May vows to 'de-medicalize' process of gender reassignment


But some feminist groups are vehemently against the plan and say that a self-identification law could be abused and could even put women at risk if any person could enter a women-only space and claim to be a woman. They say they are interested in protecting women and girls, not denying rights to trans people. Some trans activists, however, say that the feminist groups are "transphobic" and perpetuating discriminatory rhetoric.
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