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Roughly 150 Americans show up to Koch Foods job fair in Mississippi after ICE raid removes hundreds of illegal immigrants

Neil Munro
Breitbart
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:20 UTC
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Roughly 150 locals attended an August 12 job fair to apply for jobs at the Koch Foods' plants in Mississippi.

The fair was run after the August 7 removal of 243 alleged illegal migrants in two of the company's chicken processing plants, according to local authorities.

The local Jackson Clarion-Ledger newspaper reported 25 to 30 people went to the job fair in Forest, Mississippi. The report said:
Kamerio Whitley, a resident of the nearby town of Morton, spoke to reporters after he left the building. He said there were several positions available at the plant, including forklift operators.

Whitley said he applied for a job working at the plant's rehang table, where workers hang frozen chickens.

The job starts at $12 an hour, which is decent pay for the area, Whitley said. "That's not bad to start, and it can always go up," he said.
The company is also trying to hire workers with online ads. Local officials made sure the hiring process complied with federal hiring regulations, according to WAPT 16.
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How hundreds of campus #MeToo punishments could get dismissed

Olivia Messer
The Daily Beast
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:49 UTC
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Accused men everywhere are suing over due process. "If you're found responsible for sexual misconduct at a university in America, your future is arguably over," said one attorney.

A Michigan State undergrad accused of sexual assault. A Cal grad student who says he was denied due process. The Maryland baseball players accused of rape.

And as of Friday, a Baylor professor who says he was falsely accused of raping a student.

They're all suing to clear their names — and, in some cases, get monetary damages — and turn back what had been a wave of Title IX complaints that swept U.S. college campuses during the peak of the #MeToo and "believe all women" movements.

On Friday, John Doe, a pseudonym for an assistant professor in Baylor's Department of Economics, filed a 35-page federal lawsuit in Waco, Texas, that alleges he engaged in a consensual relationship with a female student who, in July 2018, accused him of rape, sexual exploitation, intimate-partner violence, and more.

A campus Title IX investigation last October found in the student's favor, concluding that Doe was "responsible" for those three allegations, but cleared him of others.
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Jeffrey Epstein accuser sues Ghislaine Maxwell, 3 others; says Epstein 'forcefully raped' her at 15

Nicole Darrah
Fox News
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:40 UTC
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Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured, here in 2005 with Jeffrey Epstein
A woman who says accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein "forcefully raped" her when she was 15 years old filed a lawsuit Wednesday morning against Manhattan socialite and alleged Epstein "madam" Ghislaine Maxwell — along with three other unidentified individuals — claiming the group conspired to make her assault possible.

Jennifer Araoz, now 32, alleges Maxwell and three other associates of Epstein, who died in a New York federal lockup Saturday morning from an apparent suicide, conspired to facilitate the rape, according to the lawsuit obtained by Fox News.

The suit's defendants include Epstein's estate, Maxwell and Jane Does 1, 2 and 3, a trio later described as a "recruiter," a "secretary" and a "maid."
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Epstein lived in a netherworld where normal rules didn't apply. How many more Epsteins are there?

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:05 UTC
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Forget how he died, the real mystery is how Jeffrey Epstein lived; committing acts that would get a normal person jailed, all while next to the world's most-watched men. How did he create a protective bubble around himself?

Take, for example, Epstein's financial career, the foundation for so much of his other criminal activity.

While doubts about his methods for obtaining wealth for his clients had been circulating on Wall Street for years, throughout that time he had been described, at face value, as a financier and a billionaire.

In the past several months we have discovered that he likely was no billionaire, and no one is sure whether he ever did conduct any legitimate business activities, or even where any of his money came from.

Yet, there was definitely big money involved, as is evidenced by superficially inexplicable multi-million dollar transactions percolating through a network of offshore accounts, and the very real luxury assets that he had accumulated.
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Bitter unrest in Hong Kong prompts city's ultra rich to look into relocating their families to the US

Xie Yu and Darryl Coote
South China Morning Post
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:47 UTC
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Hong Kong's super rich are increasingly looking to buy homes in the United States and relocate there, having grown tired of local protests, moderating growth in the region, and escalating US-China tensions, according to Edward Mermelstein, a wealth management consultant based in New York.

His firm, One & Only Realty, handles relocation and related business including luxury property investment starting at US$10 million.

Over the past two weeks, his company has received four inquiries from Hong Kong clients about relocating their families to the US, with the intention of investing between US$10 million to US$100 million, he said.

Mermelstein said it was "an extremely unusual situation".

"Hong Kong residents were typically just investors and had no interest in becoming US residents. But today, the conversations are definitely about relocating families and businesses," he said.
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CNN anchor Chris Cuomo ridiculed for comparing 'Fredo' to N-word in confrontation

Mike Brest
Washington Examiner
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:24 UTC
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CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is facing backlash after suggesting that calling an Italian "Fredo" is equivalent to the N-word.

Cuomo, 49, made the comparison after someone called him "Fredo," a reference to the weak character from The Godfather.

"No, punk-ass b--ches from the Right call me 'Fredo.' My name is Chris Cuomo. I'm an anchor on CNN," the newsman said. "'Fredo' was from The Godfather. He was a weak brother and they use that as an Italian slur — are any of you Italian?"

"It's a f---ing insult to your people. It's an insult to your f---ing people. It's like the N-word for us," He added.

Comment: Yes the man who went up to Cuomo and his family was being a jackass and Cuomo rightfully got upset. But clearly Cuomo doesn't have too much of a problem with people using Fredo to describe him or others. He even referred to himself as Fredo in a radio interview from 2010.

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Comedian Terrence K. Williams says Facebook 'coming after him' after Trump retweeted #ClintonBodyCount


RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:13 UTC
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© Terrence K. Williams/Facebook
Comedian, actor and conservative commentator Terrence Williams
Black conservative comedian and pundit Terrence K. Williams has said that Facebook has been flagging his posts as 'fake news' after his take on Jeffery Epstein's death went viral thanks to US President Donald Trump,

Williams issued a frantic call to his followers to "protect" him saying that since Trump retweeted his post he has been bombarded with death threats. He also accused Facebook of trying to police his opinion by telling his followers that his page and content are "fake news." Williams points out the absurdity of trying to fact-check comedy.
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Clashes at Al-Aqsa mosque as Palestinian celebrations for Eid al-Adha coincide with Jewish holiday

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:17 UTC
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Thousands of Palestinians gathered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem on Sunday to celebrate the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha clashed with Israeli police who fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and sound grenades fired into crowds of worshippers.

Videos circulated on social media of Israeli police shoving and beating Palestinians, and firing tear gas, sound grenades and rubber bullets, and of Palestinians throwing stones.

The Associated press reported 14 Palestinians were treated in a hospital for injuries and Palestinians injured four Israeli police officers. Police reportedly arrested two Palestinians.

According to local media reports, tensions first flared in the morning Israeli forces established a heavy presence inside the compound and opened one of the gates, seemingly in preparation to allow Jewish visitors into the site for observance of the Jewish holiday of Tish B'av, which also fell on Sunday.
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Greta the eco-grouch has no patience for democracy or your lifestyle

Jonathan S. Tobin
The Federalist
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
Greta Thunberg
How an intolerant teenage environmental scold now sailing to America is helping transform the left while attacking democracy and the global economy.

The heroine of the environmental movement is on her way. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish celebrity protester, has finally figured out a way to bring her extremist message to the New World.

Thunberg, who has been the focus of adulatory coverage throughout Europe and in mainstream American outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, and a cover story in Time magazine, is a teenage sensation leading a movement of angry European children.

Thunberg and her fans are demanding that their country's governments act to stop global warming.

Comment: That the press are treating Thunberg as "a role model rather than an angry teenager armed with only a rudimentary understanding of science and none of economics and democracy," really says it all. They're looking for an absolutist with black and white 'solutions' without any discussion permitted. Kill the nuance, march in the radical change with no discussion, kill the nonbelievers.

See also:

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Moscow orders probe into officers who 'punched' woman during unsanctioned protest


RT
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:09 UTC
Moscow police
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FILE PHOTO. Moscow police officers.
A young woman from Moscow, who was apparently punched in the stomach by an officer, says she's seeking justice for alleged police brutality. Caught on camera, the incident sparked outrage, and is now being probed by authorities.

Darya Sosnovskaya was detained last Saturday amid police action targeting an unsanctioned opposition march in central Moscow. Footage shows two police officers in riot gear dragging her through the street. One of them tries to pick up a baton, which he apparently dropped earlier, without releasing his hold on the woman. One of her legs apparently gets in his way, and he appears to respond by punching her in the abdomen.

Sosnovskaya says she was a victim of police brutality. On Monday, she filed a complaint with Russia's Investigative Committee, requesting a probe into the alleged abuse of power. The woman said she was not part of the unsanctioned march but rather a bystander who was targeted by the police after complaining about the way they were detaining another person. She said in addition to a bruise she got from the punch, her head was also injured when the officers were forcing her to get into a truck with other detained people.

Comment: RFE/RL reports further:
Russia's National Guard is distancing itself from video footage that shows a uniformed officer punch a detained female protester in the stomach during an August 10 demonstration in Moscow.

The Moscow-based Govorit Moskva radio station on August 12 quoted a National Guard statement as saying that "the employees in the video footage do not belong to Russian National Guard's units."

The statement did not specify which law enforcement unit the officers belong to.

"The Interior Ministry's Moscow Department has ordered a probe into the use of force against a girl detained for violating public order during the August 10 unauthorized rally," the unnamed spokesman told Russian news agency TASS. "All those responsible would be held accountable."

Russian officers are rarely disciplined for using excessive and disproportionate force against demonstrators.


On August 11, Russian civil-rights lawyer Pavel Chikov of the legal-aid group Agora offered a reward of 100,000 rubles ($1,526) for help identifying the officer who punched Sosnovskaya.

"It doesn't matter if the investigations establish the concrete person who caused the harm. He is a representative of the state. Regardless of the outcome, the Russian state will have to pay. And we will make it happen for sure," Chikov said.

Police and other security officers have been criticized in Russia and abroad for their rough treatment of peaceful protesters in Moscow during the past month, including beating them with clubs.


The independent rights watchdog OVD-Info says more than 350 people were detained across Russia on August 10 during protests against the refusal of election officials to register several opposition candidates for Moscow's municipal elections.

Seventy-nine people were detained in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, 13 in Rostov-on-Don, two in Bryansk, and two in Syktyvkar.

At previous protests in Moscow, police detained about 1,400 people on July 27 and more than 1,000 people on August 3.

Russian President Vladimir Putin created the National Guard in April 2016 to fight terrorism and organized crime. It is headed by Viktor Zolotov, a former steelworker who had been the head of the presidential security service from 2000 to 2013.

Russia's National Guard reports directly to Putin.
Russia has proven that it is more than willing to investigate and punish authorities who abuse their positions; the arrest of prison guards who tortured an inmate, as well as the unlawful arrest of a journalist who was exposing police corruption are just two examples. In the West, similar examples of justice being meted out are few and far between; relentless and infamous US police brutality is one example, another would be the dead, and tens of people blinded and maimed during the Yellow Vest protests in France, brutality that was condemned by the West's very own Amnesty International.

Moreover, it's important to remember that these Moscow protesters are the likely pawns in a more sinister scheme, as is also happening in Hong Kong:

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