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Brussels police to send out plainclothes patrols to counter street harassment

Adam Bouzi
Politico
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:03 UTC
belgian police
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Brussels police will deploy plainclothes officers across the city from Monday to combat street harassment against women.

Officers will patrol "hotspots" such as public transport stations in the Belgian capital, police spokesman Olivier Slosse told news agency Belga.

"The way women experience public space is one of the central points of our safety plan. Last year, we started training staff on what exactly street harassment is, but also on how to deal with victims of such acts, as well as how to draw up a report," Slosse said. "Now we are going one step further by going out into the field and actively looking for the perpetrators. The idea is to catch harassers in the act."

He added that while street harassment is common, "such incidents are rarely reported, and when they are reported, it is difficult to identify the culprit. Even if the perpetrator is identified, it is the victim's word against hers. Our presence in the field is therefore necessary in order to ascertain these facts."
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Project Veritas: Merrill Lynch whistleblower leaks phone call about Robinhood and Gamestop trade restriction

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:43 UTC
Gamestop robinhood merrill lynch trade stop
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Project Veritas has just gone public on Friday with a leaked phone call given to them by a whistleblower, in which a Merrill Lynch employee admits that the bank was on the "side of the institutional investors". The Robinhood App put restrictions in place on the same day.

At the beginning of the video, one can hear the voice asking:

"Now, tell me the truth. You guys know that this stock is going to go up and you want me to sell my shares to put some liquidity into the market, don't you?"

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Abbott announces Texas will deploy National Guard to combat the 'border crisis' escalating due to Biden administration

Emma Colton
Washington Examiner
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 20:11 UTC
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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas will deploy National Guard troops to combat the "crisis" along the southern border.

"Today Texas launched Operation Lone Star to respond to the border crisis," Abbott tweeted Saturday. "It deploys Nat'l Guard + DPS Officers + air, ground, marine, & tactical border security assets to deny Mexican Cartels & smugglers the ability to move drugs & people into Texas."

Operation Lone Star will "combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas," which Abbott said is an issue that has been exacerbated by the Biden administration.

"The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration," said Abbott. "Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis."
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Stark divide on race, policing emerges since George Floyd's death - Poll

Susan Page, Sarah Elbeshbishi & Mabinty Quarshie
USA TODAY
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Protests over Floyd's death
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Protestors shut dow southbound interstate 35 on May 30, 2020 in Austin, Texas, after the death of George Floyd in police custody
Americans' trust in the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen and their faith in local law enforcement has risen since protests demanding social justice swept the nation last year, according to an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll.

The debate over the intersection of racism and policing will be in the spotlight again as jury selection opens Monday in the Minneapolis trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, which sparked nationwide marches last year.

The survey finds complicated and shifting views about Chauvin's actions and broader questions of race. On many issues, there is a chasm in the perspective between Black people and white people.

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The Maoist Roots of Social Justice in Higher Education

Ethan Yang
AIER
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:52 UTC
maoist sculpture
I don't think anyone needs a reminder that social justice is a touchy subject in higher education. As someone who spent three years at my alma mater working under the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, I would know. As someone who also was and still is highly involved in Classical Liberal and Conservative intellectual circles, I was in the odd middle ground of people who didn't care much about taking sides. I just wanted people of all backgrounds to get a quality education.

I certainly saw the need for more diversity on campus whether that was ethnic, cultural, financial, or intellectual. I'm sure we can all agree that that kind of diversity is the spice of life. You should be able to go to college and truly open your mind to the world, whether that be partaking in interesting cultural experiences or learning about the biggest ideas, be it Karl Marx, Aristotle, or Friedrich Hayek. I don't care if you want to party all day at a frat or stage a protest for gender-neutral bathrooms, college should be whatever you want to get out of it.

Without getting into the details, my ideal vision of college is a place where all sorts of people can come and flourish, either intellectually, professionally, or socially. Having diverse groups of people feeling like they belong and can contribute is surely part of this vision. If achieving this goal was what racial justice activism on college campuses was all about, I'm sure we would all be united in support of this vision. The problem, of course, is that it's not.

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Georgia fails to produce chain of custody for 404,000 absentee ballots months after contested election

Andrew White
National File
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Kemp/Raftensperger
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp • Brad Raftensperger
Months after the 2020 election, state and local officials in Georgia have failed to produce chain of custody documents for over 404,000 absentee votes put in drop boxes, according to a damning report by The Georgia Star News.

The report indicates that the state failed to produce chain of custody documentation for an estimated 404,691 absentee vote by mail ballots, which were placed into drop boxes and delivered to county registrars to be counted in the 2020 election.

This means that 67.5% of the states estimated 600,000 absentee vote by mail ballot count was found to not have chain of custody documentation.

It is worth noting that the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia was decided by less than 12,000 votes, which would be nearly 3% of the 404,000 absentee vote by mail ballots deposited into drop boxes and counted by county registrars.

Comment: Failure to produce seems to be the default for all post-election fraud concerns.

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Biden is transforming ICE detention facilities into 'rapid-processing' centers

Bob Price
Breitbart
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
migrant marchers
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"Incoming"
The Biden Administration is turning ICE long-term detention facilities for migrant families into rapid-processing reception and release centers. The re-designated hubs will move migrant families more quickly from the border region into the U.S. interior.

ICE officials told immigration advocates and relief organizations they are ending long-term detention of migrant families, the San Antonio Express-News reported last week. The facilities will be "rebranded" as "reception centers," the ICE officials stated.

The plan by Biden officials is to convert the long-term family detention centers in South Texas into "Ellis Island-style rapid-processing hubs" with a stated goal of releasing migrant families into the U.S. interior within 72 hours, the Washington Post revealed.

Russel Holt, a senior ICE official told staff members in an email reported by the Post that unaccompanied minors and families this year "are expected to be the highest numbers observed in over 20 years."

Holt acknowledged that even with this aggressive catch and release program, ICE facilities still may not be able to keep up with the flow of migrant families and unaccompanied minors. He said hotels will be utilized if processing hubs are filled beyond capacity.

Comment: The Dems have created a ballooning crisis and are scrambling to control it. Bad now? What about tomorrow when the numbers double, triple, quadruple?

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Israel's 'secret evidence' serves as my chains, lock and key

Laith Abu Zeyad
Mondoweiss
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Laith Abu Zeyad
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Laith Abu Zeyad, author
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are not allowed to travel internationally through Israel's airport - they must cross into Jordan and fly from Amman. Israel, however, routinely imposes travel bans on Palestinians, citing 'security reasons' - many do not know they are banned from traveling until they arrive at the crossing. Between 2015 and 2019, Israeli NGO HaMoked filed 797 travel ban appeals, 65 percent of which were lifted. In other words, most bans are completely unjustified.

In September 2019, Amnesty International's West Bank-based campaigner Laith Abu Zeyad was banned by Israel from accompanying his mother for medical treatment in Jerusalem. Israeli authorities subsequently even prevented him from seeing his mother before her death. In October 2019, Laith was also banned from traveling to Jordan to attend his aunt's funeral.

In this piece, Laith reflects on a travel ban based on secret evidence and that can be extended indefinitely - a prisoner in his own land, he dreams of freedom.
I am a prisoner without a cell, a crime, or a conviction. My prison yard extends as far as what is left of my people's lands in occupied Palestine. To go east, to Jordan, which is our only gateway to the rest of the world, there is a single bridge, one I am not allowed to cross. To go west, to other parts of the land stolen from us, and which Israel has made its own, I can only go as far as the nearest militarized checkpoint.

Comment: The angst of confinement without cause, rights or reason, is a normal human reaction unfathomable by psychopaths who control Israel and persecute Palestinians. Cold, heartless, inhumane, it means nothing to them.

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Organizers of Newsom recall claim to have enough signatures for special election

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 09:42 UTC
Recall table
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Newsom recall press conference, Sacramento, CA
The organizers of the recall effort against California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom announced Sunday that they have collected enough signatures to put the special election on the ballot.

At a press conference in Sacramento, organizers claimed they have gathered 1,927,000 signatures in support of the recall, more than a week ahead of the March 17 deadline. Recall organizers said they still plan to try to reach 2 million before that date.

Organizer Orrin Heatlie said in a statement:
"We have cleared another milestone, and now we are entering the final stretch of this part of the official campaign to remove California Governor Gavin Newsom from power and office."
Elections officials still need to verify that 1,497,709 of the signatures are valid and come from registered California voters before the special election can be scheduled.
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Meet the 'Jeff Bezos' of MAGA merchandise, so lucrative he funded pro-Trump candidates across America

Chris Sweeney
RT
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 13:07 UTC
Ronald Solomon
© Ronald Solomon
Ronald Solomon, businessman and MAGA supporter
Donald Trump may be out of office, but the devotion of his fan base hasn't abated. RT.com spoke to Ronald Solomon, the businessman who's generating significant sums for Republicans by selling MAGA merchandise to the faithful.

Ronald Solomon is a mirror image of the man who's the face of his business, Donald Trump. They talk alike, think alike, love a deal, come from New York ... and both are presidents.

Solomon, who now resides in Las Vegas, is president of the MAGA Mall, which designs, produces and sells an ever-expanding range of Trump merchandise. He is permanently criss-crossing the US to follow Trump or attend conferences.

The popularity of his business is astonishing; in a single month, it ships no less than 20,000 hats, with the top seller the 'classic' red MAGA cap. Trump's fondness of his own version has been the perfect advertising and is one reason why MAGA Mall's annual turnover is in the millions.

Speaking to RT.com, Solomon, 61, doesn't hold back in his praise, saying, "Trump has turned out to be a great president. We're very lucky to have him. He didn't put up with any nonsense to get things done." Despite Trump leaving office, the appetite for MAGA gear is substantial.
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