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No hate crime charges following vicious attack on Mexican family because of toothless Utah law

Danielle Mclean
Think Progress
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
The attacker allegedly yelled "I hate Mexicans!" and "I'm here to kill a Mexican!"
UTAH STATE CAPITOL, SALT LAKE CITY.
© UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES
UTAH STATE CAPITOL, SALT LAKE CITY.
Utah state laws are preventing prosecutors from charging a man who attacked members of a Latino family at a Salt Lake City tire shop after yelling "I hate Mexicans" with a hate crime, according to Buzzfeed.

Alan Dale Covington, 50, was arrested after he allegedly attacked Jose Lopez and his 18-year-old son Luis Gustavo Lopez at the family's tire shop on Tuesday, with a metal pipe, according to the Salt Lake City Tribune.

The attack left Luis Gustavo in an intensive care unit with a shattered cheekbone and eye socket and collapsed sinus and has had a titanium plate implanted on the right side of his face, the newspaper reported. His father, Luis, escaped the attack with eight stitches on his arm and a bruised back.
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USA

Make America Mate Again: Scorned Trump supporters get their own dating website

Will Sommer
Daily Beast
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:58 UTC
pro-Trump daters
© Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast
Die-hard Trump supporter Christy Edwards Lawton was at a Manhattan party last year when she noticed a beautiful woman across the room.

The woman, who had "stunning" good looks, according to Lawton, seemed like someone who would have no trouble finding love. But she also had a surprising secret: she couldn't find a boyfriend in New York City because she voted for Trump.

"I'm a Republican," the woman whispered to Lawton, she recalled. "They don't want me."

Faced with romantic despair, Lawton saw opportunity. That encounter at the party-and the now-infamous incident where a Virginia restaurant refused to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders-inspired her to start Righter, a dating network that caters to Trump supporters who have been rejected on more mainstream dating apps over their political beliefs.
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Sheriff

Man gets his face bashed in by cops over asking them for directions

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:42 UTC
police arrest
Practicing your First Amendment right to free speech, in the land of the free, can and will get you beaten, kidnapped, or worse. As the body camera video below illustrates, you can be polite and courteous but when a raging cop snaps-and then lies about what happens-there is very little you can do to protect yourself.

Nicholas H. Belsito had committed no crime, had harmed no one, and was merely tailgating at a Bills game last year when he was savagely attacked by police, his nose broken, and blood gushing from his face. And it all began over asking for directions.

That day, Belsito's friend had been arrested for allegedly hitting a cop's elbow with an empty beer can. As his friend sat in the back of the police cruiser, Belsito wanted to ask for directions so he could pick him up at jail.

"I'm sorry," he says politely as Deputy Kenneth Achtyl lowers his window, "I'm just wondering where you guys are going, so I'm going to meet my friend there ..."
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2 + 2 = 4

Where Transgender Ideology Gets Pathological: A Ponerological Critique

Brent Cope
Sott.net
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:57 UTC
Gender unicorn
I despise deplatforming. If you're unaware, deplatforming is the process by which activists proclaim any person is a bigot/fascist/Nazi/racist/trans-misogynist or otherwise offensive - and thus they should not have the freedom to express themselves publicly. Deplatforming comes in all shapes and sizes, from shutting down a speaker at a college or university to bans on Twitter or demonetizing on YouTube. Basically, its a euphemism for outright censorship.

I recently shared an article from RT.com about a woman who was suspended from Twitter for tweeting "men aren't women." She railed against the politically correct tech giant immediately after her suspension, "This is fucking bullshit @twitter. I'm not allowed to say that men aren't women or ask questions about the notion of transgenderism at all anymore? That a multi billion dollar company is censoring BASIC FACTS and silencing people who ask questions about this dogma is INSANE."
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Fire

Fiery plane crash in Ft. Lauderdale caught on surveillance video

Andrew Perez
ABC Local 10
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:31 UTC
Eladio Marquez

Family members said pilot Eladio Marquez was killed in the plane crash.
Surveillance video released Monday shows the moment a small plane crashed into an autism therapy center in Fort Lauderdale.

The crash occurred around 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of West Cypress Creek Road.

"I saw the airplane pass just over me and the engine (went), 'put, put, put,' and after I see black smoke," witness Gerald Houle said.

The video shows the plane skidding down the street before crashing into the building and catching fire. Moments later, adults and children can be seen running from the building.

"As soon as it happened, it was literally in flames. It happened that quick," witness Kyla Robinson said. "There was nothing anybody could do. Just flames. That's all it was."

Comment: More photos of the accident:

plane fire aftermath
© Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue
plane fire aftermath
© Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue


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Bizarro Earth

UK: Child killer who impaled 3 children on spikes to be released from jail, deemed 'no longer a risk'

Bradley Jolly
Mirror
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:52 UTC
David McGreavy

David McGreavy
A killer who murdered three young children and impaled their bodies on railings is to be released from jail after he was deemed no longer "a significant risk".

David McGreavy, 67, battered to death a nine-month-old baby, strangled her four-year-old brother and cut the throat of their sister, two.

He also mutilated their bodies with a pick axe before impaling them on a neighbour's spiked garden railings.

But a three-member Parole Board has decided McGreavy, dubbed the "Monster of Worcester", is safe for release, according to The Sun .

The children's furious mum Elsie Urry said: "I was told he'd never go free."

Comment: Knowledge of psychopathy is so absent in our society that we have professionals appointed to protect society releasing a sadistic child killer back onto the streets - and this isn't an isolated case. This creature hasn't changed. Psychopaths can't, they're hardwired that way. However, he sure has convinced the supposed professionals into thinking he has: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Star of David

Thousands strike to protest Israeli government's inaction over sharp increase in violence against women


The Times of Israel
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:13 UTC
Over 300 institutions, municipalities, schools, and groups join nationwide labor action Tuesday after 24 women murdered since the start of the year
striking protest Tel Aviv violence women
© Miriam Alster/Flash90
Woman holding a sign declaring that she is striking at a protest in Tel Aviv, December 2, 2018
Thousands of women went on strike Tuesday to protest what they say is authorities' failure to stem a sharp increase in violence against women in Israel, with marches and other demonstrations planned for the day.

Tens of thousands of women were expected to skip work and join nationwide demonstrations to draw attention to domestic violence, after the suspected murders of two teen girls brought the number of women killed in past year to 24.

Hundreds of institutions, municipalities, schools, and organizations have said they will allow their employees to strike, and the government's civil service commissioner has also made concessions to allow participation in the labor action.

Demonstrators gathered at Tel Aviv's Azrieli interchange at 9:30 a.m. where they blocked the traffic, and are expected to meet at the intersection of Rokach Boulevard and the Namir highway in the north of the city at 12 p.m. Police have warned drivers to expect delays in those areas.

Comment: We are waiting for the day when thousands of Israelis with a conscience protest the sadistic cruelty and outright murder of Palestinians..but we aren't holding our breath.

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Star of David

Marc Lamont Hill's call for justice - a free Palestine 'from river to sea' - has consequences

Robert Herbst
Mondoweiss
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
palestinian/flags
© Anadolu
I confess I had never heard of Marc Lamont Hill until CNN fired him for his November 28 speech at the United Nations on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People before the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)

If truth be told, I had not heard of CEIRPP either. It was established by UN Resolution 3376 in 1975 to formulate a program to enable the Palestinian people to exercise (1) their inalienable right to self-determination, national independence and sovereignty, and (2) the right of Palestine refugees to return. So the long knives must have been out for Professor Hill (his day job is at Temple University in Philadelphia) when he agreed to fly back from a trip to Palestine and address CEIRPP in the first place, since Israel and the American Jewish establishment must consider the very existence of CEIRPP and its raison d'être to be an existential challenge to the Jewish State.

When I went to the web for the speech, I saw a young black American who knew his stuff and did not shrink from a powerful articulation of the Palestinian plight and a passionate appeal for international solidarity on their behalf. The first third of the 21 minute speech summarized the myriad ways in which Israelis have oppressed Palestinians in the 70 years since the Nakba, including "the expulsion, murder, and the permanent dislocation of more than a million Palestinians," in derogation of Universal Declaration of Human Rights - also 70 years old - which says that all people are "born free in dignity and rights."


Comment: As Israel continues to control the narrative and the consequences, there may never be a one-state or homeland guarantee in which civil rights violations and the persecution of Palestinians won't continue. The physical structuring and psychological programming fundamental to its Greater Israel Plan are advantages it cannot set aside nor want to reverse.

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No Entry

'We never sought to enter UK base, guards talked to us' - says Russian reporter accused of 'spying'


RT
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:37 UTC
Timur Siraziev
© RT
(L) Timur Siraziev (R) UK Army special warning
A Russian journalist accused by British media of 'spying' on a UK cyberwarfare facility has told RT that his crew never intended to get inside, adding it was the base guards who actually spoke to the Russian TV crew first.

Russia's Channel 1 crew indeed visited Berkshire, where the 77th Brigade is based, to make a report about it, the channel's the UK Bureau chief Timur Siraziev told RT. However, the Russian journalists were open about their job, and never tried to snoop on the facility.

A routine episode in the work of pretty much any journalist has caught the obsessive attention of almost every major UK media outlet, after the British Army issued a special warning calling on soldiers to under no circumstances talk to Russian journalists and to immediately call the police if they see one.

The unusually harsh reaction to a simple news report quickly prompted the British media to squarely assume the Russians were "spying" on what turned out to be a secret UK military facility tasked with conducting psychological influence and information operations on the web.


Comment: Just reporting as usual, unless you happen to be a Russian journalist and stumble upon a cyber security facility.

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Footprints

The Great March of Return began 8 months ago, Palestinians vow to continue until the Gaza siege is lifted

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Palestinians gassed
© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
May 14, 2018: Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from Israeli fire and tear gas on Israel-Gaza border.
November 30th marked the 8 month anniversary of the Great March of Return. Every Friday since March 30th, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have taken to the borders with Israel to demand the right of return of refugees to their ancestral homelands in present day Israel, and an end to the siege on Gaza. Israel has imposed an 11-year land, air, and sea blockade on Gaza, crippling the coastal enclave's economy.

Gazans suffer from lack of access to clean water, high unemployment rates, and electricity for only a few hours a day - contributing to growing frustrations in the coastal enclave. Despite reported efforts from political officials to bring the Great March of Return to a close, protesters maintain that they will continue demonstrating until the siege is lifted once and for all.


Comment: The five minutes of video offer a compelling touchstone to the passions, frustrations and commitment of a people demanding their rights of self-determination and equality against nearly unsurmountable circumstances.

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