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Germany reports migrant deportations often result in attacks and injuries to federal officers


RT
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 14:29 UTC
Migrant deportation germany
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Last year, 284 officers were attacked while carrying out deportations, and 71 of them were injured.
Foreigners slated for deportation in Germany punch and kick police officers, engage in "rehearsed" violence, and even bite off their own tongues just to avoid being sent home, a new report reveals.

Last year, 284 officers were attacked while carrying out deportations, and 71 of them were injured, German paper Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing the Federal Police.

The assaults happened during incidents related to deportation flights, for which the Federal Police is responsible. In 2017, some 274 officers were attacked while trying to deport foreigners.

The police did not specify the severity of the officers' injuries, and the report did not provide a detailed breakdown of the circumstances in which they were inflicted. In one recent case, an officer in Munich fell and broke his kneecap after a 26-year-old migrant from Sierra Leone slated for deportation had "panicked" on airstairs.

In other cases, the deportees acted more violently. Federal police union chief, Ernst Walter, who accompanied people on many deportation flights, told the paper that officers have sustained "kicks, punches and headbutts" during such operations.
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Modern slavery: The global business supply chain employs 40M people working in slave-like conditions

Annalisa Merelli
Quartz
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
global slave labor trade

Many countries that supply consumer goods have high percentages of people working in conditions of slavery, enduring long shifts and exhausting conditions without the choice to leave. The fashion industry is notoriously marred by the use of forced labor, as is the tech sector.
Slavery has been illegal worldwide for just about four decades, since Mauritania finally abolished it in 1981.

But slavery didn't end there. According to the latest report by the Walk Free Initiative, presented today (July 17) at the UN Headquarters in New York, there were 40.3 million people living in conditions of slavery in 2018, most of them women.

There isn't an official legal definition of modern slavery, but the UN describes it as the condition of people whose work "is performed involuntarily and under the menace of any penalty." Modern slaves can be coerced to work through explicit measures like violence, but also through subtler means like financial pressure, or by limiting someone's movement by retaining their identification.

While it's easy to believe that slavery is limited to poor or underdeveloped countries, or countries with a questionable human rights record, it is actually happening everywhere. Recently, for example, there was two cases where diplomats kept staff in their US residencies who were working in conditions of slavery.

The UN and its member states committed to eliminating slavery by 2030, along with human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor. The commitments are part of the UN's sustainable development goals — a set of ideals the world's governments pledged to tackle in 2015.

Comment: Interesting that foaming at the mouth liberals who busy themselves tweeting about racism and multiple 'phobias' don't choose to focus on this real problem affecting millions around the world.

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'Passport for migration': DNA tests reveal migrant trafficked toddler to Texas border by falsely claiming to be his father


Daily Mail
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:27 UTC
Migrant Texas border child trafficking, fake father migrant Texasw

Border Patrol agent holds a toddler brought into the United States illegally by a Central American migrant.
Customs and Border Protection posted an image on its social media page on Wednesday showing a Central American toddler whom it says was brought into the country by a migrant who falsely claimed to be his father.

The picture shows a Border Patrol agent holding the infant boy, whose right hand is gripping a small package of crackers.

CBP says the picture was taken at a migrant processing facility in Donna, Texas.

'On July 17, McAllen USBP agents encountered a group of 12 people comprised of family units and unaccompanied children who turned themselves in,' CBP wrote in its Instagram post.

'Record checks revealed an individual traveling with his alleged son had 2 previous immigration arrests in El Paso Sector just in the past month.

Given the recent apprehensions and the age of the child, agents requested the assistance of HSI to administer a rapid DNA test.

'The test revealed there is no parent-child relationship. The man admitted he was not the child's father, but knew the mother and had permission to take the child.
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9 killed as gunman opens fire in Dayton bar district, hours after Texas massacre -UPDATE: 10 dead


RT
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 11:56 UTC
Police officers in Dayton, Ohio
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Police officers in Dayton, Ohio.
Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting in downtown Dayton, Ohio while 26 others were injured. The gunman was taken out by officers responding to the incident.

The shooting happened in the area of East 5th Street in the Oregon District of Dayton in the early hours of Sunday local time, and just hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

Dayton police said the shooter used some kind of a long gun in the attack and most likely acted alone. They said they were working on identifying the gunman and establishing the motives behind his rampage.

Miami Valley Hospital spokesperson Terrea Little confirmed that they had received 16 victims from the shooting, but wouldn't provide further details. The police initially reported that there were 16 injured survivors, but Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley later said 26 people were hurt in the gun violence.

Comment: UPDATE from RT: Dayton shooter used Kalashnikov-type rifle, 10 dead - mayor
The Dayton, Ohio mass shooting suspect used a Kalashnikov-type rifle to kill 9 people before being killed by police, the city mayor said. Local hospitals treated 27 people in the aftermath, and some remain in critical condition.

Mayor Nan Whaley and other Dayton officials gave an update on the night shooting in the city's historic center. The Kalashnikov-wielding attacker was wearing body armor and had several high-capacity magazines for his rifle, the mayor said. He was shot dead by police officers, who arrived at the scene less than a minute after the massacre began.

Of the 27 people who were brought to hospitals or walked in with injuries in the aftermath of the shooting, 15 have been discharged. Five patients are in critical or serious conditions, with multiple surgeries scheduled to treat them.

Whaley said the Oregon district, where the shooting took place, will be open later in the day.
See also: Murderous rampage unfolds at Walmart in El Paso, Texas: Eyewitnesses report multiple gunmen - UPDATE: 20 dead

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Why I want to start a free speech trade union

Toby Young
Quillette
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
union
Last April, the historian Niall Ferguson called for a NATO of the pen. Inspired by the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty in which 12 Western democracies agreed that "an armed attack against one or more...shall be considered an attack against them all," he suggested that "professional thinkers — academics, public intellectuals, writers of any stripe" should sign a "Non-conformist Academic Treaty" in which they promise to come to each other's defense if one of them is "called out" on social media or "investigated" by their employer. Among the victims of these modern-day witch-hunts Ferguson cited Bret Weinstein, Bruce Gilley, Nigel Biggar, Roland Fryer, Samuel Abrams, Peter Boghossian, Jordan Peterson, and Roger Scruton, and said the lesson was clear: "we either hang together or we hang separately."

This struck me as an excellent idea, but I could also see a practical difficulty. One of the reasons NATO succeeded in deterring Soviet expansion into Western Europe is because it didn't require any individual country to make the first move in response to Soviet aggression. Rather, NATO provided an institutional framework that enabled the signatories of the treaty to respond collectively, thereby pooling the risk.

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California homeschool numbers quadruple in past three years

Jim Satney
PreForThat
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
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Whether it be a perceived political indoctrination, a disagreement with vaccine laws, or increasingly large classroom sizes, homeschooling numbers in California are breaking at the seams. The surge in California homeschooling, for many, is considered proof of a state with an overreaching and broken system.

Back in 2016, California passed one of the toughest mandatory vaccine laws in the nation. At the time, there was nothing like SB-277 anywhere in the nation. With SB-276, a bill that would allow the state's public health department to review medical vaccine exemptions, waiting in the wings for passage, many parents remain on edge. Even celebrities like Jessica Beil are protesting SB-276 for what they feel is an overreaching law that intimidates medical professionals.


Comment: See: Jessica Biel joins anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. to lobby against California pro-vaccination bill


In California, there's a vaccine divide. The state, on one side, is attempting to reduce exemptions. Parents seeking medical freedom are on the other side hoping to expand choices.

Comment: There are many reasons parents may wish to homeschool their children, some mentioned in the above article, but many others as well. That the practice would be demonized and smeared is evidence for what public schools really are - indoctrination camps. "No child left behind" takes on a new meaning when considered in this regard.

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Bayer CEO opens door to Roundup settlement as lawsuits swell

Tim Loh
Bloomberg
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:34 UTC
bayer logo sign
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Bayer AG Chief Executive Officer Werner Baumann said he'd consider a "financially reasonable" settlement of litigation over the weedkiller Roundup as the caseload swells and the company's shares slump anew.

The number of lawsuits from people in the U.S. who say the herbicide caused them to develop cancer rose by about 5,000 to 18,400, Bayer said in a statement. The company also revealed more troubles at its crop-science division on Tuesday after bad weather curbed demand from farmers.

Quarterly sales and earnings missed estimates and the German company questioned its ability to meet its full-year forecast. The shares fell 3.4 percent in Frankfurt.

Comment: Allowing for a settlement would be letting the company off too easily. They deserve to be liquidated and the spoils given to those who have suffered under their poisons.

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It's official: New Notre Dame will look like the old Notre Dame - Macron will oversee new agency responsible

Francesco Bandarin
The Arts Newspaper
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:12 UTC
Notre Dame
© Nivenn Lanos
Notre Dame cathedral was engulfed by fire in April
The dozens of designs submitted in response to the competition run by the French government for creative proposals — the greenhouse roof, the stained-glass roof, the beam of light spire and the crystal spire — will remain just designs.

On 16 July, 95 days after the fire that destroyed the cathedral's roof and flèche (central spire), the law that will govern the restoration of the cathedral was finally approved by the French parliament. It explicitly states that the cathedral must be rebuilt as it looked before the fire. It recognises its Unesco World Heritage status and the need to respect existing international charters and practices, and it limits derogations to the existing heritage, planning, environmental and construction codes to the minimum.

In the new power map, there will be one master-mind only, French president Emmanuel Macron, who will directly and indirectly control all phases of an operation that would normally be the remit of the ministry of culture.


Comment: Macron in charge of France's cultural heritage? What could possibly go wrong...


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Bees and beekeepers feel the sting of Trump Administration's anti-science efforts

Jessica A. Knoblauch
EcoWatch
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:56 UTC
beekeepers
© CHRIS JORDAN-BLOCH / EARTHJUSTICE
Beekeeper Jeff Anderson works with members of his family in this photo from 2014. He once employed all of his adult children but can no longer afford to do so.
It's been a particularly terrible summer for bees. Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is allowing the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor back on the market. And just a few weeks prior, the USDA announced it is suspending data collection for its annual honeybee survey, which tracks honeybee populations across the U.S., providing critical information to farmers and scientists.

The Trump administration pushed for these two anti-bee actions, even though our nation's honeybee populations have been nosediving for years. Last winter, beekeepers reported a record 40 percent loss of their colonies.

Longtime beekeeper Jeff Anderson, owner of California-Minnesota Honey Farms, says the picture is even grimmer if you look at bee losses across the entire year, particularly in the spring and summer when farmers are spraying pesticides. It's not just bees that are suffering, he says. Beekeepers are also feeling the sting of the Trump administration's anti-bee and anti-science efforts. And consumers of healthy, fresh foods are next.

Comment: If the bees go, we all go. Government regulators would do well to keep this in mind (not that they care).

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Intersectionalism is nonsense. But the backlash against it is very real

Debra Soh
Quillette
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
intersectional activists
The campaign to silence those who question progressive ideas about race and privilege requires frequent rebranding. Labels such as "far-right" and "alt-right," which once might have served to strip a person of his or her livelihood and personal reputation, have become such common terms of abuse that they've effectively become meaningless. The words "white nationalist" once were used to describe someone who actually supported the creation of a white ethnostate. But now, activists are claiming that the mere act of making an "okay" hand gesture could mark you as a "white power" extremist — or at least someone who is "alt-right-adjacent." The goal of this perversion of language is to drive up the number of people who may be classified out of hand as extremists, and thereby disqualify even the mildest forms of dissent as de facto hate speech.

As a visible minority, I've experienced my share of prejudice and ignorance. I don't deny that racism exists and that it is repugnant. But the solution is not to divide society into ideological factions, with one side being publicly shamed and banished, while the other is given carte blanche to promote its own, increasingly fanatical, intersectional doctrines.

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