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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?

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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 police
© Thilo Schmuelgen / Reuters
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.
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Entire police force detained in Mexican town where mayor candidate murdered


Yahoo News
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:19 UTC
ocampo mexico
© AFP Photo/RAÚL TINOCOOcampo 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.
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Jewish fanatics burn dozens of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank


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

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Saudi ban on women driving finally overturned

Anuj Chopra
Yahoo News
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:57 UTC
saudi woman driver
© AFP Photo/FAYEZ NURELDINEThe lifting of the decades-long ban is expected to be transformative for many women
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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Palestinian protesters call on Palestinian Authority to lift Gaza sanctions


Middle East Eye
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:57 UTC
palestinian protest
© MEE/Akram al-WaraA young Palestinian holds a sign reading "Beirut, Bethlehem, Amman in one voice says lift the sanctions" in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on 20 June 2018
Under the same slogan, "Lift the sanctions", protesters gathered in the occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan on Wednesday evening to stand in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and call for an end to Palestinian Authority-imposed sanctions on the besieged enclave.

Israeli forces have killed at least 133 Palestinians during demonstrations in Gaza since the Great March of Return movement - which calls for the implementation of the right of return for Gaza's 1.3 million refugees - began on 30 March.

In the West Bank, demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza have strongly criticised the role played by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) in worsening living conditions in the coastal strip since Fatah's rival, Hamas, took control of the enclave in 2007 after winning elections there in 2006.

In May, the Palestinian Authority cut in half the salaries of its estimated 50,000 employees in the Gaza Strip without warning. Last summer, the PA stopped paying for Gaza's electricity, leaving the enclave's residents with only two hours of power a day, compared to eight hours previously.

PA security forces' violent repression of one such solidarity protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 13 June has shocked Palestinians, who have vowed to carry on demonstrations and denounce the PA.
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Cop arrested and fired after woman kidnapped and tortured escaped from his car

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:58 UTC
Officer James Otterbine
Officer James Otterbine
A police officer was recently arrested and fired after a battered woman escaped from his car and called 911, claiming that she met him online and he paid for her plane ticket to visit him, but she quickly learned he was abusive and dangerous.

The woman, who is from Miami, claimed that she had a short online relationship with Officer James Otterbine, 32. During that time, he lured her to fly to his house in Oklahoma to stay with him, and as the days passed, he became increasingly violent with her.

According to a press release issued by the Canadian County Sheriff's Office:
"Over the course of the past several weeks, Otterbine became progressively physically violent and had even duct taped and handcuffed her to a chair during an argument. The victim also stated that during another incident Otterbine had bound and locked her in the basement with the lights turned off. The emotionally distraught girl stated Otterbine had threatened her life on several occasions, and had even threatened to shoot her, and then kill himself."
During interrogations, Otterbine admitted to assaulting the woman in front of his 10-year-old son.
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Rhode Island Senate passes bill to keep Trump off 2020 ballot if he doesn't make tax returns public


Fox News
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:55 UTC
Donald Trump
© AP / Charlie Neibergall
Rhode Island's state Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would require candidates for president and vice president to make their tax returns public in order to get on the Rhode Island ballot.

The bill -- which passed by a 34-to-3 vote -- now goes to the state House.

The legislation's lead sponsor, Sen. Gayle Goldin (D), noted that every presidential candidate since Richard Nixon voluntarily released their tax returns until Donald Trump's presidential run.

"Tax returns provide essential information about candidates' conflicts of interest," Goldin argued.
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Teen charged with felony for recording conversation with principal

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:43 UTC
Paul Boron
A trip to the principal's office at Manteno Middle School resulted in controversial felony eavesdropping charges for 13-year-old Paul Boron, in what is the latest saga of controversy regarding an Illinois eavesdropping law, which critics have warned is ripe for abuse and could be misapplied by authorities.

On the day in question, Boron was called to the office for not showing up for a number of detentions. Prior to meeting with Principal David Conrad and Assistant Principal Nathan Short, Boron turned on an audio recording application on his cell phone to record the exchange.

A report by Illinois Policy explained the chronology of events:
Boron said he argued with Conrad and Short for approximately 10 minutes in the reception area of the school secretary's office, with the door open to the hallway. When Boron told Conrad and Short he was recording, Conrad allegedly told Boron he was committing a felony and promptly ended the conversation.
The incident, which took place in February, resulted in the 13-year-old being charged two months later, in April, with one count of class 4 felony eavesdropping.
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American jobs already under threat from Trump's steel tariffs

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:07 UTC
trump steel tariff
When Trump ran on creating more good paying American jobs and on creating a more business friendly environment, many took him seriously and backed him at the polls. Among that number are those manufacturers that happen to still be producing in America, for whatever reason.

But some American companies that use the raw materials that Trump has passed import tariffs on are finding them to be anything but business friendly, and anything but friendly towards American jobs. In fact, they're seeing their production costs increase dramatically, they're having to cut jobs, and they're looking to the Democrats for help.

The Hill reports:

Comment: While the intent is to encourage companies to move manufacturing back to the US, the tariffs will not do much to encourage that since the higher costs will force companies to move or look to pass them on to the consumer. See also: Petrodollar, Trade Deficit and Tariff: What is Trump Doing?

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