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American Bar Association to adopt "affirmative consent" resolution - all sex is rape unless proven otherwise

Ashe Schow
Daily Wire
Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:17 UTC
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It's been a few years since the dangerous "affirmative consent" standard has made headlines. Many colleges and universities began adopting the standard about half-a-decade ago, following the state of California's example.

The wording changes from state to state and from school to school, but it all boils down to narrowly defining consent in such a way that it is impossible for anyone to actually have - and prove - consensual sex. These policies inevitably shift the burden of proof from the accuser to the accused, meaning the accused has to prove they obtained consent for an encounter that they saw at the time as consensual.

Proponents of the policies have never said how accused persons would be able to defend themselves from an accusation under "affirmative consent." Without video evidence that one obtained consent throughout every physical and sexual interaction, the accused would have no way to defend themselves. Even that would be risky, since someone who claims they were too drunk to consent to sex could also say they were too drunk to consent to being recorded. Given how much weight an accusation holds in today's "believe all women" society, a case of he said/she said would most likely default in favor of the accuser.

Legal groups, law professors, and attorneys were critical of the "affirmative consent" standard, yet schools and states adopted it anyway.
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Picture of French police officer seemingly strangling a man is real - taken during Yellow Vest protest in Nantes

Ollie Richardson
Are You a Yellow Vest
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:46 UTC
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On the sidelines of a gathering in Nantes against police violence, a man was violently arrested by a Brigade Anti-criminalité agent. Captured in pictures by reporters who were present on site, the scene has been spread around social networks.

A helmeted policeman seemingly strangling a relatively old man on the ground: this black and white image has been doing the rounds on social networks. While Internet users wondered about the origin of the snapshot, some suspect that it was taken in Moscow during recent oppositional demonstrations, it is the photographer Bsaz who captured this image on August 3rd in Nantes.

Comment: More from CheckNews (machine translation):
Contacted by CheckNews, the street-reporter says: "We were in the late afternoon, it should be 16:30 or 17 hours, and we were in the city center, between the crossroads of streetcars and the street of peace. It was very tense, a person behind me was being taken care of by firefighters after a shot from LBD. "

Still according to him, "the person on the ground in the photo went to the BAC to tell them that a man was on the ground, just a little further, to ask them to calm down. This is where the BAC agent jumps on him and puts him on the ground.

He says, "He did not do anything before. He was just going to tell them that there was someone on the ground, not far away, under a blanket of survival. "

A photo showing a survival cover appears in the series of photos published by Bsaz on his Facebook account . Also contacted by CheckNews, the photographer assures: "There was indeed a wounded man on the ground, who could not be moved. And yet, teargas grenades continued to be thrown. The climate was very tense, with one injured on the ground. "

Did the man who was violently questioned attempt to alert the police to the presence of an injured person? "I did not hear it precisely, but it is possible. We were all trying to alert the police at that time, the photographer answers. They grabbed him, and when we got closer to him, while he was on the ground, they threw us a de-encircling grenade. Given the proximity to the injured person, who could not move, we were very scared for her. "

Two other demonstrators, present on the spot, and contacted by CheckNews, then ensure to have seen the man handcuffed, sitting on the ground, surrounded by men of the BAC. "He had great difficulty breathing," they say.

Evidence corroborated by a video circulating on Twitter. One recognizes the same man on the ground, at the feet of the agent of the BAC having questioned him, between two vans of police. While one of the agents tries to hide the scene with a supermarket cart, the man seems on the verge of unconsciousness, and witnesses ask the police to call for help.
While the police's version of the incident from the same article (machine translation)
When contacted by CheckNews, the Police Information and Communication Service (Sicop) gave another version of the facts: "This man was arrested because, a few minutes before - which is not shown on the video - he had thrown a glass bottle at a police officer. During his arrest, the man did not let himself be taken in, and tried to hit the police officer several times in the face (which is not clearly visible on the images)" The Sicop confirms that the man had to be taken into care of after the violent arrest, invoking the effect of tear gas: "He was taken by the police to the hospital, because he was inconvenienced by the gas."

And then what? "He came back to the police station at midnight. He was heard this morning, acknowledged the projectile throw, his custody was lifted and the investigation continues in preliminary."

Concerning the violence of the interpellation, the Sicop replied: "The colleague did as best he could. The objective was to try to keep him in handcuffs while he was handcuffed."


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Black man shoots randomly at cars in Ohio suburb, shouting "I don't like white people in my hood"

Tom Gantert
Defense Maven
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:45 UTC
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A man was accused of shouting, "I don't like white people in my hood" as he fired shots at four people in an Ohio neighborhood on July 25.

Devonta Allen, 18, was charged with four counts of felonious assault, according to WKRC.

According to police, Allen was captured on video chasing after the four people on Tyne Avenue.

Allen allegedly fired three shots at the victims and hit two of the vehicles the victims were in. Nobody was hit by the gunfire, according to WKRC.
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New Hollywood movie portrays rich liberal elites gleefully abducting, hunting and massacring ordinary Americans


RT
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:44 UTC
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Still from 'The Hunt'. We're ruled by pathological elites, in case anyone hasn't noticed...
A violent thriller in which blue-state elites hunt red-state "deplorables" for sport has been forced to pull some of its ads in the wake of US mass shootings as studio execs fear the tragedies will eclipse the ultra-dark satire.


Comment: So they're actually going ahead with it??

That's some chutzpah!


Universal Pictures, which picked up the controversy-guaranteed script for "The Hunt" after other studios recoiled in horror, is re-evaluating an advertising blitz planned for the month leading up to the film's September 27 release after a trio of mass shootings in Texas, Ohio, and California left 36 dead in the space of a week. The studio has already pulled some TV and internet ads out of concern "for content and placement," according to one high-level source who spoke to the Hollywood Reporter, though another said the matter has not yet been decided.


Comment: The sickest part of it is that 'hunts of deplorables' is what they already do, and have been doing for decades.

Sure, sometimes they hit blue zones more in line with 'their own' (Orlando nightclub massacre, Parkland school massacre), but for the most part they're targeting what we know today as 'the Trump base' - the great majority of ordinary Americans they detest and abuse.

So this movie is just them gloating about it (over and above the mediatized psy-operas that accompany each massacre).

That's how far gone things are. They can do this and get away with it. But you, if you dare to call them out, or mention them by name, you're done for.

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ANOTHER scientist dies while jogging in Greece


The Sun, UK
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 13:49 UTC
Natalie Christopher

Natalie Christopher
Rescuers found her body on Wednesday at the bottom of a ravine in an area known as Katafygi.

A large rock - which may have been dislodged by her in the fall - appeared to have crushed her.

Search teams left the body there overnight so a coroner can examine her in the morning as police refused to rule out foul play.

Police spokesman Theodoros Chronopoulos said it was too early to tell if she fell or was pushed.

He said: "At this point we don't know how she died.

"We have to await the report from the coroner, which will take two to three days, to have the answers."

Investigators are said to be probing the possibility the scientist - a keen climber - was attempting to scale a steep slope without equipment, according to local reports.

Comment: The murder of Dr Eaton in Crete was also initially believed to have been an accident while jogging...

Not an accident: American molecular biologist, Suzanne Eaton was asphyxiated & dumped into old Nazi bunker in Crete - UPDATE: Suspect confesses grisly details

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Unlicensed "health coach" claims health advice is free speech—court disagrees

Beth Mole
ARS Technica
Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:31 UTC
Heather Del Castillo
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Unlicensed "health coach" Heather Del Castillo
A federal court on Wednesday rejected claims by an unlicensed "health coach" that the unqualified health advice she provided to paying clients was protected speech under the First Amendment.

In rejecting her claim, the court affirmed that states do indeed have the right to require that anyone charging for health and medical services — in this case, dietetics and nutrition advice — be qualified and licensed. (State laws governing who can offer personalized nutrition services vary considerably, however.)

Heather Del Castillo, a "holistic health coach" based in Florida, brought the case in October of 2017 shortly after she was busted in an undercover investigation by the state health department. At the time, Del Castillo was running a health-coaching business called Constitution Nutrition, which offered a personalized, six-month health and dietary program. The program involved 13 in-home consulting sessions, 12 of which cost $95 each.

Comment: On the one hand, one can see why Florida wouldn't want just any old person off the street with no training charging for 'health advice' that could potentially be damaging. But it's a sticky situation when one considers 1) the terrible health advice offered by sanctioned government health bodies, 2) the fact that a number of people who are self-educated on health are well equipped to help others heal, and 3) many people are looking for health advice outside of government issued dietary recommendations (because they know they're a bunch of BS). Essentially, this ruling is infringing on the rights of its citizens to hire services of their choosing. A different solution is clearly needed here.

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'You don't have any rights': CBP agents interrogate US citizen returning from Venezuela, seize his phone

Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
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The detention of a US citizen returning from Venezuela was an apparent extension of the US government's efforts to punish citizens who have protested its policy of regime change and economic warfare.

A US citizen has told The Grayzone that the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service detained him on his way home from Venezuela and violated his privacy.

Sergio Lazo Torrez, a 31 year-old Nicaraguan-American, said the CBP forced him to open his cellphone, grilled him about his political beliefs, and demanded information about his contact with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Torrez was returning to the Washington, DC area on the evening of August 2 when he was detained by CBP at Dulles International Airport in Vienna, Virginia. He had just participated in a week-long tour of Venezuela with over a dozen US citizens, including this journalist and two other reporters for The Grayzone.

During the trip, the group met with members of local social movements, leaders of workers' cooperatives, artists, and elected officials. On August 1, the visitors accepted an invitation to meet with Maduro at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. The meeting apparently triggered the US government's decision to target Torrez.

"They said that while I was being held I didn't have any rights," Torrez told The Grayzone, referring to the CBP. "I said, 'Can I call my lawyer?' They said, 'No, you don't have any rights, it doesn't matter if you call a lawyer. First of all, you can't even use your phone and second of all, you don't have any rights to do anything.'"

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Children are at the center of a booming smuggling industry

Charlotte Cuthbertson
The Epoch Times
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
A group of illegal aliens walk up the road after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico, near McAllen, Texas, on April 18, 2019.
A 33-year-old Honduran male illegally crossed the U.S. border with his 15-year-old "son" recently. After an investigation, it was discovered that the man had borrowed the boy from the boy's mother in Honduras to use in an attempt to be released into the United States quickly as a family unit. He presented a fake birth certificate for the boy.

Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents are uncovering thousands of such stories as smugglers and illegal aliens learn that a child is an adult's ticket into the United States, due to legal loopholes.

In this case, the child didn't have any family in the United States, and the man told agents he had planned to drop the boy off with an unknown male in Nebraska. "He also stated that smuggling fees are considerably less expensive when adults are traveling with a child," according to case notes obtained by The Epoch Times. The man confessed when he was faced with a DNA test. He was charged with alien smuggling.

Matthew Albence, acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a congressional hearing on July 25:
"By requiring the release of family units before the conclusion of immigration proceedings, seemingly well-intentioned court rulings and legislation are being exploited by transnational criminal organizations and human smugglers. These despicable smugglers have created an entire illicit industry with untold millions of dollars being made through the sale, rental, and recycling of children — utilized by unscrupulous adults to pose as family units."
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Meet the carpenter making crosses for every single mass shooting victim in the US

Jonathan Vigliotti
CBS News
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:27 UTC
Greg Zanis
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Greg Zanis in Las Vegas
There is something heartbreaking about how routine carpenter Greg Zanis' deliveries have become. But in El Paso, they are the crosses Zanis says he must bear.

"Gun violence, you know, victims, they flock to me. They understand what it is that my messages is it's about. Let's remember these names, let's remember these people," Zanis said.

He made his first cross after the 1996 murder of his father-in-law. The first mass shooting he went to was Columbine. Since then, he's provided more than 26,000 wooden memorials at the site of mass murders and other tragedies across the country.

"I did Las Vegas where 58 people were killed. I did Parkland, Florida. I did Sandy Hook. I did the Orlando night club," he said. Zanis' next stop is Dayton, Ohio, where nine were killed this weekend.

He has delivered mostly crosses, but Stars of David and crescent moons, as well. So far, he's driven more than half a million miles, the distance to the moon and back, to bring light to communities grieving. "It's about the heart and I want you to remember these family members in a very unique way," Zanis said.
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Truck stop: Another US freight company unexpectedly shuts down

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:05 UTC
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Yet another trucking company has fallen victim to the recession in freight this year, according to FreightWaves. Terrill Transportation of Livermore, California shut its doors unexpectedly on July 30. The company had been in business 25 years.

Customer Manny Bhandal, president of Bhandal Bros. Inc., said that three of his trucks arrived at Terrill on July 30 to drop off a shipment and were turned away. Kevin Terrill, president of Terrill Transportation, did not respond to FreightWaves.
"We did get an email from one of their receiving clerks, basically apologizing that they couldn't receive our trucks because they were ceasing operations. This year has been very tough on a lot of companies."
A chief executive of another trucking company based in the Northwest called Kevin Terrill, who confirmed the news over the phone:
"He [Kevin] said rate concessions on both the trucking and warehousing side, driver wages being up and the tough environment to do business in California were to blame for the closure."
Terrill had 30 trucks and 36 company drivers, in addition to 12 owner-operators. This closure marks the seventh freight company to shut down in 2019 alone, after NEMF, Falcon, Williams Trucking of Dothan, Alabama, and Indiana-based A.L.A. and Starlite Trucking and LME.

Comment: See also: Over 2,500 truck drivers lose their jobs in 2019

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