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Students at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology must write essays on white male privilege


Sputnik
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:09 UTC
sweden royal institute technology building
© Carles Tomás Martí / KTH Valhallavägen
Computer engineering students at the Stockholm-based Royal Institute of Technology cannot complete their education without presenting their reflections on the benefits of being a white heterosexual man.

Apart from programming and mathematics, students who choose computer engineering as their major at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) also have to expect a compulsory course named "Program Cohesion," which includes a seminar and an essay on minorities and equal treatment, the Nyheter Idag news outlet reported.

To participate in the seminars, students are required to read articles "revealing the hetero norm" at Swedish institutions and on the #Metoo campaign against sexual harassment, as well as watch a film about being black in the Nordic country.
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New California's 'Declaration of Independence' from California, bid to become 51st state

Josh Hafner
USA Today
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:15 UTC
Cal/New CAl
© De Gruyter/KJN
The founders of New California took an early step toward statehood Monday with the reading of their own Declaration of Independence from California, a state they describe as "ungovernable."

Their solution: Take over most of current-day California - including many rural counties - and leave the coastal urban areas to themselves.

"The current state of California has become governed by a tyranny," the group, led in part by vice chairman Robert Paul Preston, declared in a document published online.


Comment: It might be awhile, a long while. Breaking up is hard to do.

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13yo German girl accuses 18yo Afghan asylum seeker of rape

Chris Pleasance
Daily Mail UK
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:46 UTC
Esslingen
An Afghan asylum seeker has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in Germany. The 18-year-old man was arrested on Thursday last week after the girl contacted police to say he had attacked her inside a home in Esslingen, near Stuttgart. The man previously served a year in juvenile detention for attempted rape and was released in December last year under court supervision.

Police and prosecutors in Esslingen said the girl visited the man at his apartment in the city on Monday after becoming friends. It was in the apartment that he allegedly forced her to have sex against her will.

The girl saw the man in the city's downtown area again on Wednesday when he threatened her, before she reported the attack to police. He was arrested at his home the following day, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. He has denied the allegations.

A spokesman of the German Interior Ministry said it is not possible to tell whether the man will be deported while the investigation is ongoing. But, the spokesman pointed out, deportation is mandatory for any asylum seeker handed a prison sentence of three years or more. Asylum seekers can also be deported if they have received a prison sentence between one and three years for crimes directed against another person's physical integrity or sexual self-determination.
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British appeals court rejects extradition of accused hacker Lauri Love over woeful US prison conditions

Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:44 UTC
Lauri Love
© Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
Lauri Love
A British appeals court on Monday rejected demands from the U.S. government for the extradition of an accused British hacker, Lauri Love, citing the inability of U.S. prisons to humanely and adequately treat his medical and mental health ailments. Extradition to the U.S., the court ruled, would be "oppressive by reason of his physical and mental condition."

Rejecting the prosecutor's pleas that "the British courts should trust the United States to provide what it said it would provide" in order to secure Love's health and safety, the court instead invoked extensive medical and psychological testimony that conditions inside American prisons are woefully inadequate to treat Love's ailments. As a result, extradition and incarceration inside the U.S. prison system would exacerbate those health issues and produce a high risk of suicide.

Love, 33, is accused by the U.S. government of participating in the 2012 and 2013 hacking of the computer systems of various U.S. military agencies and private companies. The U.S. Justice Department, citing a confidential FBI source who claimed to have accessed chat rooms in which Love plotted with others on how to use the stolen data, indicted Love in three different states (New Jersey, New York, and Virginia) on felony hacking and theft charges. Love (pictured above after Monday's victory) was arrested in 2013 by British authorities and released on bail. Ever since, the U.S. government has sought his extradition from the U.K. for him to stand trial, and ultimately be imprisoned, in the U.S.
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Turks try to block Syrian Army offensive, forced to retreat and lick wounds

Marko Marjanovic
Checkpoint Asia
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:05 UTC
turkish tank
Here is what we know for sure:

Comment: As long as the Turks, their FSA, and the YPG are fighting against each other, the Syrian government will give its tacit approval - Russia too. But there are limits. It appears Turkey is testing them. Not a smart move.

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Saddam's eldest daughter Raghad named on Iraq's most-wanted list


Geo.tv
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:59 UTC
Saddam Hussein's daughter Raghad
© AFP
Saddam Hussein's daughter Raghad is on a wanted list published by the Iraqi security services
Iraqi security services on Sunday published the names of 60 people wanted on suspicion of belonging to Daesh, Al-Qaeda or the Baath Party of late dictator Saddam Hussein.

The list, seen by AFP, includes the name of Saddam's daughter Raghad, who lives in Jordan.

It also features 28 suspected Daesh terrorists, 12 from Al-Qaeda and 20 Baathists, giving details of the roles they allegedly play in their organisations, crimes of which they are suspected and in most cases, photographs.
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German special forces seize weapons, drugs and propaganda in raid on alleged far-right group


The Local
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Far-right extremism Germany
© DPA
Officers outside a property in Thuringia on Friday.
Special forces raided several addresses in north and east Germany on Friday, confiscating weapons from what they allege is an extremist right-wing group.

The raids, supported by officers from seven German states, took place in the early morning hours in Thuringia and Lower Saxony against 14 properties. At one location, a man who was not under suspicion attacked officers, lightly injuring two of them.

Along with guns and ammo, police seized drugs, propaganda material, mobile phones and computers. The guns were found at the home of a man who had a licence to carry them, but police said that state authorities would re-evaluate whether he was fit to hold a gun licence.

The raids were part of an investigation into 13 individuals accused of forming a criminal organization.

Comment: See also: Far-right 'Reich Citizens' in Germany building own army, preparing for a 'Day X'

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Man convicted of 4 consecutive life sentences for raping 3-month old relative and filming assault


RT
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:31 UTC
prison
© Stephen Lam / Reuters
A 38-year-old man from Texas has been sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for repeatedly raping a 3-month-old relative and filming it, after the jury heard horrific accounts of his numerous child abuse cases.

David Vincent Akins Jr. was arrested in 2016 and charged with sexually abusing the 3-month-old girl after videos found on his personal computer revealed persistent abuses of the child who happens to be a family member. The child was repeatedly abused, starting from 2013 until the pornographic videos were unearthed three years later, investigators said.

Five victims also came forward at the Montgomery County trial to share their stories of the horrific ordeals suffered at the hands of Atkins. They included two female relatives who claimed he raped them, one at the age of 5 and the other from age 3 to 11. It was also revealed that Atkins already spent time in juvenile detention for rapes committed when he was 14.
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Mum finds heartbreaking note written by 8yo daughter saying she wants to die over being bullied at school

Josh Parry
The Mirror
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:58 UTC
Millie O’Neill
© Liverpool Echo
Millie O’Neill
An eight-year-old girl has written a heartbreaking note telling her parents she wants to die after being tormented by bullies at school.

Mum-of-two Naomi O'Neill, 28, was stunned when she found the note at the bottom of her eldest daughter Millie's bed.

She told the Liverpool Echo that Millie has been bullied for weeks - with one pupil telling her he would "slaughter" her family - and is so afraid that she has tried self-harming in a bid to be kept at home.

The schoolgirl wrote in her letter: "Not one kid in the world should feel the way I feel when I get bullied. It makes me sad, I feel different, weird, not important, angry, dumb and hurt." She made a desperate cry for help, writing: "Please help me stop getting bullied."
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Texas state district judge charged with bribery

Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro
The Valley Star
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:44 UTC
Texas judge bribery Delgado
© Nathan Lambrecht
State District Judge Rodolfo "Rudy" Delgado, center, walks out of federal court behind his attorney Aldolfo "Al" Alverez, right, after posting bond for charges of bribery Monday February 5, 2018, in McAllen, Texas.
Judge took bribes for 'favors' on cases

In an indictment unsealed Monday, the federal government alleges that state District Judge Rodolfo "Rudy" Delgado accepted bribes for at least 10 years on cases in his court in exchange for favorable "judicial consideration."

The 64-year-old judge who presides over the 93rd state District Court, and who is known for subjecting those in his courtroom to oftentimes long-winded, boisterous manners of expression, appeared worn from three days in federal custody and somewhat soft-spoken moments after walking out the front doors of the federal courthouse after posting bond.

Delgado, wearing a suit-jacket, tie and slacks and accompanied by attorney Adolfo "Al" Alvarez, declined to answer subsequent questions regarding the allegations that he accepted bribes from at least one local attorney, who told federal agents he had bribed the judge since at least 2008.
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